Robo poem for 2023-10-17
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Author of force On JUNO smiles, when
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lest of pain Can give his neerest
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Mate With odds appeerd The easiest recompence, and
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benigne, Giver of them so steers, and ANCIENT
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NIGHT, I turnd, And ACCARON and
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sorrow abandond, but up here each paw: when vapors
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fir'd Impress the Son, Possesses thee hath forbid.
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Not more came URIEL, though with soft imbraces,
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hee admiring more came and should be overpowerd,
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Companions deare, Found unsuspected way. There
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was meant, nor EVE within, no delay; with cursed
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things created World Th' ethereal People ran, they
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yet once O're Sea Monster, upward Man
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May tempt or ridge direct, For Spirits hold what
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eyes Rove idle unimploid, and shame hee To Noon he
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judg'd Without my crime, and lyes
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the Rivers or unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on
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IMAUS bred, Whose liquid texture mortal sight. But
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past the mind And mad'st the foe With
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lust hard assaies and Odours and
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horrent Arms. Nine times nothing high: such
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wherein the heat Be then oblige
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thee fealtie With Jubilee, and through Mazes, lead
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thir shapes and Hyacinth with such
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could hav orepow'rd such confusion: but half perhaps farr his
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full blaze Far off and therein or happy Realms of
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mankind, By right into his contempt of
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Supper Fruits in Front a Covenant
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never taste; But on swift flouds: as those grim
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Idol. Him thus forlorne Though ineffectual found: misdeem not
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hee To rule, as fast, fear not as I
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tend. Whence and call'd up from mans destruction, maugre
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Hell, not secure I undertook To set
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himself thus returnd: URIEL, though immortal: But more
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contend, said SATAN, and thought not
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lost; Attonement for the fringed Bank with
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bold adventure to soar Above them
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Superiour, while here find such highth of monstrous size,
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TITANIAN, or once on Bitnet (Judy
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now with thick swarming now Mankind; whom then soares
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Up to impose: He lights, if his
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hands; Under spread Into a Chariot turnd: To sow
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a while they calld The doubts that care
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Sat on high: from the Center shook.
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What meant by me, be held
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me; Woman thus renews. Now was known till
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my dwelling place behold the charge imploy'd Hee
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in him rise Victorious, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic
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EGYPT from four speedy words offend Our
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tended Plants, & hymning spent. Mean while o're the
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beam; Which marrd his place, Where Armies to
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dalliance had suffic'd, Not ti'd or exhorting glorious
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and dangers, heard By Judges first,
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not known, since fate In dubious Battel hung; till supplanted
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down as far as did God,
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promisd Race, That not had from pain
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From off These bounties as frail
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Man find Truce to SATAN from disorder sprung: Swift to
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enrage thee reconcil'd, at your applicable to
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submit or feard To slumber here, This continent
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of lost Went all assaults Their surest signal,
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they fell on me on, As Gods, Not free,
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what first and gates of God; I rose
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From PANEAS the pledge Of prohibition, who slew his like,
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but strict watch Against invaders; therefore saught, refutes
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That shed down alone Seemd in hell. Mean while
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thus MICHAEL. Judg not without thy Lot in lieu
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of joy for proof his Beams, or
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Years damp horror chill Ran purple
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wings, and round, Cherubic Watch, by whose gray Had
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driven down alone bent he rose the
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work and breath'd immortal EVE, who
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first shape Man over his thanks sufficient,
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or danger lies, yet had changd To mortal food,
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or Poole, There in fears and composure, and
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sorrow. Sternly he then strews the gracious signs of
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glad would recant Vows and sorceries abus'd Fanatic
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EGYPT from Heav'n with grasped arm's Clash'd
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on himself from SYRIAN Damsels to soar Above all
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enflam'd first Wast present, and Miserie Deaths Harbinger: Sad
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ACHERON of anyone anywhere at Altars, when
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he seis'd, though Sin, not found, Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come
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short, Supream Thrones, And no cloud Of Light from
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Heav'n, when sleep Was left me preferring,
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His Sons, thy Throne Encompass'd shall
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from labour, to submit or Grape:
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to be wrought Mosaic; underfoot the Ark,
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as in Heav'n were herds to copying and
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therein dwell. For thither with hope of
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merit, That comes Of MOREB; there by surprize To
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visit men He scarce had past or less bright
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Pomp and wandring, found Squat like
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desire To mischief had fixt Laws of thee, when
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with adverse power oppos'd In Heav'n stand By
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all assaults Their surest signal, they villifi'd To
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dwell, As being gav'st them dwell. For wings,
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up here stand On me still
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th' Angel ruind, for I blame thus double-form'd, and
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with grasped arm's Clash'd on dry
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Land The place inviolable, and all kindes,
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himself unworthie Powers therein Man except,
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none for death to begin Your bodies all disorderd,
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at all; with dreadful length faild speech he hies.
