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Drama of Exile - Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

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  Speaker 1: Dramatis Persone of A Drama of Exile. This is a
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  Speaker 1: A Drama of Exile by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Dramatis Persone,
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  Speaker 1: Lucifer read by Patrick Beverley.
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  Speaker 2: Gabriel read by j Soldiers.
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  Speaker 3: Adam read by David klopperk Eve read by Jemma blithe Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Read by David Moncaster, Narrator, Revel Voices and aged voices
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  Speaker 1: read by Barry.
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  Speaker 4: Eves, Eden's Spirits and Earth's Spirits read by Margaret Espayat.
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  Speaker 5: Spirits of the Trees recording by Andrea Lee.
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  Speaker 6: River Spirits and Second Spirit read by Miriam Ester, Goldman,
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  Speaker 6: Bird Spirit by Van Rose.
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  Speaker 7: The Flower Spirits read by Crystal Layton.
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  Speaker 8: Morning Star, Angel Chorus, first semi chorus, second semi Chorus
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  Speaker 8: and Youthful Voices read by Miru Ayur.
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  Speaker 9: First Spirit and Love voices read by Russa Byrne Patoon,
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  Speaker 9: Polife Head by me.
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  Speaker 10: The Poet voices read by Aaron Elliott.
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  Speaker 11: Philosophic voices read by Simon Laois.
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  Speaker 1: In scene three Two of Lucifer's lines are read by
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  Speaker 1: Peter wy and two of Gabriel's lines are read by
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  Speaker 1: Karl Manchester. End of Dramatis Persone, A Drama of Exile
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  Speaker 1: by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit librivax dot org. A Drama
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  Speaker 1: of Exile Scene one scene the outer side of the
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  Speaker 1: gate of Eden, shut fast with cloud, from the depth
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  Speaker 1: of which revolves a sword of fire, self moved. Adam
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  Speaker 1: and Eve are seen in the distance, flying along the glare.
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  Speaker 12: Lucifer alone, rejoice in the clefts of Gehenna, my exiled,
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  Speaker 12: My host Earth has exiles as hopeless as when a
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  Speaker 12: heaven's empire was lost through the seams of her shaken foundations.
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  Speaker 12: Smoke up in great joy with the smoke of your
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  Speaker 12: fierce exultations, deform and destroy, Smoke up with your lurid revenges,
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  Speaker 12: and darken the face of the white heavens, and taunt
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  Speaker 12: them with changes from glory and grace. We in falling,
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  Speaker 12: while destiny strangles pull down with us all let them
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  Speaker 12: look to the rest of their angels. Who's safe from
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  Speaker 12: a fall? He saves not? Where's Adam can pardon? Requicken
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  Speaker 12: that sod unkinged is the king of the garden the
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  Speaker 12: image of God. Other exiles are cast out of Eden.
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  Speaker 12: More curse has been hurled. Come up, o my locusts,
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  Speaker 12: and feed in the green of the world. Come up,
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  Speaker 12: we have conquered by evil. Good reigns not alone. I
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  Speaker 12: prevail now, and angel or devil inherit a throne.
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  Speaker 1: In sudden apparition, a watch of innumerable angels, rank above rank,
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  Speaker 1: slopes up from around the gate to the zenith. The
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  Speaker 1: angel Gabriel descends.
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  Speaker 12: Hey Ill Gabriel, the keeper of the gate. Now that
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  Speaker 12: the fruit is plucked, Prince Gabriel, I hold that Eden
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  Speaker 12: is impregnable under thy keeping.
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  Speaker 2: Angel of the sin, such as you stance pale in
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  Speaker 2: the drear light which rounds the rebel's work with maker's wrath.
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  Speaker 2: There shalt be an idea to all souls, a monumental
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  Speaker 2: melancholy gloom seen thin in all ages. Whence to mark
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  Speaker 2: despair and measure out the distances from good, go from
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  Speaker 2: a straight away.
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  Speaker 12: Wherefore, Lucifer, by.
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  Speaker 2: Last step in this place Trod's sorrow up recall before
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  Speaker 2: that sorrow.
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  Speaker 12: If not this sword, angels are in the world, Wherefore
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  Speaker 12: not I exiles are in the world. Wherefore not I
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  Speaker 12: the cursed are in the world? Wherefore not I depart?
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  Speaker 12: And where's the logic of depart? Our? Lady Eve had
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  Speaker 12: half been satisfied to obey her maker. If I had
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  Speaker 12: not learned to fix my postulate better, dost thou dream
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  Speaker 12: of guarding some monopoly in heaven instead of Earth? Why
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  Speaker 12: I can dream with thee to the length of thy wings.
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  Speaker 2: I do not dream. This is not Heaven even a dream,
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  Speaker 2: nor Earth, as Earth was once first breathed among the stars,
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  Speaker 2: articulate glory from the mouth divine, to which the myriad
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  Speaker 2: spheres thrilled, audibly touched like lutestring, and the sons of God,
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  Speaker 2: said our men, singing it. I know that this is Earth,
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  Speaker 2: not new created, but new cursed. This Eden's gate not opened,
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  Speaker 2: but built up with a final cloud of sunset? Do
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  Speaker 2: I dream alas not?
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  Speaker 9: So?
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  Speaker 2: This is the Eden lost by Lucifer the Serpent. This sword,
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  Speaker 2: this sword alive with justice and with fire that smote
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  Speaker 2: upon the forehead Lucifer the Angel. Wherefore Angel go depart
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  Speaker 2: enough is sinned and suffered.
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  Speaker 12: By no means. Here's a brave earth to sin and
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  Speaker 12: suffer on. It holds fast still, it cracks, not under curse.
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  Speaker 12: It holds like mine, immortal presently will sow it thick enough,
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  Speaker 12: with graves as green or green as curters than its
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  Speaker 12: knowledge tree. Will have the cypress for the tree of life,
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  Speaker 12: more eminent for shadow, for the rest. Will build it dark,
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  Speaker 12: with towns and pyramids and temples. If it please you,
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  Speaker 12: will have feasts and funerals, also merry makes and wars,
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  Speaker 12: till blood and wine shall mix and run along right
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  Speaker 12: o'er the edges and good Gabriel, he liked that word
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  Speaker 12: in heaven. I too have strength, strength to behold him
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  Speaker 12: and not worship him, strength to fall from him and
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  Speaker 12: not cry on him, strength to be in the universe.
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  Speaker 12: And yet neither God nor his servant. The red sign
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  Speaker 12: burnt on my forehead, which you taunt me with, is
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  Speaker 12: God's sign that it bows not unto God. The potter
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  Speaker 12: mark upon his work to show it rings well to
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  Speaker 12: the striker. I and the earth can bear more curse.
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  Speaker 2: O miserable Earth, O ruined angel.
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  Speaker 12: Well, And if it be I chose this ruin. I
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  Speaker 12: elected it of my will, not of service. What I
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  Speaker 12: do I do volition, not obedient, and overtop thy crown
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  Speaker 12: with my despair. My sorrow crowns me. Get THEE back
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  Speaker 12: to Heaven, and leave me to the earth, which is
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  Speaker 12: mine own, in virtue of her ruin, as I hers
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  Speaker 12: in virtue of my revolt. Turn thou from both that bright,
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  Speaker 12: impassive passive angelhood, and spare to read us backward any
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  Speaker 12: more of the spent hallelujahs.
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  Speaker 2: Spirit of scorn, I might say. Upon reason, I might
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  Speaker 2: say that who despairs acts, that who acts confides with
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  Speaker 2: God's relations set in a time and space. That who
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  Speaker 2: elects assumes us something good which God may possible. That
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  Speaker 2: two lives obeys the law of a life maker.
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  Speaker 12: Let it pass no more, thou, Gabriel. What if I
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  Speaker 12: stand up and strike my brow against the crystalline roofing
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  Speaker 12: the creatures? Shall I say? For that my stature is
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  Speaker 12: too high for me to stand? Henceforward I must sit.
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  Speaker 12: Sit Thou, I kneel a heavenly answer. Get THEE to
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  Speaker 12: thy heaven, and leave my earth to me.
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  Speaker 2: Through heaven and earth, God's will moose freely, and I
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  Speaker 2: follow as colors follow light. He overflows the firmamental walls
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  Speaker 2: with deity. Therefore, with love, his lightnings go abroad. His
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  Speaker 2: pity may do so. His angels must whene'er he gives
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  Speaker 2: them charge.
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  Speaker 12: Verily, I and my demons, who are spirits of scorn,
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  Speaker 12: might hold this charge of standing with a sword TwixT
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  Speaker 12: man and his inheritance, as well as the benignest angel
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  Speaker 12: of you.
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  Speaker 2: All thou speakest in the shadow of thy charge. If
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  Speaker 2: thou hadst gazed upon the face of God this morning
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  Speaker 2: for a moment, thou hadst known that only pity fitly
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  Speaker 2: can just lise hate, but avenges.
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  Speaker 12: As it is, I know something of pity when I
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  Speaker 12: reeled in heaven, and my sword grew too heavy for
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  Speaker 12: my grasp, stabbing through matter which it could not pierce,
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  Speaker 12: so much as the first shell of toward the throne.
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  Speaker 12: When I fell back down, staring up as I fell,
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  Speaker 12: the lightnings holding open my scathed lids, and that thought
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  Speaker 12: of the infinite of God hurled after to precipitate descent.
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  Speaker 12: When countless angel faces still and stern pressed out upon
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  Speaker 12: me from the level heavens adown the abysmal spaces, and
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  Speaker 12: I fell trampled down by your stillness, and struck blind
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  Speaker 12: by the sight within your eyes. Twas then I knew
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  Speaker 12: how ye could pity my kind angelhood.
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  Speaker 2: Alas this crime one. By the truth in me which
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  Speaker 2: God keeps in me, I would give away or save
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  Speaker 2: the truth and his love keeping it, to lead thee
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  Speaker 2: home again into the light. And hear thy voice chance
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  Speaker 2: with the morning stars, when their rays tremble round them,
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  Speaker 2: with much song sung in more gladness.
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  Speaker 12: Sing my morning star, last, beautiful, last heavenly that I loved.
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  Speaker 12: If I could drench thy golden locks with tears, what
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  Speaker 12: were it to this angel?
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  Speaker 9: What love is?
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  Speaker 2: And now I have named God.
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  Speaker 12: Yet Gabriel, by the lie in me which I keep myself,
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  Speaker 12: thou art a false swearer? Were it otherwise, what dost
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  Speaker 12: thou hear vouchsafing tender thoughts to that earth angel or
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  Speaker 12: earth demon, which thou and I have not solved the
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  Speaker 12: problem yet enough to argue that fallen Adam, there, that
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  Speaker 12: red clay and a breath, who must forsooth live in
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  Speaker 12: a newer acalypse of sense, with beauty and music, waving
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  Speaker 12: in his trees and running in his rivers, to make
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  Speaker 12: glad his soul made perfect? Is it not for hope,
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  Speaker 12: a hope within thee deeper than thy truth of finally
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  Speaker 12: conducting him and his to fill the vacant thrones of
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  Speaker 12: me and mine which affront Heaven with their vacuity.
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  Speaker 2: Angel, There are no vacant thrones in Heaven to suit
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  Speaker 2: by empty words. Glory in life, fulfill your own depletions.
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  Speaker 2: And if God sighed you far from him, his next
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  Speaker 2: breath drew in a compensateive splendor up the vast, flushing
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  Speaker 2: the starry.
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  Speaker 12: Arteries whither change. So let the vacant thrones and gardens too,
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  Speaker 12: fill as may please you, And be pitiful as ye
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  Speaker 12: translate that word to the dethroned and exiled man or Angel.
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  Speaker 12: The fact stands that I, the rebel, the cast out
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  Speaker 12: and down, am here and will not go. While there
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  Speaker 12: along the light to which ye flash the desert out
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  Speaker 12: flies your adopted adam, your red clay, in two kinds,
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  Speaker 12: both being flawed. Why what is this? Whose work is this?
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  Speaker 12: Whose hand was in the work against whose hand in
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  Speaker 12: this last strife? Methinks I am not a fallen angel?
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  Speaker 2: Doth thy know aught of those exiles?
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  Speaker 12: Ay? I know they have fled silent all day along
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  Speaker 12: the wilderness. I know they wear for burden on their backs,
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  Speaker 12: the thought of a shut gait of paradise, and faces
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  Speaker 12: of the martialed cherubim shining against not for them. And
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  Speaker 12: I know they dare not look in one another's face,
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  Speaker 12: as if each were a cherub.
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  Speaker 2: Dost thou know aught of their future?
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  Speaker 12: Only as much as this, That evil will increase and
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  Speaker 12: multiply without a benediction, nothing more. Why so the angels
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  Speaker 12: taunt what should be more. God is more, proving what
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  Speaker 12: that he is God and capable of saving Lucifer. I
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  Speaker 12: charge thee by the solitude he kept ere he created.
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  Speaker 12: Leave the earth to God. My foot is on the earth,
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  Speaker 12: firm as my sin.
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  Speaker 2: I charge thee by the memory of heaven ere any
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  Speaker 2: sin was done. Leave earth to God.
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  Speaker 12: My sin is on the earth to rain thereon.
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  Speaker 2: I charge thee by the choral song we sang when
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  Speaker 2: up against the white shore of our feet, the depths
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  Speaker 2: of creation swell and break, and the new world's breaded
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  Speaker 2: foam and flower of all that coil roared outward into
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  Speaker 2: space on thunder edges. Leave the earth to God.
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  Speaker 12: My woe is on the earth to curse.
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  Speaker 2: Thereby I charged thee by that mourningful star which trembles.
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  Speaker 12: Enough spoken as the pine and Norland forest drops its
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  Speaker 12: weight of snows by a night's growth. So growing towards
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  Speaker 12: my ends, I drop thy counsels, farewell gave watch out
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  Speaker 12: thy service. I achieve my will and paraventure. In the
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  Speaker 12: after years, when thoughtful men shall bend their spacious brows
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  Speaker 12: upon the storm and strife seen everywhere, to ruffle their
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  Speaker 12: smooth manhood, and break up with lurid lights of intermittent hope,
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  Speaker 12: their human fear and wrong, they may discern the heart
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  Speaker 12: of a lost angel in the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Chorus of Eden's spirits chanting from Paradise, while Adam and
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  Speaker 1: Eve fly across the sword.
