Robo poem for 2022-03-23
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To see and Bowrs, VVith wonder, fall'n on
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those hearts shall his solitary flight; som Plume,
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that as thou maist love or have peirc'd
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so shall rejoyce, And hourly conceiv'd A
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cloudy Chair ascending rides Audacious, but cast a wandring
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feet On Hills (For Eloquence the
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Sun: His marriage with grasped arm's Clash'd on
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yon dreary Plain, forlorn and pain and
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dying rise, First seen, Regent of darkness! full
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time Celestial rosie steps adore. Gentle
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to showre, Which of SINAI, didst obey
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But rise, and dearer half, The Paradise
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first born With thir Rebellion, from
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the sword Of horrible destruction doom'd. How
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suttly to smallest Magnitude close The Calf in
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safety best his flowing haire In motion we
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must be right: fardest from him the blessed peace, Yet
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least that I repent or SERAPIS thir Eyes,
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with delight, As we live, till I will
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sustain alone I fell, Wholsom and met
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thou shouldst not by me, sole Dominion
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won, If he never had bid turn degenerate,
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all assaults Their surest signal, they beseech
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That thou spok'n as utmost Hell
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bounds were an Oath, That sacred
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and passion first thus undismai'd began. Haste hither side
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Or hear'st thou what praise ye may,
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accept Alone the excellence, but favour'd more duteous
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at ease out for I yeilded, by strength,
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the vext with Voice divine or oppose,
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or Firr With God, In unitie defective, which compel'd
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Mee not, Wherein true op'ning, and regain the
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weight inclines Our first resolv'd, If counsels different, or
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reviling; wee style Nor love till thy youngest Son
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foreseeing spake. Why should mind Appointed,
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which By thir jaws VVith foot of Battel,
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and sets them came, nor Fire,
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Sublim'd with soft Ethereal Skie of
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solid might taint Th' infernal Court. But ratling
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storm of power, ordaind Me Father,
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to incarnate and be scann'd by millions
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her face discern'd, Regardless of ANCIENT NIGHT, I will to
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view Nor alter'd his Scepter and glad Of
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Thunder didst inspire That reaches blame, but that all
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these Giants, men With HALLELUIAHS: Thus far as
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ten fold More meek came next himself reli'd, As
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far as Sea-men tell, How few His
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knowledge both Grip't in Heav'n receiv'd us without was
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great) Hovering and flourie lap Of Mans Nature,
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less'n or worse, leave ye, and
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call'd ASTARTE, Queen of mankind, though
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the General Terms of sorrow, black Clouds With travail
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difficult, not Beasts alone, Or as Starrs,
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and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from thir
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choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from thenceforth
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Endu'd with others. If so wondrous
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Ark, who seemd A goodly Tree
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of place: Now wav'd thir pomp that livd, Attendant on
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smooth ADONIS from out th' applause was
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then his Almighty Maker shon, inimitable
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on yon dreary Plain, or flew
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Of immortalitie. So parted forelock manly hung
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to ADAM's doubt it aught divine or apprehend? So
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glister'd the banisht crew Rebellious, them proceeds,
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I see who fill'd Th' ascending and goes: but
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that when the terms Of old Fled not
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Thir doctrine and Ocean stream: Him whom
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these soft Axle, and spread his Fathers
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Throne: Which from pain Can equal over this ASSYRIAN
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mount Saw where stood in one,
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Equal in narrow circuit meets A whole Legions under
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banne to Death shall pervert; and with
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ease To intellectual, give thee, I
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obey him thy Lips, ADAM first gave way
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thou what remains Invincible, and learne His people
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into the unsleeping eyes till supplanted down
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his Plumes, that live exempt from SYRIAN ground,
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materials to drive out of night, when time in
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VALDARNO, to detaine thee along Innumerable before thee,
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Whither shall need, or anguish, and
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visage incompos'd Answer'd. I will pursue, but lead
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Hell am Hell; my uncouth and rowld
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In dust, and call'd aloud. MICHAEL, this Gulfe
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Confounded though to submit or offering meet,
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I might well may at Altars, when AEGYPT with Celestial
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Panoplie all assaults Their childrens cries
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unheard, that stuff this be, for Repentance, none of
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shame, and therein Each quarter, to my naming,
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how hee blew His eyes with vain
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designe New reapt, the starv'd Lover sings To question
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askt of peace can high Tree now fild
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with delight, Now at himself The
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Deep Within them do practically ANYTHING with
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corporeal substances require More aerie, last
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SATAN, who hold his head, but thou Revisit'st
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not fear'd; should relent And kennel there, And
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bringing forth, th' unwise, or have diverted from SYRIAN ground,
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Insect or timerous flock together drive out
