Forthe power
y Angels placd)
to the hills
(For Earty from heavn [ 640 ]
Of pleasure situate in hill and Dale)
Ligning glimps they flew,
From tions loosning to and fro
t ted hir load,
Rocks, aters, oods, and by tops [ 645 ]
Up lifting bore thir hands: Amaze,
Be sure, and terrour seisd t,
ohey saw
ttom of tains upurnd,
till on triple-row [ 650 ]
thir confidence
Under t of Mountains buried deep,
t, and on thir heads
Main Promontories flung, whe Air
Came s whole Legions armd, [ 655 ]
t in and bruisd
Into tance pent, hem pain
Implacable, and many a dolorous groan,
Long strugling underneathey could wind
Out of sucs of purest light, [ 660 ]
Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.
t in imitation to like Armes
Betook tore;
So erd hills
o and fro ion dire, [ 665 ]
t under ground, t in dismal shade;
Infernal noise; arr seemd a civil Game
to t
Upon confusion rose: and now all heavn
o h ruin overspred, [ 670 ]
tie Fats
Suarie of heavn secure,
Consulting on things, foreseen
tumult, and permitted all, advisd:
t purpose so fulfill, [ 675 ]
to ed Son avengd
Upon o declare
All power on ransferrd: wo his Son
thus began.