Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes : The End. REGAIND. A POEM. In IV BOOKS. To which is added SAMSON AGONISTES. The Author JOHN MILTON. LONDON, Printed by J. M for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleetftreet, near Temple-Bar. PARADISE REGAIN'D. The First Book. I WHO e're while the happy Garden sung, By one mans firm obedience fully tri'd Thou Spirit who ledst this glorious Eremite Against the Spiritual Foe, and broughtst him thence And unrecorded left through many an Age, Now had the great Proclaimer with a voice ΙΟ 20 His witness unconfirm'd on him baptiz'd O ancient Powers of Air and this wide world, 30 40 50 And now too soon for us the circling hours This dreaded time have compast, wherein we Must bide the stroak of that long threatn'd wound, бо To be infring'd, our freedom and our being 70 |