Bet t

    Cing night; [ 550 ]

    About him exercisd heroic Games

    t nig hand

    Celestial Armourie, Shields, helmes, and Speares

    h Gold.

    the Eeven [ 555 ]

    On a Sun beam, s as a sing Starr

    In Autumn ts t, when vapors fird

    Impress the Mariner

    From  of o beware

    Impetuous winds: e. [ 560 ]

    Gabriel, to t h givn

    Crict c to this happie place

    No evil ter in;

    t o my Spheare

    A Spirit, zealous, as o know [ 565 ]

    More of ties works, and chiefly Man

    Gods latest Image: I describd his way

    Bent all on speed, and markt e;

    But in t t lies from Eden North,

    lighted, soon discernd his looks [ 570 ]

    Alien from h passions foul obscurd:

    Mine eye pursud ill, but under shade

    Lost sig crew

    I fear, urd from to raise

    Neroubles;  be to find. [ 575 ]

    to wurnd:

    Uriel, no  sight,

    Amid t circle ,

    See farr and  te none pass

    t, but such as come [ 580 ]

    ell known from heavn; and since Meridian hour

    No Creature t of ot,

    So minded,  thie bounds

    On purpose,  it to exclude

    Spiritual substance h corporeal barr. [ 585 ]

    But if  of these walks,

    In wsoever shape he lurk, of whom

    tellst, by morrow dawning I shall know.

    So promisd o his charge

    Returnd on t brig now raisd [ 590 ]

    Bore o the Sun now falln

    Beneathe prime Orb,

    Incredible , her rowld

    Diurnal, or th

    By ser fligo t,  here [ 595 ]

    Arraying ed Purple and Gold

    t on ern ttend:

    Noill Eevning on, and t gray

    hings clad;

    Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, [ 600 ]

    to to ts

    ere slunk, all but tingale;

    S long  sung;

    Silence

    it led [ 605 ]

    tarrie , rode brig, till the Moon

    Rising in clouded Majestie, at length

    Apparent Queen unvaild ,

    And ore tle threw.

    o Eve: Fair Consort, th hour [ 610 ]

    Of nigird to rest

    Mind us of like repose, since God

    Labour and rest, as day and nigo men

    Successive, and timely dew of sleep

    No slumbrous  inclines [ 615 ]

    Our eye-lids; otures all day long

    Rove idle unimploid, and less need rest;

    Man h his daily work of body or mind

    Appointed, wie,

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

    ive range,

    And of takes no account.