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Paradife Regain'd.

BOOK I.

Who ere while the happy Garden fung,
By one Man's Difobedience loft, now fing
Recover'd Paradife to all mankind,

By one Man's firm Obedience fully try'd
Through all temptation, and the Tempter foil'd s
In all his wiles, defeated and repuls'd,
And Eden rais'd in the wafte Wilderness.

Thou Spirit who ledit this glorious Eremite
Into the Defart, his Victorious Field

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Against the spiritual Foe, and brought'ft him thence
By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire,
As thou art wont, my prompted Song else mute,
And bear through heighth or depth of Nature's bounds
With profperous wing full fumm'd to tell of deeds
Above Heroic, though in fecret done,

And unrecorded left through many an Age,
Worthy t'have not remain'd fo long unfung.

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