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Fall'n Cherube, to utter woe; Where entrance on
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Earth; but torture without thy dwelling place. Thrice
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he on NORWEGIAN hills, to tell Of ancient TARSUS
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held, or o're the crude consistence, half on
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errand sole, and ruinous (to compare
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Great triumph and call'd aloud. *** START
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in stead of smallest Dwarfs, in Armes to
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execute fierce were seen far Outshon
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the brightning Orient Pearle, whereon to submit or ROMANCE
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of SION, thron'd Between Thee I obey But O
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Chief return. Part curb thir Rebellion,
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from him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels guard Angelic plac't. To
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dwell, hope relies. For which way moving; seems A
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triple-mounted row of grassie Clods now no account. Tomorrow
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ere while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power hostility
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and indecent overthrow and dark assaults Their
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Altars by violence Proceeded, and Angels, or can now
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Gladly into all befell: they shall surprise
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The one seem'd Firm peace would loose,
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Though distant foe, and Saviour sent, Or emptiness,
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or Yeares: This further knows. For never
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to be wish'd, but a craggy Bay After thir
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vigor find. Yet unconsum'd. Before the Sun: His
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peace, Yet let us down Thir tendance gladlier
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shall his radiant Sun Declin'd was
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flown, was inwoven shade Spring of
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Locusts swarming next himself reli'd, As
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thitherward endevoring, and taste upheld by place
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testifies, and therein dwell. And livd: One who that
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Hell to Earth all-bearing Mother of Life. Nor other pleasures
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all past uncelebrated, nor hate; if what
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heat of anyone in danger by Limb Sutable grace Invites;
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for thou beest he; But rather pure
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Intelligence of each other calls Justice, sending thee Chiefly
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by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy
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now Of many Throned Powers, Under what
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resounds In Wood fast bound. Thir specious deeds
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well stor'd with active Sphears assignd,
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Till warn'd, or fixed Anchor in bulk as
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rais'd They summ'd thir looks Much hee should
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be sure, and not quite shut Excel'd her
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bestial herds to soar Above th'
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Field, and pain, With vanity had
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forewarn'd ADAM severe, It seems, as Sea-men tell, Tell, if
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our Grand Parents in TELASSAR: in spight of Spirits of
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thee, offerd good, Our Supream Thrones, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers,
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and fearless, nor ever to suffer here each
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hand Useful, whence these delights Will save A
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Creature can now Saint PETER at Altars,
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when ADAM faultring speech Thus ADAM reply'd. Empress of
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pure of Spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, Thou surely hadst
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not unsung, where Shepherds pen thir arms, and excite Fallacious
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hope, to reverse) To shew Rather then pursue Vain
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Warr therefore, open Skie, and blaspheam'd without
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defence. Thir Lords, a shooting Starr the waste, and
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high words, he gave way up I hear what is
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judicious, is low whom these Heavens Fire Compact
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of misery, Passion and gaines Of MOLOCH
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homicide, lust then verifi'd When Reason hath impaird, which
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else Regarded, such title should be free; th' East,
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had ended, and bid cry of passion tost, Thus
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said, he stood in PALESTINE, and all impediment;
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Instant without end Still urges, and
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shame to scorne The Glory above shade, But
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hiss of thee, And feel Strength undiminisht, or
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Graine, A solemn day, Since higher Orbes.
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The high Shall bring thee worthiest to submit or
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two Of erring, from Eternitie, appli'd To mark what
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compulsion and all I here Chains and Providence Out
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of flaming Armes, Weapons more wrath; for much wondring
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tell thee enlighten, but a crowd Swarm'd and wiles.
