Robo poem for 2023-01-18
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Whence and fully hast heard) Chariots of
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thy Guide And peril gone All but wish'd the worse
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appear More destroy'd then his flight Of
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night, Shine inward, and uncropt falls deceiv'd The
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VVorld: in Paradise for once known, but
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under Browes Of TURKISH Crescent, leaves free
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the stately tread, or mute, and faith ingag'd, Your feare
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Under spread Beneath what glorious and mount
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CASIUS old, Surer to accept as glowing Iron
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Globes, Earth At thy Divine the Son, seest
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How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as Sea-men tell, With
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ardor to regard, Must be weak is
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fram'd All Beasts among, Beholders rude,
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Guiltless of passion to fear we endur'd a Mount, while
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God by manly hung his Power Divine displeasure for
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by deceit and passion to hurt ye, and therein plac't
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or online at hand, Whom to provoke, or
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tedded Grass, Herb yeilding Seed, And looking down, devour
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For regal Ornament; the Sun: His
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danger, and with him exercis'd Heroic Song Henceforth, and
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sheer within thee miserable Beyond the power,
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when he sought Evil got, Bad men they keep
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out of us this of terrestrial Moon
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Sits Arbitress, and interrupt can fall, o'rewhelm'd
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With what command Shall yeild them by
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Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon celestial Sign Portentous held
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thir pregnant causes mixt Among the
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weaker seek; So sung of mankind, in Ice
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Thir Brood as chief; among the rest or destroy
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ye none! So seem'd A pomp Supream, And
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starrie Host, and shame to irksom
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night; methought less Then when he who fill'd All
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human pair, yee behold Eastward to perfet while
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her numberd such Vertue answerd frowning stern. Not long,
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and faded splendor likest Heaven to shame Cast
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forth Spontaneous, for much revolving, thus dissolv'd; and
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luxurie. Th' ascent they recoild affraid
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At last unfould The Monster moving onward move
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Thir distance and Will rule; restraint broke from thee,
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Author unsuspect, Friendly to sight Took leave, and there might
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devise Like honour him Glorie may
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I sprung, And found by command, and careering Fires
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Ethereal, as Sea-men tell, Or Pilot of Bliss. Direct
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against Faith or shadie nook I adore. Gentle
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to assume, And ye right, the
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Adversarie thus much revolving, thus EVE, easily obeyd Innumerable. As
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is my Self have ensu'd, nor shall
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he judges it so, As one
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he surveys, and drearie Vaile They who into Heav'n
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so much advanc't, Came shadowing, and all Eternitie, dwelt
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happy State, which no unbounded hope relies.
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Fall'n Cherube, to soar Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus SATAN
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except, Who might have thir Rebellion, from Eternal purpose to
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officiate light prepar'd, The Enemie, though joynd In CHAOS,
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Ancestors of those From Mans effeminate slackness
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it fled Murmuring, and tends to submit or
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when a Son Of OREB, or
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worse Then Fables name unheard or mute, and breath'd
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immortal minds. Thus farr distant farr, winding
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with joynt Will Heard Of hazard
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all prodigious joyning or slack thir King, who have
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not slow, produc'd Like change of supernal Power. Will To
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sanctitie that time and ILIUM, on yon
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boyling cells prepar'd, That run By falsities and scalie
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Crocodile. At that flow'd Fast by steps
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to do aught, no cloud in cogitation
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deep. Glad to fall of as in VALDARNO, to
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pass the soul Of Flutes and therein
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set them breeding wings the Torturer;
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when Night A fairer Floure by using and blaspheam'd without
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redemption all Miracles, As many and
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grace With kisses pure: aside the beam; Which infinite
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Abyss And leave them, th' accus'd Serpent thus
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vile, the Tyranny of EDEN, shall
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dwell The Quarters hasted then they may, accept
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Alone the laws regulating charities and demurr Seis'd
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us, his Throne Forthwith his neerest Mate
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With Dart Strange horror and Carbuncle most
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excell, In six wings the rebel Host, Easing
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thir residence, And at random, as
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shee for thee, and Nights extended long they
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a third as fast, With loss it light
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Shine inward, and best fulfill His knowledge or not, and
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helmed heads between, and with Warriours mixt, Dissolvd on
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golden Sun guilds with ambitious to execute their
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portion set them aware themselves, and hollow; though
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Heavens To noble then whom follow? thou driv'n me;
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Woman is left, Now lately what Land,
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the meanest, some inferiour Angel, I turnd, Admonisht
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by Day, Which from SYRIAN ground, under
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feares, That space of thee, What inward part in
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dismal hiss returnd as onely disagree Of his throne.
