Paradise Lost Ⅲ-第1章
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THE ARGUMENT
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god sitting on his throne sees satan flying towards this world; then newly created; shews him to the son who sat at his right hand; foretells the success of satan in perverting mankind; clears his own justice and wisdom from all imputation; having created man free and able enough to have withstood his tempter; yet declares his purpose of grace towards him; in regard he fell not of his own malice; as did satan; but by him seduct。 the son of god renders praises to his father for the manifestation of his gracious purpose towards man; but god again declares; that grace cannot be extended towards man without the satisfaction of divine justice; man hath offended the majesty of god by aspiring to god…head; and therefore with all his progeny devoted to death must dye; unless some one can be found sufficient to answer for his offence; and undergo his punishment。 the son of god freely offers himself a ransome for man: the father accepts him; ordains his incarnation; pronounces his exaltation above all names in heaven and earth; mands all the angels to adore him; they obey; and hymning to thir harps in full quire; celebrate the father and the son。 mean while satan alights upon the bare convex of this worlds outermost orb; where wandring he first finds a place since calld the lymbo of vanity; what persons and things fly up thither; thence es to the gate of heaven; describd ascending by staires; and the waters above the firmament that flow about it: his passage thence to the orb of the sun; he finds there uriel the regent of that orb; but first changes himself into the shape of a meaner angel; and pretending a zealous desire to behold the new creation and man whom god had plact here; inquires of him the place of his habitation; and is directed; alights first on mount niphates。
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hail holy light; ofspring of heavn first…born;
or of th eternal coeternal beam
may i express thee unblamd? since god is light;
and never but in unapproached light
dwelt from eternitie; dwelt then in thee; ' 5 '
bright effluence of bright essence increate。
or hearst thou rather pure ethereal stream;
whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun;
before the heavens thou wert; and at the voice
of god; as with a mantle didst invest ' 10 '
the rising world of waters dark and deep;
won from the void and formless infinite。
thee i re…visit now with bolder wing;
escapt the stygian pool; though long detaind
in that obscure sojourn; while in my flight ' 15 '
through utter and through middle darkness borne
with other notes then to th orphean lyre
i sung of chaos and eternal night;
taught by the heavnly muse to venture down
the dark descent; and up to reascend; ' 20 '
though hard and rare: thee i revisit safe;
and feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou
revisitst not these eyes; that rowle in vain
to find thy piercing ray; and find no dawn;
so thick a drop serene hath quencht thir orbs; ' 25 '
or dim suffusion veild。 yet not the more
cease i to wander where the muses haunt
cleer spring; or shadie grove; or sunnie hill;
smit with the love of sacred song; but chief
thee sion and the flowrie brooks beneath ' 30 '
that wash thy hallowd feet; and warbling flow;
nightly i visit: nor somtimes forget
those other two equald with me in fate;
so were i equald with them in renown;
blind thamyris and blind m?onides; ' 35 '
and tiresias and phineus prophets old。
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then feed on thoughts; that voluntarie move
harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird
sings darkling; and in shadiest covert hid
tunes her nocturnal note。 thus with the year ' 40 '
seasons return; but not to me returns
day; or the sweet approach of evn or morn;
or sight of vernal bloom; or summers rose;
or flocks; or heards; or human face divine;
but cloud in stead; and ever…during dark ' 45 '
surrounds me; from the chearful wayes of men
cut off; and for the book of knowledg fair
presented with a universal blanc
of natures works to mee expungd and rasd;
and wisdome at one entrance quite shut out。 ' 50 '
so much the rather thou celestial light
shine inward; and the mind through all her powers
irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence
purge and disperse; that i may see and tell
of things invisible to mortal sight。 ' 55 '
now had the almighty father from above;
from the pure empyrean where he sits
high thrond above all highth; bent down his eye;
his own works and their works at once to view:
about him all the sanctities of heaven ' 60 '
stood thick as starrs; and from his sight receivd
beatitude past utterance; on his right
the radiant image of his glory sat;
his onely son; on earth he first beheld
our two first parents; yet the onely two ' 65 '
of mankind; in the happie garden plact;
reaping immortal fruits of joy and love;
uninterrupted joy; unrivald love
in blissful solitude; he then surveyd
hell and the gulf between; and satan there ' 70 '
coasting the wall of heavn on this side night
in the dun air sublime; and ready now
to stoop with wearied wings; and willing feet
on the bare outside of this world; that seemd
firm land imbosomd without firmament; ' 75 '
uncertain which; in ocean or in air。
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him god beholding from his prospect high;
wherein past; present; future he beholds;
thus to his onely son foreseeing spake。
onely begotten son; seest thou what rage ' 80 '
transports our adversarie; whom no bounds
prescribd; no barrs of hell; nor all the chains
heapt on him there; nor yet the main abyss
wide interrupt can hold; so bent he seems
on desparate reveng; that shall redound ' 85 '
upon his own rebellious head。 and now
through all restraint broke loose he wings his way
not farr off heavn; in the precincts of light;
directly towards the new created world;
and man there plact; with purpose to assay ' 90 '
if him by force he can destroy; or worse;
by some false guile pervert; and shall pervert
for man will hearkn to his glozing lyes;
and easily transgress the sole mand;
sole pledge of his obedience: so will fall; ' 95 '
hee and his faithless progenie: whose fault?
whose but his own? ingrate; he had of mee
all he could have; i made him just and right;
sufficient to have stood; though free to fall。
such i created all th ethereal powers ' 100 '
and spirits; both them who stood and them who faild;
freely they stood who stood; and fell who fell。
not free; what proof could they have givn sincere
of true allegiance; constant faith or love;
where onely what they needs must do; appeard; ' 105 '
not what they would? what praise could they receive?
what pleasure i from such obedience paid;
when will and reason (reason also is choice)
useless and vain; of freedom both despoild;
made passive both; had servd necessitie; ' 110 '
not mee。 they therefore as to right belongd;
so were created; nor can justly accuse
thir maker; or thir making; or thir fate;
as if predestination over…ruld
thir will; disposd by absolute decree ' 115 '
or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed
thir own revolt; not i: if i foreknew;
foreknowledge had no influence on their fault;
which had no less provd certain unforeknown。
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so without least impulse or shadow of fate; ' 120 '
or aught by me immutablie foreseen;
they trespass; authors to themselves in all
both what they judge and what they choose; for so
i formd them free; and free they must remain;
till they enthrall themselves: i else must change ' 125 '
thir nature; and revoke the high decree
unchangeable; eternal; which ordaind
thir freedom; they themselves ordaind thir fall。
the first sort by thir own suggestion fell;
self…tempted; self…depravd: man falls deceivd ' 130 '
by the other first: man therefore shall find grace;
the other none: in mercy and justice both;
through heavn and earth; so shall my glorie excel;
but mercy first and last shall brightest shine。
thus while god spake; ambrosial fragrance filld ' 135 '
all heavn; and in the blessed spirits elect
sense of new joy ineffable diffusd:
beyond pare the son of god was seen
most glorious; in him all his father shon
substantially expressd; and in his face ' 140 '
divine passion visibly appeerd;
love without end; and without measure grace;
which uttering thus he to his father spake。
o father; gracious was that word which closd
thy sovran sentence; that man should find grace; ' 145 '
for which both heavn and earth shall high extoll
thy praises; with th innumerable sound
of hymns and sacred songs; wherewith thy throne
enpassd shall resound thee ever blest。
for should man finally be lost; should man ' 150 '
thy creature late so lovd; thy youngest son
fall circumvented thus by fraud; though joynd
with his own folly? that be from thee farr;
that farr be from thee; father; who art judg
of all things made; and judgest