Program #9 The Voices of Milton

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A nest of singing birds. Three centuries of English verse with a doctorate from just.
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The voices of Milton. This is the first of three programs devoted to the verse of
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John Milton. Think of a sensitive reasonable imaginative
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man who delights in music and beauty who values friendship
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in man and love in woman and loyalty in both. Who is this
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John Milton the Puritan the stern unyielding for those who differed from
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him in religion and politics. The polygamist who sent contempt
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scorn and derision for his opponents in robust language all over Europe.
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The zealot who wouldn't spare his own failing eyesight when conscience told him of
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his duty. We cannot hear all his voices in this program
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but enough to let us appreciate his enormous range and his sensitivity. Here's
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Adam with our heads.
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Welcome to my words and stayed with me as I be sought the when that strange
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desire of wonder in this I'm happy more than I know not whence possess the
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now leave was I've never parted from my side.
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As good have grown there's still a lifeless rib being as I am. Why didst
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not thou the head come on me. Absolutely not to go going into such danger as I said
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to Fassel them God it's not much to gainsay Now I did permit approve and
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dismiss the lady in comas.
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Do not boast that I'll canst not touch the freedom of my
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mind with all thy charms.
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Although this Corporal Ryan that has dramatically while having sees good
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he has comas himself and any mortal mixture of Earth small breathed such
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divine enchanting ravishment. Show us something holy lodges
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in that breast and with these raptures moves the vocal air to testify his hidden
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residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings of
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silence through the empty vaulted night every four hours
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smoothing the raven down of darkness till it smiled.
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Now Sampson from Samson and Delilah weaknesses lie
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excuse and I believe it. We may still resist Felicity and go
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if weakness may excuse what murder what traitor parasite incest you are
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sacrilegious but may plead it and now Samson's wife
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Delilah in an argument with men a woman ever goes by the words whatever be hardcore
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on the words no doubt or lack of breath.
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Witness when I was worried with the IPU I was not how to ration quite
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mistaken in what I thought would have succeeded best let me
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obtain forgiveness of these stamps afford me place to show what recompense
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towards the I intend for what I have missed. Misguided.
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Here's Adam once more from Paradise Lost.
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Some cursing fraud of the enemy have beguiled the yet.
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And me with the through and for with the
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certain My resolution is to die. How can I live
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without the powerful god i sweet Comverse and love so
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dearly joined to live again in these wild woods full all.
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Should God create another Eve. And I another real before yet. Loss
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of the would never from my heart.
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No no.
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I feel the link of nature draw me. Flesh of flesh
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bone of my bone the power.
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And from that I state my never shall be parted bliss or world.
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Adam's voice or Milton's Milton's of course he is
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imagining Adam out of his own experience. He knew what it is to love. He had
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lost a beloved wife in death.
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And I thought I saw all my latest powers it's aimed brought to me like I was
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so stiff from the grave whom Joe was great son to her glad husband
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gave rescued from death by force though pale and
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faint.
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Here Milton speaks in his own person. But his love and his last made
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possible the voice of Adam unprepared to face such agony.
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How Milton must have loved his wife how he must have missed her. Her face
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was very old.
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Yet to my fancied sight love sweetness goodness in her
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person shines so clear as you no face with more
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delight.
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But as to embrace me she inclined
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I way she fled and brought
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back my knight Milton's experience underlies
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Adam's delight in even Book 8 of Paradise Lost and his terror when he
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wakes after she has been made out of his rib and he thinks that she has left him.
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God left Adam's internal side open in his trance he saw a
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creature man like but of different sex so lovely fair
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that what seemed fair in all the world seemed now mean or in her summed up
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in her contained and in her looks and a few lines later he says
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she disappeared and left me dark. I wake to find her or for ever to deplore
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her loss and other pleasures of joy. When he was about
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to despair suddenly behold her not far off such as I saw
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in my dream. Adam is telling all this to the angel Raphael
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Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye in every gesture
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dignity and love. Now Adam is so overwhelmed by his wonder
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and joy in the splendor of Eve that the angel rebukes him warns him not to be
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one by and outside not to debase love into mere carnal pleasure. Is
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this our stern Milton asserting himself. It may be yet is to Milton who
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remembered the loving impact of a woman on her husband's daily life. Nothing says Adam
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so much delights him as those graceful acts those thousand
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decencies that daily flow from all her words and actions mixed with love
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and sweet compliance. Those lines were published in 16th
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67. They were written by a poet who had begun to go blind some 23 years
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earlier. In 16 44 he wrote that famous sonnet on his
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blindness to tell us how bitter it is for a poet to lose his sight. His life not
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half over before he has had time to write for the glory of God.
