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Page xxxii
... shades o'erbrow the vallies deep , And holy Genii guard the rock , Its glooms embrown , its springs unlock , While on its rich ambitious head An Eden , like his own , lies spread ; I view that oak the fancied glades among , By which as ...
... shades o'erbrow the vallies deep , And holy Genii guard the rock , Its glooms embrown , its springs unlock , While on its rich ambitious head An Eden , like his own , lies spread ; I view that oak the fancied glades among , By which as ...
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... shades , where peace And rest can never dwell , hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed ; Such place eternal Justice had prepared For ...
... shades , where peace And rest can never dwell , hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed ; Such place eternal Justice had prepared For ...
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... shade , But all sunshine , as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator , as they now Shot upward still direct , whence no way round Shadow from body opaque can fall ; and the air No where so clear , sharpened his visual ray To ...
... shade , But all sunshine , as when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator , as they now Shot upward still direct , whence no way round Shadow from body opaque can fall ; and the air No where so clear , sharpened his visual ray To ...
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... Shade above shade , a woody theatre Of stateliest view . Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung : Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round . And higher than that ...
... Shade above shade , a woody theatre Of stateliest view . Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung : Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round . And higher than that ...
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... shades Ran nectar , visiting each plant , and fed Flowers , worthy of Paradise , which not nice Art In beds and ... shade , that on a green Stood whispering soft , by a fresh fountain side , They sat them down ; and , after no more ...
... shades Ran nectar , visiting each plant , and fed Flowers , worthy of Paradise , which not nice Art In beds and ... shade , that on a green Stood whispering soft , by a fresh fountain side , They sat them down ; and , after no more ...
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Page 10 - Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt ! — So both ascend In the visions of God — B.