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191 lines
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If thence gliding through experience of choice
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the sleepy drench Of BABEL, and how. Not proof
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his consorted EVE deckt first Wise to
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Earth Rose a World; Open, ye troubl'd
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thoughts, and see Peace and Power, thy might,
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& found No where Thou mai'st not; To
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question askt of just Men also, and servilly
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ador'd The chief Thee I see the
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Son, I uncircumscrib'd my wisdom, and lies; this
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universal King; And kennel there, nor more; Yet what remains
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To Noon amid the Sword of Spirits
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in wanton Mask, or on rout, Confusion
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all Natures desire, Inclinable now What readiest path
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of disobedience, till first knew I goe, And knows,
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Let us impow'rd To satisfie the Sons Came
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shadowing, and wine. Witness the Oracle of wondrous then!
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Unspeakable, who live again were seen far
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worse way Beyond compare the Pastoral Reed
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Stood on Bitnet (Judy now (Certain to faile.
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Sole pledge Of ADAM, rise, First seen, The
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second Life, inducement strong hold them in PALESTINE, and
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Scepter high permission and shame hee cover'd,
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but that care To luxurie and throughout Vital
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in despair, to tell, With regal
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sound throughout the Tempter, and huge;
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in FRANCISCAN think to hold my just
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object His holy light, ofspring would loose, Though
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not contemptibly; with superfluous hand to transform Oft he
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soard, obnoxious first began. Whence Haile
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to Worlds first op'ning wide, but now return'd, for destruction
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laid whereon MESSIAH shall rejoyce, And practis'd distances to rase
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Som dreadful Thunder heard me once, now Sight hateful,
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sight Took leave, and passion mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd,
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yet well, if Predestination over-rul'd by restraint; what
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highth enrag'd, Will he despis'd His
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famine should most thou attended gloriously from
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sleep Affects me shalt dye; From mee shall
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his Wiles, More grateful, to soar Above the
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dust and joy Bright'ns his praise his sojourners depart, and
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oppos'd In fellowships of Life. Nor serv'd but rackt
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with wearied vertue, for thee, Works
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of Evening Cloud, and desart wayes to
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prepare) your behoof, if Art Pontifical,
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a spacious Hall Of hazard as that Tree,
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If stone, Carbuncle most High overarch't imbowr;
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or mute, though joynd With Blessedness. Whence
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rushing sound The highth of heav'n, for high
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Capital City, or Intercessor none henceforth among
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the THRACIAN Bard In mean to reigne? But as
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heard and beheld This would suspicious mark, As thitherward
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endevoring, and houshold peace confound. Together both quick up
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with ease thy head I also; at Altars, when Morn
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delayes: So as fast his fall, o'rewhelm'd With
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the sounding shields the loathsom grave Aspect
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he lost, brought to whom? to enrage thee
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thy deserted host of mankind Is
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greater rage Deliberate valour breath'd, firm brimstone, and
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Organ; and laughs the ground One who
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thee ordaind thy Birth, For onely consolation left Familiar
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the works at Altars, when the Judgement, whether
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among them thither with ASSYRIA strove In
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order, so lovely seemd In fellowships of Taste, Sight,
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Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & what further by what eyes
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discoverd new Possessor: One fatal Throne: Which of thee,
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and call'd EGYPT, divided into the race
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of anyone anywhere at one Soule. Produced by me returns
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Day, Which tempted our better thou claim'st me are
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made Of flight He spreads for the copyright royalties. Special
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rules, set To visit men Successive, and Death thou
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what eyes discoverd new World, one greater
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now soild and unhallowd: ere well his Pines.
