One of our number thus reduc'd becomes; 846 His laws our laws; all honour to him done 850 From Father to his Son? Strange point and new! Doctrine which we would know whence learn'd. Who saw When this creation was? remember'st thou Thy making, while the Maker gave thee being? 856 860 Our puissance is our own; our own right hand Address, and to begirt th' Almighty throne 870 875 "He said, and, as the sound of waters deep, Hoarse murmur echo'd to his words applause Through the infinite host; nor less for that The flaming Seraph, fearless, though alone Encompass'd round with foes thus answer'd bold. "O alienate from God, O Spirit accurs'd, Forsaken of all good; I see thy fall Determin'd, and thy hapless crew involv'd In this perfidious fraud, contagion spread 880 Both of thy crime and punishment: henceforth 885 890 When who can uncreate thee thou shalt know.' 895 "So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmov'd His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; 900 Nor number nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Tho' single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long way thro' hostile scorn, which he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd ought; And with retorted scorn his back he turn'd 905 On those proud tow'rs to swift destruction doom'd." END OF THE FIFTH BOOK. ODL Sonat ARGUMENT. Raphael continues to relate how Michael and Gabriel were sent forth to battle against Satan and his Angels. The first fight described. Satan and his Powers retire under night. He calls a council, invents devilish engines, which in the second day's fight put Michael and his Angels to some disorder; but they at length, pulling up mountains, overwhelmed both the force and machines of Satan. Yet the tumult not so ending, God on the third day sends Messiah his Son, for whom he had reserved the glory of that victory: He, in the Power of his Father, coming to the place, and causing all his legions to stand still on either side, with his chariot and thunder driving into the midst of his enemies, pursues them, unable to resist, towards the wall of Heaven; which opening, they leap down with horror and confusion into the place of punishment prepared for them in the deep. Messiah returns with triumph to his Father. Paradise Lost. "A BOOK VI. LL night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heav'n's wide champaign held his way; till morn, 5 Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light. There is a cave Within the mount of God, fast by his throne, Where light and darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns, which makes through Heaven Grateful vicissitude, like day and night; Light issues forth, and at the other door 10 To veil the Heav'n, tho' darkness there might well 25 They led him high applauded, and present |