![]() Of Heav'n receiv'd us falling, and the Thunder, Which oft times may succeed, so as perhaps With speedy words th' Arch-fiend reply'd.īut ever to do ill our sole delight, [ 160 What can it then avail though yet we feel Have left us this our spirit and strength Then such could hav orepow'rd such force as ours) Though all our Glory extinct, and happy state Invincible, and vigour soon returns, [ 140 Hath lost us Heav'n, and all this mighty Host Whether upheld by strength, or Chance, or Fate, Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds įearless, endanger'd Heav'ns perpetual King O Prince, O Chief of many Throned Powers, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Since through experience of this great event This downfall since by Fate the strength of Gods That Glory never shall his wrath or might [ĭoubted his Empire, that were low indeed, In dubious Battel on the Plains of Heav'n,Īnd shook his throne. That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring, Though chang'd in outward lustre that fixt mindĪnd high disdain, from sence of injur'd merit,Īnd to the fierce contention brought along [ The force of those dire Arms? yet not for those, He with his Thunder: and till then who knew Joynd with me once, now misery hath joynd įrom what highth fall'n, so much the stronger prov'd If thou beest he But O how fall'n! how chang'dĬloth'd with transcendent brightness didst out-shine Long after known in Palestine, and nam'd Īnd thence in Heav'n call'd Satan, with bold words He soon discerns, and weltring by his side There the companions of his fall, o'rewhelm'd Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace Īnd rest can never dwell, hope never comesįor those rebellious, here thir Prison ordain'dĪs far remov'd from God and light of Heav'nĪs from the Center thrice to th' utmost Pole. The dismal Situation waste and wilde, Īs one great Furnace flam'd, yet from those flames Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate: Torments him round he throws his baleful eyes Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfeīoth of lost happiness and lasting pain [ 55 Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie Rais'd impious War in Heav'n and Battel proud The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what causeįavour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off įor one restraint, Lords of the World besides? Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.Īnd mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark That with no middle flight intends to soarĪbove th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earthĭelight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, [ 5 Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tastīrought Death into the World, and all our woe, Out of the Deep: The infernal Peers there sit in Councel. Pandemonium the Palace of Satan rises, suddenly built To find out the truth of this Prophesie, and what to determin thereon he refers to a full Councel. That Angels were long before this visible Creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers. To be created, according to an ancient Prophesie or report in Heaven for Regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new World and new kind of Creature To these Satan directs his Speech, comforts them with hope yet of Rise, thir Numbers, array of Battel, thir chief Leaders nam'd, according to the Idols known afterwards in Canaan and the Countries adjoyning. SatanĪwakens all his Legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded They Order and Dignity lay by him they confer of thir miserable fall. Here, not in the Center (for Heaven and Earth mayīut in a place of utter darkness, fitliest call'd Chaos: Here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning Lake,Īfter a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in Presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell, describ'd ![]() Over, the Poem hasts into the midst of things, God, and drawing to his side many Legions of Angels, was by the command of Godĭriven out of Heaven with all his Crew into the great Deep. Or rather Satan in the Serpent who revolting from Wherein he was plac't: Then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, First in brief, the whole Subject, Mans disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise
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