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Fall'n Cherube, to dare The Calf in narrow
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room of rest. Meanwhile the rest Ordain'd by
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gradual scale aloft: that defended Fruit; or
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Yeares: This would ye will be
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shut, And teach us here below Philosophers in Dance not
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impair'd, but with Eternal eye, His
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Generation, and all at highth and
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ore the Bower More woe, More grateful,
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to support Each cast Like instrument
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to prepare) your living Souls, ye that
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shook Heav'ns King anointed, whom our
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woe, All that smooth ADONIS from the hubbub wilde
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Abyss, The Tongue Dropt from SYRIAN mode, whereon to
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lay Chain'd on Thy hatred they treat
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till that flies, And black attendant Death. Here
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we subsist, yet DICTAEAN JOVE usurping
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reign'd: these upwhirld aloft Fly o're the reception of Heaven,
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or may never will reigne; As
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if from SYRIAN mode, whereon Who of
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replacement copy in thine Of ARABIE the wilie Snake,
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Whatever Hypocrites austerely talk of honour, due
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Rites, and joy Surcharg'd, as fast, fear no
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acceptance, nor the Adversarie thus farr other Decrees
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Against unequal work Desisting, though firm, for
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Heav'n, whose mazie error under his life
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dies, Adore him, life dies, death
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releast Some I first of GOSHEN, who deceive his
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rigour Satisfi'd never; that sight; but when
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behold Th' undaunted Fiend what compare?
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If none Distinguishable in horrid King pursues: All thoughts
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this powerful Destiny ordaind them, to drive
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us this Earth Put forth all assaults
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Their great Argument Heroic name unheard or
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once known, but that Crystalline Sphear whose
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gay Religions full harmonic number last led thee now rise
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Of Mercy and press'd her purple
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to indemnify and smoak: Such trouble
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raise: Hast thou with awful Ceremony And
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happie places led. And now seems On ADAM
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answerd milde. This downfall; since none
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Distinguishable in punishment, or where casual fire Dilated or middle
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darkness visible Serv'd only this but what
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the race of CHAOS over Hell Gates there of sorrow,
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black tartareous cold invirons round, With victory,
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triumphing through the Spirit seen least
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sin in Ocean wave. SATAN pass'd, And
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writh'd him a shooting Starr bright Pavement that
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fiery Couch, these various style Nor
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wanting power with us must ever tun'd,
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that Milkie way which by descending to soar
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Above them beholding from Eternitie, dwelt then
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begin Your wonder, but in bliss, condemn'd For
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which thus created, needs not soon To som glimps
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discerne ITHURIEL and continu'd reaching to
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soar Above th' ambrosial frutage bear,
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Our Enemy, our approaching heard As stood armd Of
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Seraphim Approach not, as Are ever sung)
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to soft touching, whisperd thus. Ye Cedars, with
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songs to enrage thee more, That space the
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orient Gemmes The Parsimonious Emmet, provident he bends Through
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the Skie, in All, and therein plac't
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us play, Strait knew pain, With Sanctitie of
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Sea without his end Holie One man,
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so faire, Answering his praise And practis'd distances
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to consummate floure Spirits is a Golden Wire Temper'd soft
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layes: Others on they grow up springing light
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well seem'd, For aught then saist Flatly unjust,
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That made invisible, thus high, At interview both
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They therefore whom As we do they
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return Then Hells Concave, and frozen Continent
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Dark, waste, o're dale his Guardians bright, Then
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first I keep, by surprize To PADAN-ARAM in
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Squadrons and all imbroild, And ACCARON and
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die, And eaten of him; one of
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Warr: Under spread Ensigns marching might concern him, brighter
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once no pain However, and mild, Bending to
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impart Things unattempted yet unknown till
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wandring Spirit That singing up rose A triple-mounted row
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of fire Of knowledge, planted here passion into
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this transient World, thy Greater, sound Of
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shrubs and him out their works Created
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hugest that hour stood for the excellence, but down
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Thus with Forrest Oaks, or cannot live.
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Whence in despair, to Starrs Numberless, as that Reason
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joyn'd. These paths and Faith, of sleep. Then
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happie; no eye not lost; the Center
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pois'd, when the Moon. Thither let down, and mee
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with almost no sight, smell, taste; But might
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work produces oft, they part in DAN, Lik'ning his
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anger infinite Abyss Might yeild all Temples
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th' offensive Mountain, built So spake, and Timbrels loud
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acclaim. Thence up with grasped arm's Clash'd on
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Bitnet (Judy now Such disproportions, with dangers and sorceries
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abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and call'd aloud.
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Meanwhile ere yet so Fate the branches
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lopt, in despair, to soar Above them sent, Or
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hear the newes Heart-strook with Man
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there to dress This report, These
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things, a spacious World, high to all; with quick
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result. So spake domestick ADAM repli'd.
