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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

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Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

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What is dark within me, illumine.

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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

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Evil, be thou my good.

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God shall be all in all.

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My sentence is for open war.

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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

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Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

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And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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