Robo poem for 2024-01-18
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Celestial, and knows His Cattel in Heav'n of
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Pomp and paternal Love, as great ALCAIRO
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such pleasure till we were an Host In them
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that? can to infinite calamitie shall prove. Hell
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scap't the hot Hell debas'd, and shame in these thoughts
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To spiritual Creatures wanting power Who formd
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thee, and enthrall'd By sly assault; and spread
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Ensigns marching might There dwell free, and Night;
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which transformd AMMONIAN JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and
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laughs the faded cheek, but O
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Spirit, that mortal change Befalln us joynd, inelegant,
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but endevord with BRITISH and ELLOPS drear, And
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now To tempt with fire inflame
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with me is free? This Tree her colours, how
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the Snowie Plaines Retires, or lest Dinner coole;
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when her blazing Cressets fed With solid,
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as huge Rose out of unctuous vapor,
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which now thir tops thir Shields in
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Heav'n appeerd Up to thee appeer,
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Back to all; with purpose to execute their
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doubl'd Ranks they lift us good, Where Armies
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at ease I heard, for man, Assassin-like
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had need As not Mystic, where plentie hung to pursue
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Vain glorious, in hue, as thine and wide Wilderness,
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To mould Incapable of flaming from Hell. As
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we erewhile, astounded and race of Men; thereby
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to men! Devil enterd, and knows here and
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frugal storing firmness gains To mortal voice, I yeilded, by
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angry JOVE Sheer o're the trading Flood to reject
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Envious commands, For one blow SABEAN
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Odours and least of JORDANS flood of longing wait
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The meaning, not need) Forthwith the Muse to
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act have a stroak th' Ocean
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Iles, but narrower bound Of Beasts, or Harp and
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set forth Spontaneous, for God only,
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shee for mankind in Heav'n so thinking to
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enlighten th' excess of Day, or thou Son
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audibly spake. Why satst brooding on that Dominion
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giv'n Charge and steep Of natures works, JEHOVAH,
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who himself Impossible is at last, Rous'd
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from those Heav'n-warring Champions bold And light His
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Word, the method you I thence he
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the Tree, whose he spake. Why then now,
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While time shall he drew not quite be many
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Throned Powers, nor the Gulf Tamely endur'd a rout
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Enter'd, and though God Of Deitie for these things,
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parted forelock manly hung Clustring, but nigh founderd on her
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to do the pretious bane. And
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joynd With Heav'nly touch Th' offence, that gently rais'd unite.
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Why but custody severe, had servd necessitie,
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Not here, Not of pain, Vaunting aloud,
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but here below Philosophers in hell
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Precedence, none, so faire. Round the wide Tenfold the
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great Ammiral, were straitn'd; till supplanted down Thus
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said. Native Element: Least Heav'n so lov'd, thy glorious
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World, and show The vertue to
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Death with indignation SATAN pass'd, have spoke, But
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mark what Revenge? the Flocks Grasing the midst thus
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farr at command, and Warr? Warr can
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this gloom; the unsleeping eyes That brought along Innumerable
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force upon our Tyrant: Now from within her
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blazing Cressets fed and inclination or deletions to
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scorne The first Parents, or smell of anyone in
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Triumph high place, and drive All seemd fair Angelic
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EVE, Of absolute Decree Another now went
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Obsequious, Heav'n so superficially surveyes These
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two massie Iron Gates, Harmonious numbers; as Night he our
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joynt or depth, still new World, and
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unhallowd: ere day from pain To deepest
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Hell, nor herb, were such it
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from beneath, Down the voice of Domestic sweets, Whose
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annual wound shall uncreate, Be real, as
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farr Antartic; and thrice to AEGYPTIAN THEB'S and therein
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plac't A Nation to his journey, and lost
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us is for sight, by John Milton Is
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no narrow search; and freely what ye
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sworn To mortal voice, and pay him
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thou, and shame Among whom a vain Empires. Thus
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God Approaching, thus Eve repli'd. O Woman, best
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way, among the frown Each Orb
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in Glory abounds, Therefore while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds:
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At once on all, advis'd: That be for
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Lights on Thrones; Though standing fight, yet
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our afflicted Powers, Under his joynts relax'd; From us wide,
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enclos'd, Pattern of some Island, oft,
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they resum'd, Yearly enjoynd, some high-climbing Hill,
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and Eyes That run Perpetual Circle, multiform; and
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Patriarchs us'd. Here he assayd, and Quiver with
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blood Of real hunger, and full. After the arched
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roof Pendant by fire and damp, yet unfound
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most To your wings the gray Dawn, and
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strife of Seraphim ABDIEL, then since fate In
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prospect; there From your Rode with ease;
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Mean while over HELLESPONT Bridging his triumphant wheels In
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with gastly smile, to soar Above th' invisible
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or possess Life To hide From
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their malice into Raggs, then live by whose
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head beholds the gates of Hell,
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then Warr Irreconcileable, to havoc hewn, And ACCARON and
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Gold, His Spirit attends, Hovering and till wandring Fires
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that uxorious King, though the humble deprecation thus
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'gan EVE Thus will Chose freely we by
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force resistless way, Whether such bold words thir fill
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all Her annual Voiage, born and complain that uxorious
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King, AHAZ his Will. Be but with disdain,
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from the eighth return'd, with which ADAM first
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that most he whom should fear, hath said, though
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this text should injure us, unless by descending to mee,
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Mee of raging fires Awak'd should belong not quite
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chang'd; The Balme of Regal port,
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But evil durst dislike his coole decline. Fall'n Cherube,
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and INDUS: thus far round, Kindl'd through fire To
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undergo eternal Warr hath beguil'd URIEL, one
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step higher Orbes. The Femal charm.
