# Paradise Lost

- Author: [John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md)
- Quotes: 235
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost

## Quotes

> So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd
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> His nostril wide into the murky air,
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> Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

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> Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
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> In every gesture dignity and love.

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> To know
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> That which before us lies in daily life
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> Is the prime wisdom.

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> For now I see
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> Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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> Go in thy native innocence, rely
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> On what thou hast of virtue; summon all!
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> For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

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> The angel ended, and in Adam's ear
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> So charming left his voice that he awhile
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> Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear.

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> A pillar'd shade
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> High overarch'd, and echoing walks between.

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> So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop
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> Into thy mother's lap.

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> In me is no delay; with thee to go,
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> Is to stay here; without thee here to stay,
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> Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me
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> Art all things under heaven, all places thou,
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> Who for my willful crime art banished hence.

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> Thus it shall befall
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> Him who, to worth in women overtrusting,
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> Lets her will rule; restraint she will not brook,
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> And, left to herself, if evil thence ensue,
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> She first his weak indulgence will accuse.

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> There swift return
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> Diurnal, merely to officiate light
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> Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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> I feel
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> The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh,
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> Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
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> Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

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> Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
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> That would be wooed, and not unsought be won.

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> Death...on his pale horse.

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> How gladly would I meet
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> Mortality my sentence, and be earth
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> Insensible! how glad would lay me down
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> As in my mother's lap!

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> The sum of earthly bliss.

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> Smiles from reason flow,
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> To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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> Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.

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> Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue
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> The visual nerve, for he had much to see.

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> The work under our labour grows,
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> Luxurious by restraint.

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> A bevy of fair women.

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> Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st
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> Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven.

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> Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part;
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> Do thou but thine.

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> My unpremeditated verse.

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> God so commanded, and left that command
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> Sole daughter of his voice; the rest, we live
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> Law to ourselves, our reason is our law.

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> Those graceful acts,
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> Those thousand decencies that daily flow
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> From all her words and actions.

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> With a smile that glow'd
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> Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

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> Henceforth I learn that to obey is best,
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> And love with fear the only God; to walk
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> As in his presence; ever to observe
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> His providence; and on him sole depend,
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> Merciful over all his works; with good
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> Still overcoming evil.

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> The evening star,
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> Love's harbinger.

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> Pandemonium, city and proud seat
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> Of Lucifer.

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> Moping melancholy
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> And moon-struck madness.

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> O fairest of creation! last and best
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> Of all God's works! creature in whom excelled
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> Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
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> Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
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> How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,
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> Defaced, deflowered, and now to Death devote?

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> The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.

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> She what was honour knew,
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> And with obsequious majesty approv'd
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> My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower
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> I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven
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> And happy constellations on that hour
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> Shed their selectest influence; the earth
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> Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill;
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> Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs
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> Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings
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> Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

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> Her rash hand in evil hour
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> Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat:
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> Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat,
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> Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe
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> That all was lost.

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> A dismal universal hiss, the sound
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> Of public scorn.

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> Hope elevates, and joy
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> Brightens his crest.

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> And over them triumphant Death his dart
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> Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd.

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> Unless an age too late, or cold
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> Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

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> In her face excuse
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> Came prologue, and apology too prompt.

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> I shall temper so
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> Justice with mercy.

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> Our state cannot be severed; we are one,
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> One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

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> Among unequals what society
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> Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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> Ofttimes nothing profits more
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> Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right
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> Well managed.

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> Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

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> Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon;
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> The world was all before them, where to choose
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> Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
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> They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow
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> Through Eden took their solitary way.

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> Her silent course advance
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> With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps
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> On her soft axle.

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> With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er,
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> Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.

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> Revenge, at first though sweet,
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> Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

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> The brazen throat of war.

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> And feel that I am happier than I know.

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> So gloz'd the tempter.

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> And touch'd by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.

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> At shut of evening flowers.

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> And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

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> Be lowly wise:
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> Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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> So dear I love him, that with him all deaths
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> I could endure, without him live no life.

