Robo poem for 2023-01-21
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Produced by restraint; what mould, Of Mankind created,
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that Forbidden Tree, whose hairie sides
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round the Standerd there From this World
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Built like state and shame By right
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down Th' APOCALYPS, heard remote. Towards her,
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she upstaies Gently for yet in me
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then to pass triumphant, and wild, under
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the Center hung. The discord which
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else though brutish forms Reduc'd thir charge, of
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Supper Fruits at least the Plain, or
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with like Our torments also drown'd, And
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solitude; he pass'd through our attempt,
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and hostile din, That mighty Standard; that
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kindl'd those Contrive who appointed bounds Proportiond
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to few unknown dangers and composure, and GAZA's frontier
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bounds. Him whom mutual league, United I
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refuse to soar Above the effulgence of anyone anywhere
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at Sea flow'd Fast by me, whom
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hast maintaind Against such I bring me With tumult
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less His utmost Isles. All unconcern'd with awful
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Ceremony And more desire I obey him withall His
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Word, begotten Son, Obtain, all Temples
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th' HESPERIAN Fields, And for Dayes, and declare Thy sorrow
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and devote, He spake: and beginning
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knew? Desire with hideous ruine and all
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a Fountain side They sate Idol of
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Spirits reprobate, and Power Within Hell to AEGYPTIAN THEB'S and
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pain Through Optic Glass the Ocean Iles, Like
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Night, Seed Is enmity, which else be
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visited, Thy Fathers Throne: Which uttering thus returnd: URIEL,
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though SPRING and how we need that soyle
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may afford Our eye-lids; other work thou attended
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gloriously from hence, for now divided into our
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feet; about the womb of Hills. As
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was askt. The Adversarie. Nor yet
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concernd Our State whom mutual help preserve Unhurt our high
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will at these piercing Fires As
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not have a long absent, and Wisdom-giving Plant,
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Fruit, which understood must remain, Till then Arch Angel,
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though the Mount Rais'd impious War in utmost vigor find.
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Before thy cours by Sin, not eating
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Death: Satiate with guile What hither bring. O much
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wondring tell Of fiery Gulfe Confounded
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though fall'n; intend at THEB'S and
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follow me, for either end heer unborn. Why then
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returnd as Lords of tempestuous fire, He
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drew not had been reveal'd Divine effect so foul,
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once amidst the Minstrelsie of God's high Woods forlorn?
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Should win the calmest life: But perhaps with
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like which follows dignity, might resist our
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unrest, and ambrosial smell diffus'd. To Idols through experience
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taught In woman, then his three places thou
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by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet
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(Judy now tost And mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith upright And
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fall of bones, Like of peculiar grace Elect above
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the Eastern Wind, That practisd falshood
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under Kings; there mingle and with mee thy
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Sentence; Hell, or possess This must pass,
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What when Nature of Mankind they resum'd,
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Yearly enjoynd, some rich appeerd Bending to disburden Nature
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as equal hope, to God, Creator hath
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wrought our Destroyer, foe Contending, and press'd
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her moist and steep to soar Above th' infernal
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dregs Adverse to enrage thee unblam'd? since In
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common, rang'd for speed And one Soul living,
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each word, my heart; fear his fear:
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of Pomp and make deathless pain? Ye
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Powers of seeming pure, Transparent, Elemental Air,
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Weighs his heart of this pause
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Down sunk in Heav'n. Now came
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Attended: all assaults Their Altars by constraint
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Wandring this Oracle, then free. But
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rise, and Goats, they saw; And
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horrid Vale. Then loudest vehemence: thither My Bowels, their leave?
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and freedom to emulate, but first born to
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doom is pav'd To worst endures. There
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the fiercest Spirit of fierce were who loves,
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and fulfilld All other Starrs By whom This
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intellectual being, Discursive, or Grape: to try, whose ballance
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down rush'd between. Character set the Sons The
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season, prime of Renown less could pittie thus farr,
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That fought in PALESTINE, and rare: thee worthiest
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to heare! for who hold what might concern him,
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life prolongd and warbling flow, Melodious
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part, such I upon his Angels; and call'd him,
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Author unsuspect, Friendly to part in Heav'n were sweet.
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But all passage hence, though gay Her Tresses,
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and vain, Till then too slightly barrd. Whence in
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paragraph to my latest Image: I obey him
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surer barr His dark Idolatries Of amorous
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dittyes all th' inventer miss'd, so friendly still,
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In thee more, the wicked, and chast
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pronounc't, Present, or last hope conceiving & worthy
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well done all works if Art are lost; Attonement
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for joy Ambition findes. But hee to accord)
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Man by success untaught His fixed thought no threats To
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worst Of his journey, and shame in
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man In spring Our Limbs benumm'd,
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ere now unpeopl'd, and therein stand. For softness shee an
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Host of pain Of watchful Senses represent,
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She spake, each other to manifest the
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Waters glide, and ruin seems to tell Of force
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effected not: that brightest Seraphim to thir Glory.
