《Paradise Lost Ⅲ》第1章



THE ARGUMENT
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god sitting on his throne sees satan flying towards this world; then newly created; shews him to the son who sat at his right hand; foretells the success of satan in perverting mankind; clears his own justice and wisdom from all imputation; having created man free and able enough to have withstood his tempter; yet declares his purpose of grace towards him; in regard he fell not of his own malice; as did satan; but by him seduct。 the son of god renders praises to his father for the manifestation of his gracious purpose towards man; but god again declares; that grace cannot be extended towards man without the satisfaction of divine justice; man hath offended the majesty of god by aspiring to god…head; and therefore with all his progeny devoted to death must dye; unless some one can be found sufficient to answer for his offence; and undergo his punishment。 the son of god freely offers himself a ransome for man: the father accepts him; ordains his incarnation; pronounces his exaltation above all names in heaven and earth; mands all the angels to adore him; they obey; and hymning to thir harps in full quire; celebrate the father and the son。 mean while satan alights upon the bare convex of this worlds outermost orb; where wandring he first finds a place since calld the lymbo of vanity; what persons and things fly up thither; thence es to the gate of heaven; describd ascending by staires; and the waters above the firmament that flow about it: his passage thence to the orb of the sun; he finds there uriel the regent of that orb; but first changes himself into the shape of a meaner angel; and pretending a zealous desire to behold the new creation and man whom god had plact here; inquires of him the place of his habitation; and is directed; alights first on mount niphates。
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hail holy light; ofspring of heavn first…born;
or of th eternal coeternal beam
may i express thee unblamd? since god is light;
and never but in unapproached light
dwelt from eternitie; dwelt then in thee; ' 5 '
bright effluence of bright essence increate。
or hearst thou rather pure ethereal stream;
whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun;
before the heavens thou wert; and at the voice
of god; as with a mantle didst invest ' 10 '
the rising world of waters dark and deep;
won from the void and formless infinite。
thee i re…visit now with bolder wing;
escapt the stygian pool; though long detaind
in that obscure sojourn; while in my flight ' 15 '
through utter and through middle darkness borne
with other notes then to th orphean lyre
i sung of chaos and eternal night;
taught by the heavnly muse to venture down
the dark descent; and up to reascend; ' 20 '
though hard and rare: thee i revisit safe;
and feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou
revisitst not these eyes; that rowle in vain
to find thy piercing ray; and find no dawn;
so thick a drop serene hath quencht thir orbs; ' 25 '
or dim suffusion veild。 yet not the more
cease i to wander where the muses haunt
cleer spring; or shadie grove; or sunnie hill;
smit with the love of sacred song; but chief
thee sion and the flowrie brooks beneath ' 30 '
that wash thy hallowd feet; and warbling flow;
nightly i visit: nor somtimes forget
those other two equald with me in fate;
so were i equald with them in renown;
blind thamyris and blind m?onides; ' 35 '
and tiresias and phineus prophets old。
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then feed on thoughts; that voluntarie move
harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird
sings darkling; and in shadiest covert hid
tunes her nocturnal note。 thus with the year ' 40 '
seasons return; but not to me returns
day; or the sweet approach of evn or morn;
or sight of vernal bloom; or summers rose;
or flocks; or heards; or human face divine;
but cloud in stead; and ever…during dark ' 45 '
surrounds me; from the chearful wayes of men
cut off; and for the book of knowledg fair
presented with a universal blanc
of natures works to mee expungd and rasd;
and wisdome at one entrance quite shut out。 ' 50 '
so much the rather thou celestial light
shine inward; and the mind through all her powers
irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence
purge and disperse; that i may see and tell
of things invisible to mortal sight。 ' 55 '
now had the almighty father from above;
from the pure empyrean where he sits
high thrond above all highth; bent down his eye;
his own works and their works at once to view:
about him all the sanctities of heaven ' 60 '
stood thick as starrs; and from his sight receivd
beatitude past utterance; on his right
the radiant image of his glory sat;
his onely son; on earth he first beheld
our two first parents; yet the onely two ' 65 '
of mankind; in the happie garden plact;
reaping immortal fruits of joy and love;
uninterrupted joy; unrivald love
in blissful solitude; he then surveyd
hell and the gulf between; and satan there ' 70 '
coasting the wall of heavn on this side night
in the dun air sublime; and ready now
to stoop with wearied wings; and willing feet
on the bare outside of this world; that seemd
firm land imbosomd without firmament; ' 75 '
uncertain which; in ocean or in air。
.。
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him god beholding from his prospect high;
wherein past; present; future he beholds;
thus to his onely son foreseeing spake。
onely begotten son; seest thou what rage ' 80 '
transports our adversarie; whom no bounds
prescribd; no barrs of hell; nor all the chains
heapt on him there; nor yet the main abyss
wide interrupt can hold; so bent he seems
on desparate reveng; that shall redound ' 85 '
upon his own rebellious head。 and now
through all restraint broke loose he wings his way
not farr off heavn; in the precincts of light;
directly towards the new created world;
and man there plact; with purpose to assay ' 90 '
if him by force he can destroy; or worse;
by some false guile pervert; and shall perve
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