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    "text": "Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name",
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    "text": "If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine",
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    "text": "Following, above the Olympian hill I soar,",
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    "text": "Above the flight of Pegasean wing!",
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    "text": "The meaning, not the name, I call; for thou",
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    "text": "Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top",
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    "text": "Of old Olympus dwell’st; but Heavenly-born,",
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    "text": "Before the hills appeared or fountain flowed,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou with eternal Wisdom didst converse,",
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   {
    "text": "Wisdom thy sister, and with her didst play",
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   {
    "text": "In presence of the Almighty Father, pleased",
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    "text": "With thy celestial song. Up led by thee,",
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   {
    "text": "Into the Heaven of Heavens I have presumed,",
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    "text": "An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air,",
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    "text": "Thy tempering: with like safety guided down,",
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    "text": "Return me to my native element;",
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    "text": "Lest from this flying steed unreined (as once",
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    "text": "Bellerophon, though from a lower clime)",
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    "text": "Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall,",
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    "text": "Erroneous there to wander and forlorn.",
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    "text": "Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound",
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    "text": "Within the visible diurnal sphere.",
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    "text": "Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole,",
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    "text": "More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged",
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    "text": "To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days,",
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    "text": "On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues;",
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    "text": "In darkness, and with dangers compassed round,",
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   {
    "text": "And solitude; yet not alone, while thou",
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    "text": "Visit’st my slumbers nightly, or when morn",
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    "text": "Purples the east. Still govern thou my song,",
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    "text": "Urania, and fit audience find, though few;",
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   {
    "text": "But drive far off the barbarous dissonance",
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   {
    "text": "Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race",
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    "text": "Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard",
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    "text": "In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears",
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    "text": "To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned",
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    "text": "Both harp and voice; nor could the Muse defend",
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    "text": "Her son. So fail not thou who thee implores;",
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    "text": "For thou art Heavenly, she an empty dream.",
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    "text": "Say, Goddess, what ensued when Raphael,",
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   {
    "text": "The affable Archangel, had forewarned",
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   {
    "text": "Adam by dire example to beware",
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    "text": "Apostasy, by what befell in Heaven",
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    "text": "To those apostates, lest the like befall",
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    "text": "In Paradise to Adam or his race,",
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   {
    "text": "Charged not to touch the interdicted Tree,",
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   {
    "text": "If they transgress, and slight that sole command,",
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   {
    "text": "So easily obeyed amid the choice",
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    "text": "Of all tastes else to please their appetite,",
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    "text": "Though wandering. He with his consorted Eve",
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   {
    "text": "The story heard attentive, and was filled",
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    "text": "With admiration and deep muse, to hear",
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    "text": "Of things so high and strange, things to their thought",
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   {
    "text": "So unimaginable as hate in Heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "And war so near the peace of God in bliss,",
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    "text": "With such confusion; but the evil, soon",
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    "text": "Driven back, redounded as a flood on those",
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   {
    "text": "From whom it sprung, impossible to mix",
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   {
    "text": "With blessedness. Whence Adam soon repealed",
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   {
    "text": "The doubts that in his heart arose; and now",
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    "text": "Led on, yet sinless, with desire to know",
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   {
    "text": "What nearer might concern him, how this World",
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   {
    "text": "Of Heaven and Earth conspicuous first began;",
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   {
    "text": "When, and whereof, created; for what cause;",
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   {
    "text": "What within Eden, or without, was done",
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   {
    "text": "Before his memory⁠—as one whose drouth",
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   {
    "text": "Yet scarce allayed still eyes the current stream,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose liquid murmur heard new thirst excites⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Proceeded thus to ask his Heavenly guest:",
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   {
    "text": "“Great things, and full of wonder in our ears,",
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   {
    "text": "Far differing from this World, thou hast revealed,",
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   {
    "text": "Divine interpreter! by favour sent",
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   {
    "text": "Down from the Empyrean to forewarn",
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   {
    "text": "Us timely of what might else have been our loss,",
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   {
    "text": "Unknown, which human knowledge could not reach;",
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   {
    "text": "For which to the infinitely Good we owe",
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   {
    "text": "Immortal thanks, and his admonishment",
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   {
    "text": "Receive with solemn purpose to observe",
