And beings living on His breath, were needfully less perfect than Himself,
Therefore less capable of bliss, whereat His benevolence was bounded;
So, to make the capability expand, intensely progressive to eternity,
He suffered darkness to illustrate the light, and pain to heighten pleasure:
To heap up happiness on souls He loved, allowed He sin and sorrow,
And then to guilt and grief and shame, He brought unbidden amnesty:
Sinless, none had been redeemed, nor wrapt again in God:
Sorrowless, no conflict had been known, and Heaven had been mulcted of its comfort:
Yea, with evil unexhibited, probationary toils unfelt,
Men had not appreciated good, nor angels valued their security.