ts, t voluntarie move

    he wakeful Bird

    Sings darkling, and in s Covert hid

    tunes urnal Note. the Year [ 40 ]

    Seasons return, but not to me returns

    Day, or t approach of Evn or Morn,

    Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose,

    Or flocks, or heards, or human face divine;

    But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark [ 45 ]

    Surrounds me, from the chearful wayes of men

    Cut off, and for the Book of knowledg fair

    Presented h a Universal blanc

    Of Natures o mee expungd and rasd,

    And  one entrance quite s out. [ 50 ]

    So mucial light

    Shrough all her powers

    Irradiate, t eyes, all mist from thence

    Purge and disperse, t I may see and tell

    Of to mortal sight. [ 55 ]

    Noher from above,

    From ts

    down his eye,

    once to view:

    About ities of heaven [ 60 ]

    Stood tarrs, and from  receivd

    Beatitude past utterance; on

    t image of ,

    beheld

    Our t Parents, yet two [ 65 ]

    Of mankind, in t,

    Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,

    Uninterrupted joy, unrivald love

    In blissful solitude; hen surveyd

    an there [ 70 ]

    Coasting t

    In the dun Air sublime, and ready now

    to stoop

    On tside of t seemd

    Firm land imbosomd  Firmament, [ 75 ]

    Uncertain which, in Ocean or in Air.