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   {
    "text": "Immutably his sovereign will, the end",
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   {
    "text": "Of what we are. But, since thou hast vouchsafed",
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   {
    "text": "Gently, for our instruction, to impart",
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   {
    "text": "Things above earthly thought, which yet concerned",
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   {
    "text": "Our knowing, as to highest Wisdom seemed,",
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    "text": "Deign to descend now lower, and relate",
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   {
    "text": "What may no less perhaps avail us known:",
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   {
    "text": "How first began this heaven which we behold",
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    "text": "Distant so high, with moving fires adorned",
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    "text": "Innumerable; and this which yields or fills",
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   {
    "text": "All space, the ambient air wide interfused,",
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   {
    "text": "Embracing round this florid Earth; what cause",
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    "text": "Moved the Creator, in his holy rest",
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    "text": "Through all eternity, so late to build",
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    "text": "In Chaos; and the work begun how soon",
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    "text": "Absolved; if unforbid thou may’st unfold",
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   {
    "text": "What we not to explore the secrets ask",
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   {
    "text": "Of his eternal empire, but the more",
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   {
    "text": "To magnify his works the more we know.",
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   {
    "text": "And the great light of day yet wants to run",
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   {
    "text": "Much of his race, though steep; suspense in heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "Held by thy voice, thy potent voice, he hears,",
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   {
    "text": "And longer will delay to hear thee tell",
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   {
    "text": "His generation, and the rising birth",
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    "text": "Of Nature from the unapparent Deep;",
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   {
    "text": "Or if the star of evening and the moon",
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   {
    "text": "Haste to thy audience, Night with her will bring",
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   {
    "text": "Silence, and Sleep listening to thee will watch;",
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   {
    "text": "Or we can bid his absence till thy song",
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   {
    "text": "End, and dismiss thee ere the morning shine.”",
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    "text": "Thus Adam his illustrious guest besought;",
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    "text": "And thus the godlike Angel answered mild:",
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    "text": "“This also thy request, with caution asked,",
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   {
    "text": "Obtain; though to recount almighty works",
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   {
    "text": "What words or tongue of Seraph can suffice,",
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   {
    "text": "Or heart of man suffice to comprehend?",
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   {
    "text": "Yet what thou canst attain, which best may serve",
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   {
    "text": "To glorify the Maker, and infer",
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   {
    "text": "Thee also happier, shall not be withheld",
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   {
    "text": "Thy hearing; such commission from above",
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   {
    "text": "I have received, to answer thy desire",
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    "text": "Of knowledge within bounds; beyond abstain",
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    "text": "To ask, nor let thine own inventions hope",
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   {
    "text": "Things not revealed, which the invisible King,",
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   {
    "text": "Only omniscient, hath suppressed in night,",
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   {
    "text": "To none communicable in Earth or Heaven:",
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   {
    "text": "Enough is left besides to search and know.",
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   {
    "text": "But knowledge is as food, and needs no less",
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    "text": "Her temperance over appetite, to know",
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    "text": "In measure what the mind may well contain;",
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    "text": "Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns",
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    "text": "Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.",
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    "text": "“Know then that after Lucifer from Heaven",
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    "text": "(So call him, brighter once amidst the host",
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    "text": "Of Angels than that star the stars among)",
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   {
    "text": "Fell with his flaming legions through the Deep",
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   {
    "text": "Into his place, and the great Son returned",
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    "text": "Victorious with his Saints, the omnipotent",
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    "text": "Eternal Father from his throne beheld",
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   {
    "text": "Their multitude, and to his Son thus spake:",
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   {
    "text": "“ ‘At least our envious foe hath failed, who thought",
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    "text": "All like himself rebellious; by whose aid",
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   {
    "text": "This inaccessible high strength, the seat",
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    "text": "Of Deity supreme, us dispossessed,",
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   {
    "text": "He trusted to have seized, and into fraud",
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   {
    "text": "Drew many whom their place, knows here no more:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yet far the greater part have kept, I see,",
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   {
    "text": "Their station; Heaven, yet populous, retains",
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   {
    "text": "Number sufficient to possess her realms",
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    "text": "Though wide, and this high temple to frequent",
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    "text": "With ministeries due and solemn rites.",
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   {
    "text": "But lest his heart exalt him in the harm",
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   {
    "text": "Already done, to have dispeopled Heaven⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "My damage fondly deemed⁠—I can repair",
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    "text": "That detriment, if such it be to lose",
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    "text": "Self-lost, and in a moment will create",
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    "text": "Another world, out of one man a race",
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   {
    "text": "Of men innumerable, there to dwell,",
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   {
    "text": "Not here, till, by degrees of merit raised,",
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   {
