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... light ; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace 65 And rest can never dwell : hope never comes , That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges , and ...
... light ; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace 65 And rest can never dwell : hope never comes , That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges , and ...
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... light Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright ! If he whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels , equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise , Join'd with me once , now misery hath join'd ...
... light Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright ! If he whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels , equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise , Join'd with me once , now misery hath join'd ...
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... light , 180 Save what the glimm'ring of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves , There rest , if any rest can harbour there , And reassembling our afflicted powers ...
... light , 180 Save what the glimm'ring of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves , There rest , if any rest can harbour there , And reassembling our afflicted powers ...
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... expanded wings he steers his flight 225 Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt unusual weight ; till on dry land He lights , if it were land that ever burn'd With solid , as the lake with liquid fire ; BOOK I. 7.
... expanded wings he steers his flight 225 Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt unusual weight ; till on dry land He lights , if it were land that ever burn'd With solid , as the lake with liquid fire ; BOOK I. 7.
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... light ? Be it so , since he 245 Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid What shall be right : farthest from him is best , Whom reason hath equall'd , force hath made supreme Above his equals . Farewell happy fields , Where joy for ever ...
... light ? Be it so , since he 245 Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid What shall be right : farthest from him is best , Whom reason hath equall'd , force hath made supreme Above his equals . Farewell happy fields , Where joy for ever ...
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