Therefore from this high pitch let us desd
A lower flight, and speak of things at hand
Useful, whence haply mention may arise [ 200 ]
Of somthing not unseasoo ask
By sufferance, and thy wonted favour deignd.
Thee I have heard relating what was don
Ere my remembranow hear mee relate
My Storie, which perhaps thou hast not heard; [ 205 ]
And Day is yet not spent; till then thou seest
How suttly to detaihee I devise,
Inviting thee to hear while I relate,
Fond, were it not in hope of thy reply:
For while I sit with thee, I seem in Heavn, [ 210 ]
And sweeter thy discourse is to my eare
Then Fruits of Palm-tree pleasao thirst
And hunger both, from labour, at the houre
Of sweet repast; they satiate, and soon fill,
Though pleasant, but thy words with Grace Divine [ 215 ]
Imbud, bring to thir sweetness no satietie.
To whom thus Raphael answerd heavnly meek.
Nor are thy lips ungraceful, Sire of men,
Nor tongue ineloquent; fod on thee
Abundantly his gifts hath also pourd [ 220 ]
Inward and outward both, his image faire:
Speaking or mute all liness and grace
Attends thee, and each word, each motion formes
Nor less think wee in Heavn of thee oh
Then of our fellow servant, and inquire [ 225 ]
Gladly into the wayes of God with Man:
Fod we see hath honourd thee, a
On Man his Equal Love: say therefore on;
For I that Day was absent, as befell,
Bound on a voyage uncouth and obscure, [ 230 ]
Farr on excursion toward the Gates of Hell;
Squard in full Legion (suand we had)
To see that hence issud forth a spie,
Or enemie, while God was in his work,
Least hee i at such eruption bold, [ 235 ]
Destru with Creation might have mixt.