    "text": "They open to themselves at length the way",
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   {
    "text": "Up hither, under long obedience tried,",
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   {
    "text": "And Earth be changed to Heaven, and Heaven to Earth,",
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   {
    "text": "One kingdom, joy and union without end.",
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   {
    "text": "Meanwhile inhabit lax, ye Powers of Heaven;",
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   {
    "text": "And thou, my Word, begotten Son, by thee",
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   {
    "text": "This I perform; speak thou, and be it done!",
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   {
    "text": "My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee",
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   {
    "text": "I send along; ride forth, and bid the Deep",
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   {
    "text": "Within appointed bounds be Heaven and Earth;",
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   {
    "text": "Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill",
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   {
    "text": "Infinitude; nor vacuous the space,",
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   {
    "text": "Though I uncircumscribed myself retire,",
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   {
    "text": "And put not forth my goodness, which is free",
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   {
    "text": "To act or not: Necessity and Chance",
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   {
    "text": "Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.’",
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    "text": "“So spake the Almighty, and to what he spake",
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    "text": "His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect.",
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    "text": "Immediate are the acts of God, more swift",
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    "text": "Than time or motion, but to human ears",
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   {
    "text": "Cannot without process of speech be told,",
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   {
    "text": "So told as earthly notion can receive.",
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    "text": "Great triumph and rejoicing was in Heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "When such was heard declared the Almighty’s will;",
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   {
    "text": "Glory they sung to the Most High, good-will",
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    "text": "To future men, and in their dwellings peace;",
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    "text": "Glory to Him whose just avenging ire",
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    "text": "Had driven out the ungodly from his sight",
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    "text": "And the habitations of the just; to Him",
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    "text": "Glory and praise whose wisdom had ordained",
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    "text": "Good out of evil to create; instead",
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    "text": "Of Spirits malign, a better race to bring",
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    "text": "Into their vacant room, and thence diffuse",
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    "text": "His good to worlds and ages infinite.",
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    "text": "“So sang the Hierarchies. Meanwhile the Son",
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    "text": "On his great expedition now appeared,",
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    "text": "Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned",
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   {
    "text": "Of majesty divine, sapience and love",
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   {
    "text": "Immense; and all his Father in him shone.",
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   {
    "text": "About his chariot numberless were poured",
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    "text": "Cherub and Seraph, Potentates and Thrones,",
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    "text": "And Virtues, winged Spirits, and chariots winged",
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   {
    "text": "From the armoury of God, where stand of old",
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   {
    "text": "Myriads, between two brazen mountains lodged",
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    "text": "Against a solemn day, harnessed at hand,",
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   {
    "text": "Celestial equipage; and now came forth",
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   {
    "text": "Spontaneous, for within them Spirit lived,",
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   {
    "text": "Attendant on their Lord. Heaven opened wide",
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    "text": "Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound",
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    "text": "On golden hinges moving, to let forth",
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   {
    "text": "The King of Glory, in his powerful Word",
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   {
    "text": "And Spirit coming to create new worlds.",
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   {
    "text": "On Heavenly ground they stood, and from the shore",
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   {
    "text": "They viewed the vast immeasurable Abyss,",
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   {
    "text": "Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild,",
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   {
    "text": "Up from the bottom turned by furious winds",
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   {
    "text": "And surging waves, as mountains, to assault",
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    "text": "Heaven’s highth, and with the centre mix the pole.",
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    "text": "“ ‘Silence, ye troubled waves, and, thou Deep, peace!’",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Said then the omnific Word: ‘your discord end!’",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Nor stayed; but, on the wings of Cherubim",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Uplifted, in paternal glory rode",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Far into Chaos and the World unborn;",
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   {
    "text": "For Chaos heard his voice. Him all his train",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Followed in bright procession, to behold",
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   {
    "text": "Creation, and the wonders of his might.",
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   {
    "text": "Then stayed the fervid wheels and in his hand",
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   {
    "text": "He took the golden compasses, prepared",
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   {
    "text": "In God’s eternal store, to circumscribe",
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   {
    "text": "This Universe, and all created things,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "One foot he centred, and the other turned",
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   {
    "text": "Round through the vast profundity obscure,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And said, ‘Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This be thy just circumference, O World!’",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thus God the heaven created, thus the Earth,",
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    "text": "Matter unformed and void. Darkness profound",
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    "text": "Covered the Abyss; but on the watery calm",
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    "text": "His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread,",
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    "text": "And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth,",
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    "text": "Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purged",
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    "text": "The black, tartareous, cold, infernal dregs,",
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    "text": "Adverse to life; then founded, then conglobed",
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    "text": "Like things to like, the rest to several place",
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    "text": "Disparted, and between spun out the air,",
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    "text": "And Earth, self-balanced, on her centre hung.",
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    "text": "“ ‘Let there be light!’ said God; and forthwith light",
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    "text": "Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure,",
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    "text": "Sprung from the Deep, and from her native east",
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    "text": "To journey through the aery gloom began,",
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    "text": "Sphered in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun",
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    "text": "Was not; she in a cloudy tabernacle",
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    "text": "Sojourned the while. God saw the light was good;",
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    "text": "And light from darkness by the hemisphere",
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    "text": "Divided: light the Day, and darkness Night,",
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    "text": "He named. Thus was the first day even and morn;",
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    "text": "Nor passed uncelebrated, nor unsung",
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    "text": "By the celestial choirs, when orient light",
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    "text": "Exhaling first from darkness they beheld,",
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    "text": "Birth-day of Heaven and Earth; with joy and shout",
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    "text": "The hollow universal orb they filled,",
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    "text": "And touched their golden harps, and hymning praised",
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    "text": "God and his works; Creator him they sung,",
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    "text": "Both when first evening was, and when first morn.",
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    "text": "“Again, God said, ‘Let there be firmament",
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    "text": "Amid the waters, and let it divide",
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    "text": "The waters from the waters!’ And God made",
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    "text": "The firmament, expanse of liquid, pure,",
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    "text": "Transparent, elemental air, diffused",
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    "text": "In circuit to the uttermost convex",
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    "text": "Of this great round⁠—partition firm and sure,",
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    "text": "The waters underneath from those above",
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    "text": "Dividing; for as Earth, so he the World",
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    "text": "Built on circumfluous waters calm, in wide",
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    "text": "Crystalline ocean, and the loud misrule",
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    "text": "Of Chaos far removed, lest fierce extremes",
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    "text": "Contiguous might distemper the whole frame:",
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    "text": "And heaven he named the firmament. So even",
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    "text": "And morning chorus sung the second day.",
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    "text": "“The Earth was formed, but, in the womb as yet",
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    "text": "Of waters, embryon, immature, involved,",
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    "text": "Appeared not; over all the face of Earth",
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    "text": "Main ocean flowed, not idle, but, with warm",
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    "text": "Prolific humour softening all her globe,",
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    "text": "Fermented the great mother to conceive,",
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    "text": "Satiate with genial moisture; when God said,",
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    "text": "‘Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven,",
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    "text": "Into one place, and let dry land appear!’",
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    "text": "Immediately the mountains huge appear",
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    "text": "Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave",
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    "text": "Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky.",
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    "text": "So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low",
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    "text": "Down sunk a hollow bottom, broad and deep,",
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    "text": "Capacious bed of waters; thither they",
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    "text": "Hasted with glad precipitance, uprolled,",
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    "text": "As drops on dust conglobing from the dry;",
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    "text": "Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct,",
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    "text": "For haste; such flight the great command impressed",
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    "text": "On the swift floods. As armies at the call",
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    "text": "Of trumpet (for of armies thou hast heard)",
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    "text": "Troop to the standard, so the watery throng,",
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    "text": "Wave rolling after wave, where way they found:",
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    "text": "If steep, with torrent rapture, if through plain,",
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    "text": "Soft-ebbing; nor withstood them rock or hill;",
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    "text": "But they, or underground, or circuit wide",
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    "text": "With serpent error wandering, found their way,",
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    "text": "And on the washy ooze deep channels wore;",
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    "text": "Easy, ere God had bid the ground be dry,",
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    "text": "All but within those banks where rivers now",
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    "text": "Stream, and perpetual draw their humid train.",
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    "text": "The dry land Earth, and the great receptacle",
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    "text": "Of congregated waters he called seas;",
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    "text": "And saw that it was good, and said, ‘Let the Earth",
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    "text": "Put forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed,",
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    "text": "And fruit-tree yielding fruit after her kind,",
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    "text": "Whose seed is in herself upon the Earth!’",
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    "text": "He scarce had said when the bare Earth, till then",
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    "text": "Desert and bare, unsightly, unadorned,",
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    "text": "Brought forth the tender grass, whose verdure clad",
