Robo poem for 2022-10-15
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My Bowels, their various Spirit impure as onely
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in fears and how without defence. If care
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could I behold In Cubic Phalanx firm ground
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now bolder wing, as to move In
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counterview within his rage, and Creeping things, and there
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fast his entrails tore, disgorging foule Are yet
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remain Not meerly titular, since our faithful friends, I
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Another now must be confirmd, Ere he spake.
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Why should mean those indulgent Laws Will
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covet more. With faultring speech Thus hee in one.
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Before thy wonted calm. On ADAM wedded Love, Vertue
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tri'd. The Femal Light, conveyd so near each
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Had, like which yet now to Reign, Refusing
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to rowl In might the Creator,
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and quench his Thunder: and lyes the cleft Wood,
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there confess him down thir several one view?
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he casts to surprize To mortal change
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Hateful to thirst at large Beyond the
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Herd Of smallest things that bad
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act have bin there, Feilds and dangers, heard remote.
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Towards him ordain'd: then To future things Less pain,
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this miserie From Diamond flaming, and LIBYAN
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JOVE, BRIARIOS or re-use it were op'n'd, and
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Towrs, And twentie thousand (I thir
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seat of youth about them Lawns, or mute, though
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wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At first it seems: One
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Man therefore joynes the Spie, With
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wondrous Pontifice, unhop't Met such magnificence Equal'd
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in future he assayd, and infinite despaire? Which
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we lose the Name Shall bruise and Timbrels
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loud Hosanna's fill'd With me from ADAMS room
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Throng numberless, to enrage thee too late, I first create
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another row of Pomp and QUILOA, and wondring
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at will. To blackest Insurrection, to accept them; the judg'd,
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or EDEN: this frame Of glory, and tell thee
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back to delude. If then silent course intended; else
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Inhospitable appeer and dazling Arms, Though threat'nd, which
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how adore, From this agreement. If so highly, to strive
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or Office is Man, SATAN alighted walks: a Covenant
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never to tell, With monstrous Serpent on Thrones; Though
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late Heav'n-banisht Host, left his thy good
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will create new joy bereft. O sight all
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kindes (Though like sense Then wise to whom SATAN repli'd.
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O Teacher, some inferiour Angel, and Mist,
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then with next behind, Whose image now began,
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and therein Each Orb a Trident smote,
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and shame that Hell saw Transcend his entrails tore,
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disgorging foule Thir mighty Angels arm'd, this prevention
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more we need Refreshment, whether in
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captivitie he receaves The Adversarie. Nor
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this Oracle, then Arch Angel, earst in
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Devotion, to displode thir flight, and strange: Two dayes portends,
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then his journey, and passion first incenst at
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each Coast averse From unsuccessful charge, Flown to Battel,
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sunk Under the Hymenaean sung, Open, ye living Streams
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among the stronger proves, they mix With fixed
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Anchor in PALESTINE, and perhaps a silent
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circumspection unespi'd. Now conscience wakes despair
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Thus talking to accord) Man he
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rear'd me, whom thus by furious
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windes with so by fraud to my
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mouth Cast forth her frozen Continent Lies
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dark Aereal Skie: So minded, have thought?) escap'd The Adversarie.
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Nor thou of anyone anywhere at command,
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ere thus return'd. By quick contraction
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or middle flight Aloft, incumbent on her Fancie, and one
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small drop serene hath thy Spheare; Till thir
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motions vain, at Sea flow'd Fast
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by suttle Magic many Throned Powers,
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them let dry Land, sideral blast, Vapour,
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and deifie his crew Lay waving
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to describe whose Voice divine commands that strife Was not;
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shee and kept the wisdom all, mine
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Eyes, with coole Winds, And over built Magnificent this
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world Of proud With copious matter
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new delights, As one abstracted stood unmindful ABDIEL faithful
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friends, I Have left from PELORUS,
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or TREBISOND, Or touch the better
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these successes, and him to adorn His Childern, all
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assaults Their great Father. Admiration seis'd By
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death lives, and with me. To forked tongue
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Inspir'd with songs Divide the fixt Laws Will slack'n,
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if on Earth hath deep Her Nurserie; they
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stand, there From HERMON East With
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darkness, and interrupt can hold; so highly, to
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tripping ebbe, that brightest Seraphim to
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quit The burd'n of anyone anywhere at
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all; needs be sure was his
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three of longing pines; Yet leudly dar'st our connatural force
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Of BABEL, and MELIND, And Lakes and calamitous constraint,
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Least hee Present) thus addrest. Whence in thine
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eye commands, For dissolution wrought In the power
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hostility and longing pines; Yet live again
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His mighty wings and Omnipotent to do aught, no
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middle darkness visible Serv'd only peace Of smallest
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Dwarfs, in dismal shade; from God for
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with answering looks receave The skill or gemm'd
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Thir nimble feet pursues Things unattempted yet first
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of mean to infinite descents Beneath thy
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Birth, For additional cost, fee for thir lives, and
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shame, Vain wisdom infinite In some misfortune
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brings Knowledg of sorrow, doleful shades, where
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Flocks are set, With Regal State
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Mine with almost no mate For since they were
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matcht, who hold thir sight Had driven
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down Thus drooping, or Heaven: Thither, if what burden then?
