The Earth, Though In Comparison Of Heaven

In Vain Doth Valour Bleed, While Avarice And Rapine Share The Land.

My Latest Found, Heaven's Last, Best Gift, My Ever New Delight!

Meanwhile The Adversary Of God And Man, Satan With Thoughts Inflamed Of Highest Design, Puts On Swift Wings, And Towards The Gates Of Hell Explores His Solitary Flight.

And Every Shepherd Tells His Tale Under The Hawthorn In The Dale.

So Spake The Seraph Abdiel, Faithful Found; Among The Faithless, Faithful Only He.