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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad;
Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
She all night long her amorous descant sung;
Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament
With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led
The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
Rising in clouded majesty, at length
Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

The timely dew of sleep.

With thee conversing I forget all time,

All seasons, and their change, all please alike.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun
When first on this delightful land he spreads
His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,
Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth
After soft showers; and sweet the coming on
Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent night
With this her solemn bird and this fair moon,
And these the gems of heaven, her starry train:
But neither breath of morn when she ascends
With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun
On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower,
Glist'ring with dew, nor fragrance after showers,
Nor grateful ev'ning mild, nor silent night

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With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon
Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 639.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

In naked beauty more adorn'd,

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More lovely than Pandora.1

These troublesome disguises which we wear.

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Eas'd the putting off

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring.

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Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

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Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
Touch'd lightly; for no falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper.

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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng.

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Abash'd the devil stood,

And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her shape how lovely.

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Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime
Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl,
When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep
Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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1 When unadorned, adorned the most. THOMSON: Autumn, line 204.

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld
Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep,
Shot forth peculiar graces.

Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 13.

My latest found,

Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

Good, the more

Communicated, more abundant grows.

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night,
If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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A wilderness of sweets.

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Another morn

Ris'n on mid-noon.

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So saying, with despatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.

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Nor jealousy

Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

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The bright consummate flower.

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Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers.

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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet

Quaff immortality and joy.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name

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Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found;
Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Morn,

Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand
Unbarr'd the gates of light.

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Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought

The better fight.

Paradise Lost. Book vi. Line 29.

Arms on armour clashing bray'd

Horrible discord, and the madding wheels
Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise

Of conflict.

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Spirits that live throughout,

Vital in every part, not as frail man,

In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins,
Cannot but by annihilating die.

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Far off his coming shone.

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd
To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days,
On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

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Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few.

Heaven open'd wide

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Her ever during gates, harmonious sound,
On golden hinges moving.

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And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear
Seen in the galaxy, that milky way

Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest
Powder'd with stars.

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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear

So charming left his voice, that he awhile

Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear. Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 1.

There swift return

Diurnal, merely to officiate light

Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

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And touch'd by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.

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With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er,
Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.

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And feel that I am happier than I know.

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Among unequals what society

Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her
In every gesture dignity and love.

eye,

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Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

She what was honour knew,

And with obsequious majesty approv'd
My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower
I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven

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