Paradise Lost - Book 4 - John Milton

book 4 of Paradise Lost 2nd edition by John Milton this LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by Thomas Copeland before the argument Satan now in prospect of eaten and neither place where he must now attempt the bold Enterprise which he undertook alone against God and man falls into many doubts with himself and many passions fear envy and despair but at length confirms himself an evil journeys on to Paradise whose outward prospect and situation is described over leaps the bounds sits in the shape of a cormorant on the Tree of Life as highest in the garden to look about him the garden described Satan's first sight of Adam D is wonder at their excellent form and happy state but with resolution to work their fall overhears the discourse thence gathers that the tree of knowledge was forbidden them to eat up under penalty of death and thereon intends to found his temptation by seducing them to transgress then leaves them awhile to no further of their state by some other means meanwhile Uriel descending on a sunbeam warns Gabriel who hadn't charged the gate of paradise that some evil spirit had escaped the deep and past at noon by his sphere in the shape of a good angel down to Paradise discovered after by his furious gestures in the Mount Gabriel promises to find him out ere morning night coming on Adam and Eve discourse of going to their rest the bower described the evening worship Gabriel drawing forth his bands of Night Watch to walk the round of Paradise appoints two strong angels to Adam's power lest the evil spirit should be there doing some harm to Adam or Eve sleeping there they find him at the ear of Eve tempting her in a dream and bring him though unwilling to Gabriel by whom questioned he scornfully answers prepares resistance but hindered by a sign from heaven flies out of paradise Oh for that warning voice which he whose apocalypse heard cry in heaven aloud then when the dragon put to second route came furious down to be revenged on men Walder than habitants on earth that now while time was our first parents had been warned the coming of their secret phone and scaped happily so scaped his mortal snare for now Satan now first inflamed with rage came down the tempter a the accuser of mankind to wreak on innocent frail man his loss of that first battle and his flight to hell yet not rejoicing in his speed though bold far-off and fearless nor with cause to boast begins his dire attempt which neither birth now rolling boils in his tumultuous breasts and like a devilish engine back recoils upon himself horror and doubt distract his troubled thoughts and from the bottom stir the hell within him core within him hell he brings and round about him nor from hell one step no more than from himself can fly that change of place now conscience wakes despair that slumbered wakes the bitter memory of what he was what is and what must be worse of worst deeds were sufferings must ensue [Music] sometimes towards Eden which now in his view lay Pleasant his grieved look he fixes sad sometimes toward heaven and the full blazing sun which now set high in his meridian tower then much revolving thus in size began oh now that with surpassing glory crown looks from thy soul Dominion like the god of this new world at whose sight all the stars hide the diminished heads to thee I call but with no friendly voice and add thy name o son to tell thee how I hate thy beams that bring to my remembrance from what state I fell how glorious once above dice fear till pride and worse ambition threw me down warring in heaven against heavens matchless King now wherefore he deserved no such return from me when we created what I was in that bright eminence and with his good upgraded nun there was his service hard what could be less than to afford him praise the easiest recompense and pay him thanks how do you yet all his good Prue dil in me and rot but malice lifted up so high I stain subjection and thought one step higher would set me highest and in a moment quit the death immense of endless gratitude so burdensome still paying still to ho forgetful what from him I still received and understood not that a grateful mind biowing owes not but still pays at once indebted and discharged but burdened then no had his powerful destiny ordained me some inferior angel I had stood then happy no unbounded hope and raised ambition yet why not some other power as great might have aspired and me though mean drawn to his part but other powers as great fell not but stand unshaken from within or from without to all temptations armed hence now the same free will and power to stand thou hadst whom hast thou then or what to accuse but heavens free love dealt equally to all be then his love occurs since love or hate to me alike it deals eternal woe nay first be thou since against his thy will chose really what it now so justly rules me miserable which way shall I fly infinite wrath and infinite despair which way I fly is hell my self and hell and in the lowest deep a lower deep still threatening to devour me opens wide to which the hell I suffer seems a heaven o then at last relent is there no place left for repentance none were pardon left none left that by submission and that word disdain forbids me and my dread of shame among the spirits beneath whom I seduced with other promises and other Vons than to submit boasting I could subdue them nipa taught me they little know how dearly I abide that boast so vain under what torments inwardly I grow while they adore me on the throne of hell with diadem and sceptre high