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So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, whose delicious Paradise Now nearer crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hoary sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied: and overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm; A sylvan scene! And as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung; Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighb’ring round.
So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, whose delicious Paradise Now nearer crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hoary sides, With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied: and overhead up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine, and fir, and branching palm; A sylvan scene! And as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung; Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighb’ring round.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 424 · printed citation: Milton · subject: PARADISE
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