Robo poem for 2021-09-21
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Father, what I travel this once the Foundation's principal
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office holds; of anyone anywhere at head
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or slack thir Eyries build: Others
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among Thousand Celestial Armourie, Shields, Helmes, and Firr,
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and Songs, wherewith thy contempt, At first the
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use hangs on Bitnet (Judy now have known
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as far remov'd VVhich onely weake Against thy return Of
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his feet. Him first, as Sea-men tell, With gay
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Religions full Resplendent all assaults Their living Soule, Acknowledge
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him thy Wife, where Thou interposest, that strange
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to that creeps Luxuriant; mean to soar
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Above all comliness and foule. But list'n not
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spare Thee Native perfumes, and much advanc't, Created
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pure. But evil brought Miserie, uncreated
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night, and everie magnitude of knowledg fair Morn
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To vice industrious, but bring shall
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lead. Nor stood and all speed On
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duty, sleeping found where he spake. Why ask his
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whole Battalion views, thir flight, and Torneament;
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then or dread of high as Sea-men tell,
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How fully satisfied, and gain'd From unsuccessful charge,
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and Firr, and Song; Such hast
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Th' excepted Tree, whose Reason not following pace the
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Garden mould Incapable of Life in proportion due
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time or when Spirits be lodg'd, or
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Empire, that warble, as appertaine To found
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obedient, and Vanquisht: on all, For wings, at
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th' occasion, whether our condition, thus answerd
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sad. Evil got, where The image viewing
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Becam'st enamour'd, and deep Muse to foul concupiscence;
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whence Merchants bring forth all enjoyments else free they
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among th' Ocean wave. SATAN except, Who tells of
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monstrous shapes Will he assayd, and tell
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Of waters fall I drag him
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disfigur'd, more th' expanse of wing
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Tormented all but hast'n to do thine.
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Meanwhile the love to see; And reassembling
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our vacant room, though of eternal Warr he
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brings, and full. After thir Orbs impose Such
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place Disparted, and had need were
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such obedience due. To stuff this easie entrance quite
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from begging peace: Glorie to all; but there
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will Fulfill'd, which God saw Transcend his Chariot
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and long obedience and next they dread, Rouse
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and with clamors compasst round Ninefold, and
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Shields in hope relies. O Spirit, that strow
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the smiles Wanted, nor obvious Hill, Nor holy
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Rest Through Sin Original; while Night To Beasts, whom thus
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consulting, thus first break of wind Swayes them; wilt
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bring to soar Above them mute. Thrice
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he works posted with hideous joyn'd The affable Arch-angel,
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had at all; but delight, As stood and call'd
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In some worse Urg'd them to do his Enemies.
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At Feed or Fate, Fixt Fate, free
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His Seat of light, from mans
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destruction, maugre Hell, or allarme, To perpetuitie; Ay
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me, sole command To mortal passage down alone
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Seemd in clouded Majestie, at THEB'S
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and disperse, that glittering Starr-light without end. Mean while
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upon his way By place foretold his degree Disjoyne
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us, linkt in her colours, how attempted best, and Limb
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Sutable grace Attends thee, ingrate In Nature him out from
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him Lord: Under amazement of evil hast heard) Chariots
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of Religion, Truth and spread Beneath him hung
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not, Whether of light, from the wastful Deep;
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the Angel cri'd. He onward move th'
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extent somtimes, with mine. If these thoughts and Shades, Fit
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retribution, emptie as that lives, and wee freely
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give; Hell Gates till first warmly
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smote The Bond of whom hast Th' Arch-Angel
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trumpet; through thir issue Guard, Mount appeerd Under his faithless
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Progenie: whose presence humble, and pain up amain; and
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longing eye; Nor great Commander; Godlike shapes
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old Renown, OSIRIS, ISIS, ORUS and
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perturbation, and free to descrie the slumber, on dry
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Land: nigh unheard, that day arises, that shall die:
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what intends thy folly, and passion in
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thee, count it don: My early care,
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Not our Party, that live for sudden miserable of words,
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out-flew Millions of lost happiness and CAECIAS and if what
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had filld with jocond Music charm his
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destruction to frequent With furious rage. Farr
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more we never comes invited by
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deceit and blot out of Knowledge grew Of
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highest wisdom seemd, wherein the brightning
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Orient Pearl & gray; thy voice From Earth
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he wings Wherewith to move Embattelld; when
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looking round, Whereon a pleasing light
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Sent from the showrie Arch. Hee from the fishie
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fume, That one day, While they choose; for
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Heav'n receiv'd us to Heav'n, Angel
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tells of pure blood of Worship wave. SATAN went Obsequious,
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Heav'n be lodg'd, or have merited
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reward, the shock Of his breath Of us
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as fast, and Earth: And boldly venture
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down Wide interrupt can extenuate thee?
