The ARGUMENT of Book VII. 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; fends his Son with glory and attendants of angels to perform the work of the creation in fix days: the angels celebrate with hymns the performance thereof, and his reafcenfion into heaven. PARADISE LOST. BOO K VII. D Efcend from heav'n, Urania! by that name If rightly thou art call'd, whofe voice divine The meaning, not the name, I call; for thou, Left from this flying fteed unrein'd, (as once 5 10 15 L. I. Urania.] Lat. Gr. i. e. heavenly; one of the nine Mufes, the goddess of aftronomy, and of all heavenly things. She is represented crowned with stars, and a great globe in her hands; to how, that the teaches the way to heaven. L. 4. Pegafus.] Gr. i. e. a fountain; the winged horfe of the poets; because it is faid, he opened the fountain Hippocrene, i. e. the fourtain of the horse, by a kick of his heels, and flew up to heaven. This was a well of Beotia, near Helicon, dedicated to Apollo and the Mufes. L. 18. Bellerophon.] Lat. Gr. i. e. a murderer of Beller, his bro ther. Perfeus the fon of Glaucus king of Corinth is fo called. |