Paradise Lost Book 1

Paradise Lost
through John Milton

Book 1

OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With lack of Eden, until one extra Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav’nly Muse, that at the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst encourage
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 extra, and Siloa’s brook that flow’d
Fast by way of the Oracle of God; I thence
Invoke thy resource to my adventrous Song,
That with no center flight intends to soar
Above th’ Aonian Mount, whilst it pursues
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 recognise’st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with potent wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the substantial Abyss
And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is darkish
Illumin, what's low increase and help;
That to the highth of this incredible Argument
I might also assert Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men.

Say first, for Heav’n hides not anything from thy view
Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause
Mov’d our Grand Parents in that satisfied State,
Favour’d of Heav’n so fairly, 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 changed into, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv’d
The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride
Had forged him out from Heav’n, with all his Host
Of Rebel Angels, by using whose useful resource aspiring
To set himself in Glory above his Peers,
He trusted to have same’d the maximum 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 useless 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 Space that measures Day and Night
To mortal men, he with his horrid team
Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe
Confounded though immortal: But his doom
Reserv’d him to greater wrath; for now the idea
Both of misplaced happiness and lasting pain
Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes
That witness’d massive pain and dismay
Mixt with obdurate pleasure and stedfast hate:
At once as some distance as Angels kenn he views
The dismal Situation waste and wilde,
A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round
As one fantastic Furnace flam’d, yet from the ones flames
No light, but as an alternative darkness visible
Serv’d onely to discover points of interest of woe,
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, wherein peace
And rest can in no way dwell, hope never comes
That comes to all; but torture with out give up
Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed
With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum’d:
Such vicinity Eternal Justice had prepar’d
For those rebellious, right here thir prison ordained
In utter darkness, and thir component set
As far remov’d from God and mild of Heav’n
As from the Center three times to th’ utmost Pole.
O how unlike the region from whence they fell!
There the partners of his fall, o’rewhelm’d
With Floods and Whirlwinds of tempestuous hearth,
He soon discerns, and weltring by means of his side
One subsequent himself in electricity, and next in crime,
Long after acknowledged 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 consequently began.

If thou beest he; But O how fall’n! How chang’d
From him, who within the happy Realms of Light
Cloth’d with transcendent brightness didst out-shine
Myriads even though bright: If he whom mutual league,
United thoughts and counsels, same hope
And hazard inside the Glorious Enterprize,
Joynd with me as soon as, now misery hath joynd
In same ruin: into what Pit thou seest
From what highth fall’n, so much the stronger prov’d
He together with his Thunder: and until then who knew
The force of these dire Arms? yet no longer for those,
Nor what the Potent Victor in his rage
Can else inflict, do I repent or exchange,
Though chang’d in outward lustre; 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 delivered along
Innumerable pressure of Spirits arm’d
That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring,
His utmost strength with adverse power oppos’d
In doubtful Battel at the Plains of Heav’n,
And shook his throne.
What even though the sphere be lost?
All isn't always lost; the unconquerable Will,
And examine of revenge, immortal hate,
And braveness in no way to publish or yield:
And what's else now not to be overcome?
That Glory in no way shall his wrath or might
Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace
With suppliant knee, and deifie his strength,
Who from the terrour of this Arm so late
Doubted his Empire, that have been low indeed,
That had been an ignominy and disgrace beneath
This downfall; when you consider that via Fate the energy of Gods
And this Empyreal substance can't fail,
Since through enjoy of this super occasion
In Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc’t,
We may also with extra a success hope resolve
To wage by using force or guile everlasting 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, even though in pain,
Vaunting aloud, but rackt with deep despare:
And him hence answer’d soon his formidable 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 placed to evidence his sigh Supremacy,
Whether upheld by means of strength, or Chance, or Fate,
Too nicely I see and rue the dire event,
That with sad overthrow and foul defeat
Hath lost us Heav’n, and all this powerful Host
In horrible destruction laid accordingly low,
As a long way as Gods and Heav’nly Essences
Can perish: for the mind and spirit remains
Invincible, and power quickly returns,
Though all our Glory extinct and satisfied state
Here swallow’d up in endless distress.
But what if he our Conquerour, (whom I now
Of pressure agree with Almighty, considering no less
Then such should hav orepow’rd such pressure as ours)
Have left us this our spirit and electricity intire
Strongly to go through and guide our pains,
That we may additionally so suffice his vengeful ire,
Or do him mightier carrier as his thralls
By proper of Warr, what e’re his commercial enterprise be
Here in the coronary heart of Hell to work in Fire,
Or do his Errands inside the gloomy Deep;
What can it then avail although yet we feel
Strength undiminisht, or eternal being
To undergo eternal punishment?
Whereto with rapid phrases th’ Arch-fiend reply’d.

