Robo poem for 2023-11-15
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If stone, Carbuncle most irregular they all Temples
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th' upright with almost no ill: So minded, have
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chosen Seed, And Immortalitie: that gently hast where he
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wonns In Triumph and shame him surer barr His
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punishment, False fugitive, and shot Darts
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his proper substance; time was, what higher Would utmost
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vigor raise, and such live thou. So fitly them
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to immortal bliss, Into this time Up
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lifting bore Semblance of taste Deceav'd; they
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seek needless cause To Judgement to fall, onely right.
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Or come From CANAAN, to deplore Her spots of
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Men Delighted, and speed gave to soar
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Above th' obdurat King Omnipotent From large
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of Light From far disperst In those grim
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Idol. Him through experience of Starrs,
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And in narrow search with ease you do I
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chiefly to Councel forthwith from him placable
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and rushing he sent from thy self
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instinct with attractive Grace, wherein shall not by night
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Have left His Brother; studious thoughts prov'd false. But
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more Almighty Maker them The Rebel Thrones, Princedoms, Powers,
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Dominions I upon his followers rather
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pure marble Air those Who from begging
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peace: but a World farr at large
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Lay pleasant, but he spake. Why should
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rest Of Seraphim Approach not, as
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mire: for LAVINIA disespous'd, Or find grace, The World
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where ALCINOUS reign'd, fruit burnisht with perfidious
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hatred they pass, fann'd with thy only shon Above
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all reponsbility that seeing me, & rowld In other
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light Round he sees, Or Longitude, where flowes GANGES
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or accept as lowest end Still glorious
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and all hues, Roses, and wide: in that
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live: Nor doth your dauntless courage,
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and INDUS: thus MAMMON led The bold
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words to exclude Spiritual substance might There to
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soar Above th' oblivious Pool, And stripes, and next
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we seek, once he would torment me opens wide,
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Likest to tell him placable and unhallowd: ere day
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declin'd, they slack the fertil growth, and as bound
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the total darkness durst defie th' expanse of
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man, to soar Above all a wondrous works, reports, performances
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and chase me downe By doom alienated,
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distance inexpressible they judge Man is best repaid. Whence
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heavie curse, SERVANT OF SUCH DAMAGE. O glorious and
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RAPHAEL his flight Of porous Earth
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Wheels her Nuptial embraces forcible and passion
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to a spacious Gap disclos'd Into thee For
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those dire was seen, The Sulphurous Hail horrours,
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hail Infernal noise; Warr on Thrones;
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Though sleeping, where the Port, though should by small Of
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hazard in luxurious Cities, where Rivers mouth Cast forth a
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Furnace flam'd, yet remaines unsung, where
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Thou to accord) Man once on
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me thir King, who is pav'd To mortal injurie Imperishable,
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and somwhere nigh hand a prowling Wolfe, Whom
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fled amain, pursu'd The deadly hate, And high
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from on every bough; so keene. About
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thir spite his great Harsh Thunder, Wing'd
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with mutual wing against so Justice with songs Divide
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the Tempest: Such pairs, in Heav'n God Of each
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tender stalk Whatever doing, what skill or
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scatterd sedge Afloat, when lest Dinner coole; when the
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unapparent Deep: There to that faire Inchanting Daughter,
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since borne With lowliness Majestic from Heav'n
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When time or Goat dropping Gumms, That which
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returnes Light shon, inimitable on earth, which
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both to mark how frail Originals, and
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fearless, nor hope conceiving Fire, Or theirs
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it be room, and smoak: Such high titles,
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and remote Produces with Winds Close sailing from
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SYRIAN ground, had Earth he was, what had
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suffic'd, Not long, Embryo's and th' unwarie brest With
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what seemd In all assaults Their Seats long and
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therein live, Or find grace, The builders next favourable spirit,
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propitious guest, as in appearance, forth the Galaxie, that
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shadow staies Thy sin in Counsel
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must be giv'n him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels weep, burst
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forth: at THEB'S and rich inlay Broiderd
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the Constellations warr be interpreted to
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lose the Beginning how horrible confusion, over ADRIA to
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forsake God only, shee and a thousand lesser Faculties
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that Just o're the house of
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Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, reasonless. Why hee
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Beholding shall his part, though forfeit and CADMUS, or
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using any be, all deaths wound in
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doubt. Lives ther who first, If
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then suspect our paine, Can make known
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As may attain. So little space was
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entirely good; and Fowle flie With
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that mortal Men To have foyld, If
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any of Warr, the less Maritine Kings
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and underneath a peal shall ensue,
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behold. What rests, but nigh founderd on Of dalliance
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had night tun'd her nigh, his Church
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lewd Fell not, and amorous Bird Sings darkling, and
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colour, shape the arched roof Showrd Roses, and Flour.
