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The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demi-gods on golden seats, Frequent and full. After short silence then, And summons read, the great consult began.
Book II High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or 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; and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught, His proud imaginations thus displayed:— "Powers and Dominions, Deities of Heaven!— For, since no deep within her gulf can hold Immortal vigour, though oppressed and fallen, I give not Heaven for lost: from this descent Celestial Virtues rising will appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall, And trust themselves to fear no second fate!— Me though just right, and the fixed laws of Heaven, Did first create your leader—next, free choice With what besides in council or in fight Hath been achieved of merit—yet this loss, Thus far at least recovered, hath much more Established in a safe, unenvied throne, Yielded with full consent. The happier state In Heaven, which follows dignity, might draw Envy from each inferior; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Foremost to stand against the Thunderer's aim Your bulwark, and condemns to greatest share Of endless pain? Where there is, then, no good For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From faction: for none sure will claim in Hell Precedence; none whose portion is so small Of present pain that with ambitious mind Will covet more! With this advantage, then, To union, and firm faith, and firm accord, More than can be in Heaven, we now return
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Page 3 and 4: Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspi
Page 5 and 6: Since, through experience of this g
Page 7 and 8: As whom the fables name of monstrou
Page 9 and 10: In worst extremes, and on the peril
Page 11 and 12: Forthwith, form every squadron and
Page 13 and 14: To bestial gods; for which their he
Page 15 and 16: And Ida known, thence on the snowy
Page 17 and 18: Looks through the horizontal misty
Page 19 and 20: The work of sulphur. Thither, winge
Page 21: And trumpet's sound, throughout the
Page 25 and 26: To us is adverse. Who but felt of l
Page 27 and 28: To give his enemies their wish, and
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Page 31 and 32: A growing empire; doubtless! while
Page 33 and 34: Of those bright confines, whence, w
Page 35 and 36: Dreaded not more th' adventure than
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Page 39 and 40: He scours the right hand coast, som
Page 41 and 42: Levelled his deadly aim; their fata
Page 43 and 44: I fled; but he pursued (though more
Page 45 and 46: The gods who live at ease, where I
Page 47 and 48: O'er bog or steep, through strait,
Page 49 and 50: Tamely endured a bridge of wondrous
Page 51 and 52: Sings darkling, and in shadiest cov
Page 53 and 54: Which had no less proved certain un
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Page 57 and 58: Though last created, that for him I
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Page 63 and 64: Viewless; and underneath a bright s
Page 65 and 66: In Aaron's breast-plate, and a ston
Page 67 and 68: To deepest Hell, and, to repair tha
Page 69 and 70: Book IV O, for that warning voice,
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Those balmy spoils. As when to them
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With mazy errour under pendant shad
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So passed they naked on, nor shunne
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Nearer to view his prey, and, unesp
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Less winning soft, less amiably mil
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From what point of his compass to b
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With thee conversing I forget all t
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On him who had stole Jove's authent
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In search of whom they sought: Him
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To thy transgressions, and disturbe
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Heaven's awful Monarch? wherefore,
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Book V Now Morn, her rosy steps in
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But sometimes in the air, as we, so
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Thy goodness beyond thought, and po
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His danger, and from whom; what ene
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Her fertile growth, and by disburth
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All perfect good, unmeasured out, d
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Proportioned to each kind. So from
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Hath finished half his journey, and
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Quaff immortality and joy, secure O
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And, smiling, to his only Son thus
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Law and edict on us, who without la
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Forsaken of all good! I see thy fal
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Back on thy foes more glorious to r
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His puissance, trusting in the Almi
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The rebel Thrones, but greater rage
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Or some more sudden vengeance, wing
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Threatened, nor from the Holy One o
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Weapons more violent, when next we
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Of missive ruin; part incentive ree
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Nor served it to relax their serrie
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The Assessour of his throne, he thu
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Whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid w
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Plagues: They, astonished, all resi
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Book VII Descend from Heaven, Urani
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Immutably his sovran will, the end
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Up hither, under long obedience tri
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Adverse to life: then founded, then
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Her bosom, smelling sweet: and, the
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Forthwith the sounds and seas, each
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With spots of gold and purple, azur
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Symphonious of ten thousand harps,
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Informed by thee, might know: If el
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So spake our sire, and by his count
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God, to remove his ways from human
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A lower flight, and speak of things
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In goodness and in power pre-eminen
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Surpassest far my naming; how may I
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Which thou hast rightly named, but
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Sung spousal, and bid haste the eve
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And with mysterious reverence I dee
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Book IX No more of talk where God o
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Downward as far antarctick; and in
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Of midnight vapour glide obscure, a
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Of looks and smiles; for smiles fro
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And matrimonial love; but Eve, who
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Oft he to her his charge of quick r
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To me is lost. Then, let me not let
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Much reason, and in their actions,
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Which oft, they say, some evil Spir
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The Gods are first, and that advant
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And thy fair fruit let hang, as to
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Chiefly I sought, without thee can
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Our state cannot be severed; we are
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Thick over-head with verdant roof i
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Among the trees on isles and woody
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Book X Mean while the heinous and d
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Them fully satisfied, and thee appe
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To whom sad Eve, with shame nigh ov
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But that success attends him; if mi
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And chains they made all fast, too
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There dwell, and reign in bliss; th
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My journey strange, with clamorous
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Climbing, sat thicker than the snak
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Then Heaven and Earth renewed shall
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And, in a troubled sea of passion t
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Can he make deathless death? That w
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Though by the Devil himself; him ov
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But rise;—let us no more contend,
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Resolved, as thou proposest; so our
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Book XI Thus they, in lowliest plig
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By the waters of life, where'er the
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Eve rightly called, mother of all m
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Not in his shape celestial, but as
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Presence Divine; and to my sons rel
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Mombaza, and Quiloa, and Melind, An
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A lazar-house it seemed; wherein we
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Of instruments, that made melodious
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Before him, towns, and rural works
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At length a reverend sire among the
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And fear of God; from whom their pi
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But say, what mean those coloured s
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With him or under him to tyrannize,
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To worship their own work in wood a
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Divided, till his rescued gain thei
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Forbidden knowledge by forbidden me
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Anointed King Messiah might be born
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Still followed him; to them shall l
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The Spirit of God, promised alike a
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Chiefly what may concern her faith
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