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Paradise Regain'd
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Headlong would follow; and to thir Gods perhaps
Of Bethel and of Dan? no, let them serve430
Thir enemies, who serve Idols with God.
Yet he at length, time to himself best known,
Remembring Abraham, by some wond'rous call
May bring them back repentant and sincere,
And at their passing cleave the Assyrian flood,
While to their native land with joy they hast,
As the Red Sea and Jordan once he cleft,
When to the promis'd land thir Fathers pass'd;
To his due time and providence I leave them.
So spake Israel's true King, and to the Fiend440
Made answer meet, that made void all his wiles.
So fares it when with truth falshood contends.
The End of the Third Book.
