As yet this World was not, and Chaos Wilde
Reignd where these Heavns nohere Earth now rests
Upon her ter poisd, when on a day
(For Time, though iie, applid [ 580 ]
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future) on such day
As Heavns great Year brings forth, th Empyreal Host
Of Angels by Imperial summons calld,
Innumerable before th Almighties Throne [ 585 ]
Forthwith from all the ends of Heavn appeerd
Uhir Hierarchs in orders bright
Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advancd,
Standards and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare
Streame in the Aire, and for distin serve [ 590 ]
Of Hierarchies, of Orders, and Degrees;
Or in thir glittering Tissues bear imblazd
Holy Memorials, acts of Zeale and Love
Recorded emi. Thus when in Orbes
Of circuit inexpressible they stood, [ 595 ]
Orb within Orb, the Father infinite,
By whom in bliss imbosomd sat the Son,
Amidst as from a flaming Mount, whose top
Brightness had made invisible, thus spake.
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