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05 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: Book four, Part one. Oh for that warning voice which
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Speaker 1: he who saw the apocalypse heard cry in heaven aloud,
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Speaker 1: than when the dragon put to second route, came furious
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Speaker 1: down to be revenged on men. Woe to the inhabitants
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Speaker 1: on earth, that now, while time was our first parents
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Speaker 1: had been mourn'd the coming of their secret foe, and
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Speaker 1: scap'd happily, So scap'd his mortal snare. For now Satan,
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Speaker 1: now first, inflamed with rage, came down the tempter ere,
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Speaker 1: the accuser of mankind, to wreck on innocent frail man
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Speaker 1: his loss of that first battle and his flight to Hell. Yet,
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Speaker 1: not rejoicing in his speed, though bold, far off and fearless,
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Speaker 1: nor with cause to boast, begins his dire attempt, which
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Speaker 1: nigh the birth. Now rolling boils in his tumultuous breast,
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Speaker 1: and like a devilish engine back recoils upon himself. Horror
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Speaker 1: and doubt distract his troubled thoughts, and from the bottom
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Speaker 1: stir the hell within him. For within him hell he brings,
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Speaker 1: and round about him. Nor from Hell one step no
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Speaker 1: more than from himself, can fly by change of place.
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Speaker 1: Now conscience wakes despair that slumbered wakes the bitter memory
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Speaker 1: of what he was, what is, and what must be worse.
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Speaker 1: Of worse deeds, worse sufferings must ensue, sometimes towards Eden,
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Speaker 1: which now in his view lay pleasant. His grieved look
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Speaker 1: he fixes sad, sometimes towards Heaven and the full blazing Sun,
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Speaker 1: which now sat high in his meridian tower. Then much revolving,
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Speaker 1: thus in size, began O Thou, that, with surpassing glory,
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Speaker 1: crowned lookest from thy sole dominion, like the god of
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Speaker 1: this new world, at whose sight all the stars hide
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Speaker 1: their diminished heads. To THEE, I call, but with no
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Speaker 1: friendly voice, and add thy name, O Sun, to tell
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Speaker 1: THEE how I hate thy beams that bring to my
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Speaker 1: remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above
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Speaker 1: thy sphere, till pride and worse ambition threw me down,
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Speaker 1: warring in heaven against Heaven's matchless king.
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Speaker 2: Ah.
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Speaker 1: Wherefore he deserved no such return from me, whom he
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Speaker 1: created what I was, in that bright eminence, and with
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Speaker 1: his good upbraid none. Nor was his service hard. What
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Speaker 1: could be less than to afford him praise the easiest, recompensed,
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Speaker 1: and pay him thanks. How do yet all his good
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Speaker 1: proved ill in me and wrought, But malice lifted up
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Speaker 1: so high. I feigned subjection, and thought one step higher
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Speaker 1: would set me highest, and in a moment quit the
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Speaker 1: debt immense of endless gratitude, so burdensome, still paying still
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Speaker 1: to owe, forgetful what from him I still received, and
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Speaker 1: understood not that a grateful mind by owing owes not
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Speaker 1: but still pays at once indebted and discharged what burden?
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Speaker 2: Then?
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Speaker 1: Now had his powerful destiny ordained me some inferior angel
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Speaker 1: I had stood then happy, no un bounded hope had
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Speaker 1: raised ambition. Yet why not some other power as great
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Speaker 1: might have aspired, and me, though mean, drawn to his part?
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Speaker 1: But other powers as great, fell not, but stand unshaken
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Speaker 1: from within or from without, to all temptations, armed, hadst
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Speaker 1: thou the same free will and power to stand Thou
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Speaker 1: hadst whom hast thou then? Or what to accuse? But
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Speaker 1: Heaven's free love dealt equally to all. Be then his
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Speaker 1: love accursed, Since love or hate to me alike it
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Speaker 1: deals eternal woe. Nay cursed be thou, since against his
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Speaker 1: thy will chose freely what it now so justly ruse
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Speaker 1: me miserable. Which way shall I fly infinite wrath and
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Speaker 1: infinite despair? Which way I fly? Is hell? Myself am hell?