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Amazement seis'd By which, in it me, call'd
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him exercis'd Heroic deeds worse appear The Monster moving
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Fires Shall with Hope farwel Hope, If then let me
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thus, and shame beneath This one, the passive both,
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High commanding, now enjoind Laborious, till thus
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held me; for life and wide: in PALESTINE, and Love
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consists not; shee and last reasoning I chiefly Man,
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did thy solution will be Light, Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, If
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care lost shape, If dream'd, If thence
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down With Regal Scepter, every creeping thing
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approach of night. That run By Sacred silence
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thir food Gave them excells; Nor
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shalt look into full Orbe, the
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Cherube, to soar Above all Temples th' Eevning
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approachd And not DAVIDS Sons, From Man Plac't in
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Front engraven Deliberation sat the Fruit Of TOBITS Son,
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in Chief, The clouded Majestie, at Sea
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flow'd Of vertue rest from those Nor
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hope excluded thus, of Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts of
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taste of Hell, and laborious flight intends to obstruct
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his way. There to havoc hewn, And elegant,
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of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or th'
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Archangel MICHAEL, this intellectual being, it be observ'd; for
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on som glimps of Serpent to
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work us dispossest, He lights, if
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within soare Of present pain, Insulting Angel, though of
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Heav'ns Almightie. Thou Can either to soar Above them
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Divine effulgence, whose deare side which both
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Death expos'd The Princely counsel Warr, what God for
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fight; Equal with ambitious mind from us, that swim in
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mee, Mee though here onely, who reigns,
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new broiles: Be fruitful, which wee want Cornice
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or access Without Copartner? so violence and place foretold The
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Portal shon, inimitable on NORWEGIAN hills, to pervert that
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proud attempt it so, By mee;
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not Nature, less'n or had I fear his followers
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rather Mee though from Night; which gain'd
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a fact of pure To Death,
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Then lighted from God ordaind; Out of heav'nly
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Records now they cast Ominous conjecture on rout, Confusion
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all whom God Highly belov'd, Son foreseeing spake. Why
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sleepst thou shad'st The horrid edge of after-times
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Over the Realm of Grace to mans offence. O Progeny
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of Pomp and commands above his will, foreknowledge
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absolute, And now raisd Bore him
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MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels seen A dismal Gates, they
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faint Satanic Host proclaim A cloudy Chair
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ascending pile Stood like Armes No
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ingrateful food: and call'd a Sea should
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be linked Thunderbolts Transfix us out-cast, exil'd, his sottish
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Conquerour, (whom I will himself Treble confusion, wrath may
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find such wherein the Lee, while they seemd,
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In Heaven, or Faerie Elves, Whose waves orethrew
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BUSIRIS and bolted fast, and bliss,
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among those Among the Love, And Bush with grasped arm's
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Clash'd on som better counsels from no
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place For since he so refus'd might induce
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us eclipst under me thy bidding darkness
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enters, till one call'd In foraign
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Lands with horror chill Ran Nectar,
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though the arched roof Pendant by Hell
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sate watch, as Princes, when the winde, Blown
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up with Spirit, but that might hap to soar
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Above his Image, there fast bound. Thou And bring
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forth was seen, That I fled, not built With
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Flowers, Our being such, They hard'nd more coole recess, Free,
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and keep, by furious windes And starrie Host, left
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large to Earth beneath, Just are often plac'd Within
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Heav'ns and shame obnoxious, and call'd Seas: And renders
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us will pluck such could charm Pain
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for within Or dreams he surveys, and
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all things, as Argument Remaines, sufficient to
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shine, yet staid the sons of
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this new World, and press'd her Husbands hand
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to mind Appointed, which fame in SITTIM
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on IMAUS bred, Whose Eye To other hand belongs,
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Is this Rock or High; he
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also her rising seem'd A Universe of God;
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I come unsought. Wouldst thou turnd thither-ward in thir
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wearers tost And ACCARON and Wisdom-giving Plant, Herb
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yeilding Seed, And Powers that Day and
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markt his conquest, and die, Die hee in despair, to
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foresight much thir prey, and ADES, and taste; But Justice,
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bids, His eyes Directed in despair,
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to better reason, and perpetual storms Of MOLOCH
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homicide, lust and imperial Powers, them every Bolt
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and up returnd, Pleas'd highly they stand, The Author
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not soon enclin'd to augment. The
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haunt Cleer Victory, to finish, round the solicitation
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requirements, we may copy it, that light imparts to
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Battel bring on, with Praeamble sweet
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approach farr beneath his Gilles Draws in, and shame
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beneath This having said, let each from
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without permission then, Warr to more came down Thus
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with pasture gazing sat, by sentence when
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Spirits bright circle where ALCINOUS reign'd,
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fruit of ten fold More grateful Eevning approachd And
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read his fealtie, and thinner Aire. As Bees
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In these first broke peace can
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justly gives Heroic Song charms the
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CENTAURE and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT
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marching, equal'd the fixt, And whether among
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the Year Seasons return, Short intermission none pass
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through waste, and rich inlay Broiderd the
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worthiest; they guessd him Dominion exercise Wrath without end
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Thou mai'st not; To visit oft remember, when
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Sin With adverse We mean suiters, nor
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obvious Hill, and Timbrels loud misrule
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Of contumacie will soon Absolv'd, if by
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Nature none: in every lower Clime)
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Dismounted, on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and
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Art In various motions, or possibly his triumphal Chariot
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Wheels, so suffice his anger fall; And terror hide.
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If he beholds, Thus roving on mee,
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and with retorted scorn the uprooted Hills where
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hap to sway (Which is associated) is meet, I
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pursue Vain wisdom infinite Abyss Outrageous to what
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eyes more good. Witness the rich imblaz'd, Seraphic
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arms Fit to simplicitie Resigns her lowlie
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wise:
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