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> So absolute she seems
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> And in herself complete, so well to know
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> Her own, that what she wills to do or say,
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> Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

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> For solitude sometimes is best society,
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> And short retirement urges sweet return.

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> As one who long in populous city pent,
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> Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.

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> Under his forming hands a creature grew,
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> Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair,
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> That what seemed fair in all the world, seemed now
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> Mean, or in her summed up, in her contained
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> And in her looks; which from that time infused
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> Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before,
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> And into all things from her air inspired
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> The spirit of love and amorous delight.

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> Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?—thus leave
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> Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

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> Not sedulous by Nature to indite
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> Warrs, hitherto the onely Argument
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> Heroic deem'd, chief maistrie to dissect
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> With long and tedious havoc fabl'd Knights
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> In Battels feign'd; the better fortitude
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> Of Patience and Heroic Martyrdom
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> Unsung

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> Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
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> To mould me Man? Did I solicit thee
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> From darkness to promote me?

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> Out of one man a race
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> Of men innumerable.

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> Heaven open'd wide
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> Her ever during gates, harmonious sound,
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> On golden hinges moving.

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> Spirits that live throughout,
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> Vital in every part, not as frail man,
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> In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins,
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> Cannot but by annihilating die.

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> Now half appear'd
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> The tawny lion, pawing to get free
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> His hinder parts.

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> Satan; so call him now, his former name
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> Is heard no more in heaven.

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> Will ye submit your necks, and chuse to bend
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> The supple knee? ye will not, if I trust
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> To know ye right, or if ye know your selves
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> Natives and Sons of Heav'n possest before
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> By none, and if not equal all, yet free,
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> Equally free; for Orders and Degrees
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> Jarr not with liberty, but well consist.
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> Who can in reason then or right assume
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> Monarchie over such as live by right...

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> Nor jealousy
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> Was understood, the injured lover's hell.

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> On heav'nly ground they stood, and from the shore
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> They view'd the vast immeasurable Abyss
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> Outrageous as a Sea, dark, wasteful, wilde,
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> Up from the bottom turn'd by furious windes
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> And surging waves, as Mountains to assault
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> Heav'ns highth, and with the Center mix the Pole.
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> "Silence, ye troubl'd waves, and thou Deep, peace!"
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> Said then th' Omnific Word, "Your discord end!"
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> Nor staid, but on the Wings of Cherubim
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> Uplifted, in Paternal Glorie rode
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> Farr into Chaos, and the World unborn;
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> For Chaos heard his voice: him all his Traine
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> Follow'd in bright procession to behold
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> Creation, and the wonders of his might.
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> Then staid the fervid Wheeles, and in his hand
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> He took the golden Compasses, prepar'd
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> In Gods Eternal store, to circumscribe
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> This Universe, and all created things:
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> One foot he center'd, and the other turn'd
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> Round through the vast profunditie obscure,
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> And said, "Thus farr extend, thus farr thy bounds,
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> This be thy just Circumference, O World!"

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> Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought
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> The better fight, who single hast maintained
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> Against revolted multitudes the cause
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> Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms.

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> In naked beauty more adorn'd,
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> More lovely than Pandora.

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> Hither, as to their fountain, other stars
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> Repairing, in their golden urns draw light.

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> In heavenly spirits could such perverseness dwell?

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> Midnight brought on the dusky hour
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> Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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> The starry cope
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> Of heaven.

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> Eased the putting off
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> These troublesome disguises which we wear.

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> The planets in their stations list'ning stood,
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> While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.
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> Open, ye everlasting gates, they sung,
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> Open ye heavens, your living doors; let in
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> The great Creator from his work returned
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> Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

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> Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
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> Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.

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> A wilderness of sweets.

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> Indu'd
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> With sanctity of reason.

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> Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime
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> Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl,
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> When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep
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> Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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> Still govern thou my song,
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> Urania, and fit audience find, though few.

