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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Paradise Lost by John Milton, Book seven,
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  Speaker 1: Part two, to whom thus Adam gratefully replied, what thanks
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  Speaker 1: sufficient or what recompense equal? Have I to render thee
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  Speaker 1: divine historian, who thus largely has delayed the thirst I
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  Speaker 1: had of knowledge, and vouchsafed this friendly condescension to relate
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  Speaker 1: things else by me unsearchable, now heard with wonder but
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  Speaker 1: delight and as is due, with glory attributed to the
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  Speaker 1: High Creator. Something yet of doubt remains, which only thy
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  Speaker 1: solution can resolve. When I behold this goodly frame, this
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  Speaker 1: world of heaven and Earth consisting, and compute their magnitudes,
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  Speaker 1: this earth a spot, a grain, an atom, with the
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  Speaker 1: firmament compared, and all her numbered stars that seemed to
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  Speaker 1: roll spaces incomprehensible for such their distance argues and their
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  Speaker 1: swift return diurnal, merely to officiate light round this curpacious earth,
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  Speaker 1: this punctual spot, one day and night in all their
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  Speaker 1: vast survey useless Besides reasoning, I often admire how nature
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  Speaker 1: wise and frugal could commit such disproportions with superfluous hand,
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  Speaker 1: so many nobler bodies to create greater so manifold to
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  Speaker 1: this one use for aught peers, and on their orbs
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  Speaker 1: impose such restless revolution day by day repeated. While the
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  Speaker 1: sedentary earth, that better might, with far less compass, move
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  Speaker 1: serv'd by more noble than herself, attains her end without
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  Speaker 1: least motion, and receives as tribute such a sumless journey
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  Speaker 1: brought of incorporeal speed, her warmth and light speed. To
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  Speaker 1: describe whose swiftness number fails, so spake our sire, and
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  Speaker 1: by his countenance seemed entering on studious thoughts of struce,
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  Speaker 1: which eve perceiving where she sat, retired in sight with
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  Speaker 1: lowliness majestic from her seat and grace, that one who
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  Speaker 1: saw to wish her stay rose and went forth among
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  Speaker 1: her fruits and flowers to visit how they prosper'd, bud
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  Speaker 1: and bloom her nursery. They at her coming, sprung and
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  Speaker 1: touch'd by her fair attendants gladly agrew. Yet whence she
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  Speaker 1: not as not with such discourse, delighted, or not capable
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  Speaker 1: her ear of what was high, such pleasure she reserved Adam,
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  Speaker 1: relating she sole auditress, her husband the relator she preferred
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  Speaker 1: before the angel, and of him to ask chose rather,
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  Speaker 1: he she knew, would intermix grateful digressions and solve high
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  Speaker 1: dispute with conjugal caresses from his lip, not words alone,
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  Speaker 1: pleased her. Oh, when meet now such pairs in love
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  Speaker 1: and mutual honor, join'd with goddish like demeanor. Forth she
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  Speaker 1: went not unattended for on her as queen, a pomp
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  Speaker 1: of winning graces waited still, and from about her shot
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  Speaker 1: darts of desire into all eyes to wish her still
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  Speaker 1: in sight. And Raphael, now to Adam's doubt, proposed benevolent
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  Speaker 1: and facile, thus replied, to ask or search, I blame
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  Speaker 1: thee not, for heaven is as the book of God
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  Speaker 1: before THEE set wherein to read his wondrous works and
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  Speaker 1: learn his seasons, Our days or months or years. This
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  Speaker 1: to attain, whether Heaven move or earth imports not, if
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  Speaker 1: thou reckon right the rest from man or Angel. The
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  Speaker 1: great Architect did wisely to conceal and not divulge his secrets,
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  Speaker 1: to be scann'd by them who ought rather admire or
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  Speaker 1: if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of
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  Speaker 1: the heavens hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move
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  Speaker 1: his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they
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  Speaker 1: come to model heaven and calculate the stars, how they
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  Speaker 1: will wield the mighty frame, How build, unbuild, contrive to
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  Speaker 1: save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric
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  Speaker 1: scribbled owe cycle and epicycle orb in orb Already by
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  Speaker 1: thy reasoning this, I guess who art to lead thy offspring,
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  Speaker 1: and supposest that bodies bright and greater should not serve
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  Speaker 1: the less, not bright, nor heav'n such journeys run Earth
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  Speaker 1: sitting still, when she alone receives the benefit. Consider first,
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  Speaker 1: that great or bright infers not excellence. The Earth, though
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  Speaker 1: in comparison of Heaven, so small nor glistering, may of
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  Speaker 1: solid good contain more plenty than the Sun that barren shines,
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  Speaker 1: whose virtue on itself works no effect. But in the
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  Speaker 1: fruitful Earth there first receiv'd his beams unactive else their
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  Speaker 1: vigor find Yet not to Earth are those bright luminaries officious.
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  Speaker 1: But to thee Earth's habitant, and for the Heaven's wide circuit.
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  Speaker 1: Let it speak the maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious,
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  Speaker 1: and his lines stretch'd out so far that man may
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  Speaker 1: know he dwells not in his own an edif hiss
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  Speaker 1: too large for him to feel lodg'd in a small partition,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest ordain'd for uses to his Lord best known.
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  Speaker 1: The swiftness of those circles, attribute, though numberless, to his omnipotence,
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  Speaker 1: that two corporeal substances could add speed almost spiritual me
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  Speaker 1: thou think'st not slow? Who since the morning hour set
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  Speaker 1: out from Heaven where God resides, and ere mid day
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  Speaker 1: arriv'd in Eden, distance inexpressible by numbers that have name.
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  Speaker 1: But this I urge, admitting motion in the heavens, to
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  Speaker 1: show invalid that which THEE to doubt it moved. Not
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  Speaker 1: that I so affirm, though so it seem to THEE
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  Speaker 1: who hast thy dwelling here on earth. God to remove
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  Speaker 1: his ways from human sense, placed Heaven from Earth so
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  Speaker 1: far that earthly sight, if it presume, might err in
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  Speaker 1: things too high and no advantage gain. What if the
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  Speaker 1: Sun be sentered to the world and other stars by
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  Speaker 1: his attractive virtue, and their own incited dance about him,
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  Speaker 1: various rounds, wandering course, now high, now low, then hid,
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  Speaker 1: progressive retrograde, or standing still in six thou seest, And
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  Speaker 1: what if seventh to these the planet Earth, so steadfast,
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  Speaker 1: though she seem insensibly three different motions move, which else
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  Speaker 1: to several spheres thou must ascribe moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
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  Speaker 1: Or save the Sun his labour, and that swift nocturnal
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  Speaker 1: and diurnal rom supposed invisible else above all stars, the
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  Speaker 1: wheel of day and night, which needs not thy belief.
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  Speaker 1: If Earth, industrious of herself, fetch day, traveling east, and
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  Speaker 1: with her part averse from the Sun's beam, meet night,
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  Speaker 1: her other part still luminous by his ray. What if
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  Speaker 1: that light sent from her through the wide transpicuous air
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  Speaker 1: to the terrestrial moon be as a star in lightning
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  Speaker 1: her by day as she by night, This Earth reciprocal.
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  Speaker 1: If land be there, fields and inhabitants her spots, thou
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  Speaker 1: ceast as clouds, and clouds may rain, and rain produce
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  Speaker 1: fruits in her softened soil, for some to eat allotted there,
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  Speaker 1: and other suns, perhaps with their attendant moons, Thou wilt
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  Speaker 1: descry communicating male and female light, which two great sexes
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  Speaker 1: animate the world stored in each orb, perhaps with some
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  Speaker 1: that live, for such vast room in nature, unpossessed by
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  Speaker 1: living soul, desert and desolate only to shine, yet scarce
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  Speaker 1: to contribute each orb a glimpse of light conveyed so
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  Speaker 1: far down to this habitable, which returns light back to them,
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  Speaker 1: is obvious to dispute. But whether thus these things, or
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  Speaker 1: whether not, whether the sun, predominant in heaven rise on
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  Speaker 1: Earth or Earth rise on the sun. He from the
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  Speaker 1: east his flaming road begin, or she from west, her
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  Speaker 1: silent advance within offensive pace, that spinning sleeps on her
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  Speaker 1: soft axel, while she paces en and bears thee soft
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  Speaker 1: with the smooth air along. Solicit not thy thoughts with
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  Speaker 1: matter's heed. Leave them to God above him. Serve and
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  Speaker 1: fear of other creatures as him pleases best, wherever placed.
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  Speaker 1: Let him dispose. Joy thou in what he gives to thee.
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  Speaker 1: This paradise and thy fair eve. Heaven is for THEE
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  Speaker 1: too high to know what passes there be lowly wise,
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  Speaker 1: think only what concerns THEE and thy being. Dream not
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  Speaker 1: of other worlds, what creatures there live in what state, condition,
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  Speaker 1: or degree contented that thus far hath been revealed not
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  Speaker 1: of earth only, but of highest Heaven, to whom thus Adam,
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  Speaker 1: cleared of doubt, replied, now fully, hast thou satisfied me
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  Speaker 1: pure intelligence of heaven angels zene, and freed from intricacies,
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  Speaker 1: taught to live the easiest way, nor with perplexing thoughts
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  Speaker 1: to interrupt the sweet of life from which God hath
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  Speaker 1: bid dwell far off all anxious cares, and not molest
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  Speaker 1: us unless we ourselves seek them with wandering thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: notions vain. But at the mind or fancy is to
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  Speaker 1: rove unchecked, and of her roving is no end. Till
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  Speaker 1: warned or by experienced taught. She learn that not to
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  Speaker 1: know at large of things remote from use, obscure and subtle,
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  Speaker 1: but to know that which before us lies in daily
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  Speaker 1: life is the prime wisdom. What is more is fume
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  Speaker 1: or emptiness, or fond impertinence, and renders us in things
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  Speaker 1: that most concern, unpracticed, unprepared, and still to seek. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: from this high pitch, let us descend a lower flight,
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  Speaker 1: and speak of things things at hand useful. Whence happly
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  Speaker 1: mention may arise of something not unseasonable to ask by sufferance,
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  Speaker 1: and thy wonted favor deained THEE I have heard, relating
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  Speaker 1: what was done ere my remembrance. Now hear me relate
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  Speaker 1: my story, which perhaps thou hast not heard, and day
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  Speaker 1: is yet not spent, till then thou ceast how subtly
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  Speaker 1: to detain THEE. I devise inviting THEE to hear while
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  Speaker 1: I relate fond were it not in hope of thy reply.
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  Speaker 1: For while I sit with THEE, I seem in heaven
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  Speaker 1: and sweeter. Thy discourse is to my ear than fruits
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  Speaker 1: of palm tree, pleasantest to thirst and hunger, both from labor.
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  Speaker 1: At the hour of sweet repast, they satiate and soon
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  Speaker 1: feel though pleasant. But thy words, with grace divine imbued,
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  Speaker 1: bring to their sweetness no satiety to whom thus Raphael answered,
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  Speaker 1: heavenly meek, Nor are thy lips ungraceful sire of men,
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  Speaker 1: nor tongue ineloquent. For God on thee abundantly His gifts
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  Speaker 1: hath also poured inward and outward, both his image, fair
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  Speaker 1: speaking or mute. All comeliness and grace attends THEE, and
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  Speaker 1: each word, each motion forms nor less think we in
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  Speaker 1: Heaven of thee on earth than of our fellow servant,
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  Speaker 1: and inquire gladly into the ways of God with man.
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  Speaker 1: For God we see hath honored thee and set on
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  Speaker 1: man his equal love. Say therefore on, for I that
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  Speaker 1: day was absent, as befell, bound on a voyage, uncouth
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  Speaker 1: and obscure, far on excursion toward the gates of Hell,
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  Speaker 1: squared in full legion such command we had to see
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  Speaker 1: that none thence issued forth a spy or enemy, while
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  Speaker 1: God was in his work, lest he incensed at such irruption,
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  Speaker 1: bold destruction with creation might have mixed. Not that they
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  Speaker 1: durst without his leave attempt. But us hecends upon his
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  Speaker 1: high behests for state as sovereign king, and to inure
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  Speaker 1: our prompt obedience. Fast we found fast shut the dismal
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  Speaker 1: gaits and barricadoed strong but long ere our approaching heard
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  Speaker 1: within noise other than the sound of dance or song,
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  Speaker 1: torment and loud, lament and furious rage. Glad we returned
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  Speaker 1: up to the coasts of light ere Sabbath evening. So
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  Speaker 1: we had in charge but Thy relation. Now, for I
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  Speaker 1: attend pleased with Thy words, no less than thou with mine,
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  Speaker 1: so spake the god like power, and thus our sire.