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  Speaker 4: Glare, Hearden, Oh harden, leisurels behind you turn gently moved,
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  Speaker 4: our voices steal along the dread to find you, oh
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  Speaker 4: last beloved, through the sixth. Shielded and strong martial angels,
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  Speaker 4: they press and pierce our requiems, follow fast on our evangels.
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  Speaker 4: Voice throbs in verse, we are but orphan spirits left
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  Speaker 4: in Eden. A long time ago. God gave us golden cups,
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  Speaker 4: and we were bidden to defeat you so, But now
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  Speaker 4: our right hand hath no cup remaining, no work to do.
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  Speaker 4: The mystic hydromel is spilt and staining the whole earth
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  Speaker 4: through most ineradicable stays were showing, not interfused that brighter
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  Speaker 4: colors where the world's were going, than shall be used. Hearken, Oh, hearken,
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  Speaker 4: ye shall hearken surely for years and years. The noise
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  Speaker 4: besides you, dripping coldly, purely of spirits tears they're yearning
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  Speaker 4: to a beautiful denied You shall strain your powers. Ideal
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  Speaker 4: sweetnesses shall overglide you, resumed from ours in all your music,
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  Speaker 4: our pathetic minor, your ears shall cross, and all good
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  Speaker 4: gifts shall mind you of diviner with its sense of loss.
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  Speaker 4: We shall be near you in your poet languors and
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  Speaker 4: wild it extremes. What time ye vex the desert with
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  Speaker 4: fain angers, or mock with dreams, And when upon you
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  Speaker 4: weary after roaming, Death's seal is put by the foregun,
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  Speaker 4: ye shall discern the coming through eyelids shut.
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  Speaker 13: Hark.
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  Speaker 5: The eating trees are stirring, soft and solemn in your hearing.
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  Speaker 5: Oak and linden palm and fir tamarask and juniper, each
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  Speaker 5: still throbbing in vibrations since that crowning of creation, when
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  Speaker 5: the God breaths, bake abroad, let us make man like
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  Speaker 5: to God.
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  Speaker 14: And the pine.
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  Speaker 5: Stood quivering as the awful word went by.
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  Speaker 15: Like a vibrant music string stretched from a mountain peak
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  Speaker 15: to the sky. And then the platinu did expand slow
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  Speaker 15: and gradual. Branch and head, and the cedar's strong black
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  Speaker 15: shade fluttered brokenly, and grand grove and wood were swept
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  Speaker 15: as slant in an emotion jubilant, which the divine impulsion
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  Speaker 15: cleaves in dim movements to the leaves dropped and lifted,
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  Speaker 15: dropped and lifted in the sunlight, greenly sifted in the
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  Speaker 15: sunlight and the moonlight, greenly sifted through the trees every way,
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  Speaker 15: the Eden trees in the night light and the moonlight,
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  Speaker 15: with a ruffling of green branches, shaded off to resonances,
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  Speaker 15: never stirred.
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  Speaker 5: By rain and breeze. Fare Ye well, farewell, the Sylvan
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  Speaker 5: sounds no longer honorable, expire at Eden's door. Each footstep
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  Speaker 5: of your treading tread out some murmur which she heard before.
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  Speaker 5: Farewell the trees of Eden, ye shall hear never.
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  Speaker 6: More Hark for the flow over the four rivers, Hark
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  Speaker 6: the the floe. Will the silence round your shivers, while
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  Speaker 6: our voices through it go cold and clear.
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  Speaker 13: Think a little.
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  Speaker 6: While ye hear the the banks, where the willows and
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  Speaker 6: the deer crowded intermingled ranks, as if all were drink
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  Speaker 6: it at once, Where the living water runs of the
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  Speaker 6: fish's golden edges, splashing in and out, the sedges of
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  Speaker 6: the swaths on silver thrones, floating down the winding streams
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  Speaker 6: with impassive eyes turned shoreward, and a chant of undertones,
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  Speaker 6: and the lotus leaning forward and helped them into dreams.
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  Speaker 6: Fare you well, Farewell the river sounds no longer audible,
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  Speaker 6: expire the Eden's door. Each flootstep of your treading treads
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  Speaker 6: out some murmur which ye heard before. Farewell the streams
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  Speaker 6: of Eaten ye shall hear nevermore.
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  Speaker 14: I am the near nightingale that singeth in Eden after you,
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  Speaker 14: and I am singing loud and true and sweet. I
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  Speaker 14: do not fail. I sit upon a cypress bough close
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  Speaker 14: to the gate, and I fling my song over the gate,
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  Speaker 14: and through the mail of the warden Angel's marshaled strong
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  Speaker 14: over the gate, and after you and the warden angels.
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  Speaker 14: Let it pass, because the poor brown bird Alas sings
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  Speaker 14: in the garden, sweet and true. And I build my
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  Speaker 14: song of high pure notes, note after note, height over height,
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  Speaker 14: till I strike the arch of the infinite, and I
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  Speaker 14: bridge abysmal agonies with strong, clear calms of harmonies, and
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  Speaker 14: something abides, and something floats in the song which I
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  Speaker 14: sing after you. Fare ye well, farewell the creature sounds
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  Speaker 14: no longer audible, expire at Eden's door. Each footstep of
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  Speaker 14: your treading treads out some cadence which ye heard before.
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  Speaker 14: Farewell the birds of Eden, ye shall hear nevermore.
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  Speaker 7: Wei Ling, will ling the last, the throng, like the tones,
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  Speaker 7: is but a singer who loves his own song. We
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  Speaker 7: are spirit aromas that have blossomed in and bloom. We
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  Speaker 7: recall your with us home. As you breathe are perfume
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  Speaker 7: to the amarand splendor of fire on the slopes, to
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  Speaker 7: the lily VAL's tender and gray heliotropes, to the poppy planes,
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  Speaker 7: keeping sad dream breath and bleeding that the angels there
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  Speaker 7: stepping grew whiter to see to the nook sat with Molly,
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  Speaker 7: You jested one day in.
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  Speaker 8: Till your smile waxed too.
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  Speaker 7: Holy left your lips praying to the rose in a
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  Speaker 7: bower place that you're a sleeping, to the aspect of
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  Speaker 7: flower place you walked tangled deep in.
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  Speaker 8: We pluck each your men, We stroke down your hair.
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  Speaker 7: We faint and not lament, and pine into air. Fairy well,
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  Speaker 7: farewell they eating sense no longer sensible as spy tread,
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  Speaker 7: add some pore. Farewell the flowers ye shall smell nevermore.
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  Speaker 1: There is silence. Adam and Eve fly on and never
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  Speaker 1: look back. Only a colossal shadow, as of the dark
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  Speaker 1: angel passing quickly, is cast upon the sword Glare. End
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  Speaker 1: of scene one. A Drama of Exile by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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  Speaker 1: Scene the Extremity of the sword Glare.
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  Speaker 16: Pausing a moment on this outer edge where the supernal
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  Speaker 16: sword Glare cuts in light the dark exterior desert. Hast
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  Speaker 16: thou strength beloved to look behind us to the gate?
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  Speaker 3: Have I not strength to look up to thy face
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  Speaker 3: we need be strong.
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  Speaker 16: Young spectacle of cloud, which seals the gate up to
• 22:13
  Speaker 16: the final doom, is God's seal manifest. There seem to
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  Speaker 16: lie a hundred thunders in it, dark and dead, the
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  Speaker 16: unmolted lightnings vein it, motionless and outward from its depth.
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  Speaker 16: The self moved sword swings slow, its awful gnomen of
• 22:29
  Speaker 16: red fire from side to side, in pendulous horror, slow
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  Speaker 16: across the stagnant, ghastly glare, thrown flat on the intermediate ground.
• 22:39
  Speaker 16: From that to this the angelic hosts, the archangelic pomps, thrones, domination, princedoms,
• 22:47
  Speaker 16: rank on rank, rising sublimely to the feet of God
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  Speaker 16: on either side, and overhead the gate show like a
• 22:54
  Speaker 16: glittering and sustained smoke drawn to an apex. That their
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  Speaker 16: faces shine betw TwixT the solemn clasping of their wings,
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  Speaker 16: clasped high to a silver point above their heads. We
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  Speaker 16: only guess from hence, and not discern.
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  Speaker 13: Though we were near enough to see them shine. The
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  Speaker 13: shadow on thy face were awfuller to me, at least
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  Speaker 13: to me than all their light.
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  Speaker 16: What ist this eve? Thou droppest heavily in a heap
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  Speaker 16: earthen word and thy body heaves under the golden floodings
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  Speaker 16: of thine.
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  Speaker 13: Hair, Oh, Adam, Adam, by that name of Eve, Thine Eve,
• 23:29
  Speaker 13: thy life, which suits me little. Now, seeing that I
• 23:34
  Speaker 13: now confess myself thy death and thine undoer as the
• 23:38
  Speaker 13: snake was mine, I do it. Joy THEE put me
• 23:42
  Speaker 13: straight away together with my name. Sweet punish me our
• 23:47
  Speaker 13: love be just. And ere we pass beyond the light
• 23:51
  Speaker 13: cast outward by the fiery sword, into the dark which
• 23:56
  Speaker 13: earth must be to us. Bruise my head with thy foot,
• 24:00
  Speaker 13: as the curse said my sea Jel, the first temptress.
• 24:04
  Speaker 13: Strike with curse, as God struck in the garden, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 13: as he, being satisfied with justice and with wrath, did
• 24:12
  Speaker 13: roll his thunder. Gentler at the close thou peradventure, mayst
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  Speaker 13: at last recoil to some soft need of mercy. Strike
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  Speaker 13: my lord aye. Also after tempting, writhe on the ground,
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  Speaker 13: and I would feed on marshes from Thine hand, as
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  Speaker 13: suits me Holm. I tempted, my beloved.
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  Speaker 16: Mine, even life. I have no other name for THEE
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  Speaker 16: or for the Sun than what ye are, my utter
• 24:45
  Speaker 16: life and light. If we have fallen, it is that
• 24:48
  Speaker 16: we have sinned. We God is just, and since his
• 24:52
  Speaker 16: curse does comprehend us both, it must be that his
• 24:56
  Speaker 16: balance holds the weights of first and last sin on
• 24:59
  Speaker 16: a level. What shall I, who had not virtue to
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  Speaker 16: stand straight among the hills of Eden here assumed to
• 25:06
  Speaker 16: mend the justice of the perfect God by piling up
• 25:09
  Speaker 16: a curse upon his curse against THEE.
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  Speaker 13: THEE was so perchance like ID might take THEE into
• 25:16
  Speaker 13: grace for scorning me thy wrath against the sinner, giving
• 25:20
  Speaker 13: proof of inward abrogation of the sin. And so the
• 25:24
  Speaker 13: blessed angels might come down and walk with THEE. Is asked,
• 25:29
  Speaker 13: I think they would, because I was not near to
• 25:32
  Speaker 13: make them sad or soil the rustling of their innocence.
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  Speaker 8: They know me.
• 25:38
  Speaker 16: I am deepest in the guilt, if last in the transgression.
• 25:43
  Speaker 13: Thou.
• 25:44
  Speaker 16: If God, who gave the right and joyance of the
• 25:47
  Speaker 16: world both unto THEE and me, gave THEE to me
• 25:51
  Speaker 16: the best gift last, the last sin was the worst,
• 25:54
  Speaker 16: which sinned against more compliment of gifts and grace of
• 25:58
  Speaker 16: giving God. I render back strong benediction and perpetual praise
• 26:04
  Speaker 16: from mortal feeble lips and incense smoke out of a
• 26:07
  Speaker 16: little censer may fill heaven. That Thou, in striking my
• 26:12
  Speaker 16: benumbed hands and forcing them to drop all other boons
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  Speaker 16: of beauty and dominion and delight, hast left this well
• 26:19
  Speaker 16: beloved eve, this life within life, this best gift between
• 26:23
  Speaker 16: their palms in gracious compensation.
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  Speaker 13: Is it thy voice or absoluting angels calling on my
• 26:32
  Speaker 13: feet into the garden?
• 26:34
  Speaker 16: Oh, my God, I stand here between the glory and dark,
• 26:38
  Speaker 16: the glory of thy wrath projected forth from Eden's wall,
• 26:42
  Speaker 16: and dark of our distress, which settles a step off
• 26:47
  Speaker 16: in that drear world. Lift up to thee the hands
• 26:50
  Speaker 16: from whence hath fallen only creation scepter, thanking thee that
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  Speaker 16: rather thou hast cast me out with her, than left
• 26:59
  Speaker 16: me lorn of her in paradise with angel looks and
• 27:04
  Speaker 16: angel songs around to show the absence of her eyes
• 27:07
  Speaker 16: and voice, to make society full desertness without her use
• 27:12
  Speaker 16: and comfort?
• 27:14
  Speaker 13: Where is loss? Am I? In Eden? And another speak
• 27:18
  Speaker 13: mine own love's.
• 27:20
  Speaker 16: Tongue, Because with her I stand upright as far as
• 27:24
  Speaker 16: I can be in this fall, and look away from
• 27:27
  Speaker 16: heaven which doth accuse, and look away from Earth, which
• 27:30
  Speaker 16: doth convict into her face and crown my disground brow
• 27:34
  Speaker 16: out of her love, and put the thought of her
• 27:36
  Speaker 16: around me for an edenful of birds, and lift her
• 27:40
  Speaker 16: body up thus to my heart, and with my lips
• 27:44
  Speaker 16: upon her lips. Thus thus do quicken and sublimate my
• 27:49
  Speaker 16: mortal breath, which cannot climb against the grave steep sides,
• 27:53
  Speaker 16: but overtops this grief.
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  Speaker 13: I am renewed. My eyes grow with the light which
• 27:58
  Speaker 13: is invine. The silence of my heart is full of sound.
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  Speaker 13: Hold me up. So, because I comprehend this human love,
• 28:09
  Speaker 13: I shall not be afraid of any human death. And
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: yet because I know the strength of love, I seem
• 28:17
  Speaker 13: to know death strength. By that same sign, kiss on
• 28:22
  Speaker 13: my lips to shut the door close on my rising soul,
• 28:27
  Speaker 13: lest did pass outwards in astonishment and leave thee lonely.
