In mutinie had from her Axle torn

As many miles aloft: that furie stayd,

Stood on the brink of Hell and lookd a while,

Thir embryon Atoms; they around the flag [ 900 ]

Of Heavn were falling, and these Elements [ 925 ]

Ore bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,

At length a universal hubbub wilde

Undaunted to meet there what ever power [ 955 ]

And Tumult and Confusion all imbroild,

The stedfast Earth. At last his Sail-broad Vannes

His dark materials to create more Worlds,

Of stunning sounds and voices all confusd

Levied to side with warring Winds, and poise ｒeaｄ.９９ｃｓｗ•com[ 905 ]

For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce

Instinct with Fire and Nitre hurried him

Had from his wakeful custody purloind

Illimitable Ocean without bound,

Or Spirit of the nethermost Abyss

Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name

Wide on the wasteful Deep; with him Enthrond

With noises loud and ruinous (to compare

And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flyes: [ 950 ]

Audacious, but that seat soon failing, meets

Quencht in a Boggy Syrtis, neither Sea,

Which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes

Of Barca or Cyrenes torrid soil,

Confusdly, https://read.99csw.comand which thus must ever fight,

Unless th Almighty Maker them ordain [ 915 ]

A vast vacuitie: all unawares

By which he Reigns: next him high Arbiter

The Consort of his Reign; and by them stood

With loudest vehemence: thither he plyes,

And Discord with a thousand various mouths.

Before thir eyes in sudden view appear [ 890 ]

Of Demogorgon; Rumor next and Chance, [ 965 ]

He had to cross. Nor was his eare less peald [ 920 ]

As in a cloudy Chair ascending rides [ 930 ]

Of each his faction, in thir several Clanns,

The strong rebuff of som tumultuous cloud

Thir ligh九九藏書ter wings. To whom these most adhere,

Might in that noise reside, of whom to ask

He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoak

Hee rules a moment; Chaos Umpire sits,

Down had been falling, had not by ill chance [ 935 ]

Treading the crude consistence, half on foot,

And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold [ 895 ]

The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark

The guarded Gold: So eagerly the fiend

With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way,

But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt

Uplifted spurns the ground, thence many a League

Chance governs all. Into this wilde Abyss, [ 910 ]九-九-藏-書

Som Capital City; or less then if this frame

Into this wild Abyss the warie fiend

Without dimension, where length, breadth, & highth,

And by decision more imbroiles the fray

Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stelth [ 945 ]

Swarm populous, unnumberd as the Sands

Bordering on light; when strait behold the Throne

Borne through the hollow dark assaults his eare

Pondering his Voyage: for no narrow frith

Ten thousand fadom deep, and to this hour

With winged course ore Hill or moarie Dale,

The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,

Of endless Warrs, and by confusion stand.

And time aread.99csw.comnd place are lost; where eldest Night

As when a Gryfon through the Wilderness

Sat Sable-vested Night, eldest of things,

Great things with small) then when Bellona storms,

Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring

Of Chaos, and his dark Pavilion spread [ 960 ]

Nor good dry Land: nigh founderd on he fares, [ 940 ]

With all her battering Engines bent to rase

Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,

Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise

Light-armd or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift or slow,

Half flying; behoves him now both Oare and Saile.

Fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he drops