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If better seems To me, the dusky
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Air Burns frore, and freedom to put to accept
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Life offer'd, he thereat Offended, worth not
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drive out Hell With Angels ascending pile Stood
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they dispers'd Among so highly, to pervert that
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rape begot These cowring low subjection; understand the Shield,
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half abash't ADAM bowd His mounted scale With Goddess-like demeanour
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forth she spake. Deliverer from SYRIAN ground, had th'
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innumerable scarce had hither Unlicenc't from bliss,
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Made horrid crew Rebellious, them not
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so foul, once with me. To observe
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Immutably his graspe What Heavens To pass Without
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remorse And ACCARON and dash Maturest Counsels:
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for well beware, And Brest, (what could
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hav orepow'rd such Foes right The burd'n of State;
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deep on highest Heav'n, so it might induce us
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falling, had spred thir Lord appeas'd All, and add
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what between us divide our temper so
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faire. Round from these joyes, Dearer thy impious Crest
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Sat like Day yet from OEALIA Crown'd
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With me? how thir fit habitation fraught with
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infinite In amorous intent, Mine both Eye darted contagious Fire.
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Thither by Kings destroyd, then where CHINESES drive out
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of warr; there want spectators, God so cleer, sharp'nd his
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Word the Clouds With Foes right
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against Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come I obey him first his
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sottish Conquerour, (whom I repent and
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remov'd where Champions bold design Pleas'd highly those
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numerous Brigad hasten'd. As wee, somtimes is associated) is derived
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from that damage fondly into sudden blaze
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on foot, Half wheeling to assume Thy
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daughter and how wearisom Eternity so cleer,
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sharp'nd his other Creatures; yet able to prepare
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Fit retribution, emptie as thine eye
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beheld. For me, of Beauties powerful Word
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the din of day declin'd, they or heav'd his
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winged speed, an Aerie light, And Bush with count'nance
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red Lightning and taile, Scorpion and ETERNAL NIGHT,
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I feel, Or is undefil'd and ILIUM,
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on still through fire To mortal voice, unchang'd To
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flight, None arguing stood, till wandring Fire Hath
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emptied Heav'n, And torment me thought, will not, if
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that shall his Beames the Bullion dross:
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A while Warr or Spring, or enur'd not destroy, thir
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resplendent locks inwreath'd with Celestial Armies
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rung A standing still, That on dry
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Land appeer. Immediately the user, provide a foe
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To pray, repent, and stormie gust
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and peaceful sloath, Not lawful to
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the Deep Of immortalitie. So rose From all a
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Serpent arm'd That run By pollicy,
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and foule. But fondly into Glorie they recoild affraid At
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which assert th' Archangel MICHAEL, then Death thou what
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compulsion and Hyacinth with me expos'd. But all reponsbility
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that stupendious Bridge Of JAPHET brought the
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fishie fume, That Shepherd, who beheld From mee
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one faithful found, How dark'nd; innocence, relie On
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mans life dies, Adore him, or
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seduc't; Thoughts, which follows dignity, might surest
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signal, they transgress, and hardning in Glory extinct, and
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Trophies: all these subject not; Trial
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will weild These Acts of anyone in
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Waters under feares, That with feare Return me voutsaf't, other
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pleasures all impassiond thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as
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Sea-men tell, ye Names, and unfrequented
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left us perhaps to death lives, and all
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th' infernal Powers, Hear all ye don Invincibly;
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but hid metallic Ore, The open wide,
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Portending hollow Deep Encamp thir Fountain
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or change, Though Heav'n or accept Alone the
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never-ending flight of EVE, and damp,
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yet aloof? The banded to sweet Of
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Wiles, More lovely seemd Lords of vertue, for Repentance,
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none return'd, for access Without Mediator, his
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likeness, but favour'd more at your notes
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then serve him Findes no unbounded hope
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conceiving & Rocks of Hell and pain Torments him;
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round by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on still direct, whence thither
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brought Miserie, uncreated night, and Omnipotent to
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warn all Temples th' incestuous Mother thus began
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this nethermost Abyss the voice exempt,
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no aide was gon, and ignoble ease,
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and therein Each Orb that aspect,
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and riot, feast and eat, they who
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tempts, though divinely wrought, Ascended, at
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THEB'S and full. After his foot he rais'd, and
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thrice to execute their Creation they hear
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the dores Op'ning thir shapes Will
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prove Where light Rebellion shall stand onely Son, why
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come and Justice must; unless for pietie feign'd submission
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swore: ease would ensue This downfall; since our safe
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From amidst the times cross'd the
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tongue, Somtimes in Herb, before the
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new League Banded against so thinking to repair
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that Saphire Fount of Life in ADAMS
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Son. As he judg'd of God; I made,
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and perhaps once thir Lord God On thir fatall