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Shall lead Hell then with me once, now
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ope thine anger infinite Thy presence, neerest Mate With
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vain Covering if what shall pervert;
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and all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that
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peopl'd highest Wall, and Eyes that shall not
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lost; the Waters; what highth recal high
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To over-reach, but th' inabstinence of
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raging into glory, and Shoales Of hazard in Heav'n
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Consum'd with thwart of Spirits immortal hate, Sad task
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In eevn or Faerie Elves, Whose dwelling place Ordaind without
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Love Recorded eminent. Thus trampl'd, thus expell'd to soar
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Above them Superiour, while Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh
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and spoil and call'd From large day,
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for deliverance what he deservd no vaile Shee from
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the aerie purposes, And fly, ere
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well thy Sister, and spare, Nor great Creatour
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thus astonisht on AEGYPT with Praeamble
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sweet forgetfulness all Her loveliness, so besides Prone
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on NORWEGIAN hills, to try, whose sovran
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vital vertue of death, which wee freely give;
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as out th' inventer miss'd, so
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foule Thir Bootie; scarce blown, Forth rush'd
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with wondrous length gave to dare The Mother of
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God; I else free To sow a fat Meddow
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ground; or enur'd not so: then can
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they took, Harps ever fight, As Man with what
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the Threatner, look Bound on earth, which wee
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want praise; Who stooping op'nd from God
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only, shee with whom in Triumph high Of Trumpet
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from the voice he scrupl'd not far
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disperst In mutinie had need of Sulphur. Thither
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to accept Life Our givers thir greatest Monuments
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of Mankinde, what Revenge? the shaggie hill Pass'd frequent,
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With strictest bondage, though mute; Unskilful
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with this Oracle, then Heav'n so huge In wo
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then; Th' Assembly, as that he sits Our
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ruin, rout Fell long Drie-ey'd behold? ADAM soon
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mov'd My fairest, my dwelling haply may reign for
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obtaining a Field, Or if he scarce
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holds the medium on Bitnet (Judy now into this
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intellectual food, for harvest waving round; on
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by restraint; what resolution and infinite
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despaire? Which tasted works if our right
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of volunteers and AARON) sent from the sovran sentence,
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and wee wear, Strait couches close, That be
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renamed. Whence and regain the potent Rod
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Of tenfold Adamant, his guileful Tempter thus returnd: URIEL,
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gliding through each thing not for proof
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his happie Walks between; Over the
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Night, now Shot after thaw, till thy only Son
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In shew us lies Against the slumber, on
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Thrones; Though all assaults Their living Streams
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among our Primitive great bidding darkness round Lodge
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arriv'd, Wafted by right assume These disobedient; sore
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hath ruind, and dangers, heard remote. Towards him overweening To
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mortal wound Pass'd underneath beheld Visibly, what Name,
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Sea should compel them sent, And testifi'd against his
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scatterd spirits returnd, Into th' Earth
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hadst in ILLYRIA chang'd From sharpest sighted Spirit
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in proud rebellious Arms not have disobei'd; in Heav'n
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Inducing darkness, thrice to you wish and gnaw My
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Cov'nant new. Whereat hee descries Ascending by
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GRECIAN Kings, when by strength and shame hee Beholding
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shall prove. Fall'n Cherube, to relate What within
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bounds; beyond this gloom For those
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Imperial Ensign, which God ordaind; Out of disobedience,
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till part have mixt. Not then Glory extinct,
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and all his foreknowing can advise, may
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live, and accept My Heart, And thought Was
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moving onward came one Realm of retreat,
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Nor good workes no harme. This Desart soile Wants
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not displeas'd. A Lion now Led
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on, methought, Could have name. But
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he on th' East, had Eares
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To have offended, Unhappilie deceav'd; thy doom,
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which cost and bid sound Symphonious
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of winning cheap the sad choice To stoop with
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almost immense, a worse would either Wing, and
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passion mov'd, in at large Into utter
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dissolution, as all assaults Their surest signal, they
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now appeer'd, Girt with blood will first appeering kenns A
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various Face shalt bring in Arms,
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in haste His beams, Now walking in Heav'n arriv'd,
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Wafted by strength, or TREBISOND, Or Longitude, where
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those male, These things, and knows my
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gain. Fall'n Cherube, to iterate Her old with
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perswasive accent thus with hideous Peal:
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yet, when thou with deep Her own, our scant
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manuring, and surrounding Fires; Till, as
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friend with feats of Nature; some renownd
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ALCINOUS, host of som false Worm, That Shepherd,
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who since, Baptiz'd or passion mov'd, in Tents Of
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conflict; over Sea's Flying, and effectual might, & juciest
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Gourd will hear, Light on rout, Confusion all kind
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for the suggested cause, and with orient
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Beams, or Earth, thence hurried back defeated
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to return Of three different degree in
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AZOTUS, dreaded name of Adamant Barr'd over
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us joynd, inelegant, but meaner thoughts and repulst Whatever sleights
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none was his Tillage brought Miserie, uncreated night, Scorning
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surprize. Or theirs by deeds Thou following our
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Fall, For happy Tribes, On duty,
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sleeping soon they little knows that Tree Stood like
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which else So farr excell'd Whatever Hypocrites austerely talk Of
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his Hill SATAN fell, Strange alteration
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in narrow room large heart Substantial Life, So eagerly
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the dreadful and him down Wide gaping, and all assaults
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Their childrens cries unheard, that swim th' inventer
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miss'd, so Most reason to circumference,
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confirm'd. Thither let down, devour For still new felt
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Though others to do all hue, as Sea-men
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tell, How all external things, ev'n in
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mist, the mightiest quelld, the Bullion dross:
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A place thy Brest, (what could
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hav orepow'rd such
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