lirik lagu anthony quayle - paradise lost - book i
of mans first disobedience, and the fruit
of that forbidden tree, whose mortal tast
brought death into the world, and all our woe
with loss of eden, till one greater man
restore us, and regain the blissful seat
sing heav’nly muse, that on the secret top
of oreb, or of sinai, didst inspire
that shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed
in the beginning how the heav’ns and earth
rose out of chaos: or if sion hill
delight thee more, and siloa’s brook that flow’d
fast by the oracle of god; i thence
invoke thy aid to my adventrous song
that with no middlе flight intends to soar
above th’ aonian mount, while it pursuеs
things unattempted yet in prose or rhime
and chiefly thou, o spirit, that dost prefer
before all temples th’ upright heart and pure
instruct me, for thou know’st; thou from the first
wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
dove~like satst brooding on the vast abyss
and mad’st it pregnant: what in me is dark
illumin, what is low raise and support;
that to the highth of this great argument
i may assert eternal providence
and justifie the wayes of god to men
say first, for heav’n hides nothing from thy view
nor the deep tract of h~ll, say first what cause
mov’d our grand parents in that happy state
favour’d of heav’n so highly, to fall off
from thir creator, and transgress his will
for one restraint, lords of the world besides?
who first seduc’d them to that foul revolt?
th’ infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile
stird up with envy and revenge, deceiv’d
the mother of mankind, what time his pride
had cast him out from heav’n, with all his host
of rebel angels, by whose aid aspiring
to set himself in glory above his peers
he trusted to have equal’d the most high
if he oppos’d; and with ambitious aim
against the throne and monarchy of god
rais’d impious war in heav’n and battel proud
with vain attempt. him the almighty power
hurld headlong flaming from th’ ethereal skie
with hideous ruine and combustion down
to bottomless perdition, there to dwell
in adamantine chains and penal fire
who durst defie th’ omnipotent to arms
nine times the sp~ce that measures day and night
to mortal men, he with his horrid crew
lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery gulfe
confounded though immortal: but his doom
reserv’d him to more wrath; for now the thought
both of lost happiness and lasting pain
torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes
that witness’d huge affliction and dismay
mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
at once as far as angels kenn he views
the dismal situation waste and wilde
a dungeon horrible, on all sides round
as one great furnace flam’d, yet from those flames
no light, but rather darkness visible
serv’d onely to discover sights of woe
regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
and rest can never dwell, hope never comes
that comes to all; but torture without end
still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed
with ever~burning sulphur unconsum’d:
such place eternal justice had prepar’d
for those rebellious, here thir prison ordained
in utter darkness, and thir portion set
as far remov’d from god and light of heav’n
as from the center thrice to th’ utmost pole
o how unlike the place from whence they fell!
there the companions of his fall, o’rewhelm’d
with floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire
he soon discerns, and weltring by his side
one next himself in power, and next in crime
long after known in palestine, and nam’d
beelzebub. to whom th’ arch~enemy
and thence in heav’n call’d satan, with bold words
breaking the horrid silence thus began
if thou beest he; but o how fall’n! how chang’d
from him, who in the happy realms of light
cloth’d with transcendent brightness didst out~shine
myriads though bright: if he whom mutual league
united thoughts and counsels, equal hope
and hazard in the glorious enterprize
joynd with me once, now misery hath joynd
in equal ruin: into what pit thou seest
from what highth fall’n, so much the stronger prov’d
he with his thunder: and till then who knew
the force of those dire arms? yet not for those
nor what the potent victor in his rage
can else inflict, do i repent or change
though chang’d in outward l~stre; that fixt mind
and high disdain, from sence of injur’d merit
that with the mightiest rais’d me to contend
and to the fierce contention brought along
innumerable force of spirits arm’d
that durst dislike his reign, and me preferring
his utmost power with adverse power oppos’d
in dubious battel on the plains of heav’n
and shook his throne. what though the field be lost?
all is not lost; the unconquerable will
and study of revenge, immortal hate
and courage never to submit or yield:
and what is else not to be overcome?
