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Love hath abounded more than glory abounds,
Therefore thy humiliation shall exalt

With thee thy manhood also to this throne;
Here shalt thou fit incarnate, here shalt reign
Both GoD and MAN, SON both of God and MAN,

Anointed univerfal King; all pow'r

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I give thee, reign for ever, and affume
Thy merits: under thee as Head fupreme
Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions I reduce:
All knees to thee thall bow, of them that 'bide 321
In Heay'n, or Earth, or under Earth in Hell;
When thou attended gloriously from Heav'n
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee fend
The fummoning Arch-Angels to proclaim
Thy dread tribunal: forthwith from all winds
The living, and forthwith the cited dead

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Of all pait ages to the general doom
Shall haften, such a peal shall rouse their fleep!
Then all thy faints affembled, thou shalt judge 330
Bad men and Angels, they arraign'd shall fink
Beneath thy fentence; Hell (her numbers full)
Thenceforth shall be for ever shut. Mean while
The world shall burn, and from her ashes spring
New heav'n and earth, wherein the just shall dwell;
And after all their tribulations long

See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,
With joy and love triumphing, and fair truth:
Then thou thy regal fceptre shalt lay by,
For regal fceptre then no more shall need,
GOD shall be all in all. But all ye Gods,
Adore him, who to compass all this dies,
Adore the Sow, and honor him as me.

No sooner had th' Almighty ceas'd, but all
The multitude of Angels with a shout
(Loud as from numbers without number, sweet
As from blest voices) utt'ring joy, Heav'n rung
With jubilee, and loud hosanna's fill'd

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Th' eters

Th' eternal regions. Lowly reverent
Tow'rds either throne they bow, and to the ground
With folemn adoration down they cast
Their crowns, inwove with amarant and gold,
Immortal amarant! a flow'r which once

In Paradise faft by the tree of life

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Began to bloom; but foon for man's offence
To Heav'n remov'd, where first it grew, there grows,
And flow'rs aloft shading the fount of life;
And where the river of bliss thro' midst of Heav'n
Rowls o'er ELYSIAN flow'rs her amber stream:
With these that never fade the spirits elect
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Bind their resplendent locks, inwreath'd with beams;
Now in loose garlands thick thrown off the bright
Pavement, that like a fea of jafper shone,

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Impurpled with cæleftial roses smil'd.
Then crown'd again, their golden harps they took;
Harps ever tun'd, that glitt'ring by their side
Like quivers hung, and with preamble sweet
Of charming symphony they introduce
Their facred fong, and waken raptures high,
No voice exempt; no voice but well could join 370
Melodious part, such concord is in Heav'n.

Thee FATHER first they sung, Omnipotent,

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Immutable, Immortal, Infinite,
Eternal King; Thee Author of all Being,
Fountain of Light, thy self invisible
Amidst the glorious brightness where thou fit'ft
Thron'd inacceffible; but when thou shad'st
The full blaze of thy beams, and thro' a cloud
Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine,
Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear:
Yet dazle Heav'n, that brightest Seraphim
Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes.
Thee next they fung of all creation fint,
Begotten SON, Divine fimilitude!

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In whose confpicuous count'ance, without cloud 385 Made

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