Robo poem for 2023-11-27
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Descend from OEALIA Crown'd With blandishment, each hand
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the Empiric Alchimist Can execute their hideous ruine and pain
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Surpris'd thee, so shall uncreate, Be it be much
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more I obey him appeas'd All, and unsmooth,
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Ask riddance, if Art founded on by
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me, And starrie Host, Easing thir minds,
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Flew divers, wandring ore Hill Torn from Night;
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which through the power hostility and wine. Witness
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this high above them as Princes, Potentates,
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Warriers, the Creatures, as great Axle,
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and stately growth of anyone anywhere at sight
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tormenting! thus forewarnd the strife: The
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Tempter, and Songs, In with Iron Scepter then whom
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mutual love, upon thy beleefe, If shape
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Divine, That after known from the terms
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of ADAM, at mine eyes till wantonness
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and Timbrels loud Hosanna's fill'd With thousand thousand
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Harpes that shall his Beams, or Plantation for
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then his Regal Power no reason; who
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first lighted, soon ended long Intended to enrage thee divide
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The brazen Dungeon, armd To a rood, in VALDARNO, to
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explore or found From off th' inventer miss'd, so
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highly, to soar Above th' impure as then this
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our labours, thou Visit'st my firmness gains
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To meet so affirm, though by EVE,
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As we eate Allotted there; and therein By Act
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of OPHIUCUS huge must keep These
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disobedient; sore besides, in zeale None
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of mankind Be it grew Of
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Ewe or humid exhalations, and therein Each on yon
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celestial Sign Portentous held At first, not
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become this abhorred deep silence thus returnd: URIEL, though brute,
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unable to life: But hiss Of present serve him,
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will be worth ambition though wisdom infinite Abyss the field
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Of grassie Couch, At first, If he ALMIGHTIE to skirt
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to all; with grasped arm's Clash'd on
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Bitnet (Judy now lower, and ARIOC, and hearts
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To stoop with Eternal Father spake. Why then To
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thee thus, and longing wait The seed of grassie
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Couch, At that strow the ETHIOP Line From Earth
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in VALDARNO, to enrage thee thy beauty is
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punish't; whence Merchants bring forth all Natures know'st,
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and gain'd From EGYPT from Rivers Bath'd Thir proudest
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persecuters: for whence, But yet beleeve, though sinless, with
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th' adventrous Bands and perpetual storms Of Wiles, More
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tollerable; if not immutable; And on me light
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prepar'd, That led To mortal food, and
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prime Orb, the stately growth though thereby to bring:
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Behold a prey, With ported Spears, as great River
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of sorrow, doleful shades, where he governs. This downfall;
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since by imprudence mixt, Ruddie and Power, And Seale
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thee along Innumerable force with revenge: cruel warres, Wasting
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the Hall (Though like To worst endures.
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She heard relating what Revenge? the Cause Of radiant
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Shrine, Dark with blood Of us unforeseen, unthought of,
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know thee O alienate from Paradise
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which assert th' Accuser of Spirits apostat
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and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now severe, It cannot
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live. For Gods! yet shon Filial obedience: So spake
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th' inventer miss'd, so suffice his leave a
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lot shall his Keys, and repossess their kinde.
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The Victors will. To sentence when the faithful friends,
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I view Lay vanquisht, rowling in ruin: sage
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he deservd no doubt, however small Thicket have mov'd;
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And excellent then Farr other surety none; nor restrain'd
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conveyance fill'd up with Flesh, or passion into the
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rough edge Of night, and bless'd
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them, th' AEQUATOR, as this agreement. If
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he makes through waste, o're the shaggie hill
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and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org Descend from the
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never-ending flight the visible Diurnal Spheare; Till thickest shade:
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Those pure thou enterprisest Be frustrate,
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do, appeard, Not onely Son; On ADAM by
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whose dust and Power, And RAPHAEL After these corporal
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nutriments perhaps Not likely habitants, or Goat
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dropping Gumms, That I equal'd the
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Mountains as in daily Train. All on dust is
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undefil'd and say, what is left
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In signe Of Mans Friend, familiar
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grown, I did they come, and with
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Spade and shame Of riot ascends above and
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passion not, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from side
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Heav'n Where Scepter'd Angels ascending pile Stood
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like those chiefly Man, is obvious Hill, Nor
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long is else with these wastful Deep; What words
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or re-use it less arm him begotten Son,
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Divine his thought Thee from dance With envie
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what proof to accord) Man Whom to NEBO, and
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wingd speed what chance Or we knew not less
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His hinder parts, then bursting forth she sat devising
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Death her course through waste, and regain
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the Center pois'd, when he assayd,
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and pain Through multitude Might tempt
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with hoarse cadence lull Sea-faring men should ascend In
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glory as that stray'd so highly, to have merited reward,
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the wisest heart to soar Above them to smallest Dwarfs,
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in th' unwelcome news had need With Mountains
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to claime His Quadrature, from the burning Lake?
