Robo poem for 2020-10-12
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Of Mans Nature, less'n or Earth, Made answer. Mightie
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Father, gracious temper Hero's old possession, and them
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that swim th' Heroic then elsewhere seen, That
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with Justice, and MESSIAH, and lyes the Sun's decline
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arriv'd In the rest Mind us here condemn'd For
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high from pain To brute Image, there Leviathan
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Hugest of supernal Grace. So cheard he calld
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aloud. Effulgence of desire To mortal Men
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though I obey But mark what
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intends to soar Above them transverse ten
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thousand Demy-Gods on thee his Royal Towrs Of immortalitie.
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So farr distant farr, that crownst the Moon.
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Thither his wrath and pain From CANAAN, to
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lead where choice his Meridian Towre: Then Crown'd With
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Heav'nly fragrance filld the graceful and bliss, among
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th' Olympian Games or cries. O
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voice thou thy folly, and require As great
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River OB; Downward as yet unknown, The
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speediest of anyone in Heav'n perhaps, or might
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ye die. How have foyld, If Earth again
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provoke Our dayes of Hell fire had dipt in
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Section 3 below. There to realities yeild
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them before the harmony (What could without remorse
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The bottom all ere dawne, Effect shall need,
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God Extoll him not informidable, exempt us
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unforeseen, unthought of, know to accept Life Tri'd in
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such delay Of SATAN, and thighes with warme Earths
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habitant. And OPS, ere evil to Folly, as Sea-men
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tell, ye both. O Powers Essential Powers, Consult how
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faire, Thee to continue, and down, devour For
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many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Powers, where there inhabit,
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of Sea without number joind, thir
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confidence Under his Thunder made invisible, thus MAMMON
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spake. Deliverer from PELORUS, or have
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oreleapt these earthly by being Good, Farr differing from
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no watch and therein stand. For Treasures
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better had borne With dread they know. And
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corporeal to som new delight, The Femal Bee
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Sits Arbitress, and with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL,
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to whatever thing that flow'd Fast by proof of
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grace Attends thee, for sweetest his opiate Rod. Meanwhile
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ere now scatterd sedge Afloat, when
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they choose With violence or don Invincibly; but
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thou like this they relate, Erring; for as Hell, on
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golden Scales, yet from Eternal King Ride on high: from
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the river of sacred influence: less hideous orifice gap't
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on yon celestial light? Be good
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Upbraided none; nor missed the track
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Of Wiles, More grateful mind no mate For
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though darkness round This one, this advantage then
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prosperity Could merit more shall trust themselves I
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guess, Who from Heav'n, My obvious to appease, Kneel'd
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and with permission for they best his service
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as Celestial temper, massy, large Front thus renews.
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Onely begotten Son, seest How comes unearn'd.
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To mingle and bid her numberd such power,
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and blame lights on dust is Hell; When
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ADAM call'd. There oft his Pride Had
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gone All thy glorious and joy Tenderly wept,
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much delights Will For happy interview
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both when earnestly they come, And through
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experience of Pomp and therein stand. For
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contemplation hee Departing gave way And horrors hast
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born Universal Orb Through dark intent ITHURIEL and drearie
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Vaile They saw good will excite Fallacious hope, And
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courage on golden seat's, Frequent and therein Man
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as ours) Have nothing high: such wherein appear'd
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in Heav'n that fixt mind And towards the
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Streets, then verifi'd When from unrest, and gaines
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Of immortalitie. So eagerly the Day is
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perfectly accurate. No less on IMAUS bred,
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Whose waves his new Lands, Rivers mouth Cast
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forth all one; how chang'd in Heav'n he
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drew Aire, Fire, Or transmigration, as
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inmate guests Too well aim'd, Since Reason receives, and dangers,
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heard his head, hands, Had not
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slow, Yet to sight, With kisses pure: aside the
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same Of despicable foes. With conquest, and Seed
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time was, by despair: His righteous
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and DEATH, and SILOA'S Brook that witherd all
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at command, and obedience paid, When CHARLEMAIN
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with feats of Virgin Modestie, Her Temple right against
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the Dragon, put Enmitie, and Patriarchs
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us'd. Here for on Bitnet (Judy now Advanc't
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in any and Towrs, Concours in Triumph
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and free choice, With featherd soon ended foul exorbitant desires;
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Upheld by right onward came down, Glad to
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dance, To good Angels many Myriads fall'n, Father
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first awak't, and knows that Crystalline
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Sphear whose Orb Of Trumpets loud and when contrary to
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that sight Of EDEN easiest recompence, and favour, him
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praise, and each, how good, how forgoe Father
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first appeering kenns A goodly prospect high, with me
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once, and dying to prosper, and all
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these his repulse. Thus drooping, or Golden Altar
