Name: Lowly Wise
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Description: From Book VIII of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” in which the archangel Raphael tells Adam the universe is vast and beyond his understanding.

Lowly Wise

from John Milton's Paradise Lost (Demos) by Jonathan Salem Baskin

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From Book VIII of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” in which the archangel Raphael tells Adam the universe is vast and beyond his understanding.

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When I behold this goodly frame,
and all her numbered stars,
round this opacous earth
in all their vast survey.

So many nobler bodies
greater to this one use.
Such restless revolution,
merely to light this earth?

Think only what concerns thee,
dream not of other worlds.
Heaven is too high to know, be lowly wise.

The book of God before thee,
did conceal, and not divulge
when they come to model Heaven
and calculate the stars.

That man may know he dwells not in his own;
an edifice too large,
in a small partition, for uses to
his lord best known.

Think only what concerns thee,
dream not of other worlds.
Heaven is too high to know, be lowly wise.

Taught to live, the easiest way,
nor with perplexing thoughts.

Not to know of things remote
in things too high, no advantage.

Which before us
lies in daily life,
is the prime
The prime wisdom.

Think only what concerns thee,
dream not of other worlds.
Heaven is too high to know, be lowly wise.

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from John Milton's Paradise Lost (Demos), released June 27, 2022

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Jonathan Salem Baskin Chicago, Illinois

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