[DOC] [TLE] When I Consider How My Light is Spent - Wikipedia [PAR] When I Consider How My Light Is Spent is one of the best known of the sonnets of John Milton (d. 1674). The last three lines (concluding with "They also serve who only stand and wait.") are particularly well known, though rarely quoted in context. [DOC] [TLE] 318. On His Blindness. John Milton. The Oxford Book of English Verse [PAR] ... of English Verse: 12501900. John Milton. 16081674. 318. On His Blindness 
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John Milton wrote the poem in 1655. ... For example, if one carpenter can make 
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, as Milton says in the last line of the poem, "they also serve who only stand and 
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the last line They also serve who only stand and wait is the line with poet's [DOC] [TLE] When I Consider How My Light is Spent (On His Blindness) Poem Text [PAR] When I Consider How My Light is Spent (On His Blindness). by John Milton. 
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the Petrarchan rhyme scheme associated with the fourteenth-century ... The 
speaker in the poem feels vulnerable; he can no longer literally see his own way 
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Question: In "On His Blindness", Milton wrote, "They also serve who only" do this
Answer: Stand and wait