Robo poem for 2022-10-04
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So spake th' Earths Giant brood Of
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grateful Twilight gray Had ris'n or obtain a cloudie
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Van, On ADAM what highth thou fledst: if we
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procure not then Divine! Hail horrours, hail
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Infernal Pit shall his roam. Mean while yet
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tolerable, As Tribute large, where thir fond and shame
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to taste? Forbid who beheld so faire, Answering
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his ev'ning beam, that aspect, and
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call'd Satan, with us must cease To know, Which
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uttering thus consulting, thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, driv'n from
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new trouble Holy Rest; Heav'n by success
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untaught His best societie, And multiply a grateful
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Altars by might work Of SENNAAR, and Soule, Acknowledge
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him a signal blow Unaided could tell, ye find,
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who puts me is Sovran power, and distribution
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of Hell, or Den; Sporting the tongue, Somtimes in
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despair, to dwell; But opposite fair event
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In whirlwind; Hell resounded. Princes, Potentates,
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Warriers, the future evil strait the fee for
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God is worth ambition though great Expedition
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now has agreed to grow In place by John
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Milton Which God likes best, though unbeheld
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in dismal Den, Not sedulous by
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me, that Dominion like which way a
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shooting Starr interpos'd, Or much worse, By
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Judges first, who will create your
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spacious World, that lies Against our Nourisher, from the gray
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Had driven down The speediest of Beeves, faire EVE;
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Assaying by old som glimps of
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Battel, sunk before thy Son with like the aerie purposes,
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And Earth Shall dwell And render all
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one; how light, Directly towards the leaves all kindes (Though
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like shall dash Maturest Counsels: for
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the Fruit Of things could without
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leave me as built by those Who mourn'd
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in Heav'n receiv'd us Knee-tribute yet
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so hee alone, By that most offend Our
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own Heroic Race bin theirs, it so,
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yet beleeve, though I obey But perhaps Your
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change Befalln us dispossest, He views At once thir
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minds With large and Wedlock-bound To thy Belly
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groveling thou hast, though she spous'd about them
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breeding wings a Son with Envy and bear,
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Our doom; which God only, shee in it rose,
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And hard, much advanc't, Came like themselves
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defac't While time when AEGYPT with circling Years,
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And daily work as from donors in sighs began.
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Would utmost Pole. O shame To Idols through experience
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of Gold, In open brest Of Planets seven, and
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inclination or wades, or Air, Sagacious of
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Battel; and call judicious; I point of
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rest. Meanwhile To trample thee From each Van
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Pric forth Infinite goodness, grace And found Th' eternal
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course, both righteous Altar, Gods MESSIAH; those grim
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Glar'd lightning, and care To thee none.
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His inmost counsels different, or enur'd not restraind
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as Are brought: and Dreams have set the
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method you I return, and one call'd
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ASTARTE, Queen of works by chance with necessitie, Not
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onely Supream In the shape Spangl'd with ambitious
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aim Against a rout Through pride and pain
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Which when strait they but rackt with GORGONIAN terror
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through a Father first began in Plain in
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wanton Mask, or just opposite, A third as
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rais'd unite. Why but what resounds In
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posture have foyld, If our state he drew not
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ken Th' IONIAN Gods, Knowing both despoild,
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Made answer. Mightie Father, what ere thou
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attended gloriously from the Shield, Born through
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fire inflame with Arched neck Between Thee from
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beneath, Just o're the surging smoak
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and play In amorous play. To fickle Chance,
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and turn Metals of names, Places and woe,
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In tangles, and titles, and Cedar tops thir
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Rebellion, from the Name Shall grieve him,
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that have assur'd us; and thence how would
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know The burd'n of God Or multiplie, and
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ILIUM, on by som tumultuous cloud Instinct
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with wonder at no unbounded hope excluded
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thus, ADAM, not fear'd; should be
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deem'd Equal in foresight much gainsay, Nay, didst
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play In billows, leave askt Puts on Earth, another
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EVE, who I chiefly Thou mai'st not;
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To entertain our Hill. If counsels from the use of
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Flesh, or Sun-light, spread her who first, If Earth Had
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cast too large, Though but up
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in Triumph and shame Of all sides round With
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Man, whom BISERTA sent propitious, some other service
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as infinite, That SATAN except, none Of amorous
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dittyes all waste his courage never
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parted they, the East: still erect,
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with audible lament his Anointed universal ruin
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upon his Bowre. Thy presence, neerest to
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Pole to simplicitie Resigns her loveliest,
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and Tackle torn; Or Spirit in narrow vent
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appli'd To answer, and AFER black GEHENNA call'd,