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Before Milton the site failed completely and 652 He spent years
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ignoring increasing darkness writing controversy in English and Latin and doing an
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immense amount of work from 16 49 a secretary in foreign tongues to the
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Council of State. That is the government of Oliver Cromwell. This he
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also regarded as doing God's work if not bearing witness as opposed to God's
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glory.
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When I consider how my life is spent half
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my days in this dark world and wide and that
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one talent which is death to hide lodged with me useless
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for my soul more bent to serve there with my maker and
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present my true account lest he be returning chide
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Doth God the exact day Labor Lite denied.
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I fondly ask that's his bitter question.
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He gives himself a sweet and healing answer but patience
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to prevent that murmur soon replies God does not
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need either man's work or his own gifts.
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Who best bear his mild yoke.
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They serve him best. His state is kingly.
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Thousands at his bidding speed and post store land and ocean without rest.
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Milton asks his question in one frame of mind. He gives himself his answer in
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another one more line to come one more statement to be made.
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It's the only possible consolation for a man like Milton. He recognizes his own
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insignificance.
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They also say who only stand and
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wait for me.
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This poem has a tone of tolerant irony at the poet's own expense. He
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admits that his bitterness didn't just come from being unable to serve with all his powers.
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There was also pride disappointment that he couldn't exhibit to the world his
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intellectual and artistic glory as if the greatest powers of the
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greatest in their Putin is beside divine omnipotence were needed by God.
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It's a very moving poem. Only a man of Milton's integrity can say
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I was proud I was stupid.
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When I consider how my life is spent half
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my days in this dark world and wide and that
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one talent which is death to hide lodged with me useless
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for my soul more bent to serve there with my maker and
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present my true account lest he be returning chide
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God the exact day Labor Lite denied.
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I fondly ask about patience to
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prevent that moment.
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Soon replies God does not need either man's
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work or his own gifts. Who best bear his mild
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yoke.
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They serve him best.
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His state is kingly thousands at his bidding
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speed and post or land and ocean without rest.
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They also serve who only stand and wait.
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How do you settle down to write an epic poem with your 50th birthday behind you when
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you're blind tired when all that you were fought for and built is in ruins.
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What kind of courage does it take to assert eternal Providence and
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justify the ways of God to men in 17th century English.
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That doesn't mean to demonstrate to men that God's methods or dealings are just.
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It means to bear witness to the uncontested and
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incontestable fact that God's inscrutable actions toward mankind are in
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fact just that there is no hint of injustice in them.
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That takes faith and courage when the stewards are back on the throne of England with the Anglican
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church established in power again. Originally Paradise Lost
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consisted of 10 books with eight of them finished a lesser artist might have
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congratulated himself that only two more remained but Milton knew when he
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settled down in his own ending darkness to start book Nine that the most difficult part
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was now upon him. It must also have been one of the most painful to
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imagine Adam and Eve in paradise before the fall to experience
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imaginatively an inexorable chain of events involving two sinless
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human beings with free will who actually chose sin and death for themselves
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and for all the human race. He was certain of the justice of God
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but uncertain of his own ability to treat this moment of time satisfactorily.
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He seems to have been genuinely uncertain as to the reason why he aging and
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blind unable to make notes forced to dictate to another's pen
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was able so easily to compose a line after line paragraph after
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paragraph with such an easy flow was it the heavenly muse
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dictating to him in his sleep or inspiring him. Or was it all him.
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John Milton The amazing thing is that this verse was unpremeditated.
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If answerable style I can obtain of my celestial patroness
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who during her nightly visitation and implored and dictates to me slumbering
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or inspired easy my unpremeditated verse
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Melton declares that he is not writing about the normal subject of epic heroic fighting
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and fighting men but of the better fortitude of patients and heroic martyrdom
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and so on that is of Jesus on the cross. He chose a greater
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theme a higher argument.
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Many of these nor skilled nor studious higher argument remaining
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sufficient of itself to raise that name unless an age too
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late or cold client or
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years damped my intended wing depress.
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And much they may fall in line. Not
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hers who brings it nightly to my ear.
