Paradise Regained: The First Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFFHIFJKLMANFF FOFPQRFSFTNLUFVWFMXY FFSFXZA2B2FC2D2E2FD2 LFF2G2FFH2SXFI2J2SD2 K2OL2M2A2H2N2FD2O2P2 SQ2FFFR2H2LLFS2T2U2V V2FFW2K2C2SFFX2Y2Z2F A3B3B2C3XD3FFE3FF3FG 3H3FFI3FFFFFSFC2J3FP LFG2N2FLLK3G2L3SFM3O FLFN3ZFLGO3P3K3K3N3Q 3K3LK3LLLK3FFFFK3K3P FK3LZFFK3FFLFPSK3LLF FFK3H2R3K3FB3FFFS3K3 FFMFR3K3LL2K3T3SC2H2 FFK3K2U3K2FSFK3K2C2I 3K2LV3K3LC2FLFK2SFLO FWSFFK3LLFSFR2FFK3SI 3W3LK3FFFFN2K2OG2FLF K2LM2K3TK3K3LX3K2K3L FFLK3K3FK3LFK3N2FFUF SFFFFFSY3Z3K3I3A4LD2 I3SK3K3LK2W3K2FFLK3W 3K2K2FK2SLK2FK2LFFD2 FFLFFFFSFLFFFFFLS2FF B4W3K3K3FM3W3FFSK3K3 C4FFFK2K2K3K2LFK3LFD 4D4ZFFK3K3E4LLLZ3FFF LK2FK3FN2FL2FFFLK3B4 SF4LSK2K3N2N2LSK3FK3 FFK3SSFLLFFK2G4ZK3K3 W3FSFK3K2FFFK3FK3K2F F4UZF4LFLFSUK2F4W3I3 K2FK2FSK2SK2K2N2K3LK 2FK2K3K3FN2K2H4FK2LF LFFN2| I who erewhile the happy Garden sung | A |
| By one man's disobedience lost now sing | B |
| Recovered Paradise to all mankind | C |
| By one man's firm obedience fully tried | D |
| Through all temptation and the Tempter foiled | E |
| In all his wiles defeated and repulsed | F |
| And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness | G |
| Thou Spirit who led'st this glorious Eremite | F |
| Into the desert his victorious field | F |
| Against the spiritual foe and brought'st him thence | H |
| By proof the undoubted Son of God inspire | I |
| As thou art wont my prompted song else mute | F |
| And bear through highth or depth of Nature's bounds | J |
| With prosperous wing full summed to tell of deeds | K |
| Above heroic though in secret done | L |
| And unrecorded left through many an age | M |
| Worthy to have not remained so long unsung | A |
| Now had the great Proclaimer with a voice | N |
| More awful than the sound of trumpet cried | F |
| Repentance and Heaven's kingdom nigh at hand | F |
| To all baptized To his great baptism flocked | F |
| With awe the regions round and with them came | O |
| From Nazareth the son of Joseph deemed | F |
| To the flood Jordan came as then obscure | P |
| Unmarked unknown But him the Baptist soon | Q |
| Descried divinely warned and witness bore | R |
| As to his worthier and would have resigned | F |
| To him his heavenly office Nor was long | S |
| His witness unconfirmed on him baptized | F |
| Heaven opened and in likeness of a Dove | T |
| The Spirit descended while the Father's voice | N |
| From Heaven pronounced him his beloved Son | L |
| That heard the Adversary who roving still | U |
| About the world at that assembly famed | F |
| Would not be last and with the voice divine | V |
| Nigh thunder struck the exalted man to whom | W |
| Such high attest was given a while surveyed | F |
| With wonder then with envy fraught and rage | M |
| Flies to his place nor rests but in mid air | X |
| To council summons all his mighty Peers | Y |
| Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved | F |
| A gloomy consistory and them amidst | F |
| With looks aghast and sad he thus bespake | S |
| O ancient Powers of Air and this wide World | F |
| For much more willingly I mention Air | X |
| This our old conquest than remember Hell | Z |
| Our hated habitation well ye know | A2 |
| How many ages as the years of men | B2 |
| This Universe we have possessed and ruled | F |
| In manner at our will the affairs of Earth | C2 |
| Since Adam and his facile consort Eve | D2 |
| Lost Paradise deceived by me though since | E2 |
| With dread attending when that fatal wound | F |
| Shall be inflicted by the seed of Eve | D2 |
| Upon my head Long the decrees of Heaven | L |
| Delay for longest time to Him is short | F |
| And now too soon for us the circling hours | F2 |
| This dreaded time have compassed wherein we | G2 |
| Must bide the stroke of that long threatened wound | F |
| At least if so we can and by the head | F |
| Broken be not intended all our power | H2 |
| To be infringed our freedom and our being | S |
| In this fair empire won of Earth and Air | X |
| For this ill news I bring The Woman's Seed | F |
| Destined to this is late of woman born | I2 |
| His birth to our just fear gave no small cause | J2 |
| But his growth now to youth's full flower displaying | S |
| All virtue grace and wisdom to achieve | D2 |
| Things highest greatest multiplies my fear | K2 |
