Our father who art in heaven!... Paradise lost extract...

Hail holy light, ancestor of heaven, father of all dawning, empirial of hell, dark earl of light, bright heir of ancient night, first born of the eternal co-eternal beam, all mighty, all loving and all kind supreme; may I express thee unblamed? Since thou art light and never but in unapproached light dwelt from all eternity, dwell then within me; with all of thy bright effluence, oh bright essence increate. Or hearst thou rather pure ethereal stream whose fountain who shall tell. Before the sun and before the heavens thou wert, and at thy voice, as with a mantle didst invest; a rising world of waters dark and deep, won from the formless and void infinite: thee I revisit! Now with bolder wings, escaped the stygian pool though long detained in that obscured sojourne! while in my flight through utter and middle darkness borne, thus to the orphean lyre I sung; I sung of chaos and of eternal night! Taught me by the heavenly muse to venture down the dark descent and up to reascend: thrice potent, thrice radiant and thrice inflected! Though hard and rare, thee I revisit, safe! Yet not the more do I forget to wonder where muses haunt clear spring, or shady groove or sunny hill; smit with the love of sacred song! But chief thee sion! And the flowery brooks that wash beneath thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow; thee I revisit, nightly! Nor forget I sometimes, all those equalled with me in fate! Prophets old! So was I equaled with them in renown, then fed on thoughts that voluntary move harmonious numbers! As the wakeful bird sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid tunes her nuctual note; thus with the year seasons return, but not to me returns day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, or flocks or herds, or human face devine, but cloud instead! And ever during dark surrounds me: cut off from the happy and cheerful ways of men, for the book of knowledge fair presented, with a universal blank on natures works. And wisdom... Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out! So much the rather thou celestial light shine inward, and the mind through all her powers irradiate; there plant eyes, thence all mist purge and disperse so I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight! Hail holy light ancestor of heaven! Father of all dawning! Imperial of hell! Dark earl of light! Bright heir of ancient night! First born of the eternal co-eternal beam! All mighty, all loving and all kind supreme! Shemhamforash!