Familiar Quotations Part 42

Heard so oft In worst extremes and on the perilous edge Of battle.

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Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arched imbower.

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Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!

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Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds.

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In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders.

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Thrice he essayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day.

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But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropped manna; and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care.

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With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies: his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air.

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Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute.

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The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb.

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Whence and what art them, execrable shape?

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And Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be filled.

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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

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Hail, holy light! offspring of Heaven first-born.

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Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

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Since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.

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At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads.

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And in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the h.e.l.l I suffer seems a heaven.

Book iv. Line 108.