Rahab, who concealed the spies of Joshua among the flax-stalks on the roof of her house. Joshua 2:6. ↩

Milton, Paradise Lost , IV 776:⁠—

“Now had night measured with her shadowy cone

Half-way up hill this vast sublunar vault.”

“Now had night measured with her shadowy cone Half-way up hill this vast sublunar vault.”

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