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So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new spangled Ore,
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

John Milton

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Milton, John. "Lycidas." Justa Edouardo King Naufrago ab Amicis morentibus, amoris [Just Edward King Shipwrecked by Dying Friends, of love. Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1638.

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Milton, John. "Lycidas." John Milton: The Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled Ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.