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Speaker 1: And in the lowest deep, A lower deep, still threatening
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Speaker 1: to devour me, opens wide, to which the hell I
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Speaker 1: suffer seems a heaven. Oh, then at last relent. Is
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Speaker 1: there no place left for repentance, none for pardon left,
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Speaker 1: None left but by submission, And that word disdain forbids
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Speaker 1: me and my dread of shame among the spirits beneath
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Speaker 1: whom I seduced with other promises and other vaunts, than
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Speaker 1: to submit, boasting I could subdue the omnipotent I me.
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Speaker 1: They little know how dearly I abide that boast, so
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Speaker 1: vain under what torments inwardly I groan while they adore
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Speaker 1: me on the throne of hell, with diadem and scepter,
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Speaker 1: high advanced the lower still I fall only supreme in
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Speaker 1: misery such joy ambition finds. But say I could repent,
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Speaker 1: and could obtain by act of grace my former state.
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Speaker 1: How soon would height recall high thoughts? How soon unsay
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Speaker 1: what feigned submission swore ease would recant vows made in
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Speaker 1: pain as violent and void? For never can true reconcilement
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Speaker 1: grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep,
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Speaker 1: which would but lead me to a worse relapse and
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Speaker 1: heavier fall. So should I purchase dear short intermission bought
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Speaker 1: with double smart This knows my punisher. Therefore, as far
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Speaker 1: from granting he, as I from begging peace, all hope excluded.
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Speaker 1: Thus behold instead of us outcast, exiled, his new delight
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Speaker 1: Mankind created and for him this world. So farewell, hope,
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Speaker 1: and with hope, farewell fear, farewell, remorse.
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Speaker 2: All good to me is lost. Evil, be thou my
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Speaker 2: good by thee at least divided empire with Heaven's king,
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Speaker 2: I hold by thee, and more than half perhaps will
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Speaker 2: reign as man ere long, and this new world shall know.
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Speaker 2: Thus while he spake, each passion dimmed his face thrice
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Speaker 2: changed with pale, ire, envy, and despair, which marred his
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Speaker 2: borrowed visage and betrayed him counterfeit, if any eye beheld
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Speaker 2: for heavenly minds from such distempers, foul are ever clear.
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Speaker 2: Whereof he soon aware each perturbation smoothed with outward calm,
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Speaker 2: artificer of fraud, and was the first that practiced falsehood
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Speaker 2: under saintly show deep malice to conceal couched with revenge.
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Speaker 2: Yet not enough had practiced to deceive. Uriel once warned,
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Speaker 2: whose eye pursued him down the way he went, and
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Speaker 2: on the Assyrian mount saw him disfigured more than could
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Speaker 2: befall spirit of happy sort, his gestures fierce, he marked,
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Speaker 2: and mad demeanor. Then alone, as he supposed, all observed unseen,
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Speaker 2: So on he fares, and to the border comes of evil,
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Speaker 2: where delicious Paradise now nearer crowns with her enclosure green
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Speaker 2: as with a rural mound, the champagne head of a
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Speaker 2: steep wilderness, whose hairy sides, with thicket overgrown, grotesque and
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Speaker 2: wild access denied, and overhead up grew insuperable height of
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Speaker 2: loftiest shade, cedar and pine and fir and branching palm,
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Speaker 2: a sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend, shade above shade,
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Speaker 2: a woody theater of stateliest view, yet higher than their tops,
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Speaker 2: the verduous wall of Paradise upsprung, which to our general
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Speaker 2: sire gave prospect large into his nether empire, neighboring round
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Speaker 2: and higher than that wall, a circling row of goodliest trees,
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Speaker 2: loaden with fairest fruit, blossoms and fruit at once of
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Speaker 2: golden hue appeared with gay enameled colors mixed, on which
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Speaker 2: the sun more glad impress'd his beams than in fair
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Speaker 2: evening cloud or humid bow. When God hath showered the earth,
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Speaker 2: so lovely seemed that landscape, and of pure now purer
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Speaker 2: air meets his approach, and to the heart inspires vernal
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Speaker 2: delight and joy, able to drive all sadness. But despare
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Speaker 2: now gentle gales, fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense native perfumes
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Speaker 2: and whisper whence they stole those balmy spoils, as when
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Speaker 2: to them who sail beyond the Cape of Hope, and
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Speaker 2: now are past Mozambique. Off at sea, northeast winds blow
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Speaker 2: sabian odors from the spicy shore of Araby, the blest
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Speaker 2: with such delay, well pleased, they slack their course, and
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Speaker 2: many a league cheer'd the grateful smell old ocean smiles
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Speaker 2: so entertained those odorous sweets. The fiend who came their bane,
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Speaker 2: though with them, better pleased than as Modius with the
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Speaker 2: fishy fume that drove him, though enamored from the spouse
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Speaker 2: of Tobit's son, and with a vengeance sent from media
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Speaker 2: post to Egypt. There fast bound now to the ascent
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Speaker 2: of that steep savage hill, Satan had journeyed on pensive
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Speaker 2: and slow, but further away found none so thick and
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Speaker 2: twined as one continued to break the undergrowth of shrubs
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Speaker 2: and tangling bushes, had perplexed all path of man or
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Speaker 2: beast that passed that way. One gait there only was,
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Speaker 2: and that looked east on the other side, which when
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Speaker 2: the archvillain saw dew entrance, he disdays and in contempt
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Speaker 2: at one slight bound high over, leaped all bound of
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Speaker 2: hill or highest wall, and shear within lights on his feet.