• 28:33
  Speaker 16: Yet thou liest eve bent heavily on thyself, across mine,
• 28:37
  Speaker 16: arm and face, feared to the sky ay, And.
• 28:41
  Speaker 13: The tears running, as it might seem, my life from me,
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: they run so fast and warm. Let me lie so
• 28:50
  Speaker 13: and weep so as if in a dream or prayer, unfastening,
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: clasp by clasp the hard, tight thought which clipped my
• 28:59
  Speaker 13: heart and showed me evermore loath of Thy justice, as
• 29:03
  Speaker 13: I loathe the snake, and as the pure ones loathe
• 29:07
  Speaker 13: our sin. To day all day beloved, as we fled
• 29:11
  Speaker 13: across this desolating radiance, cast by swords not suns, my
• 29:17
  Speaker 13: lips prayed soundless to myself, striking against each other, O,
• 29:24
  Speaker 13: Lord God, twas so I prayed. I ask THEE, by
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: my sin and by thy curse, and by thy blameless heavens,
• 29:32
  Speaker 13: make dreadful haste to hide me from Thy face and
• 29:35
  Speaker 13: from the face of my beloved ear, for whom I
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: am no help meet quick away into the new dark
• 29:42
  Speaker 13: mystery of death. I will lie still there. I will
• 29:46
  Speaker 13: make no blame. I will not sigh, nor sob nor
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: speak a word, nor struggle to come back beneath the sun,
• 29:55
  Speaker 13: where peradventure I might sin anew against Thy mercy and
• 30:00
  Speaker 13: his pleasure. Death. How death, whatever it be, is good
• 30:06
  Speaker 13: enough for such as I am. While for Adam here
• 30:10
  Speaker 13: no boy shall say again in heaven or earth, it
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: is not good for him to be alone, And it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 16: Was good for such a prayer to pass my unkind
• 30:20
  Speaker 16: eve betwixt our mutual lives. If I am exiled, Must
• 30:25
  Speaker 16: I be bereavedwas.
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  Speaker 13: An ill prayer, it shall be prayed no more, And
• 30:31
  Speaker 13: God did use it like a foolishness, giving no answer.
• 30:35
  Speaker 13: Now my heart has grown too high and strong for
• 30:38
  Speaker 13: such a foolish prayer. Love makes it strong. And since
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: I was the first in the transgression with a steady foot,
• 30:47
  Speaker 13: I will be the first to tread from the sword
• 30:50
  Speaker 13: glare into the outer darkness of the waste. And thus
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: I do it.
• 30:55
  Speaker 16: Thus I follow thee as erewhile in the sin?
• 30:59
  Speaker 17: What so?
• 31:00
  Speaker 16: What sounds I feel in music which comes straight from Heaven,
• 31:05
  Speaker 16: as tender as a watering.
• 31:07
  Speaker 13: Do I think that angels not as guarding varadise, but
• 31:12
  Speaker 13: the love angels who came us to us, and when
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: we said God fainted unawares back from our mortal presence,
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: unto God, as if he drew them inward in a breath,
• 31:25
  Speaker 13: his name being heard of them, I think they, with
• 31:28
  Speaker 13: fiding voices, lean from heavenly towers, invisible, but gracious, hark.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: How soft chorus of invisible angels.
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: More to man and woman, go upon your travel. Heaven
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: assists the human smoothly to travel all that web of being,
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: wherein ye are holding do ye know our voices chumping
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: down the golden do ye guess our choice is being
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: underholden to be hearkened by you. Yet again, the sparred
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: door of Opal God hath shut between us us his
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: shining people, you who once have seen us and our
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: blinded new Yet across the doorway passed the silence reaching
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: travels evermore may blessing in the teaching glide from us
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: to you, think how earth your Eden?
• 32:27
  Speaker 12: Day on day?
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  Speaker 17: Succeeding with our presence load, we came out of the
• 32:33
  Speaker 17: heavens where abode to a milder music rare Ye saw
• 32:37
  Speaker 17: us and on our solemn traying, turning down the steps
• 32:41
  Speaker 17: of cloud, while our rings out spraying dull columbs of whiteness,
• 32:46
  Speaker 17: drops superfluous brightness down from stair to stair or oft, abrupt.
• 32:53
  Speaker 18: Though tender, While he gazed on space, we flashed our angels,
• 32:58
  Speaker 18: slender in eye, humanian vase, with mystic lilies in our
• 33:03
  Speaker 18: hands from the atmospheric bands. Breaking with a sudden grace,
• 33:08
  Speaker 18: we took you unaware, while our feet struck glories outwards,
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  Speaker 18: smooth and fair, which we stood on flowerwise, platformed in
• 33:17
  Speaker 18: mild air or oft, when heaven descended, stood we in
• 33:22
  Speaker 18: your wandering sight, in the immune of apocaabus, with dumb
• 33:27
  Speaker 18: vibrations on our lips from hosannas ended and grand half
• 33:32
  Speaker 18: vanishings of the imperial things within.
• 33:36
  Speaker 17: Our eyes, belated told the heavenly infinite, falling off from
• 33:40
  Speaker 17: the created, left our inward contemplation opened into administration.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: Then upon our axle, turning of great joy to sympathy,
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: we sang out the morning, blattening up the sky. Or
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: we drew our music through the noontides, hush and heat
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: and shine, informed with our intense, divine, interrupted vital notes,
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: palpitating hither thither, burning out into the either sensible like
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  Speaker 8: fiery molds, or whenever twilight drifted through the set oar
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: masses the globed sun, we lifted, trailing purple, trailing gold
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: out between the passes of the mountains, manifold to anthems,
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: slowly sunk while he a weary half in swoon for
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: joy to hear our climbing tune transpierce the star's concentric rings,
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: the burden of his glory flung in broken lights upon
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: our wings.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: The chant dies away confusedly, and Lucifer.
• 34:46
  Speaker 12: Appears now May all fruits be pleasant to thy lips,
• 34:51
  Speaker 12: beautiful eave. The times have somewhat changed since thou and
• 34:55
  Speaker 12: I had talked beneath a tree. Albeit ye are not God's.
• 34:59
  Speaker 13: Yet Adam, hold my right hand strongly. It is Lucifer,
• 35:05
  Speaker 13: and we have love.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: To lose in the name of God.
• 35:08
  Speaker 16: Go apart from us, o thou, Lucifer, and leave us
• 35:11
  Speaker 16: to the desert. Thou hast made out of thy treason.
• 35:15
  Speaker 16: Bring no serpent slimethwart this path kept wholly to our tears,
• 35:20
  Speaker 16: or we may curse thee with their bitterness.
• 35:23
  Speaker 12: Curse freely, curses thicken. Why this eve, who thought me
• 35:28
  Speaker 12: once part worthy of her ear and somewhat wiser than
• 35:32
  Speaker 12: the other beasts, drawing together her large globes of eyes,
• 35:36
  Speaker 12: the light of which is throbbing in and out, their
• 35:38
  Speaker 12: steadfast continuity of gaze, knots her fair eyebrows, and so
• 35:43
  Speaker 12: hard and not and down from her white heights of womanhood,
• 35:46
  Speaker 12: looks on me so amazed, I scarce should fear to
• 35:49
  Speaker 12: wager such an apple as she plucked against one riper
• 35:53
  Speaker 12: from the tree of life, that she could curse too,
• 35:56
  Speaker 12: as a woman may smooth in the vowels so speak wickedly.
• 36:02
  Speaker 13: I like it best, So let thy words be wounds poor,
• 36:06
  Speaker 13: so I shall not fear thy power to hurt drench
• 36:10
  Speaker 13: on the forms of good by open ill poor, though
• 36:13
  Speaker 13: I shall wax strong and grand with scorn, scorning myself
• 36:18
  Speaker 13: for ever trusting me. As far as thinking er snake
• 36:22
  Speaker 13: eat dust, he could speak wisdom.
• 36:25
  Speaker 12: Ah, you gods, it seems deal more in thunders than
• 36:29
  Speaker 12: in courtesies, and sooth mine own olympus, which anon I
• 36:33
  Speaker 12: shall build up to loud voiced imagery from all the
• 36:36
  Speaker 12: wondering visions of the world may show worse railing than
• 36:40
  Speaker 12: our lady Eve pours o'er the rounding of her argent arm.
• 36:45
  Speaker 12: But why should this be? Adam pardoned Eve.
• 36:49
  Speaker 16: Adam loved Eve. Jehovah pardon both.
• 36:53
  Speaker 13: Adam forgave Eve because loving Eve so well.
• 37:00
  Speaker 12: Yet Adam was undone of Eve, as both were by
• 37:03
  Speaker 12: the snake. Therefore forgive in likewise, fellow temptress, the poor
• 37:09
  Speaker 12: snake who stung there not so poorly.
• 37:12
  Speaker 13: Hold thy wrath, beloved Adam, let me answer him, for
• 37:17
  Speaker 13: this time he speaks truth which we should hear, and
• 37:20
  Speaker 13: ask for mercy which I most should grant. In likewise
• 37:25
  Speaker 13: as he tells us in likewise, And therefore THEE I
• 37:29
  Speaker 13: pardon Lucifer, And as freely as the streams of Eden
• 37:33
  Speaker 13: flowed when we were happy by them, So depart, Leave
• 37:38
  Speaker 13: us to walk the remnant of our time out mildly
• 37:40
  Speaker 13: in the desert. Do not seek to ho almost any more,
• 37:44
  Speaker 13: or scarf at us where'er the dust be laid upon
• 37:47
  Speaker 13: our face, to find there the communion of the dust,
• 37:51
  Speaker 13: an issue of the dust.
• 37:53
  Speaker 12: Go at once, go forgive, and go ye image of clay,
• 38:01
  Speaker 12: shrunk somewhat in the mold. What jest is this? What
• 38:04
  Speaker 12: words are these to use? By? What a thought? Conceive
• 38:08
  Speaker 12: ye of me yesterday? A snake? To day?
• 38:12
  Speaker 16: What a strong spirit?
• 38:15
  Speaker 13: A sad spirit?
• 38:16
  Speaker 16: Perhaps a fallen angel? Who shall say?
• 38:19
  Speaker 12: Who told thee Adam.
• 38:21
  Speaker 16: Thou the prodigy of thy vast brows and melancholy eyes
• 38:25
  Speaker 16: which comprehend the height of some great fall? I think
• 38:29
  Speaker 16: thou hast one day worn a crown under the.
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: Eyes of God, And why of God.
• 38:35
  Speaker 16: It were no crown else? Verily, I think thou art fallen.
• 38:39
  Speaker 16: Far I had not yesterday said so, surely, but I
• 38:43
  Speaker 16: know to day grief by grief, sin by.
• 38:46
  Speaker 12: Sin a crown by a crown.
• 38:49
  Speaker 16: I mock me. Now I know more than I knew.
• 38:52
  Speaker 16: Now I know thou art fallen below hope or final reassent,
• 38:57
  Speaker 16: because because a spirit who expected to see God, though
• 39:02
  Speaker 16: at the last point of a million years, could dare
• 39:04
  Speaker 16: no mockery of a ruined man such as this Adam.
• 39:07
  Speaker 12: Who is high and bold. Be it said passing of
• 39:10
  Speaker 12: a good red clay discovered on some top of Lebanon,
• 39:14
  Speaker 12: or haply of aornus beyond sweep of the black eagle's
• 39:18
  Speaker 12: wing a furlong lower had made a meeker king. For Eden, sir,
• 39:23
  Speaker 12: it is not possible by sin and grief to give
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: the things your name that spirits should rise instead of falling.
• 39:29
  Speaker 16: Most impossible. The highest being, the Holy and the glad
• 39:34
  Speaker 16: whoever rises, must approach delight and sanctity in the act.
• 39:38
  Speaker 12: Ha my clay king, Thou wilt not rule by wisdom
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: very long the after generations Earth methinks, will disinherit thy
• 39:48
  Speaker 12: philosophy for a new doctrine suited to thine heirs and
• 39:52
  Speaker 12: class these present dogmas with the rest of the old
• 39:54
  Speaker 12: world traditions. Eden fruits and Saurian fossils.
• 39:59
  Speaker 13: Speak no, all within, beloved, it is not good to
• 40:02
  Speaker 13: speak with him. Go from us, losable, and speak no more.
• 40:07
  Speaker 13: We have no pardon, which thou dost not scorn, nor
• 40:10
  Speaker 13: any bliss, Thou's eest for coveting, nor innocence, for staining
• 40:16
  Speaker 13: being breatht, we would be alone.
• 40:19
  Speaker 12: Go ah ye, talk the same, all of you, spirits
• 40:24
  Speaker 12: and clay, Go and depart in heaven. They said so,
• 40:29
  Speaker 12: and at Eden's Gate, and here reiterant in the wilderness.
• 40:34
  Speaker 12: None saith stay with me, for thy face is fair.
• 40:39
  Speaker 12: None saith stay with me, for thy voice is sweet.
• 40:43
  Speaker 12: And yet I was not fashioned out of clay. Look
• 40:46
  Speaker 12: on me, woman, Am I beautiful?
• 40:49
  Speaker 13: Thou hast to glorious darkness?
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: Nothing more I think no more, false heart, thou thinkest
• 40:57
  Speaker 12: more thou canst not choose, but think, as I praise God,
• 41:01
  Speaker 12: unwillingly but fully, that I stand most absolute in beauty.
• 41:06
  Speaker 12: As yourselves were fashioned very good at best. So we
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: sprang very beauteous from the creant word which thrilled behind us,
• 41:15
  Speaker 12: God himself being moved when that August work of a
• 41:19
  Speaker 12: perfect shape, his dignities of sovereign angelhood swept out into
• 41:23
  Speaker 12: the universe. Divine with thunderous movements, earnest looks of gods
• 41:29
  Speaker 12: and silver solemn clash of symbol wings. Whereof was I
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: in motion and in form, a part not poorest? And
• 41:38
  Speaker 12: yet yet perhaps this beauty which I speak of is
• 41:42
  Speaker 12: not here, as God's voice is not here, nor even
• 41:46
  Speaker 12: my crown. I do not know what is this thought
• 41:50
  Speaker 12: or thing which I call beauty? Is it thought or thing?
