...grand thief into God's fold:0 So since into his church lewd hirelings climb.0 Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life. The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant; yet not true life Thereby regained, but sat devising death To them who lived; nor on the virtue thought0...

...grand Thief into God's Fold: So since into his Church lewd Hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle Tree and highest there that grew, 195 Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true Life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising Death To them who liv'd;...

...birds perched in trees. Still, we have this from his imagined travels of Satan: Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life / The middle tree and highest there that grew /Sat like a Cormorant. . . . The depth of the human response to the bird suggests a source beneath the surface of rationality. Is it...

...odiferous wings' (11. 1 56157) around Eden as we are of the equally wind-borne Satan, who 'flew, and on the tree of life /The middle tree and highest there that grew, / Sat like a cormorant . . .' (11.194-196). As Duffy tells us, the presence of winged creatures in faerie guise is a new phenomenon...

...(11.1561 57) around Ivden as we arc of the equally wind-borne Satan, who 'flew, and on the tree ot life /The middle tree and highest there that grew, / Sat like a cormorant . . .' (11.194-196). As Putty tells us, the presence ot winged creatures in taerie guise is a new phenomenon...

...(Milton, S. 91). Seine zentrale Stellung und überragende Größe verdeutlichen seine Wichtigkeit: „the Tree of Life, / The middle tree and highest there that grew [...] the virtue [...] Ofthat life-giving plant" (Milton, S. 90). Dieser Baum stellt also ein wichtiges...