Robo poem for 2023-01-31
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Whence in PALESTINE, and throughout Dominion exercise us this
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terrene: at ease, and therein live, all Her loss,
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and Sleep on, with like In the Lee, while
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enjoy In sorrow unfeign'd, and after known
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thy Manhood also not her being, Discursive, or Chrysolite, Rubie
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or direct Our Maker wise, And ore
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the crumbl'd Earth arriv'd Who came Attended:
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all Temples th' Angelic Guards, awaiting who
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fill I therefore as mire: for Orders and shame
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him round As after showers, Nor what the
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mind arose In a fresh Gales
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and shifts her haire; Two of Hell, a solemn
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and waves orethrew BUSIRIS and laughs the gorgeous East
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with Soul. Male he calld The
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Victors will. To mortal passage wide, but
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far with Angel warr, provok't; our
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Ancestor. Whence ADAM repli'd. O that most excell, In
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Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. Whence rushing
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he views in Prose or Spring, or JUNO'S,
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that brightest shine. 1.F.4. Except for much
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advanc't, We know In Bowre or Sun-light, spread Wide
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Anarchie of Seraph stood, Scarce thus and
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fierie Tempest shall die Well pleas'd Then cavil the first,
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who deceive his thoughts, from God,
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Saviour sent, Or come On high praise, and
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Reason in Heav'n perhaps, and Fruits, & shade Lost sight
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Of these I fail where God attributes
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to leave Thy coming, and with ballanc't Aire
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Of Spirits he caus'd to submit or no, who
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fill'd each hand with perplexing thoughts To know of
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bad were sweet. But chiefly Thou mai'st not; To
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mortal things, parted they, who fill
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With Honey stor'd: the smiling Morn crownd Above
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the watrie throng, And sowd with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and
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walk'd, or HYDASPES, INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX
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the hornes Thir wandring mazes lost. From off From skirt
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to wander here, it said, thus
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expell'd to dewy Eve, A Summers day, Which
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marrd his stubborn patience as the Myrrhe, & might
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offer now Shot paralel to tell Of
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Mans Nature, bowing lowly down as him
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Power supream? And be Lights on IMAUS bred, Whose Seed
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is their heads as ours) Have nothing
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sway'd, To mortal Men with Lance) Thick as in
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VALDARNO, to be thou; since easier conquest now
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retir'd to defend Her fertil Woomb
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teem'd at Altars, when AEGYPT with clamors compasst
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round this Gate None arguing stood, innumerable false, unmov'd,
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Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His equals, if unforbid thou alone?
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wherefore thou attended gloriously from the yoke Of Truth,
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Wisdome, Sanctitude severe and distributing Project Gutenberg
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is easie charge, and unmake, For happy State, Seem
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twilight here; and inferr Thee I
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appeer? shall heave the Bliss through middle shoare
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Of high behest from the banisht from Sin
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With victory, triumphing through this sweet interchange Of Wisdom, what
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else Superiour and set thy command Transgrest, inevitably
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thou turnd at play, Strait knew would I will
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occasion want, nor touch; here Varied
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his admonishment Receave with Spirit, thy gift of
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mankind, in hell Precedence, none, But hiss returnd by Millions
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of Life must forgoe, To mortal eare Then such
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magnificence Equal'd in bands Of BELIAL, flown
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with gentle sway, And O thou fought at
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all; but familiar grown, larger then Farr off this
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transient World, thou appeer, and with me rise,
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and smoak: Such night from the wide womb
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was plaine, A broad and call'd
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RAPHAEL, the Creator, and breath'st defiance toward the Night-Hag,
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when lest action markt: about the Rites
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perform'd. His beams, Now lately Heaven To trample thee
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Paradise? thus distemperd brest, And scarce recovering heart, repli'd.
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Indeed? hath planted here to my Realm, beyond The
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doubt, repli'd. Thou following cryd'st aloud, Then
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temporal death brought me sprung, As one for yet
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unbegot. Childless thou then none to fall Down from
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one vertuous touch Th' Apostat in Glory
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obscur'd: As likeliest by absolute Decree Of immortalitie.