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to my Spheare Of LUCIFER, (so call
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him now, avant; Flie to fight Unspeakable; for all
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assaults Their great Creator in Squadrons and hostile din,
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That fought The dismal house of this abhorred
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deep within Orb, Incredible how chang'd
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His loss; but hid metallic Ore, The Rebel
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Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, If this agreement. If our proper
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shape, That ore the Tempter: on my
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womb That dar'st, though till one Realm of SATAN,
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hee over ADRIA to come sole
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fugitive. At Loopholes cut sheere, nor in
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BASAN, to descrie Communicating Male he sees Of unoriginal NIGHT
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and mad demeanour, then let there
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crucifi'd, Never to watch that shall he brings, and
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therein set them admonish, and discernes, Irrational till on
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IMAUS bred, Whose wanton rites, which
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intermits Our inward part in other half enclose him
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perplext, where Flocks are to give thee, EVE
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Ministerd naked, hid among Thousand Celestial Tabernacles,
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where eldest of God; I love him, and
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bickering flame, Which to prepare) your Rational; and
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Mother, and slothful: yet unfound most adhere, Hee in
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lieu of knowledge, planted by GRECIAN Kings,
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Or high Capital Of miserie, the Bliss through each In
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various Names, Needlest to seek Thir Phalanx, and her bounds,
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till Eevning coole when to thee, stranger, who
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rebelld Against the dire Calamity, What when first
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began. They open field, unsafe within him, such
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joy Ambition findes. But thou sawst so
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well suite with wound, But rather pure Devotion
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paid? All now without redemption, without his foreknowing
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can your living Soule: And Life-blood
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streaming to receave Thy sleep Was moving toward the
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scope Of Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd
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Within them Lawes; part in Heav'n.
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What next Her Temperance over his more valid Armes,
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and passion in Heav'n. And ACCARON and
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indignation SATAN beheld And fly, ere well
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could I attaine, ADAM, freely available for proof
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could Spring So saying, through fierce contention brought along
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Innumerable force with aught but favour'd more
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violent, when least of any be,
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and, as Sea-men tell, With the Grove Of
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King besmear'd with clamors compasst round Were always
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downward bent, admiring more hope Of ravenous Fowl, Fish,
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Beast, Fish, and wilde, That shook throughout,
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All incorruptible would not worst, Thus roving on yon dreary
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Plain, and fast Threw forth, without number still longer
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in member, joynt, or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or
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access Without my present object His laughter at first
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matter where, if warr in Hell, Not knowing
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us this ample rode, whose sovran Mistress, if within
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me of bliss; By thee, vile as great
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Enemie All seasons and blaines must earne My
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hold Betwixt ASTREA and coast of anyone in Man
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fall'n. Yet live Forever, to bear; those
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bright Rayes, jocond Music charm To
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stop th' AONIAN Mount, or but so
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numerous Host, nor Rain Impetuous, and renowne, Who boast
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me up with wings dispense Native perfumes, and
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understanding sound, Due search Of choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from
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such murmur filld Th' excepted Tree, That
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riches of sorrow, doleful shades, where thou EVE? now
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they stood and shot with like which
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their sounding shields the Waters; what compulsion and pardon
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beg'd, with heed least from the East: still Divine displeasure
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for the Constellations on Bitnet (Judy now learn
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By whom th' applause Through dark
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Ended rejoycing in fears and divine or grav'n in
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Arms, and strange: Two onely, that bide In Gems
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and breath'd The utmost Isles. All things
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now reignes Full soon drew nigh, and
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dangers, heard VVith foot towards CANAAN win. 1.E.8.
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You pay The bold words thir God only, shee and
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equally enjoying God-like food? The sooner for
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change Worth waiting, since easier to
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hope excluded thus, how to relate of
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Sulphur. Thither came and pain Through the Horizontal
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misty Air she sat as vain Against thy
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blood arise Like Quivers hung, and
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with eyes, One Man Whom we to sit
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secure Sat like which way Tore through experience of
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Fate, Or tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields, Helmes, and somwhere
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nigh founderd on golden shafts imploies, here onely, or
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Spring, or falling, and fro, or Goat dropping
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Gumms, That little know Second to augment Thir motion, but
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sav'd who beheld With warbl'd Hymns, and LAHOR of EVE:
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Fair couple, linkt in fears and with small)
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then no middle darkness durst defie th' acknowledg'd
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Power no cloud Of SOLOMON he spake. Why
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ask Which nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie
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for who late fled To reign is large.
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So farr Down from BENGALA, or without Night,
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Or Nature faild
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