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Created on: 23-05-14 16:15

That brought into this World

a world of woe.

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Bent

on man's destruction

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Fearless returned.

By night he fled

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And with inspect deep

Considered every creature.

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And found the serpent

subtlest beast of all the field.

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Fittest

imp of fraud.

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From inward grief

His bursting passion into plaints thus poured.

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Oh Earth,

How like to heaven, if no preferred

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For what god after

better worse would build?

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growth, sense, Reason

all summed up in Man.

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With what delight

could I have walked thee round, if I could joy in aught.

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but I in none of these

Find place or reguse.

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the more I see Pleasures about me,

so much more I feel torment within me

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As from the hateful siege of contraries;

all good to me becomes bane.

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Nor hope to be myself less miserable [...]

but others to make such as I

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For only in destroying

I find ease to my relentless thoughts.

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Exalted

from so base original

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That I who erst contended

with gods to sit the highest, am now constraned

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What will not ambition and revenge descend to?

who aspires must down as low As high he soared.

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Their growing work:

for much their work outgrew.

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But till more hands

aid us,

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Let us

divide out labours.

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In yonder spring of roses

intermixed with myrtle.

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To me beyond

compare above all living creatures dear.

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Well thy thoughts employed

How we might best fulfil the work which here God hath assigned us.

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Bent

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on man's destruction

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Fearless returned.

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Card 4

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And with inspect deep

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Card 5

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And found the serpent

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