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11 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Book seven, Part one, descend from heaven Urania by that name,
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  Speaker 1: if rightly thou art called, whose voice divine? Following above
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  Speaker 1: the 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 presumed 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, unreigned as once bellafun, though from a lower climb,
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  Speaker 1: dismounted in the Allalian field, I fall erroneous there to
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  Speaker 1: wonder and forlorn. Half yet remains unsung, but n'arrower 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 fit
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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 eve,
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  Speaker 1: the story heard attentive, and was filled with admiration and
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  Speaker 1: deep muse 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 Adams soon repealed the doubts
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  Speaker 1: that in his heart arose, and now let 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 thirst ex sights, proceeded thus to ask
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  Speaker 1: his heavenly guest, great things and full of wonder in
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  Speaker 1: our ears, far differing from this world, thou hast revealed,
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  Speaker 1: divine interpreter by favors sent down from the Imperian, to
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  Speaker 1: forewarn us 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 absolved? If unforbid thou mayst unfold, would 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 wants to run
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  Speaker 1: much of his race. Thou steep suspense in heaven 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 asked,
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  Speaker 1: obtain though to recount almighty works, What words or tongue
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  Speaker 1: of serf can suffice or heart of man suffice to comprehend.
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  Speaker 1: Yet what thou canst attain, which best may serve to
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  Speaker 1: glorify the maker and infer thee also happier, shall not
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  Speaker 1: be withheld thy hearing such commission from above I have
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  Speaker 1: received to answer thy desire of knowledge within bounds beyond
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  Speaker 1: abstained to ask, nor let thine own inventions hope things
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  Speaker 1: not revealed which the invisible King only omniscient, hath suppressed
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  Speaker 1: in knight to none communicable in earth or heaven. Enough
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  Speaker 1: is left besides to search and know. But knowledge is
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  Speaker 1: as food and needs no less. Her temperance over appetite
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  Speaker 1: to know in measure what the mind may well contain,
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  Speaker 1: 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 Day 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 Populace
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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
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  Speaker 1: done to have dispeopled heaven. My damage falling deemed, I
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  Speaker 1: can repair that detriment, if such it be, to lose
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  Speaker 1: self lost, and in a moment will create another world
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  Speaker 1: out of one man, a race of men innumerable there
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  Speaker 1: to dwell not here till by degrees of merit raised
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  Speaker 1: they open to themselves at length the way up hither
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  Speaker 1: under long obedience tried, and Earth be changed to Heav'n
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  Speaker 1: and Heaven to earth, one kingdom, joy and union without end. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: inhabit lacks ye powers of Heaven, And thou my word
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  Speaker 1: begotten son, 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 heaven and earth boundless the deep, because
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  Speaker 1: I am who fill infinitude, nor vacuous 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 th Almighty, And to what he spake his word,
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  Speaker 1: the filial Godhead gave effect. Immediate are the acts of
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  Speaker 1: God more swift than time or motion. But to human
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  Speaker 1: ears cannot without process of speech be told. So told
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  Speaker 1: as earthly notion can receive. Great triumph and rejoicing was
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  Speaker 1: in 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 ungodly from his sight, and
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  Speaker 1: 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
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  Speaker 1: sound on golden hinges, moving to let forth the King
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  Speaker 1: of Glory in his powerful word and spirit, coming to
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  Speaker 1: create new worlds. On heavenly ground. They stood, and from
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  Speaker 1: the shore they viewed the vast immeasurable abyss, outrageous as
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  Speaker 1: a sea, dark, wasteful, wild up from the bottom, turned
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  Speaker 1: by furious winds and surging waves, as mountains to assault
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  Speaker 1: Heaven's and with the center mixed the pole silence, Ye
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  Speaker 1: troubled waves, and thou deep peace, said then the omnific
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  Speaker 1: word Yer discord end Nor stayed, but on the wings
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  Speaker 1: of Cherubim uplifted in paternal glory, rode far into chaos,
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  Speaker 1: and the world unborn for chaos heard his voice him
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  Speaker 1: all his train followed in bright possession to behold creation
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  Speaker 1: and the wonders of his might. Then stayed the fervid wheels,
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  Speaker 1: and in his hand he took the golden compasses prepared
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  Speaker 1: in God's eternal store to circumscribe this universe in all
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  Speaker 1: created things. One foot he centered and the other turned
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  Speaker 1: round through the vast profundity obscure, and said, thus far extend,
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  Speaker 1: thus far thy bounds. This be thy just circumference O world.
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  Speaker 1: Thus God the heaven created. Thus the earth, matter unformed
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  Speaker 1: and void, darkness profound covered the abyss. But on the
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  Speaker 1: watery calm his brooding wings. The spirit of God outspread,
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  Speaker 1: and vital virtue infused, and vital warmth throughout the fluid mass.
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  Speaker 1: But downward purge the black tartarius, cold, infernal dregs adverse
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  Speaker 1: to life. Then founded, then conglobed, like things to like
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  Speaker 1: the rest to several place, disparted, and between spun out
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  Speaker 1: the air and earth self balanced on her center hung.
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  Speaker 1: Let there be light, said God. And forthwith light ethereal
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  Speaker 1: first of things, quintessence 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 awe. The light was good, and light from
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  Speaker 1: darkness by the hemisphere divided light the day and darkness
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  Speaker 1: night he named Thus was the first day even and morn,
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  Speaker 1: nor pass 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 waters, 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 Incoorius sang the second day the
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  Speaker 1: Earth was formed, but in the womb as yet of
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  Speaker 1: waters embryon immature involved appeared not over all the face
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  Speaker 1: of Earth. Main ocean flowed not idle, but with warm,
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  Speaker 1: prolific humor, softening all her globe. Fermented the Great Mother
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  Speaker 1: to conceive satiate with genial moisture. When God said, be
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  Speaker 1: gathered now ye waters under heaven into one place, and
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  Speaker 1: let dry land appear. Immediately, the mountains huge appear emergent,
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  Speaker 1: and their broad bare backs upheave into the clouds. Their
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  Speaker 1: tops ascend the sky so high as heaved, the tumid
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  Speaker 1: hills so low down sunk a hollow bottom, broad and
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  Speaker 1: deep capacious bed of waters. Thither they hasted with glad precipitates,
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  Speaker 1: uprolled as drops on dust, conglobing from the dry part,
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  Speaker 1: rise 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: trooped 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
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  Speaker 1: wandering found their way, and on the washy ooze deep
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  Speaker 1: channel's war easy ere God had bit the ground be all,
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  Speaker 1: but within those banks where rivers now stream and perpetual
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  Speaker 1: draw their humid train, the dry land earth and the
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  Speaker 1: great receptacle of congregated waters he called seas, and saw
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  Speaker 1: that it was good, and said, let the earth put
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  Speaker 1: forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit tree
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  Speaker 1: 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 earth,
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  Speaker 1: till then desert and bare, unsightly, unadorned, brought forth the
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  Speaker 1: tender grass, whose veder clad her universal face with pleasant green.
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  Speaker 1: Then herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered, opening their
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  Speaker 1: various colors, and made gay her bosoms, smelling sweet. And
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  Speaker 1: these Scarce blown forth, flourishing thick. The clustering vine forth crept,
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  Speaker 1: the smelling gourd up stood, the corny reed embattled in
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  Speaker 1: her field, and the umbel shrub and bush with frizzled
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  Speaker 1: hair implicit last rose as in danced the stately trees
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  Speaker 1: and spread their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemmed
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  Speaker 1: their blossoms with high woods. The hills were crowned with
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  Speaker 1: tufts the valley, and each fountain's side, with borders long
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  Speaker 1: the rivers. That earth now seemed like to Heaven a
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  Speaker 1: seat where gods might dwell or wander with delight and love,
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  Speaker 1: to haunt her sacred shades. Though God had not yet
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  Speaker 1: reigned upon the earth and man to till the ground
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  Speaker 1: none was But from the earth a dewy miss went
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  Speaker 1: up and watered all the ground, and each plant of
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  Speaker 1: the field, which e'er it was in the earth God made,
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  Speaker 1: and every herb before it grew on the green stem.
