Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne

All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,

To grateful Twilight (for Night comes not there [ 645 ]

Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. [ 665 ]

With envie against the Son of God, that day

Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr

Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure

Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,

In favour and præeminence, yet fraught

Of surfet where 九-九-藏-書full measure onely bounds

Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,

Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd

Alternate all night long: but not so wakd

Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,

And in thir motions harmonie Divine [ 625 ]

(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,

Then most, when most irregular they seem,

In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,

Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,

Pavilions numberle九九藏書ss, and sudden reard,

Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles

(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng [ 650 ]

So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear

With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows

Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare [ 620 ]

All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.

Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. [ 635 ]

Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre

Awaknin九-九-藏-書g, thus to him in secret spake.

Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream [ 670 ]

Contemptuous, and his next subordinate

Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course [ 655 ]

Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept

Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend

Wee ours for change delectable, not need)

That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent

Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular

Satan, so call him now, his former na九*九*藏*書me

If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, [ 660 ]

Tables are set, and on a sudden pild

In song and dance about the sacred Hill,

Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd

In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd

Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn [ 630 ]

Messiah King anointed, could not beare

By living Streams among the Trees of Life,

Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,

Excess, before th all bounteous 九九藏書King, who showrd [ 640 ]

From that high mount of God, whence light & shade

Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd

With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.

Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd

With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave

They eate, they drink, and in communion sweet

So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words

Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald

On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,