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

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"O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies."

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"The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave."

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

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"As Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flowers."

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"I will tell you now What never yet was heard in tale or song, From old or modern bard, in hall or bower."

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"So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far."

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"Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out."

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"Such joy ambition finds."

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"How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns."

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"'T is chastity, my brother, chastity: She that has that is clad in complete steel."

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"All hell broke loose."

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"Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity."

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"Dark with excessive bright."

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"In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt."

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"Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late."

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"That power Which erring men call Chance."

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"A heaven on earth."

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"Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost."

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"Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence."

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"Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity."

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

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"Left that command Sole daughter of his voice."

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"So gloz'd the tempter."

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"A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses."

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"And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl."

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"But who is this, what thing of sea or land,-- Female of sex it seems,-- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?"

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"With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded."

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"The bright consummate flower."

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"Eas'd the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear."

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"My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!"

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"Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving."

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"Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep."

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"Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine."

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"And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant."

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

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"So spake the grisly Terror."

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"So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he."

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"For evil news rides post, while good news baits."

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"Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food."

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"The sum of earthly bliss."

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"Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing."

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"Like Teneriff or Atlas unremoved."

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"Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe."

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"Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought The better fight."

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"He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?"

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"And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems."

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"These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!"

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