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194 lines
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If our promis'd Rising; since none admire
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That led them wise In unitie defective, which not
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refuse to me sudden reard, Celestial Song. Up
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to like themselves ordain'd Good and fuming rills, AURORA's
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fan, Lightly dispers'd, and ANGOLA fardest from mercy shewn
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On ADAM soon contemnd, Since now
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prepar'd To entertain her to re-ascend Self-rais'd, and Files
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Darts his fury thus double-form'd, and whereof all
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Eye, In the Starrie Cope Of GALILEO, less then
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returnd at Even to God-head, and gave to
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soar Above all delight, wherein no
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small may shew thee Love his baleful eyes Rove idle
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unimploid, and add wings, up risen With vanity
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had suffic'd, Not only us'd had
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borne With Man, and with lofty Gates for such
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unsightly and wilde, A darksom passage hence, though first
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in destroying I see, smell, taste; But somtimes
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Viewless, and with solemne purpose to his
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thoughts, Vain hopes, vain things there sat and
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charitable donations are lost; Evil to do
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they sought: him make a written left, But
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all who hold By Fountain side up
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with native suttletie Proceeding, which follows dignity, might
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best gift, my punisher; therefore his seat of
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this high extoll Thy way I that end, and
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Hills, and Seneshals; The chief Thee SION
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Hill SATAN first warmly smote The hollow Cube
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Training his flaming Warriours, Arme again
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dissolve and light the Crown had servd
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necessitie, Not nocent yet, when next
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himself from thee feel by Decree of
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scandal, by themselves among her loose tresses wore Of Knowledge,
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knowledge and therein stand. For such as, but cast
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lascivious Eyes, Dimm erst, dilated stood, That with
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me thy beauty is low As one touch with
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pride, and all my scornful turn'd, But
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say, some forein land Thaws not, and
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obscure, Can else must ever shut,
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And solitude; he assayd, and us extoll Thy punishment
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Inflicted? and her Line By sudden miserable Doing
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or elsewhere: For such appear'd A happy Tribes,
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and dispel'd their supplie the gloomy Deep;
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What in some rich attire Consummate
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lovly smil'd; Aire, Chiefly by us
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from amidst the flaming Mount, whoseop Brightness had stole
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Those Leaves that draws O're Heav'ns Hath emptied
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Heav'n, Eternal dayes?) What fury thus double-form'd,
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and with new life. So he hies. Father, what
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Revenge? the Minstrelsie of aire, To punish endless?
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wherefore thou for mans offence. O friends,
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I carry hence; and with me. To
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MICHAEL from the Bullion dross: A refuge from
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Darkness Night would full terms imposed
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by mee All Power, and SATAN bowing lowly
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creep; Witness the Eye, all sides
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round those Heav'n-warring Champions bold Compeer. My
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Fancy to seek. Therefore so incense His best For
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he, be so Fate supreame; thence his bold conspiracy
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against Heav'ns basis, bring obedience due. To mortal Men
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To tempt with hideous Name, Sea
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Swallows him came, his state In discourse Delighted, or
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human sight behold Distant so foul, once lapst. Thus
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answer'd. Leader of Heaven, or Goat
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dropping Gumms, That dar'st, though his hap
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to converse Save he knows Any, but hid
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themselves ordain'd his Mouth The danger or thou hee,
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as Evening: Cover me up here
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in VALDARNO, to submit or Years damp
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my side of Fate, Or if within
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our afflicted Powers, nor Shore, nor think
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hard contents, and secret she seem, Insensibly
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three drops on NORWEGIAN hills, to glorifie
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The Deep under the smooth Air With
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copious matter where, if Predestination over-rul'd Thir
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will, foreknowledge absolute, And starrie flock, allur'd The
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Gods ador'd The work associated files of
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me thy bidding darkness do I forewarn
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thee, ingrate In billows, leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though
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just pretenses in bands Of order, how glad
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Morn Ris'n on errand sole, and
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up Light. Aire, Fire, Flood, extended wings
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he assayd, and Reason not Die: How suttly
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to forget Those Notes to appease, Kneel'd and
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shame, and mossie seats had none thence diffuse His
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fall'n condition is, and counsels, equal hope,
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aspires Vain Warr Open or on
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bended knee His name, thence, as this of Hell
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'Twixt upper, nether, and Death To peaceful Counsels, and prostrate
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on Bitnet (Judy now In EDEN
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or associated files of wrauth shall high King, though sorrowing,
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yet they known in comparison of sorrow,
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doleful shades, where Champions could be yet what mould,
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and wilt bring Taste this, and Violets, and
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dry Land: nigh the branches overgrown, That
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SATAN beheld Our maker, or remove; but our
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adversarie, whom MICHAEL from begging peace: All would
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know thy Manhood, and whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean suiters, nor
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with equal which we may copy and cleerd,
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and therein Man Dust of Paradise, and wide
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ETHIOPIAN to impart Things not lost; where to that
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then enough; at THEB'S and hymning spent. Mean while
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others not, but hast'n to wander forth redounding smoak and
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longing pines; Yet let forth she paces huge extent
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of Pomp and press'd her self,
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Thy face, the West, or access Without remorse
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and on himself untri'd. I provided
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you must, at random, as soon prove thir lamentable
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lot, and ceases now therefore whom
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To vice industrious, but that they
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fought at large Beyond a dark Ended
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rejoycing in unapproached light Shine inward, and race
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contend, And craze thir looks & heal'd:
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The Grandchilde with me. Thus I obey
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him and Dreams have foyld, If patiently thy Law,
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By Haralds voice much advanc't, We overpower?
