Or won to what may work his utter loss,

Torment within me, as from the hateful siege

Terrestrial Heavn, danct round by other Heavns

Him Lord pronouncd, and, O indignitie!

A Creature formd of Earth, and him endow,

And to repaire his numbers thus impaird,

Of thoughts revolvd, his final sentence chose

Light above Light, for thee alone, as seems, [ 105 ]

Of Hill, and Vallie, Rivers, Woods and Plaines,

To mee shall be the glorie sole among [ 135 ]

Th Angelic Name, and thinner left the throng

Him afte九九藏書r long debate, irresolute

From sharpest sight: for in the wilie Snake,

As from his wit and native suttletie

Now Land, now Sea, and Shores with Forrest crownd,

Proceeding, which in other Beasts observd

For whom all this was made, all this will soon

Of contraries; all good to me becomes

Centring receavst from all those Orbs; in thee,

Thus he resolvd, but first from inward griefe

But neither here seek I, no nor in Heavn

As I, though thereby worse to me redound:

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Whatever sleights none would suspicious mark,

More justly, Seat worthier of Gods, as built [ 100 ]

Of Creatures animate with gradual life

The infernal Powers, in one day to have marrd

Of his adorers: hee to be avengd,

That shine, yet bear thir bright officious Lamps,

For what God after better worse would build?

Of Growth, Sense, Reason, all summd up in Man.

Not in themselves, all thir known vertue appeers [ 110 ]

From servitude inglorious welnigh half

Productive in Herread.99csw.comb, Plant, and nobler birth

With what delight could I have walkt thee round,

By what I seek, but others to make such

Continud making, and who knows how long

Nor hope to be my self less miserable

With second thoughts, reforming what was old!

Are his Created, or to spite us more,

To enter, and his dark suggestions hide [ 90 ]

Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of fraud, in whom

Before had bin contriving, though perhaps

To dwell, unless by maistring Heavns Supreame; [ 125 ]

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Doubt might beget of Diabolic powr [ 95 ]

Pleasures about me, so much more I feel [ 120 ]

Follow, as to him linkt in weal or woe,

O Earth, how like to Heavn, if not preferrd

Exalted from so base original, [ 150 ]

With Heavnly spoils, our spoils: What he decreed

Bane, and in Heavn much worse would be my state.

If I could joy in aught, sweet interchange [ 115 ]

Find place or refuge; and the more I see

In thee concentring all thir precious beams

To my relentless thoughts; and him destroyd, [ 130 ]

Is Centerreａd•９9cｓw.com, yet extends to all, so thou

Of sacred influence: As God in Heavn

Not longer then since I in one Night freed [ 140 ]

What he Almightie styld, six Nights and Days

Whether such vertue spent of old now faild [ 145 ]

Active within beyond the sense of brute.

He effected; Man he made, and for him built

Rocks, Dens, and Caves; but I in none of these

Magnificent this World, and Earth his seat,

Determind to advance into our room

In wo then: that destruction wide may range:

His bursting passion into plaints thus pourd: