tairs were such as whereon Jacob saw [ 510 ]

        Angels asding and desding, bands

        Of Guardians bright, when he from Esau fled

        to Padan-Aram in the field of Luz,

        Dreaming by nighe open Skie,

        And e of heavn [ 515 ]

        Eacair mysteriously , nor stood

        t drao imes

        Vie Sea flowd

        Of Jasper, or of liquid Pearle, whereon

        er came from Earth, sayling arrivd, [ 520 ]

        afted by Angels, or flehe Lake

        Rapt in a C draeeds.

        tairs    down, wo dare

        t, ravate

        he dores of Bliss. [ 525 ]

        Direct against wh,

        Just ore t of Paradise,

        A passage doo th, a passage wide,

        ider by farr t of after-times

        Over Mount Sion, and, t were large, [ 530 ]

        Over to God so dear,

        By    oft tribes,

        On s o and fro

        Passd frequent, and h choice regard

        From Pa of Jordans flood [ 535 ]

        to Beersaba, whe holy Land

        Borders on ?gypt and th Arabian shoare;

        So

        to darkness, suche O wave.

        Satan from air [ 540 ]

        t scald by steps of Gold to e

        Looks do the sudden view

        Of all t once. As w

        t h peril gone

        All nig last by break of chearful dawne [ 545 ]

        Obtains the brow of some high-climbing hill,

        o his eye discovers unaware

        t of some forein land

        First-seen, or some renoropolis

        itering Spires and Pinnacles adornd, [ 550 ]

        h his beams.

        Sucer heaven seen,

        t maligne, but much more envy seisd

        At sighis orld beheld so faire.
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