Rowling on Orient Pearl and sands of Gold,

Any, but God alone, to value right

Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life,

Groves whose rich Trees wept odorous Gumms and Balme,

How from that Saphire Fount the crisped Brooks,

Or where the Sons of Eden long before

Rose a fresh Fountain, and with many a rill

Both where the morning Sun first warmly smote

Of Eden planted; Eden stretchd her Line [ 210 ]

A Heaven on Earth, for blissful Paradise

Upon the rapid current, which through veins

Luxuriant; mean while murmuring wate九*九*藏*書rs fall [ 260 ]

Beneath him with new wonder now he views [ 205 ]

Of Great Seleucia, built by Grecian Kings,

Of that life-giving Plant, but only usd

Betwixt them Lawns, or level Downs, and Flocks

Powrd forth profuse on Hill and Dale and Plaine,

Down the steep glade, and met the neather Flood,

And Country whereof here needs no account, [ 235 ]

That Mountain as his Garden mould high raisd

Imbround the noontide Bowrs: Thus was this place,

To all delight of human sense exposd

Of God the Garden was, by him in therｅａd.99ｃsw•coｍ East

Another side, umbrageous Grots and Caves

Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true Life

Hung amiable, Hesperian Fables true, [ 250 ]

Southward through Eden went a River large,

With mazie error under pendant shades

If true, here only, and of delicious taste:

A happy rural seat of various view;

Or palmie hilloc, or the flourie lap

And all amid them stood the Tree of Life,

Layes forth her purple Grape, and gently creeps

In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon

Down the slope hills, disperst, or in a Lake,

In 九-九-藏-書narrow room Natures whole wealth, yea more,

From Auran Eastward to the Royal Towrs

Runs divers, wandring many a famous Realme

Passd underneath ingulft, for God had thrown [ 225 ]

Of porous Earth with kindly thirst up drawn,

Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

Others whose fruit burnisht with Golden Rinde

Out of the fertil ground he causd to grow

The good before him, but perverts best things

Waterd the Garden; thence united fell [ 230 ]

For prospect, what well usd had bin the pledge [ 200 ]

High eminent, bloomread.99csw.coming Ambrosial Fruit

The open field, and where the unpierct shade [ 245 ]

Nor changd his course, but through the shaggie hill

Our Death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by,

Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed [ 240 ]

Which from his darksom passage now appeers,

Of coole recess, ore which the mantling vine

His farr more pleasant Garden God ordaind; [ 215 ]

Thereby regaind, but sat devising Death

Flours worthy of Paradise which not nice Art

Flours of all hue, and without Thorn the Rose:

That to the fringed Bank with Myrt九-九-藏-書le crownd,

Her chrystal mirror holds, unite thir streams.

All Trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste;

The middle Tree and highest there that grew, [ 195 ]

To worst abuse, or to thir meanest use.

Of immortality. So little knows

Dwelt in Telassar: in this pleasant soile

Of vegetable Gold; and next to Life [ 220 ]

Grasing the tender herb, were interposd,

And now divided into four main Streams,

But rather to tell how, if Art could tell,

To them who livd; nor on the vertue thought

Of som irriguous Valley spred her store, [ 255 ]