...with what mysterious reverence does he treat of the bright attribute of flame ! " Hail, holy Light ! " Of the Eternal, co-eternal beam, " May I express thee...then in thee ; " Bright effluence of bright Essence iucreate." J Other bodies are clogged and cumbered with the property which we call weight: flame seems...

...Light, Milton very justly doubts whether he might use that without blame. May I express thee' unblam'd ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached...fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters...

...Light, offspring of Heav'n first born, Or of th' eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee, unblam'd ? old the first in virtue as in face ! Oh ! if to dance...who would learn one earthly thing to use? [duce, To Heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising worldW waters...

...Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then in thee, 5 Bright, effluence of bright essence increate ! Or nearest thou rather pure ethereal stream, "Whose fountain...at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit...

...offspring of heaven first born ! Or of th' Eternal, co-eternal beam ! May I express thee unbalm'd ? since God is light, And never, but in unapproached...pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell J Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest...

...hesitation concerning it. — Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of the eternal cocternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? Since GOD is light,...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Par. Lost, book 3. anciently perhaps were better known to the religions of Europe, than they are to...

...Eternal, co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd .- since God is light, And never but in unapproacbed light Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then in Thee, Bright...at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. "t How pathetic...

...since God is lighl, And never but in una^iroachcd light Dwelt from eternity ; dwelt then in thee, 5 Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st...at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep » Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit...

...first on mount Niphates. PARADISE LOST. BOOK III. HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born, 1 Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee...stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, 8 Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising...

...pleasantness and peace.' ADDRESS TO LIGHT. HAIL holy Light ! offspring of Heaven, firstborn, Or of th' Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed...at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now...