An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

Stay thy cloudy ebon chair,

Wherein thou ridest with Hecat', and befriend 135

Us thy vowed priests, till utmost end

Of all thy dues be done, and none left out;

Ere the blabbing eastern scout,

The nice Morn on the Indian steep,

From her cabined loop-hole peep, 140

And to the tell-tale Sun descry

Our concealed solemnity.

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground