...Paradise Lost indicate, are very near indeed. 37 Adam invokes the mists in his hymn to God's glory: "Ye mists and exhalations that now rise / From hill...gold, / In honor to the world's great Author rise" (PL 5.185—8). On the level of pure echo, one might make the alternative case that Keats's autumnal...

...water describe Adam and Eve's love of and hope for their beloved place, their home, their land in Eden: Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise, From Hill or steaming Lake, duskie or grey, Till the Sun paint your fleecie skirts with Gold, In honour to the Worlds great Author...