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09 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Book one, Section one of man's first disobedience and the
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  Speaker 1: fruit of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death
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  Speaker 1: into the world and all our woe with loss of Eden,
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  Speaker 1: till one greater man restore us and regain the blissful seat.
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  Speaker 1: Sing heavenly muse, that on the secret top of aureb
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  Speaker 1: or of SINAI didst inspire that shepherd who first taught
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  Speaker 1: the Chosen seed in the beginning, how the heavens and
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  Speaker 1: earth rose out of chaos? Or if sion Hill delight
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  Speaker 1: thee more and silly as brook that flowed fast by
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  Speaker 1: the oracle of God, I thence invoke thy aid to
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  Speaker 1: my adventurous song, that, with no middle flight, intends to
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  Speaker 1: soar above the Ionian mount while it pursues things tempted.
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  Speaker 1: Yet in prose or rhyme, and chiefly thou, o Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: that dost prefer for all temples, the upright heart and
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  Speaker 1: pure instruct me. For thou knowest thou from the first
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  Speaker 1: wast present and with mighty wings outspread dove like sat'st
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  Speaker 1: brooding on the vast abyss and maid'st it pregnant. What
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  Speaker 1: in me is dark, illumine, what is low raise and
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  Speaker 1: support that to the height of this great argument, I
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  Speaker 1: may assert the eternal providence and justify the ways of God.
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  Speaker 1: To men, say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy
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  Speaker 1: view nor the deep tract of hell. Say first, what
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  Speaker 1: cause moved our grand parents, in that happy state favored
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven so highly, to fall off from their creator
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  Speaker 1: and transgress his will? For one restraint? Lords of the world?
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  Speaker 1: Besides who first seduced them to that foul revolt? The
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  Speaker 1: infernal serpent? He it was, whose guile, stirred up with
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  Speaker 1: envy and revenge, deceived the mother of mankind. What time
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  Speaker 1: his pride had cast him out from heaven with all
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  Speaker 1: his host of rebel angels, by whose aid, aspiring to
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  Speaker 1: set himself in glory above his peers, he trusted to
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  Speaker 1: have equaled the most high. If he opposed, and, with
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  Speaker 1: ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God, raised
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  Speaker 1: impious war in heaven and battle proud with vain attempt him,
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  Speaker 1: the almighty power hurled headlong, flaming from the ethereal sky
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  Speaker 1: with hideous ruin and combustion, down to bottomless perdition, there
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  Speaker 1: to dwell in adamantine chains and penal fire, who durst
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  Speaker 1: defy the omnipotent to arms nine times the space that
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  Speaker 1: measures day and night to mortal men, He with his
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  Speaker 1: horrid crew lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, confounded
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  Speaker 1: though immortal, but his doom reserved him to more wrath.
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  Speaker 1: For now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting
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  Speaker 1: pain torments him.
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  Speaker 2: Round.
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  Speaker 1: He throws his baleful eyes that witnessed huge affliction and dismay,
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  Speaker 1: mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once far
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  Speaker 1: as angels can. He views the dismal situation, waste and wild,
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  Speaker 1: a dungeon horrible on all sides, round as one great
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  Speaker 1: furnace flamed, Yet from those flames no light, but rather
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  Speaker 1: darkness visible, served only to discover sights of woe, regions
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  Speaker 1: of sorrow, doleful shades where peace and rest can never dwell.
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  Speaker 1: Hope never comes that comes to all, but torture without
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  Speaker 1: end still urges, and a fiery deluge fed with the
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  Speaker 1: ever burning sulfur, unconsumed such place eternal justice had prepared
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  Speaker 1: for those rebellious. Here, their prison ordained in utter darkness,
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  Speaker 1: and their portion set as far removed from God and
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  Speaker 1: light of heaven as from the center thrice to the
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  Speaker 1: utmost pole. Oh, how unlike the place from whence they
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  Speaker 1: fell There the companions of his fall, overwhelmed with floods
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  Speaker 1: and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire, he soon discerns, and weltering
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  Speaker 1: by his side, won next himself in power and next
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  Speaker 1: in crime, long after known in Palestine and named bial Zebub,
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  Speaker 1: to whom the arch enemy, and thence in heaven called Satan,
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  Speaker 1: with bold words, breaking the horrid silence thus began, if.