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  Speaker 1: God saw that it was good. So evenin and Morn
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  Speaker 1: recorded the third day again the Almighty spake, let there
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  Speaker 1: be lights high in the expanse of Heaven, to divide
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  Speaker 1: the day from night. And let them be for signs
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  Speaker 1: for seasons, and for days encircling years. And let them
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  Speaker 1: be for lights, as I ordain their office in the
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  Speaker 1: firmament of heav'n, to give light on the earth. And
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  Speaker 1: it was so, And God made two great lights, great
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  Speaker 1: for their use to man, the greater to have ruled
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  Speaker 1: by day, the less by night. Al turn and made
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  Speaker 1: the stars and set them in the ferment of heaven
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  Speaker 1: to illuminate the earth and ruled the day in their vicissitude,
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  Speaker 1: and rule the night and light from darkness to divide.
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  Speaker 1: God saw, surveying his great work, that it was good
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  Speaker 1: for of celestial bodies. First the Sun, a mighty sphere
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  Speaker 1: he framed unlightsome first though of ethereal mold. Then form
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  Speaker 1: the moon globose and every magnitude of stars, and sowed
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  Speaker 1: with stars. The heaven thick as a field of light,
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  Speaker 1: by far the greater part he took, transplanted from her
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  Speaker 1: cloudy shrine and placed in the Sun's orb, made porest
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  Speaker 1: to receive and drink the liquid light, firm to retain
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  Speaker 1: her gathered beams. Great palace now of light hither as
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  Speaker 1: to their fountain. Other stars, repairing in their golden urns,
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  Speaker 1: draw light, and hence the morning planet gilds his horns
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  Speaker 1: by tincture or reflection. They augment their small, peculiar, though
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  Speaker 1: from human sight so far remote, with diminution. Seen first
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  Speaker 1: in his east, the glorious lamp was seen regent of day,
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  Speaker 1: and all the ariye and round invested with bright rays.
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  Speaker 1: Jokund 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 revolv'd on Heaven's great axle, and
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  Speaker 1: her reign with thousand lesser lights dividual holds with thousand
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  Speaker 1: thousand stars that then appear'd 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 that
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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: coat 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 disclosed their callow, young but
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  Speaker 1: feathered soon and fledge. They summoned 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 and 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 unnumbered 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 bathe 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
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  Speaker 1: dank and rise on stiff pennons tower the mid aerial sky.
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  Speaker 1: Others on ground walked 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 floored 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 and creeping things, and
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  Speaker 1: beasts of the earth, each in their kind. The Earth obeyed,
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  Speaker 1: and straight opening her fertile womb, teamed at birth innumerable
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  Speaker 1: living creatures, perfect forms, limbed and full grown out of
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Up rose as from his lair, the wild
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  Speaker 1: beasts where he wands 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 upsprung.
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  Speaker 1: The grassy clods, now calved, now half appeared, the tawny lion,
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  Speaker 1: pawing to get free his hinder parts. Then springs as
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  Speaker 1: broke from bonds and rampant shakes. His brindled mane, the ounce,
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  Speaker 1: the libbard, and the tiger as the mole rising the
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  Speaker 1: crumbled earth above them through in hillocks. The swift stag
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  Speaker 1: from underground bore up his branching head, scarce from his
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  Speaker 1: mold bemoth suggests born of earth beheaved. His vastness fleeced
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  Speaker 1: the flocks and bleeding rose as plants ambiguous between sea
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  Speaker 1: and land. The river horse and scaly crocodile at once
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  Speaker 1: came forth whatever creeps the ground, insect or worm. Those
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  Speaker 1: waved their limber fans for wings and smallest liniments exact
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  Speaker 1: in all the liveries, decked of summer's pride, with spots
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  Speaker 1: of gold and purple, azure and green. These as aligned
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  Speaker 1: their long dimension drew, streaking the ground with sinuous trace.