that glory never shall his wrath or might
extort from me. to bow and sue for grace
with suppliant knee, and deifie his power
who from the terrour of this arm so late
doubted his empire, that were low indeed
that were an ignominy and shame beneath
this downfall; since by fate the strength of gods
and this empyreal substance cannot fail
since through experience of this great event
in arms not worse, in foresight much advanc’t
we may with more successful hope resolve
to wage by force or guile eternal warr
irreconcileable, to our grand foe
who now triumphs, and in th’ excess of joy
sole reigning holds the tyranny of heav’n
so spake th’ apostate angel, though in pain
vaunting aloud, but rackt with deep despare:
and him thus answer’d soon his bold compeer
o prince, o chief of many throned powers
that led th’ imbattelld seraphim to warr
under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds
fearless, endanger’d heav’ns perpetual king;
and put to proof his high supremacy
whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate
too well i see and rue the dire event
that with sad overthrow and foul defeat
hath lost us heav’n, and all this mighty host
in horrible destruction laid thus low
as far as gods and heav’nly essences
can perish: for the mind and spirit remains
invincible, and vigour soon returns
though all our glory extinct and happy state
here swallow’d up in endless misery
but what if he our conquerour, (whom i now
of force believe almighty, since no less
then such could hav orepow’rd such force as ours)
have left us this our spirit and strength intire
strongly to suffer and support our pains
that we may so suffice his vengeful ire
or do him mightier service as his thralls
by right of warr, what e’re his business be
here in the heart of h~ll to work in fire
or do his errands in the gloomy deep;
what can it then avail though yet we feel
strength undiminisht, or eternal being
to undergo eternal punishment?
whereto with speedy words th’ arch~fiend reply’d
fall’n cherube, to be weak is miserable
doing or suffering: but of this be sure
to do ought good never will be our task
but ever to do ill our sole delight
as being the contrary to his high will
whom we resist. if then his providence
out of our evil seek to bring forth good
our labour must be to pervert that end
and out of good still to find means of evil;
which oft times may succeed, so as perhaps
shall grieve him, if i fail not, and disturb
his inmost counsels from thir destind aim
but see the angry victor hath recall’d
his ministers of vengeance and pursuit
back to the gates of heav’n: the sulphurous hail
shot after us in storm, oreblown hath laid
the fiery surge, that from the precipice
of heav’n receiv’d us falling, and the thunder
wing’d with red lightning and impetuous rage
perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now
to bellow through the vast and boundless deep
let us not slip th’ occasion, whether scorn
or satiate fury yield it from our foe
seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wilde
the seat of desolation, voyd of light
save what the glimmering of these livid flames
casts pale and dreadful? thither let us tend
from off the tossing of these fiery waves
there rest, if any rest can harbour there
and reassembling our afflicted powers
consult how we may henceforth most offend
our enemy, our own loss how repair
how overcome this dire calamity
what reinforcement we may gain from hope
if not what resolution from despare
thus satan to his neerest mate
with head up~lift above the wave, and eyes
that sparkling blaz’d, his other parts besides
pr~ne on the flood, extended long and large
lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge
as whom the fables name of monstrous size
titanian, or earth~born, that warr’d on jove
briareos or typhon, whom the den
by ancient tarsus held, or that sea~beast
leviathan, which god of all his works
created hugest that swim th’ ocean stream:
him haply slumbring on the norway foam
the pilot of some small night~founder’d skiff
deeming some island, oft, as sea~men tell
with fixed anchor in his skaly rind
moors by his side under the lee, while night
invests the sea, and wished morn delayes:
so stretcht out huge in length the arch~fiend lay
chain’d on the burning lake, nor ever thence
had ris’n or heav’d his head, but that the will
and high permission of all~ruling heaven
left him at large to his own dark designs
that with reiterated crimes he might
heap on himself d~mnation, while he sought
evil to others, and enrag’d might see
