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Book 3.  Wider by farr then that of after-times 530 Over Mount Sion, and, though that were large, Over the Promis'd Land to God o dear, By which, to viit oft thoe happy Tribes, On high behets his Angels to and fro Pas'd frequent, and his eye with choice regard From Paneas the fount of Jordans flood To Bëeraba, where the Holy Land Borders on Ægypt and the Arabian hoare So wide the op'ning eemd, where bounds were et To darknes, uch as bound the Ocean wave. 540 Satan from hence now on the lower tair That cal'd by teps of Gold to Heav’n Gate Looks down with wonder at the udden view Of all this World at once. As when a Scout, Through dark and deart wayes with peril gone All night; at lat by break of chearful dawne Obtains the brow of ome high-climbing Hill, Which to his eye dicovers unaware The goodly propect of ome forein land First een, or ome renownd Metropolis 550 With glitering Spires and Pinnacles adornd, Which now the Riing Sun guilds with his beams. Such wonder eis'd, though after Heaven een, The Spirit maligne, but much more envy eis'd, At ight of all this World beheld o faire. Round he urveys, and well might, where he tood So high above the circling Canopie Of Nights extended hade; from Eatern Point Of Libra to the fleecie Starr that bears Andromeda farr off Atlantick Seas 560 Beyond th' Horizon; then from Pole to Pole