tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54147947004123597422024-03-21T06:04:23.711-07:00Paradise Lost in Modern EnglishA summary of the epic masterpiece in plain English for the lazy student or teacher in need. It's a line-by-line, side-by-side paraphrasing of the poem, just in case reading literature from cover to cover isn't your thing. This is John Milton's Paradise Lost in translation.
Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-10738594453086857062020-11-04T11:50:00.000-08:002020-11-04T11:50:13.399-08:00Book 1: Satan wakes up in Hell and rallies his fallen friends<div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #000020;">THE ARGUMENT.—This First
Book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject—Man’s disobedience, and the
loss thereupon of Paradise, wherein he was placed: then touches the prime cause
of his fall—the Serpent, or rather Satan in the Serpent; who, revolting from
God, and drawing to his side many legions of Angels, was, by the command of God,
driven out of Heaven, with all his crew, into the great Deep. Which action
passed over, the Poem hastes into the midst of things; presenting Satan, with
his Angels, now fallen into Hell—described here not in the Centre (for heaven
and earth may be supposed as yet not made, certainly not yet accursed), but in a
place of utter darkness, fitliest called Chaos. Here Satan, with his Angels
lying on the burning lake, thunderstruck and astonished after a certain space
recovers, as from confusion; calls up him who, next in order and dignity, lay by
him: they confer of their miserable fall. Satan awakens all his legions, who lay
till then in the same manner confounded. They rise: their numbers; array of
battle; their chief leaders named, according to the idols known afterwards in
Canaan and the countries adjoining. To these Satan directs his speech; comforts
them with hope yet of regaining Heaven; but tells them, lastly, of a new world
and new kind of creature to be created, according to an ancient prophecy, or
report, in Heaven—for that Angels were long before this visible creation was the
opinion of many ancient Fathers. To find out the truth of this prophecy, and
what to determine thereon, he refers to a full council. What his associates
thence attempt. Pandemonium, the palace of Satan, rises, suddenly built out of
the Deep: the infernal Peers there sit in council.</span></div>
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<b>tl;dr Now, this is a story, all about how our lives got twist-turned
upside-down. Basically Satan and his gang were tossed out of Heaven for
trying to engage in fisticuffs with Heaven. Satan wakes up and is like "Wow, this sucks but I'm going to get revenge." </b></span></div>
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OF MAN’S first disobedience, and the fruit<br />
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<td>Hey Muse, can you tell me about Man's first Sin? It had something to
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Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste</div>
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Brought death into the World, and all our woe,</div>
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With loss of Eden, till one greater Man<br />
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<td>It made our Paradise Lost (Hey...that's the title of this thing!), until
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Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,</div>
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To help us get better.</div>
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Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top</div>
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Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire</div>
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<td>Moses inspiration. Give me whatever you gave him.</td>
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That Shepherd who first taught the chosen seed</div>
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<td>Moses was a pretty cool guy, he taught a lot of people</td>
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In the beginning how the heavens and earth</div>
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<td>And I want to do the same.</td>
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Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill</div>
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Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed</div>
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Fast by the oracle of God, I thence</div>
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Invoke thy aid to my adventrous song,</div>
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<td>I need your help in creating this epic</td>
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That with no middle flight intends to soar</div>
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Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues</div>
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Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.</div>
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And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer</div>
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Before all temples the upright heart and pure,</div>
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Instruct me, for Thou know’st; Thou from the
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Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,</div>
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Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss,</div>
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And mad’st it pregnant: what in me is dark</div>
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<td align="left">the darkness into light. And you can do the same for me.</td>
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Illumine, what is low raise and support;</div>
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<td align="left">I want to be enlightened where I am ignorant and I want to
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That, to the highth of this great argument,</div>
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I may assert Eternal Providence,</div>
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And justify the ways of God to men.</div>
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Say first—for Heaven hides nothing from thy
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<td align="left">Since you probably know everything about Heaven</td>
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Nor the deep tract of Hell—say first what cause</div>
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Moved our grand Parents, in that happy state,</div>
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Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off</div>
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From their Creator, and transgress his will</div>
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<td align="left">from God, but they couldn't do ONE SMALL THING</td>
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For one restraint, lords of the World besides.</div>
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Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?</div>
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<td align="left">Who made them drop the ball? Of course I can't blame them,
they just didn't know what they were doing!</td>
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The infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile,</div>
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<td align="left">It was that snake! He's quite the trickster</td>
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Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived</div>
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The mother of mankind, what time his pride</div>
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Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host</div>
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<td align="left">got him kicked out of Heaven along with his entourage</td>
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Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring</div>
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<td align="left">of rebel Angels. Those Angels followed Satan</td>
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To set himself in glory above his peers,</div>
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<td align="left">and his blind ambition. Satan was able to convince them to
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He trusted to have equalled the Most High,</div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and even to the extent of waging
war against Heaven</td>
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If he opposed, and, with ambitious aim</div>
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Against the throne and monarchy of God,</div>
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Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud,</div>
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With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power</div>
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<td align="left">But Satan's quest for victory was already decided, and he was
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Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky,</div>
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With hideous ruin and combustion, down</div>
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To bottomless perdition, there to dwell</div>
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In adamantine chains and penal fire,</div>
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Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.</div>
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Get better, Satan! Sit down and have a beer and stop complaining!</td>
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Nine times the space that measures day and
night</div>
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To mortal men, he, with his horrid crew,</div>
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Lay vanquished, rowling in the fiery gulf,</div>
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Confounded, though immortal. But his doom</div>
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<td align="left">Confused, angry, and a multitude of other bad feels. Even
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Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought</div>
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Both of lost happiness and lasting pain</div>
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Torments him: round he throws his baleful eyes,</div>
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That witnessed huge affliction and dismay,</div>
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Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate.</div>
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<td align="left">But he was feeling even more hatred.</td>
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At once, as far as Angel’s ken, he views</div>
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The dismal situation waste and wild.</div>
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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,</div>
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As one great furnace flamed; yet from those
flames</div>
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No light; but rather darkness visible</div>
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Served only to discover sights of woe,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and they only revealed more </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 65</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">suffering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and hopelessness</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That comes to all, but torture without end</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and unending torture</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It's like a roaring fire </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that doesn't seem like it will ever go out</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Such place Eternal Justice had prepared</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 70</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">This place was made for people like
Satan and anyone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For those rebellious; here their prison ordained</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">else who decides they want to try to fight Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In utter darkness, and their portion set,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They are sent to this fiery darkness</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As far removed from God and light of Heaven</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Which is the furthest away from Heaven and the light of
Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Oh how unlike the place from whence they fell!</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 75</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">This place is the complete opposite
of where they fell. No kidding!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
There the companions of his fall, o’erwhelmed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This is where he and his defeated followers have to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">live, they have to live with fire.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
He soon discerns; and, weltering by his side,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan finds a familiar face next to him</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
One next himself in power, and next in crime,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">His "2nd in command/assistant" </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Long after known in Palestine, and named</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 80</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Beëlzebub. To whom the Arch-Enemy,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">His main man:
Beëlzebub.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And thence in Heaven called Satan, with bold
words</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan finally spoke</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Breaking the horrid silence, thus began:—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You can call it an ice-breaker</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
“If thou beest he—but Oh how fallen! how
changed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>"Hey! Is that you? Oh man, you've changed a lot!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From him!—who, in the happy realms of light,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 85</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" valign="TOP"><div style="text-align: left;">
You lost your shine, that 'Heavenly shine,' </div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst
outshine</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>You were brighter than</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Myriads, though bright—if he whom mutual league,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>everyone else! </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
United thoughts and counsels, equal hope</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>You joined me and helped me plan </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And hazard in the glorious enterprise,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>in my attempt to overthrow Heaven,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Joined with me once, now misery hath joined</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 90</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" valign="TOP"><div style="text-align: left;">
But now we're here, together again in misery</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In equal ruin; into what pit thou seest</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>and defeat</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From what highth fallen: so much the stronger
proved</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>We fell pretty far though, and I guess we were a little over our heads</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
He with his thunder: and till then who knew</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>Who would have known how strong they could be?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The force of those dire arms? Yet not for those,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>But it's whatever to me,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Nor what the potent Victor in his rage</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 95</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"><div style="text-align: left;">
I don't care that we lost.</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Can else inflict, do I repent, or change,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Heaven can throw everything at me, but I'm not going to
change</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Though changed in outward lustre, that fixed
mind,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I may look different now, but my mind is still the same.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And high disdain from sense of injured merit,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That with the Mightiest raised me to contend,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I still have fight in me</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And to the fierce contention brought along</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 100</i> </div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP">I still have the same confidence</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Innumerable force of Spirits armed,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>that stirred up everyone to join me</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That durst dislike his reign, and, me
preferring,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>to fight the unfair Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His utmost power with adverse power opposed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In dubious battle on the plains of Heaven,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And shook his throne. What though the field be
lost?</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 105</i> </div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP">So what if we lost? </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
All is not lost—the unconquerable will,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>Nothing is lost, I still have my free will</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And study of revenge, immortal hate,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>my revenge and hate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And courage never to submit or yield:</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>my courage to never to give up</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And what is else not to be overcome.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>I still have all that! What did Heaven win?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That glory never shall his wrath or might</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 110</i> </div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>I'll never bow down,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With suppliant knee, and deify his power</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>and kneel for mercy and forgiveness from him</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Who, from the terror of this arm, so late</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>I just made it known through my aggressions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Doubted his empire—that were low indeed;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>that his empire really can be challenged.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That were an ignominy and shame beneath</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 115</i> </div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP">To beg for mercy and forgiveness would be the worst shame
than the defeat we just had.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
This downfall; since, by fate, the strength of
Gods,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And this empyreal substance, cannot fail;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>We can't really die anyway, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Since, through experience of this great event,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>but through such an experience</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>we have definitely learned a lot from this.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
We may with more successful hope resolve</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 120</i> </div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To wage by force or guile eternal war,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>We can keep fighting forever, through battle or some more devious and
sneaky way.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Irreconcilable to our grand Foe,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Who now triumphs’, and in the excess of joy</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>Heh, I bet they're all up there in Heaven, just celebrating with their
party hats and streamers"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven.”</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
So spake the apostate Angel, though in pain,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 125</i> </div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP">Satan said these things even though he was in pain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and deep despair</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And him thus answered soon his bold Compeer;—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>Beëlzebub responded,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
“O Prince, O Chief of many thronèd Powers</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>"Oh Prince, my brave Prince,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That led the embattled Seraphim to war</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>you rallied the rebel Angels together for war,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Under thy conduct, and, in dreadful deeds</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 130</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">with your leadership, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">against the tyrant in Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And put to proof his high supremacy,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate!</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But we were defeated, due to Heaven's greater strength or
better luck</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Too well I see and rue the dire event</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Now this is where we are.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That, with sad overthrow and foul defeat,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 135</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Wallowing in defeat.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Hath lost us Heaven, and all this mighty host</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We've lost Heaven and all of our comrades are in bad shape</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In horrible destruction laid thus low,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Our pride is hurt</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As far as Gods and Heavenly Essences</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But we are like Gods and we cannot die, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Can perish: for the mind and spirit remains</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Our minds and spirits cannot be destroyed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Invincible, and vigour soon returns,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 140</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">We are invincible, and our courage
and strength will return</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Though all our glory extinct, and happy state</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">even though our glory and joy are probably gone forever</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Here swallowed up in endless misery.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">while we're stuck in this miserable place.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
But what if He our Conqueror (whom I now</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Now I just think Heaven </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of force believe Almighty, since no less</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">really is almighty, I mean, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Than such could have o’erpowered such force as
ours)</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 145</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">how else could he have defeated an
army like ours?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Have left us this our spirit and strength
entire,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Maybe he just left us alive to let us suffer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Strongly to suffer and support our pains,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">So that we can live with misery</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That we may so suffice his vengeful ire,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and he can be satisfied with our suffering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or do him mightier service as his thralls</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">or make us slaves to do whatever </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By right of war, whate’er his business be,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 150</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">he wants us to do down here in Hell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Here in the heart of Hell to work in fire,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or do errands in the gloomy Deep?</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
What can it then avail though yet we feel</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">What good is it if </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Strength undiminished, or eternal being</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">we remain alive by Heaven's hand and immortal if it's </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To undergo eternal punishment?”</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 155</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">only to live in suffering?"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Whereto with speedy words the Arch-Fiend
replied:—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>Satan the a.k.a. the Arch-Fiend replied with </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
“Fallen Cherub, to be weak is miserable,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"I know it sucks right now, and we're pretty miserable down
here</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Doing or suffering: but of this be sure—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but hear me out:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To do aught good never will be our task,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We will never do good deeds again</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
But ever to do ill our sole delight,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 160</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">We will instead do evil deeds and
gain pleasure from doing that</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As being the contrary to His high will</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We will do the opposite of what he wants </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Whom we resist. If then His providence</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And if Heaven </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Out of our evil seek to bring forth good,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">tries to turn our evil deeds into something good,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Our labour must be to pervert that end,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">we will work hard to find another way </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And out of good still to find means of evil;</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 165</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">to turn them evil again.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Which ofttimes may succeed so as perhaps</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We'll succeed sometimes and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Shall grieve him, if I fail not, and disturb</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that will upset God even more</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His inmost counsels from their destined aim.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We can do these things to thwart his plans</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
But see! the angry Victor hath recalled</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But look at our enemy! He called back</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His ministers of vengeance and pursuit</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 170</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">his troops </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Back to the gates of Heaven: the sulphurous
hail,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and went back to Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Shot after us in storm, o’erblown hath laid</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">so right now we're in the calm of the storm </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The fiery surge that from the precipice</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Heaven received us falling; and the thunder,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 175</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They're probably regrouping at the moment and waiting </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To bellow through the vast and boundless Deep.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I think we should take advantage of this opportunity, whether
our enemy is ignoring us or if</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or satiate fury yield it from our Foe.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">their anger has been quenched</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 180</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Look at that dark plain over there</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The seat of desolation, void of light,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Save what the glimmering of these livid flames</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Let's get out of these flames over here and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">find a spot over there because it has less flames (there's
just a lot of fire down here!)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From off the tossing of these fiery waves;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
There rest, if any rest can harbour there;</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 185</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Let's just go over there and see if
it's a bit better than this spot, yeah? It's worth a shot</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We can gather everyone up</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Consult how we may henceforth most offend</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>and talk about how we can recover and see what we can do </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Our Enemy, our own loss how repair,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>to mess with our enemy more</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
How overcome this dire calamity,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>I'm sure we can get better. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
What reinforcement we may gain from hope,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 190</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">We still have some 'hope' left to
muster</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
If not what resolution from despair.”</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And maybe we can also come up with a way to make our current
situation tolerable."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Thus Satan, talking to his nearest Mate,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan replied</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With head uplift above the wave, and eyes</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">with his head and eyes above the flames</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">sparkling and blazing bright</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Prone on the flood, extended long and large,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 195</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">His body was large; he's apparently a huge deal down here in
Hell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As whom the fables name of monstrous size,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Imagine a really large bouncy house, like the ones at
children's parties, only this one is made of fire and envy and lies.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Titanian or Earth-born, that warred on Jove,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Briareos or Typhon, whom the den</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 200</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Leviathan, which God of all his works</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 205</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With fixèd anchor in his scaly rind,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Moors by his side under the lee, while night</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Invests the sea, and wishèd morn delays.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
So stretched out huge in length the Arch-Fiend
lay,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Anyway, Satan is pretty high and mighty and huge.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Chained on the burning lake; nor ever thence</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 210</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan may have never gotten out of
the burning lake of fire,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Had risen, or heaved his head, but that the will</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">or even lifted his head up,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">if God didn't decide to allow it.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Left him at large to his own dark designs,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan can do whatever he wants</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That with reiterated crimes he might</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like more crimes and stuff like that</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Heap on himself damnation, while he sought</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 215</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">because it would only damn him more</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Evil to others, and enraged might see</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">by being evil and horrible to others</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
How all his malice served but to bring forth</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan would only find that the result would be God's goodness
in the end</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy, shewn</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">grace, and mercy given </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
On Man by him seduced, but on himself</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to man. While Satan must suffer God's punishment </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Treble confusion, wrath, and vengeance poured.</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 220</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">over and over again.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">So Satan got up out of the fiery lake</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His mighty stature; on each hand the flames</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">His large person separating the flames around him</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Driven backward slope their pointing spires,
and, rowled</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">leaving an empty void where he had been lying</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In billows, leave i’ the midst a horrid vale.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Then with expanded wings he steers his flight</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 225</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He then spread his wings and flew</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">up into the polluted air</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That felt unusual weight; till on dry land</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">until he landed onto dry land</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
He lights—if it were land that ever burned</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With solid, as the lake with liquid fire,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And such appeared in hue as when the force</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 230</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of subterranean wind transports a hill</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Torn from Pelorus, or the shattered side</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of thundering Ætna, whose combustible</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And fuelled entrails, thence conceiving fire,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 235</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And leave a singèd bottom all involved</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With stench and smoke. Such resting found the
sole</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This was the kind of land meant for </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of unblest feet. Him followed his next Mate;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">those who are unblessed. Satan followed Beelzebub</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Both glorying to have scaped the Stygian flood</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">praising each other about getting out of the lake of fire</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As gods, and by their own recovered strength,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 240</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">because of their strength and
power, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Not by the sufferance of supernal power.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and not because God had let them.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
“Is this the region, this the soil, the
clime,”</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan then said, "Hmm, so this land of fire that we get</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Said then the lost Archangel, “this the seat</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That we must change for Heaven?—this mournful
gloom</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in exchange for Heaven? This gloomy desolation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For that celestial light? Be it so, since He</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 245</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">in place of Heaven's light? That's
fine by me! God</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Who now is sovran can dispose and bid</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">can have his dictatorship and reign of tyranny up there</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
What shall be right: fardest from Him is best,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and the further away from him the better!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made
supreme</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We had equal rights, but the power of his force was stronger,
so he gets to be 'king'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Above his equals. Farewell, happy fields,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">So farewell Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Where joy forever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 250</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and hello horrors of Hell! Hail!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This is our world and we (I mean 'I') can do anything!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Receive thy new possessor—one who brings</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Welcome your new master, the one who brings </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A mind not to be changed by place or time.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a mind that does not change by place or time</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The mind is its own place, and in itself</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">As long as you have the attitude, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 255</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">you can make Heaven feel like Hell
or Hell feel like Heaven!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
What matter where, if I be still the same,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Why does it matter where I am if I'm still the same ol'
Satan?!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And what I should be, all but less than he</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'm as great as God in every way except for his power. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Here we can be free.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God didn't build this place for anything else!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 260</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I doubt he can drive us out of here</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">so we can call this place our new home. And for me, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to be a ruler is a worthwhile ambition, even if it is Hell to
rule.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'd rather be a king in Hell than to be a slave in Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But hey, let's not leave the rest of our buddies </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The associates and co-partners of our loss,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 265</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Lie thus astonished on the oblivious pool,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">over there in that burning lake.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And call them not to share with us their part</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We might as well have them join us </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In this unhappy mansion, or once more</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in our misery and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With rallied arms to try what may be yet</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">regroup to see what we can salvage </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?”</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 270</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">from our fall from Heaven, or
whatever bad news still waits for us here in Hell."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
So Satan spake; and him Beëlzebub</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Beëlzebub replied to Satan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Thus answered:—“Leader of those armies bright</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"You know, nothing less than Heaven could have beaten this
army!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Which, but the Omnipotent, none could have
foiled!</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
If once they hear that voice, their liveliest
pledge</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If our fallen can hear your voice, the same voice that gave
them</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of hope in fears and dangers—heard so oft</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 275</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">hope during battle</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and our struggles</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of battle, when it raged, in all assaults</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their surest signal—they will soon resume</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'm sure it will renew their strength</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
New courage and revive, though now they lie</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and courage. Talk to them! Give them strength!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Grovelling and prostrate on yon lake of fire,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 280</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">No wonder they're all still lying
around in this lake of fire</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As we erewhile, astounded and amazed;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">all confused and flustered from defeat</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
No wonder, fallen such a pernicious highth!”</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and falling from Heaven!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Beëlzebub didn't even finish speaking when Satan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous
shield,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">started heading towards the shore with his huge shield</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 285</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">that was large and round,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Behind him cast. The broad circumference</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">on his back</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It looked like the moon</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
At evening, from the top of Fesolè,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 290</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His spear—to equal which the tallest pine</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan's spear that was long</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and seemed like the mast of </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a ship,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
He walked with, to support uneasy steps</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 295</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He used it to help balance himself </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Over the burning marle, not like those steps</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">as he walked on the fiery ground of Hell that was so </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
On Heaven’s azure; and the torrid clime</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">different than the ground of Heaven. The air</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">was hot and it burned him as he walked towards the shore.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Nathless he so endured, till on the beach</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan stood on the beach, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of that inflamèd sea he stood, and called</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 300</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and he called out to his fallen
army</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His legions—Angel Forms, who lay entranced</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">His army was lying about</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like autumn leaves on a shady brook</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
High over-arched imbower; or scattered sedge</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">or like seaweeds floating </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 305</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves
o’erthrew</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Busiris and his Memphian chivalry,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
While with perfidious hatred they pursued</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From the safe shore their floating carcases</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 310</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">next to the corpses of fallen
soldiers </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and broken chariot wheels. The fallen angels were just </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">scattered everywhere,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Under amazement of their hideous change.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"></td>
<td align="left"> in a state of shock. Their bodies just covered the
lake.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
He called so loud that all the hollow deep</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan called out, and his voice echoed and reverberated
around.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Hell resounded:—“Princes, Potentates,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 315</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He announced, "Rebel angels,
Princes, and Warriors!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Warriors, the Flower of Heaven—once yours; now
lost,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You were once rulers of Heaven! You guys better act like it!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
If such astonishment as this can seize</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Look at all of you! What happened to you?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Eternal Spirits! Or have ye chosen this place</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Are you just going to lie around and accept where you are?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
After the toil of battle to repose</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Is this where you choose to rest after battle?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 320</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Maybe you find this place to be
comfortable enough</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven?</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to rest as you did in Heaven?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or in this abject posture have ye sworn</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Or maybe you just want to kneel to your conqueror </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To adore the Conqueror, who now beholds</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in Heaven? And then he'll just see you </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Cherub and Seraph rowling in the flood</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in this weakened state and take advantage </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With scattered arms and ensigns, till anon</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 325</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">of the situation and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His swift pursuers from Heaven-gates discern</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">send in his troops after us to</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The advantage, and, descending tread us down</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">kick us while we're down. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Thus drooping, or with linkèd thunderbolts</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Or chain us with thunderbolts to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Transfix us to the bottom of this gulf?—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the bottom of this Hell!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!”</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 330</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">WAKE UP AND GET BETTER!"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
They heard, and were abashed, and up they
sprung</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan's words made them feel ashamed and they jumped up</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like they were night-watchmen who </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
On duty sleeping found by whom they dread,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">were caught sleeping on duty.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They slapped themselves awake and stood attentively.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Nor did they not perceive the evil plight</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 335</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They quickly rose up</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In which they were, or the fierce pains not
feel;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">even though they were in pain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Yet to their General’s voice they soon obeyed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they wanted to obey their General's orders and authority</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Innumerable. As when the potent rod</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Amram’s son, in Egypt’s evil day,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Waved round the coast, up-called a pitchy cloud</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 340</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They spread out and flew out of the
lake </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like a swarm of locusts</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That o’er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that plagued Egypt.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Like Night, and darkened all the land of Nile;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
So numberless were those bad Angels seen</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Their numbers seemed infinite as they </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 345</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">flew and swarmed the catacombs of
Hell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
’Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Till, as a signal given, the uplifted spear</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan, the air traffic controller of Hell, used his spear to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of their great Sultan waving to direct</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">direct his underlings </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their course, in even balance down they light</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to land so he can have a chat with them some more.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
On the firm brimstone, and fill the plain:</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 350</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They landed and filled the entire
plain with their numbers.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A multitude like which the populous North</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Their numbers were vast and</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Poured never from her frozen loins to pass</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they looked like barbarians ready for battle</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Came like a deluge on the South, and spread</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 355</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Forthwith, from every squadron and each band,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Then suddenly leaders from each battalion came forward</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The heads and leaders thither haste where stood</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to where Satan was</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their great Commander—godlike Shapes, and Forms</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They were powerful beings,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Excelling human; princely Dignities;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Superhuman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 360</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And they were former kings of
Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Though of their names in Heavenly records now</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But now all record of them even existing in Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Be no memorial, blotted out and rased</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">has been erased because </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By their rebellion from the Books of Life.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">of their little rebellion.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Nor had they yet among the sons of Eve</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Got them new names, till, wondering o’er the
earth,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 365</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Through God’s high sufferance for the trial of
man,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God would later allow them to come to Earth to test mankind</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By falsities and lies the greatest part</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They would corrupt mankind with their </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of mankind they corrupted to forsake</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">lies and deceit.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
God their Creator, and the invisible</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Glory of Him that made them to transform</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 370</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Oft to the image of a brute, adorned</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With gay religions full of pomp and gold,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Men would then grow to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And devils to adore for deities:</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>worship idols and devils.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Then were they known to men by various names,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>Then they would be known by new names.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And various idols through the heathen world.</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 375</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Say, Muse, their names then known, who first,
who last,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">So, Muse... what were their names? </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Roused from the slumber on that fiery couch,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The names of those fallen angels who came out of the lake of
fire.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
At their great Emperor’s call, as next in worth</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Who answered to Satan's call.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Came singly where he stood on the bare strand,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof.</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 380</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The chief were those who, from the pit of Hell</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Roaming to seek their prey on Earth, durst fix</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They would later walk the Earth, preying on mankind</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their seats, long after, next the seat of God,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and become</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their altars by His altar, gods adored</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">adored as Gods</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Among the nations round, and durst abide</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 385</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">in all the nations of man. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Jehovah thundering out of Sion, throned</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Between the Cherubim; yea, often placed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Within His sanctuary itself their shrines,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Abominations; and with cursed things</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 390</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And with their darkness durst affront His light.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
First, <i>Moloch,</i> horrid King, besmeared
with blood</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">First there was Moloch. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of human sacrifice, and parents’ tears;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels
loud,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">During rituals</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their children’s cries unheard that passed
through fire</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 395</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Children would be burned alive in
sacrifice</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to him.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In Argob and in Basan, to the stream</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of utmost Arnon. Nor content with such</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 400</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Solomon he led by fraud to build</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He would later make Solomon build a temple</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His temple right against the temple of God</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">against God.</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 405</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Next <i>Chemos,</i> the obscene dread of Moab’s
sons,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Next would be Chemos, who would be worshipped by the
Moabites.</td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From Aroar to Nebo and the wild</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of southmost Abarim; in Hesebon</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And Horonaim, Seon’s realm, beyond</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The flowery dale of Sibma clad with vines,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 410</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And Elealè to the Asphaltick Pool:</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Peor his other name, when he enticed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He was also known as Peor, and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Israel in Sittim, on their march from Nile,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">when the Jews escaped Egypt</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Yet thence his lustful orgies he enlarged</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 415</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He led them in orgies.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Even to that hill of scandal, by the grove</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Moloch homicide, lust hard by hate,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With these came they who, from the bordering
flood</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 420</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Egypt from Syrian ground, had general names</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of <i>Baalim</i> and <i>Ashtaroth</i>—those
male,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
These feminine. For Spirits, when they please,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Can either sex assume, or both; so soft</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And uncompounded is their essence pure,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 425</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Not tied or manacled with joint or limb,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Like cumbrous flesh; but, in what shape they
choose,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Can execute their aery purposes,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 430</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And works of love or enmity fulfil.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For those the race of Israel oft forsook</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their Living Strength, and unfrequented left</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His righteous altar, bowing lowly down</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To bestial gods; for which their heads, as low</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 435</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Bowed down in battle, sunk before the spear</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of despicable foes. With these in troop</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Came <i>Astoreth,</i> whom the Phoenicians
called</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Then came Astoreth</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Astarte, queen of heaven, with cresent horns;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">who was called the "queen of Heaven"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To whose bright image nightly by the moon</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 440</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In Sion also not unsung, where stood</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Her temple on the offensive mountain, built</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and was worshipped in Solomon's evil temple.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By that uxorious king whose heart, though large,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 445</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To idols foul. <i>Thammuz</i> came next behind,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Then there was Thammuz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">where every year</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The Syrian damsels to lament his fate</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Syrian women would sing sad songs</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In amorous ditties all a summer’s day,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
While smooth Adonis from his native rock</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 450</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">about how he would bleed a river of blood every year</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">These loves songs would</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Infected Sion’s daughters with like heat,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">make all the Jewish women sexually aroused.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 455</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His eye surveyed the dark idolatries</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of alienated Judah. Next came one</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Who mourned in earnest, when the captive Ark</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">When the Philistines put the Ark of the Lord in this temple,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Maimed his brute image, head and hands lopt off,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">his statue was later found decapitated and his hands were cut
off.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In his own temple, on the grunsel-edge,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 460</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Where he fell flat and shamed his worshipers:</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i>Dagon</i> his name, sea-monster, upward man</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This temple was for the sea-monster Dagon, who was half-man
and</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And downward fish; yet had his temple high</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">half-fish. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Reared in Azotus, dreaded through the coast</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 465</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And Accaron and Gaza’s frontier bounds.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Him followed <i>Rimmon,</i> whose delightful
seat</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streams.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
He also against the house of God was bold:</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 470</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A leper once he lost, and gained a king—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
God’s altar to disparage and displace</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His odious offerings, and adore the gods</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 475</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Whom he had vanquished. After these appeared</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A crew who, under names of old renown—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i>Osiris, Isis, Orus,</i> and their train—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Then the Egyptian gods: Osiris, Isis, and Orus</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They all took the shapes and forms of beasts</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Fanatic Egypt and her priests to seek</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 480</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Rather than human. Nor did Israel scape</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Israel would be invaded by these devils, when Israelites started</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The infection, when their borrowed gold composed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to worship </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The calf in Oreb; and the rebel king</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a golden cow instead of worshipping God</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Doubled that sin in Bethel and in Dan,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 485</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Likening his Maker to the grazèd ox—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Jehovah, who, in one night, when he passed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Only the faithful to God would be spared</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From Egypt marching, equalled with one stroke</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Both her first-born and all her bleating gods.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">from God's anger when he killed all the firstborn children</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i>Belial</i> came last; than whom a Spirit more
lewd</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 490</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Belial came last.</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Vice for itself. To him no temple stood</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He loved sin for its own sake. He didn't have a temple built
for him</td>
</tr>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or altar smoked; yet who more oft than he</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In temples and at altars, when the priest</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Turns atheist, as did Eli’s sons, who filled</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 495</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">But he would corrupt </td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With lust and violence the house of God?</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the house of God with lust and violence.</td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In courts and palaces he also reigns,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He would influence kings and </td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And in luxurious cities, where the noise</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the wealthy</td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And injury and outrage; and, when night</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 500</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And at night </td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">he would send out </td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the drunks to bring the ruckus! All in the name of Belial!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Witness the streets of Sodom, and that night</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In Gibeah, when the hospitable door</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Exposed a matron, to avoid worse rape.</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 505</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
These were the prime in order and in might:</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The rest were long to tell; though far renowned</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The Ionian gods—of Javan’s issue held</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Gods, yet confessed later than Heaven and Earth,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their boasted parents;—<i>Titan,</i> Heaven’s
first-born,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 510</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With his enormous brood, and birthright seized</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By younger <i>Saturn:</i> he from mightier Jove,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His own and Rhea’s son, like measure found;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
So <i>Jove</i> unsurping reigned. These, first
in Crete</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And Ida known, thence on the snowy top</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 515</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of cold Olympus ruled the middle air,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their highest heaven; or on the Delphian cliff,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or in Dodona, and through all the bounds</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Doric land; or who with Saturn old</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Fled over Adria to the Hesperian fields,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 520</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And o’er the Celtic roamed the utmost Isles.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
All these and more came flocking; but with
looks</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">All these devils came forward to Satan, they </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Downcast and damp; yet such wherein appeared</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">still looked defeated and sad but Satan's confidence </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Obscure some glimpse of joy to have found their
Chief</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">encouraged them and gave them confidence too</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Not in despair, to have found themselves not
lost</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 525</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In loss itself; which on his countenance cast</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Like doubtful hue. But he, his wonted pride</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Semblance of worth, nor substance, gently raised</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their fainting courage, and dispelled their
fears:</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 530</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Then straight commands that, at the war-like
sound</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan commanded all of them to</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of trumpets loud and clarions, be upreared</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">blow their trumpets and raise</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
His mighty standard. That proud honour claimed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">his banner in the air.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Azazel as his right, a Cherub tall:</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The Cherub, Azazel, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Who forthwith from the glittering staff unfurled</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 535</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">unrolled Satan's banner standard</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in the wind</td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Shon like a meteor streaming to the wind,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">it was bright and lively</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With gems and golden lustre rich imblazed,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and was decorated with gold and jewels</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Seraphic arms and trophies; all the while</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds:</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 540</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Trumpets were trumpetting!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
At which the universal host up-sent</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And the fallen Angels shouted</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A shout that tore Hell’s concave, and beyond</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">so loud that it could probably </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">be heard in the darkest parts of Hell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
All in a moment through the gloom were seen</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Ten thousand banners rise into the air,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 545</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The fallen angels raised thousands
of banners </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With orient colours waving: with them rose</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">all colorful</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they raised their spears and helmets</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Appeared, and serried shields in thick array</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and shields.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of depth immeasurable. Anon they move</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 550</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They they all moved like one single
unit, in unison. A phalanx</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of flutes and soft recorders—such as raised</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to the sound of flutes and recorders.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To highth of noblest temper heroes old</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Arming to battle, and instead of rage</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Deliberate valour breathed, firm, and unmoved</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">All of this helped to relieve their doubts in themselves </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With dread of death to flight or foul retreat;</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 555</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">as well as their fears.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Breathing united force with fixed thought,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 560</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">As if they were a single entity
with one mind</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they marched in silence listening to the now soft music they
made.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their painful steps o’er the burnt soil. And now</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Advanced in view they stand—a horrid front</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They finally stood in front of Satan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of dreadful length and dazzling arms, in guise</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of warriors old, with ordered spear and shield,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 565</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They were all geared up with their
weapons and armor.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Awaiting what command their mighty Chief</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They waited for Satan to speak and direct them.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Had to impose. He through the armed files</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan looked over at his troops and</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">inspected them with his trained eyes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The whole battalion views—their order due,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their visages and stature as of Gods;</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 570</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their number last he sums. And now his heart</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He was impressed and content with</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Distends with pride, and, hardening in his
strength,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">his army. He felt an overwhelming sense of pride and power</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Glories: for never, since created Man,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan knew that </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Met such imbodied force as, named with these,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">there would never be another force like this again.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Could merit more than that small infantry</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 575</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">There would be no other army like
Satan's army.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Warred on by cranes—though all the giant brood</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Phlegra with the heroic race were joined</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">(Basically</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">comparing</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Mixed with auxiliar gods; and what resounds</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan's</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In fable or romance of Uther’s son,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 580</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Army</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Begirt with British and Armoric knights;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And all who since, baptized or infidel,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the size, strength, and quality</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">of</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">actual</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 585</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">mortal</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
When Charlemain with all his peerage fell</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">armies.)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But Satan felt that his troops couldn't be compared to
anybody else</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their dread Commander. He, above the rest</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And Satan just stood there</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In shape and gesture proudly eminent,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 590</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">High and mighty</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like a tower. He still looked like an Archangel as he was in
Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
All her original brightness, nor appeared</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but he just wasn't as bright</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of glory obscured: as when the sun new-risen</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He was like when the sun shines</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Looks through the horizontal misty air</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 595</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">through the mist.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
On half the nations, and with fear of change</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Perplexes monarchs. Darkened so, yet shon</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Above them all the Archangel: but his face</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 600</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan's face</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">showed signs of revenge</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Signs of remorse and passion, to behold</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 605</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He felt bad that his followers had
to go through such a fall and</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The fellows of his crime, the followers rather</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">had to suffer the torments in Hell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
(Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan felt as though he had doomed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For ever now to have their lot in pain—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">his troops to eternal pain.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 610</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For his revolt—yet faithful how they stood,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But Satan was touched that they still followed him, even in
Hell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their glory withered; as, when heaven’s fire</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Their glory was faded, like a burned down forest</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">after a forest fire</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With singèd top their stately growth, though
bare,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 615</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan prepared to speak</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and his troops leaned in closer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From wing to wing, and half enclose him round</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and circled around him to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With all his peers: Attention held them mute.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">listen closely and attentively</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of
scorn,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan tried to speak three times</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 620</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and even cried a little!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Words interwove with sighs found out their way:—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">After sighing he finally announced to his legions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
“O myriads of immortal Spirits! O Powers</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Oh immortal spirits! Only the powers of </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Matchless, but with the Almighty!—and that
strife</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Heaven could match your combined power! Your fight</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Was not inglorious, though the event was dire,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">was not without glory even though we lost!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As this place testifies, and this dire change,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 625</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Even though we were thrown down
here!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Hateful to utter. But what power of mind,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I hate to admit it, but </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Foreseeing or presaging, from the depth</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">who would have guessed that a large and powerful force</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of knowledge past or present, could have feared</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like ours</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
How such united force of gods, how such</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a united force of superhuman </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As stood like these, could ever know repulse?</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 630</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">could ever be defeated?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For who can yet believe, though after loss,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Even though we lost</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That all these puissant legions, whose exile</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">we the exiled </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to reascend,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that left Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Self-raised, and re-possess their native seat?</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We can very well win back our old land in Heaven if we tried.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For me, be witness all the host of Heaven,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 635</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
If counsels different, or danger shunned</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By me, have lost our hopes. But he who reigns</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Monarch in Heaven till then as one secure</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">No one has ever questioned God's rule.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Consent or custom, and his regal state</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 640</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Put forth at full, but still his strength
concealed—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Heaven kept its strength a secret.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Which tempted our attempt, and wrought our fall.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Heaven basically asked for us to attempt to fight against
God.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Henceforth his might we know, and know our own,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But now we know Heaven's strength compared to our own.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
So as not either to provoke, or dread</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
New war provoked: our better part remains</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 645</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I believe now we must take the war
to them in another way</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To work in close design, by fraud or guile,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">through cunning and trickery</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
What force effected not; that he no less</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
At length from us may find, Who overcomes</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Let Heaven find out that winning by force</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By force hath overcome but half his foe.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">is only half a victory.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Space may produce new Worlds; whereof so rife</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 650</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">There may be new worlds to conquer
out there</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
There went a fame in Heaven that He ere long</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">There was a rumor happening in Heaven that God</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Intended to create, and therein plant</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">would create a new world and place </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A generation whom his choice regard</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">special creatures there that he would</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">favor and value as highly as he does his Angels.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 655</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Maybe we can explore our
possibilities in that new world.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Our first eruption—thither, or elsewhere;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For this infernal pit shall never hold</div>
td>
</td><td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This Hellish pit can't hold us forever.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Cælestial Spirits in bondage, nor the Abyss</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Long under darkness cover. But these thoughts</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">These are the types of things we need to discuss carefully.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Full counsel must mature. Peace is despaired;</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 660</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">We must hold a counsel. We can
never be at peace here</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For who can think submission? War, then, war</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and submitting to God is just out of the question. So that
leaves everything to war,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Open or understood, must be resolved.”</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but it's all a matter of what kind of war must be done."</td>
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He spake; and, to confirm his words, out-flew</div>
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<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">When Satan was done speaking, the rest of the rebel Angels</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the
thighs</div>
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<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">replied by drawing their swords, waving them high in the air</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 665</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Hell was lit up by the reflections
of all the swords being waved</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Far around illumined Hell. Highly they raged</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Again the Highest and fierce with graspèd arms</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Clashed on their sounding shields the din of
war,</div>
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<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They banged their swords against their shields</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in anger and defiance towards Heaven</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
There stood a hill not far, whose griesly top</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 670</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Nearby was a fiery hill, a volcano</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Belched fire and rowling smoke; the rest entire</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that started to erupt</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Shown with a glossy scurf—undoubted sign</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It had a shiny hillside, which was a sign that </td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That in his womb was hid metallic ore,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">it contained precious metallic ore</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The work of sulphur. Thither, winged with speed,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A numerous brigad hastened: as when bands</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 675</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">A band of Angels rushed towards the
volcano,</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of pioners, with spade and pickaxe armed,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like pioneers they were armed with spades and pickaxes</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Forerun the royal camp, to trench a field,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or cast a rampart. Mammon led them on—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and they were led by Mammon</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Mammon was one of the lowest Angels,</td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and
thoughts</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 680</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And when he was in Heaven, he was
more impressed by </td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Were always downward bent, admiring more</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Heaven's pavement</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The riches of Heaven’s pavement, trodden gold,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and golden floors</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">than he was impressed by God's glory.</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In vision beatific. By him first</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Men also, and by suggestion taught</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 685</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Mammon would teach men to </td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Ransacked the Centre, and with impious hands</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">dig up the Earth searching for treasures</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that they would be better off without having in the first
place.</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Opened into the hill a spacious wound,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Soon the hillside was excavated, </td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 690</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and Mammon's crew began extracting
gold. A lot of gold is found</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That riches grow in Hell: that soil may best</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">here in Hell, but hey it belongs there because of all the
trouble it can bring!</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Deserve the pretious bane. And here let those</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And for anyone</td>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Who boast in mortal things, and wondering tell</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">who is impressed by the things men can do</td>
</tr>
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<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Babel and the works of Memphian kings,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">such as the Tower of Babel and the pyramids of Egypt,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Learn how their greatest monuments of fame,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 695</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And strength, and art, are easily outdone</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they should see what these rebel Angels can build and do.</td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
What in an age they, with incessant toil</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They're pretty resourceful and hardworking.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And hands innumerable, scarce perform.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 700</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Across the plains they created
canals</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
That underneath had veins of liquid fire</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">where they would channel the molten metal into</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Another team </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With wondrous art founded the massy ore,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">worked on taking the metals</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Severing each kind, and scummed the
bullion-dross.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and separating the different kinds of metals.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A third as soon had formed within the ground</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 705</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">A third team poured the metal</td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A various mould, and from the boiling cells</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">into different molds</td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By strange conveyance filled each hollow nook;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As in an organ, from one blast of wind,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Anon out of the earth a fabric huge</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 710</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Then a huge structure rose</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Rose like an exhalation, with the sound</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like the sound of </td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet—</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a symphony playing and coming out of the land</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Built like a temple, where pilasters round</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It was built like </td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a Greek temple, with columns all around it</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With golden architrave; nor did there want</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 715</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven:</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">There were sculptures and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The roof was fretted gold. Not Babilon</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">ornaments, and the roof was made of gold. So much style.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Nor great Alcairo such magnificence</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Equalled in all their glories, to inshrine</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 720</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their kings, when Ægypt with Assyria strove</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In wealth and luxury. The ascending pile</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Stood fixed her stately highth; and straight the
doors</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">When it was finally complete, </td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Opening their brazen folds, discover, wide</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the doors opened up</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Within, her ample spaces o’er the smooth</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 725</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Inside was a wide open space</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And level pavement: from the arched roof,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and from the arched roof</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Pendent by subtle magic, many a row</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">were rows and rows</td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">of lamps</td>
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<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that burned as bright</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
As from a sky. The hasty multitude</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 730</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">as daylight. Shine bright like a
diamond! The angels</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Admiring entered; and the work some praise,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">couldn't wait to go inside. The angels praised the </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And some the Architect. His hand was known</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Architect, who was known in Heaven as the builder</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In Heaven by many a towered structure high,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">who designed the condos and apartments of</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Where sceptred Angels held their residence,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the high ranking angels</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And sat as Princes, whom the supreme King</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 735</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Exalted to such power, and gave to rule,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Each in his hierarchy, the Orders bright.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Nor was his name unheard or unadored</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He would later be known in Greece and Italy by the name</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 740</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Mulciber or Vulcan.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Sheer o’er the crystal battlements: from morn</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A summer’s day, and with the setting sun</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 745</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
On Lemnos, the Ægæan isle. Thus they relate,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Erring; for he with this rebellious rout</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Fell long before; nor aught availed him now</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To have built in Heaven high towers; nor did he
scape</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By all his engines, but was headlong sent,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 750</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With his industrious crew, to build in Hell.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Meanwhile the wingèd Haralds, by command</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The herald angels flew out and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of sovran power, with awful ceremony</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And trumpet’s sound, throughout the host
proclaim</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">blew their trumpets to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A solemn council forthwith to be held</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 755</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">announce that a high council was to
be held.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
At Pandæmonium, the high capital</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This place was called Pandemonium, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of Satan and his peers. Their summons called</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan's house/palace.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
From every band and squarèd regiment</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
By place or choice the worthiest: they anon</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
With hundreds and with thousands trooping came</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 760</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">All the highest rebel angels came
by the thousands</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Attended. All access was thronged; the gates</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And porches wide, but chief the spacious hall</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The palace was spacious</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
(Though like a covered field, where champions
bold</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but Satan's army still managed to crowd the space</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Wont ride in armed, and at the Soldan’s chair</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Defied the best of Panim chivalry</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 765</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
To mortal combat, or career with lance),</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Thick swarmed, both on the ground and in the
air,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Brushed with the hiss of rustling wings. As bees</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It was like a beehive. Satan's beehive. Satan's busy beehive. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 770</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">There were so many bodies</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Fly to and fro, or on the smoothèd plank,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The suburb of their straw-built citadel,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
New rubbed with balm, expatiate, and confer</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Their state-affairs: so thick the aerie crowd</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 775</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Swarmed and were straitened; till, the signal
given,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">A signal was given, and all of a sudden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Behold a wonder! They but now who seemed</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">all the angels shrunk </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In bigness to surpass Earth’s giant sons,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to the size of dwarves </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Throng numberless—like that pygmean race</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 780</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">or elves</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or fountain, some belated peasant sees,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Or dreams he sees, while overhead the Moon</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Sits arbitress, and nearer to the Earth</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 785</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Wheels her pale course: they, on their mirth and
dance</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Intent, with jocond music charm his ear;</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Thus incorporeal Spirits to smallest forms</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">From being tightly packed in the palace, they were now </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Reduced their shapes immense, and were at large,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 790</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">able to move around </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Though without number still, amidst the hall</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in the now spacious palace.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Of that infernal court. But far within,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And in their own dimensions like themselves,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
In close recess and secret conclave sat,</div>
</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 795</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
A thousand demi-gods on golden seats,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
Frequent and full. After short silence then,</div>
</td>
<td width="92"></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: white; color: #000020;" width="333"><div style="margin: 0px;">
And summons read, the great consult began.</div>
</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>After they all settled, the counsel began!</td>
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<td style="background-color: white; color: #000020;" width="333"></td>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-26256497733658853342020-11-04T11:49:00.003-08:002020-11-04T11:49:21.964-08:00Book 12: Adam & Eve get kicked out of Paradise<div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Angel Michael continues, from the Flood, to relate what shall succeed; then,
in the mention of Abraham, comes by degrees to explain who that Seed of the
Woman shall be which was promised Adam and Eve in the Fall: his incarnation,
death, resurrection, and ascension; the state of the Church till his second
coming. Adam, greatly satisfied and recomforted by these relations and
promises, descends the hill with Michael; wakens Eve, who all this while had
slept, but with gentle dreams composed to quietness of mind and submission.
Michael in either hand leads them out of Paradise, the fiery Sword waving
behind them, and the Cherubim taking their stations to guard the place.</span></div>
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<b>tl;dr Michael continues showing and telling the future of mankind to Adam. Then he leads them out of Paradise because they can't sit with us.</b></span></div>
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<u><b>tl;dr</b></u></div>
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<td>AS<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>one
who, in his journey, bates at noon,</td>
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<td>Though bent on speed, so here the Archangel paused</td>
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<td>The angel Michael took a pause. </td>
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<td>Betwixt the world destroyed and world restored,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>Because it was at the point in the story where </td>
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<tr>
<td>If Adam ought perhaps might interpose;</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>the past world was destroyed by the flood</td>
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<td>Then, with transition sweet, new speech resumes:—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 5</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and a new one would begin. Michael was expecting Adam to have another outburst or interjection, but he didn't.</td>
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<tr>
<td> “Thus thou hast seen one world begin and end,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Michael continued to speak, </td>
</tr>
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<td>And Man as from a second stock proceed.</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"As one world ends, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Much thou hast yet to see; but I perceive</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a new one begins with a new generation of men..</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy mortal sight to fail; objects divine</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I have so much to show you, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Must needs impair and weary human sense.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 10</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">but those magic drops I put in your eyes are starting to wear off. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Henceforth what is to come I will relate;</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend.</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This new generation of people, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “This second source of men, while yet but few,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">is still quite small...</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And while the dread of judgment past remains</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fresh in their minds, fearing the Deity,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 15</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and they'll behave themselves for God.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With some regard to what is just and right</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shall lead their lives, and multiply apace,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Mainly because they know what God is capable of doing to them and their world. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Labouring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This small population will grow and multiply quickly. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Corn, wine and oil; and, from the herd or flock</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They'll farm, and raise livestock</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Oft sacrificing bullock, lamb, or kid,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 20</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
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<td>With large wine-offerings poured, and sacred feast,</td>
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<td>Shall spend their days in joy unblamed, and dwell</td>
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<td>Long time in peace, by families and tribes,</td>
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<td>Under paternal rule, till one shall rise,</td>
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<td>Of proud, ambitious heart, who, not content</td>
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<td>With fair equality, fraternal state,</td>
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<td>Will arrogate dominion undeserved</td>
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<td>Over his brethren, and quite dispossess</td>
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<td>Concord and law of Nature from the Earth—</td>
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<td>Hunting (and men, not beasts, shall be his game)</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">as if they were animals.</td>
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<td>With war and hostile snare such as refuse</td>
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<td>Subjection to his empire tyrannous.</td>
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<td>A mighty Hunter thence he shall be styled</td>
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<td>Before the Lord, as in despite of Heaven,</td>
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<td>Or from Heaven claiming second sovranty,</td>
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<td>And from rebellion shall derive his name,</td>
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<td>Though of rebellion others he accuse.</td>
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<td> He, with a crew, whom like ambition joins</td>
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<td>With him or under him to tyrannize,</td>
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<td>Marching from Eden towards the west, shall find</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They'll go west of Eden</td>
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<td>The Plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge</td>
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<td>Boils out from under ground, the mouth of Hell.</td>
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<td>Of brick, and of that stuff, they cast to build</td>
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<td>A city and tower, whose top may reach to Heaven;</td>
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<td>And get themselves a name, lest far dispersed</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">that they hope would reach Heaven.</td>
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<td>In foreign lands, their memory be lost—</td>
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<td>Regardless whether good or evil fame.</td>
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<td>But God, who oft descends to visit men</td>
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<td>Unseen, and through their habitations walks,</td>
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<td>To mark their doings, them beholding soon,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God will see this tower</td>
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<td>Comes down to see their city, ere the Tower</td>
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<td>Obstruct Heaven-towers, and in derision sets</td>
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<td>Upon their tongues a various spirit, to rase</td>
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<td>Quite out their native language, and, instead,</td>
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<td>To sow a jangling noise of words unknown.</td>
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<td>Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud</td>
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<td>Among the builders; each to other calls,</td>
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<td>Not understood—till, hoarse and all in rage,</td>
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<td>As mocked they storm. Great laughter was in Heaven,</td>
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<td>And looking down to see the hubbub strange</td>
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<td>And hear the din. Thus was the building left</td>
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<td>Ridiculous, and the work<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Confusion</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>named.”</td>
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<td> Whereto thus Adam, fatherly displeased:—</td>
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<td align="left">Adam replied, </td>
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<td>“O execrable son, so to aspire</td>
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<td align="left">"That guy is an idiot for </td>
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<td>Above his brethren, to himself assuming</td>
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<td>Authority usurped, from God not given!</td>
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<td>He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,</td>
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<td>Dominion absolute; that right we hold</td>
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<td>By his donation: but man over men</td>
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<td>He made not lord—such title to himself</td>
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<td>Reserving, human left from human free.</td>
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<td>But this Usurper his encroachment proud</td>
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<td>Stays not on Man; to God his Tower intends</td>
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<td>Siege and defiance. Wretched man! what food</td>
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<td align="left">He didn't think things through!"</td>
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<td>Will he convey up thither, to sustain</td>
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<td>Himself and his rash army, where thin air</td>
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<td>Above the clouds will pine his entrails gross,</td>
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<td>And famish him of breath, if not of bread?”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Michael:—“Justly thou abhorr’st</td>
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<td align="left">Michael replied, </td>
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<td>That son, who on the quiet state of men</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Yup. You're absolutely right. </td>
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<td>Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue</td>
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<td>Rational liberty; yet know withal,</td>
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<td align="left">But understand this...</td>
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<td>Since thy original lapse, true liberty</td>
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<td align="left">You committed a sin too, </td>
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<td>Is lost, which always with right reason dwells</td>
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<td align="left">so true liberty doesn't really exist.</td>
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<td>Twinned, and from her hath no dividual being.</td>
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<i> 85</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Liberty is connected to reason and wisdom, </td>
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<td>Reason in Man obscured, or not obeyed,</td>
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<td>Immediately inordinate desires</td>
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<td align="left">and when a person ignores what he should do </td>
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<td>And upstart passions catch the government</td>
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<td>From Reason, and to servitude reduce</td>
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<td align="left">then unhealthy actions and desires come about.</td>
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<td>Man, till then free. Therefore, since he permits</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 90</i> </div>
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<td>Within himself unworthy powers to reign</td>
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<td align="left">You should never let your mind be controlled by your impulsive desires. </td>
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<td>Over free reason, God, in judgment just,</td>
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<td>Subjects him from without to violent lords,</td>
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<td align="left">God lets these violent lords and tyrants do what they want. </td>
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<td>Who oft as undeservedly enthral</td>
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<td>His outward freedom. Tyranny must be,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 95</i> </div>
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<td>Though to the tyrant thereby no excuse.</td>
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<td>Yet sometimes nations will decline so low</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">They inevitably become their own downfall. </td>
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<td>From virtue, which is reason, that no wrong,</td>
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<td>But justice and some fatal curse annexed,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Deprives them of their outward liberty,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 100</i> </div>
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<td>Their inward lost: witness the irreverent son</td>
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<td>Of him who built the Ark, who, for the shame</td>
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<td>Done to his father, heard this heavy curse,</td>
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<td><i>Servant of servants,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on
his vicious race.</td>
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<td>Thus will this latter, as the former world,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 105</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">Basically, this next generation will end up being like the last one. </td>
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<td>Still tend from bad to worse, till God at last,</td>
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<td>Wearied with their iniquities, withdraw</td>
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<td align="left">God will turn his back on these people because </td>
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<td>His presence from among them, and avert</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">of their evil ways. </td>
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<td>His holy eyes, resolving from thenceforth</td>
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<td>To leave them to their own polluted ways,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 110</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">But God will eventually find a </td>
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<td>And one peculiar nation to select</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">chosen people. </td>
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<td>From all the rest, of whom to be invoked—</td>
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<td>A nation from one faithful man to spring.</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">This nation would originate from one faithful man. </td>
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<td>Him on this side Euphrates yet residing,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Bred up in idol-worship—Oh, that men</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 115</i> </div>
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<td>(Canst thou believe?) should be so stupid grown,</td>
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<td align="left">Because so many men in the future will be so stupid</td>
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<td>While yet the patriarch lived who scaped the Flood,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">that even when Noah was still alive, they still turned their backs on God and built idols.</td>
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<tr>
<td>As to forsake the living God, and fall</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>To worship their own work in wood and stone</td>
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<td>For gods!—yet him God the Most High voutsafes</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 120</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">But this one faithful man </td>
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<td>To call by vision from his father’s house,</td>
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<td>His kindred, and false gods into a land</td>
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<td>Which he will shew him, and from him will raise</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>A mighty nation, and upon him shower</td>
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<td>His benediction so that in his seed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 125</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">trusted in God. </td>
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<td>All Nations shall be blest. He straight obeys;</td>
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<td>Not knowing to what land, yet firm believes.</td>
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<td>I see him, but thou canst not, with what faith</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>He leaves his gods, his friends, and native soil,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">He left a world of men that worshipped false idols."</td>
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<td>To Haran—after him a cumbrous train</td>
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<td>With God, who called him, in a land unknown</td>
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<td>Canaan he now attains; I see his tents</td>
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<td>Pitched about Sechem, and the neighbouring plain</td>
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<td>Gift to his progeny of all that land,</td>
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<td>From Hamath northward to the Desert south</td>
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<td>Mount Hermon, yonder sea, each place behold</td>
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<td>In prospect, as I point them: on the shore,</td>
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<td>Mount Carmel; here, the double-founted stream,</td>
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<td>Jordan, true limit eastward; but his sons</td>
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<td>Shall dwell to Senir, that long ridge of hills.</td>
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<td>This ponder, that all nations of the Earth</td>
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<td>The Serpent’s head; whereof to thee anon</td>
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<td>Plainlier shall be revealed. This patriarch blest,</td>
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time shall call,</td>
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<td>A son, and of his son a grandchild, leaves,</td>
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<td>The grandchild, with twelve sons increased, departs</td>
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<td>From Canaan to a land hereafter called</td>
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<td>Egypt, divided by the river Nile;</td>
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<td>See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths</td>
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<td>Into the sea, To sojourn in that land</td>
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<td>He comes, invited by a younger son</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">One of his youngest named Joseph would lead them to Egypt. </td>
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<td>In time of dearth—a son whose worthy deeds</td>
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<td>Raise him to be the second in that realm</td>
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<td>Of Pharaoh. There he dies, and leaves his race</td>
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<td>Growing into a nation, and now grown</td>
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<td>Suspected to a sequent king, who seeks</td>
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<td>Too numerous; whence of guests he makes them slaves,</td>
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<td>Inhospitably, and kills their infant males:</td>
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<td>Till, by two brethren (those two brethren call</td>
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<td>Moses and Aaron) sent from God to claim</td>
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<td>His people from enthralment, they return,</td>
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<td>With glory and spoil, back to their promised land.</td>
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<td>But first the lawless tyrant, who denies</td>
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<td>To know their God, or message to regard,</td>
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<td>Must be compelled by signs and judgments dire:</td>
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<td>To blood unshed the rivers must be turned;</td>
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<td>Frogs, lice, and flies must all his palace fill</td>
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<td>With loathed intrusion, and fill all the land;</td>
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<td>His cattle must of rot and murrain die;</td>
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<td>Botches and blains must all his flesh imboss,</td>
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<td>And all his people; thunder mixed with hail,</td>
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<td>Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptian sky,</td>
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<td>And wheel on the earth, devouring where it rolls;</td>
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<td>What it devours not, herb, or fruit, or grain,</td>
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<td>A darksome cloud of locusts swarming down</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and darkness </td>
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<td>Must eat, and on the ground leave nothing green;</td>
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<td>Darkness must overshadow all his bounds,</td>
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<td>Palpable darkness, and blot out three days;</td>
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<td>Last, with one midnight-stroke, all the first-born</td>
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<td>Of Egypt must lie dead. Thus with ten wounds</td>
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<td>The River-dragon tamed at length submits</td>
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<td>To let his sojourners depart, and oft</td>
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<td>Humbles his stubborn heart, but still as ice</td>
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<td>More hardened after thaw; till, in his rage</td>
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<td>Pursuing whom he late dismissed, the sea</td>
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<td>Swallows him with his host, but them lets pass,</td>
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<td>As on dry land, between two crystal walls,</td>
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<td>Awed by the rod of Moses so to stand</td>
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<td>Divided till his rescued gain their shore:</td>
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<td>Such wondrous power God to his Saint will lend,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God guided them to the promise land with signs</td>
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<td>Though present in his Angel, who shall go</td>
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<td>Before them in a cloud, and pillar of fire—</td>
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<td>By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire—</td>
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<td>To guide them in their journey, and remove</td>
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<td>Behind them, while the obdúrate king pursues.</td>
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<td>All night he will pursue, but his approach</td>
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<td>Darkness defends between till morning-watch;</td>
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<td>Then through the fiery pillar and the cloud</td>
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<td>God looking forth will trouble all his host,</td>
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<td>And craze their chariot-wheels: when, by command,</td>
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<td>Moses once more his potent rod extends</td>
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<td>Over the sea; the sea his rod obeys;</td>
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<td>On their imbattled ranks the waves return,</td>
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<td>And overwhelm their war. The race elect</td>
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<td>Safe towards Canaan, from the shore, advance</td>
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<td>Through the wild Desert—not the readiest way,</td>
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<td>Lest, entering on the Canaanite alarmed,</td>
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<td>War terrify them inexpert, and fear</td>
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<td>Return them back to Egypt, choosing rather</td>
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<td>Inglorious life with servitude; for life</td>
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<td>To noble and ignoble is more sweet</td>
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<td>Untrained in arms, where rashness leads not on.</td>
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<td>This also shall they gain by their delay</td>
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<td>In the wide wilderness: there they shall found</td>
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<td>Their government, and their great Senate choose</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and set up a government made from </td>
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<td>Through the twelve Tribes, to rule by laws ordained.</td>
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<td>God, from the Mount of Sinai, whose grey top</td>
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<td>Shall tremble, he descending, will himself,</td>
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<td>In thunder, lightning, and loud trumpet’s sound,</td>
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<td>Ordain them laws—part, such as appertain</td>
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<td>To civil justice; part, religious rites</td>
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<td>Of sacrifice, informing them, by types</td>
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<td>And shadows, of that destined Seed to bruise</td>
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<td>The Serpent, by what means he shall achieve</td>
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<td>Mankind’s deliverance. But the voice of God</td>
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<td>To mortal ear is dreadful: they beseech</td>
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<td>Without Mediator, whose high office now</td>
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<td>Moses in figure bears, to introduce</td>
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<td>And all the Prophets, in their age, the times</td>
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<td>Of great Messiah shall sing. Thus laws and rites</td>
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<td>Established, such delight hath God in men</td>
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<td>Obedient to his will that he voutsafes</td>
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<td>Among them to set up his Tabernacle—</td>
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<td>The Holy One with mortal men to dwell.</td>
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<td>By his prescript a sanctuary is framed</td>
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<td>Of cedar, overlaid with gold; therein</td>
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<td>An ark, and in the Ark his testimony,</td>
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<td>A mercy-seat of gold, between the wings</td>
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<td>Of two bright Cherubim; before him burn</td>
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<td>Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing</td>
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<td>The heavenly fires. Over the tent a cloud</td>
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<td>Shall rest by day, a fiery gleam by night,</td>
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<td>Conducted by his Angel, to the land</td>
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<td>Promised to Abraham and his seed. The rest</td>
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<td>Were long to tell—how many battles fought;</td>
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<td>How many kings destroyed, and kingdoms won;</td>
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<td>Or how the sun shall in mid—heaven stand still</td>
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<td>A day entire, and night’s due course adjourn,</td>
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<td>Man’s voice commanding, ‘Sun, in Gibeon stand,</td>
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<td>And thou, Moon, in the vale of Aialon,</td>
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<td>Till<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Israel</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>overcome!’—so
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<td>From Abraham, son of Isaac, and from him</td>
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<td>His whole descent, who thus shall Canaan win.”</td>
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<td> Here Adam interposed:—“O sent from Heaven,</td>
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<td>Enlightener of my darkness, gracious things</td>
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<td>Thou hast revealed, those chiefly which concern</td>
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<td>Just Abraham and his seed. Now first I find</td>
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<td>Mine eyes true opening, and my heart much eased,</td>
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<td>Erewhile perplexed with thoughts what would become</td>
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<td>Of me and all mankind; but now I see</td>
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<td>His day, in whom all nations shall be blest—</td>
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<td>Favour unmerited by me, who sought</td>
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<td>Forbidden knowledge by forbidden means.</td>
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<td>This yet I apprehend not—why to those</td>
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<td>Among whom God will deign to dwell on Earth</td>
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<td>So many and so various laws are given.</td>
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<td>So many laws argue so many sins</td>
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<td> To whom thus Michael:—“Doubt not but that sin</td>
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<td>Will reign among them, as of thee begot;</td>
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<td>And therefore was law given them, to evince</td>
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<td>Sin against Law to fight, that, when they see</td>
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<td>Law can discover sin, but no remove,</td>
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<td>Save by those shadowy expiations weak,</td>
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<td>The blood of bulls and goats, they may conclude</td>
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<td>Some blood more precious must be paid for Man,</td>
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<td>Just for unjust, that in such righteousness,</td>
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<td>To them by faith imputed, they may find</td>
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<td>Justification towards God, and peace</td>
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<td>Of conscience, which the law by ceremonies</td>
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<td>Cannot appease, nor man the moral part</td>
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<td>Perform, and not performing cannot live.</td>
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<td>So Law appears imperfect, and but given</td>
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<td>From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit,</td>
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<td>From imposition of strict laws to free</td>
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<td>Acceptance of large grace, from servile fear</td>
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<td>To filial, works of law to works of faith.</td>
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<td>And therefore shall not Moses, though of God</td>
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<td>Highly beloved, being but the minister</td>
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<td>Of Law, his people into Canaan lead;</td>
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<td>But Joshua, whom the Gentiles Jesus call,</td>
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<td>His name and office bearing who shall quell</td>
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<td>The adversary Serpent, and bring back</td>
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<td>Through the world’s wilderness long-wandered Man</td>
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<td>Meanwhile they, in their earthly Canaan placed,</td>
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<td>Long time shall dwell and prosper, but when sins</td>
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<td>By Judges first, then under Kings; of whom</td>
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<td>Irrevocable, that his regal throne</td>
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<td>All Prophecy—that of the royal stock</td>
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<td>A son, the Woman’s Seed to thee foretold,</td>
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<td>Foretold to Abraham as in whom shall trust</td>
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<td>All nations, and to kings foretold of kings</td>
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<td>The last, for of his reign shall be no end.</td>
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<td>The clouded Ark of God, till then in tents</td>
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<td>Wandering, shall in a glorious Temple enshrine.</td>
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<td>Such follow him as shall be registered</td>
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<td>Part good, part bad; of bad the longer scroll:</td>
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<td>Heaped to the popular sum, will so incense</td>
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<td>Their city, his Temple, and his holy Ark,</td>
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<td>With all his sacred things, a scorn and prey</td>
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<td>To that proud city whose high walls thou saw’st</td>
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<td>Left in confusion, Babylon thence called.</td>
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<td>The space of seventy years; then brings them back,</td>
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<td>To David, established as the days of Heaven.</td>
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<td>Returned from Babylon by leave of kings,</td>
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<td>Their lords, whom God disposed, the house of God</td>
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<td>They first re-edify, and for a while</td>
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<td>In wealth and multitude, factious they grow.</td>
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<td>Men who attend the altar, and should most</td>
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<td>Endeavour peace: their strife pollution brings</td>
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<td>Upon the Temple itself; at last they seize</td>
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<td>The sceptre, and regard not David’s sons;</td>
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<td>Then lose it to a stranger, that the true</td>
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<td>Barred of his right. Yet at his birth a Star,</td>
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<td>And guides the eastern sages, who inquire</td>
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<td>His place, to offer incense, myrrh, and gold:</td>
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<td>His place of birth a solemn Angel tells</td>
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<td>To simple shepherds, keeping watch by night;</td>
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<td>They gladly thither haste, and by a quire</td>
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<td>Of squadroned Angels hear his carol sung.</td>
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<td>A Virgin is his mother, but his sire</td>
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<td>The Power of the Most High. He shall ascend</td>
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<td>The throne hereditary, and bound his reign</td>
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<td>With Earth’s wide bounds, his glory with the Heavens.”</td>
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<td> He ceased, discerning Adam with such joy</td>
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<td>Surcharged as had, like grief, been dewed in tears,</td>
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<td>Without the vent of words; which these he breathed:—</td>
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<td> “O prophet of glad tidings, finisher</td>
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<td>Of utmost hope! now clear I understand</td>
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<td>What oft my steadiest thoughts have searched in vain—</td>
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<td>Why our great Expectation should be called</td>
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<td>The Seed of Woman. Virgin Mother, hail!</td>
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<td>High in the love of Heaven, yet from my loins</td>
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<td>Thou shalt proceed, and from thy womb the Son</td>
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<td>Of God Most High; so God with Man unites.</td>
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<td>Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise</td>
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<td>Except with mortal pain. Say where and when</td>
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<td>Their fight, what stroke shall bruise the Victor’s heel.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Michael:—“Dream not of their fight</td>
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<td>Manhood to Godhead, with more strength to foil</td>
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<td>Thy enemy; nor so is overcome</td>
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<td>Satan, whose fall from Heaven, a deadlier bruise,</td>
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<td>Disabled not to give thee thy death’s wound;</td>
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<td>Not by destroying Satan, but his works</td>
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<td>In thee and in thy seed. Nor can this be,</td>
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<td>But by fulfilling that which thou didst want,</td>
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<td>And due to theirs which out of thine will grow:</td>
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<td>So only can high justice rest appaid.</td>
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<td>The Law of God exact he shall fulfil</td>
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<td>Both by obedience and by love, though love</td>
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<td>Alone fulfil the Law; thy punishment</td>
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<td>He shall endure, by coming in the flesh</td>
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<td>To save them, not their own, though legal, works.</td>
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<td>For this he shall live hated, be blasphemed,</td>
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<td>A shameful and accursed, nailed to the Cross</td>
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<td>By his own nation, slain for bringing life;</td>
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<td>But to the cross he nails thy enemies—</td>
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<td>Of all mankind, with him there crucified,</td>
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<td>In this his satisfaction. So he dies,</td>
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<td>But soon revives; Death over him no power</td>
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<td>Shall long usurp. Ere the third dawning light</td>
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<td>Return, the stars of morn shall see him rise</td>
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<td>Thy ransom paid, which Man from Death redeems—</td>
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<td>His death for Man, as many as offered life</td>
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<td>Neglect not, and the benefit imbrace</td>
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<td>Annuls thy doom, the death thou shouldst have died,</td>
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<td>Shall bruise the head of Satan, crush his strength,</td>
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<td>Or theirs whom he redeems—a death like sleep,</td>
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<td>A gentle wafting to immortal life.</td>
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<td>Nor after resurrection shall he stay</td>
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<td>Longer on Earth than certain times to appear</td>
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<td>To his disciples—men who in his life</td>
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<td>Still followed him; to them shall leave in charge</td>
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<td>To teach all nations what of him they learned</td>
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<td>And his salvation, them who shall believe</td>
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<td>Baptizing in the profluent stream—the sign</td>
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<td>Of washing them from guilt of sin to life</td>
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<td>For death like that which the Redeemer died.</td>
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<i> 445</i> </div>
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<td>All nations they shall teach; for from that day</td>
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<td>Not only to the sons of Abraham’s loins</td>
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<td>Salvation shall be preached, but to the sons</td>
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<td>Of Abraham’s faith wherever through the world;</td>
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<td>So in his seed all nations shall be blest.</td>
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<i> 450</i> </div>
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<td>Then to the Heaven of Heavens he shall ascend</td>
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<td>With victory, triumphing through the air</td>
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<td>Over his foes and thine; there shall surprise</td>
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<td>The Serpent, Prince of Air, and drag in chains</td>
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<td>Through all his realm, and there confounded leave;</td>
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<td>Then enter into glory and resume</td>
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<td>His seat at God’s right hand, exalted high</td>
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<td>Above all names in Heaven; and thence shall come,</td>
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<td>When this World’s dissolution shall be ripe,</td>
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<td>With glory and power, to judge both quick and dead—</td>
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<td>To judge the unfaithful dead, but to reward</td>
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<td>His faithful, and receive them into bliss,</td>
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<td>Whether in Heaven or Earth; for then the Earth</td>
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<td>Shall all be Paradise, far happier place</td>
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<td>Than this of Eden, and far happier days.”</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The faithful ones will be rewarded. Some will stay on Earth for a new Paradise to come, others will come to Heaven."</td>
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<td> So spake the Archangel Michaël; then paused,</td>
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<td>As at the World’s great period; and our Sire,</td>
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<td>Replete with joy and wonder, thus replied:—</td>
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<td> “O Goodness infinite, Goodness immense,</td>
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<td>That all this good of evil shall produce,</td>
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<i> 470</i> </div>
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<td>And evil turn to good—more wonderful</td>
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<td>Than that which by creation first brought forth</td>
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<td>Light out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand,</td>
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<td>Whether I should repent me now of sin</td>
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<td>By me done and occasioned, or rejoice</td>
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<i> 475</i> </div>
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<td>Much more that much more good thereof shall spring—</td>
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<td>To God more glory, more good-will to men</td>
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<td>From God—and over wrauth grace shall abound.</td>
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<td align="left">happen in the longterm?</td>
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<td>But say, if our Deliverer up to Heaven</td>
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<td>Must reascend, what will betide the few,</td>
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<i> 480</i> </div>
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<td>His faithful, left among the unfaithful herd,</td>
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<td>The enemies of truth. Who then shall guide</td>
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<td>His people, who defend? Will they not deal</td>
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<td>Worse with his followers than with him they dealt?”</td>
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<td> “Be sure they will,” said the Angel; “but from Heaven</td>
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<i> 485</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Yeah, they will get in trouble too. </td>
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<td>He to his own a Comforter will send,</td>
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<td>The promise of the Father, who shall dwell,</td>
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<td align="left">But God's spirit will be with them and guide them to safety.</td>
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<td>His Spirit, within them, and the law of faith</td>
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<td>Working through love upon their hearts shall write,</td>
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<td>To guide them in all truth, and also arm</td>
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<i> 490</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They will always be protected from Satan and his ways. </td>
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<td>With spiritual armour, able to resist</td>
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<td>Satan’s assaults, and quench his fiery darts—</td>
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<td>What man can do against them not afraid,</td>
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<td>Though to the death; against such cruelties</td>
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<td>With inward consolations recompensed,</td>
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<i> 495</i> </div>
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<td>And often supported so as shall amaze</td>
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<td>Their proudest persecutors. For the Spirit,</td>
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<td>Poured first on his Apostles, whom he sends</td>
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<td>To evangelize the nations, then on all</td>
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<td>Baptized, shall them with wondrous gifts endue</td>
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<i> 500</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">to spread the word of God. </td>
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<td>To speak all tongues, and do all miracles,</td>
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<td>As did their Lord before them. Thus they win</td>
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<td>Great numbers of each nation to receive</td>
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<td align="left">It will spread worldwide. </td>
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<td>With joy the tidings brought from Heaven: at length,</td>
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<td>Their ministry performed, and race well run,</td>
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<td>Their doctrine and their story written left,</td>
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<td>They die; but in their room, as they forewarn,</td>
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<td>Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves,</td>
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<td align="left">But as always, there will be </td>
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<td>Who all the sacred mysteries of Heaven</td>
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<td>To their own vile advantages shall turn</td>
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<i> 510</i> </div>
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<td>Of lucre and ambition, and the truth</td>
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<td>With superstitions and traditions taint,</td>
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<td>Left only in those written Records pure,</td>
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<td>Though not but by the Spirit understood.</td>
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<td>Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names,</td>
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<i> 515</i> </div>
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<td>Palaces, and titles, and with these to join</td>
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<td>Secular power, though feigning still to act</td>
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<td>By spiritual; to themselves appropriating</td>
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<td>The Spirit of God, promised alike and given</td>
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<td>To all believers; and, from that pretense,</td>
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<i> 520</i> </div>
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<td>Spiritual laws by carnal power shall force</td>
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<td>On every conscience—laws which none shall find</td>
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<td>Left them enrowled, or what the Spirit within</td>
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<td>Shall on the heart engrave. What will they then</td>
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<td>But force the Spirit of Grace itself, and bind</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 525</i> </div>
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<td>His consort, Liberty? what but unbuild</td>
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<td>His living temples, built by faith to stand—</td>
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<td>Their own faith, not another’s? for, on Earth,</td>
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<td>Who against faith and conscience can be heard</td>
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<td>Infallible? Yet many will presume:</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 530</i> </div>
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<td>Whence heavy persecution shall arise</td>
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<td>On all who in the worship persevere</td>
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<td>Of Spirit and Truth; the rest, far greater part,</td>
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<td>Will deem in outward rites and specious forms</td>
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<td>Religion satisfied; Truth shall retire</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 535</i> </div>
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<td>Bestuck with slanderous darts, and works of Faith</td>
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<td>Rarely be found. So shall the World go on,</td>
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<td>To good malignant, to bad men benign,</td>
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<td>Under her own weight groaning, till the day</td>
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<td>Appear of respiration to the just</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 540</i> </div>
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<td>And vengeance to the wicked, at return</td>
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<td>Of Him so lately promised to thy aid,</td>
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<td>The Woman’s Seed—obscurely then foretold,</td>
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<td>Now amplier known the Saviour and thy Lord;</td>
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<td>Last in the clouds from Heaven to be revealed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 545</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">So just wait for the second coming of Christ. </td>
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<td>In glory of the Father, to dissolve</td>
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<td>Satan with his perverted World; then raise</td>
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<td align="left">He will destroy Satan's influence.</td>
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<td>From the conflagrant mass, purged and refined,</td>
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<td>New Heavens, new Earth, Ages of endless date</td>
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<td align="left">A new Earth will grow full</td>
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<td>Founded in righteousness and peace and love,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 550</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">of goodness, peace, and love."</td>
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<td>To bring forth fruits, joy and eternal bliss.”</td>
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<td> He ended; and thus Adam last replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">Adam replied, </td>
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<td>“How soon hath thy prediction, Seer blest,</td>
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<td align="left">"In such a short amount of time, you've told me so much. </td>
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<td>Measured this transient World, the race of Time,</td>
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<td>Till Time stand fixed! Beyond is all abyss—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 555</i> </div>
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<td>Eternity, whose end no eye can reach.</td>
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<td>Greatly instructed I shall hence depart,</td>
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<td align="left">Now when I leave Paradise, </td>
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<td>Greatly in peace of thought, and have my fill</td>
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<td>Of knowledge, what this vessel can contain;</td>
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<td align="left">I can have peace of mind. I know everything I need to know. </td>
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<td>Beyond which was my folly to aspire.</td>
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<i> 560</i> </div>
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<td>Henceforth I learn that to obey is best,</td>
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<td>And love with fear the only God, to walk</td>
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<td align="left">I learned it's best to obey God. </td>
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<td>As in his presence, ever to observe</td>
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<td align="left">To love him and fear him. </td>
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<td>His providence, and on him sole depend,</td>
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<td align="left">And act as if he is always watching, because he is. </td>
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<td>Merciful over all his works, with good</td>
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<td>Still overcoming evil, and by small</td>
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<td>Accomplishing great things—by things deemed weak</td>
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<td>Subverting worldly-strong, and worldly-wise</td>
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<td>By simply meek; that suffering for Truth’s sake</td>
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<td>Is fortitude to highest victory,</td>
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<i> 570</i> </div>
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<td>And to the faithful death the gate of life—</td>
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<td>Taught this by his example whom I now</td>
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<td>Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus also the Angel last replied:—</td>
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<td>“This having learned, thou hast attained the sum</td>
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<i> 575</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Now you know.</td>
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<td>Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars</td>
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<td>Thou knew’st by name, and all the ethereal powers,</td>
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<td>All secrets of the Deep, all Nature’s works,</td>
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<td>Or works of God in heaven, air, earth, or sea,</td>
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<td>And all the riches of this world enjoy’dst,</td>
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<i> 580</i> </div>
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<td>And all the rule, one empire. Only add</td>
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<td>Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith;</td>
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<td>Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love,</td>
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<td align="left">You just have to do good things and do good deeds. </td>
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<td>By name to come called Charity, the soul</td>
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<td>Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loth</td>
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<i> 585</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Always be faithful to God. Do not be greedy. </td>
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<td>To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess</td>
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<td>A Paradise within thee, happier far.</td>
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<td align="left">You shouldn't mind leaving Paradise now</td>
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<td>Let us descend now, therefore, from this top</td>
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<td align="left">because you have knowledge of Paradise within you. </td>
