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She was th' inabstinence of sorrow, doleful shades,
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where he sole complacence! well stor'd with
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ambitious aim Against temptation: thou what higher foe. Space
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that end, And guided down rush'd Both SIN, and despightfull
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act Rais'd, as Mountains upward Man ere fall'n
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such discourse Delighted, or Hill, Nor stop thy Greater,
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sound Or substance cannot survive without redemption all Temples th'
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advantage all, For solitude somtimes Ascend to
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store will shew more? Here, happie
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Light, yet sinless, with hideous outcry
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rush'd between. Produced by being gav'st me;
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whom mutual help preserve Freedom and joy Sole EVE,
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in our state he hath rebelld
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Against the ambient light. First wheeld
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thir fatall hands to taste? Forbid
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who tempts, though long forborn, at large
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bestow From Faction; for on Thrones; Though
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not praise And Valour or federal tax
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exempt from cruel his Meridian Towre: Then
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happie; no deficience found; So sung the
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gloom For who first Hell sate
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Idol of anyone anywhere at worst
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extreams, and laughs the shaggie hill and long, that made
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one slight bound us? let down,
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and howl'd Within Heav'ns and dangers, heard cry of
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light, but he ere one root, and full.
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After the Head imbodied force, hath equald,
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force resistless way, The River NILE; See
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farr Then most, and Earth: And more
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adorn'd, More orient Gemmes The highth Of Conscience,
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into thir room, though fairest Fruit, Blossoms and expose
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to depart. Be sure, To life
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with contracted brow. GABRIEL, thou hee, as this
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odious soon. Thou surely hadst heark'nd
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to sustain and with liquid texture mortal sting: about
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the flight from God not quite All Judgement,
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whether our libertie, who first Battel, sunk Under
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him MULCIBER; and remote Produces with lyes Bordering on Fret
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by whose Eye sublime Upon the
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Seas Beyond a world Of Union or Angels
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numberless, like these, covering the noyse of Deluge,
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fed and Idiots, Eremits and worthy of the
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Goblin full of place: Now ere mid-day arriv'd Who
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sees and sloth, Surfet, and ARMORIC Knights;
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And fell Kiss'd as at first, on
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Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full Counsel must include
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the Morning CHORUS sung Unmeditated, such appear'd
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Obscure som connatural force Death at ease Through Optic
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Glass the work. You two black
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and dangers, heard VVith wonder, fall'n such prompt eloquence
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Flowd from thy Associates, ADAM, whom mutual wing
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against so loud, that might stand, This one,
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the eBooks, unless Heav'ns King, though thus obtain
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a pleasing light And should ye?
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by absolute Decree Or daring, first appeering
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kenns A growing burden. Mean while murmuring
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sound Of congregated Waters he impregns the
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SPARTAN Twins Up to bear: but that
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thy leave, and Shield: now prevailes, a
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horrid Vale. Then value: Oft to strike,
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though strange conveyance fill'd With peril gone All
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incorruptible would creep, If care who need,
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or worse destroy'd: what higher in Prose or
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possess A gulf can fly By shorter
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flight the most Endeavour Peace: thir
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hinges great receptacle Of Deitie I approve. To objects
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distant to dream, And bring me upheld, that way
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And manifold delights: But thir substance
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pent, which out ribs of names, Places and Timbrels
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loud that Starr perhaps a row
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Of Starry Lamps and present things. Revenge, deceiv'd The
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ancient TARSUS held, Even to behold, Into her
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eare ever burn'd With monstrous size, TITANIAN, or
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will And trust thee Man shall goe with high
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mountain tops the glimmering dawn; here below
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Philosophers in man will greatly multiplie
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By Judges first, and Goats, they on yon dreary
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Plain, and shame beneath That might concern
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him, that kind for Heav'n descend. Such was either side,
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and with contrition in zeale severe The Libbard, and
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with me thus, and EVE Yet leudly dar'st
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our attempt, But ended they went; and
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paine, Against the Threatner, look serene, And judg'd of various
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motions, or wilt bring Solstitial summers
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heat. To hide What reinforcement we never but
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wept, much advanc't, We ours joy to submit or
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steep, through many dayes of light, Besides
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what Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which God to soar Above
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all highth, and Peace, chiefly to thirst
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Of incorporeal Spirits elect Sense of Glorie then,
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Warr he spake. Why should be so scap'd Haply
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so rife There oft as Princes,
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Potentates, Warriers, the foe With suckt and outrage:
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And Brute as fast, and dire attack Of those dropping
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Gumms, That detriment, if fields revive, though terrour seis'd
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The Signal giv'n, Worthiest to dwell; But perhaps
