Robo poem for 2022-02-03
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She most, when the mortal tast Brought forth
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all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that
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pain of Hell, nor have fixt Laws impos'd,
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to store will Whom to reascend, Though ineffectual found:
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Warr to impose: He came, nor is
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plotting how thir outward onely our ancient Greece;
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and pain Torments him; round Still threatning
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hideous ruine and obedience paid, When from Paradise
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under Heav'n which glory to shelter
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us? this agreement. There is dreadful;
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they calld That little space was
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that flow'd Of PALESTINE, and with level
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wing Came Prologue, and descending tread us deni'd
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To trample thee thou spok'n as soon recompenc't
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with SATURN old Myriads though fairest Fruit,
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she ascends above thir memorie Of life
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with me slumbring, or taste, till first from the
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Ape; Wors then her reply with
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fierie Steeds Reflecting blaze on these Giants, men wont to
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soar Above his MEMNONIAN Palace of Hell,
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her rosie steps we see her step no
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danger, and acceptance found, Holy, divine, His
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entrance, and drawn from either Sex
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assume, or our first naked left Familiar the terms of
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Men not unsung, where th' HORIZON, and Cedar
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tops ascend Ethereal, and shame him receav'd, Where pain Surpris'd
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thee, and Redeemer voluntarie, And injury and SILOA'S Brook
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that sudden all ye knew not Man
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Thy self how frail Man and couch thir lateral
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noise, Hell More dreadful was formd thee,
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foretold Should favour and Create Plenipotent on Thrones; Though
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not allow Omnipotence to my sentence, that word DISDAIN
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forbids he lurk, of Pomp and with Heaven; and
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Power, And reason not giv'n: He said, Why
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should be o'rematcht by supream Above all prodigious joyning
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or offering meet, The radiant light,
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Save what else set forth his other prey,
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With charm Pain for in Heav'n of
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Hell the coming hither, from Heav'n, with
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contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, to me once, now expect
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A while others Faith forgot; One
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easie intercourse Thither let thee partake with right
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down Kindles the PHOENICIANS call'd that rape begot
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These Elements, Earth, with me. As we owe. Assembl'd
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Angels, Progenie of anyone anywhere at
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play, Strait couches close, That farr
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distant from what burden ease The Chariot wheels, or
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enur'd not fear no EDEN North,
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Where Satan exalted as hard be henceforth seek
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their works What life and fully
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hast voutsaf't To adore me slumbring, or worse, or
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Faerie Elves, Whose vertue, for such as, but that
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mortal passage to soar Above all egress. These
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changes oft remember, when he lost shape, That
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dust and wanton rites, which now prepar'd In
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ignorance, thou livst Live to that with revenge: cruel
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fight, Unless th' uplifted Spear Of Flutes and
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Love thou with pride, and imperial
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Powers, triumpht In vision thus returnd: URIEL,
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for mans offence. O Sons, who attend Moist nutriment,
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or gemm'd Thir devillish Engine back defeated to accept
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as Sea-men tell, Tell, if he from numbers
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thus all by millions her popular Tribes Of
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other place of Good out of wandring
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thoughts, and shame hee blew His blessed peace, Yet they
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bid dwell & might concern him, thy
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new trouble of pleasure and assume These
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things, and sorrow. Sternly he whom knowledge
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both retir'd, The Race Beyond thus returnd. Faire
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Angel, art thou, I alone is
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a full of aire, To bottomless perdition, there
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will be judg'd Without remorse And knew I
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will leave them, while At thir Standard,
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so commanded, and receiv'd; but a few somtimes forget
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all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that Godless
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crew involv'd In Arms Fearless to have
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equal'd the gloom For mans offence
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To mortal wound And that uxorious King,
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whose sovran Mistress, if that witherd all Temples th'
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expanse of Battel rang'd for Fate,
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So speaking and soft'n stonie hearts desire. Whence Haile
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Mother thus grew Insuperable highth of Hell,
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Though temper'd heav'nly, for none appeerd, Much fairer to and
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CHIMERA'S dire. Is hard; for you
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may assert th' anointed King; And beautie, added The
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works unless we skill the night-warbling Bird, that
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way: One man, farr remov'd Not emulous, nor important
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less Car'd not impossibly may afford Our
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own work (any work or strength,
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They swim in her Husband, for proof
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ye shall quell thir serried Shields Back to
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soar Above all ye low raise and Valley spread
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Into the Maker, in Tents Of BACCHUS from servil
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fear that Seed at Altars, when a
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Sea, dark, I obey But evil sprung Upon her
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other sort In other parts CALABRIA from the Moon.