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> Knowledge forbidd'n?
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> Suspicious, reasonless. Why should thir Lord
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> Envie them that? can it be sin to know,
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> Can it be death? and do they onely stand
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> By Ignorance, is that thir happie state,
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> The proof of thir obedience and thir faith?
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> O fair foundation laid whereon to build
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> Thir ruine! Hence I will excite thir minds
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> With more desire to know, and to reject
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> Envious commands, invented with designe
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> To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt
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> Equal with Gods; aspiring to be such,
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> They taste and die: what likelier can ensue?

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> So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found;
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> Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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> There Leviathan
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> Hugest of living creatures, on the deep
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> Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims,
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> And seems a moving land, and at his gills
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> Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea.

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> Morn,
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> Waked by the circling hours, with rosy hand
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> Unbarred the gates of light.

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> The timely dew of sleep.

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> All seemed well pleased, all seemed but were not all.

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> As Jupiter
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> On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds
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> That shed May flowers.

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> A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
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> And pavement stars,—as stars to thee appear
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> Seen in the galaxy, that milky way
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> Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest
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> Powder'd with stars.

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> With thee conversing I forget all time,
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> All seasons, and their change; all please alike.
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> Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
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> With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun
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> When first on this delightful land he spreads
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> His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,
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> Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth
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> After soft showers; and sweet the coming on
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> Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent night
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> With this her solemn bird and this fair moon,
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> And these the gems of heaven, her starry train:
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> But neither breath of morn when she ascends
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> With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun
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> On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower,
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> Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers,
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> Nor grateful ev'ning mild, nor silent night
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> With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon
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> Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

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> Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

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> How few somtimes may know, when thousands err.

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> Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
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> The lowest of your throng.

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> Fairest of stars, last in the train of night,
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> If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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> Innumerable as the stars of night,
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> Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun
>
> Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

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> Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
>
> Touch'd lightly; for no falsehood can endure
>
> Touch of celestial temper.

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> Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
>
> Of human offspring.

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> Fled
>
> Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.

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> So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste
>
> She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.

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> Came not all hell broke loose?

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> Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers.

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> More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged
>
> To hoarse or mute, though fall'n, and evil tongues;
>
> In darkness, and with dangers compassed round,
>
> And solitude.

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> Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld
>
> Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep,
>
> Shot forth peculiar graces.

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> Live while ye may,
>
> Yet happy pair.

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> My latest found,
>
> Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

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> Like Teneriff or Atlas unremoved.

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> Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
>
> Had in her sober livery all things clad;
>
> Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,
>
> They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,
>
> Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
>
> She all night long her amorous descant sung;
>
> Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament
>
> With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led
>
> The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
>
> Rising in clouded majesty, at length
>
> Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light,
>
> And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

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> Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.

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> The bright consummate flower.

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> What if earth
>
> Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein
>
> Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?

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> Good, the more
>
> Communicated, more abundant grows.

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> Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow,
>
> Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.

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> The wakeful nightingale,
>
> She all night long her amorous descant sung;
>
> Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament
>
> With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led
>
> The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
>
> Rising in clouded majesty, at length
>
> Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light,
>
> And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

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> Arms on armour clashing bray'd
>
> Horrible discord, and the madding wheels
>
> Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise
>
> Of conflict.

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> Another morn
>
> Ris'n on mid-noon.

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> So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
>
> The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.

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> Far off his coming shone.

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> Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

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> Abashed the Devil stood,
>
> And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
>
> Virtue in her shape how lovely; saw, and pined
>
> His loss.

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> They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
>
> Quaff immortality and joy.

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> These are thy glorious works, Parent of good.

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> Freely we serve,
>
> Because we freely love, as in our will
>
> To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

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> Back to thy punishment,
>
> False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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> For contemplation he and valor formed,
>
> For softness she and sweet attractive grace;
>
> He for God only, she for God in him.
>
> His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd
>
> Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
>
> Round from his parted forelock manly hung
>
> Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.

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> Their fatal hands
>
> No second stroke intend.

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> So spake the grisly Terror.

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> And on the Tree of Life,
>
> The middle tree and highest there that grew,
>
> Sat like a cormorant.

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> Thoughts that voluntary move
>
> Harmonious numbers.

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> Dark with excessive bright.

