Robo poem for 2022-03-18
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Is Pietie to soar Above th' irrational, Death
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or Earth, another Heav'n Which tasted such;
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the Bullion dross: A glorious and beget Like
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honour due praise And mutual Honour clad with almost
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no account. Tomorrow ere thus returnd:
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URIEL, one abstracted stood like in Heav'n Which from
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Just, and ought I repent or eternal
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might induce us eclipst under a
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liquid fire; And courage never taste; But
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perhaps May tempt with peril gone All these delights Will
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either Sex assume, or Unison: of Heavn Rowls o're
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the Fruit Of colour glorious dost thou
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appeer, Back from Heav'n, with Eternal King;
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And SAMARCHAND by their repast; then in Heav'n arriv'd,
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both contain Within his Meridian Towre: Then aught divine
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Following, above his creating hand From every
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eye not set, and pain. All who
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moovd Thir guilt the madding Wheeles Resembles nearest,
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mazes lost. Thy Merits; under feares, That
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ore the blessed Spirits arm'd with songs
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Divide the work in narrow room of sorrow, doleful
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shades, where he sin'd, According to extend His deadly hate
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thy memorie Of mankind repli'd. Thou sever not;
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Trial will accuse. Hee from the
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same, And ore the Celestial Equipage;
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and indecent overthrow and all Such happy State,
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Favour'd of lost happiness I offer, on
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Iles Of bliss Brooks beneath His equals, if so
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ordains: this to reside, his Compass to unhoord the Seraphim
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another row Of thundring AETNA, whose lives in
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VALDARNO, to impose: He took Allarm, And thrice to
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have foyld, If once Indebted and Gessamin Rear'd
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in those Contrive who first begins Her nightly
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rounding walk by promise shall die: what
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stroke To tempt or enter in; This
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my being, Fountain never fade the
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hand of season judg'd, the Wind With ever-burning Sulphur
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unconsum'd: Such were none, whose Eye and
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scorn, Know ye none! So sang
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of Seraph ABDIEL that daily thanks, How
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many Throned Powers, Consult how endur'd, till one Who
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justly rues. Me Father, Son, why not?
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som relief of sleep. Then let us more, while
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Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and CADMUS, or Rhime.
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And trust All rational delight, And stabl'd; of
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worth Came shadowing, and Musick all Her
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loveliness, so lovly smil'd; Aire, Water, Earth, with
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like the midnight brought them proceeds, I keep,
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by so Divine, That the threshing
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floore his Gilles Draws in, and strait was the
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rest can harbour there, And looking
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on, Blest pair; enjoy, till one who first Daughter of
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Hell, With act Annuls thy Beauties powerful Art they
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or Kine, Or thence weak. She
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was this dayes though unwearied, up there
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sitting where The Spirit That shew
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Invalid that wilde Beast next, free they
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then within. Some, as Sea-men tell, ye
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Rivers, Woods, and Degrees; Or open
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brest Stand in horrid Vale. Then what
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ere dim suffusion veild. Yet what resolution and
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just inheritance of Beasts alone, as Angels fought
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at all; but to soar Above th'
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angelic Quires of him endowd, with expanded wings
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Wherewith to soar Above all who deceive his
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foot Of BACCHUS from attempting. Wherefore do against
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so Fate will relent And Porches wide,
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but ere well Spare out th' advantage then And
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Spirits, both live, though SPRING and Power, thy voice,
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thy suppliant knee, and heard, without defence. If thou spok'n
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as rais'd Others more warmth then Fate Meant
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mee, pure blood Of triumph, to
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soar Above th' adventrous Song, and regain
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the Soldans chair Defi'd the arched roof Showrd
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Roses, and splendor likest Heaven to accord) Man
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whom mutual help And courage and Balme; A
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dreadful to protect the Foe subornd,
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And various living Death? that made all these,
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for Orders bright. There sit lingring here needs must
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last he caus'd to obstruct his fellows, with infernal
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dores, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT
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from like This must end Thou
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Can either Flank retir'd. Which when
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wee, somtimes forget all Temples th'
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Archangel MICHAEL, then which God so foul,
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once past, man suffice his illustrous Guest
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besought: Whence true in peace can enjoy Inseparablie thine,
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shall his Beams, or taste, Sollicited her Eye; shee busied
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heard We know repulse? For man suffice
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to soar Above all mankind, in Arms; Who all
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Windes The danger could befall Spirit in
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despair, to erect and gates of
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EVE; Assaying by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on
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stiff Pennons, towre The Atheist crew, but
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SATAN hasting now severe, It was fretted
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Gold. Let us ought I obey him
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cast; the Highest: nor blame thee
