Great triumph and rejoycing was in heavn [ 180 ]
ies will;
Glorie to t high, good will
to future men, and in thir dwellings peace:
Glorie to avenging ire
t [ 185 ]
And tations of t; to him
Glorie and praise, whose wisdom had ordaind
Good out of evil to create, in stead
Of Spirits maligne a better Race to bring
Into t room, and thence diffuse [ 190 ]
o orlds and Ages infinite.
So sang the Son
On Expedition now appeerd,
Girt ence, h Radiance crownd
Of Majestie Divine, Sapience and Love [ 195 ]
Immense, and all her in him shon.
About numberless were pourd
Centates and thrones,
And Vertues, s, and Cs wingd,
From tand of old [ 200 ]
Myriads betains lodgd
Against a solemn day, at hand,
Celestial Equipage; and noh
Spontaneous, for livd,
Attendant on thir Lord: heavn opnd wide [ 205 ]
es, harmonious sound
On golden o let forth
the King of Glorie in his powerful ord
And Spirit coming to create new orlds.
On ood, and from the shore [ 210 ]
t immeasurable Abyss
Outrageous as a Sea, dark, eful, wilde,
Up from ttom turnd by furious windes
And surging ains to assault
er mix the Pole. [ 215 ]
Silence, ye troubld hou Deep, peace,
Said th Omnific ord, your discord end:
Nor staid, but on the ings of Cherubim
Uplifted, in Paternal Glorie rode
Farr into Che orld unborn; [ 220 ]
For Craine
Followd in brigo behold
Creation, and t.