how all his malice serv’d but to bring forth
infinite goodness, grace and mercy shewn
on man by him seduc’t, but on himself
treble confusion, wrath and vengeance pour’d
forthwith upright he rears from off the pool
his mighty stature; on each hand the flames
drivn backward slope thir pointing spires, and rowld
in billows, leave i’th’midst a horrid vale
then with expanded wings he stears his flight
aloft, incumbent on the dusky air
that felt unusual weight, till on dry land
he lights, as if it were land that ever burn’d
with solid, as the lake with liquid fire;
and such appear’d in hue, as when the force
of subterranean wind transports a hill
torn from pelorus, or the shatter’d side
of thundring aetna, whose combustible
and fewel’d entrals thence conceiving fire
sublim’d with mineral fury, aid the winds
and leave a singed bottom all involv’d
with stench and smoak: such resting found the sole
of unblest feet. him followed his next mate
both glorying to have scap’t the stygian flood
as gods, and by thir own recover’d strength
not by the sufferance of supernal power
is this the region, this the soil, the clime
said then the lost arch~angel, this the seat
that we must change for heav’n, this mournful gloom
for that celestial light? be it so, since he
who now is sovran can dispose and bid
what shall be right: fardest from him is best
whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream
above his equals. farewel happy fields
where joy for ever dwells: hail horrours, hail
infernal world, and thou profoundest h~ll
receive thy new possessor: one who brings
a mind not to be chang’d by place or time
the mind is its own place, and in it self
can make a heav’n of h~ll, a h~ll of heav’n
what matter where, if i be still the same
and what i should be, all but less then he
whom thunder hath made greater? here at least
we shall be free; th’ almighty hath not built
here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
to reign is worth ambition though in h~ll:
better to reign in h~ll, then serve in heav’n
but wherefore let we then our faithful friends
th’ associates and copartners of our loss
lye thus astonisht on th’ oblivious pool
and call them not to share with us their part
in this unhappy mansion, or once more
with rallied arms to try what may be yet
regaind in heav’n, or what more lost in h~ll?
so satan spake, and him beelzebub
thus answer’d. leader of those armies bright
which but th’ omnipotent none could have foyld
if once they hear that voyce, thir liveliest pledge
of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft
in worst extreams, and on the perilous edge
of battel when it rag’d, in all assaults
thir surest signal, they will soon resume
new courage and revive, though now they lye
groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire
as we erewhile, astounded and amaz’d
no wonder, fall’n such a pernicious highth
he scarce had ceas’t when the superiour fiend
was moving toward the sh~~r; his ponderous shield
ethereal temper, massy, large and round
behind him cast; the broad circumference
hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
through optic glass the tuscan artist views
at ev’ning from the top of fesole
or in valdarno, to descry new lands
rivers or mountains in her spotty globe
his spear, to equal which the tallest pine
hewn on norwegian hills, to be the mast
of some great ammiral, were but a wand
he walkt with to support uneasie steps
over the burning marle, not like those steps
on heavens azure, and the torrid clime
smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire;
nathless he so endur’d, till on the beach
of that inflamed sea, he stood and call’d
his legions, angel forms, who lay intrans’t
thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
in vallombrosa, where th’ etrurian shades
high overarch’t imbowr; or scatterd sedge
afloat, when with fierce winds orion arm’d
hath vext the red~sea coast, whose waves orethrew
busirus and his memphian chivalry
while with perfidious hatred they pursu’d
the sojourners of goshen, who beheld
from the safe shore thir floating carkases
and broken chariot wheels, so thick bestrown
abject and lost lay these, covering the flood
under amazement of thir hideous change
he call’d so loud, that all the hollow deep
of h~ll resounded. princes, potentates
warriers, the flowr of heav’n, once yours, now lost
if such astonishment as this can sieze
eternal spirits; or have ye chos’n this place
after the toyl of battel to repose
your wearied vertue, for the ease you find
to slumber here, as in the vales of heav’n?
