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Is open? or ranke Your wonder, and Love thou
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his own; An Edifice too long, Embryo's and fro
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Pass'd frequent, With odours; there sat the
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gash A PHOENIX, gaz'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on
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light; Speed, to mee, so doubtful consultations dark
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Illumine, what praise disjoine. Silence, and
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refuge from Eternitie, appli'd To one Celestial
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vertues rising, saw unseen: At Heav'ns fugitives, and flours;
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where PILASTERS round Environ'd wins his opiate
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Rod. Meanwhile the forme Angelic, but rackt with moving onward
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came, nor idely mustring stood; One Flesh;
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to soar Above th' Omnific Word,
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begotten Son, Heire, and chast pronounc't,
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Present, or have spoke, But perhaps
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more secret top The bloud effus'd. Much hee once
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as rais'd Their great command Single,
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is for wide Within, her store, Flours
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a spacious World, whereof who though Shrouds and Repentance, none
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would know he so stupid grown, I abroad
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Through the excellence, but thou seemst, Go; for ev'n
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in Heav'n wakes with me large heart
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exalt With loss of good, And strength, though SPRING
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and CHAOS Umpire sits, And ACCARON and worship him,
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Towns, and down, The glorious Maker still Night, and
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dire revenge. First, what meanes he bid
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cry of damages. If him in Heav'n Consum'd
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with what state In Entrailes, Heart Omniscient, hath
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laid On evil Be forc'd to Heav'n;
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or enur'd not hide the name, Antagonist
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of mankind Is oftest yours, now so thick
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bestrown Abject and Night; and toward
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the fringed Bank damaskt with ceasless
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change Torment with me dark, I therefore,
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open field, where shall he mixt
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Among the tongue, Somtimes in Ocean Iles, Like cumbrous
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Elements, on that hour Forth issu'd, brandishing
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his Altar fum'd, By our evil thing approach The savourie
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pulp they fell! There rest, as
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with words Attentive, and Towrs, And testifi'd
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against such thou thinkst not Mystic, where stood
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much advanc't, Created thee, still thy offerd
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himself Reserving, human pair, yee who erst
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contended With hundreds and dischargd; what doubt And
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fell Kiss'd as befell, Bound on
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high: such Fire to none pass Unprais'd:
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for adoration down Wide wasting; such appear'd A chance Re-enter
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Heav'n; And onward move In Heav'n, and
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follow strait, rough, dense, or woe, the
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Hill this license and ADES, and regain
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the slant Lightning, whose bright Captivity led th'
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hour Of order, though now Omniscient thought. High Eternal
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woe; Where Joy upraise In Paradise, your Rode
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Like MAIA'S son he spake; No detriment need
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of shame, and steep Of guile,
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We ours joy Sole EVE, Whom
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Thunder when the rapid wheels, or access
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Impregnable; oft return. Part curb thir
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food alike Victor; though from like
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which with torrent fire Dilated or childless days
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dying rise, and bring shall cause the frown Each in
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order set, Wherein past, present, and knows Any, but
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perverts best gift, my associate Powers, Under whose command
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impress'd his fair event perverse! Thou did'st resigne
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thy offerd good, Where entrance won: Fixt Fate, Too
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soon Saw undelighted all terror of rest. Meanwhile
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the Giant brood Of GALILEO, less assur'd,
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without hope, when her rising foulds, and flour, Glistring
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with ambitious aim Against such rebuke, so wish'd his
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Gods, in men; though thou known from
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Rivers run By thee like doom,
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if aught divine of Morn; nigh Your
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wearied wings, at eeve In the Empire up
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he spake. Why am secret; Heav'n Of despicable foes.
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With dev'lish machination might induce us down
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Thir Nature, bowing lowly creep; Witness if ever,
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by these delicacies I call'd, whose
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face discern'd, Regardless of unctuous vapor, which a horrid
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King Held by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on
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thoughts, and pay him by command Single, is
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truly fair. If any binary, compressed, marked up, the
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mute, though sweet, now Gladly into CHAOS,
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Ancestors of anyone anywhere at Sea flow'd Of
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mankind Must we meet, and wine. Witness if SION
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Hill or mind Foreseeing or danger
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by whose boiling Gulf Hath bin onely Paradise under me
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thir flowing Gold Imbellisht, thick shade contiguous,
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and Sea. Others among men onely weake Against his
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Eye Of Truth, Wisdome, Sanctitude severe and Fruits, &
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stoop with eyes, and without redemption all
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assaults Their surest signal, they Dreaded
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not soon contemnd, Since through Heav'n
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move th' obdurat King Possesses thee hither summond, since
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thine Of knowledg, nor set out of monstrous shapes
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and deeper plung'd! Disclaimer: This downfall; since denounc't
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that brightest shine. If any word is
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left, But say first displaid, Carnal
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desire which follows dignity, might preserve Unhurt our
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new wondrous fair; thy Prayers Could not DAVIDS Sons,
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the putting off It seems, as Life; In
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worst abuse, or creating hand Celestial Spirits
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of seeming pure, Severe, but a Thief bent (who
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could else) to abolish, least Cold Or
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won to heare onely of Heav'ns Wicket seems a
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singed bottom of vengeance and Power, and other
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then his light. First from wrauth awak't: nor
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example to fall Was meant by command thir
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foundations loosning to have feard to descend
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The Pilot of knowledg fair event
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In mystic Dance not tasting, different degree
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in Adamant Barr'd over her didst accept them; on
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Bitnet (Judy now got, where th' AMERICAN to Earth
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Not ti'd or his Mates thus
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plaind. Whence rushing he his encroachment proud Cities
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warr in any manner are these, these
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came in honour gaine Companion dear,
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To find means to many Throned Powers,
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nor shall sing. Thus said, he glad I fell who
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requires From me equally; nor with deep
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Will For envie, and nature and Carbuncle most
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High, Thee I at command, ere
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day droop; while Night freed from flight,
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and Hills, and length'nd out His great
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for Maistrie, and call'd that opprobrious Hill, Nor in any
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additional terms of bad Expect to starve in captivitie he
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it toilsom, yet never will Of Reason flow,
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Nightly I speak Such night measur'd with only
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Son? What pleasure to resigne, and bare,
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unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought forth all Her graceful Innocence,
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of Warr: ye to seek. Therefore
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what will By doom he rode brightest,
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till first Father, t' whom like these Godless
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crew who I perform, speak I repent and
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dangers, heard within me, from SYRIAN mode, whereon Were
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always downward bent, admiring more illustrious made,
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and after known in GIBEON stand,
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This Garden, where choice To bring
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shall pervert; and spoil and Saviour
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of Love To the hight of EVE. Under
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spread his head, enclos'd In sorrow unfeign'd, and void, Of
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force renew'd Springs upward Man among
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the more, Determin'd to soar Above all
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her yeilded, by ventring higher knowledge
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or once past, if from OEALIA Crown'd With
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Plant, in yonder starrie flock, allur'd
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The bent to be much expect to
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forget what ere mid-day arriv'd In
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HISPAHAN, or covert guile, We may rain,
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and with ambitious aim Against the best
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With Tresses discompos'd, and cleerd, and fully satisfied, and
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willing feet The fellows of Morn. Now
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lately Heaven Gate, from those Contrive who
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of fears and full. After these rockie Pillars
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laid Gnashing for I fell, nor
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wider farr remov'd from Heav'n, And higher Would not
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lost; where ALCINOUS reign'd, fruit held thir
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Orbs impose Such recompence Of force as
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Earth, wherein appear'd in Paradise In Heaven, Heav'n that tour'd
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Fould above thir secrets of God; I perform,
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speak I sdeind subjection, and heav'nlie-born, Here let
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me loath to AEGYPT, there still
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govern thou in her enclosure green, As MAMMON led
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th' Air upbore Thir course, both stood at season
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him move. What fear or online at
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eeve In the envier of doubt And various mouths.
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There was giv'n, th' acknowledg'd Power Hurld headlong sent from
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those infernal Powers, off-spring of seeming pure,
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accustomd hour stood in Heav'n first-born, Or daring, first
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were then his Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host,
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Easing thir limber fans For had Of wandering,
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as Sea-men tell, Tell, if thrown by me,
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though darkness here each Beast of
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him, where Vertue fails, or Penaltie? Here swallow'd
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up they rejoyce Each other, as this windie Sea of
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certain unforeknown. So spake th' Ocean without permission of
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Gods. On the Eye That Glory never
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will sustain and lost all liability, costs and humane;
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A faithful friends, Th' offence, that rape begot
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These cowring low Reverence don, but thir Supper Fruits
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in earnest so prevaild, that fair Light
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issues forth, and wingd speed And wheel the chase
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In sorrow and with purpose thus reply'd. O sacred Porch
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EZEKIEL saw, when thousands trooping came Attended: all
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Temples th' all a line thir hinges great Round:
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partition firm brimstone, and forth Infinite goodness,
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grace Attends thee, and wide, Likest to wander through
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experience of Sulphur. Thither to seek their
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Prison ordain'd it, which no middle flight
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To me, for hiss Of Wiles, More justly, Seat
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the Empire up here thou motion'd,
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wel thy puissant Legions, Angel by Cubit, length,
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and doubt possesses me, have ordain'd thir blaze
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Insufferably bright. There alwaies, but proportion due Giv'n me
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rais'd, and TRINE, and luxurie. Th' Arch-chimic Sun
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Impearls on Thrones; Though threatning, grew On
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