Robo poem for 2021-09-01
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Is greater power with dispatchful looks in despair,
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to impose: He who erst was
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spred That with scalding thurst and Peace, now In
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horror; from the Arke a devillish Engine back defeated to
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donate royalties under the Streets of
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him, in narrow room of Life much,
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by Vision led th' AZORES; whither have offended.
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Fall'n Cherube, to that swim th' Ocean
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stream: Him followed his Grave Spoild Principalities
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the terms of unctuous vapor, which command Single,
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is low Bow'd down alone bent On EUROPE with
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Iron Gates, Harmonious numbers; as I go This Patriarch
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of murmuring waters generated by old Night:
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first Wise to do practically ANYTHING with
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calumnious Art could charm Pain for food discern'd
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Or if I will leave Thee
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I think how repair, How busied, in narrow frith
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He hasted, and boon, Thus hee hath
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chief might I forewarn thee, Natures
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Womb, that more potent Rod to him bound the
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arched roof Pendant by command the Sanctities
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of Sulphur. Thither came down alone From
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thy Sister, and ZEPHON bold, Far round Ninefold,
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and all Her former state Can either side, Or
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satiate fury O Teacher, some Island, oft,
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they on our revolt, Unnam'd in mortal foe,
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By the glorie excel, But follow
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the Threatner, look down thir doings, them derided,
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while o're the whole success: When the Golden
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Scepter which nigh burst forth: at
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Eevn, Unsuckt of vernal bloom, but straight I saw
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till first wraught the chains Heapt on
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Bitnet (Judy now what reserve forbids he fear'd,
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How many precious drops Ten thousand decencies that hill
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and thine; it fled Murmuring, and full.
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After his transcendent glory as are to submit or
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loquacious, thus milde Zone his Sign Portentous
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held Gods, yet haply mention may praise;
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Yee that Crystalline Sphear whose day entire, Invulnerable,
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impenitrably arm'd: Such proof, Hell-born, not for Heroic
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name deserving. But call judicious; I
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decree, Mine eare Then this Universe.
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Look downward Fish: yet then form'd within
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himself can doe, Our dayes lot Anough is
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fear'd; should with featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain.
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Like those banks, where and full.
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After these Ingredients pierc'd, Eevn hee inlie rag'd, in
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sight, With act may serve whom mutual
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guilt and Gold: So thick shade, Cedar, and amaz'd, No
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rest: this shape Comes thundring noise reside,
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his other whose verdure clad Thir earnest
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so on Bitnet (Judy now prevailes, a while, but
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a universal Dame. So were come And
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should enthrall to highth recal high Arbitrator sit secure In
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things thine To perish rather, swallowd
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up rose The Pledge of Glory, whom
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thir Orisons, each To shame him reverent, and RHEA'S
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Son foreseeing spake. Why hast voutsaf't To
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my bosom smelling Gourd, up here confin'd, Inhabitant
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of sorrow abandond, but double smart. This tumult, and
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shame Cast forth all reply, Prudent,
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least had filld Th' Eternal Spring. Not then
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they fell To pieces, and ELLOPS drear,
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And silence thir play. To mortal foe,
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and vast, a round Environ'd wins his fellows,
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with deep Hoarce murmur filld with TOBIAS,
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and Virgin of Pomp and sent from SYRIAN ground,
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under our attempt, which God shall not
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th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, till
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inundation rise Above them round As RAPHAEL, the
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boughes Yeilded with more might pass Occasion which
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both righteous Cause, And God-like imitated
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State; deep Tract of Light. Aire, Thy Legions to
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soar Above th' event is undefil'd and Omnipotent Decree,
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The second, which we heard with vain and
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kills thir Ears, while he sent from Eternitie,
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dwelt happy seat supream; from whose
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day Cast forth all articulat sound; If he
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scrupl'd not charge thou then if within
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And CUSCO in hateful Office here and freedom
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both live, till one seem'd to descry new
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delight, That space was giv'n, th' expanse of
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anyone anywhere at Altars, when looking forth to rase
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Som Capital City, or any volunteers and continu'd reaching
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to soar Above his precept so
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call that thou art, Childless thou saw'st
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Intended to her eare shall his
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business be th' obdurate pride that creeps Luxuriant;
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mean suiters, nor turnd By Angels plac'd)
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Thir tendance gladlier shall rouse thir pregnant
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causes mixt Among sweet repast; then mistrust, but rather
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why in PALESTINE, and false glitter: All hast
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Th' inclement skie; Save he fear'd, How
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first Men call'd him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels
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prevalent Encamping, plac'd Within Hell No inconvenient Diet, nor think,
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though matchless, and proclaimd MESSIAH his Laire
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the Devil damn'd Loose all Power I
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nam'd BEELZEBUB. To mortal dint, Save
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with words cloath'd in youthful dalliance had
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night from SYRIAN Damsels to prevent such Object
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to reside, his spread wings, or Faerie Elves, Whose higher
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intellectual being, Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or enemie, but
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for ill our faults, and took
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with vast room Throng numberless, like the Reign thou
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grieve him, that brightest Seraphim confus'd, at which no
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middle flight intends to avail though firm, for
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him, plung'd in yon Lake where
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Rivers that fail not on. SATAN
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fell, whom thir infant blood, to do all
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hues, Roses, and Warr. Each quarter, to
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fall. Henceforth an Iland salt and gave utterance flow.
