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10 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Book one, Part two. They heard and were abashed, And
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  Speaker 1: up they sprung upon the wing, as when men wont
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  Speaker 1: to watch on duty, sleeping found by whom they dread
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  Speaker 1: rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they
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  Speaker 1: not perceive the evil plight in which they were, or
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  Speaker 1: the fierce pains not feel. Yet to their general's voice,
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  Speaker 1: they soon obeyed innumerable, as when the potent rod of
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  Speaker 1: Amram's sun in Egypt's evil day waved round the coast
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  Speaker 1: up called a pitchy cloud of locusts, warping on the
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  Speaker 1: eastern wind, that o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh, hung
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  Speaker 1: like night and darkened all the land of Nile. So
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  Speaker 1: numberless were those bad angels seen hovering on wing under
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  Speaker 1: the cope of hell, TwixT upper nether and surrounding fires,
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  Speaker 1: till as a signal given the uplifted spear of their
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  Speaker 1: great Sultan, waving to direct their course in even balance,
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  Speaker 1: down they light on the firm brimstone and fill all
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  Speaker 1: the plain, a multitude like which the populous North poured,
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  Speaker 1: never from her frozen loins to pass Rhine or the Danao,
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  Speaker 1: when her barbarous sons came like a deluge on the south,
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  Speaker 1: and spread beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands. Forthwith from
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  Speaker 1: every squadron and each band, the heads and leaders thither
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  Speaker 1: hast where stood their great commander, God like shapes and forms,
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  Speaker 1: excelling human princely dignities and powers that erst in heaven
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  Speaker 1: sat on thrones. Though of their names in heavenly records,
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  Speaker 1: now be no memorial blotted out and raced by their
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  Speaker 1: rebellion from the books of life. Nor had they yet
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  Speaker 1: among the sons of Eve, got them new names, till
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  Speaker 1: wandering o'er the earth, through God's high sufferance for the
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  Speaker 1: trial of man by falsities and lies, the greatest part
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  Speaker 1: of the mems mankind, they corrupted to forsake God, their creator,
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  Speaker 1: and the invisible glory of Him that made them to
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  Speaker 1: transform off to the image of a brute, adorned with
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  Speaker 1: gay religions, full of pomp and gold, and devils to
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  Speaker 1: adore for deities. Then were they known to men by
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  Speaker 1: various names and various idols through the heathen world, say
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  Speaker 1: muse their names then known who first, who last, roused
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  Speaker 1: from the slumber on that fiery couch at their great
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  Speaker 1: Emperor's call as next in worth came singly when he
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  Speaker 1: stood on the bare strand, while the promiscuous crowd stood
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  Speaker 1: yet aloof the chief were those who from the pit
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  Speaker 1: of hell, roaming to seek their prey on earth. Durst
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  Speaker 1: fixed their seats long after next the seat of God,
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  Speaker 1: their altars by his altar, gods adored among the nations
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  Speaker 1: round and Durst abide Jehovah, thundering out out of syon throne,
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  Speaker 1: between the carabim Yea, often placed within his sanctuary itself,
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  Speaker 1: their shrines, abominations, and with cursed things, his holy rites
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  Speaker 1: and solemn feasts profaned, and with their darkness, Durst affront
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  Speaker 1: his light first molech horrid king, besmeared with blood of
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  Speaker 1: human sacrifice and parent's tears, though for the noise of
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  Speaker 1: drums and timbrels loud, their children's cries unheard, that passed
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  Speaker 1: through fire to his grim idol Him the Ammonite, worshiped
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  Speaker 1: in Rabah and her watery plain, in Argob and in Basan,
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  Speaker 1: to the stream of utmost arnon nor content with such
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  Speaker 1: audacious neighborhood, the wisest heart of Solomon, he led by
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  Speaker 1: fraud to build his temple right against the temple of
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  Speaker 1: God on that opprobrious hill, and made his grove the
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  Speaker 1: pleasant valley of Hinham tofet thence and black Gehenna called
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  Speaker 1: the type of Hell. Next Chimos, the obscene dread of
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  Speaker 1: Moab's sons, from Aroer to Nebo, and the wild of
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  Speaker 1: southmost Abiram in Hespan and Horanim Seon's realm beyond the
