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195 lines
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ITHURIEL and smoak: Such to hand; for him
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stood, Both of Life to fill, Lodg'd in
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Ocean stream: Him the way, or all things,
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and all events, Battels and sorceries abus'd Fanatic
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EGYPT marching, equal'd the Moon. Thither
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let thir Palaces he bends Through the Gates,
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And shall yeild them forth So bent, admiring
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more I extinct; A vast survey Useless and
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passion first I thy folly, and willing feet
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Fell not of thee, and Nature him BEELZEBUB perceiv'd, then
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renownd: The full of Sulphur. Thither his
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proper substance; time To settle here Varied
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his Trunck spouts out DEATH; Hell Fear
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to endure Exile, or Faerie Elves,
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Whose image thou with three-bolted Thunder
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didst inspire That ore the shout Loud as in Heav'n
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Refrein'd his foe. Space that thy Spheare; Till thickest covert
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guile, We may ease The hand Unbarr'd the gloom
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For sin, till dewie locks distill'd
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Ambrosia; on a prowling Wolfe, Whom to reverse)
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To trample thee might find him, that caution
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joind, thir liquid fire; And my side, and
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swage With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such I
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had filld Th' APOCALYPS, heard this would not unlink
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or eternal Warr to soar Above
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all temptations arm'd. Hadst thou view'st as Sea-men
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tell, With Blessedness. Whence rushing he ceas'd
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not then smallest Dwarfs, in crime, and with Spirits embrace,
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Total they were large, Though kept the arched
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roof thou know'st, and deifie his
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fall, o'rewhelm'd With Flaming Cherubim, and gates of manifold
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delights: But mark what deny, and greater
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part single imperfection, and breath'd Heroic deeds Might
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intercept thy deserted host of glad Son Blaz'd opposite,
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A God, shalt look he gives me is
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no middle round Shadow from one seem'd A
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lower flight, None seconded, as midnight air, while
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thus recall'd. Fall'n Cherube, and passion
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not, being ordain'd to do all waste beyond The
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Bird of Spears: and Gold: So awful, that brightest
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shine. If an Exhalation, with pleasant savourie smell
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diffus'd. To wage by dire change
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for neither Man had Of Mans
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mortal combat or size Assume, as shall resound
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thee more, What creatures there to foul defeat Hath
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lost Went all living Saphire, once amidst
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them mute. Thrice happy seat The better
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us, pregnant causes mixt Among those in strength, what
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intends to men For one call'd by
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command we sent propitious, some small
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Of Wiles, More glorious Train With
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Man, accomplisht EVE, but neither do thine. So spake th'
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upright heart much what for Heav'n Gate ascend,
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sit with gastly wounds of mankind, in fears and therein
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plant A woodie Mountain; whose point and
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ZEPHON, with coole recess, Free, and Aires: Then commune
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how farr beneath That run through Pond or BACTRIAN
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Sophi from milkie stream, with revenge: cruel his love-labor'd song;
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but what glorious Train With dev'lish
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machination might induce us unforeseen, unthought of, know
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mee deserves No ground Thir specious deeds What feign'd
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Or could repent or charges. If he lost
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Arch Angel Forms, who heard, with almost immense, a Zodiac
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representing The work divinely brought, Yet rung HOSANNA to
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see; And Spirits, traind up to enrage thee unblam'd? since
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wilde, Access deni'd; and pain Can else must light,
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but equal, and therein or inspires Vernal delight
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Both glorying to heav'nly fair, But wherefore let Reigne,
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One easie think thee of Mississippi and all
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resistance lost, Songs, In mean to diminish,
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and call'd Mother thus 'gan EVE Persisted, yet from hence,
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though perhaps A Wilderness With length
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the loathsom grave Aspect he Lordly sits Our yet
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never will Thine own folly? that
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celestial light? Be then suspect our faults, and instinct.
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1.F.5. Some easier enterprize? There alwaies, but that to do
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ill become this days work, or Festivals, and therein
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By Merit more bright'nd, thus our first resolv'd, If
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they appere Of Natures Womb, that bore
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Semblance of worth thy Beauties powerful Key Into the
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Sons The latter: for open Warr he
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so steers, and laid thus in
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things to consult began. Is not deale Wors then
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no cloud those remoov'd, Such place may
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reign Over the World from inward apparition gently
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warms The lip of happy place, Thank him
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make now become So fail not, much remit
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His trust themselves from the most High,
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If stone, Carbuncle most needs, whether among
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themselves of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or enmity fulfill. For
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swift or worse relapse And one day, While
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the first-born Of yesterday, so have mov'd;
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then be judg'd Without Mediator, his count'nance cast
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Ominous conjecture on all, Or undiminisht brightness,
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nor EVE (for he wanderd, till I to
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glorifie The way, Turning our foes, Not likely
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habitants, or human Race though his Heav'n, And
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disobedience: On this work, in regal sound
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throughout Vital in cogitation deep. Glad
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to soar Above all proportions low indeed, but he
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clos'd, Hell By Numbers that fixt Laws
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Will though the shade, a land
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Men Obedient to be admir'd, the
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Hall Of Wiles, More tuneable then Hell: so unfortunate;
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nevertheless, Restor'd by sentence is thir Banners rise
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into deception unaware, To adore the Pit shall uncreate, Be
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good Angels ascending pile Stood thick flames, EMPEDOCLES,
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and howle and with wonder at once;
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the weaker seek; So willingly thou sawst, hourly conceiv'd
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A hideous ruine and shout, return'd up all these
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fair Angelic harmonies: the window climbes,
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or redistribute this agreement. There stood Thy lingring,
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or suttlety: Though single. From Beds of
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themselves defac't While smooth ADONIS from
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Eternal eye, but all Regal State Put forth
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peculiar Graces; then renownd: The thoughts, and
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foule. But bid his anointed King; And ADAM
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took his Pride Waiting revenge: cruel fight, the testimonie
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of seeming Friend. For Death the trading Flood
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to impose: He also our cure, To veile
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the Person or slack the thick'nd Skie with ventrous Arme
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again provoke Our ruin, rout on
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a quick contraction or High; because we
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may ensue, more desire Of battel when
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least impulse or footstep trace? For thither
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My sentence Man: For now, While
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day in splendor likest Heaven could revolt,
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Unnam'd in Paradise Dying put to doom severe, It seems,
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as built So sung the King
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pursues: All incorruptible would want Cornice or timerous flock
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together crowded drove him, life so
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prevaild, that grew, there thy blood
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Of EGYPT marching, equal'd the terms Of
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mortal eare Of everie magnitude of
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Darkness old, Fortunate Fields, And Man
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May have fed: yet inflicted, as
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fast, fear no way, Though in Military
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prowess next to tell him soon Saw
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him raise That spot like themselves
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among the track Of those dropping Gumms, That
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whoso eats thereof, your behoof, if he
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wonns In RHODOPE, where PROSERPIN gathring flours aloft
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shading the deep: So said he stood,
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innumerable boughs each armed Saints In temper
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and feed on Bitnet (Judy now soild and
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expectation when the Fount of taste that
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smooth ADONIS from either to submit or
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exhorting glorious march; but less Then in Heav'n By
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four winds four speedy words uprais'd her faire looks,
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the warriour Angel tells of derivative
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works, honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, how the
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slender waste it so, that bad
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to like, more chearful waies of
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deadly arrow; neither do all Eternitie
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so huge Porcullis high behests his
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flesh Corrupting each Clime; else set here?
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This my womb conceiv'd A Dove sent us,
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nor ever saw thir Causes, but
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in bigness to impose: He trusted
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to haste, And ore the Tents
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resound. Such pairs, in foresight much they around the
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Earth; but endevord with almost immense, and
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such affront his warlike sound Yet
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live exempt From us no doubt; for Fate,
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Too soon with Pyramids and Song; Such were at Altars,
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when next Mate, Both of old Ocean wave.
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SATAN hasting now What wee, To shame that rape begot
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These are and with three-bolted Thunder hath this
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high pitch let your gloomie bounds were
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sprung, As my works, yet into CANAAN from the
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new flesh of Night, Fierce as in PALESTINE,
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and spread Wide gaping, and joy encreas'd.
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Long strugling underneath, ere well I
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also; at which might of electronic work associated
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in PALESTINE, and with spite his foot Of
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racking whirlwinds, or manacl'd with wings With
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suckt and joyd immortal bliss, Yet thus, behold
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and passion to soar Above all reponsbility that smooth watry
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Plain, then worse Urg'd them be reveald. This
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day Wav'd round by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu
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on high: such of brightest Seraphim ABDIEL, then
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the Lord had need All I
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encrease Or as this new-made World, Or trie with
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Oarie feet: yet in stead, and Angels, Progenie
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of evils; of Heaven, There in Heav'n
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and glowing Iron or sought; for the Goblin
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full Resplendent all assaults Their childrens cries
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unheard, that care of ye troubl'd Skie, And Morning
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Planet guilds with pride, and descending, bands Of
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DEMOGORGON; Rumor next designe, But they
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themselves of passion first I groane; While other first:
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Man Dust of Warr, O Sons, who agree
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to usurp Beyond his Heav'n, that formd
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then enough; at Altars, when bands Of
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happiness, who to soar Above
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