106:01,000[' ]| 106:01,000[' ]| 106:01,000@@@@@| 106:01,201[' ]| Leviathan, which God of all his works 106:01,202[' ]| Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: 106:01,203[' ]| Him haply slumbering on the Norway roam 106:01,204[' ]| The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, 106:01,205[' ]| Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, 106:01,206[' ]| With fixed anchor in his scaly rind 106:01,207[' ]| Moors by his side under the lea, while night 106:01,208[' ]| Invests the sea, and wished morn delays: 106:01,209[' ]| So stretched out huge in length the arch-fiend lay 106:01,210[' ]| Chained on the burning lake, nor ever thence 106:01,211[' ]| Had risen or heaved his head, but that the will 106:01,212[' ]| And high permission of all-ruling heaven 106:01,213[' ]| Left him at large to his own dark designs, 106:01,214[' ]| That with reiterated cries he might 106:01,215[' ]| Heap on himself damnation, while he sought 106:01,216[' ]| Evil to others, and enraged might see 106:01,217[' ]| How all his malice served but to bring forth 106:01,218[' ]| Infinite goodness, grace and mercy shown 106:01,219[' ]| On man by him seduced, but on himself 106:01,220[' ]| Treble confusion, wrath and vengeance poured. 106:01,221[' ]| Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool 106:01,222[' ]| His mighty stature; on each hand the flames 106:01,223[' ]| Driven backward slope their pointing spires, and rolled 106:01,224[' ]| In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. 106:01,225[' ]| Then with expanded wings he steers his flight 106:01,226[' ]| Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air 106:01,227[' ]| That felt unusual weight, till on dry and 106:01,228[' ]| He lights, if it were land that ever burned 106:01,229[' ]| With solid, as the lake with liquid fire; 106:01,230[' ]| And such appeared in hue, as when the force 106:01,231[' ]| Of subterranean wind transports a hill 106:01,232[' ]| Torn from Pelorus, or the shattered side 106:01,233[' ]| Of thundering Aetna, whose combustible 106:01,234[' ]| And fuelled entrails thence conceiving fire, 106:01,235[' ]| Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds, 106:01,236[' ]| And leave a singed bottom all involved 106:01,237[' ]| With stench and smoke: such resting found the sole 106:01,238[' ]| Of unblessed feet. Him followed his next mate, 106:01,239[' ]| Both glorying to have scaped the Stygian flood 106:01,240[' ]| As gods, and by their own recovered strength, 106:01,241[' ]| Not by the sufferance of supernal power. 106:01,242[E ]| Is this the region, this the soil, the clime, 106:01,243[' ]| Said then the lost archangel, 106:01,243[E ]| this the seat 106:01,244[E ]| That we must change for heaven, this mournful gloom 106:01,245[E ]| For that celestial light? Be it so, since he 106:01,246[E ]| Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid 106:01,247[E ]| What shall be right: furthest from him is best 106:01,248[E ]| Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme 106:01,249[E ]| Above his equals. Farewell happy fields 106:01,250[E ]| Where joy for ever dwells: hail horrors, hail 106:01,251[E ]| Infernal world, and thou profoundest hell 106:01,252[E ]| Receive thy new possessor: one who brings 106:01,253[E ]| A mind not to be changed by place or time. 106:01,254[E ]| The mind is its own place, and in itself 106:01,255[E ]| Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 106:01,256[E ]| What matter where, if I be still the same, 106:01,257[E ]| And what I should be, all but less than he 106:01,258[E ]| Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least 106:01,259[E ]| We shall be free; the almighty hath not built 106:01,260[E ]| Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 106:01,261[E ]| Here we may reign secure, and in my choice 106:01,262[E ]| To reign is worth ambition though in hell: 106:01,263[E ]| Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. 106:01,264[E ]| But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, 106:01,265[E ]| The associates and copartners of our loss 106:01,266[E ]| Lie thus astonished on the oblivious pool, 106:01,267[E ]| And call them not to share with us their part 106:01,268[E ]| In this unhappy mansion, or once more 106:01,269[E ]| With rallied arms to try what may be yet 106:01,270[E ]| Regained in heaven, or what more lost in hell? 106:01,271[' ]| So Satan spake, and him Beelzebub 106:01,272[' ]| Thus answered. 106:01,272[F ]| Leader of those armies bright, 106:01,273[F ]| Which but the omnipotent none could have foiled, 106:01,274[F ]| If once they hear that voice, their liveliest pledge 106:01,275[F ]| Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft 106:01,276[F ]| In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge 106:01,277[F ]| Of battle when it raged, in all assaults 106:01,278[F ]| Their surest signal, they will soon resume 106:01,279[F ]| New courage and revive, though now they lie 106:01,280[F ]| Grovelling and prostrate on yon lake of fire, 106:01,281[F ]| As we erewhile, astounded and amazed, 106:01,282[F ]| No wonder, fallen such a pernicious highth. 106:01,283[' ]| He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend 106:01,284[' ]| Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield 106:01,285[' ]| Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 106:01,286[' ]| Behind him cast; the broad circumference 106:01,287[' ]| Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb 106:01,288[' ]| Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views 106:01,289[' ]| At evening from the top of Fesole, 106:01,290[' ]| Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 106:01,291[' ]| Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. 106:01,292[' ]| His spear, to equal which the tallest pine 106:01,293[' ]| Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast 106:01,294[' ]| Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, 106:01,295[' ]| He walked with to support uneasy steps 106:01,296[' ]| Over the burning marl, not like those steps 106:01,297[' ]| On heaven's azure, and the torrid clime 106:01,298[' ]| Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire; 106:01,299[' ]| Natheless he so endured, till on the beach 106:01,300[' ]| Of that inflamed sea, he stood and called 106:01,301[' ]| His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced 106:01,302[' ]| Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks 106:01,303[' ]| In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades 106:01,304[' ]| High overarched imbower; or scattered sedge 106:01,305[' ]| Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed 106:01,306[' ]| Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew 106:01,307[' ]| Busiris and his Memphian chivalry, 106:01,308[' ]| While with perfidious hatred they pursued 106:01,309[' ]| The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld 106:01,310[' ]| From the safe shore their floating carcasses 106:01,311[' ]| And broken chariot wheels, so thick bestrewn 106:01,312[' ]| Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood, 106:01,313[' ]| Under amazement of their hideous change. 106:01,314[' ]| He called so loud, that all the hollow deep 106:01,315[' ]| Of hell resounded. 106:01,315[E ]| Princes, potentates, 106:01,316[E ]| Warriors, the flower of heaven, once yours, now lost, 106:01,317[E ]| If such astonishment as this can seize 106:01,318[E ]| Eternal spirits; or have ye chosen this place 106:01,319[E ]| After the toil of battle to repose 106:01,320[E ]| Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find 106:01,321[E ]| To slumber here, as in the vales of heaven? 106:01,322[E ]| Or in this abject posture have ye sworn 106:01,323[E ]| To adore the conqueror? who now beholds 106:01,324[E ]| Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood 106:01,325[E ]| With scattered arms and ensigns, till anon 106:01,326[E ]| His swift pursuers from heaven gates discern 106:01,327[E ]| The advantage, and descending tread us down 106:01,328[E ]| Thus drooping, or with linked thunderbolts 106:01,329[E ]| Transfix us to the bottom of this gulf. 106:01,330[E ]| Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen. 106:01,331[' ]| They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung 106:01,332[' ]| Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch 106:01,333[' ]| On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, 106:01,334[' ]| Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. 106:01,335[' ]| Nor did they not perceive the evil plight 106:01,336[' ]| In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; 106:01,337[' ]| Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed 106:01,338[' ]| Innumerable. As when the potent rod 106:01,339[' ]| Of Amram's son in Egypt's evil day 106:01,340[' ]| Waved round the coast, up called a pitchy cloud 106:01,341[' ]| Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, 106:01,342[' ]| That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung 106:01,343[' ]| Like night, and darkened all the land of Nile: 106:01,344[' ]| So numberless were those bad angels seen 106:01,345[' ]| Hovering on wing under the cope of hell 106:01,346[' ]| 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires; 106:01,347[' ]| Till, as a signal given, the uplifted spear 106:01,348[' ]| Of their great sultan waving to direct 106:01,349[' ]| Their course, in even balance down they light 106:01,350[' ]| On the firm brimstone, and fill all the plain; 106:01,351[' ]| A multitude, like which the populous north 106:01,352[' ]| Poured never from her frozen loins, to pass 106:01,353[' ]| Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons 106:01,354[' ]| Came like a deluge on the south, and spread 106:01,355[' ]| Beneath Gibralter to the Lybian sands. 106:01,356[' ]| Forthwith from every squadron and each band 106:01,357[' ]| The heads and leaders thither haste where stood 106:01,358[' ]| Their great commander; godlike shapes and forms 106:01,359[' ]| Excelling human, princely dignities, 106:01,360[' ]| And powers that erst in heaven sat on thrones; 106:01,361[' ]| Though of their names in heavenly records now 106:01,362[' ]| Be no memorial blotted out and razed 106:01,363[' ]| By their rebellion, from the books of life. 106:01,364[' ]| Nor had they yet among the sons of Eve 106:01,365[' ]| Got them new names, till wandering o'er the earth, 106:01,366[' ]| Through God's high sufferance for the trial of man, 106:01,367[' ]| By falsities and lies the greatest part 106:01,368[' ]| Of mankind they corrupted to forsake 106:01,369[' ]| God their creator, and the invisible 106:01,370[' ]| Glory of him that made them, to transform 106:01,371[' ]| Oft to the image of a brute, adorned 106:01,372[' ]| With gay religions full of pomp and gold, 106:01,373[' ]| And devils to adore for deities: 106:01,374[' ]| Then were they known to men by various names, 106:01,375[' ]| And various idols through the heathen world. 106:01,376[' ]| Say, Muse, their names then known, who first, who last, 106:01,377[' ]| Roused from the slumber, on that fiery couch, 106:01,378[' ]| At their great emperor's call, as next in worth 106:01,379[' ]| Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, 106:01,380[' ]| While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof? 106:01,381[' ]| The chief were those who from the pit of hell 106:01,382[' ]| Roaming to seek their prey on earth, durst fix 106:01,383[' ]| Their seats long after next the seat of God, 106:01,384[' ]| Their altars by his altar, gods adored 106:01,385[' ]| Among the nations round, and durst abide 106:01,386[' ]| Jehovah thundering out of Sion, throned 106:01,387[' ]| Between the cherubim; yea, often placed 106:01,388[' ]| Within his sanctuary itself their shrines, 106:01,389[' ]| Abominations; and with cursed things 106:01,390[' ]| His holy rites, and solemn feasts profaned, 106:01,391[' ]| And with their darkness durst affront his light. 106:01,392[' ]| First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood 106:01,393[' ]| Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, 106:01,394[' ]| Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud 106:01,395[' ]| Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire 106:01,396[' ]| To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite 106:01,397[' ]| Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain, 106:01,398[' ]| In Argob and in Basan, to the stream 106:01,399[' ]| Of utmost Arnon. Nor content with such 106:01,400[' ]| Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart 106:01,401[' ]| Of Solomon he led by fraud to build 106:01,402[' ]| His temple right against the temple of God 106:01,403[' ]| On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove 106:01,404[' ]| The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence 106:01,405[' ]| And black Gehenna called, the type of hell. 106:01,406[' ]| Next Chemos, the obscene dread of Moab's sons, 106:01,407[' ]| From Aroar to Nebo, and the wild 106:01,408[' ]| Of southmost Abarim; in Hesebon 106:01,409[' ]| And Horonaim, Seon's realm, beyond 106:01,410[' ]| The flowery dale of Sibma clad with vines, 106:01,411[' ]| And Eleale to the Asphaltic Pool. 106:01,412[' ]| Peor his other name, when he enticed 106:01,413[' ]| Israel in Sittim, on their march from Nile, 106:01,414[' ]| To do him wanton rites; which cost them woe. 106:01,415[' ]| Yet thence his lustful orgies he enlarged 106:01,416[' ]| Even to that hill of scandal, by the grove 106:01,417[' ]| Of Moloch homicide, lust hard by hate; 106:01,418[' ]| Till good Josiah drove them thence to hell. 106:01,419[' ]| With these came they, who from the bordering flood 106:01,420[' ]| Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts 106:01,421[' ]| Egypt from Syrian ground, had general names 106:01,422[' ]| Of Baalim and Ashtaroth; those male, 106:01,423[' ]| These feminine. For spirits when they please 106:01,424[' ]| Can either sex assume, or both; so oft 106:01,425[' ]| And uncompounded is their essence pure, 106:01,426[' ]| Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, 106:01,427[' ]| Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, 106:01,428[' ]| Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose 106:01,429[' ]| Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, 106:01,430[' ]| Can execute their airy purposes, 106:01,431[' ]| And works of love or enmity fulfil. 106:01,432[' ]| For those the race of Israel oft forsook 106:01,433[' ]| Their living strength, and unfrequented left 106:01,434[' ]| His righteous altar, bowing lowly down 106:01,435[' ]| To bestial gods; for which their heads as low 106:01,436[' ]| Bowed down in battle, sunk before the spear 106:01,437[' ]| Of despicable foes. With these in troop 106:01,438[' ]| Came Astoreth, whom the Phoenicians called 106:01,439[' ]| Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns; 106:01,440[' ]| To whose bright image nightly by the moon 106:01,441[' ]| Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs, 106:01,442[' ]| In Sion also not unsung, where stood 106:01,443[' ]| Her temple on the offensive mountain, built 106:01,444[' ]| By that uxorious king, whose heart though large, 106:01,445[' ]| Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell 106:01,446[' ]| To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, 106:01,447[' ]| Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured 106:01,448[' ]| The Syrian damsels to lament his fate 106:01,449[' ]| In amorous ditties all a summer's day, 106:01,450[' ]| While smooth Adonis from his native rock 106:01,451[' ]| Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood 106:01,452[' ]| Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale 106:01,453[' ]| Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, 106:01,454[' ]| Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch 106:01,455[' ]| Ezekiel saw, when by the vision led 106:01,456[' ]| His eye surveyed the dark idolatries 106:01,457[' ]| Of alienated Judah. Next came one 106:01,458[' ]| Who mourned in earnest, when the captive ark 106:01,459[' ]| Maimed his brute image, head and hands lopped off 106:01,460[' ]| In his own temple, on the grounded edge, 106:01,461[' ]| Where he fell flat, and shamed his worshippers: 106:01,462[' ]| Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man 106:01,463[' ]| And downward fish: yet had his temple high 106:01,464[' ]| Reared in Azotus, dreaded through the coast 106:01,465[' ]| Of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon 106:01,466[' ]| And Accaron and Gaza's frontier bounds. 106:01,467[' ]| Him followed Rimmon, whose delightful seat 106:01,468[' ]| Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks 106:01,469[' ]| Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streams. 106:01,470[' ]| He also against the house of God was bold: 106:01,471[' ]| A leper once he lost and gained a king, 106:01,472[' ]| Ahaz his sottish conqueror, whom he drew 106:01,473[' ]| God's altar to disparage and displace 106:01,474[' ]| For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn 106:01,475[' ]| His odious offerings, and adore the gods 106:01,476[' ]| Whom he had vanquished. After these appeared 106:01,477[' ]| A crew who under names of old renown, 106:01,478[' ]| Osiris, Isis, Orus and their train 106:01,479[' ]| With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused 106:01,480[' ]| Fanatic Egypt and her priests, to seek 106:01,481[' ]| Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms 106:01,482[' ]| Rather than human. Nor did Israel scape 106:01,483[' ]| The infection when their borrowed gold composed 106:01,484[' ]| The calf in Oreb: and the rebel king 106:01,485[' ]| Doubled that sin in Bethel and in Dan, 106:01,486[' ]| Likening his maker to the grazed ox, 106:01,487[' ]| Jehovah, who in one night when he passed 106:01,488[' ]| From Egypt marching, equalled with one stroke 106:01,489[' ]| Both her first born and all her bleating gods. 106:01,490[' ]| Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd 106:01,491[' ]| Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love 106:01,492[' ]| Vice for itself: to him no temple stood 106:01,493[' ]| Or altar smoked; yet who more oft than he 106:01,494[' ]| In temples and at altars, when the priest 106:01,495[' ]| Turns atheist, as did Ely's sons, who filled 106:01,496[' ]| With lust and violence the house of God. 106:01,497[' ]| In courts and palaces he also reigns 106:01,498[' ]| And in luxurious cities, where the noise 106:01,499[' ]| Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, 106:01,500[' ]| And injury and outrage: and when night 106:02,000@@@@@| 106:02,201[G ]| That so ordains: this was at first resolved, 106:02,202[G ]| If we were wise, against so great a foe 106:02,203[G ]| Contending, and so doubtful what might fall. 106:02,204[G ]| I laugh, when those who at the spear are bold 106:02,205[G ]| And venturous, if that fail them, shrink and fear 106:02,206[G ]| What yet they know must follow, to endure 106:02,207[G ]| Exile, or ignominy, or bonds, or pain, 106:02,208[G ]| The sentence of their conqueror: this is now 106:02,209[G ]| Our doom; which if we can sustain and bear, 106:02,210[G ]| Our supreme foe in time may much remit 106:02,211[G ]| His anger, and perhaps thus far removed, 106:02,212[G ]| Not mind us not offending, satisfied 106:02,213[G ]| With what is punished; whence these raging fires 106:02,214[G ]| Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames. 106:02,215[G ]| Our purer essence then will overcome 106:02,216[G ]| Their noxious vapour, or enured not feel, 106:02,217[G ]| Or changed at length, and to the place conformed 106:02,218[G ]| In temper and in nature, will receive 106:02,219[G ]| Familiar the fierce heat, and void of pain; 106:02,220[G ]| This horror will grow mild, this darkness light, 106:02,221[G ]| Besides what hope the never-ending flight 106:02,222[G ]| Of future days may bring, what chance, what change 106:02,223[G ]| Worth waiting, since our present lot appears 106:02,224[G ]| For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, 106:02,225[G ]| If we procure not to ourselves more woe. 106:02,226[' ]| Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb 106:02,227[' ]| Counselled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, 106:02,228[' ]| Not peace: and after him thus Mammon spake. 106:02,229[H ]| Either to disenthrone the king of heaven 106:02,230[H ]| We war, if war be best, or to regain 106:02,231[H ]| Our own right lost: him to unthrone we then 106:02,232[H ]| May hope when everlasting fate shall yield 106:02,233[H ]| To fickle chance, and Chaos judge the strife: 106:02,234[H ]| The former vain to hope argues as vain 106:02,235[H ]| The latter: for what place can be for us 106:02,236[H ]| Within heaven's bound, unless heaven's lord supreme 106:02,237[H ]| We overpower? Suppose he should relent 106:02,238[H ]| And publish grace to all, on promise made 106:02,239[H ]| Of new subjection; with what eyes could we 106:02,240[H ]| Stand in his presence humble, and receive 106:02,241[H ]| Strict laws imposed, to celebrate his throne 106:02,242[H ]| With warbled hymns, and to his Godhead sing 106:02,243[H ]| Forced hallelujahs; while he lordly sits 106:02,244[H ]| Our envied sovereign, and his altar breathes 106:02,245[H ]| Ambrosial odours and ambrosial flowers, 106:02,246[H ]| Our servile offerings? This must be our task 106:02,247[H ]| In heaven, this our delight; how wearisome 106:02,248[H ]| Eternity so spent in worship paid 106:02,249[H ]| To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue 106:02,250[H ]| By force impossible, by leave obtained 106:02,251[H ]| Unacceptable, though in heaven, our state 106:02,252[H ]| Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek 106:02,253[H ]| Our own good from ourselves, and from our own 106:02,254[H ]| Live to ourselves, though in this vast recess, 106:02,255[H ]| Free, and to none accountable, preferring 106:02,256[H ]| Hard liberty before the easy yoke 106:02,257[H ]| Of servile pomp. Our greatness will appear 106:02,258[H ]| Then most conspicuous, when great things of small, 106:02,259[H ]| Useful of hurtful, prosperous of adverse 106:02,260[H ]| We can create, and in what place so e'er 106:02,261[H ]| Thrive under evil, and work ease out of pain 106:02,262[H ]| Through labour and endurance. This deep world 106:02,263[H ]| Of darkness do we dread? How oft amidst 106:02,264[H ]| Thick clouds and dark doth heaven's all-ruling sire 106:02,265[H ]| Choose to reside, his glory unobscured, 106:02,266[H ]| And with the majesty of darkness round 106:02,267[H ]| Covers his throne; from whence deep thunders roar 106:02,268[H ]| Mustering their rage, and heaven resembles hell? 106:02,269[H ]| As he our darkness, cannot we his light 106:02,270[H ]| Imitate when we please? This desert soil 106:02,271[H ]| Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold; 106:02,272[H ]| Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise 106:02,273[H ]| Magnificence; and what can heaven show more? 106:02,274[H ]| Our torments also may in length of time 106:02,275[H ]| Become our elements, these piercing fires 106:02,276[H ]| As soft as now severe, our temper changed 106:02,277[H ]| Into their temper; which must needs remove 106:02,278[H ]| The sensible of pain. All things invite 106:02,279[H ]| To peaceful counsels, and the settled state 106:02,280[H ]| Of order, how in safety best we may 106:02,281[H ]| Compose our present evils, with regard 106:02,282[H ]| Of what we are and where, dismissing quite 106:02,283[H ]| All thoughts of war: ye have what I advise. 106:02,284[' ]| He scarce had finished, when such murmur filled 106:02,285[' ]| The assembly, as when hollow rocks retain 106:02,286[' ]| The sound of blustering winds, which all night long 106:02,287[' ]| Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull 106:02,288[' ]| Seafaring men o'erwatched, whose bark by chance 106:02,289[' ]| Or pinnace anchors in a craggy bay 106:02,290[' ]| After the tempest: such applause was heard 106:02,291[' ]| As Mammon ended, and his sentence pleased, 106:02,292[' ]| Advising peace: for such another field 106:02,293[' ]| They dreaded worse than hell: so much the fear 106:02,294[' ]| Of thunder and the sword of Michael 106:02,295[' ]| Wrought still within them; and no less desire 106:02,296[' ]| To found this nether empire, which might rise 106:02,297[' ]| By policy, and long process of time, 106:02,298[' ]| In emulation opposite to heaven. 106:02,299[' ]| Which when Beelzebub perceived, than whom, 106:02,300[' ]| Satan except, none higher sat, with grave 106:02,301[' ]| Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed 106:02,302[' ]| A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven 106:02,303[' ]| Deliberation sat and public care; 106:02,304[' ]| And princely counsel in his face yet shone, 106:02,305[' ]| Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood 106:02,306[' ]| With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear 106:02,307[' ]| The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look 106:02,308[' ]| Drew audience and attention still as night 106:02,309[' ]| Or summer's noontide air, while thus he spake. 106:02,310[F ]| Thrones and imperial powers, offspring of heaven 106:02,311[F ]| Ethereal virtues; or these titles now 106:02,312[F ]| Must we renounce, and changing style be called 106:02,313[F ]| Princes of hell? For so the popular vote 106:02,314[F ]| Inclines, here to continue, and build up here 106:02,315[F ]| A growing empire; doubtless; while we dream, 106:02,316[F ]| And know not that the king of heaven hath doomed 106:02,317[F ]| This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat 106:02,318[F ]| Beyond his potent arm, to live exempt 106:02,319[F ]| From heaven's high jurisdiction, in new league 106:02,320[F ]| Banded against his throne, but to remain 106:02,321[F ]| In strictest bondage, though thus far removed, 106:02,322[F ]| Under the inevitable curb, reserved 106:02,323[F ]| His captive multitude: for he, be sure 106:02,324[F ]| In highth or depth, still first and last will reign 106:02,325[F ]| Sole king, and of his kingdom lose no part 106:02,326[F ]| By our revolt, but over hell extend 106:02,327[F ]| His empire, and with iron sceptre rule 106:02,328[F ]| Us here, as with his golden those in heaven. 106:02,329[F ]| What sit we then projecting peace and war? 106:02,330[F ]| War hath determined us, and foiled with loss 106:02,331[F ]| Irreparable; terms of peace yet none 106:02,332[F ]| Vouchsafed or sought; for what peace will be given 106:02,333[F ]| To us enslaved, but custody severe, 106:02,334[F ]| And stripes, and arbitrary punishment 106:02,335[F ]| Inflicted? And what peace can we return, 106:02,336[F ]| But to our power hostility and hate, 106:02,337[F ]| Untamed reluctance, and revenge though slow, 106:02,338[F ]| Yet ever plotting how the conqueror least 106:02,339[F ]| May reap his conquest, and may least rejoice 106:02,340[F ]| In doing what we most in suffering feel? 106:02,341[F ]| Nor will occasion want, nor shall we need 106:02,342[F ]| With dangerous expedition to invade 106:02,343[F ]| Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege, 106:02,344[F ]| Or ambush from the deep. What if we find 106:02,345[F ]| Some easier enterprise? There is a place 106:02,346[F ]| (If ancient and prophetic fame in heaven 106:02,347[F ]| Err not) another world, the happy seat 106:02,348[F ]| Of some new race called Man, about this time 106:02,349[F ]| To be created like to us, though less 106:02,350[F ]| In power and excellence, but favoured more 106:02,351[F ]| Of him who rules above; so was his will 106:02,352[F ]| Pronounced among the gods, and by an oath, 106:02,353[F ]| That shook heaven's whole circumference, confirmed. 106:02,354[F ]| Thither let us bend all our thoughts, to learn 106:02,355[F ]| What creatures there inhabit, of what mould, 106:02,356[F ]| Or substance, how endued, and what their power, 106:02,357[F ]| And where their weakness, how attempted best, 106:02,358[F ]| By force or subtlety: though heaven be shut, 106:02,359[F ]| And heaven's high arbitrator sit secure 106:02,360[F ]| In his own strength, this place may lie exposed 106:02,361[F ]| The utmost border of his kingdom, left 106:02,362[F ]| To their defence who hold it: here perhaps 106:02,363[F ]| Some advantageous act may be achieved 106:02,364[F ]| By sudden onset, either with hell fire 106:02,365[F ]| To waste his whole creation, or possess 106:02,366[F ]| All as our own, and drive as we were driven, 106:02,367[F ]| The puny habitants, or if not drive, 106:02,368[F ]| Seduce them to our party, that their God 106:02,369[F ]| May prove their foe, and with repenting hand 106:02,370[F ]| Abolish his own works. This would surpass 106:02,371[F ]| Common revenge, and interrupt his joy 106:02,372[F ]| In our confusion, and our joy upraise 106:02,373[F ]| In his disturbance; when his darling sons 106:02,374[F ]| Hurled headlong to partake with us, shall curse 106:02,375[F ]| Their frail original, and faded bliss, 106:02,376[F ]| Faded so soon. Advise if this be worth 106:02,377[F ]| Attempting, or to sit in darkness here 106:02,378[F ]| Hatching vain empires. 106:02,378[' ]| Thus Beelzebub 106:02,379[' ]| Pleaded his devilish counsel, first devised 106:02,380[' ]| By Satan, and in part proposed: for whence, 106:02,381[' ]| But from the author of all ill could spring, 106:02,382[' ]| So deep a malice, to confound the race 106:02,383[' ]| Of mankind in one root, and earth with hell 106:02,384[' ]| To mingle and involve, done all to spite 106:02,385[' ]| The great creator? But their spite still serves 106:02,386[' ]| His glory to augment. The bold design 106:02,387[' ]| Pleased highly those infernal states, and joy 106:02,388[' ]| Sparkled in all their eyes; with full assent 106:02,389[' ]| They vote: whereat his speech he thus renews. 106:02,390[F ]| Well have ye judged, well ended long debate, 106:02,391[F ]| Synod of gods, and like to what ye are, 106:02,392[F ]| Great things resolved, which from the lowest deep 106:02,393[F ]| Will once more lift us up in spite of fate, 106:02,394[F ]| Nearer our ancient seat; perhaps in view 106:02,395[F ]| Of those bright confines, whence with neighbouring arms 106:02,396[F ]| And opportune excursion we may chance 106:02,397[F ]| Re-enter heaven; or else in some mild zone 106:02,398[F ]| Dwell not unvisited of heaven's fair light 106:02,399[F ]| Secure, and at the brightening orient beam 106:02,400[F ]| Purge off this gloom; the soft delicious air, 106:02,401[F ]| To heal the scar of these corrosive fires 106:02,402[F ]| Shall breathe her balm. But first whom shall we send 106:02,403[F ]| In search of this new world, whom shall we find 106:02,404[F ]| Sufficient? Who shall tempt with wandering feet 106:02,405[F ]| The dark unbottomed infinite abyss 106:02,406[F ]| And through the palpable obscure find our 106:02,407[F ]| His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight 106:02,408[F ]| Upborne with indefatigable wings 106:02,409[F ]| Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive 106:02,410[F ]| The happy isle; what strength, what art can then 106:02,411[F ]| Suffice, or what evasion bear him safe 106:02,412[F ]| Through the strict sentries and stations thick 106:02,413[F ]| Of angels watching round? Here he had need 106:02,414[F ]| All circumspection, and we now no less 106:02,415[F ]| Choice in our suffrage; for on whom we send, 106:02,416[F ]| The weight of all and our last hope relies. 106:02,417[' ]| This said, he sat; and expectation held 106:02,418[' ]| His look suspense, awaiting who appeared 106:02,419[' ]| To second, or oppose, or undertake 106:02,420[' ]| The perilous attempt: but all sat mute, 106:02,421[' ]| Pondering the danger with deep thoughts; and each 106:02,422[' ]| In other's countenance read his own dismay 106:02,423[' ]| Astonished: none among the choice and prime 106:02,424[' ]| Of those heaven-warring champions could be found 106:02,425[' ]| So hardy as to proffer or accept 106:02,426[' ]| Alone the dreadful voyage; till at last 106:02,427[' ]| Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised 106:02,428[' ]| Above his fellows, with monarchal pride 106:02,429[' ]| Conscious of highest worth, unmoved thus spake. 106:02,430[E ]| O progeny of heaven, empyreal thrones, 106:02,431[E ]| With reason hath deep silence and demur 106:02,432[E ]| Seized us, though undismayed: long is the way 106:02,433[E ]| And hard, that out of hell leads up to light; 106:02,434[E ]| Our prison strong, this huge convex of fire, 106:02,435[E ]| Outrageous to devour, immures us round 106:02,436[E ]| Ninefold, and gates of burning adamant 106:02,437[E ]| Barred over us prohibit all egress. 106:02,438[E ]| These passed, if any pass, the void profound 106:02,439[E ]| Of unessential night receives him next 106:02,440[E ]| Wide gaping, and with utter loss of being 106:02,441[E ]| Threatens him, plunged in that abortive gulf. 106:02,442[E ]| If thence he scape into whatever world, 106:02,443[E ]| Or unknown region, what remains him less 106:02,444[E ]| Than unknown dangers and as hard escape. 106:02,445[E ]| But I should ill become this throne, O peers, 106:02,446[E ]| And this imperial sovereignty, adorned 106:02,447[E ]| With splendour, armed with power, if aught proposed 106:02,448[E ]| And judged of public moment, in the shape 106:02,449[E ]| Of difficulty or danger could deter 106:02,450[E ]| Me from attempting. Wherefore do I assume 106:02,451[E ]| These royalties, and not refuse to reign, 106:02,452[E ]| Refusing to accept as great a share 106:02,453[E ]| Of hazard as of honour, due alike 106:02,454[E ]| To him who reigns, and so much to him due 106:02,455[E ]| Of hazard more, as he above the rest 106:02,456[E ]| High honoured sits? Go therefore mighty powers, 106:02,457[E ]| Terror of heaven, though fallen; intend at home, 106:02,458[E ]| While here shall be our home, what best may ease 106:02,459[E ]| The present misery, and render hell 106:02,460[E ]| More tolerable; if there be cure or charm 106:02,461[E ]| To respite or deceive, or slack the pain 106:02,462[E ]| Of this ill mansion: intermit no watch 106:02,463[E ]| Against a wakeful foe, while I abroad 106:02,464[E ]| Through all the coasts of dark destruction seek 106:02,465[E ]| Deliverance for us all: this enterprise 106:02,466[E ]| None shall partake with me. 106:02,466[' ]| Thus saying rose 106:02,467[' ]| The monarch, and prevented all reply, 106:02,468[' ]| Prudent, lest from his resolution raised 106:02,469[' ]| Others among the chief might offer now 106:02,470[' ]| (Certain to be refused) what erst they feared; 106:02,471[' ]| And so refused might in opinion stand 106:02,472[' ]| His rivals, winning cheap the high repute 106:02,473[' ]| Which he through hazard huge must earn. But they 106:02,474[' ]| Dreaded not more the adventure than his voice 106:02,475[' ]| Forbidding; and at once with him they rose; 106:02,476[' ]| Their rising all at once was as the sound 106:02,477[' ]| Of thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend 106:02,478[' ]| With awful reverence prone; and as a god 106:02,479[' ]| Extol him equal to the highest in heaven: 106:02,480[' ]| Nor failed they to express how much they praised, 106:02,481[' ]| That for the general safety he despised 106:02,482[' ]| His own: for neither do the spirits damned 106:02,483[' ]| Lose all their virtue; lest bad men should boast 106:02,484[' ]| Their specious deeds on earth, which glory excites, 106:02,485[' ]| Or close ambition varnished o'er with zeal. 106:02,486[' ]| Thus they their doubtful consultations dark 106:02,487[' ]| Ended rejoicing in their matchless chief: 106:02,488[' ]| As when from mountain tops the dusky clouds 106:02,489[' ]| Ascending, while the north wind sleeps, o'erspread 106:02,490[' ]| Heaven's cheerful face, the louring element 106:02,491[' ]| Scowls o'er the darkened landscape snow, or shower; 106:02,492[' ]| If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet 106:02,493[' ]| Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, 106:02,494[' ]| The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds 106:02,495[' ]| Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings. 106:02,496[' ]| O shame to men! Devil with devil damned 106:02,497[' ]| Firm concord holds, men only disagree 106:02,498[' ]| Of creatures rational, though under hope 106:02,499[' ]| Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, 106:02,500[' ]| Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife 106:02,000@@@@@| 106:03,201[A ]| That they may stumble on, and deeper fall; 106:03,202[A ]| And none but such from mercy I exclude. 106:03,203[A ]| But yet all is not done; man disobeying, 106:03,204[A ]| Disloyal breaks his fealty, and sins 106:03,205[A ]| Against the high supremacy of heaven, 106:03,206[A ]| Affecting Godhead, and so losing all, 106:03,207[A ]| To expiate his treason hath nought left, 106:03,208[A ]| But to destruction sacred and devote, 106:03,209[A ]| He with his whole posterity must die, 106:03,210[A ]| Die he or justice must; unless for him 106:03,211[A ]| Some other able, and as willing, pay 106:03,212[A ]| The rigid satisfaction, death for death. 106:03,213[A ]| Say heavenly powers, where shall we find such love, 106:03,214[A ]| Which of ye will be mortal to redeem 106:03,215[A ]| Man's mortal crime, and just the unjust to save, 106:03,216[A ]| Dwells in all heaven charity so dear? 106:03,217[' ]| He asked, but all the heavenly choir stood mute, 106:03,218[' ]| And silence was in heaven: on man's behalf 106:03,219[' ]| Patron or intercessor none appeared, 106:03,220[' ]| Much less that durst upon his own head draw 106:03,221[' ]| The deadly forfeiture, and ransom set. 106:03,222[' ]| And now without redemption all mankind 106:03,223[' ]| Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell 106:03,224[' ]| By doom severe, had not the Son of God, 106:03,225[' ]| In whom the fulness dwells of love divine, 106:03,226[' ]| His dearest mediation thus renewed. 106:03,227[B ]| Father, thy word is past, man shall find grace; 106:03,228[B ]| And shall Grace not find means, that finds her way, 106:03,229[B ]| The speediest of thy winged messengers, 106:03,230[B ]| To visit all thy creatures, and to all 106:03,231[B ]| Comes unprevented, unimplored, unsought, 106:03,232[B ]| Happy for man, so coming, he her aid 106:03,233[B ]| Can never seek, once dead in sins and lost; 106:03,234[B ]| Atonement for himself or offering meet, 106:03,235[B ]| Indebted and undone, hath none to bring: 106:03,236[B ]| Behold me then, me for him, life for life 106:03,237[B ]| I offer, on me let thine anger fall; 106:03,238[B ]| Account me man; I for his sake will leave 106:03,239[B ]| Thy bosom, and this glory next to thee 106:03,240[B ]| Freely put off, and for him lastly die 106:03,241[B ]| Well pleased, on me let Death wreak all his rage; 106:03,242[B ]| Under his gloomy power I shall not long 106:03,243[B ]| Lie vanquished; thou hast given me to possess 106:03,244[B ]| Life in my self for ever, by thee I live, 106:03,245[B ]| Though now to Death I yield, and am his due 106:03,246[B ]| All that of me can die, yet that debt paid, 106:03,247[B ]| Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsome grave 106:03,248[B ]| His prey, nor suffer my unspotted soul 106:03,249[B ]| For ever with corruption there to dwell; 106:03,250[B ]| But I shall rise victorious, and subdue 106:03,251[B ]| My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil; 106:03,252[B ]| Death his death's wound shall then receive, and stoop 106:03,253[B ]| Inglorious, of his mortal sting disarmed. 106:03,254[B ]| I through the ample air in triumph high 106:03,255[B ]| Shall lead hell captive maugre hell, and show 106:03,256[B ]| The powers of darkness bound. Thou at the sight 106:03,257[B ]| Pleased, out of heaven shalt look down and smile, 106:03,258[B ]| While by thee raised I ruin all my foes, 106:03,259[B ]| Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave: 106:03,260[B ]| Then with the multitude of my redeemed 106:03,261[B ]| Shall enter heaven long absent, and return, 106:03,262[B ]| Father, to see thy face, wherein no cloud 106:03,263[B ]| Of anger shall remain, but peace assured, 106:03,264[B ]| And reconcilement; wrath shall be no more 106:03,265[B ]| Thenceforth, but in thy presence joy entire. 106:03,266[' ]| His words here ended, but his meek aspect 106:03,267[' ]| Silent yet spake, and breathed immortal love 106:03,268[' ]| To mortal men, above which only shone 106:03,269[' ]| Filial obedience: as a sacrifice 106:03,270[' ]| Glad to be offered, he attends the will 106:03,271[' ]| Of his great Father. Admiration seized 106:03,272[' ]| All heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend 106:03,273[' ]| Wondering; but soon the almighty thus replied: 106:03,274[A ]| O thou in heaven and earth the only peace 106:03,275[A ]| Found out for mankind under wrath, O thou 106:03,276[A ]| My sole complacence! well thou know'st how dear, 106:03,277[A ]| To me are all my works, nor man the least 106:03,278[A ]| Though last created, that for him I spare 106:03,279[A ]| Thee from my bosom and right hand, to save, 106:03,280[A ]| By losing thee awhile, the whole race lost. 106:03,281[A ]| Thou therefore whom thou only canst redeem, 106:03,282[A ]| Their nature also to thy nature join; 106:03,283[A ]| And be thy self man among men on earth, 106:03,284[A ]| Made flesh, when time shall be, of virgin seed, 106:03,285[A ]| By wondrous birth: be thou in Adam's room 106:03,286[A ]| The head of all mankind, though Adam's son. 106:03,287[A ]| As in him perish all men, so in thee 106:03,288[A ]| As from a second root shall be restored, 106:03,289[A ]| As many as are restored, without thee none. 106:03,290[A ]| His crime makes guilty all his sons, thy merit 106:03,291[A ]| Imputed shall absolve them who renounce 106:03,292[A ]| Their own both righteous and unrighteous deeds, 106:03,293[A ]| And live in thee transplanted, and from thee 106:03,294[A ]| Receive new life. So man, as is most just, 106:03,295[A ]| Shall satisfy for man, be judged and die, 106:03,296[A ]| And dying rise, and rising with him raise 106:03,297[A ]| His brethren, ransomed with his own dear life. 106:03,298[A ]| So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate 106:03,299[A ]| Giving to death, and dying to redeem, 106:03,300[A ]| So dearly to redeem what hellish hate 106:03,301[A ]| So easily destroyed, and still destroys 106:03,302[A ]| In those who, when they may, accept not grace. 106:03,303[A ]| Nor shalt thou by descending to assume 106:03,304[A ]| Man's nature, lessen or degrade thine own. 106:03,305[A ]| Because thou hast, though throned in highest bliss 106:03,306[A ]| Equal to God, and equally enjoying 106:03,307[A ]| Godlike fruition, quitted all to save 106:03,308[A ]| A world from utter loss, and hast been found 106:03,309[A ]| By merit more than birthright Son of God, 106:03,310[A ]| Found worthiest to be so by being good, 106:03,311[A ]| Far more than great or high; because in thee 106:03,312[A ]| Love hath abounded more than glory abounds, 106:03,313[A ]| Therefore thy humiliation shall exalt 106:03,314[A ]| With thee thy manhood also to this throne, 106:03,315[A ]| Here shalt thou sit incarnate, here shalt reign 106:03,316[A ]| Both God and man, Son both of God and man, 106:03,317[A ]| Anointed universal king, all power 106:03,318[A ]| I give thee, reign for ever, and assume 106:03,319[A ]| Thy merits; under thee as head supreme 106:03,320[A ]| Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions I reduce: 106:03,321[A ]| All knees to thee shall bow, of them that bide 106:03,322[A ]| In heaven, or earth, or under earth in hell, 106:03,323[A ]| When thou attended gloriously from heaven 106:03,324[A ]| Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send 106:03,325[A ]| The summoning archangels to proclaim 106:03,326[A ]| Thy dread tribunal: forthwith from all winds 106:03,327[A ]| The living, and forthwith the cited dead 106:03,328[A ]| Of all past ages to the general doom 106:03,329[A ]| Shall hasten, such a peal shall rouse their sleep. 106:03,330[A ]| Then all thy saints assembled, thou shalt judge 106:03,331[A ]| Bad men and angels, they arraigned shall sink 106:03,332[A ]| Beneath thy sentence; hell her number full, 106:03,333[A ]| Thenceforth shall be for ever shut. Mean while 106:03,334[A ]| The world shall burn, and from her ashes spring 106:03,335[A ]| New heaven and earth, wherein the just shall dwell, 106:03,336[A ]| And after all their tribulations long 106:03,337[A ]| See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, 106:03,338[A ]| With joy and love triumphing, and fair truth. 106:03,339[A ]| Then thou thy regal sceptre shalt lay by, 106:03,340[A ]| For regal sceptre then no more shall need, 106:03,341[A ]| God shall be all in all. But all ye gods, 106:03,342[A ]| Adore him, who to compass all this dies, 106:03,343[A ]| Adore the Son, and honour him as me. 106:03,344[' ]| No sooner had the almighty ceased, but all 106:03,345[' ]| The multitude of angels with a shout 106:03,346[' ]| Loud as from numbers without number, sweet 106:03,347[' ]| As from blest voices, uttering joy, heaven rung 106:03,348[' ]| With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled 106:03,349[' ]| The eternal regions: lowly reverent 106:03,350[' ]| Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground 106:03,351[' ]| With solemn adoration down they cast 106:03,352[' ]| Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold, 106:03,353[' ]| Immortal amarant, a flower which once 106:03,354[' ]| In Paradise, fast by the tree of life 106:03,355[' ]| Began to bloom, but soon for man's offence 106:03,356[' ]| To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, 106:03,357[' ]| And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, 106:03,358[' ]| And where the river of bliss through midst of heave 106:03,359[' ]| Rolls o'er Elisian flowers her amber stream; 106:03,360[' ]| With these that never fade the spirits elect 106:03,361[' ]| Bind their resplendent locks inwreathed with beams, 106:03,362[' ]| Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the bright 106:03,363[' ]| Pavement that like a sea of jasper shone 106:03,364[' ]| Impurpled with celestial roses smiled. 106:03,365[' ]| Then crowned again their golden harps they took, 106:03,366[' ]| Harps ever tuned, that glittering by their side 106:03,367[' ]| Like quivers hung, and with preamble sweet 106:03,368[' ]| Of charming symphony they introduce 106:03,369[' ]| Their sacred song, and waken raptures high; 106:03,370[' ]| No voice exempt, no voice but well could join 106:03,371[' ]| Melodious part, such concord is in heaven. 106:03,372[X ]| Thee Father first they sung omnipotent, 106:03,373[X ]| Immutable, immortal, infinite, 106:03,374[X ]| Eternal king; thee author of all being, 106:03,375[X ]| Fountain of light, thy self invisible 106:03,376[X ]| Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sit'st 106:03,377[X ]| Throned inaccessible, but when thou shadest 106:03,378[X ]| The full blaze of thy beams, and through a cloud 106:03,379[X ]| Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine, 106:03,380[X ]| Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear, 106:03,381[X ]| Yet dazzle heaven, that brightest seraphim 106:03,382[X ]| Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes. 106:03,383[X ]| Thee next they sang of all creation first, 106:03,384[X ]| Begotten Son, divine similitude, 106:03,385[X ]| In whose conspicuous countenance, without cloud 106:03,386[X ]| Made visible, the almighty Father shines, 106:03,387[X ]| Whom else no creature can behold; on thee 106:03,388[X ]| Impressed the effulgence of his glory abides, 106:03,389[X ]| Transfused on thee his ample Spirit rests. 106:03,390[X ]| He heaven of heavens and all the powers therein 106:03,391[X ]| By thee created, and by thee threw down 106:03,392[X ]| The aspiring dominations: thou that day 106:03,393[X ]| Thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare, 106:03,394[X ]| Nor stop thy flaming chariot wheels, that shook 106:03,395[X ]| Heaven's everlasting frame, while o'er the necks 106:03,396[X ]| Thou drovest of warring angels disarrayed. 106:03,397[X ]| Back from pursuit thy powers with loud acclaim 106:03,398[X ]| Thee only extolled, Son of thy Father's might, 106:03,399[X ]| To execute fierce vengeance of his foes, 106:03,400[X ]| Not so on man; him through their malice fallen, 106:03,401[X ]| Father of mercy and grace, thou didst not doom 106:03,402[X ]| So strictly, but much more to pity incline: 106:03,403[X ]| No sooner did thy dear and only Son 106:03,404[X ]| Perceive thee purposed not to doom frail man 106:03,405[X ]| So strictly, but much more to pity inclined, 106:03,406[X ]| He to appease thy wrath, and end the strife 106:03,407[X ]| Of mercy and justice in thy face discerned, 106:03,408[X ]| Regardless of the bliss therein he sat 106:03,409[X ]| Second to thee, offered himself to die 106:03,410[X ]| For man's offence. O unexampled love, 106:03,411[X ]| Love nowhere to be found less than divine! 106:03,412[X ]| Hail, Son of God, saviour of men, thy name 106:03,413[X ]| Shall be the copious matter of my son 106:03,414[X ]| Henceforth, and never shall my harp thy praise 106:03,415[X ]| Forget, nor from thy Father's praise disjoin. 106:03,416[' ]| Thus they in heaven, above the starry sphere, 106:03,417[' ]| Their happy hours in joy and hymning spent. 106:03,418[' ]| Mean while upon the firm opacous globe 106:03,419[' ]| Of this round world, whose first convex divides 106:03,420[' ]| The luminous orbs, enclosed 106:03,421[' ]| From Chaos and the inroad of darkness old, 106:03,422[' ]| Satan alighted walks: a globe far off 106:03,423[' ]| It seemed, now seems a boundless continent 106:03,424[' ]| Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of Night 106:03,425[' ]| Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms 106:03,426[' ]| Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky; 106:03,427[' ]| Save on that side which from the wall of heaven 106:03,428[' ]| Though distant far some small reflection gains 106:03,429[' ]| Of glimmering air less vexed with tempest loud: 106:03,430[' ]| Here walked the fiend at large in spacious field. 106:03,431[' ]| As when a vulture of Imaus bred, 106:03,432[' ]| Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, 106:03,433[' ]| Dislodging from a region scarce of prey 106:03,434[' ]| To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids 106:03,435[' ]| On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward the springs 106:03,436[' ]| Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; 106:03,437[' ]| But in his way lights on the barren plains 106:03,438[' ]| Of Sericana, where Chineses drive 106:03,439[' ]| With sails and wind their cany wagons light: 106:03,440[' ]| So on this windy sea of land, the fiend 106:03,441[' ]| Walked up and down alone bent on his prey, 106:03,442[' ]| Alone, for other creature in this place 106:03,443[' ]| Living or lifeless to be found was none, 106:03,444[' ]| None yet, but store hereafter from the earth 106:03,445[' ]| Up hither like aerial vapours flew 106:03,446[' ]| Of all things transitory and vain, when sin 106:03,447[' ]| With vanity had filled the works of men: 106:03,448[' ]| Both all things vain, and all who in vain things 106:03,449[' ]| Built their fond hopes of glory or lasting fame, 106:03,450[' ]| Or happiness in this or the other life; 106:03,451[' ]| All who have their reward on earth, the fruits 106:03,452[' ]| Of painful superstition and blind zeal, 106:03,453[' ]| Nought seeking but the praise of men, here find 106:03,454[' ]| Fit retribution, empty as their deeds; 106:03,455[' ]| All the unaccomplished works of nature's hand, 106:03,456[' ]| Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixed, 106:03,457[' ]| Dissolved on earth, fleet hither, and in vain, 106:03,458[' ]| Till final dissolution, wander here, 106:03,459[' ]| Not in the neighbouring moon, as some have dreamed; 106:03,460[' ]| Those argent fields more likely habitants, 106:03,461[' ]| Translated saints, or middle spirits hold 106:03,462[' ]| Betwixt the angelical and human kind: 106:03,463[' ]| Hither of ill-joined sons and daughters born 106:03,464[' ]| First from the ancient world those Giants came 106:03,465[' ]| With many a vain exploit, though then renowned: 106:03,466[' ]| The builders next of Babel on the plain 106:03,467[' ]| Of Sennaar, and still with vain design 106:03,468[' ]| New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build 106:03,469[' ]| Others came single; he who to be deemed 106:03,470[' ]| A god, leaped fondly into Aetna flames, 106:03,471[' ]| Empedocles, and he who to enjoy 106:03,472[' ]| Plato's Elysium, leaped into the sea, 106:03,473[' ]| Cleombrotus, and many more too long, 106:03,474[' ]| Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars 106:03,475[' ]| White, black and gray, with all their trumpery. 106:03,476[' ]| Here pilgrims roam, that strayed so far to seek 106:03,477[' ]| In Golgotha him dead, who lives in heaven; 106:03,478[' ]| And they who to be sure of Paradise 106:03,479[' ]| Dying put on the weeds of Dominic, 106:03,480[' ]| Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised; 106:03,481[' ]| They pass the planets seven, and pass the fixed, 106:03,482[' ]| And that crystalline sphere whose balance weighs 106:03,483[' ]| The trepidation talked, and that first moved; 106:03,484[' ]| And now Saint Peter at heaven's wicket seems 106:03,485[' ]| To wait them with his keys, and now at foot 106:03,486[' ]| Of heaven's ascent they lift their feet, when to 106:03,487[' ]| A violent cross wind from either coast 106:03,488[' ]| Blows them transverse ten thousand leagues awry 106:03,489[' ]| Into the devious air; then might ye see 106:03,490[' ]| Cowls, hoods and habits with their wearers tossed 106:03,491[' ]| And fluttered into rags, then relics, beads, 106:03,492[' ]| Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, 106:03,493[' ]| The sport of winds: all these upwhirled aloft 106:03,494[' ]| Fly o'er the backside of the world far off 106:03,495[' ]| Into a limbo large and broad, since called 106:03,496[' ]| The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown 106:03,497[' ]| Long after, now unpeopled, and untrod; 106:03,498[' ]| All this dark globe the fiend found as he passed, 106:03,499[' ]| And long he wandered, till at last a gleam 106:03,500[' ]| Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste 106:04,000@@@@@| 106:04,201[' ]| Of immortality. So little knows 106:04,202[' ]| Any, but God alone, to value right 106:04,203[' ]| The good before him, but perverts best things 106:04,204[' ]| To worst abuse, or to their meanest use. 106:04,205[' ]| Beneath him with new wonder now he views 106:04,206[' ]| To all delight of human sense exposed 106:04,207[' ]| In narrow room nature's whole wealth, yea more, 106:04,208[' ]| A heaven on earth, for blissful Paradise 106:04,209[' ]| Of God the garden was, by him in the east 106:04,210[' ]| Of Eden planted; Eden stretched her line 106:04,211[' ]| From Auran eastward to the royal towers 106:04,212[' ]| Of great Seleucia, built by Grecian kings, 106:04,213[' ]| Or where the sons of Eden long before 106:04,214[' ]| Dwelt in Telassar: in this pleasant soil 106:04,215[' ]| His far more pleasant garden God ordained; 106:04,216[' ]| Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow 106:04,217[' ]| All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; 106:04,218[' ]| And all amid them stood the tree of life, 106:04,219[' ]| High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit 106:04,220[' ]| Of vegetable gold; and next to life 106:04,221[' ]| Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, 106:04,222[' ]| Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill. 106:04,223[' ]| Southward through Eden went a river large, 106:04,224[' ]| Nor changed his course, but through the shaggy hill 106:04,225[' ]| Passed underneath ingulfed, for God had thrown 106:04,226[' ]| That mountain as his garden mould high raised 106:04,227[' ]| Upon the rapid current, which through veins 106:04,228[' ]| Of porous earth with kindly thirst up drawn, 106:04,229[' ]| Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill 106:04,230[' ]| Watered the garden; thence united fell 106:04,231[' ]| Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, 106:04,232[' ]| Which from his darksome passage now appears, 106:04,233[' ]| And now divided into four main streams, 106:04,234[' ]| Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm 106:04,235[' ]| And country whereof here needs no account, 106:04,236[' ]| But rather to tell how, if art could tell, 106:04,237[' ]| How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, 106:04,238[' ]| Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, 106:04,239[' ]| With mazy error under pendant shades 106:04,240[' ]| Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 106:04,241[' ]| Flowers worthy of Paradise which not nice art 106:04,242[' ]| In beds and curious knots, but nature boon 106:04,243[' ]| Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain, 106:04,244[' ]| Both where the morning sun first warmly smote 106:04,245[' ]| The open field, and where the unpierced shade 106:04,246[' ]| Embrowned the noontide bowers: thus was this place, 106:04,247[' ]| A happy rural seat of various view; 106:04,248[' ]| Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, 106:04,249[' ]| Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind 106:04,250[' ]| Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, 106:04,251[' ]| If true, here only, and of delicious taste: 106:04,252[' ]| Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks 106:04,253[' ]| Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, 106:04,254[' ]| Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap 106:04,255[' ]| Of some irriguous valley spread her store, 106:04,256[' ]| Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose: 106:04,257[' ]| Another side, umbrageous grots and caves 106:04,258[' ]| Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine 106:04,259[' ]| Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps 106:04,260[' ]| Luxuriant; mean while murmuring waters fall 106:04,261[' ]| Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake, 106:04,262[' ]| That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned, 106:04,263[' ]| Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams. 106:04,264[' ]| The birds their choir apply; airs, vernal airs, 106:04,265[' ]| Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune 106:04,266[' ]| The trembling leaves, while universal Pan 106:04,267[' ]| Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance 106:04,268[' ]| Led on the eternal spring. Not that fair field 106:04,269[' ]| Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers 106:04,270[' ]| Her self a fairer flower by gloomy Dis 106:04,271[' ]| Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain 106:04,272[' ]| To see her through the world; nor that sweet grove 106:04,273[' ]| Of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspired 106:04,274[' ]| Castalian spring, might with this paradise 106:04,275[' ]| Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle 106:04,276[' ]| Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, 106:04,277[' ]| Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove, 106:04,278[' ]| Hid Amalthea and her florid son 106:04,279[' ]| Young Bacchus from his stepdame Rhea's eye; 106:04,280[' ]| Nor where Abassin kings their issue guard, 106:04,281[' ]| Mount Amara, though this by some supposed 106:04,282[' ]| True Paradise under the Ethiop line 106:04,283[' ]| By Nilus' head, enclosed with shining rock, 106:04,284[' ]| A whole day's journey high, but wide remote 106:04,285[' ]| From this Assyrian garden, where the fiend 106:04,286[' ]| Saw undelighted all delight, all kind 106:04,287[' ]| Of living creatures new to sight and strange: 106:04,288[' ]| Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, 106:04,289[' ]| Godlike erect, with native honour clad 106:04,290[' ]| In naked majesty seemed lords of all, 106:04,291[' ]| And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine 106:04,292[' ]| The image of their glorious maker shone, 106:04,293[' ]| Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, 106:04,294[' ]| Severe but in true filial freedom placed; 106:04,295[' ]| Whence true authority in men; though both 106:04,296[' ]| Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; 106:04,297[' ]| For contemplation he and valour formed, 106:04,298[' ]| For softness she and sweet attractive grace, 106:04,299[' ]| He for God only, she for God in him: 106:04,300[' ]| His fair large front and eye sublime declared 106:04,301[' ]| Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks 106:04,302[' ]| Round from his parted forelock manly hung 106:04,303[' ]| Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad: 106:04,304[' ]| She as a veil down to the slender waist 106:04,305[' ]| Her unadorned golden tresses wore 106:04,306[' ]| Dishevelled, but in wanton ringlets waved 106:04,307[' ]| As the vine curls her tendrils, which implied 106:04,308[' ]| Subjection, but required with gentle sway, 106:04,309[' ]| And by her yielded, by him best received, 106:04,310[' ]| Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, 106:04,311[' ]| And sweet reluctant amorous delay. 106:04,312[' ]| Nor those mysterious parts were then concealed, 106:04,313[' ]| Then was not guilty shame, dishonest shame 106:04,314[' ]| Of nature's works, honour dishonourable, 106:04,315[' ]| Sin-bred, how have ye troubled all mankind 106:04,316[' ]| With shows instead, mere shows of seeming pure, 106:04,317[' ]| And banished from man's life his happiest life, 106:04,318[' ]| Simplicity and spotless innocence. 106:04,319[' ]| So passed they naked on, nor shunned the sight 106:04,320[' ]| Of God or angel, for they thought no ill: 106:04,321[' ]| So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair 106:04,322[' ]| That ever since in love's embraces met, 106:04,323[' ]| Adam the goodliest man of men since born 106:04,324[' ]| His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 106:04,325[' ]| Under a tuft of shade that on a green 106:04,326[' ]| Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side 106:04,327[' ]| They sat them down, and after no more toil 106:04,328[' ]| Of their sweet gardening labour than sufficed 106:04,329[' ]| To recommend cool zephyr, and made ease 106:04,330[' ]| More easy, wholesome thirst and appetite 106:04,331[' ]| More grateful, to their supper fruits they fell, 106:04,332[' ]| Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs 106:04,333[' ]| Yielded them, sidelong as they sat recline 106:04,334[' ]| On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers: 106:04,335[' ]| The savoury pulp they chew, and in the rind 106:04,336[' ]| Still as they thirsted scoop the brimming stream; 106:04,337[' ]| Nor gentle purpose, nor endearing smiles 106:04,338[' ]| Wanted, nor youthful dalliance as beseems 106:04,339[' ]| Fair couple, linked in happy nuptial league, 106:04,340[' ]| Alone as they. About them frisking played 106:04,341[' ]| All beasts of the earth, since wild, and of all chase 106:04,342[' ]| In wood or wilderness, forest or den; 106:04,343[' ]| Sporting the lion ramped, and in his paw 106:04,344[' ]| Dandled the kid; bears, tigers, ounces, pards, 106:04,345[' ]| Gambolled before them, the unwieldly elephant 106:04,346[' ]| To make them mirth used all his might, and wreathed 106:04,347[' ]| His lithe proboscis; close the serpent sly 106:04,348[' ]| Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine 106:04,349[' ]| His braided train, and of his fatal guile 106:04,350[' ]| Gave proof unheeded; others on the grass 106:04,351[' ]| Couched, and now filled with pasture gazing sat, 106:04,352[' ]| Or bedward ruminating: for the sun 106:04,353[' ]| Declined was hasting now with prone career 106:04,354[' ]| To the Ocean Isles, and in the ascending scale 106:04,355[' ]| Of heaven the stars that usher evening rose: 106:04,356[' ]| When Satan still in gaze, as first he stood, 106:04,357[' ]| Scarce thus at length failed speech recovered sad, 106:04,358[E ]| O hell! What do mine eyes with grief behold, 106:04,359[E ]| Into our room of bliss thus high advanced 106:04,360[E ]| Creatures of other mould, earth-born perhaps, 106:04,361[E ]| Not spirits, yet to heavenly spirits bright 106:04,362[E ]| Little inferior; whom my thoughts pursue 106:04,363[E ]| With wonder, and could love, so lively shines 106:04,364[E ]| In them divine resemblance, and such grace 106:04,365[E ]| The hand that formed them on their shape hath poured. 106:04,366[E ]| Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh 106:04,367[E ]| Your change approaches, when all these delights 106:04,368[E ]| Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, 106:04,369[E ]| More woe, the more your taste is now of joy; 106:04,370[E ]| Happy, but for so happy ill secured 106:04,371[E ]| Long to continue, and this high seat your heaven 106:04,372[E ]| Ill fenced for heaven to keep out such a foe 106:04,373[E ]| As now is entered; yet no purposed foe 106:04,374[E ]| To you whom I could pity thus forlorn 106:04,375[E ]| Though I unpitied: league with you I seek, 106:04,376[E ]| And mutual amity so strait, so close, 106:04,377[E ]| That I with you must dwell, or you with me 106:04,378[E ]| Henceforth; my dwelling haply may not please 106:04,379[E ]| Like this fair Paradise, your sense, yet such 106:04,380[E ]| Accept your maker's work; he gave it me, 106:04,381[E ]| Which I as freely give; hell shall unfold, 106:04,382[E ]| To entertain you two, her widest gates, 106:04,383[E ]| And send forth all her kings; there will be room, 106:04,384[E ]| Not like these narrow limits, to receive 106:04,385[E ]| Your numerous offspring; if no better place, 106:04,386[E ]| Thank him who puts me loth to this revenge 106:04,387[E ]| On you who wrong me not for him who wronged. 106:04,388[E ]| And should I at your harmless innocence 106:04,389[E ]| Melt, as I do, yet public reason just, 106:04,390[E ]| Honour and empire with revenge enlarged, 106:04,391[E ]| By conquering this new world, compels me now 106:04,392[E ]| To do what else though damned I should abhor. 106:04,393[' ]| So spake the fiend, and with necessity, 106:04,394[' ]| The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. 106:04,395[' ]| Then from his lofty stand on that high tree 106:04,396[' ]| Down he alights among the sportful herd 106:04,397[' ]| Of those four-footed kinds, himself now one, 106:04,398[' ]| Now other, as their shape served best his end 106:04,399[' ]| Nearer to view his prey, and unespied 106:04,400[' ]| To mark what of their state he more might learn 106:04,401[' ]| By word or action marked: about them round 106:04,402[' ]| A lion now he stalks with fiery glare, 106:04,403[' ]| Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied 106:04,404[' ]| In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play, 106:04,405[' ]| Straight couches close, then rising changes oft 106:04,406[' ]| His couchant watch, as one who chose his ground 106:04,407[' ]| Whence rushing he might surest seize them both 106:04,408[' ]| Griped in each paw: when Adam first of men 106:04,409[' ]| To first of women Eve thus moving speech, 106:04,410[' ]| Turned him all ear to hear new utterance flow. 106:04,411[C ]| Sole partner and sole part of all these joys, 106:04,412[C ]| Dearer thy self than all; needs must the power 106:04,413[C ]| That made us, and for us this ample world 106:04,414[C ]| Be infinitely good, and of his good 106:04,415[C ]| As liberal and free as infinite, 106:04,416[C ]| That raised us from the dust and placed us here 106:04,417[C ]| In all this happiness, who at his hand 106:04,418[C ]| Have nothing merited, nor can perform 106:04,419[C ]| Aught whereof he hath need, he who requires 106:04,420[C ]| From us no other service than to keep 106:04,421[C ]| This one this easy charge, of all the trees 106:04,422[C ]| In Paradise that bear delicious fruit 106:04,423[C ]| So various, not to taste that only tree 106:04,424[C ]| Of knowledge, planted by the tree of life, 106:04,425[C ]| So near grows death to life, what e'er death is, 106:04,426[C ]| Some dreadful thing no doubt; for well thou know'st 106:04,427[C ]| God hath pronounced it death to taste that tree, 106:04,428[C ]| The only sign of our obedience left 106:04,429[C ]| Among so many signs of power and rule 106:04,430[C ]| Conferred upon us, and dominion given 106:04,431[C ]| Over all other creatures that possess 106:04,432[C ]| Earth, air, and sea. Then let us not think hard 106:04,433[C ]| One easy prohibition, who enjoy 106:04,434[C ]| Free leave so large to all things else, and choice 106:04,435[C ]| Unlimited of manifold delights: 106:04,436[C ]| But let us ever praise him, and extol 106:04,437[C ]| His bounty, following our delightful task 106:04,438[C ]| To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers, 106:04,439[C ]| Which were it toilsome, yet with thee were sweet. 106:04,440[' ]| To whom thus Eve replied. 106:04,440[D ]| O thou for whom 106:04,441[D ]| And from whom I was formed flesh of thy flesh 106:04,442[D ]| And without whom am to no end, my guide 106:04,443[D ]| And head, what thou hast said is just and right. 106:04,444[D ]| For we to him indeed all praises owe, 106:04,445[D ]| And daily thanks, I chiefly who enjoy 106:04,446[D ]| So far the happier lot, enjoying thee 106:04,447[D ]| Pre-eminent by so much odds, while thou 106:04,448[D ]| Like consort to thyself canst nowhere find. 106:04,449[D ]| That day I oft remember, when from sleep 106:04,450[D ]| I first awaked, and found myself reposed 106:04,451[D ]| Under a shade of flowers, much wondering where 106:04,452[D ]| And what I was, whence thither brought, and how. 106:04,453[D ]| Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound 106:04,454[D ]| Of waters issued from a cave and spread 106:04,455[D ]| Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved 106:04,456[D ]| Pure as the expanse of heaven; I thither went 106:04,457[D ]| With unexperienced thought, and laid me down 106:04,458[D ]| On the green bank, to look into the clear 106:04,459[D ]| Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky. 106:04,460[D ]| As I bent down to look, just opposite, 106:04,461[D ]| A shape within the watery gleam appeared 106:04,462[D ]| Bending to look on me, I started back, 106:04,463[D ]| It started back, but pleased I soon returned, 106:04,464[D ]| Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks 106:04,465[D ]| Of sympathy and love; there I had fixed 106:04,466[D ]| Mine eyes till now, and pined with vain desire, 106:04,467[D ]| Had not a voice thus warned me, What thou seest, 106:04,468[D ]| What there thou seest fair creature is thyself, 106:04,469[D ]| With thee it came and goes: but follow me, 106:04,470[D ]| And I will bring thee where no shadow stays 106:04,471[D ]| Thy coming, and thy soft embraces, he 106:04,472[D ]| Whose image thou art, him thou shall enjoy 106:04,473[D ]| Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear 106:04,474[D ]| Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called 106:04,475[D ]| Mother of human race: what could I do, 106:04,476[D ]| But follow straight, invisibly thus led? 106:04,477[D ]| Till I espied thee, fair indeed and tall, 106:04,478[D ]| Under a platan, yet methought less fair, 106:04,479[D ]| Less winning soft, less amiably mild, 106:04,480[D ]| Than that smooth watery image; back I turned, 106:04,481[D ]| Thou following cried'st aloud, Return fair Eve, 106:04,482[D ]| Whom fly'st thou? Whom thou fly'st, of him thou art, 106:04,483[D ]| His flesh, his bone; to give thee being I lent 106:04,484[D ]| Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart 106:04,485[D ]| Substantial life, to have thee by my side 106:04,486[D ]| Henceforth an individual solace dear; 106:04,487[D ]| Part of soul I seek thee, and thee claim 106:04,488[D ]| My other half: with that thy gentle hand 106:04,489[D ]| Seized mine, I yielded, and from that time see 106:04,490[D ]| How beauty is excelled by manly grace 106:04,491[D ]| And wisdom, which alone is truly fair. 106:04,492[' ]| So spake our general mother, and with eyes 106:04,493[' ]| Of conjugal attraction unreproved, 106:04,494[' ]| And meek surrender, half embracing leaned 106:04,495[' ]| On our first father, half her swelling breast 106:04,496[' ]| Naked met his under the flowing gold 106:04,497[' ]| Of her loose tresses hid: he in delight 106:04,498[' ]| Both of her beauty and submissive charms 106:04,499[' ]| Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter 106:04,500[' ]| On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds 106:05,000@@@@@| 106:05,201[X ]| The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep; 106:05,202[X ]| Witness if I be silent, morn or even, 106:05,203[X ]| To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade 106:05,204[X ]| Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. 106:05,205[X ]| Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still 106:05,206[X ]| To give us only good; and if the night 106:05,207[X ]| Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, 106:05,208[X ]| Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark. 106:05,209[' ]| So prayed they innocent, and to their thoughts 106:05,210[' ]| Firm peace recovered soon and wonted calm. 106:05,211[' ]| On to their morning's rural work they haste 106:05,212[' ]| Among sweet dews and flowers; where any row 106:05,213[' ]| Of fruit-trees over-woody reached too far 106:05,214[' ]| Their pampered boughs, and needed hands to check 106:05,215[' ]| Fruitless embraces: or they led the vine 106:05,216[' ]| To wed her elm; she spoused about him twines 106:05,217[' ]| Her marriageable arms, and with her brings 106:05,218[' ]| Her dower the adopted clusters, to adorn 106:05,219[' ]| His barren leaves. Them thus employed beheld 106:05,220[' ]| With pity heaven's high king, and to him called 106:05,221[' ]| Raphael, the sociable spirit, that deigned 106:05,222[' ]| To travel with Tobias, and secured 106:05,223[' ]| His marriage with the seven-times-wedded maid. 106:05,224[A ]| Raphael, 106:05,224[' ]| said he, 106:05,224[A ]| thou hear'st what stir on earth, 106:05,225[A ]| Satan from hell scaped through the darksome gulf 106:05,226[A ]| Hath raised in Paradise, and how disturbed 106:05,227[A ]| This night the human pair, how he designs 106:05,228[A ]| In them at once to ruin all mankind. 106:05,229[A ]| Go therefore, half this day as friend with friend 106:05,230[A ]| Converse with Adam, in what bower or shade 106:05,231[A ]| Thou find'st him from the heat of noon retired, 106:05,232[A ]| To respite his day-labour with repast, 106:05,233[A ]| Or with repose; and such discourse bring on, 106:05,234[A ]| As may advise him of his happy state, 106:05,235[A ]| Happiness in his power left free to will, 106:05,236[A ]| Left to his own free will, his will though free, 106:05,237[A ]| Yet mutable; whence warn him to beware 106:05,238[A ]| He swerve not too secure: tell him withal 106:05,239[A ]| His danger, and from whom, what enemy 106:05,240[A ]| Late fallen himself from heaven, is plotting now 106:05,241[A ]| The fall of others from like state of bliss; 106:05,242[A ]| By violence, no, for that shall be withstood, 106:05,243[A ]| But by deceit and lies; this let him know, 106:05,244[A ]| Lest wilfully transgressing he pretend 106:05,245[A ]| Surprisal, unadmonished, unforewarned. 106:05,246[' ]| So spake the eternal Father, and fulfilled 106:05,247[' ]| All justice: nor delayed the winged saint 106:05,248[' ]| After his charge received; but from among 106:05,249[' ]| Thousand celestial ardours, where he stood 106:05,250[' ]| Veiled with his gorgeous wings, up springing light 106:05,251[' ]| Flew through the midst of heaven; the angelic choirs 106:05,252[' ]| On each hand parting, to his speed gave way 106:05,253[' ]| Through all the empyreal road; till at the gate 106:05,254[' ]| Of heaven arrived, the gate self-opened wide 106:05,255[' ]| On golden hinges turning, as by work 106:05,256[' ]| Divine the sovereign architect had framed. 106:05,257[' ]| From hence, no cloud, or, to obstruct his sight, 106:05,258[' ]| Star interposed, however small he sees, 106:05,259[' ]| Not unconform to other shining globes, 106:05,260[' ]| Earth and the garden of God, with cedars crowned 106:05,261[' ]| Above all hills. As when by night the glass 106:05,262[' ]| Of Galileo, less assured, observes 106:05,263[' ]| Imagined lands and regions in the moon: 106:05,264[' ]| Or pilot from amidst the Cyclades 106:05,265[' ]| Delos or Samos first appearing kens 106:05,266[' ]| A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight 106:05,267[' ]| He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky 106:05,268[' ]| Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing 106:05,269[' ]| Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan 106:05,270[' ]| Winnows the buxom air; till within soar 106:05,271[' ]| Of towering eagles, to all the fowls he seems 106:05,272[' ]| A phoenix, gazed by all, as that sole bird 106:05,273[' ]| When to enshrine his relics in the sun's 106:05,274[' ]| Bright temple, to Aegyptian Thebes he flies. 106:05,275[' ]| At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise 106:05,276[' ]| He lights, and to his proper shape returns 106:05,277[' ]| A seraph winged; six wings he wore, to shade 106:05,278[' ]| His lineaments divine; the pair that clad 106:05,279[' ]| Each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breast 106:05,280[' ]| With regal ornament; the middle pair 106:05,281[' ]| Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round 106:05,282[' ]| Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold 106:05,283[' ]| And colours dipped in heaven; the third his feet 106:05,284[' ]| Shadowed from either hell with feathered mail 106:05,285[' ]| Sky-tinctured grain. Like Maia's son he stood, 106:05,286[' ]| And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance filled 106:05,287[' ]| The circuit wide. Straight knew him all the bands 106:05,288[' ]| Of angels under watch; and to his state, 106:05,289[' ]| And to his message high in honour rise; 106:05,290[' ]| For on some message high they guessed him bound. 106:05,291[' ]| Their glittering tents he passed, and now is come 106:05,292[' ]| Into the blissful field, through groves of myrrh, 106:05,293[' ]| And flowering odours, cassia, nard, and balm; 106:05,294[' ]| A wilderness of sweets; for nature here 106:05,295[' ]| Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will 106:05,296[' ]| Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more sweet, 106:05,297[' ]| Wild above rule or art; enormous bliss. 106:05,298[' ]| Him through the spicy forest onward come 106:05,299[' ]| Adam discerned, as in the door he sat 106:05,300[' ]| Of his cool bower, while now the mounted sun 106:05,301[' ]| Shot down direct his fervid rays to warm 106:05,302[' ]| Earth's inmost womb, more warmth than Adam needs; 106:05,303[' ]| And Eve within, due at her hour prepared 106:05,304[' ]| For dinner savoury fruits, of taste to please 106:05,305[' ]| True appetite, and not disrelish thirst 106:05,306[' ]| Of nectareous draughts between, from milky stream, 106:05,307[' ]| Berry or grape: to whom thus Adam called. 106:05,308[C ]| Haste hither Eve, and worth thy sight behold 106:05,309[C ]| Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape 106:05,310[C ]| Comes this way moving; seems another morn 106:05,311[C ]| Risen on mid-noon; some great behest from heaven 106:05,312[C ]| To us perhaps he brings, and will vouchsafe 106:05,313[C ]| This day to be our guest. But go with speed, 106:05,314[C ]| And what thy stores contain, bring forth and pour 106:05,315[C ]| Abundance, fit to honour and receive 106:05,316[C ]| Our heavenly stranger; well we may afford 106:05,317[C ]| Our givers their own gifts, and large bestow 106:05,318[C ]| From large bestowed, where nature multiplies 106:05,319[C ]| Her fertile growth, and by disburdening grows 106:05,320[C ]| More fruitful, which instructs us not to spare. 106:05,321[' ]| To whom thus Eve. 106:05,321[D ]| Adam, earth's hallowed mould, 106:05,322[D ]| Of God inspired, small store will serve, where store, 106:05,323[D ]| All seasons, ripe for use hangs on the stalk; 106:05,324[D ]| Save what by frugal storing firmness gains 106:05,325[D ]| To nourish, and superfluous moist consumes: 106:05,326[D ]| But I will haste and from each bough and brake, 106:05,327[D ]| Each plant and juiciest gourd will pluck such choice 106:05,328[D ]| To entertain our angel guest, as he 106:05,329[D ]| Beholding shall confess that here on earth 106:05,330[D ]| God hath dispensed his bounties as in heaven. 106:05,331[' ]| So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste 106:05,332[' ]| She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent 106:05,333[' ]| What choice to choose for delicacy best, 106:05,334[' ]| What order, so contrived as not to mix 106:05,335[' ]| Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring 106:05,336[' ]| Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change, 106:05,337[' ]| Bestirs her then, and from each tender stalk 106:05,338[' ]| Whatever Earth all-bearing mother yields 106:05,339[' ]| In India east or west, or middle shore 106:05,340[' ]| In Pontus or the Punic coast, or where 106:05,341[' ]| Alcinous reigned, fruit of all kinds, in coat, 106:05,342[' ]| Rough, or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell 106:05,343[' ]| She gathers, tribute large, and on the board 106:05,344[' ]| Heaps with unsparing hand; for drink the grape 106:05,345[' ]| She crushes, inoffensive must, and meaths 106:05,346[' ]| From many a berry, and from sweet kernels pressed 106:05,347[' ]| She tempers dulcet creams, nor these to hold 106:05,348[' ]| Wants her fit vessels pure, then strews the ground 106:05,349[' ]| With rose and odours from the shrub unfumed. 106:05,350[' ]| Mean while our primitive great sire, to meet 106:05,351[' ]| His godlike guest, walks forth, without more train 106:05,352[' ]| Accompanied than with his own complete 106:05,353[' ]| Perfections, in himself was all his state, 106:05,354[' ]| More solemn than the tedious pomp that waits 106:05,355[' ]| On princes, when their rich retinue long 106:05,356[' ]| Of horses led, and grooms besmeared with gold 106:05,357[' ]| Dazzles the crowd, and sets them all agape. 106:05,358[' ]| Nearer his presence Adam though not awed, 106:05,359[' ]| Yet with submiss approach and reverence meek, 106:05,360[' ]| As to a superior nature, bowing low, 106:05,361[' ]| Thus said. 106:05,361[C ]| Native of heaven, for other place 106:05,362[C ]| None can than heaven such glorious shape contain; 106:05,363[C ]| Since by descending from the thrones above, 106:05,364[C ]| Those happy places thou hast deigned a while 106:05,365[C ]| To want, and honour these, vouchsafe with us 106:05,366[C ]| Two only, who yet by sovereign gift posess 106:05,367[C ]| This spacious ground, in yonder shady bower 106:05,368[C ]| To rest, and what the garden choicest bears 106:05,369[C ]| To sit and taste, till this meridian heat 106:05,370[C ]| Be over, and the sun more cool decline. 106:05,371[' ]| Whom thus the angelic virtue answered mild, 106:05,372[I ]| Adam, I therefore came, nor art thou such 106:05,373[I ]| Created, or such place hast here to dwell, 106:05,374[I ]| As may not oft invite, though spirits of heaven 106:05,375[I ]| To visit thee; lead on then where thy bower 106:05,376[I ]| O'ershades; for these mid-hours, till evening rise 106:05,377[I ]| I have at will. 106:05,377[' ]| So to the silvan lodge 106:05,378[' ]| They came, that like Pomona's ardour smiled 106:05,379[' ]| With flowerets decked and fragrant smells; but Eve 106:05,380[' ]| Undecked, save with her self more lovely fair 106:05,381[' ]| Than wood-nymph, or the fairest goodess feigned 106:05,382[' ]| Of three that in Mount Ida naked strove, 106:05,383[' ]| Stood to entertain her guest from heaven; no veil 106:05,384[' ]| She needed, virtue-proof, no thought infirm 106:05,385[' ]| Altered her cheek. On whom the angel Hail 106:05,386[' ]| Bestowed, the holy salutation used 106:05,387[' ]| Long after the blest Marie, second Eve. 106:05,388[I ]| Hail mother of mankind, whose fruitful womb 106:05,389[I ]| Shall fill the world more numerous with thy sons 106:05,390[I ]| Than with these various fruits the trees of God 106:05,391[I ]| Have heaped this table. 106:05,391[' ]| Raised of grassy turf 106:05,392[' ]| Their table was, and mossy seats had round, 106:05,393[' ]| And on her ample square from side to side 106:05,394[' ]| All autumn piled, though spring and autumn here 106:05,395[' ]| Danced hand in hand. A while discourse they hold; 106:05,396[' ]| No fear lest dinner cool; when thus began 106:05,397[' ]| Our author. 106:05,397[C ]| Heavenly stranger please to taste 106:05,398[C ]| These bounties which our nourisher, from whom 106:05,399[C ]| All perfect good unmeasured out, descends, 106:05,400[C ]| To us for food and for delight hath caused 106:05,401[C ]| The earth to yield; unsavoury food perhaps 106:05,402[C ]| To spiritual natures; only this I know, 106:05,403[C ]| That one celestial Father gives to all. 106:05,404[' ]| To whom the angel. 106:05,404[I ]| Therefore what he gives 106:05,405[I ]| (Whose praise be ever sung) to man in part 106:05,406[I ]| Spiritual, may of purest spirits be found 106:05,407[I ]| No ingrateful food: and food alike those pure 106:05,408[I ]| Intelligential substances require, 106:05,409[I ]| As doth your rational; and both contain 106:05,410[I ]| Within them every lower faculty 106:05,411[I ]| Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste, 106:05,412[I ]| Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate, 106:05,413[I ]| And corporeal to incorporeal turn. 106:05,414[I ]| For know, whatever was created, needs 106:05,415[I ]| To be sustained and fed; of elements 106:05,416[I ]| The grosser feeds the purer, earth the sea, 106:05,417[I ]| Earth and the sea feed air, the air those fires 106:05,418[I ]| Ethereal, and as lowest first the moon; 106:05,419[I ]| Whence in her visage round those spots, unpurged 106:05,420[I ]| Vapours not yet into her substance turned. 106:05,421[I ]| Nor doth the moon no nourishment exhale 106:05,422[I ]| From her moist continent to higher orbs. 106:05,423[I ]| The sun that light imparts to all, receives 106:05,424[I ]| From all his alimental recompense 106:05,425[I ]| In humid exhalations, and at even 106:05,426[I ]| Sups with the ocean: though in heaven the trees 106:05,427[I ]| Of life ambrosial fruitage bear, and vines 106:05,428[I ]| Yield nectar, though from off the boughs each morn 106:05,429[I ]| We brush mellifluous dews, and find the ground 106:05,430[I ]| Covered with pearly grain: yet God hath here 106:05,431[I ]| Varied his bounty so with new delights, 106:05,432[I ]| As may compare with heaven; and to taste 106:05,433[I ]| Think not I shall be nice. 106:05,433[' ]| So down they sat, 106:05,434[' ]| And to their viands fell, nor seemingly 106:05,435[' ]| The angel, nor in mist, the common gloss 106:05,436[' ]| Of theologians, but with keen despatch 106:05,437[' ]| Of real hunger, and concoctive heat 106:05,438[' ]| To transubstantiate; what rebounds, transpires 106:05,439[' ]| Through spirits with ease; nor wonder; if by fire 106:05,440[' ]| Of sooty coal the empiric alchemist 106:05,441[' ]| Can turn, or holds it possible to turn 106:05,442[' ]| Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold 106:05,443[' ]| As from the mine. Mean while at table Eve 106:05,444[' ]| Ministered naked, and their flowing cups 106:05,445[' ]| With pleasant liquors crowned: O innocence 106:05,446[' ]| Deserving Paradise! If ever, then, 106:05,447[' ]| Then had the sons of God excuse to have been 106:05,448[' ]| Enamoured at that sight; but in those hearts 106:05,449[' ]| Love unlibidinous reigned, nor jealousy 106:05,450[' ]| Was understood, the injured lover's hell. 106:05,451[' ]| Thus when with meats and drinks they had sufficed, 106:05,452[' ]| Not burdened nature, sudden mind arose 106:05,453[' ]| In Adam, not to let the occasion pass 106:05,454[' ]| Given him by this great conference to know 106:05,455[' ]| Of things above his world, and of their being 106:05,456[' ]| Who dwell in heaven, whose excellence he saw 106:05,457[' ]| Transcend his own so far, whose radiant forms 106:05,458[' ]| Divine effulgence, whose high power so far 106:05,459[' ]| Exceeded human, and his wary speech 106:05,460[' ]| Thus to the empyreal minister he framed. 106:05,461[C ]| Inhabitant with God, now know I well 106:05,462[C ]| Thy favour, in his honour done to man, 106:05,463[C ]| Under whose lowly roof thou hast vouchsafed 106:05,464[C ]| To enter, and these earthly fruits to taste, 106:05,465[C ]| Food not of angels, yet accepted so, 106:05,466[C ]| As that more willingly thou couldst not seem 106:05,467[C ]| At heaven's high feasts to have fed: yet what compare? 106:05,468[' ]| To whom the winged hierarch replied. 106:05,469[I ]| O Adam, one almighty is, from whom 106:05,470[I ]| All things proceed, and up to him return, 106:05,471[I ]| If not depraved from good, created all 106:05,472[I ]| Such to perfection, one first matter all, 106:05,473[I ]| Indued with various forms, various degrees 106:05,474[I ]| Of substance, and in things that live, of life; 106:05,475[I ]| But more refined, more spirituous, and pure, 106:05,476[I ]| As nearer to him placed or nearer tending 106:05,477[I ]| Each in their several active spheres assigned, 106:05,478[I ]| Till body up to spirit work, in bounds 106:05,479[I ]| Proportioned to each kind. So from the root 106:05,480[I ]| Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves 106:05,481[I ]| More airy, last the bright consummate flower 106:05,482[I ]| Spirits odorous breathes: flowers and their fruit 106:05,483[I ]| Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed 106:05,484[I ]| To vital spirits aspire, to animal, 106:05,485[I ]| To intellectual, give both life and sense, 106:05,486[I ]| Fancy and understanding, whence the soul 106:05,487[I ]| Reason receives, and reason is her being, 106:05,488[I ]| Discursive, or intuitive; discourse 106:05,489[I ]| Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, 106:05,490[I ]| Differing but in degree, of kind the same. 106:05,491[I ]| Wonder not then, what God for you saw good 106:05,492[I ]| If I refuse not, but convert, as you, 106:05,493[I ]| To proper substance; time may come when men 106:05,494[I ]| With angels may participate, and find 106:05,495[I ]| No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare: 106:05,496[I ]| And from that corporal nutriments perhaps 106:05,497[I ]| Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit, 106:05,498[I ]| Improved by tract of time, and winged ascend 106:05,499[I ]| Ethereal, as we, or may at choice 106:05,500[I ]| Here or in heavenly paradises dwell; 106:06,000@@@@@| 106:06,201[I ]| Presage of victory and fierce desire 106:06,202[I ]| Of battle: whereat Michael bid sound 106:06,203[I ]| The archangel trumpet; through the vast of heaven 106:06,204[I ]| It sounded, and the faithful armies rung 106:06,205[I ]| Hosanna to the highest: nor stood at gaze 106:06,206[I ]| The adverse legions, nor less hideous joined 106:06,207[I ]| The horrid shock: now storming fury rose, 106:06,208[I ]| And clamour such as heard in heaven till now 106:06,209[I ]| Was never, arms on armour clashing brayed 106:06,210[I ]| Horrible discord, and the madding wheels 106:06,211[I ]| Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise 106:06,212[I ]| Of conflict; over head the dismal hiss 106:06,213[I ]| Of fiery darts in flaming volleys flew, 106:06,214[I ]| And flying vaulted either host with fire. 106:06,215[I ]| So under fiery cope together rushed 106:06,216[I ]| Both battles main, with ruinous assault 106:06,217[I ]| And inextinguishable rage; all heaven 106:06,218[I ]| Resounded, and had earth been then, all earth 106:06,219[I ]| Had to her centre shook. What wonder? When 106:06,220[I ]| Millions of fierce encountering angels fought 106:06,221[I ]| On either side, the least of whom could wield 106:06,222[I ]| These elements, and arm him with the force 106:06,223[I ]| Of all their regions: how much more of power 106:06,224[I ]| Army against army numberless to raise 106:06,225[I ]| Dreadful combustion warring, and disturb, 106:06,226[I ]| Though not destroy, their happy native seat; 106:06,227[I ]| Had not the eternal king omnipotent 106:06,228[I ]| From his strong hold of heaven high overruled 106:06,229[I ]| And limited their might; though numbered such 106:06,230[I ]| As each divided legion might have seemed 106:06,231[I ]| A numerous host, in strength each armed hand 106:06,232[I ]| A legion; led in flight, yet leader seemed 106:06,233[I ]| Each warrior single as in chief, expert 106:06,234[I ]| When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway 106:06,235[I ]| Of battle, open when, and when to close 106:06,236[I ]| The ridges of grim war; no thought of flight, 106:06,237[I ]| None of retreat, no unbecoming deed 106:06,238[I ]| That argued fear; each on himself relied, 106:06,239[I ]| As only in his arm the moment lay 106:06,240[I ]| Of victory; deeds of eternal fame 106:06,241[I ]| Were done, but infinite: for wide was spread 106:06,242[I ]| That war and various; sometimes on firm ground 106:06,243[I ]| A standing fight, then soaring on main wing 106:06,244[I ]| Tormented all the air; all air seemed then 106:06,245[I ]| Conflicting fire: long time in even scale 106:06,246[I ]| The battle hung; till Satan, who that day 106:06,247[I ]| Prodigious power had shown, and met in arms 106:06,248[I ]| No equal, ranging through the dire attack 106:06,249[I ]| Of fighting seraphim confused, at length 106:06,250[I ]| Saw where the sword of Michael smote, and felled 106:06,251[I ]| Squadrons at once, with huge two-handed sway 106:06,252[I ]| Brandished aloft the horrid edge came down 106:06,253[I ]| Wide wasting; such destruction to withstand 106:06,254[I ]| He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb 106:06,255[I ]| Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield 106:06,256[I ]| A vast circumference: at his approach 106:06,257[I ]| The great archangel from his warlike toil 106:06,258[I ]| Surceased, and glad as hoping here to end 106:06,259[I ]| Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued 106:06,260[I ]| Or captive dragged in chains, with hostile frown 106:06,261[I ]| And visage all inflamed first thus began. 106:06,262@j | Author of evil, unknown till thy revolt, 106:06,263@j | Unnamed in heaven, now plenteous, as thou seest 106:06,264@j | These acts of hateful strife, hateful to all, 106:06,265@j | Though heaviest by just measure on thy self 106:06,266@j | And thy adherents: how hast thou disturbed 106:06,267@j | Heaven's blessed peace, and into nature brought 106:06,268@j | Misery, uncreated till the crime 106:06,269@j | Of thy rebellion? How hast thou instilled 106:06,270@j | Thy malice into thousands, once upright 106:06,271@j | And faithful, now proved false. But think not here 106:06,272@j | To trouble holy rest; heaven casts thee out 106:06,273@j | From all her confines. Heaven the seat of bliss 106:06,274@j | Brooks not the works of violence and war. 106:06,275@j | Hence then, and evil go with thee along 106:06,276@j | Thy offspring, to the place of evil, hell, 106:06,277@j | Thou and thy wicked crew; there mingle broils, 106:06,278@j | Ere this avenging sword begin thy doom, 106:06,279@j | Or some more sudden vengeance winged from God 106:06,280@j | Precipitate thee with augmented pain. 106:06,281[I ]| So spake the prince of angels; to whom thus 106:06,282[I ]| The adversary. 106:06,282@e | Nor think thou with wind 106:06,283@e | Of airy threats to awe whom yet with deeds 106:06,284@e | Thou canst not. Hast thou turned the least of these 106:06,285@e | To flight, or if to fall, but that they rise 106:06,286@e | Unvanquished, easier to transact with me 106:06,287@e | That thou shouldst hope, imperious, and with threats 106:06,288@e | To chase me hence? Err not that so shall end 106:06,289@e | The strife which thou call'st evil, but we style 106:06,290@e | The strife of glory: which we mean to win, 106:06,291@e | Or turn this heaven it self into the hell 106:06,292@e | Thou fablest, here however to dwell free, 106:06,293@e | If not to reign: mean while thy utmost force, 106:06,294@e | And join him named Almighty to thy aid, 106:06,295@e | I fly not, but have sought thee far and nigh. 106:06,296[I ]| They ended parle, and both addressed for fight 106:06,297[I ]| Unspeakable; for who, though with the tongue 106:06,298[I ]| Of angels, can relate, or to what things 106:06,299[I ]| Liken on earth conspicuous, that may lift 106:06,300[I ]| Human imagination to such highth 106:06,301[I ]| Of Godlike power: for likest Gods they seemed, 106:06,302[I ]| Stood they or moved, in stature, motion, arms 106:06,303[I ]| Fit to decide the empire of great heaven. 106:06,304[I ]| Now waved their fiery swords, and in the air 106:06,305[I ]| Made horrid circles; two broad suns their shields 106:06,306[I ]| Blazed opposite, while expectation stood 106:06,307[I ]| In horror; from each hand with speed retired 106:06,308[I ]| Where erst was thickest fight, the angelic throng, 106:06,309[I ]| And left large field, unsafe within the wind 106:06,310[I ]| Of such commotion, such as to set forth 106:06,311[I ]| Great things by small, if nature's concord broke, 106:06,312[I ]| Among the constellations war were sprung, 106:06,313[I ]| Two planets rushing from aspect malign 106:06,314[I ]| Of fiercest opposition in mid sky, 106:06,315[I ]| Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound. 106:06,316[I ]| Together both with next to almighty arm, 106:06,317[I ]| Uplifted imminent one stroke they aimed 106:06,318[I ]| That might determine, and not need repeat, 106:06,319[I ]| As not of power, at once; nor odds appeared 106:06,320[I ]| In might or swift prevention; but the sword 106:06,321[I ]| Of Michael from the armoury of God 106:06,322[I ]| Was given him tempered so, that neither keen 106:06,323[I ]| Nor solid might resist that edge: it met 106:06,324[I ]| The sword of Satan with steep force to smite 106:06,325[I ]| Descending, and in half cut sheer, nor stayed, 106:06,326[I ]| But with swift wheel reverse, deep entering shared 106:06,327[I ]| All his right side; then Satan first knew pain, 106:06,328[I ]| And writhed him to and fro convolved; so sore 106:06,329[I ]| The griding sword with discontinuous wound 106:06,330[I ]| Passed through him, but the ethereal substance closed 106:06,331[I ]| Not long divisible, and from the gash 106:06,332[I ]| A stream of nectarous humour issuing flowed 106:06,333[I ]| Sanguine, such as celestial spirits may bleed, 106:06,334[I ]| And all his armour stained ere while so bright. 106:06,335[I ]| Forthwith on all sides to his aid was run 106:06,336[I ]| By angels many and strong who interposed 106:06,337[I ]| Defence, while others bore him on their shields 106:06,338[I ]| Back to his chariot; where it stood retired 106:06,339[I ]| From off the files of war; there they him laid 106:06,340[I ]| Gnashing for anguish and despite and shame 106:06,341[I ]| To find himself not matchless, and his pride 106:06,342[I ]| Humbled by such rebuke, so far beneath 106:06,343[I ]| His confidence to equal God in power. 106:06,344[I ]| Yet soon he healed; for spirits that live throughout 106:06,345[I ]| Vital in every part, not as frail man 106:06,346[I ]| In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, 106:06,347[I ]| Cannot but by annihilating die; 106:06,348[I ]| Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound 106:06,349[I ]| Receive, no more than can the fluid air: 106:06,350[I ]| All heart, they live, all head, all eye, all ear, 106:06,351[I ]| All intellect, all sense, and as they please, 106:06,352[I ]| They limb themselves, and colour, shape or size 106:06,353[I ]| Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare. 106:06,354[I ]| Mean while in other parts like deeds deserved 106:06,355[I ]| Memorial, where the might of Gabriel fought, 106:06,356[I ]| And with fierce ensigns pierced the deep array 106:06,357[I ]| Of Moloc furious king, who him defied, 106:06,358[I ]| And at his chariot wheels to drag him bound 106:06,359[I ]| Threatened, nor from the holy one of heaven 106:06,360[I ]| Refrained his tongue blasphemous; but anon 106:06,361[I ]| Down cloven to the waist, with shattered arms 106:06,362[I ]| And uncouth pain fled bellowing. On each wing 106:06,363[I ]| Uriel and Raphael his vaunting foe, 106:06,364[I ]| Though huge, and in a rock of diamond armed, 106:06,365[I ]| Vanquished Adramelec, and Asmadai, 106:06,366[I ]| Two potent thrones, that to be less than Gods 106:06,367[I ]| Disdained, but meaner thoughts learned in their flight, 106:06,368[I ]| Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail, 106:06,369[I ]| Nor stood unmindful Abdiel to annoy 106:06,370[I ]| The atheist crew, but with redoubled blow 106:06,371[I ]| Ariel and Arioc, and the violence 106:06,372[I ]| Of Ramiel scorched and blasted overthrew. 106:06,373[I ]| I might relate of thousands, and their names 106:06,374[I ]| Eternize here on earth; but those elect 106:06,375[I ]| Angels contented with their fame in heaven 106:06,376[I ]| Seek not the praise of men: the other sort 106:06,377[I ]| In might though wondrous and in acts of war, 106:06,378[I ]| Nor of renown less eager, yet by doom 106:06,379[I ]| Cancelled from heaven and sacred memory, 106:06,380[I ]| Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell. 106:06,381[I ]| For strength from truth divided and from just, 106:06,382[I ]| Illaudable, naught merits but dispraise 106:06,383[I ]| And ignominy, yet to glory aspires 106:06,384[I ]| Vain glorious, and through infamy seeks fame: 106:06,385[I ]| Therefore eternal silence be their doom. 106:06,386[I ]| And now their mightiest quelled, the battle swerved, 106:06,387[I ]| With many an inroad gored; deformed rout 106:06,388[I ]| Entered, and foul disorder; all the ground 106:06,389[I ]| With shivered armour strown, and on a heap 106:06,390[I ]| Chariot and charioteer lay overturned 106:06,391[I ]| And fiery foaming steeds; that stood, recoiled 106:06,392[I ]| O'er-wearied, through the faint Satanic host 106:06,393[I ]| Defensive scarce, or with pale fear surprised, 106:06,394[I ]| Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain 106:06,395[I ]| Fled ignominious, to such evil brought 106:06,396[I ]| By sin of disobedience, till that hour 106:06,397[I ]| Not liable to fear or flight or pain. 106:06,398[I ]| Far otherwise the inviolable saints 106:06,399[I ]| In cubic phalanx firm advance entire, 106:06,400[I ]| Invulnerable, impenetrably armed: 106:06,401[I ]| Such high advantages their innocence 106:06,402[I ]| Gave them above their foes, not to have sinned, 106:06,403[I ]| Not to have disobeyed; in fight they stood 106:06,404[I ]| Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pained 106:06,405[I ]| By wound, though from their place by violence moved. 106:06,406[I ]| Now night her course began, and over heaven 106:06,407[I ]| Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposed, 106:06,408[I ]| And silence on the odious din of war: 106:06,409[I ]| Under her cloudy covert both retired, 106:06,410[I ]| Victor and vanquished: on the foughten field 106:06,411[I ]| Michael and his angels prevalent 106:06,412[I ]| Encamping, placed in guard their watches round, 106:06,413[I ]| Cherubic waving fires: on the other part 106:06,414[I ]| Satan with his rebellious disappeared, 106:06,415[I ]| Far in the dark dislodged, and void of rest, 106:06,416[I ]| His potentates to council called by night; 106:06,417[I ]| And in the midst thus undismayed began. 106:06,418@e | O now in danger tried, now known in arms 106:06,419@e | Not to be overpowered, companions dear, 106:06,420@e | Found worthy not of liberty alone, 106:06,421@e | Too mean pretence, but what we more affect, 106:06,422@e | Honour, dominion, glory, and renown, 106:06,423@e | Who have sustained one day in doubtful fight 106:06,424@e | (And if one day, why not eternal days?) 106:06,425@e | What heaven's lord had powerfulest to send 106:06,426@e | Against us from about his throne, and judged 106:06,427@e | Sufficient to subdue us to his will, 106:06,428@e | But proves not so: then fallible, it seems, 106:06,429@e | Of future we may deem him, though till now 106:06,430@e | Omniscient thought. True is, less firmly armed, 106:06,431@e | Some disadvantage we endured and pain, 106:06,432@e | Till now not known, but known as soon contemned, 106:06,433@e | Since now we find this our empyreal form 106:06,434@e | Incapable of mortal injury 106:06,435@e | Imperishable, and though pierced with wound, 106:06,436@e | Soon closing, and by native vigour healed. 106:06,437@e | Of evil then so small as easy think 106:06,438@e | The remedy; perhaps more valid arms, 106:06,439@e | Weapons more violent, when next we meet, 106:06,440@e | May serve to better us, and worse our foes, 106:06,441@e | Or equal what between us made the odds, 106:06,442@e | In nature none: if other hidden cause 106:06,443@e | Left them superior, while we can preserve 106:06,444@e | Unhurt our minds, and understanding sound, 106:06,445@e | Due search and consultation will disclose. 106:06,446@e | He sat; and in the assembly next upstood 106:06,447[I ]| Nisroc, of principalities the prime; 106:06,448[I ]| As one he stood escaped from cruel right, 106:06,449[I ]| Sore toiled, his riven arms to havoc hewn, 106:06,450[I ]| And cloudy in aspect thus answering spake. 106:06,451@y | Deliverer from new lords, leader to free 106:06,452@y | Enjoyment of our right as gods; yet hard 106:06,453@y | For gods, and too unequal work we find 106:06,454@y | Against unequal arms to fight in pain, 106:06,455@y | Against unpained, impassive; from which evil 106:06,456@y | Ruin must needs ensue; for what avails 106:06,457@y | Valour or strength, though matchless, quelled with pain 106:06,458@y | Which all subdues, and makes remiss the hands 106:06,459@y | Of mightiest. Sense of pleasure we may well 106:06,460@y | Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, 106:06,461@y | But live content, which is the calmest life: 106:06,462@y | But pain is perfect misery, the worst 106:06,463@y | Of evils, and excessive, overturns 106:06,464@y | All patience. He who therefore can invent 106:06,465@y | With what more forcible we may offend 106:06,466@y | Our yet unwounded enemies, or arm 106:06,467@y | Our selves with like defence, to me deserves 106:06,468@y | No less than for deliverance what we owe. 106:06,469[I ]| Whereto with look composed Satan replied. 106:06,470@e | Not uninvented that, which thou aright 106:06,471@e | Believest so main to our success, I bring; 106:06,472@e | Which of us who beholds the bright surface 106:06,473@e | Of this ethereous mould whereon we stand, 106:06,474@e | This continent of spacious heaven, adorned 106:06,475@e | With plant, fruit, flower ambrosial, gems and gold, 106:06,476@e | Whose eye so superficially surveys 106:06,477@e | These things, as not to mind from whence they grow 106:06,478@e | Deep under ground, materials dark and crude, 106:06,479@e | Of spirituous and fiery spume, till touched 106:06,480@e | With heaven's ray, and tempered they shoot forth 106:06,481@e | So beauteous, opening to the ambient light. 