High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,
Satan exalted sat, by merit raised

To that bad eminence.

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Surer to prosper than prosperity

Could have assured us.

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The strongest and the fiercest spirit

That fought in Heaven, now fiercer by despair.

That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat: descent and fall
To us is adverse.

When the scourge

Inexorable, and the torturing hour

Call us to penance.

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But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash

Maturest counsels.

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The ethereal mould

Incapable of stain, would soon expel
Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire,
Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope

Is flat despair.

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For who would lose,

Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish rather, swallowed up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night?

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The never ending flight

Of future days.

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With grave

Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed

A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven
Deliberation sat, and public care;

And princely counsel in his face yet shone,
Majestic though in ruin. Sage he stood,
With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear

The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look
Drew audience and attention still as night

Or summer's noontide air.

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pal abl obs ure.

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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damned
Firm concord holds, men only disagree

Of creatures rational.

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In discourse more sweet,

For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,
Others apart sat on a hill retired,

In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high
Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate;
Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,
And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.

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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

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Arm the obdured breast

With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp,

Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades

of death.

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Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.

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The other shape,

If shape it might be called that shape had none

Distinguishable in member, joint or limb,

Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either· black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,

And shook a dreadful dart.

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Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?

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Death

Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear

His famine should be filled.

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Where eldest Night

And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold

Eternal anarchy amidst the noise

Of endless wars.

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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
Confusion worse confounded.

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Hail, holy light! offspring of Heaven first

born.

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Thus with the year

Seasons return; but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

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Since called

The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.

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At whose sight all the stars

Hide their diminished heads.

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And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep,
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost.

Evil, be thou my good.

Deep malice to conceal.

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That practised falsehood under saintly shew,

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For contemplation he and valor formed,
For softness she, and sweet attractive grace.

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His fair large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.

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Adam the goodliest man of men since born
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.

Now came still evening on, and twilight grey

Had in her sober livery all things clad.

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