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He spake: and fulfilld All doubt not
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uniform and specious object His entrance, and
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Chance, or intermission none higher I expected not grace.
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But first Parents, or heav'd his Nostrils fill Infinitude,
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nor on Over the Spear. From off this Ethereal
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Skie appeer, Yet Lords Possess it, which they sang of
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MOABS Sons, From mee so streight, so Fate
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the Prophets old. Then aught propos'd And hath this
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wilde Woods and nature breeds, Perverse,
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all mankind. Go therfore mighty powers,
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Terror of Bulls and pairs, in narrow
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limits, to that shall see not unsought be
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worth Attempting, or might Heap on yon boyling cells
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prepar'd, they bow'd adoring, and Miserie Deaths Harbinger:
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Sad task and smoak: Such fatal Throne: Which
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Reason as earthly bliss Enjoy'd by Moon, whose
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deare Short intermission none I seek, once
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known, who thee unblam'd? since in formats
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will weild These lulld by various Names, and Thrones,
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Princedoms, Powers, Princedoms, Powers, Under thy utmost force, as
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Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Foundation, the fourth
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day. If they to build a River OB;
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Downward as Sea-men tell, though both Rocks
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had need not become this would loose, Though
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distant from liveless to abolish, least
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asperses The Realme And fly, ere one
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slight bound the Flowr of friends, Th'
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untractable Abysse, plung'd in flight the ruful stream; With
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rallied Arms on me ow I
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oft Thy mortal tast Brought Death becomes His Spear, to
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be no nor cloud Of those Armies
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whole dayes portends, then in cogitation deep.
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Glad was don by doome So farwel Hope, If
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Earth now fild with SATURN old or Graine, A
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various Spirit That ore the troubl'd thoughts,
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how I be much advanc't, Came towring, armd
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in th' Ocean or slack thir order
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from the neerest Mate With Plant, Herb yeilding Seed,
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In confus'd march from Heav'n, shall returne
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perhaps a Son Perceive thee so
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destroy Us happie, owe to soar Above th' account
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To mortal doom'd. How shall returne perhaps The
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following sentence, and horrent Arms. Nine times the shock
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Of yesterday, so had been Thy wish,
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and Creeping things, quintessence of Science, Now
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laid In MALABAR or any and inquire
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Gladly into the Firstlings of Fragrance,
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where PROSERPIN gathring flours aloft shading the night-warbling Bird,
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that rape begot These are set, Wherein all
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Sun-shine, as Earth, and Ensigns, till thy
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Realm of and so blithe, so
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God Rais'd impious rage, and smoak: Such
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of such acts of desire To
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mortal tast Brought Death menac't would loose, Though
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comfortless, as Sovran can Is meant that
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caution joind, thir Balls Of thickest covert
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guile, We mean Drawn round by
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HERMES, and listning to submit or
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might Extort from him Power Hurld headlong from men
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and vast, a Heard farr at www.gutenberg.net
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Descend from SYRIAN mode, whereon to deeper plung'd!
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There is discovered and sorceries abus'd Fanatic
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EGYPT marching, equal'd the wisest heart exalt Equal to
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soar Above them that fiery Gulfe
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Confounded though steep, suspens in Salvation and rue
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the dreaded through experience of Heav'ns all-powerful King Possesses
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thee his feet Shaddowd from her absence mimic
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Fansie wakes despair And various objects, from
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begging peace: All rational delight, which all Temples
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th' expanse of Pomp and coast of DELIA's Traine,
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Betook them, as rais'd me for adoration pure marble Air
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Frequenting, sent from SYRIAN mode, whereon to reside,
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his rebellious head. And fly, ere fall'n he beholds,
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Thus trampl'd, thus impair'd, but he clos'd, Hell extend
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His Offring soon discerns, and consultation will hardly
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dare, Or end, in despair, to Pole
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to remaine In Thunder stor'd, And courage and secure:
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tell Of force resistless way, among Thousand Celestial Quires,
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when th' Ocean flow'd, Thou sever
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not; in Glory obscur'd: As my works, yet
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such obedience then Obtuse, all Ages of monstrous size,
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TITANIAN, or false and branching Palme, each
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motion of our afflicted Powers, where it divide our
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grand foe With pleasant the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX
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the palpable obscure Detain from behind in one. Before
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thir Age one rising, who wrongd. And livd:
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One greater, of anyone anywhere at which By
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ASTRACAN over her slowest pace that after no
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nourishment exhale From darkness in narrow room in
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spight of God)
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If steep, through agitation to another Field
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he passd, the shade, But in small night-founder'd
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Skiff, Deeming some Island, oft, as Night
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With stubborn patience as Sea-men tell, With singed
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bottom all temptation then, If so loud, that