106:06,482@e | These in their dark nativity the deep 106:06,483@e | Shall yield us pregnant with infernal flame, 106:06,484@e | Which into hollow engines long and round 106:06,485@e | Thick-rammed, at the other bore with touch of fire 106:06,486@e | Dilated and infuriate shall send forth 106:06,487@e | From far with thundering noise among our foes 106:06,488@e | Such implements of mischief as shall dash 106:06,489@e | To pieces, and o'erwhelm whatever stands 106:06,490@e | Adverse, that they shall fear we have disarmed 106:06,491@e | The thunderer of his only dreaded bolt. 106:06,492@e | Nor long shall be our labour, yet ere dawn, 106:06,493@e | Effect shall end our wish. Mean while revive; 106:06,494@e | Abandon fear; to strength and counsel joined 106:06,495@e | Think nothing hard, much less to be despaired. 106:06,496[I ]| He ended, and his words their drooping cheer 106:06,497[I ]| Enlightened, and their languished hope revived. 106:06,498[I ]| The invention all admired, and each, how he 106:06,499[I ]| To be the inventor missed, so easy it seemed 106:06,500[I ]| Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought 106:07,000@@@@@| 106:07,201[I ]| Myriads between two brazen mountains lodged 106:07,202[I ]| Against a solemn day, harnessed at hand, 106:07,203[I ]| Celestial equipage; and now come forth 106:07,204[I ]| Spontaneous, for within them spirit lived, 106:07,205[I ]| Attendant on their Lord: heaven opened wide 106:07,206[I ]| Her ever during gates, harmonious sound 106:07,207[I ]| On golden hinges moving, to let forth 106:07,208[I ]| The king of glory in his powerful Word 106:07,209[I ]| And Spirit coming to create new worlds. 106:07,210[I ]| On heavenly ground they stood, and from the shore 106:07,211[I ]| They viewed the vast immeasurable abyss 106:07,212[I ]| Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild, 106:07,213[I ]| Up from the bottom turned by furious winds 106:07,214[I ]| And surging waves, as mountains to assault 106:07,215[I ]| Heaven's highth, and with the centre mix the pole. 106:07,216@a | Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, 106:07,217[I ]| Said then the omnific Word, 106:07,217[I ]| your discord end: 106:07,218[I ]| Nor stayed, but on the wings of cherubim 106:07,219[I ]| Uplifted, in paternal glory rode 106:07,220[I ]| Far into chaos, and the word unborn; 106:07,221[I ]| For chaos heard his voice: him all his train 106:07,222[I ]| Followed in bright procession to behold 106:07,223[I ]| Creation, and the wonders of his might. 106:07,224[I ]| Then stayed the fervid wheels, and in his hand 106:07,225[I ]| He took the golden compass, prepared 106:07,226[I ]| In God's eternal store, to circumscribe 106:07,227[I ]| This universe, and all created things: 106:07,228[I ]| One foot he centred, and the other turned 106:07,229[I ]| Round through the vast profundity obscure, 106:07,230[I ]| And said, 106:07,230@a | Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, 106:07,231@a | This be thy just circumference, O world. 106:07,232[I ]| Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth, 106:07,233[I ]| Matter unformed and void: darkness profound 106:07,234[I ]| Covered the abyss: but on the watery calm 106:07,235[I ]| His brooding wings the spirit of God outspread, 106:07,236[I ]| And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth 106:07,237[I ]| Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purged 106:07,238[I ]| The black tartareous cold infernal dregs 106:07,239[I ]| Adverse to life: then conglobed 106:07,240[I ]| Like things to like, the rest to several place 106:07,241[I ]| Disparted, and between spun out the air. 106:07,242[I ]| And earth self balanced on her centre hung. 106:07,243@a | Let there be light, 106:07,243[I ]| said God, and forthwith light 106:07,244[I ]| Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure 106:07,245[I ]| Sprung from the deep, and from her native east 106:07,246[I ]| To journey through the airy gloom began, 106:07,247[I ]| Sphered in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun 106:07,248[I ]| Was not; she in a cloudy tabernacle 106:07,249[I ]| Sojourned the while. God saw the light was good; 106:07,250[I ]| And light from darkness by the hemisphere 106:07,251[I ]| Divided: light the day, and darkness night 106:07,252[I ]| He named. Thus was the first day even and morn: 106:07,253[I ]| Nor passed uncelebrated, nor unsung 106:07,254[I ]| By the celestial choirs, when orient light 106:07,255[I ]| Exhaling first from darkness they beheld; 106:07,256[I ]| Birth-day of heaven and earth; with joy and shout 106:07,257[I ]| The hollow universal orb they filled, 106:07,258[I ]| And touched their golden harps, and hymning praised 106:07,259[I ]| God and his works, creator him they sung, 106:07,260[I ]| Both when first evening was, and when first morn. 106:07,261[I ]| Again, God said, 106:07,261@a | Let there be firmament 106:07,262@a | Amid the waters, and let it divide 106:07,263@a | The waters from the waters: 106:07,263[I ]| and God made 106:07,264[I ]| The firmament, expanse of liquid, pure, 106:07,265[I ]| Transparent, elemental air, diffused 106:07,266[I ]| In circuit to the uttermost convex 106:07,267[I ]| Of this great round: partition firm and sure, 106:07,268[I ]| The waters underneath from those above 106:07,269[I ]| Dividing: for as earth, so he the world 106:07,270[I ]| Built on circumfluous waters calm, in wide 106:07,271[I ]| Crystalline ocean, and the loud misrule 106:07,272[I ]| Of Chaos far removed, lest fierce extremes 106:07,273[I ]| Contiguous might distemper the whole frame: 106:07,274[I ]| And Heaven he named the firmament: so even 106:07,275[I ]| And morning chorus sung the second day. 106:07,276[I ]| The earth was formed, but in the womb as yet 106:07,277[I ]| Of waters, embryon immature involved, 106:07,278[I ]| Appeared not: over all the face of earth 106:07,279[I ]| Main ocean flowed, not idle, but with warm 106:07,280[I ]| Prolific humour softening all her globe, 106:07,281[I ]| Fermented the great mother to conceive, 106:07,282[I ]| Satiate with genial moisture, when God said 106:07,283@a | Be gathered now ye waters under heaven 106:07,284@a | Into one place, and let dry land appear. 106:07,285[I ]| Immediately the mountains huge appear 106:07,286[I ]| Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave 106:07,287[I ]| Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky: 106:07,288[I ]| So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low 106:07,289[I ]| Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, 106:07,290[I ]| Capacious bed of waters: thither they 106:07,291[I ]| Hasted with glad precipitance, uprolled 106:07,292[I ]| As drops on dust conglobing from the dry; 106:07,293[I ]| Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct, 106:07,294[I ]| For haste; such flight the great command impressed 106:07,295[I ]| On the swift floods: as armies at the call 106:07,296[I ]| Of trumpet (for of armies thou hast heard) 106:07,297[I ]| Troop to their standard, so the watery throng, 106:07,298[I ]| Wave rolling after wave, where way they found, 106:07,299[I ]| If steep, with torrent rapture, if through plain, 106:07,301[I ]| Soft ebbing; nor withstood them rock or hill, 106:07,302[I ]| But they, or under ground, or circuit wide 106:07,303[I ]| With serpent error wandering, found their way, 106:07,304[I ]| And on the washy ooze deep channels wore; 106:07,305[I ]| Easy, ere God had bid the ground be dry, 106:07,306[I ]| All but within those banks, where rivers now 106:07,307[I ]| Stream, and perpetual draw their humid train. 106:07,308[I ]| The dry land, earth, and the great receptacle 106:07,309[I ]| Of congregated waters he called seas: 106:07,310[I ]| And saw that it was good, and said 106:07,310@a | Let the earth 106:07,311@a | Put forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed, 106:07,312@a | And fruit tree yielding fruit after her kin; 106:07,313@a | Whose seed is in her self upon the earth. 106:07,314[I ]| He scarce had said, when the bare earth, till then 106:07,315[I ]| Desert and bare, unsightly, unadorned, 106:07,316[I ]| Brought forth the tender grass whose verdure clad 106:07,317[I ]| Her universal face with pleasant green, 106:07,318[I ]| Then herbs of every leaf, that sudden flowered 106:07,319[I ]| Opening their various colours, and made gay 106:07,320[I ]| Forth flourished thick the clustering vine, forth crept 106:07,321[I ]| The swelling gourd, up stood the corny reed 106:07,322[I ]| Embattled in her field: and the humble shrub, 106:07,323[I ]| And bush with frizzled hair implicit: last 106:07,324[I ]| Rose as in dance the stately trees, and spread 106:07,325[I ]| Their branches hung with copious fruit; or gemmed 106:07,326[I ]| Their blossoms: with high woods the hills were crowned, 106:07,327[I ]| With tufts the valleys and each fountain side, 106:07,328[I ]| With borders long the rivers. That earth now 106:07,329[I ]| Seemed like the heaven, a seat where gods might dwell, 106:07,330[I ]| Or wander with delight, and love to haunt 106:07,331[I ]| Her sacred shades: though God had yet not raised 106:07,332[I ]| Upon the earth, and man to till the ground 106:07,333[I ]| None was, but from the earth a dewy mist 106:07,334[I ]| Went up and watered all the ground, and each 106:07,335[I ]| Plant of the field, which ere it was in the earth 106:07,336[I ]| God made, and every herb, before it grew 106:07,337[I ]| On the green stem; God saw that it was good. 106:07,338[I ]| So even and morn recorded the third day. 106:07,339[I ]| Again the almighty spake: 106:07,339@a | Let there be lights 106:07,340@a | High in the expanse of heaven to divide 106:07,341@a | The day from night; and let them be for signs, 106:07,342@a | For seasons, and for days, and circling years, 106:07,343@a | And let them be for lights as I ordain 106:07,344@a | Their office in the firmament of heaven 106:07,345@a | To give light on the earth; 106:07,345[I ]| and it was so. 106:07,346[I ]| And God made two great lights, great for their use 106:07,347[I ]| To man, the greater to have rule by day, 106:07,348[I ]| The less by night altern: and made the stars, 106:07,349[I ]| And set them in the firmament of heaven 106:07,350[I ]| To illuminate the earth, and rule the day 106:07,351[I ]| In their vicissitude, and rule the night, 106:07,352[I ]| And light from darkness to divide. God saw, 106:07,353[I ]| Surveying his great work, that it was good: 106:07,354[I ]| For of celestial bodies first the sun 106:07,355[I ]| A mighty sphere he framed, unlightsome first, 106:07,356[I ]| Though of ethereal mould: then formed the moon 106:07,357[I ]| Globose, and every magnitude of stars, 106:07,358[I ]| And sowed with stars the heaven thick as a field: 106:07,359[I ]| Of light by far the greater part he took, 106:07,360[I ]| Transplanted from her cloudy shrine, and placed 106:07,361[I ]| In the sun's orb, made porous to receive 106:07,362[I ]| And drink the liquid light, firm to retain 106:07,363[I ]| Her gathered beams, great palace now of light. 106:07,364[I ]| Hither as to their fountain other stars 106:07,365[I ]| Repairing, in their golden urns draw light, 106:07,366[I ]| And hence the morning planet gilds her horns; 106:07,367[I ]| By tincture or reflection they augment 106:07,368[I ]| Their small peculiar, though from human sight 106:07,369[I ]| So far remote, with diminution seen. 106:07,370[I ]| First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, 106:07,371[I ]| Regent of day, and all the horizon round 106:07,372[I ]| Invested with bright rays, jocund to run 106:07,373[I ]| His longitude through heaven's high road: the grey 106:07,374[I ]| Dawn, and the Pleiades before him danced 106:07,375[I ]| Shedding sweet influence: less bright the moon, 106:07,376[I ]| But opposite in levelled west was set 106:07,377[I ]| His mirror, with full face borrowing her light 106:07,378[I ]| From him, for other light she needed none 106:07,379[I ]| In that aspect, and still that distance keeps 106:07,380[I ]| Till night, then in the east her turn she shines, 106:07,381[I ]| Revolved on heaven's great axle, and her reign 106:07,382[I ]| With thousand lesser lights dividual holds, 106:07,383[I ]| With thousand thousand stars, that then appeared 106:07,384[I ]| Spangling the hemisphere: then first adorned 106:07,385[I ]| With their bright luminaries that set and rose, 106:07,386[I ]| Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day. 106:07,387[I ]| And God said, 106:07,387@a | Let the waters generate 106:07,388@a | Reptile with spawn abundant, living soul: 106:07,389@a | And let fowl fly above the earth, with wings 106:07,390@a | Displayed on the open firmament of heaven. 106:07,391[I ]| And God created the great whales, and each 106:07,392[I ]| Soul living, each that crept, which plenteously 106:07,393[I ]| The waters generated by their kind; 106:07,394[I ]| And every bird of wing after his kind; 106:07,395[I ]| And saw that it was good, and blessed them, saying, 106:07,396@a | Be fruitful, multiply, and in the seas 106:07,397@a | And lakes and running streams the waters fill; 106:07,398@a | And let the fowl be multiplied on the earth. 106:07,399[I ]| Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay 106:07,400[I ]| With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals 106:07,401[I ]| Of fish that with their fins and shining scales 106:07,402[I ]| Glide under the green wave, in schools that oft 106:07,403[I ]| Bank the mid sea: part single or with mate 106:07,404[I ]| Graze the sea weed their pasture, and through groves 106:07,405[I ]| Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance 106:07,406[I ]| Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold, 106:07,407[I ]| Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend 106:07,408[I ]| Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food 106:07,409[I ]| In jointed armour watch: on smooth the seal, 106:07,410[I ]| And bended dolphins play: part huge of bulk 106:07,411[I ]| Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait 106:07,412[I ]| Tempest the ocean: there leviathan 106:07,413[I ]| Hugest of living creatures, on the deep 106:07,414[I ]| Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, 106:07,415[I ]| And seems a moving land, and at his gills 106:07,416[I ]| Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea. 106:07,417[I ]| Mean while the tepid caves, and fens and shores 106:07,418[I ]| Their broods as numerous hatch, from the egg that soon 106:07,419[I ]| Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosed 106:07,420[I ]| Their callow young, but feathered soon and fledge 106:07,421[I ]| They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime 106:07,422[I ]| With clang despised the ground, under a cloud 106:07,423[I ]| In prospect; there the eagle and the stork 106:07,424[I ]| On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build: 106:07,425[I ]| Part loosely wing the region, part more wise 106:07,426[I ]| In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, 106:07,427[I ]| Intelligent of seasons, and set forth 106:07,428[I ]| Their airy caravan high over seas 106:07,429[I ]| Flying, and over lands with mutual wing 106:07,430[I ]| Easing their flight; so steers the prudent crane 106:07,431[I ]| Her annual voyage, borne on winds; the air 106:07,432[I ]| Floats, as they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes: 106:07,433[I ]| From branch to branch the smaller birds with song 106:07,434[I ]| Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings 106:07,435[I ]| Till even, nor then the solemn nightingale 106:07,436[I ]| Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays: 106:07,437[I ]| Others on silver lakes and rivers bathed 106:07,438[I ]| Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck 106:07,439[I ]| Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows 106:07,440[I ]| Her state with oary feet: yet oft they quit 106:07,441[I ]| The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower 106:07,442[I ]| The mid aerial sky: others on ground 106:07,443[I ]| Walked firm; the crested cock whose clarion sounds 106:07,444[I ]| The silent hours, and the other whose gay train 106:07,445[I ]| Adorns him, coloured with the florid hue 106:07,446[I ]| Of rainbows, and starry eyes. The waters thus 106:07,447[I ]| With fish replenished, and the air with fowl, 106:07,448[I ]| Evening and morn solemnised the fifth day 106:07,449[I ]| The sixth, and of creation last arose 106:07,450[I ]| With evening harps and matin, when God said, 106:07,451@a | Let the earth bring forth soul living in her kind, 106:07,452@a | Cattle and creeping things, and beast of the earth, 106:07,453@a | Each in their kind. 106:07,453[I ]| The earth obeyed, and straight 106:07,454[I ]| Opening her fertile womb teemed at a birth 106:07,455[I ]| Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, 106:07,456[I ]| Limbed and full grown: out of the ground up rose 106:07,457[I ]| As from his lair the wild beast where he wons 106:07,458[I ]| In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den; 106:07,459[I ]| Among the trees in pairs they rose, they walked: 106:07,460[I ]| The cattle in the fields and meadows green: 106:07,461[I ]| Those rare and solitary, these in flocks 106:07,462[I ]| Pasturing at once, and in broad herbs upsprung. 106:07,463[I ]| The grassy clods now calved, now half appeared 106:07,464[I ]| The tawny lion, pawing to get free 106:07,465[I ]| His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds, 106:07,466[I ]| And rampant shakes his brindled mane; the ounce, 106:07,467[I ]| The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole 106:07,468[I ]| Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw 106:07,469[I ]| In hillocks; the swift stag from underground 106:07,470[I ]| Bore up his branching head: scarce from his mould 106:07,471[I ]| Behemoth biggest born of earth upheaved 106:07,472[I ]| His vastness: fleeced the flocks and bleating rose, 106:07,473[I ]| As plants: ambiguous between sea and land 106:07,474[I ]| The river horse and scaly crocodile. 106:07,475[I ]| At once came forth whatever creeps the ground, 106:07,476[I ]| Insect or worm; those waved their limber fans 106:07,477[I ]| For wings, and smallest lineaments exact 106:07,478[I ]| In all the liveries decked of summer's pride 106:07,479[I ]| With spots of gold and purple, azure and green: 106:07,480[I ]| These as a line their long dimension drew, 106:07,481[I ]| Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all 106:07,482[I ]| Minims of nature; some of serpent kind 106:07,483[I ]| Wondrous in length and corpulence involved 106:07,484[I ]| Their snaky folds, and added wings. First crept 106:07,485[I ]| The parsimonious emmet, provident 106:07,486[I ]| Of future, in small room large heart enclosed, 106:07,487[I ]| Patters of just equality perhaps 106:07,488[I ]| Hereafter, joined in her popular tribes 106:07,489[I ]| Of commonalty: swarming next appeared 106:07,490[I ]| The female bee that feeds her husband drone 106:07,491[I ]| Deliciously, and builds her waxen cells 106:07,492[I ]| With honey stored: the rest are numberless, 106:07,493[I ]| And though their natures know'st, and gavest them names, 106:07,494[I ]| Needless to thee repeated; nor unknown 106:07,495[I ]| The serpent subtlest beast of all the field, 106:07,496[I ]| Of huge extent sometimes, with brazen eyes 106:07,497[I ]| And hairy mane terrific, though to thee 106:07,498[I ]| Not noxious, but obedient at thy call. 106:07,499[I ]| Now heaven in all her glory shone and rolled 106:07,500[I ]| Her motions, as the great first mover's hand 106:08,000@@@@@| 106:08,201[C ]| Of something not unseasonable to ask 106:08,202[C ]| By sufferance, and thy wonted favour deigned. 106:08,203[C ]| Thee I have heard relating what was done 106:08,204[C ]| Ere my remembrance: now hear me relate 106:08,205[C ]| My story, which perhaps thou hast not heard; 106:08,206[C ]| And day is yet not spent; till then thou seest 106:08,207[C ]| How subtly to detain thee I devise, 106:08,208[C ]| Inviting thee to hear while I relate, 106:08,209[C ]| Fond, were it not in hope of thy reply: 106:08,210[C ]| For while I sit with thee, I seem in heaven, 106:08,211[C ]| And sweeter thy discourse is to my ear 106:08,212[C ]| Than fruits of palm-tree pleasantest to thirst 106:08,213[C ]| And hunger both, from labour, at the hour 106:08,214[C ]| Of sweet repast; they satiate, and soon fill, 106:08,215[C ]| Though pleasant, but thy words with grace divine 106:08,216[C ]| Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety. 106:08,217[' ]| To whom thus Raphael answered heavenly meek, 106:08,218[I ]| Nor are thy lips ungraceful, sire of men, 106:08,219[I ]| Nor tongue ineloquent; for God on thee 106:08,220[I ]| Abundantly his gifts hath also poured 106:08,221[I ]| Inward and outward both, his image fair: 106:08,222[I ]| Speaking or mute all comeliness and grace 106:08,223[I ]| Attends thee, and each word, each motion forms. 106:08,224[I ]| Nor less think we in heaven of thee on earth 106:08,225[I ]| Than of our fellow servant, and inquire 106:08,226[I ]| Gladly into the ways of God with man: 106:08,227[I ]| For God we see hath honoured thee, and set 106:08,228[I ]| On man his equal love: say therefore on; 106:08,229[I ]| For I that day was absent, as befell, 106:08,230[I ]| Bound on a voyage uncouth and obscure, 106:08,231[I ]| Far on excursion toward the gates of hell; 106:08,232[I ]| Squared in full legion (such command we had) 106:08,233[I ]| To see that none thence issued forth a spy, 106:08,234[I ]| Or enemy, while God was in his work, 106:08,235[I ]| Lest he incensed at such eruption bold, 106:08,236[I ]| Destruction with creation might have mixed. 106:08,237[I ]| Not that they durst without his leave attempt, 106:08,238[I ]| But us he sends upon his high behests 106:08,239[I ]| For state, as sovereign king, and to inure 106:08,240[I ]| Our prompt obedience. Fast we found, fast shut 106:08,241[I ]| The dismal gates, and barricadoed strong; 106:08,242[I ]| But long ere our approaching heard within 106:08,243[I ]| Noise, other than the sound of dance or song, 106:08,244[I ]| Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. 106:08,245[I ]| Glad we returned up to the coast of light 106:08,246[I ]| Ere Sabbath evening: so we had in charge. 106:08,247[I ]| But thy relation now; for I attend, 106:08,248[I ]| Pleased with thy words no less than thou with mine. 106:08,249[' ]| So spake the godlike power, and thus our sire. 106:08,250[C ]| For man to tell how human life began 106:08,251[C ]| Is hard; for who himself beginning knew? 106:08,252[C ]| Desire with thee still longer to converse 106:08,253[C ]| Induced me. As new waked from soundest sleep 106:08,254[C ]| Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid 106:08,255[C ]| In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun 106:08,256[C ]| Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. 106:08,257[C ]| Straight toward heaven my wondering eyes I turned, 106:08,258[C ]| And gazed a while the ample sky, till raised 106:08,259[C ]| By quick instinctive motion up I sprung, 106:08,260[C ]| As thitherward endeavouring, and upright 106:08,261[C ]| Stood on my feet; about me round I saw 106:08,262[C ]| Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, 106:08,263[C ]| And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these, 106:08,264[C ]| Creatures that lived, and moved, and walked, or flew, 106:08,265[C ]| Birds on the branches warbling; all things smiles, 106:08,266[C ]| With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed. 106:08,267[C ]| My self I then perused, and limb by limb 106:08,268[C ]| Surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran 106:08,269[C ]| With supple joints, and lively vigour led: 106:08,270[C ]| But who I was, or where, or from what cause, 106:08,271[C ]| Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake, 106:08,272[C ]| My tongue obeyed and readily could name 106:08,273[C ]| What e'er I saw. 106:08,273@c | Thou sun, 106:08,273[C ]| said I, 106:08,273@c | fair light, 106:08,274@c | And thou enlightened earth, so fresh and gay, 106:08,275@c | Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, 106:08,276@c | And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, 106:08,277@c | Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? 106:08,278@c | Not of my self; by some great maker then, 106:08,279@c | In goodness and in power pre-eminent; 106:08,280@c | Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, 106:08,281@c | From whom I have that thus I move and live, 106:08,282@c | And feel that I am happier than I know. 106:08,283[C ]| While thus I called, and strayed I knew not whither, 106:08,284[C ]| From where I first drew air, and first beheld 106:08,285[C ]| This happy light, when answer none returned, 106:08,286[C ]| On a green shady bank profuse of flowers 106:08,287[C ]| Pensive I sat me down; there gentle sleep 106:08,288[C ]| First found me, and with soft oppression seized 106:08,289[C ]| My drowsed sense, untroubled, though I thought 106:08,290[C ]| I then was passing to my former state 106:08,291[C ]| Insensible, and forthwith to dissolve: 106:08,292[C ]| When suddenly stood at my head a dream, 106:08,293[C ]| Whose inward apparition gently moved 106:08,294[C ]| My fancy to believe I yet had being, 106:08,295[C ]| And lived: one came, methought, of shape divine, 106:08,296[C ]| And said, 106:08,296@a | Thy mansion wants thee, Adam, rise, 106:08,297@a | First man, of men innumerable ordained 106:08,298@a | First father, called by thee I come thy guide 106:08,299@a | To the garden of bliss, thy seat prepared. 106:08,300[C ]| So saying, by the hand he took me raised, 106:08,301[C ]| And over fields and waters, as in air 106:08,302[C ]| Smooth sliding without step, last led me up 106:08,303[C ]| A woody mountain; whose high top was plain, 106:08,304[C ]| A circuit wide, enclosed, with goodliest trees 106:08,305[C ]| Planted, with walks, and bowers, that what I saw 106:08,306[C ]| Of earth before scarce pleasant seemed. Each tree 106:08,307[C ]| Loaden with fairest fruit that hung to the eye 106:08,308[C ]| Tempting, stirred in me sudden appetite 106:08,309[C ]| To pluck and eat; whereat I waked, and found 106:08,310[C ]| Before mine eyes all real, as the dream 106:08,311[C ]| Had lively shadowed: here had new begun 106:08,312[C ]| My wandering, had not he who was my guide 106:08,313[C ]| Up hither, from among the trees appeared 106:08,314[C ]| Presence divine. Rejoicing, but with awe 106:08,315[C ]| In adoration at his feet I fell 106:08,316[C ]| Submiss: he reared me, and 106:08,316@a | Whom thou sought'st I am, 106:08,317[C ]| Said mildly, 106:08,317@a | author of all this thou seest 106:08,318@a | Above, or round about thee or beneath. 106:08,319@a | This Paradise I give thee, count it thine 106:08,320@a | To till and keep, and of the fruit to eat: 106:08,321@a | Of every tree that in the garden grows 106:08,322@a | Eat freely with glad heart; fear here no dearth; 106:08,323@a | But of the tree whose operation brings 106:08,324@a | Knowledge of good and ill, which I have set 106:08,325@a | The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith, 106:08,326@a | Amid the garden by the tree of life, 106:08,327@a | Remember what I warn thee, shun to taste, 106:08,328@a | And shun the bitter consequence: for know, 106:08,329@a | The day thou eat'st thereof, my sole command 106:08,330@a | Transgressed, inevitably thou shalt die; 106:08,331@a | From that day mortal, and this happy state 106:08,332@a | Shalt loose, expelled from hence into a world 106:08,333@a | Of woe and sorrow. 