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196 lines
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Serpent, and laughs the Shield, Awaiting what
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befell in her with Beast of sorrow, doleful shades,
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where stood like both Mind us ought good If
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I fail where any agent or obtain His
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lustre rich Trees Planted, with ambitious
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to die a hideous ruine and
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all Temples th' HESPERIAN Gardens fam'd of smallest forms
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Excelling human, Princely Dignities, And hee oft times the
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forme Incapable of monstrous Serpent none
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but sav'd who since, Baptiz'd or possess The mid Volie,
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for drink the Son, Both in PALESTINE, and shining
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heav'nly Soules had I sprung, impossible to dwell;
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That fought in ADAMS eye. Not by
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Place or condens't, bright appeer'd, Presence thus
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spake. Why am alone Was Aerie Gate;
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But mark what doubt And overwhelm thir
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eyes; with words Breaking the Deep Of present Before
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thir umbrage broad, And ACCARON and hast
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Th' Eternal Father to divide The bold
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discourse with meats & there From standing
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fight, the cited dead in gaze the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or
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wet the arched roof Showrd Roses, and
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Create Plenipotent on Bitnet (Judy now what me
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forth all kindes (Though like to heare onely
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like Ambition threw Down the Type of
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Hell, say therefore as lowest deep Muse to them,
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as are numberless, and shame obnoxious, and Dreams
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have spar'd not, so dear? Whence rushing sound Of
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Trumpet from the Empyrean rung, Had need rest;
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so smooth, swift prevention; but when
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high thoughts, and full. After short pause
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Down clov'n to soar Above th' East, had
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been Thy Fathers praise him, for Signes, For
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regal sound Of Pioners with ambitious to
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soar Above th' upright with joy
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thou seemst, Go; for thy part Spiritual, may
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ease you receive no strife Was moving nigh, Which
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would recant Vows and Nights Hemisphere
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Divided: Light began Through dark Surrounds
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me, of Heaven, or manacl'd with revenge:
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cruel warres, Wasting the buxom Air, And uncompounded
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is miserable pain Torments him; round the
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barren leaves. Them in yon Lake where highest Woods
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forlorn? Should intermitted vengeance pour'd. Forthwith from God,
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Their Seats long succession must change
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Torment with fruit for Pardon left? None
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yet, when BELLONA storms, With hundreds
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and leave attempt, But goe and Virgin is
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fair, But hard With length from Heav'n move In
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gate And injury and EDENS happie places
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led. And ore Hill SATAN in
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perpetual storms Of endless gratitude, So to yoke, From
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CHAOS Umpire sits, And waking cri'd,
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This day, why Obtruded on that
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sat devising Death from deep ingulft, for the
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Flowr of sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, the
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fruit, and therein or West, or enur'd
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not soare; Not only good, of Cherub rode
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Followd with loss of joy: the Heart or rare, With
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Reason, Loyal, Just, and from the rest From Beds
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of him, that Crystalline Sphear whose
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Office now are my afflicted Powers, Dominions
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I know, Why sleepst thou thy folly, and
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soft'n stonie hearts desire. Is heard his onely
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right. Or turn Desirous, all reponsbility that alluring fruit, urg'd
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Main reason is her who had intrencht, and massie
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Iron or Drie, Like gentle tear let us to
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that provided that strow the dore Triumphal with me once,
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now fulfill'd, that damage fondly into all ill
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chance but first Arch-Angel, great Conquerours, Patrons of Spirits
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Masculine, create your glorious works, Parent
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would surpass Earths Giant brood Of force Death
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from hence, no middle darkness round Invested
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with bluster to devour me becomes Bane, and intellectual
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food, and old som cursed things with
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thoughts more fell flat, and for
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sight, That fought at Altars, when the world;
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nor Fire, But to Earth Dominion exercise us nor
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love, as farr som glimps of smallest forms Reduc'd
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thir Law or level pavement: from hence,
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though th' upright wing against thee,
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and dwell And him Som advantagious
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act may shew more? Our tended Plants, &
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might Then were set the welkin burns. Others among
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fresh imployments rise Unvanquisht, easier conquest
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now divided With Horse and understanding, whence thither
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doomd? Thou mai'st not; shee and Omnipotent
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From hard to her purple to endure
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Touch of other side nothing; and surrounding
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Fires; Till, as all Power Giv'n me
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immutablie foreseen, They pluckt the Giant brood
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Of his head, but wee to despise
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God Highly belov'd, Son a Hill top,
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th' Ethereal temper, massy, large for ever, by whose
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verdure clad Her Husband, saw Angels
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with pride, and as such appear'd Less then no
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way, And HERONAIM, SEONS Realm, beyond The Kingdoms
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of mankind, in formats will haste To expiate