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<td>Of speculation; for the hour precise</td>
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<td>Exacts our parting hence; and, see! the guards,</td>
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<i> 590</i> </div>
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<td>By me encamped on yonder hill, expect</td>
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<td>Their motion, at whose front a flaming sword,</td>
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<td>In signal of remove, waves fiercely round.</td>
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<td>We may no longer stay. Go, waken Eve;</td>
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<td>Her also I with gentle dreams have calmed,</td>
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<i> 595</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I sent her gentle dreams in the meantime. </td>
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<td>Portending good, and all her spirits composed</td>
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<td>To meek submission: thou, at season fit,</td>
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<td>Let her with thee partake what thou hast heard—</td>
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<td>Chiefly what may concern her faith to know,</td>
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<td>The great deliverance by her seed to come</td>
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<i> 600</i> </div>
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<td>(For by the Woman’s Seed) on all mankind—</td>
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<td>That ye may live, which will be many days,</td>
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<td>Both in one faith unanimous; though sad</td>
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<td>With cause for evils past, yet much more cheered</td>
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<td>With meditation on the happy end.”</td>
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<i> 605</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">you will definitely have a happy ending."</td>
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<td> He ended, and they both descend the hill.</td>
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<td>Descended, Adam to the bower where Eve</td>
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<td>Lay sleeping ran before, but found her waked;</td>
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<td>And thus with words not sad she him received:—</td>
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<td> “Whence thou return’st and whither went’st I know;</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"I don't know </td>
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<td>For God is also in sleep, and dreams advise,</td>
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<td align="left">where you went, but I had some happy dreams</td>
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<td>Which he hath sent propitious, some great good</td>
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<td>Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart’s distress</td>
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<td>Wearied, I fell asleep. But now lead on;</td>
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<td>In me is no delay; with thee to go</td>
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<i> 615</i> </div>
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<td>Is to stay here; without thee here to stay</td>
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<td>Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me</td>
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<td>Art all things under Heaven, all places thou,</td>
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<td>Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.</td>
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<td>This further consolation yet secure</td>
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<i> 620</i> </div>
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<td>I carry hence: though all by me is lost,</td>
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<td>Such favour I unworthy am voutsafed,</td>
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<td>By me the Promised Seed shall all restore.”</td>
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<td> So spake our mother Eve; and Adam heard</td>
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<td>Well pleased, by answered not; for now too nigh</td>
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<i> 625</i> </div>
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<td>The Archangel stood, and from the other hill</td>
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<td>To their fixed station, all in bright array,</td>
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<td>The Cherubim descended, on the ground</td>
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<td align="left">The other angels flew to them.</td>
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<td>Gliding meteorous, as evening mist</td>
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<td>Risen from a river o’er the marish glides,</td>
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<i> 630</i> </div>
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<td>And gathers ground fast at the labourer’s heel</td>
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<td>Homeward returning. High in front advanced,</td>
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<td>The brandished sword of God before them blazed,</td>
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<td align="left">They brought a burning sword over. </td>
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<td>Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat,</td>
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<td>And vapour at the Libyan air adust,</td>
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<i> 635</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Michael took Adam and Eve by their hands</td>
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<td>Began to parch that temperate clime; whereat</td>
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<td>In either hand the hastening Angel caught</td>
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<td>Our lingering Parents, and to the eastern gate</td>
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<td align="left">and lead them through the eastern gate of Paradise. </td>
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<td>Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast</td>
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<td>To the subjected plain—then disappeared.</td>
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<i> 640</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Then he disappeared. Both Adam and Eve</td>
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<td>They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld</td>
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<td>Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,</td>
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<td>Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate</td>
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<td align="left">They saw the angels guarding</td>
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<td>With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms.</td>
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<td>Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They started to cry.</td>
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<td>The world was all before them, where to choose</td>
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<td>Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.</td>
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<td>They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,</td>
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<td>Through Eden took their solitary way.</td>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-8467275836745209572020-11-04T11:48:00.005-08:002022-03-22T13:43:29.039-07:00Book 11: Michael shows Adam a vision of the future <div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Son of God presents to his Father the prayers of our first parents now
repenting, and intercedes for them. God accepts them, but declares that they
must no longer abide in Paradise; sends Michael with a band of Cherubim to
dispossess them, but first to reveal to Adam future things: Michael’s coming
down. Adam shews to Eve certain ominous signs: he discerns Michael’s
approach; goes out to meet him: the Angel denounces their departure. Eve’s
lamentation. Adam pleads, but submits: the Angel leads him up to a high
hill; sets before him in vision what shall happen till the Flood.</span></div>
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<b>tl;dr These next two books kind of prolong the work, but they just give a snapshot of future events involving Cain and Abel, the flood, and Noah and other things in store for mankind. </b></span></div>
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<td>Prevenient grace descending had removed</td>
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<td>Regenerate grow instead, that sighs now breathed</td>
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<td>Unutterable, which the Spirit of prayer</td>
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<td>Than loudest oratory. Yet their port</td>
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<td>Seemed their petition than when the ancient Pair</td>
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<td>In fables old, less ancient yet than these,</td>
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<td>Deucalion and chaste Pyrrha, to restore</td>
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<td>The race of mankind drowned, before the shrine</td>
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<td>Of Themis stood devout. To Heaven their prayers</td>
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<td>Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds</td>
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<td>Blown vagabond or frustrate: in they passed</td>
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<td>Dimensionless through heavenly doors; then, clad</td>
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<td>With incense, where the Golden Altar fumed,</td>
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<td>By their great Intercessor, came in sight</td>
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<td>Before the Father’s Throne. Them the glad Son</td>
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<td>Presenting thus to intercede began:—</td>
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<td> “See, Father, what first-fruits on Earth are sprung</td>
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<td>From thy implanted grace in Man—these sighs</td>
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<td>And prayers, which in this golden censer, mixed</td>
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<td>With incense, I, thy priest, before thee bring;</td>
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<td>Fruits of more pleasing savour, from thy seed</td>
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<td>Sown with contribution in his heart, than those</td>
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<td>Which, his own hand manuring, all the trees</td>
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<td>Of Paradise could have produced, ere fallen</td>
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<td>From innocence. Now, therefore, bend thine ear</td>
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<td>To supplication; hear his sighs, though mute;</td>
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<td>Unskilful with what words to pray, let me</td>
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<td>Interpret for him, me his Advocate</td>
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<td>And propitiation; all his works on me,</td>
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<td>Good or not good, ingraft; my merit those</td>
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<td>Shall perfet, and for these my death shall pay.</td>
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<td>Accept me, and in me from these receive</td>
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<td>The smell of peace toward Mankind; let him live,</td>
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<td>Before thee reconciled, at least his days</td>
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<td>Numbered, though sad, till death, his doom (which I</td>
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<td>To mitigate thus plead, not to reverse),</td>
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<td>To better life shall yield him, where with me</td>
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<td>All my redeemed may dwell in joy and bliss,</td>
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<td>Made one with me, as I with thee am one.”</td>
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<td> To whom the Father, without cloud, serene:—</td>
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<td>“All thy request for Man, accepted Son,</td>
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<td>Obtain; all thy request was my decree.</td>
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<td>But longer in that Paradise to dwell</td>
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<td>The law I gave to Nature him forbids;</td>
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<td>Those pure immortal elements, that know</td>
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<td>No gross, no unharmonious mixture foul,</td>
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<td>And mortal food, as may dispose him best</td>
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<td>For dissolution wrought by sin, that first</td>
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<td>Distempered all things, and of incorrupt</td>
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<td>Created him endowed—with Happiness</td>
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<td>This other served but to eternize woe,</td>
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<td>His final remedy, and, after life</td>
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<td>By faith and faithful works, to second life,</td>
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<td>Resigns him up with Heaven and Earth renewed.</td>
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<td>Through Heaven’s wide bounds; from them I will not hide</td>
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<td>As how with peccant Angels late they saw,</td>
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<td>And in their state, though firm, stood more confirmed.”</td>
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<td> He ended, and the Son gave signal high</td>
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<td>To the bright Minister that watched. He blew</td>
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<td>And took their seats, till from his Throne supreme</td>
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<td>To know both Good and Evil, since his taste</td>
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<td>Of that defended Fruit; but let him boast</td>
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<td>He sorrows now, repents, and prays contrite—</td>
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<td>For ever, to remove him I decree,</td>
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<td>Michael, this my behest have thou in charge:</td>
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<td>Take to thee from among the Cherubim</td>
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<td>Thy choice of flaming warriors, lest the Fiend,</td>
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<td>Or in behalf of Man, or to invade</td>
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<td>Haste thee, and from the Paradise of God</td>
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<td>Perpetual banishment. Yet, lest they faint</td>
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<td>(For I behold them softened, and with tears</td>
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<td>Dismiss them not disconsolate reveal</td>
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<td>To Adam what shall come in future days,</td>
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<td>As I shall thee enlighten; intermix</td>
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<td>My covenant in the Woman’s seed renewed.</td>
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<td>So send them forth, though sorrowing, yet in peace;</td>
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<td>Where entrance up from Eden easiest climbs,</td>
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<td>Cherubic watch, and of a Sword the flame</td>
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<td>To Spirits foul, and all my trees their prey,</td>
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<td>With whose stolen fruit Man once more to delude.”</td>
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<td> He ceased, and the Archangelic Power prepared</td>
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<td>For swift descent; with him the cohort bright</td>
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<td>Of watchful Cherubim. Four faces each</td>
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<td>Had, like a double Janus; all their shape</td>
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<td>Spangled with eyes more numerous than those</td>
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<td>Of Argus, and more wakeful than to drowse,</td>
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<td>Charmed with Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed</td>
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<td>Of Hermes, or his opiate rod. Meanwhile,</td>
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<td>To resalute the World with sacred light,</td>
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<td>Leucothea waked, and with fresh dews imbalmed</td>
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<td>The Earth, when Adam and first matron Eve</td>
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<td>Strength added from above, new hope to spring</td>
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<td>Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked;</td>
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<td>Which thus to Eve his welcome words renewed:—</td>
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<td> “Eve, easily may faith admit that all</td>
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<td>The good which we enjoy from Heaven descends;</td>
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<td>But that from us aught should ascend to Heaven</td>
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<td>Of God high-blest, or to incline his will,</td>
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<td>Hard to belief may seem. Yet this will prayer,</td>
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<td>Or one short sigh of human breath, upborne</td>
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<td>Even to the seat of God. For, since I sought</td>
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<td>Kneeled and before him humbled all my heart,</td>
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<td>Methought I saw him placable and mild,</td>
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<td>Bending his ear; persuasion in me grew</td>
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<td>That I was heard with favour; peace returned</td>
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<td>Home to my breast, and to my memory</td>
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<td>His promise that thy seed shall bruise our Foe;</td>
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<td>Which, then not minded in dismay, yet now</td>
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<td>Assures me that the bitterness of death</td>
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<td>Is past, and we shall live. Whence hail to thee!</td>
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<td>Eve rightly called, Mother of all Mankind,</td>
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<td>Mother of all things living, since by thee</td>
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<td>Man is to live, and all things live for Man.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Eve with sad demeanour meek:—</td>
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<td>“Ill-worthy I such title should belong</td>
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<td>To me transgressor, who, for thee ordained</td>
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<td>A help, became thy snare; to me reproach</td>
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<td>Rather belongs, distrust and all dispraise.</td>
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<td>But infinite in pardon was my Judge,</td>
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<td>That I, who first brought death on all, am graced</td>
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<td>The source of life; next favourable thou,</td>
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<td>Far other name deserving. But the field</td>
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<td>To labour calls us, now with sweat imposed,</td>
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<td>Though after sleepless night; for see! the Morn,</td>
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<td>All unconcerned with our unrest, begins</td>
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<td>Her rosy progress smiling. Let us forth,</td>
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<td>I never from thy side henceforth to stray,</td>
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<td>Where’er our day’s work lies, though now enjoined</td>
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<td>Laborious, till day droop. While here we dwell,</td>
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<td>What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks?</td>
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<td>Here let us live, though in fallen state, content.”</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">we're sinners now! But at least we can still live here."</td>
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<td> So spake, so wished, much-humbled Eve; but Fate</td>
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<td>Subscribed not. Nature first gave signs, impressed</td>
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<td>On bird, beast, air—air suddenly eclipsed,</td>
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<td>After short blush of morn. Nigh in her sight</td>
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<td>The bird of Jove, stooped from his aerie tour,</td>
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<td>Two birds of gayest plume before him drove;</td>
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<td>Down from a hill the beast that reigns in woods,</td>
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<td>First hunter then, pursued a gentle brace,</td>
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<td>Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind;</td>
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<td>Direct to the eastern gate was bent their flight.</td>
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<td>Adam observed, and, with his eye the chase</td>
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<td>Pursuing, not unmoved to Eve thus spake:—</td>
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<td>“O Eve, some further change awaits us nigh,</td>
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<td align="left">"Well, this is different. Something is wrong."</td>
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<td>Which Heaven by these mute signs in Nature shews,</td>
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<td>Forerunners of his purpose, or to warn</td>
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<td>Us, haply too secure of our discharge</td>
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<td>From penalty because from death released</td>
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<td>Some days: how long, and what till then our life,</td>
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<td>Who knows, or more than this, that we are dust,</td>
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<td>And thither must return, and be no more?</td>
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<td>Why else this double object in our sight,</td>
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<td>Of flight pursued in the air and o’er the ground</td>
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<td>One way the self-same hour? Why in the east</td>
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<td align="left">And why is it getting so dark now?</td>
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<td>Darkness ere day’s mid-course, and morning-light</td>
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<td>More orient in yon western cloud, that draws</td>
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<td>O’er the blue firmament a radiant white,</td>
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<td>And slow descends, with something Heavenly fraught?”</td>
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<td> He erred not; for, by this, the Heavenly bands</td>
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<td>Down from a sky of jasper lighted now</td>
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<td>In Paradise, and on a hill made halt—</td>
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<td>A glorious Apparition, had not doubt</td>
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<td>And carnal fear that day dimmed Adam’s eye.</td>
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<td>Not that more glorious, when the Angels met</td>
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<td>Jacob in Mahanaim, where he saw</td>
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<td>The field pavilioned with his guardians bright;</td>
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<td>Nor that which on the flaming Mount appeared</td>
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<td>In Dothan, covered with a camp of fire,</td>
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<td>Against the Syrian king, who, to surprise</td>
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<td>One man, assassin-like, had levied war,</td>
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<td>War unproclaimed. The princely Hierarch</td>
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<td>In their bright stand there left his Powers to seize</td>
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<td>Possession of the Garden; he alone,</td>
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<td>To find where Adam sheltered, took his way,</td>
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<td>Not unperceived of Adam; who to Eve,</td>
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<td>While the great Visitant approached, thus spake:—</td>
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<td> “Eve, now expect great tidings, which, perhaps,</td>
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<td>Of us will soon determine, or impose</td>
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<td>New laws to be observed; for I descry,</td>
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<td>From yonder blazing cloud that veils the hill,</td>
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<td>One of the Heavenly host, and, by his gait,</td>
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<td>None of the meanest—some great Potentate</td>
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<td>Or of the Thrones above, such majesty</td>
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<td>Invests him coming; yet not terrible,</td>
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<td>That I should fear, nor sociably mild,</td>
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<td>As Raphael, that I should much confide,</td>
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<td>But solemn and sublime; whom, not to offend,</td>
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<td>With reverence I must meet, and thou retire.”</td>
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<td> He ended; and the Archangel soon drew nigh,</td>
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<td>Not in his shape celestial, but as man</td>
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<td>Clad to meet man. Over his lucid arms</td>
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<td>A military vest of purple flowed,</td>
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<td>Livelier than Melibœan, or the grain</td>
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<td>Of Sarra, worn by kings and heroes old</td>
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<td>In time of truce; Iris had dipt the woof.</td>
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<td>His starry helm unbuckled shewed him prime</td>
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<td>In manhood where youth ended; by his side,</td>
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<td>As in glistering zodiac, hung the sword,</td>
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<td>Satan’s dire dread, and in his hand the spear.</td>
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<td>Adam bowed low; he, kingly, from his state</td>
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<td>Inclined not, but his coming thus declared:—</td>
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<td> “Adam, Heaven’s high behest no preface needs.</td>
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<td>Sufficient that thy prayers are heard, and Death,</td>
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<td>Defeated of his seizure many days,</td>
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<td>Given thee of grace, wherein thou may’st repent,</td>
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<td>And one bad act with many deeds well done</td>
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<td>May’st cover. Well may then thy Lord, appeased,</td>
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<td>Redeem thee quite from Death’s rapacious claim;</td>
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<td>But longer in this Paradise to dwell</td>
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<td>Permits not. To remove thee I am come,</td>
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<td>And send thee from the Garden forth, to till</td>
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<td>The ground whence thou wast taken, fitter soil.”</td>
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<td>He added not; for Adam, at the news</td>
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<td>Heart-strook, with chilling gripe of sorrow stood,</td>
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<td>That all his senses bound; Eve, who unseen</td>
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<td>Yet all had heard, with audible lament</td>
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<td>Discovered soon the place of her retire:—</td>
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<td> “O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death!</td>
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<td>Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave</td>
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<td>Thee, native soil? these happy walks and shades,</td>
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<td>Fit haunt of Gods, where I had hope to spend,</td>
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<td>Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day</td>
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<td>That must be mortal to us both? O flowers,</td>
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<td>That never will in other climate grow,</td>
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<td>My early visitation, and my last</td>
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<td>At even, which I bred up with tender hand</td>
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<td>From the first opening bud, and gave ye names,</td>
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<td>Who now shall rear ye to the Sun, or rank</td>
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<td>Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?</td>
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<td>Thee, lastly, nuptial bower, by me adorned</td>
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<td>With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee</td>
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<td>How shall I part, and whither wander down</td>
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<td>Into a lower world, to this obscure</td>
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<td>And wild? How shall we breathe in other air</td>
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<td>Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits?”</td>
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<td> Whom thus the Angel interrupted mild:</td>
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<td>“Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign</td>
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<td>What justly thou hast lost; nor set thy heart,</td>
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<td>Thus over-fond, on that which is not thine.</td>
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<td>Thy going is not lonely; with thee goes</td>
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<td>Thy husband; him to follow thou art bound;</td>
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<td>Where he abides, think there thy native soil.”</td>
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<td> Adam, by this from the cold sudden damp</td>
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<td>Recovering, and his scattered spirits returned,</td>
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<td>To Michael thus his humble words addressed:—</td>
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<td> “Celestial, whether among the Thrones, or named</td>
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<td>Of them the highest—for such of shape may seem</td>
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<td>Prince above princes—gently hast thou told</td>
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<td>Thy message, which might else in telling wound,</td>
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<td>And in performing end us. What besides</td>
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<td>Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair,</td>
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<td>Departure from this happy place, our sweet</td>
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<td>Recess, and only consolation left</td>
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<td>Familiar to our eyes; all places else</td>
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<td>Inhospitable appear, and desolate,</td>
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<td>Nor knowing us, nor known. And, if by prayer</td>
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<td>Incessant I could hope to change the will</td>
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<td>Of Him who all things can, I would not cease</td>
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<td>To weary him with my assiduous cries;</td>
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<td>But prayer against his absolute decree</td>
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<td>No more avails than breath against the wind,</td>
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<td>Therefore to his great bidding I submit.</td>
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<td>This most afflicts me—that, departing hence,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The worst part is now we're leaving the place </td>
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<td>As from his face I shall be hid, deprived</td>
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<td>His blessed countenance. Here I could frequent,</td>
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<td>With worship, place by place where he voutsafed</td>
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<td>Presence Divine, and to my sons relate,</td>
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<td>‘On this mount He appeared; under this tree</td>
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<td>Stood visible; among these pines his voice</td>
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<td>I heard; here with him at this fountain talked.’</td>
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<td>So many grateful altars I would rear</td>
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<td>Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone</td>
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<td>Of lustre from the brook, in memory</td>
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<td>Or monument to ages, and thereon</td>
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<td>Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers.</td>
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<td>In yonder nether world where shall I seek</td>
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<td>His bright appearances, or footstep trace?</td>
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<td>For, though I fled him angry, yet, recalled</td>
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<td>To life prolonged and promised race, I now</td>
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<td>Gladly behold though but his utmost skirts</td>
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<td>Of glory, and far off his steps adore.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Michael, with regard benign:—</td>
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<td>“Adam, thou know’st Heaven his, and all the Earth,</td>
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<td>Not this rock only; his omnipresence fills</td>
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<td>Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives,</td>
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<td>Fomented by his virtual power and warmed.</td>
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<td>All the Earth he gave thee to possess and rule,</td>
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<td>No despicable gift; surmise not, then,</td>
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<td>His presence to these narrow bounds confined</td>
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<td>Perhaps thy capital seat, from whence had spread</td>
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<td>All generations, and had hither come,</td>
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<td>From all the ends of the Earth, to celebrate</td>
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<td>And reverence thee their great progenitor.</td>
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<td>But this pre-eminence thou hast lost, brought down</td>
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<td>To dwell on even ground now with thy sons:</td>
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<td>Yet doubt not but in valley and in plain</td>
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<td>God is, as here, and will be found alike</td>
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<td>Present, and of his presence many a sign</td>
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<td>Still following thee, still compassing thee round</td>
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<td>With goodness and paternal love, his face</td>
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<td>Express, and of his steps the track divine.</td>
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<td>Which that thou may’st believe, and be confirmed</td>
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<td>Ere thou from hence depart, know I am sent</td>
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<td>To shew thee what shall come in future days</td>
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<td>To thee and to thy offspring. Good with bad</td>
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<td>Expect to hear, supernal grace contending</td>
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<td>With sinfulness of men—thereby to learn</td>
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<td>True patience, and to temper joy with fear</td>
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<td>And pious sorrow, equally inured</td>
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<td>By moderation either state to bear,</td>
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<td>Prosperous or adverse: so shalt thou lead</td>
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<td>Safest thy life, and best prepared endure</td>
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<td>Thy mortal passage when it comes. Ascend</td>
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<td>This hill; let Eve (for I have drenched her eyes)</td>
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<td>Here sleep below while thou to foresight wak’st,</td>
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<td>As once thou slept’st while she to life was formed.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Adam gratefully replied:—</td>
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<td>“Ascend, I follow thee, safe Guide, the path</td>
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<td>Thou lead’st me, and to the hand of Heaven submit,</td>
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<td>However chastening—to the evil turn</td>
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<td>My obvious breast, arming to overcome</td>
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<td>By suffering, and earn rest from labour won,</td>
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<td>If so I may attain.” So both ascend</td>
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<td>In the Visions of God. It was a hill,</td>
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<td>Of Paradise the highest, from whose top</td>
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<td>The hemisphere of Earth is clearest ken</td>
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<td>Stretched out to the amplest reach of prospect lay.</td>
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<td>Not higher that hill, nor wider looking ground,</td>
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<td>Whereon for different cause the Tempter set</td>
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<td>Our second Adam, in the wilderness,</td>
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<td>To shew him all Earth’s kingdoms and their glory.</td>
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<td>His eye might there command wherever stood</td>
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<td>Of mightiest empire, from the destined walls</td>
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<td>Of Cambalu, seat of Cathaian Can,</td>
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<td>And Samarchand by Oxus, Temir’s throne,</td>
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<td>To Pacquin, of Sinæan kings, and thence</td>
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<td>To Agra and Lahor of Great Mogul,</td>
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<td>Down to the golden Chersonese, or where</td>
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<td>The Persian in Ecbatan sat, or since</td>
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<td>In Hispahan, or where the Russian Ksar</td>
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<td>In Mosco, or the Sultan in Bizance,</td>
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<td>Turchestan—born; nor could his eye not ken</td>
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<td>The empire of Negus to his utmost port</td>
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<td>Ercoco, and the less maritime kings,</td>
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<td>Mombaza, and Quiloa, and Melind,</td>
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<td>And Sofala (thought Ophir), to the realm</td>
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<td>Of Congo, and Angola fardest south,</td>
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<td>Or thence from Niger flood to Atlas mount,</td>
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<td>The kingdoms of Almansor, Fez and Sus,</td>
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<td>Marocco, and Algiers, and Tremisen;</td>
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<td>On Europe thence, and where Rome was to sway,</td>
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<i> 405</i> </div>
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<td>The world: in spirit perhaps he also saw</td>
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<td>Rich Mexico, the seat of Montezume,</td>
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<td>And Cusco in Peru, the richer seat</td>
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<td>Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoiled</td>
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<td>Guiana, whose great city Geryon’s sons</td>
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<i> 410</i> </div>
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<td>Call El Dorado. But to nobler sights</td>
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<td>Michael from Adam’s eyes the film removed</td>
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<td>Which that false fruit that promised clearer sight</td>
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<td>Had bred; then purged with euphrasy and rue</td>
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<td>The visual nerve, for he had much to see,</td>
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<i> 415</i> </div>
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<td>And from the well of life three drops instilled.</td>
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<td>So deep the power of these ingredients pierced,</td>
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<td>Even to the inmost seat of mental sight,</td>
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<td>That Adam, now enforced to close his eyes,</td>
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<td>Sunk down, and all his spirits became intranced.</td>
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<i> 420</i> </div>
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<td>But him the gentle Angel by the hand</td>
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<td>Soon raised, and his attention thus recalled:—</td>
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<td> “Adam, now ope thine eyes, and first behold</td>
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<td>The effects which thy original crime hath wrought</td>
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<td>In some to spring from thee, who never touched</td>
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<i> 425</i> </div>
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<td>The excepted Tree, nor with the Snake conspired,</td>
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<td>Nor sinned thy sin, yet from that sin derive</td>
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<td>Corruption to bring forth more violent deeds.”</td>
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<td> His eyes he opened, and beheld a field,</td>
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<td>Part arable and tilth, whereon were sheaves</td>
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<i> 430</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Adam saw a field, </td>
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<td>New-reaped, the other part sheep-walks and folds:</td>
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<td>I’ the midst an altar as the landmark stood,</td>
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<td align="left">half of it was being farmed and the other half had a flock of sheep. In between was a kind of holy altar. </td>
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<td>Rustic, of grassy sord. Thither anon</td>
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<td>A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought</td>
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<td align="left">There was a sweaty farmer bringing </td>
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<td>First-fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf,</td>
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<i> 435</i> </div>
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<td>Unculled, as came to hand. A shepherd next,</td>
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<td>More meek, came with the firstlings of his flock,</td>
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<td>Choicest and best; then, sacrificing, laid</td>
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<td align="left">and gentle shepherd bringing sacrificed lamb to the altar. He prayed. </td>
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<td>The inwards and their fat, with incense strewed,</td>
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<td>On the cleft wood, and all due rites performed.</td>
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<i> 440</i> </div>
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<td>His offering soon propitious fire from heaven</td>
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<td align="left">A fire consumed the lamb at the altar </td>
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<td>Consumed, with nimble glance and grateful steam;</td>
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<td align="left">meaning that God had accepted this sacrifice. </td>
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<td>The other’s not, for his was not sincere:</td>
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<td align="left">But the farmer's sacrifice wasn't accepted, because it wasn't sincere or caring. </td>
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<td>Whereat he inly raged, and, as they talked,</td>
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<td align="left">The farmer and the shepherd started to argue, </td>
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<td>Smote him into the midriff with a stone</td>
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<i> 445</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">the farmer picked up a stone and </td>
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<td>That beat out life; he fell, and, deadly pale,</td>
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<td align="left">beat the shepherd to death with it.</td>
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<td>Groaned out his soul, with gushing blood effused.</td>
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<td>Much at that sight was Adam in his heart</td>
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<td align="left">Adam was horrified at this Tik Tok. He cried and said, </td>
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<td>Dismayed, and thus in haste to the Angel cried:—</td>
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<td> “O Teacher, some great mischief hath befallen</td>
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<i> 450</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Why did he do that to him? He was just making a sacrifice! How could this happen?"</td>
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<td>To that meek man, who well had sacrificed:</td>
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<td>Is piety thus and pure devotion paid?</td>
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<td> To whom Michael thus, he also moved, replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">Michael replied, </td>
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<td>“These two are brethren, Adam, and to come</td>
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<td align="left">"They were brothers, </td>
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<td>Out of thy loins. The unjust the just hath slain,</td>
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<i> 455</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">your own sons. </td>
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<td>For envy that his brother’s offering found</td>
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<td>From Heaven acceptance; but the bloody fact</td>
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<td align="left">because God accepted the other's offering.</td>
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<td>Will be avenged, and the other’s faith approved</td>
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<td>Lose no reward, though here thou see him die,</td>
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<td align="left">The killer will be punished, and the other will be rewarded.</td>
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<td>Rowling in dust and gore.” To which our Sire:—</td>
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<i> 460</i> </div>
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<td> “Alas, both for the deed and for the cause!</td>
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<td align="left">Adam replied, "This is terrible! Violence and jealousy?</td>
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<td>But have I now seen Death? Is this the way</td>
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<td align="left">Is the what death is like?</td>
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<td>I must return to native dust? O sight</td>
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<td align="left">I don't want to end up like that!"</td>
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<td>Of terror, foul and ugly to behold!</td>
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<td>Horrid to think, how horrible to feel!</td>
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<i> 465</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Michael replied, </td>
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<td> To whom thus Michael:—“Death thou hast seen</td>
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<td align="left">"That man was the first human being to die. </td>
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<td>In his first shape on Man; but many shapes</td>
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<td>Of Death, and many are the ways that lead</td>
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<td align="left">But there are many other ways death can come. </td>
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<td>To his grim cave—all dismal, yet to sense</td>
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<td>More terrible at the entrance than within.</td>
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<i> 470</i> </div>
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<td>Some, as thou saw’st, by violent stroke shall die,</td>
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<td>By fire, flood, famine; by intemperance more</td>
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<td align="left">Some will die by fire, flood, disease</td>
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<td>In meats and drinks, which on the Earth shall bring</td>
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<td align="left">caused by poor diet choices."</td>
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<td>Diseases dire, of which a monstrous crew</td>
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<td>Before thee shall appear, that thou may’st know</td>
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<i> 475</i> </div>
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<td>What misery the inabstinence of Eve</td>
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<td>Shall bring on me.” Immediately a place</td>
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<td align="left">Michael gave Adam another vision. </td>
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<td>Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark;</td>
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<td>A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid</td>
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<td align="left">Adam saw himself in a hospital setting. </td>
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<td>Numbers of all diseased—all maladies</td>
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<i> 480</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">There were people everywhere</td>
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<td>Of ghastly spasm, of racking torture, qualms</td>
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<td align="left">suffering from disease, illness</td>
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<td>Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds,</td>
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<td>Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs,</td>
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<td align="left">mental and physical issues. </td>
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<td>Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs,</td>
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<td>Dæmoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy,</td>
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<i> 485</i> </div>
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<td>And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy,</td>
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<td>Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence,</td>
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<td>Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.</td>
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<td>Dire was the tossing, deep the groans; Despair</td>
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<td align="left">The groaning and screams of pain </td>
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<td>Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch;</td>
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<i> 490</i> </div>
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<td>And over them triumphant Death his dart</td>
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<td align="left">was unbearable. They were all begging for death instead of this pain. </td>
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<td>Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked</td>
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<td>With vows, as their chief good and final hope.</td>
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<td>Sight so deform what heart of rock could long</td>
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<td align="left">Adam broke down and cried some more, he said, </td>
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<td>Dry-eyed behold? Adam could not, but wept,</td>
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<i> 495</i> </div>
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<td>Though not of woman born: compassion quelled</td>
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<td>His best of man, and gave him up to tears</td>
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<td>A space, till firmer thoughts restrained excess,</td>
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<td>And, scarce recovering words, his plaint renewed:—</td>
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<td align="left">"I just can't stand seeing this much pain. </td>
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<td> “O miserable Mankind, to what fall</td>
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<i> 500</i> </div>
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<td>Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!</td>
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<td>Better end here unborn. Why is life given</td>
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<td align="left">why is life given to us</td>
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<td>To be thus wrested from us? rather why</td>
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<td>Obtruded on us thus? who, if we knew</td>
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<td align="left">if we have to suffer in these ways?</td>
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<td>What we receive would either not accept</td>
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<i> 505</i> </div>
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<td>Life offered, or soon beg to lay it down,</td>
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<td>Glad to be so dismissed in peace. Can thus</td>
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<td>The image of God in Man, created once</td>
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<td align="left">I thought we'd be created in God's image, how can these people be so deformed by illness and anguish?"</td>
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<td>So goodly and erect, though faulty since,</td>
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<td>To such unsightly sufferings be debased</td>
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<i> 510</i> </div>
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<td>Under inhuman pains? Why should not Man,</td>
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<td>Retaining still divine similitude</td>
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<td>In part, from such deformities be free,</td>
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<td>And for his Maker’s image’ sake exempt?”</td>
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<td> “Their Maker’s image,” answered Michael, “then</td>
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<i> 515</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Michael responded, </td>
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<td>Forsook them, when themselves they vilified</td>
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<td align="left">"Well, these people didn't respect God's image in them. </td>
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<td>To serve ungoverned Appetite, and took</td>
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<td>His image whom they served—a brutish vice,</td>
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<td align="left">They chose to make unwise choices in their lives, they ignored rules, and ruined their images themselves."</td>
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<td>Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.</td>
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<td>Therefore so abject is their punishment,</td>
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<i> 520</i> </div>
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<td>Disfiguring not God’s likeness, but their own;</td>
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<td>Or, if his likeness, by themselves defaced</td>
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<td>While they pervert pure Nature’s healthful rules</td>
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<td>To loathsome sickness—worthily, since they</td>
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<td>God’s image did not reverence in themselves.”</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 525</i> </div>
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<td> “I yield it just,” said Adam, “and submit.</td>
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<td align="left">Adam replied, </td>
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<td>But is there yet no other way, besides</td>
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<td align="left">"Is there another way for people to die without so much pain?"</td>
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<td>These painful passages, how we may come</td>
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<td>To death, and mix with our connatural dust?”</td>
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<td> “There is,” said Michael, “if thou well observe</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 530</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Michael answered, </td>
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<td>The rule of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Not too
much,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by temperance
taught</td>
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<td>In what thou eat’st and drink’st, seeking from thence</td>
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<td align="left">"Sure, if you take care of your body and watch what </td>
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<td>Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight,</td>
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<td align="left">you eat and drink. Everything in moderation though. </td>
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<td>Till many years over thy head return.</td>
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<td align="left">That's how you can live a long and healthy life. </td>
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<td>So may’st thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop</td>
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<td>Into thy mother’s lap, or be with ease</td>
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<td>Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature.</td>
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<td>This is old age; but then thou must outlive</td>
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<td>Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change</td>
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<td align="left">However, before that happens</td>
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<td>To withered, weak, and grey; thy senses then,</td>
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<i> 540</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">you will lose your strength and youth and beauty. </td>
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<td>Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forgo</td>
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<td>To what thou hast; and, for the air of youth,</td>
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<td>Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign</td>
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<td>A melancholy damp of cold and dry,</td>
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<td>To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Sometimes you'll lose the spirit for life. It happens."</td>
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<td>The balm of life.” To whom our Ancestor:—</td>
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<td> “Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong</td>
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<td>Life much—bent rather how I may be quit,</td>
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<td>Fairest and easiest, of this cumbrous charge,</td>
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<td align="left">"What a life... I think I'll get it over with quickly and painlessly as possible."</td>
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<td>Which I must keep till my appointed day</td>
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<td>Of rendering up, and patiently attend</td>
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<td>My dissolution.” Michael replied:—</td>
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<td> “Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv’st</td>
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<td>Live well, how long or short permit to Heaven.</td>
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<td align="left">"Now, now... don't hate your life. Don't love it too much either. </td>
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<td>And now prepare thee for another sight.”</td>
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<i> 555</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Get ready for another vision."</td>
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<td> He looked, and saw a spacious plain, whereon</td>
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<td align="left">Adam then saw a wide open plain,</td>
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<td>Were tents of various hue: by some were herds</td>
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<td>Of cattle grazing: others whence the sound</td>
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<td align="left">there were different colored tenst on it. </td>
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<td>Of instruments that made melodious chime</td>
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<td align="left">There were also herds of cattle grazing, and people were </td>
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<td>Was heard, of harp and organ, and who moved</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">playing some lovely music. </td>
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<td>Their stops and chords was seen: his volant touch</td>
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<td>Instinct through all proportions low and high</td>
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<td>Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue.</td>
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<td>In other part stood one who, at the forge</td>
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<td align="left">He could see a blacksmith, hard at work making tools. </td>
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<td>Labouring, two massy clods of iron and brass</td>
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<i> 565</i> </div>
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<td>Had melted (whether found where casual fire</td>
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<td>Had wasted woods, on mountain or in vale,</td>
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<td>Down to the veins of earth, thence gliding hot</td>
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<td>To some cave’s mouth, or whether washed by stream</td>
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<td>From underground); the liquid ore he drained</td>
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<i> 570</i> </div>
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<td>Into fit moulds prepared; from which he formed</td>
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<td>First his own tools, then what might else be wrought</td>
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<td>Fusil or graven in metal. After these,</td>
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<td>But on the hither side, a different sort</td>
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<td>From the high neighbouring hills, which was their seat,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Some men were approaching</td>
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<td>Down to the plain descended: by their guise</td>
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<td>Just men they seemed, and all their study bent</td>
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<td>To worship God aright, and know his works</td>
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<td>Not hid; nor those things last which might preserve</td>
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<td>Freedom and peace to men. They on the plain</td>
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<i> 580</i> </div>
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<td>Long had not walked when from the tents behold</td>
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<td>A bevy of fair women, richly gay</td>
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<td>In gems and wanton dress! to the harp they sung</td>
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<td align="left">They sang and danced. </td>
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<td>Soft amorous ditties, and in dance came on.</td>
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<td>The men, though grave, eyed them, and let their eyes</td>
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<i> 585</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The men liked what they saw</td>
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<td>Rove without rein, till, in the amorous net</td>
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<td>Fast caught, they liked, and each his liking chose.</td>
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<td align="left">chose certain women, </td>
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<td>And now of love they treat, till the evening-star,</td>
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<td>Love’s harbinger, appeared; then, all in heat,</td>
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<td align="left">and started to make love. </td>
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<td>They light the nuptial torch, and bid invoke</td>
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<i> 590</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Soon, marriage ceremonies happened that night. </td>
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<td>Hymen, then first to marriage rites invoked:</td>
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<td>With feast and music all the tents resound.</td>
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<td>Such happy interview, and fair event</td>
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<td>Of love and youth not lost, songs, garlands, flowers,</td>
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<td>And charming symphonies, attached the heart</td>
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<i> 595</i> </div>
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<td>Of Adam, soon inclined to admit delight,</td>
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<td align="left">Adam liked this change of scenery. </td>
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<td>The bent of Nature; which he thus expressed:</td>
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<td> “True opener of mine eyes, prime Angel blest,</td>
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<td align="left">Adam said, "This looks a lot better</td>
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<td>Much better seems this vision, and more hope</td>
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<td>Of peaceful days portends, than those two past:</td>
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<i> 600</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">than all of that misery you were showing me before. </td>
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<td>Those were of hate and death, or pain much worse;</td>
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<td>Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Michael:—“Judge not what is best</td>
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<td align="left">Michael quickly replied, </td>
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<td>By pleasure, though to Nature seeming meet,</td>
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<td>Created, as thou art, to nobler end,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 605</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Don't think this is all so positive...</td>
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<td>Holy and pure, conformity divine.</td>
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<td>Those tents thou saw’st so pleasant were the tents</td>
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<td align="left">the people in those tents are </td>
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<td>Of wickedness, wherein shall dwell his race</td>
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<td>Who slew his brother: studious they appear</td>
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<td align="left">descendants from the man who killed his own brother. </td>
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<td>Of arts that polish life, inventors rare;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 610</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And sure they all can be talented in their own ways. </td>
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<td>Unmindful of their Maker, though his Spirit</td>
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<td align="left">but they do not even know that their gifts come from God. </td>
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<td>Taught them; but they his gifts acknowledged none.</td>
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<td>Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget;</td>
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<td>For that fair female troop thou saw’st, that seemed</td>
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<td align="left">The women are beautiful dancers, </td>
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<td>Of goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay,</td>
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<i> 615</i> </div>
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<td>Yet empty of all good wherein consists</td>
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<td>Woman’s domestic honour and chief praise;</td>
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<td align="left">but they lack domestic skills to build a family. </td>
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<td>Bred only and completed to the taste</td>
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<td align="left">All they know is how to </td>
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<td>Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance,</td>
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<td align="left">lustfully lure men</td>
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<td>To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye:—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 620</i> </div>
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<td>To these that sober race of men, whose lives</td>
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<td>Religious titled them the Sons of God,</td>
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<td align="left">who will give up their honor for a night of pleasure. </td>
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<td>Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame,</td>
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<td>Ignobly, to the trains and to the smiles</td>
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<td>Of these fair atheists, and now swim in joy</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 625</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They're all having fun now, but it'll all end in tears."</td>
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<td>(Erelong to swim at large) and laugh; for which</td>
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<td>The world erelong a world of tears must weep.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Adam, of short joy bereft:—</td>
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<td align="left">Adam replied, </td>
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<td>“O pity and shame, that they who to live well</td>
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<td align="left">"Wow, what a shame. </td>
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<td>Entered so fair should turn aside to tread</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 630</i> </div>
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<td>Paths indirect, or in the midway faint!</td>
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<td>But still I see the tenor of Man’s woe</td>
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<td align="left">Seems like all of man's trouble comes from women."</td>
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<td>Holds on the same, from Woman to begin.”</td>
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<td> “From Man’s effeminate slackness it begins,”</td>
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<td align="left">Michael said, </td>
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<td>Said the Angel, “who should better hold his place</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 635</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Man's trouble comes from men being weak and stupid. </td>
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<td>By wisdom, and superior gifts received.</td>
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<td>But now prepare thee for another scene.”</td>
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<td align="left">Get ready for another vision."</td>
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<td> He looked, and saw wide territory spread</td>
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<td>Before him—towns, and rural works between,</td>
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<td align="left">Adam saw a view of towns cities. </td>
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<td>Cities of men with lofty gates and towers,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 640</i> </div>
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<td>Concourse in arms, fierce faces threatening war,</td>
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<td>Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.</td>
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<td align="left">He saw a fierce army approaching a field.</td>
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<td>Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed,</td>
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<td>Single or in array of battle ranged</td>
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<td>Both horse and foot, nor idly mustering stood.</td>
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<i> 645</i> </div>
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<td>One way a band select from forage drives</td>
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<td>A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine,</td>
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<td>From a fat meadow-ground, or fleecy flock,</td>
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<td align="left">another horde of men stole sheep. </td>
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<td>Ewes and their bleating lambs, over the plain,</td>
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<td>Their booty; scarce with life the shepherds fly,</td>
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<i> 650</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The famers and shepherds escaped, </td>
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<td>But call in aid, which makes a bloody fray:</td>
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<td align="left">but they came back with their own army. </td>
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<td>With cruel tournament the squadrons join;</td>
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<td>Where cattle pastured late, now scattered lies</td>
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<td align="left">There were dead bodies everywhere.</td>
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<td>With carcasses and arms the ensanguined field</td>
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<td>Deserted. Others to a city strong</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 655</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">At a city, </td>
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<td>Lay siege, encamped, by battery, scale, and mine,</td>
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<td>Assaulting; others from the wall defend</td>
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<td>With dart and javelin, stones and sulphurous fire;</td>
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<td align="left">People were defending themselves from inside the walls, shooting darts, throwing spears, and using fire at enemies.</td>
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<td>On each hand slaughter and gigantic deeds.</td>
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<td>In other parts the sceptred haralds call</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 660</i> </div>
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<td>To council in the city-gates: anon</td>
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<td>Grey-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed,</td>
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<td>Assemble, and harangues are heard; but soon</td>
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<td>In factious opposition, till at last</td>
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<td>Of middle age one rising, eminent</td>
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<i> 665</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">There was a man</td>
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<td>In wise deport, spake much of right and wrong,</td>
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<td>Of justice, of religion, truth, and peace,</td>
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<td align="left">trying to bring peace and love with </td>
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<td>And judgment from above: him old and young</td>
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<td>Exploded, and had seized with violent hands,</td>
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<td align="left">religion and the word of God. </td>
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<td>Had not a cloud descending snatched him thence,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 670</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">But that just made violent men angrier. A heavenly cloud made him disappear.</td>
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<td>Unseen amid the throng. So violence</td>
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<td>Proceeded, and oppression, and sword-law,</td>
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<td align="left">There was violence everywhere you looked. </td>
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<td>Through all the plain, and refuge none was found.</td>
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<td>Adam was all in tears; and to his guide</td>
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<td align="left">Adam started crying again. </td>
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<td>Lamenting turned full sad:—“Oh, what are these?</td>
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<i> 675</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He said, </td>
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<td>Death’s ministers, not men! who thus deal death</td>
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<td align="left">"Did Death send these inhumane men</td>
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<td>Inhumanly to men, and multiply</td>
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<td align="left">to do his work?</td>
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<td>Ten thousandfold the sin of him who slew</td>
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<td align="left">This is all so much worse than the brother killing his own brother!</td>
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<td>His brother; for of whom such massacre</td>
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<td>Make they but of their brethren, men of men?</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 680</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I thought we were all brothers! And who was that man trying to bring the word of God to them?"</td>
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<td>But who was that just man, whom had not Heaven</td>
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<td>Rescued, had in his righteousness been lost?”</td>
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<td align="left">Michael said to Adam,</td>
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<td> To whom thus Michael:—“These are the product’</td>
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<td align="left">"That kind of behavior of men is the product</td>
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<td>Of those ill-mated marriages thou saw’st,</td>
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<td align="left">of marriages between good men and bad women. </td>
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<td>Where good with bad were matched; who of themselves</td>
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<i> 685</i> </div>
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<td>Abhor to join, and, by imprudence mixed,</td>
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<td>Produce prodigious births of body or mind.</td>
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<td align="left">They become obsessed with </td>
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<td>Such were these Giants, men of high renown;</td>
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<td>For in those days might only shall be admired,</td>
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<td>And valour and heroic virtue called.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 690</i> </div>
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<td>To overcome in battle, and subdue</td>
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<td>Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite</td>
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<td>Manslaughter, shall be held the highest pitch</td>
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<td align="left">glory and </td>
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<td>Of human glory, and, for glory done,</td>
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<td>Of triumph to be styled great conquerors,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 695</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">conquering others.</td>
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<td>Patrons of mankind, gods, and sons of gods—</td>
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<td>Destroyers rightlier called, and Plagues of men.</td>
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<td>Thus fame shall be achieved, renown on earth,</td>
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<td align="left">The more they can kill and steal, the more glory and admiration they think they can have.</td>
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<td>And what most merits fame in silence hid.</td>
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<td>But he, the seventh from thee, whom thou beheld’st</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 700</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And that man comes seven generations after you. </td>
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<td>The only righteous in a world perverse,</td>
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<td align="left">He is the only decent man left in the world, </td>
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<td>And therefore hated, therefore so beset</td>
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<td align="left">so everyone else ended up hating him. </td>
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<td>With foes, for daring single to be just,</td>
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<td>And utter odious truth, that God would come</td>
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<td align="left">People got tired of him talking about God all the time. </td>
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<td>To judge them with his Saints—him the Most High,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 705</i> </div>
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<td>Rapt in a balmy cloud, with wingèd steeds,</td>
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<td align="left">Especially about how God was going to judge them. </td>
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<td>Did, as thou saw’st, receive, to walk with God</td>
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<td>High in salvation and the climes of bliss,</td>
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<td>Exempt from death, to show thee what reward</td>
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<td align="left">God saved him from death.</td>
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<td>Awaits the good, the rest what punishment;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 710</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God rewards goodness. </td>
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<td>Which now direct thine eyes and soon behold.”</td>
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<td align="left">It's time you see what happens to bad people."</td>
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<td> He looked, and saw the face of things quite changed.</td>
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<td>The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar;</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">The scenery changed again. </td>
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<td>All now was turned to jollity and game,</td>
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<td align="left">Instead of war, </td>
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<td>To luxury and riot, feast and dance,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 715</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">there was a wild party, with drinking</td>
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<td>Marrying or prostituting, as befell,</td>
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<td align="left">sex, </td>
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<td>Rape or adultery, where passing fair</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">rape, <br /></td>
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<td>Allured them; thence form cups to civil broils.</td>
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<td align="left">and prostitution. </td>
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<td>At length a reverend Sire among them came,</td>
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<td align="left">A reverend came to these parties to try and </td>
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<td>And of their doings great dislike declared,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 720</i> </div>
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<td>And testified against their ways. He oft</td>
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<td align="left">testify against their ways, but it wasn't enough. </td>
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<td>Frequented their assemblies, whereso met,</td>
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<td>Triumphs or festivals, and to them preached</td>
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<td>Conversion and repentance, as to souls</td>
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<td>In prison, under judgments imminent;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 725</i> </div>
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<td>But all in vain. Which when he saw, he ceased</td>
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<td align="left">He gave up and left. </td>
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<td>Contending, and removed his tents far off;</td>
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<td>Then, from the mountain hewing timber tall,</td>
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<td>Began to build a Vessel of huge bulk,</td>
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<td align="left">The man started to cut down tall trees and build </td>
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<td>Measured by cubit, length, and breadth, and highth,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 730</i> </div>
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<td>Smeared round with pitch, and in the side a door</td>
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<td align="left">a huge boat with large door on its side. </td>
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<td>Contrived, and of provisions laid in large</td>
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<td>For man and beast: when lo! a wonder strange!</td>
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<td align="left">He filled this boat with supplies and food. </td>
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<td>Of every beast, and bird, and insect small</td>
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<td align="left">Then animals of every kind came marching into the boat.</td>
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<td>Came sevens and pairs, and entered in, as taught</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 735</i> </div>
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<td>Their order; last, the Sire and his three sons,</td>
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<td align="left">The man entered the boat too with his three sons</td>
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<td>With their four wives; and God made fast the door.</td>
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<td align="left">and four wives. God shut the door, sealing the boat. for good. </td>
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<td>Meanwhile the South-wind rose, and, with black wings</td>
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<td>Wide-hovering, all the clouds together drove</td>
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<td align="left">A mighty wind from the south was blowing. </td>
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<td>From under heaven; the hills to their supply</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 740</i> </div>
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<td>Vapour, and exhalation dusk and moist,</td>
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<td align="left">Dark clouds were gathering, </td>
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<td>Sent up amain; and now the thickened sky</td>
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<td>Like a dark ceiling stood: down rushed the rain</td>
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<td align="left">and an endless rain started to pour. </td>
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<td>Impetuous, and continued till the earth</td>
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<td>No more was seen. The floating Vessel swum</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 745</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The boat was the only thing left floating, </td>
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<td>Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow</td>
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<td>Rode tilting o’er the waves; all dwellings else</td>
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<td align="left">as everything else was flooded. </td>
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<td>Flood overwhelmed, and them with all their pomp</td>
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<td>Deep under water rowled; sea covered sea,</td>
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<td>Sea without shore: and in their palaces,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 750</i> </div>
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<td>Where luxury late reigned, sea—monsters whelped</td>
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<td>And stabled: of mankind, so numerous late,</td>
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<td>All left in one small bottom swum imbarked.</td>
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<td>How didst thou grieve then, Adam, to behold</td>
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<td>The end of all thy offspring, end so sad,</td>
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<td>Depopulation! Thee another flood,</td>
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<td>Of tears and sorrow a flood thee also drowned,</td>
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<td>And sunk thee as thy sons; till, gently reared</td>
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<td>By the Angel, on thy feet thou stood’st at last,</td>
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<td>Though comfortless, as when a father mourns</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He felt like he saw all of his children killed right before his eyes." </td>
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<td>His children, all in view destroyed at once,</td>
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<td>And scarce to the Angel utter’dst thus thy plaint:—</td>
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<td> “O Visions ill foreseen! Better had I</td>
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<td align="left">"These are terrible visions of the future. </td>
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<td>Lived ignorant of future—so had borne</td>
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<td>My part of evil only, each day’s lot</td>
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<td>Enough to bear. Those now that were dispensed</td>
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<td>The burden of many ages on me light</td>
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<td>At once, by my foreknowledge gaining birth</td>
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<td>Abortive, to torment me, ere their being,</td>
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<td>With thought that they must be. Let no man seek</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">No one should know what the future holds. </td>
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<td>Henceforth to be foretold what shall befall</td>
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<td>Him or his children—evil, he may be sure,</td>
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<td>Which neither his foreknowing can prevent,</td>
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<td>And he the future evil shall no less</td>
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<td>In apprehension than in substance feel</td>
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<td>Grievous to bear. But that care now is past;</td>
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<td>Man is not whom to warn; those few escaped</td>
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<td>Famine and anguish will at last consume,</td>
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<td>Wandering that watery desert. I had hope,</td>
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<td>When violence was ceased and war on Earth,</td>
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<td>All would have then gone well, peace would have crowned</td>
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<td>With length of happy days the race of Man;</td>
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<td>But I was far deceived, for now I see</td>
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<td>Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.</td>
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<td>How comes it thus? Unfold, Celestial Guide,</td>
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<td>And whether here the race of Man will end.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Michael:—“Those whom last thou saw’st</td>
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<td>In triumph and luxurious wealth are they</td>
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<td>First seen in acts of powers eminent</td>
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<td>And great exploits, but of true virtue void;</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"All those people got admiration from conquering and killing, </td>
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<td>Who, having split much blood, and done much waste,</td>
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<td>Subduing nations, and achieved thereby</td>
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<td>Fame in the world, high titles, and rich prey,</td>
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<td>Shall change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth,</td>
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<td>Surfeit, and lust, till wantonness and pride</td>
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<td>Raise out of friendship hostile deeds in peace.</td>
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<td>The conquered, also, and enslaved by war,</td>
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<td>Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose,</td>
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<td>And fear of God—from whom their piety feigned</td>
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<td>In sharp contest of battle found no aid</td>
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<td>Against invaders; therefore, cooled in zeal,</td>
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<td>Thenceforth shall practise how to live secure,</td>
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<td>Worldly, or dissolute, on what their lords</td>
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<td>Shall leave them to enjoy; for the Earth shall bear</td>
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<td>More than enough, that temperance may be tried.</td>
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<td>So all shall turn degenerate, all depraved,</td>
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<td align="left">There was no justice,</td>
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<td>Justice and temperance, truth and faith, forgot;</td>
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<td align="left">or faith. </td>
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<td>One man except, the only son of light</td>
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<td>In a dark age, against example good,</td>
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<td>Against allurement, custom, and a world</td>
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<td>Offended. Fearless of reproach and scorn,</td>
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<td>Or violence, he of their wicked ways</td>
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<td>Shall them admonish, and before them set</td>
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<td>The paths of righteousness, how much more safe</td>
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<td>And full of peace, denouncing wrauth to come</td>
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<td>On their impenitence, and shall return</td>
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<td>Of them derided, but of God observed</td>
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<td>The one just man alive: by his command</td>
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<td>Shall build a wondrous Ark, as thou beheld’st,</td>
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<td align="left">and God told him to build a boat to save him and his family.</td>
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<td>To save himself and household from amidst</td>
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<td>A world devote to universal wrack.</td>
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<td>No sooner he, with them of man and beast</td>
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<td>Select for life, shall in the ark be lodged</td>
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<td>And sheltered round, but all the cataracts</td>
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<td>Of Heaven set open on the Earth shall pour</td>
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<td align="left">because God made the flood happen.</td>
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<td>Rain day and night; all fountains of the deep,</td>
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<td>Broke up, shall heaven the ocean to usurp</td>
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<td>Beyond all bounds, till inundation rise</td>
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<td>Above the highest hills. Then shall this Mount</td>
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<td>Of Paradise by might of waves be moved</td>
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<td align="left">The flood will even reach Paradise to wash it away. </td>
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<td>Out of his place, pushed by the horned flood,</td>
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<td>With all his verdure spoiled, and trees adrift,</td>
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<td>Down the great River to the opening Gulf,</td>
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<td>And there take root, and island salt and bare,</td>
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<td>The haunt of seals, and orcs, and sea—mews’ clang—</td>
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<td>To teach thee that God at’tributes to place</td>
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<td>No sanctity, if none be thither brought</td>
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<td>By men who there frequent or therein dwell.</td>
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<td>And now what further shall ensue behold.”</td>
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<td> He looked, and saw the Ark hull on the flood,</td>
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<td align="left">Adam saw the ark floating on the water. </td>
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<td>Which now abated; for the clouds were fled.</td>
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<td>Driven by a keen North-wind, that, blowing dry,</td>
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<td align="left">The gloomy sky had cleared up, </td>
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<td>Wrinkled the face of Deluge, as decayed;</td>
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<td>And the clear sun on his wide watery glass</td>
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<td>Gazed hot, and of the fresh wave largely drew,</td>
<td align="center" width="56">845</td>
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<td>As after thirst; which made their flowing shrink</td>
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<td>From standing lake to tripping ebb, that stole</td>
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<td>With soft foot towards the deep, who now had stopt</td>
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<td>His sluices, as the heaven his windows shut. .</td>
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<td>The Ark no more now floats, but seems on ground,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
850</div>
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<td align="left">The boat finally touched the ground, </td>
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<td>Fast on the top of some high mountain fixed.</td>
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<td>And now the tops of hills as rocks appear;</td>
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<td>With clamour thence the rapid currents drive</td>
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<td>Towards the retreating sea their furious tide.</td>
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<td>Forthwith from out the ark a Raven flies.</td>
<td align="center" width="56">855</td>
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<td>And, after him, the surer messenger,</td>
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<td>A Dove, sent forth once and again to spy</td>
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<td>Green tree or ground whereon his foot may light;</td>
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<td>The second time returning, in his bill</td>
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<td align="left">The raven returned with an live leaf in its mouth</td>
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<td>An olive-leaf he brings, pacific sign.</td>
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<td>Anon dry ground appears, and from his ark</td>
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<td align="left">to show that it had found dry land. </td>
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<td>The ancient sire descends, with all this train;</td>
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<td>Then, with uplifted hands and eyes devout,</td>
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<td align="left">The man and his family came out of the boat and set foot on dry land. He raised his arms and thanked God. </td>
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<td>Grateful to Heaven, over his head beholds</td>
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<td>A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a Bow</td>
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<td>Conspicuous with three listed colours gay,</td>
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<td>Betokening peace from God, and covenant new.</td>
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<td>Whereat the heart of Adam, erst so sad,</td>
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<td>Greatly rejoiced; and thus his joy broke forth:—</td>
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<td align="left">Seeing this made Adam feel better, it lifted his spirits. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “O thou, who future things cants represent</td>
<td align="center" width="56">870</td>
<td align="left">Adam said, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As present, Heavenly Instructor, I revive</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>At this last sight, assured that Man shall live,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">"Michael, this makes me hopeful.</td>
</tr>
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<td>With all the creatures, and their seed preserve.</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Far less I now lament for one whole world</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">I'm happy that all the creatures get to live.</td>
</tr>
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<td>Of wicked sons destroyed that I rejoice</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
875</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>For one man found so perfet and so just</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">This one man will start a new generation of men.</td>
</tr>
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<td>That God voutsafes to raise another world</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">I feel more happiness for this one man, than I feel </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From him, and all his anger to forget.</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">sadness for all those other lives that were lost. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But say what mean those coloured streaks in Heaven:</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">But those colorful streaks in the sky, what is it for?"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Distended as the brow of God appeased?</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
880</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Or serve they as a flowery verge to bind</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The fluid skirts of that same watery cloud,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Lest it again dissolve and shower the Earth?”</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> To whom the Archangel:—“Dextrously thou aim’st.</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Michael replied, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So willingly doth God remit his ire:</td>
<td align="center" width="56">885</td>
<td align="left">"God was full of anger when </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Though late repenting him of Man depraved,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Grieved at his heart, when, looking down, he saw</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">he saw how violent mankind had become. </td>
</tr>
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<td>The whole Earth filled with violence, and all flesh</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Corrupting each their way; yet, those removed,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Such grace shall one just man find in his sight</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
890</div>
</td>
<td align="left">He was glad to find at least one man who could be good. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That he relents, not to blot out mankind,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>And makes a covenant never to destroy</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God made it a commitment to never destroy earth with a great flood again now that he knows there's still good left in people. </td>
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<td>The Earth again by flood, nor let the sea</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Surpass his bounds, nor rain to drown the world</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>With man therein or beast: but, when he brings</td>
<td align="center" width="56">895</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Over the Earth a cloud, with therein set</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">So now whenever it stops raining, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His triple-coloured bow, whereon to look</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the colorful rainbow serves as a reminder." </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And call to mind his Covenant. Day and night,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new</td>
<td align="center" width="56">900</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Both Heaven and Earth, wherein the just shall dwell.”</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-62545329830743659002020-11-04T11:48:00.000-08:002020-11-04T11:48:03.042-08:00Book 10: Adam and Eve are judged<div align="left" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">HE</span><span color="rgb(0 , 0 , 32)" style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">RGUMENT.</span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">—Man’s
transgression known, the guardian Angels forsake Paradise, and return up to
Heaven to approve their vigilance, and are approved; God declaring that the
entrance of Satan could not be by them prevented. He sends his Son to judge
the Transgressors; who descends, and gives sentence accordingly; then, in
pity, clothes them both, and reascends. Sin and Death, sitting till then at
the gates of Hell, by wondrous sympathy feeling the success of Satan in this
new World, and the sin by Man there committed, resolve to sit no longer
confined in Hell, but to follow Satan, their sire, up to the place of Man:
to make the way easier from Hell to this World to and fro, they pave a broad
highway or bridge over Chaos, according to the track that Satan first made;
then, preparing for Earth, they meet him, proud of his success, returning to
Hell; their mutual gratulation. Satan arrives at Pandemonium; in full
assembly relates, with boasting, his success against Man; instead of
applause is entertained with a general hiss by all his audience,
transformed, with himself also, suddenly into Serpents, according to his
doom given in Paradise; then, deluded with a shew of the Forbidden Tree
springing up before them, they, greedily reaching to take of the Fruit, chew
dust and bitter ashes. The proceedings of Sin and Death; God foretells the
final victory of his Son over them, and the renewing of all things; but, for
the present, commands his Angels to make several alterations in the Heavens
and Elements. Adam, more and more perceiving his fallen condition, heavily
bewails, rejects the condolement of Eve; she persists, and at length
appeases him: then, to evade the curse likely to fall on their offspring,
proposes to Adam violent ways; which he approves not, but, conceiving better
hope, puts her in mind of the late promise made them, that her seed should
be revenged on the Serpent, and exhorts her, with him, to seek peace of the
offended Deity by repentance and supplication.</span></div>
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<b>tl;dr God saw it all. God knew it all. And judgement happens. Just read it, this is also an important book.</b></span></div>
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<td>MEANWHILE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the
hainous and despiteful act</td>
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<td>God obviously knew all about the bad news. </td>
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<td>Of Satan done in Paradise, and how</td>
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<td>God knew about Satan</td>
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<td>He, in the Serpent, had perverted Eve,</td>
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</td>
<td>and how he had took the form of a snake to tempt Eve.</td>
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<td>Her Husband she, to taste the fatal Fruit,</td>
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<td>And God definitely knew that Adam would fall to temptation too. </td>
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<td>Was known in Heaven; for what can scape the eye</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 5</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You just can't hide anything from God.</td>
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<td>Of God all—seeing, or deceive his heart</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Omniscient? who, in all things wise and just,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">He sees it all, </td>
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<td>Hindered not Satan to attempt the mind</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">but he still didn't do anything to stop anything from happening</td>
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<td>Of Man, with strength entire and free will armed</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">because Adam and Eve have free will. </td>
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<td>Complete to have discovered and repulsed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 10</i> </div>
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<td>Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend.</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">Free will is their biggest defense against all. </td>
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<td>For still they knew, and ought to have still remembered,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>The high injunction not to taste that Fruit,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Whoever tempted; which they not obeying</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">Unfortunately, they still disobeyed God</td>
</tr>
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<td>Incurred (what could they less?) the penalty,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 15</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and now they have to pay the price.</td>
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<td>And, manifold in sin, deserved to fall.</td>
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<td>Up into Heaven from Paradise in haste</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">A few guardian angels ascended</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Angelic Guards ascended, mute and sad</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">up to Heaven. They were sad because </td>
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<td>For Man; for of his state by this they knew,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">of the fall of man.</td>
</tr>
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<td>Much wondering how the subtle Fiend had stolen</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 20</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They were also sad that Satan snuck right by them.</td>
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<td>Entrance unseen. Soon as the unwelcome news</td>
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<td>From Earth arrived at Heaven-gate, displeased</td>
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<td align="left">Soon, every other angel in Heaven knew about the bad news. </td>
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<td>All were who heard; dim sadness did not spare</td>
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<td>That time celestial visages, yet, mixed</td>
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<td>With pity, violated not their bliss.</td>
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<i> 25</i> </div>
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<td>About the new-arrived in multitudes,</td>
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<td align="left">A host of angels surrounded the guardian angels to </td>
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<td>The Ethereal People ran, to hear and know</td>
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<td align="left">learn more.</td>
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<td>How all befell. They towards the Throne supreme,</td>
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<td>Accountable, made haste, to make appear,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But the guardian angels were rushing straight to </td>
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<tr>
<td>With righteous plea, their utmost vigilance,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 30</i> </div>
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<td>And easily approved; when the Most High,</td>
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</td>
<td align="left">God's throne to explain what happened.</td>
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<td>Eternal Father, from his secret Cloud</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">God was understanding and reassuring,</td>
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<td>Amidst, in thunder uttered thus his voice:—</td>
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<td align="left">he spoke,</td>
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<td> “Assembled Angels, and ye Powers returned</td>
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<td align="left">"Angels, </td>
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<td>From unsuccessful charge, be not dismayed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 35</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">you shouldn't feel so bad about what happened.</td>
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<td>Nor troubled at these tidings from the Earth,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Which your sincerest care could not prevent,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Foretold so lately what would come to pass,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">There was really nothing you could have done to stop anything. </td>
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<td>When first this Tempter crossed the gulf from Hell.</td>
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</td>
<td align="left">Remember back then, when Satan was on the move, I told you this was going to happen.</td>
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<td>I told ye then he should prevail, and speed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 40</i> </div>
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<td>On his bad errand—Man should be seduced,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>And flattered out of all, believing lies</td>
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</td>
<td align="left">And there was nothing I did that made a direct difference.</td>
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<td>Against his Maker; no decree of mine,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Adam and Eve have free will. I have no influence on that. </td>
</tr>
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<td>Concurring to necessitate his fall,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Or touch with lightest moment of impulse</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 45</i> </div>
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<td>His free will, to her own inclining left</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>In even scale. But fallen he is; and now</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">Man has fallen. </td>
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<td>What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">So we must pass the sentence on him,</td>
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<td>On his transgression, Death denounced that day</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">which is death! </td>
</tr>
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<td>Which he presumes already vain and void,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 50</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Because not yet inflicted, as he feared,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">They think death isn't coming at all because it didn't happen immediately, </td>
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<td>By some immediate stroke, but soon shall find</td>
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<td>Forbearance no acquittance ere day end.</td>
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<td align="left">but it is coming. </td>
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<td>Justice shall not return, as bounty, scorned.</td>
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<td>But whom send I to judge them? whom but thee,</td>
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<i> 55</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I wouldn't send anyone else down to judge them, but you my Son.</td>
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<td>Vicegerent Son? To thee I have transferred</td>
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<td>All judgment, whether in Heaven, or Earth, or Hell.</td>
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<td align="left">Because you have the power of Heaven, Earth, and Hell. </td>
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<td>Easy it may be seen that I intend</td>
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<td>Mercy colleague with justice, sending thee,</td>
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<td align="left">By sending you down there to them, </td>
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<td>Man’s Friend, his Mediator, his designed</td>
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<i> 60</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">it will be merciful. You are man's friend, and </td>
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<td>Both Ransom and Redeemer voluntary,</td>
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<td align="left">you have also volunteered to become man </td>
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<td>And destined Man himself to judge Man fallen.”</td>
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<td align="left">yourself one day and be mankind's savior."</td>
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<td> So spake the Father; and, unfolding bright</td>
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<td>Toward the right hand his glory, on the Son</td>
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<td align="left">The Son appeared to the right side of God. </td>
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<td>Blazed forth unclouded deity. He full</td>
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<i> 65</i> </div>
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<td>Resplendent all his Father manifest</td>
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<td>Expressed, and thus divinely answered mild:—</td>
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<td align="left">The Son replied, </td>
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<td> “Father Eternal, thine is to decree;</td>
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<td align="left">"Hey, whatever you want me to do... I'll do it. </td>
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<td>Mine both in Heaven and Earth to do thy will</td>
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<td align="left">I just want to please you. </td>
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<td>Supreme, that thou in me, thy Son beloved,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 70</i> </div>
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<td>May’st ever rest well pleased. I go to judge</td>
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<td align="left">I'll go down there and judge the</td>
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<td>On Earth these thy transgressors; but thou know’st,</td>
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<td align="left">earthly sinners.</td>
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<td>Whoever judged, the worst on me must light,</td>
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<td>When time shall be; for so I undertook</td>
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<td align="left">But we both know that I'll suffer a punishment too in the future from mankind (crucifixion y'all...) </td>
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<td>Before thee, and, not repenting, this obtain</td>
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<i> 75</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I won't have </td>
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<td>Of right, that I may mitigate their doom</td>
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<td align="left">any regrets about it.</td>
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<td>On me derived. Yet I shall temper so</td>
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<td>Justice with mercy as may illustrate most</td>
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<td align="left">I will judge them fairly.</td>
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<td>Them fully satisfied, and thee appease.</td>
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<td>Attendance none shall need, nor train, where none</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 80</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And i will go alone.</td>
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<td>Are to behold the judgment but the judged,</td>
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<td>Those two; the third best absent is condemned,</td>
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<td>Convict by flight, and rebel to all law;</td>
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<td align="left">Satan has already fled the scene, </td>
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<td>Conviction to the Serpent none belongs.”</td>
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<td align="left">and the reptile snake shouldn't be at fault."</td>
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<td> Thus saying, from his radiant Seat he rose</td>
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<i> 85</i> </div>
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<td>Of high collateral glory. Him Thrones and Powers,</td>
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<td>Princedoms, and Dominations ministrant,</td>
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<td>Accompanied to Heaven-gate, from whence</td>
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<td align="left">Angels accompanied the Son to Heaven's gate, </td>
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<td>Eden and all the coast in prospect lay.</td>
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<td align="left">from there you couod see all of Eden.</td>
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<td>Down he descended straight; the speed of Gods</td>
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<i> 90</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And in no time, </td>
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<td>Time counts not, though with swiftest minutes winged.</td>
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<td align="left">the Son arrived on earth. </td>
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<td> Now was the Sun in western cadence low</td>
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<td align="left">The sun was setting.</td>
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<td>From noon, and gentle airs due at their hour</td>
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<td>To fan the Earth now waked, and usher in</td>
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<td>The evening cool, when he, from wrauth more cool,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 95</i> </div>
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<td>Came, the mild Judge and Intercessor both,</td>
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<td align="left">The Son was ready to be judge and mediator in sentencing man. </td>
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<td>To sentence Man. The voice of God they heard</td>
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<td>Now walking in the Garden, by soft winds</td>
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<td>Brought to their ears, while day declined; they heard,</td>
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<td>And from his presence hid themselves among</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 100</i> </div>
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<td>The thickest trees, both man and wife, till God,</td>
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<td align="left">Adam and Eve felt God's word and they hid in the trees. </td>
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<td>Approaching, thus to Adam called aloud:—</td>
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<td align="left">The Son called out, </td>
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<td> “Where art thou, Adam, wont with joy to meet</td>
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<td align="left">"Adam, where are you?</td>
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<td>My coming, seen far off? I miss thee here,</td>
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<td align="left">you're usually so happy to see me!</td>
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<td>Not pleased thus entertained, with solitude,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;">
<i> 105</i> </div>
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<td>Where obvious duty erewhile appeared unsought.</td>
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<td>Or come I less conspicuous, or what change</td>
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<td align="left">Anyone there? Hello??</td>
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<td>Absents thee, or what chance detains? Come forth!”</td>
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<td align="left">Come on out."</td>
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<td> He came, and with him Eve, more loth, though first</td>
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<td align="left">Adam came out along with Eve. </td>
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<td>To offend, discountenanced both, and discomposed.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 110</i> </div>
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<td>Love was not in their looks, either to God</td>
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<td align="left">They looked like a hot mess.</td>
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<td>Or to each other, but apparent guilt,</td>
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<td align="left">And guilty.</td>
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<td>And shame, and perturbation, and despair,</td>
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<td>Anger, and obstinacy, and hate, and guile.</td>
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<td align="left">They looked hopeless, full of shame and despair. </td>
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<td>Whence Adam, faltering long, thus answered brief:—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 115</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">Adam said, stuttering, </td>
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<td> “I heard thee in the Garden, and, of thy voice</td>
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<td align="left">"I heard you in the Garden, </td>
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<td>Afraid, being naked, hid myself.” To whom</td>
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<td align="left">but I was scared to come out because I'm... naked."</td>
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<td>The gracious Judge, without revile, replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">The Son calmly replied, </td>
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<td> “My voice thou oft has heard, and hast not feared,</td>
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<td align="left">"But you heard my voice so many times before, </td>
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<td>But still rejoiced; how is it now become</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 120</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">why are you so afraid now?</td>
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<td>So dreadful to thee? That thou art naked who</td>
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<td align="left">And... who told you that you were naked?</td>
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<td>Hath told thee? Hast thou eaten of the Tree</td>
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<td align="left">Did you eat the fruit from the forbidden tree?</td>
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<td>Whereof I gave thee charge thou shouldst not eat?”</td>
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<td align="left">You know.. the one we told you not to eat from?"</td>
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<td>To whom thus Adam, sore beset, replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">Adam replied, </td>
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<td> “O Heaven! in evil strait this day I stand</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 125</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">"...I don't know what to say...</td>
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<td>Before my Judge—either to undergo</td>
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<td>Myself the total crime, or to accuse</td>
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<td align="left">should I take the blame or </td>
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<td>My other self, the partner of my life,</td>
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<td align="left">accuse the person who I love? Eve, the one I should be protecting from everything.</td>
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<td>Whose failing, while her faith to me remains,</td>
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<td>I should conceal, and not expose to blame</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 130</i> </div>
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<td>By my complaint. But strict necessity</td>
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<td align="left">I don't know what to do. </td>
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<td>Subdues me, and calamitous constraint,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">I don't think I'm strong enough to bear the entire responsibility.</td>
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<td>Lest on my head both sin and punishment,</td>
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<td>However insupportable, be all</td>
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<td>Devolved; though, should I hold my peace, yet thou</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 135</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">There's no point anyway, in keeping things from you. </td>
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<td>Wouldst easily detect what I conceal.</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>This Woman, whom thou mad’st to be my help,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">You made Eve to be my wife, the perfect individual, </td>
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<td>And gav’st me as thy perfect gift, so good,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">and it seemed like she could do no wrong...</td>
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<td>So fit, so acceptáble, so divine,</td>
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<td>That from her hand I could suspect no ill,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 140</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>And what she did, whatever in itself,</td>
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<td align="left">but she gave me the fruit...</td>
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<td>Her doing seemed to justify the deed—</td>
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<td>She gave me of the Tree, and I did eat.”</td>
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<td align="left">and I ate it."</td>
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<td>To whom the Sovran Presence thus replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">The Son replied,. </td>
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<td> “Was she thy God, that her thou didst obey</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 145</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Hmmm, sounds like you decided to obey her</td>
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<td>Before his voice? or was she made thy guide,</td>
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<td align="left">rather than obeying me. </td>
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<td>Superior, or but equal, that to her</td>
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<td align="left">So is she your God now?</td>
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<td>Thou didst resign thy manhood, and the place</td>
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<td align="left">Or did you just give up your manhood</td>
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<td>Wherein God set thee above her, made of thee</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">and let her become your master and conqueror? Did you forget that we made you to be master of all, to be her superior. </td>
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<td>And for thee, whose perfection far excelled</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 150</i> </div>
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<td>Hers in all real dignity? Adorned</td>
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<td align="left">She was made to attract your love</td>
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<td>She was indeed, and lovely, to attract</td>
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<td align="left">and affection, </td>
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<td>Thy love, not thy subjection; and her gifts</td>
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<td align="left">but not your obedience. </td>
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<td>Were such as under government well seemed—</td>
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<td align="left">She was made to obey you, not to become your leader. </td>
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<td>Unseemly to bear rule; which was thy part</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 155</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>And person, hadst thou known thyself aright.”</td>
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<td align="left">You should have known your place, Adam. </td>
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<td> So having said, he thus to Eve in few:—</td>
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<td align="left">Eve, explain yourself."</td>
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<td>“Say, Woman, what is this which thou hast done?”</td>
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<td> To whom sad Eve, with shame nigh overwhelmed,</td>
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<td>Confessing soon, yet not before her Judge</td>
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<td>Bold or loquacious, thus abashed replied:—</td>
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<td>“The Serpent me beguiled, and I did eat.”</td>
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<td align="left">"The snake tricked me and I ate the fruit from the forbidden tree."</td>
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<td> Which when the Lord God heard, without delay</td>
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<td>To judgment he proceeded on the accused</td>
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<td>Serpent, though brute, unable to transfer</td>
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<td>The guilt on him who made him instrument</td>
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<td>Of mischief, and polluted from the end</td>
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<td>Of his creation—justly then accursed,</td>
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<td>As vitiated in nature. More to know</td>
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<td>Concerned not Man (since he no further knew),</td>
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<td>Nor altered his offence; yet God at last</td>
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<td>To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied,</td>
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<td>Though in mysterious terms, judged as then best;</td>
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<td>And on the Serpent thus his curse let fall:—</td>
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<td> “Because thou hast done this, thou art accursed</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"I curse you. </td>
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<td>Above all cattle, each beast of the field;</td>
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<td>Upon thy belly grovelling thou shalt go,</td>
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<td>And dust shalt eat all the days of thy life.</td>
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<td>Between thee and the Woman I will put</td>
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<td>Enmity, and between thine and her seed;</td>
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<i> 180</i> </div>
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<td>Her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel.”</td>
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<td align="left">If you bruise man's heel, man will bruise your head."</td>
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<td> So spake this oracle—then verified</td>
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<td>When Jesus, son of Mary, second Eve,</td>
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<td>Saw Satan fall like lightning down from Heaven,</td>
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<td>Prince of the Air; then, rising from his grave,</td>
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<td>Spoiled Principalities and Powers, triumphed</td>
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<td>In open shew, and, with ascension bright,</td>
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<td>Captivity led captive through the Air,</td>
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<td>The realm itself of Satan, long usurped,</td>
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<td>Whom He shall tread at last under our feet,</td>
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<td>Even He who now foretold his fatal bruise,</td>
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<td>And to the Woman thus his sentence turned:—</td>
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<td align="left">Then God/Son spoke to Eve, </td>
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<td> “Thy sorrow I will greatly multiply</td>
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<td align="left">"You and future women will be in misery</td>
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<td>By thy conception; children thou shalt bring</td>
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<td>In sorrow forth, and to thy husband’s will</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Childbirth is going to suck for y'all now. </td>
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<td>Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.”</td>
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<td align="left">And you'll have to obey your husbands' rules. Future women will endure all of this."</td>
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<td> On Adam last thus judgment he pronounced:—</td>
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<td>“Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife,</td>
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<td align="left">"As for you, since you listened to your wife and ate the fruit we told you not to eat...</td>
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<td>And eaten of the Tree concerning which</td>
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<td>I charged thee, saying,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Thou
shalt not eat thereof,</i></td>
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<td>Curs’d is the ground for thy sake; thou in sorrow</td>
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<td>Shalt eat thereof all the days of thy life;</td>
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<td align="left">From now on, you will be miserable...</td>
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<td>Thorns also and thistles it shall bring thee forth</td>
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<td>Unbid; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;</td>
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<td>In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread,</td>
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<td>Till thou return unto the ground; for thou</td>
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<td align="left">Then when you finally die, you will return to what you were made from... the dirt."</td>
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<td>Out of the ground wast taken: know thy birth,</td>
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<td>For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.”</td>
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<td> So judged he Man, both Judge and Saviour sent,</td>
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<td align="left">This was God's judgement. </td>
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<td>And the instant stroke of death, denounced that day,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Instead of an instant stroke of death on man that day, </td>
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<td>Removed far off; then, pitying how they stood</td>
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<td>Before him naked to the air, that now</td>
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<td>Must suffer change, disdained not to begin</td>
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<td>Thenceforth the form of servant to assume.</td>
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<td>As when he washed his servants’ feet, so now,</td>
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<td>As Father of his family, he clad</td>
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<td>Their nakedness with skins of beasts, or slain,</td>
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<td>Or, as the snake, with youthful coat repaid;</td>
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<td align="left">other animals that stayed alive—he just let them grow their fur right back. </td>
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<td>And thought not much to clothe his enemies.</td>
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<td>Nor he their outward only with the skins</td>
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<td>Of beasts, but inward nakedness, much more</td>
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<td>Opprobrious, with his robe of righteousness</td>
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<td>Arraying, covered from his Father’s sight.</td>
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<td>To him with swift ascent he up returned,</td>
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<td align="left">Then he left and went back. upto Heaven. </td>
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<td>Into his blissful bosom reassumed</td>
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<i> 225</i> </div>
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<td>In glory as of old; to him, appeased,</td>
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<td>All, though all-knowing, what had passed with Man</td>
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<td align="left">Even thought God knew everything that happened, the Son</td>
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<td>Recounted, mixing intercession sweet.</td>
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<td align="left">told God everything anyway (weird right? since God and the Son are basically the same-ish).</td>
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<td> Meanwhile, ere thus was sinned and judged on Earth,</td>
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<td>Within the gates of Hell sat Sin and Death,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">at the gates of Hell were Sin and Death. </td>
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<td>In counterview within the gates, that now</td>
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<td>Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame</td>
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<td>Far into Chaos, since the Fiend passed through,</td>
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<td>Sin opening; who thus now to Death began:—</td>
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<td> “O Son, why sit we here, each other viewing</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Why are we sitting here, just staring?</td>
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<td>Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives</td>
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<td>In other worlds, and happier sent provides</td>
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<td align="left">and so far nothing has really happened.</td>
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<td>For us, his offspring dear? It cannot be</td>
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<td>But that success attends him; if mishap</td>
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<td align="left">If he ran into trouble, </td>
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<td>Ere this he had returned, with fury driven</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I'm sure he would have come back here... </td>
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<td>By his Avengers, since no place like this</td>
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<td>Can fit his punishment, or their revenge.</td>
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<td>Methinks I feel new strength within me rise,</td>
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<td align="left">Besides, I'm feeling a new strength growing within me.</td>
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<td>Wings growing, and dominion given me large</td>
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<td align="left">That tells me that Satan is okay.</td>
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<td>Beyond this Deep—whatever draws me on,</td>
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<td>Or sympathy, or some connatural force,</td>
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<td>Powerful at greatest distance to unite</td>
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<td>With secret amity things of like kind</td>
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<td>By secretest conveyance. Thou, my shade</td>
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<td>Inseparable, must with me along;</td>
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<i> 250</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I'm going to find and meet him, and you must come with me. </td>
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<td>For Death from Sin no power can separate.</td>
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<td>But, lest the difficulty of passing back</td>
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<td align="left">It could be the difficulty of traveling through </td>
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<td>Stay his return perhaps over this gulf</td>
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<td align="left">the chaos of space that is slowing his arrival back. </td>
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<td>Impassable, impervious, let us try</td>
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<td>(Adventrous work, yet to thy power and mine</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 255</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Let's work. oncreating a bridge, a pathway</td>
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<td>Not unagreeable!) to found a path</td>
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<td>Over this Main from Hell to that new World</td>
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<td align="left">from Hell to Earth. </td>
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<td>Where Satan now prevails—a monument</td>
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<td>Of merit high to all the infernal Host,</td>
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<td>Easing their passage hence, for intercourse</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 260</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">We have the power to do this. This pathway helps Satan and other devils to travel swiftly. </td>
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<td>Or transmigration, as their lot shall lead.</td>
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<td>Nor can I miss the way, so strongly drawn</td>
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<td>By this new-felt attraction and instinct.”</td>
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<td align="left">Let's do this."</td>
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<td> Whom thus the meagre Shadow answered soon:—</td>
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<td align="left">Sin replied, </td>
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<td>“Go whither fate and inclination strong</td>
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<td>Leads thee; I shall not lag behind, nor err</td>
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<td>The way, thou leading: such a scent I draw</td>
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<td>Of carnage, prey innumerable, and taste</td>
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<td>The savour of death from all things there that live.</td>
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<td>Nor shall I do the work thou enterprisest</td>
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<td>Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid.”</td>
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<td> So saying, with delight he snuffed the smell</td>
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<td>Of mortal change on Earth. As when a flock</td>
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<td>Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remote,</td>
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<td>Against the day of battle, to a field</td>
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<td>Where armies lie encamped come flying, lured</td>
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<td>With scent of living carcases designed</td>
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<td>For death the following day in bloody fight;</td>
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<td>So scented the grim Feature, and upturned</td>
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<td>His nostril wide into the murky air,</td>
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<td>Sagacious of his quarry from so far.</td>
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<td>Then both, from out Hell-gates, into the waste</td>
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<td>Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark,</td>
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<td>Flew diverse, and, with power (their power was great)</td>
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<td>Hovering upon the waters, what they met</td>
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<i> 285</i> </div>
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<td>Solid or slimy, as in raging sea</td>
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<td>Tossed up and down, together crowded drove,</td>
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<td>From each side shoaling, towards the mouth of Hell;</td>
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<td>As when two polar winds, blowing adverse</td>
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<td>Upon the Cronian sea, together drive</td>
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<i> 290</i> </div>
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<td>Mountains of ice, that stop the imagined way</td>
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<td>Beyond Petsora eastward to the rich</td>
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<td>Cathaian coast. The aggregated soil</td>
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<td>Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry,</td>
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<td>As with a trident smote, and fixed as firm</td>
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<i> 295</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">to turn it all to stone.</td>
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<td>As Delos, floating once; the rest his look</td>
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<td>Bound with Gorgonian rigour not to move,</td>
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<td>And with asphaltic slime; broad as the gate,</td>
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<td>Deep to the roots of Hell the gathered beach</td>
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<td align="left">This foundation was rooted in Hell, </td>
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<td>They fastened, and the mole immense wraught on</td>
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<i> 300</i> </div>
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<td>Over the foaming Deep high-arched, a bridge</td>
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<td align="left">and they both built an arched highway</td>
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<td>Of length prodigious, joining to the wall</td>
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<td>Immovable of this now fenceless World,</td>
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<td>Forfeit to Death—from hence a passage broad,</td>
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<td>Smooth, easy, inoffensive, down to Hell.</td>
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<i> 305</i> </div>
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<td>So, if great things to small may be compared,</td>
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<td>Xerxes, the liberty of Greece to yoke,</td>
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<td>From Susa, his Memnonian palace high,</td>
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<td>Came to the sea, and, over Hellespont</td>
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<td>Bridging his way, Europe with Asia joined,</td>
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<td>And scourged with many a stroke the indignant waves.</td>
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<td>Now had they brought the work by wondrous art</td>
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<td align="left">They admired their work, </td>
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<td>Pontifical—a ridge of pendent rock</td>
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<td>Over the vexed Abyss, following the track</td>
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<td>Of Satan, to the self-same place where he</td>
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<i> 315</i> </div>
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<td>First lighted from his wing and landed safe</td>
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<td>From out of Chaos—to the outside bare</td>
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<td>Of this round World. With pins of adamant</td>
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<td>And chains they made all fast, too fast they made</td>
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<td>And durable; and now in little space</td>
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<i> 320</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Much like Heaven had a short connection to Earth, </td>
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<td>The confines met of empyrean Heaven</td>
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<td>And of this World, and on the left hand Hell,</td>
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<td>With long reach interposed; three several ways</td>
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<td align="left">Each of the three places was connected to the other two in a way. </td>
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<td>In sight of each of these three places led.</td>
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<td>And now their way to Earth they had described,</td>
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<i> 325</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Son and Death were on their way to Earth, </td>
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<td>To Paradise first tending, when, behold</td>
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<td>Satan, in likeness of an Angel bright,</td>
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<td align="left">until they saw Satan disguised as a good angel. </td>
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<td>Betwixt the Centaur and the Scorpion steering</td>
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<td>His zenith, while the Sun in Aries rose!</td>
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<td>Disguised he came; but those his children dear</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 330</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Sin and Death knew it was him right away. </td>
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<td>Their parent soon discerned, though in disguise.</td>
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<td>He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk</td>
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<td align="left">After Satan tempted Eve, he</td>
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<td>Into the wood fast by, and, changing shape</td>
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<td>To observe the sequel, saw his guileful act</td>
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<td align="left">to observe Eve tempting Adam. </td>
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<td>By Eve, though all unweeting, seconded</td>
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<i> 335</i> </div>
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<td>Upon her husband—saw their shame that sought</td>
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<td>Vain covertures; but, when he saw descend</td>
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<td align="left">When the </td>
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<td>The Son of God to judge them, terrified</td>
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<td align="left">Son of God went down to Earth to judge them, </td>
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<td>He fled, not hoping to escape, but shun</td>
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<td align="left">Satan fled. </td>
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<td>The present—fearing, guilty, what his wrauth</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 340</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan ran away in fear of what God/Son might do to him. </td>
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<td>Might suddenly inflict; that past, returned</td>
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<td>By night, and, listening where the hapless pair</td>
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<td>Sat in their sad discourse and various plaint,</td>
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<td>Thence gathered his own doom; which understood</td>
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<td>Not instant, but of future time, with joy</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 345</i> </div>
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<td>And tidings fraught, to Hell he now returned,</td>
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<td>And at the brink of Chaos, near the foot</td>
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<td align="left">At the new bridge, Satan met up with his children Sin and Death.</td>
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<td>Of this new wondrous pontifice, unhoped</td>
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<td>Met who to meet him came, his offspring dear.</td>
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<td align="left">He was in awe of the bridge. </td>
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<td>Great joy was at their meeting, and at sight</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 350</i> </div>
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<td>Of that stupendious bridge his joy increased.</td>
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<td>Long he admiring stood, till Sin, his fair</td>
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<td align="left">Sin said to Satan, </td>
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<td>Inchanting daughter, thus the silence broke:—</td>
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<td> “O Parent, these are thy magnific deeds,</td>
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<td align="left">"This is all because of you. </td>
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<td>Thy trophies! which thou view’st as not thine own;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 355</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">We knew you would be successful in your plan on Earth. </td>
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<td>Thou art their Author and prime Architect.</td>
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<td>For I no sooner in my heart divined</td>
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<td>(My heart, which by a secret harmony</td>
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<td>Still moves with thine, joined in connexion sweet)</td>
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<td>That thou on Earth hadst prospered, which thy looks</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 360</i> </div>
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<td>Now also evidence, but straight I felt—</td>
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<td>Though distant from thee worlds between, yet felt—</td>
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<td>That I must after thee with this thy son;</td>
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<td>Such fatal consequence unites us three.</td>
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<td>Hell could no longer hold us in her bounds,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 365</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Hell could no longer hold us in her bounds, </td>
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<td>Nor this unvoyageable gulf obscure</td>
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<td align="left">and the chaos of space couldn't stop us. </td>
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<td>Detain from following thy illustrious track.</td>
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<td>Thou hast achieved our liberty, confined</td>
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<td align="left">Satan, you have won freedom for us. </td>
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<td>Within Hell-gates till now; thou us impowered</td>
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<td align="left">That's why we were able to build this bridge. </td>
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<td>To fortify thus far, and overlay</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 370</i> </div>
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<td>With this portentous bridge the dark Abyss.</td>
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<td>Thine now is all this World; thy virtue hath won</td>
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<td align="left">Now the world is yours. </td>
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<td>What thy hands builded not; thy wisdom gained,</td>
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<td>With odds, what war hath lost, and fully avenged</td>
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<td>Our foil in Heaven. Here thou shalt Monarch reign,</td>
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<td>There didst not; there let him still victor sway,</td>
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<td>As battle hath adjudged, from this new World</td>
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<td>Retiring, by his own doom alienated,</td>
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<td>And henceforth monarchy with thee divide</td>
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<td>Of all things, parted by the empyreal bounds,</td>
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<td>His quadrature, from thy orbicular World,</td>
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<td>Or try thee now more dangerous to his Throne.”</td>
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<td> Whom thus the Prince of Darkness answered glad:—</td>
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<td>“Fair daughter, and thou, son and grandchild both,</td>
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<td>High proof ye now have given to be the race</td>
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<i> 385</i> </div>
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<td>Of Satan (for I glory in the name,</td>