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Speaker 2: As when a prowling wolf whom hunger drives to seek
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Speaker 2: new haunt for prey watching, where shepherds pen their flocks
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Speaker 2: at eve in hurdled coats amid the field secure leaps
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Speaker 2: o'er the fence with ease into the fold, Or as
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Speaker 2: a thief bent to unhoard the cash of some rich
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Speaker 2: burgher whose substantial doors cross barred and bolted fast fear
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Speaker 2: no assault in at the window climbs or o'er the tiles,
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Speaker 2: so clumb this first grand thief into God's fold.
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Speaker 1: So since into his church lewd hirelings climb fence up
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Speaker 1: he flew, and on the tree of life, the middle
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Speaker 1: tree and highest there that grew, sat like a cormorant.
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Speaker 1: Yet not true life thereby regained, but sat, devising death
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Speaker 1: to them who lived. Nor on the virtue thought of
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Speaker 1: that life giving plant, but only used for prospect what
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Speaker 1: well used had been the pledge of immortality. So little
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Speaker 1: knows any but God alone to value right the good
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Speaker 1: before him, but perverts best things to worst abuse, or
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Speaker 1: to their meanest use. Beneath him with new wonder. Now
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Speaker 1: he views to all delight of human sense exposed in
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Speaker 1: narrow room, Nature's whole wealth. Yea more a heaven on
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Speaker 1: earth for blissful paradise of God. The garden was by
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Speaker 1: him in the east of Eden. Planted. Eden stretched her
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Speaker 1: line from Arran eastward to the royal towers of Great Silutia,
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Speaker 1: built by Grecian kings, or where the suns of Eden
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Speaker 1: long before dwelt into Lasar. In this pleasant soil his
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Speaker 1: far more pleasant garden God ordained out of the fertile
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Speaker 1: ground he caused to grow all trees of noblest kind
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Speaker 1: for sight, smell, taste, and all amid them stood the
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Speaker 1: tree of life, high, eminent, blooming, ambrosial frut of vegetable gold,
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Speaker 1: and next to life our death. The tree of knowledge
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Speaker 1: grew fast by knowledge of good, bought deer by knowing ill.
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Speaker 1: Southward through Eden went a river large, nor changed his course,
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Speaker 1: but through the shaggy hill passed underneath, engulfed. For God
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Speaker 1: had thrown that mounta mountain as his garden moled high
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Speaker 1: raysed upon the rapid current, which, through veins of porous earth,
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Speaker 1: with kindly thirst up drawn, rose a fresh fountain, and
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Speaker 1: with many a rill watered the garden. Thence united, fell
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Speaker 1: down the steep glade and met the nether flood, which,
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Speaker 1: from his darksome passage now appears, and now divided into
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Speaker 1: four main streams, runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm
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Speaker 1: and country, whereof here needs no account, but rather to
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Speaker 1: tell how, if art could tell how From that sapphire fount,
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Speaker 1: the crisped brooks, rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold,
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Speaker 1: with maizy error under pendent shades ran nectar visiting each
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Speaker 1: plant and fed flowers worthy of paradise, which not nice
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Speaker 1: art in beds and curious nights, but nature boon powered
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Speaker 1: forth profuse on hill and dale and plain, both where
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Speaker 1: the morning sun first warmly smote the open field, and
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Speaker 1: where the unpierced shade imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was
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Speaker 1: this place a happy rural seat of various view groves,
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Speaker 1: whose rich trees wept, odorous gums and balm, others whose
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Speaker 1: fruit burnish'd with golden rind, hung amiable Hesperian fables true
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Speaker 1: if true here only, and of delicious taste betwixt them.