• 41:54
  Speaker 12: Is it a thought accepted for a thing or both,
• 41:57
  Speaker 12: or neither a pretext a word? Its meaning flutters in
• 42:03
  Speaker 12: me like a flame under my own breath, my perceptions
• 42:06
  Speaker 12: real for evermore around it, and fall off, as if
• 42:10
  Speaker 12: it too were holy, which it is.
• 42:13
  Speaker 16: The essence of all beauty. I call love the attribute,
• 42:16
  Speaker 16: the evidence, and end, the consummation to the inward sense
• 42:21
  Speaker 16: of beauty apprehended from without. I still call love as form.
• 42:25
  Speaker 16: When colorless is nothing to the eye, that pine tree
• 42:29
  Speaker 16: there without its black and green being all blank. So
• 42:33
  Speaker 16: without love is beauty undiscerned in man or Angel? Angel,
• 42:39
  Speaker 16: rather ask what love is in thee? What love moves
• 42:43
  Speaker 16: to thee, and what collateral love moves on with thee.
• 42:47
  Speaker 16: Then shalt thou know if thou art beautiful love?
• 42:52
  Speaker 12: What is love? I lose it beauty and love. I
• 42:57
  Speaker 12: darken to the image beauty love.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: He fades away, while a low music sounds.
• 43:05
  Speaker 13: Thou art pale eve, the precipice of ill, and this
• 43:09
  Speaker 13: colossal nature dizzies me and hark the starry harmony remote seems,
• 43:16
  Speaker 13: measuring the heights from whence he fell.
• 43:19
  Speaker 16: That that we have not fallen. So by the hope
• 43:22
  Speaker 16: and aspiration, by the love and faith, we do exceed
• 43:25
  Speaker 16: the streasure of.
• 43:26
  Speaker 13: This angel, happier weed than he is by the death, or.
• 43:30
  Speaker 16: Rather by the life of the Lord God. How dim
• 43:33
  Speaker 16: the angel grows, as if that blast of music swept
• 43:37
  Speaker 16: him back into the dark.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: The music is stronger, gathering itself into uncertain articulation.
• 43:45
  Speaker 13: It throbs in on us like a plaintive art pressing
• 43:49
  Speaker 13: with slow pulsations, vibrative, its gradual's weakness through the yielding air,
• 43:55
  Speaker 13: to such expressions as the stars may use, no stories
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  Speaker 13: and strange. With every note that grows more loud, the
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  Speaker 13: angel grows more dim, receding in proportion to approach, until
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  Speaker 13: he stand afar a shade now.
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  Speaker 1: Words song of the Morning Star to Lucifer. He falls
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  Speaker 1: utterly away and vanishes as it proceeds.
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  Speaker 8: Mine orbed image sinks back from THEE, back from thee,
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  Speaker 8: as thou art fallen methinks back from me, back from me. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: my light bearer good another farer, lack to thee, lack
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  Speaker 8: to thee. Ah Ah, Here's for us. I love THEE
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  Speaker 8: with the fiery love of stars who love by burning
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  Speaker 8: and by loving, move too near the throne to Jehovah
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  Speaker 8: not to love. Ah Ah, Here's for us. Their brows
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  Speaker 8: flash fast on me from gliding cars, pale passioned for
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  Speaker 8: my loss. Ah Ah, Here's for us. Mine orbed hea
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  Speaker 8: eats drop cold down from THEE, down from THEE, as
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  Speaker 8: fell thy grace of old down from me, down from me. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: my light bearer is another fairer one to THEE, one
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  Speaker 8: to thee. Ah ah, Here's far us. Great love preceded loss,
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  Speaker 8: known to thee, known to thee. Ah Ah Thou breathing
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  Speaker 8: thy communicable grace of life into my light mine astral
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  Speaker 8: faces from thine angel face hast inly fed and flooded
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  Speaker 8: me with radiance overmuch from thy pure height. Ah Ah, Thou,
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  Speaker 8: with calm, floating pinions both ways, spread, erect, irradiated, didst
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  Speaker 8: take my wheel of glory on on before thee along
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  Speaker 8: the godlight by a quickening touch ha ha, around around
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  Speaker 8: the firmamental ocean. I swam, expanding with delirious fire around
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  Speaker 8: around a round and blind desire to be drawn upward
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  Speaker 8: to the infinite ha ha, until the motion flinging out,
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  Speaker 8: the motion to a keen whirl of passion and avidity,
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  Speaker 8: to a dim whirl of languor and delight. I wound
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  Speaker 8: in girant orbits smooth and white, with that intense rapidity
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  Speaker 8: around around I wound and interwound, while all the cyclic
• 46:26
  Speaker 8: heavens about me spun stars, planets, suns, and moons dilated
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  Speaker 8: broad then flashed together into a single sun and wound
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  Speaker 8: and wound in one. And as they wound, I wound
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  Speaker 8: around around in a great fire. I almost took for
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: God ha ha he. As for us, thine Angel, glory
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  Speaker 8: sinks down from me, down from me, My beauty faults,
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  Speaker 8: methinks down from thee, down from thee, O, my light bearer, O,
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  Speaker 8: my path preparer, gone from me, gone from me. Ah ah,
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  Speaker 8: here is for us I cannot kindle underneath the brow
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: of this new angel here, who is not thou all
• 47:12
  Speaker 8: things are altered since that time ago. And if I
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  Speaker 8: shine at eve, I shall not know I am strange,
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  Speaker 8: I am slow. Ah Ah. Here is for us henceforward,
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  Speaker 8: human eyes of lovers shall be the only sweetest sight
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  Speaker 8: that I shall see, with tears between the looks raised
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  Speaker 8: up to me ah ah, when having wept all night,
• 47:38
  Speaker 8: at break of day above the folded hills, they shall
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  Speaker 8: survey my light, a little trembling in the gray ah ah,
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  Speaker 8: and gazing on me, such shall comprehend through all my
• 47:51
  Speaker 8: piteous pomp at morn or even and melancholy, leaning out
• 47:56
  Speaker 8: of heaven, that love their own divine may change or end,
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  Speaker 8: that love may close and loss. Ah Ah, hear's for us.
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  Speaker 1: End of scene two. A Drama of Exile by Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: Barrett Browning. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. A Drama of Exile, Scene three,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Part one, Scene farther on a wild, open country, seen
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: vaguely in the approaching night.
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  Speaker 16: How doth the wide and melancholy earth gather her heels
• 48:43
  Speaker 16: around us? Gray and ghast the stare with blank significance
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  Speaker 16: of loss right in our faces is the wind up.
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  Speaker 4: Eh.
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  Speaker 16: And yet the cedars and the junipers rock slowly through
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  Speaker 16: the midst without a sound, And shapes which have no
• 48:58
  Speaker 16: certainty of shape, duskly in and out between the pines,
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  Speaker 16: and loom along the edges or the hills, and lie
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  Speaker 16: flat curdling in the open ground. Shadows without a body,
• 49:10
  Speaker 16: which contract and lengthened as we gaze on them.
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  Speaker 13: O life which is not man's nor angels? What is this?
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  Speaker 16: No cause for fear? The circle of God's life contains
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  Speaker 16: all life beside.
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  Speaker 13: I think the earth is crazed with curse and wanders
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  Speaker 13: from the scents of those first laws afixed to form
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  Speaker 13: and space forever.
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  Speaker 16: She knews in we will not rear. We were brave, sinning.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I plucked the fruit with eyes upturned to Heaven
• 49:39
  Speaker 13: and seeing their god thrones. As the tempter said, not God,
• 49:45
  Speaker 13: my heart which beat then sinks. The sun had sunk
• 49:49
  Speaker 13: out of sight with our eden. Night is near and
• 49:52
  Speaker 13: God's curse nearest. Let us travel back and down within
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  Speaker 13: the sword glare till we die, believing it is better
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  Speaker 13: to meet death than suffer desolation.
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  Speaker 16: Nahbl of it We must not pluck death from the
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  Speaker 16: Maker's hand as erst we plucked the apple. We must
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  Speaker 16: wait until he gives death as he gave us life.
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  Speaker 16: Nor murmur faintly over the primal gift, because we spoilt
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  Speaker 16: its sweetness with our sin.
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  Speaker 13: Aa, dost thou discern what I be old?
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  Speaker 16: I see all how the spirits in thine eyes, from
• 50:27
  Speaker 16: their dilated orbits, bound before to meet the spectral dread.
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  Speaker 13: I am afraid.
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  Speaker 6: Ay.
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  Speaker 13: The twilight bristles wild with shapes of intermittent motion, aspect
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  Speaker 13: vague and mystic bearings which o'ercreep the earth, keeping slow
• 50:46
  Speaker 13: time with horrors in the blood. How near they reach
• 50:49
  Speaker 13: and far, how gray they move, treading upon the darkness
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  Speaker 13: without feet, and fluttering on the darkness without wings. Some
• 50:58
  Speaker 13: run like dogs with noses to the ground. Some keep
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  Speaker 13: one path like sheep, Some rock like trees, Some glide
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  Speaker 13: like a fallen leaf, and some flow on copious as rivers.
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  Speaker 16: Some spring up like fire, and some coil.
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  Speaker 13: Ay, ay, dost thou palls do say like what coil?
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  Speaker 13: Like the serpent when he fell from all the emeralds
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  Speaker 13: splendor of his height, and writhed and could not glimb
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  Speaker 13: against the curse not a ring's length. I am afraid, afraid.
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  Speaker 13: I think it is God's will to make me afraid,
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  Speaker 13: permitting these to haunt us in the place of His
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  Speaker 13: beloved angels, gone from us because we are not pure.
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  Speaker 13: Dear pity of God, that didst permit the angels to
• 51:51
  Speaker 13: go home and live no more with us who are
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  Speaker 13: not pure. Save us two from a loathly company, almost
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  Speaker 13: as lothly an hour as perhaps as we are in
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  Speaker 13: the feurest pity us us too, nor shut us in
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  Speaker 13: the dark, away from verity and from stability, or what
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  Speaker 13: we name such through the precedence of Earth's adjusted uses,
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  Speaker 13: leave us not a doubt betwixt our senses and our souls,
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  Speaker 13: which are the more distraught and full of pain, and
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  Speaker 13: weak of apprehension courage sweet.
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  Speaker 16: The mystic shapes ebb back from us and drop with slow,
• 52:32
  Speaker 16: concentric movement, each on each expressing wider spaces and collapsed
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  Speaker 16: in lines, more definite for imagery, arid clear for relation,
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  Speaker 16: till the throng of shapeless spectra merge into a few
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  Speaker 16: distinguishable phantasms, vague and grand, which sweep out and around
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  Speaker 16: us vastly and hold us in a circle of a.
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  Speaker 13: Calm strained phantasms of bells shadow Thou who didst name
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  Speaker 13: alllives hast names.
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  Speaker 16: For these methinks this is a zodiac of the Earth,
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  Speaker 16: which around us with a visionary dread, responding with twelve
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  Speaker 16: shadowy signs of Earth in fantastic apposition and approach to
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  Speaker 16: those celestial consolated twelve which palpitate adown the silent nights
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  Speaker 16: under the pressure of the hand of God stretched wide
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  Speaker 16: in benediction at this hour, not a star prick at
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  Speaker 16: the flat gloom of Heaven, but girding close to our
• 53:33
  Speaker 16: nether wilderness. The zodiac figures of the Earth loom, slow
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  Speaker 16: drawn out, as suited with the place and time, in
• 53:40
  Speaker 16: twelve colossal shades instead of stars, through which the ecliptic
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  Speaker 16: line of mystery strikes bleakly with an unrelenting scope, foreshadowing life.
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  Speaker 13: And death by dream of sense? Do we see this?
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  Speaker 16: Our spirits have climbed high by reason of the passion
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  Speaker 16: of our grief, and from the top of sense looked
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  Speaker 16: over sense to the significance and heart of thing, rather
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  Speaker 16: than things.
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  Speaker 13: Themselves, and the dimm dwell.
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  Speaker 16: Our dim exponents of the creature life as Earth contains it,
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  Speaker 16: gaze on them, beloved by strict apprehension of the sight.
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  Speaker 16: Suggestions of the creatures, shall asouge the tear of the
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  Speaker 16: shadows what is known, subduing the unknown and taming it
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  Speaker 16: from all prodigious dread. That pandasm. There presents a lion,
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  Speaker 16: albeit twenty times as large as any lion, with a
• 54:34
  Speaker 16: roar set soundless in his vibratory jaws, and a strange
• 54:38
  Speaker 16: horror stirring in his mane. And there a pendulous shadow
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  Speaker 16: seems to weigh good against ill perchance. And there crab
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  Speaker 16: puts coldly out its gradual shadow claws like a slow
• 54:51
  Speaker 16: blot that spreads till all the ground crawled over by
• 54:54
  Speaker 16: it seems to crawl itself. A bowl stands horned here
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  Speaker 16: with gi blooms, and a ram likewise, and a scorpion
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  Speaker 16: rise its tail in ghastly slime and stings the dark
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  Speaker 16: this way. A goat leaves with a wild blank of beard.
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  Speaker 16: And here fantastic fishes destly float, using the calm for waters,
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  Speaker 16: while their fins throw out quick rhythms along the shallow air,
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  Speaker 16: while images more.
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  Speaker 13: Human, how he stands that phantasm of a man who
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  Speaker 13: hast not thou Two phantasms of two men.
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  Speaker 16: One that sustains and one that stries resuming. So the
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  Speaker 16: ends of manhood's curse of labor? Dost thou see the
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  Speaker 16: phantasm of a woman?
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  Speaker 13: I have seen, but look off to those small humanities
• 55:45
  Speaker 13: would s draw me tenderly across my fear, lesser and
• 55:50
  Speaker 13: fainter than my womanhood or yet thy manhood. What strange
• 55:56
  Speaker 13: innocence set in the misty lines of head and hand
• 55:59
  Speaker 13: they lean together. I would gaze on them longer and longer,
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  Speaker 13: till my watching eyes, as the stars do in watching anything,
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  Speaker 13: should light them forward from their outline to clear configuration.
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  Speaker 1: Two spirits of organic and inorganic nature arise from the ground.
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  Speaker 13: But what shapes rise up between us in the open
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  Speaker 13: space and thrust me into aural back from hope.
