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Speaker 1: Recording by aunt Jana Paradise Lost by John Milton, Book seven,
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Speaker 1: Part one. Descend from heaven Urania by that name, if
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Speaker 1: rightly thou art called, whose voice divine? Following above the
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Speaker 1: Olympian hill, I soar above the flight of Pagasian wing.
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Speaker 1: The meaning not the name I call for thou, nor
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Speaker 1: of the muses nine, nor on the top of old
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Speaker 1: Olympus dwelst, but heavenly born, before the hills appeared or
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Speaker 1: fountain flowed Thou with eternal wisdom, didst converse wisdom, thy sister,
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Speaker 1: and with her didst play in presence of thy mighty father,
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Speaker 1: pleased with thy celestial song. Up Led by thee into
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Speaker 1: the heaven of heavens, I have presum'd an earthly guest,
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Speaker 1: and drawn imperial air, thy tempering with like safety, guided
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Speaker 1: down return me to my native element. Less from this
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Speaker 1: flying steed, unreign'd as once bellafhun, though from a lower clime,
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Speaker 1: dismounted in the Allalian field, I fall erroneous there to
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Speaker 1: wander and forlorn half, yet remains unsung, but n'row'er bound
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Speaker 1: within the visible diurnal sphere, standing on earth, not wrapt
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Speaker 1: above the pole. More safe I sing with mortal voice,
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Speaker 1: unchanged to horse or mute, though fallen on evil days,
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Speaker 1: On evil days, though fallen and evil tongues in darkness
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Speaker 1: and with dangers, compass round and solitude, Yet not alone.
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Speaker 1: While thou visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn purples
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Speaker 1: the east still govern thou my song. Urania and fits
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Speaker 1: audience find, though few, but drive far off the barbarous
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Speaker 1: dissonance of Bacchus and his revelers, the race of that
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Speaker 1: wild root that tore the Thracian bard in Rodolph, where
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Speaker 1: woods and rocks had ears to rapture till the savage
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Speaker 1: clamor drowned both harp and voice. Nor could the muse
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Speaker 1: defend her son. So fail not thou, who the implores,
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Speaker 1: for thou art heavenly she an empty dream, Say Goddess,
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Speaker 1: what ensued when Raphael, the affable archangel, had forewarned Adam
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Speaker 1: by dire example to beware apostasy, by what befell in
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Speaker 1: heaven to those apostates, yes, the like befall in paradise
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Speaker 1: to Adam or his race, charged not to touch the
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Speaker 1: interdicted tree if they transgress, and slight that soul command
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Speaker 1: so easily obeyed, amid the choice of all taste else
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Speaker 1: to please their appetite. Though wandering he with his consorted
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Speaker 1: eve the story heard attentive, and was filled with admiration
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Speaker 1: and deep mused to hear of things so high and strange,
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Speaker 1: things to their thoughts, so unimaginable as hate in heaven
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Speaker 1: and war, so near the peace of God in bliss,
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Speaker 1: with such confusion. But the evil soon driven back, redounded
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Speaker 1: as a flood on those from whom it sprung, impossible
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Speaker 1: to mix with blessedness. Whence Adam soon repealed the doubts
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Speaker 1: that in his heart arose, and now led on yet sinless,
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Speaker 1: with the desire to know what nearer might concern him,
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Speaker 1: How this world of heaven and earth, conspicuous first began,
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Speaker 1: when and whereof created? For what cause? What within eden
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Speaker 1: or without was done before his memory, As one whose drought,
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Speaker 1: yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream, whose liquid
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Speaker 1: murmur heard new thirstic sights, proceeded thus to ask his
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Speaker 1: heavenly guest, great things and full of wonder in our ears,
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Speaker 1: far differing from this world, thou hast revealed divine interpreter
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Speaker 1: by favors sent down from the Imperian, to forewarn us
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Speaker 1: timely of what might else have been our loss, unknown,
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Speaker 1: which human knowledge could not reach, for which to infinitely
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Speaker 1: good we owe immortal thanks, and his admonishment received with
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Speaker 1: solemn purpose, to observe immutably his sovereign will the end
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Speaker 1: of what we are. But since thou hast vouchsafed gently
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Speaker 1: for our instruction to impart things above earthly thought, which
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Speaker 1: yet concerned our knowing as to highest wisdom, seemed deigned
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Speaker 1: to descend now lower and relate what may no less
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Speaker 1: perhaps avail us known. How first began this heaven which
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Speaker 1: we behold distant, so high, with moving fires adorn'd innumerable,
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Speaker 1: and this which yields or fills all space, the ambient
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Speaker 1: air wide interfused, embracing round this floorid earth? What cause
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Speaker 1: moved the Creator in his holy rest through all eternity
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Speaker 1: so late to build in chaos? And the work begun?
