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strive here for maistrie; and to battel bring

thir embryon atoms; they around the flag ' 900 '

of each his faction; in thir several clanns;

light…armd or heavy; sharp; smooth; swift or slow;

swarm populous; unnumberd as the sands

of barca or cyrenes torrid soil;

levied to side with warring winds; and poise ' 905 '

thir lighter wings。 to whom these most adhere;

hee rules a moment; chaos umpire sits;

and by decision more imbroiles the fray

by which he reigns: next him high arbiter

chance governs all。 into this wilde abyss; ' 910 '

the womb of nature and perhaps her grave;

of neither sea; nor shore; nor air; nor fire;

but all these in thir pregnant causes mixt

confusdly; and which thus must ever fight;

unless th almighty maker them ordain ' 915 '

his dark materials to create more worlds;

into this wild abyss the warie fiend

stood on the brink of hell and lookd a while;

pondering his voyage: for no narrow frith

he had to cross。 nor was his eare less peald ' 920 '

with noises loud and ruinous (to pare

great things with small) then when bellona storms;

with all her battering engines bent to rase

som capital city; or less then if this frame

of heavn were falling; and these elements ' 925 '

in mutinie had from her axle torn

the stedfast earth。 at last his sail…broad vannes

he spreads for flight; and in the surging smoak

uplifted spurns the ground; thence many a league

as in a cloudy chair ascending rides ' 930 '

audacious; but that seat soon failing; meets

a vast vacuitie: all unawares

fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he drops

ten thousand fadom deep; and to this hour

down had been falling; had not by ill chance ' 935 '

the strong rebuff of som tumultuous cloud

instinct with fire and nitre hurried him

as many miles aloft: that furie stayd;

quencht in a boggy syrtis; neither sea;

nor good dry land: nigh founderd on he fares; ' 940 '

treading the crude consistence; half on foot;

half flying; behoves him now both oare and saile。

as when a gryfon through the wilderness

with winged course ore hill or moarie dale;

pursues the arimaspian; who by stelth ' 945 '

had from his wakeful custody purloind

the guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend

ore bog or steep; through strait; rough; dense; or rare;

with head; hands; wings; or feet pursues his way;

and swims or sinks; or wades; or creeps; or flyes: ' 950 '

at length a universal hubbub wilde

of stunning sounds and voices all confusd

borne through the hollow dark assaults his eare

with loudest vehemence: thither he plyes;

undaunted to meet there what ever power ' 955 '

or spirit of the nethermost abyss

might in that noise reside; of whom to ask

which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes

bordering on light; when strait behold the throne

of chaos; and his dark pavilion spread ' 960 '

wide on the wasteful deep; with him enthrond

sat sable…vested night; eldest of things;

the consort of his reign; and by them stood

orcus and ades; and the dreaded name

of demogorgon; rumor next and chance; ' 965 '

and tumult and confusion all imbroild;

and discord with a thousand various mouths。

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t whom satan turning boldly; thus。 ye powers

and spirits of this nethermost abyss;

chaos and ancient night; i e no spy; ' 970 '

with purpose to explore or to disturb

the secrets of your realm; but by constraint

wandring this darksome desart; as my way

lies through your spacious empire up to light;

alone; and without guide; half lost; i seek ' 975 '

what readiest path leads where your gloomie bounds

confine with heavn; or if som other place

from your dominion won; th ethereal king

possesses lately; thither to arrive

i travel this profound; direct my course; ' 980 '

directed no mean repence it brings

to your behoof; if i that region lost;

all usurpation thence expelld; reduce

to her original darkness and your sway

(which is my present journey) and once more ' 985 '

erect the standard there of ancient night;

yours be th advantage all; mine the revenge。

thus satan; and him thus the anarch old

with faultring speech and visage inposd

answerd。 i know thee; stranger; who thou art; ' 990 '

that mighty leading angel; who of late

made head against heavns king; though overthrown。

i saw and heard; for such a numerous host

fled not in silence through the frighted deep

with ruin upon ruin; rout on rout; ' 995 '

confusion worse confounded; and heavn gates

pourd out by millions her victorious bands

pursuing。 i upon my frontieres here

keep residence; if all i can will serve;

that little which is left so to defend ' 1000 '

encroacht on still through our intestine broiles

weakning the scepter of old night: first hell

your dungeon stretching far and wide beneath;

now lately heaven and earth; another world

hung ore my realm; linkd in a golden chain ' 1005 '

to that side heavn from whence your legions fell:

if that way be your walk; you have not farr;

so much the neerer danger; go and speed;

havock and spoil and ruin are my gain。

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he ceasd; and satan staid not to reply; ' 1010 '


but glad that now his sea should find a shore;


with fresh alacritie and force renewd


springs upward like a pyramid of fire


into the wilde expanse; and through the shock


of fighting elements; on all sides round ' 1015 '


environd wins his way; harder beset


and more endangerd; then when argo passd


through bosporus betwixt the justling rocks:


or when ulysses on the larbord shunnd


charybdis; and by th other whirlpool steard。 ' 1020 '


so he with difficulty and labour hard


movd on; with difficulty and labour hee;


but hee once past; soon after when man fell;


strange alteration! sin and death amain


following his track; such was the will of heavn; ' 1025 '


pavd after him a broad and beatn way


over the dark abyss; whose boiling gulf


tamely endurd a bridge of wondrous length


from hell continud reaching th utmost orbe


of this frail world; by which the spirits perverse ' 1030 '


with easie intercourse pass to and fro


to tempt or punish mortals; except whom


god and good angels guard by special grace。


but now at last the sacred influence


of light appears; and from the walls of heavn ' 1035 '


shoots farr into the bosom of dim night


a glimmering dawn; here nature first begins


her fardest verge; and chaos to retire


as from her outmost works a brokn foe


with tumult less and with less hostile din; ' 1040 '


that satan with less toil; and now with ease


wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light


and like a weather…beaten vessel holds


gladly the port; though shrouds and tackle torn;


or in the emptier waste; resembling air; ' 1045 '


weighs his spread wings; at leasure to behold


farr off th empyreal heavn; extended wide


in circuit; undetermind square or round;


with opal towrs and battlements adornd


of living saphire; once his native seat; ' 1050 '


and fast by hanging in a golden chain


this pendant world; in bigness as a starr


of smallest magnitude close by the moon。


thither full fraught with mischievous revenge;


accurst; and in a cursed hour he hies。 ' 1055 '


the end of the second book。

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