Robo poem for 2024-07-22
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So spake th' air less Then to
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store Against God takes no sight, Amid
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the ruful stream; fierce Chariot rowld, as Sea-men tell,
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though by ORONTES, and Shield, Born
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through Plate and we to Battel,
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sunk with me. To you who slew
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his Spirit impure what resolution from public
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moment, in FRANCISCAN think wee Instead shall uncreate, Be fruitful,
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multiply, and ransom set. And Spirit impure as beseems
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Thy eye-lids? and betraid Him with OLYMPIAS, this
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gloom For in Glory of Pomp
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and interrupt his indignation: through Heav'n
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in her Sire. For such an Exhalation, with mischievous
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revenge, immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, say the foaming
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Steeds; what ere they took thir
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shame By spiritual, to heare onely coveting
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to execute their prey To mortal passage down Thus trampl'd,
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thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, This Paradise of thee:
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Retire, or enur'd not lost; Attonement
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for evil he sent To come sole command, and
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therein or online at need; And
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corporeal barr. But thy request, and ILIUM, on thy flight
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of Light, firm and briefly touch
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What pleasure we pray him, longer shivering under shade
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Made erre, was plaine, A death to frustrate all things,
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or 20.zip ***** This said, as
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long absent, and stature as erst they say,
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How art naked, hid thir kindes; I
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fail not, and smoak: Such hast made?
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So spake th' Eevning and dangers, heard th'
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Almightie, thine now were falling, and pain,
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as Hell, not of EDEN went Obsequious,
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Heav'n move In part, from utter dissolution, as Nature as
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in unapproached light imparts to assume, or
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don Invincibly; but that fell By
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Fowl, Fish, Beast, or Death, of God; I seek,
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once his throne. What creatures there From shadowie expiations weak,
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If this gloom; the sleepy drench
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Of depth immeasurable: Anon they saw, Though chang'd his
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head, devouring fire. Sounder fierie gleame Of leaves
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in any purpose to stray, or heav'd his Kingdom, left
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them, th' AZORES; whither fled, Light Secure, and loud
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Among so large Beyond the Garden; thence his second
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fate: Mee though under Government well pleas'd, Canst thou
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wert created) we skill or foul defeat
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Hath lost all parts EGYPT marching, equal'd
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the Omnipotent to soar Above his
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enormous brood, and Timbrels loud Their great
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adventurer from the Teats Of Paradise
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first thir being? Yet unconsum'd. Before
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him call'd and Quiver with BRITISH and thus double-form'd,
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and whatever stands Least it thine; it vain; awe
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of this obtaine By mee expung'd and Foot,
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nor was thir spite of men? But
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see how vain And excellent then that graze
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The breath her best we need feare, goe and
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Creeping things, and taste No spot
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like kinde Wondrous in each armed Files Darts
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his Sanctuarie of Faith. And courage never shall
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resound His laughter at Gods Disdain'd, but food
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In Wood or a rood, in narrow search
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of Hell the murkie Air, imbalm'd With purpose
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thus wrested from Land that possesse
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Earth, who hold what ere then his holy
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One way faint! But wherfore all confus'd
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march forlorn, th' inroad of earliest Birds; fresh
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dews and Darkness answerd smooth. Dear Daughter, thus double-form'd,
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and dangers, heard in Heav'n Long after, now plenteous,
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as rais'd Above all Air Burns frore, and
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obstinacie, and regain the Adversarie thus answering scorn
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his Pride Had not Time, though thus began
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in bounds On his Voyage; for who knows,
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Let in opposition sits Shrin'd in bad Woman?
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Thus were from pain Of thy lips
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Of Gods Time counts not, for Thou find'st him
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perplext, where stand By his arm
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th' acknowledg'd Power prepar'd In sorrow abandond, but seems
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a Hill, Nor fail'd they outcast from despair. In
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VALLOMBROSA, where silence to soar Above all
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mankind in Mercy and SATAN except, Created vast
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TYPHOEAN rage to transgress. Father, to accord) Man whom
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mutual guilt the Filme remov'd where any other
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Powers went hautie on, with almost no staine:
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Till The invalidity or smooth rin'd,
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or middle parts, then wander where so
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suffice his admonishment Receave with expectation stood Their childrens
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cries unheard, that brightest Seraphim and fall'n, Father (For
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Eloquence the vale of monstrous Serpent
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suttl'st Beast and obey But for
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ever praise him, life ambrosial fragrance
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fill'd With wheels In vision beatific: by
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coming thus largely hast made? So Man,
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which thus low? Th' Eternal Empire, how attempted
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best, Wherever thus milde Zone his Head Crested aloft, and
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with freedom both on the Earths freshest
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softest lap. There best, the angry
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JOVE usurping reign'd: these walks at my unquiet
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rest: he gives to soar Above all
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on his right, or charm Pain for by
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Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon Lake thir
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Brethren, ADAM, not quite All seasons, ripe for Fate,
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Fixt Fate, Too well contain, bring
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Diseases dire, As we heard remote.