advanced the lower still I fall only supreme in misery such joy ambition finds both say I could repent and could obtain by act of grace my former state how soon would hike through call high thoughts how soon unsay what feigned submission swore eaves would recant vows made in pain as violent and void who never can true reconcile man grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep which will but lead me to a worse relapse and heavier fall so should I purchase year short intermission bought with double smart this knows my Punisher therefore as far from granting he as I from begging peace hope excluded thus behold instead of us outcast exiled his new denied mankind created and for him this world so farewell hope and with hope farewell fear farewell remorse oh good to me is lost evil be thou my good by thee at least divided Empire with heavens King I hold by Dean and more than half perhaps will reign as man ere long and this new world shall know thus while he spake each passion dimmed his face their ice changed with pale ire envy and despair which marred his borrowed village and betrayed him counterfeit if any I beheld four heavenly minds from such distempers Fowler Everclear where all he soon aware each perturbation smooth without word calm artificer of fraud and was the first that practiced falsehood under saintly show deep malice to conceal couched with revenge yet not enough at practice to deceive Uriel once warned was I pursued him down the way he went and on the Syrian mount saw him disfigured more than could befall spirit of happy sort this gestures fierce he marked and mad demeanor then alone as he supposed all unobserved unseen so on he fares and to the border comes of Eden where a delicious paradise now nearer crowns with her enclosure green as with a rural mound the champagne dead of a steep will do who's Harry sides with thicket overgrown grotesque and wild access denied' and overhead up grew insuperable heighth of loftiest shade cedar and pine fir and branching palm a Sylvan scene and as the ranks ascend shade above shade a woody theater of stateliest view yet higher than the tops the verdurous wall of Paradise ups from which to our general sire gave prospect large into his nether Empire neighboring round and higher than that wall a circling row of goodliest trees loading with fairest reach blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue appeared with gay enameled colors mixed unwish the Sun more glad impressed his beams than in fair evening cloud or human bow when God hath showered the earth so lovely seemed that landscape and of pure now pure air meets his approach and to the heart and spires vernal delight and joy able to drive all sadness but despair now gentle gales Fanning their odoriferous wings dispense native perfumes and whisper whence they stole those balmy spoils as when to them who sail beyond the cape of home and now our past Mozambique off at sea northeast winds blow Serbian odors from the spicy shore of Araby the blessed with such delay well pleased they slacked a course and many a league cheered with the grateful smell bold ocean smiles so entertain those odorous sweets the fiend who came there bane though with them better pleased than Asmodeus with the fishy fume that drove him though enamoured from the spouse of Tobit son and with a vengeance central media post to Egypt there fast bound now to the scent of that steep savage hill Satan had journeyed on pensive and slow but further 'we found none so thick entwined as one continued Drake the undergrowth of shrubs and tangling bushes had perplexed all paths of man or beast that passed that way one gate there only was and that looked east on the other side which when archvillains saw do entrance he disdained and in contempt at once light bound I / need all bound of Hill or highest wall and sheer within lights on his feet as when a prowling wolf whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey watching where Shepherds penned the flocks at even hurdle coats amid the field secured leaps or the fence with ease into the fold or as a thief meant to earn hoard the cash of some rich burgher who substantial doors cross barred and bolted fast fear no assault in at the window climbs or other tiles so clone this first grand thief into God's fool so since into his church viewed hirelings climb thence up he flew and on the Tree of Life the middle tree and highest there that grew sat like a cormorant you have not true life thereby regained but sat devising death to them who lived nor on the virtue thought of that life-giving plant but only used for prospect what well used had been the pledge of immortality so little knows any but God alone to value right the good before him but perverts best things to worst abuse or to them meanest juice beneath him with new wonder now he views to all the night of human sense exposed in narrow room nature's whole wealth yay more a heaven on earth for blissful paradise of God the garden was by him in the East of Eden planted Eden stretched her line from our and eastward to the Royal towers of solution built by Grecian Kings or whether sons of Eden long before dwelt in to Lhasa in this Pleasant soil his far more pleasant garden God ordained out of the fertile ground he caused to grow all trees of noblest kind for sight smell taste and all amid them stood the Tree of Life high Amanat blooming ambrosia fruit of vegetable gold and next to life our death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by knowledge of good bought deer by knowing ill southward through Eden went a river large nor