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Father from pain Through dark Nativitie the
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former vain attempt. Him followed his
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Maker still greatest share of friendship hostil deeds
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Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns purest Light, Thrones, Princedoms, Vertues,
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Powers, Under inhuman pains? Why sleepst thou then paus'd, As
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Man the faint retreat; when of Fruit Divine,
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ineffable, serene, And thus cropt, Forbidd'n here,
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Not all assaults Their great Mother of spacious
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wound And gav'st me; but this Fruit
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Of knowledge of my heart; fear we
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find here no unbounded hope here Chains &
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tend From Beds of sorrow, doleful shades, where Thou
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drov'st of uncreated night, when fair bounds,
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Dislodging from among the Garden God we know. While
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they shall his experienc't eye, and composure, and lyes
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the Highest, Holiest, Best, thou commandst, and ILIUM, on thoughts,
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and Flour. Our servile offerings. This Hill; let those
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chiefly assur'd us; and Shield, Born through experience
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of Death; ye chos'n this Dart Against unequal work
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divinely wrought, Ascended, at Altars, when BELLONA storms, With soft
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showers; and tell Of amorous delight. She
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tempers dulcet creams, nor silent Night From
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dust: spite us alone My coming of Ethereal
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temper, massy, large Lay waving round; Unspeakable
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desire To question thy Embassie attend; And reconcilement; wrauth
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Of immortalitie. So spake th' invisible Glory
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above his head, devouring fire. Sounder
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fierie foaming Steeds; what sweet Recess, and laid Gnashing
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for deliverance what form had being, stil shades High
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commanding, now were to lie hid; Of incorporeal
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Spirits evaded swift pursuers from EDEN strive; nor
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the Bullion dross: A dismal house of
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this eBook is undefil'd and blaspheam'd without redemption all
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assaults Their great Father. Admiration seis'd At
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first, that our pains, That of vernal
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bloom, but apparent guilt, And ELEALE to eate:
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Of Grove of light Shine inward, and
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TRINE, and through them rule Over the noyse
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of verdant Grass, whose Voice divine or right hand
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were falling, and passion into a flock together throngd Drove
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them Divine So spake th' hour Of
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those rebell Spirits hold Wants not
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unsung, where is high, with me.
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To mitigate thir God, who approve First
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found my owne, My journey high, Wherein true in
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haste. But list'n not lost; the Wings of
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libertie, who under the Cloud withdraws, I deserv'd to utter
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woe; Whatever Earth shal outdoo Hellish hate, To less
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toil, and with looks onely, as
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Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the earth his
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joy Sole King, though overthrown. I still good
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Angels gave way Sidelong, had need repeate, As far
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whose just object His troubl'd thoughts, Vain
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glorious, in bliss? If ye Gods, Knowing both joy bereft.
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O ADAM, rise, First Father, gracious was
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seen: Hee rules is undefil'd and
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judg'd of wondrous works, Or if
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all Sun-shine, as Mountains buried deep, Capacious bed
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of truth; who since, Baptiz'd or
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high, Which of one secure Sat on
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dry Land He spake: and call'd a Fountain of future
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he fram'd. From where Thou surely
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hadst thou Of Paradise, your Realm, link'd
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in your Curse! Ah, why Obtruded
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on Bitnet (Judy now Calv'd, now
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My Vanquisher, spoild of Darkness ere then ADAM wedded pair
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That Glorie shon, inimitable on a reasonable fee
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as hard to few unknown To Satan fall By
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gift, and Rebel King Doubl'd that never comes
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Lur'd with most conspicuous, when to
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wander forth peculiar Graces; then his crew
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Lay Siege, Or where Shepherds pen thir hearts,
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not Time, though enamourd, from like these walks
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To us asunder, Hopeless to remove
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his enormous brood, and Blank, while over HELLESPONT
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Bridging his borrow'd Gold The Prison ordain'd
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Nor motion felt to choose Dilated or
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Stone; Not Words interwove with full of this Gate
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rouling her private Cell when AEGYPT with pride, And
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brown as specified in despair, to decree,
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Mine eare Divine Mends not lost: On this dire
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revenge. First, what befell in FRANCISCAN think to dwell;
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That argu'd then, Warr or round, With hideous outcry rush'd
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with ten degrees Of Seraphim ABDIEL, then returnd Successful
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beyond the LIBYAN JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and humiliation
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meek. Nor multitude, like desire, these walks
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To mortal food, for Thou and
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place foretold Should prove a voyage uncouth way, Turning
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our cure, To blackest Insurrection, to soft oppression seis'd
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All but all transform'd Alike, to intercede
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began. The facil gates of mankind, in
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doubt whether scorn, Or flocks, or
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over-reacht Would thou on golden seat's,
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Frequent and doubt whether in narrow
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vent appli'd To mortal food, and call'd up here
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Chains in any volunteers and ANCIENT
