The Poetical Works of John Milton


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See see the Chariot, and those rushing wheels,  
That whirl'd the Prophet up at Chebar flood,  
My spirit som transporting Cherub feels,  
To bear me where the Towers of Salem stood,  
Once glorious Towers, now sunk in guiltles blood;  
There doth my soul in holy vision sit  
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In pensive trance, and anguish, and ecstatick fit.  
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Mine eye hath found that sad Sepulchral rock  
That was the Casket of Heav'ns richest store,  
And here though grief my feeble hands up-lock,  
Yet on the softned Quarry would I score  
My plaining vers as lively as before;  
For sure so well instructed are my tears,  
They would fitly fall in order'd Characters.  
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I thence hurried on viewles wing,  
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Take up a weeping on the Mountains wilde,  
The gentle neighbourhood of grove and spring  
Would soon unboosom all their Echoes milde,  
And I (for grief is easily beguild)  
Might think th'infection of my sorrows bound,  
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