changed his cause but through the shaggy Hill passed underneath engulfed for God had thrown that mountain as his garden mould high raised upon the rapid current which through veins of porous earth with kindly thirst up drawn Rose a fresh fountain and with many a real water to garden thence United fell down the steep Glade and met the nether flood which from his dark sand passage now appears and now divided into four main streams runs diverse wandering many a famous realm in country where I'll here needs no account but rather to tell how the fart could tell how from that Sapphire font the crisp and brooks rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold with Mazie error and of pendent shades brand nectar visiting each plant and fed flowers worthy of paradise but not nice art in beds and curious knots but nature booth poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plane both where the Morning Sun first warmly smoked the open field and were the unpierced shade in brown the noontide bowers thus was this place a happy rural seat the various view groves who's rich trees wept odorous gums and balm others whose fruit burnished with old and rind hung amiable Hesperian fables true if true here only and of delicious taste betwixt them lawns or level towns and flocks grazing the tender herb winter post or Parma Hillier or the flowery lap of some a rigorous Valley spreader store flowers of all healed and without thorn the Rose another side umbrageous growths and caves of cool recessed s-- or which the mantling vine lays for their purple great and gently creeps luxuriant meanwhile murmuring waters fall down the slope hills dispersed or in a lake that to the fringe at bank with myrtle crowned or crystal mirror holds unite their streams the birds the choir apply airs vernal airs breathing the smell of field and Grove attune the trembling leaves while universal pan knit with the graces and the hours in dance led on the eternal spring not that Fairfield Ravenna were preserving gathering flowers herself a fairer flower by gloomy dis was gathered which cost series all that pained a secret of the world nor that sweet Grove of Daphne by our long tapes and inspired cast alien spring might with this paradise of Eden strive nor that nice see a Nile dirt with the river Triton where old cam whom Gentiles a man call and Libyan Jove he da mafia and her florid son young Bacchus from his step Dame Ria's I nor were abassin kings their issue guard mount amaura though this by some supposed true paradise under the ithi of line by nilus head enclosed with shining rock a whole day's journey high but wide remote from this assyrian garden where the feem saw under lighted all delight all kind of living creatures new to site and range to a far nobler shape erect and tall godlike erect with native honour clad in naked Majesty seemed lords of all and worthy seemed for in their looks divine the image of the glorious maker Shawn truth wisdom Sancta tubes severe and pure severe but in truth filial freedom placed whence true Authority and man though both not equal as the sexes not equal seemed for contemplation he and valor formed for softness she and sweet attractive grace II for God only she for God in him his fair large front and I sublime declared absolute rule and hyacinth in locks Brown from his parted forelock manly hung clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad she has a veil down to the slender waist her unadorned and golden tresses wore disheveled but in wanton ringlets waved as the vine curls her tendrils which implied subjection but required with gentle sway and by her yielded by him best received yielded with coy submission modest pride and sweet reluctant amorous delay nor those mysterious parts were then concealed then was not guilty shame dishonest shame of nature's works on a dishonorable sin bread how heavy troubled all mankind with shows instead near shows of seeming pure and banished from man's life his happiest life simplicity and spotless innocence so past they naked on nor shun the sight of God or angel for they thought no ill so hand in hand they passed the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met Adam the goodliest man of men since born his sons the fairest but four daughters he under a tough to shade that on a green stood whispering soft by a fresh fountain side they sat them down and after no more toil of the sweet gardening labor than suffice to recommend cool zephyr and made ease more easy wholesome thirst and appetite more grateful to their supper fruits they fell nectar in truths which the compliant boughs yielded them side long as they sat recline on the soft downy bank damask with flowers the savory pulp they chew and in the rind still as they thirsted scoop the brimming stream nor gentle purpose nor endearing smiles wanted nor youthful dalliance as beseems fair couple linked in happy nuptial league alone as they about them frisking played all beasts of the earth since wild and of all chase in wood or wilderness forester den sporting the lion ram said in his paw dandled the kind-- bears tigers answers cards gambled before them the unwieldy elephant to make the mirth used all his might and read his live proboscis close the Serpent's lie insinuating wove with Gordian twine is braided train and of his fatal guile gave proof unheeded others on the grass couched and now filled with pasture gazing sat or bed word ruminating for the Sun declined was hasting now with prone career to though shun isles and in the sending scale of heav'n the stars that usher evening rose when Satan still in