BooK XI. PARADISE LOST. Syr As from His face I (hall be hid, depriv'd His bleff,;c1 count'nance ! Here I could frequent With worfhip, place by place, where He vouchfaf'd Prefence Divine ; and to my tens relate ; " On this tnounr He appear'd; under this tree 320 " Stood vifible ; among there pines His voice " 1 heard ; here with Him at this fountain talk'd.'' So many grateful altars I would rear Of graffy turf; and pile up every (tone Of luare, from the brook ; in memory; 325 Or monument to ages : and thereon Offer fweet.fmelling gums, and fruits and flow'rs. In yonder nether world where (hall I Peek His bright appearances, or foot-ttep trace ? For though I fled him angry, yet recall'd 330 To life prolong'd, and promis'd race, I now Gladly behold, though but his utrnoft airts Of glory ; and far-off His fteps adore. To whom thus Michael with regard benign. Adam ! thou know'ft heav'n His, and all the earth ; Not this rock only ; His Omniprefence fills 336 Land, fea, and air, and every kind that lives, Fomented by His virtual pow'r, and warm'd. All th' earth He gave thee to point's, and rule; No defpicable gift ! furmife not then 340 His pretence to thefe narrow bounds confin'd Of Paradife, or Eden : this had been Perhaps thy Capital Seat, from whence had fpread All generations; and had thither come From all the ends of th' earth, to celebrate 345 And reverence thee their great progenitor. But this prx..erninence thou haft loft; brought down To dwell on even ground now with thy foes. Yet doubt not but in valley, and in plain, God
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