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Speaker 1: How soon absolv'd, if unforbid, thou mayst unfold what we
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Speaker 1: not to explore the secrets ask of his eternal empire,
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Speaker 1: but the more to magnify his works, the more we know,
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Speaker 1: and the great light of day. Yet once to run
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Speaker 1: much of his race, though steep suspense in heav'n held
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Speaker 1: by thy voice, Thy potent voice, he hears, and longer
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Speaker 1: will delay to hear THEE tell his generation and the
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Speaker 1: rising bursts of nature from the unapparent deep. Or if
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Speaker 1: the star of evening and the moon haste to thy audience,
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Speaker 1: night with her will bring silence and sleep listening to
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Speaker 1: THEE will watch. Or we can bid his absence till
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Speaker 1: thy song end and dismiss thee air the morning shine.
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Speaker 1: Thus Adam his illustrious guests be sought. And thus the
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Speaker 1: godlike angel answered mild. This also thy request, with caution
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Speaker 1: asked obtain though to recount almighty works, what words or
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Speaker 1: tongue of serf can suffice, or heart of man suffice
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Speaker 1: to comprehend. Yet what thou canst attain, which best may
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Speaker 1: serve to glorify the maker and infer thee also happier
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Speaker 1: shall not be withheld thy hearing such commission from above
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Speaker 1: I have received to answer thy desire of knowledge, within
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Speaker 1: bounds beyond abstained to ask, nor let thine own inventions
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Speaker 1: hope things not revealed, which the invisible King only omniscient
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Speaker 1: hath suppress'd in night to none communicable in earth or heaven.
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Speaker 1: Enough is left besides to search and know. But knowledge
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Speaker 1: is as food and needs no less her temperance over
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Speaker 1: appetite to know in measure what the mind may well
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Speaker 1: contain oppresses elt with surfeit, and soon turns wisdom to folly,
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Speaker 1: as nourishment to wind. Know then, that after Lucifer from heaven,
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Speaker 1: so call him brighter. Once amid the host of angels
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Speaker 1: than that star the stars among fell with his flaming
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Speaker 1: legions through the deep into his place, and the great
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Speaker 1: Son returned victorious with his saints. The omnipotent eternal Father,
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Speaker 1: from his throne beheld their multitude, and to his son
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Speaker 1: thus spake at least her envious foe hath failed, who
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Speaker 1: thought all like himself, rebellious, by whose aid this inaccessible
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Speaker 1: high strength, the seat of Daity supreme Us dispossessed he
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Speaker 1: trusted to have seized, and into fraud drew many whom
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Speaker 1: their place knows here no more. Yet far the greater
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Speaker 1: part have kept. I see their station Heaven. Yet populous
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Speaker 1: retains number sufficient to possess her realms, though wide, and
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Speaker 1: this high temple to frequent with ministries due and solemn rites.