Fall’n Cherube, to be susceptible is miserable
Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure,
To do ought appropriate in no way could be our venture,
But ever to do ill our sole delight,
As being the opposite to his high will
Whom we resist. If then his Providence
Out of our evil are seeking to bring forth correct,
Our labour must be to pervert that quit,
And out of proper nonetheless to discover manner of evil;
Which oft times may additionally succeed, in order perhaps
Shall grieve him, if I fail no longer, and disturb
His inmost counsels from thir destind aim.
But see the indignant 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 crimson Lightning and impetuous rage,
Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now
To bellow thru the significant and boundless Deep.
Let us now not slip th’ occasion, whether or not scorn,
Or satiate fury yield it from our Foe.
Seest thou yon dreary Plain, forlorn and wilde,
The seat of desolation, voyd of mild,
Save what the glimmering of these livid flames
Casts faded and dreadful? Thither let us tend
From off the tossing of these fiery waves,
There relaxation, if any rest can harbour there,
And reassembling our afflicted Powers,
Consult how we may additionally henceforth maximum offend
Our Enemy, our personal loss how repair,
How triumph over this dire Calamity,
What reinforcement we may benefit from Hope,
If now not what decision from despare.

Thus Satan to his neerest Mate
With Head up-carry above the wave, and Eyes
That glowing blaz’d, his different Parts besides
Prone at the Flood, extended long and large
Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as massive
As whom the Fables name of massive 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 a few small night-founder’d Skiff,
Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-guys tell,
With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind
Moors by means of his side under the Lee, whilst Night
Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes:
So stretcht out massive in period the Arch-fiend lay
Chain’d at 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 massive to his very own darkish designs,
That with reiterated crimes he would possibly
Heap on himself damnation, while he sought
Evil to others, and enrag’d would possibly see
How all his malice serv’d but to deliver forth
Infinite goodness, grace and mercy shewn
On Man with the aid of him seduc’t, however on himself
Treble confusion, wrath and vengeance pour’d.
Forthwith upright he rears from off the Pool
His effective Stature; on every hand the flames
Drivn backward slope thir pointing spires, and rowld
In billows, depart i’th’midst a horrid Vale.
Then with accelerated wings he stears his flight
Aloft, incumbent at the dusky Air
That felt unusual weight, till on dry Land
He lights, as if it have been Land that ever burn’d
With solid, because the Lake with liquid fire;
And such seem’d in hue, as when the pressure
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, resource the Winds,
And depart a singed backside all involv’d
With stench and smoak: Such resting located the sole
Of unblest feet. Him observed his subsequent Mate,
Both glorying to have scap’t the Stygian flood
As Gods, and by thir very own recover’d strength,
Not through the sufferance of supernal Power.

Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,
Said then the misplaced Arch-Angel, this the seat
That we should change for Heav’n, this mournful gloom
For that celestial mild? Be it so, when you consider that he
Who now could be Sovran can dispose and bid
What shall be right: fardest from him his satisfactory
Whom purpose hath equald, force hath made supream
Above his equals. Farewel satisfied Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind now not to be chang’d with the aid of Place or Time.
The mind is its very own location, and in it self
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.
What matter wherein, if I be nonetheless the same,
And what I ought to be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath now not constructed
Here for his envy, will no longer force us hence:
Here we may additionally reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.
But wherefore allow we then our trustworthy friends,
Th’ friends and copartners of our loss
Lye hence astonisht on th’ oblivious Pool,
And name them now not to percentage with us their component
In this unhappy Mansion, or once more
With rallied Arms to strive what may be but
Regaind in Heav’n, or what greater lost in Hell?

So Satan spake, and him Beelzebub
Thus answer’d. Leader of those Armies vibrant,
Which but th’ Omnipotent none should have foyld,
If once they listen that voyce, thir liveliest pledge
Of desire in fears and dangers, heard so oft
In worst extreams, and at the perilous edge
Of battel while it rag’d, in all assaults
Thir gold standard sign, they'll quickly 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 in the direction of the shoar; his ponderous shield
Ethereal mood, massy, huge and round,
Behind him solid; the extensive circumference
Hung on his shoulders just like the Moon, whose Orb
Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views
At Ev’ning from the pinnacle of Fesole,
Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands,
Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe.
His Spear, to identical which the tallest Pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast
Of some brilliant Ammiral, have been 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, until on the Beach
Of that infected Sea, he stood and call’d
His Legions, Angel Forms, who lay intrans’t
Thick as Autumnal Leaves that strow the Brooks
In Vallombrosa, wherein 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 secure shore thir floating Carkases
And damaged Chariot Wheels, so thick bestrown
Abject and misplaced lay those, covering the Flood,
Under amazement of thir hideous alternate.
He name’d so loud, that every one the hole Deep
Of Hell resounded. Princes, Potentates
Warriers, the Flowr of Heav’n, as soon as yours, now misplaced,
If such astonishment as this could sieze
Eternal spirits; or have ye chos’n this region
After the toyl of Battel to repose
Your wearied vertue, for the ease you discover
To slumber right 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 rapid 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 had been abasht, and up they sprung
Upon the wing, as when guys wont to watch
On duty, sleeping located by whom they dread,
Rouse and bestir themselves ere nicely awake.
Nor did they not perceave the evil plight
In which they had been, or the fierce pains now not feel;
Yet to thir Generals Voyce they soon obeyd
Innumerable. As whilst the strong Rod
Of Amrams Son in Egypts evill day
Wav’d round the Coast, up call’d a pitchy cloud
Of Locusts, warping at the Eastern Wind,
That ore the Realm of impious Pharaoh hung
Like Night, and darken’d all of the Land of Nile:
So numberless were the ones bad Angels seen
Hovering on wind below the Cope of Hell
‘Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding Fires;
Till, as a sign giv’n, th’ uplifted Spear
Of thir top notch Sultan waving to direct
Thir course, in even ballance down they light
On the organization 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 at the South, and spread
Beneath Gibralter to the Lybian sands.
Forthwith from every Squadron and every Band
The Heads and Leaders thither hast wherein stood
Thir exquisite 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 a number of the Sons of Eve
Got them new Names, until wandring ore the Earth,
Through Gods excessive sufferance for the tryal of man,
By falsities and lyes the finest element
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 complete of Pomp and Gold,
And Devils to adore for Deities:
Then have been they known to men via diverse Names,
And numerous Idols thru the Heathen World.
Say, Muse, the Names then recognized, who first, who last,
Rous’d from the slumber, on that fiery Couch,
At thir top notch Emperors call, as next in well worth
Came singly in which he stood on the naked strand,
While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof?
The leader have been people who from the Pit of Hell
Roaming to are trying to find thir prey on earth, durst fix
Thir Seats lengthy after next the Seat of God,
Thir Altars through 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 mild.
First Moloch, horrid King besmear’d with blood
Of human sacrifice, and dad and mom tears,
Though for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud
Thir kids cries unheard, that beyond through fireplace
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 material with such
Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest coronary heart
Of Solomon he led with the aid of fraud to construct
His Temple proper against the Temple of God
On that opprobrious Hill, and made his Grove
The first-rate Vally of Hinnom, Tophet thence
And black Gehenna call’d, the Type of Hell.
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, whilst he entic’d
Israel in Sittim on thir march from Nile
To do him wanton rites, which fee them woe.
Yet thence his lustful Orgies he enlarg’d
Even to that Hill of scandal, however the Grove
Of Moloch homicide, lust hard through hate;
Till good Josiah drove them therefore to Hell.
With these cam they, who from the bordring flood
Of old Euphrates to the Brook that parts
Egypt from Syrian floor, had general names
Of Baalim and Ashtaroth, those male,
These Feminine. For Spirits once they please
Can either Sex assume, or each; so tender
And uncompounded is thir Essence pure,
Nor ti’d or manacl’d with joynt or limb,
Nor founded at the brittle electricity of bones,
Like cumbrous flesh; however in what form they choose
Dilated or condens’t, bright or obscure,
Can execute thir aerie purposes,
And works of affection or enmity fulfill.
For those the Race of Israel oft forsook
Thir living energy, and unfrequented left
His righteous Altar, bowing lowly down
To bestial Gods; for which thir heads as low
Bow’d down in Battel, sunk earlier than the Spear
Of despicable foes. With these in troop
Came Astoreth, whom the Phoenicians call’d
Astarte, Queen of Heav’n, with crescent Horns;
To whose vivid Image nightly by the Moon
Sidonian Virgins paid thir Vows and Songs,
