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5.

"If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled," "Sonnet 59", Shakespeare, Lines 1-2.
"The World was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:" Paradise Lost, Book XII, Milton, Lines 646-647.
"A Being breathing thoughtful breath,
A Traveller between life and death;" "She was a Phantom of Delight", Wordsworth, Lines 23-24.
"The just man kept his course along
The vale of death." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Argument, Blake.
"The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;" "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream", Coleridge, Lines 31-32.
"Show me your image in some antique book," "Sonnet 59", Shakespeare, Lines 7.
"Haze-hidden, and thereon a phantom king;" Idylls of the King, "The Coming of Arthur", Tennyson, Line 429.
"Even a god who chanced to see that site
would feel the force of wonder and delight." The Odyssey, Homer, Book V, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Page 97, New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

6.

"A Damsel with a Dulcimer
In a Vision once I saw:" "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream", Coleridge, Lines 37-38.
"Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice?" "The Lamb", Blake, Lines 7-8.
"Muse, tell us of these matters. Daughter of Zeus,
my starting point is any point you choose." The Odyssey, Homer, Book I, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Page 3, New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
"Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed," Paradise Lost, Book I, Milton, Lines 6-8.
"Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:" "Ode on a Grecian Urn", Keats, Lines 3-4.
"Then, Muse, remind us what was the root-cause" The Aeneid, Vergil, Book I, Translated by Patric Dickinson, Page 7, New York: Mentor, 1961.
"If my slight Muse do please these curious days,
The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise." "Sonnet 38", Shakespeare, Lines 13-14.

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