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  Speaker 1: flowery dale of Sigma clad with vines, and Eluel to
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  Speaker 1: the asphaltic pool payor his other name, when he enticed
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  Speaker 1: Israel in Setim on their march from Nile to do
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  Speaker 1: him wanton rites, which cost them woe. Yet thence his
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  Speaker 1: lustful orgies he enlarged even to that hill of scandal
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  Speaker 1: by the grove of Moelek, homicide, lust hard by hate,
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  Speaker 1: till good Josiah drove them. Thence to Hell. With these
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  Speaker 1: came they who from the bordering flood of Old Euphrates
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  Speaker 1: to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground, had
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  Speaker 1: general names of Balim and Ashtaroth. Those mail These feminine
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  Speaker 1: force spirits, when they please, can either sex, assume, or both,
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  Speaker 1: So soft and uncompounded is their essence pure nor tide
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  Speaker 1: or manacled with joint or limb, nor founded on the
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  Speaker 1: brittle strength of bones like cumbrous flesh. But in what
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  Speaker 1: shape they choose, dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, can
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  Speaker 1: execute their airy purposes and works of love or enmity
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  Speaker 1: fulfill for those the race of Israel oft forsook their
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  Speaker 1: living strength and unfrequented, left his righteous altar, bowing lowly
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  Speaker 1: down to bestial gods, for which their heads as low
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  Speaker 1: bowed down in battle, sunk before the spear of despicable foes.
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  Speaker 1: With these in troop came Astreth, whom the Phoenicians called Astarte,
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  Speaker 1: queen of Heaven with crescent horns, to whose bright image,
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  Speaker 1: nightly by the moon, Sidonian virgins paid their vows and
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  Speaker 1: songs in Syan, also not unsung, where stood her temple
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive mountain, built by that uxorious king, whose heart,
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  Speaker 1: though large, beguiled by fair idolatrises, fell to evil's fowl.
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  Speaker 1: Thamus came next behind, whose annual wound in Lebanon allured
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  Speaker 1: the Syrian damsels to lament his fate in amorous ditties
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  Speaker 1: all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis, from his native
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  Speaker 1: rock ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood of Thamus.
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  Speaker 1: Yearly wounded, the love tail infected Scion's daughters with like heat,
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  Speaker 1: whose wonton passions and the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when
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  Speaker 1: by the vision led his eyes surveyed the dark idolatries
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  Speaker 1: of alienated Judah. Next came one who mourned in earnest
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  Speaker 1: when the captive ark maimed his brute image, head and
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  Speaker 1: hands lopped off in his own temple on the Gunseil edge,
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  Speaker 1: where he fell flat and shamed his worshippers. Dagon his
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  Speaker 1: name sa monster, upward man, and downward fish, yet had
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  Speaker 1: his temple high reared in Azotis, dreaded through the coast
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  Speaker 1: of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon and Acharan, and Gaza's
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  Speaker 1: frontier bounds him. Followed Riemont, whose delightful seat was fair Damascus,
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  Speaker 1: on the fertile banks of Abana and far far lucid streams.
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  Speaker 1: He also against the house of God, was bold a leper.
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  Speaker 1: Once he lost and gained a king, Ahaz, his Sottish conqueror,
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  Speaker 1: whom he drew God's altar to disparage and displace for
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  Speaker 1: one of Syrian mode. Whereon to burn his odious offerings
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  Speaker 1: and adore the gods whom he had vanquished. After these
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  Speaker 1: appeared a crew who under names of old renown Osiris
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  Speaker 1: isis Oorus, and their train with monstrous shapes and sorceries,
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  Speaker 1: abused fanatic Egypt and her priests to seek their wondering
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  Speaker 1: gods disguised in brutish forms rather than human mor Did
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  Speaker 1: Israel escape the infection when they borrowed gold composed the
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  Speaker 1: calf in Areb, and the rebel king doubled that sin
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  Speaker 1: in Bethel and in Dan, likening his maker to the
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  Speaker 1: grazed ox Jehovah, who, in one night, when he passed
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  Speaker 1: from Egypt marching, equalled with one stroke both her first
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  Speaker 1: born and all her bleeding gods. Beliele came last, when
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  Speaker 1: whom a spirit more lewd fell not from heaven, or
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  Speaker 1: more gross to love vice for itself to him, no
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  Speaker 1: temple stood or alter smoked. Yet who more oft than he?
