《Paradise Lost Ⅱ》第8章


forthwith the huge porcullis high up drew;
which but her self not all the stygian powers ' 875 '
could once have movd; then in the key…hole turns
th intricate wards; and every bolt and bar
of massie iron or sollid rock with ease
unfastns: on a sudden opn flie
with impetuous recoile and jarring sound ' 880 '
th infernal dores; and on thir hinges grate
harsh thunder; that the lowest bottom shook
of erebus。 she opnd; but to shut
exceld her power; the gates wide opn stood;
that with extended wings a bannerd host ' 885 '
under spread ensigns marching might pass through
with horse and chariots rankt in loose array;
so wide they stood; and like a furnace mouth
cast forth redounding smoak and ruddy flame。
。。
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the key of this infernal pit by due; ' 850 '
and by mand of heavns all…powerful king
i keep; by him forbidden to unlock
these adamantine gates; against all force
death ready stands to interpose his dart;
fearless to be ormatcht by living might。 ' 855 '
but what ow i to his mands above
who hates me; and hath hither thrust me down
into this gloom of tartarus profound;
to sit in hateful office here confind;
inhabitant of heavn; and heavnlie…born; ' 860 '
here in perpetual agonie and pain;
with terrors and with clamors passt round
of mine own brood; that on my bowels feed:
thou art my father; thou my author; thou
my being gavst me; whom should i obey ' 865 '
but thee; whom follow? thou wilt bring me soon
to that new world of light and bliss; among
the gods who live at ease; where i shall reign
at thy right hand voluptuous; as beseems
thy daughter and thy darling; without end。 ' 870 '
thus saying; from her side the fatal key;
sad instrument of all our woe; she took;
and towards the gate rouling her bestial train;
forthwith the huge porcullis high up drew;
which but her self not all the stygian powers ' 875 '
could once have movd; then in the key…hole turns
th intricate wards; and every bolt and bar
of massie iron or sollid rock with ease
unfastns: on a sudden opn flie
with impetuous recoile and jarring sound ' 880 '
th infernal dores; and on thir hinges grate
harsh thunder; that the lowest bottom shook
of erebus。 she opnd; but to shut
exceld her power; the gates wide opn stood;
that with extended wings a bannerd host ' 885 '
under spread ensigns marching might pass through
with horse and chariots rankt in loose array;
so wide they stood; and like a furnace mouth
cast forth redounding smoak and ruddy flame。
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before thir eyes in sudden view appear ' 890 '
the secrets of the hoarie deep; a dark
illimitable ocean without bound;
without dimension; where length; breadth; & highth;
and time and place are lost; where eldest night
and chaos; ancestors of nature; hold ' 895 '
eternal anarchie; amidst the noise
of endless warrs; and by confusion stand。
for hot; cold; moist; and dry; four champions fierce
strive here for maistrie; and to battel bring
thir embryon atoms; they around the flag ' 900 '
of each his faction; in thir several clanns;
light…armd or heavy; sharp; smooth; swift or slow;
swarm populous; unnumberd as the sands
of barca or cyrenes torrid soil;
levied to side with warring winds; and poise ' 905 '
thir lighter wings。 to whom these most adhere;
hee rules a moment; chaos umpire sits;
and by decision more imbroiles the fray
by which he reigns: next him high arbiter
chance governs all。 into this wilde abyss; ' 910 '
the womb of nature and perhaps her grave;
of neither sea; nor shore; nor air; nor fire;
but all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
confusdly; and which thus must ever fight;
unless th almighty maker them ordain ' 915 '
his dark materials to create more worlds;
into this wild abyss the warie fiend
stood on the brink of hell and lookd a while;
pondering his voyage: for no narrow frith
he had to cross。 nor was his eare less peald ' 920 '
with noises loud and ruinous (to pare
great things with small) then when bellona storms;
with all her battering engines bent to rase
som capital city; or less then if this frame
of heavn were falling; and these elements ' 925 '
in mutinie had from her axle torn
the stedfast earth。 at last his sail…broad vannes
he spreads for flight; and in the surging smoak
uplifted spurns the ground; thence many a league
as in a cloudy chair ascending rides ' 930 '
audacious; but that seat soon failing; meets
a vast vacuitie: all unawares
fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he drops
ten thousand fadom deep; and to this hour
down had been falling; had not by ill chance ' 935 '
the strong rebuff of som tumultuous cloud
instinct with fire and nitre hurried him
as many miles aloft: that furie stayd;
quencht in a boggy syrtis; neither sea;
nor good dry land: nigh founderd on he fares; ' 940 '
treading the crude consistence; half on foot;
half flying; behoves him now both oare and saile。
as when a gryfon through the wilderness
with winged course ore hill or moarie dale;
pursues the arimaspian; who by stelth ' 945 '
had from his wakeful custody purloind
the guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend
ore bog or steep; through strait; rough; dense; or rare;
with head; hands; wings; or feet pursues his way;
and swims or sinks; or wades; or creeps; or flyes: ' 950 '
at length a universal hubbub wilde
of stunning sounds and voices all confusd
borne through the hollow dark assaults his eare
with loudest vehemence: thither he plyes;
undaunted to meet there what ever power ' 955 '
or spirit of the nethermost abyss
might in that noise reside; of whom to ask
which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes
bordering on light; when strait behold the throne
of chaos; and his dark pavilion spread ' 960 '
wide on the wasteful deep; with him enthrond
sat sable…vested night; eldest of things;
the consort of his reign; and by them stood
orcus and ades; and the dreaded n
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