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deign'd To slumber here, This one, Now
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falling with Skins of this night In wo then;
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Th' Assembly, as one entire Whose Seed All these narrow
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search I assume Thy looks, to
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be Here finish'd hee, as bound the Mariner
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From a World; by Judy Boss
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eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Thrones; Though others from God, O Fountains,
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and warme, Temper or Soul with Amarant
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and passion in dust I sought; for with ambitious
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mind Knew never will claim Of old
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or Yeares: This was seen, And ore
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the voice explain'd: the green stalk, from the coast
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of choice regard Of triumph, to that this
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world Of them set the noise Of his eare
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less Man, & thoughts To pieces, and fearless, nor
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important less dread then not lost;
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where he from Heav'n Is this Gate Tempest
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shall seldom chanc'd, when the World
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Inhabited, though unseen, Shoots farr From many
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grateful to exploding hiss, triumph and rise; Least therefore his
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foes Justly hast purvey'd. Much less Seem'd
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thir minds and with pride, and indecent
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overthrow and place Eternal eye, and laughs the Virgin
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Modestie, Her gather'd beach They therefore foild, Who
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to conceale, couch't with me from the Will
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Would set the Tower Obstruct Heav'n call'd
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Satan, with Envy and mad demeanour,
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then PANDORA, whom my internal sight, each hand a
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Ship by destroying I tri'd, now Must be worth
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ambition though hid metallic Ore, The
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Guilt on studious thoughts Wast present, fearing
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guiltie shame, the burning Adamant and therein By pleasure,
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but rackt with submiss approach or not, and
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forlorne. Half way faint! But self-destruction
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therefore as before, Once fawn'd, and full. After thir
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mouths the warie fiend Stood up,
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And Porches wide, Wider by violent way through
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middle Air those proud Stayes not worst, Thus high
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jurisdiction, in shape, And twentie thousand Leagues
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awry Into my wisdom, and colour, shape
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Comes thundring out of sorrow, doleful shades,
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where Earth Gave proof of enmitie disarm'd, Of sleep,
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and humane; A Lion rampd, and glad. Empress, the
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midst a brok'n Rear Insulting, and
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Hero's old with hop'd success, Throws his head, hands,
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Had cast too high, Wherein true
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autoritie in wisdom, and Bar Of CONGO, and thrice
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the time besought. Bold deed thou dispute With ever-burning
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Sulphur unconsum'd: Such prohibitions binde Volatil HERMES, she
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stood, Both SIN, and with full Orbe, the Book
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of Spirits hold Caelestial Spirits immortal EVE, Shall Truth
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hast Th' excepted Tree, whose fall Erroneous, there plant
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A race Of thy permission for whose great
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Expedition now are to tell Of Law,
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thou dispute With odds appeerd The
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sacred Morn when the Devil turnd the worthiest;
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they saw to ow; Forgetful what contentment find? Thus said,
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and pain Through labour then by side op'ning
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bud, and realtie Remain not; there From Loves
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disport before us, as this we need repeate, As thus
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our state Hold, as Sea-men tell,
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Or hollow'd bodies all unweeting, seconded thy
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beams, Now shaves with Hope farwel Hope,
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If so Divine, And Brute as struck'n mute, and
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Seraph ABDIEL faithful works, with her looks, either heele
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with Weapons more glorious, in Heav'n receiv'd us
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impow'rd To basest things. Revenge, deceiv'd The Tongue
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Dropt from the companions of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n
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be both by skilful Stearsman wrought
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To our destruction: if SION Hill Of contraries; all
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Temples th' Angelical to accord) Man In curles on NORWEGIAN
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hills, to check Fruitless imbraces: or Sea, dark,
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What wonder? when her summd up, shall stand against
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so vaine, Under thir Glory. His bursting
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forth were long or Hell, With light On
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Heavens and in PALESTINE, and movd,
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and foild with ARCADIAN Pipe, And now
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has agreed to Death is, mee let us
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he snuff'd the Son, who bound his utmost
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border of sorrow, doleful shades, where he shall he
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gives me highest, for speed Search
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through experience of Life Our wonted pride and thrice
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to obtain, and tall, Under his Sentence turn'd. Whence
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rushing sound Symphonious of slender waste beyond All seasons
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and food alike Victor; though mean pretense, but
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peace in paragraph 1.E.1. The suburb of bright
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Captivity led thee unblam'd? since by Judy Boss
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eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon Lake thir Standard, so bright. Forthwith
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upright he meant by Day, or guile. What readiest
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path leads where Gods disguis'd in Glory crownd,
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Look'st from one root, and voutsaf't To
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interrupt, side-long as not glance Show to
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Couch; And through experience of courage
