Robo poem for 2023-10-26
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Fall'n Cherube, to Men with Angel over-heard As
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we now Not less Then had
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ceast to soar Above them penitent By
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change for love him, the Trees In Wood
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or possess This downfall; since they
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come Into a Camp extend His
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Cattel pastur'd late, or shame; O
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had on. SATAN pass'd, and void.
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For aught Then smell of love enjoynes,
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That whoso eats thereof, my owne, My Bowels, their
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temper; which nigh at 809 North
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Pour'd never to do I else
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inflict do the common else. By falsities and
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glory to accord) Man And rapture wanted in
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PALESTINE, and regain the border of words,
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impregn'd With tumult less Then commune how endu'd, and
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call'd aloud. Whence in sight, like which
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grew ten fold More terrible Example the mightiest
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quelld, the humid Bow, When time
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and shout, return'd them shall his bad Errand, Man
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till wandring poor, but her white
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wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on
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dry Land that way: One Gate With me long
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dimension drew, Streaking the Altar, Gods
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And Valour or later; which made
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thy punishment to officiate light As
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we return, But thir fatall hands Help to run
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Much hee Created hugest that men onely of Warr:
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Under whose eye Glar'd lightning, and joys Then shining
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heav'nly Host proclaim A shameful and attend. This
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ponder, that dost prefer Before all
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a Platan, yet never dwell, Not
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ti'd or heav'd his Aerie Gate; But
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rather to fight; The Signal giv'n,
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th' Eternal silence be sure, In wealth
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and willing feet I else dismai'd.
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Now Heav'n Which into horrid strides,
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Hell could make us unforeseen, unthought
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of, know at one forbidden to cast off from
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PELORUS, or falling showers, Nor good created, nor
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shall resound thee threw down he sees, Or palmie
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hilloc, or corrupt no unbounded hope relies. Produced
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by frugal storing firmness gains To
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gorge the sense of Zeale and
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drawn Empyreal Mansion thus repli'd. O unexampl'd
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love, Love no thought, and wide: in
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Heav'n Resounded, and Carbuncle most just; to drive
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All higher Argument I fell, And for Gods, and
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chaste PYRRHA to ascend, sit indulgent,
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and EDENS happie sort: his Spies About him
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done Returns our eyes, One over
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them rul'd, stood the medium and proclaimd MESSIAH King
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Ride on Sea North-East windes with
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almost no acceptance, nor Angel over-heard As
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one great Arch-Angel URIEL, though this thy call,
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as whereon to continue, and Timbrels loud Sung Triumph,
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and rare: thee yet in her turn Metals
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of other Rites Of PHILISTEAN DALILAH, and regain the free
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choice, With narrow room of Men; thereby to redress
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till dewie locks inwreath'd with words
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at your behoof, if Art are
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past, as likely to accord) Man with
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ambitious aim Against the deep thoughts;
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& Rocks of God? Him the Roses intermixt with
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hideous ruine and therein plant A dreadful gloom, Which
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nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for the conscience wakes
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despair Thus her own Nation, and
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call'd In his Carol sung. A Foe
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Approaching gross to themselves they sang of this
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day? why delayes His good prov'd certain woe, With
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Serpent to feare it seem to
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impose: He who bore Semblance of PEGASEAN wing. The
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guiltie all these a Fleet descri'd Hangs in addition
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strange; yet unfound most irregular they
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stole Those argent Fields more fierce,
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From hence, though enamourd, from men To
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recompence Equal to lie encampt, come
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and Shades Waited with Omnipotence, with Starrs.
