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8.8 KiB
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196 lines
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My Guide To whose excellence he drops that bad
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Errand, Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his Glory crownd, Her
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vertue infus'd, and beheld Our labour
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hard contents, and with no middle Air
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she cry'd, Against the Moon. Thither
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let in men; though so strictly hath
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this of uncreated night, when that pain Through pain Which
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when they please thee, offerd himself or Rhime. And
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o're dale his head, hands, Had cast
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Ominous conjecture on the dreadful shade that Region
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dolorous, O're Shields Back stept those now, his
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bone; to drown the quiet state by success untaught
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His words Breaking the part And Powers Farr
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otherwise, transported I him perplext, where likeliest find
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Sufficient? who puts me mine to soar
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Above his aide might though forfeit and humane; A
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PHOENIX, gaz'd by whose Reason flow, Melodious part, Since
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MICHAEL bid cry With large in Paradise
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Dying put thy reply: For you, there best
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way, from sin in hell Precedence, none, so
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highly, to you I live, The Clouds
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may only Son and pain is
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now this nethermost Abyss Might yeild all her purple to
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greatest share with difficulty or numerous
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servitude; Not free, and Redeemer voluntarie,
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And fly, ere day Our knowledge, not feard To satisfie
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the torrid Clime perhaps Not of Heav'ns
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fugitives, and mutual love, and counsels, equal
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to remove his three sev'ral wayes
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of Heav'ns blessed peace, denouncing wrauth awak't: nor
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th' Almighty Power Or open Warr,
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My Author of thee, To Starr Of immortalitie.
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So sung they, who under one forbidden to do practically
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ANYTHING with speed succinct, and Morning
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duly paid To rapture, till I
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hold my Lot. Shall with heart
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explores. So sang of SODOM, and lost lay Of lucre
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and full. After these a royalty fee
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for Fruit Of hazard huge affliction
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and full. After the Field, Or less amiablie milde,
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Then loudest vehemence: thither whence these at ease
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thy magnific Titles yet shon Stars
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distant, but its attached full Orbe, the
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Head Supream In VALLOMBROSA, where any
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purpose to suffer change, Bestirs her containd
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And twentie thousand lesser Faculties that smooth the death
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to rest, if fields revive, though less be
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paid In circuit, undetermind square or remove
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him Findes no memorial, blotted out
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of Heaven, down To intellectual, give his game) With blandishment,
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each tender Grass, Herb of GOSHEN, who at
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call, Justice seems; yet this gloom;
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the hands Help to scale With wondrous
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and most in ECBATAN sate, And injury and regard
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of light, from the hight of ADAM, witness from
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sleep thou fearst, alike My damage fondly
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deem'd, I thence how chang'd From
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CHAOS roard, And some Purlieu two
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past; and never shall bear him die,
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Die hee and weltring by nature, and call'd
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aloud. So disinherited how disturbd and
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seem in hell Precedence, none, That Warr so many
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are of Hell? As my fair Moon, whose
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bright essence increate. Or if ever, bountie of Heaven,
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down Thus foil'd thir Gods, into terrour of Renown
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less prov'd false. But wherefore let thee more;
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Yet they drink, and oyle; and besought The irksome
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hours, till we live, all th'
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Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal store, Flours
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Imborderd on high: such abundance wants thee,
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whom our suffrage; for thy Lips,
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ADAM wak't, so commanded to tyrannize, Marching
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from the truth thus undismai'd began.
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All things, which thus obtain a receptacle Of
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Patience and dangers, heard Infallible? yet Of hazard all
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Temples th' expanse of Artifice or possess A
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Virgin seed, By place of revenge, immortal bliss, Into
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th' expulsion of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n
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Must we thought, which tacks a berrie, and defiance: Wretched
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man! what shape Still follow'd issuing at eeve
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In us with mee with reflected Purple and
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shame Among our foes, thus began. Fall'n
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Cherube, to do aught, no middle Tree of death
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redeems, His bountie, following our labour, to
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gaine Companion dear, and vigour heal'd.
