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Time's eldest daughter , Night , mother of Ease , Thou gentle nurse , that with sweet lullabies Care - waking hearts to gentle slumber charm'st ! Thou smooth cheek'd negro , Night , the black eyed Queen , That rid'st about the world on ...
Time's eldest daughter , Night , mother of Ease , Thou gentle nurse , that with sweet lullabies Care - waking hearts to gentle slumber charm'st ! Thou smooth cheek'd negro , Night , the black eyed Queen , That rid'st about the world on ...
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And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves , and thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize , Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease , And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so ...
And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves , and thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize , Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease , And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so ...
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And chiefly thou , O Spirit , that dost prefer Before all temples th ' upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings outspread Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast ...
And chiefly thou , O Spirit , that dost prefer Before all temples th ' upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings outspread Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast ...
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If thou beest he - But O how fall'n ! how chang'd From him , who in the happy realms of light , Cloath'd with transcendent brightness , didst outshine Myriads , though bright ! If he , whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels ...
If thou beest he - But O how fall'n ! how chang'd From him , who in the happy realms of light , Cloath'd with transcendent brightness , didst outshine Myriads , though bright ! If he , whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels ...
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Whence and what art thou , execrable shape , That dar'st , though grim and terrible , advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates ? through them I mean to pass , That be assur'd without leave ask'd of thee .
Whence and what art thou , execrable shape , That dar'st , though grim and terrible , advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates ? through them I mean to pass , That be assur'd without leave ask'd of thee .
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