Robo poem for 2021-10-10
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Fall'n Cherube, and imbracing leand On mans
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behalf Patron or dimly seen A Heaven
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long past thy God, thereby to
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dewy Eve, A PHOENIX, gaz'd by turns, on
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NORWEGIAN hills, to soar Above the smiles
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from the baser fire inflame with Warriours
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mixt, Assemble, and AARON) sent Before
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thy blood arise Of Instruments that brightest Seraphim
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another World erroneous to abide United thoughts to
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sing, Hymns and foulds; Ith' midst
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a bloody Fray; With terrors and knows how glorious
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Train ascending: He trusted to learn
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What thy so endur'd, till Noon: For
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loss of these fair event Know
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ye to redeem Mans voice, that watchd, hee In
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doing what else dismai'd. Now lately what rash
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untri'd I know whence learnt: who long the brittle strength
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from himself reli'd, As resting found none, so
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bent down Must be honour'd thee, and
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lyes the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or open
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to direct the Citie GERYONS Sons Came
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furious windes blow them he felt
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Though sleeping, where first at eeve In this Gate
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was worse. What neerer danger; goe
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and Power I yeilded, by John Milton Whence
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in Arms, in PALESTINE, and all
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hue, as they. About thir eyes; with
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forked tongue Of ugly Serpents; horror backward, but what Arms
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And practis'd distances to fulfil is old LAERTES Son,
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but in pairs thou fledst: if cause
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Mov'd on Thrones; Though all Temples th' AEQUATOR,
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as unclean. Haste hither From me down; there From
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every part, to enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM,
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leap'd fondly into plaints thus consulting, thus
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spake. Why sleepst thou beest he; But
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longer shivering under our sight Of waters generated by
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suttle Fiend found here, as the name, O Heav'n!
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that like In the Starrs Numberless, as equal ruin:
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sage he alights among the goodliest Trees wept odorous sweets
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the Center hung. What neerer to prie, shall burn,
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and untrod; All he made, since created
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mind through mid way: One over
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the unwiser Son Perceive thee were of
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Grain, or worse, in VALDARNO, to soar
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Above th' Omnific Word, begotten Son, in
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Heav'n and surrounding Fires; Till, as inclination or
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rather how vain In th' Earths great
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Light shon, Truth, in highest To
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argue in likeness of 20% of longing pines;
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Yet happie Light, when ZEPHYRUS on
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Earth, of Warr, Warr so with ambitious aim
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Against the Coast Blows them admonish,
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and Dale) Light LEUCOTHEA wak'd, and
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let fall To-worship thir Assemblies, whereso met, Scarse from ESAU
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fled Affrighted; but peace Of immortalitie. So farr
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remov'd where eldest Night with grasped arm's Clash'd on
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AEGYPT with Mineral fury, aid aspiring Dominations: thou such grace
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With radiant visage turnd, but to pass Occasion
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which instructs us up, nor Fire, But
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hiss for Wealth and spoil and work in Paradise Leveld
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his bold discourse unblam'd: I now raisd
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Bore him next himself Treble confusion, wrath may light;
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Speed, to rule by Imperial Ensign, which before
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her thou blam'st me here to dalliance
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had been thir imbattelld Seraphim another World, high
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sufferance of Spirits immortal EVE, And left
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but peace by various style, for high
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words, & Heav'n Where Scepter'd Angels brought, and reason
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then bless'd them, while ADAM repli'd. To meet the
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Sons Came furious rage. Farr was that durst dislike
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his voice, unchang'd To deepest Hell, or
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depth, still to their portion set and rest, if
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cause Mov'd our better fortitude Of things common to
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enlighten th' Ocean or might dilated stood, innumerable
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ordain'd Good we subsist, yet one man
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created things His proud step no other
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wheel the gloom of sorrow, black it
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brought: and vain to equal Love; Least
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Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by steps the Lord
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God Rais'd impious War in Glory sat, Or
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I turnd thither-ward in Glory above which
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they lift thir Eyes, with force, And reconcilement;
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wrauth whose griesly top Of gesture proudly eminent
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Stood scoffing, highthn'd in Heav'n casts between (Unanswerd
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least our stay Longer thy overpraising leaves
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and serv'd but well pleas'd. I chiefly Thou
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Can equal hope, or action markt: about
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the multitude Admiring enter'd, and Empire up
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silent stood not lost; the while.
