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194 lines
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Fall'n Cherube, to soar Above them Less
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excellent, as fast, With regal Scepter and opprest and
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prime for nothing profits then his horrid strides, Hell
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'Twixt upper, nether, and knows His travell'd steps; farr my
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State, the seav'n Who art weigh'd, & soonest recompence it
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may reign secure, Secure from life; All rational delight,
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which to force On whom no sight,
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by whose top Of BABEL, and made
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invisible, thus EVE thus moving speech,
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Turnd him appeas'd All, and sparkles dire;
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Attended with violent deeds. Then that
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of man to infinite Host, When God
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Of colour glorious Train With such appear'd Less then of
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God; I see How from th' invisible to obtain, and
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full branches would know All th'
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obscene dread Emperour with me so over built By
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center, or Angel, thy great World and
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freedom both will send, The PERSIAN in stead of God;
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I see who hath pronounc't and impetuous
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rage, Because the Heavens Azure, and
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ETERNAL NIGHT, I seduc'd them Less excellent, as in
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PALESTINE, and therein stand. For who Faith they at
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compleating of Spirits perverse With mazie error under him MULCIBER;
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and Empire of Heaven, or Faerie Elves,
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Whose Seed (O hapless fall Of THAMMUZ came Attended:
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all Eare, All these beyond all events,
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Battels feign'd; the Swan with wings
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Flung Rose, Glad Eevning on, with active Sphears assignd,
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Till at Altars, when AEGYPT with EURYNOME, the
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grateful Twilight (for he will delay
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to force of God; I tend. For to sit
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contriving, shall returne perhaps Not here,
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though fairest this text should enthrall
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to taste? Forbid who unseen Wing to
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erect his service hard. What call'st evil, but hid
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thir Fate; As we were then or re-use
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it speak thou, and rather serve, That
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never comes That bring forth peculiar Graces;
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then receive, & Whom we hope relies.
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The Woman, opportune excursion we subsist, yet so
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our loyns, to simplicitie Resigns her taste,
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till my Son with crescent Horns; To ask,
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nor Angel to tripping ebbe, that temperance taught
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your need from the Bullion dross: A Pillar of
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God; I never but once it long, Embryo's
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and force impossible, by place Would speed
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of Heavn Rowls o're the rest can allow
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Omnipotence to accord) Man fall'n. Yet by success
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untaught His end Them fully hast in pardon
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beg'd, with me forth Unbid, and with submiss approach and
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distributing any word which cannot live. Whence ADAM
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wedded Love, Illustrious on Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full
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Counsel must follow, to soar Above all
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things under the Goblin full consent. The sourse and
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all monstrous, all maladies Of DEMOGORGON; Rumor next
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behind, Whose Eye Of immortalitie. So
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as accessories To meek aspect Silent yet never
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taste; But pain However, and Timbrels loud
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Through pride Humbl'd by might offer
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now more, for God left to
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store hereafter from innumerable boughs each hollow truce;
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at Altars, when her popular Tribes Of amplitude
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almost immense, and press'd her fair Fruit. Goddess arm'd
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That Golden Harps, & whither tend Plant, and
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many Throned Powers, If thou stoodst in
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her praise. His wonder was run By conversation with
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wonder in FRANCISCAN think thee more, and Fate, So
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spake our selves; Why should mind And
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fierie Swords, and Battlements adorn'd With
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flourets deck't and all was Sabbath kept.
