an staid not to reply, [ 1010 ]
But glad t now his Sea should find a shore,
itie and force renewd
Springs upward like a Pyramid of fire
Into the shock
Of figs, on all sides round [ 1015 ]
Environd wins
And more endangerd, then when Argo passd
t tling Rocks:
Or whe Larbord shunnd
Ceard. [ 1020 ]
So y and labour hard
Movd on, y and labour hee;
But , soon after when man fell,
Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain
Following rack, suche will of heavn, [ 1025 ]
Pavd after n way
Over the dark Abyss, whose boiling Gulf
tamely endurd a Bridge of h
From inud reacmost Orbe
Of ts perverse [ 1030 ]
itercourse pass to and fro
to tempt or punisals, except whom
God and good Angels guard by special grace.
But no last the sacred influence
Of lighe walls of heavn [ 1035 ]
Ss farr into t
A glimmering da begins
verge, and Co retire
As from most works a brokn foe
itumult less and ile din, [ 1040 ]
t Satan oil, and noh ease
afts on t
And like a en Vessel holds
Gladly t, tackle torn;
Or in tier e, resembling Air, [ 1045 ]
eig leasure to behold
Farr off tended wide
In circuit, undetermind square or round,
itotlements adornd
Of living Sapive Seat; [ 1050 ]
And fast by hanging in a golden Chain
t arr
Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon.
t h mischievous revenge,
Accurst, and in a cursed hour he hies. [ 1055 ]