God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.
So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.
Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.