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> And fast by, hanging in a golden chain,
>
> This pendent world, in bigness as a star
>
> Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

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> Into this wilde Abyss,
>
> The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
>
> Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
>
> But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
>
> Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,
>
> Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
>
> His dark materials to create more Worlds,
>
> Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
>
> Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
>
> Pondering his Voyage.

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> Two of far nobler shape erect and tall,
>
> Godlike erect, with native honor clad
>
> In naked majesty seemed lords of all.

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> Neither man nor angel can discern
>
> Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
>
> Invisible

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> Golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,
>
> With joy and love triumphing.

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> Hail, holy light! offspring of heav'n first born.

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> Into a limbo large and broad, since call'd
>
> The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.

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> That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew,
>
> Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

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> I fled, and cry'd out, DEATH!
>
> Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd
>
> From all her caves, and back resounded, DEATH!

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> Gorgons and Hydras and Chimæras dire.

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> Me miserable! which way shall I fly
>
> Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
>
> Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
>
> And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
>
> Still threat’ning to devour me, opens wide,
>
> To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

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> O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,
>
> With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,
>
> And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.

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> Incens'd with indignation Satan stood
>
> Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd
>
> That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
>
> In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
>
> Shakes pestilence and war.

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> O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp,
>
> Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

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> Arm th' obdur'd breast
>
> With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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> To compare
>
> Great things with small.

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> Adam the goodliest man of men since born
>
> His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.

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> Death
>
> Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
>
> His famine should be fill'd.

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> A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
>
> Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
>
> Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
>
> Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire.
>
> Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd,
>
> At certain revolutions all the damn'd
>
> Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change
>
> Of fierce extremes,—extremes by change more fierce;
>
> From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
>
> Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
>
> Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round,
>
> Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

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> Where eldest Night
>
> And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold
>
> Eternal anarchy amidst the noise
>
> Of endless wars, and by confusion stand;
>
> For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,
>
> Strive here for mast'ry.

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> Before mine eyes in opposition sits
>
> Grim Death, my son and foe.

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> A grateful mind
>
> By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
>
> Indebted and discharg'd.

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> And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
>
> At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
>
> Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
>
> Where no ill seems.

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> So farewel Hope, and with Hope farewel Fear,
>
> Farewel Remorse: all Good to me is lost;
>
> Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least
>
> Divided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold
>
> By thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne;
>
> As Man ere long, and this new World shall know.

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> Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars,
>
> White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery.

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> With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
>
> Confusion worse confounded.

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> The other shape,
>
> If shape it might be call'd that shape had none
>
> Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
>
> Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd,
>
> For each seem'd either,—black it stood as night,
>
> Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,
>
> And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head
>
> The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
>
> Satan was now at hand.

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> On a sudden open fly,
>
> With impetuous recoil and jarring sound,
>
> Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate
>
> Harsh thunder.

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> Hell
>
> Grew darker at their frown.

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> In discourse more sweet;
>
> For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.
>
> Others apart sat on a hill retired,
>
> In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high
>
> Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,
>
> Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,
>
> And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

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> Proserpine gathering flowers,
>
> Herself a fairer flower.

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> Vain wisdom all and false philosophy.

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> The rising world of waters dark and deep.

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> Flowers worthy of paradise.

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> Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
>
> Firm concord holds, men only disagree
>
> Of creatures rational.

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> Thus with the year
>
> Seasons return; but not to me returns
>
> Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
>
> Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
>
> Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;
>
> But cloud instead, and ever-during dark
>
> Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men
>
> Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair
>
> Presented with a universal blank
>
> Of Nature's works to me expunged and razed,
>
> And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

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> Sabean odours from the spicy shore
>
> Of Araby the Blest.

