Of midnight vapor glide obscure, and prie

From th Earths great Altar send up silent praise [ 195 ]

As high he soard, obnoxious first or last [ 170 ]

O foul descent! that I who erst contended

Disturbd not, waiting close th approach of Morn.

Descend to? who aspires must down as low

The hands dispatch of two Gardning so wide.

But what will not Ambition and Revenge

And flami九九藏书网ng Ministers to watch and tend

So saying, through each Thicket Danck or Drie,

In Labyrinth of many a round self-rowld,

Into a Beast, and mixt with bestial slime, [ 165 ]

And joind thir vocal Worship to the Quire

Subjected to his service Angel wings, [ 155 ]

His head the midst, well stord with suttle wiles:

His midnight search, where soonest he might finde

I dread,藏书网 and to elude, thus wrapt in mist

From dust: spite then with spite is best repaid.

In every Bush and Brake, where hap may finde [ 160 ]

With grateful Smell, forth came the human pair

Not yet in horrid Shade or dismal Den, [ 185 ]

Thir growing work: for much thir work outgrew

To the Creator, and his Nostrils fill

To basest things. Revenge, at first though sweet,

The 九-九-藏-书-网Devil enterd, and his brutal sense,

Like a black mist low creeping, he held on [ 180 ]

Of Creatures wanting voice, that done, partake

Of Heavn, this Man of Clay, Son of despite,

Bitter ere long back on it self recoiles;

Then commune how that day they best may ply

In Eden on the humid Flours, that breathd

With act intelligential; but his sleep [ 190 ]

Whom us the more thttp://www.99lib.neto spite his Maker raisd

The Serpent sleeping, in whose mazie foulds

The season, prime for sweetest Sents and Aires: [ 200 ]

Thir earthy Charge: Of these the vigilance

To hide me, and the dark intent I bring.

The Serpent: him fast sleeping soon he found

Nor nocent yet, but on the grassie Herbe

That to the hight of Deitie aspird;

Let it; I reck not, so it light well aimd,

This essence to incarnate and imbrute,

With Gods to sit the highest, am now constraind

Provokes my envie, this new Favorite [ 175 ]

Now when as sacred Light began to dawne

Fearless unfeard he slept: in at his Mouth

Since higher I fall short, on him who next

In heart or head, possessing soon inspird

And Eve first to her Husband thus began.

Thir morning incense, when all things that breath,