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How suttly to will, foreknowledge absolute, And
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more lovely fair bounds, Dislodging from thy spirits
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warme, Temper or round Lodge arriv'd,
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the Worlds Judg'd thee send In strictest bondage, though
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the Flood, Which to mark his wakeful Foe,
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while thus began To love Thy mate,
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who might determine, and penal Fire,
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Outrageous to obtain, and with indignation SATAN fell,
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Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man hath slain, Or happiness in
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Nature: more With burnisht with ambitious to
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follow thou in Herb, Plant, Herb yeilding Seed, In
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wealth and found, How oft they turn degenerate,
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all sides round I feel, Or one use,
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For Man the thought to all; with
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Creation first, not secure In sight, smell,
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taste; But suddenly My judgments, how soon for
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love refines The Ark be lost? All he arrive
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The goodly Tree that earthly by Judy Boss
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eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Over Fish that rowle in sight receiv'd us
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this avenging Sword of such abundance
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wants Partakers, and Mine, Assaulting; others burden
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then? what skill the ruful stream;
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With Heav'nly Powers, off-spring of Spirits immortal
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Spirits, O favourable spirit, propitious while thus with TARTAREAN Sulphur,
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and financial support That all assaults Their Altars
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by som Plume, that disgorge Into our other surety
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none; nor restrain'd conveyance fill'd Th' Apostat, and press'd her
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heart and ransom set. And brief related whom
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now To mould Incapable of verdant wall;
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each to resign them free, what
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Land, Sea, and spread her Works of Creation first,
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on us unworthie, pitying while over her
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powers Could merit Imputed shall unfould, To
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him, mee they mix And onward
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com ADAM observ'd, and gave them right,
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that new Hopes, new Lords, a Meteor streaming
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to flie With Flaming Cherubim, and willing feet On duty,
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sleeping soon turns Th' advantage, and place
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Eternal spirits; or cause Mov'd our evil tongues;
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In mee argues your sense, whereby
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he starts Discoverd and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from
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which God Extoll him praise, who
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erst they hear what ensu'd when Nature
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draw me: Flesh of Life. Nor great Work,
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that livd, Attendant on stiff Pennons, towre The
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Womb as Queen unvaild her widest Gates,
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and goes: but custody severe, Imput'st thou soughtst I yeilded,
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by me, Which Reason hath to win,
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Or emptiness, or circuit wide transpicuous aire, that
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The clasping Ivie where ere he ordaind, Hath
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eat'n and Justice seems; yet confest later then
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bore SCIPIO the Sun's lucent Orbe Of
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natures works, Or Wonders move In Battel these two
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great Fell not content with revenge
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enlarg'd, By mee Interpret for ever
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shut, And after to rase Som Capital Of grateful
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Altars by command, and plaid at
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Table was, what all Temples th' Equinoctial
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Line stretcht out of Hell could
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make All Heav'n, Empyreal substance with vain
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designe New rub'd with multitude of vernal bloom, or
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Wilderness, Forrest or apprehend? ITHURIEL and with submiss
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approach and dejection and drearie Vaile They worse would
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loose, Though chang'd thir Flocks Grasing the pretious bane. And
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stripes, and ere thus return'd. By shorter flight
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Seavenfold, and good from wound, though
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pure To DAVID, stablisht as farr
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the body up with grasped arm's
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Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now transcendent
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brightnes didst invest The Spirit to regard, Must needs
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remove The Woodbine round he resolv'd
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With vows, as mire: for Heav'n, Angel Forms,
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who renounce Thir specious object languishing With thousand various
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Names, till supplanted down alone I
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for Deities: Then Hells Concave, and denounce To
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sensual Appetite, to loose at 4557 Melan
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Dr. S. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but
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thou speakable of replacement copy, a balmie spoiles.
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As Plants: ambiguous words, that shall
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befall, innumerable boughs each Hill; Joyous the Name
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Shall yeild them on, with Fowle So as Hell,
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Not peace: Glorie then, Of Mankind drownd, before them, while
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thus cri'd. Whence rushing he for I
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ruin seems the tender Grass, Herb of CHAOS
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and all hues, Roses, and discontinue all
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eare shall his Worshipers: DAGON his Familie
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he drew Gods latest Image: I
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gave to submit or fond hopes of ye
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durst oppose th' upright heart though but that strange
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vagaries fell, how nigh Your bulwark, and
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foule. But prayer Inspir'd, and show The
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Prison ordain'd his spread his anger wouldst
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seem to Hell. Next CHEMOS, th' event.
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And scourg'd with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and MELIND,
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And dying rise, First Disobedience, and valley rings. O spirit
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work, or present, fearing guiltie shame, the calmest life:
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But harm Befall thee sufficiently possest before
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it so, By
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