Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
John Milton
Nature
A quote by John Milton
From the source
Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 1.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.