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<td>Antagonist of Heaven’s Almighty King),</td>
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<td>Amply have merited of me, of all</td>
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<td>The Infernal Empire, that so near Heaven’s door</td>
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<td>Triumphal with triumphal act have met,</td>
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<i> 390</i> </div>
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<td>Mine with this glorious work, and made one realm</td>
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<td>Hell and this World—one realm, one continent</td>
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<td>Of easy thoroughfare. Therefore, while I</td>
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<td>Descend through Darkness, on your road with ease,</td>
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<td>To my associate Powers, them to acquaint</td>
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<i> 395</i> </div>
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<td>With these successes, and with them rejoice</td>
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<td>You two this way, among these numerous orbs,</td>
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<td>All yours, right down to Paradise descend;</td>
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<td>There dwell and reign in bliss; thence on the Earth</td>
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<td>Dominion exercise and in the air,</td>
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<td>Chiefly on Man, sole lord of all declared;</td>
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<td>Him first make sure your thrall, and lastly kill.</td>
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<td>My substitutes I send ye, and create</td>
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<td>Plenipotent on Earth, of matchless might</td>
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<td>Issuing from me. On your joint vigour now</td>
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<i> 405</i> </div>
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<td>My hold of this new kingdom all depends,</td>
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<td>Through Sin to Death exposed by my exploit.</td>
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<td>If your joint power prevail, the affairs of Hell</td>
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<td>No detriment need fear; go, and be strong.”</td>
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<td> So saying, he dismissed them; they with speed</td>
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<td>Their course through thickest constellations held,</td>
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<td>Spreading their bane; the blasted stars looked wan,</td>
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<td>And planets, planet-strook, real eclipse</td>
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<td>Then suffered. The other way Satan went down</td>
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<td>The causey to Hell-gate; on either side</td>
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<i> 415</i> </div>
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<td>Disparted Chaos overbuilt exclaimed,</td>
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<td>And with rebounding surge the bars assailed,</td>
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<td>That scorned his indignation. Through the gate,</td>
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<td>Wide open and unguarded, Satan passed,</td>
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<td>And all about found desolate; for those</td>
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<i> 420</i> </div>
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<td>Appointed to sit there had left their charge,</td>
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<td>Flown to the upper World; the rest were all</td>
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<td>Far to the inland retired, about the walls</td>
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<td>Of Pandemonium, city and proud seat</td>
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<td>Of Lucifer, so by allusion called</td>
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<i> 425</i> </div>
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<td>Of that bright star to Satan paragoned.</td>
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<td>There kept their watch the legions, while the Grand</td>
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<td>In council sat, solicitous what chance</td>
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<td>Might intercept their Emperor sent; so he</td>
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<td>Departing gave command, and they observed.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 430</i> </div>
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<td>As when the Tartar from his Russian foe,</td>
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<td>By Astracan, over the snowy plains,</td>
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<td>Retires, or Bactrian Sophi, from the horns</td>
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<td>Of Turkish crescent, leaves all waste beyond</td>
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<td>The realm of Aladule, in his retreat</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 435</i> </div>
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<td>To Tauris or Casbeen; so these, the late</td>
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<td>Heaven-banished host, left desert utmost Hell</td>
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<td>Many a dark league, reduced in careful watch</td>
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<td>Round their Metropolis, and now expecting</td>
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<td>Each hour their great Adventurer from the search</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 440</i> </div>
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<td>Of foreign worlds. He through the midst unmarked,</td>
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<td align="left">Satan entered the palace of Pandemonium</td>
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<td>In shew plebeian Angel militant</td>
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<td>Of lowest order, passed, and, from the door</td>
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<td>Of that Plutonian hall, invisible</td>
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<td>Ascended his high Throne, which, under state</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 445</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He went up to his throne, </td>
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<td>Of richest texture spread, at the upper end</td>
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<td>Was placed in regal lustre. Down a while</td>
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<td>He sat, and round about him saw, unseen.</td>
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<td align="left">He sat. </td>
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<td>At last, as from a cloud, his fulgent head</td>
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<td align="left">Until he showed off his true self. </td>
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<td>And shape star-bright appeared, or brighter, clad</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 450</i> </div>
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<td>With what permissive glory since his fall</td>
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<td align="left">Everyone around was startled by </td>
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<td>Was left him, or false glitter. All amazed</td>
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<td align="left">his bright light. </td>
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<td>At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng</td>
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<td>Bent their aspect, and whom they wished beheld,</td>
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<td>Their mighty Chief returned: loud was the acclaim.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 455</i> </div>
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<td>Forth rushed in haste the great consulting Peers,</td>
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<td align="left">They all flocked to him and cheered.</td>
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<td>Raised from their dark Divan, and with like joy</td>
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<td>Congratulant approached him, who with hand</td>
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<td>Silence, and with these words attention, won:—</td>
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<td align="left">Satan raised his hand to silence them, </td>
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<td> “Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers!—</td>
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<i> 460</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers!</td>
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<td>For in possession such, not only of right,</td>
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<td align="left">That's right, I'm callin gyou all by your old titles again,</td>
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<td>I call ye, and declare ye now, returned,</td>
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<td align="left">because you deserve to be called by them. </td>
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<td>Successful beyond hope, to lead ye forth</td>
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<td align="left">I have succeeded.</td>
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<td>Triumphant out of this infernal Pit</td>
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<td>Abominable, accursed, the house of woe,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 465</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I will lead you out of this damned place</td>
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<td>And dungeon of our tyrant! Now possess,</td>
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<td align="left">to another one as </td>
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<td>As lords, a spacious World, to our native Heaven</td>
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<td align="left">beautiful as Heaven. And it will be all ours.</td>
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<td>Little inferior, by my adventure hard</td>
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<td>With peril great achieved. Long were to tell</td>
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<td>What I have done, what suffered, with what pain</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 470</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I've had a long journey. </td>
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<td>Voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded Deep</td>
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<td align="left">It is a long way through the chaos of space. </td>
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<td>Of horrible confusion—over which</td>
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<td>By Sin and Death a broad way now is paved,</td>
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<td align="left">But Sin and Death have made the path easier for all of you. </td>
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<td>To expedite your glorious march; but I</td>
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<td>Toiled out my uncouth passage, forced to ride</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 475</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Before that easy path. </td>
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<td>The untractable Abyss, plunged in the womb</td>
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<td>Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wild,</td>
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<td>That, jealous of their secrets, fiercely opposed</td>
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<td>My journey strange, with clamorous uproar</td>
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<td>Protesting Fate supreme; thence how I found</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 480</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">until I found God's newly created world. </td>
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<td>The new-created World, which fame in Heaven</td>
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<td>Long had foretold, a fabric wonderful,</td>
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<td>Of absolute perfection; therein Man</td>
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<td align="left">Man lives there. </td>
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<td>Placed in a Paradise, by our exile</td>
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<td>Made happy. Him by fraud I have seduced</td>
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<td>From his Creator, and, the more to increase</td>
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<td>Your wonder, with an apple! He, thereat</td>
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<td>Offended—worth your laughter!—hath given up</td>
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<td>Both his beloved Man and all his World</td>
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<td>To Sin and Death a prey, and so to us,</td>
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<td>Without our hazard, labour, or alarm,</td>
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<td>To range in, and to dwell, and over Man</td>
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<td>To rule, as over all he should have ruled.</td>
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<td>True is, me also he hath judged; or rather</td>
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<td>Me not, but the brute Serpent, in whose shape</td>
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<i> 495</i> </div>
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<td>Man I deceived. That which to me belongs</td>
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<td>Is enmity, which he will put between</td>
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<td>Me and Mankind: I am to bruise his heel;</td>
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<td>His seed—when is not set—shall bruise my head!</td>
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<td align="left">whatever... something like that!</td>
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<td>A world who would not purchase with a bruise,</td>
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<i> 500</i> </div>
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<td>Or much more grievous pain? Ye have the account</td>
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<td>Of my performance; what remains, ye Gods,</td>
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<td>But up and enter now into full bliss?”</td>
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<td> So having said, a while he stood, expecting</td>
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<td>Their universal shout and high applause</td>
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<i> 505</i> </div>
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<td>To fill his ear; when, contrary, he hears,</td>
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<td>On all sides, from innumerable tongues</td>
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<td align="left">Instead he heard hissing. </td>
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<td>A dismal universal hiss, the sound</td>
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<td>Of public scorn. He wondered, but not long</td>
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<td>Had leisure, wondering at himself now more.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">(FUN FACT read the original lines aloud, and there's a lot of S words to make it sound like you're hissing.)</td>
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<td>His visage drawn he felt to sharp and spare,</td>
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<td align="left">The next thing Satan knew, he felt his </td>
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<td>His arms clung to his ribs, his legs entwining</td>
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<td>Each other, till, supplanted, down he fell,</td>
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<td align="left">around each other. He fell down.</td>
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<td>A monstrous serpent on his belly prone,</td>
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<td align="left">He turned into a snake. </td>
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<td>Reluctant, but in vain; a greater power</td>
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<i> 515</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God turned him back into the shape he was</td>
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<td>Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned,</td>
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<td align="left">when he sinned.</td>
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<td>According to his doom. He would have spoke,</td>
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<td>But hiss for hiss returned with forkèd tongue</td>
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<td align="left">He tried to speak, but all he could do was hiss</td>
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<td>To forkèd tongue; for now were all transformed</td>
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<td align="left">like the rest of the fallen angels in the palace.</td>
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<td>Alike, to serpents all, as accessories</td>
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<td>To his bold riot. Dreadful was the din</td>
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<td>Of hissing through the hall, thick-swarming now</td>
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<td>With complicated monsters, head and tail—</td>
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<td>Scorpion, and Asp, and Amphisbæna dire,</td>
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<td>Cerastes horned, Hydrus, and Ellops drear,</td>
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<i> 525</i> </div>
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<td>And Dipsas (not so thick swarmed once the soil</td>
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<td>Bedropt with blood of Gordon, or the isle</td>
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<td>Ophiusa); but still greatest the midst,</td>
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<td>Now Dragon grown, larger than whom the Sun</td>
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<td>Ingendered in the Phythian vale on slime,</td>
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<i> 530</i> </div>
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<td>Huge Python; and his power no less he seemed</td>
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<td align="left">Satan was the biggest snake. of them all. </td>
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<td>Above the rest still to retain. They all</td>
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<td>Him followed, issuing forth to the open field,</td>
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<td align="left">All the snakes followed him outside, </td>
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<td>Where all yet left of that revolted rout,</td>
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<td align="left">where more angel soldiers were. They were expecting a </td>
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<td>Heaven-fallen, in station stood or just array,</td>
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<i> 535</i> </div>
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<td>Sublime with expectation when to see</td>
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<td>In triumph issuing forth their glorious Chief.</td>
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<td>They saw, but other sight instead—a crowd</td>
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<td align="left">The rest of the angel soldiers also turned into snakes. </td>
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<td>Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell,</td>
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<td>And horrid sympathy; for what they saw</td>
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<i> 540</i> </div>
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<td>They felt themselves now changing. Down their arms,</td>
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<td>Down fell both spear and shield; down they as fast,</td>
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<td>And the dire hiss renewed, and the dire form</td>
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<td>Catched by contagion, like in punishment</td>
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<td>As in their crime. Thus was the applause they meant</td>
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<i> 545</i> </div>
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<td>Turned to exploding hiss, triumph to shame</td>
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<td align="left">The collective hissing grew louder and louder.</td>
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<td>Cast on themselves from their own mouths. There stood</td>
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<td>A grove hard by, sprung up with this their change,</td>
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<td align="left">God then made a </td>
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<td>His will who reigns above, to aggravate</td>
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<td align="left">grove of trees from below</td>
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<td>Their penance, laden with fair fruit, like that</td>
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<i> 550</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">because he wasn't done torturing them yet. </td>
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<td>Which grew in Paradise, the bait of Eve</td>
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<td align="left">The trees were like the ones you would find in Eden.</td>
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<td>Used by the Tempter. On that prospect strange</td>
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<td>Their earnest eyes they fixed, imagining</td>
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<td>For one forbidden tree a multitude</td>
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<td>Now risen, to work them further woe or shame;</td>
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<i> 555</i> </div>
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<td>Yet, parched with scalding thirst and hunger fierce</td>
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<td align="left">All the snakes grew hungry and thirsty, </td>
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<td>Though to delude them sent, could not abstain,</td>
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<td>But on they rowled in heaps, and, up the trees</td>
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<td align="left">so they all swarmed toward the trees</td>
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<td>Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks</td>
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<td>That curled Megæra. Greedily they plucked</td>
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<i> 560</i> </div>
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<td>The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew</td>
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<td>Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed;</td>
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<td>This, more delusive, not the touch, but taste</td>
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<td align="left">But whenever the snakes would bite</td>
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<td>Deceived; they fondly thinking to allay</td>
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<td align="left">at the </td>
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<td>Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit</td>
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<i> 565</i> </div>
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<td>Chewed bitter ashes, which the offended taste</td>
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<td>With spattering noise rejected. Off they assayed,</td>
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<td align="left">They spit it out, </td>
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<td>Hunger and thirst constraining; drugged as oft,</td>
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<td align="left">but they were still so hungry</td>
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<td>With hatefulest disrelish writhed their jaws</td>
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<td align="left">they continued to eat the fruit</td>
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<td>With soot and cinder filled; so oft they fell</td>
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<i> 570</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">which would still turn to ash in their mouths. </td>
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<td>Into the same illusion, not as Man</td>
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<td align="left">It's similar to the temptation that Man fell for once, </td>
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<td>Whom they triumphed’ once lapsed. Thus were they plagued,</td>
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<td>And, worn with famine, long and ceaseless hiss,</td>
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<td align="left">but the devils-turned-snakes would fall for temptation over and over again. </td>
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<td>Till their lost shape, permitted, they resumed—</td>
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<td align="left">God allowed this to happen for a long while, </td>
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<td>Yearly enjoined, some say, to undergo</td>
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<i> 575</i> </div>
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<td>This annual humbling certain numbered days,</td>
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<td align="left">until he turned them back into their normal forms. </td>
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<td>To dash their pride, and joy for Man seduced.</td>
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<td>However, some tradition they dispersed</td>
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<td>Among the Heathen of their purchase got,</td>
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<td>And fabled how the Serpent, whom they called</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 580</i> </div>
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<td>Ophion, with Eurynome (the wide—</td>
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<td>Encroaching Eve perhaps), had first the rule</td>
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<td>Of high Olympus, thence by Saturn driven</td>
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<td>And Ops, ere yet Dictæan Jove was born.</td>
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<td> Meanwhile in Paradise the Hellish pair</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 585</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Meanwhile, </td>
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<td>Too soon arrived—Sin, there in power before</td>
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<td>Once actual, now in body, and to dwell</td>
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<td>Habitual habitant; behind her Death,</td>
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<td align="left">Death arrived in Paradise.</td>
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<td>Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet</td>
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<td>On his pale horse; to whom Sin thus began:—</td>
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<i> 590</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Sin spoke to Death, </td>
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<td> “Second of Satan sprung, all-conquering Death!</td>
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<td align="left">"So, what do you think of your new home?"</td>
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<td>What think’st thou of our empire now? though earned</td>
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<td>With travail difficult, not better far</td>
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<td>Than still at Hell’s dark threshold to have sat watch,</td>
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<td>Unnamed, undreaded, and thyself half-starved?”</td>
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<i> 595</i> </div>
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<td> Whom thus the Sin-born Monster answered soon:—</td>
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<td>“To me, who with eternal famine pine,</td>
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<td>Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven—</td>
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<td>There best where most with ravin I may meet:</td>
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<td>Which here, though plenteous, all too little seems</td>
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<i> 600</i> </div>
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<td>To stuff this maw, this vast unhide-bound corpse.”</td>
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<td> To whom the incestuous Mother thus replied:—</td>
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<td>“Thou, therefore, on these herbs, and fruits, and flowers,</td>
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<td>Feed first; on each beast next, and fish, and fowl—</td>
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<td>No homely morsels; and whatever thing</td>
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<i> 605</i> </div>
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<td>The scythe of Time mows down devour unspared;</td>
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<td>Till I, in Man residing through the race,</td>
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<td>His thoughts, his looks, words, actions, all infect,</td>
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<td>And season him thy last and sweetest prey.”</td>
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<td> This said, they both betook them several ways,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Both Sin and Death went their separate ways</td>
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<td>Both to destroy, or unimmortal make</td>
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<td>All kinds, and for destruction to mature</td>
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<td>Sooner or later; which the Almighty seeing,</td>
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<td>From his transcendent Seat the Saints among,</td>
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<td>To those bright Orders uttered thus his voice:—</td>
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<td> “See with what heat these dogs of Hell advance</td>
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<td>To waste and havoc yonder World, which I</td>
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<td>So fair and good created, and had still</td>
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<td>Kept in that state, had not the folly of Man</td>
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<td>Let in these wasteful furies, who impute</td>
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<i> 620</i> </div>
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<td>Folly to me (so doth the Prince of Hell</td>
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<td>And his adherents), that with so much ease</td>
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<td>I suffer them to enter and possess</td>
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<td>A place so heavenly, and, conniving, seem</td>
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<td>To gratify my scornful enemies,</td>
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<i> 625</i> </div>
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<td>That laugh, as if, transported with some fit</td>
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<td>Of passion, I to them had quitted all,</td>
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<td>At random yielded up to their misrule;</td>
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<td>And know not that I called and drew them thither,</td>
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<td>My Hell-hounds, to lick up the draft and filth</td>
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<td>Which Man’s polluting sin with taint hath shed</td>
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<td>On what was pure; till, crammed and gorged, nigh burst</td>
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<td>With sucked and glutted offal, at one sling</td>
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<td>Of thy victorious arm, well-pleasing Son,</td>
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<td align="left">My son, when they are finished doing that...</td>
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<td>Both Sin and Death, and yawning Grave, at last</td>
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<i> 635</i> </div>
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<td>Through Chaos hurled, obstruct the mouth of Hell</td>
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<td>For ever, and seal up his ravenous jaws.</td>
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<td>Then Heaven and Earth, renewed, shall be made pure</td>
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<td align="left">Then the earth will be pure again."</td>
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<td>To sanctity that shall receive no stain:</td>
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<td>Till then the curse pronounced on both precedes.”</td>
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<i> 640</i> </div>
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<td> He ended, and the Heavenly Audience loud</td>
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<td>Sung Halleluiah, as the sound of seas,</td>
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<td align="left">and sang about how nobody could undermine God and his work,</td>
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<td>Through multitude that sung:—“Just are thy ways,</td>
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<td align="left">and how the Son would restore the earth to its former glory. </td>
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<td>Righteous are thy decrees on all thy works;</td>
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<td>Who can extenuate thee? Next, to the Son,</td>
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<i> 645</i> </div>
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<td>Destined restorer of Mankind, by whom</td>
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<td>New Heaven and Earth shall to the ages rise,</td>
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<td>Or down from Heaven descend.” Such was their song,</td>
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<td>While the Creator, calling forth by name</td>
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<td>His mighty Angels, gave them several charge,</td>
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<td>As sorted best with present things. The Sun</td>
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<td>Had first his precept so to move, so shine,</td>
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<td>As might affect the Earth with cold and heat</td>
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<td>Scarce tolerable, and from the north to call</td>
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<td>Decrepit winter, from the south to bring</td>
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<i> 655</i> </div>
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<td>Solstitial summer’s heat. To the blanc Moon</td>
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<td>Her office they prescribed; to the other five</td>
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<td>Their planetary motions and aspects,</td>
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<td>In sextile, square, and trine, and opposite,</td>
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<td>Of noxious efficacy, and when to join</td>
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<i> 660</i> </div>
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<td>In synod unbenign; and taught the fixed</td>
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<td>Their influence malignant when to shower—</td>
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<td>Which of them, rising with the Sun or falling,</td>
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<td>Should prove tempestuous. To the winds they set</td>
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<td>Their corners, when with bluster to confound</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 665</i> </div>
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<td>Sea, air, and shore; the thunder when to roll</td>
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<td>With terror through the dark aerial hall.</td>
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<td align="left">cause the seas to become violent. </td>
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<td>Some say he bid his Angels turn askance</td>
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<td align="left">Some say that this is when God had</td>
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<td>The poles of Earth twice ten degrees and more</td>
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<td>From the Sun’s axle; they with labour pushed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 670</i> </div>
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<td>Oblique the centric Globe: some say the Sun</td>
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<td>Was bid turn reins from the equinoctial road</td>
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<td>Like distant breadth—to Taurus with the seven</td>
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<td>Atlantic Sisters, and the Spartan Twins,</td>
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<td>Up to the Tropic Crab; thence down amain</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 675</i> </div>
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<td>By Leo, and the Virgin, and the Scales,</td>
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<td>As deep as Capricorn; to bring in change</td>
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<td>Of seasons to each clime. Else had the spring</td>
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<td>Perpetual smiles on Earth with vernant flowers,</td>
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<td>Equal in days and nights, except to those</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 680</i> </div>
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<td>Beyond the polar circles; to them day</td>
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<td>Had unbenighted shon, while the low Sun,</td>
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<td align="left">be low across the horizon and always shine throughout the day, with no night time. </td>
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<td>To recompense his distance, in their sight</td>
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<td>Had rounded still the horizon, and not known</td>
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<td>Or east or west—which had forbid the snow</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 685</i> </div>
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<td>From cold Estotiland, and south as far</td>
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<td>Beneath Magellan. At that tasted Fruit,</td>
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<td>The Sun, as from Thyestean banquet, turned</td>
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<td>His course intended; else how had the world</td>
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<td>Inhabited, though sinless, more than now</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 690</i> </div>
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<td>Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat?</td>
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<td align="left">All these changes would influence dangerous conditions on land and sea. </td>
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<td>These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced</td>
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<td>Like change on sea and land—sidereal blast,</td>
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<td>Vapour, and mist, and exhalation hot,</td>
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<td>Corrupt and pestilent. Now from the north</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 695</i> </div>
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<td>Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shore,</td>
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<td>Bursting their brazen dungeon, armed with ice,</td>
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<td>And snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw,</td>
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<td>Boreas and Cæcias and Argestes loud</td>
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<td>And Thrascias rend the woods, and seas upturn;</td>
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<i> 700</i> </div>
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<td>With adverse blasts upturns them from the south</td>
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<td>Notus and Afer, black with thundrous clouds</td>
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<td>From Serraliona; thwart of these, as fierce</td>
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<td>Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds,</td>
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<td>Eurus and Zephyr, with their lateral noise,</td>
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<i> 705</i> </div>
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<td>Sirocco and Libecchio. Thus began</td>
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<td>Outrage from lifeless things; but Discord first,</td>
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<td align="left">Discord was Sin's first daughter, </td>
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<td>Daughter of Sin, among the irrational</td>
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<td>Death introduced through fierce antipathy.</td>
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<td>Beast now with beast ’gan war, and fowl with fowl,</td>
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<i> 710</i> </div>
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<td>And fish with fish. To graze the herb all leaving</td>
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<td>Devoured each other; nor stood much in awe</td>
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<td align="left">animals would start hunting and preying on each other. </td>
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<td>Of Man, but fled him, or with countenance grim</td>
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<td align="left">They would also be wary of man, and flee whenever he would come close. </td>
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<td>Glared on him passing. These were from without</td>
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<td>The growing miseries; which Adam saw</td>
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<i> 715</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Adam noticed all these changes happening around him. </td>
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<td>Already in part, though hid in gloomiest shade,</td>
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<td>To sorrow abandoned, but worse felt within,</td>
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<td>And, in a troubled sea of passion tost,</td>
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<td>Thus to disburden sought with sad complaint:—</td>
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<td align="left">He spoke to himself, </td>
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<td> “O miserable of happy! Is this the end</td>
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<i> 720</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Is this where happiness ends?</td>
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<td>Of this new glorious World, and me so late</td>
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<td>The glory of that glory? who now, become</td>
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<td align="left">Will I ever see God again?</td>
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<td>Accursed of blessèd, hide me from the face</td>
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<td>Of God, whom to behold was then my highth</td>
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<td align="left">I guess I deserve this, </td>
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<td>Of happiness! Yet well, if here would end</td>
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<i> 725</i> </div>
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<td>The misery! I deserved it, and would bear</td>
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<td align="left">but I'm sure it doesn't end here. </td>
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<td>My own deservings. But this will not serve:</td>
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<td>All that I eat or drink, or shall beget,</td>
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<td align="left">I remember he blessed us and said </td>
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<td>Is propagated curse. O voice, once heard</td>
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<td>Delightfully,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>’Encrease
and multiply,’</i></td>
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<i> 730</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">'Increase and multiply'</td>
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<td>Now death to hear! for what can I encrease</td>
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<td align="left">but now that feels like a curse. </td>
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<td>Or multiply but curses on my head?</td>
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<td align="left">The only thing multiplying are the curses and negate emotions in my mind. </td>
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<td>Who, of all ages to succeed, but, feeling</td>
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<td>The evil on him brought by me, will curse</td>
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<td>My head? ‘Ill fare our Ancestor impure!</td>
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<i> 735</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Now all of my ancestors will have me </td>
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<td>For this we may thank Adam!’ but his thanks</td>
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<td align="left">to thank for all of their struggles and misery. </td>
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<td>Shall be the execration. So, besides</td>
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<td>Mine own that bide upon me, all from me</td>
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<td>Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound—</td>
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<td>On me, as on their natural centre, light;</td>
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<i> 740</i> </div>
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<td>Heavy, though in their place. O fleeting joys</td>
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<td align="left">It's like the small joys of Paradise were exchanged</td>
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<td>Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!</td>
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<td align="left">for long-lasting misery. </td>
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<td>Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay</td>
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<td align="left">I didn't ask for any of this, I didn't even ask to be born. </td>
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<td>To mould me Man? Did I solicit thee</td>
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<td>From darkness to promote me, or here place</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 745</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God, you made me and put me in this Paradise</td>
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<td>In this delicious Garden? As my will</td>
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<td>Concurred not to my being, it were but right</td>
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<td>And equal to reduce me to my dust,</td>
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<td align="left">Your simply commands were too hard for me, </td>
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<td>Desirous to resign and render back</td>
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<td>All I received, unable to perform</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 750</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">So please. goahead and just turn me back into dust!</td>
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<td>Thy term too hard, by which I was to hold</td>
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<td>The good I sought not. To the loss of that,</td>
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<td align="left">Would that be enough?</td>
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<td>Sufficient penalty, why hast thou added</td>
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<td align="left">Why should I suffer and make everyone else suffer too?</td>
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<td>The sense of endless woes? Inexplicable</td>
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<td>Thy justice seems. Yet, to say truth, too late</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 755</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">This doesn't make much sense to me. </td>
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<td>I thus contest; then should have been refused</td>
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<td>Those terms, whatever, when they were proposed.</td>
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<td>Thou didst accept them: wilt thou enjoy the good,</td>
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<td align="left">And now it's too late. I accept these terms I guess...</td>
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<td>Then cavil the conditions? And, though God</td>
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<td>Made thee without thy leave, what if thy son</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 760</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Like... what if I had a son, that got into trouble, then he said the excuse of 'I didn't ask to be born...'</td>
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<td>Prove disobedient, and, reproved, retort,</td>
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<td align="left">I don't think I'd accept that excuse either. </td>
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<td>‘Wherefore didst thou beget me? I sought it not!’</td>
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<td>Wouldst thou admit for his contempt of thee</td>
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<td>That proud excuse? yet him not thy election,</td>
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<td>But natural necessity, begot.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 765</i> </div>
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<td>God made thee of choice his own, and of his own</td>
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<td align="left">God chose to make me, and</td>
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<td>To serve him; thy reward was of his grace;</td>
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<td align="left">reward me when I was good, </td>
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<td>Thy punishment, then, justly is at his will.</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">it's fair that he punishes me when I am bad. </td>
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<td>Be it so, for I submit; his doom is fair,</td>
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<td>That dust I am, and shall to dust return.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 770</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">If you are going to turn be back into dust, then so be it. </td>
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<td>O welcome hour whenever! Why delays</td>
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<td align="left">What's taking so long?</td>
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<td>His hand to execute what his decree</td>
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<td>Fixed on this day? Why do I overlive?</td>
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<td align="left">Why do I have to suffer any longer?</td>
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<td>Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out</td>
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<td align="left">I'd be happy to just die.</td>
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<td>To deathless pain? How gladly would I meet</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 775</i> </div>
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<td>Mortality, my sentence, and be earth</td>
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<td>Insensible! how glad would lay me down</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">This voice inside my head is anguish. </td>
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<tr>
<td>As in my mother’s lap! There I should rest,</td>
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<td>And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no more</td>
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<td align="left">I don't want to live because I don't want to feel what is going to happen to my descendants. </td>
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<td>Would thunder in my ears; no fear of worse</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 780</i> </div>
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<td>To me and to my offspring would torment me</td>
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<td align="left">One thing that scares me...</td>
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<td>With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt</td>
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<td>Pursues me still—lest all I cannot die;</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">is what if I can't die at all!</td>
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<td>Lest that pure breath of life, the Spirit of Man</td>
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<td align="left">What if my spirit will live on, </td>
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<td>Which God inspired, cannot together perish</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 785</i></div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"><br /></td>
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<tr>
<td>With this corporeal clod. Then, in the grave,</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">and once my body dies, I'll still feel alive?!</td>
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<td>Or in some other dismal place, who knows</td>
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<td>But I shall die a living death? O thought</td>
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<td>Horrid, if true! Yet why? It was but breath</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">That would be a nightmare.</td>
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<td>Of life that sinned: what dies but what had life</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 790</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It was my soul that sinned, not just my body. </td>
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<td>And sin? The body properly hath neither.</td>
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<td align="left">All of me should die. </td>
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<td>All of me, then, shall die: let this appease</td>
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<td>The doubt, since human reach no further knows.</td>
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<td align="left">There's no other way. </td>
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<tr>
<td>For, though the Lord of all be infinite,</td>
<td width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">God is infinite, but man is not. </td>
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<tr>
<td>Is his wrauth also? Be it, Man is not so,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 795</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>But mortal doomed. But can he exercise</td>
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<td align="left">Would God be angry at man forever?</td>
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<td>Wrauth without end on Man, whom death must end?</td>
<td width="56"></td>
<td align="left">How could God punish man forever, if death would end man?</td>
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<td>Can he make deathless death? That were to make</td>
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<td>Strange contradiction; which to God himself</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">Does death live forever? None of this makes sense. </td>
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<td>Impossible is held, as argument</td>
<td align="center" valign="TOP" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 800</i></div>
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<td>Of weakness, not of power. Will he draw out,</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">What if God would make sure man is punished after death...</td>
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<td>For anger’s sake, finite to infinite</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>In punished Man, to satisfy his rigour</td>
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<td>Satisfied never? That were to extend</td>
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<td>His sentence beyond dust and Nature’s law;</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
805</div>
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<td>By which all causes else according still</td>
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<td>To the reception of their matter act,</td>
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<td>Not to the extent of their own sphere. But say</td>
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<td>That death be not one stroke, as I supposed,</td>
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<td align="left">Maybe death is not a one time affair. </td>
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<td>Bereaving sense, but endless misery</td>
<td align="center" width="56">810</td>
<td align="left">It could be endless misery from that point forward. </td>
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<td>From this day onward, which I feel begun</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Like how it feels right now. </td>
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<td>Both in me and without me, and so last</td>
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<td>To perpetuity——Ay me! that fear</td>
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<td>Comes thundering back with dreadful revolution</td>
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<td align="left">Which leads me to the thought of how death lives forever. </td>
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<td>On my defenceless head! Both Death and I</td>
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<td>Am found eternal, and incorporate both:</td>
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<td>Nor I on my part single; in me all</td>
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<td align="left">And that curse isn't just for me, it's</td>
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<td>Posterity stands cursed. Fair patrimony</td>
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<td>That I must leave ye, sons! Oh, were I able</td>
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<td align="left">for all my descendants. I am sorry my sons...</td>
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<td>To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!</td>
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<td align="left">I wish I could take all that pain and misery for myself</td>
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<td>So disinherited, how would ye bless</td>
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<td align="left">so you wouldn't have to suffer.</td>
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<td>Me, now your curse! Ah, why should all Mankind,</td>
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<td>For one man’s fault, thus guiltless be condemned?</td>
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<td align="left">Why must all of mankind suffer</td>
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<td>If guiltless! But from me what can proceed</td>
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<td align="left">for one man's sin?</td>
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<td>But all corrupt—both mind and will depraved</td>
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825</div>
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<td align="left">All of mankind is and should be innocent!</td>
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<td>Not to do only, but to will the same</td>
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<td>With me? How can they, then, acquitted stand</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Why must they inherit my sin? </td>
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<td>In sight of God? Him, after all disputes,</td>
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<td>Forced I absolve. All my evasions vain</td>
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<td align="left">There's no point in arguing against God's plan. </td>
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<td>And reasonings, though through mazes, lead me still</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>But to my own conviction: first and last</td>
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<td align="left">I'm just going around in circles with these questions. </td>
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<td>On me, me only, as the source and spring</td>
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<td>Of all corruption, all the blame lights due.</td>
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<td>So might the wrauth! Fond wish! could’st thou support</td>
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<td>That burden, heavier than the Earth to bear—</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
835</div>
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<td>Than all the world much heavier, though divided</td>
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<td>With that bad Woman? Thus, what thou desir’st,</td>
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<td>And what thou fear’st, alike destroys all hope</td>
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<td>Of refuge, and concludes thee miserable</td>
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<td>Beyond all past example and future’—</td>
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840</div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'm going to be stuck with these dark thoughts forever."</td>
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<td>To Satan only like, both crime and doom.</td>
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<td>O Conscience! into what abyss of fears</td>
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<td>And horrors hast thou driven me; out of which</td>
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<td>I find no way, from deeper to deeper plunged!”</td>
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<td> Thus Adam to himself lamented loud</td>
<td align="center" width="56">845</td>
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<td>Through the still night—not now, as ere Man fell,</td>
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<td align="left">Throughout the night, Adam was crying out loud. </td>
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<td>Wholesome and cool and mild, but with black air</td>
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<td align="left">It was a night that was black</td>
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<td>Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom;</td>
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<td align="left">damp and gloomy. </td>
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<td>Which to his evil conscience represented</td>
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<td>All things with double terror. On the ground</td>
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850</div>
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<td align="left">Adam was lying </td>
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<td>Outstretched he lay, on the cold ground, and oft</td>
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<td align="left">on the cold ground</td>
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<td>Cursed his creation; Death as oft accused</td>
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<td>Of tardy execution, since denounced</td>
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<td align="left">and cried some more, </td>
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<td>The day of his offence. “Why comes not Death,”</td>
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<td align="left">"Why don't I just die?!</td>
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<td>Said he, “with one thrice-acceptáble stroke</td>
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<td>To end me? Shall Truth fail to keep her word,</td>
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<td>Justice divine not hasten to be just?</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>But Death comes not at call; Justice divine</td>
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<td>Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.</td>
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<td align="left">Death never comes when you want it to..."</td>
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<td>O woods, O fountains, hillocks, dales, and bowers!</td>
<td align="center" width="56">860</td>
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<td>With other echo late I taught your shades</td>
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</td>
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<td>To answer, and resound far other song.”</td>
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<td>Whom thus afflicted when sad Eve beheld,</td>
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<td align="left">Eve was sitting nearby, </td>
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<td>Desolate where she sat, approaching nigh,</td>
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<td align="left">it was breaking her heart to see Adam act like this. </td>
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<td>Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed;</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
865</div>
</td>
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<td>But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled:—</td>
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<td align="left">She walked over to try and comfort him, but Adam shouted</td>
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<td> “Out of my sight, thou Serpent! That name best</td>
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<td align="left">"Get the fuck out of here you snake!</td>
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<td>Befits thee, with him leagued, thyself as false</td>
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<td align="left">The only thing that is different between you and Satan is your shape.</td>
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<td>And hateful: nothing wants, but that thy shape</td>
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<td align="left">You have a heavenly form </td>
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<td>Like his, and colour serpentine, may shew</td>
<td align="center" width="56">870</td>
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<td>Thy inward fraud, to warn all creatures from thee</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">that takes advantage of others. </td>
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<td>Henceforth, lest that too heavenly form, pretended</td>
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<td>To hellish falsehood, snare them. But for thee</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>I had persisted happy, had not thy pride</td>
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<td align="left">It's because of you that I am unhappy. </td>
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<td>And wandering vanity, when least was safe,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
875</div>
</td>
<td align="left">You didn't listen, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rejected my forewarning, and disdained</td>
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<td align="left">you had to be the center of attention, </td>
</tr>
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<td>Not to be trusted—longing to be seen,</td>
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<td>Though by the Devil himself; him overweening</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">even if it was with the devil himself.</td>
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<td>To overreach; but, with the Serpent meeting,</td>
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<td>Fooled and beguiled; by him thou, I by thee,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
880</div>
</td>
<td align="left">He fooled you and you fooled me. </td>
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<tr>
<td>To trust thee from my side, imagined wise,</td>
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<td align="left">I truested you!</td>
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<td>Constant, mature, proof against all assaults,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I thought you were smart and intelligent,</td>
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<tr>
<td>And understood not all was but a shew,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">but it was all just a joke. </td>
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<tr>
<td>Rather than solid virtue, all but a rib</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Crooked by nature—bent, as now appears,</td>
<td align="center" width="56">885</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>More to the part sinister—from me drawn;</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Well if thrown out, as supernumerary</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>To my just number found! O, why did God</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Why did God create such a defective creature like you?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>With Spirits masculine, create at last</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
890</div>
</td>
<td align="left">He should have filled the earth with more men like me. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>This novelty on Earth, this fair defect</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Of Nature, and not fill the World at once</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>With men as Angels, without fiminine;</td>
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<td align="left">Like he did with the angels.</td>
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<td>Or find some other way to generate</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mankind? This mischief had not then befallen,</td>
<td align="center" width="56">895</td>
<td align="left">He could have found another way for men to reproduce. </td>
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<tr>
<td>And more that shall befall—innumerable</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Disturbances on Earth through female snares,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">That would save us all the trouble." </td>
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<tr>
<td>And strait conjunction with this sex. For either</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>He never shall find out fit mate, but such</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As some misfortune brings him, or mistake;</td>
<td align="center" width="56">900</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Through her perverseness, but shall see her gained</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>By a far worse, or, if she love, withheld</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>By parents; or his happiest choice too late</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Shall meet, already linked and wedlock—bound</td>
<td align="center" width="56">905</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To a fell adversary, his hate or shame:</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Which infinite calamity shall cause</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>To human life, and household peace confound.”</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td> He added not, and from her turned; but Eve,</td>
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<td align="left">Adam turned away, </td>
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<tr>
<td>Not so repulsed, with tears that ceased not flowing,</td>
<td align="center" width="56">910</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And tresses all disordered, at his feet</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but none of this scared Eve from trying to console him.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Fell humble, and, imbracing them, besought</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>His peace, and thus proceeded in her plaint:—</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">In tears, she put her arms around Adam and said</td>
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<td> “Forsake me not thus, Adam! witness Heaven</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">"Don't turn away from me Adam!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What love sincere and reverence in my heart</td>
<td align="center" width="56">915</td>
<td align="left">Heaven knows how much I love you, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I bear thee, and unweeting have offended,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and I never meant to hurt you like this. </td>
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<tr>
<td>Unhappily deceived! Thy suppliant</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I beg, and clasp thy knees; bereave me not</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Whereon I live, they gentle looks, thy aid,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">You can't leave me.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy counsel in this uttermost distress,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
920</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">You are my strength</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Whither shall I betake me, where subsist?</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and without you</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">where would I be?</td>
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<tr>
<td>Between us two let there be peace; both joining,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We're still alive now, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As joined in injuries, one enmity</td>
<td align="center" width="56">925</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Against a Foe by doom express assigned us.</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and even if it's for a short while, please let there be peace between us. </td>
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<tr>
<td>That cruel Serpent. On me exercise not</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">We have a shared enemy, the snake. </td>
</tr>
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<td>Thy hatred for this misery befallen—</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Please don't hate me, I'm as miserable as you are. </td>
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<td>On me already lost, me than thyself</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>More miserable. Both have sinned; but thou</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
930</div>
</td>
<td align="left">We both sinned the same way, </td>
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<td>Against God only; I against God and thee,</td>
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<td align="left">but you sinned against God</td>
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<td>And to the place of judgment will return,</td>
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<td align="left">whereas I sinned against God AND you. I'll go back to the place where God judged us and beg him to let you off the hook. All the blame should be on me."</td>
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<td>There with my cries impor’tune Heaven, that all</td>
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<td>The sentence, from thy head removed, may light</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
935</div>
</td>
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<td>Me, me only, just object of His ire.”</td>
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<td> She ended, weeping; and her lowly plight,</td>
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<td align="left">Eve cried, and Adam was emotionally moved. </td>
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<td>Immovable till peace obtained from fault</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wraught</td>
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<td align="left">He could not stand to see the woman he loved in so much pain. </td>
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<td>Commiseration. Soon his heart relented</td>
<td align="center" width="56">940</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Towards her, his life so late, and sole delight,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Now at his feet submissive in distress—</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking,</td>
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<td>His counsel whom she had displeased, his aid.</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>As one disarmed, his anger all he lost,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
945</div>
</td>
<td align="left">But then Adam lost his anger. </td>
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<td>And thus with peaceful words upraised her soon:—</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">He replied to Eve, </td>
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<td>“Unwary, and too desirous, as before</td>
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</td>
<td align="left">"There you go again, </td>
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<td>So now, of what thou know’st not, who desir’st</td>
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<td align="left">ready to walk off and do things you know nothing about. </td>
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<td>The punishment all on thyself! Alas!</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">You want to take on all of God's anger on yourself, </td>
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<td>Bear thine own first, ill able to sustain</td>
<td align="center" width="56">950</td>
<td align="left">when you can't even stand me being angry with you. </td>
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<td>His full wrauth whose thou feel’st as yet least part,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>And my displeasure bear’st so ill. If prayers</td>
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<td align="left">If begging and prayers did anything, </td>
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<td>Could alter high decrees, I to that place</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'd be the first to go. toGod and ask him what you are asking for. </td>
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<td>Would speed before thee, and be louder heard,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>That on my head all might be visited,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
955</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Thy frailty and infirmer sex forgiven,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>To me committed, and by me exposed.</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">Get up now, </td>
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<td>Each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">we're done fighting and blaming. </td>
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<td>In offices of love how we may lighten</td>
<td align="center" width="56">960</td>
<td align="left">We need to be supporting each other</td>
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<td>Each other’s burden in our share of woe;</td>
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<td align="left">through this trouble and misery. </td>
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<td>Since this day’s death denounced, if aught I see,</td>
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<td align="left">Death won't come for us yet, </td>
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<td>Will prove no sudden, but a slow—paced evil,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">so we're here to suffer for the meantime."</td>
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<td>A long day’s dying, to augment our pain,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>And to our seed (O hapless seed!) derived.”</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
965</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td> To whom thus Eve, recovering heart, replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">Eve felt a little better, </td>
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<td>“Adam, by sad experiment I know</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">she replied, "Adam, I don't blame you if </td>
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<td>How little weight my words with thee can find,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">you don't want to listen to me anymore</td>
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<td>Found so erroneous, thence by just event</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">there's just something on my mind and I want to say it.</td>
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<td>Found so unfortunate. Nevertheless,</td>
<td align="center" width="56">970</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Restored by thee, vile as I am, to place</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Of new acceptance, hopeful to regain</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Thy love, the sole contentment of my heart,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I love you so much,</td>
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<td>Living or dying from thee I will not hide</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">and I want this misery to leave us.</td>
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<td>What thoughts in my unquiet breast are risen,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
975</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Tending to some relief of our extremes,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Or end, though sharp and sad, yet tolerable,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>As in our evils, and of easier choice.</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>If care of our descent perplex us most,</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">We both don't want to bring our descendants </td>
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<td>Which must be born to certain woe, devoured</td>
<td align="center" width="56">980</td>
<td align="left">into this world</td>
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<td>By Death at last (and miserable it is</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that is full of pain</td>
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<td>To be to others cause of misery,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Our own begotten, and of our loins to bring</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and sorrow.</td>
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<td>Into this cursed world a woeful race,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>That, after wretched life, must be at last</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
985</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Food for so foul a Monster), in thy power</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>It lies, yet ere conception, to prevent</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The race unblest, to being yet unbegot.</td>
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<td align="left">We both have the power to prevent this, </td>
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<td>Childless thou art; childless remain. So Death</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">so we don't have to have any children. </td>
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<td>Shall be deceived his glut, and with us two</td>
<td align="center" width="56">990</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">And if we can't stand the thought</td>
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<td>But, if thou judge it hard and difficult,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Conversing, looking, loving, to abstain</td>
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<td align="left">of living together</td>
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<td>From love’s due rites, nuptial imbraces sweet,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and never being able to have sex again</td>
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<td>And with desire to languish without hope</td>
<td align="center" width="56">995</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Before the present object languishing</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>With like desire—which would be misery</td>
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<td align="left">then we can end it</td>
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<td>And torment less than none of what we dread—</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Then, both our selves and seed at once to free</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">right now. </td>
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<td>From what we fear for both, let us make short;</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1000</div>
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<td>Let us seek Death, or, he not found, supply</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">Let's go look for Death, </td>
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<td>With our own hands his office on ourselves.</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and if we can't find him</td>
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<td>Why stand we longer shivering under fears</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>That shew no end but death, and have the power,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">then I don't think we need him. </td>
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<td>Of many ways to die the shortest choosing,</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1005</td>
<td align="left">We can just kill ourselves. </td>
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<td>Destruction with destruction to destroy?”</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Why should we put up with so much suffering that is only going to end with death anyway?"</td>
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<td> She ended here, or vehement despair</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Broke off the rest; so much of death her thoughts</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Had entertained as dyed her cheeks with pale.</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>But Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed,</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1010</td>
<td align="left">Adam was thinking a little bit more clearly now. </td>
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<td>To better hopes his more attentive mind</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Labouring had raised, and thus to Eve replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">He said to Eve, </td>
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<td> “Eve, thy contempt of life and pleasure seems</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Eve, it is wise of you</td>
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<td>To argue in thee something more sublime</td>
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<td align="left">to think that there are things more important than life</td>
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<td>And excellent than what thy mind contemns:</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1015</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>But self-destruction therefore sought refutes</td>
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<td align="left">but killing ourselves is not the way. </td>
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<td>That excellence thought in thee, and implies</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Not thy contempt, but anguish and regret</td>
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<td align="left">It says to me that </td>
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<td>For loss of life and pleasure overloved.</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">you love pleasure so much and you can't stand to lose it. You can't handle that. </td>
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<td>Or, if thou covet death, as utmost end</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1020</td>
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<td>Of misery, so thinking to evade</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The penalty pronounced, doubt not but God</td>
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<td align="left">God is smarter than us. </td>
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<td>Hath wiselier armed his vengeful ire than so</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It'd be even worse if we just kill ourselves on our own, </td>
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<td>To be forestalled. Much more I fear lest death</td>
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<td align="left">He'd make our suffering much worse.</td>
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<td>So snatched will not exempt us from the pain</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1025</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>We are by doom to pay; rather such acts</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Of contumacy will provoke the Highest</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>To make death in us live. Then let us seek</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Some safer resolution—which methinks</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">I think there's a better solution, </td>
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<td>I have in view, calling to mind with heed</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1030</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Part of our sentence, that thy seed shall bruise</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">Remember when God said something about 'bruising the snake's head'?</td>
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<td>The Serpent’s head. Piteous amends! unless</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Be meant whom I conjecture, our grand foe,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Satan, who in the Serpent hath contrived</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Maybe it has something to do about Satan. </td>
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<td>Against us this deceit. To crush his head</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1035</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Would be revenge indeed—which will be lost</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>By death brought on ourselves, or childless days</td>
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<td align="left">If we kill ourselves, or never have children, </td>
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<td>Resolved as thou proposest; so our foe</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">we'll lose any chance to get back at Satan.</td>
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<td>Shall scape his punishment ordained, and we</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">If we remove ourselves from the equation, then Satan escapes his punishment. </td>
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<td>Instead shall double ours upon our heads.</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1040</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>No more be mentioned, then, of violence</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Against ourselves, and wilful barrenness</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>That cuts us off from hope, and savours only</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Rancour and pride, impatience and despite,</td>
<td align="center" width="56"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Reluctance against God and his just yoke</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1045</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Laid on our necks. Remember with what mild</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God was gentle when he judged us. And now that I think of it, the sentence isn't that bad. </td>
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<td>And gracious temper he both heard and judged,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Without wrauth or reviling. We expected</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Immediate dissolution, which we thought</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Was meant by death that day; when, lo! to thee</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1050</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Pains only in child-bearing were foretold,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You will only experience pain in childbirth, </td>
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<td>And bringing forth, soon recompensed with joy,</td>
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<td align="left">but joy will come </td>
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<td>Fruit of thy womb. On me the curse aslope</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">when the baby is born. </td>
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<td>Glanced on the ground. With labour I must earn</td>
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<td align="left">For me I would have to sweat and toil to earn a living doing hard work, </td>
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<td>My bread; what harm? Idleness had been worse;</td>
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1055</div>
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<td>My labour will sustain me; and, lest cold</td>
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<td align="left">but that doesn't sound so bad</td>
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<td>Or heat should injure us, his timely care</td>
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<td align="left">because I'd be bored doing nothing anyway. God even clothed us, to protect us from the elements.</td>
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<td>Hath, unbesought, provided, and his hands</td>
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<td>Clothed us unworthy, pitying while he judged.</td>
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<td align="left">God was still kind to us when he judged us.</td>
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<td>How much more, if we pray him, will his ear</td>
<td width="56"><div align="center">
1060</div>
</td>
<td align="left">I am sure he would listen to us if we pray. </td>
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<td>Be open, and his heart to pity incline,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>And teach us further by what means to shun</td>
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<td align="left">Maybe he'll show pity on us. </td>
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<td>The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow!</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Which now the sky, with various face, begins</td>
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<td>To shew us in this mountain, while the winds</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1065</td>
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<td>Blow moist and keen, shattering the graceful locks</td>
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<td>Of these fair spreading trees; which bids us seek</td>
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<td>Some better shroud, some better warmth to cherish</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">It's getting late now, we must find warmth because it's cold now. </td>
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<td>Our limbs benumbed—ere this diurnal star</td>
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<td>Leave cold the night, how we his gathered beams</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1070</td>
<td align="left">I wonder if there's a way</td>
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<td>Reflected may with matter sere foment,</td>
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<td>Or by collision of two bodies grind</td>
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<td align="left">to create a fire for us... I think God will show us how. </td>
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<td>The air attrite to fire, as late the clouds,</td>
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<td>Justling, or pushed with winds, rude in their shock,</td>
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<td align="left">I've seen</td>
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<td>Time the slant lightning, whose thwart flame, driven down,</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1075</td>
<td align="left">how lightning would strike trees to set them on fire. </td>
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<td>Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine,</td>
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<td>And sends a comfortable heat from far,</td>
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<td align="left">That could be a way to give us warmth.</td>
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<td>Which might supply the Sun. Such fire to use,</td>
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<td>And what may else be remedy or cure</td>
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<td>To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought,</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1080</td>
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<td>He will instruct us praying, and of grace</td>
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<td align="left">God will help us with anything, I think we just need to have faith in prayer. </td>
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<td>Beseeching him; so as we need not fear</td>
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<td>To pass commodiously this life, sustained</td>
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<td align="left">The more we pray, the less we have to be afraid.</td>
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<td>By him with many comforts, till we end</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>In dust, our final rest and native home.</td>
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1085</div>
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<td>What better can we do than, to the place</td>
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<td align="left">So for now, let's go back to </td>
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<td>Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall</td>
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<td align="left">where he judged us</td>
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<td>Before him reverent, and there confess</td>
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<td align="left">and kneel and pray. </td>
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<td>Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears</td>
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<td>Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1090</td>
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<td>Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">He was so angry, but still showed us kindness. </td>
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<td>Of sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek?</td>
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<td align="left">He will give us mercy</td>
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<td>Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn</td>
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<td>From his displeasure, in whose look serene,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>When angry most he seemed and most severe,</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1095</td>
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<td>What else but favour, grace, and mercy shon?”</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">as long as we pray from our hearts."</td>
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<td> So spake our Father penitent; nor Eve</td>
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<td>Felt less remorse. They, forthwith to the place</td>
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<td>Repairing where he judged them, prostrate fell</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Before him reverent, and both confessed</td>
<td align="center" width="56">1100</td>
<td align="left">And so they kneeled, and prayed</td>
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<td>Humbly their faults, and pardon begged, with tears</td>
<td align="center" width="56"></td>
<td align="left">and cried their hearts out to God. </td>
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<td>Watering the ground, and with their sighs the air</td>
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<td>Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign</td>
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<td>Of sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek.</td>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-60718339389867320492020-11-04T11:45:00.002-08:002020-11-04T11:45:23.961-08:00Book 9: Satan does the thing<div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: normal;">HE</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: normal;">RGUMENT.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">—Satan, having compassed the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by night into Paradise; enters into the Serpent sleeping. Adam and Eve in the morning go forth to their labours, which Eve proposes to divide in several places, each labouring apart: Adam consents not, alleging the danger lest that Enemy of whom they were forewarned should attempt her found alone. Eve, loth to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirous to make trial of her strength; Adam at last yields. The Serpent finds her alone: his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking, with much flattery extolling Eve above all other creatures. Eve, wondering to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attained to human speech and such understanding not till now; the Serpent answers that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Garden he attained both to speech and reason, till then void of both. Eve requires him to bring her to that tree, and finds it to be the Tree of Knowledge forbidden: the Serpent, now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat. She, pleased with the taste, deliberates a while whether to impart thereof to Adam or not; at last brings him of the fruit; relates what persuaded her to eat thereof. Adam, at first amazed, but perceiving her lost, resolves, through vehemence of love, to perish with her, and, extenuating the trespass, eats also of the fruit. The effects thereof in them both; they seek to cover their nakedness; then fall to variance and accusation of one another. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #000020;"><br /></span><b style="color: #000020;">tl;dr This is the book y'all will usually skip to. Satan rolls a 20 and gains +50 speechcraft enabling him to persuade Eve to eat the Forbidden Fruit. Adam and Eve bang. Paradise ultimately ends, and Earth begins. </b></div>
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<tr><td>NO MORE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of talk where God or Angel Guest</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td>Now that the angel's visit with Adam is done, we can get to more important things.</td></tr>
<tr><td>With Man, as with his friend, familiar used</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>To sit indulgent, and with him partake</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Rural repast, permitting him to while</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Venial discourse unblamed. I now must change</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 5</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Those notes to tragic—foul distrust, and breach</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Disloyal, on the part of man, revolt</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Like when man lost faith</td></tr>
<tr><td>And disobedience; on the part of Heaven,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">and disobeyed God. And God got angry</td></tr>
<tr><td>Now alienated, distance and distaste,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 10</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and passed judgement</td></tr>
<tr><td>That brought into this World a world of woe,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">that brought the suffering we all know</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">into the world. Like Sin, Death, and Misery.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Death’s harbinger. Sad task! yet argument</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">SAD! It's a sad story.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Not less but more heroic than the wrauth</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">But a little more inspiring than</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 15</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">those stories your teachers and professors</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thrice fugitive about Troy wall; or rage</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">made you read like the Iliad, Aeneid, or the Odyssey.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of Turnus for Lavinia disespoused;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Or Neptune’s ire, or Juno’s that so long</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Perplexed the Greek, and Cytherea’s son:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>If answerable style I can obtain</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 20</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I just hope my</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of my celestial Patroness, who deigns</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">heavenly muse</td></tr>
<tr><td>Her nightly visitation unimplored,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">keeps coming every night </td></tr>
<tr><td>And dictates to me slumbering, or inspires</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">in my dreams to help me </td></tr>
<tr><td>Easy my unpremeditated verse,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">write this.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Since first this subject for heroic song</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 25</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Seriously, this story</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pleased me, long choosing and beginning late,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">has taken a long time. (it's taken ME a long time to get this translation done too.)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Not sedulous by nature to indite</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Wars, hitherto the only argument</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">You know, I'd argue that war was the only</td></tr>
<tr><td>Heroic deemed, chief maistrie to dissect</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">thing people would write about.</td></tr>
<tr><td>With long and tedious havoc fabled knights</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 30</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">With brave knights in battle</td></tr>
<tr><td>In battles feigned (the better fortitude</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">but no one ever talked about </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of patience and heroic martyrdom</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">patience and heroic sacrifice, things that I feel matter most.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Unsung), or to describe races and games,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Or writers would go on about races, games, tournaments,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Or tilting furniture, emblazoned shields,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Impreses quaint, caparisons and steeds,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 35</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and extravagant celebrations.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bases and tinsel trappings, gorgeous knights</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>At joust and tournament; then marshalled feast</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Served up in hall with sewers and seneshals:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The skill of artifice or office mean;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Not that which justly gives heroic name</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 40</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Not me though.</td></tr>
<tr><td>To person or to poem! Me, of these</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Nor skilled nor studious, higher argument</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I'd rather write about different things. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Remains, sufficient of itself to raise</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>That name, unless an age too late, or cold</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Climat, or years, damp my intended wing</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 45</i></div>
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<tr><td>Depressed; and much they may if all be mine,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Not Hers who brings it nightly to my ear.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> The Sun was sunk, and after him the Star</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Twilight upon the Earth, short arbiter</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 50</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Anyways, it was nighttime upon the Earth.</td></tr>
<tr><td>’Twixt day and night, and now from end to end</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Night’s hemisphere had veiled the horizon round,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>When Satan, who late fled before the threats</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Gabriel threw Satan out of Eden, but that </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of Gabriel out of Eden, now improved</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">isn't going to stop our hero from coming back.</td></tr>
<tr><td>In meditated fraud and malice, bent</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 55</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He has a plan. A bad one for us (humans) but a good one for him.</td></tr>
<tr><td>On Man’s destruction, maugre what might hap</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of heavier on himself, fearless returned.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">It was worth the risk. </td></tr>
<tr><td>By night he fled, and at midnight returned</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">At returned at midnight</td></tr>
<tr><td>From compassing the Earth—cautious of day</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">because at day time</td></tr>
<tr><td>Since Uriel, Regent of the Sun, descried</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 60</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Uriel was able to spot him</td></tr>
<tr><td>His entrance, and forwarned the Cherubim</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and warn the other angels.</td></tr>
<tr><td>That kept their watch. Thence, full of anguish, driven,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The space of seven continued nights he rode</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">For seven nights, Satan flew</td></tr>
<tr><td>With darkness—thrice the equinoctial line</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">around the Earth but staying in the dark side of the Earth.</td></tr>
<tr><td>He circled, four times crossed the car of Night</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 65</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>From pole to pole, traversing each colure—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Finally, on the eight night he returned. </td></tr>
<tr><td>On the eighth returned, and on the coast averse</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>From entrance or cherubic watch by stealth</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Like those Mission Impossible movies, he found a secret way in. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Found unsuspected way. There was a place</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">It was a place</td></tr>
<tr><td>(Now not, though Sin, not Time, first wraught the change)</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 70</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">(that was actually not even there anymore, because Sin had destroyed it)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Where Tigris, at the foot of Paradise,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">It was a place where the Tigris river flowed,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Into a gulf shot under ground, till part</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">where it went underground</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rose up a fountain by the Tree of Life.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and eventually led to the Tree of Life. </td></tr>
<tr><td>In with the river sunk, and with it rose,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">This is where Satan swam.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Satan, involved in rising mist; then sought</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 75</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Through the mist, he rose</td></tr>
<tr><td>Where to lie hid. Sea he had searched and land</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and found himself in the garden. Now he needed to hide. </td></tr>
<tr><td>From Eden over Pontus, and the Pool</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">So he searched everywhere.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mæotis, up beyond the river Ob;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Downward as far Antartic; and, in length,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>West from Orontes to the ocean barred</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 80</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>At Darien, thence to the land where flows</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">From the land to the sea.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ganges and Indus. Thus the orb he roamed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">He roamed </td></tr>
<tr><td>With narrow search, and with inspection deep</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and searched and studied every</td></tr>
<tr><td>Considered every creature, which of all</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">creature to </td></tr>
<tr><td>Most opportune might serve his wiles, and found</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 85</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">see what form he should take.</td></tr>
<tr><td>The Serpent subtlest beast of all the field.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">He decided that the snake was probably the best form for him to sneak around in. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Him, after long debate, irresolute</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of thoughts revolved, his final sentence chose</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Fit vessel, fittest Imp of fraud, in whom</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To enter, and his dark suggestions hide</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 90</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Because it was such a sneaky creature</td></tr>
<tr><td>From sharpest sight; for in the wily snake</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">it would hide Satan's behavior perfectly. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Whatever sleights none would suspicious mark</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>As from his wit and native subtlety</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Proceeding, which, in other beasts observed,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Doubt might beget of diabolic power</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 95</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Active within beyond the sense of brute.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Thus he resolved, but first from inward grief</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Now with that out of the way, </td></tr>
<tr><td>His bursting passion into plaints thus poured:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan went on to passionately speak.</td></tr>
<tr><td> “O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Well, this Earth reminds me of Heaven. Just a little bit better.</td></tr>
<tr><td>More justly, seat worthier of Gods, as built</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 100</i></div>
</td><td align="left" valign="TOP">And more fitting for angels. </td></tr>
<tr><td>With second thoughts, reforming what was old!</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">God knew what he was doing this time around</td></tr>
<tr><td>For what God, after better, worse would build?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">when he was creating this world.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other Heavens,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">It's much like an earthly Heaven, but surrounded by other</td></tr>
<tr><td>That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">heavens. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Light above light, for thee alone, as seems,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 105</i></div>
</td><td align="left" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>In thee concentring all their precious beams</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of sacred influence! As God in Heaven</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Yet God is the center of Heaven, and this here is</td></tr>
<tr><td>Is centre, yet extends to all, so thou</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Centring receiv’st from all those orbs; in thee,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">the center of the universe. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Not in themselves, all their known virtue appears,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 110</i></div>
</td><td align="left" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Productive in herb, plant, and nobler birth</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">The stars light up the life of everything here. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of creatures animate with gradual life</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Making the animals and plants</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in Man.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and even man. </td></tr>
<tr><td>With what delight could I have walked thee round,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I could've walked around here</td></tr>
<tr><td>If I could joy in aught—sweet interchange</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 115</i></div>
</td><td align="left" valign="TOP">and enjoy all the sights.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Now land, now sea, and shores with forest crowned,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Everything is so peaceful. Everything that I am not. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Find place or refuge; and the more I see</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">The more that I see all of this beauty, the more</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pleasures about me, so much more I feel</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 120</i></div>
</td><td align="left" valign="TOP">I am tortured.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Torment within me, as from the hateful siege</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of contraries; all good to me becomes</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Bane, and in Heaven much worse would be my state.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">My anguish would be worse if I was still in Heaven. </td></tr>
<tr><td>But neither here seek I, nor in Heaven,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">But, I'm not keen on settling on living here right now. </td></tr>
<tr><td>To dwell, unless by maistring Heaven’s Supreme;</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 125</i></div>
</td><td align="left" valign="TOP">Or in Heaven. I'd only stay in Heaven if I could overthrew God. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Nor hope to be myself less miserable</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And I'm not looking for an escape from misery. </td></tr>
<tr><td>By what I seek, but others to make such</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I just want to make everyone else</td></tr>
<tr><td>As I, though thereby worse to me redound.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">as miserable as me. </td></tr>
<tr><td>For only in destroying I find ease</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Who care if </td></tr>
<tr><td>To my relentless thoughts; and him destroyed,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 130</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">that makes my condition any worse. I just want everyone and everything destroyed too. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Or won to what may work his utter loss,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>For whom all this was made, all this will soon</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I will destroy man. Or make </td></tr>
<tr><td>Follow, as to him linked in weal or woe:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">man destroy himself. </td></tr>
<tr><td>In woe then, that destruction wide may range!</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To me shall be the glory sole among</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 135</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I'll have glory. All my followers on Satangram will Like this so much. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The Infernal Powers, in one day to have marred</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">That I could to annihilate God's creation in one day</td></tr>
<tr><td>What he, Almighty styled, six nights and days</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">what it took God six days to make. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Continued making, and who knows how long</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I don't think God had planned this creation of man for long.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Before had been contriving? though perhaps</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Not longer than since I in one night freed</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 140</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It could have been a surprise for him since the time I freed</td></tr>
<tr><td>From servitude inglorious well nigh half</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">half of his slave angels.</td></tr>
<tr><td>The Angelic Name, and thinner left the throng</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of his adorers. He, to be avenged,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And to repair his numbers thus impaired—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Whether such virtue, spent of old, now failed</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 145</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Did he forgot how to create </td></tr>
<tr><td>More Angels to create (if they at least</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">more angels or</td></tr>
<tr><td>Are his created), or to spite us more—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Determined to advance into our room</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>A creature formed of earth, and him endow,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">did he just create this man out of dirt to replace us?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Exalted from so base original,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 150</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>With heavenly spoils, our spoils. What he decreed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>He effected; Man he made, and for him built</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Did he make man and make this awesome world</td></tr>
<tr><td>Magnificent this World, and Earth his seat,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">for man</td></tr>
<tr><td>Him Lord pronounced, and, O indignity!</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Subjected to his service Angel-wings</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 155</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and then plan to reduce the angels to be at man's service?</td></tr>
<tr><td>And flaming ministers, to watch and tend</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Their earthly charge. Of these the vigilance</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And those damn guards that I have to </td></tr>
<tr><td>I dread, and to elude, thus wrapt in mist</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">sneak past as a snake. Ugh. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of midnight vapour, glide obscure, and pry</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>In every bush and brake, where hap may find</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 160</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Serpent sleeping, in whose mazy folds</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To hide me, and the dark intent I bring.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>O foul descent! that I, who erst contended</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">What has become of me? </td></tr>
<tr><td>With Gods to sit the highest, am now constrained</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I was great! And now I'm going to be slithering on like a snake.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Into a beast, and, mixed with bestial slime,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 165</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>This essence to incarnate and imbrute,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>That to the highth of Deity aspired!</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>But what will not ambition and revenge</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I guess this is what having ambition and revenge gets you. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Descend to? Who aspires must down as low</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">The higher you aim, the harder you fall. </td></tr>
<tr><td>As high he soared, obnoxious, first or last,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 170</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To basest things. Revenge, at first though sweet,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Revenge is sweet at first, but it gets bitter in the end. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Let it; I reck not, so it light well aimed,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Whatever. I don't really care anymore. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Since higher I fall short, on him who next</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Provokes my envy, this new favourite</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 175</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">As long as I can </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of Heaven, this Man of Clay, son of despite,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">mess with God's man of clay.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Whom, us the more to spite, his Maker raised</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>From dust: spite then with spite is best repaid.”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">It's payback time."</td></tr>
<tr><td> So saying, through each thicket, dank or dry,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Like a black mist low-creeping, he held on</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 180</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Like a black mist, creeping a long</td></tr>
<tr><td>His midnight search, where soonest he might find</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">he searched through the night for </td></tr>
<tr><td>The Serpent. Him fast sleeping soon he found,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">a snake to possess. </td></tr>
<tr><td>In labyrinth of many a round self-rowled,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>His head the midst, well stored with subtle wiles:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Not yet in horrid shade or dismal den:</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 185</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Nor nocent yet, but on the grassy herb,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Fearless, unfeared, he slept. In at his mouth</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Into the snake's mouth </td></tr>
<tr><td>The Devil entered, and his brutal sense.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan went.</td></tr>
<tr><td>In heart or head, possessing soon inspired</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>With act intelligential; but his sleep</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 190</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan slept.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Disturbed not, waiting close the approach of morn.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And there he waited until the morning. </td></tr>
<tr><td> Now, whenas sacred light began to dawn</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">At dawn</td></tr>
<tr><td>In Eden on the humid flowers, that breathed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">in Eden, the flowers gave off their </td></tr>
<tr><td>Their morning incense, when all things that breathe</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">morning smells!</td></tr>
<tr><td>From the Earth’s great altar send up silent praise</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 195</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To the Creator, and his nostrils fill</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Which awakened</td></tr>
<tr><td>With grateful smell, forth came the human pair,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">our lovely couple.</td></tr>
<tr><td>And joined their vocal worship to the quire</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">They said their morning prayers</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of creatures wanting voice; that done, partake</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The season, prime for sweetest scents and airs;</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 200</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and took a deep breath</td></tr>
<tr><td>Then com’mune how that day they best may ply</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">before getting to work in the garden. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Their growing work—for much their work outgrew</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">You should know, that there's actually </td></tr>
<tr><td>The hands’ dispatch of two gardening so wide:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">a lot of work for just two people. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And Eve first to her husband thus began:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Eve spoke to Adam,</td></tr>
<tr><td> “Adam, well may we labour still to dress</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 205</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Adam, we're working so </td></tr>
<tr><td>This Garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">hard in this garden</td></tr>
<tr><td>Our pleasant task enjoined; but, till more hands</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Aid us, the work under our labour grows,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">but everything is growing so fast</td></tr>
<tr><td>Luxurious by restraint: what we by day</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 210</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">that I don't think we can keep up.</td></tr>
<tr><td>One night or two with wanton growth derides,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Tending to wild. Thou, therefore, now advise,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I have an idea:</td></tr>
<tr><td>Or hear what to my mind first thoughts present.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Let us divide our labours—thou where choice</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Let's split up! (Which is probably what you shouldn't do with Satan lurking about, so let's put our dramatic irony hats on now.)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 215</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>The woodbine round this arbour, or direct</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The clasping ivy where to climb; while I</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">You go on with the vines</td></tr>
<tr><td>In yonder spring of roses intermixed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and I'll tend to the roses. </td></tr>
<tr><td>With myrtle find what to redress till noon.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>For, while so near each other thus all day</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 220</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Our task we choose, what wonder if so near</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Looks intervene and smiles, or objects new</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Casual discourse draw on, which intermits</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I figure this is the best way before we get distracted."</td></tr>
<tr><td>Our day’s work, brought to little, though begun</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Early, and the hour of supper comes unearned!”</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 225</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td> To whom mild answer Adam thus returned:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Adam replied,</td></tr>
<tr><td>“Sole Eve, associate sole, to me beyond</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Eve, you are the best companion a guy can have.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Compare above all living creatures dear!</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">No one and nothing can compare to you!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Well hast thou motioned, well thy thoughts imployed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>How we might best fulfil the work which here</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 230</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>God hath assigned us, nor of me shalt pass</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I don't think God wants us to work so hard,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Unpraised; for nothing lovelier can be found</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">we should enjoy each other's company here. </td></tr>
<tr><td>In woman than to study household good,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And good works in her husband to promote.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 235</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Labour as to debar us when we need</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">We're meant to enjoy all that is around us.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To brute denied, and are of love the food—</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 240</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Love, not the lowest end of human life.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">That makes us different from the animals!</td></tr>
<tr><td>For not to irksome toil, but to delight,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">We're not supposed to work so much that we can't enjoy life. </td></tr>
<tr><td>He made us, and delight to reason joined.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I'm sure we can keep </td></tr>
<tr><td>Will keep from wilderness with ease, as wide</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 245</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">the maintenance up around us</td></tr>
<tr><td>As we need walk, till younger hands ere long</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">until we have children to </td></tr>
<tr><td>Assist us. But, if much converse perhaps</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">help us with it all. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Thee satiate, to short absence I could yield;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">But, if you want to work hard right now, then so be it.</td></tr>
<tr><td>For solitude sometimes is best society,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I don't mind if we go our separate ways to get it all done. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And short retirement urges sweet return.</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 250</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I do look forward to seeing you again after we're through. </td></tr>
<tr><td>But other doubt possesses me, lest harm</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I'll be honest though, I will worry about you going off alone. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Befall thee, severed from me; for thou know’st</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>What hath been warned us—what malicious foe,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Remember what Raphael warned us about?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Envying our happiness, and of his own</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan is out there somewhere</td></tr>
<tr><td>Despairing, seeks to work us woe and shame</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 255</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and he wants to harm us. </td></tr>
<tr><td>By sly assault and somewhere nigh at hand</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I'm sure he's hiding </td></tr>
<tr><td>Watches, no doubt, with greedy hope to find</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">watching and waiting for the right time to strike. </td></tr>
<tr><td>His wish and best advantage, us asunder,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Hopeless to circumvent us joined, where each</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To other speedy aid might lend at need.</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 260</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Whether his first design be to withdraw</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">He may plan to get us to disobey God </td></tr>
<tr><td>Our fealty from God, or to disturb</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">or split us apart</td></tr>
<tr><td>Conjugal love—than which perhaps no bliss</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Enjoyed by us excites his envy more—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">or whatever!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Or this, or worse, leave not the faithful side</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 265</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I think we should stick together.</td></tr>
<tr><td>That gave thee being, still shades thee and protects.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">You belong next to your husband so I can protect you."</td></tr>
<tr><td>The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> To whom the virgin majesty of Eve,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 270</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Eve was a little hurt and offended for some reason. </td></tr>
<tr><td>As one who loves, and some unkindness meets,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>With sweet austere composure thus replied:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">She replied as sweetly as she could,</td></tr>
<tr><td> “Offspring of Heaven and Earth, and all Earth’s lord!</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Yeah, I remember the warning about Satan...</td></tr>
<tr><td>That such an Enemy we have, who seeks</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Our ruin, both by thee informed I learn,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 275</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And from the parting Angel overheard,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>As in a shady nook I stood behind,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>But that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I just never thought you would think I would</td></tr>
<tr><td>To God or thee, because we have a foe</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 280</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>May tempt it, I expected not to hear.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">just wander off and let Satan hurt me!</td></tr>
<tr><td>His violence thou fear’st not, being such</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">He can't hurt us physically</td></tr>
<tr><td>As we, not capable of death or pain,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">because we're protected from death or pain. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Can either not receive, or can repel.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>His fraud is, then, thy fear; which plain infers</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 285</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Do you think Satan could easily trick me?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And that I'm not strong enough to defend myself? </td></tr>
<tr><td>Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I'm not helpless.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thoughts, which how found they harbour in thy breast,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Adam! misthought of her to thee so dear?”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">What are you even thinking about me, Adam?"</td></tr>
<tr><td> To whom, with healing words, Adam replied:—</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 290</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Adam replies to try and help the situation,</td></tr>
<tr><td>“Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve!—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Eve! You are the immortal daughter of God and man!</td></tr>
<tr><td>For such thou art, from sin and blame entire—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">No one is saying you're going to sin. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Not diffident of thee do I dissuade</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I'm saying that it's not that I have no confidence in you,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">It's just, even if </td></tr>
<tr><td>The attempt itself, intended by our Foe.</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 295</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan fails,</td></tr>
<tr><td>For he who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">it would be kind of an insult to you. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The tempted with dishonour foul, supposed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Not incorruptible of faith, not proof</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Against temptation. Thou thyself with scorn</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">You would resent the attempt I'm sure. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And anger wouldst resent the offered wrong,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 300</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Though ineffectual found; misdeem not, then,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And actually</td></tr>
<tr><td>If such affront I labour to avert</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>From thee alone, which on us both at once</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">if we stay together, we'll be stronger against any attempt.</td></tr>
<tr><td>The enemy, though bold, will hardly dare;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan is bold, but I don't think he'll take us on if we're together. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Or, daring, first on me the assault shall light.</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 305</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Besides, I'll step up and get in his face. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Nor thou his malice and false guile contemn—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">However, I also don't think we should underestimate him</td></tr>
<tr><td>Subtle he needs must be who could seduce</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Angels—nor think superfluous others’ aid.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">because he did fool the angels to side with him. </td></tr>
<tr><td>I from the influence of thy looks receive</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">When we're together, Eve, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Access in every virtue—in thy sight</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 310</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>More wise, more watchful, stronger, if need were</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I can be more stronger and braver. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of outward strength; while shame, thou looking on,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Because a man will never look weak in front</td></tr>
<tr><td>Shame to be overcome or overreached,</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left">of his woman. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Would utmost vigour raise, and raised unite.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Why shouldst not thou like sense within thee feel</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 315</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You should feel that way."</td></tr>
<tr><td>When I am present, and thy trial choose</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>With me, best witness of thy virtue tried?”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> So spake domestic Adam in his care</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And matrimonial love; but Eve, who thought</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">However, Eve was still convinced Adam didn't trust her</td></tr>
<tr><td>Less attributed to her faith sincere,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 320</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">being on her own in the garden. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Thus her reply with accent sweet renewed:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">She replied, </td></tr>
<tr><td> “If this be our condition, thus to dwell</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">"You know, if this is how it's supposed to be,</td></tr>
<tr><td>In narrow circuit straitened by a Foe,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">where we're afraid to be apart for a bit,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Subtle or violent, we not endued</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Single with like defence wherever met,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 325</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>How are we happy, still in fear of harm?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">what kind of life is that? How can we be truly happy?</td></tr>
<tr><td>But harm precedes not sin: only our Foe</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">We can't be harmed if we just say no to Satan and sin.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tempting affronts us with his foul esteem</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">His attempt to tempt us won't shame us</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of our integrity: his foul esteem</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">it only shames him. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Sticks no dishonour on our front, but turns</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 330</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Foul on himself; then wherefore shunned or feared</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>By us, who rather double honour gain</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Plus, it'll be something we can be proud of. </td></tr>
<tr><td>From his surmise proved false, find peace within,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">To say no to evil!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Favour from Heaven, our witness, from the event?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 335</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Alone, without exterior help sustained?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Let us not then suspect our happy state</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Left so imperfet by the Maker wise</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I don't think God meant for us to live in fear here."</td></tr>
<tr><td>As not secure to single or combined.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Frail is our happiness, if this be so;</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 340</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And Eden were no Eden, thus exposed.”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> To whom thus Adam fervently replied:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Adam replied, </td></tr>
<tr><td>“O Woman, best are all things as the will</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">"Eve, I believe God made everything perfect here.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of God ordained them; his creating hand</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Including everything that protects us from harm, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Nothing imperfet or deficient left</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 345</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">sin, and even Satan himself. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of all that he created—much less Man,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Or aught that might his happy state secure,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Secure from outward force. Within himself</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">But I do think that there is still danger. And this danger</td></tr>
<tr><td>The danger lies, yet lies within his power;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">can be within us. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Against his will he can receive no harm.</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 350</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It's up to us to control that within. Nothing can harm</td></tr>
<tr><td>But God left free the Will; for what obeys</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">us against our will, but God did give us free will too. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Reason is free; and Reason he made right,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">And to guide this free will, God gave us reason. </td></tr>
<tr><td>But bid her well beware, and still erect,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">So we need to be mindful that </td></tr>
<tr><td>Lest, by some fair appearing good surprised,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>She dictate false, and misinform the Will</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 355</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">some of our thoughts and reasoning can misinform us into mistaking evil for good. </td></tr>
<tr><td>To do what God expressly hath forbid.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Not then mistrust, but tender love, enjoins</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">It's not mistrust, but love. </td></tr>
<tr><td>That I should mind thee oft; and mind thou me,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And I want to remind you of that often. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">We're strong, yes, however, it's still possible</td></tr>
<tr><td>Since Reason not impossibly may meet</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 360</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Some specious object by the foe suborned,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And fall into deception unaware,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">to fall into temptation.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Not keeping strictest watch, as she was warned.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">We must be careful. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Seek not temptation, then, which to avoid</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Were better, and most likely if from me</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 365</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I really think it's better if </td></tr>
<tr><td>Thou sever not: trial will come unsought.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">you stay with me and not wander off. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Wouldst thou approve thy constancy, approve</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>First thy obedience; the other who can know,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">You don't have to prove your faithfulness and trustworthiness. You should prove your obedience first.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Not seeing thee attempted, who attest?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>But, if thou think trial unsought may find</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 370</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">But, I know you're keen on facing temptation head on,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Us both securer than thus warned thou seem’st,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">so I say</td></tr>
<tr><td>Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">go ahead.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Go in thy native innocence; rely</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">You are innocent in every way, wise, and virtuous.</td></tr>
<tr><td>On what thou hast of virtue; summon all;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>For God towards thee hath done his part: do thine.”</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 375</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God has given you everything you need." </td></tr>
<tr><td> So spake the Patriarch of Mankind; but Eve</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Persisted; yet submiss, though last, replied:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Eve has won the 'small argument.' She replied, </td></tr>
<tr><td> “With thy permission, then, and thus forewarned,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"I'll go on then, with your permission. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Chiefly by what thy own last reasoning words</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Touched only, that our trial, when least sought,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 380</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Because facing temptation head on is better than</td></tr>
<tr><td>May find us both perhaps far less prepared,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">letting it come to us when we least expect it. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The willinger I go, nor much expect</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Although, there's probably nothing to worry about. </td></tr>
<tr><td>A Foe so proud will first the weaker seek;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I highly doubt someone as proud asSatan</td></tr>
<tr><td>So bent, the more shall shame him his repulse.”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">would even attempt to attack the weaker sex first. Because if he were to fail, that would shame him even more!"</td></tr>
<tr><td> Thus saying, from her husband’s hand her hand</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 385</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Eve then let go of Adam's hand.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Soft she withdrew, and, like a wood—nymph light,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">She glowed like Diana the goddess of hunting. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Oread or Dryad, or of Delia’s train,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Betook her to the groves, but Delia’s self</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">She then disappeared into the woods,</td></tr>
<tr><td>In gait surpassed and goddess-like deport,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Though not as she with bow and quiver armed,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 390</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">but instead wielding gardening tools and not a bow and quiver of arrows. </td></tr>
<tr><td>But with such gardening tools as Art, yet rude,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Guiltless of fire had formed, or Angels brought.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To Pales, or Pomona, thus adorned,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Likest she seemed—Pomona when she fled</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Vertumnus—or to Ceres in her prime,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 395</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Yet virgin of Proserpina from Jove.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Her long with ardent look his eye pursued</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Delighted, but desiring more her stay.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Adam watched her as she left, wanting her even more the further she walked away. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Oft he to her his charge of quick return</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">He kept calling for her to turn around and come back</td></tr>
<tr><td>Repeated; she to him as oft engaged</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 400</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">but as she kept walking she reminded him </td></tr>
<tr><td>To be returned by noon amid the bower,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">that she'd be back by noon.</td></tr>
<tr><td>And all things in best order to invite</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Noontide repast, or afternoon’s repose.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Oh... but you and I both know that she wouldn't come back the same. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of thy presumed return! event perverse!</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 405</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Thou never from that hour in Paradise</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Found’st either sweet repast or sound repose;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Such ambush, hid among sweet flowers and shades,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan is out there waiting in the shade. Among the flowers.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Waited, with hellish rancour imminent,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To intercept thy way, or send thee back</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 410</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>For now, and since first break of dawn, the Fiend,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Ever since the break of dawn, Satan has been waiting</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mere Serpent in appearance, forth was come,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And on his quest where likeliest he might find</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The only two of mankind, but in them</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 415</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">for the two of them to come around. They are the future of mankind, and Satan will ruin it all. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The whole included race, his purposed prey.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>In bower and field he sought, where any tuft</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of grove or garden-plot more pleasant lay,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Their tendance or plantation for delight;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>By fountain or by shady rivulet</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 420</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>He sought them both, but wished his hap might find</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan ideally wanted to get Eve all alone, but he didn't think that would ever happen. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Eve separate; he wished, but not with hope</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of what so seldom chanced, when to his wish,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Beyond his hope, Eve separate he spies,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">But there she was. All that Satan had hoped for. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Veiled in a cloud of fragrance, where she stood,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 425</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">She was partially hidden </td></tr>
<tr><td>Half-spied, so thick the roses bushing round</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">among the thick roses. </td></tr>
<tr><td>About her glowed, oft stooping to support</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Each flower of tender stalk, whose head, though gay</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Eve was talking the drooping flowers</td></tr>
<tr><td>Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and lifting them back up neatly. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Hung drooping unsustained. Them she upstays</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 430</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Herself, though fairest unsupported flower,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">But Eve is actually the one that needs lifting up right now. </td></tr>
<tr><td>From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Nearer he drew, and many a walk traversed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">The Satan snake approached closer. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of stateliest covert, cedar, pine, or palm;</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 435</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And then hid among the thick undergrowth. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Imbordered on each bank, the hand of Eve:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan moved through the areas that Eve had tended to, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Spot more delicious than those gardens feigned</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Or of revived Adonis, or renowned</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 440</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">places that were more beautiful than the fictional gardens</td></tr>
<tr><td>Alcinoüs, host of old Laertes’ son,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Or that, not mystic, where the sapient king</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">where Adonis lived or the garden</td></tr>
<tr><td>Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">where Solomon made love with his fair Egyptian spouse. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Much he the place admired, the person more.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan admired the beauty of his surroundings, but he admired Eve even more. </td></tr>
<tr><td>As one who, long in populous city pent,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 445</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan felt like </td></tr>
<tr><td>Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">a person who lived in a dirty slum of a city, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Forth issuing on a summer’s morn, to breathe</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">who happens to take a walk in the beautiful countryside</td></tr>
<tr><td>Among the pleasant villages and farms</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">among the villages and the farms.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 450</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The pleasant smells and sounds, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>If chance with nymph-like step fair virgin pass,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">and the beautiful women that pass by.</td></tr>
<tr><td>What pleasing seemed for her now pleases more,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Everything looks so picturesque, but </td></tr>
<tr><td>She most, and in her look sums all delight:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Eve's radiance glows overall. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Such pleasure took the Serpent to behold</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 455</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Eve was like an angel to him. </td></tr>
<tr><td>This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Thus early, thus alone. Her heavenly form</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Angelic, but more soft and feminine,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Her graceful innocence, her every air</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">For a moment, her beauty and innocence </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of gesture or least action, overawed</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 460</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">overcame Satan's hate</td></tr>
<tr><td>His malice, and with rapine sweet bereaved</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">almost to the point where he actually forgot his evil plans. </td></tr>
<tr><td>That space the Evil One abstracted stood</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>From his own evil, and for the time remained</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 465</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>But the hot hell that always in him burns,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">The hot hell inside Satan, reminded him of his intentions. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Though in mid Heaven, soon ended his delight,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And tortures him now more, the more he sees</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">He was feeling the torture of things</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of pleasure not for him ordained. Then soon</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 470</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and pleasures that he knew he could never have. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Fierce hate he recollects, and all his thoughts</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">The hatred came back. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of mischief, gratulating, thus excites:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">He spoke, </td></tr>
<tr><td> “Thoughts, whither have ye led me? with what sweet</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">"Am I losing my mind? </td></tr>
<tr><td>Compulsion thus transported to forget</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Am I forgetting what I came here for? I need to snap out of it. </td></tr>
<tr><td>What hither brought us? hate, not love, nor hope</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 475</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I'm here for hate, not love. Not nice things. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of Paradise for Hell, here to taste</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I'm not here for pleasure</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I'm here to destroy it. The only pleasure I'll have is the pleasure of destroying all of this. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Save what is in destroying; other joy</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To me is lost. Then let me not let pass</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I can't lose my chance. There she is. She's all alone. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Occasion which now smiles. Behold alone</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 480</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Woman, opportune to all attempts—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I don't see her husband here anywhere too!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Whose higher intellectual more I shun,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">He's a lot stronger than me. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And strength, of courage haughty, and of limb</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Heroic built, though of terrestrial mould;</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 485</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Foe not informidable, exempt from wound—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>I not; so much hath Hell debased, and pain</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">And I'm a lot weaker ever since Heaven. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Infeebled me, to what I was in Heaven.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>She fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Eve is so fair. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Not terrible, though terror be in love,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 490</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And she's not scary at all, although </td></tr>
<tr><td>And beauty, not approached by stronger hate,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">love and beauty are kind of scary. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Hate stronger under show of love well feigned—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">But hate, especially my hate, is stronger than love. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The way which to her ruin now I tend.”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I will ruin Eve by disguising my hate as love. "</td></tr>
<tr><td> So spake the Enemy of Mankind, enclosed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>In serpent, inmate bad, and toward Eve</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 495</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And so the snake, possessed by Satan, approached Eve. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Addressed his way—not with indented wave,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">He didn't move about like ordinary snakes do. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Circular base of rising folds, that towered</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan rose above from the ground, and towered</td></tr>
<tr><td>Fold above fold, a surging maze; his head</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">everything below hime with his head held high. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes;</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 500</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">His eyes were like red gemstones</td></tr>
<tr><td>With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and his thick neck was a green tinted gold. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Floated redundant. Pleasing was his shape</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">His overall body shape could be described as beautiful.</td></tr>
<tr><td>And lovely; never since the serpent kind</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Lovelier—not those that in Illyria changed</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 505</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">More beautiful than other snakes described in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hermione and Cadmus, or the God</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Roman tales,</td></tr>
<tr><td>In Epidaurus; nor to which transformed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">fables, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Ammonian Jove, or Capitoline, was seen,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and stories you might come to learn in future</td></tr>
<tr><td>He with Olympias, this with her who bore</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">intense English courses. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Scipio, the highth of Rome. With tract oblique</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 510</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan inched closer to Eve,</td></tr>
<tr><td>At first, as one who sought access but feared</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">as if he were shy or hesitant.</td></tr>
<tr><td>To interrupt, sidelong he works his way.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>As when a ship, by skilful steersman wrought</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Kind of like a ship haphazardly weaving its way </td></tr>
<tr><td>Nigh river’s mouth or foreland, where the wind</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">along a coastline.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sail,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 515</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>So varied he, and of his tortuous train</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">His long train-like body</td></tr>
<tr><td>Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">stretched, coiled, and uncoiled</td></tr>
<tr><td>To lure her eye. She, busied, heard the sound</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">in front of Eve desperately trying to get her attention.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of rustling leaves, but minded not, as used</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Eve did hear some kind of disturbance by her in the leaves.</td></tr>
<tr><td>To such disport before her through the field</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 520</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">But she didn't go on to see what it really was because she's use to animals being around her. </td></tr>
<tr><td>From every beast, more duteous at her call</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Animals and beasts always came to her whenever she called.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Than at Circean call the herd disguised.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">They obeyed Eve a little better than others in mythology.</td></tr>
<tr><td>He, bolder now, uncalled before her stood,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan in snake-mode mustered a little bit more courage</td></tr>
<tr><td>But as in gaze admiring. Oft he bowed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and approached her without her having to call upon him. He bowed</td></tr>
