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With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man
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Illumine, what is low raise and support
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And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
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Rose out of CHAOS: Or if SION Hill
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Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
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Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
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Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire
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Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
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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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Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure
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Delight thee more, and SILOA'S Brook that flow'd
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Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence
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Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song
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That with no middle flight intends to soar
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Above th' AONIAN Mount, while it pursues
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Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.
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And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
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In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
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That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed
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Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
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Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat
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Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
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Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
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Brought Death into the World, and all our woe