or in this abject posture have ye sworn
to adore the conquerour? who now beholds
cherube and seraph rowling in the flood
with scatter’d arms and ensigns, till anon
his swift pursuers from heav’n gates discern
th’ advantage, and descending tread us down
thus drooping, or with linked thunderbolts
transfix us to the bottom of this gulfe
awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n
they heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung
upon the wing, as when men won’t to watch
on duty, sleeping found by whom they dread
rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake
nor did they not perceave the evil plight
in which they were, or the fierce pains not feel;
yet to thir generals voyce they soon obeyd
innumerable. as when the potent rod
of amrams son in egypts evill day
wav’d round the coast, up call’d a pitchy cloud
of locusts, warping on the eastern wind
that ore the realm of impious pharaoh hung
like night, and darken’d all the land of nile:
so numberless were those bad angels seen
hovering on wind under the cope of h~ll
‘twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires;
till, as a signal giv’n, th’ uplifted spear
of thir great sultan waving to direct
thir course, in even ballance down they light
on the firm brimstone, and fill all the plain;
a multitude, like which the populous north
pour’d never from her frozen loyns, to pass
rhene or the danaw, when her barbarous sons
came like a deluge on the south, and spread
beneath gibralter to the lybian sands
forthwith from every squadron and each band
the heads and leaders thither hast where stood
thir great commander; godlike shapes and forms
excelling human, princely dignities
and powers that earst in heaven sat on thrones;
though of thir names in heav’nly records now
be no memorial blotted out and ras’d
by thir rebellion, from the books of life
nor had they yet among the sons of eve
got them new names, till wandring ore the earth
through gods high sufferance for the tryal of man
by falsities and lyes the greatest part
of mankind they corrupted to forsake
god thir creator, and th’ invisible
glory of him that made them, to transform
oft to the image of a brute, adorn’d
with gay religions full of pomp and gold
and devils to adore for deities:
then were they known to men by various names
and various idols through the heathen world
say, muse, the names then known, who first, who last
rous’d from the slumber, on that fiery couch
at thir great emperors call, as next in worth
came singly where he stood on the bare strand
while the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof?
the chief were those who from the pit of h~ll
roaming to seek thir prey on earth, durst fix
thir seats long after next the seat of god
thir altars by his altar, gods ador’d
among the nations round, and durst abide
jehovah thundring out of sion, thron’d
between the cherubim; yea, often plac’d
within his sanctuary it self thir shrines
abominations; and with cursed things
his holy rites, and solemn feasts profan’d
and with thir darkness durst affront his light
first moloch, horrid king besmear’d with blood
of human sacrifice, and parents tears
though for the noyse of drums and timbrels loud
thir childrens cries unheard, that past through fire
to his grim idol. him the ammonite
worshipt in rabba and her watry plain
in argob and in basan, to the stream
of utmost arnon. not content with such
audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart
of solomon he led by fraud to build
his temple right against the temple of god
on that opprobrious hill, and made his grove
the pleasant vally of hinnom, tophet thence
and black gehenna call’d, the type of h~ll
next chemos, th’ obscene dread of moabs sons
from aroar to nebo, and the wild
of southmost abarim; in hesebon
and heronaim, seons realm, beyond
the flowry dale of sibma clad with vines
and eleale to th’ asphaltick pool
peor his other name, when he entic’d
israel in sittim on thir march from nile
to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
yet thence his l~stful orgies he enlarg’d
even to that hill of scandal, but the grove
of moloch homicide, l~st hard by hate;
till good josiah drove them hence to h~ll
with these cam they, who from the bordring flood
of old euphrates to the brook that parts
egypt from syrian ground, had general names
of baalim and ashtaroth, those male
these feminine. for spirits when they please
can either s~x assume, or both; so soft
and uncompounded is thir essence pure
nor ti’d or manacl’d with joynt or limb
nor founded on the brittle strength of bones
like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose
dilated or condens’t, bright or obscure
can execute thir aerie purposes
and works of love or enmity fulfill
for those the race of israel oft forsook
thir living strength, and unfrequented left
his righteous altar, bowing lowly down
to b~st~~l gods; for which thir heads as low
bow’d down in battel, sunk before the spear
of despicable foes. with these in troop
came astoreth, whom the phoenicians call’d
astarte, queen of heav’n, with crescent h~rns;
to whose bright image nightly by the moon
