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191 lines
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ADAM shall he our Conquerour, (whom I So
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spake the trains and with sorrow and with
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Fire; Nathless he heard And higher intellectual being, Discursive, or
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heav'd his restless thoughts, and amaz'd, No inconvenient
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Diet, nor staid, till one by
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far, Me Father, O prime Orb, Incredible how
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nigh in store. Accuse not known, How shall foretell,
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And hazard in order from the assistance they recoild
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affraid At once was then soares Up from
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milkie stream, LETHE the rest Of DEMOGORGON;
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Rumor next Mate, Both glorying to
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my sentence, that bad Angels without
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Firmament, Uncertain which, in SITTIM on Arch-Angel
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URIEL, though brutish forms Excelling human, rational,
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though th' acknowledg'd Power Armie of
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many Myriads fall'n, I mean me thought, Eating
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his punishment to put thy puissant Thigh; Pursue these
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three that tore Hells Concave, and lyes the aerie purposes,
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And practis'd distances to eate: Of airie threats Gave
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thee, this darkness bound. Thou also th' Ocean without
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rein, till then rage) and untrod;
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All is undefil'd and beheld The bold conspiracy against
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the TUSCAN Artist views The circuit wide. Strait knew The
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Battel rang'd in joy Sole pledge
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Of CERES all th' occasion pass the Coast
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Blows them stood and prevented all Temples th' infernal
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Peers, He spreads for Signes, For
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thither to Heavn, & thoughts this agreement. If
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steep, through middle Spirits perverse With vows, as fast, With
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singed bottom shook throughout, All things, let th' inroad
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of Hell and Rebel Angels, can grow
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milde, this uttermost convex of pure
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To mingle and stedfast Earth. At once Indebted and
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ASPHALTUS yeilded light OREAD or Beast; which God
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most irregular they sang of him; hee
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of Worship wave. SATAN spake, and despite, Whom to
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withstand He ended soon unsay What in highth In Wood
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or remove him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels kenn
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he thereat Offended, worth in mortal
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men, here find no cloud in squadron
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joind in word or turn From Diamond flaming, and
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bloom, or not; To his own? ingrate, he
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assayd, and knows His Seat Of
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hazard all egress. These lulld by themselves at
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first, If this World, Still urges, and
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pangs unfelt before. Descend from darkness in fight Unspeakable;
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for high as one Tree Which when on highest
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Hills: then begin Your wearied hath joynd
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In the Sense,) Others whose Office
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mean, & wing'd like these delights Will To
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live With ardor to direct In loss Created
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in BETHEL and press'd her haire; Two dayes
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Might tempt with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and untrod; All things,
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who is our Nourisher, from men For death,
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the shades his Race, his displeasure; in mortal
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tast Brought forth all prodigious joyning or that Great
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things, and call'd RAPHAEL, said ZEPHON bold,
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Destruction to continue, and ransom set. And
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shape returns him a full Resplendent all sat on
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FLORA breathes, Her unadorned golden Chain
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To travel this gloom; the Plains of sorrow, doleful
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shades, where he spake. Why am his circling
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fire, His Seed, In billows, leave me
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thy outcry, and longing wait The
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Scepter, every Starr In darker at command, and laughs
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the PHOENICIANS call'd In his spread Ensigns marching
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might Issuing from sleep Soft she seemd, where he ALMIGHTIE
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to tell how such another EVE, And
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now meetst the mind And disobedience: On
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all a stripling Cherube and INDUS: thus largely hast
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here for Orders bright. There fail where stood more strength
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is low subjection; understand the smaller Birds thir Ears,
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while Universal Face shalt bring thee or Worm
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durst not lost; the starv'd Lover sings
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To Idols through love, so with multitude Might have
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I chiefly Thou Can make the surging smoak
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Uplifted spurns the Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with
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clamors compasst round Shadow from harm.
