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lirik lagu richard mitchley - john milton - paradise lost (an extract)

‘is this the region, this the soil, the clime,’
said then the lost archangel, ‘this the seat
that we must change for heaven, this mournful gloom
for that celestial light? be it so, since he
who now is sovereign can dispose and bid
what shall be right: furthest from him is best
whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme
above his equals. farewell happy fields
where joy for ever dwells: hail horrors, hail
infernal world, and thou profoundest h~ll
receive thy new possessor: one who brings
a mind not to be changed by place or time
the mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of h~ll, a h~ll of heaven
what matter where, if i be still the same
and what i should be, all but less than he
whom thunder hath made greater? here at least
we shall be free; the almighty hath not built
here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
here we may reign secure, and in my choice
to reign is worth ambition though in h~ll:
better to reign in h~ll, than serve in heaven
but wherefore let we then our faithful friends
the associates and copartners of our loss
lie thus astonished on the 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
regained in heaven, or what more lost in h~ll?’
so satan spake; and him beelzebub
thus answered:~~”leader of those armies bright
which, but th’ omnipotent, none could have foiled!
if once they hear that voice, their liveliest pledge
of hope in fears and dangers~~heard so oft
in worst extremes, and on the perilous edge
of battle, when it raged, in all assaults
their surest signal~~they will soon resume
new courage and revive, though now they lie
grovelling and prostrate on yon lake of fire
as we erewhile, astounded and amazed;
no wonder, fallen such a pernicious height!”
he scare had ceased when the superior fiend
was moving toward the shore; 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 evening, 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 walked with, to support uneasy steps
over the burning marl, not like those steps
on heaven’s azure; and the torrid clime
smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire
nathless he so endured, till on the beach
of that inflamed sea he stood, and called
his legions~~angel forms, who lay entranced
thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
in vallombrosa, where th’ etrurian shades
high over~arched embower; or scattered sedge
afloat, when with fierce winds orion armed
hath vexed the red~sea coast, whose waves o’erthrew
busiris and his memphian chivalry
while with perfidious hatred they pursued
the sojourners of goshen, who beheld
from the safe shore their floating carcases
and broken chariot~wheels. so thick bestrown
abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood
under amazement of their hideous change
he called so loud that all the hollow deep
of h~ll resounded:~~”princes, potentates
warriors, the flower of heaven~~once yours; now lost
if such astonishment as this can seize
eternal spirits! or have ye chosen this place
after the toil of battle to repose
your wearied virtue, for the ease you find
to slumber here, as in the vales of heaven?
or in this abject posture have ye sworn
to adore the conqueror, who now beholds
cherub and seraph rolling in the flood
with scattered arms and ensigns, till anon
his swift pursuers from heaven~gates discern
th’ advantage, and, descending, tread us down
thus drooping, or with linked thunderbolts
transfix us to the bottom of this gulf?
awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!”
they heard, and were abashed, 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 perceive the evil plight
in which they were, or the fierce pains not feel;
yet to their general’s voice they soon obeyed
innumerable. as when the potent rod
of amram’s son, in egypt’s evil day
waved round the coast, up~called a pitchy cloud
of locusts, warping on the eastern wind
that o’er the realm of impious pharaoh hung
like night, and darkened all the land of nile;
so numberless were those bad angels seen
hovering on wing under the cope of h~ll
‘twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires;
till, as a signal given, th’ uplifted spear
of their great sultan waving to direct
their course, in even balance down they light
on the firm brimstone, and fill all the plain:
a multitude like which the populous north
poured never from her frozen loins to pass
rhene or the danaw, when her barbarous sons
came like a deluge on the south, and spread
beneath gibraltar to the libyan sands
forthwith, form every squadron and each band
the heads and leaders thither haste where stood
their great commander~~godlike shapes, and forms
excelling human; princely dignities;
and powers that erst in heaven sat on thrones
though on their names in heavenly records now
be no memorial, blotted out and rased
by their rebellion from the books of life
nor had they yet among the sons of eve
got them new names, till, wandering o’er the earth
through god’s high sufferance for the trial of man
by falsities and lies the greatest part
of mankind they corrupted to forsake
god their creator, and th’ invisible
glory of him that made them to transform
oft to the image of a brute, adorned
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

- lirik lagu richard mitchley

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