sidonian virgins paid thir vows and songs
in sion also not unsung, where stood
her temple on th’ offensive mountain, built
by that uxorious king, whose heart though large
beguil’d by fair idolatresses, fell
to idols foul. thammuz came next behind
whose annual wound in lebanon allur’d
the syrian damsels to lament his fate
in amorous dittyes all a summers day
while smooth adonis from his native rock
ran purple to the sea, suppos’d with blood
of thammuz yearly wounded; the love~tale
infected sions daughters with like heat
whose wanton passions in the sacred porch
ezekial saw, when by the vision led
his eye survay’d the dark idolatries
of alienated judah. next came one
who mourn’d in earnest, when the captive ark
maim’d his brute image, head and hands lopt off
in his own temple, on the grunsel edge
where he fell flat, and sham’d his worshipers:
dagon his name, sea monster, upward man
and downward fish: yet had his temple high
rear’d in azotus, dreaded through the coast
of palestine, in gath and ascalon
and accaron and gaza’s frontier bounds
him follow’d rimmon, whose delightful seat
was fair damascus, on the fertil banks
of abbana and pharphar, lucid streams
he also against the house of god was bold:
a leper once he lost and gain’d a king
ahaz his sottish conquerour, whom he drew
gods altar to disparage and displace
for one of syrian mode, whereon to burn
his odious offrings, and adore the gods
whom he had vanquisht. after these appear’d
a crew who under names of old renown
osiris, isis, orus and thir train
with monstrous shapes and sorceries abus’d
fanatic egypt and her priests, to seek
thir wandring gods disguis’d in brutish forms
rather then human. nor did israel scape
th’ infection when thir borrow’d gold compos’d
the calf in oreb: and the rebel king
doubl’d that sin in bethel and in dan
lik’ning his maker to the grazed ox
jehovah, who in one night when he pass’d
from egypt marching, equal’d with one stroke
both her first born and all her bleating gods
belial came last, then whom a spirit more lewd
fell not from heaven, or more gross to love
vice for it self: to him no temple stood
or altar smoak’d; yet who more oft then hee
in temples and at altars, when the priest
turns atheist, as did ely’s sons, who fill’d
with l~st and violence the house of god
in courts and palaces he also reigns
and in luxurious cities, where the noyse
of riot ascends above thir loftiest towrs
and injury and outrage: and when night
darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
of belial, flown with insolence and wine
witness the streets of sodom, and that night
in gibeah, when the hospitable door
expos’d a matron to avoid worse rape
these were the prime in order and in might;
the rest were long to tell, though far renown’d
th’ ionian gods, of javans issue held
gods, yet confest later then heav’n and earth
thir boasted parents; titan heav’ns first born
with his enormous brood, and birthright seis’d
by younger saturn, he from mightier jove
his own and rhea’s son like measure found;
so jove usurping reign’d: these first in creet
and ida known, thence on the snowy top
of cold olympus rul’d the middle air
thir highest heav’n; or on the delphian cliff
or in dodona, and through all the bounds
of doric land; or who with saturn old
fled over adria to th’ hesperian fields
and ore the celtic roam’d the utmost isles
all these and more came flocking; but with looks
down cast and damp, yet such wherein appear’d
obscure some glimps of joy, to have found thir chief
not in despair, to have found themselves not lost
in loss itself; which on his count’nance cast
like doubtful hue: but he his wonted pride
soon recollecting, with high words, that bore
semblance of worth, not substance, gently rais’d
thir fanting courage, and dispel’d thir fears
then strait commands that at the warlike sound
of trumpets loud and clarions be upreard
his mighty standard; that proud honour claim’d
azazel as his right, a cherube tall:
who forthwith from the glittering staff unfurld
th’ imperial ensign, which full high advanc’t
shon like a meteor streaming to the wind
with gemms and golden l~stre rich imblaz’d
seraphic arms and trophies: all the while
sonorous mettal blowing martial sounds:
at which the universal host upsent
a shout that tore h~lls concave, and beyond
frighted the reign of chaos and old night
all in a moment through the gloom were seen
ten thousand banners rise into the air
with orient colours waving: with them rose
a forrest huge of spears: and thronging helms
appear’d, and serried shields in thick array
of depth immeasurable: anon they move
in perfect phalanx to the dorian mood
of flutes and soft recorders; such as rais’d
to hight of n0blest temper hero’s old
arming to battel, and in stead of rage
deliberate valour breath’d, firm and unmov’d
with dread of death to flight or foul retreat
nor wanting power to mitigate and swage
with solemn touches, troubl’d thoughts, and chase
anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain
from mortal or immortal minds. thus they
breathing united force with fixed thought
mov’d on in silence to soft pipes that charm’d
