John Milton - Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake...

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams; /Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep; /Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.

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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams; /Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep; /Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. John Milton

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