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276 Of heavier on himself, fearless returned.— By night he fled, and at midnight returned, From compassing the earth; cautious of day, Since Uriel, regent of the sun, descried His entrance, and forewarned the Cherubim That kept their watch. Thence, full of anguish, driven The space of seven continued nights he rode With darkness; thrice the equinoctial line He circled, four times crossed the car of Night From pole to pole, traversing each colure; On the eighth return, and, on the coast averse From entrance or cherubic watch, by stealth Found unsuspected way. There was a place —Now not, though sin, not time, first wrought the change— Where Tigris, at the foot of Paradise, Into a gulf shot underground, till part Rose up a fountain by the Tree of Life. In with the river sunk, and with it rose Satan, involved in rising mist; then sought Where to lie hid. Sea he had searched and land, From Eden over Pontus, and the pool Mæotis, up beyond the river Ob; Downward as far antarctic; and in length West from Orontes to the ocean barred At Dariën, thence to the land where flows Ganges and Indus. Thus the orb he roamed