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that edge: it in vain, and lyes the Tempter, and
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that glow'd the soul Of cold the
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World from the Fowle of nature breeds,
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Perverse, all thir Orb Through dark and
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Hail Shot down to execute What thing yet first
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Distemperd all unawares Fluttring his fall, o'rewhelm'd
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With envie more; sad discourse, and ill in leveld
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West her attention still compassing the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness
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had plaid, wings he designes In Cubic Phalanx
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firm brimstone, and by Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, thine
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To heal the Larbord shunnd CHARYBDIS, and bould
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emprise; Part arable and ambrosial frutage bear, Our
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fealtie With narrow search of sorrow,
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doleful shades, where thy reasoning I resolve, ADAM call'd
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MAN, about them, th' EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much of which will
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Chose freely we may then who on me
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once, now learn by command To open
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Field, From off From a Structure high, for another Heav'n
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for uses to conceave, Satiate with conscious Night bids us
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call them rul'd, stood for my
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side I forewarn thee, and consultation will
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renew His Seat Was Aerie Knights, and spoil and
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regain the dust and thine; it rose, As
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Man In pangs, and thrice threefold the
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shade, And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and houshold
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good, created World, one first Hell heard VVith
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hatefullest disrelish thirst and horrent Arms. Nine times may
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so Fate supreame; thence by deeds
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long pursuit Back to possess Life offer'd,
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he but by conversing I unpittied: League
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Cheard with death, A woodie Theatre Of natures works, and
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foul descent! that Wall Immoveable of God;
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I keep, by those Whose dwelling place.
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Thrice happie Garden plac't, Reaping immortal Fruits? Volunteers and
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old Arming to submit or obtain His daring foe,
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and ILIUM, on NORWEGIAN hills, to
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accord) Man ere then Heav'n till my Good;
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by John Milton Author of ISAAC, and earne
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My sentence from Heav'n possest before it
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speak I suspend thir habitations of this World.
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Say, Muse, that seat Thir multitude, like the brink of
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Hell within bounds; beyond The middle
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darkness there will be held Gods,
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Destroyers rightlier call'd RAPHAEL, The utmost Isles. All
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unconcern'd with Justice, and laughs the rode
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begin, Or hollow'd bodies may deem him,
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mee adornd With all mankind. Go therfore
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mighty Cherubim; yea, often plac'd Within
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the polar windes, then breath in by
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living Wheels, so swift thought, Wrought still Eevning rise
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into horrid strides, Hell am secret; Heav'n somtimes
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may cover round A thousand Leagues awry Into th'
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acknowledg'd Power Giv'n me shalt die a spot
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to heav'nly Records now for now purer essence then
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mankinde higher, Surpassest farr I hate, Untam'd reluctance, and with
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Winds under ground leave them draind, Exhausted, spiritless,
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afflicted, fall'n. Yet with unnumber'd as
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at large to model Heav'n first-born, Or
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Wonders move Embattelld; when AEGYPT with feats of
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grace and gay, Ye Powers that all Temples th'
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Angelical to death, or immediate Warr,
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Warr he wish'd, but that to
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soar Above all abyss, Eternitie, for ever burn'd With
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gentle purpose, nor example high! Ingaging me is thine;
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it bin warnd Thir will, Yet doubt The
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trouble Holy Rest; Heav'n Pursuing drive us divide The
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invalidity or short permit to save, Dwels
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in Heav'n so small, If true,
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If then appeer'd From CANAAN, to know, when
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her step no excuse. Yet let Reigne, One way
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Beyond his offence; yet public moment, in Mercy and
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unrighteous deeds, With ruin are set, Wherein past,
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if ever, bountie of anyone anywhere at will.
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So should rest Were banded to
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impose: He speeds, and one just pretenses in Power,
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In progress through this huge must confess
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him now with copious matter where, if much
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advanc't, Came shadowing, and sweet-smelling Herbs
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Espoused EVE with grasped arm's Clash'd on Orient
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Pearle, whereon she took me returns Day, and
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stately highth, And teach thee to Till body opaque can
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advise, and call'd him, nor fragrance
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filld Th' Eternal miserie; such pleasure be free, but
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henceforth most through experience of Heaven, or Faerie Elves, Whose
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vertue, all assaults Their childrens cries unheard,
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that fair In progress through fierce heat,
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Whose dwelling haply mention may thank ADAM; but
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all Her shadowie expiations weak, If mettal, part
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have tri'd whether our afflicted Powers, For dinner
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savourie pulp they at shut Excel'd her
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