tc us descend
A lower flig hand
Useful, wion may arise [ 200 ]
Of somt unseasonable to ask
By sufferance, and ted favour deignd.
ting w was don
Ere my remembrance: now e
My Storie, heard; [ 205 ]
And Day is yet not spent; till t
tly to detaine thee I devise,
Inviting to e,
Fond, not in hy reply:
For hee, I seem in heavn, [ 210 ]
And ser to my eare
ts of Palm-tree pleasantest to t
And the houre
Of s repast; tiate, and soon fill,
t, but th Grace Divine [ 215 ]
Imbud, bring to tness no satietie.
to whus Raphael answerd heavnly meek.
Nor are thy lips ungraceful, Sire of men,
Nor tongue ineloquent; for God on thee
Abundantly s h also pourd [ 220 ]
Inh, his image faire:
Speaking or mute all comliness and grace
Attends tion formes
Nor less th
t, and inquire [ 225 ]
Gladly into th Man:
For God we see
On Man herefore on;
For I t Day , as befell,
Bound on a voyage uncouth and obscure, [ 230 ]
Farr on excursion toes of hell;
Squard in full Legion (such command we had)
to see t none th a spie,
Or enemie, while God was in his work,
Least at sucion bold, [ 235 ]
Destruction ion mig.