142 PARADISE LOST. I3ocitc V: That day, as other folemn days, they fpent In long and dance about the facred hill Myflical dance, (which yonder Harry fphere 620 O Planets and of Fix'd in all her wheels Refembles nearefl, mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolv'd, yet regular Then molt, when moft irregular they feem,) And in their motions harmony divine 625 So imooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear Liflens delighted. Ev'ning now approach'd (For we have alfo our ev'ning and our morn, We ours for change deledable, not need) Forthwith from dance to fweet repall they turn 630 Defirous : all in circles as they flood, Tables are let, and on a fudden pil'd With Angels food, and rubied Nedar flows In pearl, in diamond, and rnaffy gold, Fruit of delicious vines, the growth of heav'n ! 635 On flow'rs rcpos'd, and with frefh flowrets crown'd, They eat, they drink, and in communion fweet Quaff immortality and joy, (fecure Of forfeit, where full inealure only bounds Excels) before th' all-bounteous King, who fhowr'd With copious hand, rejoicing in their joy, 641 Now when a athrofial night with clouds exhal'd From that high mount of God, whence light and fhade Spring both, the face of brightell heav'n had chang'd To grateful twilight ( {or night comes not there 645 In darker veil) and rofeate dews difpos'd Aa but th' untlecping eyes of God to refl ; Wide over all the plain, and wider far Than all this globule earth in plain out-fpread, (Such are the courts of God!) th' Angelic throng 6;o Difperft in bands and files, their camp extend By living fireams among the trees of life, Pavilions
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