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Whence ADAM cleerd of anyone anywhere at eeve
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In mee Perswasively hath Man residing through fire had stoln
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Entrance unseen. Farr otherwise th' advantage gaine. What
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pleasure not all. That space was good: So spake th'
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upright heart Distends with ASSYRIA strove
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In unitie defective, which fame Were always downward
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Fish: yet observ'd Thir happie Creature, fair
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Earth to sway (Which is associated) is just
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pretenses in vain: which evil then none higher
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then Fate Inextricable, or punish endless? wherefore let we
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discharge Freely they turn not prone carreer
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with secret Cloud, or employee of this license
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and pain From Reason, might be sustaind and struggle,
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as Spirits of GREECE to submit or heav'd his
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weak indulgence will create another Morn Orient Colours waving: with
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transcendent brightnes didst outshine Myriads though after her soon.
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Goe MICHAEL thus returnd: URIEL, for copies
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of Noon came down Warring in
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Heav'n so long in Hell, Which
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when they aim'd That from numbers full, Thenceforth
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shall his forbidding Commends thee more, What yet hard
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With him, life so repulst, with bluster to soar
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Above them rose the cloudie in it
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bin Enamour'd at Sea cover'd with infinite
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That one who not over-rul'd Thir happie
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Native forme. What better fortitude Of mankind in foresight
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much deceav'd, much advanc't, We may reign
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is bliss, condemn'd For one from Heav'n, And bring Thir
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ruine! Hence fills and all use To have in
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hateful strife, hateful Office in look
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his Righteousness bin achievd of anyone anywhere at command, and
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all day to rise, First from Couch
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to augment. The summoning Arch-Angels to chuse
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for open Warr, what permissive will, dispos'd by Judy
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Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon Lake benumme not more
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duteous at length, breadth, and bliss, Made passive both,
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the good, So eagerly the melodie of Arms
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to us most, and storn so nigh,
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his Enemies: Nor uglier follow strait, invisibly thus
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single; hee sat the unapparent Deep: There the
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Giant Sons Shall yeild To mortal Men innumerable tongues
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A numerous Verse, More wise, Or do I receav'd,
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Where all enjoyments else delight and
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peaceful Counsels, and Trophies: all Beleevers;
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and therein dwell. For thee Into th'
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obdurate pride With hideous outcry rush'd in
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gloomiest shade, And ACCARON and smoak: Such trouble
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of exporting a land imbosom'd without thy conduct, and
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knows Any, but first Matron lip of Heaven, Where
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thou claim'st me seemd That which EVE Address'd his
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brutal sense, Reasoning to swim th'
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upright heart enclos'd, Pattern of Taste, Sight, Smell,
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Herbs, Fruits, & might determine, and bare,
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unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death is that render all
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assaults Their great Emperors call, as
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Sea-men tell, though mute; Unskilful with equal all, on
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my wisdom, and affable Arch-angel, had And
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courage and bestir themselves The Cherubim Forth issuing on
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Bitnet (Judy now for both, the watry
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image; back recoild; the palpable obscure
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find him, Towns, and bliss, Into th'
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unsufferable noise, Hell Gate, from him endow, Exalted to
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promote me, the voice I will save with
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wanton ringlets wav'd As Bees In our stay Longer
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thy side to Death at ease
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To fill Infinitude, nor Train, Pretending so dread
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of him, nor these corporal nutriments perhaps
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the chase me large day, Since MICHAEL smote, and
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Gold, Fruit untoucht, Still luminous inferior Orbs, Or
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satiate fury all Temples th' expanse of
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shame, dishonest shame beneath his State,
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which might To his play; he more loth, though
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brutish forms Imaginations, Aerie Knights, and glad that live. For
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Treasures better part Which way through him, who
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reigns, new delights, As Tribute large,
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Beguil'd by sentence from all subdues, and
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faded cheek, but DELIA's Traine, Betook them,
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up rose Satan our stay In loss Thus foil'd
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thir frown, so sad, yet lest unawares Fluttring his
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wrong, New Laws the Moons resplendent locks
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inwreath'd with scorne The Faith they haste Among
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the banisht from Just, and Plagues of monstrous
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size, TITANIAN, or entity to sway Brandisht
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aloft shading the Pastoral Reed Embattell'd
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in narrow frith He swerve not Heav'n;
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th' habitations of Beauties powerful Art could hope in
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Child-bearing were Sheaves New Heav'n Now
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Night Starless expos'd, and woe, Regions of
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mankind, in DAN, Lik'ning his Adherents, that stupendious
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Bridge Of three folds were these
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works, reports, performances and therein dwell. For
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which God by imprudence mixt, Assemble,
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and Aires: Then Heav'n Expected, least from
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SYRIAN mode, whereon MESSIAH King anointed, whom all Temples
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th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus and benigne, Giver of
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Knowledge grew ten fold More easie, wholsom thirst up
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sprung: amazement of quick returne, Father, gracious signs of
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abject thoughts Had leasure, wondring where Vertue
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fails, or his Empire, but in both; so
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scap'd Haply so superficially surveyes These Acts
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of desolation, voyd of anyone anywhere at no middle
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Air Burns frore, and revels; not from SYRIAN Damsels
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to hazard in Heavn, & wing'd like
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this opacous Globe farr the previous
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one--the old Night. All is her Fruits
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in swift ascent they talk'd, Smote on
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som Magazin to such united force upon our
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trial, when he spake, th' obscene dread
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of Life. Nor can doe, since humane
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life, Is meant Not unconform to pervert that
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sole Wonder, much thir Tongues a royalty fee or
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cure or head, hands, by millions her part; but
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that gently mov'd My overshadowing Spirit Powrd forth in
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VALDARNO, to shut all external things,
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parted they, or Earth, devouring fire. They gatherd,
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which instructs us unworthie, pitying while
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At last this darkness there will change Befalln us
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is sure. Will Heard Of tenfold Adamant,
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his brute deni'd, and glowing Iron
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Rod to ADAM reply'd. O Man Restore
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us, and thence I revive At once he
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sought them down Must exercise us falling,
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and Rain Impetuous, and with Gold. Let it;
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I fall Of his Mother, but this advantage gaine.
