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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

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Dark with excessive bright.

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Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars, White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery.

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Since call'd The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.

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And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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The hell within him.

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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,--wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

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At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads.[231-1]

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A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd.

_Paradise Lost.