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Paradise Lost plate 12

"Towards the coast of Earth beneath,
Down from the ecliptic, sped with hoped success,
Throws his steep flight in many an aëry wheel."

Gustave Doré

Paradise Lost

1866

(Book III, lines 739-741) opposite III: 1-18 (page 57)

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