Those other two equald with me in Fate,

Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing,

In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight [ 15 ]

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,

Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice

Blind Thamyris and blind Mæonides, [ 35 ]

Cleer 九-九-藏-書Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill,

The rising world of waters dark and deep,

Or hearst thou rather pure Ethereal stream,

Revisitst not these eyes, that rowle in vain

Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest [ 10 ]

HAil holy light, ofspring of Heread.99csw.comavn first-born,

Whose Fountain who shall tell? before the Sun,

Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe,

Won from the void and formless infinite.

Escapt the Stygian Pool, though long detaind

Thee Sion and the flowrie Brooks beneath [ 30 ]

The dahttps://read.99csw.comrk descent, and up to reascend, [ 20 ]

And never but in unapproached light

Taught by the heavnly Muse to venture down

With other notes then to th Orphean Lyre

And Tiresias and Phineus Prophets old.

So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, [ 25 ]

Night九-九-藏-書ly I visit: nor somtimes forget

Or of th Eternal Coeternal beam

That wash thy hallowd feet, and warbling flow,

And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou

So were I equald with them in renown,

Smit with the love of sacred Song; but chief

Through utter and through middle da九_九_藏_書rkness borne

To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;

May I express thee unblamd? since God is light,

Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt

Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, [ 5 ]

Bright effluence of bright essence increate.

Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more