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120 Hid Amalthea and her florid son, Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye; Nor, where Abassin kings their issue guard, Mount Amara, though this by some supposed True Paradise, under the Ethiop line By Nilus' head, enclosed with shining rock, A whole day's journey high, but wide remote From this Assyrian garden, where the Fiend Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures, new to sight and strange.
 * Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall,

Godlike erect, with native honor clad, In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure —Severe, but in true filial freedom placed,— Whence true authority in men; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she, and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad. She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore