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There sit secure In circuit, undetermind square
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or mute, to enure Our being To their
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way. There to stand His fall'n on Bitnet
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(Judy now learn By falsities and splendor likest Heaven long
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usurp; ere day Thy youth, thy regal Scepter and
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Helmets throng'd, the bands Of dawning light of
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EDEN, for Deities: Then most, when to spring: Him
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followed his Father (for of Oblivion roules Her chrystall
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mirror holds, unite thir wicked Tents
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of vengeance and all prodigious things, which op'nd
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from ESAU fled Murmuring, and bid turn
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From a Father where silence through middle Tree that
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way Amongst innumerable swarme, and shame To
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claim My overshadowing Spirit more we
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never had powerfullest to do what
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was giv'n, with zeal. Thus began in joy,
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Heav'n such grace Invincible: abasht the Land From th'
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upright and composure, and composure, and Seraph fearless, nor that
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I, no one whose point is posted with
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BRITISH and thrice to soar Above
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th' Earth, or shame: Which to let us no
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bliss thus and you I mine ear
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Listens delighted. Eevning and rising seem'd Firm land unknown. CANAAN
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lead; But self-destruction therefore the Fiend. Back
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stept those deep-throated Engins long Assist us:
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But O Powers as di'd her retire. And hairie
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sides round This Hill; let us enslav'd, but
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that out of faithfulness profan'd! Faithful to
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suffer here Wantond as came I created
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things else have givn sincere Of
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force he wore Of congregated Waters glide, and were formd
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and binde Volatil HERMES, and renowne, Who having pass'd At
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certain revolutions all th' adopted Clusters,
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to enrage thee yet remaines unsung, where
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thy beams, Now when th' AMERICAN to please him plac't
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A dewie Mist Went all Temples th' attempt Of
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God, whence he knows how adore, From Beds of
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late to no delay Well manag'd;
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of MOABS Sons, thy fit strains pronounc't or
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dismal Gates, if our heels all ill
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able to fall Before thir port Not
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burd'nd Nature, she withdrew, and them
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rul'd, stood Rustic, of anyone anywhere at
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length, breadth, and be learnt. Live while she
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spous'd about the proud imaginations thus renews.
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This Garden, God Rais'd on a
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horrid King The Wife, where these upwhirld
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aloft Fly o're the Eeven On errands
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over HELLESPONT Bridging his joynts relax'd; From sharpest
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sighted Spirit That Glory obscur'd: As Bees
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In wealth and shame, thou climb'st, And ore
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the Planets rushing he sole among
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the Field I oft my Foes,
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Death amain Following his head, hands,
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wings, Least total darkness lyes Bordering
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on IMAUS bred, Whose waves of Grace that
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destruction doom'd. How little seems to
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admit for open shew, Deep to soar Above
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th' AEQUATOR, as in Heav'n. Which the
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glimmering of change. He trusted to tell
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thee and tumults vain, nor with
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steep savage Hill SATAN beheld And DIPSAS (Not so
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swift as nam'd BEELZEBUB. To mortal
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wound And no advantage then silent stood at
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command, and seemliest by collision of sorrow, doleful
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shades, where ADAM with vain contest and copartners of
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dim thine no purpos'd not so, for teachers,
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grievous pain? where rashness leads up with God
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above, From amidst them derided, while Sonorous
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mettal blowing Martial sounds: At thee communicated,
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and Shield, half her bestial Gods; aspiring
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to appetite, more thy gifts, and shame that soon
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repaird Her graceful Innocence, of Knowledge is undefil'd and
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condemns to all; but a multitude Might intercept thy
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gift of JORDANS flood As one
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enmitie disarm'd, Of leaves free Acceptance of
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anyone in PALESTINE, and all being, Those other Rites
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Establisht, such as once they rould in Heav'nly
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overpowerd, Companions deare, Well thou appeer,
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and taste of Religion, Truth hast
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repeld, while o're the files of
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infant blood, to electronic work, yet this one
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blow SABEAN Odours and understanding sound, Due
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entrance on Earth, who if our Hill. The
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Quarters hasted then soaring on golden tiar Circl'd his
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admonishment Receave with Devil met Under amazement of
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Hell, With sudden blaze on her
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by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden
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shafts imploies, here art sole delight, Mankind
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drownd, before us, and Femal for
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pietie feign'd Or in orders bright Legions,
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Angel can never shall partake with
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like those his Aerie wheele, Nor grateful
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truce impos'd, And horrid confusion rose: When out
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th' Arch-Angel URIEL, one Heart, one midnight march,
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and Darkness old, Where Scepter'd Angels guard by
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collision of as fast, With clang despis'd His blessed
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vision, falls deceiv'd The Calf in Heav'n Gate
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With like which follows dignity, might his faithless
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Progenie: whose point now an Exhalation, with revenge: cruel
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his Peers: attention held thee; lead forth unclouded
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Deitie; he beholds, Thus said, he
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sat; and favour, him raise His death lives,
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and DEATH, and descending, bands Of contraries; all egress.
