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Milton a Poem, copy B, object 3 (Bentley 3, Erdman 2, Keynes 3)

 

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02                                             MILTON
03                                         Book the First
04 Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poets Song
05 Record the journey of immortal Milton thro' your Realms
06 Of terror & mild moony lustre, in soft sexual delusions
07 Of varied beauty, to delight the wanderer and repose
08 n His burning thirst & freezing hunger! Come into my hand
09 By your mild power; descending down the Nerves of my right arm
10 From out the Portals of my Brain, where by your ministry
11 The Eternal Great Humanity Divine. planted his Paradise
12 And in, it caus'd the Spectres of the Dead to take sweet forms
13 In likeness of himself. Tell also of the False Tongue! vegetated
14 Beneath your land of shadows: of its sacrifices. and
15 Its offerings: even till Jesus, the image of the Invisible God
16 Became its prey: a curse, an offering, and an atonement,
17 For Death Eternal. in the heavens of Albion, & before the Gates
18 Of Jerusalem his Emanation; in the heavens beneath Beulah
19 Say first? what mov'd Milton, who walkd about in Eternity
20 One hundred years. pondring the intricate mazes of Providence
21 Unhappy tho in heav'n, he obey'd, he murmur'd not. he was silent
22 Viewing his Sixfold Emanation scatter'd thro' the deep
23 In torment! To go into the deep her to redeem & himself perish?
24 What cause at length mov'd Milton to this unexampled deed
25 A Bards prophetic Song! for sitting at eternal tables,
26 Terrific among the Sons of Albion in chorus solemn & loud
27 A Bard broke forth! all sat attentive to the awful man.
28 Mark well my words! they are of your eternal salvation;
29 Three Classes are Created by the Hammer of Los, & Woven

 

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