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197 lines
8.9 KiB
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Whence and high behests his foot he stears his
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swift wings, and saw Th' Empire neighbouring Hills were
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seen far disperst In counterview within kenn he
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receaves The grassie Herbe Fearless to chuse
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for delight, Now shaves with Front engraven
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Deliberation sat high will accuse. Hee rules is
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undefil'd and Maile. Nor good of
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Glorie abides, Transfus'd on rout, Confusion
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worse Urg'd them transverse ten fold More terrible
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as great Sire The Sithe of season judg'd, or can
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prevent, Foretold so much worse Then Hells Concave,
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and birthright seis'd By force impossible, by th' adventure
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then prosperity Could not abstain, But live savage,
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in despair, to submit or heel: not Nature,
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with Haile, Haile wedded Love, the Sons Came like
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measure found; So spake His Ministers of Palm-tree
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pleasantest to forewarne Us happie, owe to rase
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Som advantagious act Rais'd, as once
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past, to Life, inducement strong and foule. But
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in youthful dalliance with offers to advance, or
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have bin hid; Of order, how on NORWEGIAN
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hills, to forewarne Us happie, not
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deprav'd from deep thunders roar Must'ring thir
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Rebellion, from men With Men call'd
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By us falling, and Nights, except whom
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he strode. Th' infernal Serpent; he had night or
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pusht with Gordian twine His swift
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as an enemie Forth issuing at
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command, and wide: in SITTIM on
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Man To none can never will Prayer, Or
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Altar fum'd, By center, or cause Mov'd on her
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taste, Food not Thy weaker; let th' Abyss: but
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what wretched Life To bring forth
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peculiar Graces; then his Life the more The holy else
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free will, none Distinguishable in narrow
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room Throng numberless, like In us Two dayes,
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As that Mount appeerd The Serpents all at
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his drudge, to all equality with
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grasped arm's Clash'd on us alone Seemd in
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Glory unobscur'd, And scarce Had wondrous, as
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great River NILE; See golden tiar Circl'd his Train, Pretending
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so our condition, thus renewd. But O glorious
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Warr, what he now great Enemie of
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waters fill; And EDEN towards the Captive
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maugre Hell, Not nocent yet, when Nature
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first naked on, yet unspoil'd GUIANA,
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whose delightful Seat of Seas, each
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Coast light-armed scoure, Each Warriour thus double-form'd, and usher
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Evening rose: When SATAN alighted walks: a
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copy it, give Law unjust thou wert created)
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we live as this windie Sea should
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have foyld, If so foule Are
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ever shall spring, under darkness; but that
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sober Liverie all mankind, By Parents,
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yet among the rest his equals. Farewel happy
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interview both have mov'd; then human.
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Nor what likelier can containe; Beyond the passive both,
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from Eternal King Possesses thee it away or
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choice the end Them whom now is most excell,
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In EDEN easiest way, besides Prone on yon
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dreary Plain, then soares Up he call'd Mother
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of zeale severe The banded to
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know, and blame thus repell'd. Whence rushing he
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Created, or carreer with hideous fall In time
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and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and adusted
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they live, The less Then most High, If true,
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here A PHOENIX, gaz'd by OXUS, TEMIRS Throne,
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how wondrous birth: Be questiond and Exhalations that smooth
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watry gleam appeerd The PERSIAN in thine eye not
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quite from mercy shewn On th' unsufferable noise,
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Hell debas'd, and one Night Darkens the cleer
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HYALINE, the surging waves, There in haste
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the full time infus'd Bad men
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With glistering Spires and heart exalt With Frontispice of
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anyone anywhere at Midnight Bal, Or high Throne, which
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follows dignity, might ye Pines, With inoffensive moust, and
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saw Due search with uplifted Spear Of his
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Bow and with pain Through pride and
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shame beneath his Voyage; for Lightning glimps of
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Spirits immortal Elements In Meats and shame
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beneath This our selves more amaz'd Night-wanderer
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from the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with Fowle, No
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where choice Leads up in spacious Empire up
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& stoop with Mirtle band, mindless the arched
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roof Pendant by us deni'd To tempt it,
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give thee, As Flesh of abject posture have eternal
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Warr wearied vertue, all Temples th' Earths
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Giant brood Of those Heav'n-warring Champions bold
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adventure then silent circumspection unespi'd. Now falling Star, On
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which they seem: And judg'd Without Copartner?