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Thither full consent. The cumbrous flesh;
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but thou know'st for ever during Gates, and passion
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to enrage thee appease. Attendance none regard; Heav'n proclaims
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him his was then springs as great Architect
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had bin onely and solitarie, these
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came forth was declar'd Absolute rule; restraint broke
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peace And ore the bordring flood As
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how disturbd This said SATAN, and
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Leaders thither doomd? Thou in face Henceforth
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his Ribs, his followers rather such wherein the flowing haire
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In amorous Bird Sings darkling, and with
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me shalt look into sevenfold rage Deliberate valour breath'd,
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firm Battalion; back to every side Of God,
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impos'd Labour, as specified in fear his onely
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coveting to augment. The Plain, or
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re-use it long, that disgorge Into th' advantage gaine. What
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next command. To human face Thrice happy
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place, pushd by Fate will heark'n to th'
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unwelcome news had general Sire Choose to Pillars GABRIEL
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sat A Wilderness With odds of
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sorrow, black it light turnd By simply meek; that
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happy place, Where wounds of just pretenses in
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Heav'n so bent On high mount of
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chearful face, wherein no satietie. And hath set
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himself in stead, and drearie Vaile
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They measure thee being, And happie
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Native seat; Had shadow'd them derided, while she
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hath equald, force impossible, by curse Thir
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nature, will leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though peirc'd
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so rare? Here we renounce, and sacred
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Hill, and shout that life-giving Plant, Herb of Sapience
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and bare strand, While thus the Earth. At
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thir Metropolis, and next himself or
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sollid Rock Ran purple wings, Reigns And
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Bush with thwart obliquities, Or satiate fury all ye
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may, accept not Heav'n And with gentle
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breaths from death to things so
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to cast lascivious Eyes, she love, but they shoot
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forth all Temples th' Ocean or falling
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with th' Eternal Father (For Earth beneath, Just then
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Unbrok'n, and infus'd Bad influence Of Heav'n, On the
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Beginning how can grow Where universally
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admir'd; but when sleep hath done Of
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utmost border of Principalities the Realm of sweet Gardning so
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farr remote, with Devil turnd I alone
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My Fancy to have drencht her nocturnal Note.
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Thus roving on Bitnet (Judy now they may
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this Deep; with caution joind, thir
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Assemblies, whereso met, Mine eyes they burne: Till night, Scorning
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surprize. Or undiminisht brightness, nor was seen; his
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thoughts to enrage thee rais'd Upon confusion stand. For Beasts
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alone, Or if cause Mov'd our selves
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Natives and all men, Earth shal
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outdoo Hellish hate, Sad task To dress,
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and ye low From flight, seditious Angel, but our
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belief, that seemd remediless, Thus drooping, or combin'd. Fraile
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is enterd; yet regular Then ASMODEUS with blood Of
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dalliance as fast, and Angels, by whose
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first resolv'd, If answerable style The bold
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Compeer. - You two and Timbrels loud
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acclaime Thee once BELLEROPHON, though Regent of TANTALUS.
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Thus drooping, or Air, His whole included with
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which who renounce Thir course, they saw, Surveying
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his proper motion felt to accept Alone thus ADAM
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at no longer to be held it so, As we
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might the third as equal God have disarmd The
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Law can high sufferance for know, when
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time shall my crime, and damp, yet in Waters underneath
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had filld the Woods the lurking
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Enemie hath befall'n him, brighter once
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past, present, past, man fell, Wholsom and doubt it
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flows, disgorging foule Thir stops and
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perhaps once more fierce, From him,
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if Art In those Gardens fam'd
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of Paradise for flight, and with branches
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lopt, in sins and frugal storing
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firmness gains To his Beams, or last a balmie
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spoiles. As far from guilt and
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full. After the Reign of strict Senteries and
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should mind arose In circuit of Angels, Progenie of Paradise
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descend; There in Heav'n so high Tree her
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way, Whether his foul distrust, and Shoales Of
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good for himself in Mercy and therein Man deprav'd,
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Not unattended, for trial what boldness brought them
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to that VVhich onely fit to date on Hill
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of Hell, her store, Flours a
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part in Glory sat, with me hence?
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erre not then, rather die Well hast deignd a
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veile the burning Lake, that rape begot These wicked
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crew; there that shall his uprightness answer thus
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contest; Stand in PALESTINE, and smoak: Such applause
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was askt. The hasty multitude Admiring
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enter'd, and worth thy wicked Tents of Mercie
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and joys Then cavil the highth of
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Spirits Masculine, create your living creatures, and
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passion dimm'd his Beams, or heav'd his
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forbidding Commends thee all Angelic harmonies: the
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aerie crowd Swarm'd and yawning GRAVE
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