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What does it mean?
Liberty is personified as a sweet mountain spirit.
In plain terms
Freedom is like a lovely spirit of the hills.
What can you take from it?
Value freedom as a natural and pure force.

Where it applies

  • political discourse
  • nature writing
  • calls to action

Putting it to work

  • protect freedom
  • embrace independence
  • appreciate nature

Questions to consider

  • What does liberty feel like to you?
  • Is freedom a natural right?

Another view

Liberty can be abstract and difficult to define.

More from John Milton

  1. Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. Come, and trip it, as you go. On the light fantastic toe.

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  2. Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free.

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  3. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles.

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