Robo poem for 2021-11-21
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Fall'n Cherube, to do thine. Such to
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soar Above them who can obtaine By what surmounts
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the Adversary of words, & worthy
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to enjoy alone, Too well awake. Nor in hell
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Precedence, none, That fought at a day thou
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from side They hard'nd more her numbers full, but
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through experience of weight, till wandring
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ore the burning Lake? that end, in VALDARNO,
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to ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing spake. Why should find
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out of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or TREBISOND,
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Or we not soon each In measure Grace, Which
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uttering thus plead, not yet rude,
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Guiltless of sorrow, black wings of Hell; that
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Wall a LIMBO large field, where store,
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All unconcern'd with jocond Music charm Pain for
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within Orb, the Internal Man, that caution joind, thir confidence
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to satisfie for sight, and dance Led on dry
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Land he whom mutual help And
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Wings were Brass Three Iron, three that
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they prescrib'd, to move new haunt Her hand
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with clamors compasst round Ninefold, and
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like desire To worst endures. Lead then, mee
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what resolution and Evil; Of Wiles, More easie, wholsom
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thirst And this eBook, complying with tears VVatering the
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safe unenvied Throne attend: Now shaves with
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BRITISH and as Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens,
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Bogs, Dens, and ill able to Wing, and
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interrupt can advise, may copy in strength,
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Not without more train of Sacred silence broke.
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Is this hazard huge He scours the fee for
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that alwayes with high King, whose bright
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Orders bright. Nor where Flocks Grasing the
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Giant brood Of dawning light More orient
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Sun, who hold us down Thus with
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sparkling blaz'd, his people from PELORUS, or
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nourish, or computer virus, or enur'd not her
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soft Ethereal quintessence of Spirits aspire, to this Universe,
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and say; But chiefly Thou canst no Decree
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I seek, once thir impenitence; and Confusion all these
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came and lost; the Sons Came furious
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rage. Farr in each beauteous flour, Glistring with torrid
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Clime Smote on main Abyss Heard Of
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NORUMBEGA, and years, towards EDEN long Intended to
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others note Singing thir Supper Fruits which their
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State Put to any tuft of death in overmuch to
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know repulse? For dissolution wrought Nigh on
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Bitnet (Judy now learn True patience, and shame that
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voluntarie move Harmonious numbers; as late Doubted his
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experienc't eye, His Sons, who wrong me still, presumptuous, till
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at command, and ARMORIC Knights; And wisdome at Altars,
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when ALCIDES from SYRIAN Damsels to
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finde Matter to all; needs be
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admir'd, Admir'd, not so: then worse would on errand
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sole, and trademark. Project Gutenberg is Sovran
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can close design, by gloomie bounds And the Legions, or
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any and Stone Of his Spirit seen
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far remov'd, Under whose point now Stream, and Man,
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His death redeems, His fraud be the lost us unforeseen,
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unthought of, know mee of public peace,
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yet hard One day (For Eloquence the
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Oracle of sorrow, black Air That never
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ceasing bark'd With incense, where Eloquence the voice
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Divine. Rejoycing, but rackt with choice
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regard Of smallest forms Reduc'd thir way;
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harder beset And courage and by proof
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unheeded; others on the testimonie of woe, That
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riches of righteousness, And practis'd distances to
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inshrine BELUS or re-use it so, as
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Sea-men tell, ye shalt eate Thereof, nor
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endearing smiles from outward onely two are
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gratefully repli'd. ADAM, witness all these
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scarce allay'd still advance Thy frailtie and obstacle found
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alike Victor; though oft though SPRING and
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Shield, Awaiting what from thought Thee I behold The
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Balme of thee, Death into Gods And hight'nd as
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chief; among fresh alacritie and to me thought
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Death last, Though pleasant, his whole wealth,
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yea more, is become As yet hath beguil'd URIEL, though
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far round, And justifie the Hell
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Gate reply'd; Hast thou seest All thy beauty, which
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in Heav'n permits, nor to repose Your wonder, but
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rackt with me mine ear one seem'd either; black
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GEHENNA call'd, and shame To question
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thy stay, not thus, unmovd with
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Front And overwhelm thir state, had hope relies.
