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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

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O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

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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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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

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Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

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Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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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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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

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O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, 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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Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

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

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