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    "text": "Her universal face with pleasant green;",
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    "text": "Then herbs of every leaf, that sudden flowered,",
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    "text": "Opening their various colours, and made gay",
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    "text": "Her bosom, smelling sweet; and, these scarce blown,",
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    "text": "Forth flourished thick the clustering vine, forth crept",
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    "text": "The smelling gourd, up stood the corny reed",
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    "text": "Embattled in her field: add the humble shrub,",
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    "text": "And bush with frizzled hair implicit: last",
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    "text": "Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread",
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    "text": "Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemmed",
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    "text": "Their blossoms. With high woods the hills were crowned,",
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    "text": "With tufts the valleys and each fountain-side,",
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    "text": "With borders long the rivers; that Earth now",
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    "text": "Seemed like to Heaven, a seat where gods might dwell,",
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    "text": "Or wander with delight, and love to haunt",
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    "text": "Her sacred shades; though God had yet not rained",
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    "text": "Upon the Earth, and man to till the ground",
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    "text": "None was, but from the Earth a dewy mist",
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    "text": "Went up and watered all the ground, and each",
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    "text": "Plant of the field, which ere it was in the Earth",
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    "text": "God made, and every herb, before it grew",
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    "text": "On the green stem. God saw that it was good;",
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    "text": "So even and morn recorded the third day.",
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    "text": "“Again the Almighty spake, ‘Let there be lights",
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    "text": "High in the expanse of heaven, to divide",
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    "text": "The day from night; and let them be for signs,",
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    "text": "For seasons, and for days, and circling years;",
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    "text": "And let them be for lights, as I ordain",
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    "text": "Their office in the firmament of heaven,",
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    "text": "To give light on the Earth!’ and it was so.",
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    "text": "And God made two great lights, great for their use",
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    "text": "To Man, the greater to have rule, by day,",
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    "text": "The less by night, altern; and made the stars,",
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    "text": "And set them in the firmament of heaven",
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    "text": "To illuminate the Earth, and rule the day",
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    "text": "In their vicissitude, and rule the night,",
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    "text": "And light from darkness to divide. God saw,",
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    "text": "Surveying his great work, that it was good:",
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    "text": "For, of celestial bodies, first the sun",
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    "text": "A mighty sphere he framed, unlightsome first,",
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    "text": "Though of ethereal mould; then formed the moon",
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    "text": "Globose, and every magnitude of stars,",
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    "text": "And sowed with stars the heaven thick as a field.",
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    "text": "Of light by far the greater part he took,",
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    "text": "Transplanted from her cloudy shrine, and placed",
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    "text": "In the sun’s orb, made porous to receive",
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    "text": "And drink the liquid light, firm to retain",
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    "text": "Her gathered beams, great palace now of light.",
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    "text": "Hither, as to their fountain, other stars",
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    "text": "Repairing, in their golden urns draw light,",
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    "text": "And hence the morning planet gilds her horns;",
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    "text": "By tincture or reflection they augment",
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    "text": "Their small peculiar, though, from human sight",
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    "text": "So far remote, with diminution seen.",
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    "text": "First in his east the glorious lamp was seen,",
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    "text": "Regent of day, and all the horizon round",
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    "text": "Invested with bright rays, jocund to run",
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    "text": "His longitude through heaven’s high road; the grey",
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    "text": "Dawn, and the Pleiades, before him danced,",
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    "text": "Shedding sweet influence. Less bright the moon,",
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    "text": "But opposite in levelled west, was set.",
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    "text": "His mirror, with full face borrowing her light",
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    "text": "From him; for other light she needed none",
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    "text": "In that aspect, and still that distance keeps",
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    "text": "Till night; then in the east her turn she shines,",
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    "text": "Revolved on heaven’s great axle, and her reign",
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    "text": "With thousand lesser lights dividual holds,",
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    "text": "With thousand thousand stars, that then appeared",
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    "text": "Spangling the hemisphere. Then first adorned",
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    "text": "With her bright luminaries, that set and rose,",
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    "text": "Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day.",
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    "text": "“And God said, ‘Let the waters generate",
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    "text": "And let fowl fly above the Earth, with wings",
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    "text": "Displayed on the open firmament of heaven!’",
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    "text": "And God created the great whales, and each",
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    "text": "Soul living, each that crept, which plenteously",
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    "text": "The waters generated by their kinds,",
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    "text": "And every bird of wing after his kind;",
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    "text": "And saw that it was good, and blessed them, saying,",
