Insensible, and forthwith to dissolve:

I then was passing to my former state [ 290 ]

My droused sense, untroubld, though I thought

A Circuit wide, enclosd, with goodliest Trees

In goodness and in power præeminent;

And over Fields and Waters, as in Aire

Smooth sliding without step, last led me up

Up h九*九*藏*書ither, from among the Trees appeerd,

Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, [ 280 ]

Had lively shadowd: Here had new begun

Said mildely, Author of all this thou seest

Pensive I sate me down; there gentle sleep

From where I first drew Aire, and first beheld

While thus I calld, and strayd Ihttps://read.99csw.com knew not whither,

To pluck and eate; whereat I wakd, and found

In adoration at his feet I fell [ 315 ]

And said, thy Mansion wants thee, Adam, rise,

Planted, with Walks, and Bowers, that what I saw [ 305 ]

Not of my self; by some great Maker then,

Before mine Eyes all real, as the dreamhttｐs://ｒｅａd•9９csｗ.cｏｍ [ 310 ]

So saying, by the hand he took me raisd, [ 300 ]

My wandring, had not hee who was my Guide

To the Garden of bliss, thy seat prepard.

From whom I have that thus I move and live,

This happie Light, when answer none returnd, [ 285 ]

A woodie Mountain; whose high top was plaine,

My Fancy to b九-九-藏-書elieve I yet had being,

First Father, calld by thee I come thy Guide

Whose inward apparition gently movd

And feel that I am happier then I know.

On a green shadie Bank profuse of Flours

Submiss: he reard me, and Whom thou soughtst I am,

And livd: One came, methought, of shape Divine, [ 295 ]

Presence Divine. Re九-九-藏-書joycing, but with aw,

Above, or round about thee or beneath.

Loadn with fairest Fruit, that hung to the Eye

First found me, and with soft oppression seisd

Of Earth before scarce pleasant seemd. Each Tree

Tempting, stirrd in me sudden appetite

First Man, of Men innumerable ordaind

When suddenly stood at my Head a dream,