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Then miserable to simplicitie Resigns her shaddowie Cone
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Half spi'd, so I alwayes with impious PHAROAH hung
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not, and smoak: Such whispering soft, by frugal
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storing firmness gains To mortal foe, and
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bid cry With silent valley, sing Forc't
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Halleluiah's; while ye saw, how chang'd in
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OREB: and Waters, Woods, and bliss, Into thir
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Author of cordial Love And ACCARON and
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left that alluring fruit, floure, Glistring with brazen Chariots
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rankt in thee, and hoary Frost Shall
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rest Mind us Heav'n, and besought The Vassals of
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Jasper shon Filial obedience: So strictly, but our joynt
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Will be just, said he, with pride,
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and Timbrels loud and find Sufficient? who sitst
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above Earthly thought, and Saviour of
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Oblivion roules Her self, With silent stream, with ambitious
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mind from SYRIAN ground, had veins of Spirits reprobate, and
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all things made, since denounc't that Forbidden Tree,
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If Natures Law, thou My being Good, Farr
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was spred Both to remove his experienc't eye, and
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wearie him next subordinate Awak'ning, thus
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much the just measure on Bitnet
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(Judy now excessive grown Prodigious motion felt unusual weight,
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till one root, and highth, Stood reimbattell'd
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fierce, From off From large field, through him, who
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am thrust, Where thou with warme Earths freshest softest
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lap. There alwaies, but food perhaps To speak
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thou, Who guards Just men Successive, and gross Bands,
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On LEMNOS th' inventer miss'd, so unapprov'd, and hee
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to soar Above th' Angelical to like, equal Joy,
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as this Paradise for copies of
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anyone anywhere at Altars, when her enclosure green,
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Our voluntarie move Indissolubly firm; nor think to die
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Well manag'd; of anyone anywhere at
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Altars, when they enthrall themselves: I seek, once
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as our Nourisher, from thee into
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CHAOS, and taught the thick'nd Skie with
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fire; And manifold to hear. His Brethren, ransomd with
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smoak, all deprav'd, Not equal, and why did
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ELY'S Sons, thy Wisdom gain'd a balmie Reed,
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How shall spring, under feares, That day
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as farr other bore with copious hand,
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Whom he heal'd; for Heav'n, extended wide His course
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began, and every kind, that temperance taught The one
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Head up-lift above her nothing hard, for sweetest
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his triumphant wheels In favour equal
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over ADRIA to EGYPT, divided and if
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no danger, and supposest That reaches blame, but all
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prodigious things, who out of friends,
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Th' unfounded deep, & might affect the
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main Abyss And fell On Wheels her Looses discount'nanc't,
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and devote, He sate, sollicitous what words
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to belief may express thee being
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So disinherited how would build? Terrestrial
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Humor mixt Confus'dly, and with reflected
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Purple and shame nigh The Femal
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for Wealth and joys Then both our evil soon
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mov'd My word, my right side; then To
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mortal or mute, And gav'st me;
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whom SATAN except, Created this pause Down had stopt
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His arrows, from BENGALA, or heav'd his opiate
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Rod. Meanwhile the INDIAN Mount, or
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Faerie Elves, Whose waves of Paradise
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under ground of sorrow, doleful shades, where
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grows Death began. If rightly thou
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covet more. But thir doom express them dwell
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And henceforth seek their Generals Voyce they as hoping
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here stand front to tell In billows,
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leave Thee I may come flying, meet is,
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from Heav'n, with calm Firmament; but th' approach
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farr Then strait the Sons Call EL DORADO:
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but Life the Moon. Thither wing'd
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with Diamond Quarries hew'n, & what God left side henceforth
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my afflicted Powers, Hear all egress. These
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lulld by an Apple; he so bent (who
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could hav orepow'rd such wherein no middle darkness round
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I still rejoyc't, how farr the
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Mariner From Beds of our descent and with a
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Serpent to soar Above them easier
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enterprize? There lands the Foundation's EIN or
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falling Star, On ADAM reply'd. Empress of worth ambition
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though bright: If thou profoundest Hell With tufts
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the Sounds and Seed is adverse. Who hates me,
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she him out Hell prescrib'd; So
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eminently never can never till thy conduct,
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and Song; Such to submit or waters
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fall off From Beds of liberty, who art Judge and
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all Windes The Hemisphere had stood behind,
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Whose progenie you in Glory never did he
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ceas'd not theirs it rose The works on Earth.
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At first, him not lost; Evil in fears
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and movd, and any purpose thus
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entertaind those infernal pit I for once
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as Princes, whom no nook, As
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far as again provoke Our knowledge and luxurie. Th'
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Arch-chimic Sun Declin'd was giv'n, th'
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unsufferable noise, Hell within kenn he appeers, And
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Tumult and Quiver with their Vows and
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gave to my firm As far remov'd,
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Under a Spirit That drove him, for
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so strongly drawn from inward lost:
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him last, then Obtuse, all comliness and bare,
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unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death expos'd In
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highth All in proportion due All Nations will
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And I who himself collected, while
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thus began. BOOK I. The Calf
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in Glory extinct, and shame hee
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blew His punishment, False fugitive, and
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highest bliss Which they hear his winged course
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ore the deep Tract of SYRIAN ground,
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with Skins of
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