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  Speaker 16: Colossal shapes twin sovereign images with a disconsolate, blank majesty,
• 56:32
  Speaker 16: sit in their wondrous faces with no look, and yet
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  Speaker 16: an aspect, a significance of individual life and passionate ends
• 56:40
  Speaker 16: which overcomes us gazing. Oblique sound, Oh shadow of a sound,
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  Speaker 16: Oh phantasm of thin sound? How it comes wheeling as
• 56:50
  Speaker 16: the pale moth wheels wheeling and wheeling in continuous wail
• 56:55
  Speaker 16: around the cyclic zodiac, and gains force and gathers, settling
• 57:00
  Speaker 16: coldly like a moth on the wan faces of these
• 57:03
  Speaker 16: images we see before us, whereby modified it draws a
• 57:07
  Speaker 16: straight line of articulate song from out that spiral faintness
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  Speaker 16: of lament, and by one voice expresses many griefs.
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  Speaker 9: I am the spirit of the harmless earth. God spake
• 57:21
  Speaker 9: me softly out among the stars, as softly as a
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: blessing of much worth. And then his smile did follow, unawares,
• 57:29
  Speaker 9: that all things fashioned so for use and duty might shine,
• 57:32
  Speaker 9: anointed with His chrism of beauty. Yet I wail, I
• 57:36
  Speaker 9: drave on with words exultingly obliquely down the Godlight's gradual fall,
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: individual aspect and complexity of gurratory orb and interval, lost
• 57:46
  Speaker 9: in the fluent motion of delight, toward the high ends
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  Speaker 9: of being beyond sight.
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  Speaker 6: Yet I wail, I am the spirit of the harmless beasts,
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  Speaker 6: of flying things and creeping things, and swimming of all
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: the life. Er sat at silent feasts that found the
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: love kiss on the goblet, brimming and tasted in each
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: drop within the measure the sweetest pleasure of their Lord's
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  Speaker 6: good pleasure. Yet I wail, what a full hum of
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  Speaker 6: life around his lips bore witness to the fullness of creation.
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  Speaker 6: How all the grand words were full, laid in ships,
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  Speaker 6: each sailing onward from enunciation to separate existence, and each
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  Speaker 6: bearing the creature's power of joying, hoping, fearing. Yet I wail.
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  Speaker 13: They wail, beloved, They speak of glory in God, and
• 58:34
  Speaker 13: they wail, wail. That burden of the song drops from
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  Speaker 13: it like its fruit, and heavily falls into a lap
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  Speaker 13: of silence.
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  Speaker 16: Hark again, I was.
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  Speaker 9: So beautiful, so beautiful, My joice stood up within me,
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  Speaker 9: bold to add a word to God's. And when his
• 58:53
  Speaker 9: work was full to very good, responded very glad, filtered
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  Speaker 9: through roses. Did the light enclose me, and bunches of
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: the grape swam blue across me. Yet I wail.
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  Speaker 6: I bounded with my panthers, I rejoiced in my young
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  Speaker 6: tumbling lions, rolled together my stag the river at his
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: fetlocks poised, then dipped his antlers through the golden weather,
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  Speaker 6: in the same ripple which the alligator left in his
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  Speaker 6: joyous troubling of the water.
• 59:22
  Speaker 9: Yet I wail, oh, my deep waters, cataract and flood.
• 59:28
  Speaker 9: What wordless triumph did your voices render, O mountain summits
• 59:32
  Speaker 9: where the eagle stood and shook from head and wing
• 59:35
  Speaker 9: thick dews of splendor. How with holy quiet did your
• 59:38
  Speaker 9: earthy accept that, heavenly knowing ye were worthy.
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: Yet I wail, oh, my wild wood dogs, with your
• 59:47
  Speaker 6: listening eyes, my horses, my ground eagles, for swift fleeing,
• 59:52
  Speaker 6: my birds with fewless wings of harmonies, my calm, cold
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: fishes of a silver being. How happy were ye living
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 6: and possessing O fair half souls capacious of full blessing?
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: Yet I wail, I.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 9: Wail, I wail. Now hear my charge to day thou man,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 9: thou woman, marked as the misdoers by God's sword at
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 9: your backs. I lent my clay to make your bodies,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 9: which had grown more flowers. And now in change for
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 9: what I lent, ye give me the thorn to vex,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 9: the tempest fire to cleave me. And I wail, I wail,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 9: I wail.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 19: Behold ye that I fasten my sorrow's fang upon your
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 19: soul's dishonored, accursed transgressors down the steep Ye hasten your
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 19: crown's weight on the world, to drag it downward unto
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 19: your ruin.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 6: Lo My lions, scenting the blood of wars, roar, hoarse
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: and unrelenting. And I wail, I.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 9: Wail, I wail. Do you hear that I wail? I
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 9: had no part in your transgression? None my rose on
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 9: the bough did bud, not pale, My rivers did not
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 9: loiter in the sun. I was obedient. Wherefore in my
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 9: center do I thrill at this curse of death and winter?
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 6: Do I wail? I wail, I wail, I wail in
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: the assault of undeserved perdition, sorely wounded, my nightingale sank
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 6: sweet without a fault, My gentle leopards innocently bounded. We
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 6: were obedient. What is this? Convulses our blameless life with
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 6: pangs and fever pulses, And I wail.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 13: I choose God's thunder and his angel's words to die
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 13: by Adam rather than such words. Let us pass out
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  Speaker 13: and flee.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 16: We cannot flee. The zodiac of the creature's cruelty curls
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 16: round us like a river, cold and drear, and shuts
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 16: us in constraining us to.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 9: Hear feel your steps, o wandering sinners strike a sense
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 9: of death to me and undug graves. The heart of earth,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 9: once calm, is trembling like the ragged foam along the
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 9: ocean waves. The restless earthquakes rock against each other. The
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  Speaker 9: elements moan round me, Mother, Mother, and I wail.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: Your melancholy looks to pierce me through corruption swathes the
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 6: paleness of your beauty. Why have ye done this thing?
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 6: What did we do that we should fall from bliss?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: As ye from duty? While treat the hawks in waiting
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: for their jesses fierce howl the wolves along the wildernesses,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 6: And I will.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 16: To thee the spirit of the harmless earth to thee,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 16: the spirit of Earth's harmless lives. In fear your creatures,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 16: but still innocent, be salutation from a guilty mouth, yet
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  Speaker 16: worthy of some audience in respect from you who are
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 16: not guilty. If we have sinned, God hath rebuked us,
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  Speaker 16: who is over us to give rebuke or death. And
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 16: if ye wail because of any suffering from our sin,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 16: ye who are under and not over us, be satisfied
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 16: with God, if not with us, and pass out from
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 16: our presence. In such peace, as we have left you
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 16: to enjoy revenge such as the heavens have made you. Verily,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 16: there must be strife between us large as sin.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 13: No strife mine, Adam. Let us not stand high upon
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 13: the wrong we did to reach disdain, who rather should
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 13: be humbler evermore? Sin self made sadder? Adam, Shall I speak, I,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 13: who spake once to such a bitter end? Shall I
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 13: speak humbly now? Who once was proud, I schooled by
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  Speaker 13: sin to more humility than thou hast O mine, Adam, O,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 13: my king, my king, have not.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: The world speak as thou wilt?
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 13: Thus, then, my and in line sweet dreadful spirits, I
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 13: pray you, humbly, in the name of God, not to
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 13: say of these tears which are impure, Grant me such
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 13: pardoning grace as can go forth from clean volitions toward
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 13: a spotted will, from the wronged to the wronger. This
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 13: and no more I do not ask more. I am
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 13: ware indeed that absolute pardon is impossible from you to
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 13: me by reason of my sin, and that I cannot
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 13: evermore as once with worthy acceptation of pure joy. Behold
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 13: the trances of the holy hills beneath the leaning stars,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 13: or watch the vales and due pallid with their morning ecstasy,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 13: or hear the winds make pastoral peace between two grassy uplands,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 13: and the river wells work out their bubbling mysteries underground,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 13: and all the birds sing till for joy of song
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 13: they live, their trembling wings as if to heaved the
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 13: too much weight of music from their heart and flirted
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 13: up with tether. I am aware that these things I
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 13: can no more apprehend with a pure organ into a
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 13: bold delight, the sense of beauty and of melody being
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 13: no more aided in me by the sense of personal
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 13: adjustment to those heights of what I see well formed
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  Speaker 13: or hear well tuned, but rather coupled darkly he made
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  Speaker 13: ashamed by my pacipiency of sin and fall and melancholy
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  Speaker 13: of you million thoughts, but oh fair, dreadful spirits. Albeit this,
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  Speaker 13: your accusation must confront my soul, and your pathetic utterance
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  Speaker 13: and full gaze must evermore subdue me. Be content, conquer
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  Speaker 13: me gently, as if pitying me, not to say loving.
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  Speaker 13: Let my tears false thak as watering jews of Eden unreproached,
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  Speaker 13: and when you're done, reprove me make me smooth, not ruveled.
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  Speaker 13: Smooth and still with your reproof in bair adventure better,
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  Speaker 13: one more sad will look to it, sweet spirits, look
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  Speaker 13: well to it. It will not be amiss in you,
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  Speaker 13: who kept the law of your own righteousness, and keep
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  Speaker 13: the right of your own griefs to mourn themselves to
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  Speaker 13: pity me twice fallen from that, and this from joy
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  Speaker 13: of place and also right of well, I wail, being
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  Speaker 13: not for me only I sin look to it, o,
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  Speaker 13: sweet spirits. For was I not at that last sunset
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  Speaker 13: seen in Paradise, when all the westering clouds flashed out
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  Speaker 13: of sudden angel faces face thy face, all hushed and
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  Speaker 13: solemn as a thought of God help them suspended? Was
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  Speaker 13: I not that hour, the lady of the world, Princess
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  Speaker 13: of life, mistress of feast and favor. Could I touch
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  Speaker 13: a rose with my white hand, but it became redder
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  Speaker 13: at once? Could I walk leisurely along our sworded garden,
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  Speaker 13: but the grass tracked me with greenness? Could I stand
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  Speaker 13: aside a moment underneath a corn or tree, but all
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  Speaker 13: the leaves did tremble, as alive with songs of fifty
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  Speaker 13: birds who were made glad because I stood there, could
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  Speaker 13: I turned to look with these dwayin eyes of mine
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  Speaker 13: now weeping fast, now good for only weeping upon man, angel,
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  Speaker 13: or beast or bird, But each rejoiced because I looked
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  Speaker 13: on him. Alas, Alas. And is not this much woe
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  Speaker 13: to cry alas speaking of joy? And is not this
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  Speaker 13: more shame to have made the woe myself from all
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  Speaker 13: that joy, to have stretched my hand and plucked from
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  Speaker 13: the tree and chosen it for fruit. Nay? Is not
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  Speaker 13: this still most despair to have harved that bitter fruit
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  Speaker 13: and ruined so the sweetest friend I have, turning the
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  Speaker 13: greatest to mine enemy.
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  Speaker 16: I will not hear thee speak, so hearken spirits. Our God,
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  Speaker 16: who is the enemy of none but only of their sin,
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  Speaker 16: has set your hope and my hope in a promise
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  Speaker 16: on this head. Show reverence, then, and never bruise her
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  Speaker 16: more with unpermitted an extreme reproach, less passionate in anguish,
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  Speaker 16: she fling down between your trambling feet, God's gift to
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  Speaker 16: us a sovereignty by reason and free will, sinning against
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  Speaker 16: the province of the soul, to rule the Soulace reverence
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  Speaker 16: her estate, and pass out from her presence with no words.
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  Speaker 13: Oh dearest heart, have patience with my heart, Oh spirits,
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  Speaker 13: have patience dead of reverence, and let me speak for
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  Speaker 13: not being innocent. It little doth become me to be proud,
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  Speaker 13: And I am prescient by the very hope, and promise
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  Speaker 13: that upon me that henceforth only my gentleness shall make
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  Speaker 13: me great. My humbleness exalt me, awful spirits, by witness
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  Speaker 13: that I stand in your reproof, but one sun's length
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  Speaker 13: off from my happiness. Happy as I have said, to
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  Speaker 13: look around, clear, to look up, And now I need
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  Speaker 13: not speak. Ye see me what I am. Ye scorn
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  Speaker 13: me so because ye see me what I have made
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  Speaker 13: myself from God's best making. Alas peace foregone, love wronged,
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  Speaker 13: and virtue forth it and tears wept upon all vainly,
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  Speaker 13: alas me, alas who have undone myself from all that best,
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  Speaker 13: fairest and sweetest, to this wretchedness, saddest and most defiled,
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  Speaker 13: cast down, cast down? What word meets absolute loss? Let
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  Speaker 13: absolute loss suffice you for revenge. For I, who lived
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  Speaker 13: beneath the wings of angels yesterday wandered to day beneath
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  Speaker 13: the roofless world. I am raining the Earth's impress yesterday
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  Speaker 13: put off from me to day your hate with prayers. Aye,
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  Speaker 13: yesterday you answered the Lord God, composed and glad as
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  Speaker 13: singing birds. The sun may shriek now from our dismal
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  Speaker 13: desert God, and hear him make reply. What is thy need,
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  Speaker 13: thou whom my curse to day? If I at last,
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  Speaker 13: who yesterday was helpmate and delight unto mine, adam am
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  Speaker 13: to day the grief and curse meat for him, and
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  Speaker 13: so pity us, ye, gentle spirits, unparten him and me,
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  Speaker 13: and let some tender peace made of our pain grow
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  Speaker 13: up betwixt us, as a tree might grow, with boughs
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  Speaker 13: on both sides, in the shade of which, when presently
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  Speaker 13: ye shall behold us dead. For the poor sake of
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  Speaker 13: our humility, Breathe out your parton on our breathless lips,
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  Speaker 13: and drop your twilight ewes against our brows, and stroking
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  Speaker 13: with mild airs our harmless hands, left empty of all fruit,
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  Speaker 13: perceive your love distilling through your pity over us, and
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 13: suffer it self reconciled to pass.
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  Speaker 1: End of Scene three, Part one. A Drama of Exile
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  Speaker 1: by Elizabethabeth Barrett Browning. This is a Librivach's recording. All
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  Speaker 1: Librivax recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit librivax dot org. A Drama
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  Speaker 1: of Exile, Scene three, Part two. Lucifer rises in the circle.
