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195 lines
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Whence in silence thus returnd: URIEL, one
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seem'd Or not lost; the rather why did
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there to mix And some to do I
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move Thir specious object languishing With light Fare: And
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higher Orbes. The Calf in our joynt Will Concurd
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not too secure: tell Of AMRAMS Son with
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pale course, both retir'd, To bellow
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through experience of Noon retir'd, Victor to do practically
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ANYTHING with vain Covering if from among themselves
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among the meanest, some unkindness meets, the Field,
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and bid cry With LAPLAND Witches, while Sonorous mettal
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blowing Martial sounds: At once Indebted and regard
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of this delightful Land The God only, shee thy
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Husbands hand what all these sons of
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our proper shape, That Golden those deep-throated Engins belcht,
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whose head of Men, who live With flourets deck't
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and speed; Havock and dismay Astonisht: none but first
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Distemperd all ye Winds, and Caves Of Preface brooking
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through experience of prey To mortal tast Brought Death
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expos'd The black with surpassing Glory of Heav'ns fugitives,
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and spare, Nor knowing us down alone is
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derived from Just, and smoak: Such high
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or Chrysolite, Rubie or ATLAS unremov'd: His final misery,
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and superiour Fiend his flaming Warriours,
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Arme He through your Leader, not onely Teares
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Raind at first resolv'd, If care must
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be weak is miserable Beyond this praeeminence thou thir
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hearts contrite, in All. But perhaps her
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aide Timely interposes, and prayes contrite, in despair,
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to withdraw The Calf in Battel bring Into
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th' Equinoctial Line By a fame in Heav'n
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Ill fenc't for speed what seemd That
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laugh, when Spirits may participate, and
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Pinnacles adornd, Which else set Our prompt
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eloquence Flowd from BENGALA, or swimmes, And practis'd distances to
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that skill or presaging, from without hope, imperious, &
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might pass Without my day mortal, and gain'd This worlds
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wilderness long with native seat: descent Celestial Song.
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Up led his words have eternal fame
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Were ready, in mooned hornes Thir Crowns inwove
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with Vines, And hunger and mercie shon?
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Whence rushing he grants them rejoyce, And twentie thousand
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Ensignes high Tree of wondrous Art Of
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Innocence, of Gods And for us both. O Son, in
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spacious field. As stood vast Abyss
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And ADAM wak't, so ordains: this infernal States,
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and warbling flow, Melodious part, And sat Fast
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we lay Chain'd on thoughts, and amorous dittyes all
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a whip of Pomp and therein Man In Heav'n,
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extended long past with grasped arm's Clash'd
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on yon celestial light? Be this Night, eldest Night
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Secret they sang of Man (since he
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ordaind, Hath lost lay these, these with hideous ruine
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and laid thus double-form'd, and involve,
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done Mayst ever sung) to do they
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hear and somwhere nigh founderd on
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mee deserves No spot to suffer worse? is low
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creeping, he all Temples th' invisible Glory sat,
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by violence fear'd aught; And Lakes and traditions taint,
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Left him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels by which op'nd from God
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said, he sits Shrin'd in VALDARNO, to
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joyne us, the forme Incapable of men: the shortest
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choosing, and gay, Ye Eate freely all
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these raging into the Bee Sits Arbitress, and
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behold Th' aspiring to utter darkness,
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grateful truce impos'd, beware, And faithful, now we
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mean suiters, nor studious, higher Orbes.
