If I prophane

If I prophane with my vnworthiest hand,
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
My lips to blushing Pilgrims did ready stand,
To smooth that rough touch, with a tender kisse

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English poet and intellectual, author of "Paradise Lost," considered the greatest epic poem in the English language.

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