Robo poem for 2021-02-04
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Sleepst thou attended gloriously from thee know; At
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once The dismal house of Spirits of Heaven, down
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he feignd; Under spread thir chief maistrie
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to soar Above them his purpose
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he could hav orepow'rd such appear'd Obscure som
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Orator renound In jointed Armour clashing bray'd
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Horrible discord, and Brother first make All th' upright
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and mad demeanour, then within. Some, as
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creation was? rememberst thou with Gold, Fruit Of sacrifice, and
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taste thy Subjection, but thou well converse, Wisdom
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gain'd a pleasing sorcerie could joine Melodious part, and flaming
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Warriours, Arme again dissolve Allegeance to support
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our last his bounds, nor wider
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farr off; then Conflicting Fire: long past
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with redoubl'd blow SABEAN Odours and horrent Arms. Nine
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times He ended; and changing stile be death? and
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all a Globe whose heart and overlay With strictest
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watch; these Dogs of thee, and food perhaps Hereafter,
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join'd in me deriv'd, yet from the Liveries dect
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of sorrow, doleful shades, where Heav'n Long had life
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with orient Sun, producing every flouer.
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Regions of God; That errour wandring, found Squat like
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which God inspir'd, small store Against such hellish Pest
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Forbore, then saist thou? whom imbracing, thus MAMMON
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spake. Why ask his meek man, for us forbidden,
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it deals eternal fame in Heav'n so rife
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There went forth pernicious with anyone. For him slope hills,
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to that brightest Seraphim ABDIEL, then stand
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fast; to soar Above th' Almightie, thine
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eare less desire To stoop with Creation and chiefly
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Man, Son On duty, sleeping soon drew
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Gods to quit of Seraph rowling
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in worth ambition though immortal: But list'n not lost;
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Evil into this darkness there to force of our
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afflicted Powers, off-spring of this work in Prose
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or elsewhere: For while our cure, To their part courb
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the Congregation call'd; For dignity compos'd
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SATAN except, none regard; Heav'n permits, nor yet residing,
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Bred of humane reach interpos'd; three different Motions move?
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Which when her shape Celestial, but
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all on Bitnet (Judy now retir'd to Death To
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nothing from our envious Foe subornd, And higher
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grew On Earth consisting, and multiplie By
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none, so God only, shee an Iron
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Gates, and confer Thir Arms Fearless assault,
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In the goodliest Trees In full terms
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will voutsafe This day, as fast, fear
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and deifie his course, in spacious Hall Of waters
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issu'd from no deep as you I this
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ASSYRIAN mount of monstrous Serpent thus entertaind those
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friendly voice, unchang'd To second, which else must rend
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the eastern Gate rouling her warmth Throughout the ranged
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powers Disband, and Brother first Region dolorous, O're
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other calls us nigh, his aide; As I
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pursue Thy power; the while. God Of wickedness,
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wherein shall pay. Accept this agreement. If
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chance may of Project Gutenberg is now all reply,
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Prudent, least they little knows His
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fiery Gulfe Confounded though that brightest Seraphim another World, one
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place, and with hop'd success, Throws
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his people into sevenfold rage And Spirits,
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yet in AUSONIAN land Men as day
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from us? who fill'd Immeasurably, all th'
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Omnipotent to accord) Man should conceal, and through experience of
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which all mankind in Heav'n Gate of
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man will he pretend Surprisal, unadmonisht, unforewarnd. There
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they prosper'd, bud and horror and grace
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Attends thee, ingrate In dubious Battel in
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BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN-born; nor erre in silence thir way;
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harder beset repli'd. ADAM, rise, high
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Walls Of Heav'ns dore Obsequious darkness
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there what the remaining provisions. Whence heavie pace that
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provided you I uncircumscrib'd my dream, And mortal
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tast Brought forth redounding smoak and smoak:
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Such resting found thir humid traine. The
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skill the least, Still threatning hideous Name, for sight, like
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doom, Yet mutable; whence learnt: who them Spirit That Shepherd,
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who thee goes Thy tempring; with me
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cleere, not lost; the warlike Angel warr, if Spirits
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adjudg'd to tears Bewailing thir sin, on
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Bitnet (Judy now tost And Chrystall wall of Spears:
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and aspiring Dominations: thou then saist Flatly unjust, to
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Die; How due! yet from SYRIAN mode, whereon Who
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have chosen Seed, And Earth rise
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Above them rul'd, stood Or several charge, while murmuring
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waters forcing way his darksom passage broad,
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came on, with Fowle, Ev'ning and proofread
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public moment, in fears and formless
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infinite. Thee what resolution from the Adversary
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of Sacred silence yields To mortal
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Men as shee to soar Above th' Herb yeilding
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Seed, And Quiver with bestial Gods; aspiring to
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incense Clouds With Honey stor'd: the
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Starrie Cope Of his fill, Lodg'd in Triumph
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high to submit or like, more he fell who
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comes it be free, be returnd Successful beyond
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Compare of Supper Fruits in Triumph high Creator; some
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that implies not find a pleasing
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was then that live without cloud in Mercy
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and all as Rocks and full.
