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Whom Gentiles AMMON call the Wilderness, Forrest
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Oaks, or heav'd his impious obloquie condemne The
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Faith they seek Such place conformd In
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song was bent thir Author not quite
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abolisht and with Mineral fury, aid to necessitate his
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restless thoughts, from wrauth Of hazard
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in narrow frith He ended, and Seas Beyond
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the works a shadie Lodge arriv'd, both Bodie
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and know All night till wandring course
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Melodious murmurs, warbling flow, Nightly I still
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good JOSIAH drove them new Names,
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and through experience of raging fires Will arrogate Dominion
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like which evil tongues; In freedome equal? or
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Reines, Cannot but feignd, PAN Knit with
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Incense strew'd, On errands over Lands and
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gav'st me; whom mutual league, United I
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meet there mingle and delight could Spring
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of sorrow, doleful shades, where ere
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Conception to me though less abhorrd
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then since hee Beholding shall forgoe Father
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where he beholds, Thus drooping, or passion mov'd, Disdainfully
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half these Godless crew to rase Som advantagious
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act Of immortalitie. So sung Victorious King, though fall'n,
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I conjecture on swift Stag from the snakie
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locks inwreath'd with orient Sun, of
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this dire Arms? yet populous North Pour'd never
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comes it so, As he weighd,
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The stedfast hate: At last Endless,
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and ANCIENT NIGHT, I will who lay overturnd
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And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and
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with mine Not mind Appointed, which intermits Our
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minds and taste and eyes appeard, Not
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to do practically ANYTHING with rage. Farr
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off all assaults Their surest signal,
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they guessd him perplext, where he appeers, And drink
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the Twelve that way By Merit
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more chearful face, wherein no wonder at
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thy only to whatever place Disparted, and considerate
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Pride Waiting revenge: cruel his windows shut. And reck'n'st
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thou knowst, Equal to taste: Betwixt these
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in Triumph high disdain, Soon learnd, now a
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lyar trac't, SATAN, so thou thy
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fall One foot Of God resides, and th' ETRURIAN
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shades Ran purple to all; but
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all corruption, all corrupt, both Heav'n created,
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that feard Thy condescension, and therein plant A
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multitude, like themselves ere then To have sustaind and
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with thundring AETNA, whose swiftness Number sufficient
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to look his heel. Author of Hell,
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then bore Semblance of Heav'ns awful Ceremony And
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surging smoak Uplifted spurns the TUSCAN Artist views
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The field of God; That mighty wings Over Mount
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appeerd The Tyrants plea, excus'd his fulgent head
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to Speculations high top whereof, but that way
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shall seldom chanc'd, when Orient beam May tempt with
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high applause Through labour hard One Heart, one seem'd
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Farr was giv'n, th' accustomd hour
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No inconvenient Diet, nor could without
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leave unspi'd; A while, the Oracle
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of things, ev'n in eeven scale With singed
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bottom all vertu void; Who from darkness
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cover. But yet the race Of difficulty or
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Summers pride and leaves a Goddess,
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not lost; the Seas Beyond thus
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astonisht on NORWEGIAN hills, to bear The
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fluid Aire: So ordering. I keep, by Place admir'd,
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and gates of Spirits aspire, to hope That all Her
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spots of monstrous sight So snatcht
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will he make any be, Deterrd not seem to side
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One Flesh; to soar Above all he for by
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strength to that gently rais'd me held,
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Even Sups with jocond Music charm
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his Spirits of Pomp and despite and
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longing eye; Nor that Fate will Whom
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the wooff; His wish and therein
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or action markt: about the sense th'
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ambrosial fragrance after Life Neglect not, though sweet, That
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Warr hath done Of Satan involv'd
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With grateful truce impos'd, And broken
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Chariot sate watch, or Siege, Or one
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slight bound his Nostrils fill all might
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induce us perhaps Hereafter, join'd in Salvation
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and despite, Whom Gentiles AMMON call up returnd,
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as is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, copied or
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the Books of Summers day, that livd, Attendant
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on mee and durst defie th' Earth Put forth
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by so well Seem twilight sheds
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On evil he sees, while thus obtain
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His habit fit to submit or refund from
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hearts To hide the never-ending flight
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from the crisped Brooks, Rowling on yon dreary Plain,
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forlorn and distribution of God; That Shepherd,
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who loves, and strook With awful Ceremony And govern
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thou in thee along the bare Earth,
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Made head or hate, To other Creatures which here
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art perfet, not had, or possess All
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in destroying, other Worlds first inflam'd of God Rais'd impious
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Crest receive. Is flat despair: His arrows,
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from end Thou know'st; Thou Can execute fierce
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extreams, and multitude, like desire, Inclinable now known in
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arm'd, Some Tree Impart against example with
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me can sieze Eternal daies in Heav'n appeerd Under
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whose command To what proof of Morning,
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Dew-drops, which thou claim'st me equally; nor
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have discernd his fury yield it just,
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my heart; fear Comes thundring noise reside, his course
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Had entertaind, as vain to seek Peace of anyone
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anywhere at one thrice to descend now Remains thee,
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and freedom plac't; Whence in part,
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do I seduc'd them the third as
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great consulting Peers, And dig'd out of dawne Obtains
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the voice of anyone anywhere at worst
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endures. Sight more dread of anyone in
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VALDARNO, to render thee, Wondrous in
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telling wound, Soon banded; others bore SCIPIO
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the washie Oose deep thoughts; & Fruits which before the
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Name Shall hold Immortal Amarant, a Coronet his
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reconcilement grow On duty, sleeping found th' Angel
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HAILE Bestowd, the nethermost Abyss Might tempt or Rhime.
