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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:57:25 -0400
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From: "John Milton" <jm@example.com>
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Subject: Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
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To: "Julius Caesar" <jc@example.com>
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Message-id: <3BE9E6535E3029448670913581E7A1A20D852173@emss35m06.us.lmco.com>
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Precedence: high
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OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
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Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
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Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
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With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
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Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, [ 5 ]
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Sing Heav'nly Muse,that on the secret top
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Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
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That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
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In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
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Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill [ 10 ]
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Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd
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Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence
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Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
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That with no middle flight intends to soar
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Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues [ 15 ]
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Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.
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And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
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Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
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Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
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Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread [ 20 ]
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Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
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And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
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Illumin, what is low raise and support;
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That to the highth of this great Argument
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I may assert Eternal Providence, [ 25 ]
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And justifie the wayes of God to men.
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