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    "text": "‘Be fruitful, multiply, and in the seas,",
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    "text": "And lakes, and running streams, the waters fill;",
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   {
    "text": "And let the fowl be multiplied on the Earth!’",
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    "text": "Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay,",
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    "text": "With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals",
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    "text": "Of fish that with their fins and shining scales",
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    "text": "Glide under the green wave in sculls that oft",
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    "text": "Bank the mid-sea. Part, single or with mate,",
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    "text": "Of coral stray, or, sporting with quick glance,",
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    "text": "Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold;",
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    "text": "Or, in their pearly shells at ease, attend",
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    "text": "Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food",
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    "text": "In jointed armour watch; on smooth the seal",
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    "text": "And bended dolphins play; part, huge of bulk,",
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    "text": "Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,",
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    "text": "Tempest the ocean. There leviathan,",
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    "text": "Hugest of living creatures, on the deep",
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    "text": "Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims,",
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    "text": "And seems a moving land, and at his gills",
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    "text": "Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.",
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    "text": "Meanwhile the tepid caves, and fens, and shores,",
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    "text": "Their brood as numerous hatch from the egg, that soon,",
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    "text": "Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed",
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    "text": "They summed their pens, and, soaring the air sublime,",
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    "text": "On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build.",
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    "text": "Part loosely wing the region; part more wise,",
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    "text": "In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way,",
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    "text": "Intelligent of seasons, and set forth",
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    "text": "Their aery caravan, high over seas",
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    "text": "Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing",
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    "text": "Easing their flight; so steers the prudent crane",
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    "text": "Her annual voyage, borne on winds; the air",
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    "text": "Floats as they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes.",
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    "text": "From branch to branch the smaller birds with song",
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    "text": "Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings,",
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    "text": "Till even; nor then the solemn nightingale",
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    "text": "Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays.",
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    "text": "Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed",
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    "text": "Their downy breast; the swan, with arched neck",
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    "text": "Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows",
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    "text": "Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit",
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    "text": "The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower",
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    "text": "The mid aerial sky. Others on ground",
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    "text": "Walked firm: the crested cock whose clarion sounds",
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    "text": "The silent hours, and the other whose gay train",
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    "text": "Adorns him, coloured with the florid hue",
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    "text": "Of rainbows and starry eyes. The waters thus",
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    "text": "With fish replenished, and the air with fowl,",
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    "text": "Evening and morn solemnized the fifth day.",
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    "text": "“The sixth, and of Creation last, arose",
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    "text": "With evening harps and matin; when God said,",
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    "text": "‘Let the Earth bring forth soul living in her kind,",
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    "text": "Cattle, and creeping things, and beast of the Earth,",
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    "text": "Each in their kind!’ The Earth obeyed, and straight,",
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    "text": "Opening her fertile womb, teemed at a birth",
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    "text": "Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms,",
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    "text": "Limbed and full-grown. Out of the ground up rose,",
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    "text": "As from his lair, the wild beast, where he wons",
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    "text": "In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den;",
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    "text": "Among the trees in pairs they rose, they walked;",
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    "text": "The cattle in the fields and meadows green:",
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    "text": "Those rare and solitary, these in flocks",
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    "text": "Pasturing at once, and in broad herds upsprung.",
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    "text": "The grassy clods now calved; now half appeared",
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    "text": "The tawny lion, pawing to get free",
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    "text": "His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds,",
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    "text": "And rampant shakes his brinded mane; the ounce,",
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    "text": "The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole",
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    "text": "Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw",
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    "text": "In hillocks; the swift stag from underground",
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    "text": "Bore up his branching head; scarce from his mould",
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    "text": "Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved",
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    "text": "His vastness; fleeced the flocks and bleating rose,",
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    "text": "As plants; ambiguous between sea and land,",
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    "text": "The river-horse and scaly crocodile.",
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    "text": "At once came forth whatever creeps the ground,",