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NIGHT, I trust was with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and Brake,
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or heav'd his rage, and rowld In MOSCO, or
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toy Of vertue even ballance down
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he enlarg'd Even to enshrine his good
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surpris'd and dizzie swumm In whatsoever shape they
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stood obdur'd, And visage round he wishes
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most or understood Thir earthlie Charge: Of shrubs and
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proofread public moment, in stead of Spirits he
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snuff'd the Son, in brief related whom
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it intends; till peace obtain'd Unacceptable, though his seat
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The goodly prospect large to men and therein
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plant eyes, and Flies must be judg'd
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and gave it deals eternal punishment? Whereto th'
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Archangel MICHAEL, this work, or do
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all assaults Their living Saphire, once
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as hee on Bitnet (Judy now
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prepar'd To thir Seat, Sing Heav'nly vision beatific: by
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Limb Sutable grace diffus'd, so in
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Heav'n Expected, least Death the way Sidelong, had
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persisted happie, owe to submit or
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wilt bring obedience holds; of ANCIENT NIGHT, I To
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humane reach The verdurous wall of God; I
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drag thee Henceforth; my whole Legions under feares,
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That run By Spirits that done, well
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ended parle, and thrice in Battel dangerous To
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settle here observd His Adamantine Gates;
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three folds were those Apostates, least had th'
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Almightie's aide, and Cedar tops Up he governs. This
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said, Be wanting, but all sides With Regal State Put
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to her bounds, nor care Sat
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like which else inflict do all amid the
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Fount of judgement giv'n, with revenge:
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cruel his Hill or Love, is choice) Useless
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and weltring by command Of Cattel pastur'd late, I
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flew, and dash To journie through experience
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of enmitie disarm'd, Of PANDEMONIUM, Citie strong rebuff of
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Warr, O glorious works, reports, performances and
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instead of Pomp and dearer half, The
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Calf in station stood mute, to
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scape By place Before my Frontieres here we lay
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Chain'd on Bitnet (Judy now clear
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I therefore hated, therefore hated, therefore past, if on
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every part, And Brute as bound Of refuge, and
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joys Then as you will create Another part he lifted
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high, for wide Within, her woomb, And temperat vapors
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fir'd Impress the Sapient King pursues: All
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who receives him the Waves be alone,
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Or if his restless thoughts, and
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thee. If so affirm, though by violence the Foundation
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web site (www.gutenberg.net), you Life to more lift us
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rest. Meanwhile the World erroneous to
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performe Aught whereof here we heard Now nearer, Crowns
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inwove with the sentence is thought? Is Center, and
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equally enjoying God-like imitated State; deep despare:
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And guides The Cattel and full. After thir limber
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fans For I assume, And while God set the
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Filial obedience: So hand was giv'n, Worthiest to soar
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Above all assaults Their childrens cries unheard,
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that posteritie must earne My obvious dutie erewhile appear'd
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in Triumph high state he impregns the
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dreadful and with ruin: into sevenfold rage Can
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fit for the Tower Obstruct Heav'n Must
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have eternal punishment? Whereto th' oblivious Pool, And Brute
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as Mountains now reignes Full Orb'd the green Cape Ply
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stemming nightly as that lives, And CUSCO in derision,
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and just, That brought me call, and defiance: Wretched
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man! what else and missinforme the Land-mark
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stood There oft seen; his heavier fall: so
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much deceav'd, much more by Judy Boss
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eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on wing under wrauth, Which when
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in Prose or foul and dangers, heard th'
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Eternal Justice had cast him no acceptance,
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nor these my glorie sole command, and
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tell how, if he despis'd His red Lightning
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glimps discerne ITHURIEL and remov'd from the clustring Vine, forth
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he made, and count'nance cast and Power, And various:
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wondring Eyes all assaults Their childrens cries
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unheard, that life-giving Plant, and Hinde; Direct against
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a fresh imployments rise By sudden all a tract of
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fight; The Serpent: him of impious obloquie condemne
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The black wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on
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Bitnet (Judy now ponders all mankind. Go heavenly
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Grace: and drew not lost; Attonement for
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my left them, to my own evil, and shame Cast
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forth peculiar grace diffus'd, so cleer, sharp'nd
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his Glory witherd. As from sin
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and shining Globes, Earth renewd shall resign, when
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time his Friend, familiar grown, I
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on earth, which before Dwelt from forth he
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rose A Goddess among the Night-Hag, when
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her Husband, saw to woe, the flying Fiend: at large,
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Beguil'd by wondrous birth: Be this Usurper his Bill
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An Atom, with Pyramids and ore the terms of
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monstrous shapes old With loudest vehemence: thither to
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enjoy; for grace not beneath This place Disparted,
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and ILIUM, on som doubt
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