Robo poem for 2022-01-04
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Best with lightest moment quit the terms
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of it were straitn'd; till younger
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SATURN, he pass'd From granting hee, Who now bolder
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wing, as farr the Full happiness this night Have
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finisht half her enamour'd, and call'd him, for
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that we enjoy thee, To Idols through experience of Sin,
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not obeyd, Immediately the Space that way they shall
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tempt with unsucceeded power. Shalt thou what highth
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recal high over-rul'd by John Milton
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Alas, both perhaps am thy dear
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I else be severd, we mean to
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submit or bearded Grove The Calf in Front thus EVE.
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ADAM, one seem'd either; black wings With lust
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hard be fill'd, and copartners of sorrow,
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doleful shades, where peace within, no danger, and
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with scorn. Think nothing high: from Heav'n
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so smooth, swift Stag from the
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Sons Shall hold them she comes unearn'd.
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Whereto with superior Spirits in Front athwart my heart
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Substantial Life, So strange Desire with
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mee. They measure what resolution from God said
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SATAN, to more wonderful indeed Divine,
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Sapience and pass disguis'd; They open Field,
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In AUTUMN thwarts the dores Op'ning thir
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change, all Her mischief, and unespi'd To respite or
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Sun-light, spread her perverseness, but with grasped
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arm's Clash'd on their Creator, and length'nd out my
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relentless thoughts; & oft return. Part on earth
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a slow and Monarchy of tasting those happy State, Seem
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twilight sheds On either side, Or other
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promises and gates of seeming pure, Severe, but peace
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would I fail them, not Die: How first Arch-Angel,
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great command we may then those flames
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Casts pale Horse: to relate of seeming
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pure, conformitie divine. Those thoughts Were
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ready, in mine eyes. Thee Father to do
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aught, which concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and
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giv'n thee; but he list, would want we may henceforth
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No inconvenient Diet, nor Nymph, Nor will the Project Gutenberg
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is choice) Useless and Love And sons of sense
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th' Omnipotent Decree, The Enemie, though joynd
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In heav'nly Spirits immortal EVE, thy folly, and tasted,
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nor knew would soon discerns, and
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but of sleep. Then feed on me soon, yet
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be much to move Indissolubly firm; nor yet we
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possess This River-dragon tam'd at thy Song
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Of Knowledge so heav'nly, for who of highest Heav'n, Servilitie
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with ambitious to Life began this frail Man
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except, Who justly hath deep as Celestial Patroness,
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who now they say, some of somthing
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ill, for such wherein shall his mortal
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injurie Imperishable, and surrounding Fires; Till, as nam'd
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of Pomp and longing wait The PERSIAN in despair,
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to all; but perverts best order and Soule,
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Acknowledge him a fell Down sunk before scarse
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from the Wind With him, will
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support our right lost: him chief Of AMRAMS Son foreseeing
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spake. Deliverer from the Deep. Let no sight, to
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breathe Among sweet dewes and all Her dark
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her longing eye; Nor think wee to
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its original crime makes Wild work in Glory obscur'd:
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As we may find, who moovd
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Thir seasons: among the dusky Air those
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that gently creeps Luxuriant; mean pretense, but shun The
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Filial obedience: So fit, so high, Where
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pain Through labour hee; But first as you
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follow me, and go, so Perhaps hath equald,
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force of flaming Armes, Weapons more detestable then when
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AEGYPT with clamors compasst round Ninefold, and
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Ages infinite. Thee Native forme. What hither summond, since
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borne With Carcasses design'd Both her
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course Had shadow'd them soft'nd Soile,
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for never from Cups to perswade immediate touch? Accuse not
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known from the PHOENICIANS call'd Seas: And
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manifold delights: But perhaps Som better counsels
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from the Fact Is hard; for some
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were an authoritative edition in Heav'n possest before
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thee perverse: the terrour of CHAOS, and Warr.
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Each hour No light, we return'd up drawn, Rose
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and spread her numberd such another Heav'n
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casts to submit or blame By this our appointed work
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in Heav'n th' Almighty hath honour'd
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thee, Heav'nly Muse, that overhung Still
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threatning hideous joyn'd The suburb of light,
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ofspring of Palm-tree pleasantest to advance Thy terms
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of God; I In order, so bent
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down Thus ADAM or Chance. Thir
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number, sweet (For we live exempt us here
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Danc'd hand Victorie and Evil, Thou fablest,
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here place appointed, each Plant & closing stood Then
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happie; no purpos'd not as rais'd Ambition.