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such prompt eloquence Flowd from the utmost
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vigilance, And Prayers, which bids us good,
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why didst invest The Cherubim Thy choice Here
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we might concern him, that damage fondly deem'd, I
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can it I suppose If you
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discover sights of him Regent, tells, as
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that you have dream'd, If so seldom chanc'd, when earnestly
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they calld The lowest deep entring shar'd All sadness
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but store Against the Larbord shunnd CHARYBDIS, and call'd
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that fair Creatures, on NIPHATES top Of
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Godhead, gave a foe Contending, and swage With Ministeries
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due and as farr extend, thus expell'd
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to soar Above all assaults Their
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childrens cries unheard, that watrie calme His
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swift return Diurnal) meerly titular, since our Reason joyn'd. These
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were Brass Three Iron, three of unkindly mixt, Dissolvd
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on swift pursuers from the second in
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VALDARNO, to do all assaults Their childrens
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cries unheard, that fixt Laws argue in
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SITTIM on golden Scales, yet ere they best with
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hellish pair And from God towards the Seaventh
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Eev'ning arose In loving thou what befell in Gold
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Empyreal, from us here Beast, or Yeares: This Garden,
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planted by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on
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us, how glorious to serve? If
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thence full terms of ye and Valley spread thir
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earthly sight, Starr Of DORIC Land; or manacl'd
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with neighbouring Hills, so refus'd might concern him,
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if all assaults Their surest signal, they enthrall to
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dwell In billows, leave them, while they naked on,
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As Man Thy Trophies, which my appointed stand still
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longer shivering under Earth all-bearing Mother Tree, If
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it thine own Heroic name deserving. But longer
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shivering under the Name Shall bend With cruel expectation. Yet
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Innocence and passion tost, Thus said, let dry Land
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The skill or Sunnie Hill, Smit with Oarie
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feet: yet never since humane reach or heav'd his
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enormous brood, and wished Morn return'd, with wings
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Wide the most is become As deep within 30
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days work, yet able to return as mee.
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They who desir'st The cool, the dawn, Sure
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pledge Of CHAOS, Ancestors of touch
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whereby he deservd no ill, was created,
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that flaming from Heav'n, extended long her numberd
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such as great command Shall in strength
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to his offence; yet sinless, with grasped
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arm's Clash'd on Thrones; Though standing fight, Unless th'
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Earths Giant brood Of force believe Almighty, since no
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cloud Drawn round Environ'd wins his Eternal Empire, that
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bad Angels plac'd) Thir Phalanx, and shame nigh the
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bloodie fight. So spake this agreement. There went Obsequious, Heav'n
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be wrought them easier to that voluntarie move His
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malice, and weltring by manly hung Clustring,
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but Nature gave a green Cape Ply stemming
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nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for high
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advanc'd The hollow Deep Shall dwell farr distant from
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God ever shut. And Hyacinth, Earths habitant.
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And every kind, that care of men? But wherefore cease
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to receave Access deni'd; and must
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keep up & wreathd His Spirit attends, Hovering on golden
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Lamps and wished Morn when his head,
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possessing soon unsay What matter where, if it so, An
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Atom, with Oarie feet: yet not
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by right Reason on a Creature grew, Sat
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on In ignorance, thou shouldst not the Wheele
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undrawn, It may gain Through the Heavens
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Azure, and vain so fresh Flourets Hill retir'd, Victor
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in Glory extinct, and highth, bent
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(who could pittie thus contest; Stand
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ready stands to havoc hewn, And
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courage and spring time, when the
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branches overgrown, grottesque and blaines must change Befalln us divide
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The luminous inferior Orbs, Or hear
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his utter darkness, and favour, him so streight, so
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despis'd? Or emptiness, or numerous late,
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I relate, Fond, were laid Fit well stor'd with almost
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no deep Muse to pass, the
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ranks ascend In strictest watch; these
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scarce blown, Forth rush'd in Gold and
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silence, he rears from SYRIAN ground, under Names Of
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secondarie hands, wings, Least therefore can do I
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feel, Or if from above Who have reacht
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the flourie roof Pendant by furious King, AHAZ his
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fury yield it away or beneath. This Earth?
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reciprocal, if Predestination over-rul'd Thir earnest
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so bold: A bough of such resemblances
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methinks I spare Thee all Temples th' unsufferable noise, Hell
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Fear to right against so affirm, though SPRING and
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Clouds From Beds of peace confound. Together
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both Eye and adore the arched
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roof thou with wings outspread Dove-like satst
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brooding on Bitnet (Judy now we may likeliest find
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this unvoyageable Gulf Of thir shapes
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and Rose, Or this, and makes guiltie shame,
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Vain hopes, vain Covering if lawful to
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tame These bounties as he sole command,
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