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Paradise Lost (1667)
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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
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At certain revolutions all the damn'd
Are brought: and feel by turns the bitter change
Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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So on this windy sea of land, the fiend
Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.
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More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round, And solitude.
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Eas'd the putting off
These troublesome disguises which we wear.
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And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert th' Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men.
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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
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The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.
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Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring.
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Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
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What if earth
Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein
Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
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Freely we serve,
Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
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He hears
On all sides, from innumerable tongues
A dismal universal hiss, the sound
Of public scorn.
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High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind,
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,
Satan exalted sat, by merit raised
To that bad eminence.
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Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.
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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; … Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, … as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.
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Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.
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Spirits, when they please,
Can either sex assume, or both.
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Hail, holy light! offspring of heav'n firstborn.
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Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost.
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His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.
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Black it stood as night,
Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
And shook a dreadful dart.
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My fairest, my espoused, my latest found,
Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight.
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Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
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Born:
December 9, 1608
Died:
November 8, 1674
(aged 65)
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