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whose aid the goodliest Trees of Death! Must
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exercise and saw thir shapes and makes Wild
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work associated in Paradise Dying put off,
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and dreadful? Thither let us advise, and Timbrels
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loud acclaime Thee all temptation to
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unthrone we may bring, what me once, now went
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she cry'd, Against thee hath rebelld Against
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thee ordain'd In various Names, Needlest
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to burn His arrows, from such Thir Lords,
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leader to soar Above them in Glory obscur'd: As
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Man Extracted; for in VALDARNO, to no eare With gay
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Religions full of Warr, since he turnd. Nor stop
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th' unwelcome news had vanquisht. After these corporal
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nutriments perhaps When CHARLEMAIN with wanton ringlets
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wav'd As one Soule. Silence, and shame that bad
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act more potent Thrones, that shall
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call, But rather not, Necessitie and resound thee Would
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Thunder hath giv'n Over Fish that most just, Honour clad
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with somthing ill, or enmity fulfill. For had
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spred That might we may rain, and
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everie magnitude of Reason, and EDENS
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happie ill secur'd Long after thoughts Wast present,
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and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now got, Bad
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men wont to arrive The strict Senteries and
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sigh'd From CHAOS wilde, A triple-mounted row
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of Replacement or foul obscur'd: As
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one of this perfidious hatred they seemd well
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conceav'd of good, Where Scepter'd Angels
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held Gods, and vines Yeild Nectar,
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visiting each other promises and SATAN except,
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Created vast Sublunar Vault, And now Sea, Aire,
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Thy Trophies, which all ill become
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So smooths her yeilded, by themselves defac't
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While thus and thir being? Yet not impair'd,
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but he pursu'd With our Reason flow, Nightly
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I Sing Heav'nly stranger, who built
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By ancient Greece; and thou claim'st me are made
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request, and thee. If true, If mettal,
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part in DAN, Lik'ning his Face
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shalt Reigne Both Horse and what point of
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Knowledge so erroneous, thence in answer thus milde Zone
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his spread his Childern, all assaults Their childrens
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cries unheard, that sight, when bands Of immortalitie.
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So now Our pleasant veine Stood
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rul'd, stood So fit, so justly accuse Thir course
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Had bred; then the Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Powers, Consult
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how attempted best, condense or MAROCCO, or Freeze, with
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scorn. Think nothing from despair. In order, though
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brute, unable to win From Faction; for I travel
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this good from those dropping Gumms, That one
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tastes; Nor did ELY'S Sons, thy crime and enthrall'd
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By false And Man Dust of Man Restore us, in
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Heav'n Thus saying, Be strong, who
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beholds Cherube and betraid Him the first they or
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I my ofspring deare? It was formd
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thee, who hold them made both in evil
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only to my power had descri'd, To
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mortal tast Brought forth more Cease I saw, with
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vain exploit, though love is enterd; yet well,
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and laughs the Giant brood Of his new delight,
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wherein appear'd in any purpose to Souls In worst
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abuse, or past, Man Plac't in pairs thou
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op'nst Wisdoms way, or grav'n in that look'd a
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royalty fee or present, and Beast: when he held
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At Loopholes cut sheere, nor yet argument blasphemous,
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false Philosophie: Yet dazle Heav'n, once
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as one disarm'd, Of knowledge, planted by side
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Henceforth of blustring winds, which who knows
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how repair, How dearly to Reign: he turn'd
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by Cranes: though she trod. His secrets of it
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by forbidd'n means. This to inshrine BELUS
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or degree, of rage Of peaceful Counsels,
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and peace assur'd, without thy example, but his
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lustful Orgies he weighd, The Calf in PALESTINE, and
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vain, at Altars, when we to do. Be sure Of
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immortalitie. So wise to submit or
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Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, while Warr had ordain'd
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Nor had persisted happie, owe to impose: He
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effected; Man his prospect from forage drives to retain;
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they beheld, Thir station, Heav'n When the Empire
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now, which the leaves free To their
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misrule; And bring ye Waters he drew not of
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anyone in doubtful hue: but curses on
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NORWEGIAN hills, to my Ear. Produced by
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the Fact Is no reason; who Reigns,
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and force of joy in Glory above his
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neerest coast of Paradise to Die; How dies the
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deep thoughts; & soonest recompence it might
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so cleer, sharp'nd his commands above fould
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a horrid crew to submit or taste is lost, not
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guiltie Serpent, we are. Mean while, the voice of
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monstrous Serpent errour wandring, each Had rounded still to starve
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in every kind, that what ere fall'n
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on evil he assayd, and repossess their native home.
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What day Not BABILON, Nor motion or
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