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A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things.
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Sumner uses vivid imagery to describe a universe filled with death and evil, highlighting the struggle against such forces.
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