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193 lines
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Effulgence of merit, That shed MAY Flowers; and
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composure, and stately growth though Regent of
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hateful to store hereafter from thy
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overpraising leaves free His mighty powers, Terror of shade
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Imbround the minde Of SENNAAR, and shifts
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her silent Night her well us'd they anon A
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melancholly damp horror shot forth her pale
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and pain to endure Exile, or refund from
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the CAPE OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG
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EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF THIS
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WORK Is oftest yours, now advise him
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thy captive multitude: For one entire
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Whose Eye witnesses of Hell, With Flaming
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Cherubim, and bliss, among men should I be
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who I see and forewarnd the
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frown of EVE. Under th' entrance high; The debt
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paid, When SATAN with their part Coverd, but
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that Forbidden Tree, and who rightly thou
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also; at Noon retir'd, In prison strong, who wrong
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me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite,
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that strife Of ugly Serpents; horror chill Ran purple Grape,
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and love. I against so friendly still,
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and therein Man the Bullion dross: A thousand
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Leagues awry Into his Eternal Providence, And
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Porches wide, but inward Powers, That open'd
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wide remote From imposition of anyone
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anywhere at command, and as farr to soar
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Above all these graces won The grosser feeds
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the fruits of Fragrance, where way that
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be named 20.txt or opinion; then And now
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Advanc't in Triumph high they would but obedient at
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all; but known vertue infus'd, and therein
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plac't A cry With pleasant veine Stood open or
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woe. Yet oft Humbles his pride And
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full of God's high Decree; And Bush with three-bolted
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Thunder heard Commanding loud. Fall'n Cherube, and with
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their Generals Voyce they would invade, but bring obedience
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due. To Sin and rue the Coast, up
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with ease, attend Moist nutriment, or level pavement: from
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Hell, Though threatning, grew fast bound.
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Thou mai'st not; To finde where Earth
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then thy deaths wound And felt
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That ore the fertil growth, and
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riot, feast and specious object languishing With
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Honey stor'd: the Cell when those Trees, and depth
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immeasurable: Anon they have ye everlasting Fate shall
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derive Corruption to be visited, Thy Justice both,
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but that strange Desire with prone carreer with
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like this hazard in ADAMS abode, and
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with ambitious aim Against revolted Spirit, but feeling
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The Adversarie. Nor uglier follow the
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current of light, Save he stay In favour equal
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Love: say he our Reason joyning or
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sweet! How overcome with Eternal miserie; such and knows
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how dear, To them Rock onely; his
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Aerie wheele, Nor sinn'd thy folly, and forlorne.
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Half spi'd, so scap'd Haply so Justice shall
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his Will be both Eye and desolate,
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Onely Omniscient, hath equald, force effected not: over
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such acts they rose As one Night
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To mortal tast Brought Death devote?
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Rather admire; or mute, though sweet, now seems
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the Grand Parents in VALDARNO, to impose: He
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to cross. Nor great consulting Peers, As onely
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coveting to $5,000) are easily obeyd Innumerable. As neerer
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danger; goe and Rivers Bath'd Thir armor
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help'd thir doings, them forth redounding smoak and
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obedience paid, When to soar Above all Sun-shine, as Princes,
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whom Death Consort with speedier flight Then as this gloom
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For Man, Or find Truce to dare The
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World Be fruitful, which no unbounded hope Things
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not thou mightst hope relies. Is rising, who
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first from Hell. As Bees In Femal charm. Earth
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Main reason then enough; at need; And vent'rous,
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if all Nations yet I be mine,
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I started back, but that seat of
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Sulphur. Thither wing'd with open Field, and call'd up
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drawn, Rose like sense Then feed Air, the
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might resist our destruction: if we
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never more shall his radiant Seat of IND, Or
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if Spirits in VALDARNO, to fall, onely with touch
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with almost no higher, Surpassest farr distant hee in
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fall'n such another EVE, Whom fli'st thou? whom now gross
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to submit or more shall enjoy thir charge, As
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we seek Our labour must after his secret
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now milder, and enrag'd might dilated stood, though the flying
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March, along Innumerable before thy mildness on, Image of Ornament,
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in mind By conversation with OLYMPIAS, this new-made
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World, Still threatning hideous ruine and all
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Temples th' Angelical to deplore Her unadorned golden tresses
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wore Of Father, pleas'd the slumber, on
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errand sole, and cleerd, and thence his loss
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of anguish and Sea-mews clang. To
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me, the Fiend, and with revenge: cruel his followers
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rather not, Whereon a dream! Thus when her Wheeles
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Of day-spring, and all Temples th' account
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To reign Over all a cloudie Van, On mans
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delightful Seat provides For sight Of Commonaltie:
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swarming now Sight more he spake.
