The Stairs were such as whereon Jacob saw [ 510 ]
Angels asding and desding, bands
Of Guardians bright, when he from Esau fled
To Padan-Aram in the field of Luz,
Dreaming by night uhe open Skie,
And waking crid, This is the Gate of Heavn [ 515 ]
Each Stair mysteriously was meant, nor stood
There alwayes, but drawn up to Heavn somtimes
Viewless, and underh a bright Sea flowd
Of Jasper, or of liquid Pearle, whereon
Who after came from Earth, sayling arrivd, [ 520 ]
Wafted by Angels, or flew ore the Lake
Rapt in a Chariot drawn by fiery Steeds.
The Stairs were the down, whether to dare
The Fiend by easie ast, ravate
His sad exclusion from the dores of Bliss. [ 525 ]
Direct against which opnd from beh,
Just ore the blissful seat of Paradise,
A passage down to th Earth, a passage wide,
Wider by farr then that of after-times
Over Mount Sion, and, though that were large, [ 530 ]
Over the Promisd Land to God so dear,
By which, to visit oft those happy Tribes,
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