PARADISE LOST. BOOK I. Or Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Brought death into the world, and all our woe, Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, Rose out of Chaos: or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues 1 8 Things unattempted yet in prose or rhime. 16 And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, To set himself in glory above his peers, He trusted to have equalled the Most High, 17 25 34 42 |