Boole III. PARADISE LOST. So much the rather thou ctzleflial light, Shine inward and the mind through ail her pow'.s Irradiire; there plant eyes ; all mit fr, In thence Pnrge and difpe7fe ; that I may fee and tell 01 things invifible to mortal fight. Now had th' Almighty Father from above, (From the pure empyrean where he tits High thron'd above all h. ight) bent down his eye, His own works and their wcrks at once to view. About him all the Sailaities of heav'n 60 StoeA hick as flats, and from his fight receiv'd Beatitude pail utCrance: on his right The radiant image of his gLry fat, His only Son. On earth he firft beheld Our two frit pa;ents, yet the only two 6$ Of mankind, in the happy garden plac'd, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love; Uninterrupted joy, unrival'd love In blifsful folitude. He then furvcy'd Hell and the gulf between, and Satan there Coating the wall of heav'n on this fide night, In the dun air fubliine ; and ready now To ftoop with wearied wings, and willing feet On the bare outfide of this world that feem'd Firm land imbotean'd without firmament Uncertain which, in ocean or in air. HimGA beholding from his prolpea highs Wherein pat, prefent, future he beholds, Thus to his only S.n forefeeing tpake. Only begotten Sln, feet thou what rage Tranfports our adverfary, whom n, bounds Prefcrib'd, no bars of hell, nor all the chains Heap'd on him there, nor yet the main Abyfs With t5y
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