Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers

So much the rather thou Celestial light

Our two first Parents, yet the onely two [ 65 ]

Stood thick as Starrs, and from his sight receivd

Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move

Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,

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In the dun Air sublime, and ready now

Of mankind, in the happie Garden plact,

Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid

Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell

But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark [ 45 ]

To stoop with wearied wings, anhttp://www.99lib.netd willing feet

Uncertain which, in Ocean or in Air.

The radiant image of his Glory sat,

Hell and the Gulf between, and Satan there [ 70 ]

Surrounds me, from the chearful wayes of men

Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose,

And wisdome at one entrance quite shut out. [ 九-九-藏-书-网50 ]

From the pure Empyrean where he sits

Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence

His onely Son; On Earth he first beheld

Of things invisible to mortal sight. [ 55 ]

High Thrond above all highth, bent down his eye,

Of Natures works to mee expungd and rasd,

Beatitude past utteran

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About him all the Sanctities of Heaven [ 60 ]

In blissful solitude; he then surveyd

Now had the Almighty Father from above,

Uninterrupted joy, unrivald love

Seasons return, but not to me returns

Day, or the sweet approach of Evn or Morn,

Cut off, and for the Book of knowledg fai九*九*藏*书*网r

Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird

His own works and their works at once to view:

On the bare outside of this World, that seemd

Or flocks, or heards, or human face divine;

Presented with a Universal blanc

Tunes her nocturnal Note. Thus with the Year [ 40 ]

Coasting the wall of Heavn on this side Night