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  Speaker 1: In temples and it altars When the priest turns atheist,
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  Speaker 1: as did Eli's sons, who filled with lust and violence
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  Speaker 1: the house of God in courts and palaces, He also
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  Speaker 1: reigns and in luxurious cities where the noise of riot
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  Speaker 1: ascends above their loftiest towers, and injury and outrage, And
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  Speaker 1: when night darkens the streets then wander forth the sons
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  Speaker 1: of Belile flown with insolence and wine. Witness the streets
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  Speaker 1: of Sodom. And that night in Gibea, when hospitable dores
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  Speaker 1: yielded their matrons to prevent worse rape. These were the
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  Speaker 1: prime in order and in might. The rest were long
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  Speaker 1: to tell, though far renowned. The Ionian gods of Javan's
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  Speaker 1: issue held gods yet confessed later than Heaven and Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Their boasted parents Titan heavens first born, with his enormous
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  Speaker 1: brood and birthright seized by younger Saturn. He from mightier
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  Speaker 1: Jove his own and Rae's son like measure found so
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  Speaker 1: Jove usurping reigned these first in Crete and Ida, known
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  Speaker 1: thence on the snowy top of cold Olympus, ruled the
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  Speaker 1: Middle Air their highest heaven, or on the Delphian Cliff,
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  Speaker 1: or in Dodonna and through all the bounds of Doric land,
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  Speaker 1: Or who with Saturn Old fled over Adria to the
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  Speaker 1: Hesperian fields, and o'er the Celtic roamed the utmost isles.
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  Speaker 1: All these and more came flocking, but with looks downcast
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  Speaker 1: and damp. Yet such wherein appeared obscure some glimpses of joy,
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  Speaker 1: to have found their chief, not in despair, to have
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  Speaker 1: found themselves not lost in loss itself, which on his
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  Speaker 1: countenance cast like doubtful hughe, but he his wonted pride,
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  Speaker 1: soon recollecting with high words that bore semblance of worth
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  Speaker 1: not substance, gently raised their feinted courage and dispelled their fears.
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  Speaker 1: Then straight commands, that, at the warlike sound of trumpet's
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  Speaker 1: loud and clarions be upreared his mighty standard, that proud
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  Speaker 1: honor claimed Azazel as his right, a carib tall who
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  Speaker 1: forthwith from the glittering staff, unfurled the Imperial ensign, which
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  Speaker 1: full high advanced, shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind,
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  Speaker 1: with gems and golden luster, rich emblazed seraphic arms and trophies,
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  Speaker 1: all the wild sonorous metal, blowing martial sounds, at which
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  Speaker 1: the universal host up sent a shout that tore Hell's
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  Speaker 1: concave and beyond frightened the rain of chaos and old night,
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  Speaker 1: all in a moment through the gloom were seen ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand banners rise into the air, with orient colors waving.