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  Speaker 3: Thou beest he, But oh how fallen, how changed from
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  Speaker 3: him who, in the happier realms of light, clothed with
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  Speaker 3: transcendent brightness, didst outshine myriads? Though bright, If he whom
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  Speaker 3: virtual league united thoughts and counsels, equal hope and hazard
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  Speaker 3: in the glorious enterprise, joined with me once now misery
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  Speaker 3: hath joined in equal ruin into what pit thou seest
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  Speaker 3: from what height? Fallen so much the stronger proved he
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  Speaker 3: with his thunder Until then, who knew the force of
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  Speaker 3: those dire arms? Yet not for those, nor what the
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  Speaker 3: potent victor, in his rage can else inflict. Do I
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  Speaker 3: repent or change? Though changed in outward luster, that fixed
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  Speaker 3: mind and high disdain from sense of injured merit, that
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  Speaker 3: with the mind mightiest raised me to contend, and to
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  Speaker 3: the fierce contention brought along innumerable force of spirits, armed
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  Speaker 3: that durst dislike his reign, and me, preferring his utmost
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  Speaker 3: power with adverse power opposed in dubious battle on the
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  Speaker 3: plains of heaven, and shook his throne. What though the
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  Speaker 3: field be lost, all is not lost. The unconquerable will
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  Speaker 3: and study of revenge, immortal hate and courage never to
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  Speaker 3: submit or yield. And what is else not to be
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  Speaker 3: overcome that glory never shall his wrath or might extort
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  Speaker 3: from me to bow and sue for grace with suppliant
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  Speaker 3: knee and defy his power. Who, from the terror of
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  Speaker 3: this arm so late doubted his empire that were low, indeed,
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  Speaker 3: that were an ignominy and shame beneath this downfall. Since
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  Speaker 3: by fate, the strength of God's and this ephemeral substance
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  Speaker 3: cannot fail. Since through experience of this great event in arms,
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  Speaker 3: not worse in foresight, much advanced, we may, with more
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  Speaker 3: successful hope, resolve to wage by force or guile, eternal war,
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  Speaker 3: irreconcilable to our grand foe, who now triumphs, and in
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  Speaker 3: the excess of joy soul reigning, holds the tyranny of Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: So spake the apostate angel, though in pain, vaunting aloud,
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  Speaker 1: but racked with deep despair. And him thus answered soon
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  Speaker 1: his bold compare.
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  Speaker 2: O prince o, chief of many throne at powers that
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  Speaker 2: led the embattled Serapham to warnder thy conduct, and in
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  Speaker 2: dreadful deeds fearless endangered Heaven's perpetual king, and put to
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  Speaker 2: proof his high supremacy, whether upheld by strength or chance
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  Speaker 2: of fate. Too well, I see and rule the diy
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  Speaker 2: event that, with sad overthrow and foul defeat, hath lost
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  Speaker 2: us Heaven and all this mighty host in horrible destruction,
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  Speaker 2: laid thus low as far as God's and Heavenly essences
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  Speaker 2: can perish. For the mind and spirit remains invincible, and
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  Speaker 2: vigor soon returns, though all our glory extinct and happy
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  Speaker 2: state here swallowed up in endless misery.
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  Speaker 3: But what of he, our.
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  Speaker 2: Conqueror, whom I now aforce believe almighty? Since no less
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  Speaker 2: than such kind of all power and such force as
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  Speaker 2: ours have left us this our spirit and strength entire
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  Speaker 2: strongly to suffer and support our pains, that we may
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  Speaker 2: so suffice his vengeful ire, or do him mightier service
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  Speaker 2: as his thralls by right of war. Whate'er his business
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  Speaker 2: be here in the heart of hell, to work in fire,
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  Speaker 2: or do his errands in the gloomy deep. What can
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  Speaker 2: it then evail? Though yet we feel strength undiminished or
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  Speaker 2: eternal being to undergo eternal punishment.
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  Speaker 1: Where to with speedy words, the arch fiend.
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  Speaker 3: Replied fallen Cherub. To be weak is miserable doing or suffering.