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Speaker 1: Lawns or level downs, and flocks grazing the tender herb
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Speaker 1: were interposed, or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap of
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Speaker 1: some irriguous valley spread her store flowers of all hue
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Speaker 1: and without thorn, the rose another side umbrigeous grots, and
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Speaker 1: caves of cool recess, or which the mantling vine lays
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Speaker 1: forth her purple grape and gently creeps luxuriant. Meanwhile, murmuring
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Speaker 1: waters fall down the slope hills dispersed, or in a
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Speaker 1: lake that to the fringed bank, with myrtle crowned her
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Speaker 1: crystal mirror holds unite their streams, the birds their choir,
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Speaker 1: apply airs, vernal airs, breathing the smell of field and
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Speaker 1: grove attune their trembling leaves, while universal pan knit with
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Speaker 1: the graces and the hours in dance led on the
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Speaker 1: eternal spring. Not that fair field of Anna, where proserpine
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Speaker 1: gathering flowers herself a fairer flower by gloomy dis was gathered,
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Speaker 1: which cost Series all that pain to seek her through
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Speaker 1: the world. Nor that sweet grove of Daphne, by orants
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Speaker 1: and the inspired Castalian spring might with this paradise of
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Speaker 1: Eden's drive, Nor that Nician isle girt with the river Triton,
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Speaker 1: where old cham whom gentiles Amon call and Libyan jove
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Speaker 1: hid Amalthea and her florid sun young Bacchus from his
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Speaker 1: step Dame Rhea's eye. Nor were abysin kings their issue
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Speaker 1: guard Mount Amora, though this by some supposed true paradise
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Speaker 1: under the ethiop line by Nilis's head, enclos'd with shining rock,
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Speaker 1: a whole day's journey high but wide, remote from this
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Speaker 1: Assyrian garden where the fiend saw undelighted all delight, all
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Speaker 1: kind of living creatures new to sight and strange, two
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Speaker 1: of far nobler shape, erect and tall, godlike, erect, with
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Speaker 1: native honor, clad in naked majesty, seem'd lords of all
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Speaker 1: and worthy, seemed for in their looks divine the image
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Speaker 1: of their glorious maker, shone truth, wisdom, sanctitude, severe and pure, severe,
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Speaker 1: but in true filial freedom placed whence true authority in men,
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Speaker 1: though both not equal as their sex, not equal, seem'd
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Speaker 1: for contemplation, he and valor formed for softness, she and
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Speaker 1: sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God
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Speaker 1: In him. His fair, large front and eye sublime declared
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Speaker 1: absolute rule, and hyacinthine locks round from his parted forelock,
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Speaker 1: manly hung, clustering, but not beneath his shoulders. Broad, she
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Speaker 1: as a veil down to the slender waist. Her unadorned
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Speaker 1: golden tresses wore dishevel'd, but in wanton ringlets, waved as
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Speaker 1: the vine curls her tendrils, which implied subjection, but requir'd
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Speaker 1: with gentle sway, and by her yielded by him best receiv'd,
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Speaker 1: yielded with coy submission, modest pride, and sweet reluctant amorous delay,
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Speaker 1: nor those mysterious parts were then conceal'd. Then was not
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Speaker 1: guilty shame, dishonest, shame of nature's works, honor, dishonorable sin bread.