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And fell By which, in hatred, enmitie,
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and Blank, while shame, the Foundation, the Patriark liv'd, who
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reigns Monarch in Heav'n resembles Hell? As wee, somtimes in
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any Defect you find grace; For heav'nly
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mindes from the first naked Glorie. Such of tasting
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to dwell Habitual habitant; behind Illustrious farr
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then in Heav'n or depth, still direct, whence
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to soar Above all assaults Their Seats
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long Drie-ey'd behold? ADAM was bent to confirm his
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mortal voice, I that I directed then MELIBOEAN,
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or BACTRIAN Sophi from their temper; which follows dignity,
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might best things durable By my life;
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Whose Eye and first Parents, or
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tongue blasphemous; but down Wide Anarchie of
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Life Still luminous inferior Orbs, Or is
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all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that Hell He
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came, that now, thy good This Garden, where Champions
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bold And heavier fall: so Fate and friendly still,
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And wish her bounds, nor example with joynt or
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Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or serve Willing
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or Thicket have ensu'd, nor too large,
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Though comfortless, as that gently rais'd I assume,
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or rare. If counsels and call'd that
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grew, Sat on firm brimstone, and therein
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plant A faithful man is low creeping, he turn'd
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On LEMNOS th' occasion, whether scorn, Where pain
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up here in Heav'n. And high Rear'd in OREB:
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and twilight here; and smoak: Such was
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pure, till thy restraint: what remains
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To wage by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu
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on Bitnet (Judy now wak'd, and deplor'd, in
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mooned hornes Thir march forlorn, th' Olympian Games or
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heavy, sharp, smooth, swift prevention; but giv'n; what strength,
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though then anough, that beare delicious fruit So
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seem'd either; black wings dispense Native seat;
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Had driven down Thus with Euphrasie and
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chase Anguish and glad would loose, Though kept
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thir being, Discursive, or swimmes, And judg'd of
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sleep. Then had need walk, you may dwell
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The visual ray To him, what I alone From
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off From Heav'ns Sons Came summond over
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Beast, Fish, and Snow, or undertake The Quarters hasted
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then who first begins His utmost force, as Sea-men
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tell, With narrow room The dry
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Land where silence thus entertaind those Circles as this
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Man Extracted; for I that live: Nor chang'd
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by som cursed World farr to men, Sad resolution
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and add wings, and shame obnoxious, and with reiterated
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crimes he scape Th' ethereal People ran,
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they onely Son Young BACCHUS from
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such perverseness dwell? But think the branches hung
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on yon celestial light? Be good which evil hast
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made? So eagerly the Fruit after them his
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resolution rais'd Others among men Among them rising changes
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oft he wonns In the Giant brood Of
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BELIAL, flown with me. As we to move, And level
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pavement: from above, Those thoughts pursue
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Vain Warr Irreconcileable, to one, Now
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on studious thoughts that fixt Thir natural center to
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soar Above th' expanse of rage
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Deliberate valour breath'd, firm Battalion; back
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I be weak is our spirit accurst,
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Forsak'n of Heaven, down As joyn'd That Shepherd, who
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liv'd; nor Stream divides The seed of
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being To first broke peace And
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Tumult and long delay'd; Yet unconsum'd. Before my constant
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mind Of EDEN, till morning Sun Soon recollecting, with like
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themselves ere the ease thir Ears, while
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over her enjoying, what dies the
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brink of monstrous sight endur'd a frozen loyns,
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to soar Above th' upright wing Scout
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farr Then Hells Concave, and turn Metals of desolation, voyd
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of other Decrees Against the coasts of passing
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to stray, or DRYAD, or re-use it again dissolve Allegeance
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to destroy, thir Watch the voice
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Milde, as farr thy Embassie attend; And stripes,
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and shame Among his thought Of servile
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offerings. This file should have marr'd
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What readiest path leads to augment.
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The bottom all Power no solution
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will presume: Whence rushing he assayd, and
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smoak: Such resting found themselves decreed Thir Brood
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as mee. They led him lastly
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kill. My journey high, High in Heav'n.
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And anger infinite calamitie shall uncreate, Be over, and
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drearie Vaile They gatherd, which might resist
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our thoughts, reforming what I will at command, and gave
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ye everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of Ev'n
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and printed and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from the
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happier daies. If it not: them pain
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is adverse. Who after better shroud, som
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Orator renound In all delight, As this Imperial Ensign, which
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compel'd Mee first Hell Receive thy World Hung amiable,
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HESPERIAN Fields, And practis'd distances to
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soar Above the surging waves, as Sea-men
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tell, Or Nature; God will And season judg'd,
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the seav'n Who tells of sorrow, doleful shades,
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where way Sidelong, had form'd within Orb, Incredible
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how chang'd His heart, when call'd by favour
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deign'd. Thee satiate, and Aire, Thy favour,
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him stood, That bred them dwell.
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For happy rural sight, smell, taste; But more
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sweet, Wilde work Divine So spake
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th' Eevning was, what befell in PALESTINE, and therein
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By quick result. So rose as Sea-men tell,
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With gay enameld colours dipt in
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despair, to partake with difficulty or degrade
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thine owne. Because thou findst Attractive, human, Princely Dignities,
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And fewel'd entrals thence on the INDIAN Mount, while
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at command, ere Dayes mid-course, and held his
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delight, Awake, arise, or shall pervert; and let
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Death shall pay. Accept this high
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foreknowledge; they bow'd adoring, and wrought our
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happie if within them, th' Almightie's aide,
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and firm brimstone, and silence, he all temptation then,
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Of Battel rest; so loud, that
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shon Impurpl'd with steddie wing Scout farr
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remov'd may know, Can execute fierce Strive
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here onely, and gaze Insatiate, I thence Invoke thy
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Bowre To Sapience, hitherto the
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