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that brightest shine. If so commanded, and with Spade
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and shame in fears and Dale of
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Heav'n: Nor less expressing The Filial obedience: So
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quick'nd appetite, that fair and enrag'd might
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or bound us? who hold of sorrow, doleful
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shades, where delicious taste: Betwixt ASTREA
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and 4 and willing feet submissive Charms
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Smil'd with vast TYPHOEAN rage to ours, Differing but less
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toil, and vigour left us falling, and Shades, Fit
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retribution, emptie as fast, fear and all
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bounteous King, Son, in narrow limits,
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to accept not far Exceeded human,
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and with matter all, this gloom; the cleer aspect
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and struggle, as creation first Region throws his
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faction, in Heav'n that Forbidden Tree, a Temple,
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on som great Enemie All that this
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conflict, had powerfullest to provoke, or once thou ADAM,
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Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold, Whose annual Voiage,
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born of large Lay Siege, Or ambush from Heav'n, Pav'd
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after made gay Religions full of monstrous
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size, TITANIAN, or Heaven: Thither, if within
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his eye, His blessed Spirits in
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PALESTINE, and Mother, but in prospect high, Which
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when answer ADAM reply'd. O favourable spirit, propitious
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while Satan long Assist us: But
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all our thoughts with God on the gloom were
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interpos'd, Or chang'd with mee. They
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gladly of peace will be dextrous to
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soar Above th' Almighties works, honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, how
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found by steps we sleep: All persons
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concerned disclaim any Project Gutenberg is
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held, or have diverted from out the
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wakeful Nightingale; She heard By pollicy, and
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flaming Mount, while o're which in Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by
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conversing I In open or pusht with grasped arm's
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Clash'd on errand sole, and Battlements adorn'd
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With fragrance fill'd Immeasurably, all sides round Thick-rammd,
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at Altars, when hollow Abyss And starrie train: But
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mark his throne. What day arises, that here
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that stand fast; to like, but hid metallic Ore,
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The danger, and go, Going into the Celestial
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Spirits may charge thou Out of Gods Time
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counts not, Herb, Plant, said that smooth rin'd,
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or any be, all mankind under darkness; but
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hid thir mornings rural sound; If I repent or was
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left, But perhaps Hereafter, join'd in
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shadiest Covert hid my assiduous cries:
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But now prepare thee anon His fraud be
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reveald In hurdl'd Cotes amid the use
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On EUROPE with swiftest wing, as by right of
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MICHAEL from mee also in bulk as Sea-men
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tell, though many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, off-spring
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of God; I yeilded, by thir Powers
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Militant, That brought along Innumerable force with Beast which
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thou comst Before thy folly, and sets
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them back, It started back, Remembring mercie, and
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all Heaven sat them in narrow limits, to
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have transfus'd, that wisdom didst invest The smelling sweet:
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and persevere He came, nor Air, To a part
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religious Rites perform'd. His final hope in vain:
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which op'ning wide, Portending hollow truce; at thy presum'd
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So judg'd and shame that prospect of knowledg could revolt,
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but of things resolv'd; which Abstract
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as Night bids increase, who saile Beyond the
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rode Of immortalitie. So as Sea-men tell,
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With copious matter new World Be
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gather'd beams, and cheerful, in Heav'n. Which mans destruction,
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maugre Hell, say first appeering kenns
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A hideous outcry rush'd Both turnd, but returns
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Day, or creating hand A cloudy Chair ascending
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pile Stood up, nor those To chase
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Anguish and wide op'n flie pain, that houre
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To leave No inconvenient Diet, nor wanted
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in narrow room of scorne, not true
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allegiance, constant mind and blaspheam'd without least
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that breath'd immortal love entire Shon with whom
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in Western Throne rejoycing, yee Creatures are but that seem'd
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to higher Would speed retir'd Each quarter, to
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have presum'd, An Olive leafe he stears
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his deadly hate in power Which now might
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relate To wreck all the rode
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sublime With unexperienc't thought, which resounds
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In VALLOMBROSA, where ALCINOUS reign'd, fruit
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surcharg'd, Deigns none among these things, to delight
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the new Receive thy shape, If
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that as that way now Our Supream of Starrs,
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And cloudie Van, On Hills were form'd, Save
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what doubt it seems the Love-tale Infected
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SIONS daughters with me for neither
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joy Sole EVE, amaz'd, No homely morsels,
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and what it rouls; What thanks sufficient, or highest
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To interrupt his Engins, but all Delight. Such
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wonder now fild with ambitious mind Foreseeing or
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since denounc't that destruction laid Fit for EVE
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Address'd his Mates thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, though
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the false presumptuous hope, imperious, & hymning spent. Mean
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while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds:
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