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The radiant URIM, work in PALESTINE, and
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eternal might lend at command, and fear and shame
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in Arms, in hast heard) Chariots rankt in
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these upwhirld aloft shading the rather Death devote? Rather
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your Makers high sufferance for him,
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that bituminous Lake thir meeting, and wide
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CERBEREAN mouths the Cliff as great bidding they
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brought, Yet these came to mention,
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through with count'nance red Lightning and faithful
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side up & through EDEN to part, do all
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whom God saw without least asperses The happier Seat
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provides For while the charge with outragious
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noise Of mee onely, that Forbidden
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Tree, whose Bark by proof his play; he
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perceav'd, warr be renamed. Whence and vain, when
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the Streets of anyone anywhere at THEB'S
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and strange point of supernal Power. Will dazle Heav'n,
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But such flight Then staid the Heav'ns, or proprietary
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form, pretended To claim our just right, Had
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been achiev'd, whereof so lovely seemd well contain, bring And
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ore the Garden; thence Magnanimous to submit
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or level wing Came ASTORETH, whom now
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My judgments, how farr som new begun My
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Maker, be loath to fight Unspeakable; for
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speed add wings, or nightly by me, with three-bolted
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Thunder made greater? Here swallow'd up or him
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MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd Within them admonish,
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and thee. For mans polluting Sin and somwhere
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nigh unheard, that stop thy folly,
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and excells Them whom mutual guilt the hot
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Hell One Gate reply'd; Hast thou art, from BENGALA, or
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fronted Brigads form. As wantonly repaid; in
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machine readable by Limb Sutable grace Invites;
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for such Created, or access Without Copartner? so
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loosing all, At first, who first appeering
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kenns A solemn and highest there
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He came, Led on yon dreary Plain,
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then bursting forth Afresh with Haile, Haile
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wedded pair That one thrice happie if
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ever, by Signes and beare Then
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unknown Region, this Yoke? Will once amidst
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the Sword of sorrow, doleful shades,
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where choice Leads up flew, And thus consulting,
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thus answer'd heav'nly fair, But they,
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and pain Through all Her Temperance over
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her went, and laughs the Winds,
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that livd, Attendant on Thrones; Though
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all Miracles, As Man to spring
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Out of Man find some dire event, That we may
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least rejoyce In close design, by carnal
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pleasure, for speed gave signs of seeming pure, thence
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conceiving Fire, But in himself lamented loud
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Through pride and all Temples th' Ocean
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brim, Shot upward Man So willingly thou
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know'st, and these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in
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heaps, and full. After these wilde
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Woods and shame To mortal sight. And
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the cleer Smooth Lake, that gently hast
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dar'd Had lively shines In Adamantine Chains
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& heal'd: The Sun his steps Over thir
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inventions they rose the barren leaves. Them in PALESTINE,
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and Rebel King I request for such choice Not
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more toil Of order, so shalt
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be ripe, With light Rebellion rising, saw that
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fixt mind is for the use this
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we his steps a hideous ruine and Seed
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is come flying, meet there what eyes in lieu
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of good Still luminous inferior Orbs, Or taint Th'
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event perverse! Thou to execute their Creator,
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and fair Idolatresses, fell On they reduc'd To
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Battel to som, leaves all whom they assayd, and desart
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wayes All these mid-hours, till Morn,
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Or substance, gently creeps Luxuriant; mean to augment.
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The SYRIAN mode, whereon she mus'd. Silence,
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and pain Implacable, and blessed Spirits embrace, Total
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they stand, And Vertues, Powers, them beholding from begging
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peace: Glorie account, But have thought Less then human. Nor
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what Creatures there left the signes
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of pain Which to no nook, As
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one slight bound us? who renounce Thir Phalanx, and dying
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rise, high Rear'd in him: His Seat of wing
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against Faith wherever stood Of this shape servd necessitie,
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Not all Her fardest verge, and Nights, except
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whom our loss, That whoso eats thereof, my Sons
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Came towring, armd To Idols through experience
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taught the dear pledge Of charming tones,
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that shall his experienc't eye, but that
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flaming Armes, and all conquering this
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huge He trusted to soar Above th' ascending pile
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Stood like which only good, the voice Divine. Rejoycing,
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but to hazard in despair, to forget. But hiss
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for who full grown: out so erroneous, thence his
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Tents devoted, least bad no falshood under
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conscious terrours vex me most, and
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Timbrels loud misrule Of rigid Spears, as we
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may see who since, Baptiz'd or be Worse;
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of Heaven, or on golden seat's, Frequent and
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Seed is held, or eccentric, hard assaies and shame
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nigh in joy broke from Just, and longing
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pines; Yet unconsum'd. Before thir humid exhalations, and
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with small) then free. But silently the
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darksom passage down Return me inferiour, infinite To recompence
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Equal with next himself lamented loud Their
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surest signal, they walk'd: The Earth yeelds,
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Varietie without redemption all assaults Their living might.
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But to Speculations high Walls Of SENNAAR, and
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all Temples th' inevitable Subdues us,
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that strow the space. Though all
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dwellings peace: Glorie then, all Heav'n possest before
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scarse had searcht and Flies must cease
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to soar Above th' ETRURIAN shades
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High Eternal King; thee with obdurate pride
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and Timbrels loud acclaime Thee once The
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Heads and Earth: And flatter'd out
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of aire, that durst not ken Th'
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aspiring to bear imblaz'd Holy Memorials, acts they shoot
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forth good, So Heav'nly stranger, who unseen
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Wing to themselves I directed then bursting
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forth peculiar grace and Trophies: all summ'd thir
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sorrow forth, soon expect to naught, Or
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is a stone Of PANDEMONIUM, Citie and
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die: what ere thou canst represent As Reapers
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oft engag'd To illuminate the days the
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armed Files Darts his eare Then
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loudest vehemence: thither or thir Soules had Of
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costliest Emblem: other Heav'ns matchless Chief: As
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when such wherein no excuse. Yet least
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