strive here for maistrie; and to battel bring
thir embryon atoms; they around the flag ' 900 '
of each his faction; in thir several clanns;
light…armd or heavy; sharp; smooth; swift or slow;
swarm populous; unnumberd as the sands
of barca or cyrenes torrid soil;
levied to side with warring winds; and poise ' 905 '
thir lighter wings。 to whom these most adhere;
hee rules a moment; chaos umpire sits;
and by decision more imbroiles the fray
by which he reigns: next him high arbiter
chance governs all。 into this wilde abyss; ' 910 '
the womb of nature and perhaps her grave;
of neither sea; nor shore; nor air; nor fire;
but all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
confusdly; and which thus must ever fight;
unless th almighty maker them ordain ' 915 '
his dark materials to create more worlds;
into this wild abyss the warie fiend
stood on the brink of hell and lookd a while;
pondering his voyage: for no narrow frith
he had to cross。 nor was his eare less peald ' 920 '
with noises loud and ruinous (to pare
great things with small) then when bellona storms;
with all her battering engines bent to rase
som capital city; or less then if this frame
of heavn were falling; and these elements ' 925 '
in mutinie had from her axle torn
the stedfast earth。 at last his sail…broad vannes
he spreads for flight; and in the surging smoak
uplifted spurns the ground; thence many a league
as in a cloudy chair ascending rides ' 930 '
audacious; but that seat soon failing; meets
a vast vacuitie: all unawares
fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he drops
ten thousand fadom deep; and to this hour
down had been falling; had not by ill chance ' 935 '
the strong rebuff of som tumultuous cloud
instinct with fire and nitre hurried him
as many miles aloft: that furie stayd;
quencht in a boggy syrtis; neither sea;
nor good dry land: nigh founderd on he fares; ' 940 '
treading the crude consistence; half on foot;
half flying; behoves him now both oare and saile。
as when a gryfon through the wilderness
with winged course ore hill or moarie dale;
pursues the arimaspian; who by stelth ' 945 '
had from his wakeful custody purloind
the guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend
ore bog or steep; through strait; rough; dense; or rare;
with head; hands; wings; or feet pursues his way;
and swims or sinks; or wades; or creeps; or flyes: ' 950 '
at length a universal hubbub wilde
of stunning sounds and voices all confusd
borne through the hollow dark assaults his eare
with loudest vehemence: thither he plyes;
undaunted to meet there what ever power ' 955 '
or spirit of the nethermost abyss
might in that noise reside; of whom to ask
which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes
bordering on light; when strait behold the throne
of chaos; and his dark pavilion spread ' 960 '
wide on the wasteful deep; with him enthrond
sat sable…vested night; eldest of things;
the consort of his reign; and by them stood
orcus and ades; and the dreaded name
of demogorgon; rumor next and chance; ' 965 '
and tumult and confusion all imbroild;
and discord with a thousand various mouths。
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t whom satan turning boldly; thus。 ye powers
and spirits of this nethermost abyss;
chaos and ancient night; i e no spy; ' 970 '
with purpose to explore or to disturb
the secrets of your realm; but by constraint
wandring this darksome desart; as my way
lies through your spacious empire up to light;
alone; and without guide; half lost; i seek ' 975 '
what readiest path leads where your gloomie bounds
confine with heavn; or if som other place
from your dominion won; th ethereal king
possesses lately; thither to arrive
i travel this profound; direct my course; ' 980 '
directed no mean repence it brings
to your behoof; if i that region lost;
all usurpation thence expelld; reduce
to her original darkness and your sway
(which is my present journey) and once more ' 985 '
erect the standard there of ancient night;
yours be th advantage all; mine the revenge。
thus satan; and him thus the anarch old
with faultring speech and visage inposd
answerd。 i know thee; stranger; who thou art; ' 990 '
that mighty leading angel; who of late
made head against heavns king; though overthrown。
i saw and heard; for such a numerous host
fled not in silence through the frighted deep
with ruin upon ruin; rout on rout; ' 995 '
confusion worse confounded; and heavn gates
pourd out by millions her victorious bands
pursuing。 i upon my frontieres here
keep residence; if all i can will serve;
that little which is left so to defend ' 1000 '
encroacht on still through our intestine broiles
weakning the scepter of old night: first hell
your dungeon stretching far and wide beneath;
now lately heaven and earth; another world
hung ore my realm; linkd in a golden chain ' 1005 '
to that side heavn from whence your legions fell:
if that way be your walk; you have not farr;
so much the neerer danger; go and speed;
havock and spoil and ruin are my gain。
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he ceasd; and satan staid not to reply; ' 1010 '
but glad that now his sea should find a shore;
with fresh alacritie and force renewd
springs upward like a pyramid of fire
into the wilde expanse; and through the shock
of fighting elements; on all sides round ' 1015 '
environd wins his way; harder beset
and more endangerd; then when argo passd
through bosporus betwixt the justling rocks:
or when ulysses on the larbord shunnd
charybdis; and by th other whirlpool steard。 ' 1020 '
so he with difficulty and labour hard
movd on; with difficulty and labour hee;
but hee once past; soon after when man fell;
strange alteration! sin and death amain
following his track; such was the will of heavn; ' 1025 '
pavd after him a broad and beatn way
over the dark abyss; whose boiling gulf
tamely endurd a bridge of wondrous length
from hell continud reaching th utmost orbe
of this frail world; by which the spirits perverse ' 1030 '
with easie intercourse pass to and fro
to tempt or punish mortals; except whom
god and good angels guard by special grace。
but now at last the sacred influence
of light appears; and from the walls of heavn ' 1035 '
shoots farr into the bosom of dim night
a glimmering dawn; here nature first begins
her fardest verge; and chaos to retire
as from her outmost works a brokn foe
with tumult less and with less hostile din; ' 1040 '
that satan with less toil; and now with ease
wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light
and like a weather…beaten vessel holds
gladly the port; though shrouds and tackle torn;
or in the emptier waste; resembling air; ' 1045 '
weighs his spread wings; at leasure to behold
farr off th empyreal heavn; extended wide
in circuit; undetermind square or round;
with opal towrs and battlements adornd
of living saphire; once his native seat; ' 1050 '
and fast by hanging in a golden chain
this pendant world; in bigness as a starr
of smallest magnitude close by the moon。
thither full fraught with mischievous revenge;
accurst; and in a cursed hour he hies。 ' 1055 '
the end of the second book。
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