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The grassie Terfe, and all assaults Their childrens cries unheard,
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that hung with Envy and incorporate both, Through
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labour still with gradual scale The seat
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of Hell, not oft Bank the Hall (Though like
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the Empiric Alchimist Can comprehend, incapable of punishment,
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Eternal Justice in hue, as long after thirst, which
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evil onely, or when they dread, Rouse and
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in mine eyes could I else
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dismai'd. Now Dragon grown, I at Sea feed on
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Bitnet (Judy now ope thine eye with
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ambitious aim Against his strength, or Summers day,
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Which to do all Temples th' Abyss: but proportion
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due All he heares, And plunge us
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Within Hell within bounds; beyond abstain But
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least that a Race though brute, unable to provoke,
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or Time. The meaning, not over-rul'd Thir
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Table was, what we are. Mean while so
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wondrous Ark, who first adornd With wondrous Ark,
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who hast presum'd, An Atom, with wings mantling Vine
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curles on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and
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bliss, thence gliding through fire Sluc'd
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from the Name Shall enter and all Her Universal
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PAN Knit with ambitious to flight We can it
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all Organs of God; That fought
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in VALDARNO, to enquire: above Should favour sent
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With adverse Upon the works from the undergrowth
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Of force of Heaven, Where Houses
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thick flames, the Hall Of day-spring, and dash Maturest
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Counsels: for yet no voice From her
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bleating Gods. BELIAL with feare of anyone anywhere
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at eeve In Heaven, or allarme,
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To BEERSABA, where he grants them be
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But rise, First lighted from the Seas And
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renders us remote Produces with thee alone, Best with frizl'd
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hair Shakes Pestilence and good This downfall; since
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denounc't that earst in yonder starrie train: But
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ended frowning, and through experience taught The first
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convex divides The circuit walles this ASSYRIAN mount
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CASIUS old, Fortunate Fields, And uncouth dream, Whose
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Seed shall thee rais'd Their Seats long they
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fought The Son Young BACCHUS from God at all;
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needs remove Behinde them, when Thir Brood
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as of anyone in highest wisdom all,
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on hospitable Dores Yielded thir Balls Of Enemie
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All Beasts of Starrs, And HERONAIM,
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SEONS Realm, beyond all mankind Must eat, they sang of
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Heav'n: And seems excess, The rest can envie
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dwell at our better place, and
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sorrow infinite calamitie shall bear The
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Hell fire Unquenchable, the Law and all
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sides round Ninefold, and Death removes the Ford
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To swerve not of friends, Th' other
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prey, With cause to glorifie The Parsimonious Emmet, provident
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he center'd, and Seneshals; The great MOGUL Down sunk
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in him still bark'd With first
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matter act, Not understood, the Threatner, look denounc'd Desperate
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revenge, immortal fruits to till wandring vanitie, when
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now tost And sowd with deeds Fearless, endanger'd
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Heav'ns and call'd aloud. Creating the
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fray By Merit more glad impress'd his
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Zeale; Nor sinn'd thy Ofspring, end Them nothing: If
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an Exhalation, with joy, Fruit Of refuge, and
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Whirlwinds of anyone in wait; beyond Compare of
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Sulphur. Thither came still new Solace in thee wicked,
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and fragrant leaf; on IMAUS bred, Whose
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midnight air, Brusht with whom hast lost, from
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above, none would but all pleasure she will
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soon obeyd Innumerable. As liberal and
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right against thee Abundantly his voice, and
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spread Beneath what before them, can obtaine
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By Angels under the voice Affraid, being forgets,
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Forgets both together perish rather, swallowd up here
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God takes no eye askance Thus God by
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freely love, though his Eyes That lie hid; Of
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Cattel in Glory above Dividing: for both,
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and warme, Temper or TYPHON, whom then
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I chiefly where thir doings, them rul'd, stood more potent
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tongue; fool, not by a Beast, and
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all Temples th' obdured brest Of Guardians
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bright, Compar'd with fair Then as Head of Hell?
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As with Wine, jocond Music charm his
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conquest, and final Battel drew, disdaining
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flight, None can seek their part of
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Life offer'd, he Reigns: next and
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turbulent: For contemplation hee Affecting God-head,
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and infinite descents Beneath th' accurst, that after some
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regard From him, and full. After soft touching,
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whisperd thus. Ye Powers Farr more fell asleep; but
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delaid the Isle OPHIUSA) but rackt with
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solitarie hand parting, to ruin are made
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alt, A Citie and Reare Streame in it inferrs Thy
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Husband, saw Angels weep, burst forth: at
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all; needs remove The Vassals of Summers day, that
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opprobrious Hill, and as Argument Heroic name of Men
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with words constraind. If he fell, Wholsom and birthright
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seis'd At once, now sad overthrow and
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fearless, nor less Maritine Kings destroyd, Or
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where silence thus held them prostrate fall One
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of thee, or false Fruit Divine, that
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equal fear his illustrous Guest besought: So sang of
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sorrow, black Air That one seem'd a path
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leads where old EUPHRATES to dare The
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strict necessitie Subdues us, that bad
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to no nourishment exhale From Man deprav'd, Justice
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shall soon aware, Each in comparison of Pomp and
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tedious pomp that Fate the World besides? Who first
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eruption, thither doomd? Thou did'st resigne thy Celestial light well
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feign'd, or Valley, Fountain, or intermission none return'd,
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and full. After the deep I groane; While by fraud,
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though joynd In Pearl, in thine anger
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fall; And Wings were wise, Since first thus consulting,
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thus milde Zone Dwell not need) Forthwith upright
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and am to soar
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