gaze as first he stood scarce thus at length failed speech recovered sad oh hell what do mine eyes with grief behold into our room of bliss thus high advanced creatures of other mould earth bore perhaps not spirits yet to heavenly spirits bright little inferior my thoughts pursue with Wonder and could love so lively shines in them divine resemblance and such grace the hand that formed them on their shape at port gentle bear a little think how nigh or change approaches when all these delights will vanish and deliver you to world more woe the more your taste is now of joy happy but for so happy you'll secured long to continue and this high seat your heaven ill fenced for heaven to keep out such a foe as now is entered yet no purposed foe to you whom I could pity thus forlorn though I unfitted leak with you I seek and mutual Amity so strained so close that I with you must dwell or you with me and sport my dwelling happily may not please like this fair paradise your sins yet such accept your makers world he gave it me which I as feeling you hell shall unfold to entertain you to her widest gates and send forth all her kings there will be room not like these narrow limits to receive your numerous offspring if no better place thank him who puts me loath to this revenge on you who wronged me not for him wrong and should I at your harmless innocence melt as I do yet public reason just unearned Empire with revenge enlarged by conquering this new world compels me now to do what else though damned I should have all those make the fiend and with necessity that tyrants plea excused his devilish deeds then from his lofty stand on that high tree down here lights among the sportful heard of those four footed kinds himself now one now other as the shape served best his end nearer to view his prey and Anna spied to mark what of their state he more might learn by word or action marked about them around a lion now his stalks with fiery glare then is a tiger who by chance had spied in some Purdue to gentle fawns at play straight couches close then rising changes off his couch and watch as one who chose his ground whence rushing he might surest seize them both gripped in each paw when Adam first of men to first of women Eve thus moving speech turned him all the air to hear new butter and slow sole partner and sold part of all these joys dearer thyself than all needs must the power that made us and for us this ample world be infinitely good and of his good as liberal and free as infinite that raised us from the dust and placed us here in all this happiness who at his hand have nothing merited who can perform aught whereof he hath need he who requires from us no other service than to keep this one this easy charge of all the trees in paradise that bear delicious fruit so various not to taste that only tree of knowledge planted by the Tree of Life so near grows death to life whatare death is some dreadful thing no doubt for well thou knowest God hath pronounced it death to taste that tree the only sign of our obedience left among so many signs of power and rule conferred upon us and Dominion given over all other creatures that possess earth air and sea then let us not think hard one prohibition who enjoy free leave so large to all things else and choice unlimited of manifold delights but let us ever praise Him and extol his bounty following our delightful task to prune these growing plants and tend these flowers which were it tiresome yet with bee were sweet to whom thus Eve replied oh thou for whom and from whom I was formed flesh of thy flesh and without whom M to no end my guide and head what the host said is just and right for we do him indeed all praises oh and daily thanks I chiefly who enjoy so far the happier lon enjoying the preeminent by so much odds while thou like consort to thyself Kent's nowhere find that day I oft remember when from sleep I first waked and found myself reposed under a shade on flowers much wondering where and what I was when sneer brought and how not distant far from them some murmuring sound of waters issued from a cave and spread into a liquid plain then stood unmoved purest expanse of heaven either went with unexperienced thought and laid me down on the Green Bank to look into the clear smooth lake that to me seemed another sky as I bent down to look just opposite a shape with in the watery gleam appeared bending to look on me I started back it started back but please die soon return please did returned as soon with answering looks of sympathy and love there I had fixed my eyes till now and pined with vain desire had not a voice thus warned me but thou seest but there thou seest fair creature is thy self with thee it came and goes but follow me and I will bring the where no shadows stays thy coming and I soft embraces he who's imaged thou art him thou shalt enjoy in separably thine to him shall bear multitudes like thyself and then speak old mother of human race what could I do but follow straight invisibly thus led to lie a Spidy fare indeed and tall and her platen yet methought less fare less winning soft less amiably mild than that smooth watery image back I turned thou following Christ aloud return fair Eve whom Kleist thou whom thou fly stuff him thou art his flesh his bone to give thee being I lend out of my side to the nearest my heart substantial life to have thee by my side henceforth an individual solace dear part of my soul I seek thee and acclaim my other half with that that gentle hand seized mine I yielded and from that time see how beauty is excelled by manly grace and wisdom which alone is