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    therefore as farr

    From granting hee, as I from begging peace:

    All ead [ 105 ]

    Of us out-cast, exild, ,

    Mankind created, and for his orld.

    So farewel h hope farewel Fear,

    Fareo me is lost;

    Evil be t least [ 110 ]

    Divided Empire h heavns King I hold

    By then half perhaps will reigne;

    As Man ere long, and this new orld shall know.

    thus while he spake, each passion dimmd his face

    th pale, ire, envie and despair, [ 115 ]

    raid

    erfet, if any eye beheld.

    For empers foule

    Are ever cleer. hereof hee soon aware,

    Eacurbation smootward calme, [ 120 ]

    Artificer of fraud; and

    t practisd falsly shew,

    Deep malice to conceale, couch revenge:

    Yet not anougisd to deceive

    Uriel once warnd; whose eye pursud him down [ 125 ]

    t, and on t

    Saw hen could befall

    Spirit of : ures fierce

    hen alone,

    As he supposd all unobservd, unseen. [ 130 ]

    So on o the border comes

    Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,

    Noh her enclosure green,

    As he champain head

    Of a steep wilderness, whose hairie sides [ 135 ]

    it overgrotesque and wilde,

    Access denid; and over head up grew

    Insuperable iest shade,

    Cedar, and Pine, and Firr, and branching Palm

    A Silvan Scene, and as the ranks ascend [ 140 ]

    Sre

    Of stateliest vie ops

    the verdurous wall of paradise up sprung:

    o our general Sire gave prospect large

    Into her Empire neighbouring round. [ 145 ]