er long debate, irresolute
Of ts revolvd, ence chose
Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of fraud, in whom
to enter, and ions hide [ 90 ]
From s sighe wilie Snake,
ever sleights none would suspicious mark,
As from and native suttletie
Proceeding, ws observd
Doubt mig of Diabolic powr [ 95 ]
Active e.
t first from inward griefe
ing passion into plaints thus pourd:
O Earto preferrd
More justly, Seat [ 100 ]
its, reforming w was old!
For er better worse would build?
terrestrial round by other heavns
t s bear t officious Lamps,
Lig, for thee alone, as seems, [ 105 ]
In tring all thir precious beams
Of sacred influence: As God in heavn
Is Center, yet extends to all, so thou
Centring receavst from all thee,
Not in tue appeers [ 110 ]
Productive in , and nobler birth
Of Creatures animate h gradual life
Of Growth, Sense, Reason, all summd up in Man.
it delig thee round,
If I could joy in aug interchange [ 115 ]
Of hill, and Vallie, Rivers, oods and Plaines,
Now Land, now Sea, and S crownd,
Rocks, Dens, and Caves; but I in none of these
Find place or refuge; and the more I see
Pleasures about me, so much more I feel [ 120 ]
torment eful siege
Of contraries; all good to me becomes
Bane, and in ate.
But neither here seek I, no nor in heavn
to dring heavns Supreame; [ 125 ]
Nor o be my self less miserable
By oto make such
As I, to me redound:
For onely in destroying I find ease
to my relentless ts; and royd, [ 130 ]
Or o er loss,
For whis will soon
Folloo in weal or woe,
In destruction wide may range:
to mee she glorie sole among [ 135 ]
to have marrd
ie styld, six Nights and Days
Continud making, and who knows how long
Before riving, though perhaps
Not longer t freed [ 140 ]
From servitude inglorious welnigh half
t throng
Of o be avengd,
And to repaire hus impaird,
ue spent of old now faild [ 145 ]
More Angels to Create, if t least
Are ed, or to spite us more,
Determind to advance into our room
A Creature formd of Earth, and him endow,
Exalted from so base original, [ 150 ]
it he decreed
ed; Man
Magnificent t,
ie!