Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns In measure what the mind may well contain Only Omniscient, hath suppressed in night,Įnough is left besides to search and know īut Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Things not revealed, which the invisible King, To ask, nor let thine own inventions hope Of knowledge within bounds beyond abstain Yet what thou canst attain, which best may serve What words or tongue of Seraph can suffice, "This also thy request, with caution asked, Thus Adam his illustrious guest besought Īnd thus the godlike Angel answered mild:. Silence, and Sleep listening to thee will watch Įnd, and dismiss thee ere the morning shine." Haste to thy audience, Night with her will bring Held by thy voice, thy potent voice he hears Imbracing round this florid Earth what causeĪnd the great Light of Day yet wants to run Innumerable and this which yields or fillsĪll space, the ambient Air, wide interfused, How first began this Heaven which we beholdĭistant so high, with moving fires adorned Our knowing, as to highest Wisdom seemed, Things above Earthly thought, which yet concerned Unknown, which human knowledge could not reach Us timely of what might else have been our loss,
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"Great things, and full of wonder in our ears,įar differing from this World, thou hast revealed, Proceeded thus to ask his Heavenly Guest:. Whose liquid murmur heard new thirst excites, Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream, When, and whereof, created for what cause
Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began What nearer might concern him-how this World The doubts that in his heart arose and, now Of things so high and strange-things to their thoughtĪnd was so near the peace of God in bliss,ĭriven back, redounded as a flood on those The story heard attentive, and was filled Of all tastes else to please their appetite, If they transgress, and slight that sole command, So fail not thou who thee implores įor thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.Ĭharged not to touch the interdicted Tree, To rapture, till the savage clamour drownedīoth harp and voice nor could the Muse defend In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian Bard Urania, and fit audience find, though few.īut drive far off the barbarous dissonance Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole, Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Lest, from this flying steed unreined (as once Into the Heaven of Heavens I have presumed,Īn earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air, In presence of the Almighty Father, pleased Wisdom thy sister, and with her didst play Of old Olympus dwell'st but, heavenly-born,īefore the hills appeared or fountain flowed, The meaning, not the name, I call for thou If rightly thou art called, whose voice divineįollowing, above the Olympian hill I soar, Raphael, at the request of Adam, relates how and wherefore this World was first created:-that God, after the expelling of Satan and his Angels out of Heaven, declared his pleasure to create another World, and other creatures to dwell therein sends his Son with glory, and attendance of Angels, to perform the work of creation in six days: the Angels celebrate with hymns the performance thereof, and his reascension into Heaven.ĭescend from Heaven, Urania, by that name Paradise Lost and Regained, by John Milton,, at Sacred Texts Christianity Index Previous Next Paradise Lost and Regained: Paradise Lost: Book 7
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