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    "text": "Insect or worm. Those waved their limber fans",
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   {
    "text": "For wings, and smallest lineaments exact",
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    "text": "In all the liveries decked of summer’s pride,",
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    "text": "With spots of gold and purple, azure and green;",
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   {
    "text": "These as a line their long dimension drew,",
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    "text": "Streaking the ground with sinuous trace: not all",
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    "text": "Minims of nature; some of serpent kind,",
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    "text": "Wondrous in length and corpulence, involved",
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    "text": "Their snaky folds, and added wings. First crept",
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    "text": "The parsimonious emmet, provident",
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    "text": "Of future, in small room large heart enclosed;",
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    "text": "Pattern of just equality perhaps",
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   {
    "text": "Hereafter, joined in her popular tribes",
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    "text": "Of commonalty. Swarming next appeared",
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   {
    "text": "The female bee, that feeds her husband drone",
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   {
    "text": "Deliciously, and builds her waxen cells",
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   {
    "text": "With honey stored. The rest are numberless,",
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   {
    "text": "And thou their natures know’st, and gav’st them names,",
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    "text": "Needless to thee repeated; nor unknown",
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   {
    "text": "The serpent, subtlest beast of all the field,",
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    "text": "Of huge extent sometimes, with brazen eyes",
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   {
    "text": "And hairy mane terrific, though to thee",
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    "text": "Not noxious, but obedient at thy call.",
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    "text": "“Now Heaven in all her glory shone, and rolled",
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   {
    "text": "Her motions, as the great First Mover’s hand",
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   {
    "text": "First wheeled their course; Earth in her rich attire",
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   {
    "text": "Consummate lovely smiled; air, water, earth,",
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   {
    "text": "By fowl, fish, beast, was flown, was swum, was walked,",
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   {
    "text": "Frequent; and of the sixth day yet remained.",
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   {
    "text": "There wanted yet the master-work, the end",
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   {
    "text": "Of all yet done; a creature who, not prone",
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    "text": "And brute as other creatures, but endued",
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   {
    "text": "With sanctity of reason, might erect",
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   {
    "text": "His stature, and upright with front serene",
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   {
    "text": "Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence",
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   {
    "text": "Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "But grateful to acknowledge whence his good",
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   {
    "text": "Descends; thither with heart, and voice, and eyes,",
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   {
    "text": "Directed in devotion, to adore",
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   {
    "text": "And worship God supreme, who made him chief",
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   {
    "text": "Of all his works. Therefore the omnipotent",
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   {
    "text": "Eternal Father (for where is not he",
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    "text": "Present?) thus to his Son audibly spake:",
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    "text": "“ ‘Let us make now Man in our image, Man",
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   {
    "text": "In our similitude, and let them rule",
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   {
    "text": "Over the fish and fowl of sea and air,",
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   {
    "text": "Beast of the field, and over all the Earth,",
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   {
    "text": "And every creeping thing that creeps the ground!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "This said, he formed thee, Adam, thee, O Man,",
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   {
    "text": "Dust of the ground, and in thy nostrils breathed",
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   {
    "text": "The breath of life; in his own image he",
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   {
    "text": "Created thee, in the image of God",
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   {
    "text": "Express, and thou becam’st a living soul.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Male he created thee, but thy consort",
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   {
    "text": "Female, for race; then blessed mankind, and said,",
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   {
    "text": "‘Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the Earth;",
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   {
    "text": "Subdue it, and throughout dominion hold",
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   {
    "text": "Over fish of the sea, and fowl of the air,",
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   {
    "text": "And every living thing that moves on the Earth!’",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wherever thus created (for no place",
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   {
    "text": "Is yet distinct by name), thence, as thou know’st,",
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   {
    "text": "He brought thee into this delicious grove,",
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   {
    "text": "This garden, planted with the trees of God,",
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   {
    "text": "Delectable both to behold and taste;",
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   {
    "text": "And freely all their pleasant fruit for food",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Gave thee: all sorts are here that all the Earth yields,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Variety without end; but of the Tree",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which tasted works knowledge of good and evil",
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   {
    "text": "Thou may’st not; in the day thou eat’st, thou diest.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Death is the penalty imposed; beware,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And govern well thy appetite, lest Sin",
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   {
    "text": "Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.",
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    "text": "“Here finished he, and all that he had made",
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   {
    "text": "Viewed, and behold! all was entirely good.",
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   {
    "text": "So even and morn accomplished the sixth day;",
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   {
    "text": "Yet not till the Creator, from his work",
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   {
    "text": "Desisting, though unwearied, up returned,",
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   {
    "text": "Up to the Heaven of Heavens, his high abode,",
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   {
    "text": "Thence to behold this new-created World,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The addition of his empire⁠—how it showed",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,",
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   {
    "text": "Answering his great idea. Up he rode,",
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   {
    "text": "Followed with acclamation and the sound",
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   {
    "text": "Symphonious of ten thousand harps, that tuned",
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   {
    "text": "Angelic harmonies. The Earth, the air",
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   {
    "text": "Resounded (thou remember’st, for thou heard’st),",
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   {
    "text": "The heavens and all the constellations rung,",
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   {
    "text": "The planets in their stations listening stood,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.",
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   {
    "text": "‘Open, ye everlasting gates!’ they sung;",
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   {
    "text": "‘Open, ye Heavens, your living doors! let in",
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   {
    "text": "The great Creator, from his work returned",
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   {
    "text": "Magnificent, his six days’ work, a World!",
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   {
    "text": "Open, and henceforth oft; for God will deign",
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   {
    "text": "To visit oft the dwellings of just men,",
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   {
    "text": "Delighted, and with frequent intercourse",
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   {
    "text": "Thither will send his winged messengers",
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   {
    "text": "On errands of supernal grace.’ So sung",
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   {
    "text": "The glorious train ascending. He through Heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "That opened wide her blazing portals, led",
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   {
    "text": "To God’s eternal house direct the way;",
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   {
    "text": "A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,",
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   {
    "text": "And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Seen in the Galaxy, that milky way",
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   {
    "text": "Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest",
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   {
    "text": "Powdered with stars. And now on Earth the seventh",
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   {
    "text": "Evening arose in Eden, for the sun",
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   {
    "text": "Was set, and twilight from the east came on,",
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    "text": "Forerunning night; when at the holy mount",
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   {
    "text": "Of Heaven’s high-seated top, the imperial throne",
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   {
    "text": "Of Godhead, fixed for ever firm and sure,",
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   {
    "text": "The Filial Power arrived, and sat him down",
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   {
    "text": "With his great Father; for he also went",
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   {
    "text": "Invisible, yet stayed (such privilege",
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   {
    "text": "Hath Omnipresence), and the work ordained,",
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   {
    "text": "Author and end of all things, and, from work",
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   {
    "text": "Now resting, blessed and hallowed the seventh day,",
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   {
    "text": "As resting on that day from all his work;",
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   {
    "text": "But not in silence holy kept: the harp",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Had work and rested not; the solemn pipe,",
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   {
    "text": "And dulcimer, all organs of sweet stop,",
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   {
    "text": "All sounds on fret by string or golden wire,",
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   {
    "text": "Tempered soft tunings, intermixed with voice",
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   {
    "text": "Choral or unison; of incense clouds,",
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   {
    "text": "Fuming from golden censers, hid the mount.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Creation and the six days’ acts they sung:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "‘Great are thy works, Jehovah! infinite",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy power! what thought can measure thee, or tongue",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Relate thee? greater now in thy return",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Than from the Giant-angels: thee that day",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy thunders magnified; but to create",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is greater than created to destroy.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who can impair thee, mighty King, or bound",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thy empire? Easily the proud attempt",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of Spirits apostate and their counsels vain",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou hast repelled, while impiously they thought",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thee to diminish, and from thee withdraw",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The number of thy worshippers. Who seeks",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To lessen thee, against his purpose serves",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To manifest the more thy might; his evil",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou usest, and from thence creat’st more good.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Witness this new-made World, another Heaven",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view",
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   },
   {
    "text": "On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea;",
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   {
    "text": "Of amplitude almost immense, with stars",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Numerous, and every star perhaps a world",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of destined habitation; but thou know’st",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their seasons; among these the seat of Men,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Earth, with her nether ocean circumfused,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their pleasant dwelling-place. Thrice happy Men,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sons of Men! whom God hath thus advanced,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Created in his image, there to dwell",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And worship him, and in reward to rule",
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   {
    "text": "Over his works, on earth, in sea, or air,",
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   {
    "text": "And multiply a race of worshippers",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Holy and just; thrice happy, if they know",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Their happiness, and persevere upright!”",
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    "text": "“So sung they, and the Empyrean rung",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And thy request think now fulfilled, that asked",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "How first this World and face of things began,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And what before thy memory was done",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the beginning, that posterity,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Informed by thee, might know. If else thou seek’st",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Aught, not surpassing human measure, say.”",
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