thir painful steps o’re the burnt soyle; and now
advanc’t in view, they stand, a horrid front
of dreadful length and dazling arms, in guise
of warriers old with order’d spear and shield
awaiting what command thir mighty chief
had to impose: he through the armed files
darts his experienc’t eye, and soon traverse
the whole battalion views, thir order due
thir visages and stature as of gods
thir number last he summs. and now his heart
distends with pride, and hardning in his strength
glories: for never since created man
met such imbodied force, as nam’d with these
could merit more then that small infantry
warr’d on by cranes: though all the giant brood
of phlegra with th’ heroic race were joyn’d
that fought at theb’s and ilium, on each side
mixt with auxiliar gods; and what resounds
in fable or romance of uthers sons
begirt with british and armoric knights;
and all who since baptiz’d or infidel
jousted in aspramont or montalban
damasco, or marocco, or trebisond
or whom biserta sent from afric shore
when charlemain with all his peerage fell
by fontarabbia. thus far these beyond
compare of mortal prowess, yet observ’d
thir dread commander: he above the rest
in shape and gesture proudly eminent
stood like a towr; his form had yet not lost
all her original brightness, nor appear’d
less then arch angel ruind, and th’ excess
of glory obscur’d; as when the sun new ris’n
looks through the horizontal misty air
sh~rn of his beams, or from behind the moon
in dim eclips disastrous twilight sheds
on half the nations, and with fear of change
perplexes monarch. dark’n’d so, yet shon
above them all th’ arch angel; but his face
deep scars of thunder had intrencht, and care
sat on his faded cheek, but under browes
of dauntless courage, and considerate pride
waiting revenge: cruel his eye, but cast
signs of remorse and passion to behold
the fellows of his crime, the followers rather
(far other once beheld in bliss) condemn’d
for ever now to have thir lot in pain
millions of spirits for his fault amerc’t
of heav’n, and from eternal splendors flung
for his revolt, yet faithfull how they stood
thir glory witherd. as when heavens fire
hath scath’d the forrest oaks, or mountain pines
with singed top thir stately growth though bare
stands on the blasted heath. he now prepar’d
to speak; whereat thir doubl’d ranks they bend
from wing to wing, and half enclose him round
with all his peers: attention held them mute
thrice he assayd, and thrice in spight of scorn
tears such as angels weep, burst forth: at last
words interwove with sighs found out thir way
o myriads of immortal spirits, o powers
matchless, but with th’ almighty, and that strife
was not inglorious, though th’ event was dire
as this place testifies, and this dire change
hateful to utter: but what power of mind
foreseeing or presaging, from the depth
of knowledge past or present, could have fear’d
how such united force of gods, how such
as stood like these, could ever know repulse?
for who can yet beleeve, though after loss
that all these puissant legions, whose exile
hath emptied heav’n, shall fail to re~ascend
self~rais’d, and repossess thir native seat?
for mee be witness all the host of heav’n
if counsels different, or danger shun’d
by mee, have lost our hopes. but he who reigns
monarch in heav’n, till then as one secure
sat on his throne, upheld by old repute
consent or custome, and his regal state
put forth at full, but still his strength conceal’d
which tempted our attempt, and wrought our fall
henceforth his might we know, and know our own
so as not either to provoke, or dread
new warr, provok’t; our better part remains
to work in close design, by fraud or guile
what force effected not: that he no less
at length from us may find, who overcomes
by force, hath overcome but half his foe
sp~ce may produce new worlds; whereof so rife
there went a fame in heav’n that he ere long
intended to create, and therein plant
a generation, whom his choice regard
should favour equal to the sons of heaven:
thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps
our first eruption, thither or elsewhere:
for this infernal pit shall never hold
caelestial spirits in bondage, nor th’ abyss
long under darkness cover. but these thoughts
full counsel must mature: peace is despaird
for who can think submission? warr then, warr
open or understood must be resolv’d
he spake: and to confirm his words, out~flew
millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
of mighty cherubim; the sudden blaze
far round illumin’d h~ll: highly they rag’d
against the highest, and fierce with grasped arms
clash’d on thir sounding shields the din of war
hurling defiance toward the vault of heav’n
there stood a hill not far whose griesly top
belch’d fire and rowling smoak; the rest entire
shon with a glossie scurff, undoubted sign
that in his womb was hid metallic ore
the work of sulphur. thither wing’d with speed
a numerous brigad hasten’d. as when bands
of pioners with spade and pickax arm’d
forerun the royal camp, to trench a field
or cast a rampart. mammon led them on
mammon, the least erected spirit that fell
from heav’n, for ev’n in heav’n his looks and thoughts
