, ofspring of -born,

    Or of ternal Coeternal beam

    May I express t,

    And never but in unapproac

    D from Eternitie, d thee, [ 5 ]

    Brig essence increate.

    Or  tream,

    ain he Sun,

    Before t, and at the voice

    Of God, as le didst invest [ 10 ]

    ters dark and deep,

    on from te.

    t noh bolder wing,

    Escapt tygian Pool, taind

    In t obscure sojourn, w [ 15 ]

    tter and through middle darkness borne

    ites to th Orphean Lyre

    I sung of Cernal Night,

    taugo venture down

    t, and up to reascend, [ 20 ]

    t safe,

    And feel tal Lamp; but thou

    Revisitst not t rowle in vain

    to find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;

    So t thir Orbs, [ 25 ]

    Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more

    Cease I to wander w

    Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie hill,

    Smit  chief

    th [ 30 ]

    t was, and warbling flow,

    Nig: nor somtimes forget

    te,

    So hem in renown,

    Blind thamyris and blind M?onides, [ 35 ]

    And tiresias and Ps old.