The Poetical Works of John Milton


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The Earth again by flood, nor let the Sea  
Surpass his bounds, nor Rain to drown the World  
With Man therein or Beast; but when he brings  
Over the Earth a Cloud, will therein set  
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His triple-colour'd Bow, whereon to look  
And call to mind his Cov'nant: Day and Night,  
Seed time and Harvest, Heat and hoary Frost  
Shall hold thir course, till fire purge all things new,  
Both Heav'n and Earth, wherein the just shall dwell.  
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84 After this line, 1674 adds:  
Daemoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie  
And Moon struck madness, pining Atrophie,  
Marasmus, and wide wasting Pestilence,  
48 Of rendring up, and patiently attend  
My dissolution. Michael repli'd 1674.  
47 tacks] makes 1674.  
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66 that] who 1674.  
The end of the Eleventh Book.  
BOOK XII.  
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