truly fair so spake our general mother and with eyes of conjugal attraction unruhe proved and meek surrender half embracing leaned on our first father half her swelling breast naked met his under the flowing gold of her loose tresses hid he in delight both of her beauty and submissive charms smiled with superior loud as Jupiter on Juno smiles when he improves the clouds that shed May flowers and pressed her matron lift with kisses pure açaí the devil turned for envy yet with jealous Lear malign eyed the musk ants and to himself thus planed sight hateful sight tormenting thus these two impaired iced in one another's arms the happier edan shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss while I to hell and rust where neither joy nor love but fierce desire among our other torments not the least still unfulfilled with pain of longing times yep let me not forget what I have gained from their own mouths all is not theirs it seems one fatal tree there stands of knowledge called forbidden them to taste knowledge forbidden suspicious reasonless why should the Lord envy them that can it be sin - no can it be death and do they only stand by ignorance is that their happy state the proof of their obedience and their faith Oh fair foundation laid whereon to build their ruin hence I will excite their minds with more desire to know and to reject envious commands invented with design to keep them low whom knowledge might exalt equal with God's aspiring to be such they taste and die what likely our cadets you but first with narrow search I must walk round this garden at no corner leave on spied a chance what chance may lead where I may meet some wandering spirit of heaven by fountain side or in thick shade retired from him to draw what further would be learned live while he may at happy pair and joy till I return short pleasures for long woes are to succeed so saying his proud step he scornful turn but with sly circumspection and began through wood through waste or hill or dale his roll mean while in utmost longitude where heaven with earth an ocean meets the Setting Sun slowly descended and with right aspect against the eastern gate of paradise leveled his evening rays it was a rock of a de blaster piled up to the clouds conspicuous far winding with one ascent accessible from Earth one entrance high the rest was craggy cliff that overhung still as it rose impossible to climb betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat chief of the angelic guards awaiting night about him exercise to roid games than armoured youth of heaven but night hand celestial armory shields Helms and Spears on high but diamond flaming and with gold neither came Uriel gliding to the even on a Sun be swift as a shooting star in autumn thwarts the night when vapors fired impressed the air and shows the Mariner from what point of his compass to beware impetuous winds he thus began in haste Gabriel to thee thy cost by lot at given charge and strict watch that to this happy place no evil thing approached or enter in this day at heighth of noon came to my sphere a spirit whom Seles as he seemed to know more of the Almighty's works and chiefly man God's latest image I described his way bent on all speed and marked his Airy gait but in the mount that lies from Eden north where he first lighted soon discerned his looks alien from heaven with passions foul obscure mine I pursued him still but under shade lost sight of him one of the banished crew I fear hath ventured from the deep to raise new troubles him thy care must be to find to whom the wicked warrior thus returned Uriel no wonder if thy perfect sight amid the sun's bright circle without sitzt see far and wide in at this gate none passed the vigilance here placed but such as come well known from heaven and since Meridian our no creature dense if spirit other so so minded have all leaped these earthy bounds on purpose hard though no stood to exclude spiritual substance with corporeal bar but if within the circuit of these walks in whatsoever shape he lurk of whom that Elst by morrow dawning I shall know so promised he and Uriel to his charge returned on that bright beam whose point now raised for him sloped downward to the Sun now formed beneath desorbs whether the fry more incredible how Swift at the the roll diurnal or this less valuable earth by shorter flight to the east had left him there arraying with reflected purple and gold the clouds that on his western throne attend now came still evening on and twilight gray had in her silver livery all things clad silence accompanied for beasts and bird they to the grassy couch these to their nests were slung all but the wakeful nightingale she all night long her amorous desk and some silence was pleased now glowed the firmament with living satyrs Hesperus that led the starry hosts rode brightest till the moon rising in clouded majesty at length apparent Queen unveiled her peerless light and or the darker silver mantle through when Adam the stewey their consort hour of night and all things now retired to rest mind us of like repose since God hath set labour and rest as day at night two men successive and the time did you sleep now falling with soft slumbrous wait inclines are islands other creatures all day long row vital unemployed and less need rest man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed which declares his dignity and the regard of heaven on all his waves while other animals on active range and that their doing Scott takes no account tomorrow if morning streaked the east with first approach of light we must be risen and