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The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

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

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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

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

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Evil, be thou my good.

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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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

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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

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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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Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

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These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

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Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

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And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

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There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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