“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39
“Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!”
" The Starlight Night http://www.bartleby.com/122/8.html" (1877), lines 1-3 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918) <br class="br">Context: Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!<br>O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!<br>The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
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