Paradise Lost Ⅰ-第3章
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on the firm brimstone; and fill all the plain; ' 350 '
a multitude; like which the populous north
pourd never from her frozen loyns; to pass
rhene or the danaw; when her barbarous sons
came like a deluge on the south; and spread
beneath gibralter to the lybian sands。 ' 355 '
forthwith from every squadron and each band
the heads and leaders thither hast where stood
thir great mander; godlike shapes and forms
excelling human; princely dignities;
and powers that earst in heaven sat on thrones; ' 360 '
though of thir names in heavnly records now
be no memorial blotted out and rasd
by thir rebellion; from the books of life。
nor had they yet among the sons of eve
got them new names; till wandring ore the earth; ' 365 '
through gods high sufferance for the tryal of man;
by falsities and lyes the greatest part
of mankind they corrupted to forsake
god thir creator; and th invisible
glory of him that made them; to transform ' 370 '
oft to the image of a brute; adornd
with gay religions full of pomp and gold;
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and devils to adore for deities:
then were they known to men by various names;
and various idols through the heathen world。 ' 375 '
say; muse; thir names then known; who first; who last;
rousd from the slumber; on that fiery couch;
at thir great emperors call; as next in worth
came singly where he stood on the bare strand;
while the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof? ' 380 '
the chief were those who from the pit of hell
roaming to seek thir prey on earth; durst fix
thir seats long after next the seat of god;
thir altars by his altar; gods adord
among the nations round; and durst abide ' 385 '
jehovah thundring out of sion; thrond
between the cherubim; yea; often placd
within his sanctuary it self thir shrines;
abominations; and with cursed things
his holy rites; and solemn feasts profand; ' 390 '
and with thir darkness durst affront his light。
first moloch; horrid king besmeard with blood
of human sacrifice; and parents tears;
though for the noyse of drums and timbrels loud
thir childrens cries unheard; that past through fire ' 395 '
to his grim idol。 him the ammonite
worshipt in rabba and her watry plain;
in argob and in basan; to the stream
of utmost arnon。 nor content with such
audacious neighbourhood; the wisest heart ' 400 '
of solomon he led by fraud to build
his temple right against the temple of god
on that opprobrious hill; and made his grove
the pleasant vally of hinnom; tophet thence
and black gehenna calld; the type of hell。 ' 405 '
next chemos; th obscene dread of moabs sons;
from aroar to nebo; and the wild
of southmost abarim; in hesebon
and horonaim; seons realm; beyond
the flowry dale of sibma clad with vines; ' 410 '
and eleale to th asphaltick pool。
peor his other name; when he enticd
israel in sittim on thir march from nile
to do him wanton rites; which cost them woe。
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yet thence his lustful orgies he enlargd ' 415 '
even to that hill of scandal; by the grove
of moloch homicide; lust hard by hate;
till good josiah drove them thence to hell。
with these came they; who from the bordring flood
of old euphrates to the brook that parts ' 420 '
egypt from syrian ground; had general names
of baalim and ashtaroth; those male;
these feminine。 for spirits when they please
can either sex assume; or both; so soft
and unpounded is thir essence pure; ' 425 '
not tid or manacld with joynt or limb;
nor founded on the brittle strength of bones;
like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose
dilated or condenst; bright or obscure;
can execute thir aerie purposes; ' 430 '
and works of love or enmity fulfill。
for those the race of israel oft forsook
thir living strength; and unfrequented left
his righteous altar; bowing lowly down
to bestial gods; for which thir heads as low ' 435 '
bowd down in battel; sunk before the spear
of despicable foes。 with these in troop
came astoreth; whom the phoenicians calld
astarte; queen of heavn; with crescent horns;
to whose bright image nightly by the moon ' 440 '
sidonian virgins paid thir vows and songs;
in sion also not unsung; where stood
her temple on th offensive mountain; built
by that uxorious king; whose heart though large;
beguild by fair idolatresses; fell ' 445 '
to idols foul。 thammuz came next behind;
