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Paradise Lost (1667)
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So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
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But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose?
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Our state cannot be sever'd; we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
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Unless th'Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more worlds.
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Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n
From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view
On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea;
Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's
Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world
Of destined habitation.
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The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.
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For now I see
Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
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For contemplation he and valour formed,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace,
He for God only, she for God in him.
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Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life,
The middle tree and highest there that grew,
Sat like a cormorant.
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Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway,
And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
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So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
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Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.
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And when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
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Arm th' obdur'd breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.
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Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years damp my intended wing.
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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With thee conversing I forget all time,
All seasons, and their change; all please alike.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
With charm of earliest birds.
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Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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To perish rather, swallowed up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night.
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Anon they move
In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders.
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And through the palpable obscure find out
His uncouth way.
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Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
John Milton
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Born:
December 9, 1608
Died:
November 8, 1674
(aged 65)
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