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Poem: To Milton

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Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away     From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers;     This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ours     Seems fallen into ashes dull and grey,     And the age changed unto a mimic play     Wherein we waste our else too-crowded hours:     For all our pomp and pageantry and powers     We are but fit to delve the common clay,     Seeing this little isle on which we stand,     This England, this sea-lion of the sea,     By ignorant demagogues is held in fee,     Who love her not: Dear God! is this the land     Which bare a triple empire in her hand     When Cromwell spake the word Democracy!

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