But whether thus these things, or whether not,
Whether the Sun predominant in Heavn [ 160 ]
Rise on the Earth, or Earth rise on the Sun,
Hee from the East his flaming rode begin,
Or Shee from West her silent course advance
With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps
On her soft Axle, while she paces Eevn, [ 165 ]
And beares thee soft with the smooth Air along,
Solliot thy thoughts with matters hid,
Leave them to God above, him serve and feare;
Of other Creatures, as him pleases best,
Wherever plact, let him dispose: joy thou [ 170 ]
In what he gives to thee, this Paradise
And thy faire Eve; Heavn is for thee too high
To knoasses there; be lowlie wise:
Think onely what es thee and thy being;
Dream not of other Worlds, what Creatures there [ 175 ]
Live, in what state, ditiree,
tehat thus farr hath been reveald
Not of Earth onely but of highest Heavn.
To whom thus Adam cleerd of doubt, replid.
How fully hast thou satisfid me, pure [ 180 ]
Intelligence of Heavn, Angel serene,
And freed from intricacies, taught to live
The easiest way, nor with perplexing thoughts
To interrupt the sweet of Life, from which
God hath bid dwell farr off all anxious cares, [ 185 ]
And not molest us, unless we our selves
Seek them with wandring thoughts, and notions vain.
But apt the Mind or Fancy is to roave
U, and of her roaving is no end;
Till warnd, or by experieaught, she learne, [ 190 ]
That not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and suttle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime Wisdom, what is more, is fume,
Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, [ 195 ]
And renders us in things that most e
Unpractisd, unprepard, and still to seek.