Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Innumerable as the stars of night,

Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun

Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 745.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found;

Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 896.

Morn,

Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand

Unbarr'd the gates of light.