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Speaker 1: How have ye troubled all mankind with shows? Instead mere
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Speaker 1: shows of seeming pure and banished from man's life his
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Speaker 1: happiest life, simplicity and spotless innocence. So passed they naked on,
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Speaker 1: nor shunn'd the sight of God or Angel, for they
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Speaker 1: thought no ill. So hand in hand they passed the
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Speaker 1: loveliest pair that ever since, in love's embraces, met Adam,
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Speaker 1: the goodliest man of men since born his sons, the
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Speaker 1: fairest of her daughter's eve, under a tuft of shade
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Speaker 1: that on a green stood whispering soft by a fresh
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Speaker 1: fountain side. They sat them down, and, after no more
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Speaker 1: toil of their sweet gardening labor than sufficed to recommend
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Speaker 1: Cool's effort, and made ease more easy, wholesome, thirst and
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Speaker 1: appetite more grateful to their supper fruits, they fell nectarin fruits,
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Speaker 1: which the compliant boughs yielded them side long as they
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Speaker 1: sat recline on the soft, downy bank, damasked with flowers,
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Speaker 1: the savory pulp they chew, and in the rind still
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Speaker 1: as they thirsted scoop the brimming stream. Nor gentle purpose,
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Speaker 1: nor endearing smiles wanted, nor youthful dalliance, as Bessiem's fair
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Speaker 1: couple linked in happy nuptial league alone as they about
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Speaker 1: them frisking played all beasts of the earth since wild,
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Speaker 1: and of all chas in wood or wilderness, forest or
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Speaker 1: den sporting. The lion ramped and in his paw dandled
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Speaker 1: the kid bears, tigers, ounces, pards, gamboled before them the
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Speaker 1: unwieldy elephant to make them mirth, used all his might
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Speaker 1: and wreathed his lithe proboscis close. The serpent sly insinuating,
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Speaker 1: wove with Gordian twine his bearded train, and of his
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Speaker 1: fatal guile gave proof unheeded. Others on the grass, couched
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Speaker 1: and now filled with pasture, grazing sat or bedward, ruminating
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Speaker 1: for the sun declined. Was hasting, now with prone career
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Speaker 1: to the ocean aisles, and in the ascending scale of
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Speaker 1: heaven the stars that usher evening rose when Satan still
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Speaker 1: in gaze, as first he stood scarce, thus at length
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Speaker 1: failed speech recovered sad, Oh, Hell, what do mine eyes
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Speaker 1: with grief behold into our room of bliss? Thus high
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Speaker 1: advanced creatures of other mold earth born, perhaps not spirits
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Speaker 1: yet to heavenly spirits, bright little inferior, whom my thoughts
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Speaker 1: pursue with wonder and could love so lively, shines in
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Speaker 1: them divine resemblance, and such grace the hand that formed
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Speaker 1: them on their shape hath poured. Ah, gentle pair, Ye
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Speaker 1: little think how nigh your chain approaches, when all these
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Speaker 1: delights will vanish and deliver ye to woe, more woe,
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Speaker 1: the more your taste is now of joy, happy, but
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Speaker 1: for so happy, ill secured, long to continue, And this
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Speaker 1: high seat your heaven, ill fenced for heaven to keep
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Speaker 1: out such a foe as now is enter'd. Yet no
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Speaker 1: purposed foe to you, whom I could pity. Thus forlorn,
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Speaker 1: though I unpitied, league with you I seek, and mutual
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Speaker 1: amity so straight, so close, that I with you must dwell,
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Speaker 1: or you with me. Henceforth, my dwelling, haply may not
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Speaker 1: please like this fair paradise your sense, Yet such except
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Speaker 1: your maker's work He gave it me, which I as
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Speaker 1: freely give Hell shall un unfolds to entertain you to
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Speaker 1: her widest gaits, and send forth all her kings. There
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Speaker 1: will be room, not like these narrow limits, to receive
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Speaker 1: your numerous offspring, if no better place. Thank him who
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Speaker 1: puts me loath to this revenge on you who wronged me,
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Speaker 1: not for him who wronged And should I, at your
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Speaker 1: harmless innocence melt as I do yet public reason, just
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Speaker 1: honor and empire, with revenge enlarged by conquering this new world,
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Speaker 1: compels me now to do what else, Though damned I
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Speaker 1: should abhor, So spake the fiend, and with necessity the
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Speaker 1: tyrants plea excused his devilish deeds. Then, from his lofty
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Speaker 1: stand on that high tree, down he alights among the sportful,
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Speaker 1: heard of those four footed kinds, himself now one now other,
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Speaker 1: as their shape serv'd best his end nearer to view
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Speaker 1: his prey, and unespied to mark what of their state
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Speaker 1: he more might learn by word or action, mark'd about
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Speaker 1: them round a lion. Now he stalks with fiery glare,
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Speaker 1: Then as a tiger who by chance hath spied in
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Speaker 1: some purlieu. Two gentle fawns at play, straight couches close
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Speaker 1: then rising changes oft his couchant watch as one who
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Speaker 1: chose his ground, whence rushing he might surest seize them
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Speaker 1: both gripp'd in each paw, when adam first of men
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Speaker 1: to first of women, eve, thus moving speech turn'd him
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Speaker 1: all ear to hear new utterance flow. Soul, partner and
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Speaker 1: sole part of all these joys. Dearer thyself than all needs,
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Speaker 1: must the power that made us and for us this
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Speaker 1: ample world, be infinitely good, and of His good, as
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Speaker 1: liberal and free, as infinite, that raised us from the
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Speaker 1: dust and placed us here in all this happiness, who
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Speaker 1: at his hand have nothing merited, nor can perform aught.
