StoryTitle("caps", "Light") ?>
From Paradise Lost
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hail holy light, ofspring of Heav'n first-born, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And never but in unapproachéd light ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bright effluence of bright essence increate. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose Fountain who shall tell? before the Sun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The rising world of waters dark and deep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Won from the void and formless infinite. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through utter and through middle darkness borne ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With other notes then to th' Orphean Lyre ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dark descent, and up to reascend, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cleer Spring, or shadie Grove, or Sunnie Hill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thee Sion and the flowrie Brooks beneath ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That wash thy hallowd feet, and warbling flow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nightly I visit: nor somtimes forget ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Those other two equal'd with me in Fate, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So were I equal'd with them in renown. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blind Thamyris and blind Mæonides, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Tiresias and Phineus Prophets old. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tunes her nocturnal Note. Thus with the Year ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seasons return, but not to me returns ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Surrounds me, from the chearful waies of men ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cut off, and for the Book of knowledg fair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Presented with a Universal blanc ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Natures works to mee expung'd and ras'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And wisdome at one entrance quite shut out. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So much the rather thou Celestial light ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of things invisible to mortal sight.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>