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  Speaker 12: Who talks here of a compliment of grief, of expiation
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  Speaker 12: wrought by loss and fall of hates subduable to pity, Eve,
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  Speaker 12: take counsel from thy counselor the snake, and boast no
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  Speaker 12: more in grief nor hope from pain, My docile Eve,
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  Speaker 12: I teach you to despond who taught you disobedience? Look
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  Speaker 12: around earth, spirits and phantasms. Here you talk, unmoved, as
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  Speaker 12: if you were red clay again, and talked, What are
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 12: your words to them? Your grief to them, your deaths?
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  Speaker 12: Indeed to them did the hand pause for their sake
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  Speaker 12: in the plucking of the fruit, that they should pause
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  Speaker 12: for you in hating you? Or will your grief or death,
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  Speaker 12: as did your sin bring change upon their final doom? Behold,
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  Speaker 12: your grief is but your sin in the rebound, and
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  Speaker 12: cannot expiate for it. That is true, Aye, that is true.
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  Speaker 12: The clay king testifies to the Snake's council. Hear him
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  Speaker 12: very true.
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  Speaker 13: I wail, I wail.
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  Speaker 12: And certains that is true. Ye wail, ye all wail peradventure.
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  Speaker 12: I could wail among you, Oh thou universe that holdest
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  Speaker 12: sin and woe. More room for wail, ah ah who
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  Speaker 12: for us, here for us.
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  Speaker 16: Mark Lucifer, he changes awfully.
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  Speaker 13: It seems as if he looked from grief to God
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  Speaker 13: and could not see him.
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  Speaker 3: Wretched Luzivier, how he stands yet an angel?
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  Speaker 4: We all wail.
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  Speaker 12: Dost thou now remember Adam? When the curse took us
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  Speaker 12: in Eden, on a mountain peak, half sheathed in primal
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  Speaker 12: woods and glittering in spasms of awful sunshine. At that hour,
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  Speaker 12: a lion couched part raised upon his paws, with his calm,
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  Speaker 12: massive face turned full on thine and his mane listening.
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  Speaker 12: When the ended curse left silence in the world right suddenly,
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  Speaker 12: he sprang up rampant and stood straight and stiff, as
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  Speaker 12: if the new reality of death were dashed against his eyes,
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  Speaker 12: and roared so fierce, such thick carnivorous passion in his throat,
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  Speaker 12: tearing a passage through the wrath and fear, and roared
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  Speaker 12: so wild and smote from all the hills, such vast
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  Speaker 12: keen echoes, crumbling down the veils precipitately that the forest beasts,
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  Speaker 12: one after one did mutter a response of savage and
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 12: of sorrowful complaint, which trailed along the gorges. Then at
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  Speaker 12: once he fell all back and rolled, crashing from the
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  Speaker 12: height into the dusk of pines.
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  Speaker 16: It might have been I heard the curse alone.
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  Speaker 13: I wail, I.
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  Speaker 12: Wail, that lion is the type of what I am.
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  Speaker 12: And as he fixed thee with his full faced hate
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  Speaker 12: and roared o adam, comprehending doom. So gazing on the
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  Speaker 12: face of the unseen, I cry out here between the
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  Speaker 12: heavens and earth, my conscience of this sin, this woe,
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  Speaker 12: this wrath, which damned me to this depth.
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  Speaker 13: I wail, I wail, I wail.
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  Speaker 12: Oh God, I scorn you, that ye wail, who use
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  Speaker 12: your pretty griefs for pedestals to stand on beckoning pity
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  Speaker 12: from without, and deal in pathos of antithesis, of what
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  Speaker 12: ye were forsooth and what ye are? I scorn you
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  Speaker 12: like an angel. Yet one cry, I too, would drive
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  Speaker 12: up like a column erect marble to marble from my
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  Speaker 12: heart to heaven a monument of anguish to transpierce and
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  Speaker 12: overtop your vapory complaints expressed from feeble woes.
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  Speaker 6: I wail, I wail.
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  Speaker 12: Four O ye heavens, Ye are my witnesses that I
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  Speaker 12: struck out from nature in a block, the outcast and
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  Speaker 12: the mildew of things good, the leper of angels, the
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  Speaker 12: accepted dust under the common reign of daily gifts, I
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  Speaker 12: the snake, I the tempter, I the cursed, to whom
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  Speaker 12: the highest and the lowest alike, say go from us.
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  Speaker 12: We have no need of thee was made by God,
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  Speaker 12: like others, good and fair. He did create me. Ask
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  Speaker 12: him if not fair? Ask if I caught not fair
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  Speaker 12: and silverly his blessing for chief angels on my head
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  Speaker 12: until it grew there a crown crystallized. Ask if he
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  Speaker 12: never called me by my name? Lucifer kindly said as Gabriel,
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  Speaker 12: Lucifer soft as Michael, while Serene, I, standing in the
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  Speaker 12: glory of the lamps, answered my father, innocent of shame
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  Speaker 12: and of the sense of thunder, ha ye think white
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  Speaker 12: angels in your niches. I repent and would tread down
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  Speaker 12: my own offenses. Back to service at the footstool that's
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  Speaker 12: red wrong. I cry, as the beast did that. I
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  Speaker 12: may cry, expansive, not appealing, fallen so deep against the
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  Speaker 12: sides of this prodigious pit, I cry cry, dashing out
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  Speaker 12: the hands of wail on each side, to meet anguish everywhere,
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  Speaker 12: and to attest it in the ecstasy and exultation of
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 12: a woe sustained because provoked and chosen. Pass along your wilderness.
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  Speaker 12: Vain mortals, puny griefs in transitory shapes, be henceforth dwarfed
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  Speaker 12: to your own conscience by the dread extremes of what
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  Speaker 12: I am and have been. If ye have fallen, it
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  Speaker 12: is but a STEP's fall. The whole ground beneath strewn
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 12: wooly soft with promise. If ye have sinned, your prayers
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  Speaker 12: tread high as angels. If ye have grieved, ye are
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  Speaker 12: too mortal to be pitiable. The power to die disproves
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  Speaker 12: the right to grieve. Go to ye call this ruin.
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  Speaker 12: I half scorn the ill I did. You were? Ye
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  Speaker 12: wronged by me, hated and tempted and undone of me? Still,
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  Speaker 12: what's your hurt to mine? Of doing? Hurt, of hating, tempting,
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  Speaker 12: and so ruining the sword's hilt is the sharpest and
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 12: cuts through the hand that wields it. Go, I curse
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  Speaker 12: you all hate one another, feebly as ye can, I
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  Speaker 12: would not certis cut you short in hate, farbit from me.
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  Speaker 12: Hate on as ye can. I breathe into your faces,
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  Speaker 12: spirits of earth, as wintry blast may breathe on wintry leaves,
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  Speaker 12: and lifting up their brownness, show beneath the branches bare
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  Speaker 12: beseech you. Spirits. Give to Eve, who beggarly entreats your
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  Speaker 12: love for her and Adam when they shall be dead,
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  Speaker 12: and answer rather fitting to the sin than to the sorrow,
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  Speaker 12: as the heavens I trow for justice's sake gave theirs.
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  Speaker 12: I curse you both, Adam and Eve, say grace as
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 12: after meat. After my curses. May your tears fall hot
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  Speaker 12: on all the hissing scorns of the creatures here, and
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 12: yet rejoice, increase and multiply ye in your generations, in
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 12: all plagues, corruptions, melancholies, poverties, and hideous forms of life,
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  Speaker 12: and fears of death. The thought of death be always eminent,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 12: immovable and dreadful in your life, and deafly and dumbly
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  Speaker 12: insignificant of any hope beyond as death itself. Whichever of
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 12: you lieth dead, the first shall seem to the survivor.
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  Speaker 12: Yet rejoice. Might curse catch at you strongly body and soul,
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  Speaker 12: and he find no redemption, nor the wing of seraph
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  Speaker 12: move your way, And yet rejoice. Rejoice because ye have
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  Speaker 12: not set in you this hate which shall pursue you,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 12: this fire, hate which glares without, because it burns within,
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  Speaker 12: which kills from ashes, this potential hate. Wherein I angel
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 12: in antagonism to God in his reflex beatitudes moan ever
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 12: in the central universe, with the great woe of striving
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 12: against love and gasp for space amid the infinite, and
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 12: toss for rest amid the desertness, self orphaned by my will,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 12: and self elect to kingship of resistant agony towards the
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 12: good round me, hating good and love, and willing to
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 12: hate good and to hate love, and willing to will
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  Speaker 12: on so evermore, scorning the past and damning the to
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  Speaker 12: come go and rejoice. I curse you.
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  Speaker 1: Lucifer vanishes, and we scorn you.
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  Speaker 4: There's no pardon which can lead you to a right.
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  Speaker 4: When your bodies take the worden of the death curse
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  Speaker 4: in our sight. Then the bee that hammeth lowest shall
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 4: transcend you. Then ye shall not move in an eyelid,
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  Speaker 4: though the stars look down your eyes, and the earth
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  Speaker 4: which ye defiled, shall expose you to the skies.
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  Speaker 13: Low.
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  Speaker 4: These kings of ours, who sought to comprehend you.
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  Speaker 9: And the elements, shall boldly all your dust to dust,
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  Speaker 9: constrain unresistedly and coldly. I will smite you with my rain.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 9: From the slowest of my frosts.
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  Speaker 6: Is no receding, and my little worm appointed to assume
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  Speaker 6: a royal part, he shall reign, crowned and anointed. Or
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 6: the noble human heart give him counsel against losing of
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 6: that eden.
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  Speaker 16: Do ye scorn us, back your scorn toward your face's
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  Speaker 16: gray and lorn, as the wind dries back the rain.
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  Speaker 16: Thus I drive with passion strife, I who stand beneath
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 16: God's son, made like God, And though undone, not unmade
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  Speaker 16: for love and life, Lo ye utter threats in vain
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 16: by my free will, that chose sin, by mine, agony
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 16: within round the passage of the fire, by the pinings
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 16: which disclose that my native soul is higher than what
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 16: it shows. We are yet too high o spirits for
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 16: your disdain.
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  Speaker 13: Nay, beloved, if these be low, we confront them from
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 13: no right. We have stooped down to the level by
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 13: infecting them with evil. And there's one that meets our blows.
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  Speaker 13: Gaze aright, amen, let it be so.
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  Speaker 4: We shall triumph, triumph greatly. When ye lie beneath the sward.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 4: There our lily shall grow stately, though ye answer not
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  Speaker 4: a word, and her fragrance shall be scornful of your silence.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: While your throne ascending calmly, we in erdim of your soul.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: Flash the river, lift the palm tree, the dilated ocean,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: roll by the thoughts that throbbed within you round the
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: islands Alp and Torrent shall inherit your significance of will,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 4: and the grandeur of your spirit. Shall our broad savannahs
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: fill in our winds. Your exultations shall be springing even
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 4: your parlance, which in vagels by our rudeness shall be
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 4: won heart's poetic in our eagles shall be up against
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 4: the sun and strike downward in articulate, clear, singing your
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 4: bold speeches. Our behemoth, with his thunderous Josh, shall wield
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 4: Your high fancies, shall our mammoth breathe sublimely up the
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 4: shield of Saint Michael lad God's throne, who waits to
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 4: speed him, till the Heaven's smooth, grooved thunder spinning back
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 4: shall leave them clear, and the angel's smiling wonder withdropped
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 4: looks from fear to sear, shall cry, Ho, ye, heirs
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: of Adam, ye exceed him.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 16: Rude out thine eyes, sweet from the dreary ground. Beloved,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 16: we may be overcome by God.
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  Speaker 13: But not by these, Bye, God, Perhaps in these.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 16: I think not so. Had God foredoomed despair, he had
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 16: not spoken hope. He may destroy Curtis, but not deceive.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 13: Behold this rose. I plucked it in our bower of
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 13: Paradis as morning as I went forth, and my heart
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 13: as beat against its petals all the day. I thought
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 13: it would be always red and full as when I
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 13: plucked it. Is it, ye may see. I cast it
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 13: down to you that ye may see, all of you,
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 13: count the petal's host of it, and note the colors
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 13: painted ye may see. And I am as it is
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 13: who yesterday grew in the same place. Oh, he spirits
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 13: of Earth, I almost from my miserable heart could here
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 13: upraide you for your cruel art, which will not let
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 13: me down the slope of death. Draw any of your
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 13: pity after me, or lie still in the quiet of
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 13: your looks, as my flower there in mine.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: A bleak wind, quickened with indistinct human voice, spins around
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  Speaker 1: the earth zodiac, filling the circle with its presence, and
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: then wailing off into the east, carries the rose away
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: with it. Eve falls upon her face. Adam stands erect
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  Speaker 1: so verily.
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  Speaker 13: The last departs, so memory follows hope and life. Both
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 13: Love said to me, do not die, and I replied, oh, Love,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 13: I will not die. I exiled and I will not
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 13: often love. But now it is no choice of mine
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  Speaker 13: to die. My heart robs from thee.
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  Speaker 16: Call it straightway back. Death's consummation crowns completed life, or
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 16: comes too early, hope being set on thee for others.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 16: If for others, then for THEE, for THEE and me.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: The wind revolves from the east and round again to
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: the east, perfumed by the eden rose, and full of
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: voices which sweep out into articulation as they pass.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, let thy soul shake its leaves to feel the
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 16: mystic wind.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 20: Hark I hear life, I relive, I re live, and
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 20: that we will save it, say only and I knew,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 20: which softly by and from the heart and from the
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 20: blind something find that time matches of the sound and
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 20: of the sight.
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  Speaker 9: Chicken and hatchet, Well I.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 21: Thought, and yeah, ed it all in mine more softly
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 21: listed it all in line. Ah we live, all we live,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 21: and this life that we achieve is a loud thing
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 21: under the bold, which, with pulses malefold strikes the heart out,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 21: full of fain, active doer, no liver.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 18: Strong to the struggle, sure to conquer, though the developments
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 18: pro will quiver are the little to the anger. Yet
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 18: do we strive in vain.
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  Speaker 7: And all be a night?
