The Poetical Works of John Milton


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All these have lent their armed hands  
To aid the Sons of Lot.  
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Do to them as to Midian bold  
That wasted all the Coast.  
To Sisera, and as is told  
Thou didst to Jabins hoast,  
When at the brook of Kishon old  
They were repulst and slain,  
0 At Endor quite cut off, and rowl'd  
As dung upon the plain.  
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1 As Zeb and Oreb evil sped  
So let their Princes speed  
As Zeba, and Zalmunna bled  
So let their Princes bleed.  
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2 For they amidst their pride have said  
By right now shall we seize  
Gods houses, and will now invade  
*Their stately Palaces.  
*Neoth Elohim bears both.  
3 My God, oh make them as a wheel  
No quiet let them find,  
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Giddy and restless let them reel  
Like stubble from the wind.  
4 As when an aged wood takes fire  
Which on a sudden straies,  
The greedy flame runs hier and hier  
Till all the mountains blaze,  
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