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Of that wilde Rout that tore the Thracian Bard Urania, and fit audience find, though few.īut drive farr off the barbarous dissonance Purples the East: still govern thou my Song, Visit’st my slumbers Nightly, or when Morn In darkness, and with dangers compast round, On evil dayes though fall’n, and evil tongues To hoarce or mute, though fall’n on evil dayes, More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang’d Standing on Earth, not rapt above the Pole, Half yet remaines unsung, but narrower bound Least from this flying Steed unrein’d, (as onceĮrroneous there to wander and forlorne. Thy tempring with like safetie guided down Into the Heav’n of Heav’ns I have presum’d,Īn Earthlie Guest, and drawn Empyreal Aire, In presence of th’ Almightie Father, pleas’d Wisdom thy Sister, and with her didst play Of old Olympus dwell’st, but Heav’nlie borne,īefore the Hills appeerd, or Fountain flow’d, The meaning, not the Name I call: for thou If rightly thou art call’d, whose Voice divineįollowing, above th’ Olympian Hill I soare, 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, declar’d his pleasure to create another World and other Creatures to dwell therein sends his Son with Glory and attendance of Angels to perform the work of Creation in six dayes: the Angels celebrate with Hymns the performance thereof, and his reascention into Heaven. 58 John Milton: Paradise Lost (Books 7-9) BOOK 7 THE ARGUMENT