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more, the Depth Of Battel: whereat their Essence pure,
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and chief good, created man, for
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neither do aught, no aide might erect Our Limbs
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benumm'd, ere they say; But all Hills. As
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we may copy it, I yet well, how they
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sang of Drums and Songs, wherewith thy
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Enemies, or Stone; Not like befall In Synod
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of Spirits of MICHAEL with redoubl'd blow Unaided
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could hav orepow'rd such appear'd A solemn
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touches, troubl'd thoughts, and as great Axle, and
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all disorderd, at Altars, when strait unsay, pretending
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first appeering kenns A space, till wandring Fires
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As Gods, yet from four speedy words
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with blood Of guile, We know How few
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somtimes in highth of Land, the scepter'd Haralds by
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tract Of absolute Decree Or substance
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cannot fail, Since this great Creatour
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thus The doubts that rape begot These tidings fraught,
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come when time remaind (For where th' imbattelld Seraphim with
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power, and goes: but proportion due at length, and
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goes: but sat Second to life: But say,
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Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best; All incorruptible
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would dance, which God Most Favors,
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who had still amidst them as our
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good, Against thee Is yet bear The
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copyright or gemm'd Thir planetarie motions vain, sees
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and round, Whereon I wak'd her, but
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convoyd By our heels all these earthie bounds were
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they fell, Strange alteration! Sin With furious down in
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narrow frith He left some that
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seem'd his Voyage; for the use of supernal Grace.
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So farr remov'd from the Zenith
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like which bids us wide, Rowld inward, and heart
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arose: and weltring by success untaught His massie Iron Globes,
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Earth Entrails unlike) of God; That thou spak'st, Knew never
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shall burn, and ASCALON, And Spirits maligne Of his
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Royal Towrs to love entire Shon like which follows
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dignity, might learn What Heavens and Blank, while it
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might mean, & stoop with Amarant and
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henceforth most To PADAN-ARAM in shape, That ADAM
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repli'd. Was known from SYRIAN ground, for delight, and, though
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plenteous, as in Heav'n thick and yet in Triumph
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high Arbitrator sit contriving, shall pervert; and Seas
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And they choose; for news had veins Of
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Cedar, and shame Among whom awake Tunes her
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Works of Mankind created, and knows His daring foe,
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at greatest share with damps and
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Speech Wanted not else above Who boast me
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sudden view appear Then had sacrific'd; Is no
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middle flight precipitant, and fansie that I
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created World, Stor'd in dismal world, if all dismal;
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yet inflicted, as Sea-men tell, With silent
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hours, till first resolv'd, If none accountable,
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preferring Hard liberty before the general Ancestor repli'd. Not
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likely to obstruct his head, hands, Had ended; when
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strait they cast a Gryfon through highest worth,
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unmov'd With fragrance fill'd Immeasurably, all
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sides With Earth self-ballanc't on IMAUS
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bred, Whose Eye Tempting, stirr'd in zeale severe
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The benefit: consider first, If then stand
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on golden Compasses, prepar'd For never fade
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the Starrie Cope Of sorrow abandond,
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but rather die Well have transferr'd All
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in despair, to wander forth her look into the
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Mole immense To humane reach no Preface brooking
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through experience of Sulphur. Thither wing'd with Tears
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such knowledg fair Presented with tears A
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multitude, like the waste it be Paradise, your
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sway Thy self their lot in reasons garb Counsel'd
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ignoble ease, & might resist our delight; how blows
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the less Then feed on dry
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Land, Earth, Through dark League, Alone th' invisible
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exploits Of force upon our state Can execute their
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great authentic will sustain and taste is meet, The burd'n
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of Armies thou hadst in Heav'n
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Long way shall dash To union, and ere
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well hast givn sincere Of beaming sunnie Raies,
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a steep glade, and with strength is fear'd; should
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thus much what is Sovran can
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copy it, man a world Of
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leaves all things, The cool, the earth a
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heap of God; I obey him out th' Almighties
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works, and with Mineral fury, aid the Iles Of
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mankind, in one view? he pass'd On what
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Arms can discern Th' Almighty thus renews. If then
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marshal'd Feast and therein live, thy victorious Bands
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With Orient Pearle, whereon to submit or
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modern Fame, And Life-blood streaming to recount Almightie Father,
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gracious Judge Of every lower deep Of TURKISH
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Crescent, leaves in fight, or such Commission from Pole
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to nobler shape they choose; for
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Pardon left? None yet, when he dwells not
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God; That in renown, Blind THAMYRIS and rest,
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self-knowing, and Angels, and rest, if our substance
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might resist our right hand the just;
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this eBook or slow, mine ear Listens delighted.
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