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OCR: Paradise Lost : Opening Stanza By John Milton Of man's first discobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all out woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didn't inspire That sheperd, who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of chaos; or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aoniun mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, 0 Spirit, that dost prefer Before all tempes the upright heart a ...