<tr><td>His turret crest and sleek enamelled neck,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 525</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Fawning, and licked the ground whereon she trod.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and licked the ground (because I guess snakes do that.)</td></tr>
<tr><td>His gentle dumb expression turned at length</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">This weird maneuver caught Eve's attention.</td></tr>
<tr><td>The eye of Eve to mark his play; he, glad</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of her attention gained, with serpent-tongue</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And finally his sneaky serpent tongue spoke to her, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Organic, or impulse of vocal air,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 530</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>His fraudulent temptation thus began:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> “Wonder not, sovran mistress (if perhaps</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Hey, don't worry m'lady. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Thou canst who art sole wonder), much less arm</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">You must be wondering why I came up to you unannounced, but </td></tr>
<tr><td>Thy looks, the heaven of mildness, with disdain,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Displeased that I approach thee thus, and gaze</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 535</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I just had to muster the courage to finally approach you and have a look.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Insatiate, I thus single, nor have feared</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Thy awful brow, more awful thus retired.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Because you are so beautiful, you are definitely from Heaven.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thee all things living gaze on, all things thine</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">But down here with all these beast and animals,</td></tr>
<tr><td>By gift, and thy celestial beauty adore,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 540</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>With ravishment beheld—there best beheld</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Where universally admired. But here,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">there's only one man around to really appreciate </td></tr>
<tr><td>In this enclosure wild, these beasts among,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">all your beauty. And that's a shame!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Beholders rude, and shallow to discern</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Half what in thee is fair, one man except,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 545</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Who sees thee (and what is one?) who shouldst be seen</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">To me, you are a divine goddess.</td></tr>
<tr><td>A Goddess among Gods, adored and served</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">You deserve to be seen</td></tr>
<tr><td>By Angels numberless, thy daily train?”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and served by all the Angels every single day."</td></tr>
<tr><td> So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">All this praise made Eve feel flattered. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Into the heart of Eve his words made way,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 550</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">She was definitely touched by the strange talking snake. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Though at the voice much marvelling; at length,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Not unamazed, she thus in answer spake:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">She replied,</td></tr>
<tr><td> “What may this mean? Language of Man pronounced</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Wow, a talking snake. </td></tr>
<tr><td>By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed!</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The first at least of these I thought denied</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 555</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I didn't realize God made animals</td></tr>
<tr><td>To beasts, whom God on their creation-day</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">that could talk. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Created mute to all articulate sound;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The latter I demur, for in their looks</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I don't doubt that animals are intelligent in their own ways, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Thee, Serpent, subtlest beast of all the field</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 560</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">But snakes... well. You are sly creatures in my opinion, </td></tr>
<tr><td>I knew, but not with human voice endued;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">but this is very interesting. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Redouble, then, this miracle, and say,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>How cam’st thou speakable of mute, and how</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">How on Earth did you learn how to talk?"</td></tr>
<tr><td>To me so friendly grown above the rest</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of brutal kind that daily are in sight:</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 565</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Say, for such wonder claims attention due.”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> To whom the guileful Tempter thus replied:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">The sneaky snake replied, </td></tr>
<tr><td>“Empress of this fair World, resplendent Eve!</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Eve, fair Eve...</td></tr>
<tr><td>Easy to me it is to tell thee all</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>What thou command’st, and right thou shouldst be obeyed.</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 570</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>I was at first as other beasts that graze</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I used to be like all the other simple animals,</td></tr>
<tr><td>The trodden herb, of abject thoughts and low,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>As was my food, nor aught but food discerned</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">just thinking about food, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Or sex, and apprehended nothing high:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and sex. Nothing more, nothing less. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Till on a day, roving the field, I chanced</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 575</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Until one day</td></tr>
<tr><td>A goodly tree far distant to behold,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I was taking a slither</td></tr>
<tr><td>Loaden with fruit of fairest colours mixed,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">and found this amazing tree with colorful fruit on</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ruddy and gold. In nearer drew to gaze;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">its branches. Red and yellow fruits just ripe for the taking!</td></tr>
<tr><td>When from the boughs a savoury odour blown,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">The wind blew its tantalizing smell to me</td></tr>
<tr><td>Grateful to appetite, more pleased my sense</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 580</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and I couldn't help myself anymore. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Than smell of sweetest fennel, or the teats</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of ewe or goat dropping with milk at even,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I needed it.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Unsucked of lamb or kid, that tend their play.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To satisfy the sharp desire I had</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of tasting those fair Apples, I resolved</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 585</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Powerful persuaders, quickened at the scent</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">So I hurried up the trunk, slithering all around it</td></tr>
<tr><td>About the mossy trunk I wound me soon;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">making my way to the fruit. </td></tr>
<tr><td>For, high from ground, the branches would require</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 590</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It was a massive tree, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Thy utmost reach, or Adam’s; round the Tree</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">you and Adam would have to reach up high to even get some fruit too. </td></tr>
<tr><td>All other beasts that saw, with like desire</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">As I was going up, all the other animals below me </td></tr>
<tr><td>Longing and envying stood, but could not reach.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">were just jealous that they couldn't have a taste. Suckers. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Amid the tree now got, where plenty hung</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Tempting so nigh, to pluck and eat my fill</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 595</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I ate my fill. </td></tr>
<tr><td>I spared not; for such pleasure till that hour</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I've never tasted anything so delicious, so scrumptious, </td></tr>
<tr><td>At feed or fountain never had I found.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">in my entire life. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Sated at length, ere long I might perceive</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Soon after I started to feel something</td></tr>
<tr><td>Strange alteration in me, to degree</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">in me. Something different. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of Reason in my inward powers, and Speech</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 600</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I was able to think thoughts, thoughts and concepts</td></tr>
<tr><td>Wanted not long, though to this shape retained.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">beyond myself. And I began to speak them into existence. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Thenceforth to speculations high or deep</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Considered all things visible in Heaven,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I was able to ponder life, and my very own existence. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Or Earth, or Middle, all things fair and good.</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 605</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>But all that fair and good in thy Divine</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And as much as I could think, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Semblance, and in thy beauty’s heavenly ray,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">none of that beauty even compares</td></tr>
<tr><td>United I beheld—no fair to thine</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Equivalent or second; which compelled</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">to your own beauty, Eve."</td></tr>
<tr><td>Me thus, though importune perhaps, to come</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 610</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And gaze, and worship thee of right declared</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Sovran of creatures, universal Dame!”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> So talked the spirited sly Snake; and Eve,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">The line worked on Eve. (And that kind of talk shouldn't work on anyone these days, it's too superficial, sneaky, and manipulative.)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yet more amazed, unwary thus replied:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">The amazed Eve replied,</td></tr>
<tr><td> “Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 615</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Oh snake, </td></tr>
<tr><td>The virtue of that Fruit, in thee first proved.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">you flatter me! I wonder how much that fruit affected your brain.</td></tr>
<tr><td>But say, where grows the Tree? from hence how far?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Where is this tree anyway?</td></tr>
<tr><td>For many are the trees of God that grow</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I've seen a lot of trees in my day</td></tr>
<tr><td>In Paradise, and various, yet unknown</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">but I've never seen this one that you speak so highly of."</td></tr>
<tr><td>To us; in such abundance lies our choice</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 620</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>As leaves a greater store of fruit untouched,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Still hanging incorruptible, till men</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Grow up to their provision, and more hands</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Help to disburden Nature of her bearth.”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> To whom the wily Adder, blithe and glad;—</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 625</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan has hooked her. He gladly tells her, </td></tr>
<tr><td>“Empress, the way is ready, and not long—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Ah Eve, I thought you'd never ask. I can take you right to it!"</td></tr>
<tr><td>Beyond a row of myrtles, on a flat,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Fast by a fountain, one small thicket past</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of blowing myrrh and balm. If thou accept</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>My conduct, I can bring thee thither soon.”</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 630</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td> “Lead, then,” said Eve. He, leading, swiftly rowled</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Eve said, "Alright bet. Lead the way." </td></tr>
<tr><td>In tangles, and made intricate seem straight,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And they headed to the tree together. </td></tr>
<tr><td>To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Satan was clearly excited. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 635</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Condenses, and the cold invirons round,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Kindled through agitation to a flame</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>(Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends),</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Hovering and blazing with delusive light,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 640</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>There swallowed up and lost, from succour far:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Eve slowly recognized where the snake was taking her, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of Prohibition, root of all our woe;</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 645</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Which when she saw, thus to her guide she spake:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">so she spoke up, </td></tr>
<tr><td> “Serpent, we might have spared our coming hither,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Uhm, snake. I don't think you should bother any more.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Fruitless to me, though fruit be here to excess,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I know about this tree. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The credit of whose virtue rest with thee—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">It might have been all good for you, but </td></tr>
<tr><td>Wondrous, indeed, if cause of such effects!</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 650</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>But of this tree we may not taste nor touch;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">God told us not to have any. We can't even touch it. </td></tr>
<tr><td>God so commanded, and left that command</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">We're able to do anything else BUT mess with the tree."</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sole daughter of his voice: the rest, we live</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Law to ourselves; our Reason is our Law.”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> To whom the Tempter guilefully replied:—</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 655</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan, already so far in his plan, replied, </td></tr>
<tr><td>“Indeed! Hath God then said that of the fruit</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Really? </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of all these garden-trees ye shall not eat,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Of all these trees here... and</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yet lords declared of all in Earth or Air?”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">God basically made you lords of this Earth, and you can't even eat from one simple tree?" </td></tr>
<tr><td> To whom thus Eve, yet sinless:—“Of the fruit</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Eve innocently replied, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of each tree in the garden we may eat;</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 660</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"We can eat whatever we want. Except this one. </td></tr>
<tr><td>But of the fruit of this fair Tree, amidst</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">If we even touch this tree, we'll die."</td></tr>
<tr><td>The Garden, God hath said, ‘Ye shall not eat</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Thereof, nor shall ye touch it, lest ye die.’“</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> She scarce had said, though brief, when now more bold</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Tempter, but, with shew of zeal and love</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 665</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">This emboldened Satan. He wanted to make it seem like</td></tr>
<tr><td>To Man, and indignation at his wrong,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">both Adam and Eve were cheated. And that he actually cared about them. </td></tr>
<tr><td>New part puts on, and, as to passion moved,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Fluctuates disturbed, yet comely, and in act</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">He put on a new act, as if he were</td></tr>
<tr><td>Raised, as of some great matter to begin.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>As when of old some orator renowned</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 670</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">some great speaker on a soapbox. </td></tr>
<tr><td>In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">With fake passion coursing through him, he set the stage for</td></tr>
<tr><td>Stood in himself collected, while each part,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">a momentous and rousing speech.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Motion, each act, won audience ere the tongue</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Sometimes in highth began, as no delay</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 675</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of preface brooking through his zeal of right:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>So standing, moving, or to highth upgrown,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Tempter, all impassioned, thus began:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">The great lier began, </td></tr>
<tr><td>“O sacred, wise, and wisdom-giving Plant,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">"Oh, wisdom-giving tree, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Mother of science! now I feel thy power</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 680</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">now I understand. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Within me clear, not only to discern</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Things in their causes, but to trace the ways</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of highest agents, deemed however wise.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Queen of this Universe! do not believe</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Eve, queen of the universe...</td></tr>
<tr><td>Those rigid threats of death. Ye shall not die.</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 685</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">you shouldn't believe you will die! You won't!</td></tr>
<tr><td>How should ye? By the Fruit? it gives you life</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Why should you, and how could you? This fruit isn't poison at all, </td></tr>
<tr><td>To knowledge. By the Threatener? look on me,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">It gives you wisdom and knowledge. I mean, just look at ME.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Me who have touched and tasted, yet both live,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">I touched it, I tasted it. Yet here I stand. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And life more perfect have attained than Fate</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">And not only am I still alive, I feel even more alive.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Meant me, by venturing higher than my lot.</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 690</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I feel as though I have a more perfect life than I would have if I were still a an ordinary snake. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Shall that be shut to Man which to the Beast</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Besides, I don't think God would be angry with you for such</td></tr>
<tr><td>Is open? or will God incense his ire</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">a little thing. </td></tr>
<tr><td>For such a petty trespass, and not praise</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Rather your dauntless virtue, whom the pain</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">He'd probably admire your courage to do something risky, especially if you thought you were going to die!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of death denounced, whatever thing Death be,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 695</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">AND especially doing it because you weren't afraid to die. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Deterred not from achieving what might lead</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To happier life, knowledge of Good and Evil?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Why would he be angry if you were trying to better yourself. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of good, how just! of evil—if what is evil</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">To know more about the world around you. To know more about good and evil. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Be real, why not known, since easier shunned?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">Don't you think it's a good idea to know about evil so that you can work to avoid it if it ever comes your way? </td></tr>
<tr><td>God, therefore, cannot hurt ye and be just;</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 700</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God can't punish you for this and be considered fair. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Not just, not God; not feared then, nor obeyed:</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Because can't be unfair, it's not the way he works. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Your fear itself of death removes the fear.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">And it doesn't make any sense to fear him.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Why, then, was this forbid? Why but to awe,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Why but to keep ye low and ignorant,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">In my opinion, I think God want's to keep you low and ignorant of good and evil. </td></tr>
<tr><td>His worshipers? He knows that in the day</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 705</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God probably knows that if you eat the fruit</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ye eat thereof your eyes, that seem so clear,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">you'll become wise. As wise as him. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Opened and cleared, and ye shall be as Gods,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Gods even. I guess he wants to be the only one to know it all. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Knowing both good and evil, as they know.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>That ye should be as Gods, since I as Man,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 710</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">So, since I ate the fruit and became similar to a man,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Internal Man, is but proportion meet—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">it'll definitely make you similar to a God. </td></tr>
<tr><td>I, of brute, human; ye, of human, Gods.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>So ye shall die perhaps, by putting off</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">And if you do die, you'll likely be reborn as a God.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Human, to put on Gods—death to be wished,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Though threatened, which no worse than this can bring!</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 715</i></div>
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<tr><td>And what are Gods, that Man may not become</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">So why shouldn't man become God too?</td></tr>
<tr><td>As they, participating godlike food?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Gods are first, and that advantage use</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">The Gods came first</td></tr>
<tr><td>On our belief, that all from them proceeds.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">and they tell you everything comes from them,</td></tr>
<tr><td>I question it; for this fair Earth I see,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 720</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I don't think that's fair. And I don't think that's right. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Warmed by the Sun, producing every kind;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Just look around at everything the sun touches, and how it produces more life. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Them nothing. If they all things, who enclosed</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">If God controls everything, who put the knowledge</td></tr>
<tr><td>Knowledge of Good and Evil in this Tree,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">of good and evil in this tree </td></tr>
<tr><td>That whoso eats thereof forthwith attains</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">that they don't want anyone to have?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Wisdom without their leave? and wherein lies</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 725</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The offence, that Man should thus attain to know?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Overall, what is the big problem in wanting to have more knowledge anyway?</td></tr>
<tr><td>What can your knowledge hurt him, or this Tree</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">How can your newfound knowledge hurt God, or this tree?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Impart against his will, if all be his?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Especially if he's so powerful. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Or is it envy? and can envy dwell</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Maybe he's selfish.</td></tr>
<tr><td>In Heavenly breasts? These, these and many more</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 730</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I'm asking a lot of questions, and you should be asking the same ones too. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Causes import your need of this fair Fruit.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">This tree's fruit may be the start to finding those answers, Eve. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste!”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Come up, reach them, and have a taste of new knowledge."</td></tr>
<tr><td> He ended; and his words, replete with guile,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Into her heart too easy entrance won.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Eve was sold. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Fixed on the Fruit she gazed, which to behold</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 735</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">She gazed at the fruit. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Might tempt alone; and in her ears the sound</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">She was tempted at the thought of knowledge and knowing. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Yet rung of his persuasive words, impregned</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">As quick-fire as the snake's words were, they kind of made sense to her.</td></tr>
<tr><td>With reason, to her seeming, and with truth.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Meanwhile the hour of noon drew on, and waked</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">It was getting near noontime, </td></tr>
<tr><td>An eager appetite, raised by the smell</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 740</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and Eve was getting hungry. The smell of the fruit wasn't helping. </td></tr>
<tr><td>So savoury of that Fruit, which with desire,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Inclinable now grown to touch or taste,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Solicited her longing eye; yet first,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Even paused and thought to herself, </td></tr>
<tr><td> “Great are thy virtues, doubtless, best of Fruits,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 745</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Oh fruit...</td></tr>
<tr><td>Though kept from Man, and worthy to be admired,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">you've been kept from us for far too long.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Whose taste, too long forborne, at first assay</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">You taught a simple snake how to speak, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Gave elocution to the mute, and taught</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">and he spoke so highly of you. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Thy praise he also who forbids thy use</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 750</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And God praised you too. You are the tree of knowledge</td></tr>
<tr><td>Conceals not from us, naming thee the Tree</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of Knowledge, knowledge both of Good and Evil;</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">of good and evil </td></tr>
<tr><td>Forbids us then to taste. But his forbidding</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">But God forbids us from tasting you. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Commends thee more, while it infers the good</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">That just makes you so much more desirable. </td></tr>
<tr><td>By thee communicated, and our want;</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 755</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">None of this makes sense to me. </td></tr>
<tr><td>For good unknown sure is not bad, or, had</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Because how can we ever enjoy the things that are good</td></tr>
<tr><td>And yet unknown, is as not had at all.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">if we don't even know that they are considered good?</td></tr>
<tr><td>In plain, then, what forbids he but to know?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Basically by forbidding us access to this fruit, he's forbidding </td></tr>
<tr><td>Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise!</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">us all the good in the world!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Such prohibitions bind not. But, if Death</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 760</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Bind us with after-bands, what profits then</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">IF we die after eating it, what good is the knowledge we get?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Our inward freedom? In the day we eat</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of this fair Fruit, our doom is we shall die!</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">What a crazy situation!</td></tr>
<tr><td>How dies the Serpent? He hath eaten, and lives,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And knows, and speaks, and reasons, and discerns,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 765</i></div>
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<tr><td>Irrational till then. For us alone</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">We're the only ones here on Earth, are we the only ones who can die? </td></tr>
<tr><td>Was death invented? or to us denied</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>This intellectual food, for beasts reserved?</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">This fruit of knowledge... animals can have it, but we can't??</td></tr>
<tr><td>For beasts it seems; yet that one beast which first</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I mean, the one creature that did eat of the fruit... he seems friendly.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hath tasted envies not, but brings with joy</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 770</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And he really wants us to share in his newfound knowledge. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The good befallen him, author unsuspect,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Friendly to Man, far from deceit or guile.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>What fear I, then? rather, what know to fear</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">So, what's there to be afraid of then?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Under this ignorance of Good and Evil,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Plus, how am I supposed to know what to even be afraid of if I'm supposed to stay ignorant and not know what actually is good and evil?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of God or Death, of law or penalty?</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 775</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Here grows the cure of all, this fruit divine,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">So here's the answer to it all. This fruit. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Fair to the eye, inviting to the taste,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">So delicious looking. So fair. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of virtue to make wise. What hinders, then,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Along with the grand power to make wiser than before. What's to stop me then?</td></tr>
<tr><td>To reach, and feed at once both body and mind?”</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">If this is my chance to feed my body and my mind??"</td></tr>
<tr><td> So saying, her rash hand in evil hour</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 780</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Forth-reaching to the Fruit, she plucked, she eat.</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">She reached for a fruit, plucked it, and ate it. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">The earth felt a wound. A crushing blow that we will still </td></tr>
<tr><td>Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">feel to this day. A giant sigh could be felt through the earth, because all was lost. </td></tr>
<tr><td>That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Back into the thicket the </td></tr>
<tr><td>The guilty Serpent, and well might, for Eve,</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 785</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">snake retreated. His job was done. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Intent now only her taste, naught else</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Eve was busy </td></tr>
<tr><td>Regarded; such delight till then, as seemed,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>In fruit she never tasted, whether true,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">binging on knowledge.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Or fancied so through expectation high</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Could it be that this was the most</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of knowledge; nor was Godhead from her thought.</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 790</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">delicious fruit she's ever tasted?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Greedily she ingorged without restraint,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Or maybe she just constantly told her self that</td></tr>
<tr><td>And knew not eating death. Satiate at length,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">because that's what she expected it to be?</td></tr>
<tr><td>And hightened as with wine, jocond and boon,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">One thing was for certain, she was eating death. But she was high as a kite, as if she were drunk on wine.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thus to herself she pleasingly began:—</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> “O sovran, virtuous, precious of all trees</td><td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<i> 795</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">She thought to herself more, </td></tr>
<tr><td>In Paradise! of operation blest</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">"Oh tree, oh fruit! </td></tr>
<tr><td>To sapience, hitherto obscured, infamed,</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left">You are so delicious! Your goodness and knowledge was hidden.</td></tr>
<tr><td>And thy fair Fruit let hang, as to no end</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">You were hanging here on these branches with all your beauty as if</td></tr>
<tr><td>Created! but henceforth my early care,</td><td width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">if had no purpose before I came! But not anymore.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Not without song, each morning, and due praise,</td><td align="center" valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 800</i></div>
</td><td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I'll be here every morning, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Shall tend thee, and the fertil burden ease</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">to tend to you and lighten your branches. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of thy full branches, offered free to all;</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Till, dieted by thee, I grow mature</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">By eating you more and more, I will grow mature, and smarter. </td></tr>
<tr><td>In knowledge, as the Gods who all things know,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Until I'm like a God that knows everything. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Though others envy what they cannot give—</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
805</div>
</td><td align="left"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>For, had the gift been theirs, it had not here</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Thus grown! Experience, next to thee I owe,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Im so glad </td></tr>
<tr><td>Best guide: not following thee, I had remained</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">that I did this. You can only learn from experience, or else</td></tr>
<tr><td>In ignorance; thou open’st Wisdom’s way,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">everything new remains hidden and secret. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And giv’st access, though secret she retire.</td><td align="center" width="90">810</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And I perhaps am secret: Heaven is high—</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I just hope what I did stays secret. Heaven is far away, </td></tr>
<tr><td>High, and remote to see from thence distinct</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">so it's got to be difficult to see absolutely everything happening on Earth...</td></tr>
<tr><td>Each thing on Earth; and other care perhaps</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I'm sure God has other things to be attending to anyway. </td></tr>
<tr><td>May have diverted from continual watch</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Our great Forbidder, safe with all his Spies</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
815</div>
</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>About him. But to Adam in what sort</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">As for Adam... I wonder</td></tr>
<tr><td>Shall I appear? Shall I to him make known</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">how he'll see me. Should I tell him what happened?</td></tr>
<tr><td>As yet my change, and give him to partake</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">How the fruit has changed me? Maybe he can eat it too. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Full happiness with me, or rather not,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Or maybe not. I keep it to myself...</td></tr>
<tr><td>But keep the odds of knowledge in my power</td><td align="center" width="90">820</td><td align="left">I can keep knowledge to myself and it'll help me </td></tr>
<tr><td>Without copartner? so to add what wants</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">be more equal to him. </td></tr>
<tr><td>In female sex, the more to draw his love,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Because that's what's missing in the female sex. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And render me more equal, and perhaps—</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>A thing not undesirable—sometime</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Superior; for, inferior, who is free?</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
825</div>
</td><td align="left">I can be a little superior sometimes for a change. Being inferior is limiting. </td></tr>
<tr><td>This may be well; but what if God have seen,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Ahh, but what if God has already see me do this. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And death ensue? Then I shall be no more;</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">And I end up dead anyway?</td></tr>
<tr><td>And Adam, wedded to another Eve,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">And then Adam gets a new wife?? OH nooo...</td></tr>
<tr><td>Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct!</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I can't even think of him being happy with someone else</td></tr>
<tr><td>A death to think! Confirmed, then, I resolve</td><td align="center" width="90">830</td><td align="left">while I'm gone. Well. That's it then. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>So dear I love him that with him all deaths</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">I love him so much that I would rather die with him, than to live without him."</td></tr>
<tr><td>I could endure, without him live no life.”</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td> So saying, from the Tree her step she turned,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">From under the tree, she turned and bowed to the tree.</td></tr>
<tr><td>But first low reverence done, as to the Power</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>That dwelt within, whose presence had infused</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">She could sense the knowledge within the tree and she admired it. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Into the plant sciential sap, derived</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>From nectar, drink of Gods. Adam the while,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Waiting desirous her return, had wove</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Meanwhile, Adam was weaving a </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of choicest flowers a garland, to adorn</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">flower garland for Eve's hair. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Her tresses, and her rural labours crown,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>As reapers oft are wont their harvest-queen.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Great joy he promised to his thoughts, and new</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">He was excited and expecting a happy reunion</td></tr>
<tr><td>Solace in her return, so long delayed;</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">when Eve returned. But she was taking a while, and that made him uneasy. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,</td><td align="center" width="90">845</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Misgave him. He the faltering measure felt,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>And forth to meet her went, the way she took</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Worried, he went to find her. Tracing her steps in the direction that she had went. </td></tr>
<tr><td>That morn when first they parted. By the Tree</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">It was a path toward the tree of knowledge. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of Knowledge he must pass; there he her met,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Scarce from the Tree returning; in her hand</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">And there she was. Holding in her hand</td></tr>
<tr><td>A bough of fairest fruit, that downy smiled,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">and branch from the tree with fruit hanging from it. </td></tr>
<tr><td>New gathered, and ambrosial smell diffused.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>To him she hasted; in her face excuse</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">She quickly ran to Adam. Her face looked like it was searching for a way to excuse and apologize. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Came prologue, and apology to prompt,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Which, with bland words at will, she thus addressed:—</td><td align="center" width="90">855</td><td align="left">She said, </td></tr>
<tr><td> “Hast thou not wondered, Adam, at my stay?</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">"Adam, were you wondering why it was taking me so long?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thee I have missed, and thought it long, deprived</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">I've missed you so much, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Thy presence—agony of love till now</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Not felt, nor shall be twice; for never more</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">this will be the first and last time this ever happens. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Mean I to try, what rash untried I sought,</td><td align="center" width="90">860</td><td align="left">I don't ever want to be separated again.</td></tr>
<tr><td>The pain of absence from thy sight. But strange</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Hath been the cause, and wonderful to hear.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">But I have to tell you what just happened. </td></tr>
<tr><td>This Tree is not, as we are told, a Tree</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">The tree. The tree of knowledge isn't dangerous after all!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of danger tasted, nor to evil unknown</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Opening the way, but of divine effect</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">It opens your mind and makes you knowledgeable of everything in the world!</td></tr>
<tr><td>To open eyes, and make them Gods who taste;</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">It'll make you feel like a God!</td></tr>
<tr><td>And hath been tasted such. The Serpent wise,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">There was a snake that had eaten the fruit</td></tr>
<tr><td>Or not restrained as we, or not obeying,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">and he didn't die.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hath eaten of the Fruit, and is become</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Not dead, as we are threatened, but thenceforth</td><td align="center" width="90">870</td><td align="left">Instead, he learned how to talk. And gave him human intelligence. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Endued with human voice and human sense,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Reasoning to admiration, and with me</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">He convinced me to eat the fruit too, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Persuasively hath so prevailed that I</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">and I did. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Have also tasted, and have also found</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">My eyes were opened,</td></tr>
<tr><td>The effects to correspond—opener mine eyes,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I feel like I see the world in a different way,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dim erst, dilated spirits, ampler heart,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">And I just feel like a God too!</td></tr>
<tr><td>And growing up to Godhead; which for thee</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Chiefly I sought, without thee can despise.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>For bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss;</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">I want you to feel this way, Adam. We have to do this together as it's no good without you to share it with. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Tedious, unshared with thee, and odious soon.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Thou, therefore, also taste, that equal lot</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">If you eat the fruit, we'll be able to </td></tr>
<tr><td>May join us, equal joy, as equal love;</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">share equal joy, knowledge, and love. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Lest, thou not tasting, different degree</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">But if you don't eat it, we'll be on different levels (basically out of his league lol)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Disjoin us, and I then too late renounce</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">and we won't be able to connect anymore. It would make me regret eating the fruit it you don't do it too." </td></tr>
<tr><td>Deity for thee, when fate will not permit.”</td><td align="center" width="90">885</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> Thus Eve with countenance blithe her story told;</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Eve said all of this as casually as she could. </td></tr>
<tr><td>But in her cheek distemper flushing glowed.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>On the other side, Adam, soon as he heard</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>The fatal trespass done by Eve, amazed,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Astonied stood and blank, while horror chill</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Adam was honestly horrified and stunned. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Ran through his veins, and all his joints relaxed.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">His body felt limp and weak.</td></tr>
<tr><td>From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">The beautiful garland he had made</td></tr>
<tr><td>Down dropt, and all the faded roses shed.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">fell to the ground and shattered in pieces. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Speechless he stood and pale, till thus at length</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">He was speechless. </td></tr>
<tr><td>First to himself he inward silence broke:—</td><td align="center" width="90">895</td><td align="left">In his head he thought to himself, </td></tr>
<tr><td> “O fairest of Creation, last and best</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">"How could this happen?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of all God’s works, creature in whom excelled</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">This beautiful creature, that God created</td></tr>
<tr><td>Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">so good, so loving, no all of a sudden</td></tr>
<tr><td>How art thou lost! how on a sudden lost,</td><td align="center" width="90">900</td><td align="left">ruined, deflowered,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote!</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">and destined for death?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rather, how hast thou yielded to transgress</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">What drove her to this?</td></tr>
<tr><td>The strict forbiddance, how to violate</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">To violate God in this way?</td></tr>
<tr><td>The sacred Fruit forbidden? Some cursed fraud</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,</td><td align="center" width="90">905</td><td align="left">Something evil must have persuaded her. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And me with thee hath ruined; for with thee</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">And now I'm doomed too. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Certain my resolution is to die.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Because I just can't live without my Eve.</td></tr>
<tr><td>How can I live without thee? how forgo</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To live again in these wild woods forlorn?</td><td align="center" width="90">910</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Should God create another Eve, and I</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">And if God even created another Eve, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Another rib afford, yet loss of thee</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">I wouldn't be able to get over losing her. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Would never from my heart. No, no! I feel</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Eve is my flesh, my love, a part of me. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">I don't care what happens anymore."</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state</td><td align="center" width="90">915</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.”</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td> So having said, as one from sad dismay</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Knowing that nothing can change now, he calmly spoke to Eve, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Recomforted, and, after thoughts disturbed,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Submitting to what seemed remediless,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Thus in calm mood his words to Eve he turned:—</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td> “Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventrous Eve,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">"Eve, you really did something. But it was</td></tr>
<tr><td>And peril great provoked, who thus hast dared</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">bold and daring.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Had it been only coveting to eye</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>That sacred Food, sacred to abstinence;</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Much more to taste it, under ban to touch.</td><td align="center" width="90">925</td><td align="left">We were just told not to touch the fruit,</td></tr>
<tr><td>But past who can recall, or done undo?</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">but you went ahead and tasted and eaten it. There's no turning back now. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate! Yet so</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">No way to undo it all, not even God can undo it. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Perhaps thou shalt not die; perhaps the fact</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">You might not die, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Is not so hainous now-foretasted Fruit,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Profaned first by the Serpent, by him first</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">because maybe the fruit lost its sacredness when the snake ate it first. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Made common and unhallowed ere our taste,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Nor yet on him found deadly. He yet lives—</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Sure he survived, and it made him a little more like us. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Lives, as thou saidst, and gains to live, as Man,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Higher degree of life: inducement strong</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">You know, it's very appealing to eat the fruit. I can't blame you, or the snake. </td></tr>
<tr><td>To us, as likely, tasting, to attain</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Proportional ascent; which cannot be</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>But to be Gods, or Angels, Demi-gods.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Nor can I think that God, Creator wise,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Overall, I don't think God would kill us, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Though threatening, will in earnest so destroy</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Us, his prime creatures, dignified so high,</td><td align="center" width="90">940</td><td align="left">as we are the highest of his creation!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Set over all his works; which, in our fall,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">He made the rest of the world around us, just for us...</td></tr>
<tr><td>For us created, needs with us must fail,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">so he'd have to destroy it all too. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Dependent made. So God shall uncreate,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I don't think he would create all this</td></tr>
<tr><td>Be frustrate, do, undo, and labour lose—</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">just to destroy it all. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Not well conceived of God; who, though his power</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">God's plan isn't that simple. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Creation could repeat, yet would be loth</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Us to abolish, lest the Adversary</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">But then again, God could always replace us. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Triumph and say: ‘Fickle their state whom God</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td>Most favours; who can please him long? Me first</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>He ruined, now Mankind; whom will he next?’—</td><td align="center" width="90">950</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Matter of scorn not to be given the Foe.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>However, I with thee have fixed my lot,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Eve, I've my life is with you. And I'm ready to share the rest of your days with you. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Certain to undergo like doom. If death</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">And if your fate is death and doom, that is life to me especially if it's with you. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Consort with thee, death is to me as life;</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>So forcible within my heart I feel</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">That's just how strong our bond and love is. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The bond of Nature draw me to my own—</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">That's the way it is with us." </td></tr>
<tr><td>My own is thee; for what thou art is mine.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Our state cannot be severed; we are one,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td> So Adam; and thus Eve to him replied:—</td><td align="center" width="90">960</td><td align="left">Eve replied ecstatically, </td></tr>
<tr><td>“O glorious trial of exceeding love,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">"Oh Adam! You're so full of love for me!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Illustrious evidence, example high!</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Ingaging me to emulate; but, short</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I wish I could express my love for you</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of thy perfection, how shall I attain,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">the same way you express your love for me. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Adam? from whose dear side I boast me sprung,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">I'm so proud my life came from your rib, your side,</td></tr>
<tr><td>And gladly of our union hear thee speak,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">I love to hear how united we are</td></tr>
<tr><td>One heart, one soul in both; whereof good proof</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>This day affords, declaring thee resolved,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Rather than death, or aught than death more dread,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">and how not even death could separate us. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Shall separate us, linked in love so dear,</td><td align="center" width="90">970</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To undergo with me one guilt, one crime,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">You're ready to share in this crime. </td></tr>
<tr><td>If any be, of tasting this fair Fruit;</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">If there even is any crime in eating the fruit. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Whose virtue (for of good still good proceeds,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">But you'll see that more good will come from the fruit. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Direct, or by occasion) hath presented</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>This happy trial of thy love, which else</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>So eminently never had been known.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Were it I thought death menaced would ensue</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">If I thought I was really going to die, I would never take you down with me, Adam. </td></tr>
<tr><td>This my attempt, I would sustain alone</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The worst, and not persuade thee—rather die</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Deserted than oblige thee with a fact</td><td align="center" width="90">980</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Pernicious to thy peace, chiefly assured</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Remarkably so late of thy so true,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>So faithful love unequalled. But I feel</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">You are so faithful to me. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Far otherwise the event—not death, but life</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">But death just isn't going to happen. We're certain of that now. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Augmented, opened eyes, new hopes, new joys,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">This fruit brings new hopes, and new joys. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Taste so divine that what of sweet before</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Its divine taste</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hath touched my sense flat seems to this and harsh.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">makes everything else pale in comparison. Nothing is quite like it. </td></tr>
<tr><td>On my experience, Adam, freely taste,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Trust me Adam. Taste the fruit and join me too."</td></tr>
<tr><td>And fear of death deliver to the winds.”</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td> So saying, she embraced him, and for joy</td><td align="center" width="90">990</td><td align="left">Eve embraced Adam and</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tenderly wept, much won that he his love</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">wept happy tears because he loves her so much. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Had so ennobled as of choice to incur</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">He loves her so much that he'd risk God's </td></tr>
<tr><td>Divine displeasure for her sake, or death.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">wrath for her sake. It's a crazy kind of love. </td></tr>
<tr><td>In recompense (for such compliance bad</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Such recompense best merits), from the bough</td><td align="center" width="90">995</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>She gave him of that fair enticing Fruit</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Eve took a fruit off the brance</td></tr>
<tr><td>With liberal hand. He scrupled not to eat,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">and gave it to Adam. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Against his better knowledge, not deceived,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Something inside of Adam told him he shouldn't do this, </td></tr>
<tr><td>But fondly overcome with female charm.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">but her charms got the best of him. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Earth trembled from her entrails, as again</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1000</div>
</td><td align="left">The earth quaked.</td></tr>
<tr><td>In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan;</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Nature groaned in the form of distant thunder.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sky loured, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Wept at completing of the mortal Sin</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">The sky wept slightly with teardrops as the mortal sin was completed.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Original; while Adam took no thought,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Adam didn't notice any of this happening. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Eating his fill, nor Eve to iterate</td><td align="center" width="90">1005</td><td align="left">Eve joined in the eating of the fruit, and they both ate together. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Her former trespass feared, the more to soothe</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Him with her loved society; that now,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>As with new wine intoxicated both,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">All of a sudden they were acting like they were drunk. </td></tr>
<tr><td>They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Divinity within them breeding wings</td><td align="center" width="90">1010</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Wherewith to scorn the Earth. But that false Fruit</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Far other operation first displayed,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Carnal desire inflaming. He on Eve</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Their inner desires were aflame,</td></tr>
<tr><td>Began to cast lascivious eyes; she him</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">they looked at each other lustfully. </td></tr>
<tr><td>As wantonly repaid; in lust they burn,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1015</div>
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<tr><td>Till Adam thus ’gan Eve to dalliance move:—</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Adam flirted, </td></tr>
<tr><td> “Eve, now I see thou art exact of taste</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">"You have good taste, Eve</td></tr>
<tr><td>And elegant—of sapience no small part;</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Since to each meaning savour we apply,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">in more things that just fruit.</td></tr>
<tr><td>And palate call judicious. I the praise</td><td align="center" width="90">1020</td><td align="left">Eve, you've shown me something new, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Yield thee; so well this day thou hast purveyed.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">something more pleasurable than ever imagined. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Much pleasure we have lost, while we abstained</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">We've missed out on so many things. And now we can see it clearly. </td></tr>
<tr><td>From this delightful Fruit, nor known till now</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>True relish, tasting. If such pleasure be</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>In things to us forbidden, it might be wished</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1025</div>
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<tr><td>For this one Tree had been forbidden ten.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">If forbidden things were able to give this much pleasure and joy, then we should wish for ten more forbidden trees. </td></tr>
<tr><td>But come; so well refreshed, now let us play,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">Now that we've had our fill, let's go play. </td></tr>
<tr><td>As meet is, after such delicious fare;</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>For never did thy beauty, since the day</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">For now I see your beauty in a new light."</td></tr>
<tr><td>I saw thee first and wedded thee, adorned</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1030</div>
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<tr><td>With all perfections, so enflame my sense</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>With ardour to enjoy thee, fairer now</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Than ever-bounty of this virtuous Tree!”</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">They looked at each other lustfully. </td></tr>
<tr><td> So said he, and forbore not glance or toy</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of amorous intent, well understood</td><td align="center" width="90">1035</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of Eve, whose eye darted contagious fire.</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Her hand he seized, and to a shady bank,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">He took her hand and led her to a shady bank. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowered,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>He led her, nothing loth; flowers were the couch,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">There were flowers there to serve as their bed. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Pansies, and violets, and asphodel,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1040</div>
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<tr><td>And hyacinth—Earth’s freshest, softest lap.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>There they their fill of love and love’s disport</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<tr><td>Took largely, of their mutual gilt the seal,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">They banged. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The solace of their sin, till dewy sleep</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Oppressed them, wearied with their amorous play.</td><td align="center" width="90">1045</td><td align="left">Then they slept. </td></tr>
<tr><td> Soon as the force of that fallacious Fruit,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left">The residing effects of the fruit were wearing off. </td></tr>
<tr><td>That with exhilarating vapour bland</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>About their spirits had played, and inmost powers</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Made err, was now exhaled, and grosser sleep,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td><td align="left">They had weird dreams and immediately woke up. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams</td><td align="center" width="90">1050</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Incumbered, now had left them, up they rose</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>As from unrest, and, each the other viewing,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">After waking up, they looked at each other and saw something different. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Soon found their eyes how opened, and their minds</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>How darkened. Innocence, that as a veil</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">They saw each other's all. They saw each other's innocence. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone;</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1055</div>
</td><td align="left">The same innocence that protected them from evil was gone. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Just confidence, and native righteousness,</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And honour, from about them, naked left</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To guilty Shame: he covered, but his robe</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Uncovered more. So rose the Danite strong,</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Herculean Samson, from the harlot-lap</td><td width="90"><div align="center">
1060</div>
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<tr><td>Of Philistean Dalilah, and waked</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Shorn of his strength; they destitute and bare</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of all their virtue. Silent, and in face</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute;</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left">They sat in silence, until Adam spoke, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed,</td><td align="center" width="90">1065</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>At length gave utterance to these words constrained:—</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> “O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give ear</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">"Eve... why did you listen to that snake?</td></tr>
<tr><td>To that false Worm, of whomsoever taught</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To counterfeit Man’s voice—true in our fall,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>False in our promised rising; since our eyes</td><td align="center" width="90">1070</td><td align="left">This isn't good. None of this feels right. Our eyes are opened to too much now. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Opened we find indeed, and find we know</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Both good and evil, good lost and evil got:</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left">Good has lost and evil got the best of us. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Bad Fruit of Knowledge, if this be to know,</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Which leaves us naked thus, of honour void,</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left">We're naked now and I recognize that. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of innocence, of faith, of purity,</td><td align="center" width="90">1075</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained,</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And in our faces evident the signs</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Our faces are full of shame from what we've done here.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of foul concupiscence; whence evil store,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Even shame, the last of evils; of the first</td><td align="center" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Be sure then. How shall I behold the face</td><td align="center" width="90">1080</td><td align="left">How do I even face God now, or the angels?</td></tr>
<tr><td>Henceforth of God or Angel, erst with joy</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left">I always looked forward to seeing the angels, </td></tr>
<tr><td>And rapture so oft beheld? Those Heavenly Shapes</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left">but not anymore.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Will dazzle now this earthly with their blaze</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left">Their light blinds me. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Insufferably bright. Oh, might I here</td><td width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>In solitude live savage, in some glade</td><td width="90"><div align="center">
1085</div>
</td><td align="left">I feel like just hiding</td></tr>
<tr><td>Obscured, where highest woods, impenetrable</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">in the woods where I won't have to see the angels again. </td></tr>
<tr><td>To star or sunlight, spread their umbrage broad,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And brown as evening. Cover me, ye pines!</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Ye cedars, with innumerable boughs</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Hide me, where I may never see them more!</td><td align="center" width="90">1090</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>But let us now, as in bad plight, devise</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Come now. We need to find</td></tr>
<tr><td>What best may, for the present, serve to hide</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">a way to hide our parts. We're naked and lack honor now. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The parts of each other that seem most</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">We must cover ourselves. Cover our shame."</td></tr>
<tr><td>To shame obnoxious, and unseemliest seen—</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Some tree, whose broad smooth leaves, together sewed,</td><td align="center" width="90">1095</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And girded on our loins, may cover round</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Those middle parts, that this new comer, Shame,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.”</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td> So counselled he, and both together went</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Into the woods they went, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Into the thickest wood. There soon they choose</td><td align="center" width="90">1100</td><td align="left">where they found a </td></tr>
<tr><td>The fig tree—not that kind for fruit renowned,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">fig tree. It didn't have any fruits, but it had big leaves. </td></tr>
<tr><td>But such, as at this day, to Indians known,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Braunching so broad and long that in the ground</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow</td><td align="center" width="90">1105</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>About the mother tree, a pillared shade</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>High overarched, and echoing walks between:</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. Those leaves</td><td align="center" width="90">1110</td><td align="left">They took the leaves and </td></tr>
<tr><td>They gathered, broad as Amazonian targe,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And with what skill they had together sewed,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">used their sewing skills to fashion together some biblical fashion. </td></tr>
<tr><td>To gird their waist—vain covering, if to hide</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Their guilt and dreaded shame! O how unlike</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">What a huge difference from when they were okay with being naked, to now being ashamed of their nudity. </td></tr>
<tr><td>To that first naked glory! Such of late</td><td align="center" width="90">1115</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Columbus found the American, so girt</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>With feathered cincture, naked else and wild,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Among the trees on isles and woody shores.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Thus fenced, and, as they thought, their shame in part</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Adam and Eve were covered, but it wasn't enough to comfort them. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Covered, but not at rest or ease of mind,</td><td align="center" width="90">1120</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>They sat them down to weep. Nor only tears</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">They cried because </td></tr>
<tr><td>Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">their minds were full of rabid emotions like</td></tr>
<tr><td>Began to rise, high passions—anger, hate,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">anger, hate</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mistrust, suspicion, discord—and shook sore</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">mistrust, suspicious, and discord. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Their inward state of mind, calm region once</td><td align="center" width="90">1125</td><td align="left">They were changed, inside and out. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And full of peace, now tost and turbulent:</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>For Understanding ruled not, and the Will</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Heard not her lore, both in subjection now</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>To sensual Appetite, who, from beneath</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Their new appetites and desires are influencing things they've never experienced before. </td></tr>
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<tr><td>Adam, estranged in look and altered style,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">A changed Adam spoke up, </td></tr>
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<tr><td> “Would thou hadst hearkened to my words, and stayed</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">"Eve, why couldn't you just listen to me. </td></tr>
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<tr><td>I know not whence possessed thee! We had then</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">would have happened!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Remained still happy—not, as now, despoiled</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">We'd still be happy!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Of all our good, shamed, naked, miserable!</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve</td><td align="center" width="90">1140</td><td align="left">Why do people always have to try and prove</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.”</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">That's just inviting trouble."</td></tr>
<tr><td> To whom, soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve:—</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Eve became defensive and responded, </td></tr>
<tr><td>“What words have passed thy lips, Adam severe?</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">"Wow Adam. Did you really just say that?</td></tr>
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<tr><td>But might as ill have happened thou being by,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">It probably would have happened to you if you were there. </td></tr>
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<tr><td>Or here the attempt, thou couldst not have discerned</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">You're not so high and mighty to not be fooled too. </td></tr>
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<tr><td>Was I to have never parted from thy side?</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Do you expect me to stay by your side forever and not have some time for myself?</td></tr>
<tr><td>As good have grown there still, a lifeless rib.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">I should have just stayed as one of your ribs if you're going to act like this. </td></tr>
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<tr><td>Command me absolutely not to go,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">and it was so dangerous, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Going into such danger, as thou saidst?</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Too facile then, thou didst not much gainsay,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">why didn't you just stop me from going by myself? </td></tr>
<tr><td>Nay, didst permit, approve, and fair dismiss.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Where were you?? You didn't do anything, you just let me go. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent,</td><td align="center" width="90">1160</td><td align="left">Maybe if you were a stronger and better person, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me.”</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">things would be different. And none of this wouldn't have happened."</td></tr>
<tr><td> To whom, then first incensed, Adam replied:—</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">This pissed Adam off. </td></tr>
<tr><td>“Is this the love, is this the recompense</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">"Is this how you treat me? </td></tr>
<tr><td>Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve, expressed</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">You're so ungrateful!</td></tr>
<tr><td>Immutable when thou wert lost, not I—</td><td align="center" width="90">1165</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Who might have lived, and joyed immortal bliss,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Yet willingly chose rather death with thee?</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">I was ready to die for you. That's why I ate the fruit!</td></tr>
<tr><td>And am I now upbraided as the cause</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Of thy transgressing? not enough severe,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>It seems, in thy restraint! What could I more?</td><td align="center" width="90">1170</td><td align="left">What do you expect of me?</td></tr>
<tr><td>I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Don't say I didn't warn you. I told you not to go. I warned you that Satan and evil was probably out there. </td></tr>
<tr><td>The danger, and the lurking Enemy</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>That lay in wait; beyond this had been force,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>And force upon free will hath here no place.</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Did you expect me to physically force you to stay? We don't do that here, we have free will. </td></tr>
<tr><td>But confidence then bore thee on, secure</td><td align="center" width="90">1175</td><td align="left">You were just so confident. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Either to meet no danger, or to find</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Or you were looking for a stupid way to prove yourself.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Matter of glorious trial; and perhaps</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>I also erred in overmuch admiring</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Maybe I was wrong to love and care about you too much. </td></tr>
<tr><td>What seemed in thee so perfet that I thought</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">That I thought you were so perfect that nothing bad could happen to you. </td></tr>
<tr><td>No evil durst attempt thee, But I rue</td><td align="center" width="90">1180</td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>That error now, which is become my crime,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">My bad. My mistake. </td></tr>
<tr><td>And thou the accuser. Thus it shall befall</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Him who, to worth in women overtrusting,</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">I guess this is what happens when you trust a woman and let her have her own way all the time. </td></tr>
<tr><td>Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook;</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">Can't stop a woman from doing something, </td></tr>
<tr><td>And, left to herself, if evil thence ensue,</td><td align="center" width="90">1185</td><td align="left">and if she messes up the guy ends up being the bad guy for not stopping her in the first place!"</td></tr>
<tr><td>She first his weak indulgence will accuse.”</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left"></td></tr>
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<tr><td>The fruitless hours, but neither self—condemning;</td><td align="center" width="90"></td><td align="left">They continued to fight for a long time. </td></tr>
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inquires concerning celestial motions; is doubtfully answered, and exhorted
to search rather things more worthy of knowledge. Adam assents, and, still
desirous to detain Raphael, relates to him what he remembered since his own
creation—his placing in Paradise; his talk with God concerning solitude and
fit society; his first meeting and nuptials with Eve. His discourse with the
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<td>Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute</td>
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<td>With conjugal caresses: from his lip</td>
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<td>Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?</td>
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<td>With goddess-like demeanour forth she went,</td>
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<td>Not unattended; for on her as Queen</td>
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<td>A pomp of winning Graces waited still,</td>
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<td>And Raphael now to Adam’s doubt proposed</td>
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<td> “To ask or search I blame thee not; for Heaven</td>
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<td>Is as the Book of God before thee set,</td>
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<td>His seasons, hours, or days, or months, or years.</td>
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<td>This to attain, whether Heaven move or Earth</td>
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<td>Imports not, if thou reckon right; the rest</td>
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<td>His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought</td>
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<td>Rather admire. Or, if they list to try</td>
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<td>The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive</td>
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<td>The benefit. Consider, first, that great</td>
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<td>Or bright infers not excellence. The Earth,</td>
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<td>Though, in comparison of Heaven, so small,</td>
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<td>More plenty than the Sun that barren shines,</td>
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<td>Whose virtue on itself works no effect,</td>
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<td>But in the fruitful Earth; there first received,</td>
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<td>His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.</td>
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<td>And, for the Heaven’s wide circuit, let it speak</td>
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<td>The Maker’s high magnificence, who built</td>
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<td>Though numberless, to his Omnipotence,</td>
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<td>Admitting motion in the Heavens, to shew</td>
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<td>Insensibly three different motions move?</td>
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<td>Or save the Sun his labour, and that swift</td>
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<td>Invisible else above all stars, the wheel</td>
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<td>Of Day and Night; which needs not they belief,</td>
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<td>Still luminous by his ray. What if that light,</td>
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<td>Sent from her through the wide transpicuous air,</td>
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<td>Fields and inhabitants? Her spots thou seest</td>
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<td>As clouds, and clouds may rain, and rain produce</td>
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<td>Fruits in her softened soil, for some to eat</td>
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<td>Allotted there; and other Suns, perhaps,</td>
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<td>Communicating male and female light—</td>
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<td>Which to great sexes animate the World,</td>
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<td>By living soul, desert and desolate,</td>
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<td>Only to shine, yet scarce to con’tribute</td>
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<td>Each Orb a glimpse of light, conveyed so far</td>
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<td>Whether the Sun, predominant in heaven,</td>
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<td>On her soft axle, while she paces even,</td>
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<td>And bears thee soft with the smooth air along—</td>
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<td>Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.</td>
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<td>Wherever placed, let him dispose; joy thou</td>
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<td>In what he gives to thee, this Paradise</td>
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<td>And thy fair Eve; Heaven is for thee too high</td>
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<td>To know what passes there. Be lowly wise;</td>
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<td>Think only what concerns thee and thy being;</td>
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<td>Dream not to other worlds, what creatures there</td>
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<td>Live, in what state, condition, or degreed-</td>
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<td>Contented that thus far hath been revealed</td>
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<td>Not of Earth only, but of highest Heaven.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Adam, cleared of doubt, replied:—</td>
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<td>“How fully hast thou satisfied me, pure</td>
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<td>Intelligence of Heaven, Angel serene,</td>
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<td>And, freed from intricacies, taught to live</td>
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<td>The easiest way, nor with perplexing thoughts</td>
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<td>To interrupt the sweet of life, from which</td>
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<td>God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares,</td>
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<td>And not molest us, unless we ourselves</td>
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<td>Seek them with wandering thoughts, and notions vain!</td>
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<td>Unchecked; and of her roving is no end,</td>
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<td>Till, warned, or by experience taught, she learn</td>
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<td>That not to know at large of things remote</td>
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<td>From use, obscure and subtle, but to know</td>
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<td>That which before us lies in daily life,</td>
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<td>Or emptiness, or fond impertinence,</td>
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<td>And renders us in things that most concern</td>
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<td>Therefore from this high pitch let us descend</td>
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<td>A lower flight, and speak of things at hand</td>
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<td>Useful; whence, haply, mention may arise</td>
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<td>Of something not unreasonable to ask,</td>
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<td>By sufferance, and thy wonted favour, deigned.</td>
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<td>Thee I have heard relating what was done</td>
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<td>Ere my remembrance; now hear me relate</td>
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<td>My story, which perhaps, thou hast not heard.</td>
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<td>And day is yet not spent; till then thou seest</td>
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<td>How subtly to detain thee I devise,</td>
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<td>Inviting thee to hear while I relate—</td>
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<td>Fond, were it not in hope of thy reply.</td>
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<td>For, while I sit with thee, I seem in Heaven;</td>
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<td>And sweeter thy discourse is to my ear</td>
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<td>Than fruits of palm-tree, pleasantest to thirst</td>
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<td>And hunger both, from labour, at the hour</td>
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<td>Of sweet repast. They satiate, and soon fill,</td>
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<td>Though pleasant; but thy words, with grace divine</td>
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<td>Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Raphael answered, heavenly meek:—</td>
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<td>Nor tongue ineloquent; for God on thee</td>
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<td>Abundantly his gifts hath also poured,</td>
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<td>Inward and outward both, his image fair:</td>
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<td>Attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms.</td>
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<td>Nor less think we in Heaven of thee on Earth</td>
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<td>Than of our fellow-servant, and inquire</td>
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<td>Gladly into the ways of God with Man;</td>
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<td>For God, we see, hath honoured thee, and set</td>
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<td>On Man his equal love. Say therefore on;</td>
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<td>For I that day was absent, as befell,</td>
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<td>Bound on a voyage uncouth and obscure,</td>
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<td>To see that none thence issued forth a spy</td>
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<td>Or enemy, while God was in his work,</td>
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<td>Lest he, incensed at such eruption bold,</td>
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<td>Destruction with Creation might have mixed.</td>
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<td>Not that they durst without his leave attempt;</td>
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<td>For state, as sovran King, and to inure</td>
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<td>Our prompt obedience. Fast we found, fast shut,</td>
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<td>The dismal gates, and barricaded strong,</td>
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<td>But, long ere our approaching, heard within</td>
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<td>Noise, other than the sound of dance or song—</td>
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<td>Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.</td>
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<td>Glad we returned up to the coasts of Light</td>
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<td>Ere Sabbath-evening; so we had in charge.</td>
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<td>But thy relation now: for I attend,</td>
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<td> So spake the godlike Power, and thus our Sire:—</td>
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<td>“For Man to tell how human life began</td>
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<td>Induced me. As new-waked from soundest sleep,</td>
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<td>Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid,</td>
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<td>In balmy sweat, which with his beams the Sun</td>
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<td>Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed.</td>
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<td>Straight toward Heaven my wondering eyes I turned,</td>
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<td>And gazed a while the ample sky, till, raised</td>
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<td>By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung,</td>
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<td>As thitherward endeavoring, and upright</td>
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<td>Stood on my feet. About me round I saw</td>
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<td>Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains,</td>
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<td>And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these,</td>
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<td>Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew,</td>
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<td>Birds on the branches warbling: all things smiled;</td>
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<td>With fragrance and with joy my heart o’erflowed.</td>
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<td>Myself I then perused, and limb by limb</td>
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<td>Surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran</td>
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<td>With supple joints, as lively vigour led;</td>
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<td>But who I was, or where, or from what cause,</td>
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<td>Knew not. To speak I tried, and forthwith spake;</td>
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<td>My tongue obeyed, and readily could name</td>
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<td>Whate’er I saw. ‘Thou Sun,’ said I, ‘fair light,</td>
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<td>And thou enlightened Earth, so fresh and gay,</td>
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<td>Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains,</td>
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<td>And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell,</td>
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<td>Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here!</td>
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<td>Not of myself; by some great Maker then,</td>
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<td>tin goodness and in power præ-eminent.</td>
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<td>Tell me, how may I know him, how adore,</td>
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<td>From whom I have that thus I move and live,</td>
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<td>And feel that I am happier than I know!’</td>
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<td>While thus I called, and strayed I knew not whither,</td>
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<td align="left">I kept on calling out for answer, but got no reply.</td>
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<td>From where I first drew air, and first beheld</td>
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<td>This happy light, when answer none returned,</td>
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<td>On a green shady bank, profuse of flowers,</td>
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<td>Pensive I sat me down. There gentle sleep</td>
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<td>First found me, and with soft oppression seized</td>
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<td>My drowsèd sense, untroubled, though I thought</td>
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<td>I then was passing to my former state</td>
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<td>Insensible, and forthwith to dissolve:</td>
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<td>When suddenly stood at my head a Dream,</td>
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<td>Whose inward apparition gently moved</td>
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<td>My fancy to believe I yet had being,</td>
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<td>And lived. One came, methought, of shape divine,</td>
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<td>And said, ‘Thy mansion wants thee, Adam; rise,</td>
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<td>First Man, of men innumerable ordained</td>
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<td>First father! called by thee, I come thy guide</td>
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<td>To the Garden of bliss, thy seat prepared.’</td>
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<td align="left">I have a special place for you. to live, it is called paradise. The garden of Eden.' </td>
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<td>So saying, by the hand he took me, raised,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The apparition took me by the hand and </td>
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<td>And over fields and waters, as in air</td>
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<td>Smooth sliding without step, last led me up</td>
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<td>A woody mountain, whose high top was plain,</td>
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<td>A circuit wide, enclosed, with goodliest trees</td>
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<td>Planted, with walks and bowers, that what I saw</td>
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<td>Of Earth before scarce pleasant seemed. Each tree</td>
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<td>Loaden with fairest fruit, that hung to the eye</td>
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<td>Tempting, stirred in me sudden appetite</td>
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<td>To pluck and eat; whereat I waked, and found</td>
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<td>Before mine eyes all real, as the dream</td>
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<td>Had lively shadowed. Here had new begun</td>
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<td>My wandering, had not He who was my guide</td>
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<td align="left">I would've explored this new area more </td>
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<td>Up hither from among the trees appeared,</td>
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<td>Presence Divine. Rejoicing, but with awe,</td>
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<td align="left">until a divine presence showed up. </td>
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<td>In adoration at his feet I fell</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It said to me, </td>
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<td>Submiss. He reared me, and, ‘Whom thou sought’st I am,’</td>
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<td>Said mildly, ‘Author of all this thou seest</td>
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<td>Above, or round about thee, or beneath.</td>
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<td>This Paradise I give thee; count it thine</td>
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<td align="left">I am giving you this paradise, </td>
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<td>To till and keep, and of the fruit to eat.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">everything in it is yours. </td>
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<td>Of every tree that in the Garden grows</td>
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<td>Eat freely with glad heart; fear here no dearth.</td>
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<td>But of the tree whose operation brings</td>
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<td>Knowledge of Good and Ill, which I have set,</td>
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<td>The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It is there to test your obedience and faith. </td>
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<td>Amid the garden by the Tree of Life—</td>
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<td>Remember what I warn thee—shun to taste,</td>
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<td>And shun the bitter consequence: for know,</td>
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<td>The day thou eat’st thereof, my sole command</td>
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<td>Transgressed, inevitably thou shalt die,</td>
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<td>From that day mortal, and this happy state</td>
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<td>Shalt lose, expelled from hence into a world</td>
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<td>Of woe and sorrow.’ Sternly he pronounced</td>
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<td>The rigid interdiction, which resounds</td>
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<td>Yet dreadful in mine ear, though in my choice</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">That single command still reverberates in my mind. </td>
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<td>Not to incur; but soon his clear aspect’</td>
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<td>Returned, and gracious purpose thus renewed:—</td>
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<td>‘Not only these fair bounds, but all the Earth</td>
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<td align="left">The apparition continued to tell me,</td>
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<td>To thee and to thy race I give; as lords</td>
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<td align="left">'I'm not only giving you this beautiful garden, I'm giving you the earth. </td>
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<td>Possess it, and all things that therein live,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You and your entire human race will</td>
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<td>Or live in sea or air, beast, fish, and fowl.</td>
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<td align="left">be lords over everything and every living thing here too. </td>
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<td>In sign whereof, each bird and beast behold</td>
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<td>After their kinds; I bring them to receive</td>
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<td align="left">I am going to now send over each </td>
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<td>From thee their names, and pay thee fealty</td>
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<td>With low subjection. Understand the same</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">name them. Doing this, they will understand that. you are their master. </td>
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<td>Of fish within their watery residence,</td>
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<td>Not hither summoned, since they cannot change</td>
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<td>Their element to draw the thinner air.’</td>
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<td align="left">Obviously the fish cannot make it here, but they'll get the point.' </td>
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<td>As thus he spake, each bird and beast behold</td>
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<td>Approaching two and two—these cowering low</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">So I named them all, they approached me in respective pairs. </td>
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<td>With blandishment; each bird stooped on his wing.</td>
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<td>I named them as they passed, and understood</td>
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<td>Their nature; with such knowledge God endued</td>
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<td align="left">I understood everything about them.</td>
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<td>My sudden apprehension. But in these</td>
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<td>I found not what methought I wanted still,</td>
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<i> 355</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">But something was missing...</td>
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<td>And to the Heavenly Vision thus presumed:—</td>
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<td align="left">I said to the apparition,</td>
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<td> “‘O, by what name—or Thou above all these,</td>
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<td align="left">'So... what do I call you?</td>
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<td>Above mankind, or aught than mankind higher,</td>
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<td align="left">It seems like you are more powerful and above all these things on earth.</td>
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<td>Surpassest far my naming—how may I</td>
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<td>Adore thee, Author of this Universe,</td>
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<td>And all this good to Man, for whose well-being</td>
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<td>So amply, and with hands so liberal,</td>
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<td>Thou hast provided all things? But with me</td>
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<td>I see not who partakes. In solitude</td>
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<td>What happiness? who can enjoy alone,</td>
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<td>Or, all enjoying, what contentment find?’</td>
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<td>Thus I, presumptuous; and the Vision bright,</td>
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<td>As with a smile more brightened, thus replied:—</td>
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<td> “‘What call’st thou solitude? Is not the Earth</td>
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<td>With various living creatures, and the Air,</td>
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<td>Replenished, and all these at thy command</td>
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<td>To come and play before thee? Know’st thou not</td>
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<td>Their language and their ways? They also know,</td>
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<td>And reason not contemptibly; with these</td>
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<td>Find pastime, and bear rule; thy realm is large.’</td>
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<td>So spake the Universal Lord and seemed</td>
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<td>So ordering. I, with leave of speech implored,</td>
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<td>And humble deprecation, thus replied:—</td>
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<td> “‘Let not my words offend thee, Heavenly Power;</td>
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<td>My Maker, be propitious while I speak.</td>
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<td>Hast thou not made me here thy substitute,</td>
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<td>And these inferior far beneath me set?</td>
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<td>Among unequals what society</td>
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<td>Can sort, what harmony or true delight?</td>
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<td>Which must be mutual, in proportion due</td>
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<td>Given and received; but, in disparity,</td>
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<td>The one intense, the other still remiss,</td>
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<td>Cannot well suit with either, but soon prove</td>
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<td>Tedious alike. Of fellowship I speak</td>
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<td>Such as I seek, fit to participate</td>
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<td>All rational delight, wherein the brute</td>
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<td>Cannot be human consort. They rejoice</td>
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<td>Each with their kind, lion with lioness;</td>
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<td>So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined:</td>
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<td>Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl,</td>
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<td>So well converse, nor with the ox the ape;</td>
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<td>Worse, then, can man with beast, and least of all.’</td>
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<td align="left">so what about me? Where is my match?'</td>
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<td> “Whereto the Almighty answered, not displeased:—</td>
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<td>‘A nice and subtle happiness, I see,</td>
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<td>Thou to thyself proposest, in the choice</td>
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<td>Of thy associates, Adam, and wilt taste</td>
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<td>No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.</td>
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<td align="left">for all eternity. </td>
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<td>What think’st thou, then, of Me, and this my state?</td>
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<td>Seem I to thee sufficiently possessed</td>
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<td>Of happiness, or not, who am alone</td>
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<td>From all eternity? for none I know</td>
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<td>Second to me or like, equal much less.</td>
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<td>How have I, then, with whom to hold converse,</td>
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<td align="left">Who will I have to talk to except for the inferior creatures that I make?'</td>
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<td>Save with the creatures which I made, and those</td>
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<td>To me inferior infinite descents</td>
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<td>Beneath what other creatures are to thee?’</td>
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<td> “He ceased. I lowly answered:—’To attain</td>
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<td>The highth and depth of thy eternal ways</td>
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<td>All human thoughts come short, Supreme of Things!</td>
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<td>Thou in thyself art perfect, and in Thee</td>
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<td>Is no deficience found. Not so is Man,</td>
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<td>But in degree—the cause of his desire</td>
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<td>By conversation with his like to help</td>
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<td>Or solace his defects. No need that thou</td>
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<td>Should’st propagate, already infinite,</td>
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<td>And through all numbers absolute, though One;</td>
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<td>But Man by number is to manifest</td>
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<td>His single imperfection, and beget</td>
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<td>Like of his like, his image multiplied,</td>
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<td>In unity defective; which requires</td>
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<td>Collateral love, and dearest amity.</td>
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<td>Thou, in thy secrecy although alone,</td>
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<td>Best with thyself accompanied, seek’st not</td>
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<td>Social communication—yet, so pleased,</td>
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<td>Canst raise thy creature to what highth thou wilt</td>
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<td>Of union or communion, deified;</td>
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<td>I, by conversing, cannot these erect</td>
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<td>From prone, nor in their ways complacence find.</td>
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<td>Thus I emboldened spake, and freedom used</td>
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<td>Permissive, and acceptance found; which gained</td>
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<td>This answer from the gratious Voice Divine:—</td>
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<td> “‘Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleased,</td>
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<td>And find thee knowing not of beasts alone,</td>
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<td>Which thou hast rightly named, but of thyself—</td>
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<td>Expressing well the spirit within thee free,</td>
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<td>My image, not imparted to the brute;</td>
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<td>Whose fellowship, therefore, unmeet for thee,</td>
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<td>Good Reason was thou freely shouldst dislike.</td>
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<td>And be so minded still. I, ere thou spak’st,</td>
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<td>Knew it not good for Man to be alone,</td>
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<td>And no such company as then thou saw’st</td>
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<td>Intended thee—for trial only brought,</td>
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<td>To see how thou couldst judge of fit and meet.</td>
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<td>What next I bring shall please thee, be assured,</td>
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<td>Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self,</td>
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<td>Thy wish exactly to thy heart’s desire.’</td>
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<td> “He ended, or I heard no more; for now</td>
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<td>My earthly, by his heavenly overpowered,</td>
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<td>In that celestial colloquy sublime,</td>
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<td>Dazzled and spent, sunk down, and sought repair</td>
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<td>Of sleep, which instantly fell on me, called</td>
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<td>By Nature as in aid, and closed mine eyes.</td>
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<td>Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell</td>
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<i> 460</i> </div>
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<td>Of fancy, my internal sight; by which,</td>
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<td>Abstract as in a trance, methought I saw,</td>
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<td>Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the Shape</td>
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<td>Still glorious before whom awake I stood;</td>
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<td>Who, stooping, opened my left side, and took</td>
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<td>From thence a rib, with cordial spirits warm,</td>
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<td>And life-blood streaming fresh; wide was the wound,</td>
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<td>But suddenly with flesh filled up and healed.</td>
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<td>The rib he formed and fashioned with his hands;</td>
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<td>Under his forming hands a creature grew,</td>
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<td>Man-like, but different sex, so lovely fair</td>
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<td>That what seemed fair in all the world seemed now</td>
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<td>Mean, or in her summed up, in her contained</td>
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<td>And in her looks, which from that time infused</td>
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<td>Sweetness into my heart unfelt before,</td>
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<td>And into all things from her air inspired</td>
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<td>The spirit of love and amorous delight.</td>
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<td>She disappeared, and left me dark; I waked</td>
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<td>To find her, or for ever to deplore</td>
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<td>Her loss, and other pleasures all adjure:</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I woke up and I felt as if I could never be happy again if. she wasn't around. </td>
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<td>When, out of hope, behold her not far off,</td>
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<td>Such as I saw her in my dream, adorned</td>
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<td>With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow</td>
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<td>To make her amiable. On she came,</td>
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<td>Led by her Heavenly Maker, though unseen</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">She walked towards me, as if she were being led by God. </td>
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<td>And guided by his voice, nor uninformed</td>
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<td>Of nuptial sanctity and marriage rites.</td>
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<td align="left">She was ready to be my wife</td>
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<td>Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,</td>
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<td>In every gesture dignity and love.</td>
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<td>I, overjoyed, could not forbear aloud:—</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I was so overjoyed so I said outloud, </td>
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<td> “‘This turn hath made amends; thou hast fulfilled</td>
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<td align="left">'God, you have kept your word.</td>
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<td>Thy words, Creator bounteous and benign,</td>
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<td>Giver of all things fair—but fairest this</td>
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<td align="left">You have given me everything beautiful in this world, </td>
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<td>Of all thy gifts!—nor enviest. I now see</td>
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<td>Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, my Self</td>
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<td>Before me. Woman is her name, of Man</td>
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<td>Extracted; for this cause he shall forgo</td>
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<td>Father and mother, and to his wife adhere,</td>
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<td>And they shall be one flesh, one heart, one soul.’</td>
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<td> “She heard me thus; and, though divinely brought,</td>
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<td>Yet innocence and virgin modesty,</td>
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<td>Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth,</td>
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<td>That would be wooed, and not unsought be won,</td>
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<td>Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired,</td>
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<td>The most desirable—or, to say all,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It made me want her even more. </td>
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<td>Nature herself, though pure of sinful thought—</td>
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<td>Wrought in her so, that, seeing me, she turned.</td>
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<td>I followed her; she what was honour knew,</td>
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<td>And with obsequious majesty approved</td>
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<td>My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower</td>
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<td>I led her blushing like the Morn; all Heaven,</td>
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<td>And happy constellations, on that hour</td>
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<td>Shed their selectest influence; the Earth</td>
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<td>Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill;</td>
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<td>Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The birds were singing, the breezes were blowing in sweet-smelling air. </td>
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<td>Whispered it to the woods, and from their wings</td>
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<td>Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub,</td>
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<td>Disporting, till the amorous bird of night</td>
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<td>Sung spousal, and bid haste the Evening-star</td>
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<td>On his hill-top to light the bridal lamp.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">We were together at last. </td>
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<td> “Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought</td>
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<td align="left">I continued to say, 'I enjoy everything about paradise, </td>
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<td>My story to the sum of earthly bliss</td>
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<td>Which I enjoy, and must confess to find</td>
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<td>In all things else delight indeed, but such</td>
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<td>As, use or not, works in the mind no change,</td>
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<td>Nor vehement desire—these delicacies</td>
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<td>I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers,</td>
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<td>Walks, and the melody of birds: but here,</td>
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<td align="left">but nothing compares to the feeling I have with her. </td>
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<td>Far otherwise, transported I behold,</td>
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<td>Transported touch; here passion first I felt,</td>
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<td>Commotion strange, in all enjoyments else</td>
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<td>Superior and unmoved, here only weak</td>
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<td>Against the charm of beauty’s powerful glance.</td>
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<td>Or Nature failed in me, and left some part</td>
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<td align="left">It's as if nature left something missing in my body and heart</td>
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<td>Not proof enough such object to sustain,</td>
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<td>Or, from my side subducting, took perhaps</td>
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<td>More than enough—at least on her bestowed</td>
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<td align="left">And I know that she's meant to be inferior to me in intellect, </td>
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<td>Too much of ornament, in outward show</td>
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<td align="left">but maybe she is that which I am missing. </td>
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<td>Elaborate, of inward less exact.</td>
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<td>For well I understand in the prime end</td>
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<i> 540</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It is her beauty and presence that completes me. </td>
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<td>Of Nature her the inferior, in the mind</td>
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<td>And inward faculties, which most excel;</td>
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<td>In outward also her resembling less</td>
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<td>His image who made both, and less expressing</td>
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<td>The character of that dominion given</td>
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<i> 545</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It's obvious that she doesn't have the same notion of dominion</td>
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<td>O’er other creatures. Yet when I approach</td>
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<td>Her loveliness, so absolute she seems</td>
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<td>And in herself complete, so well to know</td>
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<td align="left">But when I'm with her, </td>
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<td>Her own, that what she wills to do or say</td>
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<td>Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="91"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 550</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">it feels like I could never </td>
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<td>All higher Knowledge in her presence falls</td>
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<td>Degraded; Wisdom in discourse with her</td>
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<td>Loses, discountenanced, and like Folly shews;</td>
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<td align="left">I feel like she will always be right in reason. </td>
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<td>Authority and Reason on her wait,</td>
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<td>As one intended first, not after made</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="91"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 555</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I think she was created first instead of me.'"</td>
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<td>Occasionally; and, to consum’mate all,</td>
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<td>Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat</td>
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<td>Build in her loveliest, and create an awe</td>
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<td>About her, as a guard angelic placed.”</td>
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<td> To whom the Angel, with contracted brow:—</td>
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<i> 560</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The angel Raphael scolded Adam,</td>
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<td>“Accuse not Nature! she hath done her part;</td>
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<td align="left">"Hey, don't blame nature. Nature has done her part, </td>
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<td>Do thou but thine! and be not diffident</td>
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<td align="left">so you need to do yours. </td>
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<td>Of Wisdom; she deserts thee not, if thou</td>
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<td align="left">You have the wisdom and reason within you, </td>
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<td>Dismiss not her, when most thou need’st her nigh,</td>
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<td>By attribu’ting overmuch to things</td>
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<i> 565</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">so you shouldn't toss that all aside just for beauty. </td>
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<td>Less excellent, as thou thyself perceiv’st.</td>
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<td>For, what admir’st thou, what transports thee so?</td>
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<td align="left">You shouldn't submit yourself to what you are calling her form of domination. </td>
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<td>An outside—fair, no doubt, and worthy well</td>
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<td>Thy cherishing, thy honouring, and thy love;</td>
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<td>Not thy subjection. Weigh with her thyself;</td>
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<i> 570</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Just compare the both of you.</td>
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<td>Then value. Oft-times nothing profits more</td>
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<td>Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right</td>
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<td>Well managed. Of that skill the more thou know’st,</td>
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<td>The more she will acknowledge thee her head,</td>
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<td>And to realities yield all her shows—</td>
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<i> 575</i> </div>
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<td>Made so adorn for thy delight the more,</td>
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<td>So awful, that with honour thou may’st love</td>
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<td>Thy mate, who sees when thou art seen least wise</td>
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<td>But, if the sense of touch, whereby mankind</td>
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<td>Is propagated, seem such dear delight</td>
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<i> 580</i> </div>
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<td>Beyond all other, think the same voutsafed</td>
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<td>To cattle and each beast; which would not be</td>
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<td>To them made common and divulged, if aught</td>
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<td>Therein enjoyed were worthy to subdue</td>
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<td>The soul of Man, or passion in him move.</td>
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<i> 585</i> </div>
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<td>What higher in her society thou find’st</td>
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<td>Attractive, human, rational, love still;</td>
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<td>In loving thou dost well; in passion not,</td>
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<td>Wherein true Love consists not. Love refines</td>
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<td align="left">only bring trouble. </td>
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<td>The thoughts, and heart enlarges—hath his seat</td>
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<i> 590</i> </div>
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<td>In Reason, and is judicious, is the scale</td>
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<td>By which to Heavenly Love thou may’st ascend,</td>
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<td>Not sunk in carnal pleasure; for which cause</td>
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<td align="left">Basing your whole relationship on sex without love is dangerous."</td>
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<td>Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus, half abashed, Adam replied:—</td>
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<td>“Neither her outside formed so fair, nor aught</td>
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<td>In procreation, common to all kinds</td>
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<td>(Though higher of the genial bed by far,</td>
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<td>And with mysterious reverence, I deem),</td>
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<td>So much delights me as those graceful acts,</td>
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<i> 600</i> </div>
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<td>Those thousand decencies, that daily flow</td>
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<td>From all her words and actions, mixed with love</td>
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<td align="left">And all the things she says too. </td>
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<td>And sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned</td>
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<td>Union of mind, or in us both one soul—</td>
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<td align="left">It's all so sweet and loving to me. </td>
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<td>Harmony to behold in wedded pair</td>
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<i> 605</i> </div>
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<td>More grateful than harmonious sound to the ear.</td>
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<td align="left">I'm just telling you how I feel inside, </td>
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<td>Yet these subject not; I to thee disclose</td>
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<td align="left">that doesn't mean I'm going to let them all overcome me and my reason. </td>
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<td>What inward thence I feel, not therefore foiled,</td>
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<td align="left">Besides, I'm still free to choose what I want to do. </td>
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<td>Who meet with various objects, from the sense</td>
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<td>Variously representing, yet, still free,</td>
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<i> 610</i> </div>
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<td>Approve the best, and follow what I approve.</td>
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<td align="left">You really can't blame me for being so loving to her. </td>
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<td>To love thou blam’st me not—for Love, thou say’st,</td>
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<td>Leads up to Heaven, is both the way and guide;</td>
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<td align="left">You did say that it is love that leads us all to Heaven. </td>
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<td>Bear with me, then, if lawful what I ask.</td>
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<td>Love not the Heavenly Spirits, and how their love</td>
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<i> 615</i> </div>
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<td>Express they—by looks only, or do they mix</td>
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<td align="left">By the way, do angels fall in love?</td>
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<td>Irradiance, virtual or immediate touch?”</td>
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<td align="left">Do they have sex too?"</td>
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<td> To whom the Angel, with a smile that glowed</td>
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<td>Celestial rosy-red, Love’s proper hue,</td>
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<td>Answered:—“Let it suffice thee that thou know’st</td>
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<i> 620</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"We are </td>
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<td>Us happy, and without Love no happiness.</td>
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<td>Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy’st</td>
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<td>(And pure thou wert created) we enjoy</td>
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<td align="left">what is considered to be as wonderful as sex to you</td>
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<td>In eminence, and obstacle find none</td>
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<td align="left">is different to us. We do things our own way. </td>
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<td>Of membrane, joint, or limb, exclusive bars.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="91"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 625</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">When we embrace one another, we don't have limbs that get in the way. </td>
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<td>Easier than air with air, if Spirits embrace,</td>
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<td align="left">We are kind of like airy clouds embracing. </td>
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<td>Total they mix, union of pure with pure</td>
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<td>Desiring, nor restrained conveyance need</td>
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<td>As flesh to mix with flesh, or soul with soul.</td>
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<td>But I can now no more: the parting Sun</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="91"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 630</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Anyways, I have to go soon. </td>
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<td>Beyond the Earth’s green Cape and verdant Isles</td>
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<td align="left">It is getting late!</td>
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<td>Hesperean sets, my signal to depart.</td>
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<td>Be strong, live happy, and love! but first of all</td>
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<td align="left">All I have to say to you is to be strong, be happy, love one another, </td>
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<td>Him whom to love is to obey, and keep</td>
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<td>His great command; take heed lest passion sway</td>
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<i> 635</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and most of all love God. </td>
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<td>Thy judgment to do aught which else free—will</td>
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<td>Would not admit; thine and of all thy sons</td>
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<td align="left">Never ever let passion come in the way of your judgement and reasoning. </td>
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<td>The weal or woe in thee is placed; beware!</td>
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<td>I in thy persevering shall rejoice,</td>
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<td align="left">The future can be full of happiness or misery for all of your descendants. </td>
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<td>And all the Blest. Stand fast; to stand or fall</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="91"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 640</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It is entirely up to you. All of us in Heaven want you to succeed and be everything we hope you to be. </td>
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<td>Free in thine own arbitrement it lies.</td>
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<td>Perfet within, no outward aid require;</td>
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<td>And all temptation to transgress repel.”</td>
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<td align="left">Never give in to temptation." </td>
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<td> So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus</td>
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<td>Followed with benediction:—“Since to part,</td>
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<i> 645</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Adam replied, </td>
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<td>Go, Heavenly Guest, Ethereal Messenger,</td>
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<td align="left">"You are so kind to us and helpful. </td>
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<td>Sent from whose sovran goodness I adore!</td>
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<td>Gentle to me and affable hath been</td>
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<td align="left">I will never forget what has been said here.</td>
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<td>Thy condescension, and shall be honoured ever</td>
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<td>With grateful memory. Thou to Mankind</td>
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<i> 650</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Don't be a stranger, keep in touch! And please visit again soon."</td>
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<td>Be good and friendly still, and oft return!”</td>
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<td> So parted they, the Angel up to Heaven</td>
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<td align="left">The angel Raphael went straight to Heaven, and Adam went back to his home.</td>
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<td>From the thick shade, and Adam to his bower.</td>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-2673995879785081062020-11-04T11:40:00.000-08:002020-11-04T11:40:46.987-08:00Book 7: Raphael tells us how the world was created<div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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at the request of Adam, relates how and wherefore this World was first
created:—that God, after the expelling of Satan and his Angels out of
Heaven, declared his pleasure to create another World, and other creatures
to dwell therein; sends his Son with glory, and attendance of Angels, to
perform the work of creation in six days: the Angels celebrate with hymns
the performance thereof, and his reascension into Heaven.</span></div>
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<b>tl;dr after Satan and his angels go to Hell... God and his Son go to work to create our world.</b></span></div>
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<td>The meaning, not the name, I call; for thou</td>
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<td>Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top</td>
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<td>With thy celestial song. Up led by thee,</td>
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<td>Into the Heaven of Heavens I have presumed,</td>
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<td>An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air,</td>
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<td>Return me to my native element;</td>
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<td>Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall,</td>
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<td>Erroneous there to wander and forlorn.</td>
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<td>Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound</td>
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<td>Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole,</td>
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<td>More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged</td>
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<td>To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days,</td>
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<td>On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues,</td>
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<td>In darkness, and with dangers compassed round,</td>
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<td>And solitude; yet not alone, while thou</td>
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<td>Purples the East. Still govern thou my song,</td>
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<td>Urania, and fit audience find, though few.</td>
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<td>But drive far off the barbarous dissonance</td>
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<td>Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race</td>
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<td>Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian Bard</td>
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<td>In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears</td>
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<td>To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned</td>
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<td>Both harp and voice; nor could the Muse defend</td>
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<td>Her son. So fail not thou who thee implores;</td>
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<td>For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.</td>
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<td> Say, Goddess, what ensued when Raphael,</td>
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<td>The affable Archangel, had forewarned</td>
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<td>Adam, by dire example, to beware</td>
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<td>Apostasy, by what befell in Heaven</td>
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<td>To those apostates, lest the like befall</td>
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<td>In Paradise to Adam or his race,</td>
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<td>Charged not to touch the interdicted Tree,</td>
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<td>Of all tastes else to please their appetite,</td>
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<td>Though wandering. He, with his consorted Eve,</td>
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<td>The story heard attentive, and was filled</td>
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<td>With admiration and deep muse, to hear</td>
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<td>Of things so high and strange—things to their thought</td>
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<td>So unimaginable as hate in Heaven,</td>
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<td>And was so near the peace of God in bliss,</td>
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<td>With such confusion; but the evil, soon</td>
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<td>Driven back, redounded as a flood on those</td>
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<td>From whom it sprung, impossible to mix</td>
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<td>With blessedness. Whence Adam soon repealed</td>
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<td>The doubts that in his heart arose; and, now</td>
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<td>Led on, yet sinless, with desire to know</td>
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<td>What nearer might concern him—how this World</td>
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<td>Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began;</td>
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<td>What within Eden, or without, was done</td>
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<td>Before his memory—as one whose drouth,</td>
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<td>Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream,</td>
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<td>Whose liquid murmur heard new thirst excites,</td>
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<td>Proceeded thus to ask his Heavenly Guest:—</td>
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<td> “Great things, and full of wonder in our ears,</td>
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<td>Far differing from this World, thou hast revealed,</td>
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<td>Divine Interpreter! by favour sent</td>
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<td>Down from the Empyrean to forewarn</td>
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<td>For which to the infinitely Good we owe</td>
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<td>Immortal thanks, and his admonishment</td>
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<td>Immutably his sovran will, the end</td>
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<td>Of what we are. But, since thou hast voutsafed</td>
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<td>Gently, for our instruction, to impart</td>
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<td>Things above Earthly thought, which yet concerned</td>
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<td>Our knowing, as to highest Wisdom seemed,</td>
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<td>Deign to descend now lower, and relate</td>
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<td>What may no less perhaps avail us known—</td>
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<td>Moved the Creator, in his holy rest</td>
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<td>What we not to explore the secrets ask</td>
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<td>To magnify his works the more we know.</td>
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<td>And the great Light of Day yet wants to run</td>
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<td>Much of his race, though steep. Suspense in heaven</td>
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<td>Held by thy voice, thy potent voice he hears</td>
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<td>His generation, and the rising birth</td>
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<td>Haste to thy audience, Night with her will bring</td>
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<td>Silence, and Sleep listening to thee will watch;</td>
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<td>Or we can bid his absence till thy song</td>
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<td> Thus Adam his illustrious guest besought;</td>
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<td>And thus the godlike Angel answered mild:—</td>
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<td> “This also thy request, with caution asked,</td>
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<td>Yet what thou canst attain, which best may serve</td>
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<td>To glorify the Maker, and infer</td>
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<td>Thee also happier, shall not be withheld</td>
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<td>Thy hearing. Such commission from above</td>
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<td>Of knowledge within bounds; beyond abstain</td>
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<td>To ask, nor let thine own inventions hope</td>
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<td>Things not revealed, which the invisible King,</td>
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<td>To none communicable in Earth or Heaven,</td>
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<td>Enough is left besides to search and know;</td>
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<td>But Knowledge is as food, and needs no less</td>
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<td>In measure what the mind may well contain;</td>
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<td>Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns</td>
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<td>Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.</td>
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<td> “Know then that, after Lucifer from Heaven</td>
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<td>(So call him, brighter once amidst the host</td>
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<td>Of Angels then that star the stars among)</td>
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<td>Fell with his flaming Legions through the Deep</td>
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<td>Into his place, and the great Son returned</td>
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<td>Victorious with his Saints, the Omnipotent</td>
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<td>Eternal Father from his Throne beheld</td>
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<td>Their multitude, and to his Son thus spake:—</td>
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<td> “‘At least our envious foe hath failed, who thought</td>
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<td>All like himself rebellious; by whose aid</td>
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<td>This inaccessible high strength, the seat</td>
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<td>Of Deity supreme, us dispossessed,</td>
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<td>He trusted to have seized, and into fraud</td>
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<td>Drew many whom their place knows here no more.</td>
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<td>Yet far the greater part have kept, I see,</td>
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<td>Their station; Heaven, yet populous, retains</td>
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<td>Number sufficient to possess her realms,</td>
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<td>Though wide, and this high temple to frequent</td>
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<td>With ministeries due and solemn rites.</td>
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<td>But, lest his heart exalt him in the harm</td>
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<td>Already done, to have dispeopled Heaven—</td>
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<td>My damage fondly deemed—I can repair</td>
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<td>That detriment, if such it be to lose</td>
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<td>Self-lost, and in a moment will create</td>
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<td>Another world; out of one man a race</td>
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<td>Of men innumerable, there to dwell,</td>
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<td>Not here, till, by degrees of merit raised,</td>
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<td>They open to themselves at length the way</td>
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<td>Up hither, under long obedience tried,</td>
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<td>And Earth be changed to Heaven, and Heaven to Earth,</td>
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<td>One kingdom, joy and union without end.</td>
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<td>Meanwhile inhabit lax, ye Powers of Heaven;</td>
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<td>And thou, my Word, begotten Son, by thee</td>
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<td>This I perform; speak thou, and be it done!</td>
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<td>My overshadowing Spirit and might with thee</td>
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<td>I send along; ride forth, and bid the Deep</td>
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<td>Within appointed bounds be heaven and earth.</td>
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<td>Boundless the Deep, because I am who fill</td>
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<td>Infinitude; nor vacuous the space,</td>
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<td>Though I, uncircumscribed, myself retire,</td>
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<td>And put not forth my goodness, which is free</td>
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<td>To act or not. Necessity and Chance</td>
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<td>Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.’</td>
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<td> “So spake the Almighty; and to what he spake</td>
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<td>His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect.</td>
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<td>Immediate are the acts of God, more swift</td>
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<td>Than time or motion, but to human ears</td>
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<td>Cannot without process’ of speech be told,</td>
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<td>So told as earthly notion can receive.</td>
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<td>Great triumph and rejoicing was in Heaven</td>
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<td>When such was heard declared the Almighty’s will.</td>
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<td>Glory they sung to the Most High, goodwill</td>
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<td>To future men, and in their dwellings peace—</td>
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<td>Glory to Him whose just avenging ire</td>
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<td>Had driven out the ungodly from his sight</td>
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<td>And the habitations of the just; to Him</td>
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<td>Glory and praise whose wisdom had ordained</td>
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<td>Good out of evil to create—instead</td>
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<td>Of Spirits malign, a better Race to bring</td>
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<td>Into their vacant room, and thence diffuse</td>
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<td>His good to worlds and ages infinite.</td>
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<td> “So sang the Hierarchies. Meanwhile the Son</td>
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<td>On his great expedition now appeared,</td>
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<td>Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned</td>
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<td>Of majesty divine, sapience and love</td>
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<td>Immense; and all his Father in him shon.</td>
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<td>About his chariot numberless were poured</td>
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<td>Cherub and Seraph, Potentates and Thrones,</td>
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<td>And Virtues, winged Spirits, and chariots winged</td>
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<td>From the armoury of God, where stand of old</td>
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<td>Myriads, between two brazen mountains lodged</td>
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<td>Against a solemn day, harnessed at hand,</td>
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<td>Celestial equipage; and now came forth</td>
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<td>Spontaneous, for within them Spirit lived,</td>
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<td>Attendant on their Lord. Heaven opened wide</td>
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<td>Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound</td>
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<td>On golden hinges moving, to let forth</td>
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<td>The King of Glory, in his powerful Word</td>
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<td>And Spirit coming to create new worlds.</td>
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<td>On Heavenly ground they stood, and from the shore</td>
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<td>They viewed the vast immeasurable Abyss,</td>
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<td>Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild,</td>
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<td>Up from the bottom turned by furious winds</td>
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<td>And surging waves, as mountains to assault</td>
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<td>Heaven’s highth, and with the centre mix the pole.</td>
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<td> “‘Silence, ye troubled waves, and, thou Deep, peace!’</td>
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<td>Said then the omnific Word: ‘your discord end!’</td>
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<td>Nor stayed; but, on the wings of Cherubim</td>
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<td>Uplifted, in paternal glory rode</td>
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<td>Far into Chaos and the World unborn;</td>
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<td>For Chaos heard his voice. Him all his train</td>
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<td>Followed in bright procession, to behold</td>
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<td>Creation, and the wonders of his might.</td>
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<td>Then stayed the fervid wheels, and in his hand</td>
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<td>He took the golden compasses, prepared</td>
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<td>In God’s eternal store, to circumscribe</td>
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<td>This Universe, and all created things.</td>
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<td>One foot he centred, and the other turned</td>
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<td>Round through the vast profundity obscure,</td>
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<td>And said, ‘Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds;</td>
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<td>This be thy just circumference, O World!</td>
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<td>Thus God the Heaven created, thus the Earth,</td>
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<td>Matter unformed and void. Darkness profound</td>
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<td>Covered the Abyss; but on the watery calm</td>
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<td>His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread,</td>
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<td>And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth,</td>
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<td>Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purged</td>
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<td>The black, tartareous, cold, infernal dregs,</td>
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<td>Adverse to life; then founded, then conglobed,</td>
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<td>Like things to like, the rest to several place</td>
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<td>Disparted, and between spun out the Air,</td>
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<td>And Earth, self-balanced, on her centre hung.</td>
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<td> “‘Let there be Light!” said God; and forthwith Light</td>
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<td align="left">God said, "Let there be light!"</td>
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<td>Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure,</td>
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<td>Sprung from the Deep, and from her native East</td>
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<td>To journey through the aery gloom began,</td>
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<td>Sphered in a radiant cloud—for yet the Sun</td>
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<td>Was not; she in a cloudy tabernacle</td>
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<td>Sojourned the while. God saw the Light was good;</td>
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<td>And light from darkness by the hemisphere</td>
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<td>Divided: Light the Day, and Darkness Night,</td>
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<td>He named. Thus was the first Day even and morn;</td>
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<td>Nor passed uncelebrated, nor unsung</td>
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<td>By the celestial quires, when orient light</td>
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<td>Exhaling first from darkness they beheld,</td>
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<td>Birth-day of Heaven and Earth. With joy and shout</td>
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<td>The hollow universal orb they filled,</td>
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<td>And touched their golden harps, and hymning praised</td>
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<td>God and his works; Creator him they sung,</td>
