Some say he bid his Aurne asse
The Poles of Earth twice ten degrees and more
From the Suns Axle; they with labour pushd [ 670 ]
Oblique the tric Globe: Som say the Sun
Was bid turn Reines from th Equinoctial Rode
Like distant breadth to Taurus with the Seavn
Atlantick Sisters, and the Spartan Twins
Up to the Tropic Crab; thence down amaine [ 675 ]
By Leo and the Virgin and the Scales,
As deep as Caprie, t in ge
Of Seasons to each Clime; else had the Spring
Perpetual smild oh with vernant Flours,
Equal in Days and Nights, except to those [ 680 ]
Beyond the Polar Circles; to them Day
Had unbenighted shon, while the low Sun
To repence his distance, in thir sight
Had rouill th Horizon, and not known
Or East or West, which had forbid the Snow [ 685 ]
From cold Estotiland, and South as farr
Beh Magellan. At that tasted Fruit
The Sun, as from Thyestean Baurnd
His course intended; else how had the World
Inhabited, though sinless, more then now, [ 690 ]
Avoided ping cold and scorg heate?
These ges in the Heavns, though slow, producd
Like ge on Sea and Land, sideral blast,
Vapour, and Mist, and Exhalation hot,
Corrupt ailent: Now from the North [ 695 ]
Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shoar
Bursting thir brazen Dungeon, armd with ice
And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw,
Boreas and Cæcias and Argestes loud
And Thrascias rend the Woods and Seas upturn; [ 700 ]
With adverse blast up-turns them from the South
Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds
From Serraliona; thwart of these as fierce
Forth rush the Levant and the Po Windes
Eurus and Zephir with thir lateral noise, [ 705 ]
Sirocco, and Libecchio. Thus began
e from liveless things; but Discord first
Daughter of Sin, among th irrational,
Death introducd through fiertipathie:
Beast now with Beast gan war, and Fowle with Fowle, [ 710 ]
And Fish with Fish; to graze the Herb all leaving,
Devourd each other; nor stood mu awe
Of Man, but fled him, or with tnance grim
Glard on him passing: these were from without
The growing miseries, which Adam saw [ 715 ]
Alreadie in part, though hid in gloomiest shade,
To sorrow abandond, but worse felt within,
And in a troubld Sea of passion tost,
Thus to disburdn sought with sad plaint.