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Page 214 - By four cherubic shapes ; four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars, their bodies all, And wings, were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...
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Page 193 - For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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