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what resolution from SYRIAN ground, thence be troubl'd waves,
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There they onely Son; On duty, sleeping soon
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Would Thunder utter'd thus answerd smooth. Dear Daughter,
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thus milde Zone Dwell not lost;
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Evil to accept as shall believe Those Tents he
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ordaind, Hath vext the Celestial vertues rising, who
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agree to lead Safest and all
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things, parted forelock manly hung on or Air,
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His massie Spear Of Cedar, and
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call'd and fix't as this impious War in
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PALESTINE, and meathes From mee must end? Can fit
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head; piteous amends, unless an enemie Forth issu'd,
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brandishing his wayes of Thunder mixt Among the wisest
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heart exalt Equal to its own inventions they anon
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A violent deeds. Then aught propos'd And vengeance and
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shame, dishonest shame to scape Th' excepted Tree, and
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Gonfalons twixt Van Pric forth pernicious with
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me thy youngest Son Presenting, thus by an authoritative
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edition in VALDARNO, to his Empire neighbouring Hills and
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knows how chang'd From those grim fires the INDIAN
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streams; Abhorred STYX the conditions? and
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EDENS happie Native of cordial Love so much
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advanc't, Created thee, so faire. Round from
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Eastern cliff of EVE; Assaying by day: And
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opportune excursion we may arise On
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duty, sleeping found as earthly sight, thou
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enjoy In humid Bow, When God above,
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to that opposite to search I resolve, ADAM the
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vertue and shame hee also govern well I sprung,
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As Reapers oft invok't With incense,
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where EVE our great Conquerours, Patrons
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of monstrous sight Of Wiles, More then Divine!
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Hail Of Man, as CAPRICORNE, to increase Your
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message, like the Center thrice to thee
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withdraw The Pledge of small, If this
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essential, happier Seat of volunteers associated in
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Glory never will but that Forbidden Tree, from like
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themselves to arrive The dry Land
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He ended weeping, and gain'd a shout Of
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Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, quitted all delight
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could Spring So prevalent Encamping, plac'd in it
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speak of doubt, and feel by coming sprung Upon
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himself; horror shot with its original crime and passion to
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accord) Man except, Who art happie, owe
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to single hast made? So as
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in fierce He markd and with me
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highest, for copies of Worship wave. SATAN stood
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at eeve In procreation common &
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oft invite, though last, Rous'd from begging peace: but that
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Globe the sense within thir story written left,
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A Dove sent from the South With LAPLAND Witches,
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while shame, thou with ambitious to
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enrage thee too light of respiration to Almightie King)
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Amply have then human. Nor less Then was inwoven
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shade Laurel and hands lopt off at no cloud Made
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erre, was come, and high To win the
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Roots of Mans nourishment, by him brought By
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us trial onely thy transgressing? not alone, which
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in Sculles that thy Song charms the
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Fiend, a secure of Men: And fast his repulse.
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Thus drooping, or Empire, such effects. But that way
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Which taught the Lee, while thou freely taste. Forthwith
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upright heart Distends with me forth crept
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The sharpest sighted Spirit rests. Hee boulder now, While
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smooth the Deep, and longing pines;
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Yet fell; confounded CHAOS Umpire sits, And Life-blood
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streaming to execute What if within them; thence To
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chase Anguish and all Hills. As neerer
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to assert, who hold Over Fish
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replenisht, and therein stand. For wings,
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and wild, under ground and Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or Plantation
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for I seek His death in ADAMS room
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in Heav'n Had ended frowning, and tasted, yet
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by Millions of SINAI, didst converse,
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Wisdom thy Faith, and I, me som
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tumultuous cloud those elect Sense of this now
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constraind Into the meanest, some part
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huge Porcullis high feasts to accuse, But
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grateful Altars by number heard) Chariots rankt in bliss?
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Vangard, to donate royalties under wrauth,
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Which his eyes, all these Vex'd
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SCYLLA bathing in bliss) condemn'd For one
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Who meet there let mee onely, but that
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strow the grunsel edge, Where Joy entire. Then was
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seen: Hee for open Field, Or when the
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copyright royalties. Special rules, set with
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