Robo poem for 2022-02-14
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So various, not so, And banisht from
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utter loss, That run through EDEN thus cri'd. All
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taste nor Stream divides The stedfast Empyrean
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where he late to describe whose face I receav'd,
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to do the Name Shall yeild us, and despaire,
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Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and foule.
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But yet they made amends; thou seest, and what
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shape Spangl'd with contracted brow. GABRIEL, thou being naked, miserable.
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Let it away or footstep trace?
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For not praise ye find, seise Possession of whose Bark
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by Day, The STYGIAN flood of torrent fire
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inflame with me then conglob'd Like his, or sought;
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for neither vainly hope resolve To wait
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The Spirit Improv'd by frugal storing
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firmness gains To wait The western point,
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where we may only sign That neer
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the Mine. Mean while at eeve In Forrest huge two-handed
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sway (Which is fair, But perhaps a God only,
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shee for delight, Mankind drownd, before Dwelt
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from Councel call'd him thou me. To learn
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What justly gives me sudden hand was
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plaine, A dreadful thing approach Darkness old,
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Surer to submit or fixt mind Foreseeing or
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false Arch-Angel, great laughter at full, but
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th' Arch-Enemy, And let loose the sum
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of Palm-tree pleasantest to view Bristl'd with its
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original darkness cover. But mark what seem'd either;
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black wings Displayd on ground against
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Law given the gloom were such
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distempers foule Ingendring with farr remov'd where stood and
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flaming Warriours, Arme He never will soon contemnd, Since
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MICHAEL bid turn aside the wide Within, her
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bestial train, Forthwith upright wing Now
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at which EVE rightly nam'd, but cast
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a fiery CHAOS heard Commanding loud. The
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coming of Bliss through experience of impious rage, Perhaps
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our own. Cease I embold'nd spake, th' assault And
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sweet Are yet beleeve, though wisdom all, Though distant
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to death, or drink, and with thoughts Had
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so fulfill, To prayer, repentance, and barricado'd
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strong; But now reignes Full Counsel must weepe.
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If chance with delight; how thir excess, that lives,
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And ACCARON and die: what doubt it may reach
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or inspires Vernal delight till her peerless
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light, Angels, Progenie of bliss; By som
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more lift thir port Not dead,
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as may finde Mine eare Of
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order, quit The Records now Thy lingring, or morrows
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next Mate, Both Heav'n thick a foe: and praise, The
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bent thir languisht hope excluded thus, To grateful
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Memorie: thou Shouldst propagat, already infinite; And banisht
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crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in populous North Of Law,
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thou desir'st, And shook his service then Heav'n
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proclaims him call'd Seas: And ore the gray
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Dawn, and willing feet On what
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place (If ancient World erroneous to
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spring: Him follow'd her, as in
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Man. With some Island, oft, and
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learn by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon
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dreary Plain, In shew more? Here, happie places
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thou thy utmost Pole. O Son, in
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ECBATAN sate, And HERONAIM, SEONS Realm, beyond The copyright
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royalties. Special rules, set the Hall
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(Though like defence, to comprehend? Yet Innocence and consultation
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will of Use part loss of rest. Meanwhile the
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shape how Can by some unkindness meets, the
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lost Went all in VALDARNO, to view far disperst
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In blissful field, I held it rag'd, in
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All, and Caves; but to give Laws.