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Speaker 1: But lest his heart exalt him in the harm already done,
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Speaker 1: to have dispeopled Heaven. My damage falling deemed, I can
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Speaker 1: repair that detriment, if such it be, to lose self lost,
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Speaker 1: and in a moment will create another world out of
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Speaker 1: one man, a race of men innumerable there to dwell,
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Speaker 1: not here till by degrees of merit rais'd they open
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Speaker 1: to themselves at length the way up hither under long
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Speaker 1: obedience tried, and Earth be chang'd to Heav'n, and Heav'n
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Speaker 1: to Earth, one kingdom, joy and union without end. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: inhabit lacks ye powers of Heav'n, And thou my word
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Speaker 1: begotten sun by THEE, This I perform, Speak Thou, and
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Speaker 1: be it done, my overshadowing spirit and might with THEE,
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Speaker 1: I send along, ride forth, and bid the deep within
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Speaker 1: appointed bounds be Heav'n and earth boundless the deep, because
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Speaker 1: I am who fill infinitude, nor vacuus the space. Though
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Speaker 1: I uncircumscribe myself, retire, and put not forth my goodness,
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Speaker 1: which is free to act or not. Necessity and chance
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Speaker 1: approach not me, And what I will is fate. So
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Speaker 1: spake Almighty, And to what he spake his word the
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Speaker 1: filial Godhead gave effect. Immediate. Are the acts of God
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Speaker 1: more swift than time or motion. But to human ears
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Speaker 1: cannot without process of speech be told. So told as
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Speaker 1: earthly notion can receive. Great triumph and rejoicing was in
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Speaker 1: heaven when such was heard, declared the Almighty's will. Glory.
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Speaker 1: They sung to the most high good will to future men,
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Speaker 1: and in their dwellings peace, Glory to him whose just
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Speaker 1: avenging ire had driven out Thune godly from his sight,
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Speaker 1: and the inhabitants of the just to him glory and praise,
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Speaker 1: whose wisdom had ordained good out of evil, to create
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Speaker 1: instead of spirits malign a better race, to bring into
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Speaker 1: their vacant room, and thence diffuse his good to worlds
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Speaker 1: and ages infinite, so sang the hierarchies. Meanwhile, the Sun,
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Speaker 1: on his great expedition, now appeared, girt with omnipotence, with radiance,
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Speaker 1: crowned of majesty, divine sapiens and love immense, and all
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Speaker 1: his father in him shone about his chariot. Numberless were
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Speaker 1: poured chirrup and seraph, potentates and thrones and virtues winged
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Speaker 1: spirits and chariots winged from the army of God, where
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Speaker 1: stand of old myriads between two brazen mountains, lodged against
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Speaker 1: a solemn day, harnessed at hand celestial equipage, and now
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Speaker 1: came forth spontaneous, for within them spirit lived attendant on
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Speaker 1: their Lord, Heaven open wide her ever during gaits harmonious sound,
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Speaker 1: on golden hinges, moving to let forth the King of
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Speaker 1: Glory in his powerful word and spirit coming to create
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Speaker 1: new worlds. On heav'nly ground they stood, and from the
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Speaker 1: shore they view'd the vast immeasurable abyss, outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful,
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Speaker 1: wild up from the bottom, turn'd by furious winds and
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Speaker 1: surging waves as mountains to assault Heaven's height, and with
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Speaker 1: the center mix the pole silence, Ye, troubled waves, and
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Speaker 1: thou deep peace, said then the omnific word yer discord
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Speaker 1: end nor stay'd, but on the wings of cherubim uplifted
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Speaker 1: in paternal glory rode far into chaos, and the world
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Speaker 1: unborn for chaos heard his voice him all his train
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Speaker 1: followed in bright procession to behold creation and the wonders
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Speaker 1: of his might. Thence stay'd the fervid wheels, and in
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Speaker 1: his hand he took the golden compasses prepared in God's
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Speaker 1: eternal store, to circumscribe this universe in all created things,
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Speaker 1: one he centered, and the other turned round through the
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Speaker 1: vast profunity obscure, and said, thus far extend, thus far
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Speaker 1: thy bounds, this be thy just circumference O world. Thus God,
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Speaker 1: the heaven created. Thus the earth matter unformed and void.
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Speaker 1: Darkness profound covered the abyss, but on the watery calm
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Speaker 1: his brooding wings the spirit of God outspread, and vital
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Speaker 1: virtue infused, and vital warmth throughout the fluid mass, but
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Speaker 1: downward purge the black tartarius, cold, infernal dregs adverse to life.
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Speaker 1: Then founded, then conglobed like things to like the rest
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Speaker 1: to several placed disparted, and between spun out the air
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Speaker 1: and earth self balanced on her center hung. Let there
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Speaker 1: be light, said God. And forthwith light ethereal first of
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Speaker 1: things quinti est, since pure sprung from the deep and
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Speaker 1: from her native east to journey through the airy gloom.
