ts, t voluntarie move
he wakeful Bird
Sings darkling, and in s Covert hid
tunes urnal Note. the Year [ 40 ]
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, or t approach of Evn or Morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose,
Or flocks, or heards, or human face divine;
But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark [ 45 ]
Surrounds me, from the chearful wayes of men
Cut off, and for the Book of knowledg fair
Presented h a Universal blanc
Of Natures o mee expungd and rasd,
And one entrance quite s out. [ 50 ]
So mucial light
Shrough all her powers
Irradiate, t eyes, all mist from thence
Purge and disperse, t I may see and tell
Of to mortal sight. [ 55 ]
Noher from above,
From ts
down his eye,
once to view:
About ities of heaven [ 60 ]
Stood tarrs, and from receivd
Beatitude past utterance; on
t image of ,
beheld
Our t Parents, yet two [ 65 ]
Of mankind, in t,
Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,
Uninterrupted joy, unrivald love
In blissful solitude; hen surveyd
an there [ 70 ]
Coasting t
In the dun Air sublime, and ready now
to stoop
On tside of t seemd
Firm land imbosomd Firmament, [ 75 ]
Uncertain which, in Ocean or in Air.