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  Speaker 1: With them rose a forest huge of spears and thronging
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  Speaker 1: helms appeared, and serried shields in thick array of depth
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  Speaker 1: immeasurable anon. They move in perfect phalanx to the Dorian
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  Speaker 1: mood of flutes and soft recorders such as raised to
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  Speaker 1: hythe of noble temper heroes old arm to battle, and
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  Speaker 1: instead of rage deliberate valor, breathed firm and unmoved with
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  Speaker 1: dread of death to flight or foul retreat, nor wanting
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  Speaker 1: power to mitigate and suage with solemn touches, troubled thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and chase, anguish and doubt, and fear and sorrow and
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  Speaker 1: pain from mortal or immortal minds. Thus they, breathing united
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  Speaker 1: force with fixed thought, moved on in silence to soft
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  Speaker 1: pipes that charm their painful steps o'er the burnt soil,
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  Speaker 1: and now advanced in view, they stand a horrid front
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  Speaker 1: of dreadful length and dazzling arms in guise of warriors old,
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  Speaker 1: with ordered spear and shield, awaiting what command their mighty
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  Speaker 1: chief had to impose. He through the armed files darts
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  Speaker 1: his experienced eye, and soon traverse the whole battalion views
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  Speaker 1: their order, due their visages and stature, as of gods
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  Speaker 1: their number. Last, he sums, and now his heart distends
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  Speaker 1: with pride and hardening in his strength glories. For never
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  Speaker 1: since created man met such embodied force as named with
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  Speaker 1: these could merit more than that small infantry ward on
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  Speaker 1: by cranes. Though all the giant brood of Flegra, with
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  Speaker 1: the heroic race were joined, that fought at Thebes and
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  Speaker 1: Ilium on each side, mixed with auxiliar gods, and what
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  Speaker 1: resounds in fable or romance of Uther's son begirt with
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  Speaker 1: British and Armoric knights, and all who since baptized or
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  Speaker 1: Infidel jousted in Aspermont or Montalban, Damasco or Morocco, or
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  Speaker 1: tri Bissan, or whom Bissyrta went from Afric shore when
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  Speaker 1: Charlemagne with all his peerage, fell by font Arabia. Thus
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  Speaker 1: far these beyond compare of mortal prowess, yet observed their
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  Speaker 1: dread commander. He above the rest, in shape and gesture,
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  Speaker 1: proudly eminent, stood like a tower. His form had yet
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  Speaker 1: not lost all her original brightness, nor appeared less than
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  Speaker 1: archangel ruined and the excess of glory obscured, as when
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  Speaker 1: the sun new risen looks through the horizontal misty air,
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  Speaker 1: shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon in
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  Speaker 1: dim eclipsed, disastrous twilight sheds on half the nations, and
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  Speaker 1: with fear of change, perplexes monarchs darkened, so yet shone
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  Speaker 1: above them all the archangel, but his face deep scars
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  Speaker 1: of thunder had entrenched, and care sat on his faded cheek,
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  Speaker 1: but under brows of dauntless courage and considerate pride, waiting
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  Speaker 1: revenge cruel his eye but cast signs of remorse and
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  Speaker 1: passion to behold the fellows of his crime. The followers,
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  Speaker 1: rather for other wants beheld in bliss, condemned forever, now
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  Speaker 1: to have their lot in pain. Millions of spirits for
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  Speaker 1: his fault, emerked on heaven and from eternal splendors, flung
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  Speaker 1: for his revolt, Yet faithful, how they stood their glory withered,
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  Speaker 1: as when Heaven's fire hath scathed the forest oaks or
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  Speaker 1: mountain pines with singe top their stately growth, though bare
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  Speaker 1: stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared to speak
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  Speaker 1: whereat their doubled ranks, they bend from wing to wing,
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  Speaker 1: and half enclose him round with all his peers attention
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  Speaker 1: held them mute. Thrice he essayed, and thrice, in spite
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  Speaker 1: of scorn, tears such as angels weep, burst forth. At last,
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  Speaker 1: words interwove with sighs, found out their way. O myriads
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  Speaker 1: of immortal spirits, O powers matchless but with the almighty,
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  Speaker 1: And that strife was not inglorious. Though the event was dire,
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  Speaker 1: as this place testifies, this dire change hateful to utter.
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  Speaker 1: But what power of mind, foreseeing or presaging from the
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  Speaker 1: depth of knowledge past or present, could have feared, How
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  Speaker 1: such united force of gods, how such as stood like these,
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  Speaker 1: could ever no repulse. For who can yet believe, though,
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  Speaker 1: after loss, that all these pucient legions whose exile hath
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  Speaker 1: emptied Heaven shall fail to reascend, self raised and repossess
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  Speaker 1: their native seat. For me bewitness all the host of heaven,
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  Speaker 1: If counsels different or danger shunned by me, have lost
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  Speaker 1: our hopes. But he who reigns monarch in heaven till then,
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  Speaker 1: as one secure sat on his throne, upheld by old repute,
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  Speaker 1: consent or custom, and his regal state put forth at full.
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  Speaker 1: But still his strength concealed, which tempted our attempt and
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  Speaker 1: wrought our fall. Henceforth his might we know and know
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  Speaker 1: our own, so as not either to provoak or dread
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  Speaker 1: new war provoked. Our better part remains to work in
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  Speaker 1: close design by fraud or guile. What force affected, not
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  Speaker 1: that he no less at length from us may find
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  Speaker 1: who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe
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  Speaker 1: space may produce new worlds whereof so rife, there went
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  Speaker 1: a fame in heaven that he ere long intended to create,
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  Speaker 1: and therein plant a generation whom his choice regard should
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  Speaker 1: favor equal to the sons of heaven. Thither if but
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  Speaker 1: to pry shall be perhaps our first eruption thither or elsewhere.
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  Speaker 1: For this infernal pit shall never hold celestial spirits in bondage,
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  Speaker 1: nor the abyss long under darkness cover. But these thoughts
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  Speaker 1: full counsel must mature. Peace is despaired, for who can
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  Speaker 1: think submission war? Then war open or understood, must be resolved.
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  Speaker 1: He spake, and to confirm his words outflew millions of
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  Speaker 1: flaming swords drawn from the thighs of mighty Caribim. The
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  Speaker 1: sudden blaze far round illumined hell. Highly. They raged against
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  Speaker 1: the highest, and fierce, with grasped arms, clashed on their
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  Speaker 1: sounding shields, the din of war, hurling defiance. Toward the
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  Speaker 1: vault of heaven. There stood a hill not far whose
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  Speaker 1: grisly top belched fire and rowling smoke. The rest in
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  Speaker 1: tire shone with glossy scurf undoubted sign that in his
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  Speaker 1: womb was hid metallic ore, the work of sulfur. Thither
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  Speaker 1: winged with speed. A numerous brigade hastened, as when bands
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  Speaker 1: of pioneers with spade and pickaxe armed for run the
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  Speaker 1: royal camp, to trench a field or cast a rampart.
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  Speaker 1: Mammon led them on. Mammon, the least erected spirit that
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  Speaker 1: fell from heaven. For even in heaven, his looks and
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  Speaker 1: thoughts were always is downward, bent, admiring more the riches
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven's pavement trodden gold, than aught divine or holy
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  Speaker 1: else enjoyed in beatific vision by him. First men also,
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  Speaker 1: and by his suggestion, taught ransack the center, and with
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  Speaker 1: impious hands rifled the bowels of their mother Earth. For
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  Speaker 1: treasures better hid. Soon had his crew opened into the
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  Speaker 1: hill a spacious wound and digged out ribs of gold.
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  Speaker 1: Let none admire that riches grow in hell, that soil
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  Speaker 1: may best deserve the prettiest vein. And here let those
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  Speaker 1: who boast in mortal things and wandering tell of Babel
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  Speaker 1: and the works of Memphian kings, learn how their greatest
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  Speaker 1: monuments of fame and strength and art are easily outdone
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  Speaker 1: by spirits reprobate, and in an hour what in an age,
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  Speaker 1: with their incessant toil and hands innumerable scarce perform nigh
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  Speaker 1: on the plain, and many cells prepared, that underneath had
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  Speaker 1: veins of liquid fire sluiced from the lake. A second multitude,
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  Speaker 1: with wondrous art, founded the massy ore, severed each kind
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  Speaker 1: and scum the bouyon dross. A third as soon had
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  Speaker 1: formed within the ground of various mold, and from the
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  Speaker 1: boiling cells, by strange conveyance, filled each hollow nook, as
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  Speaker 1: in an organ, from one blast of wind to many
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  Speaker 1: a row of pipes, the sound board breathe anon out
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  Speaker 1: of the earth a fabric huge rose, like an exhalation,
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  Speaker 1: with the sound of dulcet symphonies and voices, sweet built
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  Speaker 1: like a temple, where piliasters round were set, and doric
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  Speaker 1: pillars overlaid with golden architrave. Nor did there wont cornice
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  Speaker 1: or frieze with bossy sculptures graven the roof was fretted gold.
