Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep) What feigned submission swore! Ease would recant Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay While they adore me on the throne of Hell,īut say I could repent, and could obtain,īy act of grace, my former state how soon None left but by submission and that wordĭisdain forbids me, and my dread of shameĪmong the Spirits beneath, whom I seduced Left for repentence, none for pardon left? O, then, at last relent! Is there no place To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. Still threatening to devour me opens wide, Nay, cursed be thou since against his thy will Whom has thou then, or what, to accuse,īut Heaven’s free love dealt equally to all?īe then his love accursed, since, love or hate, Hadst thou the same free will and power to stand? Or from without to all temptations armed! But other Powers as greatįell not, but stand unshaken, from within Indebted and discharged-what burden then?Īs great might have aspired, and me, though mean,ĭrawn to his part. So burthensome, still paying, still to owe įorgetful what from him I still received īy owing owes not, but still pays, at once Would set me highest, and in a moment quit I ’sdained subjection, and thought one step higher How due? Yet all his good proved ill in me,Īnd wrought but malice. The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, What could be less than to afford him praise, In that bright eminence, and with his good ![]() Warring in Heaven against Heaven’s matchless King!Īh, wherefore? He deserved no such return Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere, That bring to my remembrance from what state O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, Hide their diminished heads-to thee I call,īut with no friendly voice, and add thy name, Of this new World-at whose sight all the stars Look’st from thy sole dominion like the god "O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Then, much revolving, thus in sighs began:. Which now sat high in his meridian tower: Sometimes towards Heaven and the full-blazing Sun, Lay pleasant, his grieved look he fixes sad Sometimes towards Eden, which now in his view Worse of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue! Of what he was, what is, and what must be One step, no more than from Himself, can flyīy change of place. He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir Now rowling, boils in his tumultuous breast, Yet not rejoicing in his speed, though boldįar off and fearless, nor with cause to boast,īegins his dire attempt which, nigh the birth Of that first battle, and his flight to Hell. The tempter, ere the accuser, of mankind, Satan, now first inflamed with rage, came down, Haply so scaped, his mortal snare! For now The coming of their secret Foe, and scaped, While time was, our first parents had been warned Woe to the inhabitants on Earth! that now, Then when the Dragon, put to second rout, The Apocalypse heard cry in Heaven aloud, O for that warning voice, which he who saw 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. Night coming on, Adam and Eve discourse of going to their rest their bower described their evening worship. Gabriel promises to find him ere morning. 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. 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. 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.
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