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John Foxe (1517 – 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs (properly The Acts and Monuments), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries.
Foxe was born in Boston, in Lincolnshire, England of a middlingly prominent family and seems to have been an unusually studious and devout child. In about 1534, when he was about sixteen, he entered Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was the pupil of John Hawarden (or Harding), a fellow of the college. In 1535 Foxe was admitted to Magdalen College School, where he may either have been improving his Latin or acting as a junior instructor. He became a probationer fellow in July 1538 and a full fellow the following July.
In twilight's last gleaming
The sky slides away
Leaving me here at
The edge of the day
Songs in the sand
Hand on the door
I've been here so often before
In twilight's last gleaming
So smoky and gold
Endless horizons
Glister and glow
I see you in strangers
In light on the sea
In twilight's last gleaming we'll meet
In twilight's last gleaming
At this time of year
Wherever you go to
Whoever you're near
Think of these times
Remember these dreams