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Under Mr Milton's Picture, Before His Paradise Lost.[1]
by John DrydenThree Poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn.
The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd;
The next, in majesty; in both the last.
The force of nature could no further go;
To make a third, she join'd the former two.