Robo poem for 2021-09-08
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GABRIEL, thou shad'st The first Parents, or size
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Assume, as Sea-men tell, With loss of
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Cherubim Forth issu'd, brandishing his Created
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in strength, Not of Woman: Virgin
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seed, By the Night, Or substance clos'd Not farr
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off; then silent circumspection unespi'd. Now shaves with ambitious
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mind Knew not; To bottomless perdition, there
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to simplicitie Resigns her taste, Tasting
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concoct, digest, assimilate, And leave Thee what
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chance, what we resist. If then his
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breath her Grave, Of Dulcet Symphonies and
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faithful Leader, next, free choice, With me equally; nor can
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discover wide ETHIOPIAN to watch On th' Ocean
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smiles. So high Noon amid the Bullion dross: A
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death to all; but that word
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DISDAIN forbids thy punishment ordain'd, Author unsuspect, Friendly to strive,
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no thought Of God made right, the
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Heav'nly forme Incapable of remove, Save what sin for who
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attend Moist nutriment, or say, Seems
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wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best; All hope reviv'd. Th' IONIAN
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Gods, Not burd'nd Nature, less'n or BACTRIAN Sophi from
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that NYSEIAN Ile Girt with horror
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chill Ran Nectar, though many Throned
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Powers, For prospect, what sin in PALESTINE, and might
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Extort from the highest, for thou mine: to
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celebrate his fall, And o're the Den By LEO
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and Cherubim In tangles, and sweet
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As some immediate Warr, Caught in Idol-worship; O
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now fli'st thou? whom thus divinely brought, wher
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found, How all Heaven long reach then, nor studious, higher
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Argument portraid, The brandisht Sword of Beasts, whom
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hast thou Visit'st my Almightie Arme, Uplifted spurns
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the use On high rais'd me
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absolutely not set, and Flocks are
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set, With tract Of hard Mov'd
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our Joy upraise In sweet repast, permitting
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him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels turne ascanse The Devil met
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of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and rather
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die perhaps, and therein Man deprav'd, Not unattended,
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for whom now came URIEL, one intended
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first, who forbids to declare Thy
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words, that spinning sleeps At thir hinges great Furnace
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flam'd, yet hath honour'd thee, ADAM, I resolv'd
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With Flaming Cherubim, and circumscrib'd thir
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lot Anough is punish't; whence they lik'd,
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and Wisdom in Bands With singed bottom turn'd
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On bold adventure then created like
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thy plaint. So threatn'd hee, as bound the
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Brook that our days may express how farr his
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purple Grape, and official Project Gutenberg is life the
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new broiles: Be it without guide, half on
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Bitnet (Judy now Of easie intercourse pass
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the Brute, Whose Eye the God or immediate stroak; but
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neither self-condemning And took thir Ears, while Warr he sees,
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while each kinde, and laughs the Silvan Scene, and therein
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or fronted Brigads form. As we must end?
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Can give Laws. Whereto with wandring vanitie, when time
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when her bestial Gods; and Thunder,
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and wine. Witness the execration; so thick a Flame,
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Which GABRIEL to taste? Forbid who at
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Sea cover'd from the surging waves,
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There wanted yet remain, Till thickest fight,
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who since, Baptiz'd or Goat dropping Gumms,
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That ore Hill retir'd, To labour
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hard One who since, Baptiz'd or rare, With
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Men not divulge His eye On bold adventure then this
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license and gave Signs, imprest On
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Man himself collected, while revive; Abandon fear;
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each In temper Hero's old possession,
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and Night, Circle his guide she hasted,
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and with refection sweet Converse with vain designe New
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BABELS, had general safety best merits) from the
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flowing haire In vision thus grew Of
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ADAM, well stor'd with Sewers, and trouble, which
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op'nd from the penaltie impos'd, beware, And Heav'n move
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Harmonious numbers; as beseems Thy praise Shall dwell
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In bold And courage never since humane life, and
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gates of Heaven, or Years damp horror shot forth
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From Heav'n, and condemns to dewy Eve,
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A Spirit, that fixt Thir sinful
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state, condition is, and all kindes (Though like which
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thou hee, she preferr'd Before thy
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appetite, that so lov'd, thy other still
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receivd, but thou op'nst Wisdoms way, besides
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Mine eare less expressing The Ground whence light her being,
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And guard by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet
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(Judy now Shot upward Man Clad
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to that Hill a dream! Thus
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said, when ambrosial Night Her mischief, and henceforth
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most High, If counsels from beneath,
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Down the voice From Loves due time and night;
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About them ordain His mightie frame, how glorious to
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meet him high with grief behold, Transported touch;
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here Thus drooping, or guile Gave thee,
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And mutual amitie so faire. Round
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through each armed Files Darts in Festivals
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of Death; so long ere dawne,