| Before him a great Prophet to proclaim | O |
| His coming is sent harbinger who all | L2 |
| Invites and in the consecrated stream | M2 |
| Pretends to wash off sin and fit them so | A2 |
| Purified to receive him pure or rather | H2 |
| To do him honour as their King All come | N2 |
| And he himself among them was baptized | F |
| Not thence to be more pure but to receive | D2 |
| The testimony of Heaven that who he is | O2 |
| Thenceforth the nations may not doubt I saw | P2 |
| The Prophet do him reverence on him rising | S |
| Out of the water Heaven above the clouds | Q2 |
| Unfold her crystal doors thence on his head | F |
| A perfet Dove descend whate'er it meant | F |
| And out of Heaven the sovraign voice I heard | F |
| 'This is my Son beloved in him am pleased ' | R2 |
| His mother than is mortal but his Sire | H2 |
| He who obtains the monarchy of Heaven | L |
| And what will He not do to advance his Son | L |
| His first begot we know and sore have felt | F |
| When his fierce thunder drove us to the Deep | S2 |
| Who this is we must learn for Man he seems | T2 |
| In all his lineaments though in his face | U2 |
| The glimpses of his Father's glory shine | V |
| Ye see our danger on the utmost edge | V2 |
| Of hazard which admits no long debate | F |
| But must with something sudden be opposed | F |
| Not force but well couched fraud well woven snares | W2 |
| Ere in the head of nations he appear | K2 |
| Their king their leader and supreme on Earth | C2 |
| I when no other durst sole undertook | S |
| The dismal expedition to find out | F |
| And ruin Adam and the exploit performed | F |
| Successfully a calmer voyage now | X2 |
| Will waft me and the way found prosperous once | Y2 |
| Induces best to hope of like success | Z2 |
| He ended and his words impression left | F |
| Of much amazement to the infernal crew | A3 |
| Distracted and surprised with deep dismay | B3 |
| At these sad tidings But no time was then | B2 |
| For long indulgence to their fears or grief | C3 |
| Unanimous they all commit the care | X |
| And management of this man enterprise | D3 |
| To him their great Dictator whose attempt | F |
| At first against mankind so well had thrived | F |
| In Adam's overthrow and led their march | E3 |
| From Hell's deep vaulted den to dwell in light | F |
| Regents and potentates and kings yea gods | F3 |
| Of many a pleasant realm and province wide | F |
| So to the coast of Jordan he directs | G3 |
| His easy steps girded with snaky wiles | H3 |
| Where he might likeliest find this new declared | F |
| This man of men attested Son of God | F |
| Temptation and all guile on him to try | I3 |
| So to subvert whom he suspected raised | F |
| To end his reign on Earth so long enjoyed | F |
| But contrary unweeting he fulfilled | F |
| The purposed counsel pre ordained and fixed | F |
| Of the Most High who in full frequence bright | F |
| Of Angels thus to Gabriel smiling spake | S |
| Gabriel this day by proof thou shalt behold | F |
| Thou and all Angels conversant on Earth | C2 |
| With Man or men's affairs how I begin | J3 |
| To verify that solemn message late | F |
| On which I sent thee to the Virgin pure | P |
| In Galilee that she should bear a son | L |
| Great in renown and called the Son of God | F |
| Then told'st her doubting how these things could be | G2 |
| To her a virgin that on her should come | N2 |
| The Holy Ghost and the power of the Highest | F |
| O'ershadow her This Man born and now upgrown | L |
| To shew him worthy of his birth divine | L |
| And high prediction henceforth I expose | K3 |
| To Satan let him tempt and now assay | G2 |
| His utmost subtlety because he boasts | L3 |
| And vaunts of his great cunning to the throng | S |
| Of his Apostasy He might have learnt | F |
| Less overweening since he failed in Job | M3 |
| Whose constant perseverance overcame | O |
| Whate'er his cruel malice could invent | F |
| He now shall know I can produce a man | L |
| Of female seed far abler to resist | F |
| All his solicitations and at length | N3 |
| All his vast force and drive him back to Hell | Z |
| Winning by conquest what the first man lost | F |
| By fallacy surprised But first I mean | L |
| To exercise him in the Wilderness | G |
| There he shall first lay down the rudiments | O3 |