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  Speaker 3: But of this be sure to do aught good never
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  Speaker 3: will be our task, but ever to do ill our
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  Speaker 3: soul delight, as being the contrary to his high will,
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  Speaker 3: whom we resist. If then his providence, out of our evil,
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  Speaker 3: seek to bring forth good, our labor must be to
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  Speaker 3: pervert that end, and out of good still to find
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  Speaker 3: means of evil, which oft times may succeed, so as
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  Speaker 3: perhaps shall grieve him if I fail not and disturb
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  Speaker 3: his inmost counsels from their destined name. But see the
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  Speaker 3: angry victor hath recalled his ministers of vengeance and pursuit
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  Speaker 3: back to the gates of heaven. The sulfurous hail shot
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  Speaker 3: after us in storm o'er blown. Hath laid the fiery
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  Speaker 3: surge that from the precipice of heaven received us falling,
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  Speaker 3: and the thunder wingered with red lightning and impetuous rage.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps Hath spent his shafts and ceases now to bellow
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  Speaker 3: through the vast and boundless deep. Let us not slip
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  Speaker 3: the occasion, whether scorn or satiet fury yielded from our
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  Speaker 3: foe seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild de
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  Speaker 3: seat of desolation, void of light. Save what the glimmering
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  Speaker 3: of these livid flames casts, pale and dreadful thither? Let
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  Speaker 3: us tend from off the tossing of these fiery waves
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  Speaker 3: their rest, if any rest can harbor there, and reassembling
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  Speaker 3: our afflicted powers. Consult how we may henceforth most offend
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  Speaker 3: our enemy, our own loss, How repair, how overcome this
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  Speaker 3: dire calamity. What reinforcement we may gain from hope? If not,
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  Speaker 3: what resolution from despair?
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  Speaker 1: Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, with head uplift
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  Speaker 1: above the wave, and eyes that sparkling blazed. His other parts,
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  Speaker 1: besides prone on the floor, extended long and large, lay
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  Speaker 1: floating many a rude in bulk as huge as whom
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  Speaker 1: the fable's name of monstrous size, Titanian or earthborn, that
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  Speaker 1: warred on Jove Bryros or typhon whom the den by
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  Speaker 1: ancient tarsis held, or that sea beast Leviathan, which God
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  Speaker 1: of all his works created hugest, that swim in the
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  Speaker 1: ocean stream him hapily slumbering on the Norway foam, the
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  Speaker 1: pilot of some small night foundered skiff, deeming some island
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  Speaker 1: oft as seamen tell with fixed anchor in his scaly rind,
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  Speaker 1: Moor's by his side under the lee, while night invests
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  Speaker 1: the sea, and wished morn delays so stretched out huge
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  Speaker 1: in length, the arch fiend lay chained on the burning lake.
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  Speaker 1: Nor ever, thence had risen or heaved his head, but
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  Speaker 1: that the will and high permission of all ruling heaven
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  Speaker 1: left him at large to his own dark designs, that
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  Speaker 1: with reiterated crimes he might heap on himself damnation, while
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  Speaker 1: he sought evil to others, and in ray might see
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  Speaker 1: how all his malice served but to bring forth infinite goodness, grace,
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  Speaker 1: and mercy shone on man by him seduced but on
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  Speaker 1: himself treble, confusion, wrath and vengeance poured forthwith upright he
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  Speaker 1: rears from off the pool, his mighty stature on each hand.
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  Speaker 1: The flames, driven backwards slope, their pointing spires and rolled
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  Speaker 1: in billows, leave in the midst the horrid veil. Then,
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  Speaker 1: with expanded wings, he steers his flight aloft, incumbent on
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  Speaker 1: the dusky air that felt unusual weight, till on dry
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  Speaker 1: land he lights if it were land that ever burned
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  Speaker 1: with solid as the lake with liquid fire, and such
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  Speaker 1: appeared in hue, as when the force of subterranean wind
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  Speaker 1: wind transports a hill torn from Pelarus, or the shattered
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  Speaker 1: side of thundering Etna, whose compustible and fueled entrails thence
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  Speaker 1: conceiving fire sublimed with mineral fury aid the winds, and
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  Speaker 1: leave a singed bottom, all involved with stench and smoke,
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  Speaker 1: such resting round the soul of unblest feet him followed
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  Speaker 1: his next mate, both glorying to have scaped the Stygian
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  Speaker 1: flood as gods and by their own recovered strength, not
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  Speaker 1: by the sufferance of supernal power.
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  Speaker 3: Is this the region? This the soil? The climb said?
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  Speaker 1: Then the lost Archangel.
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  Speaker 3: This the seat that we must change for heaven, This
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  Speaker 3: morn gloom, for that celestial light. Be it so, since
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  Speaker 3: he who now is sovereign, can dispose and bid what
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  Speaker 3: shall be right. Farthest from him is best whom reason
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  Speaker 3: hath equalled force hath made supreme above his equals. Farewell,
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  Speaker 3: happy fields, where joy forever dwells. Hail horrors, Hail infernal world,
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  Speaker 3: And thou profoundest Hell, receive thy new possessor, one who
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  Speaker 3: brings a mind not to be changed by place or time.