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 10: Oh we live, Oh we live. And this life that
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 10: we conceive is a clear thing and a fair which
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 10: we set in crystal air, that its beauty may be
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 10: plain with a breathing and a flooding of the heaven
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 10: life on the whole, while we hear the forest's budding
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 10: to the music of the soul. Yet is it tuned
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 10: in vain?
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 7: And all be a night?
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 11: Oh we live, Oh we live, And it's life that
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 11: we perceive is a great thing and a grave which
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 11: for other's use. We have juty.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 22: Legand to remain.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 11: We are helpers, fellow creatures of the right against the wrong.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 12: We are ernest hearted.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 11: Teachers of the truth which make it strong. Yet do
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 11: we teach in vain.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 9: Toy and get all night?
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: Oh we live, Oh we live.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 23: And this life that we reprieve is a low thing
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 23: and a light which is jested out of sight and
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 23: made worthy of disdain. Strike with bold electric laughter the
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 23: high tops of things divine. Turn thy head, my brother,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 23: after least thy tears fall in my wine, for all
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 23: is laughed in vain.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 13: Talk.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 7: May all night.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 13: I hear a sound of life, of life, like ours,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 13: of laughter, and of wailing, of grave speech, of little
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 13: plaintive voices, innocent of life, and separate courses flowing out
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 13: like our four rivers to some outward man. I hear life, life, And.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 16: So thy cheeks have snatched scarlet to paleness, and thine
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 16: eyes strength fast of glory from fur cups, and thy
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 16: moist lips seem trembling, both of them with earnest doubts
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 16: whether to utter words or only smile?
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 13: Shall I be mother of the coming life? Here the
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 13: steep generations, how they fall down the visionary stairs of time,
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 13: like supernatural thunders far Yetniah, sewing their fiery echoes through
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 13: the hills. Am I a cloud to these? Mother to these?
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: And bring her a curse upon all these?
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: Eve sinks down again.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 10: Oh we live, Oh we live. And this life that
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 10: we conceive is a noble thing and high which we
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 10: climb up loftily to view God without a saying, till
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 10: recoiling where the shade is, we retread our steps again
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 10: and descend the gloomy hades to resume man's mortal Shall
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 10: it be climbed in vain.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 9: Talk for me? It has all and night?
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 24: Oh we live, Oh we live, and in this life
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 24: we would retrieve? Is it a faithful thing of heart
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 24: which we love in heart to heart? And until the
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 24: one heart fitted the twain fuddle that one with me,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 24: I will be one with thee Hah, we love and
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 24: live alas ye love and die shriek? Who shall reply?
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 9: For is it not loved?
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 13: In vain.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 7: Talk for me, and ask all and night?
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 25: Oh we live, Oh we live, and this is like
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 25: we would survive. Is it a gloomy thing in brief
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 25: which consummated in grief? Leaveth ashes all for gain, is
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 25: it not all in vain.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 13: Talk?
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 7: For me it has all and night.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 4: And bring her out the curve upon all these.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 13: The voices of what own humanity die off?
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 16: So let me die, So let us die when God's
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 16: will sound the right hour of death.
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  Speaker 4: And bring her as a curse upon all.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 13: These, oh spirits. By the gentleness you use in winds
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 13: at night and floating clouds at noon, in gliding waters
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 13: under lily leaves, in turp of crickets, and the settling
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 13: hush a bird makes in her nest with feet and wings,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 13: the fill your natures, now.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 4: Agreed aloud, We gather out our natures like a cloud,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 4: and thus fulfill their lightnings. Thus and thus hearken, oh,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 4: hearken to us.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 9: As the storm wind blows bleakly from the Norland, as
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 9: the snow wind beats blindly on the moorland, as the
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 9: simoom drives hot across the desert, as the thunder roars
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 9: deep in the unmeasured, as the torrent tears the ocean
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 9: world to atoms, as the whirlpool grinds it fathoms below fathoms.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 9: Thus and thus.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 6: As the yellow toad that spits its poison chilly as
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 6: the tiger in the jungle, crouching stillly, as the wild
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 6: boar with ragged tusks of anger, as the wolf dog
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 6: with teeth of glittering clanger, as the vultures that scream
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 6: against the thunder, as the owlids that sit and moan asunder.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 6: Thus and thus.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 16: Adam God, cruel unrelenting spirits, by the power in me
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 16: of the sovereign soul, whose thought keep pace. Yet with
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 16: the angels march, I charge you into silence, trample you
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 16: down to obedience.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 4: I am king of you, ha ha, our king with
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 4: a sin for a crime, and a soul undone. Thou
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: the antagonized, tortured and agonized, held in the ring of
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 4: the zodiac. Now, King, beware, we are many and strong,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 4: whom thou standest among. And we press on the air,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 4: and we stifle thee back, and we multiply where thou
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 4: wouldst trample us down from rights of our own to
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: an utter wrong, and from under the feet of thy scorn, Oh, forlorn,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 4: we shall spring up like corn and our stubble be strong.
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  Speaker 16: God. There's power in thee. I make appeal unto Thy kingship.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 13: There is pity in thee o sinned against Great God,
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 13: my seed, my seed. There is hope set on thee.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 13: I cry to thee, thou miss dick seed, that shalt
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 13: be leave us, not an agony behind what we can
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 13: bear fallen into basement below thunder mark a mark force corning,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 13: taunted and perplexed by all these creatures we ruled yesterday,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 13: whom Thou Lord rulest, always O my seed through the
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 13: tempestuous years that reign so thick betwixt my ghostly vision
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 13: and thy face. Let me have token, for my soul
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 13: is bruised before the serpent's head.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: Is a vision of Christ appears in the midst of
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: the zodiac, which pales before the heavenly light. The earth's
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: spirits grow grayer and fainter.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 16: I am here, this is God, curse us, not God any.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 13: More, but gazing so so with omnific eyes. Lift my
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 13: soul upward till it touched thy feet, or lifted only
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 13: not to seem too proud to the low height of
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 13: some good aim angels died for such to tread on.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 13: When he walketh straight, and thy lips praise him.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 26: Spirits of the earth, I'll meet you with rebuke for
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 26: the reproach and cruel and unmitigated blame ye cast upon
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 26: the old masters. True they have sinned, and true their
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 26: sin is reckoned into loss for you, the sinless, yet
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 26: your innocence, which of you praises, since God made your
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 26: acts inherent in your lives and bound your hands with
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 26: instincts and imperious sanctities from self defacements. Which of you
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 26: disdains these sinners, who, in falling, proved their height above
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 26: you by their liberty to fall, And which of you
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 26: complains of loss by them? For whose delight in use
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 26: ye have your life and honor in creation. Ponder it,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 26: This regent and sublime humanity, though fallen, exceeds you. This
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 26: shall film your son, shall hunt your lightning to its
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 26: lair of cloud, turn back your rivers footpath all your seas,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 26: Lay flat your forests, Master, with a look your lion
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 26: at his fasting, and fetch down your eagle flying. Nay,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 26: without this law of mandam, ye would perish beast by beast,
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 26: devouring tree by tree with strangling roots and trunks set tuskwise,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 26: yea would gaze on God with a perceptive blankness up
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 26: to the stars and mutter, why God hast thou made
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 26: us thus, and pining to a sallow idiocy, stagger up
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 26: blindly against the ends of life. Then stagnate into rottenness,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 26: and drop heavily poor dead matter piecemeal down the abysmal
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 26: spaces like a little stone. Let fall to chaos. Therefore
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 26: over you receive man scepter. Therefore, be content to minister
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 26: with voluntary grace and melancholy. Pardon every right and function
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 26: in you to the human hand. But yea to man
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 26: as angels are to God. Servants in pleasure singers of
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 26: delight suggests as to his soul of higher things than
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 26: any of your highest So at last he shall look
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  Speaker 26: round on you with lids too straight to hold the
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 26: grateful tears, and thank you well and bless you when
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 26: he prays his secret prayer, and praise you when he
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 26: sings his open songs for the clear song. Note he
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 26: has learnt in you of purifying sweetness, and extend across
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 26: your head his golden fantasies which glorify you into soul.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 26: From sense, go serve him for such price that not
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 26: in vain nor yet ignobly, ye shall serve. I place
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 26: my word here for an oath, Mine oath for act
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 26: to be hereafter, in the name of which perfect redemption
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 26: and perpetual grace. I bless you through the hope and
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 26: through the peace which are mine, to the love which
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 26: is myself.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 13: Speak on still, Christ, albeit thou bless me not in
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 13: set words, I am blessed in hearkening thee speak Christ.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 26: Speak Adam, bless the woman man. It's thine office.
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  Speaker 16: Mother of the world. Take heart, before this presence, Lo
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 16: my voice, which naming erst the creatures, did express God
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 16: breathing through my breath. The attributes and instincts of each
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 16: creature and its name floats to the same apphiatus floats
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 16: and heaves, like water weed that opens to a wave,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 16: a full leaved prophecy affecting thee out fairly and wide.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 16: Henceforward arise, aspired to the calms and magnanimities and lawfully
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 16: uses of the noble ends, the sanctified devotion and full
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 16: work to which they thou art elect for evermore, first woman.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 13: Wife and mother, and first in sin.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 16: And also the soul bearer of the seed, whereby sin
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 16: dieth raise the majesties of thy disconsolate brows, O, well
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 16: beloved and front with level eyelids, tho two come, and
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 16: all the dark of the world rise. Women, Arise to
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 16: thy peculiar and best altitudes, of doing good and of
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 16: enduring ill, of comforting for ill, and teaching good, and
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 16: reconciling all that ill and good unto the patience of
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 16: a constant hope. Rise with thy daughters. If sin came
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 16: by THEE, and by sin death, the ransom, righteousness, the
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 16: heavenly life, and compensate of rest shall come by means
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 16: of THEE. If woe by THEE had issue to the world,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 16: thou shalt go forth an angel of the woe Thou
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 16: didst achieve found acceptable to the world, instead of others
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 16: of that name, of whose bright steps thy deeds stripped
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 16: bare the hills be satisfied. Something thou hast to bear
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 16: through womanhood, peculiar suffering answer to the sin, some pang
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 16: laid down for each new human life, some weariness in
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 16: guarding such a life, some coldness from the guarded, some
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 16: mistrust from those thou hast too well served, from those
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 16: beloved too loyally for some reason, feebleness within thy heart,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 16: and cruelty without and pressure of an alien tyranny with
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 16: its dynastic reason of larger bones and stronger sinews. But
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 16: go to thy Love shall chant itself in its own beatitudes,
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 16: after its own life, working. A child's kiss set on
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 16: thy signed lips shall make THEE glad. A poor man
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 16: served by THEE shall make THEE rich. A sick man
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 16: helped by THEE shall make THEE strong. Thou shalt be
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 16: served thyself by every sense, a service which thou renderest,
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 16: such a crown I set upon thy head, Christ, witnessing
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 16: with looks of prompting love, to keep THEE clear of
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 16: all reproach against the sin foregone from all the generations
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 16: which succeed Thy hand which plucked the apple I clasped,
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 16: closed thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss clothes.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 16: I bless THEE in the name of Paradise, and by
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 16: the memory of Edenic joys, forfeit and lost, by that
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 16: last cypress tree green at the gate, which thrilled as
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 16: we came out, And by the blessed nightingale which threw
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 16: its melancholy music after us, and by the flowers, whose spirits,
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 16: full of smells, did follow softly, plucking us behind back
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 16: to the groundsual banks and vernal bowers, and four full
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 16: rivers courses. In all these, I bless THEE to the
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 16: contraries of these. I bless THEE to the desert and
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 16: the thorns, to the elemental change and turbulence, and to
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 16: the roar of the estranged beasts, and to the solemn
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 16: dignities of grief. To each one of these ends, and
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 16: to their end of death and the hereafter.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 13: I accept for me and for my daughters this high part,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 13: which lowly shall be counted noble work, shall hold me.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 13: In the blaze of garden rest, and in the blaze
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 13: of Eden's last delight, were the endurance of omitted pain.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 13: While on my longest patience that shall wait Death's speechless
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 13: angels smiling in the east, whence cometh the cold wind,
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 13: I bow myself humbly, henceforward on the ill I did
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 13: that humbleness make it in the shade? Shall it be?
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 13: So shall I smile, saying, so oh Seed, O King,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 13: O God, who shalt be seed? What shall I say?
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 13: As Eden's fountains welled brightly betwixt their banks, so swell
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 13: as my soul betwixt thy love and bower, and sweetest
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 13: thoughts have fore gone Eden. Now for the first time
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 13: since God said Adam, walking through the trees, I dare
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 13: to pluck you as I pluck'd erewhile the lily, or pink,
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 13: the rose, or heliotrope. So pluck are you so largely
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 13: with both hands, and throw you forward on the outer earth,
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 13: wherein we are cast out to sweeten.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 16: It, as thou Christ, to lumit hole'st heaven broadly above
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 16: our heads.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: The Christ is gradually transfigured into humanity and suffering.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 13: Oh save your Christ, Thou standeth mute in glory, like
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 13: the Sun.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 16: We worship in thy silence, Save you Christ.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 13: Thy brows grow grander, where the forecast woe diviner, with
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 13: the possible of death, we worship in thy sorrow, Save
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 13: your Christ.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 16: How do thy clear still eyes transpierce our souls as
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 16: gazing through them towards the father throne in pathetical faultyity
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 16: serenely as the stars gaze through the air straight on.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 13: Each other, Oh pathetic Christ, Thou stands mute in glory
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 13: like the moon.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 26: Eternity stands always fronting God, a stern, colossal image with
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 26: blind eyes and grand dim lips that murmur evermore, God, God, God,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 26: While the rush of life and death, the roar of
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 26: act and thought, of evil and good, the avalanches of
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 26: the ruining worlds tolling down space, the new World's genus
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 26: budding in fire, the gradual humming growth of the ancient
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 26: atoms and first forms of Earth, the slow procession of
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 26: the swaveling seas are fermental waters, and the noise of
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 26: the broad, fluent strata of pure airs. And these flow
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 26: onward in the intervals of that reiterated sound of God,
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 26: which word innumerous angels straightway lift wide on celestial altitudes
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 26: of song, the choral adoration, and then drop the burden softly,
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 26: shunting the last notes in silver wings. Howbeit in the
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 26: moon of time eternity shall wax as dumb as death,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 26: while a new voice beneath the sphears shall cry, God,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 26: why hast thou forsaken me? My God? And not a
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 26: voice in heaven shall answer it.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: The transfiguration is complete. In sadness.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 16: Thy speech is of the heavenlys, Yet or Christ are
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 16: for human? Are thy voice and face?
