# Paradise Lost, Milton

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Book 9 680
book 10 782 yet one doubt
book 12 434 a death like sleep
book 11 479

#### Hidden acrostics?
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First seen, or some renowned metropolis
With glistering spires and pinnacles adorned,
Which now the rising sun gilds with his beams:
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S uch wonder seised, though after Heaven seen,
T he Spirit malign, but much more envy seised,
A t sight of all this world beheld so fair.
R ound he surveys (and well might, where he stood
S o high above the circling canopy
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Of night’s extended shade,) from eastern point
Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears
Andromeda far off Atlantick seas
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In Epidaurus; nor to which transformed
Ammonian Jove, or Capitoline, was seen;
He with Olympias; this with her who bore
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S cipio, the highth of Rome. With tract oblique
A t first, as one who sought access, but feared
T o interrupt, side-long he works his way.
A s when a ship, by skilful steersmen wrought
N igh river’s mouth or foreland, where the wind
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Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sail:
So varied he, and of his tortuous train
Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve,
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