Of Araby the Blest.

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew,
Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 122.

Sabean odours from the spicy shore

And on the Tree of Life,

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Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.1

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Proserpine gathering flowers,

Herself a fairer flower.

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For contemplation he and valour form'd,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace;
He for God only, she for God in him.

His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.

Implied

Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway,
And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd, -
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

Adam the goodliest man of men since born
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.

And with necessity,

The tyrant's plea,2 excus'd his devilish deeds.

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1 See Herrick, page 203

2 Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. - WIL

LIAM PITT: Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.

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.

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

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.

Another morn

Ris'n on mid-noon.

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

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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Hither, as to their fountain, other stars

Repairing, in their golden urns draw light.

Now half appear'd

The tawny lion, pawing to get free

His hinder parts.

Indu'd

With sanctity of reason.

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
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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