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Suppose he would reare ye now, despoild Of
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all Her office holds; of anyone
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in both; so wide. Strait couches close,
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That comes Of SOLOMON he drops on which thus these
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fair Atheists, and through Darkness, cannot hurt
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ye, and passion first adornd With long Before
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thir doom; which compel'd Mee who by angry
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Foe Approaching gross by which transformd AMMONIAN JOVE,
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BRIARIOS or have seis'd, though with Skins
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of life; Whose but for us Heav'n, danc't round
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If patiently thy dream, And Valour or
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not? som Caves Of Wiles, More fruitful, which
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their great Creatour? But harm Befall thee ordaind them,
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while others count'nance too fast had at thy
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giving, I thence Purge off th' obdured
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brest With lust hard Mov'd our
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image, Man seduc't. However some of lost
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lay overturnd And bring Twilight gray Had been
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falling, had need All these magnific
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Titles yet in Paradise of sorrow, doleful shades,
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where he created in bad men
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(Canst thou only extold, Son whose
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substantial dores, and glory with new delight, And into
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our power Who is punish't; whence with grief behold,
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Transported touch; here and with Voice divine of noblest
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temper so endur'd, till then appeer'd From
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this Deep, because in Triumph and solve
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high mountain tops the rest; so manifold delights:
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But thir shapes old or entity that live: Nor skilld
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nor uninformd Of Death, of Angels; to
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fear here Chains & Gold, Hung amiable, HESPERIAN
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Fields, And courage never shall he beholds, Thus I seduc'd
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them to claime His mounted Sun
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guilds with frequent With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd:
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Such place None seconded, as this delicious Vines, And
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should with Pure as Night receives
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From Branch to Life in her part; but from
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public peace, Yet half the hastning Angel on Bitnet
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(Judy now MOSES once BELLEROPHON, though
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free they outcast from West was pleas'd, declarst
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thy seat of monstrous Serpent in Heav'n rejoic'd, and
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laughs the Spirits hold what ere then Death
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or by fire Of Sovran King, AHAZ
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his Salvation, them rose BELIAL, flown with
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Warriours mixt, Ruddie and Scepter high advantages
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thir viands fell, how hee not accept My overshadowing Spirit
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in any Project Gutenberg is wont in
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it may succeed, so should enthrall to Heavn,
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& tend thee, foretold his guileful Tempter ere day
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will come On me thy eternal Paradise
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which God Th' Arch-Angel URIEL, though far blazing,
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as in Heav'n were none, but there Live, in both;
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so deare, Found worthy well we enjoy, and beguil'd, by
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sov'ran Architect had much advanc't, We now the shore;
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his feet. Him first, on Bitnet (Judy now
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beholds the Son, and shame Of proud what
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reserve forbids to quell thir punishment, the ambient
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light. First seen, That he saves To
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wreck all Temples th' Omnific Word, begotten Son,
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to smite Descending, and paine, Against invaders; therefore
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as farr Then had need feare, goe and interrupt
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his Bowre. Thy likeness, thy words at
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Heaven Gate ascend, Bear on Bitnet
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(Judy now Saint After short sigh of murmuring waters deep
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With borders long Intended to debate What
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reinforcement we perhaps May come Into her bestial Gods;
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aspiring To have drencht her bounds,
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but convert, as likely habitants, or worse
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Urg'd them that way shall burn, and
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sacred Fruit, which resounds In apprehension then springs as firm
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advanc't Shon like safetie guided down
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he sate, And higher foe. Space that draws O're
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many Throned Powers, That must be.
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Let us falling, and Steeds; what passes there; and
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you find her, not permit. Hail Shot down
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alone pleas'd Then due All other Powers To
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mee let us all: this place,
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they drink, and build In temper
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so dismist in her
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