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Thus with the year

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

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And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep,
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost.
Evil, be thou my good.

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That practised falsehood under saintly shew,
Deep malice to conceal.

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For contemplation he and valour formed,
For softness she, and sweet attractive grace.

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His fair large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.

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Adam the goodliest man of men since born
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.

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Now came still evening on, and twilight grey
Had in her sober livery all things clad. Book iv. Line 598.

With thee conversing, I forget all time;

All seasons and their change, all please alike.

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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

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Hail, wedded love! mysterious law, true source

Of human offspring.

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Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear

Touched lightly.

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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng.

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All hell broke loose.

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Now morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl.

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Good, the more

Communicated, more abundant grows.* Book v. Line 71.

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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So saying, with despatchful looks, in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.

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Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.

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Satan, so call him now, his former name

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More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged
To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days,
On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues.

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* That good diffused may more abundant grow.
COWPER. Conversation

Still govern thou my song,

Urania, and fit audience find, though few.

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Now half appeared

The tawny lion, pawing to get free

His hinder parts.

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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear

So charming left his voice, that he awhile

Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear.

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And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

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And, touched by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.

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Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.

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And feel that I am happier than I know.

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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.

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Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be wooed and not unsought be won.

To the nuptial bower

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I led her, blushing like the morn. All heaven,
And happy constellations on that hour
Shed their selectest influence; the earth
Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill;
Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs

Whispered it to the woods, and from their wings
Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

So well to know

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Her own, that what she wills to do or say,

Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best!

Those graceful acts,

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Those thousand decencies, that daily flow

From all her words and actions.

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To whom the angel, with a smile that glowed
Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

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Pleased me, long choosing and beginning late.

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For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.

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Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat,
Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe,
That all was lost.

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High over-arched, and echoing walks between.

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Yet I shall temper so

Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most

Them fully satisfied, and thee appease. Book x. Line 77.

Moping melancholy,

And moon-struck madness.

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