106:08,333[C ]| Sternly he pronounced 106:08,334[C ]| The rigid interdiction, which resounds 106:08,335[C ]| Yet dreadful in mine ear, though in my choice 106:08,336[C ]| Not to incur; but soon his clear aspect 106:08,337[C ]| Returned and gracious purpose thus renewed. 106:08,338@a | Not only these fair bounds, but all the earth 106:08,339@a | To thee and to thy race I give; as lords 106:08,340@a | Possess it, and all things that therein live, 106:08,341@a | Or live in sea, or air, beast, fish and fowl. 106:08,342@a | In sign whereof each bird and beast behold 106:08,343@a | After their kinds; I bring them to receive 106:08,344@a | From thee their names, and pay thee fealty 106:08,345@a | With low subjection; understand the same 106:08,346@a | Of fish within their watery residence, 106:08,347@a | Not hither summoned, since they cannot change 106:08,348@a | Their element to draw the thinner air. 106:08,349[C ]| As thus he spake, each bird and beast behold 106:08,350[C ]| Approaching two and two, these cowering low 106:08,351[C ]| With blandishment, each bird stooped on his wing. 106:08,352[C ]| I named them, as they passed, and understood 106:08,353[C ]| Their nature, with such knowledge God endued 106:08,354[C ]| My sudden apprehension: but in these 106:08,355[C ]| I found not what me thought I wanted still; 106:08,356[C ]| And to the heavenly vision thus presumed. 106:08,357@c | O by what name, for thou above all these, 106:08,358@c | Above mankind, or aught than mankind higher, 106:08,359@c | Surpassed far my naming, how may I 106:08,360@c | Adore thee, author of this universe, 106:08,361@c | And all this good to man, for whose well being 106:08,362@c | So amply, and with hands so liberal 106:08,363@c | Thou hast provided all things: but with me 106:08,364@c | I see not who partakes. In solitude 106:08,365@c | What happiness, who can enjoy alone, 106:08,366@c | Or all enjoying, what contentment find? 106:08,367[C ]| Thus I presumptuous; and the vision bright, 106:08,368[C ]| As with a smile more brightened, thus replied. 106:08,369@a | What call'st thou solitude, is not the earth 106:08,370@a | With various living creatures, and the air 106:08,371@a | Replenished, and all these at thy command 106:08,372@a | To come and play before thee, know'st thou not 106:08,373@a | Their language and their ways, they also know, 106:08,374@a | And reason not contemptibly; with these 106:08,375@a | Find pastime, and bear rule; thy realm is large. 106:08,376[C ]| So spake the universal Lord, and seemed 106:08,377[C ]| So ordering. I with leave of speech implored, 106:08,378[C ]| And humble deprecation thus replied. 106:08,379@c | Let not my words offend thee, heavenly power, 106:08,380@c | My maker, be propitious while I speak. 106:08,381@c | Hast thou not made me here thy substitute, 106:08,382@c | And these inferior far beneath me set? 106:08,383@c | Among unequals what society 106:08,384@c | Can sort, what harmony or true delight? 106:08,385@c | Which must be mutual, in proportion due 106:08,386@c | Given and received; but in disparity 106:08,387@c | The one intense, the other still remiss 106:08,388@c | Cannot well suit with either, but soon prove 106:08,389@c | Tedious alike: of fellowship I speak 106:08,390@c | Such as I seek, fit to participate 106:08,391@c | All rational delight, wherein the brute 106:08,392@c | Cannot be human consort; they rejoice 106:08,393@c | Each with their kind, lion with lioness; 106:08,394@c | So fitly then in pairs thou hast combined; 106:08,395@c | Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl 106:08,396@c | So well converse, nor with the ox the ape; 106:08,397@c | Worse then can man with beast, and least of all. 106:08,398[C ]| Whereto the almighty answered, not displeased. 106:08,399@a | A nice and subtle happiness I see 106:08,400@a | Thou to thy self proposest, in the choice 106:08,401@a | Of thy associates, Adam and wilt taste 106:08,402@a | No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary. 106:08,403@a | What think'st thou then of me, and this my state, 106:08,404@a | Seem I to thee sufficiently possessed 106:08,405@a | Of happiness, or not? Who am alone 106:08,406@a | From all eternity, for none I know 106:08,407@a | Second to me or like, equal much less. 106:08,408@a | How have I then with whom to hold converse 106:08,409@a | Save with the creatures which I made, and those 106:08,410@a | To me inferior, infinite descents 106:08,411@a | Beneath what other creatures are to thee? 106:08,412[C ]| He ceased, I lowly answered. 106:08,412@c | To attain 106:08,413@c | The highth and depth of thy eternal ways 106:08,414@c | All human thoughts come short, supreme of things; 106:08,415@c | Thou in thy self art perfect, and in thee 106:08,416@c | Is no deficience found; not so is man, 106:08,417@c | But in degree, the cause of his desire 106:08,418@c | By conversation with his like to help, 106:08,419@c | Or solace his defects. No need that thou 106:08,420@c | Shouldst propagate, already infinite; 106:08,421@c | And through all numbers absolute, though one; 106:08,422@c | But man by number is to manifest 106:08,423@c | His single imperfection, and beget 106:08,424@c | Like of his like, his image multiplied, 106:08,425@c | In unity defective, which requires 106:08,426@c | Collateral love, and dearest amity. 106:08,427@c | Thou in thy secrecy although alone, 106:08,428@c | Best with thy self accompanied, seek'st not 106:08,429@c | Social communication, yet so pleased, 106:08,430@c | Canst raise thy creature to what highth thou wilt 106:08,431@c | Of union or communion, deified; 106:08,432@c | I by conversing cannot these erect 106:08,433@c | From prone, nor in their ways complacence find. 106:08,434[C ]| Thus I emboldened spake, and freedom used 106:08,435[C ]| Permissive, and acceptance found, which gained 106:08,436[C ]| This answer from the gracious voice divine. 106:08,437@a | Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleased, 106:08,438@a | And find thee knowing not of beasts alone, 106:08,439@a | Which thou hast rightly named, but of thy self, 106:08,440@a | Expressing well the spirit within thee free, 106:08,441@a | My image, not imparted to the brute, 106:08,442@a | Whose fellowship therefore unmeet for thee 106:08,443@a | Good reason was thou freely shouldst dislike, 106:08,444@a | And be so minded still; I, ere thou spakest, 106:08,445@a | Knew it not good for man to be alone, 106:08,446@a | And no such company as then thou saw'st 106:08,447@a | Intended thee, for trial only brought, 106:08,448@a | To see how thou couldst judge of fit and meet: 106:08,449@a | What next I bring shall please thee, be assured, 106:08,450@a | Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self, 106:08,451@a | Thy wish exactly to thy heart's desire. 106:08,452[C ]| He ended, or I heard no more, for now 106:08,453[C ]| My earthly by his heavenly overpowered, 106:08,454[C ]| Which it had long stood under, strained to the highth 106:08,455[C ]| In that celestial colloquy sublime, 106:08,456[C ]| As with an object that excels the sense, 106:08,457[C ]| Dazzled and spent, sunk down, and sought repair 106:08,458[C ]| Of sleep, which instantly fell on me, called 106:08,459[C ]| By nature as in aid, and closed mine eyes. 106:08,460[C ]| Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell 106:08,461[C ]| Of fancy my internal sight, by which 106:08,462[C ]| Abstract as in a trance methought I saw, 106:08,463[C ]| Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape 106:08,464[C ]| Still glorious before whom awake I stood, 106:08,465[C ]| Who stooping opened my left side, and took 106:08,466[C ]| From thence a rib, with cordial spirits warm, 106:08,467[C ]| And life-blood streaming fresh; wide was the wound, 106:08,468[C ]| But suddenly with flesh filled up and healed: 106:08,469[C ]| The rib he formed and fashioned with his hands; 106:08,470[C ]| Under his forming hands a creature grew, 106:08,471[C ]| Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, 106:08,472[C ]| That what seemed fair in all the world, seemed now 106:08,473[C ]| Mean, or in her summed up, in her contained 106:08,474[C ]| And in her looks, which from that time infused 106:08,475[C ]| Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, 106:08,476[C ]| And into all things from her air inspired 106:08,477[C ]| The spirit of love and amorous delight. 106:08,478[C ]| She disappeared, and left me dark, I waked 106:08,479[C ]| To find her, or for ever to deplore 106:08,480[C ]| Her loss, and other pleasures all abjure: 106:08,481[C ]| When out of hope, behold her, not far off, 106:08,482[C ]| Such as I saw her in my dream, adorned 106:08,483[C ]| With what all earth or heaven could bestow 106:08,484[C ]| To make her amiable: on she came, 106:08,485[C ]| Led by her heavenly maker, though unseen, 106:08,486[C ]| And guided by his voice, nor uninformed 106:08,487[C ]| Of nuptial sanctity and marriage rites: 106:08,488[C ]| Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, 106:08,489[C ]| In every gesture dignity and love. 106:08,490[C ]| I overjoyed could not forbear aloud. 106:08,491@c | This turn hath made amends; thou hast fulfilled 106:08,492@c | Thy words, creator bounteous and benign, 106:08,493@c | Giver of all things fair, but fairest this 106:08,494@c | Of all thy gifts, nor enviest. I now see 106:08,495@c | Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, my self 106:08,496@c | Before me; woman is her name, of man 106:08,497@c | Extracted; for this cause he shall forego 106:08,498@c | Father and mother, and to his wife adhere; 106:08,499@c | And they shall be one flesh, one heart, one soul. 106:08,500[C ]| She heard me thus, and though divinely brought, 106:09,000@@@@@| 106:09,201[' ]| Then commune how that day they best may ply 106:09,202[' ]| Their growing work: for much their work outgrew 106:09,203[' ]| The hands' dispatch of two, gardening so wide. 106:09,204[' ]| And Eve first to her husband thus began. 106:09,205@d | Adam, well may we labour still to dress 106:09,206@d | This garden, still to tend plant, herb and flower, 106:09,207@d | Our pleasant task enjoined, but till more hands 106:09,208@d | Aid us, the work under our labour grows, 106:09,209@d | Luxurious by restraint; what we by day 106:09,210@d | Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, 106:09,211@d | One night or two with wanton growth derides 106:09,212@d | Tending to wild. Thou therefore now advise 106:09,213@d | Or hear what to my mind first thoughts present, 106:09,214@d | Let us divide our labours, thou where choice 106:09,215@d | Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind 106:09,216@d | The woodbine round this arbour, or direct 106:09,217@d | The clasping ivy where to climb, while I 106:09,218@d | In yonder spring of roses intermixed 106:09,219@d | With myrtle, find what to redress till noon: 106:09,220@d | For while so near each other thus all day 106:09,221@d | Our task we choose, what wonder if so near 106:09,222@d | Looks intervene and smiles, or object new 106:09,223@d | Casual discourse draws on, which intermits 106:09,224@d | Our day's work brought to little, though begun 106:09,225@d | Early, and the hour of supper comes unearned. 106:09,226[' ]| To whom mild answer Adam thus returned. 106:09,227@c | Sole Eve, associate sole, to me beyond 106:09,228@c | Compare above all living creatures dear, 106:09,229@c | Well hast thou motioned, well thy thoughts employed 106:09,230@c | How we might best fulfil the work which here 106:09,231@c | God hath assigned us, nor of me shalt pass 106:09,232@c | Unpraised: for nothing lovelier can be found 106:09,233@c | In woman, than to study household good, 106:09,234@c | And good works in her husband to promote. 106:09,235@c | Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed 106:09,236@c | Labour, as to debar us when we need 106:09,237@c | Refreshment, whether food, or talk between, 106:09,238@c | Food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse 106:09,239@c | Of looks and smiles, for smiles from reason flow, 106:09,240@c | To brute denied, and are of love the food, 106:09,241@c | Love not the lowest end of human life. 106:09,242@c | For not to irksome toil, but to delight 106:09,243@c | He made us, and delight to reason joined. 106:09,244@c | These paths, and bowers doubt not but our joint hands 106:09,245@c | Will keep from wilderness with ease, as wide 106:09,246@c | As we need walk, till younger hands ere long 106:09,247@c | Assist us: but if much converse perhaps 106:09,248@c | Thee satiate, to short absence I could yield. 106:09,249@c | For solitude sometimes is best society, 106:09,250@c | And short retirement urges sweet return. 106:09,251@c | But other doubt possesses me, lest harm 106:09,252@c | Befall thee severed from me; for thou know'st 106:09,253@c | What hath been warned us, what malicious foe 106:09,254@c | Envying our happiness, and of his own 106:09,255@c | Despairing, seeks to work us woe, and shame 106:09,256@c | By sly assault; and somewhere nigh at hand 106:09,257@c | Watches no doubt, with greedy hope to find 106:09,258@c | His wish and best advantage, us asunder, 106:09,259@c | Hopeless to circumvent us joined, where each 106:09,260@c | To other speedy aid might lend at need; 106:09,261@c | Whether his first design be to withdraw 106:09,262@c | Our fealty from God, or to disturb 106:09,263@c | Conjugal love, than which perhaps no bliss 106:09,264@c | Enjoyed by us excites his envy more; 106:09,265@c | Or this, or worse, leave not the faithful side 106:09,266@c | That gave thee being, still shades thee and protects. 106:09,267@c | The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, 106:09,268@c | Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, 106:09,269@c | Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. 106:09,270[' ]| To whom the virgin majesty of Eve, 106:09,271[' ]| As one who loves, and some unkindness meets, 106:09,272[' ]| With sweet austere composure thus replied. 106:09,273@d | Offspring of heaven and earth, and all earth's lord, 106:09,274@d | That such an enemy we have, who seeks 106:09,275@d | Our ruin, both by thee informed I learn, 106:09,276@d | And from the parting angel overheard 106:09,277@d | As in a shady nook I stood behind, 106:09,278@d | Just then returned at shut of evening flowers. 106:09,279@d | But that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt 106:09,280@d | To God or thee, because we have a foe 106:09,281@d | May tempt it, I expected not to hear. 106:09,282@d | His violence thou fear'st not, being such, 106:09,283@d | As we, not capable of death or pain, 106:09,284@d | Can either not receive, or can repel. 106:09,285@d | His fraud is then thy fear, which pain infers 106:09,286@d | Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love 106:09,287@d | Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced; 106:09,288@d | Thoughts, which how found they harbour in thy breast 106:09,289@d | Adam, misthought of her to thee so dear? 106:09,290[' ]| To whom with healing words Adam replied. 106:09,291@c | Daughter of God and man, immortal Eve, 106:09,292@c | For such thou art, from sin and blame entire: 106:09,293@c | Not diffident of thee do I dissuade 106:09,294@c | Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid 106:09,295@c | The attempt it self, intended by our foe. 106:09,296@c | For he who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses 106:09,297@c | The tempted with dishonour foul, supposed 106:09,298@c | Not incorruptible of faith, not proof 106:09,299@c | Against temptation: thou thy self with scorn 106:09,300@c | And anger wouldst resent the offered wrong, 106:09,301@c | Though ineffectual found: misdeem not then, 106:09,302@c | If such affront I labour to avert 106:09,303@c | From thee alone, which on us both at once 106:09,304@c | The enemy, though bold, will hardly dare, 106:09,305@c | Or daring, first on me the assault shall light. 106:09,306@c | Nor thou his malice and false guile contemn; 106:09,307@c | Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce 106:09,308@c | Angels, nor think superfluous others' aid. 106:09,309@c | I from the influence of thy looks receive 106:09,310@c | Access in every virtue, in thy sight 106:09,311@c | More wise, more watchful, stronger, if need were 106:09,312@c | Of outward strength; while shame, thou looking on, 106:09,313@c | Shame to be overcome or over-reached 106:09,314@c | Would utmost vigour raise, and raised unite. 106:09,315@c | Why shouldst not thou like sense within thee feel 106:09,316@c | When I am present, and thy trial choose 106:09,317@c | With me, best witness of thy virtue tried. 106:09,318[' ]| So spake domestic Adam in his care 106:09,319[' ]| And matrimonial love; but Eve, who thought 106:09,320[' ]| Less attributed to her faith sincere, 106:09,321[' ]| Thus her reply with accent sweet renewed. 106:09,322@d | If this be our condition, thus to dwell 106:09,323@d | In narrow circuit straitened by a foe, 106:09,324@d | Subtle or violent, we not endued 106:09,325@d | Single with like defence, wherever met, 106:09,326@d | How are we happy, still in fear of harm? 106:09,327@d | But harm precedes not sin: only our foe 106:09,328@d | Tempting affronts us with his foul esteem 106:09,329@d | Of our integrity: his foul esteem 106:09,330@d | Sticks no dishonour on our front, but turns 106:09,331@d | Foul on himself; then wherefore shunned or feared 106:09,332@d | By us? Who rather double honour gain 106:09,333@d | From his surmise proved false, find peace within, 106:09,334@d | Favour from heaven, our witness from the event. 106:09,335@d | And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed 106:09,336@d | Alone, without exterior help sustained? 106:09,337@d | Let us not then suspect our happy state 106:09,338@d | Left so imperfect by the maker wise, 106:09,339@d | As not secure to single or combined; 106:09,340@d | Frail is our happiness, if this be so, 106:09,341@d | And Eden were no Eden thus exposed. 106:09,342[' ]| To whom thus Adam fervently replied. 106:09,343@c | O woman, best are all things as the will 106:09,344@c | Of God ordained them, his creating hand 106:09,345@c | Nothing imperfect or deficient left 106:09,346@c | Of all that he created, much less man, 106:09,347@c | Or aught that might his happy state secure, 106:09,348@c | Secure from outward force; within himself 106:09,349@c | The danger lies, yet lies within his power: 106:09,350@c | Against his will he can receive no harm. 106:09,351@c | But God left free the will, for what obeys 106:09,352@c | Reason, is free, and reason he made right, 106:09,353@c | But bid her well beware, and still erect, 106:09,354@c | Lest by some fair appearing good surprised 106:09,355@c | She dictate false, and misinform the will 106:09,356@c | To do what God expressly hath forbid. 106:09,357@c | Not then mistrust, but tender love enjoins, 106:09,358@c | That I should mind thee oft, and mind thou me. 106:09,359@c | Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve, 106:09,360@c | Since reason not impossibly may meet 106:09,361@c | Some specious object by the foe suborned, 106:09,362@c | And fall into deception unaware, 106:09,363@c | Not keeping strictest watch, as she was warned. 106:09,364@c | Seek not temptation then, which to avoid 106:09,365@c | Were better, and most likely if from me 106:09,366@c | Thou sever not: trial will come unsought. 106:09,367@c | Wouldst thou approve thy constancy, approve 106:09,368@c | First thy obedience; the other who can know, 106:09,369@c | Not seeing thee attempted, who attest? 106:09,370@c | But if thou think, trial unsought may find 106:09,371@c | Us both securer than thus warned thou seem'st, 106:09,372@c | Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more; 106:09,373@c | Go in thy native innocence, rely 106:09,374@c | On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, 106:09,375@c | For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine. 106:09,376[' ]| So spake the patriarch of mankind, but Eve 106:09,377[' ]| Persisted, yet submiss, though last, replied. 106:09,378@d | With thy permission then, and thus forwarned 106:09,379@d | Chiefly by what thy own last reasoning words 106:09,380@d | Touched only, that our trial, when least sought, 106:09,381@d | May find us both perhaps far less prepared, 106:09,382@d | The willinger I go, nor much expect 106:09,383@d | A foe so proud will first the weaker seek; 106:09,384@d | So bent, the more shall shame him his repulse. 106:09,385[' ]| Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand 106:09,386[' ]| Soft she withdrew, and like a wood-nymph light 106:09,387[' ]| Oread or dryad, or of Delia's train, 106:09,388[' ]| Betook her to the groves, but Delia's self 106:09,389[' ]| In gait surpassed and goddess-like deport, 106:09,390[' ]| Though not as she with bow and quiver armed, 106:09,391[' ]| But with such gardening tools as art yet rude, 106:09,392[' ]| Guiltless of fire had formed, or angels brought. 106:09,393[' ]| To Pales, or Pomona thus adorned, 106:09,394[' ]| Likeliest she seemed, Pomona when she fled 106:09,395[' ]| Vertumnus, or to Ceres in her prime, 106:09,396[' ]| Yet virgin of Proserpina from Jove. 106:09,397[' ]| Her long with ardent look his eye pursued 106:09,398[' ]| Delighted, but desiring more her stay. 106:09,399[' ]| Oft he to her his charge of quick return 106:09,400[' ]| Repeated, she to him as oft engaged 106:09,401[' ]| To be returned by noon amid the bower, 106:09,402[' ]| And all things in best order to invite 106:09,403[' ]| Noontide repast, or afternoon's repose. 106:09,404[' ]| O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve, 106:09,405[' ]| Of thy presumed return! Event perverse! 106:09,406[' ]| Thou never from that hour in Paradise 106:09,407[' ]| Found'st either sweet repast, or sound repose; 106:09,408[' ]| Such ambush hid among sweet flowers and shades 106:09,409[' ]| Waited with hellish rancour imminent 106:09,410[' ]| To intercept thy way, or send thee back 106:09,411[' ]| Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. 106:09,412[' ]| For now, and since first break of dawn the fiend, 106:09,413[' ]| Mere serpent in appearance, forth was come, 106:09,414[' ]| And on his quest, where likeliest he might find 106:09,415[' ]| The only two of mankind, but in them 106:09,416[' ]| The whole included race, his purposed prey. 106:09,417[' ]| In bower and field he sought, where any tuft 106:09,418[' ]| Of grove or garden-plot more pleasant lay, 106:09,419[' ]| Their tendance or plantation for delight, 106:09,420[' ]| By fountain or by shady rivulet 106:09,421[' ]| He sought them both, but wished his hap might find 106:09,422[' ]| Eve separate, he wished, but not with hope 106:09,423[' ]| Of what so seldom chanced, when to his wish, 106:09,424[' ]| Beyond his hope, Eve separate he spies, 106:09,425[' ]| Veiled in a cloud of fragrance, where she stood, 106:09,426[' ]| Half spied, so thick the roses bushing round 106:09,427[' ]| About her glowed, oft stooping to support 106:09,428[' ]| Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay 106:09,429[' ]| Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, 106:09,430[' ]| Hung drooping unsustained, them she upstays 106:09,431[' ]| Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while, 106:09,432[' ]| Her self, though fairest unsupported flower, 106:09,433[' ]| From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh. 106:09,434[' ]| Nearer he drew, and many a walk traversed 106:09,435[' ]| Of stateliest covert, cedar, pine, or palm, 106:09,436[' ]| Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen 106:09,437[' ]| Among thick-woven arborets and flowers 106:09,438[' ]| Embordered on each bank, the hand of Eve: 106:09,439[' ]| Spot more delicious than those gardens feigned 106:09,440[' ]| Or of revived Adonis, or renowned 106:09,441[' ]| Alcinous, host of old Laertes' son, 106:09,442[' ]| Or that, not mystic, where the sapient king 106:09,443[' ]| Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. 106:09,444[' ]| Much he the place admired, the person more. 106:09,445[' ]| As one who long in populous city pent, 106:09,446[' ]| Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, 106:09,447[' ]| Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe 106:09,448[' ]| Among the pleasant villages and farms 106:09,449[' ]| Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, 106:09,450[' ]| The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, 106:09,451[' ]| Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound; 106:09,452[' ]| If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin pass, 106:09,453[' ]| What pleasing seemed, for her now pleases more, 106:09,454[' ]| She most, and in her look sums all delight. 106:09,455[' ]| Such pleasure took the serpent to behold 106:09,456[' ]| This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve 106:09,457[' ]| Thus early, thus alone; her heavenly form 106:09,458[' ]| Angelic, but more soft, and feminine, 106:09,459[' ]| Her graceful innocence, her every air 106:09,460[' ]| Of gesture or least action overawed 106:09,461[' ]| His malice, and with rapine sweet bereaved 106:09,462[' ]| His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought: 106:09,463[' ]| That space the evil one abstracted stood 106:09,464[' ]| From his own evil, and for the time remained 106:09,465[' ]| Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, 106:09,466[' ]| Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge; 106:09,467[' ]| But the hot hell that always in him burns, 106:09,468[' ]| Though in mid heaven, soon ended his delight, 106:09,469[' ]| And tortures him now more, the more he sees 106:09,470[' ]| Of pleasure not for him ordained: then soon 106:09,471[' ]| Fierce hate he recollects, and all his thoughts 106:09,472[' ]| Of mischief, gratulating, thus excites. 106:09,473[E ]| Thoughts, whither have ye led me, with what sweet 106:09,474[E ]| Compulsion thus transported to forget 106:09,475[E ]| What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope 106:09,476[E ]| Of Paradise for hell, hope here to taste 106:09,477[E ]| Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy, 106:09,478[E ]| Save what is in destroying, other joy 106:09,479[E ]| To me is lost. Then let me not let pass 106:09,480[E ]| Occasion which now smiles, behold alone 106:09,481[E ]| The woman, opportune to all attempts, 106:09,482[E ]| Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, 106:09,483[E ]| Whose higher intellectual more I shun, 106:09,484[E ]| And strength, of courage haughty, and of limb 106:09,485[E ]| Heroic built, though of terrestrial mould, 106:09,486[E ]| Foe not informidable, exempt from wound, 106:09,487[E ]| I not; so much hath hell debased, and pain 106:09,488[E ]| Enfeebled me, to what I was in heaven. 