an staid not to reply, [ 1010 ]

    But glad t now his Sea should find a shore,

    itie and force renewd

    Springs upward like a Pyramid of fire

    Into the shock

    Of figs, on all sides round [ 1015 ]

    Environd wins

    And more endangerd, then when Argo passd

    t tling Rocks:

    Or whe Larbord shunnd

    Ceard. [ 1020 ]

    So y and labour hard

    Movd on, y and labour hee;

    But , soon after when man fell,

    Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain

    Following rack, suche will of heavn, [ 1025 ]

    Pavd after n way

    Over the dark Abyss, whose boiling Gulf

    tamely endurd a Bridge of h

    From inud reacmost Orbe

    Of ts perverse [ 1030 ]

    itercourse pass to and fro

    to tempt or punisals, except whom

    God and good Angels guard by special grace.

    But no last the sacred influence

    Of lighe walls of heavn [ 1035 ]

    Ss farr into t

    A glimmering da begins

    verge, and Co retire

    As from most works a brokn foe

    itumult less and ile din, [ 1040 ]

    t Satan oil, and noh ease

    afts on t

    And like a en Vessel holds

    Gladly t, tackle torn;

    Or in tier e, resembling Air, [ 1045 ]

    eig leasure to behold

    Farr off tended wide

    In circuit, undetermind square or round,

    itotlements adornd

    Of living Sapive Seat; [ 1050 ]

    And fast by hanging in a golden Chain

    t arr

    Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon.

    t h mischievous revenge,

    Accurst, and in a cursed hour he hies. [ 1055 ]