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When first by me returns Of
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CERES all reponsbility that shall them
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better hold my ofspring of doubt, with thoughts
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To Hill, and chiefly to do I send thee
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reconcil'd, at first broke loose? is low raise
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and pain Distorted, all Temples th'
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upright with vain Against a proud ambitious aim
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Against God Of Arts that seat
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hath bin Enamour'd at all; but
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well could suspect our delight; how have besides,
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vaulted with hideous ruine and servilly ador'd The
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present, Let none Of leaves in despair, to make a
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Coronet his Bow and smoak: Such resting found alike
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with hostile Arms can doe, Our second fate: Mee
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who desir'st The radiant Shrine, Dark with deeds Timorous
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and Flour. Our prison scap't, Gravely in PALESTINE,
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and therein Each hour What though his head, hands,
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Had shadow'd them not for the
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Hall Of sympathie and knows how chang'd
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with Mankind with discontinuous wound shall powre Raine day upon
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us, and condemns to finde thee how repair,
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How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as mire: for speed On
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his State Mine eare ever rest shall hence now
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has a different Motions move? Which gives to return
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With fresh dews and with revenge:
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cruel his thy perfection, one Who
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since our faithful Love accurst, that possesse
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Earth, who disobeyes Mee though legal
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works. This my Decree, The just
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obedience left some other Powers therein dwell. For
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those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not approacht
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by Ceremonies Cannot well Seem twilight here;
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and ugly Serpents; horror seise thee, be blest, Whom to
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my Song Of mighty Combatants, that word which you
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comply with matters hid, now a
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black Air she ascends above her Caves, Lakes, Fens,
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Bogs, Dens, and her sake, thou took'st
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With gay Carnation, Purple, azure and flour,
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Glistring with open Warr in Glory witherd. As we
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perhaps Astronomer in Aire In the barren leaves. Them
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in any Defect you a dream! Thus in
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Heav'n Rise on som Orator renound In a moment;
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CHAOS farr his borrow'd Gold to violate
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sleep, and all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that
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which plain inferrs Thy making, while her purple
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to feel! If care of one Guilt, one moment, in
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best gift, my latest Image: I will
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place thy words All generations, and all these
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hallowd the better seems A race of
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God; I alwayes thee, Whither shall resign,
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when he led me thus, behold Approaching gross to
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impose: He held it shew'd In signal giv'n,
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th' approach of Spirits when ambrosial smell
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So spake th' Angelical to tell
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how, if this way shall his suggestion taught, That
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excellence he drew not as long See
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farr his thoughts, and gave way And season him
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As joyn'd That so steers, and
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passion tost, Thus high strength, Not noxious,
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but rackt with liberty, who hold my
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stay? Thee next upstood NISROC, of Warr,
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O Woods, O then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr
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som new Names, till wantonness and fuming rills,
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AURORA's fan, Lightly dispers'd, and Torneament; then certaine
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times the fiercest Spirit more Is Center,
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and therein or spread Beneath GIBRALTAR
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to partake with adverse Upon thy utmost reach The
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Planet guilds with like which tacks a Creature can
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grow In eevn or Goat dropping Gumms,
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That one use, obscure wing Tormented
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all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that
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advantage all, Greatness of thee, Natures concord holds, unite
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thir broad circumference Hung on Bitnet (Judy now thy view
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far as day as the compliant
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boughes Yeilded with ambitious aim Against such wherein no
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cloud Made happie: him cast; the ambient light. These
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cowring low As we may express them
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rose From off From entrance or have
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lost happiness entire. Then Hells Concave,
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and place of mankind, in and false; nor
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shall be, all Temples th' irreverent
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Son whose rich Trees loaden with heavie curse, SERVANT
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OF REPLACEMENT OR BREACH OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG
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EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF THIS
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PROJECT
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