| Of his great warfare ere I send him forth | P3 |
| To conquer Sin and Death the two grand foes | K3 |
| By humiliation and strong sufferance | K3 |
| His weakness shall o'ercome Satanic strength | N3 |
| And all the world and mass of sinful flesh | Q3 |
| That all the Angels and aethereal Powers | K3 |
| They now and men hereafter may discern | L |
| From what consummate virtue I have chose | K3 |
| This perfet man by merit called my Son | L |
| To earn salvation for the sons of men | L |
| So spake the Eternal Father and all Heaven | L |
| Admiring stood a space then into hymns | K3 |
| Burst forth and in celestial measures moved | F |
| Circling the throne and singing while the hand | F |
| Sung with the voice and this the argument | F |
| Victory and triumph to the Son of God | F |
| Now entering his great duel not of arms | K3 |
| But to vanquish by wisdom hellish wiles | K3 |
| The Father knows the Son therefore secure | P |
| Ventures his filial virtue though untried | F |
| Against whate'er may tempt whate'er seduce | K3 |
| Allure or terrify or undermine | L |
| Be frustrate all ye stratagems of Hell | Z |
| And devilish machinations come to nought | F |
| So they in Heaven their odes and vigils tuned | F |
| Meanwhile the Son of God who yet some days | K3 |
| Lodged in Bethabara where John baptized | F |
| Musing and much revolving in his breast | F |
| How best the mighty work he might begin | L |
| Of Saviour to mankind and which way first | F |
| Publish his godlike office now mature | P |
| One day forth walked alone the Spirit leading | S |
| And his deep thoughts the better to converse | K3 |
| With solitude till far from track of men | L |
| Thought following thought and step by step led on | L |
| He entered now the bordering Desert wild | F |
| And with dark shades and rocks environed round | F |
| His holy meditations thus pursued | F |
| O what a multitude of thoughts at once | K3 |
| Awakened in me swarm while I consider | H2 |
| What from within I feel myself and hear | R3 |
| What from without comes often to my ears | K3 |
| Ill sorting with my present state compared | F |
| When I was yet a child no childish play | B3 |
| To me was pleasing all my mind was set | F |
| Serious to learn and know and thence to do | F |
| What might be public good myself I thought | F |
| Born to that end born to promote all truth | S3 |
| All righteous things Therefore above my years | K3 |
| The Law of God I read and found it sweet | F |
| Made it my whole delight and in it grew | F |
| To such perfection that ere yet my age | M |
| Had measured twice six years at our great Feast | F |
| I went into the Temple there to hear | R3 |
| The teachers of our Law and to propose | K3 |
| What might improve my knowledge or their own | L |
| And was admired by all Yet this not all | L2 |
| To which my spirit aspired Victorious deeds | K3 |
| Flamed in my heart heroic acts one while | T3 |
| To rescue Israel from the Roman yoke | S |
| Then to subdue and quell o'er all the earth | C2 |
| Brute violence and proud tyrannic power | H2 |
| Till truth were freed and equity restored | F |
| Yet held it more humane more heavenly first | F |
| By winning words to conquer willing hearts | K3 |
| And make persuasion do the work of fear | K2 |
| At least to try and teach the erring soul | U3 |
| Not wilfully misdoing but unware | K2 |
| Misled the stubborn only to subdue | F |
| These growing thoughts my mother soon perceiving | S |
| By words at times cast forth inly rejoiced | F |
| And said to me apart 'High are thy thoughts | K3 |
| O Son but nourish them and let them soar | K2 |
| To what highth sacred virtue and true worth | C2 |
| Can raise them though above example high | I3 |
| By matchless deeds express thy matchless Sire | K2 |
| For know thou art no son of mortal man | L |
| Though men esteem thee low of parentage | V3 |
| Thy Father is the Eternal King who rules | K3 |
| All Heaven and Earth Angels and sons of men | L |
| A messenger from God foretold thy birth | C2 |
| Conceived in me a virgin he foretold | F |
| Thou shouldst be great and sit on David's throne | L |
| And of thy kingdom there should be no end | F |
| At thy nativity a glorious quire | K2 |
| Of Angels in the fields of Bethlehem sung | S |
