Much better seems this Vision, and more hope

Religious titld them the Sons of God,

Of these fair Atheists, and now swim in joy, [ 625 ]

Womans domestic honour and chief praise;

Of love and youth not lost, Songs, Garlands, Flours,

Paths indirect, or in the mid way faint!

Created, as thou art, toread.99csw.com nobler end [ 605 ]

Yet empty of all good wherein consists

The world erelong a world of tears must weepe.

Of Arts that polish Life, Inventers rare, [ 610 ]

Enterd so faire, should turn aside to tread [ 630 ]

Shall yield up all thir vertue, all thir fame

Such happy interview 九*九*藏*書and fair event

Bred onely and completed to the taste

To whom thus Michael. Judg not what is best

Taught them, but they his gifts acknowledgd none.

Who slew his Brother; studious they appere

Unmindful of thir Maker, though his Spirit

The bent of Nature; which he thus expressd.

Of wickedness, w九_九_藏_書herein shall dwell his Race

(Erelong to swim at large) and laugh; for which

Of Adam, soon enclind to admit delight,

For that fair femal Troop thou sawst, that seemd

Of peaceful dayes portends, then those two past; [ 600 ]

O pittie and shame, that they who to live well

Ignobly, to the traines and thｔtｐs://ｒead.9９ｃｓw•cｏmo the smiles

To whom thus Adam of short joy bereft.

And charming Symphonies attachd the heart [ 595 ]

To these that sober Race of Men, whose lives

Yet they a beauteous ofspring shall beget;

Holie and pure, conformitie divine.

True opener of mine eyes, prime Angel blest,

Those Tents thou sawst so ple九*九*藏*書asant, were the Tents

To dress, and troule the Tongue, and roule the Eye. [ 620 ]

By pleasure, though to Nature seeming meet,

Here Nature seems fulfilld in all her ends.

Those were of hate and death, or pain much worse,

Of Goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, [ 615 ]

Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance,