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Let us make man in our own image, man In our similitudes, and let them rule Over the fish and fowl of both sea and air, Beast of the field, and over all the earth, And every creeping thing that creeps the ground. This said, He formed thee Adam, thee, O man! Dust of the ground; and in thy nostrils breathed The breath of life: in His own image, He Created thee—in the image of God Express.
Let us make man in our own image, man In our similitudes, and let them rule Over the fish and fowl of both sea and air, Beast of the field, and over all the earth, And every creeping thing that creeps the ground. This said, He formed thee Adam, thee, O man! Dust of the ground; and in thy nostrils breathed The breath of life: in His own image, He Created thee—in the image of God Express.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 374 · printed citation: Milton · subject: MAN
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