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His style must be appropriate to his subject. He must tell how the fall took place
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with grand your regret understanding showing our first parents as he called
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them as entirely human as a break as a faith exhibiting so much that
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makes humanity splendid and despicable especially the breach of faith.
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What Has Gone Before must be abandoned. But the man who writes can never forget it.
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Let him speak for himself. A mature confident but not overconfident
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artist like all mature artists is taking a risk knowing that his best may
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not be good enough.
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No more a talk where God or angel guess with man
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as with his friend familiar used to suit indulgent.
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And with him partake rural repast. But meeting him the wild
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venial discourse.
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I know I am a strange those notes to tragic for our
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distrust and breach disloyal on the part of man
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revolt. And disobedience on the part of
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heaven now alienated distance and
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distaste anger and just rebuke. And
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judgment given were brought into this world. A world of world
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soon and her shadow of death. And misery
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death's harbinger.
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So I had to ask.
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Yet argument not less but more heroic than the rock of stern
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Achilles on his foe pursued thrice fugitive about Troy wall.
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Already turned its full of in-ear disposed on Neptune's
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Arab or Jew knows that so long perplexed the Greek and
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superiors son if answerable styli
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kind of dame of my celestial patron is who dames her nightly
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visitation and implored him dictates to me slumbering or
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inspirers easy my unpremeditated verse.
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Since first this subject for heroic song please me. Long
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choosing and beginning late. Not said
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EULAs by nature to indict Moore's hitherto the only argument heroic
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the chief mastery to this sect with long and
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tedious Havok fabled knights in battles fame and the better
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fortitude of patience and heroic martyrdom
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or to describe racism games or tilting furniture in plays and shields
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impresses quaint comparisons and steeds bases in tins
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all trappings gorgeous 90s with Joust and
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tournament then Martial feast served up in hall with sewers and
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center shows the scale of arty feasts or office mean
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to that which justly gives heroic name to person or to Poem.
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Me of these not skilled nor studious hired argument remaining
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sufficient of itself to raise that name unless an age too
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late or cold client or
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years damp my being depressed
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and much they may have all been mine not
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hers who brings it nightly to my ear.
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Milton found his answerable style but think about his content.
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How can one fall in Adam for Adam alone as a match for the serpent.
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But Eve is weak and Adam with Eve is vulnerable thanks to her
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weakness. That's the way it must have happened Eve succumbs to the snakes
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deception then the Adam whom we have heard so incomplete without his wife cannot
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bear to be parted from her for ever forgetting that his choice should be between a
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begins and disobedience. He thinks it is between life and death.
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He makes his choice and brings death into the world and all our world
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deceived by the serpent. Eve tastes the apple greedily Sheen gorged
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without restraint and knew not eating death satiate at length
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and heightened as with wine jocund and Boon thus to herself she
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pleasingly began.
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Or virtues pressures of war
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and dies of operation blest just sat there. Let's
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hear that to obscure it.
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Invade and die for who is to
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know and created. But henceforth my early care
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not without song each morning and due praise shall tend the
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and the fertile burden ease of life full branches offered
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free to all to dieted by the I grow
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matured in knowledge as the gods who all things know.
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Let others envy what they cannot give for had the gift been
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theirs it had not here thus grown. Experience next to the
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best guide. Not following the I had remained in ignorance
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openness wisdoms away and give us to access though secret she retire
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and I perhaps am secret heaven is
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high high and remote to see from thence distinct each
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thing on earth. And other care perhaps may have diverted from continual watch
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our great forbid a safe with all his spies about him.
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But to Adam in what sort shall I appear. She lied to him make known
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as yet my change and give him to partake full happiness with me
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or not keep the odds of knowledge in my power without
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copartner. So to add what wants in female sex the more to
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draw his love. And render me more equal and perhaps
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a thing not undesirable sometime superior but
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inferior who is free.
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This may be well. But what if God have seen
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and death ensue. And I should be no more.
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And Adam wedded to another Eve shall live with her enjoying I extinct.
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Death to think.
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Confirmed then I resolve Adam shall share with me in bliss
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all world. So dear I love him that with him All deaths I could
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endure Without him live no life.
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Here we have Milton's voice and leaves. Now here's Eve in another voice.
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Has that or not wondered Adam at my stay the I have
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missed and folded long deprived presence agony
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of love till now not felt.