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Speaker 1: Whereof he hath need he who requires from us no
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Speaker 1: other service than to keep this one, this easy charge.
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Speaker 1: Of all the trees in Paradise that bear delicious fruit,
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Speaker 1: so various, not to taste that only tree of knowledge,
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Speaker 1: planted by the Tree of life, so near grows death
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Speaker 1: to life, whate'er death is some dreadful thing, no doubt,
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Speaker 1: for well thou know'st God hath pronounced it. Death to
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Speaker 1: taste that tree the only sign of our obedience left
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Speaker 1: among so many signs of power and rule conferred upon us,
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Speaker 1: and dominion given over all other creatures that possess earth, air,
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Speaker 1: and sea. Then let us not think hard one easy prohibition,
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Speaker 1: who enjoy free leave so large to all things else,
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Speaker 1: and choice unlimited of manifold delights. But let us ever
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Speaker 1: praise him and extol his bounty, following our delightful task
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Speaker 1: to prune these growing plants and tend these flowers, which
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Speaker 1: were it toilsome, yet with THEE were sweet.
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Speaker 2: To whom.
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Speaker 1: Thus Eve replied, O thou, for whom and from whom
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Speaker 1: I was form'd flesh of thy flesh, and without whom
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Speaker 1: am to no end my guide and head. What thou
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Speaker 1: hast said is just and right for we to him. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: all praises O and daily thanks, I chiefly, who enjoy
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Speaker 1: so far the happier lot, enjoying THEE pre eminent by
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Speaker 1: so much odds, While thou, like concert to thyself, canst
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Speaker 1: nowhere find that day. I oft remember when from sleep
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Speaker 1: I first awaked and found myself reposed under a shade
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Speaker 1: on flowers, much wondering where and what I was, whence
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Speaker 1: thither brought, and how not distant? Far from thence a
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Speaker 1: murmuring sound of waters issued from a cave, and spread
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Speaker 1: into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved, pure as the
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Speaker 1: expense of heaven. I thither went with unexperienced thought, and
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Speaker 1: laid me down on the green bank to look into
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Speaker 1: the clear, smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
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Speaker 1: As I bent down to look, just opposite, a shape
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Speaker 1: within the watery gleam appeared, bending to look on me.
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Speaker 1: I started back. It started back, but pleased I soon returned.
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Speaker 1: Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks of sympathy
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Speaker 1: and love. There I had fixed mine eyes till now
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Speaker 1: and pined with vain desire, had not a voice. Thus
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Speaker 1: warned me, what thou seest, What there thou seest? Fair
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Speaker 1: creature is thyself with THEE it came and goes. But
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Speaker 1: follow me, and I will bring THEE where no shadow
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Speaker 1: stays thy coming, and thy soft embraces he whose image
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Speaker 1: thou art him. Thou shalt enjoy inseparably thine to him,
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Speaker 1: shalt bear multitudes like thyself, And thence be call'd mother
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Speaker 1: of human race. What could I do but follow straight invisibly,
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Speaker 1: Thus led till I espied THEE fair indeed and tall
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Speaker 1: under a platon, Yet methought less, fair less, winning soft,
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Speaker 1: less amiably mild than that smooth, watery image. Back. I
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Speaker 1: turn'd thou, following criest aloud, Return, fair Eve, whom fliest thou,
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Speaker 1: whom thou fliest of him, Thou art his flesh, his bone,
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Speaker 1: to give THEE. Being, I leant out of my side
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Speaker 1: to THEE nearest my heart, substantial life, to have THEE
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Speaker 1: by my side, henceforth an individual solace, dear part of
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Speaker 1: my soul. I seek THEE, and THEE claim my other half.
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Speaker 1: With that thy gentle hand seized mine I yielded. And
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Speaker 1: from that time see how beauty is excell'd by manly
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Speaker 1: grace and wisdom, which alone is truly fair. End of
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Speaker 1: Book four, Part one