John Milton - Paradise Lost (1667)

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And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

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What can 'scape the eye
Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
Omniscient!

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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As when the potent Rod Of Amrams Son in Egypt's evil day Wav'd round the Coast, up call'd a pitchy cloud Of Locusts, warping on the Eastern Wind, That ore the Realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like Night, and darkened all the Land of Nile

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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