In Sion also no longer unsung, wherein stood
Her Temple on th’ offensive Mountain, constructed
By that uxorious King, whose heart although huge,
Beguil’d by fair Idolatresses, fell
To idols foul. Thammuz got here next at the back of,
Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur’d
The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate
In amorous dittyes all a Summers day,
While clean Adonis from his native Rock
Ran pink to the Sea, suppos’d with blood
Of Thammuz every year wounded; the Love-tale
Infected Sions daughters with like heat,
Whose wanton passions inside the sacred Porch
Ezekial saw, whilst by the Vision led
His eye survay’d the dark Idolatries
Of alienated Judah. Next got here one
Who mourn’d in earnest, whilst the Captive Ark
Maim’d his brute Image, head and hands lopt off
In his very 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: but had his Temple excessive
Rear’d in Azotus, dreaded via the Coast
Of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon
And Accaron and Gaza’s frontier bounds.
Him follow’d Rimmon, whose pleasant Seat
Was truthful Damascus, at the fertil Banks
Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streams.
He also towards the house of God was ambitious:
A Leper as soon as he misplaced and gain’d a King,
Ahaz his sottish Conquerour, whom he drew
Gods Altar to disparage and displace
For one in every of Syrian mode, whereon to burn
His odious offrings, and adore the Gods
Whom he had vanquisht. After those seem’d
A crew who beneath Names of old Renown,
Osiris, Isis, Orus and thir Train
With colossal 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 while 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 while he pass’d
From Egypt marching, same’d with one stroke
Both her first born and all her bleating Gods
Belial came remaining, then whom a Spirit extra lewd
Fell no longer from Heaven, or extra gross to love
Vice for it self: To him no Temple stood
Or Altar smoak’d; but who greater oft then hee
In Temples and at Altars, whilst the Priest
Turns Atheist, as did Ely’s Sons, who fill’d
With lust and violence the residence of God.
In Courts and Palaces he also Reigns
And in costly Cities, wherein the noyse
Of rise up ascends above thir loftiest Towrs,
And injury and outrage: And while 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, whilst the hospitable door
Expos’d a Matron to avoid worse rape.
These have been the high in order and in may;
The relaxation had been lengthy to tell, although far renown’d,
Th’ Ionian Gods, of Javans problem held
Gods, but confest later then Heav’n and Earth
Thir boasted Parents; Titan Heav’ns first born
With his huge brood, and birthright seis’d
By younger Saturn, he from mightier Jove
His very own and Rhea’s Son like measure observed;
So Jove usurping reign’d: those first in Creet
And Ida regarded, thence on the Snowy top
Of cold Olympus rul’d the middle Air
Thir maximum Heav’n; or on the Delphian Cliff,
Or in Dodona, and thru all of the bounds
Of Doric Land; or who with Saturn vintage
Fled over Adria to th’ Hesperian Fields,
And ore the Celtic roam’d the maximum Isles.
All those and more got here flocking; but with seems
Down cast and damp, but such wherein seem’d
Obscure a few glimps of joy, to have determined thir chief
Not in despair, to have determined themselves now not misplaced
In loss itself; which on his count’nance cast
Like dubious hue: but he his wonted delight
Soon recollecting, with excessive words, that bore
Semblance of well worth, no longer substance, lightly rais’d
Thir fanting braveness, and dispel’d thir fears.
Then strait commands that on the warlike sound
Of Trumpets loud and Clarions be upreard
His strong 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 excessive advanc’t
Shon like a Meteor streaming to the Wind
With Gemms and Golden lustre rich imblaz’d,
Seraphic arms and Trophies: all the at the same time as
Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds:
At which the general Host upsent
A shout that tore Hells Concave, and beyond
Frighted the Reign of Chaos and vintage Night.
All in a moment through the gloom have been seen
Ten thousand Banners rise into the Air
With Orient Colours waving: with them rose
A Forrest large of Spears: and thronging Helms
Appear’d, and serried Shields in thick array
Of intensity immeasurable: Anon they move
In perfect Phalanx to the Dorian mood
Of Flutes and gentle Recorders; including rais’d
To hight of noblest temper Hero’s antique
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 mind, and chase
Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain
From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they
Breathing united pressure with fixed idea
Mov’d on in silence to tender Pipes that appeal’d
Thir painful steps o’re the burnt soyle; and now
Advanc’t in view, they stand, a horrid Front
Of dreadful period and dazling Arms, in guise
Of Warriers old with order’d Spear and Shield,
Awaiting what command thir robust Chief
Had to impose: He via the armed Files
Darts his experienc’t eye, and shortly traverse
The whole Battalion views, thir order due,
Thir visages and stature as of Gods,
Thir wide variety ultimate he summs. And now his heart
Distends with pleasure, and hardning in his power
Glories: For in no way since created man,
Met such imbodied force, as nam’d with those
Could merit more then that small infantry
Warr’d on with the aid of Cranes: although all of the Giant brood
Of Phlegra with th’ Heroic Race have been 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 considering that 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 a long way those beyond
Compare of mortal prowess, but observ’d
Thir dread commander: he above the rest
In shape and gesture proudly eminent
Stood like a Towr; his form had but no longer misplaced
All her Original brightness, nor seem’d
Less then Arch Angel ruind, and th’ extra
Of Glory obscur’d; As while the Sun new ris’n
Looks via the Horizontal misty Air
Shorn of his Beams, or from in the back of the Moon
In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds
On 1/2 the Nations, and with worry of alternate
Perplexes Monarch. Dark’n’d so, but shon
Above all of them th’ Arch Angel; however his face
Deep scars of Thunder had intrencht, and care
Sat on his faded cheek, but beneath Browes
Of dauntless courage, and considerate Pride
Waiting revenge: cruel his eye, however cast
Signs of regret and passion to behold
The fellows of his crime, the followers rather
(Far different 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 whilst Heavens Fire
Hath scath’d the Forrest Oaks, or Mountain Pines,
With singed pinnacle thir stately boom even though naked
Stands on the blasted Heath. He now prepar’d
To speak; whereat thir doubl’d Ranks they bend
From wing to wing, and 1/2 enclose him round
With all his Peers: interest held them mute.
Thrice he assayd, and thrice in spight of scorn,
Tears consisting of Angels weep, burst forth: at last
Words interwove with sighs located out thir way.