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  Speaker 1: Not all minions of nature, some of serpent kind, wondrous
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  Speaker 1: in length and corporance, involve their snaky folds and added wings.
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  Speaker 1: First crept the parsimonious emmet, provident of future in small room,
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  Speaker 1: large heart enclosed pattern of just equality. Perhaps hereafter joined
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  Speaker 1: in her popular tribes of commonalty swarming. Next appeared the
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  Speaker 1: female bee that feeds her husband drone deliciously and builds
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  Speaker 1: her waxen cells with honey stored. The rest are numberless,
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  Speaker 1: and Thou their nature know'st and gavest them names needless
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  Speaker 1: to thee repeated nor unknown. The serpent's subtlest beast of
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  Speaker 1: all the field, of huge extent, sometimes with brazen eyes
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  Speaker 1: and hairy maine, terrific, though to THEE not noxious, but
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  Speaker 1: obedient at thy call. Now Heaven, in all her glory
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  Speaker 1: shone en roll'd her motions, as the great first mover's
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  Speaker 1: hand first wheeled their course. Earth in her rich attire, consummate,
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  Speaker 1: lovely smiled air, water, Earth by fowl, 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 them rule o'er the fish
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  Speaker 1: 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 thy nostrils breathed the
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  Speaker 1: breath of life in his own image. He created THEE
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  Speaker 1: in the image of God express and thou becamest a
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  Speaker 1: living soul. Male. He created THEE, but thy consort female
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  Speaker 1: for race. Then bless mankind, and said, be fruitful, multiply
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  Speaker 1: and fill the earth, subdue it, and throughout dominion. Hold
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 1: Thence 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 accomplished 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 addition of his empire, and how it showed in
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  Speaker 1: prospect from his throne, How good, how fair? Answering his
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  Speaker 1: great idea up he rode followed with acclamation, and the
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  Speaker 1: sounds simphonious of ten thousand harps that tuned angelic harmonies
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  Speaker 1: the earth. The air resounded, Thou rememberest, for thou heard'st
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  Speaker 1: The heavens and all the constellations rung, the planets in
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  Speaker 1: their station listening stood, while the bright pomp ascended, jubilant
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  Speaker 1: open ye, everlasting gates, they sung, Open ye, Heavens, your
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  Speaker 1: living doors. Let in the Great Creator from his work
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  Speaker 1: return magnificent his six day's work, a world open and
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  Speaker 1: henceforth oft. For God will deign to visit the dwellings
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  Speaker 1: of just men, delighted, and with frequent intercourse. Thither will
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  Speaker 1: send his winged messengers on errands of supernal grace. So
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  Speaker 1: sung the glorious train ascending he through Heaven, that open wide,
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  Speaker 1: her blazing portals led to God's eternal house, direct the
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  Speaker 1: way abroad and ample road whose dust is gold and
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  Speaker 1: pavement 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
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  Speaker 1: omnipresence and the work ordained, author and end of all things,
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  Speaker 1: and from work now resting, blessed and hollowed 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 arp had work and rested.
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  Speaker 1: Not the solemn pipe and dulcimer, all organs of sweet stop,
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  Speaker 1: all sounds on fret by string or golden wire, temper'd
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  Speaker 1: soft tunings intermixed with voice chral or unison of vincense.
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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 magnified. But to
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  Speaker 1: create is greater than created. To destroy? Who can impair
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  Speaker 1: THEE mighty king, or bound thy empire easily? The proud
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: attempt of spirits apost it and their counsel's vain thou
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  Speaker 1: hast repaired, 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
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: men earth, whitherir ne'ther 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 rule 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: Imperian wrung with Halleluahs. Thus was Sabbath kept, and thy
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  Speaker 1: requests think now fulfill'd that ast 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
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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,