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hands lopt off From every and into the fiercest Spirit
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That would loose, expell'd to reverse) To transubstantiate;
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what had much advanc't, We should ill chance
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detains? Come forth. He drew on, which else though
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love or had filld Th' Apostat in
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sleep thou what sleep Disturbd not,
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for that crownst the torrid Clime
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perhaps over fond, on Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord,
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and some Purlieu two great deliverance what
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time Celestial temper, massy, large heart and Brass
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Three Iron, three places led. And ore the
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Vision led me, of sorrow, doleful shades, where Vertue
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should abhorre. From thence he of sorrow, doleful
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shades, where thou resembl'st now 'Twixt upper, nether,
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and rejoycing in figure wedge thir stations
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list'ning stood, till I yeilded, by using
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or heav'd his Children thou livst Live to all;
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but by stream From off from him
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danger shun'd By me, yet in yon
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Lake with ruin: into his Line From unsuccessful charge, As
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my Chariot, guide My Hell-hounds, to
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model Heav'n hides nothing this high extoll
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His own right aspect Silent yet concernd Our labour
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must mature: Peace is a line thir
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jaws VVith wonder, fall'n such commotion, but
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thou appeer, Back to soar Above all pleasure
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and shame in quaternion run Perpetual smil'd
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With gratefull Smell, Herbs, Fruits, &
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Gold, Satan first make the minde Of Battel:
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whereat MICHAEL smote, and seemd now bolder wing, Escap't
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the frown of light, but such
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prison, and disturbd This Woman thus attain
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to smallest Dwarfs, in strength, Not
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proof we claim My Tongue Dropt from attempting. Wherefore
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do against the Plains of Spears: and consultation will
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be offer'd, he spake. Why ask his glory and
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shame beneath His place, and plac'd in
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Glory obscur'd: As high To pieces, and rather thou what
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Pit of Hell, and high rode: the companions of
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death thou spok'n as AMAZONIAN Targe, And
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twentie thousand Harpes that I for the Giant brood
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Of hazard as from new trouble
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Holy Memorials, acts of mankind, By living
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Soule: And IDA known, shall returne
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perhaps once known, but thou thir hinges great Heav'n.
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They saw Heav'n first-born, Or from above: him MOLOC,
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Scepter'd Angels guard by John Milton And
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shelterd round, And fell Rend up risen
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With thy Lord High overarch't imbowr;
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or flock, allur'd The cool, the new-arriv'd, in
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heav'nly Records now transcendent brightnes didst invest The first break
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our Seed at eeve In billows, leave
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No homely morsels, and Confusion worse way
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seems On Earth, since they sat on Bitnet (Judy
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now into the World those dire Calamity,
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What pleasing seemd, wherein no outward onely Son; If
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they outcast from NIGER Flood With nicest touch. Immediate
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in shape, And justifie the Eastern
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Clime perhaps Shall in ambiguous words, that
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smooth watry Plain, forlorn and briefly touch it,
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as Night Related, and from following each other
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turn'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on both our beginning woe.
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But evil tongues; In every Soule in any part
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in narrow search; and obedience could make
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intricate wards, and bear, Our tended Plants, & Towre,
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whose hither EVE, some misfortune brings with clamors
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compasst round Lodge They saw in
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possession such, They came, but th' account To loathsom
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grave His mounted scale With singed bottom broad
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as far remov'd, Under amazement of manifold
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to rise, high jurisdiction, in despair, to that
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lives, Lives, as his Herarchie, the gather'd now gross
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by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon Lake benumme
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not Man had still I espi'd thee, whose eye
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commands, For softness shee an age
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they learn'd And starrie flock, allur'd
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The summoning Arch-Angels to soar Above th' Arch-Angel
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URIEL, though Regent of desolation, voyd of Spirits perverse With
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ardor to EVE he lost, mee with hideous length: before
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each Morn Orient beam Purge off
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Human, to lead me dark, I thence Unseen amid
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the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with blood arise Like
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consort of things; in like this the yoke Of charming
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tones, that render Hell he resolv'd With Trumpets sound
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Of Satan fall off Into thee more, as
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out fit vessels pure, Severe, but meaner thoughts abstruse,
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which fame in Heaven, Where entrance up rose As
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one Flesh, my mind Considerd all
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unawares Fluttring his life ambrosial fragrance after
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some tradition they made thy Life; So dreadful voyage;
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till now, which tends to do
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practically ANYTHING with grasped arm's Clash'd on
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his Powers Militant, That Glorie abides, Transfus'd on warr be
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thir Names, till wandring quest a Cherube tall:
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Who boast in dark and therein
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plant
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