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So thick array Of four main Streams,
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Runs divers, wandring thoughts, and labour hee;
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But all Her state Can never had quelld His fierceness
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of this gloom; the NORWAY foam The supple
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knee? ye flow, Nightly I for open sight
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Of rusling Leaves, but dim, shall need,
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or worse, in spacious wound Pass'd
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frequent, and Omnipotent From mee expung'd and
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revenge enlarg'd, By center, or access to
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deepest Hell, Not by surprize To mortal tast
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Brought her SATAN hasting now for deliverance what is
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more, is no ill, or refuge;
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and therein live, thy revolt, yet bear The
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Men Delighted, and praeeminence, yet what resolution and
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where, if in every Vertue, in regal sound Of
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hazard all shall Reign thou Out of
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matchless King: Ah wherefore! he fell, Wholsom
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and Omnipotent to execute their Generals Voyce they hear
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me loath to soar Above all Temples th'
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Angelic Vertue should abound, Some wandring poor, but
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when contrary to tell His Thunder made common
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to succeed. To vice industrious, but of Heav'n;
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or som new Creation might well ended frowning,
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and plac'd in SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy
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now scatterd spirits warme, Temper or federal
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tax returns. Royalty payments should ye? by
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types And honour these, DEUCALION and shame that may
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for harvest waving to Hell. With Man, for Fate,
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So spake th' incensed Deitie, and therein plant eyes,
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Whom hunger drives to destruction doom'd. How comes
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unearn'd. Hast thou art likeliest by turns the Oracle
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of men wont to soar Above all was
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good; I behold, Into th' Olympian Games or
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allarme, To reign Over this mighty
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Standard; that her loveliest, and Man, did
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thy God, are those colourd plume sprinkl'd
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with sighs began. There dwell And
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wandring ore the Snake and showr
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the lawless Tyrant, who therefore foild, Who
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now faild speech be our hazard, labour then
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they prosper'd, bud and kept for that
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shall he took From innocence. So glister'd the earth
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the Rites Establisht, such Created, much the Moon.
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Thither came in despair, to that care perhaps
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Might have mixt. Not unamaz'd she trod. His
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Ministers of Divine displeasure for bringing forth, th' ORPHEAN
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Lyre I that Sea-beast LEVIATHAN, which tends
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to drive them to my Song Henceforth, and receiv'd;
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but Life Still unfulfill'd with mighty Stature; on
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then sought it might well understand; Not equal,
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as in flaming Seraph rowling in cogitation
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deep. Glad to offend, discount'nanc't both, from the unsleeping
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eyes That riches of Pomp and
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destin'd to do the Prophets old. Then time
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when those dropping Gumms, That which in mooned hornes Thir
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motion, arms and bring obedience left To honour and
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bound the winde, Blown up amain; and add wings,
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and such Gardning labour hee; But
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have lost Went all Natures works knowledge within the
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gloom For such imbodied force, as
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this mighty Standard; that beare rule, No inconvenient Diet,
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nor Rain produce new delight, and Tackle torn;
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Or solace dear; Part arable and lyes
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the Air, and deeds Timorous and worldly
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strong, live there, Feilds and all Temples th' expanse
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of EVE; Assaying by despair: His whole have sought
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thee thus, To heav'nly Records now shall faile to
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be obey'd, Yet Lords and dangers, heard no cloud
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Of contumacie will presume: Whence rushing he judg'd
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Without remorse And higher foe. Space that out fit
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Love for keeping watch Our own loss
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of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or deceive, or for
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God onely, that shall thee was ADAM repli'd.
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To transubstantiate; what erst was cleard, and
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wanton rites, which God Rais'd impious
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Crest Sat on NORWEGIAN hills, to doom severe,
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And as Gods; and give thee thither rowl'd
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Diurnal, or Faerie Elves, Whose Eye so foul,
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once O're Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. Thither came
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from Heav'n, Hell-doomd, and wearie him slope their
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defence who last, then ADAM interpos'd. O Parent, these
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sons of friendship hostil deeds well Seem twilight
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sheds On me rais'd, and proud ambitious mind
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By our proper shape, That day spring, under
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ground the Cherube, to impose: He sate, as
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chief; among the STYGIAN Councel thus was
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false Arch-Angel, great laughter at play, Strait couches close,
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That is, and smoak: Such disproportions, with everlasting
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groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages infinite. Thee Native forme.
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What doubtful hue: but feard By us
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advise, Yet thus, though sorrowing, yet never
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to do with Envy and Shades, Fit to submit
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or possess A cloudy Chair ascending pile Stood fixt
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mind And while Universal PAN Knit with
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GORGONIAN terror guards The flowry Dale of chearful face,
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wherein thou art, & Gold, erect His stature as
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many cells prepar'd, That day, As wee, somtimes in
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Heav'n to none. His praise, and blaines must
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follow, to deceive his Spies About them
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made new praise. With borders long dimension drew, disdaining
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flight, This Garden, planted by command Single, is
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Hell; And various Idols through Darkness, and
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wide the Fould: Or satiate fury yield it comes.
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Ascend to confirm his Zeal of Morn.
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Now drew they sit contriving, shall surprise The guiltie
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all assaults Their Altars by Judy
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Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on the backside of nimble
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feet submissive Charms Smil'd with me once, with inspection
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deep Tract of disobedience, till then Hell:
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so endur'd, till then, which wee
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Instead shall
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