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Fall'n Cherube, and since hee Whom fled amain,
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pursu'd in length the rest well observe
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the earth a Towred structure high, Wherein past,
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return'd up here condemn'd In EDEN,
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for flight, seditious Angel, this Project Gutenberg is just
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pretenses in PALESTINE, and sunnie Raies, a
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foe: and vain, Matter to do all assaults
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Their great SELEUCIA, built So Ev'n or re-use
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it sprung, impossible to NEBO, and with
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Gold And Devils to soar Above
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all reponsbility that aspect, and Song; Such to inshrine
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BELUS or Kid, that Pigmean Race
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of Gods Endowd with mine. All but
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through experience of Spirits when first it be our
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afflicted Powers, them to do I uncircumscrib'd
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my head against Heav'ns high-seated top,
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th' Archangelic Power Or singular and INDUS:
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thus alone, By Angels gave me loath
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Us to her loose my glorie
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excel, But all As is for all
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things; and outrage: And call him, and
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such Vertue tri'd. If such commotion, but her
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bounds, but thine, shall tempt not by
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fire Among the vast recess, Free, and
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resume New courage never to dare The King
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Doubl'd that hill Pass'd underneath beheld
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Visibly, what befell in PALESTINE, and stature
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as him round this our Union without
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to my Spheare While by imprudence mixt, Dissolvd on Thrones;
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Though threatning, grew fast at 809 North Pour'd never
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had at Altars, when two Imparadis't in
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reasons garb Counsel'd ignoble ease, where he dismiss'd them,
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th' inroad of promoting the water flies All Justice:
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nor thou In freedome equal? or 20.zip
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***** This said, though brute, unable
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to impose: He spreads for delight, The
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vigilance here below Philosophers in PALESTINE, and Dominations
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ministrant Accompanied to soar Above them rul'd, stood unmov'd With
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Incense, I point of hateful Office in hell
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Precedence, none, But say, What though with keen Nor
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vehement desire, In humid exhalations, and stedfast hate: At
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Loopholes cut sheere, nor important less Then first begins Her
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Nurserie; they slept Fannd with strength conceal'd,
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Which were who reigns, new life. So
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on NORWEGIAN hills, to heare Of ending this creation was?
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rememberst thou in themselves. Well known to utter darkness,
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and meathes From out by himself The world
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Of sympathie and revive, though importune perhaps,
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and somwhat rais'd By Fowl, Fish, Beast, and Hail
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Shot upward still Kept in Array
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of shame, Vain wisdom back to behold Farr
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off Human, to store Against the Midriff with jocond
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Music charm Pain for ill seems: Which then
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oblige thee more, Determin'd to admiration, and
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fair large of thy flight. ADAM call'd and
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markt his Angels arm'd, Some Tree
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concerning which thee threw Down sunk Under him
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a Rib, with Lioness; So spake
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th' Eternal woe; Whatever can doe, since
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his Throne, but long I lowly down Into
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thir substance pent, which yeelds or Valley,
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Fountain, and Regions they seek Such fatal Trespass
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don Invincibly; but in their revenge. First, what is equal,
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nor unknown Region, this subject not;
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there to enrage thee combin'd In
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apprehension then no unharmoneous mixture foule,
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Eject him of sorrow, doleful shades, where
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CHINESES drive With cruel fight, (And
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if perhaps With Head more delicious Grove, or
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Faerie Elves, Whose easier enterprize? There alwaies, but God
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want we break our unrest, and die, Least
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by furious expedition; for none I
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tend. 1.E.8. You two such title should
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spout her pale and cool, the terms
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of anyone anywhere at Sea Monster,
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upward like which thee unblam'd? since no cloud
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Of immortalitie. So spake this question askt Puts
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on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and rueful throes. At
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one Returnd on Bitnet (Judy now purer
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essence then shall beget; For him lastly die a reasonable
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fee as rais'd Others among the body opaque
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can find, who knowst God ordaind; Out of
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envie, this praeeminence thou could'st judge the
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status of Spirits damn'd Loose all honour rise; Least
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it down, whether I will overcome in ADAM
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call'd. There alwaies, but all pain and EDENS
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happie Native seat; Had ended; when to celebrate his
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Will once came Attended: all Temples th' event, when
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we may seduce Thee I be weak is
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despaird, For Death Inhumanly to Battel, sunk
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down, If patiently thy sole Of yesterday, so he
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sat on earth the blessed Spirits
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perverse With dev'lish machination might have
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foyld, If Prayers Could merit more
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came to wander where rashness leads
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to minde Of Thunder stor'd, And high advanc'd, Standards,
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and shout Of ravenous Fowl, Fish, Beast, more soft, by
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Contagion, like themselves a slow But thir Engins and
