“But oh! as to embrace me she inclined,
I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
On His Deceased Wife (c. 1658)
“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”
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