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Effect shall prove. Whence in fears and imbracing leand
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On desperat revenge, and Shoales Of beaming sunnie Raies,
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a frozen Continent Lies dark Illimitable Ocean
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circumfus'd, Thir Nature, she thus proceeded on these wilde
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Anarchie, so long to anyone anywhere at
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Altars, when their Creator, and involve,
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done Mayst ever praise hee Present) thus far
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remov'd The sequel each inferior; but
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by HERMES, she reserv'd, ADAM with
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swiftest wing, Escap't the Moons resplendent locks inwreath'd with
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hideous ruine and RHEA'S Son of Life. Nor I stand
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in ambiguous words, out-flew Millions of ye
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chos'n this more in Hell; When SATAN except,
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none communicable in pairs thou then known,
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who oft Bank the gloom For ever to front
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to spend, Quiet though mute; Unskilful with Gold,
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And never since hee To deepest
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Hell, And seems To claim in despair,
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to side Disparted CHAOS over which now
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concernes us it brought: and Darkness old, Fortunate
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Fields, And high overleap'd all on me sprung, Two
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of SYRIAN mode, whereon MESSIAH King MESSIAH,
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who single hast heark'nd to accept them; wilt bring
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forth The sound Of guile, We can endure
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Exile, or mute all Her gather'd now Stream, and Heav'nly
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love Thy Empire? easily outdone By the Summons high,
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Where Joy entire. Then due alike My Guide To
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all works behold Creation, and ILIUM, on by thee,
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and therein plant A Citie GERYONS Sons Came
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furious down Return fair Fruit, Blossoms and Shield,
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Born through experience of Fools, to appeer Hell
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Many a signal giv'n, Behold a full
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resplendence, Heir of UTHERS Son Of dauntless courage, and with
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Terrestrial Humor mixt Among thick-wov'n Arborets and resound
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His worshippers; he sought, May reap his Words interwove
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with difficulty or Suffering: but a cover'd
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from God said ADAM, at all;
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but that live: Nor the Mariner From
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th' expanse of Glory, whom mutual
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love, and blest MARIE, second multitude With hundreds and
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laugh; for Wealth and with Forrest
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wilde, Access deni'd; and Apathie, and hunger both,
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his Peerage fell To Death, and
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Hinde; Direct against thir lamentable lot,
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and force to soar Above th' Field, Or could
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not oft are outside of SYRIAN Damsels to
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thee Henceforth; my wisdom, and to
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whatever in narrow search of respiration to thee
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unblam'd? since fate In Nature here
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to attract Thy lingring, or footstep trace? For never see
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Black fire Into my hand Nothing
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imperfet by us in foresight much remit
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His peace, both Thou sever not; there
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plant A race of Peace, now he throws his
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darling Sons Of gastly smile, to
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donate. If chance Or chang'd at THEB'S and gates
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of mental sight, and with loud
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Through labour will weild These Feminine.
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For Man from numbers without their
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liveliest pledge Of guile, We mean
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of Reason, Loyal, Just, and Cherubim the perilous edge Of
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hazard in likeness of him; round self-rowl'd, His famine should
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most just; this heavie pace the prudent Crane Her
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fertil Banks Of hazard all Tongues, and
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Files Darts his loftie shades of light, And wilde, in
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PALESTINE, and drearie Vaile They summ'd thir sorrow
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forth, but hast'n to do they rag'd Against
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the deep Muse to incline his Chariot
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wheels, or SERAPIS thir being? Yet unconsum'd.
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Before him slope hills, to lose This inaccessible high
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To Person or will hear, if in mooned hornes
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Thir Glory unobscur'd, And be sure, To trample
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thee as this wilde Abyss, whose stol'n Fruit Divine,
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And this place foretold Should be, worthier canst
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redeeme, Thir Blossoms: with more duteous at that
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move Thir earthlie Charge: Of Fruit-trees
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overwoodie reachd too high jurisdiction, in
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daily flow From Hell I part,
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Since through highest Heav'n, in pleasant soile Wants
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not thou view'st as Night Related, and Dominions,
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Deities of Taste, Sight, Smell, Herbs, Fruits, &
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dance in Ice Thir ruine! Hence
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fills All Power, thy Beautie adore for
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access to all, advis'd: That Warr Irreconcileable, to theirs
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it forth: at eeve In heart and
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arbitrary punishment all prodigious joyning or hate, To
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undergo eternal might resist that equal which
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cause Among innumerable hands lopt off
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from forth all that it from among
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Thousand Celestial vertues rising, will Prayer, Or singular
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and arbitrary punishment Inflicted? and gates of
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this universal Dame. There sit not, till one
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Man till men since by me, for flight, or
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immediate stroak; but long and stray'd so dearly to
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impose: He sought access, but still a Monument
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Of BAALIM and with Mineral fury,
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aid the tenor of change. He lookd,
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and passion dimm'd his radiant Seat worthier canst
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redeeme, Thir specious
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