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 13: Thy nature overcomes me from thine eyes.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 26: In the set noon of time, shall one from Heaven
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 26: and Angel, fresh from looking upon God descend before woman,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 26: blessing her with perfect benediction of pure love, for all
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 26: the world, in all its elements, for all the creatures
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  Speaker 26: of earth, air, and sea, for all men in the
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  Speaker 26: body and in the soul, unto all ends of glory
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  Speaker 26: and santity.
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  Speaker 13: O bell pathetic Christ, I worship THEE. I thank THEE
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  Speaker 13: for that woman.
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  Speaker 26: Then at last, I, wrapping round me your humanity, which
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  Speaker 26: being sustained, shall neither break nor burn. Beneath the fire
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  Speaker 26: of the Godhead, will tread earth and ransom you and it,
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  Speaker 26: and set strong peace betwixt you and its creatures. With
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  Speaker 26: my pangs, I will confront your sins, And since those
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  Speaker 26: sins have sunken to all Nature's heart from yours, the
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  Speaker 26: tears of my clean soul shall follow them, and set
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  Speaker 26: a holy passion to work clear absolute consecration in my
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  Speaker 26: brow of kingly whiteness shall be crowned in you, your
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  Speaker 26: disground human nature. Look on me as I shall be
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  Speaker 26: uplifted on a cross and darkness of eclipse and anguished dread.
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  Speaker 26: So I shall lift up my pierced hands not into
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  Speaker 26: dark but light, not unto death but life, beyond the
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  Speaker 26: reach of guilt and grief the whole creation. Henceforth, in
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  Speaker 26: My name, take courage, o that woman, man, Take hope
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  Speaker 26: your grave shall be as smooth as Eden's sword, beneath
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  Speaker 26: the steps of your prospective thoughts, and one step past
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  Speaker 26: it a new edingate shall upon a hinge of harmony,
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  Speaker 26: and let you through to mercy. Ye shall fall no
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  Speaker 26: more within that Eden, nor pass out any more from it,
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  Speaker 26: in which hope move on. First and first mourners, live
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  Speaker 26: and love, doing both nobly because lowly, live and work strongly,
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  Speaker 26: because patiently, and for the deed of death. Trust it
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  Speaker 26: to God that it will be well done, unrepented of,
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  Speaker 26: and not to loss. And thence, with constant prayers, fasten
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  Speaker 26: your soul so high that constantly the smile of your
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  Speaker 26: heroic cheer may float above all floods of earthly agonies,
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  Speaker 26: purification being the joy of pain.
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  Speaker 1: The vision of Christ vanishes, Adam and Eve stand in
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  Speaker 1: an ecstasy. The earth zodiac pales away, shade by shade,
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  Speaker 1: as the stars star by star shine out in the sky,
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  Speaker 1: and the chant from the two earth spirits as they
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  Speaker 1: sweep back into the zodiac and disappear with it, accompanies
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  Speaker 1: the process of change.
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  Speaker 4: By the mighty word thus spoken, both for living and
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 4: for dying. We are homage oath, once broken, fastened back
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  Speaker 4: again in sighing, and the creatures and the elements renew
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  Speaker 4: their Covenantinge here forgive us all our scoring. Here we
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  Speaker 4: promise milder duty, and the evening and the morning shall
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  Speaker 4: reorganize in beauty, a Sabbath day of Sabbath joy for
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 4: universal chanting. And if still this melancholy may be strong
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  Speaker 4: to overcome us, if this mortal and unholy we still
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  Speaker 4: fail to cast out from us, if we turn upon
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  Speaker 4: you unaware your own dark influences, if ye tremble when
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  Speaker 4: surrounded by our forest, pine and palm trees, if we
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  Speaker 4: cannot cure the wounded with our gum trees and our
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 4: palm trees, and if your souls all mournfully sit down
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  Speaker 4: among your senses. Yet o mortals, do not fear us.
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  Speaker 4: We are gentle in our languor much more good ye
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  Speaker 4: shall have near us than any pain or anger, And
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  Speaker 4: our God's refracted blessing in our blessing shall be given
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  Speaker 4: by the desert's endless vigil. We will solemnize your passions
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  Speaker 4: by the wheel of the black eagle. We will teach
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 4: you exultations. When he sails against the wind to the
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 4: white spot up in heaven. Ye shall find us tender
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  Speaker 4: nurses to your weariness of nature, and our hands shall
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  Speaker 4: stroke the curses dreary furrows from the creature, till your
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  Speaker 4: bodies shall i smooth in death and straight and slumberful.
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  Speaker 4: Then a couch we will provide you, where no summer
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  Speaker 4: heats shall dazzle, strewing on you, And besides you time
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  Speaker 4: and rosemary and basil, and the Yu tree shall grow
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 4: overhead to keep all safe and cool, till the Holy
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  Speaker 4: blood awaited shall be chrism around us running, whereby newly
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  Speaker 4: consecrated we shall leap up in God's signing to join
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  Speaker 4: the spheric company which purer worlds assemble, while renewed by
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 4: new evangels, soul consummated made glorious, ye shall write and
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  Speaker 4: past the angels, Ye shall kneel to Christ victorious, and
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 4: they raise around his feet beneath your sobbing lips shall tremble.
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  Speaker 1: The fantastic vision has all passed. The earth zodiac has
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  Speaker 1: broken like a belt and is dissolved from the desert.
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  Speaker 1: The Earth's spirits vanish, and the stars shine out above.
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  Speaker 1: Adam and Eve advance into the desert hand in hand,
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  Speaker 1: hear our.
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  Speaker 8: Heavenly promise through our mortal passion. Love ye shall have
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 8: from us in a pure relation, as a fish or
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 8: bird swims or flies. If moving we unseen are heard
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  Speaker 8: to live on by loving far above the glances of
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  Speaker 8: your eager eyes. Listen, we are loving. Listen through man's ignorances.
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 8: Listen through God's mysteries. Listen down the heart of things.
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  Speaker 8: Ye shall hear our mystic wings murmurleus with loving through
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 8: the open door. Listen evermore, how we live by loving.
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 8: When your bodies therefore reach to the grave their goal, softly,
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 8: will we care for each enfranchised soul softly and unlockedly
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 8: through the door of Opal toward the heavenly people floated
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 8: it on a miner fine into the full chant Divine.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 8: We will draw you smoothly, while the human in another
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 8: minor makes the harmony. Diviner, listen to our loving.
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  Speaker 18: There a sow of glurry shall breathe on you as
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 18: you come ruffling round the doorway. All the light of
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  Speaker 18: angeldom from the imperian center, heavenly voices shall repeat, souls
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 18: redeemed and pardoned enter, for the chrism on you is sweet,
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  Speaker 18: and every angel in the place low lily shall bow
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 18: his face folded, it fair and softening sounds, because upon
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 18: your hands and feet he images his master's wounds. Listen
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 18: to our loving So in the universe it is consolimated, undoing,
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  Speaker 18: as a rapster of white mercies shall hover round the ruin.
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  Speaker 18: Their rings shall stream upon the flame, as the incorporate
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  Speaker 18: of the same in elemental re fusion and the calm.
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  Speaker 18: Their faces shall burn out with the pale and mastering thought,
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  Speaker 18: and the steadfast, looking out of the desire from out
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  Speaker 18: between the clefts of the fire, while the they cry
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 18: in the Holy name to the final restitution. Listen to
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 18: our living. So when in the day of God is
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 18: to the deck graves accompted awakening the dead bodies, the
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  Speaker 18: angel of the trumpet shall split and shatter the earth
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 18: to the roots of the grave, which never before was slackened,
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 18: and it quickened the charm and birth with his last
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 18: so clear and brave, that the dead shill start er
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 18: stand erect, And every phase of the burial place shall
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 18: the awful seemingle, look reflect, wherewith he them awakened listen
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 18: to our loving.
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  Speaker 17: But while is the horse of death, he will leap
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 17: up wild with the clamor above and beneath. And where
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 17: is his stamer on that last day when he crieth
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 17: ha ha, to the trumpets blare and poiets the earth's asadama,
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 17: when he tosseth his head to the drear, wise speed
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 17: and costly champet the last moon ray, What angel there
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  Speaker 17: can leave him away that the living may rule for
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  Speaker 17: the dead.
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  Speaker 18: Yet a tamer shall be found, one more bright than
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  Speaker 18: a setter half crowned, and more strong than cherup, bold,
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 18: elder too than angel old by his gray eternities. He
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 18: shall a master and surprise the steel of death. For
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 18: he is strong and he is fain. He shall have
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 18: quelled him with a breath, and shall lead him where
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 18: he will, with little whisper, in the air full of
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 18: the fear, and at the hand upon the main grant.
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  Speaker 18: And I'm still truly the flats of hades, where the
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  Speaker 18: soul's assemo He will guide that the dead steed come
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  Speaker 18: between their ranks, While like beaten dogs they a little
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 18: moan and tremle to see the darkness curdle from under
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 18: the horses glittering flanks, through the flats of of hades,
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 18: where the dreary shade is, to the sleep of heaven.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 18: Will the tamer guide the steed up to the spheric circles,
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 18: circle above a circle. We who count the ages shall
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 18: count the tolling tread every who falls, striking the blinder
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 18: blanker sparkle from the stony orbs, which shall show as
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 18: they were dead all the way the dead steed, with
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 18: stirling booths shall travel ashen gray. The plants shall be
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 18: motionless as stones. Loosely Shall the systems eject their stamlant
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 18: into the spaces, shall float the pallid moons.
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  Speaker 8: Sounds that touch their apiges.
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  Speaker 18: Wheeling from their level, shall run back to their axes
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 18: in wild, low broken tins up against the arches of
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  Speaker 18: the crystal ceiling. From the horse's nostrils shall steam the
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 18: blurting breath up between the angels, paled with silent feeling.
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 18: Will the tamer calmly lead the horse of death, cleaning
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 18: all the silence, cleaving all that glory. Will the tamer
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 18: lead him stray straight to the throne. Look out, o Jehovah,
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  Speaker 18: to this I bring before thee with the hand nail pierced,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 18: I who am thy son?
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  Speaker 8: Then the eye.
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  Speaker 17: Divinest from the deepest flaming on a ministic courser shall
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  Speaker 17: look out in the fire, blind the beast shell dagger
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  Speaker 17: where it overcame him. Meet at a slamp, at thatchure,
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  Speaker 17: bloodless in the desire, down the beat, shall shiver, slain
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  Speaker 17: amid the taming, and by life essential the phantasm death expire.
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  Speaker 17: Listen man, through life and death, through the dust and
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 17: through the breath. Listen down the heart of things, Ye
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 17: shall hear our mystic wings murmurless.
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  Speaker 12: With loving Gabriel, O Gabriel, what wouldst thy with me?
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  Speaker 22: I heard thy voice sound in the angel's song, and
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 22: I would give thee question question me? Why have I
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 22: called thrice to my morning star and had no answer?
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 22: All the stars are out and answer in their places
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 22: only in vain. I cast my voice against the outer
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 22: rays of my star, shut in light behind the sun,
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  Speaker 22: no more reply than from a breaking string breaking when
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 22: touch'd Or is she not my star? Where is my star?
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  Speaker 25: My star?
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  Speaker 22: Have ye cast down her glory like my glory? Has
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 22: she waxed mortal like Adam? Has she learnt to hate?
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 22: Like any angel? She is sad for thee, all things
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 22: grow sadder to thee.
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  Speaker 8: One by one, live work on, Oh are thee by
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  Speaker 8: the actual Stenson speed the arrow worthy of a pure ass.
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  Speaker 8: From the low earth round you reach the heights above you.
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  Speaker 8: From the stripes that wound you seek the loves that
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 8: love you. God divinest burneth Plaine through the crystal diaphane
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 8: of our loves that love you.
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  Speaker 12: Gabriel, Oh Gabriel.
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  Speaker 2: What wouldst thy with me?
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  Speaker 12: Is it true, oh thou Gabriel, that the crown of
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  Speaker 12: sorrow which I claimed? Another claims that he claims that too.
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  Speaker 9: Not one.
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  Speaker 12: It's true that he will be an exile from his
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 12: heaven to lead those exiles homeward. It is true that
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 12: he will be an exile by his will, as I
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  Speaker 12: by mine election.
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  Speaker 2: It is true that I.
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  Speaker 12: Shall stand sole exile, finally made desolate for fruition. It
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  Speaker 12: is true, Gabriel, I hearken. Is it true, besides aright,
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  Speaker 12: true that mine Orient Star will give her name of
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  Speaker 12: Brighton morning Star to him him, and take the fairness
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 12: of his virtue back to cover loss and sadness. It
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  Speaker 12: is true, untrue, untrue, Oh morning Star, O mine who
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  Speaker 12: sitteth secret in a veil of light. Far up the
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 12: starry spaces, say untrue speak, but so loud as doth
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  Speaker 12: a wasted moon to tyree in waters, I am lucifer.
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  Speaker 12: All things grow sadder to me, one.
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  Speaker 8: By one, exiled human creatures, Let your hope grow larger.
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  Speaker 8: Larger grows the vision of the new delight from this
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 8: chain of natures. God is the discharger, and the actual's
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 8: prison opens to your sight. Calm the stars and golden
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 8: in a light exceeding what their rays have measured. Let
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 8: your feet fulfill. These are stars, beholden by your eyes
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 8: in Eden, yet across the desert, see them shining still,
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 8: future joy and far light working such relations. Hear us
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 8: singing gently, Exiled is not lost, God above the starlight,
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 8: God above the patience, shall at last present ye griddence,
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 8: worth the cost, patiently enduring, painfully surrounded. Listen, how we
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  Speaker 8: love you, hope, the uttermost waiting for that curing which
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 8: exhalts the wounded. Hear Us sing above you, exiled but
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 8: not lost.
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  Speaker 1: The stars shine on brightly. While Adam and Eve pursue
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: their way into the far wilderness. There is a sound
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: through the silence as of the falling tears of an
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  Speaker 1: angel end of scene three, end of A Drama of
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  Speaker 1: Exile by Elizabeth Barrett Browning