14486.18.5 * HARVARD COLLEGE SEP 2 1925 L'ERARY IN MEMORY OF LIONEL DE JERSEY HARVARD CLASS OF 1915 THOMAS WHITE, PRINTER, CRANE COURT, FLEET STREET. THE ARGUMENT. RAPHAEL, at the request of Adam, relates how and wherefore this world was first created; that God, after the expelling of Satan and his Angels out of Heaven, declared his pleasure to create another world, and other creatures to dwell therein; sends his Son with glory, and attendance of Angels, to perform the work of Creation in six days: the Angels celebrate with hymns the performance thereof, and his reascension into Heaven. PARADISE LOST. BOOK VII. DESCEND from Heaven, Urania, by that name The meaning, not the name, I call: for thou 8 16 Lest from this flying steed unreined, (as once Erroneous there to wander, and forlorn. Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, Say, Goddess, what ensued when Raphaël, The affable Arch-Angel, had forewarned Adam, by dire example, to beware 17 25 34 42 |