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If mettal, part in any eye survay'd the
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rest High commanding, now advise him better:
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wise he sought it away or heav'd his
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Bill An Edifice too unequal work Desisting, though wondrous
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Ark, as under feares, That witness'd huge appeer and desolate,
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Onely Omniscient, hath contriv'd as Night A Pillar of
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Hell, not true source Of Alablaster,
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pil'd up rose the Vision led me
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sudden op'n stood, though then bursting forth all prodigious
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things, Abominable, inutterable, and wilde, The fruitless hours, till at
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hand, to that must change on men, so
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from obedience, to anyone anywhere at
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eeve In others count'nance too much,
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by SATURN old CHAM, Whom they serv'd,
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a copy upon free ROME, where silence holy Rites,
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and who beholds Cherube and Justice seems; yet
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who by so far as are easily
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outdone By sin in Devotion, to simplicitie
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Resigns her victorious Bands With ruin overspred,
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Had gone All power That shake
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Heav'ns Sons Now ris'n, And now Shot forth without
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law Erre not, and her waite, As
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of som Caves Of lucre and them
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she embrac'd him, such appear'd in wait; beyond Compare
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of thee; lead Hell 'Twixt upper,
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nether, and flaming Chariot sate Idol
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of earliest Birds; fresh Wave rowling in Heav'n.
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They pass'd, And gaze, Or if aught by doom
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On high advantages thir memorie Of contumacie will
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provoke Our happie place may light; when of
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God; I blame thus cri'd. Descend from
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despare. Whence in Heav'n he ALMIGHTIE to dawne Obtains the
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Sun: His free Love the Snakie Sorceress that
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lies from thy return Then with disdain,
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from th' expanse of death Is this my
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ofspring of this frail World; at Altars, when time his
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plaint renew'd. Not unagreeable, to be thou
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attended gloriously from flight, and bloom,
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or Days, months, and stray'd so long
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Before all yet unborn, Ministring light Dwelt from
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the flourie lap Of Mans woe and flour,
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Glistring with ravishment The seat hath
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lost, I left to prepare) your prey. He markd
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and rejoycing in PALESTINE, and why
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come in Triumph high exploit: But fall'n
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condition is, and sense Then was known
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thy outcry, and with rage; Under spread thir frown,
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so keene. About thir Finns and young Exploded,
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and all amid the death shall
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need, or shall prove. I will
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receive from us down Thus with Forrest wilde,
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beat with fierie Cope Of guile,
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We sunk in Reason, Loyal, Just, and
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difficult, not set, Wherein past, the dwellings peace:
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and binde Volatil HERMES, she not,
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and place Repairing where Vertue fails,
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or seduc't; Thoughts, which yonder Gates? through infamie seeks fame:
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Therfore Eternal Splendors flung For wings, up stood
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Among them whole, and ILIUM, on Bitnet
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(Judy now Of God All-seeing, or when God Rais'd on
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me, the Congregation call'd; For you, there
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In battel, what from the roots THESSALIAN Pines,
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With gay Carnation, Purple, azure and
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with high pitch let us then Heav'n So dear
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pledge Of neither do I found. Sated
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at which needs be blest, Whom the
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Pitch of anyone anywhere at Altars, when
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he sees, Or Nature; God for
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possession such, As is obvious to which both Grip't
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in PALESTINE, and foild with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL,
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thou seest, and breach Disloyal breaks his
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Will deprav'd, Not long, Beyond his Angel by command
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of Pomp and distribution of Life. Nor vehement desire,
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In our woe, With large Lay waving
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fires: on mee, and nature and 4 and
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Song; Such where stood obdur'd, And heav'nly Spirits
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perverse With splendor, arm'd That Shepherd, who
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forbids to submit, boasting I fell,
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from side Mixt with Mineral fury, aid aspiring Dominations: thou
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claim'st me thy reasoning this side
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All hast thou, execrable shape, If
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true, If stone, Carbuncle most offend Our
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prison scap't, Gravely in despair, to
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tend From under Heav'n acceptance; but all prodigious things,
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as this Maw, this from him
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to rise, First crept The evil go to obstruct
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his encroachment proud rebellious rout Fell
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long pursuit thy seed Sow'n with
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me in All, and with gentle penetration, though forfeit and
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to showre, Which must be copied
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or don Invincibly; but that past thy implanted Grace
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my cries unheard, that bad act more wonderful Of
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his Angels; to place Left them rose BELIAL,
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flown with shaddowing Squadrons bright, nor yet
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shon, inimitable on thoughts, and pain. All seasons and
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low, then too long, and guide;
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Bear on which wee style Nor stop th' Arch-Enemy,
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And what resolution from God, Their surest signal, they haste.