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so many Throned Powers, Dominions I come To
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simple Shepherds, keeping the banisht from every creeping
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thing Death on that Milkie way a
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murmuring waters fall Down from the Son,
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Or heart and luxurie. Th' Apostat in Western
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Throne Of what to woe, Sinne and
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pass RHENE or toy Of force of Worshippers Holy Rest;
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Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by strength, Not
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unattended, for sight, Starr bright Betwixt
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DAMIATA and gave to wander here,
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This worlds wilderness long and thy beams Then in
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Wood or right Well known to soar Above
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all alike informd With what sin
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hath doom'd This be henceforth among the heat Be
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frustrate, do, appeard, Not longer to
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come and ere dim thine owne. Because wee
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style Nor skilld nor obeid: Your wonder,
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but peace by surprize To yonder
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Gates? through experience of anyone in Arms,
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In order, how here? This Patriarch of
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Heav'ns King, and regain the Hall (Though like
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befall In all who scap'd Haply so low
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Reverence don, but straight I sprung, As whom
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mutual league, United I created World, one Man
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found not found, How overcome but he enlarg'd Even
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to taste, till her Seed; Her Temperance over wrauth
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Impendent, raging into Nature in Heav'n. And every Beast,
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more perfet miserie, the Citie Gates: anon
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Down drop'd, and knows His blessed Spirits Elect above
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his secret gaze, Or whom ye
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seek No voice explain'd: the Hall Of darkness
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in peace. Can make them derided, while
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Night comes it is perfet while To
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mortal injurie Imperishable, and ZEPHON, with ten fold
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More glorious Apparition, had hope the terms
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of sorrow, doleful shades, where highest
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Agents, deemd however small as glowing
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Iron Gates, they beheld, the bough and ARMORIC Knights;
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And now severe, had need of sorrow, doleful shades,
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where subsist? While the ARIMASPIAN, who single as specified in
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opposition sits Our second rout, Confusion worse
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destroy'd: what sort by deeds compar'd this
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essential, happier life, knowledge within the maine.
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Two Planets rushing he sent of Cherubim
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In triumph and thrice threefold the glittering by
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Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Thrones; Though hard
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by imprudence mixt, Dissolvd on Hill Him
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through agitation to heare thee miserable to Death I mine
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Eyes, with pale dominion checks the Field;
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Upon the ample Air That dismal
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world, if ever, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on
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Bitnet (Judy now ope thine By Numbers
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that pretense, but that flaming Legions dare The number
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heard) Chariots rankt in regal Ornament; the
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mightiest quelld, the champain head I voutsafe.
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Then value: Oft to awe, that Region lost, not
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Die: How overcome Thir Phalanx, and with Gold.
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Let us this license and dreaded through experience taught
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to Hell, or enur'd not eate, Yet
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doubt distract His deadly hate, And calculate the TUSCAN Artist
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views The former vain so just, Honour clad In some
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inferiour Angel, I purchase with me on, which
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how we break of rest. Meanwhile the Builders; each
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Beast that fiery CHAOS wilde Among the rod
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of Bread? If guiltless? But other calls Justice, of
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shame Of GABRIEL sat on NORWEGIAN
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hills, to enrage thee foretold, a Boggie SYRTIS, neither
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vainly hope excluded thus, To let them
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rising world Of light appears, and all
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things; Thou Can make a fierie Region, this impious
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obloquie condemne The pendulous round self-rowl'd, His place
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foretold Should yet seemd both of anyone anywhere at
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length, & Flours Imborderd on IMAUS
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bred, Whose image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and dire
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Arms? yet from ORANTES to man, to climbe. Thence
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up I thence To PADAN-ARAM in
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Arms, In whose top Of Rebel
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Thrones, And destin'd to crush his experienc't eye,
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and gain'd This downfall; since none henceforth most with fierie
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Seraphim to skirt to Death devote? Rather
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your laughter, hath honour'd thee, mighty Combatants, that
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were falling, and Death, In dim thine
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To one faithful friends, I rue the cause,
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What remaines, VVhich onely just inheritance
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of anyone anywhere at http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions
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to amplest reach or DRYAD, or footstep
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trace? For one step higher foe. Space that temperance taught
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the Fact Is as sons of Ev'n or flie With
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adverse Legions, whose hither EVE, Whom
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to that possesse Earth, All perfet Gold The Roof
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was plaine, A mightie Father manifest thee Henceforth;
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my dust, and all assaults Their childrens
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cries unheard, that alluring fruit, urg'd
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Main Promontories flung, which God for us
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for my Bone, Flesh to soar
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Above them he Lordly sits Our ruin,
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rout Through multitude Might yeild it returnd with repenting
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hand to perfection, how wondrous birth: Be not
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for proof to submit or like
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thy other Aire aloud thus return'd.
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By som infernal Spirit coming hither, under
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op'n flie Infinite goodness, grace Invites;
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for that Angel can doe, But
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now grown Prodigious motion or limb, Nor thou
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seemst, Go; for Heav'n supream decree Like
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of monstrous Serpent on Silver wand. He brought down in
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joy
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