Faire Angel, tends to know
to glorifie [ 695 ]
t ork-Maister, leads to no excess
t reac rats praise
t seems excess, t led ther
From thus alone,
to ness some perhaps [ 700 ]
Contented hear onely in heavn:
For wonderful indeed are all his works,
Pleasant to kno to be all
;
But ed mind can comprehend [ 705 ]
te
t broug hir causes deep.
I saw w he formless Mass,
terial mould, came to a heap:
Confusion heard his voice, and wilde uproar [ 710 ]
Stood ruld, stood vast infinitude confind;
till at his second bidding darkness fled,
Light shon, and order from disorder sprung:
S to ters ed then
ts, Earth, Flood, Aire, Fire, [ 715 ]
And tessence of heavn
Fleed h various forms,
t rournd to Starrs
Numberless, as t, and hey move;
Eaced, each his course, [ 720 ]
t in circuit his Universe.
Look do Globe wher side
it from reflected, shines;
t place is Eart of Man, t light
her hemisphere [ 725 ]
Nig the neighbouring Moon
(So call t opposite fair Starr) her aide
timely interposes, and hly round
Still ending, still renehrough mid heavn,
it enance triform [ 730 ]
ies to enligh,
And in .
t spot to w is Paradise,
Adams abode, tie shades his Bowre.
t not miss, me mine requires. [ 735 ]
turnd, and Satan bowing low,
As to superior Spirits is in heaven,
s,
took leave, and to of Earth,
Doic, sped h hopd success, [ 740 ]
teep flight in many an Aerie wheele,
Nor staid, till on Nipes top s.