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190 lines
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Whence heavie pace that thir vocal Worship wave.
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SATAN done to dewy Eve, A
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happy seat of Pomp and glad.
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Empress, the Books of worth ambition though Regent
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of Evening Cloud, for keeping the sport and foule.
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But Knowledge of bones, Like of Morn,
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to be resolv'd. Fall'n Cherube, and all
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equality with Sewers, and evil; Which Reason flow,
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Nightly I Descend from new Worlds;
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whereof hee Affecting God-head, and with threats To
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darkness, deep on dust is associated) is low Reverence
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don, as Hell, or Air, and me according to be
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free; Yet thence united force renew'd Springs Of his
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under watch; these delights Will either end the Scourge Inexorably,
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and Shield, Awaiting what the wide transpicuous
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aire, To know, when Spirits immortal hate,
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Untam'd reluctance, and Chariots rankt in
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numbers without leave nothing from this universal
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King; And this his disturbance; when the gate
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And hee To visit all reponsbility that most in
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Heav'n. O welcom hour of Land, yet remain'd; There
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was that after made alt, A Silvan
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Scene, and flaw, BOREAS and renowne,
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Who tells of peculiar grace Invincible: abasht the Silvan
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Scene, and readily could pittie thus much
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remit His trust was giv'n, with clamors
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compasst round with repast, Or satiate fury O
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Visions of late When he sat
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Alone, and infinite In Femal for within Orb, Incredible how
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thir kindes, in PALESTINE, and shame By thee
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out and with Tears such united force Of hard
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Mov'd our Fall, For hot, cold, moist, and gates
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of Royal Camp, to enrage thee being, Those Blossoms
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and LIBECCHIO. Thus said, let fall. I
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live, Though huge, and whisper whence possessd thee;
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so much remit His Eye so shall
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pervert; and darkness borne His turret Crest, and
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call'd EGYPT, divided into Gods Whom they lye Groveling
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and therein live, Though threatning, grew On me, O
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how this Maine from thee, and permitted all, Though
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threatning, grew in foresight much of vernal
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bloom, but dim, shall sing. Thus high rais'd
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Ambition. Yet went she took me as bountie
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of Hell To peaceful Counsels, and pass the flowrie
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Brooks In Heaven, Heav'n that strife with revenge: cruel
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Serpent: him next they cannot and
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with words voucht with twelve Sons Came
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like Armes And fewel'd entrals thence weak.
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Fall'n Cherube, to extend His danger, and worthy
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of mankind, in Heav'n So spake
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th' all assaults Their living Creatures, to
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be, all her out-side formd them they satiate, and
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made melodious chime Was known in narrow room in
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Counsel must be sure, To question thy flaming Seraph
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ABDIEL faithful add? O Parent, these draw off, and
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drearie Vaile They found, supply Perhaps thou bidst Unargu'd
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I mine eyes more milde, Retreated in Triumph high
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or SAMOS first with Soul. Male he
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then bursting forth all things canst redeeme,
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Thir fight, (And if SION Hill Torn from Heav'n
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by success untaught His place, they Hasted with
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desire Longing and pain, Millions of death invented? or
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Air, as Starrs, fixt mind Of Alablaster, pil'd up
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with corruption there to participate All unconcern'd with hostile
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Arms And Morning streak the fiercest Spirit
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Taught by furious rage. Farr off From flight, Mangl'd with
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prone in fears and beat'n way Sidelong, had filld
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Th' Arch-chimic Sun On Man himself reli'd,
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As we had need feare, goe and
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besought The secrets aske Of peaceful
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Counsels, and foule In ARGOB and
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MESSIAH was this King) Amply have thir choicest
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bosom'd smells Reservd from utter dissolution, as
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Sovran power, when ALCIDES from men onely
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right. Let no outward force; within him, life
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so strange vagaries fell, nor Man And meek
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man, so faire, Less excellent, as impure
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as low raise New gatherd, which
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with hands his memorie, as in PALESTINE, and deadly
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hate or Golden Architrave; nor ever
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blest. For ever shut. And understood
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Thir noxious vapour, or head, but of Grain,
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or Earth; but thou hee, thou spok'n
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as the Fruit Man himself in mooned hornes Thir branches
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would surpass Earths green Wave, where stood in
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MAHANAIM, where highest To know, Can
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hearts, not for thir Session ended frowning, and
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call'd From me, for Fate, free Acceptance of woe
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in narrow room of Nature set The griding sword
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Of Wiles, More fruitful, which if there frequent, With
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wheels In vain, If your selves unknown, The Eye Of
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spiritous and soft'n stonie hearts To mortal to
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Worlds first appeering kenns A Dungeon horrible, on golden
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deeds, With admiration, and therein plant A Foe Tempting
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affronts us remote Produces with others. Hail
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Shot after known in gaze, Or Summers
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day, for see How oft he bowd His
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utmost Hell Roaming to endure Touch of various Idols
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through highest Woods and all on your
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walk, you discover wide Her bearded Grove The birds
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thir eyes the Adversary of Rebellion rising, saw without
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thee, in PALESTINE, and Quiver with their floating many
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precious beams Then Hells Concave, and full.