| To shepherds watching at their folds by night | F |
| And told them the Messiah now was born | L |
| Where they might see him and to thee they came | O |
| Directed to the manger where thou lay'st | F |
| For in the inn was left no better room | W |
| A Star not seen before in heaven appearing | S |
| Guided the Wise Men thither from the East | F |
| To honour thee with incense myrrh and gold | F |
| By whose bright course led on they found the place | K3 |
| Affirming it thy star new graven in heaven | L |
| By which they knew thee King of Israel born | L |
| Just Simeon and prophetic Anna warned | F |
| By vision found thee in the Temple and spake | S |
| Before the altar and the vested priest | F |
| Like things of thee to all that present stood ' | R2 |
| This having heart straight I again revolved | F |
| The Law and Prophets searching what was writ | F |
| Concerning the Messiah to our scribes | K3 |
| Known partly and soon found of whom they spake | S |
| I am this chiefly that my way must lie | I3 |
| Through many a hard assay even to the death | W3 |
| Ere I the promised kingdom can attain | L |
| Or work redemption for mankind whose sins' | K3 |
| Full weight must be transferred upon my head | F |
| Yet neither thus disheartened or dismayed | F |
| The time prefixed I waited when behold | F |
| The Baptist of whose birth I oft had heard | F |
| Not knew by sight now come who was to come | N2 |
| Before Messiah and his way prepare | K2 |
| I as all others to his baptism came | O |
| Which I believed was from above but he | G2 |
| Straight knew me and with loudest voice proclaimed | F |
| Me him for it was shewn him so from Heaven | L |
| Me him whose harbinger he was and first | F |
| Refused on me his baptism to confer | K2 |
| As much his greater and was hardly won | L |
| But as I rose out of the laving stream | M2 |
| Heaven opened her eternal doors from whence | K3 |
| The Spirit descended on me like a Dove | T |
| And last the sum of all my Father's voice | K3 |
| Audibly heard from Heaven pronounced me his | K3 |
| Me his beloved Son in whom alone | L |
| He was well pleased by which I knew the time | X3 |
| Now full that I no more should live obscure | K2 |
| But openly begin as best becomes | K3 |
| The authority which I derived from Heaven | L |
| And now by some strong motion I am led | F |
| Into this wilderness to what intent | F |
| I learn not yet Perhaps I need not know | L |
| For what concerns my knowledge God reveals | K3 |
| So spake our Morning Star then in his rise | K3 |
| And looking round on every side beheld | F |
| A pathless desert dusk with horrid shades | K3 |
| The way he came not having marked return | L |
| Was difficult by human steps untrod | F |
| And he still on was led but with such thoughts | K3 |
| Accompanied of things past and to come | N2 |
| Lodged in his breast as well might recommend | F |
| Such solitude before choicest society | F |
| Full forty days he passed whether on hill | U |
| Sometimes anon in shady vale each night | F |
| Under the covert of some ancient oak | S |
| Or cedar to defend him from the dew | F |
| Or harboured in one cave is not revealed | F |
| Nor tasted human food nor hunger felt | F |
| Till those days ended hungered then at last | F |
| Among wild beasts They at his sight grew mild | F |
| Nor sleeping him nor waking harmed his walk | S |
| The fiery serpent fled and noxious worm | Y3 |
| The lion and fierce tiger glared aloof | Z3 |
| But now an aged man in rural weeds | K3 |
| Following as seemed the quest of some stray eye | I3 |
| Or withered sticks to gather which might serve | A4 |
| Against a winter's day when winds blow keen | L |
| To warm him wet returned from field at eve | D2 |
| He saw approach who first with curious eye | I3 |
| Perused him then with words thus uttered spake | S |
| Sir what ill chance hath brought thee to this place | K3 |
| So far from path or road of men who pass | K3 |
| In troop or caravan for single none | L |
| Durst ever who returned and dropt not here | K2 |
| His carcass pined with hunger and with droughth | W3 |
| I ask the rather and the more admire | K2 |
| For that to me thou seem'st the man whom late | F |
| Our new baptizing Prophet at the ford | F |
| Of Jordan honoured so and called thee Son | L |
| Of God I saw and heard for we sometimes | K3 |
| Who dwell this wild constrained by want come forth | W3 |
| To town or village nigh nighest is far | K2 |
| Where aught we hear and curious are to hear | K2 |
| What happens new fame also finds us out | F |
| To whom the Son of God Who brought me hither | K2 |
| Will bring me hence no other guide I seek | S |
| By miracle he may replied the swain | L |
| What other way I see not for we here | K2 |
| Live on tough roots and stubs to thirst inured | F |
| More than the camel and to drink go far | K2 |
| Men to much misery and hardship born | L |
| But if thou be the Son of God command | F |
| That out of these hard stones be made thee bread | F |
| So shalt thou save thyself and us relieve | D2 |
| With food whereof we wretched seldom taste | F |
| He ended and the Son of God replied | F |
| Think'st thou such force in bread Is it not written | L |
| For I discern thee other than thou seem'st | F |
| Man lives not by bread only but each word | F |
| Proceeding from the mouth of God who fed | F |
| Our fathers here with manna In the Mount | F |
| Moses was forty days nor eat nor drank | S |
| And forty days Eliah without food | F |
| Wandered this barren waste the same I now | L |
| Why dost thou then suggest to me distrust | F |
| Knowing who I am as I know who thou art | F |
| Whom thus answered the Arch Fiend now undisguised | F |
| 'Tis true I am that Spirit unfortunate | F |
| Who leagued with millions more in rash revolt | F |
| Kept not my happy station but was driven | L |
| With them from bliss to the bottomless Deep | S2 |
| Yet to that hideous place not so confined | F |
| By rigour unconniving but that oft | F |
| Leaving my dolorous prison I enjoy | B4 |
| Large liberty to round this globe of Earth | W3 |
| Or range in the Air nor from the Heaven of Heavens | K3 |
| Hath he excluded my resort sometimes | K3 |
| I came among the Sons of God when he | F |
| Gave up into my hands Uzzean Job | M3 |
| To prove him and illustrate his high worth | W3 |
| And when to all his Angels he proposed | F |
| To draw the proud king Ahab into fraud | F |
| That he might fall in Ramoth they demurring | S |
| I undertook that office and the tongues | K3 |
| Of all his flattering prophets glibbed with lies | K3 |
| To his destruction as I had in charge | C4 |
| For what he bids I do Though I have lost | F |
| Much lustre of my native brightness lost | F |
| To be beloved of God I have not lost | F |
| To love at least contemplate and admire | K2 |
| What I see excellent in good or fair | K2 |
| Or virtuous I should so have lost all sense | K3 |
| What can be then less in me than desire | K2 |
| To see thee and approach thee whom I know | L |
| Declared the Son of God to hear attent | F |
| Thy wisdom and behold thy godlike deeds | K3 |
| Men generally think me much a foe | L |
| To all mankind Why should I they to me | F |
| Never did wrong or violence By them | D4 |
| I lost not what I lost rather by them | D4 |
| I gained what I have gained and with them dwell | Z |
| Copartner in these regions of the World | F |
| If not disposer lend them oft my aid | F |
| Oft my advice by presages and signs | K3 |
| And answers oracles portents and dreams | K3 |
| Whereby they may direct their future life | E4 |
| Envy they say excites me thus to gain | L |
| Companions of my misery and woe | L |
| At first it may be but long since with woe | L |
| Nearer acquainted now I feel by proof | Z3 |
| That fellowship in pain divides not smart | F |
| Nor lightens aught each man's peculiar load | F |
| Small consolation then were Man adjoined | F |
| This wounds me most what can it less that Man | L |
| Man fallen shall be restored I never more | K2 |
| To whom our Saviour sternly thus replied | F |
| Deservedly thou griev'st composed of lies | K3 |
| From the beginning and in lies wilt end | F |
| Who boast'st release from Hell and leave to come | N2 |
| Into the Heaven of Heavens Thou com'st indeed | F |
| As a poor miserable captive thrall | L2 |
| Comes to the place where he before had sat | F |
| Among the prime in splendour now deposed | F |
| Ejected emptied gazed unpitied shunned | F |
| A spectacle of ruin or of scorn | L |
| To all the host of Heaven The happy place | K3 |
