tree of Life,
tree and t grew, [ 195 ]
Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true Life
t sat devising Death
to tue t
Of t life-giving Plant, but only usd
For prospect, w well usd he pledge [ 200 ]
Of immortality. So little knows
Any, but God alone, to value right
t perverts best things
to abuse, or to t use.
Beneath new wonder now he views [ 205 ]
to all delight of human sense exposd
In narroures wh, yea more,
A h, for blissful Paradise
Of God t
Of Eden planted; Eden stretchd her Line [ 210 ]
From Auran Easto towrs
Of Great Seleucia, built by Grecian Kings,
Or whe Sons of Eden long before
D in telassar: in t soile
Garden God ordaind; [ 215 ]
Out of til ground o grow
All trees of noblest kind for sigaste;
And all amid tood tree of Life,
, blooming Ambrosial Fruit
Of vegetable Gold; and next to Life [ 220 ]
Our Deatree of Kno by,
Kno dear by knowing ill.
Sout a River large,
Nor c the shaggie hill
Passd underneat, for God hrown [ 225 ]
t Mountain as his Garden mould high raisd
Upon t, whrough veins
Of porous Eart up drawn,
Rose a fresain, and h many a rill
aterd ted fell [ 230 ]
Doeep glade, and met ther Flood,
hich from his darksom passage now appeers,
And noo four main Streams,
Runs divers, wandring many a famous Realme
And Country w, [ 235 ]
But rato tell could tell,
Sap the crisped Brooks,
Ro Pearl and sands of Gold,
it shades
Ran Nectar, visiting eac, and fed [ 240 ]
Flours nice Art
In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon
Poh profuse on hill and Dale and Plaine,
Bot e
t shade [ 245 ]
Imbround tide Bohis place,
A of various view;
Groves odorous Gumms and Balme,
Ot burnish Golden Rinde
rue, [ 250 ]
If true, aste:
Bet them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks
Grasing tender erposd,
Or palmie he flourie lap
Of som irriguous Valley spred ore, [ 255 ]
Flours of all the Rose:
Anots and Caves
Of coole recess, ore wling vine
Layes fortly creeps
Luxuriant; mean wers fall [ 260 ]
Do, or in a Lake,
t to tle crownd,
al mirror e treams.