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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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The never-ending flight Of future days.

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But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

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And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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

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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

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Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

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

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

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