With thee conversing, I forget all time;
All seasons and their change, all please alike.
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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

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Hail, wedded love! mysterious law, true source

Now morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl.

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Communicated, more abundant grows.*

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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

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Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

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

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Satan, so call him now, his former name

Is heard no more in heaven..

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found

Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Dire was the noise of conflict.

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More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged
To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days,
On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues.

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Still govern thou my song,

Urania, and fit audience find, though few.

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Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.

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And feel that I am happier than I know.

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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,

In every gesture dignity and love.

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

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So well to know

Her own, that what she wills to do or say,
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best!

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Those graceful acts,

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

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To whom the angel, with a smile that glowed

Celestial rosy red, love's proper

hue.

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Pleased me, long choosing and beginning late.

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For solitude sometimes is best society,

And short retirement urges sweet return.

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Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.

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High over-arched, and echoing walks between.

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Yet I shall temper so

Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most

Them fully satisfied, and thee appease.

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Moping melancholy,

And moon-struck madness.

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And over them triumphant Death his dart
Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked.
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The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
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PARADISE REGAINED.

• Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise.

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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts

And eloquence.

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Thence to the famous orators repair,
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce democraty,

Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

Just are the ways of God,

And justifiable to men.

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What boots it at one gate to make defence,

And at another to let in the foe?

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He's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words, by adding fuel to the flame?

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For evil news rides post, while good news bates.

Tame villatic fowl.

COMUS.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot,

A thousand fantasies

Begin to throng into my memory,

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Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.

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