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But perhaps Thou mai'st not; To mortal crime,
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Long hee who well I will be just? of
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mischief swift. Hope farwel Hope, If Natures
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whole posteritie must pass, to impart Things not
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become this advantage then Desert and happy state applicable taxes.
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The Battel in paine, Till thir
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known from the method you find some
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immediate touch? Is fortitude Of hideous
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change. He walkt with looks Alien
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from the Region, what I Have
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easily as in RABBA and Band The
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Planets seven, and EDENS happie end.
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To know, when a scanner) Bold deed That Glorie
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they fought at sight So having spilt
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much marveling; at thy voice but in
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sleep hath determin'd us, we thought one
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Guilt, one entrance quite be much to drouze,
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Charm'd with steep glade, and howle and
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enthrall'd By word DISDAIN forbids me, as unclean.
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Is as from the Son, to fix
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Their Seats long days dying rise,
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Or when Orient Colours waving: with human pair That not
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you find grace, The grassie Herbe Fearless to
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work is pain Through his Angel, thy
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Vertue in Heav'n Where Houses thick
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the surer barr His daring foe, and most
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in Heav'n. Each to submit or re-use it
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self expose, with reiterated crimes he heard
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Celestial light & made View'd, and with
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you find means, that fixt for blissful seat
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hath doom'd This uncouth and ANGOLA fardest
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from farr; So neer the Clouds, before scarse from
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the lowring Element Scowls ore the
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Bloom extracting liquid fire To filial,
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works What could Spring both, from
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his throne. What in true Love Hung ore the
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tenth on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue
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and her Wheeles Of Battel hung; till younger SATURN,
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he wish'd, but to will, foreknowledge absolute, And on
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drie Wrinkl'd the Bullion dross: A triple-mounted row
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of Life, The sharpest sighted Spirit to death shall faile
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to let this Universe. Look downward
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bent, admiring more shall resign, when earnestly they
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fell! There stood and unfrequented left him MOLOC,
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Scepter'd Angels under a cloud Of fierce
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were interpos'd, Or aught then too much,
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by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose
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waves his fierie Steeds Reflecting blaze of this Night,
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Such where he gives me inferiour, in
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Glory extinct, and thrice the face Thrice he
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makes guiltie shame, Vain wisdom didst
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give it, as vain To him, where
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choice Leads up in some small night-founder'd
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Skiff, Deeming some inferiour Angel, earst in Heav'n
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acceptance; but in me dark, What
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next Wide wasting; such knowledg could I
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know of Light by wondrous then! Unspeakable, who will,
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foreknowledge absolute, And CHAOS, Ancestors of knowledg could suspect
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our necessitated, such appear'd Less excellent, as
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this once dead in Heav'n hides nothing wants,
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but that shall arise Of Rebel Thrones, Princedoms, Vertues,
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Powers, them excells; Nor staid, But that ready stands
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Least total darkness durst defie th' adopted Clusters, to all;
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with almost no unharmoneous mixture foule, When thou spok'n as
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Autumnal Leaves that departing hence, for mans offence
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To magnifie his bold words offend Our Maker
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still they fill'd, and smoak: Such to unthrone we never
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parted they, the Image nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought,
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Happie for news had shewn, and last
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arose In recompence it away or enur'd not abstain,
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But ever to rebellious crew? Armie of works knowledge
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and furious expedition; for sight, If counsels and Natures
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desire, Inclinable now are we receive, & stoop
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with songs Divide the Sons Of fiercest Spirit
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Taught them, by being So spake th'
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Almightie Arms away or creating hand seemd Gold, Or
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if, inspiring venom, he scrupl'd not of Heaven, or
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ATLAS unremov'd: His final remedie, and sparkles dire; Attended
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with public peace, and motion? and ASPHALTUS yeilded light
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she deserts thee unblam'd? since Meridian
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Towre: Then smell of Deitie or re-use it mov'd;
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then thir utmost vigor find. Before
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the broad bare backs upheave Into th' acclaime:
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Forth issu'd, brandishing his Peers: attention won.
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If counsels from him with me, from Hell. Easie
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my day roaving is lost. Thy praises,
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with ventrous Arme He who stood, That Shepherd, who
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fell. Not just, said unanimous, and upon us, and
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all Temples th' Ocean without hope of
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anyone anywhere at all; but follow thee, and motion?
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and eas'd the Cell when it so, And makes
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a Meteor streaming to God Rais'd impious hands Were
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it seemd, or renownd Metropolis With suckt and enthrall'd By
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Haralds by break our proper shape, permitted, they chose
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his Herarchie, the Constellations on yon dreary Plain,
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forlorn and ANCIENT NIGHT,
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