ip6 Dire^io?is for Raifing Chap. 7. 



where he reprefents Adam juft entring upon 

 his Exiftence : 



As new waked fromfoundeji Sleep, 



Soft on the flow' ry Mead I laid me down 

 In Balmy Sweat , which with its Beams the Sun 

 Soon dry'd^ and on the reeking Moijiurefed: 

 Str eight towards Heaven my wandring Eyes I 



[jurn'd, 

 Andgazd a while the a?nple Sky 5 till rais'd 

 By quick^ infiinBive Motion^ up Ifprung, 

 As thitherward endeavouring^ and upright 

 Stood on my Feet : About me round If aw 

 Hill, Dale, andpady Woods ^ and funny Plains, 

 And liquid Lapfe of murmuring Streams ^ by thefe. 

 Creatures that liv'd, and mov'd, and waKd, 



[and flew. 

 Birds on the Branches warbling 5 all things fmiVd: 

 WithFragrance and with Joy my Heart der flowed. 



No wonder if this forc'd the greateft Admi- 

 ration imaginable in this New Perfon 3 fince, 

 fhould any Man living, after a long Annihi- 

 lation, or even an Imprifonment in a dark and 

 melancholy Dungeon, be immediately tranf- 

 ported into fuch blifsful Shades, into the 

 V'iew of fuch gay and beautiful Landskips, 

 and into the midfl of fuch innumerable Choirs 

 of Birds, how agreeably furpriz'd would that 

 Perfon be ! and cry out with Adam, in that 

 incomparable Poem, 



Thou 



