PARADISE LOST BY MILTON BOOK I (Complete Text) 1. Invocation and Introduction of Theme 1. Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit 2. Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 3. Brought death into the world, and all our woe, 4. With loss of Eden, till one greater man 5. Restore us , and regain the blissful seat, 6. Sing heavenly muse, that on the secret top 7. Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire 8. That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, 9. In the beginning how the heaven and earth 10. Rose out of chaos: Or if Sion hill 11. Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed 12. Fast by the oracle of God; I thence 13. Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, 14. That with no middle flight intends to soar 15. Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues 16. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 17. And chiefly thou Oh spirit, that dost prefer 18. Before all temples the upright heart and pure, 19. Instruct me, for thou knowest; thou from the first 20. Wast present, and wi...