“Under the opening eyelids of the morn,
We drove afield; and both together heard
What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn,
Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night.”

—  John Milton , Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 26

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English epic poet 1608–1674

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