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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

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Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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Evil, be thou my good.

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In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

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Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

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More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

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

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Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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