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  Speaker 3: The mind is its own place, and in itself can
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  Speaker 3: make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven. What
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  Speaker 3: matter where? If I be still the same, and what
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  Speaker 3: I should be, all but less than he whom thunder
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  Speaker 3: hath made greater. Here, at least we shall be free.
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  Speaker 3: The Almighty hath not built here, for his envy will
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  Speaker 3: not drive us. Hence here we may reign secure, And
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  Speaker 3: in my choice to reign is worth ambition, though in hell,
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  Speaker 3: better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. But
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  Speaker 3: wherefore let we, then, now, faithful friends, the associates and
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  Speaker 3: co partners of our loss, lie thus astonished on the
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  Speaker 3: oblivious pool, and call them not to share with us
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  Speaker 3: their heart in this unhappy mansion, or once more with
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  Speaker 3: rallied arms, to try what may be yet regained in heaven,
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  Speaker 3: or what more lost in hell.
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  Speaker 1: So Satan spake, and him Beelzebub, thus answered.
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  Speaker 2: Leader of those armies bright which put the omnipotent.
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  Speaker 3: None could have foiled.
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  Speaker 2: If once they hear that voice, their liveliest pledge of
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  Speaker 2: hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft in worse extremes,
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  Speaker 2: and on the perilous edge of battle, when it raged
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  Speaker 2: in all assaults, their surest signal, they will soon resume
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  Speaker 2: new courage and revive. Though now they lie groveling and
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  Speaker 2: prostrate on yon lake of fire, as we while astounded
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  Speaker 2: and amazed, nor wonder fallen such a pernicious height.
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  Speaker 1: He scarce had ceased. When the superior fiend was moving
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  Speaker 1: toward the shore, his ponderous shield ethereal, temper massy, large
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  Speaker 1: and round behind him, cast the broad circumference hung on
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  Speaker 1: his shoulders, like the moon whose orb through optic glass.
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  Speaker 1: The Tuscan artist views at evening from the top of
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  Speaker 1: Fezole or in Voldano, to decry new lands, rivers or
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  Speaker 1: mountains in her spotty globe, his spear to equal which
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  Speaker 1: the tallest pine hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the
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  Speaker 1: mast of some great admiral, were but a wand he
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  Speaker 1: walked with to support uneasy steps over the burning marle,
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  Speaker 1: not like those steps on heavens asure. But the torrid
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  Speaker 1: class smote on him sore, besides vaulted with fire. Nathlus
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  Speaker 1: he so endured till on the beach of that inflamed
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  Speaker 1: sea he stood and called his legions angel forms, who
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  Speaker 1: lay in transit, thick as autumnal leaves that strow the
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  Speaker 1: brooks in Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades high overarched in
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  Speaker 1: bower or scattered sedge afloat, when with fierce winds orion
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  Speaker 1: armed hath vexed the red sea coast, whose waves o'er
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  Speaker 1: through Berseus and his Memphian chivalry. While with perfidious hatred
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  Speaker 1: they pursued the sojournals of Goshen, who beheld from the
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  Speaker 1: safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot wheels. So
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  Speaker 1: thick prestrwon abject and lost lay these covering the flood.
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  Speaker 1: Under amazement of their hideous change, he called so loud
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  Speaker 1: that all the hollow deep of hell resounded.
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  Speaker 3: Princes, potentates, warriors. The Flower of Heaven wants yours now lost,
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  Speaker 3: if such astonishment as this can seize eternal spirits, Or
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  Speaker 3: have ye chosen this place, after the toil of battle,
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  Speaker 3: to repose your wearied virtue for the ease you find
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  Speaker 3: to slumber here as in the veales of heaven, Or
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  Speaker 3: in this abject posture, have ye sworn to adore the conqueror,
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  Speaker 3: who now beholds Cherub and Serah rolling in the flood
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  Speaker 3: with scattered arms and ensigns till Anon his swift pursuers
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  Speaker 3: from Heaven's gates discern the advantage, and descending tread us down. Thus,
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  Speaker 3: drooping or with linked thunderbolts, transfix us to the bottom
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  Speaker 3: of this gulf. Awake, arise, or be forever fallen.
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  Speaker 1: End of Book one, Section one