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After his Host, and gates of Heaven, Heav'n acceptance;
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but strive or covert was known In Paradise,
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fast shut of sorrow, black tartareous cold
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ground, in TELASSAR: in wide Territorie spred Thir Parent
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of righteousness, Araying cover'd field, which no Fair
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Daughter, since the Stork On other turn'd Round
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the waste, and were all assaults Their great
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Year Seasons return, But thir feet Hasting this high
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Throne, which no delay to rase Som Capital
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City, or MAROCCO, or spread his like, more
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fierce, From center to few escap't from SYRIAN ground,
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and Grace, thou didst permit, approve, and roseat
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Dews dispos'd by things shall exalt
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Our frailtie and know of ears, which understood Of
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erring, from harm. Fall'n Cherube, to wander forth Triumphant
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through highest Hills: then gon to be In INDIA East
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the Serpent had made for God to work in addition
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strange; yet now in hatred, enmitie, and
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Sword-Law Through labour to submit or liveless
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Rib. Being as fast by, Or satiate fury thus
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much blood, to my Heart Omniscient, hath eat'n and
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Hero's old Fled over her turn'd, But
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thou covet more. With thy flesh,
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when BEELZEBUB Thus roving on swift prevention;
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but a Deluge on himself in
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spight of TANTALUS. Thus sitting, thus advanc't, We
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may afford Our knowledge, not fear'd; should
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be one Realm of Lambs or
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free From center to awe, that done, well Enterd
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so long the Fathers praise The God or
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EDEN: this frail Man Restore us, nor
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ever to soar Above all Causes
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import your Head Level'd his Chariot; where first
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as him Som say and serv'd it suffic'd To mortal
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dint, Save what are giv'n; what rash
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hand what ever plotting how To ask what
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is enterd; yet well, and deifie
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his Shield Such implements of EDEN stretchd her
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who hold converse with Taurus rides, Poure forth
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came one Guilt, one root, and
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unweeting have set On evil intercept thy tidings carrie to
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do the Waves be scann'd by
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due, Dispenses Light Imitate when Morn
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We now seems to men should I
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told as are gratefully repli'd. Apostat, and perhaps thus
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returnd: URIEL, though steep, through experience of torrent
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fire Must exercise us known, shall sing. Thus said,
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he sent were heard thee more, if
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SION also her course began, When, and all prodigious
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joyning or unaware, To their own first, him
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in figure wedge thir lot shall
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turn Desirous, all prodigious things, ev'n in
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formats will be loath to accord) Man
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disobeying, Disloyal breaks his Peers: attention still rejoyc't, how
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like themselves a replacement copy upon our faults, and gates
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of monstrous Serpent had round, a
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Heard on your periodic tax deductible to submit
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or th' undying Worm, That scal'd
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by harpy-footed Furies hail'd, At once his breath of
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violence the arched roof Showrd Roses, and heard,
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then raise thy love, as taught the setting Sun
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Dropt from pursuit Back to enquire: above his
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love-labor'd song; but to transgress the space.
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Though full sad; O miserable it in
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Glory never but of Empyrean where first drew Gods
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high Creator; some worse deeds compar'd this unhappy
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Mansion, or undertake The bottom turn'd
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On other copies of sorrow, doleful shades, where he
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designes In darkness, and Power to soar Above
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all one; how dear, By place
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foretold his fulgent head Of future for fight
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in BASAN, to NEBO, and soft
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as Sea-men tell, How oft Bank damaskt with vast
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recess, Free, and quite from mercy
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shewn On Earth, to undergoe like Lightning and
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Hyacinthin Locks behind Illustrious on errand sole, and
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full. After soft Pipes that now, though the
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sleepy drench Of Spirits aspire, to either like which
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you indicate that this Deep; the use
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of Warr, Nor chang'd Into th' unwieldy Elephant To
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mortal food, or you whom his courage
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never to human ears Cannot be in Heav'n
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Gates Pourd out of him, in Glory unobscur'd, And
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on, with me absolutely not deprav'd from
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the Coast Blows them soft'nd Soile, for mankind
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Be Center pois'd, when her reply with
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brazen Eyes I know; if that shall trust themselves
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a Throne Supream Foe hath doom'd
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This my right aspect maligne Of foul and
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ANCIENT NIGHT, I fled, Light of russling wings.
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As RAPHAEL, the Flocks are to suffer change,
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Though last appeer
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