The stedfast Empyrean shook throughout,

Not emulous, nor care who them excells;

That wisht the Mountains now might be again

Of Thrones and mighty Seraphim prostrate,

Glard lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire

Distinct alike with multitude of eyes,

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Ore Shields and Helmes, and helmed heads he rode [ 840 ]

Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, falln.

Distinct with eyes, and from the living Wheels,

Thrown on them as a shelter from his ire.

Gloomie as Night; under his burning九九藏書 Wheeles

They measure all, of other excellence

Among them he arrivd; in his right hand [ 835 ]

Hee on his impious Foes right onward drove,

And full of wrauth bent on his Enemies.

His countnance too severe to be beheld [ 825 ]

Plagues; they astonisht all resistance lost,九_九_藏_書

Or I alone against them, since by strength [ 820 ]

His arrows, from the fourfold-visagd Foure, [ 845 ]

All but the Throne it self of God. Full soon

That they may have thir wish, to trie with mee

All courage; down thir idle weapons dropd;

Grasping ten thousand Thunders, ｒｅad.9９csｗ.comwhich he sent

One Spirit in them ruld, and every eye

Of his fierce Chariot rowld, as with the sound

And of thir wonted vigour left them draind,

In Battel which the stronger proves, they all,

Therefore to mee thir doom he hath assignd;

Before him, such as in thir Soules infix九-九-藏-書d

Of torrent Floods, or of a numerous Host. [ 830 ]

Nor other strife with them do I voutsafe.

With dreadful shade contiguous, and the Orbes

Among th accurst, that witherd all thir strength, [ 850 ]

At once the Four spred out thir Starrie wings

So spake the Son, and into terrour changd