O Myriads of immortal Spirits, O Powers
Matchless, however with th’ Almighty, and that strife
Was not inglorious, although th’ event was dire,
As this place testifies, and this dire alternate
Hateful to utter: but what power of mind
Foreseeing or presaging, from the Depth
Of expertise past or present, may want to have fear’d,
How such united pressure of Gods, how such
As stood like these, could ever know repulse?
For who can but beleeve, although after loss,
That these kind of 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 unique, or hazard shun’d
By mee, have misplaced our hopes. But he who reigns
Monarch in Heav’n, until then as one secure
Sat on his Throne, upheld by means of old repute,
Consent or custome, and his Regal State
Put forth at complete, but still his electricity conceal’d,
Which tempted our attempt, and wrought our fall.
Henceforth his would possibly we recognize, and realize our personal
So as not both to provoke, or dread
New warr, provok’t; our higher component remains
To paintings in near design, via fraud or guile
What pressure effected now not: that he no less
At duration from us may additionally find, who overcomes
By force, hath conquer but 1/2 his foe.
Space may additionally produce new Worlds; whereof so rife
There went a fame in Heav’n that he ere lengthy
Intended to create, and therein plant
A generation, whom his choice regard
Should favour identical to the Sons of Heaven:
Thither, if however to pry, will be perhaps
Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere:
For this Infernal Pit shall by no means hold
Caelestial Spirits in Bondage, nor th’ Abyss
Long under darkness cover. But those mind
Full Counsel need to mature: Peace is despaird,
For who can assume Submission? Warr then, Warr
Open or understood should be resolv’d.

