“Wild dreams! but such
As Plato lov'd; such as with holy zeal
Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes! awhile
From man with-held, even to the latter days
When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd.”
For the apartment in Chepstow Castle where Henry Marten the Regicide was imprisoned thirty years.
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