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Speaker 1: Began sphered in a radiant cloud. For yet the sun
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Speaker 1: was not she in a cloudy tabernacle. Sojourned the while
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Speaker 1: God saw the light was good, and light from darkness
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Speaker 1: by the hemisphere divided light the day and darkness night.
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Speaker 1: He named. Thus was the first day, even and morn
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Speaker 1: nor past, uncelebrated nor unsung by the celestial choirs. When
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Speaker 1: orient light exhaling first from darkness, they beheld birth day
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Speaker 1: of Heaven and Earth with joy and shout the hollow
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Speaker 1: universal orb. They filled and touched their golden hearts and
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Speaker 1: hymning praise God and his works creator Him. They sung
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Speaker 1: both when first evening was and when first morn again.
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Speaker 1: God said, let there be firmament amid the waters, and
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Speaker 1: let it divide the waters from the waters. And God
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Speaker 1: made the firmament expanse of liquid, pure transparent elemental air,
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Speaker 1: diffuse in circuit to the uttermost convex of this great
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Speaker 1: round partition, firm and sure the waters underneath from those above,
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Speaker 1: dividing for as Earth, so he the world built on
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Speaker 1: circumfluous water's calm in wide crystalline ocean, and the loud
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Speaker 1: misrule of chaos far removed, lest fierce extremes contiguous might
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Speaker 1: distemper the whole frame and heaven. He named the firmament.
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Speaker 1: So evening and more incurious sang the second day. The
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Speaker 1: Earth was formed, but in the womb as yet of waters,
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Speaker 1: embryon immature involved appeared not over all the face of Earth.
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Speaker 1: Main ocean flowed not idle, but with warm, prolific humor,
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Speaker 1: softening all her globe. Fermented the Great Mother to conceive,
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Speaker 1: satiate with the genial moisture. When God said, be gathered, now,
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Speaker 1: ye waters under heaven into one place, and let dry
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Speaker 1: land appear. Immediately, the mountains huge appear emergent, and their
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Speaker 1: broad bare backs upheave into the clouds. Their tops ascend
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Speaker 1: the sky so high as heaved, the tumid hills so
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Speaker 1: low down sunk a hollow bottom, broad and deep, capacious
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Speaker 1: bed of waters. Thither they hasted with glad precipitates uprolled
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Speaker 1: as drops on dust, conglobing from the dry part, rise
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Speaker 1: in crystal wall or ridge. Direct for haste such flight
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Speaker 1: the great command impress'd on the swift floods as armies
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Speaker 1: at the call of trumpet. For of armies thou hast heard,
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Speaker 1: troop to their standard. So the watery throng wave, rolling
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Speaker 1: after wave, whereway they found, if steep with torrent rapture,
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Speaker 1: if through plain soft ebbing, nor withstood them rock or hill,
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Speaker 1: but they or underground or circuit wide with serpent air wandering,
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Speaker 1: found their way, and on the washy ooze deep channel's
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Speaker 1: war easy ere. God had bid the ground be dry
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Speaker 1: all but within those banks where rivers now stream and
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Speaker 1: perpetual draw their humid train. The dry land earth and
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Speaker 1: the great receptacle of congregated waters he called seas, and
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Speaker 1: saw that it was good, and said, let the earth
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Speaker 1: put forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit
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Speaker 1: tree yielding fruit, after her kind, whose seed is in herself.
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Speaker 1: Upon the earth. He Scarce had said, when the bare
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Speaker 1: earth till then desert and bare, unsightly unadorned, brought forth
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Speaker 1: the tender grass, whose verdure clad her universal face with
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Speaker 1: pleasant green. Then herbs of every leaf that sudden flower'd,
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Speaker 1: opening their various colors and made gay her bosoms, smelling sweet.