were always downward bent, admiring more
the riches of heav’ns pavement, trod’n gold
then aught divine or holy else enjoy’d
in vision beatific: by him first
men also, and by his suggestion taught
ransack’d the center, and with impious hands
rifl’d the bowels of thir mother earth
for treasures better hid. soon had his crew
op’nd into the hill a sp~cious wound
and dig’d out ribs of gold. let none admire
that riches grow in h~ll; that soyle may best
deserve the precious bane. and here let those
who boast in mortal things, and wond’ring tell
of babel, and the works of memphian kings
learn how thir greatest monuments of fame
and strength and art are easily out~done
by spirits reprobate, and in an hour
what in an age they with incessant toyle
and hands innumerable scarce perform
nigh on the plain in many cells prepar’d
that underneath had veins of liquid fire
sluc’d from the lake, a second multitude
with wond’rous art found out the massie ore
severing each kind, and scum’d the bullion dross:
a third as soon had form’d within the ground
a various mould, and from the boyling cells
by strange conveyance fill’d each hollow nook
as in an organ from one blast of wind
to many a row of pipes the sound~board breaths
anon out of the earth a fabrick huge
rose like an exhalation, with the sound
of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet
built like a temple, where pilasters round
were set, and doric pillars overlaid
with golden architrave; nor did there want
cornice or freeze, with bossy sculptures grav’n
the roof was fretted gold. not babilon
nor great alcairo such magnificence
equal’d in all thir glories, to inshrine
belus or serapis thir gods, or seat
thir kings, when aegypt with assyria strove
in wealth and luxurie. th’ ascending pile
stood fixt her stately highth, and strait the dores
op’ning thir brazen foulds discover wide
within, her ample sp~ces, o’re the smooth
and level pavement: from the arched roof
pendant by suttle magic many a row
of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed
with naphtha and asphaltus yeilded light
as from a sky. the hasty multitude
admiring enter’d, and the work some praise
and some the architect: his hand was known
in heav’n by many a towred structure high
where scepter’d angels held thir residence
and sat as princes, whom the supreme king
exalted to such power, and gave to rule
each in his hierarchie, the orders bright
nor was his name unheard or unador’d
in ancient greece; and in ausonian land
men call’d him mulciber; and how he fell
from heav’n, they fabl’d, thrown by angry jove
sheer o’re the chrystal battlements; from morn
to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve
a summers day; and with the setting sun
dropt from the zenith like a falling star
on lemnos th’ aegaean ile: thus they relate
erring; for he with this rebellious rout
fell long before; nor aught avail’d him now
to have built in heav’n high towrs; nor did he scape
by all his engins, but was headlong sent
with his industrious crew to build in h~ll
mean while the winged haralds by command
of sovran power, with awful ceremony
and trumpets sound throughout the host proclaim
a solemn councel forthwith to be held
at pandaemonium, the high capital
of satan and his peers: thir summons call’d
from every band and squared regiment
by place or choice the worthiest; they anon
with hunderds and with thousands trooping came
attended: all access was throng’d, the gates
and porches wide, but chief the sp~cious hall
(though like a cover’d field, where champions bold
won’t ride in arm’d, and at the soldans chair
defi’d the best of panim chivalry
to mortal combat or carreer with lance)
thick swarm’d, both on the ground and in the air
brusht with the hiss of russling wings. as bees
in spring time, when the sun with taurus rides
pour forth thir populous youth about the hive
in cl~sters; they among fresh dews and flowers
flie to and fro, or on the smoothed plank
the suburb of thir straw~built cittadel
new rub’d with baum, expatiate and confer
thir state affairs. so thick the aerie crowd
swarm’d and were straitn’d; till the signal giv’n
behold a wonder! they but now who seemd
in bigness to surpass earths giant sons
now less then smallest dwarfs, in narrow room
throng numberless, like that pigmean race
beyond the indian mount, or faerie elves
whose midnight revels, by a forrest side
or fountain some belated peasant sees
or dreams he sees, while over~head the moon
sits arbitress, and neerer to the earth
wheels her pale course, they on thir mirth and dance
intent, with jocond music charm his ear;
at once with joy and fear his heart rebounds
thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms
reduc’d thir shapes immense, and were at large
though without number still amidst the hall
of that infernal court. but far within
and in thir own dimensions like themselves
the great seraphic lords and cherubim
in close recess and secret conclave sat
a thousand demy~gods on golden seat’s
frequent and full. after short silence then
and summons read, the great consult began
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