106:09,489[E ]| She fair, divinely fair, fit love for gods, 106:09,490[E ]| Not terrible, though terror be in love 106:09,491[E ]| And beauty, not approached by stronger hate, 106:09,492[E ]| Hate stronger, under show of love well feigned, 106:09,493[E ]| The way which to her ruin now I tend. 106:09,494[' ]| So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed 106:09,495[' ]| In serpent, inmate bad, and toward Eve 106:09,496[' ]| Addressed his way, not with indented wave, 106:09,497[' ]| Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, 106:09,498[' ]| Circular base of rising folds, that towered 106:09,499[' ]| Fold above fold a surging maze, his head 106:09,500[' ]| Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; 106:10,000@@@@@| 106:10,201[B ]| Cursed is the ground for thy sake, thou in sorrow 106:10,202[B ]| Shalt eat thereof all the days of thy life; 106:10,203[B ]| Thorns also and thistles it shall bring thee forth 106:10,204[B ]| Unbid, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field, 106:10,205[B ]| In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 106:10,206[B ]| Till thou return unto the ground, for thou 106:10,207[B ]| Out of the ground wast taken, know thy birth, 106:10,208[B ]| For dust thou art, and thus to dust return. 106:10,209[' ]| So judged he man, both judge and saviour sent, 106:10,210[' ]| And the instant stroke of death denounced that day 106:10,211[' ]| Removed far oft; they pitying how they stood 106:10,212[' ]| Before him naked to the air, that now 106:10,213[' ]| Must suffer change, disdained not to begin 106:10,214[' ]| Thenceforth the form of servant to assume, 106:10,215[' ]| As when he washed his servants' feet so now 106:10,216[' ]| As father of his family he clad 106:10,217[' ]| Their nakedness with skins of beasts, or slain, 106:10,218[' ]| Or as the snake with youthful coat repaid; 106:10,219[' ]| And thought not much to clothe his enemies: 106:10,220[' ]| Nor he their outward only with the skins 106:10,221[' ]| Of beasts, but inward nakedness, much more 106:10,222[' ]| Opprobrious, with his robe of righteousness, 106:10,223[' ]| Arraying covered from his Father's sight. 106:10,224[' ]| To him with swift ascent he up returned, 106:10,225[' ]| Into his blissful bosom reassumed 106:10,226[' ]| In glory as of old, to him appeased 106:10,227[' ]| All, though all-knowing, what had passed with man 106:10,228[' ]| Recounted, mixing intercession sweet. 106:10,229[' ]| Meanwhile ere thus was sinned and judged on earth, 106:10,230[' ]| Within the gates of hell sat Sin and Death, 106:10,231[' ]| In counterview within the gates, that now 106:10,232[' ]| Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame 106:10,233[' ]| Far into chaos, since the fiend passed through, 106:10,234[' ]| Sin opening, who thus now to Death began. 106:10,235[K ]| O son, why sit we here each other viewing 106:10,236[K ]| Idly, while Satan our great author thrives 106:10,237[K ]| In other worlds, and happier seat provides 106:10,238[K ]| For us his offspring dear? It cannot be 106:10,239[K ]| But that success attends him; if mishap, 106:10,240[K ]| Ere this he had returned, with fury driven 106:10,241[K ]| By his avengers, since no place like this 106:10,242[K ]| Can fit his punishment, or their revenge. 106:10,243[K ]| Methinks I feel new strength within me rise, 106:10,244[K ]| Wings growing, and dominion given me large 106:10,245[K ]| Beyond this deep; whatever draws me on, 106:10,246[K ]| Or sympathy, or some connatural force 106:10,247[K ]| Powerful at greatest distance to unite 106:10,248[K ]| With secret amity things of like kind 106:10,249[K ]| By secretest conveyance. Thou my shade 106:10,250[K ]| Inseparable must with me along: 106:10,251[K ]| For Death from Sin no power can separate. 106:10,252[K ]| But lest the difficulty of passing back 106:10,253[K ]| Stay his return perhaps over this gulf 106:10,254[K ]| Impassable, impervious, let us try 106:10,255[K ]| Adventurous work, yet to thy power and mine 106:10,256[K ]| Not unagreeable, to found a path 106:10,257[K ]| Over this main from hell to that new world 106:10,258[K ]| Where Satan now prevails, a monument 106:10,259[K ]| Of merit high to all the infernal host, 106:10,260[K ]| Easing their passage hence, for intercourse, 106:10,261[K ]| Or transmigration, as their lot shall lead. 106:10,262[K ]| Nor can I miss the way, so strongly drawn 106:10,263[K ]| By this new felt attraction and instinct. 106:10,264[' ]| Whom thus the meagre shadow answered soon. 106:10,265[L ]| Go whither fate and inclination strong 106:10,266[L ]| Leads thee, I shall not lag behind, nor err 106:10,267[L ]| The way, thou leading, such a scent I draw 106:10,268[L ]| Of carnage, prey innumerable, and taste 106:10,269[L ]| The savour of death from all things there that live: 106:10,270[L ]| Nor shall I to the work thou enterprisest 106:10,271[L ]| Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid. 106:10,272[' ]| So saying, with delight he snuffed the smell 106:10,273[' ]| Of mortal change on earth. As when a flock 106:10,274[' ]| Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remote, 106:10,275[' ]| Against the day of battle, to a field, 106:10,276[' ]| Where armies lie encamped, come flying, lured 106:10,277[' ]| With scent of living carcasses designed 106:10,278[' ]| For death, the following day, in bloody fight. 106:10,279[' ]| So scented the grim feature, and upturned 106:10,280[' ]| His nostril wide into the murky air, 106:10,281[' ]| Sagacious of his quarry from so far. 106:10,282[' ]| Then both from out hell gates into the waste 106:10,283[' ]| Wide anarchy of chaos damp and dark 106:10,284[' ]| Flew diverse, and with power (their power was great) 106:10,285[' ]| Hovering upon the waters; what they met 106:10,286[' ]| Solid or slimy, as in raging sea 106:10,287[' ]| Tossed up and down, together crowded drove 106:10,288[' ]| From each side shoaling towards the mouth of hell. 106:10,289[' ]| As when two polar winds blowing adverse 106:10,290[' ]| Upon the Cronian sea, together drive 106:10,291[' ]| Mountains of ice, that stop the imagined way 106:10,292[' ]| Beyond Petsora eastward, to the rich 106:10,293[' ]| Cathaian coast. The aggregated soil 106:10,294[' ]| Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry, 106:10,295[' ]| As with a trident smote, and fixed as firm 106:10,296[' ]| As Delos floating once; the rest his look 106:10,297[' ]| Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move, 106:10,298[' ]| And with asphaltic slime; broad as the gate, 106:10,299[' ]| Deep to the roots of hell the gathered beach 106:10,300[' ]| They fastened, and the mole immense wrought on 106:10,301[' ]| Over the foaming deep high arched, a bridge 106:10,302[' ]| Of length prodigious joining to the wall 106:10,303[' ]| Immovable of this now fenceless world 106:10,304[' ]| Forfeit to Death; from hence a passage broad, 106:10,305[' ]| Smooth, easy, inoffensive down to hell. 106:10,306[' ]| So, if great things to small may be compared, 106:10,307[' ]| Xerxes, the liberty of Greece to yoke, 106:10,308[' ]| From Susa his Memnonian palace high 106:10,309[' ]| Came to the sea, and over Hellespont 106:10,310[' ]| Bridging his way, Europe with Asia joined, 106:10,311[' ]| And scourged with many a stroke the indignant waves. 106:10,312[' ]| Now had they brought the work by wondrous art 106:10,313[' ]| Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock 106:10,314[' ]| Over the vexed abyss, following the track 106:10,315[' ]| Of Satan, to the self same place where he 106:10,316[' ]| First lighted from his wing, and landed safe 106:10,317[' ]| From out of chaos to the outside bare 106:10,318[' ]| Of this round world: with pins of adamant 106:10,319[' ]| And chains they made all fast, too fast they made 106:10,320[' ]| And durable; and now in little space 106:10,321[' ]| The confines met of empyrean heaven 106:10,322[' ]| And of this world, and on the left hand hell 106:10,323[' ]| With long reach interposed; three several ways 106:10,324[' ]| In sight, to each of these three places led. 106:10,325[' ]| And now their way to earth they had descried, 106:10,326[' ]| To Paradise first tending, when behold 106:10,327[' ]| Satan in likeness of an angel bright 106:10,328[' ]| Betwixt the Centaur and the Scorpion steering 106:10,329[' ]| His zenith, while the sun in Aries rose: 106:10,330[' ]| Disguised he came, but those his children dear 106:10,331[' ]| Their parent soon discerned, though in disguise. 106:10,332[' ]| He after Eve seduced, unminded slunk 106:10,333[' ]| Into the wood fast by, and changing shape 106:10,334[' ]| To observe the sequel, saw his guileful act 106:10,335[' ]| By Eve, though all unweeting, seconded 106:10,336[' ]| Upon her husband, saw their shame that sought 106:10,337[' ]| Vain covertures; but when he saw descend 106:10,338[' ]| The Son of God to judge them terrified 106:10,339[' ]| He fled, not hoping to escape, but shun 106:10,340[' ]| The present, fearing guilty what his wrath 106:10,341[' ]| Might suddenly inflict; that past, returned 106:10,342[' ]| By night, and listening where the hapless pair 106:10,343[' ]| Sat in their sad discourse, and various plaint, 106:10,344[' ]| Thence gathered his own doom, which understood 106:10,345[' ]| Not instant, but of future time. With joy 106:10,346[' ]| And tidings fraught, to hell he now returned, 106:10,347[' ]| And at the brink of chaos, near the foot 106:10,348[' ]| Of this new wondrous pontifice, unhoped 106:10,349[' ]| Met who to meet him came, his offspring dear. 106:10,350[' ]| Great joy was at their meeting, and at sight 106:10,351[' ]| Of that stupendous bridge his joy increased. 106:10,352[' ]| Long he admiring stood, till Sin, his fair 106:10,353[' ]| Enchanting daughter, thus the silence broke. 106:10,354[K ]| O parent, these are thy magnific deeds, 106:10,355[K ]| Thy trophies, which thou view'st as not thine own, 106:10,356[K ]| Thou art their author and prime architect: 106:10,357[K ]| For I no sooner in my heart divined, 106:10,358[K ]| My heart, which by a secret harmony 106:10,359[K ]| Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet, 106:10,360[K ]| That thou on earth hadst prospered, which thy looks 106:10,361[K ]| Now also evidence, but straight I felt 106:10,362[K ]| Though distant from thee worlds between, yet felt 106:10,363[K ]| That I must after thee with this thy son; 106:10,365[K ]| Such fatal consequence unites us three: 106:10,365[K ]| Hell could no longer hold us in her bounds, 106:10,366[K ]| Nor this unvoyageable gulf obscure 106:10,367[K ]| Detain from following thy illustrious track. 106:10,368[K ]| Thou hast achieved our liberty, confined 106:10,369[K ]| Within hell gates till now, thou us empowered 106:10,370[K ]| To fortify thus far, and overlay 106:10,371[K ]| With this portentous bridge the dark abyss. 106:10,372[K ]| Thine now is all this world, thy virtue hath won 106:10,373[K ]| What thy hands builded not, thy wisdom gained 106:10,374[K ]| With odds what war hath lost, and fully avenged 106:10,375[K ]| Our foil in heaven; here thou shalt monarch reign, 106:10,376[K ]| There didst not; there let him still victor sway, 106:10,377[K ]| As battle hath adjudged, from this new world 106:10,378[K ]| Retiring, by his own doom alienated, 106:10,379[K ]| And henceforth monarchy with thee divide 106:10,380[K ]| Of all things parted by the empyreal bounds, 106:10,381[K ]| His quadrature, from thy orbicular world, 106:10,382[K ]| Or try thee now more dangerous to his throne. 106:10,383[' ]| Whom thus the prince of darkness answered glad. 106:10,384[E ]| Fair daughter, and thou son and grandchild both, 106:10,385[E ]| High proof ye now have given to be the race 106:10,386[E ]| Of Satan (for I glory in the name. 106:10,387[E ]| Antagonist of heaven's almighty king) 106:10,388[E ]| Amply have merited of me, of all 106:10,389[E ]| The infernal empire, that so near heaven's door 106:10,390[E ]| Triumphal with triumphal act have met, 106:10,391[E ]| Mine with this glorious work, and made one realm 106:10,392[E ]| Hell and this world, one realm, one continent 106:10,393[E ]| Of easy thorough-fare. Therefore while I 106:10,394[E ]| Descend through darkness, on your road with ease 106:10,395[E ]| To my associate powers, them to acquaint 106:10,396[E ]| With these successes, and with them rejoice, 106:10,397[E ]| You two this way, among these numerous orbs 106:10,398[E ]| All yours, right down to Paradise descend; 106:10,399[E ]| There dwell and reign in bliss, thence on the earth 106:10,400[E ]| Dominion exercise and in the air, 106:10,401[E ]| Chiefly on man, sole lord of all declared, 106:10,402[E ]| Him first make sure your thrall, and lastly kill. 106:10,403[E ]| My substitutes I send ye, and create 106:10,404[E ]| Plenipotent on earth, of matchless might 106:10,405[E ]| Issuing from me: on your joint vigour now 106:10,406[E ]| My hold of this new kingdom all depends, 106:10,407[E ]| Through Sin to Death exposed by my exploit. 106:10,408[E ]| If your joint power prevails, the affairs of hell 106:10,409[E ]| No detriment need fear, go and be strong. 106:10,410[' ]| So saying he dismissed them, they with speed 106:10,411[' ]| Their course through thickest constellations held 106:10,412[' ]| Spreading their bane; the blasted stars looked wan, 106:10,413[' ]| And planets, planet-strook, real eclipse 106:10,414[' ]| Then suffered. The other way Satan went down 106:10,415[' ]| The causey to hell gate; on either side 106:10,416[' ]| Disparted chaos over built exclaimed, 106:10,417[' ]| And with rebounding surge the bars assailed, 106:10,418[' ]| That scorned his indignation: through the gate, 106:10,419[' ]| Wide open and unguarded, Satan passed, 106:10,420[' ]| And all about found desolate; for those 106:10,421[' ]| Appointed to sit there, had left their charge, 106:10,422[' ]| Flown to the upper world; the rest were all 106:10,423[' ]| Far to the inland retired, about the walls 106:10,424[' ]| Of Pandaemonium, city and proud seat 106:10,425[' ]| Of Lucifer, so by allusion called, 106:10,426[' ]| Of that bright star to Satan paragoned. 106:10,427[' ]| There kept their watch the legions, while the grand 106:10,428[' ]| In council sat, solicitous what chance 106:10,429[' ]| Might intercept their emperor sent, so he 106:10,430[' ]| Departing gave command, and they observed. 106:10,431[' ]| As when the Tartar from his Russian foe 106:10,432[' ]| By Astracan over the snowy plains 106:10,433[' ]| Retires, or Bactrian sophy from the horns 106:10,434[' ]| Of Turkish crescent, leaves all waste beyond 106:10,435[' ]| The realm of Aladule, in his retreat 106:10,436[' ]| To Tauris or Casbeen. So these the late 106:10,437[' ]| Heaven-banished host, left desert utmost hell 106:10,438[' ]| Many a dark league, reduced in careful watch 106:10,439[' ]| Round their metropolis, and now expecting 106:10,440[' ]| Each hour their great adventurer from the search 106:10,441[' ]| Of foreign worlds: he through the midst unmarked, 106:10,442[' ]| In show plebeian angel militant 106:10,443[' ]| Of lowest order, passed; and from the door 106:10,444[' ]| Of that Plutonian hall, invisible 106:10,445[' ]| Ascended his high throne, which under state 106:10,446[' ]| Of richest texture spread, at the upper end 106:10,447[' ]| Was placed in regal lustre. Down a while 106:10,448[' ]| He sat, and round about him saw unseen: 106:10,449[' ]| At last as from a cloud his fulgent head 106:10,450[' ]| And shape star bright appeared, or brighter, clad 106:10,451[' ]| With what permissive glory since his fall 106:10,452[' ]| Was left him, or false glitter: all amazed 106:10,453[' ]| At that so sudden blaze the Stygian throng 106:10,454[' ]| Bent their aspect, and whom they wished beheld, 106:10,455[' ]| Their mighty chief returned: loud was the acclaim: 106:10,456[' ]| Forth rushed in haste the great consulting peers, 106:10,457[' ]| Raised from their dark divan, and with like joy 106:10,458[' ]| Congratulant approached him, who with hand 106:10,459[' ]| Silence, and with these words attention won. 106:10,460[E ]| Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers, 106:10,461[E ]| For in possession such, not only of right, 106:10,462[E ]| I call ye and declare ye now, returned 106:10,463[E ]| Successful beyond hope, to lead ye forth 106:10,464[E ]| Triumphant out of this infernal pit 106:10,465[E ]| Abominable, accursed, the house of woe, 106:10,466[E ]| And dungeon of our tyrant: now possess, 106:10,467[E ]| As lords, a spacious world, to our native heaven 106:10,468[E ]| Little inferior, by my adventure hard 106:10,469[E ]| With peril great achieved. Long were to tell 106:10,470[E ]| What I have done, what suffered, with what pain 106:10,471[E ]| Voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep 106:10,472[E ]| Of horrible confusion, over which 106:10,473[E ]| By Sin and Death a broad way now is paved 106:10,474[E ]| To expedite your glorious march; but I 106:10,475[E ]| Toiled out my uncouth passage, forced to ride 106:10,476[E ]| The untractable abyss, plunged in the womb 106:10,477[E ]| Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wild, 106:10,478[E ]| That jealous of their secrets fiercely opposed 106:10,479[E ]| My journey strange, with clamorous uproar 106:10,480[E ]| Protesting fate supreme; thence how I found 106:10,481[E ]| The new created world, which fame in heaven 106:10,482[E ]| Long had foretold, a fabric wonderful 106:10,483[E ]| Of absolute perfection, therein man 106:10,484[E ]| Placed in a paradise, by our exile 106:10,485[E ]| Made happy: him by fraud I have seduced 106:10,486[E ]| From his creator, and the more to increase 106:10,487[E ]| Your wonder, with an apple; he thereat 106:10,488[E ]| Offended, worth your laughter, hath given up 106:10,489[E ]| Both his beloved man and all this world, 106:10,490[E ]| To Sin and Death a prey, and so to us, 106:10,491[E ]| Without our hazard, labour, or alarm, 106:10,492[E ]| To range in, and to dwell, and over man 106:10,493[E ]| To rule, as over all he should have ruled. 106:10,494[E ]| True is, me also he hath judged, or rather 106:10,495[E ]| Me not, but the brute serpent in whose shape 106:10,496[E ]| Man I deceived: that which to me belongs, 106:10,497[E ]| Is enmity, which he will put between 106:10,498[E ]| Me and mankind; I am to bruise his heel; 106:10,499[E ]| His seed, when is not set, shall bruise my head: 106:10,500[E ]| A world who would not purchase with a bruise, 106:11,000@@@@@| 106:11,201[C ]| Why else this double object in our sight 106:11,202[C ]| Of flight pursued in the air and o'er the ground 106:11,203[C ]| One way the self-same hour? Why in the east 106:11,204[C ]| Darkness ere day's mid-course, and morning light 106:11,205[C ]| More orient in yon western cloud that draws 106:11,206[C ]| O'er the blue firmament a radiant white, 106:11,207[C ]| And slow descends, with something heavenly fraught. 106:11,208[' ]| He erred not, for by this the heavenly bands 106:11,209[' ]| Down from a sky of jasper lighted now 106:11,210[' ]| In Paradise, and on a hill made alt, 106:11,211[' ]| A glorious apparition, had not doubt 106:11,212[' ]| And carnal fear that day dimmed Adam's eye. 106:11,213[' ]| Not that more glorious, when the angels met 106:11,214[' ]| Jacob in Mahanaim, where he saw 106:11,215[' ]| The field pavilioned with his guardians bright; 106:11,216[' ]| Nor that which on the flaming mount appeared 106:11,217[' ]| In Dothan, covered with a camp of fire, 106:11,218[' ]| Against the Syrian king, who to surprise 106:11,219[' ]| One man, assassin-like had levied war, 106:11,220[' ]| War unproclaimed. The princely hierarch 106:11,221[' ]| In their bright stand, there left his powers to seize 106:11,222[' ]| Possession of the garden; he alone, 106:11,223[' ]| To find where Adam sheltered, took his way, 106:11,224[' ]| Not unperceived of Adam, who to Eve, 106:11,225[' ]| While the great visitant approached, thus spake. 106:11,226[C ]| Eve, now expect great tidings, which perhaps 106:11,227[C ]| Of us will soon determine, or impose 106:11,228[C ]| New laws to be observed; for I descry 106:11,229[C ]| From yonder blazing cloud that veils the hill 106:11,230[C ]| One of the heavenly host, and by his gait 106:11,231[C ]| None of the meanest, some great potentate 106:11,232[C ]| Or of the thrones above, such majesty 106:11,233[C ]| Invests him coming; yet not terrible, 106:11,234[C ]| That I should fear, nor sociably mild, 106:11,235[C ]| As Raphael, that I should much confide, 106:11,236[C ]| But solemn and sublime, whom not to offend, 106:11,237[C ]| With reverence I must meet, and thou retire. 106:11,238[' ]| He ended; and the archangel soon drew nigh, 106:11,239[' ]| Not in his shape celestial, but as man 106:11,240[' ]| Clad to meet man; over his lucid arms 106:11,241[' ]| A military vest of purple flowed 106:11,242[' ]| Livelier than Meliboean, or the grain 106:11,243[' ]| Of Sarra, worn by kings and heroes old 106:11,244[' ]| In time of truce; Iris had dipped the woof; 106:11,245[' ]| His starry helm unbuckled showed him prime 106:11,246[' ]| In manhood where youth ended; by his side 106:11,247[' ]| As in a glistering zodiac hung the sword, 106:11,248[' ]| Satan's dire dread, and in his hand the spear. 106:11,249[' ]| Adam bowed low, he kingly from his state 106:11,250[' ]| Inclined not, but his coming thus declared. 106:11,251[J ]| Adam, heaven's high behest no preface needs: 106:11,252[J ]| Sufficient that thy prayers are heard, and Death, 106:11,253[J ]| Then due by sentence when thou didst transgress, 106:11,254[J ]| Defeated of his seizure many days 106:11,255[J ]| Given thee of grace, wherein thou mayst repent, 106:11,256[J ]| And one bad act with many deeds well done 106:11,257[J ]| Mayst cover: well may then thy Lord appeased 106:11,258[J ]| Redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim; 106:11,259[J ]| But longer in this Paradise to dwell 106:11,260[J ]| Permits not; to remove thee I am come, 106:11,261[J ]| And send thee from the garden forth to till 106:11,262[J ]| The ground whence thou wast taken, fitter soil. 106:11,263[' ]| He added not, for Adam at the news 106:11,264[' ]| Heart-strook with chilling gripe of sorrow stood, 106:11,265[' ]| That all his senses bound; Eve, who unseen 106:11,266[' ]| Yet all had heard, with audible lament 106:11,267[' ]| Discovered soon the place of her retire. 106:11,268[D ]| O unexpected stroke, worse than of death! 106:11,269[D ]| Must I thus leave thee Paradise? Thus leave 106:11,270[D ]| Thee native soil, these happy walks and shades, 106:11,271[D ]| Fit haunt of gods? Where I had hope to spend, 106:11,272[D ]| Quiet though sad, the respite of that day 106:11,273[D ]| That must be mortal to us both. O flowers, 106:11,274[D ]| That never will in other climate grow, 106:11,275[D ]| My early visitation, and my last 106:11,276[D ]| At even, which I bred up with tender hand 106:11,277[D ]| From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, 106:11,278[D ]| Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank 106:11,279[D ]| Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount? 106:11,280[D ]| Thee lastly nuptial bower, by me adorned 106:11,281[D ]| With what to sight or smell was sweet; from thee 106:11,282[D ]| How shall I part, and whither wander down 106:11,283[D ]| Into a lower world, to this obscure 106:11,284[D ]| And wild, how shall we breathe in other air 106:11,285[D ]| Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits? 106:11,286[' ]| Whom thus the angel interrupted mild. 106:11,287[J ]| Lament not Eve, but patiently resign 106:11,288[J ]| What justly thou hast lost; nor set thy heart, 106:11,289[J ]| Thus over-fond, on that which is not thine; 106:11,290[J ]| Thy going is not lonely, with thee goes 106:11,291[J ]| Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; 106:11,292[J ]| Where he abides, think there thy native soil. 106:11,293[' ]| Adam by this from the cold sudden damp 106:11,294[' ]| Recovering, and his scattered spirits returned, 106:11,295[' ]| To Michael thus his humble words addressed. 106:11,296[C ]| Celestial, whether among the thrones, or named 106:11,297[C ]| Of them the highest, for much of shape may seem 106:11,298[C ]| Prince above princes, gently hast thou told 106:11,299[C ]| Thy message, which might else in telling wound, 106:11,300[C ]| And in performing end us; what besides 106:11,301[C ]| Of sorrow and dejection and despair 106:11,302[C ]| Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring, 106:11,303[C ]| Departure from this happy place, our sweet 106:11,304[C ]| Recess, and only consolation left 106:11,305[C ]| Familiar to our eyes, all places else 106:11,306[C ]| Inhospitable appear and desolate, 106:11,307[C ]| Nor knowing us nor known: and if by prayer 106:11,308[C ]| Incessant I could hope to change the will 106:11,309[C ]| Of him who all things can, I would not cease 106:11,310[C ]| To weary him with my assiduous cries: 106:11,311[C ]| But prayer against his absolute decree 106:11,312[C ]| No more avails than breath against the wind, 106:11,313[C ]| Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: 106:11,314[C ]| Therefore to his great bidding I submit. 106:11,315[C ]| This most afflicts me, that departing hence, 106:11,316[C ]| As from his face I shall be hid, deprived 106:11,317[C ]| His blessed countenance; here I could frequent, 106:11,318[C ]| With worship, place by place where he vouchsafed 106:11,319[C ]| Presence divine, and to my sons relate; 106:11,320[C ]| On this mount he appeared; under this tree 106:11,321[C ]| Stood visible, among these pines his voice 106:11,322[C ]| I heard, here with him at this fountain talked: 106:11,323[C ]| So many grateful altars I would rear 106:11,324[C ]| Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone 106:11,325[C ]| Of lustre from the brook, in memory, 106:11,326[C ]| Of monument to ages, and thereon 106:11,327[C ]| Offer sweet smelling gums and fruits and flowers: 106:11,328[C ]| In yonder nether world where shall I seek 106:11,329[C ]| His bright appearances, or footstep trace? 106:11,330[C ]| For though I fled him angry, yet recalled 106:11,331[C ]| To life prolonged and promised race, I now 106:11,332[C ]| Gladly behold though but his utmost skirts 106:11,333[C ]| Of glory, and far off his steps adore. 106:11,334[' ]| To whom thus Michael with regard benign. 106:11,335[J ]| Adam, thou know'st heaven his, and all the earth. 106:11,336[J ]| Not this rock only; his omnipresence fills 106:11,337[J ]| Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives, 106:11,338[J ]| Fomented by his virtual power and warmed: 106:11,339[J ]| All the earth he gave thee to possess and rule, 106:11,340[J ]| No despicable gift; surmise not then 106:11,341[J ]| His presence to these narrow bounds confined 106:11,342[J ]| Of Paradise or Eden: this had been 106:11,343[J ]| Perhaps thy capital seat, from whence had spread 106:11,344[J ]| All generations, and had hither come 106:11,345[J ]| From all the ends of the earth, to celebrate 106:11,346[J ]| And reverence thee their great progenitor. 