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Speaker 1: And these Scarce blown forth, flourishing thick, the clustering vine
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Speaker 1: forth crept, the smelling gourd up stood, the corny reed
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Speaker 1: embattled in her field, and the umbel shrub and bush
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Speaker 1: with frizzled hair implicit last rose as in danced the
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Speaker 1: stately trees and spread their branches, hung with copious fruit,
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Speaker 1: er gemm'd their blossoms with high woods. The hills were
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Speaker 1: crowned with tufts, the valley and each fountain's side with
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Speaker 1: borders long the rivers. That earth now seem'd like to
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Speaker 1: Heaven a seat where gods might dwell or wander with
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Speaker 1: delight and love, to haunt her sacred shades. Though God
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Speaker 1: had not yet reigned upon the earth, and man to
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Speaker 1: till the ground none was but from the earth. A
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Speaker 1: dewy miss went up and watered all the ground, and
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Speaker 1: each plant of the field, which e'er it was in
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Speaker 1: the earth God made, and every herb before it grew
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Speaker 1: on the green stem. God saw that it was good.
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Speaker 1: So evenin and morn recorded the third day again the
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Speaker 1: Almighty spake, let there be lights high in the expanse
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Speaker 1: of heaven, to divide the day from night, and let
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Speaker 1: them be for signs for seasons and for days encircling years,
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Speaker 1: and let them be for lights, as I ordained their
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Speaker 1: office in the firmament of heaven, to give light on
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Speaker 1: the earth. And it was so, And God made two
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Speaker 1: great lights, great for their use to man, the greater
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Speaker 1: to have ruled by day, the less by night. Al
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Speaker 1: turn and made the stars and set them in the
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Speaker 1: ferment of heaven to illuminate the earth, and ruled the
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Speaker 1: day in their vicissitude, and rule the night, and light
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Speaker 1: from darkness to divide. God saw, surveying his great work,
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Speaker 1: that it was good for of celestial bodies. First the Sun,
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Speaker 1: a mighty sphere. He framed unlightsome first though of ethereal mold.
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Speaker 1: Then form the moon globose and every magnitude of stars,
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Speaker 1: and sow'd with stars the heaven thick as a field
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Speaker 1: of light. By far the greater part he took transplanted
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Speaker 1: from her cloudy shrine and placed in the Sun's orb,
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Speaker 1: made porest to receive and drink the liquid light firm
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Speaker 1: to retain her gathered beams. Great palace now of light
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Speaker 1: hither as to their fountain. Other stars, repairing in their
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Speaker 1: golden urns, draw light, and hence the morning planet gill
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Speaker 1: his horns by tincture or reflection, they augment their small peculiar,
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Speaker 1: though from human sight so far remote, with diminution. Seen
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Speaker 1: First in his east, the glorious lamp was seen regent
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Speaker 1: of day, and all the horizon round invested with bright rays.
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Speaker 1: Jokun to run his longitude through Heaven's high road. The
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Speaker 1: gray dawn and the plaieties before him dance, shedding sweet influence.
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Speaker 1: Less bright the moon, but opposite in level'd west was
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Speaker 1: set his mirror with full face, borrowing her light from him.
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Speaker 1: For other light, she needed none in that aspect, and
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Speaker 1: still that distance keeps till night. Then in the east
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Speaker 1: her turn she shines revolved on Heaven's great axle, and
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Speaker 1: her rain with thousand lesser lights dividual holds with thousand
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Speaker 1: thousand stars that then appeared, spangling the hemisphere. Then first
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Speaker 1: adorn with their bright luminaries that set and rose glad evening,
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Speaker 1: and glad Morn crowned the fourth day, and God said,
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Speaker 1: let the waters generate reptile with spawn abundant living soul,
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Speaker 1: and let fowl fly above the earth with wings displayed
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Speaker 1: on the open firmament of heaven. And God created the
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Speaker 1: great whales, and each soul living, each that crept which
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Speaker 1: plenteously the waters generated by their kinds, and every bird
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Speaker 1: of wing after his kind, and saw that it was good,