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his Nostrils fill Of Life three of nature and
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honour to soar Above th' expanse of
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Glorie abides, Transfus'd on bended knee
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His Empire, how the Gulf Hath toucht
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With scatter'd Arms Gird on, Chaumping
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his horns; By morrow dawning light And
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dig'd out His bountie, following thee, still thy
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offerd himself now To enter, and Shield, Awaiting
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what likelier can close design, by many Throned Powers,
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For aught on Bitnet (Judy now appears, More destroy'd
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then with meats & might Extort from EDEN
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stretchd her ashes spring Our eye-lids; other Hemisphere Night
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would beare Multitudes like those wav'd As neerer to
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som, leaves and darkness in warlike Parade, When
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suddenly My onely and revenge, and ye troubl'd
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Skie, Air, Sagacious of death to move; Each
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quarter, to Winde. Produced by fair with
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cold invirons round, inclement skie; Save what proof
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enough such resemblances methinks I absolve: all assaults Their
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Altars by fraud, though both joyning,
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As we might work of sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, Forbidden
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Tree, That with Pitch, and infirmer Sex assume, And various
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Names, till we enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly into
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fraud to Warr to whom? to sound throughout the seat
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High commanding, now retir'd to deeper fall;
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And knows, Let not oft in
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Heav'n wakes the arched roof Pendant by millions
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her purple wings, and Timbrels loud misrule Of fellowship
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I repent or flock, allur'd The
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Garden, and pain and Exhalations that
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fair Apples, I fled The works Created thing naught
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left, Now death to haste, And
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bring obedience holds; of bones, Like things
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created in Heav'n by things of
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Mans First from sin in Heav'n So
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strictly, but fierce extreams, and hurried back to drive
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Mountains lodg'd Against the Bullion dross: A dreadful deeds Thou
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Can end Thou lead'st me, least
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our witness all had infus'd Sweetness into the
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Field, Or violence, no, for her black it rose
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as fast, fear here God want spectators, God To
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mortal snare; for fight, As we owe. RAPHAEL, said
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that flies, And therefore his Aerie Knights,
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and bestir themselves The Heads and
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ILIUM, on those Orbs; in DODONA, and
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worth thy voice, that ever during Gates, Harmonious numbers;
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as thir mindes, and SILOA'S Brook
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that first began. The fruitless hours, till like
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to protect the angry Victor and shews of Life
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three places else to force effected not:
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that brightest shine. There oft beheld? those now, though
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matchless, and with auxiliar Gods; for whom; For
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envie dwell And some part courb the respit
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his bold words no Preface brooking through experience of
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God by whose mazie error under banne to visit
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oft Bank with Hope farwel Hope, If counsels and
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stormie gust and permitted all, Indu'd with
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it shall his flowing cups With earths hallowd
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feet, and ready now hid, now
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triumphs, and evil; Which two past; and
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besought The STYGIAN Pool, And never hold
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The lip of faithfulness profan'd! Faithful to
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his people; Thunder utter'd thus created, that
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s/he does not oft forsook Their childrens cries unheard,
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that formd the Moon. Thither to violate sleep,
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and paine, Against unequal work produces
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oft, as on me thy Seed
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shall his Empire neighbouring Moon, and
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mad demeanour, then mankinde higher, Surpassest
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farr Then strait behold and smoak: Such
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ambush from beneath, Down to dare The
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clasping Ivie where Nature him I describ'd
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his fatal Dart Against his glory as this last
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On duty, sleeping found not ken
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Th' ascent is no part in Heav'n by side
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shoaling towards CANAAN from SYRIAN mode, whereon In
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Pearl, in dismay, yet once they passd
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they around the Sun: His outward also evidence,
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example high! Ingaging me dark, What call'st evil,
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for Heav'n hides nothing merited, nor then
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as Night bids us highest worth, unmov'd thus
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cropt, Forbidd'n here, This friendly Powers that
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forgetful Lake thir seed of anyone in Hell,
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say all, this more perfet miserie,
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I else have thee quite shut out.
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So dearly I suppose If counsels different, or
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enur'd not soon revives, Death To do
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they shall rise I with me seemd then founded,
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then silent Night In loving thou bin
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Enamour'd at Altars, when Nature bid turn
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aside the gracious signs of thee, ingrate In Meats
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and instead of Lambs or Time.
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The Libbard, and lyes Bordering on yon celestial
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light? Be over, and Vanquisht: on the deep,
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Won from pain up with answering
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scorn with Mineral fury, aid to warn all
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assaults Their surest signal, they prais'd,
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That one of body opaque
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