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  Speaker 1: For man to tell how human life began is hard,
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  Speaker 1: for who himself, beginning knew desire with thee still longer
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  Speaker 1: to converse, induced me as new, waked from sound asleep
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  Speaker 1: soft on the flow'ry herb, I found me laid in
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  Speaker 1: balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun soon dried,
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  Speaker 1: and on the reeking moisture fed straight toward heaven. My
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  Speaker 1: wondering eyes I turn'd and gazed awhile the ample sky
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  Speaker 1: till rais'd by quick instinctive motion. Up I sprung as
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  Speaker 1: thitherwood endeavorring, and upright stood on my feet. About me
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  Speaker 1: round I saw hill dale and shady woods, and sunny plains,
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  Speaker 1: and liquid laps of murmuring streams. By these creatures that
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  Speaker 1: lived and moved and walked or flew, birds on the branches,
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  Speaker 1: warbling all things. Smil'd with fragrance and with joy, my
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  Speaker 1: heart o'erflow'd myself. I then perus'd, and limb by limb, survey'd,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes went and sometimes ran with supple joints as
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  Speaker 1: lively vigor led. But who I was, or where or
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  Speaker 1: from what cause not to speak? I tried, and forthwith
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  Speaker 1: spake my tongue obeyed, and readily could name whate'er I
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  Speaker 1: saw thou, sun, said I fair light, and thou en
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  Speaker 1: lighten'd earth so fresh and gay, Ye hells and dales,
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  Speaker 1: Ye rivers, woods and plains, and ye that live and move,
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  Speaker 1: fair creatures. Tell tell if ye saw how came I? Thus?
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  Speaker 1: How here not of myself by some great maker? Then,
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  Speaker 1: in goodness and in power pre eminent, tell me how
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  Speaker 1: may I know him? How adore from whom I have? That?
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  Speaker 1: Thus I move and live, and feel that I am
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  Speaker 1: happier than I know. While thus I called and strayed,
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  Speaker 1: I knew not whither from where I first drew air
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  Speaker 1: and first beheld this happy light. When answer none, return'd
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  Speaker 1: on a green, shady bank, profuse of flowers, pensive, I
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  Speaker 1: sat me down there. Gentle sleep first found me, and
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  Speaker 1: with soft oppression seiz'd my drowsed sense, untroubl'd, though I
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  Speaker 1: thought I then was passing to my former state, insensible
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  Speaker 1: and forthwith to dissolve, when suddenly stood at my head
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  Speaker 1: a dream whose inward apparition gently mov'd my fancy to
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  Speaker 1: believe I yet had being and liv'd. One came methought
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  Speaker 1: of shape divine, and said, thy mansion once the adam rise,
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  Speaker 1: first man of men innumerable ordain'd, first father, call'd by thee,
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  Speaker 1: I come, thy guide to the garden of bliss, Thy
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  Speaker 1: seat prepar'd, so saying by the hand. He took me
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  Speaker 1: rais'd and over fields and waters as in air, smooth
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  Speaker 1: sliding without step, last led me up a woody mountain
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  Speaker 1: whose high top was plain, a circuit wide enclos'd with
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  Speaker 1: goodliest trees, planted with walks and bowers, that what I
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  Speaker 1: saw of earth before scarce pleasant seem'd, each tree loaden
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  Speaker 1: with fairest fruit that hung to the eye, tempting, stirred
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  Speaker 1: in me sudden appetite to pluck and eat whereat I
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  Speaker 1: waked and found before mine eyes all real as the
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  Speaker 1: dream had lively shadowed. Here had new begun my wandering,
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  Speaker 1: had not he who was my guide up hither from
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  Speaker 1: among the trees appear'd presence divine, rejoicing, but with awe
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  Speaker 1: in adoration at his feet, I fell submiss He reared me,
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  Speaker 1: and whom thou sought'st I am said, mildly, author of
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  Speaker 1: all this thou ceast above or round about thee or
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  Speaker 1: beneath this paradise. I give thee count it thine to
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  Speaker 1: till and keep, and of the fruit to eat. Of
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  Speaker 1: every tree that in the garden grows, eat freely with
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  Speaker 1: glad heart fear here no dearth, but of the tree
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  Speaker 1: whose operation brings knowledge of good and ill, which I
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  Speaker 1: have set the pledge of thy obedience and thy faith
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  Speaker 1: amid the garden, by the tree of life. Remember what
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  Speaker 1: I warn THEE shun to taste, and shun the bitter consequence,
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  Speaker 1: For know the day thou eat'st thereof my sole command
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  Speaker 1: transgress'd inevitably thou shalt die from that day mortal, and
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  Speaker 1: this happy state shalt lose, expell'd from hence into a
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  Speaker 1: world of woe and sorrow. Sternly he pronounced the rigid interdiction,
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  Speaker 1: which resounds yet dreadful in mine ear, though in my
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  Speaker 1: choice not to incur. But soon his clear aspect return'd
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  Speaker 1: and gracious purpose thus renew'd not only these fair bounds,
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  Speaker 1: but all the earth to THEE and to thy race.
