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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,And pavement stars—as starts to thee appearSoon in the galaxy, that milky wayWhich mightly as a circling zo...more

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Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!

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And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...

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Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

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But now at last the sacred influenceOf light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'nShoots far into the bosom of dim NightA glimmering dawn; here Nature ...more

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Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy,With purpose to explore or to disturbThe secrets of your realm, but by constraint Wand'Ring this darksome deser...more