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Wonder not inglorious, though Regent of MICHAEL
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smote, and Flour. Our overture, and Nights and considerate Pride
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Waiting revenge: cruel his business be sure, To which yonder
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blazing Cressets fed and Thunder, Wing'd with
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expanded wings a passage broad, And higher of Warr, O
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Hell! what state under pendant world, whom
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now To tempt or holy Rest
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Through pride and circling Canopie Of leaves
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all Sun-shine, as my Glorie in Front unfould;
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That Shepherd, who unseen Wing to that
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spinning sleeps or past, man created like which befel, and
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Orcs, and count'nance too fast Threw forth,
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till cramm'd and consultation will lend,
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Though single. From thir Petition, then
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first Morn. Now lately what the womb of rest, Wide
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interrupt his realme, & found repose; and
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mixt Among those To waste Her
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doing what sin in spight of JORDANS flood a
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second root shall need, hee sat Alone,
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but all sides, from the radiant URIM,
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work in VALDARNO, to subdue Thy sweet
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Grove of paine fled we apply, And horrors
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hast made? So farr less and refin'd By
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sudden flour'd Op'ning thir fall Erroneous, there thou with
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words attention gaind, & shade Imbround the Thicket Danck
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or rare, With Men to soar Above th'
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Angelical to supply Perhaps hath overcome in
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hell Precedence, none, whose shape they win the evil
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Spirit to Worlds first Day and vain,
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Matter to look Bound on mee returnd, Pleas'd it
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suffice his Almighty Throne Alternate all assaults Their great tidings,
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which they fill'd, and when BELLONA storms, With
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blackest Insurrection, to gaine Companion dear,
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and all enjoyments else in every
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leaf and dying rise, and free Acceptance
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of Night A vast TYPHOEAN rage Can never parted
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from Wilderness With Regal Power As
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might see hath Hell Fear to
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serve? Whence ADAM sore The thickest shade: Those
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happie Garden God All-seeing, or conceal'd, Which had
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said, as shall dwell and am secret;
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Heav'n were those bad Expect to do or
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worse felt That curld MEGAERA: greedily
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they sang of good which having pass'd At his
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final remedie, and outrage: And cannot and condemns
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to soar Above all equality with contradiction durst
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without leave so stupid grown, larger
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then Warr he first that word which
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they towards EDEN planted; EDEN strive; nor
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EVE Thus foil'd thir lost lay intrans't Thick
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swarm'd, both Good or thee, Divine resemblance, and
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laughs the verge of Heav'ns That run Potable Gold,
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Fruit let each Tree Whereof hee admiring
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more then his gate And force as Gods,
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how repair, How due! yet well, in despite and
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love. I relate, Erring; for ever
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sunk down, Glad to save, Dwels in
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Orbes hath wrought our will but
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favour'd more desire To our afflicted Powers
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went Obsequious, Heav'n Star-pav'd. Mean while Universal reproach,
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far and drearie Vaile They found, If
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he celebrated rode begin, Or Longitude,
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where silence be worse way round the charge imploy'd
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Hee fled, not my Decree: But in
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Thunder stor'd, And all Temples th' incestuous Mother of Glorie
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or was partial, but peace And various
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motions, or indirectly from mercy shewn
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On every Plant, but well joynd, inelegant,
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but narrower bound his followers rather darkness by
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these puissant Legions, whose mortal change Varie
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to die Deserted, then ours to
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enrage thee might know; At first, not dreaded
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worse then said ADAM, soon they shoot forth peculiar
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grace diffus'd, so endur'd, till toucht With branches
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overgrown, That fought at one entrance up with pain
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Distorted, all assaults Their surest signal, they who will
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disclose. If patiently thy strength, what proof enough such
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wherein hee the Cause Of public moment,
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in Heav'n receiv'd us alone bent he
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arriv'd; in Heav'n call'd and shame To
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vice industrious, but thou what ere this
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Paradise, or present, fearing guiltie all
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Sun-shine, as of dim thine and sorceries abus'd
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Fanatic EGYPT from the RUSSIAN Foe Tempting
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affronts us down thir fame in whose operation brings
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with blood arise Like instrument to aspire. Henceforth
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of future dayes work divinely wrought,
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Ascended, at once the Waves be yet shon Substantially
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express'd, and dangers, heard Celestial Ardors, where he scape
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into Gods Eternal Justice Divine not MOSES,
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though bare backs upheave Into my help, became
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thy perfet formes, Limb'd and right
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against thee, and thee. Henceforth I flie above
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the body or JUNO'S, that faire
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field MICHAEL smote, and with tears must be
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less dread then stand On my walk; And
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ore the state he pass'd From amidst Thick as
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hee To mee relate To visit thee; we may arise
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Like MAIA'S son he breathd. Is fortitude
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Of lustful Orgies he so last reasoning this text
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should enthrall to resigne, and tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights In
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time To gratifie my Soul hath
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none among the bounds And ore the hot
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Hell Fame is my punisher; therefore shall be, and,
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as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the space. Though not flowing,
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And publish Grace descending tread of Gold,
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His Generation, and EVE separate, circling Canopie Of
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TURKISH Crescent, leaves More of Harp
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Had been Thy terms of Good out
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of darkness! full Project Gutenberg EBook of
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Life Our tended Plants, & there
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still amidst the Soldans chair Defi'd the Starr
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Of CERES all Heaven charitie so
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sad, the Field, In counterview within Wheele within
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thir earthly notion can extenuate thee? hast made?
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So said I, methought, alone they list into the
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PLEIADES before us tend thir stings Then
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shall remain, Till Pride Waiting revenge: cruel
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Serpent: him prime Of onset ended
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frowning, and call'd him, such distempers foule Ingendring with
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Starr's Numerous, and Leaders thither or
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unenforceability of Sulphur. Thither his guileful Tempter thus first he
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with Diamond and thighes with linked
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Thunderbolts Transfix us ought good Angels kenn he
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sees, Or solace dear; Part hidd'n veins of
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Cherubim
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