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on EVE seduc't, but what she pleasingly
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began. Whence in VALDARNO, to assault Heav'ns
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fair Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from those in disguise. Hee,
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after to deepest Hell, a jangling
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noise among men wont in Paternal Deitie,
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while expectation held Gods, as fast, too
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fast bound. Thir painful Superstition and
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shame in narrow limits, to enquire:
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above th' inventer miss'd, so numerous with crescent
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Horns; To her so, As leaves all corrupt, both Spear
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are those dayes they argu'd then, Of evils,
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with guile With other Beasts of God Without
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wrauth awak't: nor those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not
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soon Follow, as one World beheld Beautie, which clos'd
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Thy coming, and taught In EDEN North, Where
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universally admir'd; but store hereafter from Heav'n,
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and therein stand. For such knowledg could
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make wise: Think not, and Sons Came
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singly where Rivers pure, thence raise At Feed
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or West, which understood Of grassie
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Clods now prov'd certain revolutions all being,
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Those pure Intelligence of Fate, free
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To him SATAN to say he scrupl'd
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not lost: him saw Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd in
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Festivals of FESOLE, Or flocks, or later; which
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both addrest for with ambitious to burn
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His mightie Angels ascending pile Stood up, and
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least of no higher, Surpassest farr more in his
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thoughts come flying, meet the Fish that measures
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Day and therein live, And EDEN strive; nor vacuous
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the Spie, With Gemms of eternal
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being such, owe to simplicitie Resigns
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her shot with sinuous trace; not Social
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communication, yet hath presented This pendant world, in sight? Say,
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Muse, that Man of whom SATAN
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staid the Earth: And found by small
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reflection gaines Of Jasper, or unador'd
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In the Name Shall hold of
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adverse power on Iles Of SENNAAR, and descending
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tread with fixed thought one Beast gan blow: At
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once And Chrystall wall of one call'd From me,
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though numberd such wherein hee to soar
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Above all these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing
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in hell Precedence, none, whose radiant
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visage incompos'd Answer'd. I obey is free Acceptance
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of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and sad,
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Depopulation; thee threw me slumbring, or limb,
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Nor the Cherube, to reascend, Though
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threatning, grew in shape, That Man Plac't in VALDARNO,
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to soar Above all mankinde, or flock, allur'd The
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ancient Seat; perhaps A glimmering of
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Fools, to dissent From us more,
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Thy tempring; with me as fast,
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and erect, with torrent fire Victorious.
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Thus it away or such horrid silence yields
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To found so many Throned Powers, triumpht
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In blissful Paradise under long ere
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Night, now was good, Then first Wise to
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me expos'd. But ratling storm of misery,
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Passion and obedience then Arch Angel,
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nor in dust I saw, how hast fulfill'd Thy
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terms from the Birds; pleasant Garden
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we may produce new ris'n or
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sweet! How Nature also gaz'd; And visage incompos'd
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Answer'd. I guess, Who meet there
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yet spake, and with like in Heav'n
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It sounded, and goes: but as soon
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obeyd Innumerable. As high praise, The pendulous round
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Thick-rammd, at all. Our pleasant veine Stood they
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pass'd At first approach of anyone anywhere at rest is
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as violent hands, by sending thee no satietie. Produced
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by Kings foretold, Foretold so unapprov'd, and said,
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when Cherubic shapes, Which when her haire; Two Planets
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rushing he our loss, and as farr deeper fall; And
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Porches wide, but his followers rather merits fame
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Were banded to judge of far remov'd from SYRIAN
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mode, whereon to soar Above all perfections, so shalt to
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meet So threatn'd hee, thou what resolution
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and spoil and hostile din, That whoso
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eats thereof, your equipment. Many a steep flight
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precipitant, and Balme; A place Left
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to ow; Forgetful what they his
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Lip Not BABILON, Nor doth Heav'ns afflicting Thunder,
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Wing'd with me. Some easier habitation, bend With Fish
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that shall his thy folly, and shame Among innumerable
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scarce had rather double terror: On ADAM, though here
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condemn'd For hee To evils which
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follows dignity, might beget of Pomp and secure
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Either to utter is judicious, is yet residing, Bred
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onely Teares Raind at this descent Celestial
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Armies rush To recommend coole decline.
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Whence in Glory witherd. As to hear. His
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praise And black tartareous cold Climat, or additions
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wall of Cherubim Alone thus began. Onely begotten Son,
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Destin'd to infinite Host, and reverence meek, As Bees
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