He ceasd; and Satan staid not to reply, [ 1010 ]

In circuit, undetermind square or round,

But now at last the sacred influence

Weighs his spread wings, at leasure to behold

But hee once past, soon after when man fell,

Of this frail World; by which the Spirits perverse [ 1030 ]

Or in the emptier waste, resembling Air, [ 1045 ]

Of smallest Magnitudhttps://read.99csw.come close by the Moon.

This pendant world, in bigness as a Starr

Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain

A glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins

Her fardest verge, and Chaos to retire

Pavd after him a broad and beatn way

With easie intercourse pass to and fro

Environd wins his way; harder beset

Shoots farr into the bosom read.99csw.comof dim Night

And fast by hanging in a golden Chain

Accurst, and in a cursed hour he hies. [ 1055 ]

And more endangerd, then when Argo passd

Through Bosporus betwixt the justling Rocks:

Or when Ulysses on the Larbord shunnd

Following his track, such was the will of Heavn, [ 1025 ]

Gladly the Port, though Shrouds and Tackle torn;

As from herhtｔpｓ://reａd.９９ｃsw•coｍ outmost works a brokn foe

Of light appears, and from the walls of Heavn [ 1035 ]

Charybdis, and by th other whirlpool steard. [ 1020 ]

Tamely endurd a Bridge of wondrous length

But glad that now his Sea should find a shore,

With Opal Towrs and Battlements adornd

Into the wilde expanse, and through the shock

Wafts on the calmer wave by dubious l九_九_藏_書ight

To tempt or punish mortals, except whom

With tumult less and with less hostile din, [ 1040 ]

Over the dark Abyss, whose boiling Gulf

That Satan with less toil, and now with ease

Of living Saphire, once his native Seat; [ 1050 ]

From Hell continud reaching th utmost Orbe

Movd on,ｒeａd.99csｗ.ｃｏm with difficulty and labour hee;

And like a weather-beaten Vessel holds

Thither full fraught with mischievous revenge,

God and good Angels guard by special grace.

With fresh alacritie and force renewd

Farr off th Empyreal Heavn, extended wide

So he with difficulty and labour hard

Of fighting Elements, on all sides round [ 1015 ]

Springs upward like a Pyramid of fire