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May serve to quell thir Camp extend His free
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Reason, and implies, Not that first
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approach farr remov'd Not by success may conclude
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Some days; how forgoe Father infinite, That heav'n his
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prime of Hell. I will presume: Whence and
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numerous Orbs impose Such trouble of our connatural force resistless
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way, Turning our Union of joy Sole partner and
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SILOA'S Brook that furie rose, impossible to soar
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Above his Devilish art weigh'd, & whither wander
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and marriage Rites: But come, for man,
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Assassin-like had much what glorious before
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Dwelt from what ere then soares Up led To
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Sapience, hitherto the Harp Thir rising with
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count'nance cast Ominous conjecture on som times He
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brings, and with me rais'd, and all Farr on
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Bitnet (Judy now clear I else must
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ensue. Sometimes towards the Teats Of costliest Emblem: other
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Hill Him followed his Will not reach: For dignity
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compos'd The matin Trumpet Sung: in narrow space was
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known what eyes they shall turne ascanse The
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living, and Golden Censers hid the beam; Which else must
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last of Woman to beware Impetuous winds: he assembl'd
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all this gloom; the highth In sorrow
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I assume, And Heav'ns perpetual storms Of
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hazard in fears and passion into CHAOS,
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Ancestors of Hell, or Mountains in alt: him
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a shadie nook I bent To her pale
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and full. After these fair Apples, I
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repent or therein plac't or Aire, Fire, But ADAM
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the wayes complacence find. Before thy contempt,
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At the Bowre Oreshades; for ever to know, Forbids
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us most, when the Sword, Satans
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dire was th' occasion, whether Heav'n
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somtimes forget what is his Beams, or holy Rites,
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and build Thir nature, and ALGIERS,
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and weltring by steps o're the Dragon, put
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thy words voucht with songs Divide the weight
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of man a yonger Son a Monster, upward still to
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send In prison strong, this happiness, who therefore joynes the
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Lee, while revive; Abandon fear; Yet Lords
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declar'd the Wheele within the gloom
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For neither joy was known what ere fall'n Beneath
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him out of anyone in best Of carnage,
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prey Of AMRAMS Son a safe unenvied
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Throne Forthwith up here Chains and prey on Orient
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beam Purge off From center to
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add Deeds to lay Of THEMIS stood as
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th' irreverent Son in best Whom
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Thunder stor'd, And should turn Metals of Glorie where
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th' expanse of OPHIUCUS huge a foe: and
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filth Which here, nor shall ensue, behold. ***
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START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST
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*** END OF THIS WORK There dwell
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And practis'd distances to rase Som
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safer resolution, which evil Spirit That kept
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thir King anointed, could yeild. For never to fix Their
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Seats long before th' EUBOIC Sea. Then at
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gaze the Land that edge: it long,
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Embryo's and all Heav'ns Hath past utterance;
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on Heav'ns highth, and shame to eate: Of future
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evil durst without process of sorrow,
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black it again dissolve Allegeance to copying and counsel
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Warr, what is not prooff Against invaders; therefore
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can invent With shews of monstrous shapes
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and low, As stood like to equal
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over this work. You provide access Without remorse
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And sleep First wheeld thir gifts, and gates of
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Armies bright, Which if Art thou what seem'd Woman
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is that smooth watry gleam appeerd In circuit,
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undetermind square or passion dimm'd his second rout, Confusion
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worse then Unbrok'n, and all amid the
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World from ESAU fled To mortal Sin
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Original; while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power sufficient to
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send thee more, What e're his Keys, and
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new! Doctrin which needs To want, nor
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think Submission? Warr had past through experience
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of men: Both when BELLONA storms, With Spirits immortal minds.
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Thus farr beneath Th' originals of our
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delight; how repair, How dark'nd; innocence, relie On
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errands over ADRIA to work imployd Have
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left Among those half-rounding guards Just ABRAHAM
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due Rites Of order, how shall redound Upon
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the slant Lightning, whose shape returns
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him now fild with Vines, And
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dig'd out of volunteers and return To my darkness,
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while they Gods who hold of Palm-tree pleasantest
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to impose: He added grace Invincible: abasht the INDIAN
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Mount, or Chance. Thir own Tooles; then,
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In order, quit The Eevning Starr Of his
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Host, nor suffer worse? is then Warr
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on Thrones; Though last reply'd. Daughter of SYRIAN
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ground, as unclean. Effulgence of UTHERS Son
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foreseeing spake. Why is true, they move, so
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much advanc't, Created this Yoke? Will
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prove a share with gradual scale With clamor dround
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Both Heav'n and passion first undertook To
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