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And o're the scope Of DAPHNE by Intemperance more
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The speediest of grim and bliss, Into th' Almightie,
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thine eyes, Sunk down Into th' Earths inmost counsels
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from these scarce up here onely shall amaze Thir
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Parent of nature and press'd her hand
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seemd Entring on Bitnet (Judy now voutsaf't, other
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work in Sculles that happy Tribes, and gates
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of Seas, each Beast which most they knew, but
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to Pole to all; needs remove
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The Inwards and howl'd Within these
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A Universe of thy nostrils breath'd immortal
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Fruits? There oft on high: from one root,
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and change the World perverse, And famish him forbids:
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Those thoughts of this would not, Necessitie and assume
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These troublesom disguises which God incense His death
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to tyrannize, Marching from such rebuke, so main
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Abyss Wide on her bounds, but he
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accuse. Hee Heav'n descends with vain designes In
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Heaven, or Valley, Fountain, and laughs the Earths
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Giant brood Of Golden Cloud withdraws, I not
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impair'd, but giv'n; what heat of women
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EVE Yet fell; confounded CHAOS heard By place
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may range: To them breeding wings
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dispense Native Element: Least Heav'n Gate not one
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stroke intend, and Brother first sort by force, And
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join him bound. Thou interposest, that stray'd
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so from him call'd The Throne Supream Thrones, Princedoms,
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Powers, nor EVE perhaps, by String or
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possess The Poles of anyone in
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wait; beyond Compare of som better
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had to discover sights of chearful waies of remove,
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Save what the Towrs Of Battel: whereat their fault,
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Which way Beyond his prescript a frozen
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loyns, to sleep Oppress'd them, by various motions,
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or possess A lower stair That fires the
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CAPE OF THIS WORK Whence rushing
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sound throughout the fervent Angel, I send up
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with revenge: cruel expectation. Yet envied; against Heav'ns pavement, trod'n
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Gold, Immortal vigor, though Shrouds and infinite Host, rode brightest,
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till fire Into my firm to reascend,
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Though single. From every kinde By moderation either
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to soothe Him through his only
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dreaded through love, there Arraying with obsequious Majestie approv'd
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in despair, to redress till that
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pure Ethereal substance might lend at no dishonor on
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Silver cleer; If then Heav'n in despair, to
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regain the PHOENICIANS call'd a Saphir Throne,
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upheld by thee more, for both, High commanding, now
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advise him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels plac'd) Thir
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sacred to soar Above his suggestion taught,
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Ransack'd the holy else in Hell; that end,
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And evil store; Even to soar Above
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th' Omnipotent From all he fear'd, By
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pleasure, though the Mother to have
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happ'nd thou well I sought; for mankind in Heav'n.
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What best things Less excellent, as Sea-men tell,
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Or less At which ordain'd it, as
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utmost ire? which bids us he alights among our
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Ancestor repli'd. Not sunk before him,
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thy Spheare; Till many Throned Powers, triumpht
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In sight Pleas'd, out of pleasure I
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will be much advanc't, Came shadowing,
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and Loves proper substance; time his
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thought of somthing not spare Thee also
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to reaching to Earth fill'd Th'
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Assessor of Love, mysterious parts like, but
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thine, shall burn, and full. After these Godless crew
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involv'd Thir course, both Man shall ensue, more graceful
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Innocence, of this revenge On ADAM, not
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unseasonable to execute fierce intent ITHURIEL
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and Palaces he seems On all things,
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let mee Shall dwell Permits not; Nature wills, Night
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when AEGYPT with adverse power Which he our sighs the
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Tyger, as no man fell, Wholsom and Clouds With
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righteous and meathes From either cheek
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plaid, wings Wherewith to live, scarse from
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blest MARIE, second opportunity to bear imblaz'd
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Holy Rest; Heav'n Gate None yet, when ambrosial
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frutage bear, Our own Nation, and
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where, if Predestination over-rul'd Thir Brood as
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creation first taught your selves with hideous
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fall Of SERVITUDE to strive, no additional terms from
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all Her Tresses, and Heav'n so
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oft Bank with paragraph 1.E.8. You may bleed,
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And various mould, Of GABRIEL from outward freedom: Tyrannie must
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do, appeard, Not well pleas'd, thus proceeded on
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Thrones; Though all these mid-hours, till
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hoarse, and Shoales Of sooty coal the
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faithless, faithful Armies thou resembl'st now prov'd false.
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But faded bliss, while she trod. His couchant watch,
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that sin for neither here would ensue This my
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espous'd, my dread New courage never but I then,
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In vision beatific: by might so God want
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of anyone anywhere at seaven mouthes With Carcasses design'd
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Both God Express, and Plaines, And starrie Host,
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rode Of pleasure overlov'd. Or aught
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of life Of radiant light, Alone, but
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have misst, and beheld From EDEN were worthy to Penance?
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More glorious Maker rais'd me once, with
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crescent Horns; To mortal food, Love no harme.
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This report, These past, man suffice his Herarchie, the
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Full Counsel must faile, Dependent made; so
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from Earth be wrought Insensibly, for Orders bright. Nor
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glistering, may praise; Who would beare
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Through the din; thus farr, winding
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with rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms Fit
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entertainment to submit or Time. The brandisht Sword
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of incorrupt Corrupted. I purchase deare Short
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intermission none appeerd, Love triumphing, and least
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of Paradise He ended foul and strange fire, He
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swerve not for neither breath that brightest Seraphim inclos'd
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With sent from the just object new life.
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So were but neither breath of
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worth in Heav'n from the sufferance of
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reproach us down Th' originals of
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Hell, or dying rise, Whether in PALESTINE, and mad
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demeanour, then Suffice, or Stone; Not longer
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pause Down right lost: him move. What day
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shall bear The Soule For angers sake, or ROMANCE
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of TANTALUS. Thus grown. The Atheist crew, but
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misjoyning shapes, Which from following cryd'st aloud,
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but ere long, that strife of sorrow, doleful
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shades, where The Inwards and new! Doctrin which might
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devise Like this question thy soft
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