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Yet higher foe. Space that so we
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labour hard One greater, of anyone anywhere at all; with
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songs Divide the SAMOED shoar Bursting with Forrest huge in
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dance Led on Thrones; Though of loftiest Towrs, Concours in
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charge. But fate In duskie or middle pair
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Girt with delight, and, as great
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Fell not upright. ITHURIEL and mad demeanour,
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then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr remote,
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with Milk at command, and pride
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that livd, Attendant on Bitnet (Judy now
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learn True Paradise Dying put off, and
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running Streams among the Books of God's high
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applause was good, Then voluble and
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stormie gust and Love unlibidinous reign'd,
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fruit Mans Nature, with deeds long Assist us: But
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now no worse would know no mean Drawn round
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If chance Or fansied so, for
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long after, now know withall, Since now into
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the fertil Woomb teem'd at no Spie, With Orient
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Colours waving: with ice And limited thir room, and thrice
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the better part in hatred, enmitie, and levie cruel
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warres, Wasting the flowing haire In all Temples th'
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AEGAEAN Ile: thus largely hast heard, That
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after all armd To final Battel which
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yet had forewarn'd ADAM though I dissuade Thy mortal
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dint, Save what cause Among thick-wov'n Arborets
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and Human kinde: Hither of Heaven, There
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is for change Befalln us descend now
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were large, Beguil'd by Fate Meant
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mee, Mee though fall'n condition is,
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mee deserves No second root them
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in Heav'n surcharg'd with Clouds began Thir soft showers;
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and disturb his Fabric of thought, and
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rather thou speakable of chearful waies of
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liberty, who since, Baptiz'd or heav'd his whole dayes
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To mortal men, Sad instrument to dewy
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Eve, A triple-mounted row of things; and shame beneath
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That mighty Quadrate joyn'd Of Mans
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mortal Sin and perhaps Not only
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to soar Above the slender waste and gently
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rais'd me thy eternal might induce us
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when Sin With terrors and consultation will Interpreter through
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a vengeance on these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing
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in Heav'n so various Idols through experience
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of Life; Thornes also in Sculles that
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which declares his lustful Orgies he was, what the
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shame Cast out my advice; since no cloud Of guile,
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We should Man falls to dwell; But Natural necessity
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begot. God to none. But Mercy and Bar Of
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shrubs and much blood, to and dearer
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half, The Paradise He lookd, and warbling
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flow, Nightly I told as mee. They trespass,
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Authors to hear me and all Temples th'
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unwieldy Elephant To hoarce TRINACRIAN shore: Nor multitude,
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stand or Penaltie? Here shalt lay
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these, voutsafe This night for the East
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with various objects, from night, Scorning
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surprize. Or serve Of thy heart, Thus Satan
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first began, And more it thee
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or have lost happiness entire. Then happie; no falshood
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under Rocks retain The Hell he hears On Earth,
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Through Optic Glass the Name Shall
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tremble, he put to Worlds first
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though fall'n, And shook his sake exempt? With second
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tire Of PHLEGRA with brazen Mountains huge a Tiger,
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who slew his Glorie then, nor walk
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not lag behinde, nor yet now Shot
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down as befell, Bound on yon dreary
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Plain, then said EVE. ADAM, earths hallowd mould,
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Of sooty coal the vallies & Fruits
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which op'nd from dance With gentle sleep can know,
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And daily thanks, How suttly to Spirit Taught
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by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on each
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the Sword, Satans dire example to descrie Communicating
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Male he wonns In goodness infinite, That
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not onely was, and shame hee
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admiring What creatures there I boast not: for
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thou could'st judge them Less winning cheap
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the sleepy drench Of hazard in deep Her doing
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what remains him she trod. His bright Sea
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flow'd Fast by me, of SINAI,
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didst invest The Quarters blow, Breath soft
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showers; and speed; Havock and wine.
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Witness the gift possess Life that witherd all
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Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. Whence and taile,
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Scorpion and pain. All is enterd; yet unborn, Ministring
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light of Creation, and EDENS happie trial choose
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Dilated or heav'd his arm the
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prudent Crane Her Husband to submit or
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cure or Communion, deifi'd; I directed then
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Gods. So bent, the laws of damages. If
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it from the envier of Woman to partake
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His crime hath made of golden days,
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fruitful of exceeding Love, And O
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Friends, why not? som glimps of Glory,
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whom All hast lost, Regardless of Hell, say
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first adornd With mortal Sin With Armed watch, that
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bad eminence; and mixt Confus'dly, and met
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Solid or pain However, and enrag'd might
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see Thou hast made? So they
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him disfigur'd, more thou profoundest Hell Fear to
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wander where he sees, Or East Darkness
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profound as Gods; for Man. With
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borrowd light In Synod met Undazl'd, farr to this,
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or destroy The same
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