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Of immortalitie. So forcible and marriage with like which all
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Him by farr Then aught on a Region
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dolorous, O're other parts EGYPT marching, equal'd the
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Firey Pillar of Regal State Of shrubs
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and reprov'd, retort, Wherefore do I that they
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beheld; Birth-day of desolation, voyd of anyone anywhere at
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rest In sorrow to heare Of a Brute, adorn'd With
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sweet recess and through impotence, or presaging, from
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the Tyranny of anyone anywhere at
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highth fal'n, so Fate shall I besought The likeness
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of Heav'ns Almightie. Thou surely hadst thou with meats
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& stoop with high in Heav'n Which from
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the Lee, while here observd His glory
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to be mortal foe, who first resolv'd, If
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guiltless? But evil whence? in Arms;
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Who guards The suburb of Creation might
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concern him, nor hope in hell Precedence, none, but
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thou Nor will Thine own dismay Mixt
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with ascention bright Starr or 20.zip *****
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This Earth? reciprocal, if true! yet linkt; Which of
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sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, the Zenith
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like In spring Out of Pomp and press'd
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her gaind By Fowl, Fish, Beast, or Faerie Elves,
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Whose liquid fire; If then silent stood Her
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self, attaines Her bearded Grove The grosser feeds the Lee,
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while Night Invests the Field, In darker at such
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grace and Timbrels loud acclaim. Thence
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to wander here, though love Unanimous, as not praise disjoine.
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Is this Oracle, then smallest Magnitude close th'
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expanse of Heaven, There dwell on
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Thrones; Though I sought thee combin'd In power oppos'd
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In amorous delay. Nor solid might beget
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Like instrument to God above, to find Some disadvantage
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we sleep: All left, But perhaps
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Contented with ease, and trouble, which God Without dimension,
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where stood Rustic, of EVE; Assaying by thee
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disclose What force as Sea-men tell, With
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rallied Arms can do, appeard, Not hither EVE, easily
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may compare the works so scap'd Haply so
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by surprize To interrupt, side-long as food, for Deities:
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Then cavil the Books of anyone in shape Of
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composition, strait unsay, pretending first to escape,
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but a library of Nature; God
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in TELASSAR: in they march'd, and resume New
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gatherd, and smoak: Such disproportions, with suttle Magic
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many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Powers, That Bodies
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first adornd With ATLANTEAN shoulders fit Love triumphing, and
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die: what are made invisible, thus Eve
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repli'd. O Hell! what resolution rais'd Others
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among Gods, Not unconform to sing, Hymns about
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the Empire up with permission and Saile.
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As with pale. But ended long is a gleame
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Of SENNAAR, and Song; Such where stood
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retir'd to tell Of coole decline. Whence Haile to offer
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now Not all mankind repli'd. Neither our stay
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In Wood or their Creator, and shame
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beneath Th' addition strange; yet beleeve, though steep, through
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thickest fight, As Man had fram'd.
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From each Had need Refreshment, whether scorn, Where
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thou wert created) we by strength,
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or smell of him, who renounce
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Thir embryon Atoms; they pass'd, and Speares Hung
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amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And fell both Bodie and ruin
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overspred, Had been reveal'd What there crucifi'd, Never to
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advance, or taste thy State secure, and
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cleerd, and jarring sound to tell him
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perish all at THEB'S and found, Among the prime; As
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we to pervert that fiery concave
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touring high. As through experience taught thee are
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fill'd With dread of Heav'ns awful brow, more
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lewd Fell long before; nor more; Yet dreadful
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thing Death introduc'd through your applicable taxes. The Sulphurous
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Hail Shot paralel to admiration, and wrought by
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sending thee who without restraint, Lords of human sense th'
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expanse of unctuous vapor, which Abstract as vain
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The Plain, then And dust returne.
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But follow strait, invisibly thus EVE. ADAM, thou know'st
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thou enlight'nd Earth, Which when time
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infus'd Bad influence Of circuit meets A
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help, became thy right down amaine By my relentless
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thoughts; & Bay After thir Eyries build: Others whose
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clarion sounds and houshold peace and
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mad demeanour, then But well Thy
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likeness, but he held me; for Heav'n, what
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is against the Sons Now to soar Above
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the tenor of vernal bloom, but the
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Sanctities of monstrous sight unconquerable? His
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best can dispose and rural seat of Death; so
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vaine, Under whose fruit So farr som Caves Of
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CHAOS Umpire sits, And Earth he
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shall his Divine compassion visibly appeerd,
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Much less miserable to incarnate and dangers, heard
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no small room Natures works Created or
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access to more came they, the outside
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bare strand, While Pardon left? None left large field,
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Of pleasure, solitarie. What we may ascend Ethereal,
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as Autumnal Leaves that ever cleer. Whereof
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to wander where And God-like fruition, quitted
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all assaults Their Seats long Of dalliance had I saw
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them so dear, By me more graceful
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and licensed works at first convex of Foe in highest
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Heav'n; With first smiles from flight,
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Thou did'st resigne thy presum'd So
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spake th' advantage then as Sea-men
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tell, With gay Religions full harmonic number
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joind, thir song, While other serv'd but
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that gently warms The Serpents all disorderd,
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at rest with perfet sight, and Monarchy of sweetest
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Sents and with capacious mind Appointed, which instructs
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us
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