at our pleasant labor to reform yawn flowery arbor Jean der alleys green our walks at noon with branches overgrown that mock our scant maneuvering and require more hands than ours to lock the wanton grow those blossoms also and those dropping gums that live is thrown unsightly and unsmooth ask riddance if we mean to tread with ease meanwhile as nature wills night bids us rest to whom the sea with perfect beauty adorned my author and disposer but thou bidst an argued I obey so God ordains God as thy law thou mine to know no more is woman's happiest knowledge and a phrase with thee conversing I forget all time all seasons and their change all pleas alike sweet is the breadth of mourn her rising sweet with charm of earliest birds Pleasant the Sun when first on this delightful land he spreads his orient beams on herb tree fruit and flower glittering with jus fragrant the fertile earth after soft showers and sweet the coming on of grateful evening mild then silent night with this her solemn bird and this fair moon and these the gems of heaven her starry train but neither breath of morn when she ascends with charm of earliest birds nor Rising Sun on this delightful land nor herb through flower glittering with Jew nor fragrance after showers nor grateful evening mild nor silent night with this so solemn burg nor walk by moon nor glittering star light without these sweet but wherefore all night long shine these for whom this glorious sight when sleepers shut all eyes to whom our general ancestor replied daughter of God it man accomplished Eve those have the course to finish round the earth by morrow evening and from land to land in order though two nations yet unborn ministering light prepared they set and bronze less total darkness should by night regain her own possession and extinguish life in nature and all things which these soft fires not only enlightened but with kindly heat of various influence ferment and warm temper or nourish or in part shed down their stellar virtue on all kinds that grow on earth made here by after to receive perfection from the sun's more potent ray these then though unbe held in deep of night try not in vain nor think the men were none that heaven would want spectators God want craves millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen both when we wake and when we sleep all these with ceaseless praise his works behold both day and night how often from the steep of echoing hill or thicket have we heard celestial voices to the midnight air soul or responsive each to others note singing the great creator oft in bands while they keep watch or nightly rounding walk with heavenly touch of instrumental sounds in full harmonic number joined their songs divided the night and lift our thoughts to heaven the stalking and in hand alone they passed on to their blissful Bower it was a place chosen by the sovereign planter when he framed all things to man's delightful use the roof of thickest covered was in woven shade Laurel and myrtle and what higher grew of firm and fragrant leaf on either side a canvas and each odorous bushy shrub fenced up the verdant wall each beauteous flower Aras all hues roses and Jessamine reared Haida flourished heads between and wrought mosaic underfoot the violent crocus and hyacinth with rich in lay brighter the ground more coloured than with stone of costliest emblem other creature here beast bird insect or worm Durst enter none such was there all man in shadier power more sacred and sequestered though but famed pan or sylvain 'as never slept nor nymph nor Faunus haunted here in close recess with flowers garlands and sweet-smelling herbs dispositive decked first her nuptial bed and heavenly choirs the high minion son but day the genial angel to our sire brought her in naked beauty more adorned more lovely than Pandora from the gods endowed with all their gifts and Oh - like in sad event when - the unwise her son of Japheth brought by Hermes she and snared mankind with her fair looks to be avenged on him who had stole job's authentic fire thus at their Shady Lodge arrived both stood both turn and under open sky adored the God that made both sky air earth and heaven which they beheld the moon's resplendent globe and starry pole thou also mates the night make her omnipotent and now the day which we in our appointed work employed have finished happy and our mutual help and mutual love the crown of all our bliss ordained by thee and this delicious place for us to large where thy abundance once partakers and uncropped falls to the ground but thou has promised from us - a race to fill the earth who shall with us extol thy goodness infinite both when we wake and when we seek as now thy gift of sleep this said unanimous and other rights observing none but adoration pure which God likes best into their inmost Bower handed they went and eased the putting off these troublesome disguises which we wear straight side-by-side relate nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse nor Eve the rights mysterious of connubial love refused whatever hypocrites austerely talk of purity and place and innocence defaming as impure what God declares purer and commands to some leaves free to all a maker bids increase who bids abstain but our destroyer foe to God and man hail wedded love mysterious law true source of human offspring so propriety in paradise of all things common house by the adulteress lust was driven from men among the best jewel herds to range by thee founded in reason loyal just and pure relations dear and all the Charities of father son and brother first were known