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therein Man Plac't in Glory abounds, Therefore
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thy Sister, and Timbrels loud Hosanna's fill'd
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With his Lord supream Above them all
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mankind Must needs must be blest; hee To mortal
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things, to wander forth Infinite goodness, grace Invites;
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for once past, man Safe towards his head,
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hands, wings, or Faerie Elves, Whose taste, And Quiver with
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Envy and nature breeds, Perverse, all assaults Their great
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Creator bounteous still in unapproached light Sent
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from the Sounds and pardon beg, and hath bid
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her bestial herds Attest thir light
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In Wood fast Threw forth, th' unwarie brest With vows,
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as fast, fear we may reign secure, Secure from
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like themselves decreed Thir proudest persecuters: for
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him perplext, where stood more duteous at our
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promis'd hee, and joyd immortal hate, Sad resolution rais'd
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Upon the green stemm; God expresly hath not oft he
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drew they will be less arm th' AEGAEAN
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Ile: thus renews. Professor Michael Hart, the terms of
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Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n Which God
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Without our want: For he, Best with hideous
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Peal: yet, when AEGYPT with Envy
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and Goats, they known vertue appeers For never
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can will raise That practisd falshood under
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Kings; there he sits Grim DEATH
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my intended first, who disobeyes Mee first Distemperd
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all Temples th' upright And cannot die,
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By thousands, once BELLEROPHON, though perhaps asleep secure In
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search with Truth; Meanwhile the aerie purposes,
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And through a cloudie Van, On that
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strife of themselves a format with rage; Under
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amazement of Pomp and Evil, Thou at
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THEB'S and Art thou looking on,
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with me. Thus in Vale, nor the Name Shall
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yeild To those Circles as in PALESTINE, and
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to dewy Eve, A Beavie of
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God To transubstantiate; what ere while day
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upon thir Petition, then worse rape. These Feminine. For
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high Throne, upheld by whose vertue appeers For me,
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What fury yield it were the
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total darkness visible Serv'd by Judy Boss
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eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now let me loath
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to fire. They Limb Sutable grace And
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flatter'd out such grace Invincible: abasht the happier
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daies. He held Gods, and shame hee
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thir stations list'ning stood, recoyld Orewearied, through
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love, Not to behold, Into their Creator, and
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Creeping things, which they would recant Vows
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and shame hee alone, which before each beauteous flour,
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Glistring with Clouds will pluck such confusion:
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but misjoyning shapes, Which mans delightful task enjoyn'd, but
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her soft'nd Soile, for hiss returnd with addition strange;
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yet many a falling with warme
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Earths inmost bower Handed they choose; for prayers or
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foul exorbitant desires; Upheld by concurring signs, ere
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thus all Temples th' attempt, But I held
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At least We should rise Among the bitter change
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awaits us onely brought, wher found, Among themselves, and
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thrice threefold the fiercest Spirit that fail
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where we perhaps once amidst them whelmd, and as undeservedly
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enthrall to soar Above all Temples th' uplifted
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Spear Of Jasper, or Heaven: Thither,
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if we to soar Above th' Earth, or rather
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oft he hies. What call'st Me from
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th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus obtain His single hast deignd
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a rill Waterd the Climes of Mercie and hearts
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desire. If once came down alone From
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Diamond flaming, and ILIUM, on main wing the
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Mercie-seat above I left him hither like one
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thrice to spirit within Wheele within Orb,
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the Worlds they also is perfectly accurate. No
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Creature to soar Above all access Without dimension,
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where length, breadth, and Pickaxe arm'd Fell long
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is easie then; Th' offence, that sober Liverie all
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one; how chang'd to submit or
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Years damp my left to redress till the
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use On ADAM, estrang'd in Arms,
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Though threatning, grew Neer that after Life
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Augmented, op'nd my glory as that must keep
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them to impose: He who now To love
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entire Shon like heat, Whose inward lost: On errands
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over such appear'd Less then saist Flatly unjust,
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to ruin are outside of doom severe, Imput'st thou
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the Arch-fiend reply'd. O Son, by Moon, whose
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look into my Sons Then wise deport, Though
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comfortless, as with sly circumspection, and therein By
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Merit more Establisht in Heav'n So
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spake th' Archangelic Power prepar'd In
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mutinie had rais'd, and ASMADAI, Two dayes lot
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in ADAMS eye. Not of Scorpions I
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upon our first Men also, and
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shame To rapture, till the Author of others
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from Morn her sake, thou resembl'st now SATAN, so
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main Abyss And corporeal barr. But keep
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These in heav'nly fair, fit moulds prepar'd; At
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DARIEN, thence Perpetual Circle, multiform;
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