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Our tended Plants, & might with difficulty or
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where, if Land From every Bolt and revoke the
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Golden Architrave; nor wider farr more shall
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temper Hero's old and Revenge, deceiv'd The
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haunt for who shall die. How few
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unknown till gently mov'd My early care,
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Not keeping watch Against revolted Spirit, zealous, as one
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ascent of monstrous shapes old Myriads
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of God; I yet that more
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availes Valour or fond hopes of not drive,
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Seduce them all, as oft, they obey, and call'd
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The full loud, that swim in body, and Gessamin
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Rear'd in him there, Or touch with hop'd success,
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Throws his deaths I give; Hell
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could without Song, That bring obedience holds; of Beasts,
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whom his faire EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much reason, and willing
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feet I obey him Hell within our
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final rest And join him know, Forbids
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us falling, and LIBYAN JOVE, or Love, Where now
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(Certain to do all assaults Their living Soule:
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And practis'd distances to destruction sacred influence: less
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Then such appear'd in power hostility and
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all Sun-shine, as in themselves. Whence Haile
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Mother thus MAMMON led them not reveal'd, which
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concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and sands of God;
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I yet we dread, and prevented
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all pain Torments him; hee sat On ADAM, I that
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past, Man Dust of thee, and keen, shattering the
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Sultan waving to judge both seemd
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in despair, to enrage thee transplanted,
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and dangers, heard so thinking to view: About
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her, she ensnar'd Mankind created, nor mine,
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Neither our belief, that finds her presence of
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Hell, Thou interposest, that lies Th'
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attempt it seemd, for these upwhirld aloft shading the present
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pain, professing next him round Earth self-ballanc't
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on this Of dalliance had infus'd Bad men For
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thou saw'st, by doom frail Originals, and Caves
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Of each tender Grass, Herb yeilding
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Seed, In ignorance, thou mightst hope When CHARLEMAIN
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with high Fled over Beast, more
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numerous ofspring; if our attempt, I refuse to weep,
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burst forth: at all; but he her
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brings it pregnant: What thoughts Had circl'd
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his fervid Raies, a flock together calls,
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Or much more came to my ofspring deare? It
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may seem; yet that Forbidden Tree, and Intercessor none
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admire That run through experience of anyone anywhere
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at large and silent course Had been your laughter,
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hath forbid. Not only shon Stars distant, but
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by strength, and all had foretold, Foretold
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so high, Where neither do we might determine,
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and oft engag'd To wage by these, could
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I miss thee being, And bring forth peculiar grace
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in Heav'n were Land Which if none can
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true Or Altar smoak'd; yet by whose sight or
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seeming pure, And ore the cause Mov'd our
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Guest. But that alwayes seekst To manifest
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thee here, as Sea-men tell, With hundreds
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and valour breath'd, firm they best we our
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Glory never did he counsels different, or direct
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my latest Image: I obey is
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fume, That Man His fall'n such pleasure I
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fail where Champions could it vain; awe About
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him she embrac'd him, if (which
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might leade To win the envier of endless misery.
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But grateful Twilight gray Dawn, and therein plac't
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or EARTH-BORN, that neither do I
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meet My Storie, which one whose Bark by me,
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though yet lies Th' intricate wards,
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and henceforth oft; for uses to descry new happie Light,
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when to scape his Train; there
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He markd and therein set From servitude inglorious welnigh
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half imbracing leand On purpose, nor did they pass,
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to surprize To set Labour and
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shout that Crystalline Sphear whose first broke
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peace will replace the great indeed Divine, Sapience and
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sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and Dreams have happ'nd thou
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mine: to dalliance had descri'd, To
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visit all Minims of Heavn Rowls
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o're the Portress of Cherubim the
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Holie One who deignes Her stores
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were they dread, Rouse and kickt the Starrs
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By suffering, and gentle purpose, hard by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu
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on Bitnet (Judy now lower, and longing eye;
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Nor serv'd but favour'd more shall burn,
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and longing eye; Nor sinn'd thy Brest, (what could
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wind Swayes them; the sinful thought, will hardly
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dare, Or satiate fury yield it I nearer drew
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Aire, The paine fled the Portress of Worshippers
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Holy Memorials, acts of Fate, Fixt Fate, So
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onely what ere dim Eclips disastrous twilight
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sheds On duty, sleeping found Eternal, thine
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Of sooty coal the Deep Encamp thir Supper Fruits
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at eeve In counterview within the terms of fierce
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intent ITHURIEL
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