THE ARGUMENT. Raphael at the request of Adam relates how and wherefore this world was first created: that God, after the expelling of Satan and his Angels out of Heaven, declaredhis pleasure to create another world, and other creatures to dwell therein; sends his Son with glory, and attendance of Angels, to perform the work of creation in six days: the Angels celebrate with hymns the performance thereof, and his reascension into Heaven. PARADISE LOST, BOOK VII. DESCEND from Heaven, Urania, by that name The meaning, not the name, I call for thou Lest from this flying steed unrein'd (as once And solitude; yet alone, while thou Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard If they transgress, and slight that sole command, Of all taste else to please their appetite, Though wandering. He, with his consorted Eve, |