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Nor shall be twice from Nevermore me united try what rash tried I sought
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the pain absence from my sight
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but strange has been the cause and wonderful to hear
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this tree he is not as we are told a tree of danger
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tasted nor to evil unknown opening the way
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but of divine effect to open our eyes and make them gods who
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taste.
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And have been tested such the serpent wise
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or not restrained as we are not a bad thing. I have eaten of the fruit
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and has become not dead as we are threatened but thenceforth
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endured with human voice and human sense reasoning to
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admiration. And with me persuasively had so prevailed.
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But I have also tasted and have also found the effects to
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correspond. Open on mine eyes first
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dilated spirits ampler heart. I'm growing up to Godhead
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which for the ve chiefly I sought without the can
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despise for lives as thou has part to me is bliss
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tedious on shared with the and odious.
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Wow there for all still taste. That equal lot may join us
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in equal joy as equal love. Less than not tasting different
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degree disjoin us. And by then too late renounced for the when fate will not
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permit.
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Than save with countenance ply her story told but
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in her cheek distemper flushing. On the other side.
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Adam. Soon as he heard the fatal trespass done by Eve
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amazed us donnish stood and blank.
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While hollow chill ran through his veins and all his joints relaxed.
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From his slack hand the Garland raised for a down dropped
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and all the faded roses shared speechless he stood
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and pale to Ross at length. First to himself.
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Inward silence broke.
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Oh fairest of creation. The last and best of
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all God's works.
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Creature in whom excelled whatever can do science or thought before.
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Holy divine good amiable
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or sweet. How I Lost.
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How.
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On a sudden lost defaced deflowered
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and now to death devote rather how has
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that yielded to transgress the strict forbiddance. How to violate the
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sacred fruit forbidden. Some cursed seed fraud of the enemy
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had beguiled the yet unknown and me with the through
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and for with these certain My resolution is to die.
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How can I live without the powerful god i sweet Comverse and love
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so dearly joined to live again in these wild woods alone
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should God create another Eve. And I another real before yet. Loss
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of the would never from my heart.
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No no.
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I feel the link of nature draw me. Flesh of flesh
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bone of my bone the power from thy state mine
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never shall be parted bliss or world realizing what they
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have done.
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They hide their nakedness before shows itself and their behavior
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from thus distempered breast Adam is strange to look and altered
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styled speech intimated that us to a renewed
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word thou hadst hearken to my words and stayed with me as I best sought the
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when that strange desire of wandering this unhappy morn I know not whence
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possess these. We had then remained still happy not as
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now despoiled of all our God shame make it
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miserable leaden henceforth seek needless calls to
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approve the fate they are when earnestly they seek such proof
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conclude they don't begin to fail.
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To whom soon moved with touch of blame that asked
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what words have passed my lips Adam severe imputes that to my
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default all will of wondering has now caused it. Which Who knows but might as well have happened are being
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by myself perhaps. Has that been there. Oh here they attend thou
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couldst not to discern fraud in the serpent. Speaking as he spake no ground of enmity
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between us known why you should mean me ill or seek to harm was I'd have never
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parted from my side. As good have grown they're still a lifeless rib
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being as I am. Why didst not thou the head come on me. Absolutely not to go going
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into such dangers are said to Fassel them doubt its not much gain
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say permit approve unfair dismissal had been
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firm and fixed and by descent neither had I transgress nor vowed with me to whom then
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first incensed Adam replied.
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Is this the love is this the recompense of mine to the great
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For leave expressed immutable went down at last not our who might have lived and
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joy the motile bliss yet willingly chose rather death with thee and I are
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now upgraded as the cause of thy transgressing. Not enough
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superiority that I restrain what could I more eyeballs on the I
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admonish the foretold the danger and the lurking enemy that lay in wait beyond this have been
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force and force upon free will have here no place. But
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confidence they bore they are secure no danger or to find much
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of a glorious trial. Perhaps I also
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see no devil did he.
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But I rue that error which has become my crime now the
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accuser. Thus it shall be for working women
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over trusting restraint she will not brook
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to herself. If we build then since you she first he's We came down troops will
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accuse.
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US accusations and
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self condemning and of the contest
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and you have been listening to the first of three programmes on
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John Milton.
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The readers were Jonathan Farwell Elizabeth Sheppard and Barry Boyce.
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This is inviting you to be with us again next week.
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This program was produced by Radio Broadcast Services of the University of Washington under a
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grand from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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