OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit

Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss

The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride

Before all Temples th upright heart and pure,

In the Beginning how the Heavns and Earth

And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer

That with no middle flight inte九-九-藏-書nds to soar

Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill [ 10 ]

He trusted to have equald the most High, [ 40 ]

Sing Heavnly Muse,that on the secret top

Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire

Say first, for Heavn hides nothing from thy view

For one restraint, Lords of the World besides?

Invoke tread.99csw.comhy aid to my adventrous Song,

That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,

Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread [ 20 ]

Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause

Illumin, what is low raise and support;

I may assert Eternal Providence, [ 25 ]

That to the highth o九-九-藏-書f this great Argument

To set himself in Glory above his Peers,

Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring

And justifie the wayes of God to men.

Th infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile

Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, [ 5 ]

With loss of Eden, till one greater Man

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Instruct me, for Thou knowst; Thou from the first

Movd our Grand Parents in that happy State,

Favourd of Heavn so highly, to fall off [ 30 ]

Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast

Above th Aonian Mount, while it pursues [ 15 ]

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From thir Creator, and transgress his Will

Who first seducd them to that foul revolt?

Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence

Had cast him out from Heavn, with all his Host

Delight thee more, and Siloas Brook that flowd

Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,

And madst it pregnant: What in me is dark