whose annual wound in lebanon allurd
the syrian damsels to lament his fate
in amorous dittyes all a summers day;
while smooth adonis from his native rock ' 450 '
ran purple to the sea; supposd with blood
of thammuz yearly wounded: the love…tale
infected sions daughters with like heat;
whose wanton passions in the sacred porch
ezekiel saw; when by the vision led ' 455 '
his eye survayd the dark idolatries
of alienated judah。 next came one
who mournd in earnest; when the captive ark
maimd his brute image; head and hands lopt off
in his own temple; on the grunsel edge; ' 460 '
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where he fell flat; and shamd his worshipers:
dagon his name; sea monster; upward man
and downward fish: yet had his temple high
reard in azotus; dreaded through the coast
of palestine; in gath and ascalon ' 465 '
and accaron and gazas frontier bounds。
him followd rimmon; whose delightful seat
was fair damascus; on the fertil banks
of abbana and pharphar; lucid streams。
he also against the house of god was bold: ' 470 '
a leper once he lost and gaind a king;
ahaz his sottish conquerour; whom he drew
gods altar to disparage and displace
for one of syrian mode; whereon to burn
his odious offrings; and adore the gods ' 475 '
whom he had vanquisht。 after these appeard
a crew who under names of old renown;
osiris; isis; orus and their train
with monstrous shapes and sorceries abusd
fanatic egypt and her priests; to seek ' 480 '
thir wandring gods disguisd in brutish forms
rather then human。 nor did israel scape
th infection when thir borrowd gold posd
the calf in oreb: and the rebel king
doubld that sin in bethel and in dan; ' 485 '
likning his maker to the grazed ox;
jehovah; who in one night when he passd
from egypt marching; equald with one stroke
both her first born and all her bleating gods。
belial came last; then whom a spirit more lewd ' 490 '
fell not from heaven; or more gross to love
vice for it self: to him no temple stood
or altar smoakd; yet who more oft then hee
in temples and at altars; when the priest
turns atheist; as did elys sons; who filld ' 495 '
with lust and violence the house of god。
in courts and palaces he also reigns
and in luxurious cities; where the noyse
of riot ascends above thir loftiest towrs;
and injury and outrage: and when night ' 500 '
darkens the streets; then wander forth the sons
of belial; flown with insolence and wine。
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witness the streets of sodom; and that night
in gibeah; when the hospitable door
exposd a matron to avoid worse rape。 ' 505 '
these were the prime in order and in might;
the rest were long to tell; though far renownd;
th ionian gods; of javans issue held
gods; yet confest later then heavn and earth
thir boasted parents; titan heavns first born ' 510 '
with his enormous brood; and birthright seisd
by younger saturn; he from mightier jove
his own and rheas son like measure found;
so jove usurping reignd: these first in creet
and ida known; thence on the snowy top ' 515 '
of cold olympus ruld the middle air
thir highest heavn; or on the delphian cliff;
or in dodona; and through all the bounds
of doric land; or who with saturn old
fled over adria to th hesperian fields; ' 520 '
and ore the celtic roamd the utmost isles。
all these and more came flocking; but with looks
down cast and damp; yet such wherein appeard
obscure some glimps of joy; to have found thir chief
not in despair; to have found themselves not lost ' 525 '
in loss it self; which on his countnance cast
like doubtful hue: but he his wonted pride
soon recollecting; with high words; that bore
semblance of worth; not substance; gently raisd
thir fainting courage; and dispeld thir fears。 ' 530 '
then strait mands that at the warlike sound
of trumpets loud and clarions be upreard
his mighty standard; that proud honour claimd
azazel as his right; a cherube tall:
who forthwith from the glittering staff unfurld ' 535 '
th imperial ensign; which full high advanct
shon like a meteor streaming to the wind
with gemms and golden lustre rich imblazd;
seraphic arms and trophies: all the while
sonorous mettal blowing martial sounds: ' 540 '
at which the universal host upsent
a shout that tore hells concave; and beyond
frighted the reign of chaos and old night。
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all in a moment through the gloom were seen
ten thousand banners rise into the air