Robo poem for 2024-03-08
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Whom we may then free. But perhaps
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am who appeer'd From th' ascent they stand,
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a Son Th' ethereal People ran, they fierce
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reflux on a thousand Leagues awry Into th'
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Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal Spring. Not dead, who
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sitst above Light, And bringing forth, th'
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offensive Mountain, built by tract Of Deitie
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I espi'd thee, and scarce up silent stream, LETHE
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the Night her rural mound the
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Books of Sulphur. Thither wing'd with pride, and
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passion tost, Thus repuls'd, our heads;
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while thus declar'd. So dear delight and taught to
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add Faith, and Mirtle, and all Her dowr th'
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Antagonist of flight, and colour glorious brightness where
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they chew, and shame Cast forth all
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Temples th' acclaime: Forth issu'd, brandishing his returne perhaps with
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mischievous revenge, immortal bliss, thence To
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know, That Golden Wire Temper'd soft windes Brought
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forth in utmost ARNON. Nor will is
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its original darkness enters, till one individual
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work some worse rape. These lulld by Angels, can
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they stood Among sweet influence: less
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assur'd, without end; but rather merits praise ye
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right, Sufficient to dissolve: When SATAN who chose
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The bold Wont ride forth, without their lot
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in Heav'n for fight; The visual ray To
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offend, discount'nanc't both, the waste, resembling Air,
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Sagacious of Spirits immortal bliss, among
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fresh dews and clos'd Not unperceav'd of Innocence,
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of God; That never pass'd, and Rose, Or
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with ambitious aim Against unequal work
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and would loose, Though to rase
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Som Capital City, or adverse: so highly,
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to soar Above th' inventer miss'd, so
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much odds, while over his thoughts, to
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drag thee resolvd, Rather then since borne With easie
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yoke Of Ewe or ATLAS unremov'd: His
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famine should spout her being, And oft Thy
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face, wherein no worse destroy'd: what is
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low creeping, he created World Hung high
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as Sea-men tell, With Incense, when AEGYPT with
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ambitious to consult About thir mouths the
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deed; Shee first Hell prescrib'd; So all associated files
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of men: Both waking or anguish, and ILIUM, on
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Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and URIEL
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and Seas And look serene, And higher Orbes.
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The matin Trumpet Sung: in Heav'n
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arriv'd, Wafted by furious down as food, and therein set
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the sway Brandisht aloft shading the Center pois'd, when to
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incline his Creation, or worse, leave attempt, and
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trouble, which their Train With loath'd intrusion, and
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pain From thir various influence Of
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knowledge and tedious pomp Supream, And at
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command, and motion? and scorching heate? These in
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him out of Orders, and Confusion worse
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would loose, Though hard thou accept as Lords of
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joy Sole in Heav'n Gate there to deceive
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his fraud to side That cuts us dispossest,
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He look'd, & divulg'd, if what rage
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let dry Land: nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, Armd
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with revenge On EUROPE with Angel Guest besought: RAPHAEL,
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said unanimous, and deep, Themselves invaded next, free ROME,
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where choice regard he oppos'd; and where, if no
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better pleas'd they onely Tree of
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monstrous size, TITANIAN, or taste, Food not
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seem At Eev'n, And hourly conceiv'd A
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fairer Floure by angry JOVE usurping
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reign'd: these A generation, whom mutual wing Scout farr
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the dores Op'ning thir might; The fruitless hours,
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till supplanted down they slept Fannd with
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order'd Spear Of BACCHUS from PELORUS,
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or do his Birth Abortive, monstrous, all
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Temples th' affaires of Angels, for death.
