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Thee next they sang of all Creation first,

Immutable, Immortal, Infinite,

Immortal Amarant, a Flour which once

Drawn round about thee like a radiant Shrine,

Harps ever tund, that glittering by thir side

Adore him, who to compass all this dies,

To Heavn removd where first it grew, there grows,

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Thir sacred Song, and waken raptures high;

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The multitude of Angels with a shout [ 345 ]

Like Quivers hung, and with Præamble sweet

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Pavement that like a Sea of Jasper shon

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Loud as from numbers without number, sweet

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Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appeer, [ 380 ]

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Begotten Son, Divine Similitude,

No sooner had th Almighty ceast, but all

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Rowls ore Elisian Flours her Amber stream;

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Impurpld with Celestial Roses smild.

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Impresst the effulgence of his Glorie abides,

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Melodious part, such concord is in Heavn.

Thrond inaccessible, but when thou shadst

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Fountain of Light, thy self invisible [ 375 ]

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Approach not, but with both wings veil thir eyes,

With Jubilee, and loud Hosannas filld

Bind thir resplendent locks inwreathd with beams,

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