A Spirit, zealous, as he seemd, to know [ 565 ]

Labour and rest, as day and night to men

On a Sun beam, swift as a shooting Starr

Gods latest Image: I describd his way

Thither came Uriel, gliding through the Eeven [ 555 ]

This day at highth of Noon came to my Spheare

No Creature thence: if Spirit of other sort,

Thou tellst, by morrow dawning I shall know.

See farr and wide: in at this Gate none pass

And the regard of Heavn on all his waies; [ 620 ]

While other Animals unactive range,

Of night, and all things now retird to rest

Bent all on speedread.99csw.com, and markt his Aerie Gate;

Celestial Armourie, Shields, Helmes, and Speares

Arraying with reflected Purple and Gold

Th unarmed Youth of Heavn, but nigh at hand

And of thir doings God takes no account.

Chief of th Angelic Guards, awaiting night; [ 550 ]

So minded, have oreleapt these earthie bounds

Amid the Suns bright circle where thou sitst,

On purpose, hard thou knowst it to exclude

When Adam thus to Eve: Fair Consort, th hour [ 610 ]

Bore him slope downward to the Sun now falln

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Beneath th Azores; whither the prime Orb,

Alien from Heavn, with passions foul obscurd:

Where he first lighted, soon discernd his looks [ 570 ]

From what point of his Compass to beware

Charge and strict watch that to this happie place

Incredible how swift, had thither rowld

Diurnal, or this less volubil Earth

And ore the dark her Silver Mantle threw.

But in the Mount that lies from Eden North,

Impress the Air, and shews the Mariner

To whom the winged Warriour thus returnd:

Rising in clouded Majestie, at length

Now came still Eevning on, 九-九-藏-書and Twilight gray

Silence was pleasd: now glowd the Firmament

No evil thing approach or enter in;

Rove idle unimploid, and less need rest;

The starrie Host, rode brightest, till the Moon

In whatsoever shape he lurk, of whom

About him exercisd Heroic Games

Mind us of like repose, since God hath set

Impetuous winds: he thus began in haste. [ 560 ]

Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, [ 600 ]

Well known from Heavn; and since Meridian hour

Apparent Queen unvaild her peerless light,

She all night long her amorous descant sung;

New troubles; himread.99csw.com thy care must be to find. [ 575 ]

Mine eye pursud him still, but under shade

But if within the circuit of these walks,

With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led [ 605 ]

Gabriel, to thee thy course by Lot hath givn

So promisd hee, and Uriel to his charge

In Autumn thwarts the night, when vapors fird

Lost sight of him; one of the banisht crew

I fear, hath venturd from the Deep, to raise

Hung high with Diamond flaming, and with Gold.

Our eye-lids; other Creatures all day long

By shorter flight to th East, had left him there [ 595 ]

Betwixt these rockie Pihttps://read.99csw.comllars Gabriel sat

Now falling with soft slumbrous weight inclines [ 615 ]

Uriel, no wonder if thy perfet sight,

Appointed, which declares his Dignitie,

Spiritual substance with corporeal barr. [ 585 ]

Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale;

Had in her sober Liverie all things clad;

Returnd on that bright beam, whose point now raisd [ 590 ]

The vigilance here plact, but such as come [ 580 ]

Successive, and the timely dew of sleep

Man hath his daily work of body or mind

The Clouds that on his Western Throne attend:

More of th Almighties works, and chiefly Man