Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,

So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words

Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd [ 640 ]

Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre

All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.

Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. [ 635 ]

(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng [ 650 ]

Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd

Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,

九九藏书Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn [ 630 ]

In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,

With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows

Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course [ 655 ]

That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent

In song and dance about the sacred Hill,

Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure

From that high mount of God, whence light & shade

If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, ９9ｌib•ｎet[ 660 ]

Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd

In favour and præeminence, yet fraught

On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,

Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend

Contemptuous, and his next subordinate

Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. [ 665 ]

Tables are set, and on a sudden pild

With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave

Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,

In darker ９９lib•ｎeｔveile) and roseat Dews disposd

Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular

Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr

Of surfet where full measure onely bounds

Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,

Satan, so call him now, his former name

And in thir motions harmonie Divine [ 625 ]

Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare [ 620 ]

Alternate all night long: but not so wakd

Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd

(For wee ha九九藏书网ve also our Eevning and our Morn,

They eate, they drink, and in communion sweet

By living Streams among the Trees of Life,

Messiah King anointed, could not beare

All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,

Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald

Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,

Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept

To grateful Twilight (for Night comes not there [ 645 ]

Wee ours for change delectable, not need99lib•net)

With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.

Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd

Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles

Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.

Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream [ 670 ]

Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne

So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear

Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,

With envie against the Son of God, that day

Then most, when most irregular they seem,