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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."

"The wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw."

"The timely dew of sleep."

"With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their change; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful ev'ning mild, nor silent night With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet."

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

"In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora."

"Eased the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear."

"Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring."

"Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve."

"Came not all hell broke loose?"

"Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred."

"Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces."

"My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!"

"Good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows."

"These are thy glorious works, Parent of good."

"Him first, him last, him midst, and without end."

"Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn."

"Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise."

"A wilderness of sweets."

"Another morn Ris'n on mid-noon."

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

"Nor jealousy Was understood, the injured lover's hell."

"The bright consummate flower."

"Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall."

"What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?"

"Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers."

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

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

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

"Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence."

"Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower."

"Will ye submit your necks, and chuse to bend The supple knee? ye will not, if I trust To know ye right, or if ye know your selves Natives and Sons of Heav'n possest before By none, and if not equal all, yet free, Equally free; for Orders and Degrees Jarr not with liberty, but well consist. Who can in reason then or right assume Monarchie over such as live by right..."

"So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he."

"Morn, Waked by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarred the gates of light."

"Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintained Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms."

"How few somtimes may know, when thousands err."

"Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict."

"Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die."

"Far off his coming shone."

"In heavenly spirits could such perverseness dwell?"

"More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude."

"Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few."

"Out of one man a race Of men innumerable."

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

"On heav'nly ground they stood, and from the shore They view'd the vast immeasurable Abyss Outrageous as a Sea, dark, wasteful, wilde, Up from the bottom turn'd by furious windes And surging waves, as Mountains to assault Heav'ns highth, and with the Center mix the Pole. "Silence, ye troubl'd waves, and thou Deep, peace!" Said then th' Omnific Word, "Your discord end!" Nor staid, but on the Wings of Cherubim Uplifted, in Paternal Glorie rode Farr into Chaos, and the World unborn; For Chaos heard his voice: him all his Traine Follow'd in bright procession to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might. Then staid the fervid Wheeles, and in his hand He took the golden Compasses, prepar'd In Gods Eternal store, to circumscribe This Universe, and all created things: One foot he center'd, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profunditie obscure, And said, "Thus farr extend, thus farr thy bounds, This be thy just Circumference, O World!""

"Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light."

"There Leviathan Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea."

"Now half appear'd The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts."

"Indu'd With sanctity of reason."

"The planets in their stations list'ning stood, While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. Open, ye everlasting gates, they sung, Open ye heavens, your living doors; let in The great Creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world."