This is part of the sixth days creation (book 7 line449)from Paradise Lost, a great english epic poem, or rather the greatest. This link has full text and footnotes explaining the obscure referrences: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_7/index.shtml This has the whole poem read to you: http://mediaplayer.group.cam.ac.uk/departments/english Finally some very interesting lectures: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2103FD9F9D0615B7