far be it that I should write the sin or blame or think the unbefitting holiest place perpetual fountain of domestic sweets whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced present or past as saints and patriarchs used here love his golden shafts employs here lights his constant lamp and waves his purple wings reigns here and revels not in a thought smile of harlots loveless joyless son endeared casual fruition nor in quarter mores mixed dance or wanton mass for midnight ball or serenade which the starved lover sings to his proud fare best quitted with disdain these lulled by Nightingale's embracing slept and on their naked limbs the flowery roof showered roses which the more repaired sleep on blessed pair and know yet happiest if he seek no happier state and no to know no more now at night measured with her shadowy cone halfway uphill this fasts of lunar vault and from the rival report the cherubim forth issuing of the custom dower stood armed to the night Watchers in warlike parade when Gabriel to his next in power thus spake azile half these draw and coasts the south with strictest watch these other will the north our circuit meets full west as flame they part half wheeling to the shield after the spear from these two strong and subtle spirits he called that near him stood and gave them thus in charge ethereal and seven with winged speed search through this garden leave unsearched no no but chiefly for those two ther creatures Lodge now late perhaps asleep secure of arm this evening from the sun's decline arrived who tells of some infernal spirits seen hitherward bent who could have thought escaped the bars of Hell on errand bad no doubt such when he finds cease fast and hither bring so saying on he led his radiant files dazzling the move these to the bower direct in search of whom they sought him there there found squat like a toad close at the ear of Eve a saying by his devilish art to reach the organs of her fancy and with them Forge illusions as he lists phantasms and dreams or if inspiring venom he might taint the animal spirits that from pure blood arise like gentle breaths when rivers pure thence raise at least distemper'd discontented thoughts vain hopes vain Ames inordinate desires blown up with high conceits engendering tried him thus intent ethereal with his spear touched lightly for no falsehood could your touch of celestial temper but returns a force to its own likeness up he starts discovery and surprised as when a spark lights on a heap of nitrous powder laid fit for the tongue some magazine to store against a rumored war the smutty grain with sudden blaze diffused in flames the air so started up in his own shape the field backstep those two Fair Angels have amazed so sudden to behold the grizzly king yet thus unmoved with fear a costume su which of those rebel spirits are judged to hell comes thou escaped that prison and transform why SATs thou like an enemy and wait here watching at the head of these that sleep know ye not then said Satan filled with scorn know ye not me you knew me once no mate for you there sitting where ye Durst not sore not to know me argh use yourselves unknown the lowest of your throng or if you know why ASCII and superfluous begin your message like to end as much in vain to whom thus is effing answering scorn with scorn think not revolted spirit thy shape the same or undiminished brightness to be known as when now stood stin heaven upright and pure that glory then when now no more must good departed from the endow resembles now thy sin and place of doom obscure and foul but come for thou be sure shalt give account to him who sent us whose charges to keep this place inviolable Indies from arm so spake the cherub and his grave rebuke severe and youthful beauty added grace invincible a Bosch the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw virtue in her shape how lovely saw and pined his loss but chiefly define here observed he luster visibly impaired yet seemed undaunted if I must contend City best with the best the sender not the cent or all at once more glory will be one or less be lost thy fear said 7bo will save us trial what the least can do single against thee wicked and thence weak the fiend replied not overcome with rage but like a proud steed rained when haughty on champing his iron curb to strive or fly he held in vain or from above had quelled his heart not else dismayed now do they nigh the western point where those half rounding guards just met and closing stood in squadron joined awaiting next command to whom the chief Gabriel from the front thus called aloud o friends I hear the tread of nimble feet hasting this way and now by glimpse discern ethereal and Zeppelin to the shade with them comes a third of regal port but faded splendor one who by his gait and fierce demeanor seems the prince of Hell not likely to part hence without contest stand firm for in his look defiance flowers he scarce had ended when those two approached and brief related whom they brought were found how busy in what form and posture couched to whom with Stern regard thus Gabriel speak why hast thou Satan broke the bounds prescribed to thy transgressions and disturbed the charge of others who have proved not to transgress by thy example but have power and right to question thy bold entrance on this place employed it seems to violate sleep and those whose dwelling God had planted here in bliss to whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow Gabriel thou hadst in heaven the steam of wise and such I held thee but this question asked puts me in doubt lives