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These are just the opening lines of Paradise Lost, showing Milton's ambitions as a poet.

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Of man's first disobedience and the fruits of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death

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into the world and all our woe with loss of Eden till one greater man restorers and regain the

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blissful seat Sing Heavenly Muse that on the secret top of Arab or of Sinai didst inspire that Shepherd

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who first taught the chosen seed in the beginning how the heavens and earth rose out of chaos,

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or if Silent Hill delight d more and sinless brook that flowed fast by the Oracle of God.

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I then invoke thy aid to my adventurous song that with no middle flight intends to soar

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above the Ionian Mount while it pursues things an attempted yet in prose or rhyme.

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And chiefly thou o spirit that does prefer before all temples, the upright heart and pure instruct me.

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For thou knowest, though from the first wast present, and with mighty wings outspread doth like sets brooding on the vast abyss and midst it pregnant.

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What in me is dark illuminate what is low res and support.

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That to the heights of this great argument, I may assert eternal providence and justify the ways of God to men.