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His eye pursu'd him surer barr His kindred and call'd
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that most Them in mooned hornes Thir Arms on himself
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and shoares Thir freedom, they anon Down
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from Bonds, And Chrystall wall of
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this or Earth, one of SYRIAN Damsels to
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be won, th' obdured brest Of high exploit: But who
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therefore past, present, and lust, till The Air
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attrite to chuse for Orders and pain Which but chance
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but to doe, Our second ADAM shall bow, of Hell
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scarce blown, Forth issu'd, brandishing his loines and
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face Henceforth of wing Came singly where ROME
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was not, works Created this top Belch'd fire To
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these thoughts revolv'd, his Bow and full.
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After these scarce begins Her Son.
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As through each motion felt how repair, How dies
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the new felt That excellence he gives
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Heroic Race In Fruit forbidd'n! som sad For God
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would not, waiting close The God after some
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renownd ALCINOUS, host Fled not brook, And his
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Image, head appeerd Under this Arbour, or
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sad experiment I oft though till then
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they lift us more, She turns, on golden days,
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fruitful Womb as farr Then such grace With
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gay Legions to climbe. Thence to that noise Of SATAN
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except, Created thee, for who created World
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Of EDEN long they bow'd adoring, and therein By a
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wondrous birth: Be gather'd beams, great behest from head
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flames Drivn backward slope their doubl'd Ranks they
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receive? What within Shall hold Caelestial Spirits when sleep
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can Is this work in guise Of EDEN, till
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I mine ear one seem'd a Limbec to sound Of
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vertue thought Thee I upon thy dissent, Neither our
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right belongd, So bent, the faultring speech he arriv'd;
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in shape, If so much delights Will
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slack'n, if I think superfluous begin
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Thenceforth shall his taste that peopl'd highest
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To search of God; That self retire, And
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on, nor withstood them free, not who
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sets off his rebellious crew? Armie against his
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foul obscur'd: As is else though
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sorrowing, yet spake, each the Hall Of SARRA, worn with
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ambitious aim Against his Sons Conjur'd against the thick
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Of Godlike shapes old now learn
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too easie then; Th' unarmed Youth smil'd
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Celestial, and as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Priests
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dissension springs, Men with high words, Creator
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hath doom'd This Desart soile Wants not Thy bosom,
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Son Young BACCHUS from the new utterance flow.
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End of this unvoyageable Gulf shot with ambitious to
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continue, and Faith approv'd in Man, SATAN bowing
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lowly reverent Towards her, she shines,
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Revolvd on Bitnet (Judy now SATAN, and
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dangers, heard th' Almighties works, Pleasant to
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cast at Table was, our woe, With Incense,
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I pursue By false presumptuous hope, And
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Strength and sad drops that tore Hells Concave,
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and Flies must be condemn'd, Convict by knowing not then
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soares Up rose as many dayes
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are those fair foundation laid perhaps he
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from beneath, Just ABRAHAM due course Melodious murmurs, warbling flow,
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Nightly I fear no cloud Instinct with wearied
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vertue, all Eternitie, appli'd To Paradise Lost
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sight Of Towring Eagles, to sustaine
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His Empire, and Shades, Fit well Spare out of
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monstrous shapes and pay The Calf in any other
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half the just; this question askt of him, who
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first receavd them as great atchiev'd.
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Long had veild the sleepy drench Of
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EREBUS. She dictate false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd,
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unterrifi'd His rivals, winning cheap the Moons resplendent
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Globe the thought Horrid, if SION also is
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thine; Thy youth, thy Throne With pitie, violated not dismaid,
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And let thine and shame nigh at Heav'ns
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Hath raisd Bore him found alike informd With wondrous
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then! Unspeakable, who for Lights on rout, Confusion
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all things, which instructs us further way
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Through the lower still I obey
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is choice) Useless and into the space. Though
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others note Singing thir vocal Worship wave.
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SATAN who loves imbraces met, How art call'd, whose command
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Transgrest, inevitably thou incurr'st by violence or Days,
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months, and mad demeanour, then mistrust, but Nature
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wise to side which thy vertue infus'd, and after
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known as violent and specious deeds compar'd this our
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Eevning milde, Then scornd thou beheldst The Sixt, and valour
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breath'd, firm Faith, not all places led. And uncompounded
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is there plac't, Reaping immortal
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