Bet t
Cing night; [ 550 ]
About him exercisd heroic Games
t nig hand
Celestial Armourie, Shields, helmes, and Speares
h Gold.
the Eeven [ 555 ]
On a Sun beam, s as a sing Starr
In Autumn ts t, when vapors fird
Impress the Mariner
From of o beware
Impetuous winds: e. [ 560 ]
Gabriel, to t h givn
Crict c to this happie place
No evil ter in;
t o my Spheare
A Spirit, zealous, as o know [ 565 ]
More of ties works, and chiefly Man
Gods latest Image: I describd his way
Bent all on speed, and markt e;
But in t t lies from Eden North,
lighted, soon discernd his looks [ 570 ]
Alien from h passions foul obscurd:
Mine eye pursud ill, but under shade
Lost sig crew
I fear, urd from to raise
Neroubles; be to find. [ 575 ]
to wurnd:
Uriel, no sight,
Amid t circle ,
See farr and te none pass
t, but such as come [ 580 ]
ell known from heavn; and since Meridian hour
No Creature t of ot,
So minded, thie bounds
On purpose, it to exclude
Spiritual substance h corporeal barr. [ 585 ]
But if of these walks,
In wsoever shape he lurk, of whom
tellst, by morrow dawning I shall know.
So promisd o his charge
Returnd on t brig now raisd [ 590 ]
Bore o the Sun now falln
Beneathe prime Orb,
Incredible , her rowld
Diurnal, or th
By ser fligo t, here [ 595 ]
Arraying ed Purple and Gold
t on ern ttend:
Noill Eevning on, and t gray
hings clad;
Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, [ 600 ]
to to ts
ere slunk, all but tingale;
S long sung;
Silence
it led [ 605 ]
tarrie , rode brig, till the Moon
Rising in clouded Majestie, at length
Apparent Queen unvaild ,
And ore tle threw.
o Eve: Fair Consort, th hour [ 610 ]
Of nigird to rest
Mind us of like repose, since God
Labour and rest, as day and nigo men
Successive, and timely dew of sleep
No slumbrous inclines [ 615 ]
Our eye-lids; otures all day long
Rove idle unimploid, and less need rest;
Man h his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, wie,
And the regard of heavn on all his waies; [ 620 ]
ive range,
And of takes no account.