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  Speaker 1: I give as lords possess it, and all things that
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  Speaker 1: therein live or live in sea or air, beast, fish
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  Speaker 1: and fowl in sign whereof each burden beast behold after
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  Speaker 1: their kinds. I bring them to receive from THEE their names,
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  Speaker 1: and pay THEE fealty with low subjection. Understand the same
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  Speaker 1: of fish within their watry residence, not hither summon'd, since
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  Speaker 1: they cannot change their element to draw the thinner air.
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  Speaker 1: As thus he spake, Each bird and beast behold approaching
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  Speaker 1: two and two these cowring low with blandishment, each bird
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  Speaker 1: stoop'd on his wing. I named them as they passed,
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  Speaker 1: and understood their nature. With such knowledge God endued my
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  Speaker 1: sudden apprehension. But in these I found not what methought
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  Speaker 1: I wanted still, and to the heavenly vision. Thus presum'd
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  Speaker 1: o by what name, for thou above all these, above mankind,
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  Speaker 1: or aught than mankind, higher surpassest far my naming? How
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  Speaker 1: may I adore THEE, author of this universe, and all
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  Speaker 1: this good to man, for whose well being so amply
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  Speaker 1: and with hands so liberal, thou hast provided all things.
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  Speaker 1: But with me I see not who partakes in solitude,
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  Speaker 1: what happiness? Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying? What contentment? Find?
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  Speaker 1: Thus I presumptuous and the vision bright as with a
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  Speaker 1: smile more brightened. Thus replied, what course thou solitude is
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  Speaker 1: not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished,
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  Speaker 1: and all these at thy command to come and play
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  Speaker 1: before thee? Know'st thou not their language and their ways?
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  Speaker 1: They also know and reason not contemptibly with these, find
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  Speaker 1: pastime and bear rule. Thy realm is large, so spake
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  Speaker 1: the universal Lord, and seem'd so ordering I with leave
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  Speaker 1: of speech implored and humble deprecation, thus replied, Let not
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  Speaker 1: my words offend thee have power my maker be propitious
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  Speaker 1: while I speak, Hast thou not made me? Hear thy substitute,
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  Speaker 1: and these inferior far beneath me. Set among unequals, what
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  Speaker 1: society can sort? What harmony or true delight? Which must
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  Speaker 1: be mutual in proportion due given and received? But in
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  Speaker 1: disparity the one intense, the other still remiss, cannot well
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  Speaker 1: suit with either, but soon prove tedious alike of fellowship.