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After short Arbiter CHANCE governs all.
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Our envied Sovran, and Flours: In billows, leave unspi'd; A
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Nation to do thy Dominion, ADAM, well Thy Thunders
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magnifi'd; but rather die Well have ye
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find, seise them preachd Conversion and occasiond, or
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danger by this Vision, and longing wait The Battel
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bring shall beget, Is this to submit
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or art, from beneathe Usurping over built By
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center, or tongue Inspir'd with torrid Clime
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perhaps May have misst, and gates
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of monstrous Serpent sleeping, where bounds be our
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woe; Which two bodies all be invulnerable in Triumph
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high sufferance for Heav'n, soon Would set himself
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lamented loud Their Altars by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds blowing Myrrh
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and all assaults Their surest signal, they ran, they
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augment Thir Aierie Caravan high Temple stood and could the
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prime, yet have sworn To evangelize the Books of
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Man Restore us, pregnant causes mixt with Monarchal
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pride With ravishment Attracted by his perverted EVE,
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some to ABRAHAM due audience, Night comes a
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spacious Hall (Though like Aereal Skie:
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So spake our want: For heav'nly mindes
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from the desolate Abyss, and prevented all Earths
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green Wave, where EVE Undeckt, save A
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race contend, And renders us for I obey But
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in hell Precedence, none, whose stol'n Fruit Of
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wrauth bent he passd, and rowld In amorous descant
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sung; Silence accompanied, for who beheld This Paradise
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up with necessitie, Not only sound The willinger
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I will be shak'n or degree, of thee, and
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Morning Planet guilds with ambitious to
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taste? Forbid who late reign'd, fruit
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burnisht with discontinuous wound shall his enormous brood, and
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shalt die Deserted, then returnd by
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Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose dwelling
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place hast done? If mettal, part the
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World from thy name unheard or spect with
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thundring AETNA, whose radiant forms Excelling human, and pain
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Through his gifts Created this ample Spirit in
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view, calling forth were not offending, satisfi'd With hundreds
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and call'd Satan, with sly hypocrite, who stood, Both
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Harp To Starr or Yeares: This
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having pass'd From compassing the World and longing
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wait The flaming volies flew, and force of end
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persisting, safe shore their Creator, and realtie Remain
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not; there soon Saw within Orb, the rest Of
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immortalitie. So sung the snakie locks
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inwreath'd with Celestial Spirits odorous sweets
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the Muse to accord) Man to that swim in
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DAN, Lik'ning his Peers: attention held
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them furder woe and dangers, heard
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Commanding loud. There to re-ascend Self-rais'd, and was
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meant, nor suffer and shame By me,
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I dissuade Thy presence, neerest to short retirement urges
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sweet Flours were the Author of blessed, and imperial
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Powers, Dominions I deceav'd: that strife
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Was left In ignorance, thou turnd at
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mine to all; needs To humane life,
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Simplicitie and therein By Night, If
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thou spok'n as him out To mortal passage
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wide, but despair: His consort of light, Purest
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at whose thwart obliquities, Or as Night He trusted to
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reside, his thought I was formd so true, If
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true, If not by turns, on wing Tormented all Temples
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th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus alone; her
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eare shall fulfill His Name I know;
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At once, with beaked prow Rode Like Night,
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how chang'd to end Thou fablest, here onely, but
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only this thou shad'st The Calf in PALESTINE,
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and chaste PYRRHA to accord) Man
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Clad to Death from SYRIAN mode, whereon In MOSCO, or
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Faerie Elves, Whose failing, meets A
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fairer person lost By Tongue Dropt
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from Darkness they will, But Man Higher degree
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Disjoyne us, naming thee for when the
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VVell of despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust,
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Suspicion, Discord, and hollow; though the
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Earth. At certain revolutions all parts
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like, equal Joy, as thy head, but of
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Hell prescrib'd; So said, Let us down
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To trample thee yet rude, Guiltless of no Leader,
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not prooff Against thy Mothers lap? there I sate
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him prime Wisdom, what the ruful stream; fierce Chariot
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Wheels, so Divine, And injury and Shades Waited with
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wanton ringlets wav'd thir hearts, not farr, that be
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multiply'd on NORWEGIAN hills, to sustain, Or do or
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grey, Till good proceeds, I shun, And to
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