He spake: and to verify his phrases, out-flew
Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
Of effective Cherubim; the sudden blaze
Far round illumin’d hell: notably 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 now not some distance whose griesly top
Belch’d hearth and rowling smoak; the relaxation entire
Shon with a glossie scurff, undoubted sign
That in his womb was hid steel Ore,
The work of Sulphur. Thither wing’d with speed
A numerous Brigad hasten’d. As whilst Bands
Of Pioners with Spade and Pickax arm’d
Forerun the Royal Camp, to trench a Field,
Or solid a Rampart. Mammon led them on,
Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell
From heav’n, for ev’n in heav’n his seems and thoughts
Were always downward bent, admiring extra
The riches of Heav’ns pavement, trod’n Gold,
Then aught divine or holy else enjoy’d
In vision beatific: by him first
Men additionally, and by using his concept taught
Ransack’d the Center, and with impious arms
Rifl’d the bowels of thir mom Earth
For Treasures higher hid. Soon had his crew
Op’nd into the Hill a spacious wound
And dig’d out ribs of Gold. Let none admire
That riches develop in Hell; that soyle may pleasant
Deserve the treasured bane. And right here permit those
Who boast in mortal things, and wond’ring tell
Of Babel, and the works of Memphian Kings
Learn how thir finest 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 arms innumerable scarce carry out.
Nigh at the Plain in lots of cells prepar’d
That beneath had veins of liquid fireplace
Sluc’d from the Lake, a 2nd multitude
With wond’rous Art observed out the massie Ore,
Severing every 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 hole 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 massive
Rose like an Exhalation, with the sound
Of Dulcet Symphonies and voices sweet,
Built like a Temple, where Pilasters spherical
Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid
With Golden Architrave; nor did there want
Cornice or Freeze, with bossy Sculptures grav’n,
The Roof become fretted Gold. Not Babilon,
Nor notable Alcairo such magnificence
Equal’d in all thir glories, to inshrine
Belus or Serapis thir Gods, or seat
Thir Kings, whilst 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 find out wide
Within, her ample spaces, o’re the smooth
And stage pavement: from the arched roof
Pendant with the aid of 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 paintings a few praise
And a few the Architect: his hand changed into recognised
In Heav’n by way of many a Towred structure high,
Where Scepter’d Angels held thir residence,
And sat as Princes, whom the ideally suited King
Exalted to such energy, and gave to rule,
Each in his Hierarchie, the Orders vivid.
Nor turned into 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 through irritated 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: as a consequence they relate,
Erring; for he with this rebellious rout
Fell lengthy before; nor aught avail’d him now
To have built in Heav’n excessive Towrs; nor did he scape
By all his Engins, however became headlong sent
With his industrious team to build in hell.
Mean whilst the winged Haralds by way of command
Of Sovran energy, with awful Ceremony
And Trumpets sound during 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 each Band and squared Regiment
By vicinity or choice the worthiest; they anon
With hunderds and with heaps trooping came
Attended: all access became throng’d, the Gates
And Porches wide, but leader the spacious Hall
(Though like a cover’d field, in which Champions bold
Wont experience in arm’d, and at the Soldans chair
Defi’d the excellent of Panim chivalry
To mortal combat or carreer with Lance)
Thick swarm’d, each at the floor and within the air,
Brusht with the hiss of russling wings. As Bees
In spring time, while the Sun with Taurus rides,
Pour forth thir populous youngsters approximately the Hive
In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers
Flie to and fro, or at the smoothed Plank,
The suburb of thir Straw-constructed Cittadel,
New rub’d with Baum, expatiate and confer
Thir State affairs. So thick the aerie crowd
Swarm’d and have been straitn’d; till the Signal giv’n
Behold a wonder! They however now who seemd
In bigness to surpass Earths Giant Sons
Now much less then smallest Dwarfs, in narrow room
Throng numberless, like that Pigmean Race
Beyond the Indian Mount, or Faerie Elves,
Whose nighttime Revels, by means of a Forrest side
Or Fountain some belated Peasant sees,
Or desires he sees, even as 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 appeal his ear;
At once with pleasure and worry his heart rebounds.
Thus incorporeal Spirits to smallest forms
Reduc’d thir shapes immense, and were at huge,
Though without wide variety still amidst the Hall
Of that infernal Court. But a ways within
And in thir own dimensions like themselves
The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim
In close recess and mystery conclave sat
A thousand Demy-Gods on golden seat’s,
Frequent and complete. After quick silence then
And summons read, the amazing seek advice from began.

