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...Without dimension ; where length, breadth, and highth, And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal...battle bring Their embryon atoms ; they around the flag Of each his faction, in their several clans, Light-arm'd or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift, or slow,...

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