A Poem,

IN TWELVE BOOKS,

BY

JOHN MILTON.

Three Poets in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and Engiand did adorn,
The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd,
The next in dignity, in both the last,
The force of nature could no further go

To make a third, she join'd the former two.

Dryde

IN TWO VOLUMES.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY J. LOCKEN.

1828.