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God Rais'd of mine to accord) Man from begging
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peace: and yee little which he thereat Offended, worth
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Came shadowing, and vigour soon discerns, and full. After
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the Night-Hag, when time and therein Each Warriour thus these
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Fansie next and shame obnoxious, and laughs the
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true source Of Passion, I will trouble of Spirits
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perverse With vows, as great indeed Divine,
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And shun His fiery concave touring high. As
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many dayes, as rais'd From ABRAHAM, Son audibly
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spake. Why comes Lur'd with excessive
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grown Prodigious motion we return'd up with verdant
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Grass, Herb of GOSHEN, who sitst above
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and stature as Night with kindly thirst and
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bliss, Exempt from darkness do I sought
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repair that bad Errand, Man nor Man
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whom thus SATAN return'd: Son, Heire, and QUILOA,
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and Plaine, Both in PALESTINE, and all Windes
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The cool, the Flood, Famin, long detain'd
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In discourse they seem'd his Powers as Night
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Related, and Fowle, No more she
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ensnar'd Mankind they had, or fall To PAQUIN
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of Renown less arm him forbids: Those middle
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flight of hate, Giving to this first awak't, and
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mad demeanour, then they anon Grey-headed men Successive,
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and wandring, each act or Fountain who appointed stand
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On what eyes in Heav'n remov'd may
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choose Dilated or proprietary form, pretended To yonder Gates?
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through experience of Mercie and strange: Two dayes,
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they storm; great Ammiral, were who moovd
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Thir soft imbraces, hee and ras'd By
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Act of anyone in PALESTINE, and Shoar, the
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dore. Meanwhile To better hid. Soon recollecting, with
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steep flight to withstand He ended; when
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fatal bruise, And higher Argument Heroic then projecting
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Peace and gorg'd, nigh at ease
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thir public domain (does not find thy eternal woe.
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Yet half on som glimps discerne ITHURIEL and therein
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dwell. And now storming furie stay'd, Quencht
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in dismal Gates, And bring forth once past,
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present, future men, he ALMIGHTIE to
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seek Death, Said then Glory above
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and Timbrels loud Sung Triumph, and
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Reason joyning or rage And that
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moves on yon dreary Plain, then
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saist thou? whom God Express, and enthrall'd
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By four speedy words attention held me; for
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sweetest his Glory obscur'd: As one midnight search,
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where bounds On our dungeon, not come Well
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hast of like that Forbidden Tree, whose broad circumference
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Hung forth more forcible we hope was plaine, A
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Dove sent propitious, some thing on circumfluous Waters
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glide, and full. After the Fathers head?
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and worthiest to give account To Satan
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our extremes, Or solace his Bill An Earthlie
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Guest, and wide interfus'd Imbracing round Covers his
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flight; som irriguous Valley spread wings, up with
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hideous length: before the fiercest Spirit Powrd forth
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all sides With shiverd armour strow'n, and
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all Temples th' inviolable Saints In knowledge,
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planted by whose lowly down To mortal Sin Original; while
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Warr can it be good, and sweet returne.
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But first lighted, soon for ever to
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that serve in Heav'n were those two past;
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and neerer to work or cries. O
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Spirit, but EVE her Elm; she
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turn'd; I though Spirits elect Sense of sorrow,
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black Clouds began this windie Sea
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that revolted multitudes Were it self Can make
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her Kings; there soon Th' animal
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Spirits embrace, Total they villifi'd To mortal foe, and
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Plaines, And what higher in Ocean without cloud
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in Glory abounds, Therefore what highth recal high Archt,
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a Towred structure high, Where Houses thick bestrown Abject
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and yet public scorn; he for thou no
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fear and hollow; though in Front to
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obstruct his other self, and Clarions
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be linked Thunderbolts Transfix us unforeseen, unthought of, know repulse?
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For hee Present) thus calld aloud. ADAM, by Sin,
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not theirs which impli'd Subjection, but stood
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Of hazard huge must keep up stood Of
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us too long, Embryo's and temperd so, for flight, Mangl'd
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with rage. Farr differing from amidst them
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that kindl'd those Appointed to sway Of Day without least
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of Man Thy sweet Compulsion thus
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began. Is meant that fondly into four winds
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four winds four main Streams, Runs
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divers, wandring course he resolv'd, If
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aught appeers, And growing work: for the
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selfsame place knows my attempt, I sprung,
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As if other able, and INDUS: thus
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milde Zone Dwell not well us'd Long under
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him less Then aught Therein enjoy'd In freedome equal?
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or thir Straw-built Cittadel, New rub'd with Bow and
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filth Which when thousands trooping came the
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Son, Heire, and all The Air Burns frore, and
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PHARPHAR, lucid streams. He scours the fiercest Spirit rests.
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Hee rules is pav'd To mortal foe, By
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Fire, Outrageous to doom Reserv'd him no danger, and therein
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or Faerie Elves, Whose Bed is most irregular
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they rould in sins and renowne, Who boast so as
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they walk'd: The strong Leads him Regent,
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tells, as lowest bottom shook throughout,
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All like measure all, To execute fierce intent I
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forewarn thee, Death her best can Bird
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of Paradise Lost, by shading the terror guards
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Just ABRAHAM
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