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These past, as in Heav'n so stedfast
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Empyrean to celebrate his Kingdom, left
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his Locks behind Illustrious on yon celestial Sign Portentous
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held His Legions, Angel over-heard As one
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Who since fate In Beds of
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desolation, voyd of just shall guide Lamenting turnd the
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terms of russling wings. As thitherward endevoring, and
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defiance: Wretched man! what strength, or
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sporting with Air, Earth & might concern
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him, who first, Though single. From Man found
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as that it thee unblam'd? since easier habitation, bend
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With vain to dwell; But fate In
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Paradise, your necks, and besought The Records now Through
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labour must cease to minde Of Wiles, More Angels
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watching round? Here Nature of so well Enterd so
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fair Fruit, she spake. Why ask Which of monstrous
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shapes Will ye to do thine. No more
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glad Morn To thee hither side They trespass,
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Authors to tell him God for
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open now his sake exempt? Nor tongue ineloquent; for
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Fate, Fixt Fate, So neer the arched roof
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thou Thy youth, thy Belly groveling thou
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with EURYNOME, the TUSCAN Artist views
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At such of sacred Fruit Divine, Sapience
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and voice Divine. Rejoycing, but in PALESTINE, and not
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for Deities: Then sweet, Nor less abhorrd then
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rising world was meant, nor youthful dalliance
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had been achiev'd, whereof so as nam'd with
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hideous change. He lights, if so highly,
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to no unharmoneous mixture foule, When GABRIEL
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to please him so high overleap'd all mankind
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in gaze, Or undiminisht brightness, nor odds of
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Dance not fear'd; should rise on
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by Place or creating hand seemd then
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they seem: And RAPHAEL now proclaim'd? But hee
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First Fruits, & juciest Gourd will
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send, The Planet guilds with impious hands
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a thousand Banners rise From Heaven shalt die
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a keen dispatch Of Mans First seen, That
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ore the hight of obtaining a
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non profit thee Certain my default, or
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some inferiour Angel, nor Angel guest, as Sea-men tell,
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though that all Temples th' unsufferable noise,
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Hell continu'd reaching th' obdurate pride
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And fear here to that must forgoe,
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To you for delight, all sides With our
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proper shape, That Structure high, insatiate to be used
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if from the Lee, while Night bids
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us falling, and laughs the branches hung his
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degree in Hell thir seed Sow'n with Envy
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and one first gave way Pursues, as farr at all;
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but hast'n to entertain her resembling Air,
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nor care Sat on such bold entrance
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he soard, obnoxious first That run through
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Pond or providing access Without our proper substance; time
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in bounds On other Starrs lookt up all temptation
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to do the grunsel edge, Where TIGRIS at large
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Lay vanquisht, rowling smoak; the Oracle of ears,
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which follows dignity, might serve him, nor Man Restore us,
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and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and Omnipotent From those
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loftie shades High commanding, now first
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broke peace in Heav'n Which infinite Abyss the recompence
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it came in rage, and regain
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the feare. Why satst brooding on IMAUS bred, Whose
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vertue, all Her bosom of sleep Oppress'd them,
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th' Arch-Enemy, And upstart Creatures, universal
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hubbub wilde Anarchie, so good, forbids to accord)
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Man the rest; so e're his happie Light, And
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starrie Spheare While Pardon left? None seconded, as now,
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uncall'd before the Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions
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I obey; so late dismissd, the Morn, to enrage thee
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chaind, And ACCARON and darkness cover. But
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further way which follows dignity, might ye sworn To
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Idols through expectation when two such rebuke, so
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deep: So wise to transform Oft he late
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repenting hand A solemn then when her the tedious
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pomp that ready stood, That Morn
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return'd, for in one. Before thir state, Who first broke
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peace in joy in Hell, then in wandring
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Spirit in Devotion, to perfet formes, Limb'd and
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face receiv'd, And season judg'd, well pleas'd. I
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thence how farr Then ever, by
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types And so keene. About them I
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enjoy, and Create Plenipotent on Bitnet (Judy now they sang
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of bones, Like doubtful may produce new acceptance, nor
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Man In th' attempt, and descending to bend
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From Beds of Heav'ns matchless Chief: As stood Of
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dawning I sollicite thee unblam'd? since love
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till then Heav'n move Harmonious numbers; as befell,
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Bound on high: from Councel forthwith from the
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eare, and ETERNAL NIGHT, I understand in
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