Robo poem for 2021-12-15
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Creating the World, high disdain, Soon banded; others
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aid. I was, but convoyd By center, or
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heav'd his Image, not obeyd, Immediately
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a Flour which by things thine To
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shew more? Our givers thir hearts, not
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repine, But her thou Mightiest in PALESTINE, and desart
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wayes complacence find. Yet happie hours in orders bright
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eminence, and dispel'd their Vows and
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sequesterd, though terrour of monstrous Serpent wise, Though all Temples
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th' Angelical to joyne us, that swim th'
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adventrous Bands Pursuing. I intend at least to
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disobedience fall'n, to heare thee not hide the Goal
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With superstitions and ILIUM, on himself beginning late;
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Not incorruptible would either He spreads for
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the Giant brood Of Planets rushing he center'd, and
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drearie Vaile They saw, when time and through
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experience of Mans woe and with ambitious to resist
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our part huge a Band The Chariot Wheels, so over
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wrauth shall absolve them to soar Above th'
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Abysse Long had filld Th' addition strange; yet never
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since the originator of knowledge, planted by Laws of
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revenge, immortal Spirits, both righteous Altar, Gods that voyce,
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their Creator, and corpulence involv'd With HALLELUIAHS: Thus said,
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he from the humble deprecation thus began. Because thou
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aim'st; So minded, have crownd Above th' occasion,
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whether to soar Above all Power to will shew
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more? Our Supream Foe Tempting affronts
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us falling, and shame Cast forth all living Soule:
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And ore Hill Him the Tempter,
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and under the Creatures, on AEGYPT with Lioness; So
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spake this windie Sea of him, the Snakie
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Sorceress that most just, Hinder'd not minded
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not, works possessed in Nature: more th' AEGAEAN Ile:
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thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, nor wanted they
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both righteous Altar, bowing lowly roof thou motion'd, wel
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thy hallowd mould, and after better hid.
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Soon as Mountains now more spiritous, and ye sworn
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To bottomless perdition, there thy advise him
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out From Heav'ns perpetual agonie and Plaines,
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And fell By center, or combin'd. Fraile
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is our grand Foe, while From many Throned
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Powers, Consult how that smooth watry Plain, and
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Virgin pass, the Sons destroyd, Or glittering Starr-light without longer
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hold Betwixt them she will presume: Whence heavie pace
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the Fould: Or happiness and thrice the PHOENICIANS call'd
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up with words All Prophecie, That felt the Streets of
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thy Love, Where universally admir'd; but torture without defence.
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If shape the dust is a higher Argument
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I sit indulgent, and continu'd Nights Hemisphere had prepar'd
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For in despair, to retain; they shoot
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forth Thir pleasant green, As each hollow
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dark Ended rejoycing in every leaf, that gently
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creeps Luxuriant; mean to know, Why hee
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together crowded drove them to correspond, opener mine
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eyes he with glad I reduce:
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All would intermix Grateful digressions, and humane; A
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whole included with narrow search I receav'd, Where
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TIGRIS at noon, with coy submission, modest
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pride, and night the Goal With singed
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bottom all a land Thaws not,
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Whereon a sent Before the unreal, vast,
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a Golden Altar breathes Ambrosial Odours
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and glad. Empress, the smiles Wanted, nor
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studious, higher then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr
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remov'd VVhich onely just Decree of monstrous
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size, TITANIAN, or action markt: about them triumphant wheels
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In prospect, what ere Dayes mid-course, and
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mad demeanour, then of CHALDAEA, passing to act
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more Incens't, and ILIUM, on Bitnet
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(Judy now (Certain to impose: He lights, if Earth
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Wheels (for like themselves in Triumph high abode,
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those wav'd As liberal and bickering flame, Which uttering
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thus these growing Empire; doubtless; while inhabit laxe,
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ye will to this Fruit With speed A Pillar
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of Artifice or heav'd his labour, yet
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once beheld From EGYPT from me; Woman
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thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, it thus? who shall
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perfetly be henceforth most he pretend Surprisal,
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unadmonisht, unforewarnd. So eminently never dwell, Not ti'd or
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remove The key of evils; of instrumental sounds The
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irksome hours, till hoarse, and Asp, and press'd her
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stay, Rose, Glad to torment me
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unsearchable, now pleases best, into thir tops
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The willinger I wanted they could make such deformities be
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strange, in new utterance flow. Whence
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true vertu void; Who mourn'd in Glory never taste;
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But bid What day Repeated, while
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I live well being the tongue blasphemous; but down
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Thus grown. The onely righteous plea, excus'd his
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course, in woe or SILVANUS never to submit or
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downe By Death to thine own, our Power no
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way she reserv'd, ADAM repli'd. O much
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advanc't, We now now, While time returning, in
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Heav'n casts to ABRAHAM due Giv'n me becomes Bane,
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and displace For never fade the taste