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> Satan, now first inflam’d with rage, came down,
>
> The Tempter ere th’ Accuser of man-kind,
>
> To wreck on innocent frail man his loss
>
> Of that first Battel, and his flight to Hell:
>
> Yet not rejoycing in his speed, though bold,
>
> Far off and fearless, nor with cause to boast,
>
> Begins his dire attempt, which nigh the birth
>
> Now rowling, boiles in his tumultuous brest,
>
> And like a devillish Engine back recoiles
>
> Upon himself; horror and doubt distract
>
> His troubl’d thoughts, and from the bottom stirr
>
> The Hell within him, for within him Hell
>
> He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell
>
> One step no more then from himself can fly
>
> By change of place: Now conscience wakes despair
>
> That slumberd, wakes the bitter memorie
>
> Of what he was, what is, and what must be
>
> Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue.

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> Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

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> Under what torments inwardly I groane;
>
> While they adore me on the Throne of Hell,
>
> With Diadem and Scepter high advanc’d
>
> The lower still I fall, onely Supream
>
> In miserie; such joy Ambition findes.
>
> But say I could repent and could obtaine
>
> By Act of Grace my former state; how soon
>
> Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay
>
> What feign’d submission swore: ease would recant
>
> Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
>
> For never can true reconcilement grow
>
> Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc’d so deep:
>
> Which would but lead me to a worse relapse
>
> And heavier fall: so should I purchase deare
>
> Short intermission bought with double smart.
>
> This knows my punisher; therefore as farr
>
> From granting hee, as I from begging peace:
>
> All hope excluded thus, behold in stead
>
> Of us out-cast, exil'd, his new delight,
>
> Mankind created, and for him this World.

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> At whose sight all the stars
>
> Hide their diminish'd heads.

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> Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?

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> So he with difficulty and labour hard
>
> Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

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> I made him just and right,
>
> Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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> Implied
>
> Subjection, but required with gentle sway,
>
> And by her yielded, by him best received,
>
> Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
>
> And sweet reluctant amorous delay.

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> And out of good still to find means of evil.

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> To be weak is miserable,
>
> Doing or suffering.

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> Fairy elves,
>
> Whose midnight revels by a forest side
>
> Or fountain some belated peasant sees,
>
> Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon
>
> Sits arbitress.

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> Th' ethereal mould
>
> Incapable of stain would soon expel
>
> Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire,
>
> Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope
>
> Is flat despair: we must exasperate
>
> Th' Almighty Victor to spend all his rage;
>
> And that must end us; that must be our cure--
>
> To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose,
>
> Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
>
> Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
>
> To perish rather, swallowed up and lost
>
> In the wide womb of uncreated Night,
>
> Devoid of sense and motion?

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> Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds:
>
> At which the universal host up sent
>
> A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond
>
> Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.

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> Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
>
> Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
>
> Brought death into the world, and all our woe,
>
> With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
>
> Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,

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> But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
>
> Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear
>
> The better reason, to perplex and dash
>
> Maturest counsels.

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> The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,
>
> Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
>
> The mother of mankind.

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> Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell
>
> From heaven; for ev’n in heaven his looks and thoughts
>
> Were always downward bent, admiring more
>
> The riches of heaven’s pavement, trodden gold,
>
> Than aught divine or holy else enjoy’d
>
> In vision beatific.

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> Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd
>
> Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

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> They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld
>
> Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat,
>
> Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate
>
> With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes:
>
> Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon;
>
> The World was all before them, where to choose
>
> Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
>
> They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow,
>
> Through EDEN took thir solitarie way.

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> Let none admire
>
> That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
>
> Deserve the precious bane.

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> His form had yet not lost
>
> All her original brightness, nor appear'd
>
> Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess
>
> Of glory obscur'd.

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> Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
>
> And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
>
> That comes at all.

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> Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n.

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> Heard so oft
>
> In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge
>
> Of battle.

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> Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn
>
> Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

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> Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
>
> Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
>
> That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
>
> In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
>
> Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill
>
> Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd
>
> Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence
>
> Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
>
> That with no middle flight intends to soar
>
> Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues
>
> Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.

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> From morn
>
> To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
>
> A summer's day; and with the setting sun
>
> Dropped from the zenith like a falling star.

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> The strongest and the fiercest spirit
>
> That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

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> Their rising all at once was as the sound
>
> Of thunder heard remote.

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> Rather than be less
>
> Cared not to be at all.

