I saw new Worlds beneath the Water ly,

New Peeple; yea, another Sky

And Sun, which seen by Day

Might things more clear display.

Just such another

Of late my Brother

Did in his Travel see, and saw by Night,

A much more strange and wondrous Sight:

Nor could the World exhibit such another,

So Great a Sight, but in a Brother.

Adventure strange! No such in Story we

New or old, tru or feigned, see.

On Earth he seem'd to mov

Yet Heven went abov;

Up in the Skies

His Body flies

In open, visible, yet Magick, sort:

As he along the Way did sport

Over the Flood he takes his nimble Cours

Without the help of feigned Horse.

As he went tripping o'r the King's high-way,

A little pearly River lay

O'r which, without a Wing

Or Oar, he dar'd to swim,

Swim throu the Air

On Body fair;

He would not use nor trust Icarian Wings

Lest they should prov deceitful things;

For had he faln, it had been wondrous high,

Not from, but from abov, the Sky:

He might hav dropt throu that thin Element

Into a fathomless Descent;

Unto the nether Sky

That did beneath him ly,

And there might tell

What Wonders dwell

On Earth abov. Yet doth he briskly run,

And bold the Danger overcom;

Who, as he leapt, with Joy related soon

How happy he o'r-leapt the Moon.

What wondrous things upon the Earth are don

Beneath, and yet abov, the Sun?

Deeds all appear again

In higher Spheres; remain

In Clouds as yet:

But there they get

Another Light, and in another way

Themselvs to us abov display.

The Skies themselvs this earthly Globe surround;

W' are even here within them found.

On hev'nly Ground within the Skies we walk,

And in this middle Center talk:

Did we but wisely mov,

On Earth in Hev'n abov,

Then soon should we

Exalted be

Abov the Sky: from whence whoever falls,

Through a long dismall Precipice,

Sinks to the deep Abyss where Satan crawls

Where horrid Death and Despair lies.