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ILightbody Jeulp!

PARADISE REGAIN'D.

BOOK I.

I

WHO ere while the happy Garden fung,
By one Man's Difobedience loft, now ling
Recover'd Paradise to all Mankind,

By one Man's firm Obedience fully try'd
Through all temptation, and the Tempter
foil'd
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In all his wiles, defeated and repuls'd,

And Eden rais'd in the wafte Wilderness.

Thou, Spirit, who ledft this glorious Eremite Into the Defart, his victorious Field

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Against the fpiritual Foe, and brought'ft him thence 10 By proof th' undoubted Son of God, infpire,

As thou art wont, my prompted Song, elfe mute,

And bear through height or depth of Nature's bounds
With profperous wing full fumm'd, to tell of deeds
Above Heroick, though in fecret done,
And unrecorded left through many an Age,
Worthy t'have not remain'd fo long unfung.

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