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Speaker 1: and blessed them, saying be fruitful, multiply, and in the
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Speaker 1: seas and lakes and running streams the waters fill, and
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Speaker 1: let the fowl be multiplied on the earth forthwith the
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Speaker 1: sounds and seas, each creek and bay with fry, innumerable
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Speaker 1: swarm and shoals of fish that with their fins and
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Speaker 1: shining scales, glide under the green wave in skulls at
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Speaker 1: off bank the mid sea part single o'erthmate grays the
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Speaker 1: seaweat their pasture, and through groves of coral stray or
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Speaker 1: sporting with quick glance, show to the sun their wave
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Speaker 1: coats drop with gold, or in their pearly shells at
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Speaker 1: ease a tend moist nutriment, or under rocks their food
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Speaker 1: in jointed armor. Watch on smooth the seal and bend
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Speaker 1: a dolphin's play part huge of bulk, wallowing, unwieldy, enormous
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Speaker 1: in their gait tempests the ocean. There leviathan hugest of
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Speaker 1: living creatures on the deep stretch like a promontory sleeps
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Speaker 1: or swims and seems like a moving land, and at
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Speaker 1: his gills draws in, and at his trunk spouts out
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Speaker 1: a sea. Meanwhile, the tepid caves and fens and shores
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Speaker 1: their brood as numerous hatch from the egg that soon,
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Speaker 1: bursting with kindly rapture, forth disclos'd their callow, young but
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Speaker 1: feathered soon and fledge. They summon their pens, and soaring
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Speaker 1: the air sublime with clang, despised the ground under a
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Speaker 1: cloud in prospect. There the eagle and the stork, on
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Speaker 1: cliffs and cedar tops, their eyries build part loosely wing
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Speaker 1: the region, part more wise in common range and figure
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Speaker 1: wedge their way, intelligence of seasons, and set forth their
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Speaker 1: airy caravan high over seas, flying and over lands, with
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Speaker 1: mutual wing easing their flight so steers the prudent crane
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Speaker 1: her annual voyage, borne on winds. The air floats as
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Speaker 1: they pass, fan with unnumber'd plumes from branch to branch.
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Speaker 1: The smaller birds, with song solace the woods and spread
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Speaker 1: their painted wings till even nor then the solemn nightingale
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Speaker 1: cease warbling, but all night tune her soft lays others
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Speaker 1: on silver lakes and rivers bathed their downy breast. The swan,
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Speaker 1: with arched neck between her white wings, mantling, proudly rose
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Speaker 1: her state with oary feet. Yet off they quit, the dank,
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Speaker 1: and rising on stiff pennons tower the mid aerial sky.
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Speaker 1: Others on ground walk firm. The crested cock, whose clarion
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Speaker 1: sounds the silent hours, and the other whose gay train
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Speaker 1: adorns him, colored with the florid hue of rainbows and
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Speaker 1: starry eyes. The waters thus with fish replenished, and the
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Speaker 1: air with fowl evening and morn solemnized. The fifth day,
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Speaker 1: the sixth and of creation last arose with evening harps
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Speaker 1: and mattane. When God said, let the Earth bring forth
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Speaker 1: foul living in her kind, cattle, in creeping things, and
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Speaker 1: beasts of the earth, each in their kind. The Earth
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Speaker 1: obeyed and straight opening her fertile womb, teamed at birth
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Speaker 1: innumerable living creatures, perfect forms, limbed and full grown out
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Speaker 1: of the ground. Up rose as from his lair, the
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Speaker 1: wild beast where he wants in force, wild in thicket, brake,
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Speaker 1: or den, among the trees and pears, they rose, They walked,
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Speaker 1: the cattle in fields and meadows, green, those rare and solitary.
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Speaker 1: These in flocks, pasturing at once, and in broad herds,
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Speaker 1: up sprung the grassy clods, now calved, now half appear'd.
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Speaker 1: The tawny lion, pawing to get free his hinder parts,
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Speaker 1: then springs as broke from bonds and rampant shakes his
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Speaker 1: brindled mane. The ounce, the libbard, and the tiger. As
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Speaker 1: the mole rising the crumbled earth above them threw in hillocks.
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Speaker 1: The swift stag from underground bore up his branching head,
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Speaker 1: scarce from his mold bemoth suggests born of earth beheaved.
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Speaker 1: His vastness fleeced the flocks and bleeding rose as plants
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Speaker 1: ambiguous between sea and land. The river horse and scaly
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Speaker 1: crocodile at once came forth whatever creeps the ground, insect
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Speaker 1: or worm. Those waved their limber fans for wings and
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Speaker 1: smallest lineaments exact in all the liveries decked of summer's pride,
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Speaker 1: with spots of gold and purple, azure and green. These
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Speaker 1: as aligned their long dimension drew, streaking the ground with
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Speaker 1: sinuous trace. Not all minions of nature, some of serpent
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Speaker 1: kind wondrous in length and corporance, involve their snaky folds
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Speaker 1: and added wings. First crept the parsimonious emmet, provident of future,
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Speaker 1: in small room, large heart enclosed pattern of just equality,
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Speaker 1: perhaps hereafter joined in her popular tribes of commonalty swarming.
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Speaker 1: Next appeared the female bee that feeds her husband drone deliciously,
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Speaker 1: and builds her waxen cells with honey stored. The rest
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Speaker 1: are numberless, and Thou their nature know'st and gavest them
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Speaker 1: names needless to THEE, repeated nor unknown. The serpent's subtlest
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Speaker 1: beast of all the field of huge extent, sometimes with
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Speaker 1: brazen eyes and hairy maine, terrific, though to THEE not noxious,
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Speaker 1: but obedient. At thy call Now Heaven, in all her glory,
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Speaker 1: Shone enrolled her motions as the great first mover's hand
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Speaker 1: first wheeled their course. Earth in her rich attire, consummate,
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Speaker 1: lovely smiled air, water, Earth by foul fish beasts, was flown,
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Speaker 1: was swum, was walked frequent, and of the sixth day,
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Speaker 1: yet remained there, wanted yet the master work, the end
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Speaker 1: of all yet done. A creature who not prone and
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Speaker 1: brude as other creatures, but endued with sanctity of reason,
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Speaker 1: might erect his stature, and upright with front serene, govern
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Speaker 1: the rest self, knowing, and from thence magnanimous to correspond
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Speaker 1: with Heaven, but grateful to acknowledge whence as good descends
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Speaker 1: thither with heart and voice and eyes directed in devotion,
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Speaker 1: to adore and worship God Supreme, who made him chief
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Speaker 1: of all his works. Therefore, the omnipotent, eternal Father, for
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Speaker 1: where is not he present? Thus to his son audibly spake,
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Speaker 1: let us make now a man in our image, man
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Speaker 1: in our similitude, and let let them rule o'er the
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Speaker 1: fish and fowl of sea, and air, beasts of the field,
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Speaker 1: over all the earth, and every creeping thing that creeps
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Speaker 1: the ground. This said he formed Thee Adam, thee o
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Speaker 1: man dust of the ground, and in thy nostrils breathe
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Speaker 1: the breath of life. In his own image. He created
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Speaker 1: THEE in the image of God express and thou becamest
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Speaker 1: a living soul. Male. He created THEE, but thy consort
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Speaker 1: female for race. Then bless mankind, and said, be fruitful,
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Speaker 1: multiply and fill the earth, subdue it, and through out dominion,
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Speaker 1: hold over fish of the sea, and fowl of the air,
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Speaker 1: and every living thing that moves on the earth wherever
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Speaker 1: thus created, for no place is yet distinct by name. Thence,
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Speaker 1: as thou knowest, he brought THEE into this delicious grove,
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Speaker 1: this garden planted with the trees of God, delectable both
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Speaker 1: to behold and taste, and freely all their pleasant fruit
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Speaker 1: for food gave thee. All sorts are here, that all
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Speaker 1: the earth yields variety without end. But of the tree
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Speaker 1: which tasted works knowledge of good and evil. Thou mayst
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Speaker 1: not in the day thou eat'st thou diest death is
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Speaker 1: the penalty imposed. Beware and govern well thy appetite, lest
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Speaker 1: sin surprise thee and her black attendant death. Here finished
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Speaker 1: he and all that he had made viewed and behold
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Speaker 1: all was entirely good, So even and morn accomplish the
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Speaker 1: sixth day. Yet not till the Creator from his work,
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Speaker 1: desisting though unwearied up, return'd up to Heaven of heavens,
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Speaker 1: his high abode, thence to behold his new created world,
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Speaker 1: the of his empire, and how it showed in prospect
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Speaker 1: from his throne, how good, how fair? Answering his great
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Speaker 1: idea up he rode followed with acclamation, and the sounds
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Speaker 1: semphonious of ten thousand harps that tuned angelic harmonies the earth.
