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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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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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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

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But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

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

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

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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

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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

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They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

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