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Say Heav'nly Muse, that breath'd immortal
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bliss, condemn'd In SEXTILE, SQUARE, and by
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Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on warr in me
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up in her Heav'nly Essences Can sort, So down
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To adore the roofe Of day-spring, and therein
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Each thing naught left, in hue, as great expectation
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held thee; so should we might know;
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if within them; and pain and smoak:
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Such were Brass Three Iron, three folds
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were falling, and with neighbouring Hills,
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so dear, and opprest and reverence I revisit
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safe, And judg'd Sufficient penaltie, why
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else inflict do him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels
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contented with richest hand Unbarr'd the
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Precincts of MICHAEL from Heav'n, above Who
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having pass'd At which through experience of sorrow, doleful
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shades, where so cleer, sharp'nd his wit and
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paine. Far otherwise th' adopted Clusters, to realities yeild
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us, and fear and laughs the gracious signs of like
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which no near each thir powerful Word the
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reception of Men: And forth all hope
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relies. Of unessential Night Related, and Shield, Born through
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dire Calamity, What in stature, motion, but
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to pervert that Heav'nly Maker, though alone they
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sang of glad that Sea-beast LEVIATHAN,
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which wee style Nor number, or Thicket
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past through him, life shall pervert; and Timbrels
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loud Their childrens cries unheard, that fell Rend
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up every leaf and indecent overthrow and as
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heard the rest entire Whose Bed is
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perfet formes, Limb'd and Ages of Battel; and
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require More hands lopt off his foes, thus
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held thee; be louder heard, without
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guide, half lost, should prevail and nobler birth
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Now lately what Revenge? the backside of this
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life, knowledge within Began to give care lost
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which cause Mov'd on dry Land that seem'd
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Above all Good or holy salutation us'd or enter
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none; nor from the tread us
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most, and all assaults Their surest signal, they
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like themselves ere dawne, Effect shall come,
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and hearts To wait The brandisht Sword
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of grace The clouded Majestie, at Even
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to works Created pure. But God on foot, Half
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yet shon, inimitable on a higher Argument Heroic built,
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though that fixt her Beauty and mount of
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things proceed, and infinite calamitie shall
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trust themselves defac't While other like, but
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only Son? What call'st thou me. To illuminate the
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Peace of Morning, Dew-drops, which declare
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unfeign'd Union of that tend these to
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Earth so with auxiliar Gods; and Band squared
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Regiment By shorter flight with disdain. These
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cowring low whom thus much the great
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receptacle Of sympathie and RHEA'S Son foreseeing
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spake. Why shouldst not receave, or no,
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for delight Both all things, Which had on.
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SATAN beheld in populous youth about his
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Word the Heav'nly Maker, and Goddess-like demeanour forth her
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stay, Rose, Or substance, gently mov'd on
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Earth shall grace Attends thee, foretold Should combat,
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and Dreams have mov'd; And Chrystall wall
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of Men, thy gay Legions under darkness round
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this day (For what sufferd, that alwayes with
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Mercie, as Evening: Cover me alike,
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it possible to tell, though in Heav'n Gate ascend,
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Bear his Sons, the Gulf between, and with accent
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thus distemperd brest, And tidings carrie
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to simplicitie Resigns her amorous Ditties, and pay
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him reverent, and work thou soughtst
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I was, what delight of thy dream, of God; I
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abide that Forbidden Tree, If better had return'd, for
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as fast bound. Thou also and wrought
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To mortal or Midnight Bal, Or
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hear'st thou canst no way shall befall In Serpent,
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that posteritie must down in disparitie The
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Monarch, and passion in VALDARNO, to soar Above th'
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approach of mankind under one Night alterne: and
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longing eye; Nor yet from beneath, Just men Among those
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male, These tidings carrie to whatever
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stands to describe whose Reason receives,
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and place testifies, and pleasure she sole
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delight, and gave to that wander and infinite
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Abyss the soul Of EGYPT marching, equal'd the Seraph fearless,
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nor end Have rais'd They heard, but favour'd more
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What day Of new flesh of exporting a sky.
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The better worse rape. These Elements,
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Earth, one seem'd Firm concord holds,
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unite thir actions oft In RHODOPE,
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where he wish'd, but misjoyning shapes, Which
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taught the melodie of Pomp and inferr Thee I my
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thoughts, and dejection and wine. Witness the change, and
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imperial Powers, Consult how long, though
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from beneath, Down sunk in sins
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Among the Majesty of Virgin Modestie, Her sacred Feast
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and Plaine, Soft-ebbing; nor appear'd in power. Shalt loose,
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Though all assaults Their great Luminarie Alooff the
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uprooted Hills Aereal Music charm To match with
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revenge: cruel expectation. Yet unconsum'd. Before all
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Sun-shine, as equal fear his reare, Circular
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base original, With Honey stor'd: the crude consistence, half
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Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, of SYRIAN
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Damsels to soar Above th' AEGAEAN Ile:
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thus contest; Stand readie to taste:
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Betwixt DAMIATA and shame To visit men on
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In narrow vent appli'd To know, and race of GABRIEL
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to complying with shaddowing Squadrons at highth began, and Cherubim
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Put forth unclouded Deitie; he rears from the fertil
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Woomb teem'd at which command thir Reeds Put
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forth rush'd in him surer barr His
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free From shadowie expiations weak, If not Beasts
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it long, Beyond th' ambrosial frutage bear,
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and shame obnoxious, and with Eyes I keep, by
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a Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, When thou beheldst
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The Inwards and Justice both, from outward
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libertie, who shouldst hope, the fiercest Spirit coming towards
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the watrie Labyrinth, whereof here Keep residence; if Malice
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should better fight, or Stone; Not
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only us'd For never ceasing bark'd With singed
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bottom all a Reed Stood like In
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various Idols through Heav'ns highth, bent (who could
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no change, Bestirs her Thou lead'st me, they
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sought: him perplext, where highest in opinion
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