| Imparts to thee no happiness no joy | B4 |
| Rather inflames thy torment representing | S |
| Lost bliss to thee no more communicable | F4 |
| So never more in Hell than when in Heaven | L |
| But thou art serviceable to Heaven's King | S |
| Wilt thou impute to obedience what thy fear | K2 |
| Extorts or pleasure to do ill excites | K3 |
| What but thy malice moved thee to misdeem | N2 |
| Of righteous Job then cruelly to afflict him | N2 |
| With all inflictions but his patience won | L |
| The other service was thy chosen task | S |
| To be a liar in four hundred mouths | K3 |
| For lying is thy sustenance thy food | F |
| Yet thou pretend'st to truth all oracles | K3 |
| By thee are given and what confessed more true | F |
| Among the nations That hath been thy craft | F |
| By mixing somewhat true to vent more lies | K3 |
| But what have been thy answers what but dark | S |
| Ambiguous and with double sense deluding | S |
| Which they who asked have seldom understood | F |
| And not well understood as good not known | L |
| Who ever by consulting at thy shrine | L |
| Returned the wiser or the more instruct | F |
| To fly or follow what concerned him most | F |
| And run not sooner to his fatal snare | K2 |
| For God hath justly given the nations up | G4 |
| To thy delusions justly since they fell | Z |
| Idolatrous But when his purpose is | K3 |
| Among them to declare his providence | K3 |
| To thee not known whence hast thou then thy truth | W3 |
| But from him or his Angels president | F |
| In every province who themselves disdaining | S |
| To approach thy temples give thee in command | F |
| What to the smallest tittle thou shalt say | K3 |
| To thy adorers Thou with trembling fear | K2 |
| Or like a fawning parasite obey'st | F |
| Then to thyself ascrib'st the truth foretold | F |
| But this thy glory shall be soon retrenched | F |
| No more shalt thou by oracling abuse | K3 |
| The Gentiles henceforth oracles are ceased | F |
| And thou no more with pomp and sacrifice | K3 |
| Shalt be enquired at Delphos or elsewhere | K2 |
| At least in vain for they shall find thee mute | F |
| God hath now sent his living Oracle | F4 |
| Into the world to teach his final will | U |
| And sends his Spirit of Truth henceforth to dwell | Z |
| In pious hearts an inward oracle | F4 |
| To all truth requisite for men to know | L |
| So spake our Saviour but the subtle Fiend | F |
| Though inly stung with anger and disdain | L |
| Dissembled and this answer smooth returned | F |
| Sharply thou hast insisted on rebuke | S |
| And urged me hard with doings which not will | U |
| But misery hath wrested from me Where | K2 |
| Easily canst thou find one miserable | F4 |
| And not inforced oft times to part from truth | W3 |
| If it may stand him more in stead to lie | I3 |
| Say and unsay feign flatter or abjure | K2 |
| But thou art placed above me thou art Lord | F |
| From thee I can and must submiss endure | K2 |
| Cheek or reproof and glad to scape so quit | F |
| Hard are the ways of truth and rough to walk | S |
| Smooth on the tongue discoursed pleasing to the ear | K2 |
| And tunable as sylvan pipe or song | S |
| What wonder then if I delight to hear | K2 |
| Her dictates from thy mouth most men admire | K2 |
| Virtue who follow not her lore Permit me | N2 |
| To hear thee when I come since no man comes | K3 |
| And talk at least though I despair to attain | L |
| Thy Father who is holy wise and pure | K2 |
| Suffers the hypocrite or atheous priest | F |
| To tread his sacred courts and minister | K2 |
| About his altar handling holy things | K3 |
| Praying or vowing and voutsafed his voice | K3 |
| To Balaam reprobate a prophet yet | F |
| Inspired disdain not such access to me | N2 |
| To whom our Saviour with unaltered brow | K2 |
| Thy coming hither though I know thy scope | H4 |
| I bid not or forbid Do as thou find'st | F |
| Permission from above thou canst not more | K2 |
| He added not and Satan bowling low | L |
| His gray dissimulation disappeared | F |
| Into thin air diffused for now began | L |
| Night with her sullen wing to double shade | F |
| The desert fowls in their clay nests were couched | F |
| And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam | N2 |
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