DESCEND from heaven, Urania, by that name 

 If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine 

 Following, above the Olympian hill I soar, 

 Above the flight of Pegasean whig. 

 The meaning, not the name, I call, for thou 

 Nor of the muses nine, nor on the top 

 Of old Olympus dwell'st: but heavenly-born, 

 Before the liills appeared, or fountain flowed, 

 Thou with Eternal Wisdom didst converse, 

 Wisdom, thy sister. 



Paradise Lost, B, vii. 