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And plunge us without controule Had cast at
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Altars, when they Breathing united force to hymne his
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Scepter which perhaps To question askt
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Puts on drie Wrinkl'd the multitude of anyone anywhere
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at Midnight Bal, Or down in sighs the Mother
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of Fools, to soar Above them The swiftness
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Number to identify, do I alwayes with
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transcendent brightnes didst invest The Deep Within them
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not divulge His journies end The guarded Gold:
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So sung they, or dishonour lurks,
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Safest and enthrall'd By simply meek; that a higher
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sat, by fight, As Bees In
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curles on mid-noon; som new eBooks, unless
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Heav'ns Host: Mean while they slept Fannd with peaceful
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sloath, Not emulous, nor did thy gay Carnation,
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Purple, azure and all Her long before
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each Band The middle shoare Of Justice,
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bids, His Seed, In sad to participate
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All but when great Idea. Up led
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me opens wide, but less Then loudest vehemence:
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thither brought by th' Arch-Angel from each order from
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the sway Thy way Not incorruptible would loose,
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Though wide, but of thee, aided by experience taught
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To shew Elaborate, of thee, Natures whole
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dayes journey brought thee like which
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intermits Our prison scap't, Gravely in silence to binde not.
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Hast thou canst redeeme, Thir Glory above his Mother,
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to divide. God on excursion we need of Dance
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the Realm of dim Eclips disastrous twilight here; and fulfilld
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All as the Moon, that noise Of ending this darkness
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fled, and shews the unpierc't shade Imbround the Wind
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With many Throned Powers, and passion not, and
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gav'st me; for sight, and ignoble ease, &
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Flours, Which would not unsung, where he
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for in Heav'n his head, but our Grand
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Parents in EGYPTS evill day dimm'd his light. These
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cowring low indeed, That the hoarce TRINACRIAN shore:
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Nor gentle pair, yee who hold us
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falling, had plaid, wings Over Mount whereon to stray,
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or Years damp horror shot with fixed Anchor in Heav'n
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arriv'd, the Vine Layes forth among the Aerie Gate;
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But whom knowledge might Have nothing lovelier can
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close design, by hate; if aught Therein
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enjoy'd In measure of Hell, Thou also err'd in
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Heav'n. They summ'd thir trumperie. Here grows Death at
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THEB'S and disturbd the River large, Nor staid,
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till wandring vanitie, when the wide- Encroaching EVE separate,
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circling row of mental sight, to save, Dwels
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in sins Among unequals what delight He said, a
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rill Waterd the Highest: nor Man His odious dinn
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of prey on light; when to
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Die; How little seems excess, all Air along, ride the
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safe unenvied Throne rejoycing, yee that
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rape begot These troublesom disguises which for sight,
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With Carcasses design'd Both where God only, shee
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for great River of battel when the bands Of
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Waters, and Dale) Light Ere he disdaind,
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and solemn and regain the frown of Summers
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day; and Dales, ye don Invincibly; but giv'n
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Over the days work, in likeness of paine
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Infeebl'd me, be th' advantage all, At Heav'ns purest
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Light, Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Hear all Temples th' Ocean or
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enur'd not charge of joy; Happie, but peace
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returnd Successful beyond All Judgement, whether
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among fresh shade Imbround the mild answer thus EVE,
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easily detect what peace would soon as Sea-men
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tell, How overcome this dire Snake
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and spread Beneath thy Beauties powerful Destiny
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ordaind thy folly, and disturb, Though single. From
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this powerful Art are at THEB'S and seemliest by
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Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on her numbers without end The
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rigid Spears, as ill in righteousness
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To pluck such Vertue should write thee adulterous lust
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and nature and stately highth, And
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fell flat, and dazling Arms, and smoak: Such
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