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Earth trembl'd at command, and haughtie strides advanc't,
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We shall resound thee reconcil'd, at
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Altars, when Nature brought Death last, then or seeming pure,
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conformitie divine. Those rare and with boastful Argument Remaines,
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sufficient to soar Above the free Will vanish and
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Lord, be paid the damn'd Loose
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all assaults Their surest signal, they choose Dilated
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or neerer to Hell shall his wayes
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of manifold delights: But to part more
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elevate, and render all mist from Eternitie, appli'd
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To fill I felt, Commotion governd thus, ADAM, at
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Altars, when wee, somtimes on all, For Spirits
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when thousands trooping came the seat of this
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Garden, where stood as inclination or
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not? som glimps of EVE to
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oppose. Forthwith upright heart I adore. Gentle to enrage
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thee unbefitting holiest place, Where neither self-condemning And
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happie places led. And why not? som doubt
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To mortal Sin and follow the Center thrice happie
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hours in awe of impulse or dread
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Commander: he views in each hand
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A thing approach and pin'd with thundring out for
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flight, and arbitrary punishment Inflicted? and happy
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though unseen, Shoots farr remov'd VVhich onely in
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narrow search; and Timbrels loud Heard farr remov'd may
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succeed, so pleasant, his Meridian Towre: Then Crown'd With
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Angels held Gods, of sleep hath to hazard as
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fast, fear here let the just; to
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soar Above th' ASSYRIAN mount CASIUS old,
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to simplicitie Resigns her ears Cannot
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but more The matin Trumpet Sung:
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in Orbes his joy Sole King,
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though large, Beguil'd by her longing pines; Yet higher Would
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set the World besides? Who in strength, Not only
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to wander and shame To filial, works possessed
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in time when at hand, to soar Above
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all Her mariageable arms, and pride, and
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well seem'd, For whom the Silvan Scene, and
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change awaits us long woes are to
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submit or slimie, as ours) Have heap'd this Dart
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Strange horror seise fast, and Flour.
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Our labour or heav'd his scatterd
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sedge Afloat, when call'd Satan, with songs to interpose
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his brightness where thir jarring sound Of lucre and
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enterd in, and humane; A while, as Night
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alterne: and just, not need All hast here
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Beast, Bird, Beast, or distributing Project Gutenberg
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is most he sits Shrin'd in
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what is no end. Fairest of
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som glimps of anyone anywhere at his oblique way
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Through Optic Glass Of GALILEO, less
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Then value: Oft in narrow frith He brings, and
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warbling flow, Melodious part, And long after
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EVE Got them before her coming of being I
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forewarn thee, this glorious Train With strictest bondage,
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though immortal: But whom should I thence To
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mortal wound Receive, no threats Of som
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more sweetness, and be shak'n or enur'd not secure
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Sat like kinde By pollicy, and call'd me light His
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counsel Warr, what shall his Word the
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more, while th' unwise, or unkindly mixt,
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Dissolvd on Bitnet (Judy now fulfill'd, that strife of
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Heaven, Where Armies rush To vital Spirits
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immortal Fruits? If so on golden tiar Circl'd his
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Mouth The second, or West, shall stand
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Before all sides With Jubilee, and
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many signes of Rebellion rising, who interpos'd Defence,
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while over many Throned Powers, That lay
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by, and through experience of place:
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Now possess, As vitiated in All, and render
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thee, As high walls fear To ADAM first resolv'd, If
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then half the fixt, And various
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living Soule: And worthie seemd, for thee charge to
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mee, and power had been reveal'd What wonder claims
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attention gaind, & Flours, Which now at large, Nor
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troubl'd waves, There in VALDARNO, to augment.
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The more Establisht in loves imbraces
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