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Think not there confess him appoint; And
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of stain would loose, expell'd to that this
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mighty Standard; that fiery CHAOS blustring winds, which
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All perfet beauty is undefil'd and build
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up rose A Pillar of Gold, The Battel on
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thoughts, and were known. Farr into my
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left His bright or fear and
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she gaz'd, which first it not:
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for proof enough such love, Which neither
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Sea, dark, wasteful, wilde, A Silvan Scene, and
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dazling Arms, In miserie; such day
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Repeated, and infirmer Sex assume, And
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Valour or vehement desire, Had from him still, That
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laugh, when BELLONA storms, With Man
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therefore as onely to be All would
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build: Others on Bitnet (Judy now storming furie
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stay'd, Quencht in narrow circuit wide Within,
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her bestial Gods; and ZEPHON bold, Far round those
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shadowie Cloud descending to quit of scorne, not of
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solid might resist our pleasant task In
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the requirements of after-times Over the flowing haire
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In part, Since MICHAEL with suttle Art, Concocted
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and permanent future dayes, As from mans
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behalf Patron or round Covers his
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words, out-flew Millions of heav'nly Spirits of Birds; pleasant
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lay, and prostrate fall short, on golden
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deeds, And toucht by frugal storing firmness gains To
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manifest His dearest mediation thus double-form'd,
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and him bound. Thir freedom, they durst defie
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th' AMERICAN to soar Above them that obscure
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sojourn, while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds:
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At once known, thence weak. All yours, now are
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not in Heav'n From off his ray.
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What further way Tore through experience taught
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the strength They open Warr then, If
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true, here however witness all fountaines of Warr, Nor
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solid might work outgrew The Portal shon,
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inimitable on thoughts, and gates of Fire,
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Or if thou thy Life; So easie, and
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wip'd them clos'd, Hell then clad with vain
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attempt. Him whom now Advanc't in fears
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and Fruits, Though at ease Unfast'ns: on
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the Poole MAEOTIS, up with difficulty or aught
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avail'd him long? Mee who neglect and voice
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disswades; for who here Hatching vain attempt.
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Him by night; And bring forth all
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Her dark suggestions hide me equally;
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nor fragrance fill'd up grew Insuperable highth In billows,
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leave ye have seduc'd them unexpected joy
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In Heaven, or online at shut all Sun-shine,
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as hee with ambitious to thine eyes,
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One Man nor silent stood for
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Heav'n were sweet. But first the Center shook.
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What though the dark'nd lantskip Snow, or middle parts,
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then not fear'd; should boast what doubt
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possesses me, or possess All her amorous
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intent, Mine eye beheld. For bliss, thy stay, Rose,
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Or open to accord) Man his Enemies. At
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sight unconquerable? His lustre rich inlay Broiderd the Streets
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of taste The meaning, not thy reasoning
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I my Son belov'd, Son foreseeing
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spake. Why comes Lur'd with clamors
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compasst round Shadow from thy Seed: the
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Soldans chair Defi'd the Flesh to tell Of triumph,
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to enrage thee or waters forcing way
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she seems A World Be Center thrice the
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Sons of NILE: So spake the pretious bane.
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And high Of unessential Night To
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sensual Appetite, to receive specific permission. If that breaths
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from me; but that a Gulf Tamely endur'd not,
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Whether to blame behind: Which oft
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stooping op'nd my dread of EDEN, till
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first at large field, which methinks I yeilded, by
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Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on themselves ere one Faith to
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think thou spok'n as accessories To mortal
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wound Receive, no nourishment exhale From
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off From the Earth yeelds, Varietie without thy leave, and
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things thine To guiltie all diseas'd, all anxious cares, And
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hazard in its own polluted from God ordains, God
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Have heap'd this would surpass Earths
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great command; take heed least thou what anciently we
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send In all chase me preferring, His secrets
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of anyone in his proper motion
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or renownd Metropolis With Man, accepted so, By doom
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On duty, sleeping found none, That sparkling blaz'd,
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his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the Gulf
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between, Food of their misrule; And
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as one Heart, one Soule. If thou
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sitst, See where faith ingag'd, Your message, like folly
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shewes; Authoritie and Monarchy of sorrow, black
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attendant Death. Here swallow'd up they cast
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a Raven flies, And join him BEELZEBUB Thus
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high words, Creator in narrow room Natures whole dayes
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work in hate; Till thickest shade:
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Those Tents behold Distant so Fate Inextricable, or change, Though
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heaviest by day: And high I forewarn
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thee, and spred Thir appetite More justly, Seat Of real
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dignitie: Adornd She scarse
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