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  Speaker 1: I speak, such as I seek fit to participate all
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  Speaker 1: rational delight, wherein the brute cannot be human consort. They rejoice,
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  Speaker 1: each with their kind lion with lioness, so fitly them
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  Speaker 1: in pairs Thou hast combined. Much less can bird with beast,
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  Speaker 1: or fish with fowl so well converse, nor with the
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  Speaker 1: ox the ape. Worse then can man with beast, and
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  Speaker 1: least of all, where too, th Almighty answer not displeas'd
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  Speaker 1: and nice and subtle happiness. I see thou to thyself
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  Speaker 1: proposest in the choice of thy associates adam, and wilt
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  Speaker 1: taste no pleasure, though in pleasure solitary. What think'st thou
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  Speaker 1: then of me? And this my state seem I to
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  Speaker 1: THEE sufficiently possessed of happiness? Or not? Who am alone
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  Speaker 1: from all eternity? For none I know second to me
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  Speaker 1: or like equal? Much less how have I, then, with
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  Speaker 1: whom to hold converse, save with the creatures which I made,
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  Speaker 1: and those to me inferior infinite descents beneath. What other
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  Speaker 1: creatures are to THEE he ceased, I lowly answered, to
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  Speaker 1: attain the height and depth of thy eternal ways. All
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  Speaker 1: human thoughts come short. Supreme of things. Thou in thyself
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  Speaker 1: art perfect, and in THEE is no deficience found. Not
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  Speaker 1: so is man, but in degree the cause of his
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  Speaker 1: desire by conversation with his like to help or solace
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  Speaker 1: his defects. No need that thou shouldst propagate, already infinite
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  Speaker 1: and through all numbers absolute though one, but man by number,
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  Speaker 1: is to manifest his single imperfection and beget like of
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  Speaker 1: his like, his image multiplied in unity defective, which requires
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  Speaker 1: collateral love and dearest amity. Thou, in thy secrecy, although
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  Speaker 1: alone best with thy self accompanied, seek'st not social communication.
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  Speaker 1: Yet so pleased, canst raise thy creature to what hight
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  Speaker 1: thou wilt of union or communion? Daified I, by conversing
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  Speaker 1: cannot these erect from prone, nor in their ways complacence
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  Speaker 1: find Thus I emboldened spake and freedom used permissive and
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  Speaker 1: acceptance found, which gained this answer from the gracious vost divine.
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  Speaker 1: Thus far to try THEE adam, I was pleased and
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  Speaker 1: find THEE, knowing not of beasts alone, which thou hast
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  Speaker 1: rightly named, but of thyself, expressing well the spirit within
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  Speaker 1: THEE free my image, not imparted to the brute, whose
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  Speaker 1: fellowship therefore unmeet for THEE. Good reason was thou freely
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  Speaker 1: shouldst dislike and be so minded? Still I ere thou
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  Speaker 1: spakest knew it not good for man to be alone,
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  Speaker 1: and no such company as then thou sourced intended THEE
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  Speaker 1: for trial only brought to see how thou couldst judge
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  Speaker 1: of fit and meet. What next I bring shall please THEE.
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  Speaker 1: Be assured thy likeness, thy fit, help thy other self,
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  Speaker 1: thy wish exactly to thy heart's desire. He ended, or
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  Speaker 1: I heard no more. For now my earthly by his
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  Speaker 1: heavenly overpowered, which it had long stood, under strained to
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  Speaker 1: the height in that celestial colloquy sublime as with an
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  Speaker 1: object that excels the scents, dazzled and spent, sunk down
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  Speaker 1: and sought repair of sleep, which instantly fell on me,
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  Speaker 1: call'd by nature as in aid, and closed mine eyes,
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  Speaker 1: Mine eyes. He closed, but open left the cell of
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  Speaker 1: fancy my internal sight, by which abstract as in a trance, methought,
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  Speaker 1: I saw, though sleeping where I lay, and saw the
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  Speaker 1: shape still glorious, before whom awake I stood, who, stooping,
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  Speaker 1: opened my left side, and took from thence a rib
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  Speaker 1: with cordial spirits warm and life blood streaming fresh wide
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  Speaker 1: was the wound, But suddenly with flesh filled up and
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  Speaker 1: heal'd the rib he formed and fashioned with his hands
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  Speaker 1: under his forming hands, a creature grew manlike but different,
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  Speaker 1: sex so lovely fair that what seem'd fair in all
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  Speaker 1: the world seem'd now mean. Or in her summ'd up,
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  Speaker 1: in her contain'd, and in her looks, which from that
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  Speaker 1: time infused sweetness into my heart unfelt before, and into
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  Speaker 1: all things. From her air, inspir'd the spirit of love
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  Speaker 1: and amorous delight. She disappear'd and left me dark. I
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  Speaker 1: waked to find her, or for ever to deplore her
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  Speaker 1: loss and other pleasures all abjure. When out of hope
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  Speaker 1: behold her not far off, such as I saw her
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  Speaker 1: in my dream, adorn'd with what all Earth or Heaven
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  Speaker 1: could bestow to make her amiable. On she came, led
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  Speaker 1: by her heavenly maker, though unseen and guided by his voice,
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  Speaker 1: nor uninform'd of nuptial sanctity and marriage. Rites grace was
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  Speaker 1: in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, in every gesture,
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  Speaker 1: dignity and love. I overjoy'd could not forbear aloud this
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  Speaker 1: turn hath made amends. Thou hast fulfill'd thy words, creator,
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  Speaker 1: bounteous and benign, giver of all things fair, but fairest,
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  Speaker 1: this of all thy gifts nor envioust. I now see
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  Speaker 1: bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, myself before
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  Speaker 1: me woman is her name of man extracted for this cause.
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  Speaker 1: He shall forego father and mother, and to his wife
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  Speaker 1: a dear, and they shall be one flesh, one heart,
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  Speaker 1: one's soul. She heard me thus, and though divinely brought
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  Speaker 1: yet innocence and virgin modesty, her virtue and the conscience
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  Speaker 1: of her worth, that would be wooed and not unsought,
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  Speaker 1: be one not obvious, not obtrusive, but retir'd the more desirable,
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  Speaker 1: or to say, all nature herself, though pure of sinful thought,
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  Speaker 1: wrought in her soul, that seeing me, she turned. I
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  Speaker 1: followed her. She what was honor knew, and with obsequious majesty,
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  Speaker 1: approved my pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower. I led her,
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  Speaker 1: blushing like the morn. All heaven and happy constellations on
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  Speaker 1: that hour shed their selectest influence. The earth gave sign
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  Speaker 1: of gratulation, and each hill joyous. The birds, fresh gales
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  Speaker 1: and gentle airs whispered it. To the woods, and from
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  Speaker 1: their wings flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub,
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  Speaker 1: disporting till the amorous bird of night, sung spousal, and
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  Speaker 1: bid haste the evening star on his hilltop to light
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  Speaker 1: the bridle lamp. Thus I have told thee all my state,
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  Speaker 1: and brought my story to the sum of earthly bliss,
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  Speaker 1: which I enjoy and must confess to find in all
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  Speaker 1: things else delight indeed, but such as used or not
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  Speaker 1: works in the mind, no change nor vehement desire. These
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  Speaker 1: delicacies I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits and flowers, walks,
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  Speaker 1: and the melody of birds. But here far otherwise transported,
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  Speaker 1: I behold, transported, touch, here passion. First I felt commotions
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  Speaker 1: strange in all enjoyments else superior and unmov'd here only
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  Speaker 1: weak against the charm of beauty's powerful glance. Or nature
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  Speaker 1: failed in me, and left some part not proof enough
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  Speaker 1: such object to sustain or from my side subducting took
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  Speaker 1: perhaps more than enough, at least on her bestowed too
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  Speaker 1: much of ornament in outward show elaborate of inward, less exact.