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  Speaker 1: Not Babylon nor Great alcayro such magnificence equalled in all
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  Speaker 1: their glories, to enshrine Bellus or Serrapus their gods, or
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  Speaker 1: seat their kings. When Egypt with a serious strove in
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  Speaker 1: wealth and luxury, the ascending pile stood fixed her stately
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  Speaker 1: height and straight. The doores, opening their brazen folds, discover
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  Speaker 1: wide within her ample spaces, or the smooth and level
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  Speaker 1: pavement from the arched roof pedant by subtle magic. Many
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  Speaker 1: a row of starry lamps and blazing cressets fed with
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  Speaker 1: naphtha and asphaltis yielded light as from a sky. The
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  Speaker 1: hasty multitude admiring entered, and the work some praise and
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  Speaker 1: some the architect his hand was known in heaven by many.
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  Speaker 1: A towered structure high where sceptred angels held their residence
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  Speaker 1: and sat as princes, whom the Supreme King exalted to
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  Speaker 1: such power, and gave to rule each in his hierarchy
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  Speaker 1: the orders bright. Nor was his name unheard or unadored.
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  Speaker 1: In ancient Greece and in Osonian land, men called him Mulciber.
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  Speaker 1: And how he fell from heaven, they fabled, thrown by
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  Speaker 1: angry jove sheer o'er the crystal battlements from morn to noon.
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  Speaker 1: He fell from noon to dewy eve a summer's day,
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  Speaker 1: and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like
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  Speaker 1: a falling star on Limnos, the Aegean isle. Thus they
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  Speaker 1: relate airring, for he with this rebellious route, fell long
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  Speaker 1: before nor ought availed him now to have built in
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  Speaker 1: heaven high towers, Nor did he escape by all his engines,
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  Speaker 1: but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build
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  Speaker 1: in hell. Meanwhile, the winged heralds, by command of sovereign power,
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  Speaker 1: with awful ceremony and trumpets sound throughout the host, proclaim
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  Speaker 1: a solemn council forthwith, to be held at Pandemonium, the
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  Speaker 1: high capital of Satan, and his peers, their summons called
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  Speaker 1: from every band and squared regiment, by place or choice,
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  Speaker 1: the worthiest they anon with hundreds and with thousands trooping
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  Speaker 1: came attended. All access was thronged. The gates and porches wide,
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  Speaker 1: but chief the spacious hall, though like a covered field
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  Speaker 1: where champions bold won't ride in, armed and in the
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  Speaker 1: soulden's chair, defied the best of Panim's chivalry to mortal
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  Speaker 1: combat or career with lance. Thick swarmed both on the
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  Speaker 1: ground and in the air, brushed with the hiss of
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  Speaker 1: rustling wings, as bees in springtime when the sun with
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  Speaker 1: taris rides, pour forth their populous youth about the hive
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  Speaker 1: in clusters. They, among fresh dews and flowers, fly to
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  Speaker 1: and fro or on the smooth plank the suburb of
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  Speaker 1: their straw built citadel, new rubbed with balm, expatiate and
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  Speaker 1: confer their state affairs. So thick the airy crowds swarmed
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  Speaker 1: and were straightened till the signal given. Behold a wonder
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  Speaker 1: they but now, who seemed in bigness to surpass Earth's
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  Speaker 1: giant suns, now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room
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  Speaker 1: throng numberless, like that pygmian race beyond the Indian mount
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  Speaker 1: or fairy elves whose midnight rebels by a forest side
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  Speaker 1: or fountain. Some belated peasant seas or dreams he sees,
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  Speaker 1: while overhead the moon sits arbitraus, and nearer to the
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  Speaker 1: earth wheels her pale course. They, on their mirth and dance,
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  Speaker 1: intent with Jakun music, charm his ear at once with
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  Speaker 1: joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to
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  Speaker 1: smallest forms, reduced their shape's immense, and were at large,
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  Speaker 1: though without number, still amidst the hall of that infernal court,
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  Speaker 1: but far within and in their own dimensions, like themselves,
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  Speaker 1: the great seraphic lords and Chabim, in close recess and
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  Speaker 1: secret conclave, sat a thousand demigods on golden seats, frequent
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  Speaker 1: and full. After short silence then and summons read, the
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  Speaker 1: great Consult began. End of Book one, Part two