These are just the opening lines of Paradise Lost, showing Milton's ambitions as a poet.
Of man's first disobedience and the fruits of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death
into the world and all our woe with loss of Eden till one greater man restorers and regain the
blissful seat Sing Heavenly Muse that on the secret top of Arab or of Sinai didst inspire that Shepherd
who first taught the chosen seed in the beginning how the heavens and earth rose out of chaos,
or if Silent Hill delight d more and sinless brook that flowed fast by the Oracle of God.
I then invoke thy aid to my adventurous song that with no middle flight intends to soar
above the Ionian Mount while it pursues things an attempted yet in prose or rhyme.
And chiefly thou o spirit that does prefer before all temples, the upright heart and pure instruct me.
For thou knowest, though from the first wast present, and with mighty wings outspread doth like sets brooding on the vast abyss and midst it pregnant.
What in me is dark illuminate what is low res and support.
That to the heights of this great argument, I may assert eternal providence and justify the ways of God to men.