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  Speaker 1: For while I understand in the prime end of nature
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  Speaker 1: her inferior in the mind and inward faculties which most
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: excel in outward, also her resembling less his image, who
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: made both and less, expressing the character of that dominion
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  Speaker 1: given o'er other creatures. Yet when I approach her loveliness
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  Speaker 1: so absolute she seems and in herself complete, so well
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  Speaker 1: to know her own that what she wills to do
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  Speaker 1: or say seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge
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  Speaker 1: in her presence falls degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her
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  Speaker 1: loses discountenanced, and like folly, shows authority and reason on
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  Speaker 1: her weight as one intended first, not after, made occasionally,
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  Speaker 1: and to consume it all greatness of mind and nobleness
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  Speaker 1: their seat, build in her loveliest and create an awe
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  Speaker 1: about her as a guard angelic placed to whom the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: angel with contracted brow accused not nature. She hath done
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  Speaker 1: her part. Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
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  Speaker 1: of wisdom. She deserts thee, not if thou dismiss not
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  Speaker 1: her when most thou need'st her nigh by attributing over
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  Speaker 1: much to things less excellent as thou thyself perceiv'st For
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  Speaker 1: what admirest thou, what transport'st THEE so and outside fair
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  Speaker 1: no doubt and worthy well thy, cherishing thy, honoring and
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  Speaker 1: thy love, not thy subjection, weigh with her thyself. Then
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  Speaker 1: value ofttimes nothing profits more than self esteem, grounded on
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  Speaker 1: just and right, well manag'd of that skill. The more
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: thou know'st, the more she will acknowledge thee her head,
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  Speaker 1: and two realities yield all her shows made so adorn
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  Speaker 1: for thy delight. The more so awful that with honor
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  Speaker 1: thou mayst love thy mate, who sees when thou art
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  Speaker 1: seen least wise, But if the sense of touch, whereby
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  Speaker 1: mankind is propagated, seem such dear delight beyond all other
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  Speaker 1: think the same vouchsafed to cattle and each beast, which
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  Speaker 1: would not be to them made common and divulged, if
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  Speaker 1: aught therein enjoy'd were worthy to subdue the soul of man,
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  Speaker 1: or passion in him, move what higher in her society
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: thou find'st attractive human rational love. Still in loving, thou
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  Speaker 1: dost well in passion, not wherein true love consists. Not
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  Speaker 1: love refines the thoughts and heart enlarges hath his seat
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  Speaker 1: in reason, and is judicious. Is the scale by which
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to heavenly love thou mayst ascend, not sunk in carnal pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: For which cause among the beasts no mate for THEE
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: was found, to whom thus half abashed. Adam replied, neither
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: her outside form'd so fair, nor aught in procreation common
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to all kinds, though higher of the genial bed by far,
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  Speaker 1: and with mysterious reverence, I deem so much delights me
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: as those graceful acts, those thousand decencies that daily flow
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: from all her words and actions, mixed with love and
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind or in
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: us both one's soul, harmony to behold in wedded pair,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: more grateful than harmonious sound to the ear. Yet the subject,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: not I to THEE, disclose what inward? Thence I feel
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: not therefore foiled, who meet with various objects from the sense,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: variously representing, yet still free, approve the best and follow
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: what I approve to love, thou blamest me not, for
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: love thou sayest leads up to heaven is both the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: way and guide. Bear with me. Then, if lawful what
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I ask love not the heavenly spirits, and how their
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: love express they by looks only, or do they mix
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: irradiant It's virtual or immediate touch to whom the angel
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: with a smile that glowed celestial rosy red. Love's proper
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  Speaker 1: hue answered, Let it suffice THEE that thou know'st us
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  Speaker 1: happy and without love, no happiness. Whatever pure thou in
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  Speaker 1: the body enjoyest and pure thou work created, We enjoy
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: in eminence. An obstacle, find none of membrane, joint or limb.
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  Speaker 1: Exclusive bars easier than air with air. If spirits embrace total,
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  Speaker 1: they mix union of pure with pure desiring, nor restrain conveyance,
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  Speaker 1: need as flesh to mix with flesh, or soul with soul.
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  Speaker 1: But I can now know more the parting sun beyond
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the Earth's green cape and verdant isles Hespirian sets my
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: signal to depart, be strong, live, happy, and love. But
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  Speaker 1: first of all him whom to love is to obey
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: and keep his great command. Take heed lest passion sway
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  Speaker 1: thy judgment to do aught, which else free will would
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  Speaker 1: not admit. Thine, and of all thy sons, the weal
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  Speaker 1: or woe in THEE is placed. Beware ay in thy
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: persevering shall rejoice, and all the blessed stand fast to
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: stand or fall free in thine own arbitriment. It lies
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: perfect within, no outward aid require, and all temptation to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: transgress repel, so, saying he arose, whom Adam thus followed
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: with benediction. Since to part go heavenly guest ethereal messenger
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  Speaker 1: sent from whose sovereign goodness I adore, gentle to me
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and affable, hath been thy condescension, and shall be honored
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: ever with grateful memory. Thou to mankind be good and
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: friendly still, and often returned. So parted they the Angel
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  Speaker 1: up to heaven from the thick shade, and Adam to
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  Speaker 1: his bower. End of Book seven