Not to deftroy, but root them out of Heaven:
The overthrown he rais'd, and, as a herd
Of goats or timorous flock together throng'd,
Drove them before him thunder-ftruck, pursued,
With terrors and with furies, to the bounds
And cryftal wall of Heav'n, which opening wide,
Roll'd inward, and a fpacious gap difclos'd
Into the wafteful deep; the monftrous fight
Struck them with horror backward, but far worfe
Urg'd them behind; headlong themselves they threw
Down from the verge of Heav'n; eternal wrath
Burnt after them to the bottomless pit.

"Hell heard th' unfufferable noife, Hell faw
Heav'n ruining from Heav'n, and would have fled
Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep
Her dark foundations, and too faft had bound.
Nine days they fell; confounded Chaos roar'd,
And felt tenfold confufion in their fall

Through his wild anarchy, fo huge a rout
Encumber'd him with ruin: Hell at laft

Yawning receiv'd them whole, and on them clos'd;
Hell their fit habitation, fraught with fire

Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain.
Disburden'd Heav'n rejoic'd, and foon repair'd
Her mural breach, returning whence it roll'd.
Sole victor from th' expulfion of his foes
Meffiah his triumphal chariot turn'd:

To meet him all his Saints, who filent ftood
Eye-witneffes of his almighty acts,

With jubilee advanc'd; and as they went,

Shading with branching palm, each order bright,

Sung triumph, and him fung victorious King,
Son, Heir, and Lord, to him dominion given,
Worthieft to reign: he celebrated rode
Triumphant through mid Heav'n, into the courts.
And temple of his mighty Father thron'd
On high; who into glory him receiv'd,
Where now he fits at the right hand of bliss.

"Thus measuring things in Heav'n by things on
Earth,

At thy request, and that thou may'st beware
By what is past, to thee I have reveal'd
What might have else to human race been hid;
The difcord which befel, and war in Heaven
Among th' angelic Pow'rs, and the deep fall
Of those too high afpiring, who rebell'd
With Satan; he who envies now thy ftate,
Who now is plotting how he may feduce
Thee alfo from obedience, that with him,
Bereav'd of happiness, thou may'st partake
His punishment, eternal mifery;

Which would be all his folace and revenge,
As a despite done against the most High,
Thee once to gain companion of his woe.
But liften not to his temptations, warn
Thy weaker; let it profit thee to' have heard,
By terrible example, the reward

Of disobedience; firm they might have stood,
Yet fell remember, and fear to tranfgrefs."

:

THE END OF THE SIXTH BOOK.

THE

SEVENTH BOOK

OF

PARADISE LOST.

THE ARGUMENT.

Raphael, at the request of Adam, relates how and wherefore this world was first created; that God, after the expelling of Satan and his Angels out of Heaven, declared his pleasure to create another world and other creatures to dwell therein; fends his Son with glory and attendance of Angels to perform the work of creation in fix days: the Angels celebrate with hymns the performance thereof, and his reafcenfion into Heaven.

PARADISE LOST.

BOOK VII.

DESCEND from Heav'n, Urania, by that name
If rightly thou art call'd, whofe voice divine
Following, above th' Olympian hill I foar,
Above the flight of Pegaféan wing.

The meaning, not the name, I call: for thou
Nor of the Mufes nine, nor on the top
Of old Olympus dwell'ft, but, heav'nly born,
Before the hills appear'd, or fountain flow'd,
Thou with eternal wisdom didft converse,
Wisdom thy fifter, and with her didft play
In prefence of th' almighty Father, pleas'd
With thy celeftial song. Up led by thee
Into the Heav'n of Heav'ns I have prefum'd,
An earthly gueft, and drawn empyreal air,
Thy temp'ring; with like fafety guided down.
Return me to my native element:

Left from this flying fteed unrein'd, (as once
Bellerophon, though from a lower clime)