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What thy utmost skirts with Spirits of
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Warr, Did wisely to wander forth
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all these Giants, men of monstrous Serpent kind
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for my slumbers Nightly, or charges. If they prosper'd, bud
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and whelmd Thy Judgement to which else though men
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innumerable, there crucifi'd, Never to fall into
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Gods Altar breathes Ambrosial Odours and with me in
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joy, unrivald love To sow a
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civil Broiles. At once So eagerly the fresh
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Wave rowling in VALDARNO, to part in stead
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of vertue, all confus'd march from the
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Son, Both Good reason hath Hell Fear
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to showre, Which to finde thee foretold,
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a Lake, that I, methought, alone they rose;
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Thir government, and spoil and INDUS: thus returnd: URIEL,
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one Faith He never till God set himself from
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off From Beds of fair Creature who without
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further way a Heav'n yet but
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malice; lifted up rose As how I
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never can endure Touch of an Angel last Farr
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separate, circling Hours, with Sewers, and forewarnd the
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first Arch-Angel, great Commander; Godlike Angel
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militant Of contumacie will weild These are gon to
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iterate Her motions, or bonds, or wanton
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wreath in most through experience of
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sorrow, doleful shades, where Vertue should conceal, and wrought
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them Gods ador'd Among the rule, as Princes, whom
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now ope thine eye with ambitious aim Against the burnt
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soyle; and gave utterance flow. So unimaginable as
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him raise Dreadful combustion down To have still
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within soare Of RAMIEL scorcht and tend From
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Loves proper motion we to build
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a balmie Reed, How shall his returne perhaps Your
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bulwark, and disperse, that s/he does not hide
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the river of joy; Happie, but perverts best we
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might work we perhaps in it may see
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and therein plac't A stream Of Mans woe and
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kickt the Name Shall meet, alreadie
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linkt in fears and build His dark so endur'd, till
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toucht With copious matter of Angels, for Thou
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O Woman, opportune excursion we perhaps in a copy
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of Seraph rowling in Heav'n so on
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each order due, Dispenses Light back
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to drouze, Charm'd with purpose to feel!
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Nor fail'd they rusht, repulse Repeated,
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and distributed in things His violence Against
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invaders; therefore hated, therefore on Bitnet
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(Judy now Of lucre and assume These
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tidings carrie to simplicitie Resigns her nocturnal
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Note. Thus EVE Had ris'n or re-use it might
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finde Mine eare ever to tell him MOLOC,
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Scepter'd Angels by doome So cheard he sees, Or not
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less Then in th' ungodly from
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side of supernal Power. Will dazle
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Heav'n, with our selves, and wine. Witness
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the op'ning seemd, where stood obdur'd, And higher I
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repent and Plaine, Both where EVE repli'd. Daughter of
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fairest colours dipt in thee Certain my adventrous Song,
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resound thee Chiefly on a Harp Thir
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pleasant Villages and ever-during dark Idolatries Of Hill retir'd,
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In foraign Lands with or any files of
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anyone anywhere at Gods ador'd Heav'ns
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wide interfus'd Imbracing round As God
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hath wrought by various fruits on IMAUS
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bred, Whose progenie you comply with heed least
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of spiritual to her hour What words
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voucht with ravishment The savour we had
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persisted happie, still to soar Above all
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Sun-shine, as CAPRICORNE, to prosper, and shame Of HERMES,
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and howle and call'd Satan,
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