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<td>Both when first evening was, and when first morn.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They sang again when the first morning ever came. </td>
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<td> “Again God said, ‘Let there be firmament</td>
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<td>Amid the waters, and let it divide</td>
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<td>The waters from the waters!’ And God made</td>
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<td>The firmament, expanse of liquid, pure,</td>
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<td>Transparent, elemental air, diffused</td>
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<td>In circuit to the uttermost convex</td>
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<td>Of this great round—partition firm and sure,</td>
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<td>The waters underneath from those above</td>
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<td>Dividing; for as Earth, so he the World</td>
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<td>Built on circumfluous waters calm, in wide</td>
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<td>Crystallin ocean, and the loud misrule</td>
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<td>Of Chaos far removed, lest fierce extremes</td>
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<td>Contiguous might distemper the whole frame:</td>
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<td>And Heaven he named the Firmament. So even</td>
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<td>And morning chorus sung the second Day.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The angels sang in the evening of the second day, and the following morning. </td>
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<td> “The Earth was formed, but, in the womb as yet</td>
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<td>Of waters, embryon immature, involved,</td>
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<td>Appeared not; over all the face of Earth</td>
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<td>Main ocean flowed, not idle, but, with warm</td>
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<td>Prolific humour softening all her globe,</td>
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<td>Fermented the great Mother to conceive,</td>
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<td>Satiate with genial moisture; when God said,</td>
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<td>‘Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven,</td>
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<td>Into one place, and let dry land appear!’</td>
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<td>Immediately the mountains huge appear</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Big mountains rose up toward the sky from the earth, </td>
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<td>Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave</td>
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<td>Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky.</td>
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<td>So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low</td>
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<td>Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep,</td>
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<td>Capacious bed of waters. Thither they</td>
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<td>Hasted with glad precipitance, uprowled,</td>
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<td>As drops on dust conglobing, from the dry:</td>
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<td>Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct,</td>
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<td>For haste; such flight the great command impressed</td>
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<td>On the swift floods. As armies at the call</td>
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<td>Of trumpet (for of armies thou hast heard)</td>
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<td>Troop to their standard, so the watery throng,</td>
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<td>Wave rowling after wave, where way they found—</td>
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<td>If steep, with torrent rapture, if through plain,</td>
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<td>Soft-ebbing; nor withstood them rock or hill;</td>
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<td>But they, or underground, or circuit wide</td>
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<td>With serpent error wandering, found their way,</td>
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<td>And on the washy ooze deep channels wore:</td>
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<td>Easy, ere God had bid the ground be dry,</td>
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<td>All but within those banks where rivers now</td>
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<td>Stream, and perpetual draw their humid train.</td>
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<td>The dry land Earth, and the great receptacle</td>
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<td>Of congregated waters he called Seas;</td>
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<td align="left">and the larger bodies of water 'seas.'</td>
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<td>And saw that it was good, and said, ‘Let the Earth</td>
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<td align="left">He was satisfied with all of this and said, </td>
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<td>Put forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Let there be grass, herbs, and</td>
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<td>And fruit-tree yielding fruit after her kind,</td>
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<td>Whose seed is in herself upon the Earth!’</td>
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<td>He scarce had said when the bare Earth, till then</td>
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<td>Desert and bare, unsightly, unadorned,</td>
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<td>Brought forth the tender grass, whose verdure clad</td>
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<td>Her universal face with pleasant green;</td>
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<td>Then herbs of every leaf, that sudden flowered,</td>
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<td>Opening their various colours, and made gay</td>
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<td>Her bosom, smelling sweet; and, these scarce blown,</td>
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<td>Forth flourished thick the clustering vine, forth crept</td>
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<td>The smelling gourd, up stood the corny reed</td>
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<td>Imbattled in her field: add the humble shrub,</td>
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<td>And bush with frizzled hair implicit: last</td>
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<td>Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread</td>
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<td>Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemmed</td>
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<td>Their blossoms. With high woods the hills were crowned,</td>
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<td>With tufts the valleys and each fountain-side,</td>
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<td>With borders long the rivers, that Earth now</td>
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<td>Seemed like to Heaven, a seat where gods might dwell,</td>
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<td>Or wander with delight, and love to haunt</td>
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<td>Her sacred shades; though God had yet not rained</td>
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<td>Upon the Earth, and man to till the ground</td>
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<td>None was, but from the Earth a dewy mist</td>
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<td>Went up and watered all the ground, and each</td>
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<td>Plant of the field, which ere it was in the Earth</td>
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<td>God made, and every herb before it grew</td>
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<td>On the green stem. God saw that it was good;</td>
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<td>So even and morn recorded the third Day.</td>
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<td> “Again the Almighty spake, ‘Let there be Lights</td>
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<td>High in the expanse of Heaven, to divide</td>
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<td>The Day from Night; and let them be for signs,</td>
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<td>For seasons, and for days, and circling years;</td>
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<td>And let them be for lights, as I ordain</td>
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<td>Their office in the firmament of heaven,</td>
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<td>To give light on the Earth!’ and it was so.</td>
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<td>And God made two great Lights, great for their use</td>
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<td>To Man, the greater to have rule by day,</td>
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<td>The less by night, alternor; and made the Stars,</td>
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<td>And set them in the firmament of heaven</td>
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<td>To illuminate the Earth, and rule the day</td>
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<td>In their vicissitude, and rule the night,</td>
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<td>And light from darkness to divide. God saw,</td>
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<td>Surveying his great work, that it was good:</td>
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<td>For, of celestial bodies, first the Sun</td>
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<td>A mighty sphere he framed, unlightsome first,</td>
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<td>Though of ethereal mould; then formed the Moon</td>
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<td>Globose, and every magnitude of Stars,</td>
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<td>And sowed with stars the heaven thick as a field.</td>
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<td>Of light by far the greater part he took,</td>
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<td>Transplanted from her cloudy shrine, and placed</td>
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<td>In the Sun’s orb, made porous to receive</td>
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<td>And drink the liquid light, firm to retain</td>
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<td>Her gathered beams, great palace now of Light.</td>
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<td>Hither, as to their fountain, other stars</td>
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<td>Repairing, in their golden urns draw light,</td>
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<td>And hence the morning planet gilds her horns;</td>
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<td>By tincture or reflection they augment</td>
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<td>Their small peculiar, though, from human sight</td>
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<td>So far remote, with diminution seen.</td>
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<td align="left">make them seem bigger than they are, but still look small if you're looking at them from earth.</td>
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<td>First in his east the glorious lamp was seen,</td>
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<td>Regent of day, and all the horizon round</td>
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<td>Invested with bright rays, jocond to run</td>
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<td>His longitude through heaven’s high-road; the grey</td>
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<td>Dawn, and the Pleiades, before him danced,</td>
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<td>Shedding sweet influence. Less bright the Moon,</td>
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<td>But opposite in levelled west, was set,</td>
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<td>His mirror, with full face borrowing her light</td>
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<td>From him; for other light she needed none</td>
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<td>In that aspect, and still that distance keeps</td>
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<td>Till night; then in the east her turn she shines,</td>
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<td>Revolved on heaven’s great axle, and her reign</td>
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<td>With thousand lesser lights dividual holds,</td>
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<td>With thousand thousand stars, that then appeared</td>
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<td>Spangling the hemisphere. Then first adorned</td>
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<td>With her bright luminaries, that set and rose,</td>
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<td>Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth Day.</td>
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<td> “And God said, ‘Let the waters generate</td>
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<td>Reptile with spawn abundant, living soul;</td>
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<td>And let Fowl fly above the earth, with wings</td>
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<td>Displayed on the open firmament of Heaven!’</td>
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<td>And God created the great Whales, and each</td>
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<td>Soul living, each that crept, which plenteously</td>
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<td>The waters generated by their kinds,</td>
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<td>And every bird of wing after his kind,</td>
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<td>And saw that it was good, and blessed them, saying,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God saw that this was all looking good, </td>
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<td>‘Be fruitful, multiply, and, in the seas,</td>
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<td>And lakes, and running streams, the waters fill;</td>
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<td>And let the fowl be multiplied on the earth!’</td>
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<td>Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay,</td>
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<td>With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals</td>
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<td>Of fish that, with their fins and shining scales,</td>
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<td>Glide under the green wave in sculls that oft</td>
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<td>Bank the mid-sea. Part, single or with mate,</td>
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<td>Graze the sea-weed, their pasture, and through groves</td>
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<td>Of coral stray, or, sporting with quick glance,</td>
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<td>Shew to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold,</td>
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<td>Or, in their pearly shells at ease, attend</td>
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<td>Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food</td>
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<td>In jointed armour watch; on smooth the seal</td>
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<td>And bended dolphins play; part, huge of bulk,</td>
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<td>Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,</td>
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<td>Tempest the ocean. There Leviathan,</td>
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<td>Hugest of living creatures, on the deep</td>
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<td>Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims,</td>
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<td>And seems a moving land, and at his gills</td>
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<td>Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.</td>
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<td>Meanwhile the tepid caves, and fens, and shores,</td>
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<td>Their brood as numerous hatch from the egg, that soon,</td>
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<td>Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed</td>
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<td>Their callow young; but feathered soon and fledge</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">like </td>
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<td>They summed their pens, and, soaring the air sublime,</td>
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<td>With clang despised the ground, under a cloud</td>
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<td>In prospect. There the eagle and the stork</td>
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<td>On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build.</td>
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<td>Part loosely wing the Region; part, more wise,</td>
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<td>In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way,</td>
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<td>Intelligent of seasons, and set forth</td>
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<td>Their aerie caravan, high over seas</td>
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<td>Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing</td>
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<td>Easing their flight: so steers the prudent crane</td>
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<td>Her annual voyage, borne on winds: the air</td>
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<td>Floats as they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes.</td>
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<td>From branch to branch the smaller birds with song</td>
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<td>Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings,</td>
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<td>Till even; nor then the solemn nightingale</td>
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<td>Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays.</td>
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<td>Their downy breast; the swan, with arched neck</td>
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<td>Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows</td>
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<td>Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit</td>
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<td>The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower</td>
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<td>The mid aerial sky. Others on ground</td>
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<td>Walked firm—the crested cock, whose clarion sounds</td>
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<td>The silent hours, and the other, whose gay train</td>
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<td>Adorns him, coloured with the florid hue</td>
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<td>Of rainbows and starry eyes. The waters thus</td>
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<td>With Fish replenished, and the air with Fowl,</td>
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<td>Evening and morn solemnized the fifth Day.</td>
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<td> “The sixth, and of Creation last, arose</td>
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<td>With evening harps and matin; when God said,</td>
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<td>‘Let the Earth bring forth soul living in her kind,</td>
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<td>Cattle, and creeping things, and beast of the earth,</td>
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<td>Each in their kind!’ The Earth obeyed, and, straight</td>
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<td>Opening her fertile womb, teemed at a birth</td>
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<td>Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms,</td>
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<td>Limbed and full-grown. Out of the ground up rose,</td>
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<td>As from his lair, the wild beast, where he wons</td>
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<td>In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den—</td>
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<td>Among the trees in pairs they rose, they walked;</td>
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<td>The cattle in the fields and meadows green:</td>
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<td>Those rare and solitary, these in flocks</td>
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<td>Pasturing at once and in broad herds, upsprung.</td>
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<td>The grassy clods now calved; now half appeared</td>
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<td>The tawny Lion, pawing to get free</td>
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<td>His hinder parts—then springs, as broke from bonds,</td>
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<td>And rampant shakes his brinded mane; the Ounce,</td>
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<td>The Libbard, and the Tiger, as the Mole</td>
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<td>Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw</td>
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<td>In hillocks; the swift Stag from underground</td>
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<td>Bore up his branching head; scarce from his mould</td>
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<td>Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved</td>
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<td>His vastness; fleeced the flocks and bleating rose,</td>
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<td>As plants; ambiguous between sea and land,</td>
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<td>The River-horse and scaly Crocodile.</td>
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<td>At once came forth whatever creeps the ground,</td>
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<td>Insect or worm. Those waved their limber fans</td>
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<td>For wings, and smallest lineaments exact</td>
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<td>In all the liveries decked of summer’s pride,</td>
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<td>With spots of gold and purple, azure and green;</td>
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<td>These as a line their long dimension drew,</td>
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<td>Streaking the ground with sinuous trace: not all</td>
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<td>Minims of nature; some of serpent kind,</td>
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<td>Wondrous in length and corpulence, involved</td>
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<td>Their snaky folds, and added wings. First crept</td>
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<td>The parsimonious Emmet, provident</td>
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<td>Of future, in small room large heart enclosed—</td>
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<td>Pattern of just equality perhaps</td>
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<td>Hereafter—joined in her popular tribes</td>
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<td>Of commonalty. Swarming next appeared</td>
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<td>The female Bee, that feeds her husband drone</td>
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<td>Deliciously, and builds her waxen cells</td>
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<td>With honey stored. The rest are numberless,</td>
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<td>And thou their natures know’st, and gav’st them names</td>
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<td>Needless to thee repeated; nor unknown</td>
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<td>The Serpent, subtlest beast of all the field,</td>
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<td>Of huge extent sometimes, with brazen eyes</td>
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<td>And hairy mane terrific, though to thee</td>
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<td>Not noxious, but obedient at thy call.</td>
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<td> “Now Heaven in all her glory shon, and rowled</td>
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<td>Her motions, as the great First Mover’s hand</td>
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<td>First wheeled their course; Earth, in her rich attire</td>
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<td>Consummate, lovely smiled; Air, Water, Earth,</td>
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<td>By fowl, fish, beast, was flown, was swum, was walked</td>
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<td>Frequent; and of the sixth Day yet remained.</td>
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<td>There wanted yet the master-work, the end</td>
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<td>Of all yet done—a creature who, not prone</td>
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<td>And brute as other creatures, but endued</td>
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<td>With sanctity of reason, might erect</td>
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<td>His stature, and, upright with front serene</td>
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<td>Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence</td>
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<td>Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven,</td>
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<td>But grateful to acknowledge whence his good</td>
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<td>Descends; thither with heart, and voice, and eyes</td>
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<td>Directed in devotion, to adore</td>
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<td>And worship God Supreme, who made him chief</td>
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<td>Of all his works. Therefore the Omnipotent</td>
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<td>Eternal Father (for where is not He</td>
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<td>‘Let us make now Man in our image, Man</td>
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<td>In our Timilitude, and let them rule</td>
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<td>Over the fish and fowl of sea and air,</td>
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<td>Beast of the field, and over all the earth,</td>
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<td>And every creeping thing that creeps the ground!’</td>
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<td>This said, he formed thee, Adam, thee, O Man,</td>
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<td>Dust of the ground, and in thy nostrils breathed</td>
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<td>The breath of life; in his own image he</td>
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<td>Created thee, in the image of God</td>
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<td>Express, and thou becam’st a living Soul.</td>
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<td>Male he created thee, but thy consort’</td>
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<td>Female, for race; then blessed mankind, and said,</td>
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<td>‘Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the Earth;</td>
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<td>Subdue it, and throughout dominion hold</td>
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<td>Over fish of the sea and fowl of the air,</td>
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<td>And every living thing that moves on the Earth!</td>
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<td>Wherever thus created—for no place</td>
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<td>Is yet distinct by name—thence, as thou know’st,</td>
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<td>He brought thee into this delicious grove,</td>
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<td>This Garden, planted with the tress of God,</td>
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<td>Delectable both to behold and taste,</td>
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<td>And freely all their pleasant fruit for food</td>
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<i> 540</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">food and fruit. </td>
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<td>Gave thee. All sorts are here that all the earth yields,</td>
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<td>Variety without end; but of the tree</td>
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<td>Which tasted works knowledge of good and evil</td>
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<td>Thou may’st not; in the day thou eat’st, thou diest.</td>
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<td>Death is the penalty imposed; beware,</td>
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<i> 545</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">except for fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. </td>
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<td>And govern well thy appetite, least Sin</td>
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<td align="left">For if you eat from this tree, you will surely die. </td>
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<td>Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.</td>
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<td> “Here finished He, and all that he had made</td>
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<td>Viewed, and behold! all was entirely good.</td>
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<td>So even and morn accomplished the sixth Day;</td>
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<i> 550</i> </div>
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<td>Yet not till the Creator, from his work</td>
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<td>Desisting, though unwearied, up returned,</td>
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<td>Up to the Heaven of Heavens, his high abode,</td>
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<td align="left">He made his way back up to Heaven to get a better view of everything he made. </td>
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<td>Thence to behold this new-created World,</td>
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<td>The addition of his empire, how it shewed</td>
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<i> 555</i> </div>
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<td>In prospect from his Throne, how good, how fair,</td>
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<td>Answering his great Idea. Up he rode,</td>
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<td>Followed with acclamation, and the sound</td>
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<td>Symphonious of ten thousand harps, that tuned</td>
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<td>Angelic harmonies. The Earth, the Air</td>
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<i> 560</i> </div>
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<td>Resounded (thou remember’st, for thou heard’st),</td>
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<td>The heavens and all the constellations rung,</td>
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<td>The planets in their stations listening stood,</td>
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<td>While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.</td>
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<td>‘Open, ye everlasting gates!’ they sung;</td>
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<i> 565</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">More singing and praise happened as the gates of Heaven opened. </td>
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<td>‘Open, ye Heavens, your living doors! let in</td>
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<td>The great Creator, from his work returned</td>
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<td>Magnificent, his six days’ work, a World!</td>
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<td>Open, and henceforth oft; for God will deign</td>
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<td align="left">He went through the gates and went straight to God's house. </td>
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<td>To visit oft the dwellings of just men</td>
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<i> 570</i> </div>
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<td>Delighted, and with frequent intercourse</td>
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<td>Thither will send his winged messengers</td>
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<td>On errands of supernal grace.’ So sung</td>
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<td>The glorious train ascending. He through Heaven,</td>
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<td>That opened wide her blazing portals, led</td>
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<i> 575</i> </div>
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<td>To God’s eternal house direct the way—</td>
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<td>A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,</td>
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<td align="left">The road there was dusted with gold.</td>
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<td>And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear</td>
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<td>Seen in the Galaxy, that milky way</td>
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<td align="left">the galaxy, or the Milky Way as you humans could relate.</td>
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<td>Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 580</i> </div>
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<td>Powdered with stars. And now on Earth the seventh</td>
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<td>Evening arose in Eden—for the sun</td>
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<td>Was set, and twilight from the east came on,</td>
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<td>Forerunning night—when at the holy mount</td>
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<td>Of Heaven’s high-seated top, the imperial throne</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 585</i> </div>
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<td>Of Godhead, fixed for ever firm and sure,</td>
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<td>The Filial Power arrived, and sat him down</td>
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<td>With his great Father; for He also went</td>
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<td align="left">The Son sat next to his Father (God), even though God was everywhere the Son was when he was creating the Earth. (A lot of simultaneous presence here, I know lol)</td>
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<td>Invisible, yet stayed (such privilege</td>
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<td>Hath Omnipresence) and the work ordained,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 590</i> </div>
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<td>Author and end of all things, and from work</td>
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<td align="left">The Son finally rested from all his hard work. </td>
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<td>Now resting. Blessed and hallowed the seventh Day,</td>
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<td align="left">He made that day, the seventh day, a holy day of rest. </td>
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<td>As resting on that day from all his work;</td>
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<td>But not in silence holy kept: the harp</td>
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<td align="left">But it wasn't a quiet day, </td>
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<td>Had work, and rested not; the solemn pipe</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 595</i> </div>
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<td>And dulcimer, all organs of sweet stop,</td>
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<td align="left">as there was a lot of music and singing still happening. </td>
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<td>All sounds on fret by string or golden wire,</td>
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<td>Tempered soft tunings, intermixed with voice</td>
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<td>Choral or unison; of incense clouds,</td>
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<td>Fuming from golden censers, hid the Mount.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 600</i> </div>
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<td>Creation and the Six Days’ acts they sung:—</td>
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<td>‘Great are thy works, Jehovah! infinite</td>
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<td>Thy power! what thought can measure thee, or tongue</td>
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<td>Relate thee—greater now in thy return</td>
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<td>Than from the Giant-angels? Thee that day</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 605</i> </div>
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<td>Thy thunders magnified; but to create</td>
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<td>Is greater than created to destroy.</td>
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<td>Who can impair thee, mighty King, or bound</td>
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<td>Thy empire? Easily the proud attempt</td>
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<td>Of Spirits apostate, and their counsels vain,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 610</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The singing even described how this creation was a greater deed than</td>
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<td>Thou hast repelled, while impiously they thought</td>
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<td align="left">defeating Satan and the rebel angels. Because it was all about creating as opposed to destroying. </td>
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<td>Thee to diminish, and from thee withdraw</td>
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<td>The number of thy worshipers. Who seeks</td>
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<td align="left">They sang how anyone who tries to hinder Heaven and God, </td>
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<td>To lessen thee, against his purpose, serves</td>
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<td align="left">just ends up making Heaven and God stronger. </td>
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<td>To manifest the more thy might; his evil</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 615</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They sang about how you can turn bouts of evil into opportunities to do good. </td>
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<td>Thou usest, and from thence creat’st more good.</td>
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<td>Witness this new-made World, another Heaven</td>
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<td>From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view</td>
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<td>On the clear hyalin, the glassy sea;</td>
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<td>Of amplitude almost immense, with stars</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 620</i> </div>
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<td>Numerous, and every star perhaps a world</td>
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<td>Of destined habitation—but thou know’st</td>
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<td align="left">They even sang about how there were so many stars and planets in the universe and how they could harbor potential life for future humans. </td>
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<td>Their seasons; among these the seat of men,</td>
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<td>Earth, with her nether ocean circumfused,</td>
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<td>Their pleasant dwelling—place. Thrice happy men,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 625</i> </div>
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<td>And sons of men, whom God hath thus advanced,</td>
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<td>Created in his image, there to dwell</td>
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<td>And worship him, and in reward to rule</td>
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<td>Over his works, on earth, in sea, or air,</td>
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<td>And multiply a race of worshipers</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 630</i> </div>
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<td>Holy and just! thrice happy, if they know</td>
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<td>Their happiness, and persevere upright!’</td>
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<td> “So sung they, and the Empyrean rung</td>
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<td>With halleluiahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.</td>
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<td align="left">So yeah, I think this should answer all your questions, Adam.</td>
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<td>And thy request think now fulfilled that asked</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 635</i> </div>
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<td>How first this World and face of things began,</td>
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<td>And what before thy memory was done</td>
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<td>From the beginning, that posterity,</td>
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<td align="left">Feel free to ask anything more, I'll do my best to make it understandable for your human brain." </td>
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<td>Informed by thee, might know. If else thou seek’st</td>
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<td>Aught, not surpassing human measure, say.”</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="90"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 640</i> </div>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-54314867222107651942020-11-04T11:39:00.001-08:002020-11-04T11:39:04.645-08:00Book 6: Satan keeps losing. But the plot thickens<div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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continues to relate how Michael and Gabriel were sent forth to battle
against Satan and his Angels. The first fight described: Satan and his
Powers retire under night. He calls a council; invents devilish engines,
which, in the second day’s fight, put Michael and his Angels to some
disorder; but they at length, pulling up mountains, overwhelmed both the
force and machines of Satan. Yet, the tumult not so ending, God, on the
third day, sends Messiah his Son, for whom he had reserved the glory of that
victory. He, in the power of his Father, coming to the place, and causing
all his legions to stand still on either side, with his chariot and thunder
driving into the midst of his enemies, pursues them, unable to resist,
towards the wall of Heaven; which opening, they leap down with horror and
confusion into the place of punishment prepared for them in the Deep.
Messiah returns with triumph to his Father.</span></div>
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<b>tl;dr </b></span><span style="color: #000020; font-family: "times new roman";"><b>Raphael spills more about Satan’s rebellion. Abdiel leave’s Satan’s side and comes back to God—he’s praised and welcome. Michael and Gabriel are then sent to lead God’s army, which is the exact same size as Satan’s army because equality. Satan loses, and for revenge he plans on corrupting man. </b></span></div>
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<td>Unbarred the gates of Light. There is a cave</td>
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<td>Obsequious Darkness enters, till her hour</td>
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<td>Such as in highest heaven, arrayed in gold</td>
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<td>Empyreal; from before her vanished Night,</td>
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<td>Shot through with orient beams; when all the pain</td>
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<td>Covered with thick embattled squadrons bright,</td>
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<td>Chariots, and flaming arms, and fiery steeds,</td>
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<td>Reflecting blaze on blaze, first met his view.</td>
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<td>War he perceived, war in precinct, and found</td>
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<td>Already known what he for news had thought</td>
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<td>To have reported. Gladly then he mixed</td>
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<td>With joy and acclamations loud, that one,</td>
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<td>They led him, high applauded, and present</td>
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<td>From midst a golden cloud, thus mild was heard:—</td>
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<td> “‘Servant of God, well done! Well hast thou fought</td>
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<td align="left">"Well done Abdiel, </td>
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<td>The better fight, who single hast maintained</td>
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<td>Against revolted multitudes the cause</td>
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<td>Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms,</td>
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<td>Than violence; for this was all thy care—</td>
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<td>To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds</td>
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<td align="left">threats, but you stood your ground because you cared</td>
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<td>Remains thee—aided by this host of friends,</td>
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<td>Back on thy foes more glorious to return</td>
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<td>Than scorned thou didst depart: and to subdue,</td>
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<td>By force who reason for their law refuse—</td>
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<td>Right reason for their law, and for their King</td>
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<td>Messiah, who by right of merit reigns.</td>
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<td>Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince,</td>
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<td>And thou, in military prowess next,</td>
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<td>Gabriel; lead forth to battle these my sons</td>
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<td>Invincible; lead forth my armed Saints,</td>
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<td>By thousands and by millions ranged for fight,</td>
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<td>Equal in number to that godless crew</td>
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<td>Rebellious. Them with fire and hostile arms</td>
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<td>Fearless assault; and, to the brow of Heaven</td>
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<td>Pursuing, drive them out from God and bliss</td>
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<td>Into their place of punishment, the gulf</td>
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<td>Of Tartarus, which ready opens wide</td>
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<td>His fiery chaos to receive their fall.’</td>
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<td> “So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began</td>
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<td>To darken all the Hill, and smoke to rowl</td>
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<td>In dusky wreaths reluctant flames, the sign</td>
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<td>Of wrauth awaked; nor with less dread the loud</td>
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<td>Ethereal trumpet from on high gan blow.</td>
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<td>At which command the Powers Militant</td>
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<td>That stood for Heaven, in mighty quadrate joined</td>
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<td>Of union irresistible, moved on</td>
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<td>In silence their bright legions to the sound</td>
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<td>Of instrumental harmony, that breathed</td>
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<td>Heroic ardour to adventurous deeds</td>
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<td>Under their godlike leaders, in the cause</td>
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<td>Of God and his Messiah. On they move,</td>
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<td>Indissolubly firm; nor obvious hill,</td>
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<td>Nor straitening vale, nor wood, nor stream, divides</td>
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<td>Their perfect ranks; for high above the ground</td>
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<td>Their march was, and the passive air upbore</td>
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<td>Their nimble tread. As when the total kind</td>
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<td>Their names of thee; so over many a tract</td>
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<td>Of Heaven they marched, and many a province wide,</td>
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<td>Tenfold the length of this terrene. At last</td>
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<td>Far in the horizon, to the north, appeared</td>
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<td>From skirt to skirt a fiery region, stretched</td>
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<td>In battailous aspect; and, nearer view,</td>
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<td>Of rigid spears, and helmets thronged, and shields</td>
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<td>Various, with boastful argument portrayed,</td>
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<td>The banded Powers of Satan hasting on</td>
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<td>With furious expedition: for they weened</td>
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<td>That self-same day, by fight or by surprise,</td>
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<td>To win the Mount of God, and on his Throne</td>
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<td>To set the envier of his state, the proud</td>
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<td>Aspirer. But their thoughts proved fond and vain</td>
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<td>In the mid-way; though strange to us it seemed</td>
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<td>At first that Angel should with Angel war,</td>
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<td>And in fierce hosting meet, who wont to meet</td>
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<td>So oft in festivals of joy and love</td>
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<td>Unanimous, as sons of one great Sire,</td>
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<td>Hymning the Eternal Father. But the shout</td>
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<td>Of battle now began, and rushing sound</td>
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<td>Of onset ended soon each milder thought.</td>
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<td>High in the midst, exalted as a God,</td>
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<td>The Apostat in his sun-bright chariot sat,</td>
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<td>Idol of majesty divine, enclosed</td>
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<td>With flaming Cherubim and golden shields;</td>
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<td>Then lighted from his gorgeous Throne—for now</td>
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<td>’Twixt host and host but narrow space was left,</td>
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<td>A dreadful interval, and front to front</td>
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<td>Presented stood, in terrible array</td>
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<td>Of hideous length. Before the cloudy van,</td>
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<td>On the rough edge of battle ere it joined,</td>
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<td>Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,</td>
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<td>Came towering, armed in adamant and gold.</td>
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<td>Abdiel that sight endured not, where he stood</td>
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<td>Among the mightiest, bent on highest deeds,</td>
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<td>And thus his own undaunted heart explores:—</td>
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<td> “‘O Heaven! that such resemblance of the Highest</td>
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<td>Should yet remain, where faith and realty</td>
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<td>Remain not! Wherefore should not strength and might</td>
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<td align="left"></td></tr><tr><td>There fail where virtue fails, or weakest prove</td>
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<td>Where boldest, though to sight unconquerable?</td>
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<td>His puissance, trusting in the Almighty’s aid,</td>
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<td>I mean to try, whose reason I have tried</td>
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<td>Unsound and false; nor is it aught but just</td>
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<td>That he who in debate of truth hath won</td>
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<td>Should win in arms, in both disputes alike</td>
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<td>Victor. Though brutish that contest’ and foul,</td>
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<td align="left">and I can definitely do it with weapons too." </td>
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<td>When reason hath to deal with force, yet so</td>
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<td>Most reason is that reason overcome.’</td>
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<td> “So pondering, and from his armed peers</td>
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<td>Forth-stepping opposite, half-way he met</td>
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<td>His daring foe, at this prevention more</td>
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<td align="left">of Satan. </td>
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<td>Incensed, and thus securely him defied:—</td>
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<td> “‘Proud, art thou met? Thy hope was to have reached</td>
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<td align="left">Abdiel said to satan "So, I guess you thought we'd</td>
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<td>The highth of thy aspiring unopposed—</td>
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<td>The Throne of God unguarded, and his side</td>
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<td>Abandoned at the terror of thy power</td>
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<td>Or potent tongue. Fool! not to think how vain</td>
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<td>Against the Omnipotent to rise in arms;</td>
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<td align="left">Don't you know that God</td>
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<td>Who, out of smallest things, could without end</td>
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<td>Have raised incessant armies to defeat</td>
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<td>Thy folly; or with solitary hand,</td>
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<td>Reaching beyond all limit, at one blow,</td>
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<td>Unaided could have finished thee, and whelmed</td>
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<td align="left">a single blow literally singlehandedly. </td>
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<td>Thy legions under darkness! But thou seest</td>
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<td align="left">Just look around you!</td>
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<td>All are not of thy train; there be who faith</td>
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<td align="left">Nobody likes you dude.</td>
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<td>Prefer, and piety to God, though then</td>
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<td align="left">I'm not the only one that is loyal to God." </td>
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<td>To thee not visible when I alone</td>
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<td>Seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent</td>
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<td>From all: my Sect thou seest; now learn too late</td>
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<td>How few sometimes may know when thousands err.’</td>
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<td> “Whom the grand Foe, with scornful eye askance,</td>
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<td align="left">Satan replied, </td>
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<td>Thus answered:—’Ill for thee, but in wished hour</td>
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<td>Of my revenge, first sought for, thou return’st</td>
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<td>From flight, seditious Angel, to receive</td>
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<td align="left">"Hah, look at you. </td>
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<td>Thy merited reward, the first assay</td>
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<td align="left">You ran away and now you're back looking for glory. </td>
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<td>Of this right hand provoked, since first that tongue,</td>
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<td>Inspired with contradiction, durst oppose</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 155</i> </div>
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<td>A third part of the Gods, in synod met</td>
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<td>Their deities to assert: who, while they feel</td>
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<td>Vigour divine within them, can allow</td>
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<td>Omnipotence to none. But well thou com’st</td>
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<td>Before thy fellows, ambitious to win</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
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<td>From me some plume, that thy success may show</td>
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<td align="left">Step right up and show off,</td>
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<td>Destruction to the rest. This pause between</td>
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<td align="left">I want everyone to see when I beat you down. </td>
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<td>(Unanswered lest thou boast) to let thee know.—</td>
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<td>At first I thought that Liberty and Heaven</td>
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<td align="left">I used to think Heaven was all about freedom and liberty</td>
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<td>To heavenly souls had been all one; but now</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 165</i> </div>
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<td>I see that most through sloth had rather serve,</td>
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<td align="left">but now that I think about it now, you're. all just lazy </td>
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<td>Ministering Spirits, trained up in feast and song;</td>
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<td align="left">and comfortable. All you do is sing hymns</td>
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<td>Such hast thou armed, the minstrelsy of heaven—</td>
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<td>Servility with freedom to contend,</td>
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<td align="left">and serve blindly like slaves. What an army! Full of fat choir boys! </td>
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<td>As both their deeds compared this day shall prove.’</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Let's see how they do on the battlefield."</td>
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<td> “To whom, in brief, thus Abdiel stern replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">Abdiel replied, </td>
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<td>‘Apostat! still thou err’st, no end wilt find</td>
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<td align="left">"You're stupid, and there's no hope for you. </td>
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<td>Of erring, from the path of truth remote.</td>
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<td>Unjustly thou deprav’st it with the name</td>
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<td>Of servitude, to serve whom God ordains,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 175</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You claim it is slavery to serve God's son. </td>
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<td>Or Nature: God and Nature bid the same,</td>
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<td>When he who rules is worthiest, and excels</td>
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<td align="left">There is no one else more worthy to rule over all of us. </td>
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<td>Them whom he governs. This is servitude—</td>
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<td>To serve the unwise, or him who hath rebelled</td>
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<td align="left">The only slavery I see here </td>
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<td>Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 180</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">is the way that your fallen angels serve you!</td>
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<td>Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled;</td>
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<td align="left">You are a slave to your own self. </td>
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<td>Yet lewdly dar’st our ministering upbraid.</td>
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<td>Reign thou in Hell, thy kingdom; let me serve</td>
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<td align="left">Go ahead and be a king. if you'd like, in Hell!</td>
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<td>In Heaven god ever blest, and His Divine</td>
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<td align="left">I'll stay right here and serve God.</td>
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<td>Behests obey, worthiest to be obeyed.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 185</i> </div>
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<td>Yet chains in Hell, not realms, expect: meanwhile,</td>
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<td align="left">You'll be in chains in Hell." </td>
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<td>From me returned, as erst thou saidst, from flight,</td>
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<td>This greeting on thy impious crest receive.’</td>
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<td> “So saying, a noble stroke he lifted high,</td>
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<td>Which hung not, but so swift with tempest fell</td>
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<td>On the proud crest of Satan that no sight,</td>
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<td>Nor motion of swift thought, less could his shield,</td>
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<td align="left">he couldn't dodge or lift his shield to deflect it. </td>
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<td>Such ruin intercept. Ten paces huge</td>
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<td align="left">Satan stumbled backwards</td>
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<td>He back recoiled; the tenth on bended knee</td>
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<td align="left">and fell down to a knee</td>
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<td>His massy spear upstayed: as if, on earth,</td>
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<i> 195</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">only supporting his weight with his spear. </td>
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<td>Winds under ground, or waters forcing way,</td>
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<td>Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat,</td>
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<td align="left">He was like a mountain crumbling from an earthquake. </td>
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<td>Half-sunk with all his pines. Amazement seized</td>
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<td>The rebel Thrones, but greater rage, to see</td>
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<td align="left">His rebel angels were shocked like Pikachu. </td>
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<td>Thus foiled their mightiest; ours joy filled, and shout,</td>
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<i> 200</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">While God's army cheered and shouted for joy. </td>
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<td>Presage of victory, and fierce desire</td>
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<td>Of battle: whereat Michaël bid sound</td>
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<td align="left">The angel Michael sounded the trumpets. </td>
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<td>The Archangel trumpet. Through the vast of Heaven</td>
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<td>It sounded, and the faithful armies rung</td>
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<td>Hosannah to the Highest; nor stood at gaze</td>
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<td>The adverse legions, nor less hideous joined</td>
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<td>The horrid shock. Now storming fury rose,</td>
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<td>And clamour such as heard in Heaven till now.</td>
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<td align="left">Such violence was never heard before in Heaven. </td>
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<td>Was never; arms on armour clashing brayed</td>
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<td>Horrible discord, and the madding wheels</td>
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<i> 210</i> </div>
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<td>Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise</td>
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<td>Of conflict; overhead the dismal hiss</td>
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<td align="left">and the hissing sound of burning arrows soared in the air. </td>
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<td>Of fiery darts in flaming volleys flew,</td>
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<td>And, flying, vaulted either host with fire.</td>
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<td>So under fiery cope together rushed</td>
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<i> 215</i> </div>
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<td>Both battles main with ruinous assault</td>
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<td>And inextinguishable rage. All Heaven</td>
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<td>Resounded; and, had Earth been then, all Earth</td>
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<td>Had to her centre shook. What wonder, when</td>
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<td>Millions of fierce encountering Angels fought</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">But this is what happens when millions of fierce angels</td>
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<td>On either side, the least of whom could yield</td>
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<td>These elements, and arm him with the force</td>
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<td>Of all their regions? How much more of power</td>
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<td>Army against army numberless to raise</td>
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<td>Dreadful combustion warring, and disturb,</td>
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<i> 225</i> </div>
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<td>Though not destroy, their happy native seat;</td>
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<td>Had not the Eternal King Omnipotent</td>
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<td>From his strong hold of Heaven high overruled</td>
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<td>And limited their might, though numbered such</td>
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<td align="left">It was as if each legion was like an army,</td>
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<td>As each divided legion might have seemed</td>
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<i> 230</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and each angel was like a legion, </td>
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<td>A numerous host, in strength, each armèd hand</td>
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<td align="left">and every individual warrior </td>
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<td>A legion! Led in fight, yet leader seemed</td>
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<td align="left">was like a leader and an expert fighter and </td>
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<td>Each warrior single as in chief; expert</td>
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<td>When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway</td>
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<td align="left">military strategist. </td>
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<td>Of battle, open when, and when to close</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 235</i> </div>
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<td>The ridges of grim war. No thought of flight,</td>
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<td align="left">No angel thought about retreat. </td>
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<td>None of retreat, no unbecoming deed</td>
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<td>That argued fear; each on himself relied</td>
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<td align="left">It was as if the whole outcome of the battle</td>
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<td>As only in his arm the moment lay</td>
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<td align="left">depended on each angel. </td>
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<td>Of victory. Deeds of eternal fame</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 240</i> </div>
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<td>Were done, but infinite; for wide was spread</td>
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<td align="left">Each of their bravery and courage was infinite. </td>
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<td>That war, and various: sometimes on firm ground</td>
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<td align="left">Some angels fought on the ground</td>
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<td>A standing fight; then, soaring on main wing,</td>
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<td align="left">while others fought in the air.</td>
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<td>Tormented all the air; all air seemed then</td>
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<td>Conflicting fire. Long time in even scale</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 245</i> </div>
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<td>The battle hung; till Satan, who that day</td>
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<td align="left">Across every battle, it seemed like it was a draw and an even match. </td>
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<td>Prodigious power had shown, and met in arms</td>
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<td align="left">But Satan happened to be beating every angel </td>
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<td>No equal, ranging through the dire attack</td>
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<td align="left">he fought with. </td>
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<td>Of fighting Seraphim confused, at length</td>
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<td>Saw where the sword of Michael smote, and felled</td>
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<i> 250</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The angel Michael was beating down entire squadrons</td>
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<td>Squadrons at once: with huge two-handed sway</td>
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<td align="left">left and right. </td>
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<td>Brandished aloft, the horrid edge came down</td>
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<td align="left">Satan immediately went after Michael. </td>
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<td>Wide-wasting. Such destruction to withstand</td>
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<td>He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb</td>
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<td>Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 255</i> </div>
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<td>A vast circumference. At his approach</td>
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<td align="left">Michael saw him coming from the corner of his eye</td>
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<td>The great Archangel from his warlike toil</td>
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<td>Surceased, and, glad, as hoping here to end</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">and was actually glad, because he </td>
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<td>Intestine war in Heaven, the Arch-foe subdued,</td>
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<td align="left">could end things once and for all by defeating Satan. </td>
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<td>Or captive dragged in chains, with hostile frown</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 260</i> </div>
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<td>And visage all inflamed, first thus began:—</td>
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<td align="left">Michael said, </td>
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<td> “‘Author of Evil, unknown till thy revolt,</td>
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<td align="left">"Author of Evil! </td>
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<td>Unnamed in Heaven, now plenteous as thou seest</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">You're the one causing all of this misery and pain. You brought evil to Heaven!</td>
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<td>These acts of hateful strife—hateful to all,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Though heaviest, by just measure, on thyself</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 265</i> </div>
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<td>And thy adherents—how hast thou disturbed</td>
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<td>Heaven’s blessed peace, and into Nature brought</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left"></td></tr><tr><td>Misery, uncreated till the crime</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Of thy rebellion! how hast thou instilled</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Thy malice into thousands, once upright</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 270</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You've corrupted thousands of angels to your evil cause. </td>
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<td>And faithful, now proved false! But think not here</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">You will stop this immediately. </td>
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<td>To trouble holy rest; Heaven casts thee out</td>
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<td>From all her confines; Heaven, the seat of bliss,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Brooks not the works of violence and war.</td>
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<td>Hence, then, and Evil go with thee along,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 275</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Leave now and go to Hell where you belong</td>
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<td>Thy offspring, to the place of Evil, Hell—</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Thou and thy wicked crew! there mingle broils!</td>
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<td>Ere this avenging sword begin thy doom,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">before I destroy you with my sword. </td>
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<td>Or some more sudden vengeance, winged from God,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Or God does even worse to you."</td>
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<td>Precipitate thee with augmented pain.’</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 280</i> </div>
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<td> “So spake the Prince of Angels; to whom thus</td>
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<td align="left">Satan replied, </td>
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<td>The Adversary:—’Nor think thou with wind</td>
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<td align="left">"Yeah okay, cool story bro. </td>
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<td>Of airy threats to awe whom yet with deeds</td>
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<td align="left">All I hear are empty threats.</td>
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<td>Thou canst not. Hast thou turned the least of these</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">That doesn't scare me at all!</td>
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<td>To flight—or, if to fall, but that they rise</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 285</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">None of my men have run away from you, and when they do get knocked down they get right back up again to keep fighting. </td>
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<td>Unvanquished—easier to transact with me</td>
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<td align="left">Your words do nothing to me. </td>
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<td>That thou shouldst hope, imperious, and with threats</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>To chase me hence? Err not that so shall end</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>The strife which thou call’st evil, but we style</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">What you perceive and call 'evil,' </td>
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<td>The strife of glory; which we mean to win,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 290</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">we call glory. </td>
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<td>Or turn this Heaven itself into the Hell</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We will win and turn this Heaven into </td>
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<td>Thou fablest; here, however, to dwell free,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">what you're calling Hell. </td>
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<tr>
<td>If not to reign. Meanwhile, thy utmost force—</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">We will live here free.</td>
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<td>And join Him named Almighty to thy aid—</td>
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</td>
<td align="left">Go ahead and get help from God, </td>
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<td>I fly not, but have sought thee far and nigh.’</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 295</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I've been trying to find you on the field for a while and nothing will stop me from destroying you."</td>
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<td> “They ended parle, and both addressed for fight</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">Their shouting match ended </td>
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<td>Unspeakable; for who, though with the tongue</td>
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<td align="left">and they began to fight </td>
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<td>Of Angels, can relate, or to what things</td>
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<td align="left">in a way that I can't even describe (seriously, the orginal text also admits that Raphael is unable to find a way to describe it. </td>
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<td>Liken on earth conspicuous, that may lift</td>
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<td>Human imagination to such highth</td>
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<i> 300</i> </div>
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<td>Of godlike power? for likest gods they seemed,</td>
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<td align="left">you would literally need the "imagination of God" to understand it)</td>
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<td>Stood they or moved, in stature, motion, arms,</td>
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<td align="left">Michael and Satan fought like gods,</td>
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<td>Fit to decide the empire of great Heaven.</td>
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<td align="left">the way they moved and fought it seemed like the entire battle would be determined by their actions. </td>
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<td>Now waved their fiery swords, and in the air</td>
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<td align="left">The waved their fiery swords</td>
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<td>Made horrid circles; two broad suns their shields</td>
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<i> 305</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and their shields burned like suns. </td>
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<td>Blazed opposite, while Expectation stood</td>
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<td>In horror; from each hand with speed retired,</td>
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<td>Where erst was thickest fight, the Angelic throng,</td>
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<td align="left">Angels around them even stopped fighting to give them room to fight. </td>
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<td>And left large field, unsafe with the wind</td>
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<td>Of such commotion: such as (to set forth</td>
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<i> 310</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">How about this to describe the fight,</td>
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<td>Great things by small) if, Nature’s concord broke,</td>
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<td>Among the constellations war were sprung,</td>
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<td align="left">imagine two planets in the sky </td>
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<td>Two planets, rushing from aspect’ malign</td>
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<td align="left">rushing toward each other about to collide.</td>
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<td>Of fiercest opposition, in mid sky</td>
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<td>Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound.</td>
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<i> 315</i> </div>
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<td>Together both, with next to Almighty arm</td>
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<td align="left">Both angels lifted them arms</td>
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<td>Uplifted imminent, one stroke they aimed</td>
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<td align="left">ready to strike each other. </td>
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<td>That might determine, and not need repeat</td>
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<td>As not of power, at once; nor odds appeared</td>
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<td>In might or swift prevention. But the sword</td>
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<i> 320</i> </div>
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<td>Of Michaël from the armoury of God</td>
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<td align="left">Michael's sword was from God's armory </td>
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<td>Was given him tempered so that neither keen</td>
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<td align="left">so nothing would be able</td>
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<td>Nor solid might resist that edge: it met</td>
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<td align="left">to resist its cutting edge. </td>
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<td>The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite</td>
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<td align="left">It met with Satan's sword and cut it in half like butter. </td>
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<td>Descending, and in half cut sheer; nor stayed,</td>
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<i> 325</i> </div>
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<td>But, with swift wheel reverse, deep entering, shared</td>
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<td align="left">As Michael swung his sword back </td>
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<td>All his right side. Then Satan first knew pain,</td>
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<td align="left">it cut open Satan's side. It was the first time he felt and knew pain. </td>
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<td>And writhed him to and fro convolved; so sore</td>
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<td align="left">It was a deep wound and caused him to writhe in pain. </td>
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<td>The griding sword with discontinuous wound</td>
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<td>Passed through him. But the ethereal substance closed,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 330</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Blood gushed out all over his </td>
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<td>Not long divisible; and from the gash</td>
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<td>A stream of nectarous humour issuing flowed</td>
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<td>Sanguin, such as celestial Spirits may bleed,</td>
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<td>And all his armour stained, erewhile so bright,</td>
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<td align="left">armor staining it. </td>
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<td>Forthwith, on all sides, to his aid was run</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 335</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">His rebel angels ran to his aid,</td>
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<td>By Angels many and strong, who interposed</td>
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<td>Defence, while others bore him on their shields</td>
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<td align="left">some defended his retreat while others carried Satan on their shields. </td>
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<td>Back to his chariot where it stood retired</td>
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<td align="left">They took him back to his chariot.</td>
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<td>From off the files of war: there they him laid</td>
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<td>Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 340</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He laid there on his chariot, moaning in anguish</td>
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<td>To find himself not matchless, and his pride</td>
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<td>Humbled by such rebuke, so far beneath</td>
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<td>His confidence to equal God in power.</td>
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<td align="left">due to pain and a bruised ego. His thoughts of being equal to God's power were crushed. </td>
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<td>Yet soon he healed; for Spirits, that live throughout</td>
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<td align="left">Since he was an angel, he still healed fairly quickly. </td>
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<td>Vital in every part—not, as frail Man,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 345</i> </div>
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<td>In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins—</td>
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<td>Cannot but by annihilating die;</td>
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<td align="left">It's difficult to kill any angel</td>
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<td>Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound</td>
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<td align="left">as they aren't built like men. You have to totally destroy angels to get rid of them.</td>
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<td>Receive, no more than can the fluid air:</td>
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<td>All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 350</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Angels' bodies are malleable and ever-changing at will. </td>
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<td>All intellect, all sense; and as they please</td>
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<td>They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size</td>
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<td>Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td> “Meanwhile, in other parts, like deeds deserved</td>
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<td align="left">I also want to give an honorable mention to more things that happened on the battlefield...</td>
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<td>Memorial, where the might of Gabriel fought,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 355</i> </div>
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<td>And with fierce ensigns pierced the deep array</td>
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<td>Of Moloch, furious king, who him defied,</td>
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<td align="left">Gabriel was fighting Moloch </td>
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<td>And at his chariot-wheels to drag him bound</td>
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<td align="left">who had threatened to tie Gabriel up and drag him behind his chariot.</td>
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<td>Threatened, nor from the Holy One of Heaven</td>
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<td>Refreined his tongue blasphémous, but anon,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 360</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Gabriel ended up cutting Moloch</td>
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<td>Down cloven to the waist, with shattered arms</td>
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<td align="left">in half down to his waist making him run away screaming. </td>
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<td>And uncouth pain fled bellowing. On each wing</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Uriel and Raphaël his vaunting foe,</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">Uriel and Raphael </td>
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<tr>
<td>Though huge and in a rock of diamond armed,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Vanquished—Adramelech and Asmadai,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 365</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">vanquished Adramelech and Asmodeus</td>
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<td>Two potent Thrones, that to be less than Gods</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">who were two powerful rebel angels armed with diamond weapons. </td>
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<td>Disdained, but meaner thoughts learned in their flight,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They wanted to be like gods</td>
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<tr>
<td>Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but were cut down to size when they fled. </td>
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<td>Nor stood unmindful Abdiel to annoy</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The smart-mouthed Abdiel</td>
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<td>The atheist crew, but with redoubled blow</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 370</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">continued to mock and irritate the rebel angels. He tended to take on two angels at a time easily. </td>
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<td>Ariel, and Arioch, and the violence</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Of Ramiel, scorched and blasted, overthrew.</td>
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<td>I might relate of thousands, and their names</td>
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<td align="left">I could go on and on about other angels and their glorious battles, but they they don't </td>
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<td>Eternize here on Earth; but those elect</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Angels, contented with their fame in Heaven,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 375</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">want fame on Earth. </td>
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<td>Seek not the praise of men: the other sort,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>In might though wondrous and in acts of war,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Nor or renown less eager, yet by doom</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Cancelled from Heaven and sacred memory,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 380</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<tr>
<td>For strength from truth divided, and from just,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">For having strength doesn't necessarily </td>
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<tr>
<td>Illaudable, nought merits but dispraise</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">equal truth and justice. </td>
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<tr>
<td>And ignominy, yet to glory aspires,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>Vain-glorious, and through infamy seeks fame:</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And evil doesn't bring fame at all, only silence. </td>
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<tr>
<td>Therefore eternal silence be their doom!</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 385</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td> “And now, their mightiest quelled, the battle swerved,</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">Satan and his army was losing. </td>
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<tr>
<td>With many an inroad gored; deformed rout</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The battlefield was </td>
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<td>Entered, and foul disorder; all the ground</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">full of scattered broken armor,</td>
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<tr>
<td>With shivered armour strown, and on a heap</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Chariot and charioter lay overturned,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 390</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">overturned chariots, </td>
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<tr>
<td>And fiery foaming steeds; what stood recoiled,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and tired horses. </td>
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<tr>
<td>O’er-wearied, through the faint Satanic host,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan's rebels retreated,</td>
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<tr>
<td>Defensive scarce, or with pale fear surprised—</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and they were all expecting </td>
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<tr>
<td>Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain—</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">impending doom and pain</td>
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<tr>
<td>Fled ignominious, to such evil brought</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 395</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>By sin of disobedience, till that hour</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">because of their sin. </td>
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<td>Not liable to fear, or flight, or pain.</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Far otherwise the inviolable Saints</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In cubic phalanx firm advanced entire,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">On the other side, </td>
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<tr>
<td>Invulnerable, impenetrably armed;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 400</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God's army marched on in formation. </td>
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<td>Such high advantages their innocence</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Their innocence gave them </td>
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<tr>
<td>Gave them above their foes—not to have sinned,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">advantage on the field. </td>
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<td>Not to have disobeyed; in fight they stood</td>
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<td>Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pained</td>
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<td>By wound, though from their place by violence moved.</td>
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<td> “Now Night her course began, and, over Heaven</td>
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<td>Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposed,</td>
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<td>And silence on the odious din of war.</td>
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<td>Under her cloudy covert both retired,</td>
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<td>Victor and Vanquished. On the foughten field</td>
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<td>Michael and his Angels, prevalent</td>
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<td>Encamping, placed in guard their watches round,</td>
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<td>Cherubic waving fires: on the other part,</td>
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<td>Satan with his rebellious disappeared,</td>
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<td>Far in the dark dislodged, and, void of rest,</td>
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<td>His Potentates to council called by night,</td>
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<td>And in the midst thus undismayed began:—</td>
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<td> “‘O now in danger tried, now known in arms</td>
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<td align="left">"...okay, we were able to survive one battle so far,</td>
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<td>Not to be overpowered, companions dear,</td>
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<td>Found worthy not of liberty alone—</td>
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<td>Too mean pretence—but, what we more affect,</td>
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<td>Honour, dominion, glory and renown;</td>
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<td>Who have sustained one day in doubtful fight</td>
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<td>(And, if one day, why not eternal days?)</td>
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<td>What Heaven’s Lord had powerfullest to send</td>
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<td>Against us from about his Throne, and judged</td>
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<td>Sufficient to subdue us to his will,</td>
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<td>Of future we may deem him, though till now</td>
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<td>Omniscient thought! True is, less firmly armed,</td>
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<td>Some disadvantage we endured, and pain—</td>
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<td>Till now not known, but, known, as soon contemned;</td>
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<td>Since now we find this our empyreal form</td>
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<td>Incapable of mortal injury,</td>
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<td>Imperishable, and, though pierced with wound,</td>
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<td>Soon closing, and by native vigour healed.</td>
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<td>Of evil, then, so small as easy think</td>
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<td>The remedy: perhaps more valid arms,</td>
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<td>Weapons more violent, when next we meet,</td>
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<td>May serve to better us and worse our foes,</td>
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<td>Or equal what between us made the odds,</td>
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<td>In nature none. If other hidden cause</td>
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<td>Left them superior, while we can preserve</td>
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<td>Unhurt our minds, and understanding sound,</td>
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<td>Due search and consultation will disclose,’</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">we can figure something out."</td>
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<td> “He sat; and in the assembly next upstood</td>
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<td>Nisroch, of Principalities the prime.</td>
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<td>As one he stood escaped from cruel fight</td>
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<td>Sore toiled, his riven arms to havoc hewn,</td>
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<td>And, cloudy in aspect’, thus answering spake:—</td>
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<td> “‘Deliverer from new Lords, leader to free</td>
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<td>Enjoyment of our right as Gods! yet hard</td>
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<td>For Gods, and too unequal work, we find</td>
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<td>Against unequal arms to fight in pain,</td>
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<td>Against unpained, impassive; from which evil</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And. the pain is terrible, I don't like the feeling. </td>
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<td>Ruin must needs ensue. For what avails</td>
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<td>Valour or strength, though matchless, quelled with pain,</td>
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<td>Which all subdues, and makes remiss the hands</td>
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<td>Of mightiest? Sense of pleasure we may well</td>
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<td>Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine,</td>
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<td>But pain is perfect misery, the worst</td>
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<td>Of evils, and, excessive, overturns</td>
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<td>All patience. He who, therefore, can invent</td>
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<td>With what more forcible we may offend</td>
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<td>Our yet unwounded enemies, or arm</td>
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<td>Ourselves with like defence, to me deserves</td>
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<td>No less than for deliverance what we owe.’</td>
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<td> “Whereto, with look composed, Satan replied:—</td>
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<td>‘Not uninvented that, which thou aright</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"You know what, maybe the answer is </td>
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<td>Believ’st so main to our success, I bring.</td>
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<td>Which of us who beholds the bright surface</td>
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<td>Of this ethereous mould whereon we stand—</td>
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<td>This continent of spacious Heaven, adorned</td>
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<td>With plant, fruit, flower ambrosial, gems and gold—</td>
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<td>Whose eye so superficially surveys</td>
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<td>These things as not to mind from whence they grow</td>
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<td align="left">These beautiful things came from </td>
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<td>Deep under ground: materials dark and crude,</td>
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<td>Of spirituous and fiery spume, till, touched</td>
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<td>With Heaven’s ray, and tempered, they shoot forth</td>
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<i> 480</i> </div>
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<td>So beauteous, opening to the ambient light?</td>
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<td align="left">Let's dig it all up</td>
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<td>These in their dark nativity the Deep</td>
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<td>Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame;</td>
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<td>Which, into hollow engines long and round</td>
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<td>Thick-rammed, at the other bore with touch of fire</td>
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<i> 485</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and then light the other end with fire. </td>
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<td>Dilated and infuriate, shall send forth</td>
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<td>From far, with thundering noise, among our foes</td>
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<td align="left">It's like a cannon! </td>
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<td>Such implements of mischief as shall dash</td>
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<td>To pieces and o’erwhelm whatever stands</td>
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<td>Adverse, that they shall fear we have disarmed</td>
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<i> 490</i> </div>
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<td>The Thunderer of his only dreaded bolt.</td>
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<td>Nor long shall be our labour; yet ere dawn</td>
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<td>Effect shall end our wish. Meanwhile revive;</td>
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<td>Abandon fear; to strength and counsel joined</td>
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<td align="left">I don't think these weapons will be hard to build, you can have them ready soon. </td>
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<td>Think nothing hard, much less to be despaired.’</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 495</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">So get yourselves together and get building!"</td>
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<td> “He ended; and his words their drooping cheer</td>
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<td align="left">After he spoke, his rebel angels felt some hint of hope. </td>
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<td>Enlightened, and their languished hope revived.</td>
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<td>The invention all admired, and each how he</td>
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<td align="left">They admired Satan's problem-solving and innovation. </td>
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<td>To be the inventor missed; so easy it seemed,</td>
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<td>Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought</td>
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<i> 500</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They all thought to themselves, "why didn't I think of that?!"</td>
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<td>Impossible! Yet, haply, of thy race,</td>
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<td>In future days, if malice should abound,</td>
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<td>Some one, intent on mischief, or inspired</td>
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<td>With devilish machination, might devise</td>
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<td align="left">It's just going to cause more misery,</td>
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<td>Like instrument to plague the sons of men</td>
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<i> 505</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">endless pain, and endless killing. </td>
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<td>For sin, on war and mutual slaughter bent.</td>
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<td>Forthwith from council to the work they flew;</td>
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<td>None arguing stood; innumerable hands</td>
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<td align="left">The rebel angels went to work. </td>
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<td>Were ready; in a moment up they turned</td>
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<td>Wide the celestial soil, and saw beneath</td>
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<i> 510</i> </div>
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<td>The originals of Nature in their crude</td>
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<td>Conception; sulphurous and nitrous foam</td>
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<td align="left">They dug up sulfur, and nitrous foam</td>
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<td>They found, they mingled, and, with subtle art</td>
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<td>Concocted and adusted, they reduced</td>
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<td>To blackest grain, and into store conveyed.</td>
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<i> 515</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and created a form of gunpowder. </td>
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<td>Part hidden veins digged up (nor hath this Earth</td>
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<td align="left">They dug up minerals and stone</td>
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<td>Entrails unlike) of mineral and stone,</td>
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<td>Whereof to found their engines and their balls</td>
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<td align="left">to make cannonballs that could be </td>
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<td>Of missive ruin; part incentive reed</td>
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<td align="left">fired by lighting a reed on fire. </td>
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<td>Provide, pernicious with one touch to fire.</td>
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<i> 520</i> </div>
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<td>So all ere day-spring, under conscious Night,</td>
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<td align="left">They all worked during the night and were done by morning. </td>
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<td>Secret they finished, and in order set,</td>
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<td>With silent circumspection, unespied.</td>
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<td> “Now, when fair Morn orient in Heaven appeared,</td>
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<td align="left">When morning arrived, God's angels</td>
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<td>Up rose the victor Angels, and to arms</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 525</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">woke up and the trumpets called them to arms. </td>
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<td>The matin trumpet sung. In arms they stood</td>
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<td>Of golden panoply, refulgent host,</td>
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<td>Soon banded; others from the dawning hills</td>
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<td>Looked round, and scouts each coast light-armèd scour,</td>
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<td align="left">Scouts ran to the hills to see if the enemy was around anywhere. </td>
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<td>Each quarter, to descry the distant foe,</td>
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<i> 530</i> </div>
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<td>Where lodged, or whither fled, or if for fight,</td>
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<td>In motion or in halt. Him soon they met</td>
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<td>Under spread ensigns moving nigh, in slow</td>
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<td>But firm battalion: back with speediest sail</td>
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<td align="left">The scouts saw Satan's army approaching. </td>
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<td>Zophiel, of Cherubim the swiftest wing,</td>
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<i> 535</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The cherub Zophiel shouted, </td>
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<td>Came flying, and in mid air aloud thus cried:—</td>
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<td> “‘Arm, Warriors, arm for fight! The foe at hand,</td>
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<td align="left">"To arms! Get ready! The enemy approaches!"</td>
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<td>Whom fled we thought, will save us long pursuit</td>
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<td>This day; fear not his flight; so thick a cloud</td>
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<td>He comes, and settled in his face I see</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 540</i> </div>
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<td>Sad resolution and secure. Let each</td>
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<td>His adamantine coat gird well, and each</td>
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<td>Fit well his helm, gripe fast his orbèd shield,</td>
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<td>Borne even or high; for this day will pour down,</td>
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<td>If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower,</td>
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<i> 545</i> </div>
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<td>But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire.’</td>
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<td> “So warned he them, aware themselves, and soon</td>
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<td align="left">Satan's army was </td>
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<td>In order, quit of all impediment.</td>
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<td>Instant, without disturb, they took alarm,</td>
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<td>And onward more embattled: when, behold,</td>
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<i> 550</i> </div>
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<td>Not distant far, with heavy pace the Foe</td>
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<td>Approaching gross and huge, in hollow cube</td>
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<td>Training his devilish enginery, impaled</td>
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<td align="left">in formation along with his hidden, devilish siege weaponry. </td>
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<td>On every side with shadowing squadrons deep,</td>
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<td>To hide the fraud. At interview both stood</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 555</i> </div>
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<td>A while; but suddenly at head appeared</td>
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<td>Satan, and thus was heard commanding loud:—</td>
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<td align="left">Soon both armies were face to face again. </td>
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<td> “‘Vanguard, to right and left the front unfold,</td>
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<td align="left">Satan shouted and ordered his men to move left and right to reveal the new weapons. </td>
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<td>That all may see who hate us how we seek</td>
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<td>Peace and composure, and with open breast</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 560</i> </div>
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<td>Stand ready to receive them, if they like</td>
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<td>Our overture, and turn not back perverse:</td>
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<td align="left">Satan mentioned to his men that this is a gesture of "peace." </td>
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<td>But that I doubt. However, witness Heaven!</td>
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<td align="left"></td></tr><tr><td>Heaven, witness thou anon! while we discharge</td>
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<td>Freely our part. Ye, who appointed stand,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 565</i> </div>
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<td>Do as you have in charge, and briefly touch</td>
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<td>What we propound, and loud that all may hear.’</td>
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<td> “So scoffing in ambiguous words, he scarce</td>
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<td align="left">This is just to show Heaven how sincere we can be. </td>
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<td>Had ended, when to right and left the front</td>
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<td>Divided, and to either flank retired;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 570</i> </div>
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<td>Which to our eyes discovered, new and strange,</td>
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<td align="left">The rebel angels in front moved aside to reveal the weapons. </td>
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<td>A triple mounted row of pillars laid</td>
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<td align="left">It was a strange arrangement of hollowed-out</td>
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<td>On wheels (for like to pillars most they seemed,</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">columns on wheels with </td>
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<td>Or hollowed bodies made of oak or fir,</td>
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<td>With branches lopt, in wood or mountain felled),</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 575</i> </div>
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<td>Brass, iron, stony mould, had not their mouths</td>
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<td>With hideous orifice gaped on us wide,</td>
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<td align="left">openings in the front that looked like mouths. </td>
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<td>Portending hollow truce. At each, behind,</td>
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<td>A Seraph stood, and in his hand a reed</td>
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<td align="left">Behind each was a Seraph holding a reed lit on fire. </td>
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<td>Stood waving tipt with fire; while we, suspense,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 580</i> </div>
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<td>Collected stood within our thoughts amused.</td>
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<td align="left">God's angels stood by to see what would happen. </td>
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<td>Not long! for sudden all at once their reeds</td>
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<td align="left">Suddenly, they all lit the cannons at the same time. </td>
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<td>Put forth, and to a narrow vent applied</td>
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<td>With nicest touch. Immediate in a flame,</td>
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<td align="left">There was a roar, </td>
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<td>But soon obscured with smoke, all Heaven appeared,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 585</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">smoke, </td>
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<td>From those deep-throated engines belched, whose roar</td>
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<td>Embowelled with outrageous noise the air,</td>
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<td>And all her entrails tore, disgorging foul</td>
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<td>Their devilish glut, chained thunderbolts and hail</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Of iron globes; which, on the Victor Host</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 590</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and a shower of cannonballs rained down on God's army</td>
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<td>Levelled, with such impetuous fury smote,</td>
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<td>That whom they hit none on their feet might stand,</td>
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<td>Though standing else as rocks, but down they fell</td>
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<td>By thousands, Angel on Archangel rowled,</td>
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<td align="left">Thousands of angels were knocked down, </td>
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<td>The sooner for their arms. Unarmed, they might</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 595</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and they could have dodged everything but their armor made it hard for them to move quickly. </td>
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<td>Have easily, as Spirits, evaded swift</td>
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<td>By quick contraction or remove; but now</td>
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</td>
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<td>Foul dissipation followed, and forced rout;</td>
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<td>Nor served it to relax their serried files.</td>
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<td align="left">This was all so new, the angels didn't know what to do. </td>
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<td>What should they do? If on they rushed, repulse</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 600</i> </div>
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<td>Repeated, and indecent overthrow</td>
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<td>Doubled, would render them yet more despised,</td>
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<td align="left">They didn't want to retreat, but the rebel angels were already loading a second barrage of cannonballs to fire. </td>
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<td>And to their foes a laughter—for in view</td>
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</td>
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<td>Stood ranked of Seraphim another row,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>In posture to displode their second tire</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 605</i> </div>
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<td>Of thunder; back defeated to return</td>
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<td>They worse abhorred. Satan beheld their plight,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>And to his mates thus in derision called:—</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">Satan made fun of God's angels to his men, </td>
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<td> “‘O friends, why come not on these victors proud?</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Look at them! </td>
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<td>Erewhile they fierce were coming; and, when we,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 610</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>To entertain them fair with open front</td>
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<td>And breast (what could we more?), propounded terms</td>
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<td>Of composition, straight they changed their minds,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They were too proud to surrender and. now they </td>
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<tr>
<td>Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell,</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>As they would dance. Yet for a dance they seemed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 615</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">dance and dodge!</td>
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<td>Somewhat extravagant and wild; perhaps</td>
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<td>For joy of offered peace. But I suppose,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>If our proposals once again were heard,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>We should compel them to a quick result.’</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Let's keep sending them our 'peace offerings'!"</td>
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<td> “To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood:</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 620</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Belial continued the mocking, </td>
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<td>‘Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight,</td>
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<td>Of hard contents, and full of force urged home,</td>
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<td>Such as we might perceive amused them all,</td>
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<td>And stumbled many. Who receives them right</td>
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<td>Had need from head to foot well understand;</td>
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<i> 625</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Now they're crawling around on all fours, are they confused or something?"</td>
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<td>Not understood, this gift they have besides—</td>
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<td>They shew us when our foes walk not upright.’</td>
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<td> “So they among themselves in pleasant vein</td>
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<td align="left">The rebel angels continued to mock them, </td>
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<td>Stood scoffing, heightened in their thoughts beyond</td>
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<td>All doubt of victory; Eternal Might</td>
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<i> 630</i> </div>
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<td>To match with their inventions they presumed</td>
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<td>So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn,</td>
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<td>And all his host derided, while they stood</td>
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<td>A while in trouble. But they stood not long;</td>
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<td>Rage prompted them at length, and found them arms</td>
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<i> 635</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God's angels grew angry. </td>
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<td>Against such hellish mischief fit to oppose.</td>
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<td>Forthwith (behold the excellence, the power,</td>
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<td>Which God hath in his mighty Angels placed!)</td>
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<td>Their arms away they threw, and to the hills</td>
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<td align="left">they threw down their arms, ran to the hills,</td>
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<td>(For Earth hath this variety from Heaven</td>
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<i> 640</i> </div>
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<td>Of pleasure situate in hill and dale)</td>
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<td>Light as the lightning-glimpse they ran, they flew,</td>
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<td>From their foundations, loosening to and fro,</td>
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<td>They plucked the seated hills, with all their load,</td>
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<td>Rocks, waters, woods, and, by the shaggy tops</td>
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<i> 645</i> </div>
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<td>Uplifting, bore them in their hands. Amaze,</td>
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<td>Be sure, and terror, seized the rebel Host,</td>
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<td>When coming towards them so dread they saw</td>
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<td align="left">God's angels threw the mountains at the rebel angels. </td>
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<td>The bottom of the mountains upward turned,</td>
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<td>Till on those cursed engines’ triple row</td>
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<i> 650</i> </div>
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<td>They saw them whelmed, and all their confidence</td>
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<td>Under the weight of mountains buried deep;</td>
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<td>Themselves invaded next, and on their heads</td>
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<td>Main promontories flung, which in the air</td>
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<td align="left">landing on the rebel angels' heads. </td>
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<td>Came shadowing, and oppressed whole legions armed.</td>
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<i> 655</i> </div>
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<td>Their armour helped their harm, crushed in and bruised,</td>
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<td>Into their substance pent—which wrought them pain</td>
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<td align="left">their bodies causing more pain. </td>
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<td>Implacable, and many a dolorous groan,</td>
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<td>Long struggling underneath, ere they could wind</td>
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<td>Out of such prison, though Spirits of purest light,</td>
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<i> 660</i> </div>
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<td>Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.</td>
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<td>The rest, in imitation, to like arms</td>
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<td>Betook them, and the neighbouring hills uptore;</td>
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<td>So hills amid the air encountered hills,</td>
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<td>Hurled to and fro with jaculation dire,</td>
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<i> 665</i> </div>
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<td>That underground they fought in dismal shade:</td>
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<td>Infernal noise! war seemed a civil game</td>
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<td align="left">It was a ridiculous sight. </td>
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<td>To this uproar; horrid confusion heaped</td>
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<td>Upon confusion rose. And now all Heaven</td>
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<td align="left">They were all in the process of destroying Heaven. </td>
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<td>Had gone to wrack, with ruin overspread,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 670</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">but God saw all this coming. He even predicted it happening. </td>
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<td>Had not the Almighty Father, where he sits</td>
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<td>Shrined in his sanctuary of Heaven secure,</td>
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<td>Consulting on the sum of things, foreseen</td>
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<td>This tumult, and permitted all, advised,</td>
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<td>That his great purpose he might so fulfil,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 675</i> </div>
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<td>To honour his Anointed Son, avenged</td>
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<td align="left">Because it would give God's son the chance to </td>
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<td>Upon his enemies, and to declare</td>
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<td>All power on him transferred. Whence to his Son,</td>
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<td>The assessor of his Throne, he thus began:—</td>
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<td align="left">use his power to sort things out. God said, </td>
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<td> “‘Effulgence of my glory, Son beloved,</td>
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<i> 680</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Go forth my Son, </td>
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<td>Son in whose face invisible is beheld</td>
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<td>Visibly, what by Deity I am,</td>
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<td>And in whose hand what by decree I do,</td>
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<td>Second Omnipotence! two days are passed,</td>
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<td>Two days, as we compute the days of Heaven,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 685</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It's been two days since Michael led my army into battle</td>
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<td>Since Michael and his Powers went forth to tame</td>
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<td>These disobedient. Sore hath been their fight,</td>
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<td>As likeliest was when two such foes met armed:</td>
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<td>For to themselves I left them; and thou know’st</td>
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<td>Equal in their creation they were formed,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 690</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Both sides were equal in power so you know it would've been a war that would go on forever. </td>
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<td>Save what sin hath impaired—which yet hath wrought</td>
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<td align="left">However, sin and evil will inevitably weaken Satan and his forces. </td>
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<td>Insensibly, for I suspend their doom:</td>
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<td>Whence in perpetual fight they needs must last</td>
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<td>Endless, and no solution will be found.</td>
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<td>War wearied hath performed what war can do,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 695</i> </div>
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<td>And to disordered rage let loose the reins,</td>
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<td>With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes</td>
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<td>Wild work in Heaven, and dangerous to the main.</td>
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<td>Two days are, therefore, passed; the third is thine:</td>
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<td align="left">Two days have passed, but this third day will be yours my Son. </td>
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<td>For thee I have ordained it, and thus far</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 700</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I've put. up with this nonsense, all just so you</td>
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<td>Have suffered, that the glory may be thine</td>
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<td>Of ending this great war, since none but thou</td>
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<td>Can end it. Into thee such virtue and grace</td>
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<td align="left">For that's what I have planned all along. </td>
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<td>Immense I have transfused, that all may know</td>
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<td>In Heaven and Hell thy power above compare,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 705</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">This will show everyone that you are the worthy one to be king and ruler above all. </td>
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<td>And this perverse commotion governed thus,</td>
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<td>To manifest thee worthiest to be Heir</td>
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<td>Of all things—to be Heir, and to be King</td>
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<td>By sacred unction, thy deserved right.</td>
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<td>Go, then, thou Mightiest, in thy Father’s might;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 710</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Go forth. You have all my power at your immediate disposal.</td>
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<td>Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels</td>
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<td>That shake Heaven’s basis; bring forth all my war;</td>
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<td>My bow and thunder, my Almighty arms,</td>
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<td>Gird on, and sword upon thy puissant thigh;</td>
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<td>Pursue these Sons of Darkness, drive them out</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 715</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Chase these Sons of Darkness out of Heaven</td>
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<td>From all Heaven’s bounds into the utter Deep;</td>
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<td align="left">and throw them into the depths of Hell. </td>
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<td>There let them learn, as likes them, to despise</td>
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<td align="left">There they will sit for all eternity and suffer."</td>
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<td>God, and Messiah his anointed King.’</td>
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<td> “He said, and on his Son with rays direct</td>
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<td>Shon full. He all his Father full expressed</td>
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<i> 720</i> </div>
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<td>Ineffably into his face received;</td>
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<td>And thus the Filial Godhead answering spake:—</td>
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<td align="left">The Son replied, </td>
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<td> “‘O Father, O Supreme of Heavenly Thrones,</td>
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<td>First, Highest, Holiest, Best, thou always seek’st</td>
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<td align="left">"Father, </td>
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<td>To glorify thy Son; I always thee,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 725</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">you are always praising me and glorifying me. </td>
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<td>As is most just. This I my glory account,</td>
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<td>My exaltation, and my whole delight,</td>
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<td>That thou in me, well pleased, declar’st thy will</td>
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<td align="left">All I want. todo is please you in all your glory. </td>
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<td>Fulfilled, which to fulfil is all my bliss.</td>
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<td>Sceptre and power, thy giving, I assume,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 730</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I will take all this power that you have given me and put it to good use. </td>
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<td>And gladlier shall resign when in the end</td>
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<td>Thou shalt be all in all, and I in thee</td>
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<td>For ever, and in me all whom thou lov’st.</td>
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<td>But whom thou hat’st I hate, and can put on</td>
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<td>Thy terrors, as I put thy mildness on,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 735</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and I can be as tough as I can be loving. </td>
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<td>Image of thee in all things: and shall soon,</td>
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<td>Armed with thy might, rid Heaven of these rebelled,</td>
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<td>To their prepared ill mansion driven down,</td>
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<td>To chains of darkness and the undying Worm,</td>
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<td>That from thy just obedience could revolt,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 740</i> </div>
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<td>Whom to obey is happiness entire.</td>
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<td>Then shall thy Saints, unmixed, and from the impure</td>
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<td align="left">You can be sure that all the pure angels around you will be </td>
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<td>Far separate, circling thy holy Mount,</td>
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<td>Unfeigned halleluiahs to thee sing,</td>
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<td align="left">singing hymns knowing that the impure angels will be gone."</td>
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<td>Hymns of high praise, and I among them chief,’</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 745</i> </div>
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<td> “So said, He, o’er his sceptre bowing, rose</td>
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<td align="left">The Son stood up from his throne and bowed. </td>
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<td>From the right hand of Glory where He sat;</td>
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<td>And the third sacred morn began to shine,</td>
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<td>Dawning through Heaven. Forth rushed with whirlwind sound</td>
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<td>The chariot of Paternal Deity,</td>
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<i> 750</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God's chariot swung into view, it </td>
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<td>Flashing thick flames, wheel within wheel; undrawn,</td>
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<td>Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed</td>
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<td>By four cherubic Shapes. Four faces each</td>
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<td align="left">was followed by four cherubs, each with four faces,</td>
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<td>Had wondrous; as with stars, their bodies all</td>
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<td align="left">their wings were covered with eyes, </td>
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<td>And wings were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels</td>
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<i> 755</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and the wheels of the chariot</td>
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<td>Of beryl, and careering fires between;</td>
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<td align="left">were lined with jewels. </td>
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<td>Over their heads a crystal firmament,</td>
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<td>Whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid with pure</td>
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<td>Amber and colours of the showery arch.</td>
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<td>He, in celestial panoply all armed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 760</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Of radiant Urim, work divinely wrought,</td>
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<td>Ascended; at his right hand Victory</td>
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<td>Sat eagle-winged; beside him hung his bow,</td>
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<td align="left">The Son climbed into the chariot, he was wearing divine armor. </td>
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<td>And quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored;</td>
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<td align="left">Next to him was a bow and a supply of arrows. </td>
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<td>And from about him fierce effusion rowled</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 765</i> </div>
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<td>Of smoke and bickering flame and sparkles dire.</td>
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<td>Attended with ten thousand Saints,</td>
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<td>He onward came; far off his coming shon;</td>
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<td>And twenty thousand (I their number heard)</td>
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<td>Chariots of God, half on each hand, were seen.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 770</i> </div>
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<td>He on the wings of Cherub rode sublime</td>
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<td align="left">God's angels were the first to see the Son approaching the battlefield. </td>
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<td>On the crystallin sky, in saphir throned—</td>
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<td>Illustrious far and wide, but by his own</td>
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<td>First seen. Them unexpected joy surprised</td>
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<td align="left">They were all overjoyed and cheering at his arrival. </td>
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<td>When the great ensign of Messiah blazed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 775</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Aloft, by Angels borne, his Sign in Heaven;</td>
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<td>Under whose conduct Michael soon reduced</td>
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<td align="left">Michael immediately turned his army and </td>
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<td>His army, circumfused on either wing,</td>
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<td align="left">authority over to the Son. </td>
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<td>Under their Head embodied all in one.</td>
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<td>Before him Power Divine his way prepared;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 780</i> </div>
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<td>At his command the uprooted hills retired</td>
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<td align="left">At the Son's command, all the uprooted hills returned to where they were. As if nothing happened. </td>
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<td>Each to his place; they heard his voice, and went</td>
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<td>Obsequious; Heaven his wonted face renewed,</td>
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<td>And with fresh flowerets hill and valley smiled.</td>
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<td> “This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 785</i></div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The rebel angels weren't impressed with anything.</td>
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<td>And to rebellious fight rallied their Powers,</td>
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<td>Insensate, hope conceiving from despair.</td>
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<td align="left">Because they were so defeated on the inside, they were equally desperate. </td>
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<td>In Heavenly Spirits could such perverseness dwell?</td>
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<td align="left">It's hard to believe that angels could seems so stubborn, </td>
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<td>But to convince the proud what signs avail,</td>
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<td>Or wonders move the obdurate to relent?</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 790</i></div>
</td>
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<td>They, hardened more by what might most reclaim,</td>
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<td>Grieving to see his glory, at the sight</td>
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<td>Took envy, and, aspiring to his highth,</td>
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<td>Stood re-imbattled fierce, by force or fraud</td>
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<td>Weening to prosper, and at length prevail</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 795</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Against God and Messiah, or to fall</td>
<td width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">they actually thought they could successfully win against God. </td>
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<td>In universal ruin last; and now</td>
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<td>To final battle drew, disdaining flight,</td>
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<td>Or faint retreat: when the great Son of God</td>
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<td align="left">The Son of God spoke, </td>
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<td>To all his host on either hand thus spake:—</td>
<td align="center" valign="TOP" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 800</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td> “‘Stand still in bright array, ye Saints; here stand,</td>
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<td align="left">"Those of you who have been good and faithful to God, </td>
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<td>Ye Angels armed; this day from battle rest.</td>
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<td align="left">you can rest now. </td>
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<td>Faithful hath been your warfare, and of God</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">You fought against the rebel angels, but your work is now done.</td>
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<td>Accepted, fearless in his righteous cause;</td>
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<td>And, as ye have received, so have ye done,</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
805</div>
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<td>Invincibly. But of this cursed crew</td>
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<td align="left">God has assigned me to finish this, and I will do it alone. </td>
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<td>The punishment to other hand belongs;</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
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<td>Vengeance is his, or whose He sole appoints.</td>
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<td>Number to this day’s work is not ordained,</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td>Nor multitude; stand only and behold</td>
<td align="center" width="86">810</td>
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<td>God’s indignation on these godless poured</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">It has to be me, because I am the one</td>
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<td>By me. Not you, but me, they have despised,</td>
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<td align="left">that they hate and despise so much to go to war with Heaven. </td>
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<td>Yet envied; against me is all their rage,</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Because the Father, to whom in Heaven supreme</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Kingdom and power and glory appertains,</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
815</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Hath honoured me, according to his will.</td>
<td align="center" width="86"></td>
<td align="left">Here I am now to fulfill their wish. </td>
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<td>Therefore to me their doom he hath assigned,</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>That they may have their wish, to try with me</td>
<td align="center" width="86"></td>
<td align="left">It's me against all of them</td>
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<td>In battle which the stronger proves—they all,</td>
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<td align="left">so let's see who comes out on top. </td>
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<td>Or I alone against them; since by strength</td>
<td align="center" width="86">820</td>
<td align="left">All the rebel angels care about his power, so </td>
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<td>They measure all, of other excellence</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">I will show them true power."</td>
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<td>Not emulous, nor care who them excels;</td>
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<td>Nor other strife with them do I voutsafe.’</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td> “So spake the Son, and into terror changed</td>
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<td>His countenance, too severe to be beheld,</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
825</div>
</td>
<td align="left">The Son of God's face changed into rage. </td>
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<td>And full of wrauth bent on his enemies.</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>At once the Four spread out their starry wings</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>With dreadful shade continguous, and the orbs</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Of his fierce chariot rowled, as with the sound</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Of torrent floods, or of a numerous host.</td>
<td align="center" width="86">830</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>He on his impious foes right onward drove,</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Gloomy as Night. Under his burning wheels</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The steadfast Empyrean shook throughout,</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>All but the Throne itself of God. Full soon</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Among them he arrived, in his right hand</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
835</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent</td>
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<td align="left">The Son of God grabbed then thousand thunder arrows</td>
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<td>Before him, such as in their souls infixed</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">and shot them directly into the souls of every rebel angel below.</td>
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<td>Plagues. They, astonished, all resistance lost,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>All courage; down their idle weapons dropt;</td>
<td align="center" width="86"></td>
<td align="left">They all dropped their weapons.</td>
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<td>O’er shields, and helms, and helmed heads he rode</td>
<td align="center" width="86"><div style="margin: 0px;">
840</div>
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<td>Of Thrones and mighty Seraphim prostate,</td>
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<td>That wished the mountains now might be again</td>
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<td>Thrown on them, as a shelter from his ire.</td>
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<td>Nor less on either side tempestuous fell</td>
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<td>His arrows, from the fourfold-visaged Four,</td>
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<td align="left">Even the four-faced, four angels with the Son of God shot arrows too. </td>
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<td>Distinct with eyes, and from the living wheels,</td>
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<td align="left">And their eyes each show fire that </td>
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<td>Distinct alike with multitude of eyes;</td>
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<td>One spirit in them ruled, and every eye</td>
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<td>Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire</td>
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<td align="left">drained the strength and mental fortitude from the rebel angels. </td>
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<td>Among the accursed, that withered all their strength,</td>
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<td>And of their wonted vigour left them drained,</td>
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<td>Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fallen,</td>
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<td>Yet half his strength he put not forth, but checked</td>
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<td align="left">The Son of God wasn't even using his full strength either. </td>
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<td>His thunder in mid-volley; for he meant</td>
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<td>Not to destroy, but root them out of Heaven.</td>
<td align="center" width="86">855</td>
<td align="left">He stopped his attack because he didn't want to really destory anyone, he just wanted to drive them out of Heaven and into Hell. </td>
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<td>The overthrown he raised, and, as a herd</td>
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<td>Of goats or timorous flock together thronged,</td>
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<td>Drove them before him thunderstruck, pursued</td>
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<td>With terrors and with furies to the bounds</td>
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<td align="left">the walls at the edge of Heaven. </td>
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<td>And crystal wall of Heaven; which, opening wide,</td>
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<td align="left">The wall then opened up like a gate</td>
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<td>Rowled inward, and a spacious gap disclosed</td>
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<td align="left">which led to the blackness of Hell. </td>
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<td>Into the wasteful Deep. The monstrous sight</td>
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<td>Strook them with horror backward; but far worse</td>
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<td align="left">The rebel angels were horrified at this sight, but they were even more afraid of </td>
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<td>Urged them behind: headlong themselves they threw</td>
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<td align="left">the Son of God behind them. They then threw themselves into the black pit. </td>
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<td>Down from the verge of Heaven: eternal wrauth</td>
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<td>Burnt after them to the bottomless pit.</td>
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<td> “Hell heard the unsufferable noise; Hell saw</td>
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<td>Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would have fled</td>
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<td>Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep</td>
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<td>Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.</td>
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<td>Nine days they fell; confounded Chaos roared,</td>
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<td align="left">Chaos was confused as to why so many angels were falling into the abyss. </td>
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<td>And felt tenfold confusion in their fall</td>
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<td align="left">It took the angels nine days to fall. </td>
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<td>Through his wild Anarchy; so huge a rout</td>
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<td>Incumbered him with ruin. Hell at last,</td>
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<td align="left">Hell finally opened up wide and they all fell inside</td>
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<td>Yawning, received them whole, and on them closed—</td>
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<td align="left">and Hell closed up, swallowing them all. </td>
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<td>Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire</td>
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<td>Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain.</td>
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<td align="left">Hell was where these rebel angels belonged.</td>
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<td>Disburdened Heaven rejoiced, and soon repaired</td>
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<td align="left">Heaven was happy to get rid of them. </td>
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<td>Her mural breach, returning whence it rowled.</td>
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<td>Sole victor, from the expulsion of his foes</td>
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<td align="left">The Son of God had done it all himself</td>
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<td>Messiah his triumphal chariot turned.</td>
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<td align="left">and won the war, so he turned hi chariot around. </td>
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<td>To meet him all his Saints, who silent stood</td>
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<td>Eye-witnesses of His Almighty acts,</td>
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<td align="left">All the angels came up to meet him, </td>
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<td>With jubilee advanced; and, as they went,</td>
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<td>Shaded with branching palm, each order bright</td>
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<td align="left">they each carried palms and sang his praises for the victory. </td>
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<td>Sung triumph, and him sung victorious King,</td>
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<td>Son, Heir, and Lord, to him dominion given,</td>
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<td align="left">They sang songs describing that the Son of God deserves to be their rightful king.</td>
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<td>Worthiest to reign. He celebrated rode</td>
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<td>Triumphant through mid Heaven, into the courts</td>
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<td>And temple of his mighty Father throned</td>
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<td>On high; who into glory him received,</td>
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<td align="left">The Son of God rode into the temple of his father, God. </td>
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<td>Where now he sits at the right hand of bliss.</td>
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<td align="left">There he sat at the right hand of God. </td>
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<td> “Thus measuring things in Heaven by things on Earth,</td>
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<td>At thy request, and that thou may’st beware</td>
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<td align="left">And that's the story of the war in Heaven.</td>
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<td>By what is past, to thee I have revealed</td>
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<td align="left">I did my best to describe it to you in terms and ways that you may understand as humans. </td>
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<td>What might have else to human race been hid—</td>
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<td>The discord which befell, and war in Heaven</td>
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<td>Among the Angelic Powers, and the deep fall</td>
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<td>Of those too high aspiring who rebelled</td>
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<td>With Satan: he who envies now thy state,</td>
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<td align="left">Just remember that satan envies you and your happy state.</td>
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<td>Who now is plotting how he may seduce</td>
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<td>Thee also from obedience, that, with him</td>
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<td>Bereaved of happiness, thou may’st partake</td>
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<td>His punishment, eternal misery;</td>
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<td>Which would be all his solace and revenge,</td>
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<td align="left">If he can make you fall too, then that would be his greatest </td>
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<td>As a despite done against the Most High,</td>
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<td>Thee once to gain companion of his woe.</td>
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<td>But listen not to his temptations; warn</td>
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<td align="left">So don't listen to him, and please</td>
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<td>Thy weaker; let it profit thee to have heard,</td>
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<td>By terrible example, the reward</td>
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<td align="left">Don't ever forget the lessons from this story, and most. ofall</td>
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<td>Of disobedience. Firm they might have stood,</td>
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<td>Yet fell. Remember, and fear to transgress.”</td>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-89603723643838962152020-11-04T11:36:00.001-08:002020-11-04T11:36:14.668-08:00Book 5: Satan in your dreams and a little about his backstory<div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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approached, Eve relates to Adam her troublesome dream; he likes it not, yet
comforts her: they come forth to their day labours: their morning hymn at
the door of their bower. God, to render Man inexcusable, sends Raphael to
admonish him of his obedience, of his free estate, of his enemy near at
hand, who he is, and why his enemy, and whatever else may avail Adam to
know. Raphael comes down to Paradise; his appearance described; his coming
discerned by Adam afar off, sitting at the door of his bower; he goes out to
meet him, brings him to his lodge, entertains him with the choicest fruits
of Paradise, got together by Eve; their discourse at table. Raphael performs
his massage, minds Adam of his state and of his enemy; relates, at Adam’s
request, who that enemy is, and how he came to be so, beginning from his
first revolt in Heaven, and the occasion thereof; how he drew his legions
after him to the parts of the North, and there incited them to rebel with
him, persuading all but only Abdiel, a seraph, who in argument dissuades and
opposes him, then forsakes him.</span></div>
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<b>tl;dr: Eve had a bad dream, and it pretty much foreshadows eating some Forbidden Fruit. But lol, obviously God knows exactly what's going to happen. </b></span></div>
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<td>NOW<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Morn,
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<td>Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl,</td>
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<td>shone like a pearl and moved across the earth.</td>
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<td>Of leaves and fuming rills, Aurora’s fan,</td>
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<td>Lightly dispersed, and the shrill matin song</td>
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<td>Of birds on every bough. So much the more</td>
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<td align="left">been there before I'm sure. </td>
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<td>His wonder was to find unwakened Eve,</td>
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<td align="left">He was surprised to see Eve still sleeping.</td>
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<td>With tresses discomposed, and glowing cheek,</td>
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<td>As through unquiet rest. He, on his side</td>
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<td align="left">It seems like she was having a bad dream or trouble sleeping. </td>
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<td>Leaning half raised, with looks of cordial love</td>
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<td align="left">Adam sat up and admired her</td>
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<td>Hung over her enamoured, and beheld</td>
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<td>Beauty which, whether waking or asleep,</td>
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<td>Shot forth peculiar graces; then, with voice</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">he was in love. He softly whispered to her,</td>
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<td>Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes,</td>
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<td align="left">in a voice as delicate as a flower.</td>
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<td>Her hand soft touching, whispered thus:—“Awake,</td>
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<td align="left">"Awaken </td>
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<td>My fairest, my espoused, my latest found,</td>
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<td>Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever-new delight!</td>
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<td>Awake! the morning shines, and the fresh field</td>
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<td>Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove,</td>
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<td>What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed,</td>
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<td>How Nature paints her colours, how the bee</td>
