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Samson Agonistes.
Is hate, not help to me, it may with mine
Draw thir own ruin who attempt the deed.
Chor.Oh how comely it is and how reviving
To the Spirits of just men long opprest!1280
When God into the hands of thir deliverer
Puts invincible might
To quell the mighty of the Earth, th' oppressour,
The brute and boist'rous force of violent men
Hardy and industrious to support
Tyrannic power, but raging to pursue
The righteous and all such as honour Truth;
He all thir Ammunition
And feats of War defeats
With plain Heroic magnitude of mind1290
And celestial vigour arm'd
Thir Armories and Magazins contemns,
Renders them useless, while
With winged expedition
Swift as the lightning glance he executes
His
