Smiles From Reason Flow, To Brute Deny'd,

'paradise Lost' Is One Of The Books Which The Reader Admires And Lays Down, And Forgets To Take Up Again. None Ever Wished It Longer Than It Is.

So Hand In Hand They Passed, The Loveliest Pair That Ever Since In Love's Embraces Met -- Adam, The Goodliest Man Of Men Since Born His Sons; The Fairest Of Her Daughters Eve.

With Ruin Upon Ruin, Rout On Rout, Confusion Worse Confounded.

Know Thy Birth! For Dost Thou Art, And Shalt To Dust Return.

Joking Decides Great Things, Stronger And Better Oft Than Earnest Can.