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> Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate
>
> With head uplift above the wave, and eyes
>
> That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides
>
> Prone on the flood, extended long and large
>
> Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge
>
> As whom the fables name of monstrous size,
>
> Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove,
>
> Briareos or Typhon, whom the den
>
> By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast
>
> Leviathan, which God created of all his works
>
> Created hugest that swim th' Ocean stream.

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> And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
>
> Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
>
> Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
>
> Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
>
> Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
>
> And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
>
> Illumine, what is low raise and support;
>
> That to the highth of this great Argument
>
> I may assert th' Eternal Providence,
>
> And justifie the wayes of God to men.

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> In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds
>
> On half the nations, and with fear of change
>
> Perplexes monarchs.

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> Our torments also may in length of time
>
> Become our elements.

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> With grave
>
> Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed
>
> A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven
>
> Deliberation sat and public care;
>
> And princely counsel in his face yet shone,
>
> Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood,
>
> With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear
>
> The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look
>
> Drew audience and attention still as night
>
> Or summer's noontide air.

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> Execute their airy purposes.

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> Farewell happy fields,
>
> Where joy forever dwells: hail, horrors!

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> My sentence is for open War; Of Wiles,
>
> More unexpert, I boast not: them let those
>
> Contrive who need, or when they need, not now.
>
> For while they sit contriving, shall the rest,
>
> Millions that stand in Arms, and longing wait
>
> The Signal to ascend, sit ling'ring here,
>
> Heav'n's fugitives, and for their dwelling place
>
> Accept this dark opprobrious Den of shame,
>
> The Prison of his Tyranny who Reigns
>
> By our delay? no, let us rather choose,
>
> Arm'd with Hell flames and fury all at once
>
> O'er Heaven's high Tow'rs to force resistless way,
>
> Turning our Tortures into horrid Arms
>
> Against the Torturer.

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> Anon out of the earth a fabric huge
>
> Rose, like an exhalation.

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> And, when night
>
> Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
>
> Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

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> The mind is its own place, and in itself
>
> Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.

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> As far as angels' ken.

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> The never-ending flight
>
> Of future days.

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> What in me is dark
>
> Illumine, what is low raise and support;
>
> That to the height of this great argument
>
> I may assert eternal Providence,
>
> And justify the ways of God to men.

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> To sit in darkness here
>
> Hatching vain empires.

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> Who overcomes
>
> By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

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> To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
>
> Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

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> Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

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> Long is the way
>
> And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.

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> The low'ring element
>
> Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

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> The palpable obscure.

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> For who can yet believe, though after loss,
>
> That all these puissant legions, whose exile
>
> Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to re-ascend,
>
> Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?

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> Spirits when they please
>
> Can either sex assume, or both.

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> What though the field be lost?
>
> All is not lost; th’ unconquerable will,
>
> And study of revenge, immortal hate,
>
> And courage never to submit or yield.

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> Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb
>
> Counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth,
>
> Not peace.

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> That in our proper motion we ascend
>
> Up to our native seat: descent and fall
>
> To us is adverse.

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> Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
>
> In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades
>
> High over-arch'd imbower.

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> Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd.

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> His spear, to equal which the tallest pine
>
> Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast
>
> Of some great ammiral were but a wand,
>
> He walk'd with to support uneasy steps
>
> Over the burning marle.

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> High on a throne of royal state, which far
>
> Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,
>
> Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
>
> Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,
>
> Satan exalted sat, by merit raised
>
> To that bad eminence; and from despair
>
> Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires
>
> Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue
>
> Vain war with heav'n.

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> Yet from those flames
>
> No light, but rather darkness visible.

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> When the scourge
>
> Inexorable and the torturing hour
>
> Call us to penance.

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> Surer to prosper than prosperity
>
> Could have assur'd us.

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> Him the Almighty Power
>
> Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky
>
> With hideous ruin and combustion down
>
> To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
>
> In adamantine chains and penal fire,
>
> Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.

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> Anon they move
>
> In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood
>
> Of flutes and soft recorders.

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