THE ARGUMENT. ADAM inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge: Adam assents, and still desirous to detain Raphael, relates to him what he remembered since his own creation, his placing in Paradise, his talk with God concerning solitude and fit society, his first meeting and nuptials with Eve, his discourse with the angel thereupon: who after admonitions repeated, departs. PARADISE LOST. BOOK VIII. THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear What thanks sufficient, or what recompense Things else by me unsearchable, now heard Their distance argues and their swift return Round this opacious earth, this punctual spot,* * "This punctual spot :" no bigger than a point. God and his works, Creator him they sung, The waters from the waters and God made In circuit to the uttermost convex For haste: such flight the great command impress'd |