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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Under the Portrait of Milton

John Dryden (1631–1700)

THREE Poets, in three distant ages born,

Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.

The first in loftiness of thought surpassed;

The next in majesty; in both the last.

The force of Nature could no further go:

To make a third she joined the former two.