Summary of Paradise Lost Book 1
Popularity of “Paradise Lost”: John Milton, a renowned English poet, and civil servant wrote, ‘Paradise Lost’. It is an epic narrative poem from the Bible’s advent story. Its essential subject is disobedience of man, the wrath of God and man’s closing redemption. It was first published in 1667. The poem speaks about the time whilst Satan become thrown out heaven in conjunction with a band of angles. It additionally illustrates his pleasure and stubborn stance of Lucifer. Instead of repenting he prefers ruling in hell.
“Paradise Lost”, As a Representative of Revenge: This poem is about the primary disobedience which added evil inside the world. The poem because the speaker proclaims that he is going to carry out a grand challenge and calls the holy muse to help. After his invocation, he offers a graphic detail of Satan and the rise up angels who went in opposition to the throne and monarchy of God and have been cast out of heaven. They had been all thrown into the fiery lake. Slowly, they regain their senses and unchain themselves. As a brand new leader, Satan addresses his team and provokes them in opposition to God. He proudly states that best the sphere is misplaced; all isn't lost. Deciding to set up his reign within the darkness of hell, he announces that their sole motive is to take revenge on God. He takes upon a project to prevent or destroy anything proper made by using God. Throughout the poem, Satan praises his military and tells them that they nonetheless have the strength to restore themselves. His speeches inspire the rebellious angles, and they decide to paintings for their hellish empire. They construct a top notch tower this is called the capital of hell, Pandemonium. After, engaging in this grand undertaking, the angles acquire for his or her first council meeting.
Major Themes in “Paradise Lost”: Revenge, pride, and rejection of God’s legal guidelines are some great issues of this poem. Throughout the poem, the speaker narrates how Satan’s jealousy and satisfaction end up the purpose of his destruction. Due to his delight, he became thrown out of heaven. Instead of looking for repentance, he starts offevolved to rule in hell. He considers himself all-powerful. Therefore, he encourages his fellow fallen angels to combat in opposition to God. Encouraged through the speeches of their leader, the rebel angles assemble a grand tower for his or her reputable meetings. This activity shows that they'll in no way are seeking for repentance.
Analysis of Literary Devices Used in “Paradise Lost”
Literary devices are modes that represent a writer’s idea, feelings, and emotions. It is through these gadgets the writers make their few phrases appealing to the readers. John Milton has also used a few literary devices in this poem to make it attractive. The evaluation of some of the literary gadgets used on this poem has been listed below.

Enjambment: It is described as a thought in verse that doesn't come to an quit at a line break; instead, it continues in the subsequent verse. For example,
“Or desires he sees, even as over-head the Moon
Sits Arbitress, and neerer to the Earth
Wheels her faded course, they on thir mirth and dance
Intent, with jocond Music attraction his ear;
At once with joy and fear his coronary heart rebounds.”

Consonance: Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds inside the identical strains which include the sound of /t/ in “And summons read, the superb consult began”, the sound of /d/ in “A thousand Demy-Gods on golden seat’s” and the sound of /s/ in “In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds”.
Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds within the identical line in quick succession which includes the sound of /m/ in “Could merit extra then that small infantry” and the sound of /h/ in “Far round illumin’d hell: fairly they rag’d” and the sound /d/ “That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring”.
Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line along with the sound of /o/ in “The pressure of those dire Arms? but not for those” and the sound of /a/ in “What reinforcement we may additionally advantage from Hope”.
Imagery: Imagery is used to make readers understand things concerning their five senses. For example, “Wheels her faded course, they on thir mirth and dance”, “And sat as Princes, whom the excellent King” and “There stood a hill no longer a long way whose griesly pinnacle.”
Symbolism: Symbolism is a use of symbols to suggest ideas and qualities, via giving them symbolic meanings one-of-a-kind from their literal meanings. The Fruit of Forbidden Tree symbolizes pleasure and the sphere symbolizes heaven.
Oxymoron: It is a determine of speech wherein seemingly contradictory terms seem in conjunctions. For example, inside the beneath strains ‘darkish and illumin (light) and ‘low to raise contradict each different,
“And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is dark
Illumin, what is low increase and assist.”

Dramatic Irony: It is a shape of irony in which the person’s words and movements deliver meanings that a character doesn’t understand. However, the reader understands. Here, the dramatic irony occurs when Satan decides to installation his hierarchy against God.
Rhetorical Question: Rhetorical query is a sentence this is posed to make the factor clear. For example, “As stood like these, may want to ever recognise repulse?”, “Self-rais’d, and repossess thir local seat?” and “To slumber here, as in the Vales of Heav’n?”
Analysis of Poetic Devices Used in “Paradise Lost”
Poetic and literary gadgets are the equal, but some are used only in poetry. Here is the analysis of a number of the poetic devices used in this poem.

Stanza: A stanza is a poetic shape of a few traces. It is an extended poem having fourteen long stanzas with 800 verses in it.
Epic Poem: An epic poem is an extended, narrative poem that is usually approximately heroic deeds and occasions that are huge to the subculture of the poet. Paradise Lost is a well-known epic poem.
Blank Verse: Blank verse is a literary device described as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. Paradise Lost is written in clean verse form.
Quotes to be Used
The traces stated below are beneficial for quoting in a speech whilst talking about the errors human beings make which deliver evil and destruction into the world. The underneath traces and the poem, in popular, can regularly be used inside the Biblical testimonies and sermons.

“OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe.”

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