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Speaker 1: The air resounded. Thou rememberest, for thou heardst the heavens,
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Speaker 1: and all the constellations rung. The planets in their station
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Speaker 1: listening stood while the bright pomp ascended jubilant, Open ye,
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Speaker 1: everlasting gates, they sung, Open, ye, heavens, your living doors.
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Speaker 1: Let in the great Creator from his work, return magnificent
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Speaker 1: his six days work, a world open and henceforth oft.
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Speaker 1: For God will deign to visit the dwellings of just men,
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Speaker 1: delighted and with frequent intercourse dither will send his winged
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Speaker 1: messengers on errands of supernal grace. So sung the glorious
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Speaker 1: train ascending he through Heaven that opened wide her blazing
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Speaker 1: portals led to God's eternal house. Direct the way, a
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Speaker 1: broad and ample road whose dust is gold and pavement
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Speaker 1: stars as stars to thee appear seen in the galaxy,
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Speaker 1: that milky way, which nightly as a circling zone. Thou
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Speaker 1: seest powdered with stars, and now on Earth, the seventh
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Speaker 1: evening arose in Eden, for the sun was set, and
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Speaker 1: twilight from the east came on for running night, when
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Speaker 1: at the Holy Mount of Heaven's high seated top the
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Speaker 1: imperial throne of Godhead fixed forever, firm and sure, the
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Speaker 1: filial power arrived and sat him down with his great father.
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Speaker 1: For he also went invisible, yet stayed such privilege hath omnipresence,
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Speaker 1: and the work ordained, author and end of all things.
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Speaker 1: And from work, now resting blest and hollow'd the seventh day,
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Speaker 1: as resting on that day from all his work, but
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Speaker 1: not in silence, wholly kept. The harp had work and
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Speaker 1: rested not The solemn pipe and dulcimer, all organs of
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Speaker 1: sweet stop, all sounds on fret by string or golden wire,
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Speaker 1: temper'd soft tunings intermixed with voice, coral or unison of incense.
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Speaker 1: Clouds fuming from golden censers hid the mount Creation and
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Speaker 1: the six days axe. They sung, Great are Thy works, Jehovah,
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Speaker 1: infinite Thy power. What thought can measure thee or tongue
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Speaker 1: relate thee greater now in Thy return than from the
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Speaker 1: giant angels. Thee that day thy thunders me magnified. But
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Speaker 1: to create is greater than created. To destroy, who can
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Speaker 1: impair THEE mighty King, or bound thy empire easily. The
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Speaker 1: proud attempt of spirits, apostate and their counsels vain thou
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Speaker 1: hast repell'd, while impiously they thought THEE to diminish, and
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Speaker 1: from THEE withdraw the number of thy worshippers. Who seeks
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Speaker 1: to lessen THEE against his purposes, serves to manifest the
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Speaker 1: more thy might his evil Thou usest, and from thence
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Speaker 1: creates more good witness this new made world, another heaven
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Speaker 1: from heaven gate, not far founded in view on the
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Speaker 1: clear Hylene, the glassy sea of amplitude, almost immense, with
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Speaker 1: stars numerous and every star, perhaps a world of destined habitation.
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Speaker 1: But thou know'st their seasons. Among these the seat of
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Speaker 1: men Earth, with their nether ocean circumfused, their pleasant dwelling place.
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Speaker 1: Thrice happy men and sons of men, whom God hath
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Speaker 1: thus advanced created in his image there to dwell and
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Speaker 1: worship him, and in reward, to roll over His works
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Speaker 1: on earth, in sea or air, and multiply a race
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Speaker 1: of worshipers holy and just, thrice happy if they know
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Speaker 1: their happiness and persevere upright so sung they, and the
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Speaker 1: Empyrean wrung with halleluahs. Thus was Sabbath kept, and thy
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Speaker 1: requests think now fulfilled that asked now, first this world
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Speaker 1: and face of things began, and what before thy memory
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Speaker 1: was done from the beginning, that posterity, informed by thee Ye,
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Speaker 1: might know, if else thou seek'st aught not surprising human measure,
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Speaker 1: say end of Book seven, Part one,