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Rh  Long after, now unpeopl'd, and untrod; All this dark Globe the Fiend found as he pas'd, And long he wanderd, till at lat a gleame 500 Of dawning light turnd thither-ward in hate His travell'd teps; farr ditant hee decries Acending by degrees magnificent Up to the wall of Heaven a Structure high, At top whereof, but farr more rich appeerd The work as of a Kingly Palace Gate, With Frontipice of Diamond and Gold Imbelliht, thick with parkling orient Gemmmes The Portal hon, inimitable on Earth By Model, or by hading Pencil drawn. 510 The Stairs were uch as whereon Jacob aw Angels acending and decending, bands Of Guardians bright, when he from Eau fled To Padan-Aram, in the field of Luz, Dreaming by night under the open Skie, And waking cri'd, This is the Gate of Heav’n. Each Stair myteriouly was meant, nor tood There alwaies, but drawn up to Heav’n omtimes Viewles, and underneath a bright Sea flow’d Of Japer, or of liquid Pearle, whereon 520 Who after came from Earth, fayling arriv'd, Wafted by Angels, or flew o're the Lake Rapt in a Chariot drawn by fiery Steeds. The Stairs were then let down, whether to dare The Fiend by easy acent, or aggravate His ad excluion from the dores of Blis. Direct againt which op'nd from beneath, Just o're the blisful eat of Paradie, A paage down to th' Earth, a paage wide,