So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And… — John Milton
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.
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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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.
