So spake tent, and h his words

    All seemd   all.

    t day, as ot

    In song and dance about the sacred hill,

    Mystical dance, warrie Spheare [ 620 ]

    Of Planets and of fixt in all her heeles

    Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,

    Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular

    t, hey seem,

    And in tions harmonie Divine [ 625 ]

    So smootones, t Gods own ear

    Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd

    (For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,

    ee ours for cable, not need)

    Forto s repast turn [ 630 ]

    Desirous, all in Circles as tood,

    tables are set, and on a sudden pild

    itar flows

    In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,

    Fruit of delicious Vines, th of heavn. [ 635 ]

    On flours reposd, and s crownd,

    te, t

    Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure

    Of surfet where full measure onely bounds

    Excess, before teous King, who showrd [ 640 ]

    ithir joy.

    Noh Clouds exhald

    From t  of God, w amp; shade

    Spring botest heavn had changd

    to grateful t there [ 645 ]

    In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd

    All but to rest,

    ide over all the Plain, and wider farr

    t spred,

    (Sucs of God) throng [ 650 ]

    Disperst in Bands and Files tend

    By living Streams among trees of Life,

    Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,

    Celestial tabernacles, w

    Fannd hir course [ 655 ]

    Melodious  throne

    Alternate all nig not so wakd

    Satan, so call him now, his former name

    Is ,

    If not t Arc in Power, [ 660 ]

    In favour and pr?eminence, yet fraught

    it t day

    Father, and proclaimd

    Messiaed, could not beare

    t sig himself impaird. [ 665 ]

    Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,

    Soon as midnig on the duskie houre

    Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd

    ito dislodge, and leave

    Unhrone supream [ 670 ]

    Contemptuous, and  subordinate

    Ao  spake.