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But if within the circuit of these walks, In whatsoever shape he lurk, of whom Thou tellest, by morrow dawning I shall know.

PARADISE LOST.

So promised he; and Uriel to his charge Returned on that bright beam, whose point now raised Bore him slope downward to the sun, now fallen Beneath the Azores; whither the bright orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled Diurnal, or this less voluble earth, By shorter flight to the east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend.2

Now came still evening on, and twilight grey Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

When Adam thus to Eve: Fair consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive; and the timely dew of sleep, Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines Our eye-lids. Other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest, Man hath his daily work of body or mind

west from the seat of Paradise.

^\*Azores.—Islands in the Western Ocean, which are sometimes confounded with the Canaries. They were due "His western throne attend.—It is observable that Milton will not here say whether the Ptolemaic or the Cepernican system is the true one.