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<td>Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.”</td>
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<td> Such whispering waked her, but with startled eye</td>
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<td>On Adam; whom imbracing, thus she spake:—</td>
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<td> “O sole in whom my thoughts find all repose,</td>
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<td>My glory, my perfection! glad I see</td>
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<td>Thy face, and morn returned; for I this night</td>
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<td>(Such night till this I never passed) have dreamed,</td>
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<td>If dreamed, not, as I oft am wont, of thee,</td>
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<td>But of offence and trouble, which my mind</td>
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<td>Knew never till this irksome night. Methought</td>
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<td>Close at mine ear one called me forth to walk</td>
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<td>With gentle voice; I thought it thine. It said,</td>
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<td>‘Why sleep’st thou, Eve? now is the pleasant time,</td>
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<td align="left">It told me</td>
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<td>The cool, the silent, save where silence yields</td>
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<td>To the night-warbling bird, that now awake</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">the night was, and the birds</td>
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<td>Tunes sweetest his love-laboured song; now reigns</td>
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<td>Full-orbed the moon, and, with more pleasing light,</td>
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<td>Shadowy sets off the face of things—in vain,</td>
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<td>If none regard. Heaven wakes with all his eyes;</td>
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<td>Whom to behold but thee, Nature’s desire,</td>
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<td>In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment</td>
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<td>Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze?</td>
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<td>I rose as at thy call, but found thee not:</td>
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<td>To find thee I directed then my walk;</td>
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<td>And on, methought, alone I passed through ways</td>
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<td>That brought me on a sudden to the Tree</td>
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<td>Of interdicted Knowledge. Fair it seemed,</td>
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<td>Much fairer to my fancy than by day;</td>
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<td>And, as I wondering looked, beside it stood</td>
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<td>One shaped and winged like one of those from Heaven</td>
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<td>By us oft seen: his dewy locks distilled</td>
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<td>Ambrosia. On that Tree he also gazed;</td>
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<td>And, ‘O fair plant,’ said he, ‘with fruit surcharged,</td>
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<td align="left">"Well holy shit. Look at this tree. Look at these fruits!</td>
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<td>Deigns none to ease thy load, and taste thy sweet,</td>
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<td>Nor God nor Man? Is knowledge so despised?</td>
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<td>Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste?</td>
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<td>Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold</td>
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<td>Longer thy offered good, why else set here?</td>
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<td align="left">from trying to taste it. Why is it here?"</td>
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<td>This said, he paused not, but with ventrous arm</td>
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<td>He plucked, he tasted. Me damp horror chilled</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and plucked a fruit from the tree. He ate it. I was lost for words.</td>
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<td>At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold;</td>
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<td align="left">This Angel continued and said,</td>
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<td>But he thus, overjoyed: ‘O fruit divine,</td>
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<td align="left">"How wonderful!</td>
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<td>Sweet of thyself, but much more sweet thus cropt,</td>
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<td>Forbidden here, it seems, as only fit</td>
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<td>For gods, yet able to make gods of men!</td>
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<td>And why not gods of men, since good, the more</td>
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<td>Communicated, more abundant grows,</td>
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<td>The author not impaired, but honoured more?</td>
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<td>Here, happy creature, fair angelic Eve!</td>
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<td align="left">Come here Eve!</td>
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<td>Partake thou also: happy though thou art,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You should try this out too!</td>
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<td>Happier thou may’st be, worthier canst not be.</td>
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<td>Taste this, and be henceforth among the gods</td>
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<td>Thyself a goddess; not to Earth confined,</td>
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<td>But sometimes in the Air; as we; sometimes</td>
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<td>Ascend to Heaven, by merit thine, and see</td>
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<td>What life the gods live there, and such live thou.’</td>
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<td align="left">And enjoy a new life!"</td>
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<td>So saying, he drew nigh, and to me held,</td>
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<td align="left">As he was saying all this, he took the same fruit</td>
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<td>Even to my mouth of that same fruit held part</td>
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<td>Which he had plucked: the pleasant savoury smell</td>
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<td>So quickened appetite that I, methought,</td>
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<td>Could not but taste. Forthwith up to the clouds</td>
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<td align="left">so I tasted it. We suddenly flew up into the sky</td>
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<td>With him I flew, and underneath beheld</td>
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<td>The Earth outstretched immense, a prospect wide</td>
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<td align="left">I saw how big the Earth really was.</td>
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<td>And various. Wondering at my flight and change</td>
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<td>To this high exaltation, suddenly</td>
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<td>My guide was gone, and I, methought, sunk down,</td>
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<td align="left">he was gone. And I sunk back down</td>
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<td>And fell asleep; but, O, how glad I waked</td>
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<td>To find this but a dream!” Thus Eve her night</td>
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<td>Related, and thus Adam answered sad:—</td>
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<td> “Best image of myself, and dearer half,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Well damn.</td>
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<td>The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep</td>
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<td align="left">I don't like this at all.</td>
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<td>Affects me equally; nor can I like</td>
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<td>This uncouth dream—of evil sprung, I fear;</td>
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<td align="left">This dream of yours, is... kind of evil.</td>
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<td>Yet evil whence? In thee can harbour none,</td>
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<td>Created pure. But know that in the soul</td>
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<i> 100</i> </div>
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<td>Are many lesser faculties, that serve</td>
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<td>Reason as chief. Among these Fancy next</td>
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<td>Her office holds; of all external things,</td>
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<td>Which the five watchful senses represent,</td>
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<td>She forms imaginations, aerie shapes,</td>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">but our imaginations CAN take us to so many places.</td>
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<td>Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames</td>
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<td>All what we affirm or what deny, and call</td>
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<td>Our knowledge or opinion; then retires</td>
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<td align="left">Our inherent knowledge and conscious thought keeps us level, but when we sleep...</td>
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<td>Into her private cell when Nature rests.</td>
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<td>Oft, in her absence, mimic Fancy wakes</td>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">that's when our imagination takes over.</td>
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<td>To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes,</td>
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<td align="left">And it can be hard to distinguish what</td>
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<td>Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams,</td>
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<td>Ill matching words and deeds long past or late.</td>
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<td align="left">And our memories can get mixed up. </td>
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<td>Some such resemblances, methinks, I find</td>
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<td>Of our last evening’s talk in this thy dream,</td>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">Maybe last night's conversation made its way into your dream.</td>
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<td>But with addition strange. Yet be not sad:</td>
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<td>Evil into the mind of God or Man</td>
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<td align="left">Sure they may seem bad,</td>
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<td>May come and go, so unapproved, and leave</td>
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<td>No spot or blame behind; which gives me hope</td>
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<td align="left">there's no harm done. What gives me hope</td>
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<td>That what in sleep thou didst abhor to dream</td>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">is that you're already upset of what</td>
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<td>Waking thou never wilt consent to do.</td>
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<td>Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks,</td>
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<td>That wont to be more cheerful and serene</td>
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<td>Than when fair Morning first smiles on the world;</td>
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<td>And let us to our fresh imployments rise</td>
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<td>Among the groves, the fountains, and the flowers,</td>
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<td>That open now their choicest bosomed smells,</td>
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<td>Reserved from night, and kept for thee in store.”</td>
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<td> So cheered he his fair spouse; and she was cheered,</td>
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<td>But silently a gentle tear let fall</td>
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<td>From either eye, and wiped them with her hair:</td>
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<td>Two other precious drops that ready stood,</td>
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<td>Each in their crystal sluice, he, ere they fell,</td>
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<td>Kissed as the gracious signs of sweet remorse</td>
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<td>And pious awe, that feared to have offended.</td>
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<td> So all was cleared, and to the field they haste.</td>
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<td>But first, from under shady arborous roof</td>
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<td>Soon as they forth were come to open sight</td>
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<td>Of day-spring, and the Sun—who, scarce uprisen,</td>
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<td>With wheels yet hovering o’er the ocean-brim,</td>
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<td>Shot parallel to the Earth his dewy ray,</td>
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<td>Discovering in wide lantskip all the east</td>
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<td>Of Paradise and Eden’s happy plains—</td>
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<td>Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began</td>
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<td>Their orisons, each morning duly paid</td>
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<td>In various style; for neither various style</td>
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<td>Nor holy rapture wanted they to praise</td>
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<td>Their Maker, in fit strains pronounced, or sung</td>
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<td>Unmeditated; such prompt eloquence</td>
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<td>Flowed from their lips, in prose or numerous verse,</td>
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<td>More tuneable than needed lute or harp</td>
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<td>To add more sweetness. And they thus began:—</td>
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<td> “These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,</td>
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<td align="left">"Dear God, this is a beautiful land!</td>
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<td>Almighty! thine this universal frame,</td>
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<td>Thus wondrous fair: Thyself how wondrous then!</td>
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<td>Unspeakable! who sitt’st above these heavens</td>
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<td>To us invisible, or dimly seen</td>
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<td>In these thy lowest works; yet these declare</td>
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<td>Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.</td>
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<td>Speak, ye who best can tell, ye Sons of Light,</td>
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<td>Angels—for ye behold him, and with songs</td>
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<td>And choral symphonies, day without night,</td>
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<td>Circle his throne rejoicing—ye in Heaven;</td>
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<td>On Earth join, all ye creatures, to extol</td>
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<td>Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.</td>
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<td>Fairest of Stars, last in the train of Night,</td>
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<td>If better thou belong not to the Dawn,</td>
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<td>Sure pledge of day, that crown’st the smiling morn</td>
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<td>With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere</td>
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<td>While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And when the day arises, that special hour</td>
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<td>Thou Sun, of this great World both eye and soul,</td>
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<td>Acknowledge him thy Greater; sound his praise</td>
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<td>In thy eternal course, both when thou climb’st,</td>
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<td>And when high noon hast gained, and when thou fall’st.</td>
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<td>Moon, that now meet’st the orient Sun, now fliest,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And you, the moon! </td>
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<td>With the fixed Stars, fixed in their orb that flies;</td>
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<td>And ye five other wandering Fires, that move</td>
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<td>In mystic dance, not without song, reasound</td>
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<td>His praise who out of Darkness called up Light.</td>
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<td>Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth</td>
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<td>Of Nature’s womb, that in quaternion run</td>
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<td>Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix</td>
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<td>And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change</td>
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<td>Vary to our great Maker still new praise.</td>
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<td>Ye Mists and Exhalations, that now rise</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And the mists, that rise</td>
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<td>From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray,</td>
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<td>Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold,</td>
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<td>In honour to the World’s great Author rise;</td>
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<td>Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky,</td>
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<td>Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">wet the thirsty earth with your rain. </td>
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<td>Rising or falling, still advance his praise.</td>
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<td>His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow,</td>
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<td>Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye Pines,</td>
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<td>With every Plant, in sign of worship wave.</td>
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<td>Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And the waterfalls and flowing streams</td>
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<td>Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.</td>
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<td>Join voices, all ye living Souls. Ye Birds,</td>
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<td align="left">And the voices of nature, all of your voices join us. The birds</td>
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<td>That, singing, up to Heaven-gate ascend,</td>
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<td>Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.</td>
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<td>Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk</td>
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<td>The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep,</td>
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silent, morn or even,</td>
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<td>To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade,</td>
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<td>Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.</td>
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<td>Hail, universal Lord! Be bounteous still</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Dear God, please</td>
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<td>To give us only good; and, if the night</td>
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<td>Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed,</td>
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<td>Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.”</td>
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<td> So prayed they innocent, and to their thoughts</td>
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<td>Firm peace recovered soon, and wonted calm.</td>
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<td>On to their morning’s rural work they haste,</td>
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<td>Among sweet dews and flowers, where any row</td>
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<td>Of fruit-trees, over-woody, reached too far</td>
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<td>Their pampered boughs, and needed hands to check</td>
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<td>Fruitless imbraces; or they led the vine</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and fixed the growing vines. </td>
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<td>To wed her elm; she, spoused, about him twines</td>
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<td>Her marriageable arms, and with her brings</td>
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<td>Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn</td>
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<td>His barren leaves. Them thus imployed beheld</td>
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<td>With pity Heaven’s high King, and to him called</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Meanwhile in Heaven, God was watching. He called upon the Angel Raphael.</td>
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<td>Raphael, the sociable Spirit, that deigned</td>
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<td>To travel with Tobias, and secured</td>
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<td>His marriage with the seven-times-wedded maid.</td>
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<td> “Raphael,” said he, “thou hear’st what stir on Earth</td>
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<td>Satan, from Hell scaped through the darksome Gulf,</td>
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<td>Hath raised in Paradise, and how disturbed</td>
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<td>This night the human pair; now he designs</td>
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<td>In them at once to ruin all mankind.</td>
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<td>Go, therefore; half this day, as friend with friend,</td>
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<td>Converse with Adam, in what bower or shade</td>
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<td>Thou find’st him from the heat of noon retired</td>
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<td>To respite his day-labour with repast</td>
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<td>Or with repose; and such discourse bring on</td>
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<td>As may advise him of his happy state—</td>
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<td>Happiness in his power left free to will,</td>
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<td>Left to his own free will, his will though free</td>
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<td>Yet mutable. Whence warn him to beware</td>
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<td>He swerve not, too secure: tell him withal</td>
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<td>His danger, and from whom; what enemy,</td>
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<td>Late fallen himself from Heaven, is plotting now</td>
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<td>The fall of others from like state of bliss.</td>
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<td>By violence? no, for that shall be withstood;</td>
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<td>But by deceit and lies. This let him know,</td>
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<td>Lest, wilfully transgressing, he pretend</td>
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<td>Surprisal, unadmonished, unforewarned.”</td>
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<td> So spake the Eternal Father, and fulfilled</td>
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<td>All justice. Nor delayed the winged Saint</td>
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<td>After his charge received; but from among</td>
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<td>Thousand celestial Ardours, where he stood</td>
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<td>Veiled with his gorgeous wings, upspringing light,</td>
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<td>Flew through the midst of Heaven. The angelic quires</td>
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<td>On each hand parting, to his speed gave way</td>
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<td>Through all the empyreal road, till, at the gate</td>
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<td>Of Heaven arrived, the gate self-opened wide,</td>
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<td>On golden hinges turning, as by work</td>
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<td>Divine the sovran Architect had framed.</td>
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<td>From hence—no cloud or, to obstruct his sight,</td>
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<td>Star interposed, however small—he sees,</td>
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<td>Not unconform to other shining globes,</td>
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<td>Earth, and the Garden of God, with cedars crowned</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Earth, and the Garden of Eden.</td>
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<td>Above all hills; as when by night the glass</td>
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<td>Of Galileo, less assured, observes</td>
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<td>Imagined lands and regions in the Moon;</td>
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<td>Or pilot from amidst the Cyclades</td>
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<td>Delos or Samos first appearing kens,</td>
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<td>A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight</td>
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<td>He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky</td>
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<td align="left">Fast like a rocket. </td>
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<td>Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing</td>
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<td>Now on the polar winds; then with quick fan</td>
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<td>Winnows the buxom air, till, within soar</td>
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<td>Of towering eagles, to all the fowls he seems</td>
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<td>A phœnix, gazed by all, as that sole bird,</td>
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<td>When, to enshrine his relics in the Sun’s</td>
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<td>Bright temple, to Ægyptian Thebes he flies.</td>
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<td>At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He finally landed on an Eastern cliff of Paradise.</td>
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<td>He lights, and to his proper shape returns,</td>
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<td>A Seraph winged. Six wings he wore, to shade</td>
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<td>His lineaments divine: the pair that clad</td>
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<td>Each shoulder broad came mantling o’er his breast</td>
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<td>With regal ornament; the middle pair</td>
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<td>Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round</td>
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<td>Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold</td>
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<td>And colours dipt in heaven; the third his feet</td>
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<td>Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail,</td>
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<td>Sky-tinctured grain. Like Maia’s son he stood,</td>
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<td>And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance filled</td>
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<td>The circuit wide. Straight knew him all the bands</td>
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<td>Of Angels under watch, and to his state</td>
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<td align="left">Some Angels that were on guard at this cliff, </td>
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<td>And to his message high in honour rise;</td>
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<td>For on some message high they guessed him bound.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They also recognized that this was an Angel on a mission.</td>
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<td>Their glittering tents he passed, and now is come</td>
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<td>Into the blissful field, through groves of myrrh,</td>
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<td align="left">and he walked into a forest of myrrh.</td>
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<td>And flowering odours, cassia, nard, and balm,</td>
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<td>A wilderness of sweets; for Nature here</td>
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<td>Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will</td>
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<td>Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more sweet,</td>
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<td>Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.</td>
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<td>Him, through the spicy forest onward come,</td>
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<td align="left">He walked through a bunch of beautiful and fragrant things. </td>
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<td>Adam discerned, as in the door he sat</td>
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<td align="left">Adam saw the Angel coming. Adam was just</td>
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<td>Of his cool bower, while now the mounted Sun</td>
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<td>Shot down direct his fervid rays, to warm</td>
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<td>Earth’s inmost womb, more warmth than Adam needs’</td>
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<td>And Eve, within, due at her hour, prepared</td>
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<td align="left">While Eve was inside </td>
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<td>For dinner savoury fruits, of taste to please</td>
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<td>True appetite, and not disrelish thirst</td>
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<i> 305</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">a snack.</td>
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<td>Of nectarous draughts between, from milky stream,</td>
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<td>Berry or grape: to whom thus Adam called:—</td>
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<td> “Haste hither, Eve, and, worth thy sight, behold</td>
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<td align="left">Adam hollered, "Eve! Hurry and look!</td>
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<td>Eastward among those trees what glorious Shape</td>
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<td>Comes this way moving; seems another morn</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">bright as the sun!</td>
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<td>Risen on mid-noon. Some great behest from Heaven</td>
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<td align="left">It must be a message from God, from the Heavens!</td>
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<td>To us perhaps he brings, and will voutsafe</td>
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<td>This day to be our guest. But go with speed,</td>
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<td align="left">He is our guest. So quickly,</td>
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<td>And what thy stores contain bring forth, and pour</td>
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<td>Abundance fit to honour and receive</td>
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<td>Our heavenly stranger; well may we afford</td>
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<td>Our givers their own gifts, and large bestow</td>
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<td>From large bestowed, where Nature multiplies</td>
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<td>Her fertile growth, and by disburdening grows</td>
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<td>More fruitful; which instructs us not to spare.”</td>
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<i> 320</i> </div>
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<td> To whom thus Eve:—“Adam, Earth’s hallowed mould,</td>
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<td align="left">Eve replies, "Adam, </td>
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<td>Of God inspired, small store will serve where store,</td>
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<td>All seasons, ripe for use hangs on the stalk;</td>
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<td align="left">because all around us</td>
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<td>Save what, by frugal storing, firmness gains</td>
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<td align="left">is everything that we need.</td>
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<td>To nourish, and superfluous moist consumes.</td>
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<td>But I will haste, and from each bough and brake,</td>
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<td>Each plant and juiciest gourd, will pluck such choice</td>
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<td>To entertain our Angel-guest as he,</td>
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<td>Beholding, shall confess that here on Earth</td>
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<td>God hath dispensed his bounties as in Heaven.”</td>
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<td>She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent</td>
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<td>What order so contrived as not to mix</td>
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<td>Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring</td>
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<td>Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change:</td>
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<td>Bestirs her then, and from each tender stalk</td>
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<td>In Pontus or the Punic coast, or where</td>
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<td>Alcinous reigned, fruit of all kinds, in coat</td>
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<td>She gathers, tribute large, and on the board</td>
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<td>Heaps with unsparing hand. For drink the grape</td>
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<td>She crushes, inoffensive must, and meaths</td>
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<td>From many a berry, and from sweet kernels pressed</td>
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<td>She tempers dulcet creams—nor those to hold</td>
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<td>Wants her fit vessels pure; then strews the ground</td>
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<td>With rose and odours from the shrub unfumed.</td>
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<td> Meanwhile our primitive great Sire, to meet</td>
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<td>His godlike guest, walks forth, without more train</td>
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<td>Accompanied than with his own complete</td>
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<td>Perfections; in himself was all his state,</td>
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<td>More solemn than the tedious pomp that waits</td>
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<td>On princes, when their rich retin’ue long</td>
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<td>Of horses led and grooms besmeared with gold</td>
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<td>Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape.</td>
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<td>Nearer his presence, Adam, though not awed,</td>
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<td>Yet with submiss approach and reverence meek,</td>
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<td>As to a superior nature, bowing low,</td>
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<td>Thus said:—“Native of Heaven (for other place</td>
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<td>None can than Heaven such glorious Shape contain),</td>
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<td>Since, by descending from the Thrones above,</td>
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<td>Those happy places thou hadst deigned a while</td>
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<td>To want, and honour these, voutsafe with us,</td>
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<td>Two only, who yet by sovran gift possess</td>
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<td>This spacious ground, in yonder shady bower</td>
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<td>To rest, and what the Garden choicest bears</td>
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<td>To sit and taste, till this meridian heat</td>
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<td>Be over, and the sun more cool decline.”</td>
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<td> Whom thus the angelic Virtue answered mild:—</td>
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<td>“Adam, I therefore came; nor art thou such</td>
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<td>Created, or such place hast here to dwell,</td>
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<td>As may not oft invite, though Spirits of Heaven,</td>
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<td>To visit thee. Lead on, then, where thy bower</td>
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<td>O’ershades; for these mid-hours, till evening rise,</td>
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<td>I have at will.” So to the sylvan lodge</td>
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<td>They came, that like Pomona’s arbour smiled,</td>
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<td>With flowerets decked and fragrant smells. But Eve,</td>
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<td>Undecked, save with herself, more lovely fair</td>
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<td>Than wood-nymph, or the fairest goddess feigned</td>
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<td>Of three that in Mount Ida naked strove,</td>
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<td>Stood to entertain her guest from Heaven; no veil</td>
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<td>She needed, virtue-proof; no thought infirm</td>
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<td>Altered her cheek. On whom the Angel “Hail!”</td>
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<td>Bestowed—the holy salutation used</td>
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<td>Long after to blest Mary, second Eve:—</td>
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<td> “Hail! Mother of mankind, whose fruitful womb</td>
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<td>Shall fill the world more numerous with thy sons</td>
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<td>Than with these various fruits the trees of God</td>
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<td>Have heaped this table!” Raised of grassy turf</td>
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<td>Their table was, and mossy seats had round,</td>
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<td>And on her ample square, from side to side,</td>
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<td>All Autumn piled, though Spring and Autumn here</td>
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<td>Danced hand-in-hand. A while discourse they hold—</td>
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<td>No fear lest dinner cool—when thus began</td>
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<td>Our Author:—“Heavenly Stranger, please to taste</td>
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<td>These bounties, which our Nourisher, from whom</td>
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<td align="left">"So. This is our human food,</td>
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<td>All perfect good, unmeasured-out, descends.</td>
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<td>To us for food and for delight hath caused</td>
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<td>The Earth to yield: unsavoury food, perhaps,</td>
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<td>To Spiritual Natures; only this I know,</td>
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<td>That one Celestial Father gives to all.”</td>
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<td> To whom the Angel:—“Therefore, what he gives</td>
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<td>(Whose praise be ever sung) to Man, in part</td>
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<td>Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found</td>
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<td>No ingrateful food: and food alike those pure</td>
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<td>Intelligential substances require</td>
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<td>As doth your Rational; and both contain</td>
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<td>Within them every lower faculty</td>
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<td>Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste,</td>
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<td>Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate,</td>
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<td>And corporeal to incorporeal turn.</td>
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<td>For know, whatever was created needs</td>
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<td>To be sustained and fed. Of Elements</td>
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<td>The grosser feeds the purer: Earth the Sea;</td>
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<td>Earth and the Sea feed Air; the Air those Fires</td>
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<td>Ethereal, and, as lowest, first the Moon;</td>
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<td>Whence in her visage round those spots, unpurged,</td>
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<td>Vapours not yet into her substance turned.</td>
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<td>Nor doth the Moon no nourishment exhale</td>
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<td>From her moist continent to higher Orbs.</td>
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<td>The Sun, that light imparts to all, receives</td>
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<td>From all his alimental recompense</td>
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<td>In humid exhalations, and at even</td>
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<td>Sups with the Ocean. Though in Heaven the trees</td>
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<td>Of life ambrosial fruitage bear, and vines</td>
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<td>Yield nectar—though from off the boughs each morn</td>
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<td>We brush mellifluous dews and find the ground</td>
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<td>Covered with pearly grain—yet God hath here</td>
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<td>Varied his bounty so with new delights</td>
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<td>As may compare with Heaven; and to taste</td>
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<td>Think not I shall be nice.” So down they sat,</td>
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<td>And to their viands fell; nor seemingly</td>
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<td>The Angel, nor in mist—the common gloss</td>
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<td>Of theologians—but with keen dispatch</td>
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<td>Of real hunger, and concoctive heat</td>
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<td>To transubstantiate: what redounds transpires</td>
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<td>Through Spirits with ease; nor wonder, if by fire</td>
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<td>Of sooty coal the Empiric Alchimist</td>
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<td>Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,</td>
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<td>Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold,</td>
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<td>As from the mine. Meanwhile at table Eve</td>
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<td>Ministered naked, and their flowing cups</td>
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<td>With pleasant liquors crowned. O innocence</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And everyone was liquored up. But since we're in innocent Paradise, </td>
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<td>Deserving Paradise! If ever, then,</td>
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<td>Then had the Sons of God excuse to have been</td>
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<td>Enamoured at that sight. But in those hearts</td>
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<td>Love unlibidinous reigned, nor jealousy</td>
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<td>Was understood, the injured lover’s hell.</td>
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<td> Thus when with meats and drinks they had sufficed,</td>
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<td>Not burdened nature, sudden mind arose</td>
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<td>In Adam not to let the occasion pass,</td>
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<td align="left">Adam wanted to know a few things,</td>
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<td>Given him by this great conference, to know</td>
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<td>Of things above his world, and of their being</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">especially about things above, in Heaven</td>
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<td>Who dwell in Heaven, whose excellence he saw</td>
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<td>Transcend his own so far, whose radiant forms,</td>
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<td>Divine effulgence, whose high power so far</td>
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<td>Exceeded human; and his wary speech</td>
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<td>Thus to the empyreal minister he framed:—</td>
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<td> Inhabitant with God, now know I well</td>
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<td align="left">"Now I know very well,</td>
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<td>They favour, in this honour done to Man;</td>
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<td>Under whose lowly roof thou hast voutsafed</td>
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<td>To enter, and these earthly fruits to taste,</td>
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<td>Food not of Angels, yet accepted so</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">especially food that Angels don't usually eat,</td>
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<td>As that more willingly thou couldst not seem</td>
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<td>At Heaven’s high feasts to have fed: yet what compare!”</td>
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<td align="left">this can't possibly compare with what you're used to eating in Heaven!"</td>
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<td> To whom the wingèd Hierarch replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">The Angel replied, </td>
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<td>“O Adam, one almighty is, from whom</td>
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<td align="left">"Ah, Adam... </td>
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<td>All things proceed, and up to him return,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">everything comes from God... and goes to God in return,</td>
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<td>If not depraved from good, created all</td>
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<td>Such to perfection; one first matter all,</td>
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<td>Indued with various forms, various degrees</td>
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<td>Of substance, and, in things that live, of life;</td>
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<td>But more refined, more spiritous and pure,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The more refined, spiritous, and pure a life form is...</td>
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<td>As nearer to him placed or nearer tending</td>
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<td align="left">is all because it is growing closer to God. </td>
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<td>Each in their several active spheres assigned,</td>
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<td>Till body up to spirit work, in bounds</td>
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<td>Proportioned to each kind. So from the root</td>
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<td>Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves</td>
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<td>More aerie, last the bright consummate flower</td>
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<td>Spirits odorous breathes: flowers and their fruit,</td>
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<td>Man’s nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed,</td>
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<td>To vital spirits aspire, to animal,</td>
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<td align="left">It does your body and spirit good</td>
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<td>To intellectual; give both life and sense,</td>
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<i> 485</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">as well as your mind and soul.</td>
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<td>Fancy and understanding; whence the Soul</td>
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<td>Reason receives, and Reason is her being,</td>
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<td align="left">Another thing, you and I think differently... </td>
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<td>Discursive, or Intuitive: Discourse</td>
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<td>Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours,</td>
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<td align="left">We think more intuitively.</td>
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<td>Differing but in degree, of kind the same.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">There are just degrees of differences.</td>
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<td>Wonder not, then, what God for you saw good</td>
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<td align="left">My point is, you shouldn't be surprised that I happen to like your food spread. </td>
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<td>If I refuse not, but convert, as you,</td>
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<td align="left">It's just my body and spirit digests and metabolizes it in another way.</td>
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<td>To proper substance. Time may come when Men</td>
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<td align="left">One day you ordinary men can </td>
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<td>With Angels may participate, and find</td>
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<td align="left">try out our Angel food.</td>
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<td>No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare;</td>
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<i> 495</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It's a special diet</td>
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<td>And from these corporal nutriments, perhaps,</td>
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<td>Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit,</td>
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<td align="left">that will turn you into truer spirits similar to me. </td>
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<td>Improved by tract of time, and winged ascend</td>
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<td align="left">That way you could fly like us</td>
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<td>Ethereal, as we, or may at choice</td>
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<td>Here or in heavenly paradises dwell,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and even live here or in Heaven with the big dogs,</td>
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<td>If ye be found obedient, and retain</td>
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<td>Unalterably firm his love entire</td>
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<td align="left">AND ALWAYS LOVE HIM.</td>
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<td>Whose progeny you are. Meanwhile enjoy,</td>
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<td align="left">In the meantime, </td>
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<td>Your fill, what happiness this happy state</td>
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<td>Can comprehend, incapable of more.”</td>
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<td> To whom the Patriarch of Mankind replied:—</td>
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<td>“O favourable Spirit, propitious guest,</td>
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<td align="left">"Wow dude, </td>
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<td>Well hast thou taught the way that might direct</td>
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<td align="left">that's all really interesting.</td>
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<td>Our knowledge, and the scale of Nature set</td>
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<td>From centre to circumference, whereon,</td>
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<td>In contemplation of created things,</td>
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<td>By steps we may ascend to God. But say,</td>
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<td>What meant that caution joined,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>If
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<td align="left">Just had one thought though... what exactly do you mean '<i>if</i> we continue to obey God?'</td>
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<td><i>Obedient?</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Can we
want obedience, then,</td>
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<td align="left">...like haven't we been obedient enough? or is no one paying attention?</td>
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<td>To him, or possibly his love desert,</td>
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<i> 515</i> </div>
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<td>Who formed us from the dust, and placed us here</td>
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<td>Full to the utmost measure of what bliss</td>
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<td>Human desires can seek or apprehend?”</td>
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<td> To whom the Angel:—“Son of Heaven and Earth,</td>
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<td align="left">The angel Raphael replied, "Adam...</td>
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<td>Attend! That thou art happy, owe to God;</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">listen carefully. </td>
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<td>That thou continuest such, owe to thyself,</td>
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<td align="left">God gave you perfect happiness and everything you need here.</td>
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<td>That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.</td>
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<td align="left">It's just, whether you stay happy or not is dependent </td>
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<td>This was that caution given thee; be advised.</td>
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<td align="left">entirely on you and your obedience.</td>
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<td>God made thee perfect, not immutable;</td>
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<td align="left">God made y'all perfectly good.</td>
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<td>And good he made thee; but to persevere</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He also made it so you </td>
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<td>He left it in thy power—ordained thy will</td>
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<td>By nature free, not over-ruled by fate</td>
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<td>Inextricable, or strict necessity.</td>
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<td>Our voluntary service he requires,</td>
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<td align="left">Like us angels, we've got the same deal too! </td>
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<td>Not our necessitated. Such with him</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Angels are always welcome in Heaven</td>
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<td>Finds no acceptance, nor can find; for how</td>
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<td align="left">as long as we stay obedient and </td>
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<td>Can hearts not free be tried whether they serve</td>
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<td align="left">serve of our own free will.</td>
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<td>Willing or no, who will but what they must</td>
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<td>By destiny, and can no other choose?</td>
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<td>Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 535</i> </div>
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<td>In sight of god enthroned, our happy state</td>
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<td>Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds.</td>
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<td align="left">We have freedom too.</td>
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<td>On other surety none: freely we serve,</td>
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<td>Because we freely love, as in our will</td>
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<td>To love or not; in this we stand or fall.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 540</i> </div>
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<td>And some are fallen, to disobedience fallen,</td>
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<td align="left">However, there ARE some angels who</td>
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<td>And so from Heaven to deepest Hell. Of fall</td>
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<td>From what high state of bliss into what woe!”</td>
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<td> To whom our great Progenitor:—“Thy words</td>
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<td align="left">Adam said "Okay, I totally get it now.</td>
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<td>Attentive, and with more delighted ear,</td>
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<td>Divine instructor, I have heard, than when</td>
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<td>Cherubic songs by night from neighbouring hills</td>
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<td>Aerial music send. Nor knew I not</td>
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<td>To be, both will and deed, created free.</td>
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<td>Yet that we never shall forget to love</td>
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<td>Our Maker, and obey him whose command</td>
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<td>Single is yet so just, my constant thoughts</td>
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<td>Assured me, and still assure; though what thou tell’st</td>
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<td>Hath passed in Heaven some doubt within me move,</td>
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<td>But more desire to hear, if thou consent,</td>
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<td>The full relation, which must needs be strange,</td>
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<td>Worthy of sacred silence to be heard.</td>
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<td>And we have yet large day, for scarce the Sun</td>
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<td>Hath finished half his journey, and scarce begins</td>
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<td>His other half in the great zone of heaven.”</td>
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<td> Thus Adam made request; and Raphael,</td>
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<td>After short pause assenting, thus began:—</td>
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<td> “High matter thou injoin’st me, O prime of Men—</td>
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<td>Sad task and hard; for how shall I relate</td>
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<td>To human sense the invisible exploits</td>
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<td>Of warring Spirits? how, without remorse,</td>
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<td>The ruin of so many, glorious once</td>
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<td>And perfect while they stood? how, last, unfold</td>
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<td>The secrets of another world, perhaps</td>
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<td>Not lawful to reveal? Yet for thy good</td>
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<td>This is dispensed; and what surmounts the reach</td>
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<td>Of human sense I shall delineate so,</td>
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<td>By likening spiritual to corporal forms,</td>
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<td>As may express them best—though what if Earth</td>
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<td align="left">what I will tell you. I'll try to help you imagine Heaven in the context of Earth as you know it.</td>
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<td>Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein</td>
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<i> 575</i> </div>
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<td>Each to other like more than on Earth is thought!</td>
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<td> “As yet this World was not, and Chaos wild</td>
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<td>Reigned where these heavens now rowl, where Earth now rests</td>
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<td>Upon her centre poised, when on a day</td>
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<td>(For Time, though in Eternity, applied</td>
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<i> 580</i> </div>
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<td>To motion, measures all things durable</td>
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<td>By present, past, and future), on such day</td>
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<td>As Heaven’s great year brings forth, the empyreal host</td>
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<td>Of Angels, by imperial summons called,</td>
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<td>Innumerable before the Almighty’s throne</td>
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<i> 585</i> </div>
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<td>Forthwith from all the ends of Heaven appeared</td>
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<td>Under their hierarchs in orders bright.</td>
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<td>Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced,</td>
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<td>Standards and gonfalons, ’twixt van and rear</td>
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<td>Stream in the air, and for distinction serve</td>
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<td>Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees:</td>
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<td>Or in their glittering tissues bear imblazed</td>
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<td>Holy memorials, acts of zeal and love</td>
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<td>Recorded eminent. Thus when in orbs</td>
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<td>Of circuit inexpressible they stood,</td>
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<i> 595</i> </div>
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<td>Orb within orb, the Father Infinite,</td>
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<td>By whom in bliss imbosomed sat the Son,</td>
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<td>Amidst, as from a flaming Mount, whose top</td>
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<td>Brightness had made invisible, thus spake:</td>
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<td> “‘Hear, all ye Angels, Progeny of Light,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God spoke 'Hey everyone, </td>
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<td>Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers,</td>
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<td>Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand!</td>
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<td>This day I have begot whom I declare</td>
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<td>My only Son, and on this holy hill</td>
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<td>Him have anointed, whom ye now behold</td>
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<i> 605</i> </div>
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<td>At my right hand. Your head I him appoint,</td>
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<td>And by myself have sworn to him shall bow</td>
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<td>All knees in Heaven, and shall confess him Lord.</td>
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<td>Under his great vicegerent reign abide,</td>
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<td>United as one individual soul,</td>
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<i> 610</i> </div>
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<td>For ever happy. Him who disobeys</td>
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<td>Me disobeys, breaks union, and, that day,</td>
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<td>Cast out form God and blessed vision, falls</td>
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<td>Into utter darkness, deep ingulfed, his place</td>
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<td align="left">Which in turn results in you being thrown out of Heaven and into Hell to suffer for eternity. Got it? Okay.' </td>
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<td>Ordained without redemption, without end.’</td>
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<i> 615</i> </div>
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<td> “So spake the Omnipotent, and with his words</td>
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<td>All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all.</td>
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<td align="left">Most angels were happy, </td>
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<td>That day, as other solemn days, they spent</td>
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<td align="left">but some weren't pleased with this little announcement.</td>
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<td>In song and dance about the sacred Hill—</td>
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<td>Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere</td>
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<i> 620</i> </div>
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<td>Of planets and of fixed in all her wheels</td>
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<td>Resembles, nearest; mazes intricate,</td>
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<td>Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular</td>
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<td>Then most when most irregular they seem;</td>
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<td>And in their motions harmony divine</td>
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<i> 625</i> </div>
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<td>So smooths her charming tones that God’s own ear</td>
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<td>Listens delighted. Evening now approached</td>
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<td>(For we have also our evening and our morn—</td>
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<td>We ours for change delectable, not need);</td>
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<td>Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 630</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And evening time means dinner time. </td>
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<td>Desirous: all in circles as they stood,</td>
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<td>Tables are set, and on a sudden piled</td>
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<td>With Angels’ food; and rubied nectar flows</td>
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<td>In pearl, in diamond, and massy gold,</td>
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<td>Fruit of delicious vines, the growth of Heaven.</td>
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<i> 635</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">all filled with nectar. </td>
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<td>On flowers reposed, and with fresh flowerets crowned,</td>
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<td>They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet</td>
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<td>Quaff immortality and joy, secure</td>
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<td>Of surfeit where full measure only bounds</td>
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<td>Excess, before the all-bounteous King, who showered</td>
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<i> 640</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They ate, drank, </td>
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<td>With copious hand, rejoicing in their joy.</td>
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<td>Now when ambrosial Night, with clouds exhaled</td>
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<td>From that high mount of God whence light and shade</td>
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<td>Spring both, the face of brightest Heaven had changed</td>
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<td>To grateful twilight (for Night comes not there</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 645</i> </div>
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<td>In darker veil), and roseate dews disposed</td>
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<td>All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,</td>
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<td>Wide over all the plain, and wider far</td>
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<td>Than all this globous Earth in plain outspread</td>
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<td>(Such are the Courts of God), the Angelic throng,</td>
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<i> 650</i> </div>
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<td>Dispersed in bands and files, their camp extend</td>
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<td>By living streams among the trees of life—</td>
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<td>Celestial tabernacles, where they slept,</td>
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<td>Fanned with cool winds; save those who, in their course,</td>
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<td>Melodious hymns about the sovran Throne</td>
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<td>Alternate all night long. But not so waked</td>
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<td>Satan—so call him now; his former name</td>
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<td>Is heard no more in Heaven. He, of the first,</td>
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<td>If not the first Archangel, great in power,</td>
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<td>In favour, and preëminence, yet fraught</td>
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<td>With envy against the Son of God, that day</td>
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<td>Messiah, King Anointed, could not bear,</td>
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<td>Through pride, that sight, and thought himself impaired.</td>
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<td>Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,</td>
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<td>Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolved</td>
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<td>With all his legions to dislodge, and leave</td>
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<td>Unworshiped, unobeyed, the Throne supreme.</td>
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<td>Contemptuous, and, his next subordinate</td>
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<td>Awakening, thus to him in secret spake:—</td>
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<td> “‘Sleep’st thou, companion dear? what sleep can close</td>
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<td>Thy eyelids? and rememberest what decree,</td>
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<td>Of yesterday, so late hath passed the lips</td>
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<td>Of Heaven’s Almighty? Thou to me thy thoughts</td>
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<td>Wast wont, I mine to thee was wont, to impart;</td>
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<td>Both waking we were one; how, then, can now</td>
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<td>Thy sleep dissent? New laws thou seest imposed;</td>
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<td>New laws from him who reigns new minds may raise</td>
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<td>In us who serve—new counsels, to debate</td>
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<td>What doubtful may ensue. More in this place</td>
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<td>To utter is not safe. Assemble thou</td>
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<td>Of all those myriads which we lead the chief;</td>
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<td>Tell them that, by command, ere yet dim Night</td>
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<i> 685</i> </div>
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<td>Her shadowy cloud withdraws, I am to haste,</td>
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<td>And all who under me their banners wave,</td>
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<td>Homeward with flying march where we possess</td>
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<td>The Quarters of the North, there to prepare</td>
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<td>Fit entertainment to receive our King,</td>
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<td>The great Messiah, and his new commands,</td>
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<td>Who speedily through all the Hierarchies</td>
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<td>Intends to pass triumphant, and give laws.’</td>
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<td> “So spake the false Archangel, and infused</td>
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<td>Bad influence into the unwary breast</td>
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<td>Of his associate. He together calls,</td>
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<td>Or several one by one, the regent Powers,</td>
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<td>Under him regent; tells, as he was taught,</td>
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<td>That, the Most High commanding, now ere Night,</td>
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<td>Now ere dim Night had disincumbered Heaven,</td>
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<td>The great hierarchal standard was to move;</td>
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<td>Tells the suggested cause, and casts between</td>
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<td>Ambiguous words and jealousies, to sound</td>
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<td>Or taint integrity. But all obeyed</td>
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<td>The wonted signal, and superior voice</td>
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<td>Of their great Potentate; for great indeed</td>
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<td>His name, and high was his degree in Heaven:</td>
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<td>His countenance, as the morning-star that guides</td>
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<td>The starry flock allured them, and with lies</td>
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<td>Drew after him the third part of Heaven’s host.</td>
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<td>Meanwhile, the Eternal Eye, whose sight discerns</td>
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<td>Abstrusest thoughts, from forth his holy Mount,</td>
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<td>And from within the golden Lamps that burn</td>
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<td>Nightly before him, saw without their light</td>
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<td>Rebellion rising—saw in whom, how spread</td>
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<td>Among the Sons of Morn, what multitudes</td>
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<td>Were banded to oppose his high decree;</td>
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<td>And, smiling, to his only Son thus said:—</td>
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<td> “‘Son, thou in whom my glory I behold</td>
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<td>In full resplendence, Heir of all my might,</td>
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<td>We mean to hold what anciently we claim</td>
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<td>Of deity or empire: such a foe</td>
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<td>Is rising, who intends to erect his throne</td>
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<i> 725</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and trying to build an empire or kingdom that intends to be equal to ours.</td>
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<td>Equal to ours, throughout the spacious North;</td>
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<td>Nor so content, hath in his thought to try</td>
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<td>In battle what our power is or our right.</td>
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<td>Let us advise, and to this hazard draw</td>
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<td>With speed what force is left, and all imploy</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 730</i> </div>
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<td>In our defence, lest unawares we lose</td>
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<td>This our high place, our Sanctuary, our Hill.’</td>
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<td> “To whom the Son, with calm aspect and clear</td>
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<td>Lightening divine, ineffable, serene,</td>
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<td>Made answer:—’Mighty Father, thou thy foes</td>
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<i> 735</i> </div>
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<td>Justly hast in derision, and secure</td>
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<td>Laugh’st at their vain designs and tumults vain—</td>
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<td>Matter to me of glory, whom their hate</td>
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<td>Illustrates, when they see all regal power</td>
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<td>Given me to quell their pride, and in event</td>
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<i> 740</i> </div>
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<td>Know whether I be dextrous to subdue</td>
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<td>Thy rebels, or be found the worst in Heaven.’</td>
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<td> “So spake the Son; but Satan with his Powers</td>
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<td>Far was advanced on wingèd speed, an host</td>
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<td>Innumerable as the stars of night,</td>
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<i> 745</i> </div>
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<td>Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun</td>
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<td>Impearls on every leaf and every flower.</td>
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<td>Regions they passed, the mighty regencies</td>
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<td>Of Seraphim and Potentates and Thrones</td>
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<td>In their triple degrees—regions to which</td>
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<i> 750</i> </div>
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<td>All thy dominion, Adam, is no more</td>
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<td>Than what this garden is to all the earth</td>
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<td>And all the sea, from one entire globose</td>
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<td>Stretched into longitude; which having passed,</td>
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<td>At length into the limits of the North</td>
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<i> 755</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They reached the northernmost point in Heaven. </td>
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<td>They came, and Satan to his royal seat</td>
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<td>High on a hill, far-blazing, as a mount</td>
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<td>Raised on a mount, with pyramids and towers</td>
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<td>From diamond quarries hewn and rocks of gold—</td>
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<td>The palace of great Lucifer (so call</td>
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<td>That structure, in the dialect of men</td>
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<td>Interpreted) which, not long after, he,</td>
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<td>Affecting all equality with God,</td>
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<td align="left">He started to speak, emulating God above all </td>
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<td>In imitation of that mount whereon</td>
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<td>Messiah was declared in sight of Heaven,</td>
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<td>The Mountain of the Congregation called;</td>
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<td>For thither he assembled all his train,</td>
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<td>Pretending so commanded to consult</td>
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<td>About the great reception of their King</td>
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<td>Thither to come, and with calumnious art</td>
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<i> 770</i> </div>
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<td>Of counterfeited truth thus held their ears:—</td>
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<td> “‘Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers—</td>
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<td>If these magnific titles yet remain</td>
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<td>Not merely titular, since by decree</td>
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<td>Another now hath to himself ingrossed</td>
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<td>All power, and us eclipsed under the name</td>
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<td>Of King Anointed; for whom all this haste</td>
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<td>Of midnight march, and hurried meeting here,</td>
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<td>This only to consult, how we may best,</td>
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<td>With what may be devised of honours new,</td>
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<td>Receive him coming to receive from us</td>
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<td>Knee-tribute yet unpaid, prostration vile!</td>
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<td align="left">especially if he comes over here trying to expect all of us to kneel. </td>
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<td>Too much to one! but double how endured—</td>
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<td>To one and to his image now proclaimed?</td>
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<td>But what if better counsels might erect</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Aren't we all tired of this?</td>
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<td>Our minds, and teach us to cast off this yoke!</td>
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<td>Will ye submit your necks, and choose to bend</td>
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<td>The supple knee? Ye will not, if I trust</td>
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<td align="left">and kneel?</td>
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<td>To know ye right, or if ye know yourselves</td>
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<td>Natives and Sons of Heaven possessed before</td>
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<i> 790</i></div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They don't own you. </td>
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<td>By none, and, if not equal all, yet free,</td>
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<td align="left">Nobody owns you! You're free! And you've </td>
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<td>Equally free; for orders and degrees</td>
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<td align="left">always been free. You can do whatever you want. </td>
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<td>Jar not with liberty, but well consist.</td>
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<td>Who can in reason, then, or right, assume</td>
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<td>Monarchy over such as live by right</td>
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<i> 795</i></div>
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<td>His equals—if in power and splendour less,</td>
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<td>In freedom equal? or can introduce</td>
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<td>Law and edict on us, who without law</td>
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<td>Err not? much less for this to be our Lord,</td>
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<td>And look for adoration, to the abuse</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Most of all, who is this son of god and why does god expect us to worship and serve him? We are leaders, not servants.' </td>
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<td>Of those imperial titles which assert</td>
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<td>Our being ordained to govern, not to serve!</td>
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<td> “Thus far his bold discourse without control</td>
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<td>Had audience, when, among the Seraphim,</td>
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<td>Abdiel, than whom none with more zeal adored</td>
<td align="center" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">Abdiel the angel stood up,</td>
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<td>The Deity, and divine commands obeyed,</td>
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<td>Stood up, and in a flame of zeal severe</td>
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<td align="left">he was one of God's most faithful angels.</td>
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<td>The current of his fury thus opposed:—</td>
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<td align="left">He raised his voice and said </td>
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<td> “‘O argument blasphe’mous, false, and proud—</td>
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<td align="left">'LIES AND BLASPHEMY!</td>
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<td>Words which no ear ever to hear in Heaven</td>
<td align="center" width="89">810</td>
<td align="left">We don't talk like that </td>
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<td>Expected; least of all from thee, ingrate,</td>
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<td align="left">about God and his son here in Heaven.</td>
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<td>In place thyself so high above thy peers!</td>
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<td align="left">Especially coming from someone like you in such a highly respected position. </td>
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<td>Canst thou with impious obloquy condemn</td>
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<td>The just decree of God, pronounced and sworn,</td>
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<td>That to his only Son, by right endued</td>
<td align="center" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px;">
815</div>
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<td>With regal sceptre, every soul in Heaven</td>
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<td>Shall bend the knee, and in that honour due</td>
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<td>Confess him rightful King? Unjust, thou say’st,</td>
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<td>Flatly unjust, to bind with laws the free,</td>
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<td align="left">free angels and how we should just let everybody rule equally. </td>
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<td>And equal over equals to let reign,</td>
<td align="center" width="89">820</td>
<td align="left">If that were the case, are you going to tell God what to do?</td>
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<td>One over all with unsucceeded power!</td>
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<td>Shalt thou give law to God? shalt thou dispute</td>
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<td>With Him the points of liberty, who made</td>
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<td align="left">Are you going to teach him about liberty? He made you!</td>
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<td>Thee what Thou art, and formed the Powers of Heaven</td>
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<td align="left">He gave us all our powers, and our limits!</td>
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<td>Such as he pleased, and circumscribed their being?</td>
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<td>Yet, by experience taught, we know how good,</td>
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<td align="left">In our collective experience, we know how </td>
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<td>And of our good and of our dignity</td>
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<td align="left">god God is. </td>
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<td>How provident, he is—how far from thought</td>
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<td align="left">He knows what's best for us. </td>
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<td>To make us less; bent rather to exalt</td>
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<td align="left">He is not trying to make us less, </td>
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<td>Our happy state, under one Head more near</td>
<td align="center" width="89">830</td>
<td align="left">he just wants to make us happier and </td>
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<td>United. But—to grant it thee unjust</td>
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<td align="left">more united. </td>
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<td>That equal over equals monarch reign—</td>
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<td>Thyself, though great and glorious, dost thou count,</td>
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<td align="left">You are right that it wouldn't be fair for equals</td>
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<td>Or all angelic nature joined in one,</td>
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<td align="left">to act as a king over his equals. </td>
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<td>Equal to him, begotten Son, by whom,</td>
<td align="center" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px;">
835</div>
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<td align="left">But do you yourself truly see yourself as equal to the son of god?</td>
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<td>As by his Word, the mighty Father made</td>
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<td>All things, even thee, and all the Spirits of Heaven</td>
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<td>By him created in their bright degrees,</td>
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<td align="left">God created all things through his son.</td>
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<td>Crowned them with glory, and to their glory named</td>
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<td align="left">Even YOU. </td>
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<td>Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers?—</td>
<td align="center" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Essential Powers; nor by his reign obscured,</td>
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<td>But more illustrious made; since he, the head,</td>
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<td align="left">God placing his son as the head of all of us</td>
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<td>One of our number thus reduced becomes;</td>
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<td align="left">doesn't make us any less than what we are.</td>
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<td>His laws our laws; all honour to him done</td>
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<td align="left">It makes him one of us, his laws become our laws,</td>
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<td>Returns our own. Cease, then, this impious rage,</td>
<td align="center" width="89">845</td>
<td align="left">and we all share in the same glory. So take your angry words back before it is too late.'</td>
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<td>And tempt not these; but hasten to appease</td>
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<td>The incensèd Father and the incensed Son</td>
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<td>While pardon may be found, in time besought.’</td>
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<td> “So spake the fervent Angel; but his zeal</td>
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<td align="left">The angel Abdiel spoke all this and made his case,</td>
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<td>None seconded, as out of season judged,</td>
<td align="center" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px;">
850</div>
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<td align="left">but Satan was pleased that no one else</td>
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<td>Or singular and rash. Whereat rejoiced</td>
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<td align="left">stood up and showed Abdiel any support. </td>
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<td>The Apostat, and, more haughty, thus replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">Satan replied</td>
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<td> “‘That we were formed, then, say’st thou? and the work</td>
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<td>Of secondary hands, by task transferred</td>
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<td>From Father to his Son? Strange point and new!</td>
<td align="center" width="89">855</td>
<td align="left">'Interesting points, but it is news to me that we were created by the son of God. </td>
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<td>Doctrine which we would know whence learned! Who saw</td>
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<td>When this creation was? Remember’st thou</td>
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<td align="left">Where exactly did you hear that? Do you even remember being made? </td>
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<td>Thy making, while the Maker gave thee being?</td>
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<td align="left">None of us do. We remember always being here in Heaven. </td>
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<td>We know no time when we were not as now;</td>
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<td>Know none before us, self-begot, self-raised</td>
<td align="center" width="89">860</td>
<td align="left">We are part of Heaven, self-begot, self-raised, self-taught.</td>
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<td>By our own quickening power when fatal course</td>
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<td align="left">And we make our own power and choices. </td>
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<td>Had circled his full orb, the birth mature</td>
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<td>Of this our native Heaven, Ethereal Sons.</td>
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<td>Our puissance is our own; our own right hand</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Shall teach us highest deeds, by proof to try</td>
<td align="center" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px;">
865</div>
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<td align="left">God and his son will soon find out</td>
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<td>Who is our equal. Then thou shalt behold</td>
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<td align="left">who is really equal. </td>
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<td>Whether by supplication we intend</td>
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<td>Address, and to begirt the Almighty Throne</td>
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<td>Beseeching or besieging. This report,</td>
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<td align="left">Take that message back to your new king. And GTFO of here while you still can.' </td>
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<td>These tidings, carry to the Anointed King;</td>
<td align="center" width="89">870</td>
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<td>And fly, ere evil intercept thy flight.’</td>
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<td> “He said; and, as the sound of waters deep,</td>
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<td>Hoarse murmur echoed to his words applause</td>
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<td align="left">The horde of angels murmured in agreement and applause, </td>
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<td>Through the infinite Host. Nor less for that</td>
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<td>The flaming Seraph, fearless, though alone,</td>
<td align="center" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px;">
875</div>
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<td align="left">but Abdiel was not afraid at all. </td>
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<td>Encompassed round with foes, thus answered bold:—</td>
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<td align="left">Abdiel replied, </td>
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<td> “‘O alienate from God, O Spirit accursed,</td>
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<td align="left">"You're all accursed. </td>
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<td>Forsaken of all good! I see thy fall</td>
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<td>Determined, and thy hapless crew involved</td>
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<td align="left">You're spreading your negativity and fraud like a disease</td>
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<td>In this perfidious fraud, contagion spread</td>
<td align="center" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px;">
880</div>
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<td>Both of thy crime and punishment. Henceforth</td>
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<td>No more be troubled how to quit the yoke</td>
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<td>Of God’s Messiah. Those indulgent laws</td>
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<td align="left">Don't worry about the son of god's gentle laws then, </td>
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<td>Will not be now voutsafed; other decrees</td>
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<td align="left">they're obviously not for you. </td>
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<td>Against thee are gone forth without recall;</td>
<td align="center" width="89">885</td>
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<td>That golden sceptre which thou didst reject</td>
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<td>Is now an iron rod to bruise and break</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Thy disobedience. Well thou didst advise;</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>Yet not for thy advice or threats I fly</td>
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<td align="left">I'm going to leave now, but not because of your empty threats.</td>
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<td>These wicked tents devoted, lest the wrauth</td>
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890</div>
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<td>Impendent, raging into sudden flame,</td>
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<td align="left">I just don't want to be here when God sets it all on fire with all of you in it.</td>
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<td>Distinguish not: for soon expect to feel</td>
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<td>His thunder on thy head, devouring fire.</td>
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<td>Then who can created thee lamenting learn</td>
<td align="center" width="89"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">He created you, and he can easily uncreate you too. Just wait and see.'</td>
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<td>When who can uncreate thee thou shalt know.’</td>
<td align="center" width="89">895</td>
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<td> “So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found;</td>
<td align="center" width="89"></td>
<td align="left">Abdiel was the only faithful angel out of all of them. </td>
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<td>Among the faithless faithful only he;</td>
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<td>Among innumerable false unmoved,</td>
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<td>Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,</td>
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<td>His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal;</td>
<td align="center" width="89">900</td>
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<td>Nor number nor example with him wrought</td>
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<td>To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind,</td>
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<td>Though single. From amidst them forth he passed,</td>
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<td align="left">Abdiel walked away, as all of their scornful and hateful faces watched him. </td>
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<td>Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained</td>
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<td>Superior, nor of violence feared aught;</td>
<td align="center" width="89">905</td>
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<td>And with retorted scorn his back he turned</td>
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<td align="left">Abdiel gave them dirty looks too and then moved on. He turned his back on a doomed Satan. </td>
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<td>On those proud towers, to swift destruction doomed.”</td>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-6926286438856658372020-11-04T11:33:00.001-08:002020-11-04T11:33:51.613-08:00Book 4: Satan breaks into Paradise, but gets caught<div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">HE</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">RGUMENT.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">—Satan,
now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the
bold enterprise which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into
many doubts with himself, and many passions—fear, envy, and despair; but at
length confirms himself in evil; journeys on to Paradise, whose outward
prospect and situation is described; overleaps the bounds; sits, in the
shape of a Cormorant, on the Tree of Life, as highest in the Garden, to look
about him. The Garden described; Satan’s first sight of Adam and Eve; his
wonder at their excellent form and happy state, but with resolution to work
their fall; overhears their discourse; thence gathers that the Tree of
Knowledge was forbidden them to eat of under penalty of death, and thereon
intends to found his temptation by seducing them to transgress; then leaves
them a while, to know further of their state by some other means. Meanwhile
Uriel, descending on a sunbeam, warns Gabriel, who had in charge the gate of
Paradise, that some evil Spirit had escaped the Deep, and passed at noon by
his Sphere, in the shape of a good Angel, down to Paradise, discovered after
by his furious gestures in the Mount. Gabriel promises to find him ere
morning. Night coming on, Adam and Eve discourse of going to their rest;
their bower described; their evening worship. Gabriel, drawing forth his
bands of night—watch to walk the rounds of Paradise, appoints two strong
Angels to Adam’s bower, lest the evil Spirit should be there doing some harm
to Adam or Eve sleeping: there they find him at the ear of Eve, tempting her
in a dream, and bring him, though unwilling, to Gabriel; by whom questioned,
he scornfully answers; prepares resistance; but, hindered by a sign from
Heaven, flies out of Paradise.</span></div>
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<b>tl;dr </b></span><b>Satan makes his way to Eden, finds Adam and Eve—but he gets caught by some Angels. They almost get into a fight until God shows Satan how badly he would lose by using a sign!</b></div>
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<td>O<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>FOR<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that
warning voice, which he who saw</td>
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<td>I just wish there was some kind of warning for Adam and Eve!</td>
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<td>The Apocalypse heard cry in Heaven aloud,</td>
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<td>Then when the Dragon, put to second rout,</td>
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<td><i>Woe to the inhabitants on Earth!</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that
now,</td>
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<td>While time was, our first parents had been warned</td>
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<td>The coming of their secret Foe, and scaped,</td>
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<td align="left">If only they knew the type of evil</td>
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<td>Haply so scaped, his mortal snare! For now</td>
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<td>Satan, now first inflamed with rage, came down,</td>
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<td align="left">Satan, filled with revenge.</td>
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<td>The tempter, ere the accuser, of mankind,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">A rude thing. That blames everything on mankind.</td>
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<td>To wreak on innocent frail Man his loss</td>
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<td align="left">He blames mankind for his loss.</td>
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<td>Of that first battle, and his flight to Hell.</td>
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<td align="left">He blames mankind for his fall to Hell.</td>
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<td>Yet not rejoicing in his speed, though bold</td>
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<td align="left">But, in a way, Satan was feeling less confident</td>
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<td>Far off and fearless, nor with cause to boast,</td>
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<td align="left">in his abilities now than he was when he began this mission.</td>
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<td>Begins his dire attempt; which, nigh the birth</td>
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<td>Now rowling, boils in his tumultuous breast,</td>
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<td>And like a devilish engine back recoils</td>
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<td>Upon himself. Horror and doubt distract</td>
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<td align="left">Could it be? That even the master of deceit is now</td>
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<td>His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir</td>
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<td>The hell within him; for within him Hell</td>
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<td>He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell</td>
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<td>One step, no more than from Himself, can fly</td>
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<td align="left">You can take Satan out of Hell, but not the Hell</td>
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<td>By change of place. Now conscience wakes despair</td>
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<td>That slumbered; wakes the bitter memory</td>
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<td>Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!</td>
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<td align="left">Everything he used to be and everything that he is now is so overwhelming. Stressful AF.</td>
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<td>Sometimes towards Eden, which now in his view</td>
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<td align="left">However, Eden was within sight.</td>
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<td>Lay pleasant, his grieved look he fixes sad;</td>
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<td align="left">He gave it a good look, </td>
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<td>Sometimes towards Heaven and the full-blazing Sun,</td>
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<td align="left">and realized its beauty. He glanced toward the Sun, on its</td>
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<td>Which now sat high in his meridian tower:</td>
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<td>Then, much revolving, thus in sighs began:—</td>
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<td align="left">and he said to it:</td>
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<td> “O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned,</td>
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<td>Look’st from thy sole dominion like the god</td>
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<td>Of this new World—at whose sight all the stars</td>
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<td>Hide their diminished heads—to thee I call,</td>
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<td>But with no friendly voice, and add thy name,</td>
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<td align="left">But I don't care much for that, I hate you Sun. </td>
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<td>O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams,</td>
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<td>That bring to my remembrance from what state</td>
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<td align="left">It reminds me of how glorious I used to be.</td>
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<td>I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere,</td>
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<td>Till pride and worse ambition threw me down,</td>
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<td>Warring in Heaven against Heaven’s matchless King!</td>
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<td align="left">My pride and ambition made me go against God.</td>
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<td>Ah, wherefore? He deserved no such return</td>
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<td align="left">But WHY?! God didn't deserve that treatment.</td>
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<td>From me, whom he created what I was</td>
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<td>In that bright eminence, and with his good</td>
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<td align="left">He was kind to me.</td>
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<td>Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.</td>
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<td>What could be less than to afford him praise,</td>
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<td align="left">What was so hard about giving him praise</td>
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<td>The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks,</td>
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<td align="left">and thanks? He obviously deserved that much for everything he's done for us</td>
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<td>How due? Yet all his good proved ill in me,</td>
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<td align="left">But apparently, all of his goodness made me evil.</td>
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<td>And wrought but malice. Lifted up so high,</td>
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<td align="left">I had a high position in Heaven,</td>
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<td>I ’sdained subjection, and thought one step higher</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">but I wanted to be higher. </td>
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<td>Would set me highest, and in a moment quit</td>
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<td align="left">The highest.</td>
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<td>The debt immense of endless gratitude,</td>
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<td align="left">I was sick of always saying thank you,</td>
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<td>So burthensome, still paying, still to owe;</td>
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<td align="left">I'm a mess.</td>
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<td>Forgetful what from him I still received;</td>
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<td align="left">I've forgotten everything he's done for me.</td>
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<td>And understood not that a grateful mind</td>
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<i> 55</i> </div>
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<td>By owing owes not, but still pays, at once</td>
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<td>Indebted and discharged—what burden then?</td>
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<td>Oh, had his powerful destiny ordained</td>
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<td align="left">Maybe it would have been better if it was my destiny</td>
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<td>Me some inferior Angel, I had stood</td>
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<td align="left">to be made into a lesser Angel. </td>
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<td>Then happy; no unbounded hope had raised</td>
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<i> 60</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Then I wouldn't be so </td>
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<td>Ambition. Yet why not? Some other Power</td>
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<td align="left">ambitious. But then again, that doesn't stop some other Angel or power</td>
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<td>As great might have aspired, and me, though mean,</td>
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<td align="left">to do exactly what I've done. </td>
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<td>Drawn to his part. But other Powers as great</td>
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<td align="left">Hmmm, there were also other Angels that were as great</td>
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<td>Fell not, but stand unshaken, from within</td>
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<td align="left">as me. But they never rebelled? </td>
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<td>Or from without to all temptations armed!</td>
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<i> 65</i> </div>
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<td>Hadst thou the same free will and power to stand?</td>
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<td align="left">We all had the same free will.</td>
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<td>Thou hadst. Whom has thou then, or what, to accuse,</td>
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<td align="left">So what do I have to blame for my fall?</td>
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<td>But Heaven’s free love dealt equally to all?</td>
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<td align="left">Heaven's love is given equally to everyone!</td>
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<td>Be then his love accursed, since, love or hate,</td>
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<td align="left">It doesn't matter if he loves me or hates me.</td>
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<td>To me alike it deals eternal woe.</td>
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<i> 70</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">In the end, it even doesn't matter. Word to Linkin Park, this is where I end up.</td>
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<td>Nay, cursed be thou; since against his thy will</td>
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<td>Chose freely what it now so justly rues.</td>
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<td align="left">I'm damned. And it's justice. </td>
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<td>Me miserable! which way shall I fly</td>
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<td align="left">I kinda regret this. </td>
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<td>Infinite wrauth and infinite despair?</td>
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<td align="left">I feel like whatever I do now, it's infinite Hell and despair.</td>
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<td>Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;</td>
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<i> 75</i> </div>
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<td>And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep</td>
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<td align="left">Yet still, I'm sure an ever worse Hell awaits me.</td>
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<td>Still threatening to devour me opens wide,</td>
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<td align="left">Still waiting for me.</td>
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<td>To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.</td>
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<td align="left">A worse Hell, so bad that, what I have now seems like Heaven.</td>
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<td>O, then, at last relent! Is there no place</td>
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<td align="left">What can I do?</td>
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<td>Left for repentence, none for pardon left?</td>
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<i> 80</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">There's nowhere for me to go. I can always beg for forgiveness.</td>
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<td>None left but by submission; and that word</td>
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<td align="left">But the very thought of that makes</td>
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<td>Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame</td>
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<td align="left">me sick!</td>
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<td>Among the Spirits beneath, whom I seduced</td>
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<td align="left">Everyone that I've convinced to follow me</td>
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<td>With other promises and other vaunts</td>
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<td align="left">and everything that I've promised </td>
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<td>Than to submit, boasting I could subdue</td>
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<i> 85</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and all my boasts in saying</td>
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<td>The Omnipotent. Aye me! they little know</td>
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<td align="left">that I could overthrow God...</td>
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<td>How dearly I abide that boast so vain,</td>
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<td align="left">I'd feel so ashamed.</td>
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<td>Under what torments inwardly I groan.</td>
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<td>While they adore me on the throne of Hell,</td>
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<td>With diadem and sceptre high advanced,</td>
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<i> 90</i> </div>
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<td>The lower still I fall, only supreme</td>
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<td>In misery: such joy ambition finds!</td>
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<td>But say I could repent, and could obtain,</td>
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<td align="left">Even if I could be forgiven</td>
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<td>By act of grace, my former state; how soon</td>
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<td align="left">how long could I keep </td>
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<td>Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay</td>
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<i> 95</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">that up? </td>
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<td>What feigned submission swore! Ease would recant</td>
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<td>Vows made in pain, as violent and void</td>
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<td>(For never can true reconcilement grow</td>
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<td align="left">Things have gone too far.</td>
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<td>Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep)</td>
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<td align="left">There's so much hate to be undone.</td>
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<td>Which would but lead me to a worse relapse</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 100</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">I would totally relapse into something worse.</td>
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<td>And heavier fall: so should I purchase dear</td>
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<td align="left">And fall even harder, so anything</td>
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<td>Short intermission, bought with double smart.</td>
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<td align="left">that would happen if I was forgiven, would be short-lived.</td>
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<td>This knows my Punisher; therefore as far</td>
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<td align="left">God knows this. </td>
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<td>From granting he, as I from begging, peace.</td>
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<td align="left">Even if I begged for forgiveness, he probably wouldn't</td>
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<td>All hope excluded thus, behold, instead</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 105</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">He's given up hope,</td>
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<td>Of us, outcast, exiled, his new delight,</td>
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<td align="left">So that's why</td>
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<td>Mankind, created, and for him this World!</td>
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<td align="left">he created Mankind. This new world.</td>
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<td>So farewell hope, and, with hope, farewell fear,</td>
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<td align="left"><br /></td>
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<td>Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost;</td>
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<td align="left">Everything good is lost to me.</td>
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<td>Evil, be thou my Good: by thee at least</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 110</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">Evil will become my good.</td>
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<td>Divided empire with Heaven’s King I hold,</td>
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<td align="left">There is now a divide. Let God rule good.</td>
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<td>By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign;</td>
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<td align="left">And I will rule Evil. Maybe my half will be bigger.</td>
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<td>As Man ere long, and this new World, shall know.”</td>
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<td align="left">Mankind will know soon enough."</td>
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<td> Thus while he spake, each passion dimmed his face,</td>
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<td align="left">Satan spoke passionately, so much that it showed on his face.</td>
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<td>Thrice changed with pale—ire, envy, and despair;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 115</i> </div>
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<td>Which marred his borrowed visage, and betrayed</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">It was beginning to compromise his disguise of a Cherub.</td>
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<td>Him counterfeit, if any eye beheld:</td>
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<td align="left">And if anyone were to see him now, they'd now</td>
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<td>For Heavenly minds from such distempers foul</td>
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<td align="left">That this isn't ordinary Cherub behavior.</td>
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<td>Are ever clear. Whereof he soon aware</td>
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<td align="left">Satan realized this and changed his expression.</td>
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<td>Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 120</i> </div>
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<td>Artificer of fraud; and was the first</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">He was the first one</td>
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<td>That practised falsehood under saintly shew,</td>
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<td align="left">to ever pretend to be pure, while hiding</td>
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<tr>
<td>Deep malice to conceal, couched with revenge:</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">his evil intent.</td>
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<td>Yet not enough had practised to deceive</td>
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<td align="left">But he didn't have enough practice in being sneaky.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Uriel, once warned; whose eye pursued him down</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 125</i> </div>
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<td align="left" valign="TOP">The Archangel Uriel, had been watching him the whole time.</td>
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<td>The way he went, and on the Assyrian mount</td>
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<td>Saw him disfigured, more than could befall</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Spirit of happy sort: his gestures fierce</td>
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<td>He marked and mad demeanour, then alone,</td>
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<td>As he supposed, all unobserved, unseen.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 130</i> </div>
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<td> So on he fares, and to the border comes</td>
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<td align="left">Satan continued on his mission and approached the border of Paradise.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green,</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">Paradise was there,</td>
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<tr>
<td>As with a rural mound, the champain head</td>
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<td align="left">on top of a steep hill.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Of a steep wilderness whose hairy sides</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 135</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">On all of its sides was</td>
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<tr>
<td>With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild.</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">thick, wild plants.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Access denied; and overhead up-grew</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">It was overgrowth that prevented anyone from going through it.</td>
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<td>Insuperable highth of loftiest shade,</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">There was a lot of shade</td>
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<tr>
<td>Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,</td>
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<td align="left">from tall trees.</td>
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<tr>
<td>A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 140</i> </div>
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<td>Shade above shade, a woody theatre</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">Above the trees was </td>
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<tr>
<td>The verdurous wall of Paradise up-sprung;</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a vine covered wall that enclosed Eden</td>
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<tr>
<td>Which to our general Sire gave prospect large</td>
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<td>Into his nether empire neighbouring round.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 145</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<tr>
<td>And higher than that wall a circling row</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Higher than that, was a circle of </td>
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<tr>
<td>Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit,</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">trees bearing fruit</td>
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<tr>
<td>Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue,</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and colorful blossoms.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Appeared, with gay enamelled colours mixed;</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>On which the sun more glad impressed his beams</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 150</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The sight of it was beautiful, more </td>
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<tr>
<td>Than in fair evening cloud, or humid bow,</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">beautiful than even a rainbow.</td>
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<tr>
<td>When God hath showered the earth; so lovely seemed</td>
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<tr>
<td>That lantskip. And of pure now purer air</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The air was so pure, and so clean</td>
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<tr>
<td>Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires</td>
<td width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left">That it could inspire and cheer </td>
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<tr>
<td>Vernal delight and joy, able to drive</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 155</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">anyone up. </td>
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<td>All sadness but despair. Now gentle gales,</td>
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<td>Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense</td>
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<td>Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole</td>
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<td>Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail</td>
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<td>Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past</td>
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<td>Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow</td>
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<td>Sabean odours from the spicy shore</td>
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<td>Of Araby the Blest, with such delay</td>
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<td>Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league</td>
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<td>Cheered with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles;</td>
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<td>So entertained those odorous sweets the Fiend</td>
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<td>Who came their bane, though with them better pleased</td>
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<td>Than Asmodeus with the fishy fume</td>
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<td>That drove him, though enamoured, from the spouse</td>
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<td>Of Tobit’s son, and with a vengeance sent</td>
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<td>From Media post to Ægypt, there fast bound.</td>
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<td> Now to the ascent of that steep savage hill</td>
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<td>Satan had journeyed on, pensive and slow;</td>
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<td>But further way found none; so thick entwined,</td>
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<td>As one continued brake, the undergrowth</td>
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<td>Of shrubs and tangling bushes had perplexed</td>
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<td>All path of man or beast that passed that way.</td>
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<td>One gate there only was, and that looked east</td>
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<td>On the other side. Which when the Arch-Felon saw,</td>
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<td>Due entrance he disdained, and, in contempt,</td>
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<td>At one slight bound high overleaped all bound</td>
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<td>Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within</td>
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<td>Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf,</td>
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<td>Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey,</td>
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<td>Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve,</td>
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<td>In hurdled cotes amid the field secure,</td>
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<td>Leaps o’er the fence with ease into the fold;</td>
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<td>Or as a thief, bent to unhoard the cash</td>
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<td>Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors,</td>
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<td>Cross-barred and bolted fast, fear no assault,</td>
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<td>In at the window climbs, or o’er the tiles;</td>
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<td>So climb this first grand Thief into God’s fold:</td>
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<td>So since into his Church lewd hirelings climb.</td>
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<td>Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life,</td>
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<td>The middle tree and highest there that grew,</td>
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<td>Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true life</td>
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<td>Thereby regained, but sat devising death</td>
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<td>To them who lived; nor on the virtue thought</td>
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<td>Of that life-giving plant, but only used</td>
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<td>For prospect what, well used, had been the pledge</td>
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<td>Of immortality. So little knows</td>
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<td>Any, but God alone, to value right</td>
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<td>The good before him, but perverts best things</td>
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<td>To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.</td>
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<td>Beneath him, with new wonder, now he views,</td>
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<td>To all delight of human sense exposed,</td>
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<td>In narrow room Nature’s whole wealth; yea, more—</td>
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<td>A Heaven on Earth: for blissful Paradise</td>
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<td>Of God the garden was, by him in the east</td>
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<td>Of Eden planted. Eden stretched her line</td>
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<td>From Auran eastward to the royal towers</td>
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<td>Of great Seleucia, built by Grecian kings,</td>
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<td>Or where the sons of Eden long before</td>
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<td>Dwelt in Telassar. In this pleasant soil</td>
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<td>His far more pleasant garden God ordained.</td>
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<td>Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow</td>
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<td>All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste;</td>
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<td>And all amid them stood the Tree of Life,</td>
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<td align="left">And in the middle of it all was the Tree of Life.</td>
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<td>High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit</td>
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<td>Of vegetable gold; and next to life,</td>
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<i> 220</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It's fruit was gold-colored. And next to it</td>
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<td>Our death, the Tree of Knowledge, grew fast by—</td>
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<td>Knowledge of good, bought dear by knowing ill.</td>
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<td>Southward through Eden went a river large,</td>
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<td>Nor changed his course, but through the shaggy hill</td>
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<td>Passed underneath ingulfed; for God had thrown</td>
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<i> 225</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It went underground and came out the other side.</td>
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<td>That mountain, as his garden-mould, high raised</td>
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<td>Upon the rapid current, which, through veins</td>
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<td>Of porous earth with kindly thirst updrawn,</td>
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<td>Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill</td>
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<td>Watered the garden; thence united fell</td>
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<i> 230</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It would provide nourishment for the garden</td>
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<td>Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood,</td>
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<td>Which from his darksome passage now appears,</td>
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<td>And now, divided into four main streams,</td>
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<td>Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm</td>
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<td>And country whereof here needs no account;</td>
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<i> 235</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and continue on to other countries.</td>
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<td>But rather to tell how, if Art could tell</td>
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<td>How, from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks,</td>
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<td>Rowling on orient pearl and sands of gold,</td>
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<td>With mazy error under pendant shades</td>
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<td>Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed</td>
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<i> 240</i> </div>
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<td>Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art</td>
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<td>In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon</td>
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<td>Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain,</td>
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<td>Both where the morning sun first warmly smote</td>
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<td>The open field, and where the unpierced shade</td>
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<i> 245</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And they would grow wild everywhere, even in the shade.</td>
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<td>Imbrowned the noontide bowers. Thus was this place,</td>
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<td>A happy rural seat of various view:</td>
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<td>Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm,</td>
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<td>Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind,</td>
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<td>Hung amiable—Hesperian fables true,</td>
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<i> 250</i> </div>
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<td>If true, here only—and of delicious taste.</td>
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<td>Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks</td>
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<td>Grazing the tender herb, were interposed,</td>
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<td>Or palmy hillock; or the flowery lap</td>
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<td>Of some irriguous valley spread her store,</td>
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<i> 255</i> </div>
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<td>Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.</td>
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<td>Another side, umbrageous grots and caves</td>
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<td>Of cool recess, o’er which the mantling vine</td>
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<td>Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps</td>
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<td>Luxuriant; meanwhile murmuring waters fall</td>
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<i> 260</i> </div>
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<td>Down the slope hills dispersed, or in a lake,</td>
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<td>That to the fringèd bank with myrtle crowned</td>
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<td>Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.</td>
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<td>The birds their quire apply; airs, vernal airs,</td>
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<td>Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune</td>
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<td>The trembling leaves, while universal Pan,</td>
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<td>Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance,</td>
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<td>Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field</td>
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<td>Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowers,</td>
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<td>Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis</td>
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<td>Was gathered—which cost Ceres all that pain</td>
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<td>To seek her through the world—nor that sweet grove</td>
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<td>Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired</td>
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<td>Castalian spring, might with this Paradise</td>
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<td>Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle,</td>
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<td>Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham,</td>
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<td>Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove,</td>
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<td>Hid Amalthea, and her florid son,</td>
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<td>Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea’s eye;</td>
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<td>Nor, where Abassin kings their issue guard,</td>
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<td>Mount Amara (though this by some supposed</td>
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<td>True Paradise) under the Ethiop line</td>
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<td>By Nilus’ head, enclosed with shining rock,</td>
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<td>A whole day’s journey high, but wide remote</td>
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<td>From this Assyrian garden, where the Fiend</td>
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<td>Saw undelighted all delight, all kind</td>
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<td>Of living creatures, new to sight and strange.</td>
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<td>Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall,</td>
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<td>God—like erect, with native honour clad</td>
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<td>In naked majesty, seemed lords of all,</td>
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<td>And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine</td>
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<td>The image of their glorious Maker shon,</td>
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<td>Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure—</td>
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<td>Severe, but in true filial freedom placed,</td>
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<td>Whence true authority in men: though both</td>
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<td>Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed;</td>
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<td>For contemplation he and valour formed,</td>
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<td>For softness she and sweet attractive grace;</td>
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<td>He for God only, she for God in him.</td>
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<td>His fair large front and eye sublime declared</td>
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<td>Absolute rule; and Hyacinthin locks</td>
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<td>Round from his parted forelock manly hung</td>
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<td>Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:</td>
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<td>She, as a veil down to the slender waist,</td>
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<td>Her unadornèd golden tresses wore</td>
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<td>Dishevelled, but in wanton ringlets waved</td>
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<td>As the vine curls her tendrils—which implied</td>
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<td>Subjection, but required with gentle sway,</td>
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<td>And by her yielded, by him best received—</td>
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<td>Yielded, with coy submission, modest pride,</td>
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<td>And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.</td>
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<td>Nor those mysterious parts were then concealed:</td>
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<td>Then was not guilty shame. Dishonest shame</td>
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<td>Of Nature’s works, honour dishonourable,</td>
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<td>Sin-bred, how have ye troubled all mankind</td>
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<td>With shews instead, mere shews of seeming pure</td>
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<td>And banished from man’s life his happiest life,</td>
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<td>Simplicity and spotless innocence!</td>
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<td>So passed they naked on, nor shunned the sight</td>
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<td>Of God or Angel; for they thought no ill:</td>
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<td>So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair</td>
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<td>That ever since in love’s embraces met—</td>
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<td>Adam the goodliest man of men since born</td>
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<td>His sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.</td>
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<td>Under a tuft of shade that on a green</td>
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<td>Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain—side.</td>
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<td>They sat them down; and, after no more toil</td>
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<td>Of their sweet gardening labour than sufficed</td>
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<td>To recommend cool Zephyr, and make ease</td>
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<td>More easy, wholesome thirst and appetite</td>
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<td>More grateful, to their supper-fruits they fell—</td>
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<td>Nectarine fruits, which the complaint boughs</td>
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<td>Yielded them, sidelong as they sat recline</td>
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<td>On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers.</td>
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<td>The savoury pulp they chew, and in the rind,</td>
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<td>Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream</td>
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<td>Nor gentle purpose, nor endearing smiles</td>
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<td>Wanted, nor youthful dalliance, as beseems</td>
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<td>Fair couple linked in happy nuptial league,</td>
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<td>Alone as they. About them frisking played</td>
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<td>All beasts of the earth, since wild, and of all chase</td>
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<td>In wood or wilderness, forest or den.</td>
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<td>Sporting the lion ramped, and in his paw</td>
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<td>Dandled the kid; bears, tigers, ounces, pards,</td>
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<td>Gambolled before them; the unwieldy elephant,</td>
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<td>To make them mirth, used all his might, and wreathed</td>
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<td>His lithe proboscis; close the serpent sly,</td>
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<td>Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine</td>
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<td>His breaded train, and of his fatal guile</td>
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<td>Gave proof unheeded. Others on the grass</td>
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<td>Couched, and, now filled with pasture, gazing sat,</td>
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<td>Or bedward ruminating; for the sun,</td>
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<td>Declined, was hastening now with prone career</td>
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<td>To the Ocean Isles, and in the ascending scale</td>
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<td>Of Heaven the stars that usher evening rose:</td>
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<td>When Satan, still in gaze as first he stood,</td>
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<td>Scarce thus at length failed speech recovered sad:—</td>
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<td> “O Hell! what do mine eyes with grief behold?</td>
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<td align="left">"TF is this?!</td>
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<td>Into our room of bliss thus high advanced</td>
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<td>Creatures of other mould—Earth-born perhaps,</td>
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<td>Not Spirits, yet to Heavenly Spirits bright</td>
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<td>Little inferior—whom my thoughts pursue</td>
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<td>With wonder, and could love; so lively shines</td>
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<td>In them divine resemblance, and such grace</td>
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<td>The hand that formed them on their shape hath poured.</td>
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<td>Ah! gentle pair, ye little think how nigh</td>
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<td>Your change approaches, when all these delights</td>
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<td>Will vanish, and deliver ye to woe—</td>
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<td>More woe, the more your taste is now of joy:</td>
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<td>Happy, but for so happy ill secured</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You may seem happy here in your secure little garden,</td>
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<td>Long to continue, and this high seat, your Heaven,</td>
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<td>Ill fenced for Heaven to keep out such a foe</td>
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<td>As now is entered; yet no purposed foe</td>
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<td>To you, whom I could pity thus forlorn,</td>
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<td>Though I unpitied. League with you I seek,</td>
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<td>And mutual amity, so strait, so close,</td>
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<td>That I with you must dwell, or you with me,</td>
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<td>Henceforth. My dwelling, haply, may not please,</td>
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<td>Like this fair Paradise, your sense; yet such</td>
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<td>Accept your Marker’s work; he gave it me,</td>
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<td>Which I as freely give. Hell shall unfold,</td>
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<td>To entertain you two, her widest gates,</td>
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<td>And send forth all her kings; there will be room,</td>
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<td>Not like these narrow limits, to receive</td>
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<td>Your numerous offspring; if no better place,</td>
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<td>Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge</td>
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<td>On you, who wrong me not, for him who wronged.</td>
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<td>And, should I at your harmless innocence</td>
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<td>Melt, as I do, yet public reason just—</td>
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<td>Honour and empire with revenge enlarged</td>
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<td>By conquering this new World—compels me now</td>
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<td>To do what else, though damned, I should abhor.”</td>
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<td> So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,</td>
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<td>The tyrant’s plea, excused his devilish deeds.</td>
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<td>Then from his lofty stand on that high tree</td>
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<td>Down he alights among the sportful herd</td>
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<td>Of those four-footed kinds, himself now one,</td>
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<td>Now other, as their shape served best his end</td>
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<td>Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied,</td>
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<td>To mark what of their state he more might learn</td>
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<td>By word or action marked. About them round</td>
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<td>A lion now he stalks with fiery glare;</td>
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<td>Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied</td>
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<td>In some pourlieu two gentle fawns at play,</td>
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<td>Straight crouches close; then rising, changes oft</td>
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<td>His couchant watch, as one who chose his ground,</td>
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<td>Whence rushing he might surest seize them both</td>
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<td>Griped in each paw: when Adam, first of men.</td>
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<td>To first of women, Eve, thus moving speech,</td>
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<td>Turned him all ear to hear new utterance flow:—</td>
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<td> “Sole partner and sole part of all these joys,</td>
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<td>Dearer thyself than all, needs must the Power</td>
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<td>That made us, and for us this ample World,</td>
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<td>Be infinitely good, and of his good</td>
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<td>As liberal and free as infinite;</td>
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<td>That raised us from the dust, and placed us here</td>
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<td>In all this happiness, who at this hand</td>
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<td>Have nothing merited, nor can perform</td>
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<td>Aught whereof he hath need; he who requires</td>
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<td>From us no other service than to keep</td>
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<td>This one, this easy charge—of all the trees</td>
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<td>In Paradise that bear delicious fruit</td>
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<td>So various, not to taste that only Tree</td>
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<td>Of Knowledge, planted by the Tree of Life;</td>
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<td>So near grows Death to Life, whate’er Death is—</td>
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<td>Some dreadful thing no doubt; for well thou know’st</td>
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<td>God hath pronounced it Death to taste that Tree:</td>
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<td>The only sign of our obedience left</td>
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<td align="left">That's all that he asks of us.</td>
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<td>Among so many signs of power and rule</td>
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<td>Conferred upon us, and dominion given</td>
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<td>Over all other creatures that possess</td>
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<td>Earth, Air, and Sea. Then let us not think hard</td>
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<td>One easy prohibition, who enjoy</td>
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<td>Free leave so large to all things else, and choice</td>
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<td>Unlimited of manifold delights;</td>
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<td>But let us ever praise him, and extol</td>
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<td>His bounty, following our delightful task,</td>
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<td align="left">There's no complaining about a single rule to follow.</td>
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<td>To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers;</td>
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<td>Which, were it toilsome, yet with thee were sweet.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Eve replied:—“O thou for whom</td>
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<td>And from whom I was formed flesh of thy flesh,</td>
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<td align="left">"I was made from you. </td>
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<td>And without whom am to no end, my guide</td>
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<td>And head! what thou hast said is just and right.</td>
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<td align="left">And yes, I agree! We owe it all to God. </td>
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<td>For we to him, indeed, all praises owe,</td>
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<td>And daily thanks—I chiefly, who enjoy</td>
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<td>So far the happier lot, enjoying thee</td>
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<td>Pre-eminent by so much odds, while thou</td>
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<td>Like consort to thyself canst nowhere find.</td>
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<td>That day I oft remember, when from sleep</td>
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<td align="left">I often think about the time when I first woke up</td>
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<td>I first awaked, and found myself reposed,</td>
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<td>Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where</td>
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<td>And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.</td>
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<td align="left">and what I was, or how I even got there.</td>
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<td>Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound</td>
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<td>Of waters issued from a cave, and spread</td>
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<td align="left">I heard the sound of water coming from a cave,</td>
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<td>Into a liquid plain; then stood unmoved,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and into a peaceful lake.</td>
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<td>Pure as the expanse of Heaven. I thither went</td>
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<td>With unexperienced thought, and laid me down</td>
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<td align="left">It was all very new to me,</td>
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<td>On the green bank, to look into the clear</td>
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<td>Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky.</td>
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<td align="left">The lake looked just like the sky.</td>
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<td>As I bent down to look, just opposite</td>
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<i> 460</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I looked into the lake</td>
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<td>A Shape within the watery gleam appeared,</td>
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<td align="left">and I saw </td>
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<td>Bending to look on me. I started back,</td>
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<td align="left">myself! My reflection.</td>
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<td>It started back; but pleased I soon returned</td>
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<td>Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks</td>
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<td>Of sympathy and love. There I had fixed</td>
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<i> 465</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I was fixated on it.</td>
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<td>Mine eyes till now, and pined with vain desire,</td>
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<td align="left">I would have looked at myself all day</td>
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<td>Had not a voice thus warned me: ‘What thou seest,</td>
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<td align="left">until I heard a voice, it said 'What you are looking at,</td>
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<td>What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself;</td>
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<td align="left">is a beautiful woman. Yourself.</td>
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<td>With thee it came and goes: but follow me,</td>
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<td align="left">Come with me, and I'll bring you</td>
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<td>And I will bring thee where no shadow stays</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 470</i> </div>
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<td>Thy coming, and thy soft imbraces—he</td>
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<td align="left">to someone you must meet.' </td>
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<td>Whose image thou art; him thou shalt enjoy</td>
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<td>Inseparably thine; to him shalt bear</td>
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<td>Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called</td>
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<td>Mother of human race.’ What could I do,</td>
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<i> 475</i> </div>
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<td>But follow straight, invisibly thus led?</td>
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<td align="left">I didn't see where this voice was coming from,</td>
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<td>Till I espied thee, fair, indeed, and tall,</td>
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<td align="left">but I followed it until I saw you, Adam.</td>
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<td>Under a platan; yet methought less fair,</td>
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<td align="left">You were standing under a tree.</td>
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<td>Less winning soft, less amiably mild,</td>
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<td align="left">But you didn't look at all like the reflection in the lake.</td>
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<td>That that smooth watery image. Back I turned;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 480</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I turned to go back to the softer image,</td>
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<td>Thou, following, cried’st aloud, ‘Return, fair Eve;</td>
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<td align="left">but you called out to me 'Return, to me Eve!</td>
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<td>Whom fliest thou? Whom thou fliest, of him thou art,</td>
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<td>His flesh, his bone, to give thee being I lent</td>
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<td>Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart,</td>
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<td>Substantial life, to have thee by my side</td>
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<td>Henceforth an individual solace dear:</td>
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<td>My other half.’ With that thy gentle hand</td>
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<td>Seized mine: I yielded, and from that time see</td>
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<td>How beauty is excelled by manly grace</td>
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<td>And wisdom, which alone is truly fair.”</td>
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<td> So spake our general mother, and, with eyes</td>
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<td>Of conjugal attraction unreproved,</td>
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<td>And meek surrender, half-embracing leaned</td>
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<td>On our first father; half her swelling breast</td>
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<td>Naked met his, under the flowing gold</td>
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<td>Of her loose tresses hid. He, in delight</td>
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<td>Both of her beauty and submissive charms,</td>
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<td>Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter</td>
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<td>On Juno smiles when he impregns the clouds</td>
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<td>That shed May flowers, and pressed her matron lip</td>
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<td>With kisses pure. Aside the Devil turned</td>
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<td>For envy; yet with jealous leer malign</td>
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<td>Eyed them askance, and to himself thus plained:—</td>
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<td> “Sight hateful, sight tormenting! Thus these two,</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"I can't stand this! These two</td>
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<td>Imparadised in one another’s arms,</td>
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<td>The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill</td>
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<td>Of bliss on bliss; while I to Hell am thrust,</td>
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<td>Where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,</td>
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<td>Among our other torments not the least,</td>
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<td>Still unfulfilled, with pain of longing pines!</td>
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<td>Yet let me not forget what I have gained</td>
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<td>From their own mouths. All is not theirs, it seems;</td>
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<td>One fatal tree there stands, of Knowledge called,</td>
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<td>Forbidden them to taste. Knowledge forbidden?</td>
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<td>Suspicious, reasonless! Why should their Lord</td>
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<td>Envy them that? Can it be sin to know?</td>
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<td>Can it be death? And do they only stand</td>
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<td>By ignorance? Is that their happy state,</td>
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<td>The proof of their obedience and their faith?</td>
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<td>O fair foundation laid whereon to build</td>
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<td>Their ruin! Hence I will excite their minds</td>
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<td>With more desire to know, and to reject</td>
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<td>Envious commands, invented with design</td>
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<td>To keep them low, whom knowledge might exalt</td>
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<td>Equal with gods. Aspiring to be such,</td>
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<td>They taste and die: what likelier can ensue?</td>
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<td>But first with narrow search I must walk round</td>
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<td>This garden, and no corner leave unspied;</td>
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<td>A chance but chance may lead where I may meet</td>
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<td>Some wandering Spirit of Heaven, by fountain-side,</td>
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<td>Or in thick shade retired, from him to draw</td>
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<td>What further would be learned. Live while ye may,</td>
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<td>Yet happy pair; enjoy, till I return,</td>
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<td>Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed!”</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I've got something planned for you!"</td>
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<td> So saying, his proud step he scornful turned,</td>
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<td>But with sly circumspection, and began</td>
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<td>Through wood, through waste, o’er hill, o’er dale, his roam.</td>
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<td>Meanwhile in utmost longitude, where Heaven</td>
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<td>With Earth and Ocean meets, the setting Sun</td>
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<td>Slowly descended, and with right aspect</td>
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<td>Against the eastern gate of Paradise</td>
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<td>Levelled his evening rays. It was a rock</td>
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<td>Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds,</td>
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<td>Conspicuous far, winding with one ascent</td>
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<td>Accessible from Earth, one entrance high;</td>
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<td>The rest was craggy cliff, that overhung</td>
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<td>Still as it rose, impossible to climb.</td>
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<td>Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat,</td>
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<td>Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night;</td>
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<td>About him exercised heroic games</td>
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<td>The unarmed youth of Heaven; but nigh at hand</td>
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<td>Celestial armoury, shields, helms, and spears,</td>
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<td>Hung high, with diamond flaming and with gold.</td>
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<td>Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Uriel approached Gabriel.</td>
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<td>On a sunbeam, swift as a shooting star</td>
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<td>In autumn thwarts the night, when vapours fired</td>
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<td>Impress the air, and shews the mariner</td>
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<td>From what point of his compass to beware</td>
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<td>Impetuous winds, He thus began in haste:—</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Uriel said:</td>
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<td> “Gabriel, to thee thy course by lot hath given</td>
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<td>Charge and strict watch that to this happy place</td>
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<td>No evil thing approach or enter in.</td>
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<td>This day at highth of noon came to my sphere</td>
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<td>A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know</td>
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<td>More of the Almighty’s works, and chiefly Man,</td>
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<td>God’s latest image. I described his way</td>
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<td>Bent all on speed, and marked his aerie gait,</td>
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<td>But in the mount that lies from Eden north,</td>
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<td>Where he first lighted, soon discerned his looks</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He made his way there, but his behavior was suspicious.</td>
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<td>Alien from Heaven, with passions foul obscured.</td>
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<td>Mine eye pursued him still, but under shade</td>
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<td>Lost sight of him. One of the banished crew,</td>
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<td>I fear, hath ventured from the Deep, to raise</td>
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<td>New troubles; him thy care must be to find.”</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You better find out more about him somehow." </td>
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<td> To whom the wingèd Warrior thus returned:—</td>
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<td>“Uriel, no wonder if thy perfect sight,</td>
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<td align="left">"I don't doubt you,</td>
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<td>Amid the Sun’s bright circle where thou sitt’st,</td>
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<td>See far and wide. In at this gate none pass</td>
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<td align="left">But I can assure you, that nobody gets through these gates</td>
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<td>The vigilance here placed, but such as come</td>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">that we absolutely don't know.</td>
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<td>Well known from Heaven; since meridian hour</td>
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<td>No creature thence. If Spirit of other sort,</td>
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<td>So minded, have o’erleaped these earthly bounds</td>
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<td>On purpose, hard thou know’st it to exclude</td>
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<td>Spiritual substance with corporeal bar.</td>
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<td>But, if within the circuit of these walks,</td>
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<td>In whatsoever shape, he lurk of whom</td>
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<td>Thou tell’st, by morrow dawning I shall know.”</td>
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<td align="left">If there's someone, or something here that shouldn't belong,</td>
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<td> So promised he; and Uriel to his charge</td>
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<td align="left">I'm sure we'll find out before morning."</td>
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<td>Returned on that bright beam, whose point now raised</td>
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<i> 590</i> </div>
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<td>Bore him slope downward to the Sun, now fallen</td>
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<td>Beneath the Azores; whether the Prime Orb,</td>
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<td>Incredible how swift, had thither rowled</td>
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<td>Diurnal, or this less volúbil Earth</td>
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<td>By shorter flight to the east, had left him there</td>
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<i> 595</i> </div>
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<td>Arraying with reflected purple and gold</td>
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<td>The clouds that on his western throne attend.</td>
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<td> Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray</td>
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<td>Had in her sober livery all things clad;</td>
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<td>Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,</td>
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<i> 600</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and every beast and bird went</td>
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<td>They to their grassy couch, these to their nests</td>
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<td>Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.</td>
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<td>She all night longer her amorous descant sung:</td>
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<td>Silence was pleased. Now glowed the firmament</td>
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<td>With living Saphirs; Hesperus, that led</td>
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<i> 605</i> </div>
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<td>The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon,</td>
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<td>Rising in clouded majesty, at length</td>
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<td>Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light,</td>
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<td>And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw;</td>
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<td>When Adam thus to Eve:—“Fair consort, the hour</td>
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<i> 610</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Adam said to Eve: "It's getting </td>
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<td>Of night, and all things now retired to rest</td>
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<td>Mind us of like repose; since God hath set</td>
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<td>Labour and rest, as day and night, to men</td>
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<td>Successive, and the timely dew of sleep,</td>
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<td>Now falling with soft slumberous weight, inclines</td>
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<i> 615</i> </div>
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<td>Our eye-lids. Other creatures all day long</td>
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<td>Rove idle, unimployed, and less need rest;</td>
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<td align="left">We're not like the other creatures who don't</td>
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<td>Man hath his daily work of body or mind</td>
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<td>Appointed, which declares his dignity,</td>
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<td>And the regard of Heaven on all his ways;</td>
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<i> 620</i> </div>
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<td>While other animals unactive range,</td>
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<td>And of their doings God takes no account.</td>
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<td>To—morrow, ere fresh morning streak the east</td>
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<td align="left">Tomorrow we'll </td>
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<td>With first approach of light, we must be risen,</td>
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<td>And at our pleasant labour, to reform</td>
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<i> 625</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and continue our work.</td>
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<td>Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green,</td>
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<td>Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown,</td>
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<td>That mock our scant manuring, and require</td>
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<td>More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth.</td>
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<td>Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums,</td>
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<i> 630</i> </div>
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<td>That lie bestrown, unsightly and unsmooth,</td>
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<td>Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease.</td>
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<td align="left">so we'll need our rest."</td>
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<td>Meanwhile, as Nature wills, Night bids us rest.”</td>
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<td> To whom thus Eve, with perfect beauty adorned:—</td>
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<td align="left">Eve replied: </td>
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<td>“My author and disposer, what thou bidd’st</td>
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<i> 635</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"You're right,</td>
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<td>Unargued I obey. So God ordains:</td>
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<td align="left">I must obey you, and I must obey God.</td>
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<td>God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more</td>
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<td align="left">Whenever I talk with you </td>
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<td>Is woman’s happiest knowledge, and her praise.</td>
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<td>With thee conversing, I forget all time,</td>
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<td>All seasons, and their change; all please alike.</td>
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<i> 640</i> </div>
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<td>Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet,</td>
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<td>With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the Sun,</td>
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<td>When first on this delightful land he spreads</td>
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<td>His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,</td>
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<td>Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertil Earth</td>
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<i> 645</i> </div>
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<td>After soft showers; and sweet the coming on</td>
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<td>Of grateful Evening mild; then silent Night,</td>
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<td>With this her solemn bird, and this fair Moon,</td>
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<td>And these the gems of Heaven, her starry train:</td>
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<td>But neither breath of Morn, when she ascends</td>
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<i> 650</i> </div>
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<td>With charm of earliest birds; nor rising Sun</td>
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<td>On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower,</td>
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<td>Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers;</td>
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<td>Nor grateful Evening mild; nor silent Night,</td>
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<td>With her solemn bird; nor walk by moon,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 655</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">What would a moonlight walk be like without you?</td>
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<td>Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.</td>
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<td align="left">I have a question—why do the stars shine</td>
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<td>But wherefore all night long shine these? for whom</td>
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<td align="left">all night if nobody's awake to see them?"</td>
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<td>This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?”</td>
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<td> To whom our general ancestor replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">Adam replied: </td>
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<td>“Daughter of God and Man, accomplished Eve,</td>
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<i> 660</i> </div>
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<td>Those have their course to finish round the Earth</td>
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<td align="left">"The stars will go once around the Earth</td>
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<td>By morrow evening, and from land to land</td>
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<td align="left">and be back by tomorrow.</td>
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<td>In order, though to nations yet unborn,</td>
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<td align="left">They keep life going around the world with</td>
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<td>Ministering light prepared, they set and rise;</td>
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<td align="left">their light.</td>
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<td>Lest total Darkness should by night regain</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 665</i> </div>
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<td>Her old possession, and extinguish life</td>
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<td>In nature and all things; which these soft fires</td>
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<td>Not only enlighten, but with kindly heat</td>
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<td align="left">Their soft eat keeps everything else warm</td>
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<td>Of various influence foment and warm,</td>
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<td>Temper or nourish, or in part shed down</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 670</i> </div>
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<td>Their stellar virtue on all kinds that grow</td>
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<td align="left">To help nurture everything that will grow</td>
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<td>On Earth, made hereby apter to receive</td>
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<td>Perfection from the Sun’s more potent ray.</td>
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<td align="left">Before the Sun's potent rays reach them again."</td>
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<td>These then, though unbeheld in deep of night,</td>
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<td>Shine not in vain. Nor think, though men were none,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 675</i> </div>
</td>
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<td>That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise.</td>
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<td>Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth</td>
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<td>Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep:</td>
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<td>All these with ceaseless praise his works behold</td>
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<td>Both day and night. How often, from the steep</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 680</i> </div>
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<td>Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard</td>
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<td>Celestial voices to the midnight air,</td>
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<td>Sole, or responsive each to other’s note,</td>
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<td>Singing their great Creator! Oft in bands</td>
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<td>While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 685</i> </div>
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<td>With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds</td>
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<td>In full harmonic number joined, their songs</td>
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<td>Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven.”</td>
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<td> Thus talking, hand in hand along they passed</td>
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<td align="left">They continued on their way home.</td>
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<td>On to their blissful bower. It was a place</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 690</i> </div>
</td>
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<td>Chosen by the sovran Planter, when he framed</td>
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<td>All things to Man’s delightful use. The roof</td>
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<td align="left">A humble home that God made for them,</td>
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<td>Of thickest covert was inwoven shade,</td>
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<td align="left">the walls were made of </td>
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<td>Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew</td>
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<td>Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 695</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">pleasant smelling plants and flowers.</td>
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<td>Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub,</td>
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<td>Fenced up the verdant wall; each beauteous flower,</td>
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<td>Iris all hues, roses, and gessamin,</td>
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<td>Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought</td>
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<td>Mosaic; under foot the violet,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 700</i> </div>
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<td>Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone</td>
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<td>Of costliest emblem. Other creature here,</td>
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<td>Beast, bird, insect, or worm, durst enter none;</td>
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<td>Such was their awe of Man. In shadier bower</td>
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<i> 705</i> </div>
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<td>More sacred and sequestered, though but feigned,</td>
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<td>Pan or Sylvanus never slept, nor Nymph</td>
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<td>For Faunus haunted. Here, in close recess,</td>
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<td>With flowers, garlands, and sweet—smelling hearbs</td>
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<td>Espousèd Eve decked first her nuptial bed,</td>
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<i> 710</i> </div>
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<td>And heavenly choirs the hymenæan sung,</td>
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<td>What day the genial Angel to our Sire</td>
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<td>Brought her, in naked beauty more adorned,</td>
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<td>More lovely, than Pandora, whom the gods</td>
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<td>Endowed with all their gifts; and, O! too like</td>
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<td>In sad event, when, to the unwiser son</td>
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<td>Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared</td>
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<td>Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged</td>
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<td>On him who had stole Jove’s authentic fire.</td>
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<td> Thus at their shady lodge arrived, both stood,</td>
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<i> 720</i> </div>
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<td>The God that made both Sky, Air, Earth, and Heaven,</td>
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<td>Which they beheld, the Moon’s resplendent globe,</td>
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<td>And starry Pole:—“Thou also madest the Night,</td>
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<td>Maker Omnipotent; and thou the Day,</td>
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<i> 725</i> </div>
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<td>Which we, in our appointed work imployed,</td>
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<td>Have finished, happy in our mutual help</td>
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<td>And mutual love, the crown of all our bliss</td>
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<td>Ordained by thee; and this delicious place,</td>
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<td>For us too large, where thy abundance wants</td>
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<i> 730</i> </div>
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<td>Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground.</td>
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<td>But thou hast promised from us two a race</td>
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<td>To fill the Earth, who shall with us extol</td>
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<td>Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake,</td>
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<td>And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.”</td>
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<i> 735</i> </div>
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<td> This said unanimous, and other rites</td>
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<td>Observing none, but adoration pure,</td>
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<td>Which God likes best, into their inmost bower</td>
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<td>Handed they went, and, eased the putting-off</td>
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<td>These troublesome disguises which we wear,</td>
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<i> 740</i> </div>
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<td>Straight side by side were laid; nor turned, I ween,</td>
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<td>Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites</td>
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<td>Mysterious of connubial love refused:</td>
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<td>Whatever hypocrites austerely talk</td>
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<td>Of purity, and place, and innocence,</td>
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<i> 745</i> </div>
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<td>Defaming as impure what God declares</td>
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<td>Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.</td>
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<td>Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain</td>
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<td>But our destroyer, foe to God and Man?</td>
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<td>Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source</td>
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<i> 750</i> </div>
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<td>Of human offspring, sole propriety</td>
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<td>In Paradise of all things common else!</td>
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<td>By thee adulterous lust was driven from men</td>
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<td>Among the bestial herds to raunge; by thee,</td>
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<td>Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure,</td>
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<i> 755</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Marriage is about loyalty and and faithfulness.</td>
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<td>Relations dear, and all the charities</td>
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<td>Of father, son, and brother, first were known.</td>
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<td>Far be it that I should write thee sin or blame,</td>
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<td>Or think thee unbefitting holiest place,</td>
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<td>Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets,</td>
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<i> 760</i> </div>
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<td>Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced,</td>
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<td>Present, or past, as saints and patriarchs used.</td>
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<td>Here Love his golden shafts imploys, here lights</td>
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<td>His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings,</td>
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<td>Reigns here and revels; not in the bought smile</td>
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<i> 765</i> </div>
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<td>Of harlots—loveless, joyless, unindeared,</td>
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<td>Casual fruition; nor in court amours,</td>
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<td>Mixed dance, or wanton mask, or midnight bal,</td>
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<td>Or serenate, which the starved lover sings</td>
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<td>To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.</td>
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<i> 770</i> </div>
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<td>These, lulled by nightingales, imbracing slept,</td>
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<td>And on their naked limbs the flowery roof</td>
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<td>Showered roses, which the morn repaired. Sleep on,</td>
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<td>Blest pair! and, O! yet happiest, if ye seek</td>
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<td>No happier state, and know to know no more!</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 775</i> </div>
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<td> Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone</td>
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<td>Half-way up-hill this vast sublunar vault,</td>
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<td>And from their ivory port the Cherubim</td>
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<td>Forth issuing, at the accustomed hour, stood armed</td>
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<td align="left">Meanwhile, armed Angels stood ready</td>
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<td>To their night-watches in warlike parade;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 780</i> </div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">to change shifts.</td>
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<td>When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake:—</td>
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<td> “Uzziel, half these draw off, and coast the south</td>
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<td>With strictest watch; these other wheel the north:</td>
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<td>Our circuit meets full west.” As flame they part,</td>
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<td>Half wheeling to the shield, half to the spear.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 785</i></div>
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<td>From these, two strong and subtle Spirits he called</td>
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<td>That near him stood, and gave them thus in charge:—</td>
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<td> “Ithuriel and Zephon, with winged speed</td>
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<td>Search through this Garden; leave unsearched no nook;</td>
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<td align="left">of you must search the interior</td>
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<td>But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 790</i></div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">or the garden. </td>
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<td>Now laid perhaps asleep, secure of harm.</td>
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<td>This evening from the Sun’s decline arrived</td>
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<td align="left">This evening I got news</td>
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<td>Who tells of some infernal Spirit seen</td>
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<td>Hitherward bent (who could have thought?), escaped</td>
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<td>The bars of Hell, on errand bad, no doubt:</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 795</i></div>
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<td>Such, where ye find, seize fast, and hither bring.”</td>
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<td align="left">and is on a suspicious errand here. If you find him, arrest the and bring them to me."</td>
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<td> So saying, on he led his radiant files,</td>
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<td>Dazzling the moon; these to the bower direct</td>
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<td>In search of whom they sought. Him there they found</td>
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<td align="left">The two Angels found </td>
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<td>Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve,</td>
<td align="center" valign="TOP" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 800</i></div>
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<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan there, disguised as a toad whispering</td>
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<td>Assaying by his devilish art to reach</td>
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<td>The organs of her fancy, and with them forge</td>
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<td>Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams;</td>
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<td>Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint</td>
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<td>The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
805</div>
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<td>Like gentle breaths from rivers pure, thence raise,</td>
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<td>At least distempered, discontented thoughts,</td>
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<td>Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires,</td>
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<td>Blown up with high conceits ingendering pride.</td>
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<td>Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear</td>
<td align="center" width="76">810</td>
<td align="left">Ithuriel poked at the toad with his spear.</td>
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<td>Touched lightly; for no falsehood can endure</td>
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<td>Touch of celestial temper, but returns</td>
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<td>Of force to its own likeness. Up he starts,</td>
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<td>Discovered and surprised. As, when a spark</td>
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<td align="left">This startled Satan, who jumped up</td>
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<td>Lights on a heap of nitrous powder, laid</td>
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<td align="left">like gunpowder lit by a spark</td>
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<td>Fit for the tun, some magazine to store</td>
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<td>Against a rumoured war, the smutty grain,</td>
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<td>With sudden blaze diffused, inflames the air;</td>
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<td>So started up, in his own shape, the Fiend.</td>
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<td align="left">he changed into his actual form.</td>
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<td>Back stept those two fair Angels, half amazed</td>
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<td align="left">The two Angels stepped back in surprise.</td>
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<td>So sudden to behold the griesly King;</td>
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<td>Yet thus, unmoved with fear, accost him soon:—</td>
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<td align="left">They asked him:</td>
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<td> “Which of those rebel Spirits adjudged to Hell</td>
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<td align="left">"Who TF are you? And why TF are you here??"</td>
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<td>Com’st thou, escaped thy prison? and, transformed,</td>
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<td>Why satt’st thou like an enemy in wait,</td>
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<td>Here watching at the head of these that sleep?”</td>
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<td align="left">Satan replied:</td>
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<td> “Know ye not, then,” said Satan, filled with scorn,</td>
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<td align="left">"Don't you know me?</td>
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<td>“Know ye not me? Ye knew me once no mate</td>
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<td align="left">If you know anything, you'll</td>
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<td>For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar!</td>
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<td align="left">know best not to mess with me.</td>
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<td>Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,</td>
<td align="center" width="76">830</td>
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<td>The lowest of your throng; or, if ye know,</td>
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</td>
<td align="left">And if you really don't know me, it just shows</td>
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<td>Why ask ye, and superfluous begin</td>
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<td align="left">that the both of you aren't anybody important!"</td>
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<td>Your message, like to end as much in vain?”</td>
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</td>
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<td> To whom thus Zephon, answering scorn with scorn:—</td>
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<td align="left">Zephon replied:</td>
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<td>“Think not, revolted Spirit, thy shape the same,</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
835</div>
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<td align="left">"You don't look like anything recognizable</td>
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<td>Or undiminished brightness, to be known</td>
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<td align="left">as you were in Heaven, </td>
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<td>As when thou stood’st in Heaven upright and pure.</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">up there you were upright and pure</td>
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<td>That glory then, when thou no more wast good,</td>
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<td>Departed from thee; and thou resemblest now</td>
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<td align="left">but now that you've fallen you look as </td>
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<td>Thy sin and place of doom obscure and foul.</td>
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840</div>
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<td align="left">ugly as the place that you came from. </td>
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<td>But come; for thou, be sure, shalt give account</td>
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<td align="left">Anyways, come with us. You're under arrest."</td>
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<td>To him who sent us, whose charge is to keep</td>
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<td>This place inviolable, and these from harm.”</td>
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<td> So spake the Cherub; and his grave rebuke,</td>
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</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Severe in youthful beauty, added grace</td>
<td align="center" width="76">845</td>
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<td>Invincible. Abashed the Devil stood,</td>
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</td>
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<td>And felt how awful goodness is, and saw</td>
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<td>Virtue in her shape how lovely—saw, and pined</td>
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</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>His loss; but chiefly to find here observed</td>
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<td align="left">Satan was devastated and humiliated that </td>
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<td>His lustre visibly impaired; yet seemed</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
850</div>
</td>
<td align="left">he had become ugly.</td>
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<td>Undaunted. “If I must contend,” said he,</td>
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<td align="left">Satan said:</td>
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<td>“Best with the best—the sender, not the sent;</td>
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</td>
<td align="left">"Sure let's go, I'll deal with your captain.</td>
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<td>Or all at once: more glory will be won,</td>
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<td align="left">Or I'll just deal with all of you at once."</td>
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<td>Or less be lost.” “Thy fear,” said Zephon bold,</td>
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<td>“Will save us trial what the least can do</td>
<td align="center" width="76">855</td>
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<td>Single against thee wicked, and thence weak.”</td>
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<td> The Fiend replied not, overcome with rage;</td>
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<td>But, like a proud steed reined, went haughty on,</td>
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<td>Chaumping his iron curb. To strive or fly</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>He held it vain; awe from above had quelled</td>
<td align="center" width="76">860</td>
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<td>His heart, not else dismayed. Now drew they nigh</td>
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</td>
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<td>The western point, where those half—rounding guards</td>
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<td>Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They met with Gabriel.</td>
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<td>Awaiting next command. To whom their chief,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Gabriel, from the front thus called aloud:—</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
865</div>
</td>
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<td> “O friends, I hear the tread of nimble feet</td>
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<td align="left">Gabriel says: "Here come</td>
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<td>Hasting this way, and now by glimpse discern</td>
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<td align="left">Ithuriel and Zephon!</td>
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<td>Ithuriel and Zephon through the shade;</td>
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<td>And with them comes a third, of regal port,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And they're bringing someone </td>
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<td>But faded splendour wan, who by his gait</td>
<td align="center" width="76">870</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>And fierce demeanour seems the Prince of Hell—</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">who looks like the Prince of Hell. Everyone get ready</td>
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<td>Not likely to part hence without contest’.</td>
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<td align="left">he's trouble."</td>
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<td>Stand firm, for in his look defiance lours.”</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
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<td> He scarce had ended, when those two approached,</td>
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<td>And brief related whom they brought, where found,</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
875</div>
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<td>How busied, in what form and posture couched.</td>
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<td>To whom, with stern regard, thus Gabriel spake:—</td>
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<td align="left">Gabriel continued:</td>
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<td>“Why hast thou, Satan, broke the bounds prescribed</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Satan, why did you break out of Hell?</td>
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<td>To thy transgressions, and disturbed the charge</td>
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<td align="left">Why are you trespassing here</td>
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<td>Of others, who approve not to transgress</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
880</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>By thy example, but have power and right</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>To question thy bold entrance on this place;</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>Imployed, it seems to violate sleep, and those</td>
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<td align="left">and disturbing the sleep</td>
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<td>Whose dwelling God hath planted here in bliss?”</td>
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<td align="left">of Adam and Eve?"</td>
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<td> To whom thus Satan, with contemptuous brow:—</td>
<td align="center" width="76">885</td>
<td align="left">Satan replied:</td>
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<td>“Gabriel, thou hadst in Heaven the esteem of wise;</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"I thought you were smarter, Gabriel.</td>
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<td>And such I held thee; but this question asked</td>
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<td>Puts me in doubt. Lives there who loves his pain?</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Who would not, finding way, break loose from Hell,</td>
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<td align="left">Who wouldn't escape from Hell?</td>
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<td>Though thither doomed? Thou wouldst thyself, no doubt,</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">You would escape too, I'm sure you would.</td>
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<td>And boldly venture to whatever place</td>
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<td align="left">And you would venture far away</td>
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<td>Farthest from pain, where thou mightst hope to change</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">from Hell</td>
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<td>Torment with ease, and soonest recompense</td>
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<td align="left"><br /></td>
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<td>Dole with delight; which in this place I sought:</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">looking for a better place, like I did. </td>
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<td>To thee no reason, who know’st only good,</td>
<td align="center" width="76">895</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>But evil hast not tried. And wilt object</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>His will who bound us? Let him surer bar</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If God wants to keep us in Hell, he's </td>
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<td>His iron gates, if he intends our stay</td>
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<td align="left">going to have to build stronger gates.</td>
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<td>In that dark durance. Thus much what was asked:</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The rest is true; they found me where they say;</td>
<td align="center" width="76">900</td>
<td align="left">It's true, but that doesn't mean I was </td>
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<td>But that implies not violence or harm.”</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">doing anything wrong!"</td>
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<td> Thus he in scorn. The warlike Angel moved,</td>
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<td align="left">Gabriel replied with a half smile:</td>
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<td>Disdainfully half smiling, thus replied:—</td>
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<td>“O loss of one in Heaven to judge of wise,</td>
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<td align="left"><br /></td>
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<td>Since Satan fell, whom folly overthrew,</td>
<td align="center" width="76">905</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>And now returns him from his prison scaped,</td>
<td align="center" width="76"></td>
<td align="left"><br /></td>
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<td>Gravely in doubt whether to hold them wise</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Or not who ask what boldness brought him hither</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Unlicensed from his bounds in Hell prescribed!</td>
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<td align="left"><br /></td>
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<td>So wise he judges it to fly from pain</td>
<td align="center" width="76">910</td>
<td align="left">"You think you're so smart? And </td>
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<td>However, and to scape his punishment!</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">you think you're off the hook? </td>
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<td>So judge thou still, presumptuous, till the wrauth,</td>
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<td align="left">You cannot escape God's punishment,</td>
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<td>Which thou incurr’st by flying, meet thy flight</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Sevenfold, and scourge that wisdom back to Hell,</td>
<td align="center" width="76"></td>
<td align="left">it's only going to make him angrier.</td>
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<td>Which taught thee yet no better that no pain</td>
<td align="center" width="76">915</td>
<td align="left">Being in Hell hasn't taught you anything.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Can equal anger infinite provoked.</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee</td>
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<td align="left">But why did you escape alone?</td>
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<td>Came not all Hell broke loose? Is pain to them</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Less pain, less to be fled? or thou than they</td>
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<td align="left">Maybe your friends down there like it in Hell,</td>
</tr>
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<td>Less hardy to endure? Courageous chief,</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
920</div>
</td>
<td align="left">or maybe you're just weaker and too soft to handle Hell</td>
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<td>The first in flight from pain, hadst thou alleged</td>
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<td align="left">like your comrades."</td>
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<td>To thy deserted host this cause of flight,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.”</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td> To which the Fiend thus answered, frowning stern:—</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan answered:</td>
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<td>“Not that I less endure, or shrink from pain,</td>
<td align="center" width="76">925</td>
<td align="left">"You know me better than that.</td>
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<td>Insulting Angel! well thou know’st I stood</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Thy fiercest, when in battle to thy aid</td>
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<td align="left">Remember in battle</td>
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<td>The blasting volleyed thunder made all speed</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>And seconded thy else not dreaded spear.</td>
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<td align="left">you couldn't even beat me with your attacks!</td>
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<td>But still thy words at random, as before,</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
930</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Argue thy inexperience what behoves,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>From hard assays and ill successes past,</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>A faithful leader—not to hazard all</td>
<td align="center" width="76"></td>
<td align="left">I am a leader, and a leader</td>
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<td>Through ways of danger by himself untried.</td>
<td align="center" width="76"></td>
<td align="left">doesn't lead all his men into danger.</td>
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<td>I, therefore, I alone, first undertook</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
935</div>
</td>
<td align="left">Therefore, I came here alone to find </td>
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<td>To wing the desolate Abyss, and spy</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>This new-created World, whereof in Hell</td>
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<td align="left">a place for my people to live.</td>
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<td>Fame is not silent, here in hope to find</td>
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<td>Better abode, and my afflicted Powers</td>
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<td>To settle here on Earth, or in mid Air;</td>
<td align="center" width="76">940</td>
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<td>Though for possession put to try once more</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>What thou and thy gay legions dare against;</td>
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<td align="left">And I want to see what we could be up against,</td>
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<td>Whose easier business where to serve their Lord</td>
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<td align="left">and I can see by the looks of your men that </td>
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<td>High up in Heaven, with songs to hymn his throne,</td>
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<td align="left">you are all better suited for singing and not battle."</td>
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<td>And practiced distances to cringe, not fight.”</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
945</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td> To whom the Warrior-Angel soon replied:—</td>
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<td align="left">Gabriel replied:</td>
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<td>“To say and straight unsay, pretending first</td>
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<td align="left">"You are a walking contradiction.</td>
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<td>Wise to fly pain, professing next to spy,</td>
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<td align="left">First you are escaping, then you're 'exploring.'</td>
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<td>Argues no leader, but a liar traced,</td>
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<td>Satan; and couldst thou ‘faithful’ add? O name,</td>
<td align="center" width="76">950</td>
<td align="left">Then you call yourself a 'faithful' leader? </td>
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<td>O sacred name of faithfulness profaned!</td>
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<td align="left">What a liar!</td>
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<td>Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?</td>
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<td>Army of fiends, fit body to fit head!</td>
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<td>Was this your discipline and faith ingaged,</td>
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<td>Your military obedience, to dissolve</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
955</div>
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<td>Allegiance to the acknowledged Power Supreme?</td>
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<td>And thou, sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem</td>
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<td>Patron of liberty, who more than thou</td>
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<td>Once fawned, and cringed, and servilely adored</td>
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<td>Heaven’s awful Monarch? wherefore, but in hope</td>
<td align="center" width="76">960</td>
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<td>To dispossess him, and thyself to reign?</td>
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<td>But mark what I areed thee now: Avaunt!</td>
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<td align="left">Get out of here! and Go back to where</td>
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<td>Fly thither whence thou fledd’st. If from this hour</td>
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<td align="left">you came from."</td>
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<td>Within these hallowed limits thou appear,</td>
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<td>Back to the Infernal Pit I drag thee chained,</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
965</div>
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<td>And seal thee so as henceforth not to scorn</td>
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<td>The facile gates of Hell too slightly barred.”</td>
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<td> So threatened he; but Satan to no threats</td>
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<td align="left">Satan became furious. He replied:</td>
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<td>Gave heed, but waxing more in rage, replied:—</td>
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<td> “Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains,</td>
<td align="center" width="76">970</td>
<td align="left">"Take me to jail then! Lets see</td>
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<td>Proud limitary Cherub! but ere then</td>
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<td align="left">you try. So try me!"</td>
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<td>Far heavier load thyself expect to feel</td>
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<td>From my prevailing arm, though Heaven’s King</td>
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<td>Ride on thy wings, and thou with thy Compeers,</td>
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<td>Used to the yoke, draw’st his triumphant wheels</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
975</div>
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<td>In progress through the road of Heaven star—paved.”</td>
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<td> While thus he spake, the angelic squadron bright</td>
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<td align="left">As Satan spoke, the Angelic squadron</td>
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<td>Turned fiery red, sharpening in mooned horns</td>
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<td align="left">surrounded him and</td>
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<td>Their phalanx and began to hem him round</td>
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<td align="left">began to close in.</td>
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<td>With ported spears, as thick as when a field</td>
<td align="center" width="76">980</td>
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<td>Of Ceres ripe for harvest waving bends</td>
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<td>Her bearded grove of ears which way the wind</td>
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<td>Sways them; the careful ploughman doubting stands</td>
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<td>Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeful sheaves</td>
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<td>Prove chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarmed,</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
985</div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan braced himself.</td>
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<td>Collecting all his might, dilated stood,</td>
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<td>Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved:</td>
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<td>His stature reached the sky, and on his crest</td>
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<td align="left">But he began to grow larger and larger.</td>
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<td>Sat Horror plumed; nor wanted in his grasp</td>
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<td>What seemed both spear and shield. Now dreadful deeds</td>
<td align="center" width="76">990</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Might have ensued; nor only Paradise,</td>
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<td align="left">A battle almost took place, even in Paradise.</td>
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<td>In this commotion, but the starry cope</td>
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<td>Of Heaven perhaps, or all the Elements</td>
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<td>At least, had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>With violence of this conflict, had not soon</td>
<td align="center" width="76">995</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Eternal, to prevent such horrid fray,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But God intervened and put a stop to it.</td>
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<td>Hung forth in Heaven his golden scales, yet seen</td>
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<td align="left">God created an astrological message in the sky.</td>
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<td>Betwixt Astræa and the Scorpion sign,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Wherein all things created first he weighed,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The pendulous round Earth with balanced air</td>
<td align="center" width="76"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1000</div>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>In counterpoise, now ponders all events,</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Battles and realms. In these he put two weights,</td>
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<td>The sequel each of parting and of fight:</td>
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<td align="left">It was Libra, the scales which weighed what</td>
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<td>The latter quick up flew, and kicked the beam;</td>
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<td align="left">would happen if Satan resisted. And it showed that</td>
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<td>Which Gabriel spying thus bespake the Fiend:</td>
<td align="center" width="76">1005</td>
<td align="left">Satan would lose terribly if he fought.</td>
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<td> “Satan, I know thy strength, and thou know’st mine,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Gabriel said: "Satan, I know your strength and you know mine.</td>
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<td>Neither our own, but given; what folly then</td>
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<td align="left">Both are controlled by God, so this is silly to even fight.</td>
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<td>To boast what arms can do! since thine no more</td>
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<td>Than Heaven permits, nor mine, though doubled now</td>
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<td align="left"><br /></td>
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<td>To trample thee as mire. For proof look up,</td>
<td align="center" width="76">1010</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>And read thy lot in yon celestial sign,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If you want proof of that, just look at the sign in the sky. </td>
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<td>Where thou art weighed, and shown how light, how weak</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>If thou resist.” The Fiend looked up, and knew</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td align="left">Satan looked up and saw that he would lose. </td>
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<td>His mounted scale aloft: nor more; but fled</td>
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<td align="left">He fled into the Night.</td>
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<td>Murmuring; and with him fled the shades of Night.</td>
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1015</div>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-40941647224763713542020-11-04T11:31:00.000-08:002020-11-04T11:31:11.972-08:00Book 3: Satan finally finds Earth through trickery<div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">HE</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">RGUMENT.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">—God,
sitting on his throne, sees Satan flying towards this World, then newly
created; shews him to the Son, who sat at his right hand; foretells the
success of Satan in perverting mankind; clears his, own Justice and Wisdom
from all imputation, having created Man free, and able enough to have
withstood his Tempter; yet declares his purpose of grace towards him, in
regard he fell not of his own malice, as did Satan, but by him seduced. The
Son of God renders praises to his Father for the manifestation of his
gracious purpose towards Man: but God again declares that Grace cannot be
extended towards Man without the satisfaction of Divine Justice; Man hath
offended the majesty of God by aspiring to Godhead, and therefore, with all
his progeny, devoted to death, must die, unless some one can be found
sufficient to answer for his offence, and undergo his punishment. The Son of
God freely offers himself a ransom for Man: the Father accepts him, ordains
his incarnation, pronounces his exaltation above all Names in Heaven and
Earth; commands all the Angels to adore him. They obey, and, hymning to
their harps in full quire, celebrate the Father and the Son. Meanwhile Satan
alights upon the bare convex of this World’s outermost orb; where wandering
he first finds a place since called the Limbo of Vanity; what persons and
things fly up thither: thence comes to the gate of Heaven, described
ascending by stairs, and the waters above the firmament that flow about it.
His passage thence to the orb of the Sun: he finds there Uriel, the regent
of that orb, but first changes himself into the shape of a meaner Angel,
and, pretending a zealous desire to behold the new Creation, and Man whom
God had placed here, inquires of him the place of his habitation, and is
directed: Alights first on Mount Niphates.</span></div>
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<b>tl;dr Satan is on his way to Earth and God sees everything Satan does. An
Angel is also tricked into showing Satan where Earth is.</b></span></div>
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<td>Bright effluence of bright essence increate!</td>
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<td>Or hear’st thou rather pure Ethereal Stream,</td>
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<td>Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the Sun,</td>
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<td align="left">Your light has even been here before the sun and </td>
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<td>Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice</td>
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<td>Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest</td>
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<td>The rising World of waters dark and deep,</td>
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<td>Won from the void and formless Infinite!</td>
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<td>Thee I revisit now with bolder wing,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Escaped the Stygian Pool, though long detained</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 15</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Through utter and through middle Darkness borne,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>With other notes than to the Orphean lyre</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>I sung of Chaos and eternal Night,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Taught by the Heavenly Muse to venture down</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The dark descent, and up to re-ascend,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 20</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Though hard and rare. Thee I revisit safe,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I am asking for your sovereign and lively lamp </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Revisit’st not these eyes, that rowl in vain</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to shine on me. Although I am blind</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and I cannot see your light,</td>
</tr>
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<td>So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 25</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">it still doesn't</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">stop me from hearing about and enjoying</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">beautiful places.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 30</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
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<td>That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nightly I visit: nor sometimes forget</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'll never forget the fact</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Those other two equalled with me in fate,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that there are many other</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>(So were I equalled with them in renown!)</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">blind men in history and in legend</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Blind Thamyris and blind Mæonides,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 35</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">who wrote great poetry.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The nightingale still sings a beautiful song</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">even shrouded in darkness.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 40</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Seasons return; but not to me returns</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The seasons may change</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">day turns into night</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer’s rose,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">there are flowers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">birds, animals, and human faces which are all so
beautiful</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But cloud instead and ever—during dark</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 45</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">but I cannot see any of it.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If I cannot see anything, I feel cut off. I feel as
though I cannot learn anything</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Presented with a universal blank</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I am blank</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Nature’s works, to me expunged and rased,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 50</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and I feel left out because of
my "handicap."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So much the rather thou, Celestial Light,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">So please, oh great light.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Shine upon me and into me so I'll be able</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to see and tell </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of things invisible to mortal sight.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 55</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">about things that people
cannot see.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Now had the Almighty Father from above,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From the pure Empyrean where He sits</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Now I am imagining how God must have</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>High throned above all highth, bent down his eye,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">felt, high up in Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His own works and their works at once to view:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Looking down at his creation.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>About him all the Sanctities of Heaven</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 60</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">With all his Angels around him</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Stood thick as stars, and from his sight received</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like stars</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Beatitude past utterance; on his right</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and on his right</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The radiant image of his glory sat,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">sat</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His only Son. On Earth he first beheld</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">his son.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Our two first parents, yet the only two</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 65</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God saw Adam and Eve</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of mankind, in the Happy Garden placed,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">who are our first parents, down in the Garden of Eden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">enjoying innocence.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In blissful solitude. He then surveyed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Then God looked down into Hell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hell and the gulf between, and Satan there</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 70</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and happened to see Satan
there</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Coasting the wall of Heaven on this side Night,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">flying</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In the dun air sublime, and ready now</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To stoop, with wearied wings and willing feet,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and getting ready to land somewhere</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>On the bare outside of this World, that seemed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in the far reaches of the universe.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Firm land imbosomed without firmament,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 75</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Uncertain which, in ocean or in air.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Him God beholding from his prospect high,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God just watched, while knowing</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wherein past, present, future, he beholds,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">all about the past, present and future simultaneously.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thus to His only Son foreseeing spake:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God then said to his son</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “Only-begotten Son, seest thou what rage</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 80</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Ayy look how angry</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Transports our Adversary? whom no bounds</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan is.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Prescribed, no bars of Hell, nor all the chains</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Not even the prisons of Hell, the chains</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heaped on him there, nor yet the main Abyss</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">on his body, or the Abyss of </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wide interrupt, can hold; so bent he seems</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the universe can stop him.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>On desperate revenge, that shall redound</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 85</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He's obviously looking for
revenge, but</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Upon his own rebellious head. And now,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">little does he know that it's just going to hurt him
and his cause more.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Through all restraint broke loose, he wings his way</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Not far off Heaven, in the precincts of light,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I can see that he's</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Directly towards the new-created World,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">on his way to Earth.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And Man there placed, with purpose to assay</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 90</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I know he's going to try and
mess with man and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>If him by force he can destroy, or, worse,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">either destroy them or worse,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By some false guile pervert: and shall pervert;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">trick them and pervert them</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For Man will hearken to his glozing lies,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">with his lies.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And easily transgress the sole command,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And you know what? He will succeed in tricking</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sole pledge of his obedience: so will fall</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 95</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">man. Man will fall</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He and his faithless progeny. Whose fault?</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">for his lies and be seduced. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of me</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It will be Man's fault in the end.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All he could have; I made him just and right,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I have indeed given Man</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">every chance to succeed on their own.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Such I created all the Ethereal Powers</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 100</i> </div>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="TOP">I gave Man the same freedom that</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And Spirits, both them who stood and them who failed;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I have given the angels.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Not free, what proof could they have given sincere</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Without freedom, how else could they prove</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">their allegiance, faith, or love? Without freedom, they
would only be doing what they were forced to do.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Where only what they needs must do appeared,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 105</i> </div>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Not what they would? What praise could they receive,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What pleasure I, from such obedience paid.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">What pleasure would I get from such forceful "love" and
"adoration?"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>When Will and Reason (Reason also is Choice),</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Useless and vain, of freedom both despoiled,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Made passive both, had served Necessity,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 110</i> </div>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Not Me? They, therefore, as to right belonged</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So were created, nor can justly accuse</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They were created this way</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their Maker, or their making, or their fate,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and they cannot blame me their maker, for their
downfall.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As if Predestination overruled</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their will, disposed by absolute decree</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 115</i> </div>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The fact that I knew that this would happen</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">has no effect on their free will.</td>
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<td>Which had no less proved certain unforeknown.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>So without least impulse or shadow of fate,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 120</i> </div>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Or aught by me immutably foreseen,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>They trespass, authors to themselves in all,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They are still</td>
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<td>Both what they judge and what they choose; for so</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">responsible for their judgments and actions.</td>
</tr>
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<td>I formed them free, and free they must remain</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I made them free, and they must stay free</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Till they enthrall themselves: I else must change</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 125</i> </div>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Their nature, and revoke the high decree</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Unchangeable, eternal, which ordained</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their freedom; they themselves ordained their fall.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The first sort by their own suggestion fell,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Self-tempted, self-depraved; Man falls, deceived</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 130</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By the other first: Man, therefore, shall find grace;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">After all this, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The other, none. In mercy and justice both,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Through Heaven and Earth, so shall my glory excel;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I will still be merciful and forgive them for the
fall."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But mercy, first and last, shall brightest shine.”</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Thus while God spake ambrosial fragrance filled</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 135</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">When God spoke, the air was
filled with an ambrosial fragrance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All Heaven, and in the blessèd Spirits elect</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that spread through Heaven which made</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sense of new joy ineffable diffused.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">all the Angels joyful and happy.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Beyond compare the Son of God was seen</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The song of God</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Most glorious; in him all his Father shon</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">was glorious.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Substantially expressed; and in his face</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 140</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And in his face</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Divine compassion visibly appeared,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">was full of compassion and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Love without end, and without measure grace;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">unmeasured kindness.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Which uttering, thus He to his Father spake;—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He spoke to his father.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “O Father, gracious was that word which closed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Oh Father,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy sovran sentence, that Man should find grace;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 145</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Man will find grace</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For which both Heaven and Earth shall high extol</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and both Heaven and Earth</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy praises, with the innumerable sound</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">will praise you with </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of hymns and sacred songs, wherewith thy throne</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">hymns and songs</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Encompassed shall resound thee ever blest.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For, should Man finally be lost—should Man,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 150</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">for forgiving the fall of Man.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy creature late so loved, thy youngest son,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fall circumvented thus by fraud, though joined</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With his own folly -! That be from thee far,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That far be from thee, Father, who art judge</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of all things made, and judgest only right!</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 155</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You always do the right thing.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or shall the Adversary thus obtain</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And we certainly do not want Satan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His end, and frustrate thine? Shall he fulfil</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to win and further ruin all your hopes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His malice, and thy goodness bring to naught</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or proud return, though to his heavier doom</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yet with revenge accomplished, and to Hell</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 160</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">for Man</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Draw after him the whole race of mankind,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">by bringing down the human race with his </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By him corrupted? Or wilt thou thyself</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">trickery.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Abolish thy creation, and unmake,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For him, what for thy glory thou hast made?—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Because if Satan succeeds in doing that, then all of
Man</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So should thy goodness and thy greatness both</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 165</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">would question you and be
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Be questioned and blasphemed without defense.”</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">angry with you."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> To whom the great Creator thus replied:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God then replied to his son:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>“O Son, in whom my soul hath chief delight,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Oh Son, don't worry about it. You are the the</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Son of my bosom, Son who art alone</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">only one</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>My word, my wisdom, and effectual might,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 170</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">who has the same </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All hast thou spoken as my thoughts are, all</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">wisdom and power as I do. Everything</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As my eternal purpose hath decreed.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">you have said is what I've been thinking too. I'm
basically just talking to myself.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Some men will be saved,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yet not of will in him, but grace in me</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">if they want to be saved. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Freely voutsafed. Once more I will renew</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 175</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His lapsed powers, though forfeit, and enthralled</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By sin to foul exorbitant desires:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Upheld by me, yet once more he shall stand</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But only because I'd be giving them</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>On even ground against his mortal foe—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the power to fight the evils and trickery of Satan.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By me upheld, that he may know how frail</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 180</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Man is frail and weak.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His fallen condition is, and to me owe</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And in Man's condition, they will learn</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All his deliverance, and to none but me.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that Man needs me.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Some I have chosen of peculiar grace,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I may also have a few favorite humans</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Elect above the rest; so is my will:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that I will choose.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The rest shall hear me call, and oft be warned</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 185</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I will also warn the others</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their sinful state, and to appease betimes</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The incensèd Deity, while offered grace</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Invites; for I will clear their senses dark</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What may suffice, and soften stony hearts</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To pray, repent, and bring obedience due.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 190</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">that in their sins they must
repent.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To prayer, repentance, and obedience due,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They will pray</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Though but endeavoured with sincere intent,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and if they are sincere then</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mine ear shall not be slow, mine eye not shut.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I will listen</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And I will place within them as a guide</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and I will give them guidance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>My umpire Conscience; whom if they will hear,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 195</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">through their conscience.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Light after light well used they shall attain,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And to the end persisting safe arrive.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>This my long sufferance, and my day of grace,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But for those who will not listen, will</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>They who neglect and scorn shall never taste;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">eventually </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 200</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That they may stumble on, and deeper fall;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">fall deeper into sin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And none but such from mercy I exclude.—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and I'm afraid I cannot give them mercy.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But yet all is not done. Man disobeying,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If Man continues to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">sin and be disloyal,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Against the high supremacy of Heaven,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 205</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">against Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Affecting Godhead, and, so losing all,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To expiate his treason hath naught left,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But, to destruction sacred and devote,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He with his whole posterity must die;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">then I've no choice but to kill him.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Die he or Justice must; unless for him</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 210</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">If I did not kill Man then I'd
be killing justice. Justice must be done.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Some other, able, and as willing, pay</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Unless... someone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The rigid satisfaction, death for death.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">is willing to take Man's place and die for Man.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Say, Heavenly Powers, where shall we find such love?</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Where can we find such a love? for someone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Which of ye will be mortal, to redeem</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to become human and redeem all of mankind by offering
their life to die?"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Man’s mortal crime, and just, the unjust to save?</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 215</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dwells in all Heaven charity so dear?”</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> He asked, but all the Heavenly Quire stood mute,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God had posed this question, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And silence was in Heaven: on Man’s behalf</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but all of Heaven was silent.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Patron or intercessor none appeared—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">No one stepped up to offer their life to redeem
mankind.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Much less that durst upon his own head draw</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 220</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The deadly forfeiture, and ransom set.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And now without redemption all mankind</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Must have been lost, adjudged to Death and Hell</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By doom severe, had not the Son of God,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If the Son of God never stepped up, then all of mankind
would have been lost and damned to Hell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In whom the fulness dwells of love divine,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 225</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His dearest mediation thus renewed:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The son stepped forward</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “Father, thy word is passed, Man shall find grace;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Father, Man will find grace.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And shall Grace not find means, that finds her way,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The speediest of thy winged messengers,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>To visit all thy creatures, and to all</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 230</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Your godly grace finds
everyone.</td>
</tr>
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<td>Comes unprevented, unimplored, unsought?</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>Happy for Man, so coming! He her aid</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Can never seek, once dead in sins and lost—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Atonement for himself, or offering meet,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Indebted and undone, hath none to bring.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 235</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Behold<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>me,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>then:
me for him, life for life,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I will offer my life. A life for life.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I offer; on me let thine anger fall;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'll even let you be angry with me when</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Account me Man: I for his sake will leave</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I am a Man. I will give up Heaven voluntarily.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy bosom, and this glory next to thee</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Freely put off, and for him lastly die</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 240</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Well pleased; on me let Death wreak all his rage.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I will allow Death to do whatever to me.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Under his gloomy power I shall not long</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">However, I know that I will not </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lie vanquished. Thou hast given me to possess</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">suffer for long.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Life in myself for ever; by thee I live;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You have given me eternal life</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Though now to Death I yield, and am his due,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 245</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">anyway.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All that of men can die, yet, that debt paid,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsome grave</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I know you will never abandon me with Death.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His prey, nor suffer my unspotted soul</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I will not suffer and I will not be dead forever.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For ever with corruption there to dwell;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But I shall rise victorious, and subdue</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 250</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I will rise again. And I will
also subdue</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Death, and kill him.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Death his death’s wound shall then receive, and stoop</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Inglorious, of his mortal sting disarmed;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I through the ample air in triumph high</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I will also</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shall lead Hell captive maugre Hell, and show</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 255</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">seal Hell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The powers of Darkness bound. Thou, at the sight</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and end Hell's powers.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You will be pleased with what I will do, Father.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>While, by thee raised, I ruin all my foes—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Death last, and with his carcase glut the grave;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I will kill all my enemies and use Death's carcass and
seal their graves.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Then, with the multitude of my redeemed,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 260</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I will then redeem and save</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shall enter Heaven, long absent, and return,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">all the souls and take them to Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Father, to see thy face, wherein no cloud</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to come see you</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of anger shall remain, but peace assured</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and have eternal peace."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And reconcilement: wrauth shall be no more</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thenceforth, but in thy presence joy entire.”</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 265</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> His words here ended; but his meek aspect’</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The Son was </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Silent yet spake, and breathed immortal love</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">pleased to offer his </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To mortal man, above which only shon</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">love and</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Filial obedience: as a sacrifice</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to be sacrificed for the sake of mankind.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Glad to be offered, he attends the will</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 270</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of his great Father. Admiration seized</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">All of Heaven admired the Son's offer.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wondering; but soon the Almighty thus replied:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And then God replied</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “O thou in Heaven and Earth the only peace</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"You are </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Found out for mankind under wrauth, O thou</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 275</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Mankind's only hope!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>My sole complacence! well thou know’st how dear</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I am at ease now and I feel </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To me are all my works; nor Man the least,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">much better. You know how much my work </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Though last created, that for him I spare</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">means to me. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thee from my bosom and right hand, to save,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You will be leaving my side for quote a while</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By losing thee a while, the whole race lost!</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 280</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">but as long as mankind is
saved.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thou, therefore, whom thou only canst redeem,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Only you can save them.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their nature also to thy nature join;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And be thyself Man among men on Earth,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Made flesh, when time shall be, of virgin seed,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You will be magically born from a virgin.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By wondrous birth; be thou in Adam’s room</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 285</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You will take Adam's place</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The head of all mankind, though Adam’s son.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">as the head of all of mankind.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As in him perish all men, so in thee,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Even though Adam messes up and causes all of Mankind's
destruction,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As from a second root, shall be restored</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">you will be Mankind's second chance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As many as are restored; without thee, none.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">for salvation to restore them.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His crime makes guilty all his sons; thy merit,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 290</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Man's crime will make all of
his sons guilty</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Imputed, shall absolve them who renounce</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their own both righteous and unrighteous deeds,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And live in thee transplanted, and from thee</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but if they live in you then they will</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Receive new life, So Man, as is most just,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">receive new life and be saved and absolved.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shall satisfy for Man, be judged and die,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 295</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Only a man can stand for
mankind so go forth and be judged</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And dying rise, and, rising, with him raise</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and then die, and then rise</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His brethren, ransomed with his own dear life.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">up and save everyone that way.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So Heavenly love shall outdo Hellish hate,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Giving to death, and dying to redeem,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So dearly to redeem what Hellish hate</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 300</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">You can redeem what Hell's
hate has done</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So easily destroyed, and still destroys</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In those who, when they may, accept not grace.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">except for those who refuse your help.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nor shalt thou, by descending to assume</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Do not think that because you have</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Man’s nature, lessen or degrade thine own.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">become human, that your glory will be less than before.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Because thou hast, though throned in highest bliss</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 305</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Just by</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Equal to God, and equally enjoying</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">giving up your place in Heaven, where you were equal to
me</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>God-like fruition, quitted all to save</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">it just goes to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A world from utter loss, and hast been found</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">further prove</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By merit more than birthright Son of God,—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that you really are worthy to be the </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Found worthiest to be so by being good,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 310</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Son of God. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Far more than great or high; because in thee</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Love hath abounded more than glory abounds;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Therefore thy humiliation shall exalt</td>
<td width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With thee thy manhood also to this Throne:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">When you return to the throne in Heaven, you will</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Here shalt thou sit incarnate, here shalt reign</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 315</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">keep your human form.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Both God and Man, Son both of God and Man,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Anointed universal King. All power</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And then I will give you all the power to reign as king</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I give thee; reign for ever, and assume</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">over</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy merits; under thee, as Head Supreme,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">all</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions, I reduce:</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 320</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In Heaven, or Earth, or, under Earth, in Hell.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in Heaven, Earth, and Hell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>When thou, attended gloriously from Heaven,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You will appear in the sky</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The summoning Archangels to proclaim</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 325</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">when doomsday comes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy dread tribunal, forthwith from all winds</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and all of </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The living, and forthwith the cited dead</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the dead </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of all past ages, to the general doom</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">of all past ages</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shall hasten; such a peal shall rouse their sleep.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Then, all thy Saints assembled, thou shalt judge</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 330</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">will be judged. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bad men and Angels; they arraigned shall sink</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You will send all of the bad men and angels to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Beneath thy sentence; Hell, her numbers full,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">fill up Hell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thenceforth shall be for ever shut. Meanwhile</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and then you will seal it forever.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The World shall burn, and from her ashes spring</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The Earth will burn and from the ashes a new</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>New Heaven and Earth, wherein the just shall dwell,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 335</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Heaven and Earth will </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And, after all their tribulations long,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">come.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With Joy and Love triumph’ing, and fair Truth.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Then thou thy regal sceptre shalt lay by;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For regal sceptre then no more shall need;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 340</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">By then you will no longer
have to act as a king, for</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>God shall be All in All. But all ye Gods,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">everyone will be a part of you."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Adore Him who, to compass all this, dies;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Adore the Son, and honour him as me.”</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> No sooner had the Almighty ceased but—all</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">All of the Angels cheered.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The multitude of Angels, with a shout</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 345</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Loud as from numbers without number, sweet</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As from blest voices, uttering joy—Heaven rung</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With jubilee, and loud Hosannas filled</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The eternal regions. Lowly reverent</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 350</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">All of them bowed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With solemn adoration down they cast</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">with adoration. And then they threw down</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their crowns, inwove with amarant and gold,—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">all of their beautiful golden crowns onto the ground.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Immortal amarant, a flower which once</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The crowns were decorated</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In Paradise, fast by the Tree of Life,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">with a flower</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Began to bloom, but, soon for Man’s offence</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 355</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">that used to bloom in Eden but
after Man sinned</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To Heaven removed where first it grew, there grows</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the flower was removed from Earth and brought back to
Heaven where it was originally from.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And flowers aloft, shading the Fount of Life,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And where the River of Bliss through midst of Heaven</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rowls o’er Elysian flowers her amber stream!</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With these, that never fade, the Spirits elect</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 360</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">These flowers never fade,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bind their resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the angels used them to tie up their locks of hair</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the bright</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shon,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Now the flowers were all over the ground, making it
look like a sea of green jewels.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Impurpled with celestial roses smiled.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Then, crowned again, their golden harps they took—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 365</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Then they all put their crowns
back on and then took their harps</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Harps ever tuned, that glittering by their side</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that they were carrying and then</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Like quivers hung; and with preamble sweet</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of charming symphony they introduce</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they started to play.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their sacred song, and waken raptures high:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>No voice exempt, no voice but well could join</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 370</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They all began to sing in
perfect harmony.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Melodious part; such concord is in Heaven.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Thee, Father, first they sung, Omnipotent</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They sang about God</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Immutable, Immortal. Infinite,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Eternal King; thee, Author of all being,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fountain of light, thyself invisible</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 375</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sitt’st</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and his brightness and how they could only</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Throned inaccessible, but when thou shad’st</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">look at him when he was in a misty</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The full blaze of thy beams, and through a cloud</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">cloud. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 380</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yet dazzle Heaven, that brightest Seraphim</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He was so bright that the angels still had to shade
their eyes with their wings.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thee next they sang, of all creation first,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Then they sang about the Son</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Begotten Son, Divine Similitude,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In whose conspicuous countenance, without cloud</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 385</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">who they could see clearly</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Made visible, the Almighty Father shines,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Whom else no creature can behold: on thee</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Impressed the effulgence of his glory abides;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Transfused on thee his ample Spirit rests.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He Heaven of Heavens, and all the Powers therein,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 390</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By thee created; and by thee threw down</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The aspiring Dominations. Thou that day</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy Father’s dreadful thunder didst not spare,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nor stop thy flaming chariot-wheels, that shook</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heaven’s everlasting frame, while o’er the necks</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 395</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thou drov’st of warring Angels disarrayed.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Back from pursuit, thy Powers with loud acclaim</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thee only extolled, Son of thy Father’s might,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To execute fierce vengeance on his foes.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Not so on Man: him, through their malice fallen,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 400</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They sang about the Son's
mercy towards Man.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Father of mercy and grace, thou didst not doom</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So strictly, but much more to pity encline.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>No sooner did thy dear and only Son</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Perceive thee purposed not to doom frail Man</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And about his offer to sacrifice himself for Man.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So strictly, but much more to pity enclined,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 405</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He, to appease thy wrauth, and end the strife</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of mercy and justice in thy face discerned,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Second to thee, offered himself to die</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For Man’s offence. O unexampled love!</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 410</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Love nowhere to be found less than Divine!</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hail, Son of God, Saviour of men! Thy name</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shall be the copious matter of my song</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Henceforth, and never shall my harp thy praise</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Forget, nor from thy Father’s praise disjoin!</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 415</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Thus they in Heaven, above the Starry Sphere,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">While Heaven was celebrating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their happy hours in joy and hymning spent.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and rejoicing and singing</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Meanwhile, upon the firm opacous globe</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of this round World, whose first convex divides</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The luminous inferior Orbs, enclosed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 420</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From Chaos and the inroad of Darkness old,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Satan alighted walks. A globe far off</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan was walking on the globe </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>It seemed; now seems a boundless continent,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that contained the universe.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of Night</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It was a dark, wasteland that seemed endless.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 425</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Save on that side which from the wall of Heaven,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Though distant far, some small reflection gains</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">In the distance, some of the light from Heaven could be
seen and it seemed a lot calmer than everywhere else.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of glimmering air less vexed with tempest loud.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Here walked the Fiend at large in spacious field.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 430</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As when a vultur, on Imaus bred,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dislodging from a region scarce of prey,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To gorge the flesh of lambs or yearling kids</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward the springs</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 435</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But in his way lights on the barren plains</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Sericana, where Chineses drive</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With sails and wind their cany waggons light;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So, on this windy sea of land, the Fiend</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 440</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Walked up and down alone, bent on his prey:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He just walked alone.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Alone, for other creature in this place,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Living or lifeless, to be found was none:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>None yet; but store hereafter from the Earth</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Pretty soon this Earth will be inhabited by people.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Up hither like aerial vapours flew</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 445</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of all things transitory and vain, when sin</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With vanity had filled the works of men—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Both all things vain, and all who in vain things</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This wasteland would be filled with people who
lived with vanity</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Built their fond hopes of glory or lasting fame,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and based their lives on glory and fame.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or happiness in this or the other life.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 450</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All who have their reward on earth, the fruits</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of painful superstition and blind zeal,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fit retribution, empty as their deeds;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All the unaccomplished works of Nature’s hand,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 455</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixed,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dissolved on Earth, fleet hither, and in vain,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Till final dissolution, wander here—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They will all wander in this place, until the final
dissolution</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Not in the neighbouring Moon, as some have dreamed:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Those argent fields more likely habitants,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 460</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Betwixt the angelical and human kind.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hither, of ill—joined sons and daughters born,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>First from the ancient world those Giants came,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With many a vain exploit, though then renowned:</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 465</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The builders next of Babel on the plain</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Sennaar, and still with vain design</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Others came single; he who, to be deemed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Here there would also be</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A god, leaped fondly into Ætna flames,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 470</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Empedocles; and he who, to enjoy</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Plato’s Elysium, leaped into the sea,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cleombrotus; and many more, too long,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">all the philosophers who had killed themselves</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 475</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Here pilgrims roam, that strayed so far to seek</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">as well as those who made pilgrimages to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In Golgotha him dead who lives in Heaven;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Golgotha where Jesus was crucified.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And they who, to be sure of Paradise,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Also there would be those who were confident they would
get into Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dying put on the weeds of Dominic,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">by disguising themselves as followers of St. Dominic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 480</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">or St. Francis.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>They pass the planets seven, and pass the fixed,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They would pass the seven planets</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And that crystal’lin sphere whose balance weighs</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and the Sun</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The trepidation talked, and that first moved;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And now Saint Peter at Heaven’s wicket seems</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">all the way to St. Peter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To wait them with his keys, and now at foot</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 485</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">who would be waiting with his
keys</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Heaven’s ascent they lift their feet, when, lo!</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">at the gate of Heaven. But once they would arrive at
the gate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A violent cross wind from either coast</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they would be blown away from a violent wind</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Blows them transverse, then thousand leagues awry,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">taking them thousands of miles away</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Into the devious air. Then might ye see</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tost</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 490</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and their hoods, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And fluttered into rags; then reliques, beads,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">robes, clothes, rosary beads,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The sport of winds: all these, upwhirled aloft,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">would become scattered everywhere.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fly o’er the backside of the World far off</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">These are all the souls that would </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Into a Limbo large and broad, since called</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 495</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">be thrown into a place called
Limbo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Paradise of Fools; to few unknown</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">or the Paradise of Fools.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Long after, now unpeopled and untrod.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It was all empty at the moment</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> All this dark globe the Fiend found as he passed;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">as Satan passed through and</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And long he wandered, till at last a gleam</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">wandered around until he saw a distant gleam,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 500</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">a dawning light that made him
tread faster</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His travelled steps. Far distant he descries,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ascending by degrees magnificent</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">towards a great sight of a </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Up to the wall of Heaven, a structure high;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">wall of Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>At top whereof, but far more rich, appeared</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It looked so grand</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The work as of a kingly palace-gate,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 505</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With frontispiece of diamond and gold</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">decorated with diamonds and gold</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Imbellished; thick with sparkling orient gems</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and many other jewels</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The portal shon, inimitable on Earth</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and there wasn't anything like it on Earth.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By model, or by shading pencil drawn.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Not even a model, drawing, or painting could recreate
its beauty.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The stairs were such as whereon Jacob saw</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 510</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">These are the stairs where
Jacob saw</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Angels ascending and descending, bands</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Angels going up and down. It was Jacob's Ladder.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of guardians bright, when he from Esau fled</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To Padan-Aram, in the field of Luz</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dreaming by night under the open sky,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And waking cried,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>This
is the gate of Heaven.</i></td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 515</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Each stair mysteriously was meant, nor stood</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Each step of the stair had their own mysterious secret
meaning.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>There always, but drawn up to Heaven sometimes</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This was a special staircase that </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Viewless; and underneath a bright sea flowed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">was sometimes hidden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of jasper, or of liquid pearl, whereon</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Who after came from Earth sailing arrived</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 520</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">but was revealed whenever
those who came from Earth</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wafted by Angels, or flew o’er the lake</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rapt is a chariot drawn by fiery steeds.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">came to use it on their chariots.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The stairs were then let down, whether to dare</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The stairs were revealed and open at the moment </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Fiend by easy ascent, or aggravate</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that Satan was there. They were there to tempt him or
taunt him</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss:</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 525</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">by showing him where he
obviously cannot go.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Direct against which opened from beneath,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Right under the stairs was an opening</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Just o’er the blissful seat of Paradise,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A passage down to the Earth—a passage wide;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">which was a passage down to earth</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wider by far than that of after—times</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a wide one</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Over Mount Sion, and, though that were large,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 530</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">that was even wider than Mount
Zion</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Over the Promised Land to God so dear,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">where God </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By which, to visit oft those happy tribes,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>On high behests his Angels to and fro</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">would later send his Angels to and from.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Passed frequent, and his eye with choice regard</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From Paneas, the fount of Jordan’s flood,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 535</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To Beërsaba, where the Holy Land</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Borders on Ægypt and the Arabian shore.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So wide the opening seemed, where bounds were set</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To darkness, such as bound the ocean wave.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Satan from hence, now on the lower stair,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 540</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan was on the lower stair</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That scaled by steps of gold to Heaven-gate,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Looks down with wonder at the sudden view</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">looking down in awe</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of all this World at once. As when a scout,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like he was a scout</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Through dark and desart ways with peril gone</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">going through darkness and peril</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All night, at last by break of cheerful dawn</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 545</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">only to be greeted by a
cheerful dawn</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Obtains the brow of some high-climbing hill,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">after climbing a great hill.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Which to his eye discovers unaware</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">As if he was gazing upon a</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The goodly prospect of some foreign land</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">foreign land,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>First seen, or some renowned metropolis</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">or an undiscovered city.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With glistering spires and pinnacles adorned,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 550</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Which now the rising sun gilds with his beams;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Such wonder seized, though after Heaven seen,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Spirit malign, but much more envy seized,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan was feeling jealous.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>At sight of all this World beheld so fair.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Round he surveys (and well might, where he stood</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 555</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He stood and</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So high above the circling canopy</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Night’s extended shade) from eastern point</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">just looked around,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Andromeda far off Atlantic seas</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Beyond the horizon; then from pole to pole</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 560</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">taking everything in.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He views in breadth,—and, without longer pause,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Then</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Down right into the World’s first region throws</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">he flew down</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His flight precipitant, and winds with ease</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and he found it to be easy gliding down</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Through the pure marble air his oblique way</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">because of the clean air.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Amongst innumerable stars, that shon</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 565</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He passed through the stars</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Stars distant, but nigh-hand seemed other worlds.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">which were distant</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or other worlds they seemed, or happy isles,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but when looking at them close-up</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Like those Hesperian Gardens famed of old,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they were potential habitable worlds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fortunate fields, and groves, and flowery vales;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thrice happy isles! But who dwelt happy there</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 570</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He staid not to inquire: above them all</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But Satan wasn't interested in any of them.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The golden Sun, in splendour likest Heaven,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He was focused on the Sun which was shining bright like
Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Allured his eye. Thither his course he bends,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Through the calm firmament (but up or down,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By centre or eccentric, hard to tell,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 575</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or longitude) where the great luminary,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Aloof the vulgar constellations thick,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That from the lordly eye keep distance due,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dispenses light from far. They, as they move</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their starry dance in numbers that compute</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 580</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Days, months, and years, towards his all-cheering lamp</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Turn swift their various motions, or are turned</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By his magnetic beam, that gently warms</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The Sun's warm beams</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Universe, and to each inward part</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">was able to reach every part</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With gentle penetration, though unseen</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 585</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shoots invisible virtue even to the Deep;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">of the universe.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So wondrously was set his station bright.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>There lands the Fiend, a spot like which perhaps</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And that is where Satan landed. He was on a spot of the
Sun</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Astronomer in the Sun’s lucent orb</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that probably no Astronomer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Through his glazed optic tube yet never saw.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 590</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">has ever seen through their
telescope.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The place he found beyond expression bright,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It was so bright.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Compared with aught on Earth, metal or stone—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Compared to the metals and stones on Earth.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Not all parts like, but all alike informed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With radiant light, as glowing iron with fire.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>If metal, part seemed gold, part silver clear;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 595</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>If stone, carbuncle most or chrysolite,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ruby or topaz, to the twelve that shon</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In Aaron’s breast-plate, and a stone besides;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Imagined rather oft than elsewhere seen—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That stone, or like to that, which there below</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 600</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Philosophers in vain so long have sought;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In vain, though by their powerful art they bind</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Volatile Hermes, and call up unbound</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In various shapes old Proteus from the sea,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Drained through a limbec to his native form.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 605</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What wonder then if fields and regions here</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If the Sun can produce regions, fields,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Breathe forth elixir pure, and rivers run</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and rivers of pure</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Potable gold, when, with one virtuous touch,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">gold</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The arch-chimic Sun, so far from us remote,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">then it is no surprise that the Sun, which is so far
away,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Produces, with terrestrial humour mixed,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 610</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">can help produce all the </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Here in the dark so many precious things</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">beautiful </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of colour glorious and effect so rare?</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">colorful things on Earth.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Here matter new to gaze the Devil met</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Undazzled. Far and wide his eye commands;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For sight no obstacle found here, nor shade,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 615</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But all sunshine, as when his beams at noon</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Culminate from the equator, as they now</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shot upward still direct, whence no way round</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shadow from body opaque can fall; and the air,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nowhere so clear, sharpened his visual ray</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 620</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The air was so clear, that he
could see</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To objects distant far, whereby he soon</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">objects far in the distance. He soon </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Saw within ken a glorious Angel stand,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">saw an Angel</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The same whom John saw also in the Sun.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His back was turned, but not his brightness hid;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">whose back was turned.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of beaming sunny rays a golden tiar</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 625</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He was wearing a golden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Circled his head, nor less his locks behind</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">halo.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Illustrious on his shoulders fledge with wings</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lay waving round: on some great charge imployed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He seemed, or fixed in cogitation deep.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The Angel was in deep thought.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Glad was the Spirit impure, as now in hope</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 630</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">This somewhat made Satan
excited</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To find who might direct his wandering flight</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and he started plotting on how he could get this Angel
to direct</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To Paradise, the happy seat of Man,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">him to Paradise.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His journey’s end, and our beginning woe.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But first he casts to change his proper shape,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Which else might work him danger or delay:</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 635</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And now a stripling Cherub he appears,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan transformed himself into a Cherub.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Not of the prime, yet such as in his face</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Youth smiled celestial, and to every limb</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">A young Cherub</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Suitable grace diffused; so well he feigned.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Under a coronet his flowing hair</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 640</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">with flowing hair</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In curls on either cheek played; wings he wore</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that was curly and went down to his cheeks</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of many a coloured plume sprinkled with gold;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and on his back he had multi-coloured wings</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His habit fit for speed succinct; and held</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and he was holding</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Before his decent steps a silver wand.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a silver wand.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He drew not nigh unheard; the Angel bright,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 645</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan in disguise, flew close
and the Angel</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turned,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">turned his attention to the "Cherub"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Admonished by his ear, and straight was known</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Archangel Uriel—one of the seven</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan recognized this Angel as Uriel who was one of
God's seven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Who in God’s presence, nearest to his throne,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Archangels who stood watch</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Stand ready at command, and are his eyes</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 650</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That run through all the Heavens, or down to the Earth</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">over Heaven and Earth.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bear his swift errands over moist and dry,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>O’er sea and land. Him Satan thus accosts:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “Uriel! for thou of those seven Spirits that stand</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan spoke "Uriel!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In sight of God’s high throne, gloriously bright,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 655</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">you're up here watching and
standing guard over</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The first art wont his great authentic will</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God's creation!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Interpreter through highest Heaven to bring,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Where all his Sons thy embassy attend,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And here art likeliest by supreme decree</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Like honour to obtain, and as his eye</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 660</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To visit oft this new Creation round—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Unspeakable desire to see and know</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I came here to see his creation too!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All these his wondrous works, but chiefly Man</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I would like to see the creature, Man.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His chief delight and favour, him for whom</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All these his works so wondrous he ordained,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 665</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hath brought me from the quires of Cherubim</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Alone thus wandering. Brightest Seraph, tell</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I've been wandering around and I would </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In which of all these shining orbs hath Man</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like to know which of these stars Man is </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His fixed seat—or fixèd seat hath none,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">living on!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But all these shining orbs his choice to dwell—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 670</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That I may find him, and with secret gaze</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I would like to find him and secretly watch him</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or open admiration him behold</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">or maybe I'll openly admire Man</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>On whom the great Creator hath bestowed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to see and experience the great creation that God has </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Worlds, and on whom hath all these graces poured;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">made on the world!"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That both in him and all things, as is meet,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 675</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Universal Maker we may praise;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Who justly hath driven out his rebel foes</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To deepest Hell, and, to repair that loss,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Created this new happy race of Men</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To serve him better. Wise are all his ways!”</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 680</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> So spake the false dissembler unperceived;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The lies worked on Uriel.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For neither man nor angel can discern</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Neither man or Angel can see through things such as
lies.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hypocrisy—the only evil that walks</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Invisible, except to God alone,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But God can.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By his permissive will, through Heaven and Earth;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 685</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And oft, though Wisdom wake, Suspicion sleeps</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>At Wisdom’s gate, and to Simplicity</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Resigns her charge, while Goodness thinks no ill</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Where no ill seems: which now for once beguiled</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Uriel, though Regent of the Sun, and held</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 690</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The sharpest-sighted Spirit of all in Heaven;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Who to the fraudulent impostor foul,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In his uprightness, answer thus returned:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Uriel replied</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “Fair Angel, thy desire, which tends to know</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Good for you that </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The works of God, thereby to glorify</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 695</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">you'd like to check out God's
creation and praise him</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The great Work-maister, leads to no excess</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">for his work.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That reaches blame, but rather merits praise</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The more it seems excess, that led thee hither</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From thy empyreal mansion thus alone,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To witness with thine eyes what some perhaps,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 700</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Contented with report, hear only in Heaven:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For wonderful indeed are all his works,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">His works are indeed wonderful</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pleasant to know, and worthiest to be all</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and they are amazing to see.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Had in remembrance always with delight!</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But what created mind can comprehend</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 705</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their number, or the wisdom infinite</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That brought them forth, but hid their causes deep?</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I saw when, at his word, the formless mass,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I was there when there was nothing.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>This World’s material mould, came to a heap:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Confusion heard his voice, and wild Uproar</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 710</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I saw when God turned the
confusion and uproar</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Stood ruled, stood vast Infinitude confined;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">into order.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Till, at his second bidding, Darkness fled,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Light shon, and order from disorder sprung.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Swift to their several quarters hasted then</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The cumbrous elements—Earth, Flood, Air, Fire;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 715</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Earth, water, air, and fire</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And this ethereal quint’ essence of Heaven</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">were brought together and then</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Flew upward, spirited with various forms,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">spread out into </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That rowled orbicular, and turned to stars</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the stars.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Numberless, as thou seest, and how they move:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Each had his place appointed, each his course;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 720</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The rest in circuit walls this Universe.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Look downward on that globe, whose hither side</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Look down on this globe here</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With light from hence, though but reflected, shines:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that has all of the light shining on it.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That place is Earth, the seat of Man; that light</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">That is Earth, where you can find Man.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His day, which else, as the other hemisphere,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 725</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">On one hemisphere is his day</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Night would invade; but there the neighbouring Moon</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and on the other side is his night. There is also the
moon</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>(So called that opposite fair star) her aid</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">which helps to reflect</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Timely interposes, and, her monthly round</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Still ending, still renewing, through mid-heaven,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With borrowed light her countenance triform</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 730</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">light from here and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hence fills and empties, to enlighten the Earth,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">sends it to Earth.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And in her pale dominion checks the night.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That spot to which I point is Paradise,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And this spot here which I am pointing at is Paradise.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Adam’s abode; those lofty shades his bower.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Where Adam lives."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy way thou canst not miss; me mine requires.”</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 735</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Thus said, he turned; and Satan, bowing low,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan bowed.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As to superior Spirits is wont in Heaven,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Where honour due and reverence none neglects,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Took leave, and toward the coast of Earth beneath,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And then he flew down towards Earth </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Down from the ecliptic, sped with hoped success,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 740</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Throws his steep flight in many an aerie wheel,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nor staid till on Niphates’ top he lights.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and landed on Mt. Nipahtes.</td>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-1786900231936951452020-11-04T11:28:00.002-08:002020-11-04T11:28:48.814-08:00Book 2: Satan holds counsel and begins his journey<div align="left" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #000020;">THE ARGUMENT.—The
consultation begun, Satan debates whether another battle is to be hazarded for
the recovery of Heaven: some advise it, others dissuade. A third proposal is
preferred, mentioned before by Satan—to search the truth of that prophecy or
tradition in Heaven concerning another world, and another kind of creature,
equal, or not much inferior, to themselves, about this time to be created. Their
doubt who shall be sent on this difficult search: Satan, their chief, undertakes
alone the voyage; is honoured and applauded. The council thus ended, the rest
betake them several ways and to several imployments, as their inclinations lead
them, to entertain the time till Satan return. He passes on his journey to
Hell-gates; finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them; by whom at length
they are opened, and discover to him the great gulf between Hell and Heaven.
With what difficulty he passes through, directed by Chaos, the Power of that
place, to the sight of this new World which he sought.</span></div>
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<b>tl;dr Satan basically holds a "debate/discussion" about what to do to get
even with Heaven. Satan eventually suggests going after God's special creatures
in Eden. Overall, Satan is going to do what he wants regardless of how everyone
in Hell feels. </b></span></div>
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<td>HIGH<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on
a throne of royal state, which far</td>
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<br /></div>
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<td>Satan was sitting on his throne</td>
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<td>Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td>which was a lot nicer and fancier</td>
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<td>Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td>than any other chair on the market.</td>
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<td>Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td></td>
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<td>Satan exalted sat, by merit raised</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 5</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan finally felt like a "King."</td>
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<td>To that bad eminence; and, from despair</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He felt as though he deserved everything about</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">his status, but being the prideful jerk he was, he wanted
more</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Instead of learning from his mistake of warring with Heaven,
he wanted to fight again.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His proud imaginations thus displayed:—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 10</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He decided to let his buddies know
what was on his mind.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “Powers and Dominions, Deities of Heaven!—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Hey you guys, so we're finally like our own bosses now</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For, since no deep within her gulf can hold</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">down here. We've still go our immortal power and nothing can
stop us even though we're in Hell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Immortal vigour, though oppressed and fallen,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I give not Heaven for lost: from this descent</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'm not giving up on getting even with Heaven. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Celestial Virtues rising will appear</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 15</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I'm pretty confident we can rise
up, even more glorious than before. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>More glorious and more dread than from no fall,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Heaven is going to fear us as long </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And trust themselves to fear no second fate!—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">as we aren't scared of losing again. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Me though just right, and the fixed laws of Heaven,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I am your true leader.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Did first create your leader—next, free choice,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We have free will, and we can do what we want.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With what besides in council or in fight</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 20</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hath been achieved of merit—yet this loss,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">What we have accomplished so far has given us honor and
glory.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thus far at least recovered, hath much more</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We're back now, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Established in a safe, unenvied throne,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and we're in a safer place that we can call our home</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yielded with full consent. The happier state</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Those who rule in Heaven might be envied, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In Heaven, which follows dignity, might draw</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 25</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Envy from each inferior; but who here</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but who is going to envy those who rule in Hell?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Will envy whom the highest place exposes</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Foremost to stand against the Thunderer’s aim</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Your bulwark, and condemns to greatest share</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of endless pain? Where there is, then, no good</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 30</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For which to strive, no strife can grow up there</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From faction: for none sure will claim in Hell</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Precedence; none whose portion is so small</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of present pain that with ambitious mind</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Will covet more! With this advantage, then,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 35</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To union, and firm faith, and firm accord,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We are more firmly united </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>More than can be in Heaven, we now return</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">than we could ever be in Heaven. Now we can </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To claim our just inheritance of old,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">fight for what is ours.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Surer to prosper than prosperity</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Could have assured us; and by what best way,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 40</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Whether of open war or covert guile,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Now it's all a matter of how we want to fight. Will it be all
out war or will it be something more covert and sneaky?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>We now debate. Who can advise may speak.”</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Does anyone have any good ideas?"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> He ceased; and next him Moloch, sceptred king,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">After Satan was done speaking, Moloch </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Stood up—the strongest and the fiercest Spirit</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">stood up, he was the strongest and fiercest</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That fought in Heaven, now fiercer by despair.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 45</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Angel that fought in Heaven. He was
stronger now because of his pain.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Moloch wanted to be as strong as God.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Equal in strength, and rather than be less</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">To be an equal, instead of being inferior.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cared not to be at all; with that care lost</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He was willing to risk everything for that chance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Went all his fear: of God, or Hell, or worse,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He recked not, and these words thereafter spake:—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 50</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He was also stern in his
contribution to the counsel when he said:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “My sentence is for open war. Of wiles,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"I vote for war. Because I don't know about using trickery</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>More unexpert, I boast not: them let those</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">on the battlefield. Those of you who want to plan and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Contrive who need, or when they need; not now.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">conspire, you can do that on your own time!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For, while they sit contriving, shall the rest—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Millions that stand in arms, and longing wait</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 55</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Do you really expect us to wait
while we make plans?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The signal to ascend—sit lingering here,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Waiting for the time to strike? </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heaven’s fugitives, and for their dwelling-place</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Accept this dark opprobrious den of shame,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The prison of His tyranny who reigns</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Why should we let God even continue to reign </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By our delay? No! let us rather choose,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 60</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">because we're delaying our attack.
The time to attack is now!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Armed with Hell-flames and fury, all at once</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">With full force all at once!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>O’er Heaven’s high towers to force resistless way,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Turning our tortures into horrid arms</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We can turn our pain and anguish and direct it to our enemies
on the battlefield</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Against the torturer; when, to meet the noise</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">against God.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of his almighty engine, he shall hear</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 65</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Infernal thunder, and, for lightning, see</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Black fire and horror shot with equal rage</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Among his Angels and his throne itself</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mixed with Tartarean sulphur and strange fire,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His own invented torments. But perhaps</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 70</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The way seems difficult, and steep to scale</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It may seem hard right now, but</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With upright wing against a higher foe!</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">we still have the advantage of taking them </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">by surprise.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of that forgetful lake benumb not still,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That in our proper motion we ascend</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 75</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Up to our native seat; descent and fall</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To us is adverse. Who but felt of late,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Insulting, and pursued us through the Deep,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With what compulsion and laborious flight</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 80</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>We sunk thus low? The ascent is easy, then;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The event is feared! Should we again provoke</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Are you all afraid to make God and Heaven angry again?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Our stronger, some worse way his wrath may find</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Seriously, what more can he do to us. We're already in </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To our destruction, if there be in Hell</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the worst place. We're already in Hell!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fear to be worse destroyed! What can be worse</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 85</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">What is worse than this anyway?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Than to dwell here, driven out from bliss, condemned</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In this abhorred deep to utter woe;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Where pain of unextinguishable fire</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Where there is endless pain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Must exercise us without hope of end</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The vassals of his anger, when the scourge</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 90</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And we are at the mercy of Hell's devices.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Inexorably, and the torturing hour,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Calls us to penance? More destroyed than thus,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Really, how much more worse can things get?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>We should be quite abolished, and expire.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If he ends up killing us, he can do that then.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What fear we then? what doubt we to incense</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His utmost ire? which, to the highth enraged,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 95</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Will either quite consume us, and reduce</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To nothing this essential—happier far</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If we do die, then it'll be better than </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Than miserable to have eternal being!—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">being here forever.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or, if our substance be indeed Divine,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And hey, if we really are immortal and cannot be destroyed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And cannot cease to be, we are at worst</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 100</i> </div>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>On this side nothing; and by proof we feel</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">then we can use that to our advantage</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Our power sufficient to disturb his Heaven,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and harass Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And with perpetual inroads to alarm,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">with repeated attacks forever!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Though inaccessible, his fatal Throne:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.”</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 105</i> </div>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="TOP">If we don't achieve victory, at least we'll have
our revenge."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> He ended frowning, and his look denounced</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">When Moloch finished, his face braced for opposing opinions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Desperate revenge, and battle dangerous</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To less than gods. On the other side up rose</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The next to speak was Belial. He was good at acting </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Belial, in act more graceful and humane.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">graceful</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 110</i> </div>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="TOP">and he was also handsome</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For dignity composed, and high exploit.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But all was false and hollow, though his tongue</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but he was a good con artist.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The better reason, to perplex and dash</td>
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<td>Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 115</i> </div>
</td>
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<td>To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He was decietful and </td>
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<td>Timorous and slothful. Yet he pleased the ear,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">lazy. His voice was pleasing to the ear, and</td>
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<td>And with persuasive accent thus began:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">persuasive. He began to speak </td>
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<td> “I should be much for open war, O Peers,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"War sounds good and all, but</td>
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<td>As not behind in hate, if what was urged</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 120</i> </div>
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<td>Main reason to persuade immediate war</td>
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<td>Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Ominous conjecture on the whole success;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>When he who most excels in fact of arms,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">our best warrior</td>
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<td>In what he counsels and in what excels</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 125</i> </div>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="TOP">Moloch seems like he is basing everything </td>
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<td>Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">on despair and </td>
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<td>And utter dissolution, as the scope</td>
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</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">hope to accomplish revenge.</td>
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<td>First, what revenge? The towers of Heaven are filled</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">First of all, what revenge? How can we even think of</td>
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<td>With armèd watch, that render all access</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 130</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">revenge when Heaven is surrounded
by guards</td>
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<td>Impregnable: oft on the bordering Deep</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Encamp their legions, or with obscure wing</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Scout far and wide into the realm of Night,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and scouts that patrol the furthest borders.</td>
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<td>Scorning surprise. Or, could we break our way</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">There's no way we have the element of surprise on our side</td>
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<td>By force, and at our heels all Hell should rise</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 135</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>With blackest insurrection to confound</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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<td>Heaven’s purest light, yet our great Enemy,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>All incorruptible, would on his throne</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left">I doubt we could even touch Heaven again</td>
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<td>Sit unpolluted, and the ethereal mould,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
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<td>Incapable of stain, would soon expel</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 140</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And we'd just get thrown back into
Hell as if nothing happened.</td>
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<td>Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Would our last hope be to </td>
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<tr>
<td>Is flat despair: we must exasperate</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The Almighty Victor to spend all his rage:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">make God angry enough to </td>
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<td>And that must end us; that must be our cure—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 145</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">finally just destroy us? </td>
</tr>
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<td>To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">No. I don't want to die. Who would want that?</td>
</tr>
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<td>Though full of pain, this intellectual being,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Those thoughts that wander through eternity,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>To perish rather, swallowed up and lost</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>In the wide womb of uncreated Night,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 150</i> </div>
</td>
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<td>Devoid of sense and motion? and who knows,</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Even if we did want death</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Let this be good, whether our angry Foe</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>Can give it, or will ever? How he can</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I don't think God would kill us.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Is doubtful; that he never will is sure.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Will He, so wise, let loose at once his ire,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 155</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">God is too smart </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Belike through impotence or unaware,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>To give his enemies their wish, and end</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to give us what we want.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Them in his anger whom his anger saves</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Because you see, God wants to keep us alive</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To punish endless? ‘Wherefore cease we, then?’</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">so he can punish us forever.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Say they who counsel war; ‘we are decreed,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 160</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<tr>
<td>Reserved, and destined to eternal woe;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>Whatever doing, what can we suffer more,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And you know what, whatever we do we can't make things worse.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What can we suffer worse?’ Is this, then, worst—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Is this the worst thing right now? </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms?</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We're here sitting around and talking, and we even still have
our weapons.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What when we fled amain, pursued and strook</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 165</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Remember when we were</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With Heaven’s afflicting thunder, and besought</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"> bombarded with Heaven's thunder?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Deep to shelter us? This Hell then seemed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'd say that this Hell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A refuge from those wounds. Or when we lay</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">is like a kind of refuge from those bolts. Or what about</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chained on the burning lake? That sure was worse.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">being chained to that lake? That was worse.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What if the breath that kindled those grim fires,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 170</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">And what about those flames around
us,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">what if they exploded and covered all of us </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And plunge us in the flames; or from above</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in fire?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Should intermitted vengeance arm again</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His red right hand to plague us? What if all</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You know God can just </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Her stores were opened, and this firmament</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 175</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Hell should spout her cataracts of fire,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">raise a storm and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">ruin us again</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>One day upon our heads; while we perhaps,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">even as we plan our war</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Designing or exhorting glorious war,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 180</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">we can very well end up </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">chained to the burning lake forever. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>There to converse with everlasting groans,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 185</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ages of hopeless end? This would be worse.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Now that would be worse.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>War, therefore, open or concealed, alike</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I guess what I'm saying is, I'm against another war, be it
open</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>My voice dissuades; for what can force or guile</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">or concealed through trickery. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With Him, or who deceive His mind, whose eye</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Especially with God, he sees everything. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Views all things at one view? He from Heaven’s highth</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 190</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">He could probably be watching </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All these our motions vain sees and derides,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">us right now. And laughing at our plans.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Not more almighty to resist our might</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He isn't just stronger than us</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but he can get in our minds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shall we, then, live thus vile—the race of Heaven</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">So let's just accept our new home. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thus trampled, thus expelled, to suffer here</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 195</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chains and these torments? Better these than worse</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It's better that we have these horrors than whatever God
might have planned for us if we plan on attacking again.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By my advice; since fate inevitable</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Subdues us, and omnipotent decree,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We can't fight this, because this is our fate.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The Victor’s will. To suffer, as to do,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We have to suffer. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Our strength is equal; nor the law unjust</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 200</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">If we are strong enough to fight,
we should be strong enough to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That so ordains. This was at first resolved,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">take the consequences.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>If we were wise, against so great a foe</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Contending, and so doubtful what might fall.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I laugh when those who at the spear are bold</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It's funny that fighters can be so brave yet </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And ventrous, if that fail them, shrink, and fear</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 205</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">they act surprised when they find
out</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What yet they know must follow—to endure</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that they have to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Exile, or ignominy, or bonds, or pain,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">suffer consequences if they</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The sentence of their conqueror. This is now</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">end up losing. We lost.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Our doom; which if we can sustain and bear,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If we just shut up and accept our defeat</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Our Supreme Foe in time may such remit</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 210</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">then maybe God will leave us alone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His anger, and perhaps, thus far removed,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He might forget about us</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Not mind us not offending, satisfied</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and be satisfied with the results.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With what is punished; whence these raging fires</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Our purer essence then will overcome</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 215</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their noxious vapour; or, inured, not feel;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or, changed at length, and to the place conformed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We could get used to it down here and be just fine.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In temper and in nature, will receive</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Familiar the fierce heat; and void of pain,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>This horror will grow mild, this darkness light;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 220</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Besides what hope the never-ending flight</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We don't know what the future</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of future days may bring, what chance, what change</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">will bring. Things may be different. But it</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Worth waiting—since our present lot appears</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">is worth the wait I think.</td>
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<tr>
<td>For happy though but ill, for ill not worst,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Let's just wait and see what happens, I don't </td>
</tr>
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<td>If we procure not to ourselves more woe.”</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 225</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">want to make things worse."</td>
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<tr>
<td> Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason’s garb,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Belial stopped his speech.</td>
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<td>Counselled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It was a lazy contribution from him. </td>
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<td>Not peace; and after him thus Mammon spake:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Mammon stepped up to speak. </td>
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<td> “Either to disinthrone the King of Heaven</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>We war, if war be best, or to regain</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 230</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Our chances of winning are slim if
we did engage in war again.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Our own right lost. Him to unthrone we then</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>May hope, when everlasting Fate shall yield</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The former, vain to hope, argues as vain</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and there is no point in hoping for the best. </td>
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<td>The latter; for what place can be for us</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 235</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">If we want to regain </td>
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<td>Within Heaven’s bound, unless Heaven’s Lord Supreme</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">what we have lost</td>
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<tr>
<td>We overpower? Suppose he should relent,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">we might have to fight for it.</td>
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<tr>
<td>And publish grace to all, on promise made</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">What if God forgives us if we promise to worship him</td>
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<td>Of new subjection; with what eyes could we</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Stand in his presence humble, and receive</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 240</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Strict laws imposed, to celebrate his throne</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and follow his laws</td>
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<td>With warbled hymns, and to his Godhead sing</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">sing and praise him</td>
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<td>Forced Halleluiahs, while he lordly sits</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>Our envied sovran, and his altar breathes</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Ambrosial odours and ambrosial flowers,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 245</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and bring him flowers?</td>
</tr>
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<td>Our servile offerings? This must be our task</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>In Heaven, this our delight. How wearisome</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Eternity so spent in worship paid</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I wouldn't want to spend an eternity doing that.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To whom we hate! Let us not then pursue,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Especially for someone that we hate. Let's forget about</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By force impossible, by leave obtained</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 250</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">trying to wage a war that we know
we can't win</td>
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<tr>
<td>Unacceptable, though in Heaven, our state</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and forget about trying to get back into Heave</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of splendid vassalage; but rather seek</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">just to be enslaved yet again.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Our own good from ourselves, and from our own</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>Live to ourselves, though in this vast recess,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Let's make the best of what we have here.</td>
</tr>
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<td>Free and none accountable, preferring</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 255</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It's better to be </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hard liberty before the easy yoke</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">free and liberated here than to be slaves in Heaven.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Of servile pomp. Our greatness will appear</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'd say, it's more impressive if we end up thriving </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Then most conspicuous when great things of small,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">under these poor conditions.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Useful of hurtful, prosperous of adverse,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>We can create, and in what place soe’er</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 260</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thrive under evil, and work ease out of pain</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Through labour and indurance. This deep world</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">There's really</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of darkness do we dread? How oft amidst</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">nothing so terrible about this darkness in Hell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thick clouds and dark doth Heaven’s all-ruling Sire</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Choose to reside, his glory unobscured,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 265</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And with the majesty of darkness round</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Covers his throne, from whence deep thunders roar,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mustering their rage, and Heaven resembles Hell!</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As He our darkness, cannot we His light</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God can create darkness out of light.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Imitate when we please? This desart soil</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 270</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Why can't we do the same and create
light out of darkness?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We found riches under this ground</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and we can build great things.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Magnificence; and what can Heaven shew more?</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">What does Heaven have to offer more than all of this?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Our torments also may, in length of time,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'm sure, that in due time</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Become our elements, these piercing fires</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 275</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">these painful flames</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As soft as now severe, our temper changed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">won't hurt as much </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Into their temper; which must needs remove</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The sensible of pain. All things invite</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and we will get used to Hell. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To peaceful counsels, and the settled state</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Let's instead find ways to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of order, how in safety best we may</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 280</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">make things better down here</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Compose our present evils, with regard</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and improve our conditions. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of what we are and where, dismissing quite</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All thoughts of war. Ye have what I advise.”</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Let's just forget about war altogether."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> He scarce had finished, when such murmur filled</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">When he had finished speaking, there was murmuring</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The assembly as when hollow rocks retain</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 285</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">coming from everyone.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The sound of blustering winds, which all night long</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Seafaring men o’erwatched, whose bark by chance,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or pinnace, anchors in a craggy bay</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>After the tempest. Such applause was heard</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 290</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">It seemed as though everyone was
pleased by the speech.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As Mammon ended, and his sentence pleased,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Advising peace: for such another field</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The concept of peace and not going to war</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>They dreaded worse than Hell; so much the fear</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">was enough for them. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of thunder and the sword of Michaël</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wrought still within them; and no less desire</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 295</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Although they were still a bit mad, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To found this nether empire, which might rise,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they were looking forward to building their own empire in </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By policy and long process’ of time,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Hell that would</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In emulation opposite to Heaven.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">maybe someday match Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Which when Beëlzebub perceived—than whom,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Beelzebub</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Satan except, none higher sat—with grave</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 300</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">who was next in rank to Satan</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">stood up.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A pillar of state. Deep on his front engraven</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Deliberation sat, and public care;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And princely counsel in his face yet shon,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He had a concerned look on his face.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Majestic, though in ruin. Sage he stood,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 305</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Drew audience and attention still as night</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The audience became silent in anticipation.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or summer’s noontide air, while thus he spake:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “Thrones and Imperial Powers, Offspring of Heaven,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 310</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">"Imperial Powers...Sons of
Heaven...</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ethereal Virtues! or these titles now</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Must we renounce, and, changing style, be called</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">or should I say</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Princes of Hell? for so the popular vote</td>
<td width="92"></td>
<td align="left">Princes of Hell? If that's what you want to be called.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Inclines—here to continue, and build up here</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It seems like all of you want to build an ideal empire </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A growing empire; doubtless! while we dream;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 315</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">down here.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And know not that the king of Heaven hath doomed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>This place our dungeon—not our safe retreat</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Don't forget that we are still captives here, and this
shouldn't</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Beyond his potent arm, to live exempt</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">be considered a safe retreat away from</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From Heaven’s high jurisdiction, in new league</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Heaven and God's law. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Banded against his throne, but to remain</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 320</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In strictest bondage, though thus far removed,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Under the inevitable curb, reserved</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His captive multitude. For He, be sure,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God is not going to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In highth of depth, still first and last will reign</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sole king, and of his kingdom lose no part</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 325</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">give up any part of his kingdom, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By our revolt, but over Hell extend</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His empire, and with iron sceptre rule</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">or any of the power that he still has over us.</td>
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<td>Us here, as with his golden those in Heaven,</td>
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</td>
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<td>What sit we then projecting peace and war?</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Why are we here debating war and peace?</td>
</tr>
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<td>War hath determined us and foiled with loss</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 330</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">We already fought and we already
lost.</td>
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<td>Irreparable; terms of peace yet none</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">There are no terms of peace.</td>
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<td>Voutsafed or sought; for what peace will be given</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
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</td>
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<td>To us enslaved, but custody severe,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We are slaves now, and we are at the mercy of </td>
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<td>And stripes and arbitrary punishment</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">his punishment.</td>
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<td>Inflicted? and what peace can we return,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 335</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>But, to out power, hostility and hate,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">In return all we can do is give</td>
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<td>Untamed reluctance, and revenge, though slow,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">him our hate</td>
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<td>Yet ever plotting how the Conqueror least</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and eventual revenge. We will never stop plotting our </td>
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<tr>
<td>May reap his conquest, and may least rejoice</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">ways to get back at Heaven.</td>
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<td>In doing what we most in suffering feel?</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 340</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Nor will occasion want, nor shall we need</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We don't have to try</td>
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<tr>
<td>With dangerous expedition to invade</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the impossible by </td>
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<td>Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">invading Heaven.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Or ambush from the Deep. What if we find</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Some easier enterprise? There is a place</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 345</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">There may be an easier way.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>(If ancient and prophetic fame in Heaven</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If the prophecy in Heaven </td>
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<td>Err not)—another World, the happy seat</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">is true,</td>
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<td>Of some new rave, called Man, about this time</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">There's another world and a creature called Man that might
have been created by now.</td>
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<tr>
<td>To be created like to us, though less</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Man would be like us, but a lot less powerful.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In power and excellence, but favoured more</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 350</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">But God would love Man more than </td>
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<tr>
<td>Of Him who rules above; so was His will</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">the Angels.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Pronounced among the gods, and by an oath</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>That shook Heaven’s whole circumference confirmed.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Thither let us bend all our thoughts, to learn</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We should find out more about these new creatures.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What creatures there inhabit, of what mould</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 355</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or substance, how endued, and what their power</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>And where their weakness; how attempted best,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>By force or subtlety. Though Heaven be shut,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Heaven may be out of our reach, but</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And Heaven’s high Arbitrator sit secure</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>In his own strength, this place may lie exposed,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 360</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">This new world may be less
defended.</td>
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<tr>
<td>The utmost border of his kingdom, left</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>To their defence who hold it: here, perhaps,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It may be easier to infiltrate.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Some advantageous act may be achieved</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By sudden onset—either with Hell-fire</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">We can destroy that new world, </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To waste his whole creation, or possess</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 365</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">or take it as our own. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All as our own, and drive, as we are driven,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The puny habitants; or, if not drive,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Seduce them to our party, that their God</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Or even make them join our side, so that God might decide</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>May prove their foe, and with repenting hand</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to destroy his own creation in anger.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Abolish his own works. This would surpass</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 370</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Common revenge, and interrupt His joy</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">That would be the best revenge in my opinion.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In our confusion, and our joy upraise</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In His disturbance; when his darling sons,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Just think about God's creations</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hurled headlong to partake with us, shall curse</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">thrown into the fire to join us.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their frail original, and faded bliss—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 375</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Faded so soon! Advise if this be worth</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Attempting, or to sit in darkness here</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">What do you guys think?"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hatching vain empires.” Thus Beëlzebub,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pleaded his devilish counsel—first devised</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This plan had already been thought up by Satan.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By Satan, and in part proposed: for whence,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 380</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But from the author of all ill, could spring</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So deep a malice, to confound the race</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Only the master of lies could come up with a </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of mankind in one root, and Earth with Hell</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">plan to turn Earth into a Hell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To mingle and involve, done all to spite</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to spite God.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The great Creator? But their spite still serves</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 385</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His glory to augment. The bold design</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pleased highly those Infernal States, and joy</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The counsel was all for the idea and voted for it.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sparkled in all their eyes: with full assent</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>They vote: whereat his speech he thus renews:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>“Well have ye judged, well ended long debate,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 390</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Beezlebub continued and said "We
have made a great decision. It will make everything better.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Synod of Gods and, like to what ye are,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Great things resolved, which from the lowest deep</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Will once more lift us up, in spite of Fate,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nearer our ancient Seat—perhaps in view</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of those bright confines, whence, with neighbouring arms,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 395</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And opportune excursion, we may chance</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If everything goes well, we might even regain Heaven, or </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Re-enter Heaven; or else in some mild zone</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">be relocated somewhere else</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dwell, not unvisited of Heaven’s fair light,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that is within Heaven's light.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Secure, and at the brightening orient beam</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Purge off this gloom: the soft delicious air,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 400</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To heal the scar of these corrosive fires,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shall breathe her balm. But, first, whom shall we send</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">For now, we need to decide who </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In search of this new World? whom shall we find</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">will we send to search for this new world of Man.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The dark, unbottomed, infinite Abyss,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 405</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">We need someone to brave the black
chaos</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And through the palpable obscure find out</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His uncouth way, or spread his aerie flight,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Upborne with indefatigable wings</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The happy Isle? What strength, what art, can then</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 410</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Suffice, or what evasion bear him safe</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Through the strict senteries and stations thick</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Angels watching round? Here he had need</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and slip past the guards and patrols of Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All circumspection: and we now no less</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Choice in our suffrage; for on whom we send</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 415</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">We need to choose someone
carefully.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The weight of all, and our last hope, relies.”</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They will be our last and only hope."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> This said, he sat; and expectation held</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">After he was finished, he sat down</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His look suspense, awaiting who appeared</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To second, or oppose, or undertake</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The perilous attempt. But all sat mute,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 420</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">while everyone became silent.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pondering the danger with deep thoughts; and each</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In other’s countenance read his own dismay,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Everyone looked at each other expecting</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Astonished. None among the choice and prime</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of those Heaven-warring champions could be found</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">someone to take the risk. They were warriors on the field,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So hardy as to proffer or accept,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 425</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">but none would step forward to
volunteer.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Alone, the dreadful voyage; till, at last,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The proud Satan rose up to the opportunity</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Above his fellows, with monarchal pride</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Conscious of highest worth, unmoved thus spake:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">knowing that this would be a way to prove himself better. He
spoke</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “O Progeny of Heaven! Empyreal Thrones!</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 430</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With reason hath deep silence and demur</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"All of you are silent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Seized us, though undismayed. Long is the way</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and that's okay, because it is a long journey </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">out of Hell and to Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Our prison strong, this huge convex of fire,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This is a strong prison</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Outrageous to devour, immures us round</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 435</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Ninefold; and gates of burning adamant,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and you have to get past the </td>
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<td>Barred over us, prohibit all egress.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">gates that keep us in.</td>
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<td>These passed, if any pass, the void profound</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Beyond the gates is the endless void</td>
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<td>Of unessential Night receives him next,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"> that can swallow you until </td>
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<td>Wide-gaping, and with utter loss of being</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 440</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">you disappear</td>
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<td>Threatens him, plunged in that abortive gulf.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">into the blackness.</td>
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<td>If thence he scape, into whatever world,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">If you do make if through</td>
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<td>Or unknown region, what remains him less</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to the unknown world, who knows what </td>
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<td>Than unknown dangers, and as hard escape?</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">other dangers there may be?</td>
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<td>But I should ill become this throne, O Peers,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 445</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I wouldn't be worthy of this throne</td>
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<td>And this imperial sovranty, adorned</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>With splendour, armed with power, if aught proposed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">if I didn't undertake this</td>
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<td>And judged of public moment in the shape</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Of difficulty or danger, could deter</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">dangerous quest for you my friends. </td>
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<td>Me from attempting. Wherefore do I assume</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 450</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I will go.</td>
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<td>These royalties, and not refuse to reign,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">What right </td>
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<td>Refusing to accept as great a share</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">would I have to assume the </td>
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<td>Of hazard as of honour, due alike</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">glory of this throne but not the dangers?</td>
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<td>To him who reigns, and so much to him due</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Of hazard more as he above the rest</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 455</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>High honoured sits? Go, therefore, mighty Powers,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Terror of Heaven, though fallen; intend at home,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">While I'm gone</td>
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<tr>
<td>While here shall be our home, what best may ease</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">you guys go ahead and </td>
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<td>The present misery, and render Hell</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">explore this place</td>
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<td>More tolerable; if there be cure or charm</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 460</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and see what ways you can make it
better.</td>
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<td>To respite, or deceive, or slack the pain</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Of this ill mansion: intermit no watch</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Don't let your guard down though, </td>
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<td>Against a wakeful Foe, while I abroad</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">keep watch just in case there is an attack.</td>
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<td>Through all the coasts of dark destruction seek</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Deliverance for us all. This enterprise</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 465</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I will go forth and </td>
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<td>None shall partake with me.” Thus saying, rose</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">do this quest alone."</td>
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<tr>
<td>The Monarch, and prevented all reply;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan said this, so that no one could try and look brave by
offering to join him. </td>
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<tr>
<td>Prudent lest, from his resolution raised,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan wouldn't have let anyone come with him anyway </td>
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<td>Others among the chief might offer now,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">because he wanted all the credit and glory to himself.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Certain to be refused, what erst they feared,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 470</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And, so refused, might in opinion stand</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>His rivals, winning cheap the high repute</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>Which he through hazard huge must earn. But they</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The rest got the idea and kept quiet.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dreaded not more the adventure than his voice</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>Forbidding; and at once with him they rose.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 475</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their rising all at once was as the sound</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Everyone rose at once, and it sounded</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">like thunder.</td>
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<tr>
<td>With awful reverence prone, and as a God</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Then the bowed to Satan as their God.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nor failed they to express how much they praised</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 480</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">They then started to praise</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That for the general safety he despised</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">him for risking his safety for the good of the rest.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His own: for neither do the Spirits damned</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lose all their virtue; lest bad men should boast</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their specious deeds on earth, which glory excites,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or close ambition varnished o’er with zeal.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 485</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Thus they their doubtful consultations dark</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The counsel ended</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ended, rejoicing in their matchless Chief:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">while they rejoiced in the presence of Satan their king.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As, when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ascending, while the North-wind sleeps, o’erspread</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heaven’s cheerful face, the louring element</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 490</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Scowls o’er the darkened lantskip snow or shower,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>If chance the radiant sun, with farewell sweet,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Extend his evening beam, the fields revive,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 495</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>O shame to men! Devil with devil damned</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It's strange how Devils can come to agree on something</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Firm concord holds; men only disagree</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">but men cannot.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of creatures rational, though under hope</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of heavenly grace, and, God proclaiming peace,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 500</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Among themselves, and levy cruel wars</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wasting the earth, each other to destroy:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As if (which might induce us to accord)</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Man had not hellish foes enow besides,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That day and night for his destruction wait!</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 505</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> The Stygian council thus dissolved; and forth</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The leaders came out of their palace</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In order came the grand Infernal Peers:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in order</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Midst came their mighty Paramount, and seemed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan was in the middle</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Alone the Antagonist of Heaven, nor less</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Than Hell’s dread Emperor, with pomp supreme,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 510</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And god-like imitated state: him round</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"> surrounded by attendants</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A globe of fiery Seraphim inclosed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With bright imblazonry, and horrent arms.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">with banners</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Then of their session ended they bid cry</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With trumpet’s regal sound the great result:</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 515</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Trumpets were being played</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Toward the four winds four speedy Cherubim</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">by cherubs</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By harald’s voice explained; the hollow Abyss</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heard far and wide, and all the host of Hell</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Everyone cheered</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With deafening shout returned them loud acclaim.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 520</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thence more at ease their minds, and somewhat raised</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Everyone's hopes were raised by the good news og </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By false presumptuous hope, the rangèd Powers</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan's "sacrifice"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Disband; and, wandering, each his several way</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Then everyone disbanded</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pursues, as inclination or sad choice,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and wandered about</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Leads him perplexed, where he may likeliest find</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 525</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">looking for ways</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Truce to his restless thoughts, and entertain</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to amuse themselves</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The irksome hours, till his great Chief return.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">until Satan would return</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Part on the plain, or in the air sublime,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Upon the wing or in swift race contend,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Some of them had races</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As at the Olympian games or Pythian fields;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 530</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and others played Olympic games</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As when, to warn proud cities, war appears</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To battle in the clouds; before each van</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 535</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Prick forth the aerie knights, and couch their spears,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Till thickest legions close; with feats of arms</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From either end of heaven the welkin burns.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Others, with vast Typhœan rage, more fell,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Others let their anger out</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 540</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">by destroying the rocks and
hills.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In whirlwind; Hell scarce holds the wild uproar:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As when Alcides, from Oechalia crowned</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With conquest, felt the envenomed robe, and tore</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Through pain up by the roots Thessalian pines,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 545</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Into the Euboic sea. Others, more mild,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Other angels</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Retreated in a silent valley, sing</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">went to seclude themselves</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With notes angelical to many a harp</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and made up</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their own heroic deeds, and hapless fall</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">songs about what had happened with their fall from</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By doom of battle, and complain that Fate</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 550</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">heaven and their battles</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Virtue should enthrall to Force or Chance.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their song was partial; but the harmony</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>(What could it less when Spirits immortal sing?)</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 555</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Another group had discussions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>(For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sense)</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Others apart sat on a hill retired,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">about good and evil, free will, and fate.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 560</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They had mixed</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of good and evil much they argued then,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">arguments and points.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of happiness and final misery,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Passion and apathy, and glory and shame:</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy!—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 565</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">But they were having a good time
overall.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pain for a while or anguish, and excite</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fallacious hope, or arm the obdured breast</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With stubborn patience as with triple steel.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Another part, in squadrons and gross bands,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 570</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">There was another group that </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>On bold adventure to discover wide</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">went exploring to see</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That dismal world, if any clime perhaps</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Might yield them easier habitation, bend</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">if they could find better conditions.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Four ways their flying march, along the banks</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They broke off into four groups and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of four infernal rivers, that disgorge</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 575</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">followed four rivers that </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Into the burning lake their baleful streams—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">led to the lake of fire.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Styx was the river of hate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Acheron was the river of sadness</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cocytus, named of lamentation loud</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Cocytus was the river of crying</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegeton,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 580</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and Phlegeton was the river of
anger.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Far away from these rivers was a slow and silent stream</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lethe, the river of oblivion, rowls</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Lethe was the river</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Forthwith his former state and being forgets—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 585</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">that if anyone drank from it, they
would forget everything.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Beyond this flood a frozen continent</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Beyond this was ice and snowstorms</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 590</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 595</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>At certain revolutions all the damned</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">When the damned go to Hell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they may be brought to these places so</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">they can experience the pain and shock of opposite extremees</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From beds of raging fire to starve in ice</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 600</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Immovable, infixed, and frozen round</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They'll be frozen in ice</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Periods of time,—thence hurried back to fire.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and then brought back to the fire</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>They ferry over this Lethean sound</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They'll even try to drink from the Lethe river to try and
forget their sorrow.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 605</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All in one moment, and so near the brink;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But Fate withstands, and, to oppose the attempt,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 610</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Monsters guard the river</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The ford, and of itself the water flies</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and anyone who gets close enough to drink, the water</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All taste of living wight, as once it fled</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">moves away from</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The lip of Tantalus. Thus roving on</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">their lips. The angels were horrified by these things</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In confused march forlorn, the adventrous bands,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 615</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With shuddering horror pale, and eyes aghast,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Viewed first their lamentable lot, and found</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>No rest. Through many a dark and dreary vale</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>They passed, and many a region dolorous,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>O’er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 620</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The angels passed through all these terrible places.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A universe of death, which God by curse</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Created evil, for evil only good;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God created all this evil, just for them.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This is the place where life dies, and death lives. And
nature</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 625</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">creates monsters.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Abominable, inutterable, and worse</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimæras dire.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Meanwhile the Adversary of God and Man,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Meanwhile, Satan </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Satan, with thoughts inflamed of highest design,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 630</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Puts on swift wings, and toward the gates of Hell</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">flew towards the gates of Hell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Explores his solitary flight: sometimes</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">alone.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He scours the right hand coast, sometimes the left;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Now shaves with level wing the Deep, then soars</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Up to the fiery concave towering high.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 635</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As when far off at sea a fleet descried</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hangs in the clouds, by æquinoctial winds</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their spicy drugs; they on the trading flood,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 640</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ply stemming nightly toward the pole: so seemed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Far off the flying Fiend. At last appear</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hell-hounds, high reaching to the horrid roof,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And thrice threefold the gates; three folds were brass,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 645</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The gates were made of nine layers:
three brass,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Three iron, three of adamantine rock,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">three iron, and three of impenetrable rock.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Flames were circling around, but didn't</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yet unconsumed. Before the gates there sat</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">burn them. There were two figures sitting in </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>On either side a formidable Shape.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">front of the gate.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The one seemed a woman to the waist, and fair,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 650</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">One was a beautiful woman, half of
a woman rather</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But ended foul in many a scaly fold,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">because her bottom half</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Voluminous and vast—a serpent armed</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">was a snake's body.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With mortal sting. About her middle round</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>A cry of Hell-hounds never-ceasing barked</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">There were dogs, next to her.</td>
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<td>With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 655</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>With in unseen. Far less abhorred than these</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 660</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>In secret, riding through the air she comes,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 665</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Eclipses at their charms. The other Shape—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The other creature didn't have </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>If shape it might be called that shape had none</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">a clear shape.</td>
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<td>Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It was more like a shadow.</td>
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<tr>
<td>For each seemed either—black it stood as Night,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 670</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It seemed very fierce and as terrible as Hell</td>
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<tr>
<td>And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and it carried a dart.</td>
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<tr>
<td>The likeness of a kingly crown had on.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">There was a crown on its head,</td>
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<tr>
<td>Satan was now at hand, and from his seat</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">When Satan got close, the creature immediately</td>
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<tr>
<td>The monster moving onward came as fast</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 675</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">got up and approached him.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The shadow's footsteps shook the ground</td>
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<td>The undaunted Fiend what this might be admired—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>Admired, not feared (God and his Son except,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan was impressed with this being, but he wasn't afraid.
Satan was only afraid of God and his Son.</td>
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<tr>
<td>Created thing naught valued he nor shunned),</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>And with disdainful look thus first began:—</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 680</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Satan spoke to the shadow:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “Whence and what art thou, execrable Shape,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"What and who do you think you are? I'm trying to get through
and you </td>
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<tr>
<td>That dar’st though grim and terrible, advance</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">need to get the Hell out of my way!</td>
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<td>Thy miscreated front athwart my way</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>To yonder gates? Through them I mean to pass,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That be assured, without leave asked of thee.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 685</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Retire; or taste thy folly, and learn by proof,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You better move or I'll make you sorry!"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hell-born, not to contend with Spirits of Heaven.”</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td> To whom the Goblin, full of wrauth, replied:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The creature replied,</td>
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<tr>
<td>“Art thou that Traitor-Angel, art thou he,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Lol aren't you that fool of </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Who first broke peace in Heaven and faith, till then</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 690</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">a traitor who rebelled</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Drew after him the third part of Heaven’s sons,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and led 1/3 of Heaven </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Conjured against the Highest—for which both thou</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">against God?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And they, outcast from God, are here condemned</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>To waste eternal days in woe and pain?</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 695</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And reckon’st thou thyself with Spirits of Heaven,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>Hell-doomed, and breath’st defiance here and scorn,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Don't try to get tough with me,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Where I reign king, and, to enrage thee more,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'm king down here.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy king and lord? Back to thy punishment,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Get back to your dungeon,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>False fugitive; and to thy speed add wings,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 700</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and move fast.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Before I whip you with scorpions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and stab with with this dart. I'll make you </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.”</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">feel horrible pain that you've never felt before!"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> So spake the griesly Terror, and in shape,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 705</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>More dreadful and deform. On the other side,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Incensed with indignation, Satan stood</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Unterrified, and like a comet burned,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan wasn't afraid.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In the artick sky, and from his horrid hair</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 710</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Levelled his deadly aim; their fatal hands</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<tr>
<td>No second stroke intend; and such a frown</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Each cast at the other as when two black clouds,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">They were ready to fight one another.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With Heaven’s artillery fraught, come rattling on</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 715</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Over the Caspian,—then stand front to front</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To join their dark encounter in mid-air.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So frowned the mighty combatants that Hell</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Grew darker at their frown; so matched they stood;</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 720</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For never but once more was either like</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To meet so great a foe. And now great deeds</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This would've been a great fight</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Had been achieved, whereof all Hell had rung,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Had not the snaky Sorceress, that sat</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">if the woman had not intervened.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fast by Hell-gate and kept the fatal key,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 725</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">Her job was to sit by the gates and
keep the key.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Risen, and with hideous outcry rushed between.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “O father, what intends thy hand,” she cried,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The woman cried: "Father why</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>“Against thy only son? What fury, O son,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">do you want to harm your only son? And son,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Possesses thee to bend that mortal dart</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">why are you aiming that dagger at</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Against thy father’s head? And know’st for whom?</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 730</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">your father's head?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For Him who sits above, and laughs the while</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">God above is laughing at the both of you,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>At thee, ordained his drudge to execute</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">while you're doing his dirty work</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Whate’er his wrauth, which He calls justice, bids—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and giving him the satisfaction of justice!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His wrauth, which one day will destroy ye both!”</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">One of these days, he is going to kill you both!"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> She spake, and at her words the hellish Pest</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 735</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">The both of them were stunned.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Forbore: then these to her Satan returned:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan replied:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “So strange thy outcry, and thy words so strange</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"I'll stop for now</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thou interposest, that my sudden hand,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Prevented, spares to tell thee yet by deeds</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">that is until you tell me</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What it intends, till first I know of thee</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 740</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What thing thou art, thus double-formed, and why</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">who and what are you</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In this infernal vale first met, thou call’st</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Me father, and that fantasm call’st my son.</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and why you're calling me father and why you are calling that
shadow creature my son.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I know thee not, nor ever saw till now</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I don't know you,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sight more detestable than him and thee.”</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 745</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and I've never seen a more
disgusting sight than the two of you."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> To whom thus the Portress of Hell-gate replied:—</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">The woman answered:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>“Hast thou forgot me, then; and do I seem</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Hm, so you don't remember me.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Now in thine eyes so foul?—once deemed so fair</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Am I that ugly now? You didn't think so before.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In Heaven, when at the assembly, and in sight</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">In Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of all the Seraphim with thee combined</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 750</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In bold conspiracy against Heaven’s King,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">when you were planning your rebellion with all your followers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All on a sudden miserable pain</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">out of your pain and misery</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Surprised thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">your head burst into flames</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Threw forth, till on the left side opening wide,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 755</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and I came out of the left side of
your head.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Likest to thee in shape and countenance bright,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Then shining heavenly fair, a goddess armed,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Out of thy head I sprung. Amazement seized</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It shocked everyone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All the host of Heaven; back they recoiled afraid</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>At first, and called me<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Sin,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
for a sign</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 760</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and they called me 'Sin'</td>
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<td>Portentous held me; but, familiar grown,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">At first they were afraid, but then they began to like me</td>
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<td>I pleased, and with attractive graces won</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>The most averse—thee chiefly, who, full oft</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Thyself in me thy perfect image viewing,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Becam’st enamoured; and such joy thou took’st</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 765</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">especially you. We had sex and</td>
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<td>With me in secret that my womb conceived</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I became pregnant.</td>
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<td>A growing burden. Meanwhile war arose,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>And fields were fought in Heaven: wherein remained</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">When the war broke out</td>
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<td>(For what could else?) to our Almighty Foe</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and you lost</td>
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<tr>
<td>Clear victory; to our part loss and rout</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 770</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Through all the Empyrean. Down they fell,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I fell into Hell with all of you.</td>
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<td>Driven headlong from the pitch of Heaven, down</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Into this Deep; and in the general fall</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>I also: at which time this powerful Key</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I was given this key and </td>
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<td>Into my hands was given, with charge to keep</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 775</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>These gates for ever shut, which none can pass</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I was told that I had to keep these gates shut forever.</td>
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<td>Without my opening. Pensive here I sat</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<td>Alone; but long I sat not, till my womb,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I then soon gave birth </td>
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<td>Pregnant by thee, and now excessive grown,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes.</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 780</i> </div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>At last this odious offspring whom thou seest,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to this shadowy creature you now see before you</td>
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<td>Thine own begotten, breaking violent way,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And it was a violent delivery</td>
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<td>Tore through my entrails, that, with fear and pain</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">he tore my intestines up in his way out</td>
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<td>Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and that's how I got this snake shape as my lower half</td>
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<tr>
<td>Transformed: but he my inbred enemy</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 785</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP"></td>
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<td>Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He came out waving his dart</td>
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<td>Made to destroy. I fled, and cried out<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Death!</i></td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And I screamed Death</td>
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<td>Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>From all her caves, and back resounded<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Death!</i></td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems,</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 790</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">I ran away but he chased me</td>
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<td>Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed,</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<td align="left">and raped me</td>
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<td>And, in embraces forcible and foul</td>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
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<td>Engendering with me, of that rape begot</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">From that rape came more </td>
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<td>These yelling monsters, that with ceaseless cry</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 795</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">offspring. These</td>
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<td>Surround me, as thou saw’st—hourly conceived</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">dogs that now surround me.</td>
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<td>And hourly born, with sorrow infinite</td>
<td width="92"></td>
<td align="left">They never leave.</td>
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<td>To me: for, when they list, into the womb</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"> They go back inside of me</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That bred them they return, and howl, and gnaw</td>
<td width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">whenever they want</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>My bowels, their repast; then, bursting forth</td>
<td align="center" valign="TOP" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
<i> 800</i></div>
</td>
<td style="text-align: left;" valign="TOP">and howl and chew my insides. And
then I give</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Afresh, with conscious terrors vex me round,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">birth to them again and again.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That rest or intermission none I find.</td>
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<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Before mine eyes in opposition sits</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Grim Death, my son and foe, who sets them on,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
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<td>And me, his parent, would full soon devour</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
805</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For want of other prey, but that he knows</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His end with mine involved, and knows that I</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Should prove a bitter morsel, and his bane,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Whenever that shall be: so Fate pronounced.</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But thou, O Father, I forewarn thee, shun</td>
<td align="center" width="92">810</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His deadly arrow: neither vainly hope</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To be invulnerable in those bright arms,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Though tempered heavenly; for that mortal dint,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Save He who reigns above, none can resist.”</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> She finished; and the subtle Fiend his lore</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
815</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Soon learned, now milder, and thus answered smooth:—</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">Satan calmed down and said:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “Dear daughter—since thou claim’st me for thy sire,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">"Oh, so you're my daughter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And my fair son here show’st me, the dear pledge</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">and he is my Son.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of dalliance had with thee in Heaven, and joys</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">This is the result of the pleasure we had in Heaven</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Then sweet, now sad to mention, through dire change</td>
<td align="center" width="92">820</td>
<td align="left">and now it has turned into sadness down here.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Befallen us unforeseen, unthought-of—know,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I come no enemy, but to set free</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">I am not an enemy</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From out this dark and dismal house of pain</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I am here to set you free and all of my followers.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Both him and thee, and all the Heavenly host</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Spirits that, in our just pretences armed,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
825</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fell with us from on high. From them I go</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>This uncouth errand sole, and one for all</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Myself expose, with lonely steps to tread</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The unfounded Deep, and through the void immense</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'm going out there to search for a new place that is said</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To search, with wandering quest, a place foretold</td>
<td align="center" width="92">830</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Should be—and, by concurring signs, ere now</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Created vast and round—a place of bliss</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In the pourlieues of Heaven; and therein placed</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">to be near Heaven.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A race of upstart creatures, to supply</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">I hear there are new creatures</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Perhaps our vacant room, though more removed,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
835</div>
</td>
<td align="left">that are supposed to take our place.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lest Heaven, surcharged with potent multitude,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Might hap to move new broils. Be this, or aught</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I'm going to find out what's out there</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Than this more secret, now designed, I haste</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To know; and this once known, shall soon return</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And bring ye to the place where thou and Death</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
840</div>
</td>
<td align="left">Then I'll bring you and Death there</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shall dwell at ease, and up and down unseen</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">where you can live comfortably and fly around invisible</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wing silently the buxom air, imbalmed</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With odours. There ye shall be fed and filled</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">and have plenty to eat."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Immeasurably; all things shall be your prey.”</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> He ceased; for both seemed highly pleased, and Death</td>
<td align="center" width="92">845</td>
<td align="left">This pleased Sin and Death. Death</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">smiled and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His famine should be filled, and blessed his maw</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">was looking forward to it.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Destined to that good hour. No less rejoiced</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His mother bad, and thus bespake her Sire:—</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> “The key of this infernal Pit, by due</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
850</div>
</td>
<td align="left">Sin said: "I'm supposed to </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And by command of Heaven’s all-powerful King,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">keep these gates locked</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I keep, by Him forbidden to unlock</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">because God said so</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>These adamantine gates; against all force</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Death ready stands to interpose his dart,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and Death is also supposed to kill whoever who tries to get
past.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fearless to be o’ermatched by living might.</td>
<td align="center" width="92">855</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But what I owe I to His commands above,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">But what do I owe God? Why </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Who hates me, and hath hither thrust me down</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">should I listen to someone who hates me and threw</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Into this gloom of Tartarus profound,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">me down into this pit?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To sit in hateful office here confined,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Inhabitant of Heaven and heavenly-born—</td>
<td align="center" width="92">860</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Here in perpetual agony and pain,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With terrors and with clamours compassed round</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of mine own brood, that on my bowels feed?</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thou art my father, thou my author, thou</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">You Satan, are my father and you're the one who I should
obey.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>My being gav’st me; whom should I obey</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
865</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But thee? whom follow? Thou wilt bring me soon</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">Soon</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To that new world of light and bliss, among</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in that new world</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The gods who live at ease, where I shall reign</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>At thy right hand voluptuous, as beseems</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">we will rule together</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thy daughter and thy darling, without end.”</td>
<td align="center" width="92">870</td>
<td align="left">I'll be your daughter and your lover forever."</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Thus saying, from her side the fatal key,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">After she finished speaking, she took the key</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sad instrument of all our woe, she took;</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And, toward the gate rowling her bestial train,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and put it into the gate.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Forthwith the huge portcullis high up-drew,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Which, but herself, not all the Stygian Powers</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
875</div>
</td>
<td align="left">She opened the gate that no one else could open</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Could once have moved; then in the keyhole turns</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The intricate wards, and every bolt and bar</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of massy iron or solid rock with ease</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Unfastens. On a sudden open fly,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With impetuous recoil and jarring sound,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
880</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Erebus. She opened; but to shut</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">She was only able to open it</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Excelled her power: the gates wide open stood,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and she didn't have the power to close it.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That with extended wings a bannered host,</td>
<td align="center" width="92">885</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Under spread ensigns marching, might pass through</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With horse and chariots ranked in loose array;</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>So wide they stood, and like a furnace-mouth</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame.</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Before their eyes in sudden view appear</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
890</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The secrets of the hoary Deep—a dark</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Illimitable ocean, without bound,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Without dimension: where length, breadth, and highth,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">Through the opening there was</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">no space or time. Only NIght</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold</td>
<td align="center" width="92">895</td>
<td align="left">and Chaos who would later create Nature</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Strive here for maistrie, and to battle bring</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their embryon atoms: they around the flag</td>
<td align="center" width="92">900</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of each his faction, in their several clans,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Light-armed or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift, or slow,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Swarm populous, unnumbered as the sands</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Barca or Cyrene’s torrid soil,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Levied to side with warring winds, and poise</td>
<td align="center" width="92">905</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He rules a moment: Chaos umpire sits,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">This was the realm that Chaos</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And by decision more imbroils the fray</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>By which he reigns: next him, high arbiter,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chance governs all. Into this wild Abyss,</td>
<td align="center" width="92">910</td>
<td align="left">and Chance ruled.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>But all these in their pregnant causes mixed</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain</td>
<td align="center" width="92">915</td>
<td align="left">This was where all the</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>His dark materials to create more worlds—</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">materials were kept. The raw elements to create</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Satan stood there and just watched for a while.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He had to cross. Nor was his ear less pealed</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
920</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With noises loud and ruinous (to compare</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Great things with small) than when Bellona storms</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With all her battering engines, bent to rase</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Some capital city; or less than if this frame</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of heaven were falling, and these elements</td>
<td align="center" width="92">925</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In mutiny had from her axle torn</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The steadfast Earth. At last his sail-broad vans</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>He spreads for flight, and, in the surging smoke</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">He finally took flight.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Uplifted, spurns the ground; thence many a league,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
930</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Audacious; but, that seat soon failing, meets</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A vast vacuity. All unawares,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And then he suddenly ended up in a vacuum</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb-down he drops</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">and then fell again</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ten thousand fadom deep, and to this hour</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Down had been falling, had not, by ill chance,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
935</div>
</td>
<td align="left">until a wind blew him</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As many miles aloft. That fury stayed—</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">and he ended up far away</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quenched in a boggy Syrtis, neither sea,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">in a bog</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nor good dry land-nigh foundered, on he fares,</td>
<td align="center" width="92">940</td>
<td align="left">where it was hard to walk</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Treading the crude consistence, half on foot,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">he had to walk through it</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail.</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">while flying every now and then</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>As when a gryfon through the wilderness</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With wingèd course, o’er hill or moory dale,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pursues the Arimpasian, who by stealth</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
945</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Had from his wakeful custody purloined</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The guarded gold; so eagerly the Fiend</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>O’er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.</td>
<td align="center" width="92">950</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>At length, a universal hubbub wild</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">After a while he heard some wild noises</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With loudest vehemence. Thither he plies</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">So he followed the noises</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Undaunted, to meet there whatever Power</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
955</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Or Spirit of the nethermost Abyss</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Might in that noise reside, of whom to ask</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Which way the nearest coast of darkness lies</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bordering on light; when straight behold the throne</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">And it led him to</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Chaos,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
his dark pavilion spread</td>
<td align="center" width="92">960</td>
<td align="left">Chaos, and</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wide on the wasteful Deep! With him enthroned</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sat sable-vested<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Night,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>eldest
of things,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">next to him sat Night</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The consort of his reign; and by them stood</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Of Demogorgon; Rumour next, and Chance,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
965</div>
</td>
<td align="left">There was also Rumour, Chance</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">Tumult, and Confusion</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And Discord with a thousand various mouths.</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">and Discord</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> To whom Satan, turning boldly, thus:—“Ye Powers</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">Satan then explained himself: "I don't mean to disturb you</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>And Spirits of this nethermost Abyss,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy</td>
<td align="center" width="92">970</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With purpose to explore or to disturb</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>The secrets of your realm; but, by constraint</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wandering this darksome desert, as my way</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I was just passing through wandering</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lies through your spacious empire up to light,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Alone and without guide, half lost, I seek,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
975</div>
</td>
<td align="left">and I got lost.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What readiest path leads where your gloomy bounds</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">I'm trying to find my way out of this place and </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Confine with Heaven; or, if some other place,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">find where Heaven's light is.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>From your dominion won, the Ethereal King</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Possesses lately, thither to arrive</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I travel this profound. Direct my course;</td>
<td align="center" width="92">980</td>
<td align="left">If you can show me where to go</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Directed, no mean recompense it brings</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">I can make it up to you and make it worth your while.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To your behoof, if I that region lost.</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All usurpation thence expelled, reduce</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>To her original darkness and your sway</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>(Which is my present journey), and once more</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
985</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Erect the standard there of ancient Night.</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge!”</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">You'll get something out of it while I have my revenge!"</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Thus Satan; and him thus the Anarch old,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With faltering speech and visage incomposed,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Chaos spoke: </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Answered:—“I know thee, stranger, who thou art—</td>
<td align="center" width="92">990</td>
<td align="left">"I know all about your and your </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That mighty leading Angel, who of late</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">little war.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Made head against Heaven’s King, though overthrown.</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">It was hard to miss</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>I saw and heard; for such a numerous host</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">your entire army falling down</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fled not in silence through the frighted Deep,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">into the the pits of Hell!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,</td>
<td align="center" width="92">995</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Confusion worse confounded; and Heaven-gates</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Poured out by millions her victorious bands,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pursuing. I upon my frontiers here</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Keep residence; if all I can will serve</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">I'm just getting sick of my domain being taken over</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>That little which is left so to defend,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
1000</div>
</td>
<td align="left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Encroached on still through our intestine broils</td>
<td align="center" width="92"></td>
<td align="left">first by</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Weakening the sceptre of old Night: first, Hell,</td>
<td align="center" width="92"><div style="margin: 0px;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td align="left">Hell</td>
</tr>
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<td>Your dungeon, stretching far and wide beneath;</td>
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<td>Hung o’er my realm, linked in a golden chain</td>
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<td>To that side Heaven from whence your legions fell!</td>
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<td>If that way be your walk, you have not far;</td>
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<td>So much the nearer danger. Go, and speed;</td>
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<td>Havoc, and spoil, and ruin, are my gain.”</td>
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<td> He ceased; and Satan staid not to reply,</td>
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<td>But, glad that now his sea should find a shore,</td>
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<td>With fresh alacrity and force renewed</td>
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<td>Springs upward, like a pyramid of fire,</td>
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<td>Into the wild expanse, and through the shock</td>
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<td>Of fighting elements, on all sides round</td>
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<td>Environed, wins his way; harder beset</td>
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<td>And more endangered than when Argo passed</td>
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<td>Through Bosporus betwixt the justling rocks,</td>
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<td>Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunned</td>
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<td>Charybdis, and by the other Whirlpool steered.</td>
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<td>So he with difficulty and labour hard</td>
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<td>Moved on. With difficulty and labour he;</td>
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<td>But, he once passed, soon after, when Man fell,</td>
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<td>Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain,</td>
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<td>Following his track (such was the will of Heaven)</td>
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<td>Paved after him a broad and beaten way</td>
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<td>Over the dark Abyss, whose boiling gulf</td>
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<td>Tamely endured a bridge of wondrous length,</td>
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<td>From Hell continued, reaching the utmost Orb</td>
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<td>Of this frail World; by which the Spirits perverse</td>
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<td>With easy intercourse pass to and fro</td>
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<td>To tempt or punish mortals, except whom</td>
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<td>God and good Angels guard by special grace.</td>
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<td> But now at last the sacred influence</td>
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<td>Of light appears, and from the walls of Heaven</td>
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<td>Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night</td>
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<td>A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins</td>
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<td>Her fardest verge, and Chaos to retire,</td>
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<td>As from her utmost works, a broken foe,</td>
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<td>That Satan with less toil, and now with ease,</td>
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<td>Wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light,</td>
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<td>And, like a weather-beaten vessel, holds</td>
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<td>Gladly the port, though shrouds and tackle torn;</td>
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<td>Or in the emptier waste, resembling air,</td>
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<td>Weighs his spread wings, at leisure to behold</td>
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<td>Far off the imperial Heaven, extended wide</td>
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<td>In circuit, undetermined square or round,</td>
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<td>With opal towers and battlements adorned</td>
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<td>Of living sapphire, once his native seat,</td>
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<td>And, fast by, hanging in a golden chain,</td>
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<td>This pendent World, in bigness as a star</td>
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<td>Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.</td>
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<td>Thither, full fraught with mischievous revenge,</td>
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destination. </td>
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<td>Accurst, and in a cursed hour, he hies.</td>
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Satiregram from Instagramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05202214468007290584noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-30542941151723384362010-01-12T13:54:00.000-08:002020-01-12T13:54:51.865-08:00Social & Cultural History of the Time: Pinpointing ParadiseThe tensions and political turmoil that surrounded John Milton undoubtedly influenced his great work, Paradise Lost. The social conditions during the time Milton lived provided him with a multitude of concepts in which he could incorporate into his epic. Paradise Lost is the result of Milton funneling all of his social and political ideologies into a vehicle in which he would be able to indirectly express his personal views without the risk of public conviction. The tense atmosphere along with significant events that happened contributed and shaped the work as Milton weaved his ideas into the epic. Paradise Lost can be interpreted in many ways, depending on how the work is broken down and analyzed. From a standard point of view, Paradise Lost is just an expanded account of a few pages in Genesis about Adam and Eve and the Temptation. However, Milton’s work can be interpreted in a much deeper way by viewing the epic as a political allegory that represents and embodies the political Pandemonium during the time.<br />
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The players, situations, and concepts that were depicted in Paradise Lost reflect actual true to life people and events that had occurred during Milton’s life. These happenings helped to shape Paradise Lost, and also provide Milton with a structure and a chain of events to weave into his epic. John Milton lived during turbulent times in England mainly due to the conflicts of interest and religious ideals that were taking place between King Charles I and Parliament. King Charles I was a firm believer in the divine right of kings to rule, and that God had given him the full authority to rule as he saw fit regardless what anyone and Parliament said (Roberts). With this kind of mindset, King Charles I ultimately took advantage of his position and soon became a tyrant. Parliament on the other hand, believed that a king had a contractual agreement to the people he ruled (Roberts). With these events occurring, Milton conveyed the idea that there was a profound difference between a divine king and an earthy one throughout Paradise Lost (Moss & Wilson). With Paradise Lost, it can be observed that Milton also expressed that an earthly king should not try to act as if he was a God himself. This is reflective of Lucifer beginning to defect from God’s grace, and attempting to make himself have more authority and power to be more like God and his Son.<br />
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The different views between King Charles I and Parliament reflects the impending separation of Heaven and Lucifer that was in the making. King Charles I’s exploitation of kingly authority against Parliament is embodied as Lucifer’s war against Heaven, which he suffers in defeat and is spared. Parliament is represented as Heaven in this particular context. King Charles I is spared as well but is charged with treason for attempting to take up arms against Parliament again, much like how Lucifer and his new weapons attempts to battle with Heaven for the second time. After all of this, the separation of Heaven and the rebellious Lucifer occurs, akin to how King Charles I is executed for treason. A defeated Lucifer and his rebel angels are cast into the depths of Hell, and here Lucifer plans to make his own Heaven out of Hell and Hell out of Heaven (Milton). Lucifer also represents Oliver Cromwell because Cromwell had been persuading Parliament to get rid of King Charles I, much like how Lucifer suggested and persuaded to the rebel angels that it may be possible to overthrow God and his kingdom. Milton creates these parallels and develops a back story and gives his character of Lucifer in the epic, motives and reason to overthrow God as well as a personality (Ward). Cromwell also wanted to challenge the divine right of kings ideology of King Charles I and wanted more freedom, much like how Lucifer began to stray away from the light of God. It can be implied that Milton makes this connection to directly raise awareness of how straying away from God can create an imbalance in power and authority. In Hell, Lucifer incites and boosts the morale of his fallen angels, much like how Milton rouses support for Oliver Cromwell to become head of the Commonwealth that was soon established after the execution of King Charles I (Roberts). In this context, Lucifer creates his own Parliament and Lucifer represents Oliver Cromwell who eventually turns into a tyrant much like how King Charles I did. This new Parliament is embodied by the rebel angels who begin to debate amongst each other wildly, which represents the eventual opposing views between the Parliament and Cromwell. Lucifer, despite what his rebel angels have agreed upon in regarding what to do about God and Heaven, takes it upon himself and acts on his own decisions much like how King Charles I did with Parliament. This is also reminiscent of Oliver Cromwell who eventually acted entirely independent from what Parliament suggested; King Charles I, Lucifer, and Cromwell represent the concept of a false leader.<br />
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Paradise Lost can be interpreted as a political allegory, mainly due to the interactions between characters having disputes that have political undertones. The connections between the social and political disorder happenings during Milton’s life, and the situations in Paradise Lost are clear. The personalities of the influential figures and factions around Milton became the personalities of the characters in Paradise Lost. Politics were not the only thing that helped Milton to expand a few pages of Genesis into a twelve book epic, gender roles of his era were deeply embedded into the characters of Adam and Eve (Roberts). Milton was successful in creating the internal and external dialogues for all of his main characters in the epic by implanting social values and morals of his time. Milton was also successful in expressing his views about the flaws of the divine right of kings and why King Charles I was unfit to be King, and the potential corruption that could happen due to the exploitation of power.<br />
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Moss, Joyce and George Wilson. Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them. <http://www.answers.com/topic/paradise-lost-the-poem-in-focus> 2007 The Gale Group, Inc., 31 November 2010<br />
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Roberts, Gabriel. Milton’s Political Context. <http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darknessvisible/politics.html#political_climate> 2008 Christ’s College., 29 November 2010<br />
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After Paradise Lost was published in 1667, it was met with immediate reception from major critics of the time and different views about it as well. One of the first major responses to Paradise Lost was from poetic and literary critic John Dryden. Imitation is the best form of flattery on Dryden’s behalf, for Dryden was influenced by Paradise Lost so much that he had created his own adaptation of the epic in the form of a play in rhyming prose (Fletcher). Milton’s note about his feelings on the ‘troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming’ obviously had no effect on Dryden. Dryden also felt that Satan, not Adam, was the hero of the epic (Fletcher). Dryden was also a Royalist, a full on political opponent of Milton who was against The Restoration. Despite the political tensions and labels, Milton’s creation was still met with open arms. Dryden’s adaptation of Paradise Lost was more of a tribute rather than a work of satire, it was titled The State of Innocence and it also sold more copies than Milton’s epic until the end of the Seventeenth century (Fletcher). The epic then started to grow as more critics and adept readers began to peer into Milton’s Paradise.<br />
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Paradise Lost also caught the attention of Joseph Addison and his magazine The Spectator. Addison goes on to explore and thoroughly analyze Paradise Lost by the rules of epic poetry according to the Poetics of Aristotle and the Art of Poetry of Horace (Addison). Addison examines Paradise Lost and compares and contrasts its structure and internal workings with that of the Iliad and Aeneid. Addison says that in order for Paradise Lost to be an epic it must have: a plot called a fable, and three actions or qualifications (Addison). Addison explains how Paradise Lost parallels with the Iliad and Aeneid in terms of the three qualifications, and in the process goes on to prove that it is in fact an epic. Paradise Lost as an epic made its way into the hands of writers who saw it as an addition and enhancement to their own works, while others completely saw the epic as something that needed to be fixed in order to be acceptable.<br />
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Paradise Lost had influenced Voltaire, who mentioned Milton and his epic in his French satire Candide (Teskey 382). In a particular scene in Candide, the main character Candide visits the palace of a Venetian nobleman who completely belittles Milton’s epic, “[…] that barbarian who made a long commentary in ten books of turgid verse on the first chapter of Genesis? That clumsy imitator of the Greeks […] This poem, which is obscure, bizarre, and disgusting […]” (Voltaire). Although these were harsh words written from Voltaire’s hand, Voltaire was simply satirizing literary criticism of the day by having a nobleman character, by the name of Pococurante which translates to “cares for little”, deliver negative opinions about great authors (Teskey 382). Voltaire actually holds Milton’s epic up to a high esteem as he writes in his Essay upon the Epick poetry of the European Nations, “The Paradise Lost is the only poem wherein are to be found in a perfect degree that uniformity which satisfies the mind and that variety which pleases the imagination” (Voltaire). However, praise and approval for Paradise Lost was not always the case, as there were those who saw the epic as greatly flawed. A man named Richard Bentley, a textual critic, took Milton’s epic and published an emended edition where Bentley replaced words with other words that Bentley felt were more suitable (Fletcher). His commentary and revisions attracted a wide range of critics who usually had negative things to say about his changes. William Cowper, an Eighteenth century English poet, even criticized Bentley’s criticism about Milton’s choice of words (Fletcher). Although Milton’s epic amazed critics and made other critics upset about the way it was written, it kept people talking to the point that it embedded itself into the minds of writers and eventually influenced them greatly.<br />
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Paradise Lost became an epic that could only be imitated and would be difficult to upstage in terms of content, style, and prose. Mock-epics were written with echoes of Paradise Lost, along with other epics as well. An example could be of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, where it can be observed that Pope was influenced greatly by Milton’s epic as he made a parody of it and readers could see allusions of Paradise Lost within it. Another example can be of William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, where Blake highlighted and implied that Milton sympathized with the devil (Fletcher). Blake also remarked that Milton was of the devil’s party and did not even know it. Blake’s implications of Milton’s religious allegiance and content sparked and influenced the intense debate and criticism about Milton for the rest of the twentieth century (Fletcher).<br />
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Paradise Lost has influenced modern writers as well, such as Phillip Pullman and His Dark Materials trilogy. Pullman himself mentioned that he wanted to create a version of Paradise Lost for teenagers (Laurence). Pullman applied many ideas and influences from Paradise Lost and incorporated them into his own works. Both Milton and Pullman share the same concerns about freedom and authority, which can be observed in both Paradise Lost and Pullman’s trilogy. Additionally in both works a single act of disobedience brings forth something new into the world, in Paradise Lost sin is introduced and in His Dark Materials Dust is brought forth (Laurence). Both authors are also concerned with the power of knowledge and ignorance and how these qualities can affect different outcomes. In His Dark Materials, Pullman portrays the character of God in his works as a God who maintains his power by preventing people from gaining knowledge (Laurence). While in Paradise Lost, Satan argues that God is intellectually repressive to both Adam and Eve as he tries to convince them to eat from the Tree of Knowledge even though they were told not to.<br />
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Paradise Lost is in the canon because it is able to stay relevant to readers, writers, and artists. A piece of work can last possibly forever, but have its significance tested constantly for it to become an immortal work. Paradise Lost is of canonical status because it is able to have a significant context, and a way to connect with an audience through a theological and philosophical way (Blessington). Milton retells the story of Creation and the Fall and expands on it greatly in addition to fulfilling his purpose of “justifying the ways of God to man”. Another reason why Paradise Lost is in the canon is because it has momentous depth. There is a certain resonance to it because the epic contains remnants and overtones of literary works that have been created before it (Blessington). Milton created Paradise Lost with a variety of influences in mind as he incorporated everything he had learned and read into one great epic. Molded into the poem are traces of verbal echoes from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Italian, and English poetry (Blessington). Milton’s distinctive style of prose was heavily influenced by the original pros of prose that he had studied in college. The multitude of concepts in Paradise Lost includes: political liberty, the nature of God, free will, human history, the nature of power and rebellion, the interpretations of dreams, and the line between knowledge and ignorance, to name a few (Blessington). When a writer presents so many ideas with such intelligence and dignity, we think and feel them even if we happen to disagree with what he is conveying. Another quality of why Paradise Lost is in the canon is because of its originality. It was a bold and daring move for Milton to not only add character and personalities to Adam and Eve, but to also give character and personalities to both God and Satan as well. Paradise Lost is also original because it is written in blank verse, opposed to the “bondage of rhyme” as Milton stated. Another quality that Paradise Lost contains is the power of being memorable. The words, images, characters, and overall story plot in Paradise Lost ultimately embed themselves into the minds of writers, readers, and critics. The final reason why Paradise Lost is in the canon is that it serves as a stimulant for present and future writers, readers, and critics. Paradise Lost has become a timeless universal inspiration. Milton also found no lack in imitators to his style, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with writers such as Dryden, Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley who freely interpreted and imitated Milton’s style (Blessington). Furthermore, Paradise Lost has also inspired operas, ballets, screenplays, and paintings (Blessington). Even in modern times Paradise Lost has made an impact in the world of music as well, the epic inspired a band to name themselves Paradise Lost. Another band named Cradle of Filth had released a theme album dedicated to Paradise Lost including songs with lyrics that are inspired by Milton’s epic. The publication of Milton’s influential epic has definitely made a significant splash in the literary world as it is also able to continually resonate beyond the sphere of literature and into other realms of art.<br />
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Addison, Joseph. Spectator #267. Daily Publication Magazine. England. 1712<br />
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Blessington, Francis C. Paradise Lost: A Student’s Companion. Nebraska. 2004<br />
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Fletcher, Katherine. A Biography of John Milton. 2008. 11 November 2010.<br />
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Laurence, Jon. The Legacy of Paradise Lost. 2008. 12 November 2010.<br />
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Teskey, Gordon. Paradise Lost. London. Norton & Company 2005.<br />
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satiregramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05311892792513219294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-914456595594925172010-01-12T13:37:00.000-08:002020-01-12T13:40:57.663-08:00Textual History: Producing a ParadiseJohn Milton’s Paradise Lost was a piece of work that had gone through some transformations on its way to the printing press and eventually eyes of the world. Milton’s eye-opening epic sheds light especially on a section of the bible called Genesis, and he elaborates on the fall of man. Milton’s purpose of writing Paradise Lost can be seen in Book I, “That to the heighth of this great argument/ I may assert Eternal Providence/ And justify the ways of God to men.” (lines 24-26, Milton). In order for Milton to fulfill his purpose in writing this epic, he had to take the fall of man as it was in Genesis, and create a whole new perspective out of it, along with individual viewpoints of each of the characters in Genesis as well. Milton went even further to create a Heaven, Hell, and Paradise to intensify his purpose. To create a work that would create a significant impact, Paradise Lost was produced out of many resources and influences that were at Milton’s disposal. In order to present this magnificent piece of work to the world, Milton had to develop a method and niche of delivering his message, use influences from past literature from classic authors, and consider the time and resources available to him.<br />
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Paradise Lost’s early workings were like a seed that had transformed into something bigger and Milton’s plan of creating a tragedy had transformed into an epic. Years before even starting on Paradise Lost, Milton had written up four drafts of a tragedy titled Adam Unparadized (Teskey xxiv). Adam Unparadized was a sort of an early outline for the final Paradise Lost draft. There is a manuscript that is called the “Trinity Manuscript”, which shows notes and outlines about historical and biblical tragedies such as Solomon being ruled by his wives and the Great Flood (Flannagan 71). Milton took these notes because they could be used as possible concepts and fodder for writing tragedies. Milton figured that he could use a “tragedy-type” format of writing and prose because Shakespeare had written works that had tragedies embedded in them. Milton saw this as a sort of niche and “vessel” to deliver his own message. However, Milton’s definition of a tragedy was entirely different than Shakespeare’s trademark Elizabethan style. Milton thought of tragedies as a way to educate and teach an English person valuable lessons about life through the use of instructive history and bible stories or a combination of the two (Flannagan 72). Paradise Lost initially started out as a plan for a tragic story, and it eventually evolved into an epic because of what Milton had to add to his drafts in order to make his purpose, “…to justify the ways of God to men”, known and understood.<br />
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The evolution and transformation of this tragedy into an epic had much to do with the structure and influences Milton had in mind. Milton observed the way Roman and Greek authors presented protagonists, antagonists, messengers; the unities of time, setting, and action; and plot devices such as epitasis and catastrophe (Flannagan 71). Traces of this type of protagonist and antagonist structure were obviously implemented into Paradise Lost, with Satan and God being at opposite ends of the universe Milton created in his epic. With a sort of structure in mind, Milton was able to build from this foundation in order to present something educational for his nation. Milton had to also create dialogue between Adam and Eve, Eve and the Serpent, motives for the Serpent, Satan IN and AS the serpent, and also motives for Adam and Eve to disobey the one rule God set for them (Flannagan 73). With all these factors and concepts put together, Milton would be able to describe what exactly it would mean to disobey God’s one commandment. Although blind during the majority of the production of Paradise Lost, Milton never lost sight of the importance of the origin of evil, which he wanted to include in his tragedy turned epic.<br />
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Milton called upon biblical sources and past literature as possible influences during the production of Paradise Lost. Solomon and his wives could very well be an influence, for Solomon being ruled by his wives could be the source of the dialogue and scene of Adam being swayed by Eve when she ate from the forbidden tree. In the Trinity Manuscript, there were also notes about the theme of temptation which is obviously prevalent in Paradise Lost; Milton took notes on the temptation of the serpent with Adam and Eve, along with the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness (Flannagan 71). Milton also used elements from Metamorphosis as an influence as well. Milton uses Ovid’s story of Narcissus to show how Adam and Eve reflect on each other and also how they reflect on the divine source whose image they both are as well (Kilgour 310). This single story of Narcissus echoes throughout Paradise Lost as Milton connects it and applies it in creating his epic. The creation of Eve from Adam also displays traces of the story of Narcissus in a way. Eve was created out of Adam, and Adam and Eve are in an intimate relationship with each other and they also act and think differently from one another. Influences such as these, intertwine together in order to create Milton’s ideal educational epic tragedy.<br />
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Upon completion of his epic in 1665, it was not until 1667 that it was published by a man named Samuel Simmons (Luxon). In the two years after the epic’s completion, there were events going on at that time that would have stunted both production and distribution of Milton’s epic. There was the second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665 that had created a paper shortage and the Great Fire of London in 1666 (Luxon). In 1667 when it was finally published, it was presented as a two-part tragedy in ten books, likely paying homage to its dramatic roots using Lucan’s Pharsalia as a structural model (Orgel & Goldberg xiv). It was from this year on however, that Paradise Lost began to transform from being a dramatic piece of work into an immortal epic. The publisher had also asked Milton to supply an Argument, therefore prose summaries were inserted before each book (Orgel & Goldberg xiv). Paradise Lost was a puzzling and challenging piece as well, so Milton was asked to write why he had chosen to write in blank verse instead of the conventional method of writing at the time which was rhyme verse (Orgel & Goldberg xiv). These changes and transformations have made Paradise Lost even more engaging and further help Milton’s goal of educating the masses. In 1674, the year of Milton’s death, Samuel Simmons opted to revise Paradise Lost and split two long books and added some transitional lines turning the old tragic Lucanian piece, into a Virgilian epic (Orgel & Goldberg xiv). The final 1674 version included all of these factors, two dedication poems in Latin and English, along with content by Andrew Marvell (Orgel & Goldberg xiv).<br />
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It is certain that Paradise Lost had gone through significant growth and evolution regarding the influences, structure, and resources Milton used when producing it. The final product was also at the mercy of the publisher, which had a significant impact on how we view, read, and analyze Paradise Lost today. Milton created a universe that encompassed Heaven, Hell, and Paradise, and within these realms he had also created characters that each had their own perspective and viewpoints. All at the same time weaving in themes and life lessons in the hopes that they would impact the lives of generations to come. Milton was successful at creating his own special writing niche, incorporating previous influences, and developing a final product that would turn into one of the greatest pieces of English literature. This particular piece of literature was and still is able to challenge the minds of readers and scholars everywhere.<br />
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Flannagan, Roy. John Milton: A Short Introduction, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers 2002<br />
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Goldberg, Jonathan. Orgel, Stephen. Paradise Lost, New York, Oxford University Press 2004<br />
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Kilgour, Maggie, ‘‘Thy perfect image viewing’’: Poetic Creation and Ovid’s Narcissus in Paradise Lost, Studies in Philology, Volume 102, Number 3, Summer 2005, pp. 307-339, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press 2005<br />
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Luxon, Thomas H., Ed. The Milton Reading Room, <http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton>, March, 2008.satiregramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05311892792513219294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414794700412359742.post-327585864238542922010-01-12T13:04:00.000-08:002020-01-12T14:37:52.374-08:00John Milton's Background: Planning a Paradise LostJohn Milton is a man who has earned the reputation of being one of the most brilliant and greatest English poets in literature. Milton’s life was filled with revolution, dynamic progression, and especially the controversy that had surrounded his ideas and methods. His name has become a trademark and possibly the core of the English canon (Rogers). His most famous work is Paradise Lost, which is also widely regarded as being one of the greatest pieces of English literature to date. Milton was blessed with an education from which he grew up into a man of epic proportions, wielding a talented tongue of many languages alongside his epic poetic abilities. Milton’s life experiences and studies both intertwined together to influence his creations, ideas, inspirations, and ultimately Paradise Lost. Studying works such as Homer’s Odyssey, The Iliad, and Virgil’s Aeneid had motivated Milton to create his own English epic that would surpass these previous classics. Milton’s plan of creating an epic poem about Arthur and his knights had blossomed into something entirely different. Milton’s epic is a treasure trove of possibly hundreds of different interpretations and underlying themes that scholars and readers still debate about to this day. The inspiration of creating the epic came to Milton at an early age where he saw how he could make it greater than anything ever made. The actual creation of Paradise lost can be dated at the peak of his literary career when he was very old, and although blind during the making of it, he was able to “see” that it encompassed everything that he felt that would make it an immortal and unforgettable epic.<br />
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John Milton first saw a new world for the taking in the winter of the year 1608 in London, England. Born into a world illuminated by the minds of people like John Dryden, Francis Bacon, and Shakespeare; was a man who would attempt to open the eyes of those around him through his writings and revolutionary ideas. Milton’s father, who was also named John Milton, had the characteristics of being rebel as he was embracing Protestantism in the shadow of his own father who was a devout Catholic.<br />
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John Milton describes his father carefully as a man of ‘supreme integrity in one of several autobiographical passages in his works. Yet he does not refer at all to his grandfather, perhaps because he had been a Roman Catholic and paid fines for Recusancy, the offense of refusing to convert to the Church of England. A family story had it that grandfather Milton found his son reading an English Bible, a sign of his conversion to Protestantism, and disinherited him. Thus John Milton senior became the classic figure of the new capitalist and bourgeois world, a self-made man (Forsyth 16).<br />
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Perhaps the young Milton inherited this rebellious nature from his father and influenced him to think outside of the box. Themes of rebellion and revolution echo throughout both Milton’s life and his prose works. Milton’s father was a musician and came to be a savvy business man who then was able to afford an excellent education for the young Milton (Forsyth 16). Milton’s father’s compositions are still sung and performed even today, as with young Milton’s literary masterpieces are studied and enjoyed with the same passion as well. Milton’s father was able to afford the best education and resources for his son, and it paved the way to a new world of stories, ways of thinking, and language.<br />
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At around the age of 12, Milton was enrolled at St. Paul’s School and his father even employed private tutors to supplement Milton’s learning. One particular tutor was Thomas Young, who may have influenced Milton greatly in the realms of classical literature, religion, and politics (Forsyth 17). Thomas Young’s impact on the young Milton probably greatly shaped his ideals that could be observed and interpreted in his works. Religion and political themes can be observed in his life experiences and especially in his works. Studying at St. Pauls, Milton was exposed to ancient authors such as Horace, Virgil, and the New Testament in Greek. At the age of 15, Milton enrolled to Christ’s College, Cambridge presumably intending to become a minister, but a year later he was expelled due to a disagreement with a tutor by the name of William Chappell.<br />
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The man [William Chappell] seems to have been a popular teacher, but soon, perhaps as <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>early as Milton’s first year […] a serious difference arose between them and Milton was rusticated, that is, sent home for a time. […] Exactly what happened we do not know. It is possible that Milton was disappointed academically by Cambridge since his school, St. Paul’s, had been so a good a place to learn, and his irritation got the better of him. It may have been a theological dispute, since Chappell was, a follower of Arminius and thus a believer in limited free will. At this time Milton was still a strongly Calvinist <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>predestinarian. Such a conflict would also, and necessarily for the times, be political (Forsyth 24)<br />
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This young Milton was showing signs of a man who was breaking the bonds of whatever constraints that he felt held him down in terms of what he believes in. An attitude such as this created the breeding grounds for a brilliant mind in the making. After his yearlong expulsion, he resumed study at Cambridge in logic, ethics, and various languages which then developed his tongue even further as with his knowledge. During his time at Cambridge, Milton wrote much Latin poetry and had created his first masterpiece titled, “Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” (Teskey xvi). This poem showed traces of Milton using what he had learned from previous authors and applying it and creating his own niche in writing and prose. Such a method would soon grow and evolve all throughout his life into his own unique skill that he would demonstrate mastery of in Paradise Lost.<br />
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Milton first thought about writing an epic at a young age, yet he did not even begin to actually write it by the time he was very old and virtually blind. After receiving his Master’s and studying in solitude for about 6 years, 30 year old Milton embarked on a 15 month grand tour of the European continent (Teskey xviii). It was on this journey across the country that Milton had gathered great inspiration and more fodder for his epic that he would only begin to write about two decades later. Milton had mentioned his plans of writing an epic in a Latin poem that he had addressed to a friend named Giovanni Manso, whom he had met in Naples (Teskey xviii). It is not known when exactly when Milton began composing Paradise Lost, but it is supposed that he had started sometime in 1658 around the time his second wife and their child had died (Teskey xxiii). During the political unrest turmoil and the beginning of the Restoration, Milton became arrested and imprisoned because he was a defender of the Commonwealth (Teskey xxv). Soon after his release, Milton devoted his nights and mornings to the composition of Paradise Lost until completing it by 1665 and finally published in 1667 (Teskey xxv-xxvi).<br />
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Milton’s power of pamphleteering and persuasion through his use of words may be the character he projects onto Satan, for Satan hold the same degree of influence through persuasive dialogue and eloquent speeches.<br />
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Milton was not yet as radical either in politics or in theology as he soon became […] he <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>still recognized the king and thought of his power as shared with the Lords and the <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Commons. But Parliament, he argued should be the sole agent of church reform. If not, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the king would impose his own high-church ceremonial and doctrine through his control <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>of the appointment of bishops. Milton’s pamphlets helped to generate an extraordinary <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>explosion of tract and counter-tract, a war of words such as no European country had ever <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>seen (Forsyth 70).<br />
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Although Milton’s personal life experiences have contributed initial inspiration for the epic Paradise Lost, the experiences with the world around Milton have also generated a substantial impact on the epic as well. Milton’s works, including his pamphleteering days, which span from his younger years to his prime, demonstrate a gradual evolution of his ideals, views on the human perspective of life, religious servitude, and the world around him. Ultimately the rebellious nature that resonates through Milton’s growing ideology throughout his life became the very essence of rebellion that shines through Paradise Lost.<br />
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Forsyth, Neil. John Milton. Great Britain: Lion Hudson UK 2010. Uploaded Print copy.<br />
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Rogers, John "The Poetry of John Milton" 27 Oct 2012<br />
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Teskey, Gordon "Paradise Lost" New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005satiregramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05311892792513219294noreply@blogger.com1