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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

Farewell, remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.

When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour Calls us to penance.

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad.

For such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.

Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

We see things not as they are but as we are.

Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat; Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost.

So many laws argues so many sins.

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

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

Or did the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.