106:11,347[J ]| But this pre-eminence thou hast lost, brought down 106:11,348[J ]| To dwell on even ground now with thy sons: 106:11,349[J ]| Yet doubt not but in valley and in plain 106:11,350[J ]| God is as here, and will be found alike 106:11,351[J ]| Present, and of his presence many a sign 106:11,352[J ]| Still following thee, still compassing thee round 106:11,353[J ]| With goodness and paternal love, his face 106:11,354[J ]| Express, and of his steps the track divine. 106:11,355[J ]| Which that thou mayst believe, and be confirmed 106:11,356[J ]| Ere thou from hence depart, know I am sent 106:11,357[J ]| To shew thee what shall come in future days 106:11,358[J ]| To thee and to thy offspring; good with bad 106:11,359[J ]| Expect to hear, supernatural grace contending 106:11,360[J ]| With sinfulness of men; thereby to learn 106:11,361[J ]| True patience, and to temper joy with fear 106:11,362[J ]| And pious sorrow, equally inured 106:11,363[J ]| By moderation either state to bear, 106:11,364[J ]| Prosperous or adverse: so shalt thou lead 106:11,365[J ]| Safest thy life, and best prepared endure 106:11,366[J ]| Thy mortal passage when it comes. Ascend 106:11,367[J ]| This hill; let Eve (for I have drenched her eyes) 106:11,368[J ]| Here sleep below while thou to foresight wakest, 106:11,369[J ]| As once thou slept'st, while she to life was formed. 106:11,370[' ]| To whom thus Adam gratefully replied. 106:11,371[C ]| Ascend, I follow thee, safe guide, the path 106:11,372[C ]| Thou lead'st me, and to the hand of heaven submit, 106:11,373[C ]| However chastening, to the evil turn 106:11,374[C ]| My obvious breast, arming to overcome 106:11,375[C ]| By suffering, and earn rest from labour won, 106:11,376[C ]| If so I may attain. 106:11,376[' ]| So both ascend 106:11,377[' ]| In the visions of God: it was a hill 106:11,378[' ]| Of Paradise the highest, from whose top 106:11,379[' ]| The hemisphere of earth in clearest ken 106:11,380[' ]| Stretched out to the amplest reach of prospect lay. 106:11,381[' ]| Not higher that hill nor wider looking round, 106:11,382[' ]| Whereon for different cause the tempter set 106:11,383[' ]| Our second Adam in the wilderness, 106:11,384[' ]| To show him all earth's kingdoms and their glory. 106:11,385[' ]| His eye might there command wherever stood 106:11,386[' ]| City of old or modern fame, the seat 106:11,387[' ]| Of mightiest empire, from the destined walls 106:11,388[' ]| Of Cambalu, seat of Cathaian khan 106:11,389[' ]| And Samarchand by Oxus, Temir's throne, 106:11,390[' ]| To Paquin of Sinaean kings, and thence 106:11,391[' ]| To Agra and Lahor of great mogul 106:11,392[' ]| Down to the golden Chersonese, or where 106:11,393[' ]| The Persian in Ecbatan sat, or since 106:11,394[' ]| In Hispahan, or where the Russian czar 106:11,395[' ]| In Mosco, or the sultan in Bizance, 106:11,396[' ]| Turchestan-born; nor could his eye not ken 106:11,397[' ]| The empire of negus to his utmost port 106:11,398[' ]| Eroco and the less maritime kings 106:11,399[' ]| Mombaza, and Quiloa, and Melind, 106:11,400[' ]| And Sofala thought Ophir, to the realm 106:11,401[' ]| Of Congo, and Angola farthest south; 106:11,402[' ]| Or thence from Niger flood to Atlas mount 106:11,403[' ]| The kingdoms of Almansor, Fez and Sus, 106:11,404[' ]| Morocco and Algiers, and Tremisen; 106:11,405[' ]| On Europe thence, and where Rome was to sway 106:11,406[' ]| The world: in spirit perhaps he also saw 106:11,407[' ]| Rich Mexico the seat of Motezume, 106:11,408[' ]| And Cusco in Peru, the richest seat 106:11,409[' ]| Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoiled 106:11,410[' ]| Guiana, whose great city Geryon's sons 106:11,411[' ]| Call El Dorado: but to nobler sights 106:11,412[' ]| Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed 106:11,413[' ]| Which that false fruit that promised clearer sight 106:11,414[' ]| Had bred; then purged with euphrasy ad rue 106:11,415[' ]| The visual nerve, for he had much to see; 106:11,416[' ]| And from the well of life three drops instilled. 106:11,417[' ]| So deep the power of these ingredients pierced, 106:11,418[' ]| Even to the inmost seat of mental sight, 106:11,419[' ]| That Adam now enforced to close his eyes, 106:11,420[' ]| Sunk down and all his spirits became entranced: 106:11,421[' ]| But him the gentle angel by the hand 106:11,422[' ]| Soon raised, and his attention thus recalled. 106:11,423[J ]| Adam, now ope thine eyes, and first behold 106:11,424[J ]| The effects which thy original crime hath wrought 106:11,425[J ]| In some to spring from thee, who never touched 106:11,426[J ]| The excepted tree, nor with the snake conspired, 106:11,427[J ]| Nor sinned thy sin, yet from that sin derive 106:11,428[J ]| Corruption to bring forth more violent deeds. 106:11,429[' ]| His eyes he opened, and beheld a field, 106:11,430[' ]| Part arable and tilth, whereon were sheaves 106:11,431[' ]| New reaped, the other part sheep-walks and folds; 106:11,432[' ]| In the midst an altar as the landmark stood 106:11,433[' ]| Rustic, of grassy sward; thither anon 106:11,434[' ]| A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought 106:11,435[' ]| First fruits, the green ear, and the yellow sheaf, 106:11,436[' ]| Unculled, as came to hand; a shepherd next 106:11,437[' ]| More meek came with the firstlings of his flock 106:11,438[' ]| Choicest and best; then sacrificing, laid 106:11,439[' ]| The inwards and their fat, with incense strewed, 106:11,440[' ]| On the cleft wood, and all due rites performed. 106:11,441[' ]| His offering soon propitious fire from heaven 106:11,442[' ]| Consumed with nimble glance, and grateful steam; 106:11,443[' ]| The other's not, for his was not sincere; 106:11,444[' ]| Whereat he inly raged, and as they talked, 106:11,445[' ]| Smote him into the midriff with a stone 106:11,446[' ]| That beat out life; he fell, and deadly pale 106:11,447[' ]| Groaned out his soul with gushing blood effused. 106:11,448[' ]| Much at that sight was Adam in his heart 106:11,449[' ]| Dismayed, and thus in haste to the angel cried. 106:11,450[C ]| O teacher, some great mischief hath befallen 106:11,451[C ]| To that meek man, who well had sacrificed; 106:11,452[C ]| Is piety thus and pure devotion paid? 106:11,453[' ]| To whom Michael thus, he also moved, replied. 106:11,454[J ]| These two are brethren, Adam, and to come 106:11,455[J ]| Out of thy loins; the unjust the just hath slain, 106:11,456[J ]| For envy that his brother's offering found 106:11,457[J ]| From heaven acceptance; but the bloody fact 106:11,458[J ]| Will be avenged, and the other's faith approved 106:11,459[J ]| Lose no reward, though here thou see him die, 106:11,460[J ]| Rolling in dust and gore. 106:11,460[' ]| To which our sire. 106:11,461[C ]| Alas, both for the deed and for the cause! 106:11,462[C ]| But have I now seen death? Is this the way 106:11,463[C ]| I must return to native dust? O sight 106:11,464[C ]| Of terror, foul and ugly to behold 106:11,465[C ]| Horrid to think, how horrible to feel! 106:11,466[' ]| To whom thus Michael. 106:11,466[J ]| Death thou hast seen 106:11,467[J ]| In his first shape on man; but many shapes 106:11,468[J ]| Of death, and many are the ways that lead 106:11,469[J ]| To his grim cave, all dismal; yet to sense 106:11,470[J ]| More terrible at the entrance than within. 106:11,471[J ]| Some, as thou saw'st, by violent stroke shall die, 106:11,472[J ]| By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more 106:11,473[J ]| In meats and drinks which on earth shall bring 106:11,474[J ]| Diseases dire, of which a monstrous crew 106:11,475[J ]| Before thee shall appear; that thou mayst know 106:11,476[J ]| What misery the inabstinence of Eve 106:11,477[J ]| Shall bring on men. 106:11,477[' ]| Immediately a place 106:11,478[' ]| Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark, 106:11,479[' ]| A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid 106:11,480[' ]| Numbers of all diseased, all maladies 106:11,481[' ]| Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms 106:11,482[' ]| Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, 106:11,483[' ]| Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, 106:11,484[' ]| Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, 106:11,485[' ]| Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy 106:11,486[' ]| And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, 106:11,487[' ]| Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, 106:11,488[' ]| Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. 106:11,489[' ]| Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, despair 106:11,490[' ]| Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch; 106:11,491[' ]| And over them triumphant death his dart 106:11,492[' ]| Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked 106:11,493[' ]| With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. 106:11,494[' ]| Sight so deform what heart of rock could long 106:11,495[' ]| Dry-eyed behold? Adam could not, but wept, 106:11,496[' ]| Though not of woman born; compassion quelled 106:11,497[' ]| His best of man, and gave him up to tears 106:11,498[' ]| A space, till firmer thoughts restrained excess, 106:11,499[' ]| And scarce recovering words his plaint renewed. 106:11,500[C ]| O miserable mankind, to what fall 106:12,000@@@@@| 106:12,201[J ]| Though present in his angel, who shall go 106:12,202[J ]| Before them in a cloud, and pillar of fire, 106:12,203[J ]| By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire, 106:12,204[J ]| To guide them in their journey, and remove 106:12,205[J ]| Behind them, while the obdurate king pursues: 106:12,206[J ]| All night he will pursue, but his approach 106:12,207[J ]| Darkness defends between till morning watch; 106:12,208[J ]| Then through the fiery pillar and the cloud 106:12,209[J ]| God looking forth will trouble all his host 106:12,210[J ]| And craze their chariot wheels: when by command 106:12,211[J ]| Moses once more his potent rod extends 106:12,212[J ]| Over the sea; the sea his rod obeys; 106:12,213[J ]| On their embattled ranks the waves return, 106:12,214[J ]| And overwhelm their war: the race elect 106:12,215[J ]| Safe towards Canaan from the shore advance 106:12,216[J ]| Through the wild desert, not the readiest way, 106:12,217[J ]| Lest entering on the Canaanite alarmed 106:12,218[J ]| War terrify them inexpert, and fear 106:12,219[J ]| Return them back to Egypt, choosing rather 106:12,220[J ]| Inglorious life with servitude; for life 106:12,221[J ]| To noble and ignoble is more sweet 106:12,222[J ]| Untrained in arms, where rashness leads not on. 106:12,223[J ]| This also shall they gain by their delay 106:12,224[J ]| In the wide wilderness, there they shall found 106:12,225[J ]| Their government, and their great senate 106:12,226[J ]| Through the twelve tribes, to rule by laws ordained: 106:12,227[J ]| God from the mount of Sinai, whose grey top 106:12,228[J ]| Shall tremble, he descending, will himself 106:12,229[J ]| In thunder lightning and loud trumpets' sound 106:12,230[J ]| Ordain them laws; part such as appertain 106:12,231[J ]| To civil justice, part religious rites 106:12,232[J ]| Of sacrifice, informing them, by types 106:12,233[J ]| And shadows, of that destined seed to bruise 106:12,234[J ]| The serpent, by what means he shall achieve 106:12,235[J ]| Mankind's deliverance. But the voice of God 106:12,236[J ]| To mortal ear is dreadful; they beseech 106:12,237[J ]| That Moses might report to them his will, 106:12,238[J ]| And terror cease; he grants what they besought 106:12,239[J ]| Instructed that to God is no access 106:12,240[J ]| Without mediator, whose high office now 106:12,241[J ]| Moses in figure bears, to introduce 106:12,242[J ]| One greater, of whose day he shall foretell, 106:12,243[J ]| And all the prophets in their age the times 106:12,244[J ]| Of great Messiah shall sing. Thus laws and rites 106:12,245[J ]| Established, such delight hath God in men 106:12,246[J ]| Obedient to his will, that he vouchsafes 106:12,247[J ]| Among them to set up his tabernacle, 106:12,248[J ]| The holy one with mortal men to dwell: 106:12,249[J ]| By his prescript a sanctuary is framed 106:12,250[J ]| Of cedar, overlaid with gold, therein 106:12,251[J ]| An ark, and in the ark his testimony, 106:12,252[J ]| The records of his Covenant, over these 106:12,253[J ]| A mercy-seat of gold between the wings 106:12,254[J ]| Of two bright cherubim, before him burn 106:12,255[J ]| Seven lamps as in a zodiac representing 106:12,256[J ]| The heavenly fires; over the tent a cloud 106:12,257[J ]| Shall rest by day, a fiery gleam by night, 106:12,258[J ]| Save when they journey, and at length they come, 106:12,259[J ]| Conducted by his angel to the land 106:12,260[J ]| Promised to Abraham and his seed: the rest 106:12,261[J ]| Were long to tell, how many battles fought, 106:12,262[J ]| How many kings destroyed, and kingdoms won, 106:12,263[J ]| Or how the sun shall in mid heaven stand still 106:12,264[J ]| A day entire, and night's due course adjourn, 106:12,265[J ]| Man's voice commanding, sun in Gibeon stand, 106:12,266[J ]| And thou moon in the vale of Aialon, 106:12,267[J ]| Till Israel overcome; so call the third 106:12,268[J ]| From Abraham, son of Isaac, and from him 106:12,269[J ]| His whole descent, who thus shall Canaan win. 106:12,270[' ]| Here Adam interposed. 106:12,270[C ]| O sent from heaven, 106:12,271[C ]| Enlightener of my darkness, gracious things 106:12,272[C ]| Thou hast revealed, those chiefly which concern 106:12,273[C ]| Just Abraham and his seed: now first I find 106:12,274[C ]| Mine eyes true opening, and my heart much eased, 106:12,275[C ]| Erewhile perplexed with thoughts what would become 106:12,276[C ]| Of me and all mankind; but now I see 106:12,277[C ]| His day, in whom all nations shall be blest, 106:12,278[C ]| Favour unmerited by me, who sought 106:12,279[C ]| Forbidden knowledge by forbidden means. 106:12,280[C ]| This yet I apprehend not, why to those 106:12,281[C ]| Among whom God will deign to dwell on earth 106:12,282[C ]| So many and so various laws are given; 106:12,283[C ]| So many laws argue so many sins 106:12,284[C ]| Among them; how can God with such reside? 106:12,285[' ]| To whom thus Michael. 106:12,285[J ]| Doubt not but that sin 106:12,286[J ]| Will reign among them, as of thee begot; 106:12,287[J ]| And therefore was law given them to evince 106:12,288[J ]| Their natural pravity, by stirring up 106:12,289[J ]| Sin against law to fight; that when they see 106:12,290[J ]| Law can discover sin, but not remove, 106:12,291[J ]| Save by those shadowy expiations weak, 106:12,292[J ]| The blood of bulls and goats, they may conclude 106:12,293[J ]| Some blood more precious must be paid for man, 106:12,294[J ]| Just for unjust, that in such righteousness 106:12,295[J ]| To them by faith imputed, they may find 106:12,296[J ]| Justification towards God, and peace 106:12,297[J ]| Of conscience, which the law by ceremonies 106:12,298[J ]| Cannot appease, nor man the moral part 106:12,299[J ]| Perform, and not performing cannot live. 106:12,300[J ]| So law appease, nor man the moral part 106:12,301[J ]| With purpose to resign them in full time 106:12,302[J ]| Up to a better Covenant, disciplined 106:12,303[J ]| From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit, 106:12,304[J ]| From imposition of strict laws, to free 106:12,305[J ]| Acceptance of large grace, from servile fear 106:12,306[J ]| To filial, works of law to works of faith. 106:12,307[J ]| And therefore shall not Moses, though of God 106:12,308[J ]| Highly beloved, being but the minister 106:12,309[J ]| Of law, his people into Canaan lead; 106:12,310[J ]| But Joshua whom the gentiles Jesus call, 106:12,311[J ]| His name and office bearing, who shall quell 106:12,312[J ]| The adversary serpent, and bring back 106:12,313[J ]| Through the world's wilderness long wandered man 106:12,314[J ]| Safe to eternal paradise of rest. 106:12,315[J ]| Meanwhile they in their earthly Canaan placed 106:12,316[J ]| Long time shall dwell and prosper, but when sins 106:12,317[J ]| National interrupt their public peace, 106:12,318[J ]| Provoking God to raise them enemies: 106:12,319[J ]| From whom as oft he saves them penitent 106:12,320[J ]| By judges first, then under kings; of whom 106:12,321[J ]| The second, both for piety renowned 106:12,322[J ]| And puissant deeds, a promise shall receive 106:12,323[J ]| Irrevocable, that his regal throne 106:12,324[J ]| For ever shall endure; the like shall sing 106:12,325[J ]| All prophecy, that of the royal stock 106:12,326[J ]| Of David (so I name this king) shall rise 106:12,327[J ]| A son, the woman's seed to thee foretold, 106:12,328[J ]| Foretold to Abraham, as in whom shall trust 106:12,329[J ]| All nations, and to kings foretold, of kings 106:12,330[J ]| The last, for of his reign shall be no end. 106:12,331[J ]| But first a long succession must ensue, 106:12,332[J ]| And his next son for wealth and wisdom famed, 106:12,333[J ]| The clouded ark of God till then in tents 106:12,334[J ]| Wandering, shall in a glorious temple enshrine. 106:12,335[J ]| Such follow him, as shall be registered 106:12,336[J ]| Part good, part bad, of bad the longer scroll, 106:12,337[J ]| Whose foul idolatries, and other faults 106:12,338[J ]| Heaped to the popular sum, will so incense 106:12,339[J ]| God, as to leave them, and expose their land, 106:12,340[J ]| Their city, his temple, and his holy ark 106:12,341[J ]| With all his sacred things, a scorn and prey 106:12,342[J ]| To that proud city, whose high walls thou saw'st 106:12,343[J ]| Left in confusion, Babylon thence called. 106:12,344[J ]| There in captivity he lets them dwell 106:12,345[J ]| The space of seventy years, then brings them back, 106:12,346[J ]| Remembering mercy, and his Covenant sworn 106:12,347[J ]| To David, stablished as the days of heaven. 106:12,348[J ]| Returned from Babylon by leave of kings 106:12,349[J ]| Their lords, whom God disposed, the house of God 106:12,350[J ]| They first re-edify, and for a while 106:12,351[J ]| In mean estate live moderate, till grown 106:12,352[J ]| In wealth and multitude, factious they grow; 106:12,353[J ]| But first among the priests dissension springs, 106:12,354[J ]| Men who attend the altar, and should most 106:12,355[J ]| Endeavour peace: their strife pollution brings 106:12,356[J ]| Upon the Temple it self: at last they seize 106:12,357[J ]| The sceptre, and regard not David's sons, 106:12,358[J ]| Then lose it to a stranger, that the true 106:12,359[J ]| Anointed king Messiah might be born 106:12,360[J ]| Barred of his right; yet at his birth a star 106:12,361[J ]| Unseen before in heaven proclaims him come, 106:12,362[J ]| And guides the eastern sages, who inquire 106:12,363[J ]| His place, to offer incense, myrrh, and gold; 106:12,364[J ]| His place of birth a solemn angel tells 106:12,365[J ]| To simple shepherds, keeping watch by night; 106:12,366[J ]| They gladly thither haste, and by a choir 106:12,367[J ]| Of squadroned angels hear their carol sung. 106:12,368[J ]| A virgin is his mother, but his sire 106:12,369[J ]| The power of the most high; he shall ascend 106:12,370[J ]| The throne hereditary, and bound his reign 106:12,371[J ]| With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens. 106:12,372[' ]| He ceased, discerning Adam with such joy 106:12,373[' ]| Surcharged, as had like grief been dewed in tears, 106:12,374[' ]| Without the vent of words, which these he breathed. 106:12,375[C ]| O prophet of glad tidings, finisher 106:12,376[C ]| Of utmost hope! Now clear I understand 106:12,377[C ]| What oft my steadiest thoughts have searched in vain, 106:12,378[C ]| Why our great expectation should be called 106:12,379[C ]| The seed of woman: virgin Mother, hail, 106:12,380[C ]| High in the love of heaven, yet from my loins 106:12,381[C ]| Thou shalt proceed, and from thy womb the Son 106:12,382[C ]| Of God most high; so God with man unites. 106:12,383[C ]| Needs must the serpent now his capital bruise 106:12,384[C ]| Expect with mortal pain: say where and when 106:12,385[C ]| Their fight, what stroke shall bruise the victor's heel. 106:12,386[' ]| To whom thus Michael. 106:12,386[J ]| Dream not of their fight, 106:12,387[J ]| As of a duel, or the local wounds 106:12,388[J ]| Of head or heel: not therefore joins the Son 106:12,389[J ]| Manhood to Godhead, with more strength to foil 106:12,390[J ]| Thy enemy; nor so is overcome 106:12,391[J ]| Satan, whose fall from heaven, a deadlier bruise, 106:12,392[J ]| Disabled not to give thee thy death's wound: 106:12,393[J ]| Which he, who comes thy saviour, shall recure, 106:12,394[J ]| Not by destroying Satan, but his works 106:12,395[J ]| In thee and in thy seed: nor can this be, 106:12,396[J ]| But by fulfilling that which thou didst want, 106:12,397[J ]| Obedience to the law of God, imposed 106:12,398[J ]| Of penalty of death, and suffering death, 106:12,399[J ]| The penalty to thy transgression due, 106:12,400[J ]| And due to theirs which out of thine will grow: 106:12,401[J ]| So only can high justice rest apaid. 106:12,402[J ]| The law of God exact he shall fulfil 106:12,403[J ]| Both by obedience and by love, though love 106:12,404[J ]| Alone fulfil the law; thy punishment 106:12,405[J ]| He shall endure by coming in the flesh 106:12,406[J ]| To a reproachful life and cursed death, 106:12,407[J ]| Proclaiming life to all who shall believe 106:12,408[J ]| In his redemption, and that his obedience 106:12,409[J ]| Imputed becomes theirs by faith, his merits 106:12,410[J ]| To save them, not their own, though legal works. 106:12,411[J ]| For this he shall live hated, be blasphemed, 106:12,412[J ]| Seized on by force, judged, and to death condemned 106:12,413[J ]| A shameful and accurst, nailed to the cross 106:12,414[J ]| By his own nation, slain for bringing life; 106:12,415[J ]| But to the cross he nails thy enemies, 106:12,416[J ]| The law that is against thee, and the sins 106:12,417[J ]| Of all mankind, with him there crucified, 106:12,418[J ]| Never to hurt them more who rightly trust 106:12,419[J ]| In this his satisfaction; so he dies, 106:12,420[J ]| But soon revives, Death over him no power 106:12,421[J ]| Shall long usurp; ere the third dawning light 106:12,422[J ]| Return, the stars of morn shall see him rise 106:12,423[J ]| Out of his grave, fresh as the dawning light, 106:12,424[J ]| Thy ransom paid, which man from Death redeems, 106:12,425[J ]| His death for man, as many as offered life 106:12,426[J ]| Neglect not, and the benefit embrace 106:12,427[J ]| By faith not void of works: this Godlike act 106:12,428[J ]| Annuls thy doom, the death thou shouldst have died, 106:12,429[J ]| In sin for ever lost from life; this act 106:12,430[J ]| Shall bruise the head of Satan, crush his strength 106:12,431[J ]| Defeating Sin and Death, his two main arms, 106:12,432[J ]| And fix far deeper in his head their stings 106:12,433[J ]| Than temporal death shall bruise the victor's heel, 106:12,434[J ]| Or theirs whom he redeems, a death like sleep, 106:12,435[J ]| A gentle wafting to immortal life. 106:12,436[J ]| Nor after resurrection shall he stay 106:12,437[J ]| Longer on earth than certain times to appear 106:12,438[J ]| To his disciples, men who in his life 106:12,439[J ]| Still followed him; to them shall leave in charge 106:12,440[J ]| To teach all nations what of him they learned 106:12,441[J ]| And his salvation, them who shall believe 106:12,442[J ]| Baptising in the profluent stream, the sign 106:12,443[J ]| Of washing them from guilt of sin to life 106:12,444[J ]| Pure, and in mind prepared, if so befall, 106:12,445[J ]| For death, like that which the redeemer died. 106:12,446[J ]| All nations they shall teach; for from that day 106:12,447[J ]| Not only to the sons of Abraham's loins 106:12,448[J ]| Salvation shall be preached, but to the sons 106:12,449[J ]| Of Abraham's faith wherever through the world; 106:12,450[J ]| So in his seed all nations shall be blest. 106:12,451[J ]| Then to the heaven of heavens he shall ascend 106:12,452[J ]| With victory, triumphing through the air 106:12,453[J ]| Over his foes and thine; there shall surprise 106:12,454[J ]| The serpent, prince of air, and drag in chains 106:12,455[J ]| Through all his realm, and there confounded leave; 106:12,456[J ]| Then enter into glory, and resume 106:12,457[J ]| His seat at God's right hand, exalted high 106:12,458[J ]| Above all names in heaven; and thence shall come, 106:12,459[J ]| When this world's dissolution shall be ripe, 106:12,460[J ]| With glory and power to judge both quick and dead, 106:12,461[J ]| To judge the unfaithful dead, but to reward 106:12,462[J ]| His faithful, and receive them into bliss, 106:12,463[J ]| Whether in heaven or earth, for then the earth 106:12,464[J ]| Shall all be paradise, far happier place 106:12,465[J ]| Than this of Eden, and far happier days. 106:12,466[J ]| So spake the archangel Michael, then paused, 106:12,467[' ]| As at the world's great period; and our sire 106:12,468[' ]| Replete with joy and wonder thus replied. 106:12,469[C ]| O goodness infinite, goodness immense! 106:12,470[C ]| That all this good of evil shall produce, 106:12,471[C ]| And evil turn to good; more wonderful 106:12,472[C ]| Than that which by creation first brought forth 106:12,473[C ]| Light out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand, 106:12,474[C ]| Whether I should repent me now of sin 106:12,475[C ]| By me done and occasioned, or rejoice 106:12,476[C ]| Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring, 106:12,477[C ]| To God more glory, more good will to men 106:12,478[C ]| From God, and over wrath grace shall abound. 106:12,479[C ]| But say, if our deliverer up to heaven 106:12,480[C ]| Must reascend, what will betide the few 106:12,481[C ]| His faithful, left among the unfaithful herd, 106:12,482[C ]| The enemies of truth; who then shall guide 106:12,483[C ]| His people, who defend? Will they not deal 106:12,484[C ]| Worse with his followers than with him they dealt? 106:12,485[J ]| Be sure they will, 106:12,485[' ]| said the angel; 106:12,485[J ]| but from heaven 106:12,486[J ]| He to his own a Comforter will send, 106:12,487[J ]| The promise of the Father, who shall dwell 106:12,488[J ]| His spirit with them, and the law of faith 106:12,489[J ]| Working through love, upon their hearts shall write, 106:12,490[J ]| To guide them in all truth, and also arm 106:12,491[J ]| With spiritual armour, able to resist 106:12,492[J ]| Satan's assaults, and quench his fiery darts, 106:12,493[J ]| What man can do against them, not afraid, 106:12,494[J ]| Though to the death, against such cruelties 106:12,495[J ]| With inward consolations recompensed, 106:12,496[J ]| And oft supported so as shall amaze 106:12,497[J ]| Their proudest persecutors: for the Spirit 106:12,498[J ]| Poured first on his apostles, whom he sends 106:12,499[J ]| To evangelize the nations, then on all 106:12,500[J ]| Baptized, shall them with wondrous gifts endue