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Towards either end to sound Of happiness:
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yet the sole Wonder, much to prie, shall his
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opiate Rod. Meanwhile ere Death must be worth Came
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like In others note Singing thir Rebellion, from public peace,
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both life ambrosial Night regaine Her fardest verge,
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and Nights, except whom now MOSES and Epicycle,
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Orb in Power, and huge; in Triumph high in
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opposition sits Grim DEATH my words at last best Whom
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thus returnd: URIEL, one abstracted stood much
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eas'd, Erwhile perplext All courage; down The
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enemies of Darkness, cannot fail, Since
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through waste, and beyond Compare of light, we
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to SATAN done this, and Speech Wanted not
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forth, though she pluck'd, she deserts thee Love
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so proud imaginations thus much worse By som other
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surety none; nor staid, till dewie locks inwreath'd with
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Gold, when Nature unpossest By Fowl, Fish, Beast, or exhorting
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glorious works, Creatour thus half imbracing leand
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On her DEATH my ofspring deare? It seem'd,
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For additional terms whatever, when BELLONA
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storms, With peril gone All incorruptible would
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loose, expell'd to submit or Mountains huge two-handed
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sway Brandisht aloft Fly o're dale his journey, and
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sleek enamel'd Neck, Fawning, and speed Thir Citie, ere
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one faithful found, they durst fix farr excell'd
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Whatever sleights none appeerd, Much less Then miserable
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pain Can make Gods Time counts
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not, so hee Whose annual Voiage,
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born With adverse Legions, Angel utterdst thus imploid
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beheld in Triumph high uplifted beyond this text
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should be worse Ambition threw Into utter loss, That
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Lantskip: And Valour or creating hand From
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Beds of manifold delights: But self-destruction therefore hated,
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therefore foild, Who from life; Whose failing, meets A
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third as low Reverence don, as are the Garden;
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thence To many wayes of my
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Song, Torment, and Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or re-use
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it came single; hee To him, longer
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to assay If rightly call'd, and all
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these receave The hasty multitude With every Vertue, in
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little think The grosser feeds the
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baser fire and hands No gross, no small part,
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though more watchful, stronger, some to
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trie In horror; from like which God shall temper
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Hero's old with multitude Might yeild them shall need, or
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whether Heav'n so e're his love-labor'd song; but her Night
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And injury and bid his head, enclos'd With
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ported Spears, as if ever, by strength, They ended
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foul and calamitous constraint, Least on by break our way
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Lies dark Idolatries Of two let
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me beyond dust and high will weild These
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past, as broke the Firmament: So willingly thou such
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companie as thou spok'n as mee. They
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fasten'd, and all created first appeering kenns A Dungeon
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horrible, on Bitnet (Judy now fli'st
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thou? whom Thou find'st him brought into plaints thus declar'd.
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The Filial obedience: So unimaginable as farr som
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Orator renound In circuit, undetermind square or under
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Heav'n; wherein the loud acclaim. Thence more glorious,
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in fears and steep to soar Above his
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seat of lamentation loud that breath, From far as
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di'd her ashes spring Our labour to God-head,
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and shame Among whom no strife
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of GABRIEL spying, thus expell'd to work
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in disguise. Hee, after some Island, oft, as erst
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thou yon dreary Plain, forlorn and evil
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seek to proof we our woe; Since
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MICHAEL from Pole to serve? 1.E.8. You
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provide a path leads up with a dream, Waking thou
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spok'n as AMAZONIAN Targe, And Fruit be the
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Port, though Worlds great MOGUL Down clov'n to approve thy
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Train; there gentle Fawnes at ease
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Of length from harm. Is this
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easie ascent, or Golden Rinde Hung high strength,
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what so endur'd, till by the ruful
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stream; fierce encountring Angels contented with me sprung, Two
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of him, life the parting and Gold; ABDIEL stern
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regard Should favour and shining heav'nly Ray United
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I seduc'd With righteous Altar, bowing lowly creep; Witness
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this Project Gutenberg License included with permission
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and call'd RAPHAEL, the Tyranny of fears
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and MESSIAH was dire, CERASTES hornd, HYDRUS, and Warr.
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Each in flaming Mount, while expectation held Before
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my Heart or unenforceability of TARTARUS profound, To adore
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for ill Where I still govern well
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his head, but his Anointed universal
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hubbub wilde Rout that fair Presented with
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everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages
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of disobedience, till then they treat till
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