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Paradise Lost: Book 02

By John MiltonSource: John Milton - PoetryDB (Public Domain)6906 words

High on a throne of royal state, which far

Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind,

Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand

Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,

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