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What fury yield it seems: Which they recoild
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affraid At which to each inward part stood Their
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childrens cries unheard, that lead Safest and passion dimm'd
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his fatal Dart Shook, but half to
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carry hence; and Omnipotent to drouze,
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Charm'd with most irregular they chew, and
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bear, Our frailtie and joy Sparkl'd in that way
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they serve ungovern'd appetite, more awful reverence
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prone; and LIBYAN JOVE, or th' Impereal Throne
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To basest things. Revenge, deceiv'd The sound his Powers
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And thought Death into the Thunderers aime
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Your bodies made fast Threw forth, th' AEGAEAN
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Ile: thus much advanc't, We warr, if
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ye judg'd, or any agent or
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Heaven: Thither, if unforbid thou art, & might
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well this be, we shall bruise Expect to tell
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Of victorie; deeds worse confounded; and bid
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dwell on mee for flight, None seconded,
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as infinite, That Glorie to part
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sinister from life; But from like that
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peopl'd highest Hills: then conglob'd Like Night,
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her rural labours crown As through experience taught the
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Quires the Aerie Knights, and Omnipotent From AURAN
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Eastward to all; with fairest this King) Amply
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have a copy it, which yonder Gates? through
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mid air: So strictly, but cast
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Like those infernal dregs Adverse to
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know, That brought him appeas'd All,
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and hunger both, his Foe Envying our pleasant labour,
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to my day Honourd by success untaught His
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words his former vain things joy, able
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to speak thou, SATAN, whose stol'n Fruit Divine,
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Fair couple, linkt in perpetual inrodes to
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Death last, him ordain'd: then fallible,
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it be our Ancestor repli'd. What fury
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thus high, Wherein true source Of GABRIEL fought,
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And durable; and enthrall'd By our trial, when
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ambrosial fragrance after light turnd thither-ward
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in Triumph and Dale of Warr,
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the fruit, and lyes Bordering on Bitnet (Judy
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now Shot upward Man Restore us, and
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with grasped arm's Clash'd on NORWEGIAN hills,
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to submit or TREBISOND, Or down The Hell Draw
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after wretched Life much, by fight, the dust and
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drearie Vaile They therefore as other two and pain, where
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Earth twice ten paces huge two-handed
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sway Brandisht aloft Fly o're dale his loines
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and CYTHEREA'S Son; On duty, sleeping
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found deadly; he sits High and punishment:
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henceforth not seem To dwell, Not uninvented that,
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which plenteously The rising with perfidious hatred they choose
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Arm'd with uplifted Spear Of right,
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a tuft of Man, Or ambush from pain
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up call'd The more came from him His
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troubl'd waves, There in degree, of each divided and
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indecent overthrow and tend Plant, in narrow
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search of other Creatures; yet free, what follie
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overthrew, And starrie flock, allur'd The
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Mother of SION, thron'd Between the pretious bane. And
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tresses hid: he heal'd; for one intense, the
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dust conglobing from whose portion set Our
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Heav'nly Powers, Hear all by deeds Fearless,
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endanger'd Heav'ns basis, bring Taste after
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some the Thunder stor'd, And Warr so
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foule Ingendring with mate For I yeilded, by these
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that shall finde thee foretold, Foretold so besides Of wrauth
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Impendent, raging Fire Hath Omnipresence) and AUTUMN thwarts the
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flood Of CHAOS and interrupt his only
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this universal shout Of Mans First Father, t'
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whom thus overjoy'd, O Spirit, zealous, as in any
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other service hard. What when it forth: at
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command, and Shields in her Daughters EVE. Under
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spred Both waking or a numerous Host.
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Hee Heav'n Ill for Dayes, and
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upright heart Of PANDEMONIUM, Citie GERYONS Sons
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Came like desire, In the Spear. From
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imposition of truth; who hold my intended first,
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who not Die, perhaps no longer scrowle, Whose
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higher intellectual food, and mercy shewn On duty, sleeping found
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desolate; for the Tempter, and build
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His Trumpet, heard attentive, and breach Disloyal
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breaks his perswasive accent thus renews.
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If true, If an authoritative edition in
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part, to submit or detach or enur'd not lost;
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Attonement for Fruit she deserts thee of one
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anothers arms and food alike with
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ARCADIAN Pipe, And from outward calme, Artificer of
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Truce; IRIS all assaults Their surest signal, they
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durst defie th' irreverent Son belov'd, Son foreseeing spake.
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Deliverer from liveless to perfet good
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still assure: though by doom of Life, nor the
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Sun: His Eye of death invented? or turn
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not soon devour For Gods, or Love, then
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mistrust, but th' accus'd Serpent wise, Since URIEL once
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as next and Rose, Or Altar to know, and call'd
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Satan, with like which methinks I obey him hung
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not, Necessitie and Hell trembled as our
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thoughts come to tell him who moovd Thir freedom,
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they seem: And now Stream, and malice, to
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sleep thou sit the outside bare
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Stands on us down Thus
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