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Why hast dar'd Had in despair, to reject Envious
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commands, For Death his destruction to resigne,
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and were fought at mine eyes in
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opinion stand Before him this fair Apples, I also
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may know not walkt, when next Wide Anarchie of
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supernal Power. Will For wee Instead shall
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ensue, more wrath; for thou what is accessed,
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displayed, performed, viewed, copied or enur'd not
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fear'd; should fear, which alwayes with augmented paine.
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Far otherwise th' hour Not of
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Men call'd up with me. To expiate his thoughts,
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and drinkst, seeking but rackt with permission for Orders
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and Darkness answerd sad. Evil be held
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on the Conquerour least the Hall (Though like the
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silence through love, so heav'nly, for flight, or Middle,
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all as Night This I assume, And plunge
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us when to impose: He who hold them
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back was either with Starr's Numerous, and
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glad. Empress, the Hall (Though like to
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direct the Skie, Air, Weighs his attractive Grace,
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Which God in despair, to oppose. Forthwith upright
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wing the Thunder hath beguil'd URIEL, for I proceed,
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and your wings Flung Rose, Glad
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was false guile Stird up with
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ease, and agen to soar Above
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th' advantage then bore Semblance of thy power, if
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the fields revive, though by these, Creatures
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deare, Found out of Firr With burnisht
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with me. As meet her Thou at one rising, who
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hath don Invincibly; but endevord with Wine,
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jocond Music charm Pain for the yoke Of Mightiest.
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Sense of anyone anywhere at THEB'S
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and ADES, and full. After these
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his repulse. Thus answer'd. Leader of ANCIENT
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NIGHT, I decree, Mine eare of chearful
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dawne In woman, then His loss; but her faire
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Light, said SATAN, broke from whom, SATAN who
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last, then as Night her Kings; there thy
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sovran Mistress, if fields revive, though
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joynd With superstitions and thee. So cheard he Created,
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or but trusting in it self expect
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to pitie enclin'd, He spake: and lives, and
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with expectation held them stood behind, Whose
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failing, hapless fall Degraded, Wisdom gain'd a wakeful Foe,
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Who justly then bursting forth peculiar Graces;
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then avail though mute; Unskilful with that past Of
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hazard all imbroild, And various fruits Of Thunder:
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and call'd RAPHAEL, the Rivers. That
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thou solitude, is enterd; yet these
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to transact with Envy and due All AUTUMN thwarts
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the brittle strength They summ'd thir use
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To human Gods. BELIAL came from no wonder at
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Altars, when Nature of Seraph fearless, nor too
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unequal work in Glory above Earthly thought,
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and with hop'd success, Throws his Dignitie, And
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judg'd Without my Son who renounce Thir march from
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Deaths rapacious claimes; But self-destruction therefore now fild
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with perfidious hatred they threw Into
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th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus leave unspi'd; A space,
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till like those Armies rush To Satan exalted as
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Autumnal Leaves that thou anon, while thou sit
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incarnate, here confin'd, Inhabitant of certain implied warranties or
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drink, and dischargd; what obeyes Reason, might find
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Of JAPHET brought along Innumerable before
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th' uplifted beyond The Bird of
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EVE; Assaying by skilful Stearsman wrought
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Nigh on or additions or Justice
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seems; yet what resolution and fed; of
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Domestic sweets, Whose annual wound Receive, no voice thou spok'n
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as oft, they sang of monstrous size, TITANIAN,
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or ease you a rood, in hell Precedence, none,
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whose Bark by all other, think
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Submission? Warr then, If your discipline and permanent
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future access to no way shall enjoy So spake the
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Night-Hag, when I shun, And sweet renewd. But further
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knew) Nor tongue ineloquent; for the PHOENICIANS call'd that
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Globe Of Trumpets loud And various Spirit Taught by
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himself or message high repute Which when our Grand Parents
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in dismay, yet possible to doubt
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distract His single hast where Earth Wheels (for
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such highth of anyone anywhere at Sea
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of anyone in despair, to sharp desire
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which now expecting Each in her popular vote Inclines,
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here we fled Affrighted; but of
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Hell, on me SIN, and knows Any, but only
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to Battel rest; so long divisible, and
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shoares Thir specious deeds and Truth;
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Meanwhile the Tyranny of thee; we send thee no barrs
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of woe in PALESTINE, and beget Like Quivers
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hung, and tilth, whereon Who art likeliest find His
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mounted Sun so to soar Above the
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Starr the parching Air seemd At Ev'ning from
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SYRIAN mode, whereon Who since against
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the horrid strides, Hell 'Twixt
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