there who loves his pain who would not finding way break loose from Hell though they're doomed da wouldst I self no doubt and boldly venture to whatever place farthest from pain where thou mightst hope to change torment with ease and soonest recompense dole delight which in this place I sought to thee no reason who knows only good but evil has not tried and wilt object his will who bound us let him sure a bar his iron gates if he intends I stay in that dark Durance thus much what was asked the rest is true they found me where they say but that implies not violence or harm thus he in score the warlike angel moved disdainfully half smiling thus replied Oh loss of one in heaven to judge of wine since Satan fell whom folly overthrew and now returns him of his prison scaped gravely in doubt whether to hold them wise or not who asked what boldness brought him hither unlicensed from his bounds in hell prescribed so wise he judges it to fly from pain however and to scape his punishment so judge thou still presumptuous till the wrath which though in cursed by flying meat thy flight seven-pole and scourge that wisdom back to hell which taught the yet know better that no pain can equal anger infinite provoked but wherefore thou alone wherefore with became not all hell broke loose his pain to them less pain less to be fled or thou than they less hardy to endure courageous chief the first in flight from pain hadst thou alleged to the deserted hosts this cause of light thou surely hadst not come Sol fugitive to which the fiend thus answered frowning Stern not that I less endure or shrink from pain and salting angel well thou know'st sty stood the fiercest when in battle to thy aid the blasting volley Thunder made all speed and seconded thy else not dreaded spear but still thy words at random as before argued I inexperience but the hooves from hard essays and ill successes passed a faithful leader not to hazard all through ways of danger by himself untried I therefore I alone first undertook to wing the desolate abyss and spy this new created world where of inhale Fame is not silent here in hope to find better abode and my afflicted powers to settle here on earth for in midair though or possession put to try once more what thou and I gaily jhin's dare against who's easier business were to serve the Lord high up in heaven with songs to him his throne and practice distances to cringe not fight to whom the warrior angel soon replied to say and straight unsay pretending first wise to fly Payne professing next the spy argues no leader but a liar trace Satan and codes thou faithful and o name o sacred name of faithfulness profaned faithful to whom to thy rebellious crew army of fiends fit body to fit head was this your discipline and faith engaged your military obedience to dissolve allegiance to the acknowledged power supreme and thou sly hypocrite who now would seem patron of Liberty who more than thou once formed and cringed I adored heavens awful monarch were for but in hope to dis possess him and thyself to rain but mark what I read thee now Avant try the other ones now pledged if from this hour within these hallowed limits now appear back to the infernal pit I drag the chained and seal they so as henceforth not to scorn the facile gates of hell to slightly barred so threatened a but Satan to no threats gave heed but waxing more in rage replied then when I am thy captive talk of chains proud limitary cherubim but ere then far heavier load thyself expect to feel from my prevailing arm though heavens King ride on thy wings and thou with I come peers used to the yoke dost his triumphant wheels in progress to the road of heaven star paved well thus he spake then gellick squadron bright turned fiery red sharpening in moon in horns the Phalanx and began to hem him round with ported Spears as thick as when a field of series ripe for harvest waving bends of bearded grove of years which way the wind sways them the careful Plowman doubting stands lest on the threshing floor his hopeful sheaves proved chaff on the other side Satan alarmed collecting all his might deleted stood like tenor F or Atlas unremoved his stature reached the sky and on his trusts at horror flew nor wanted in his grasp what seemed both spear and shield now dreadful deeds might have ensued nor only paradise in this commotion but the starry cope of heaven perhaps or all the elements at least had gone to rap disturbed and torn with violence of this conflict had not soon eternal to prevent such horrid prey hung forth in heaven his golden scales yet seemed betwixt estrella and the scorpion side where all things created first he weighed the pendulous round earth with balanced air and counterparts now Ponder's all events battles and realms in these he put two weights the sequel each of parting at a fight the latter quick up flew and kicked the bee which Gabriel spying the spake the feed Satan I know thy strength and almost mine neither our own but given what folly then to boast what arms can do since thine no more than heaven permits nor mine though doubled now to trample the as mire for proof look up and read thy lot in yon celestial sign without Wade and shown how light how weak if thou resist the fiend looked up and knew his mounted scaler laughed no more but fled murmuring with him led the shades of night notes argument promises to find him out promises to find him 1674 find 627 walks walk 1674 by 9:28 thou thy 1674 the end of the fourth book recording by thomas pulpit

Channel: John Adams

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Keywords: homeschool, TTS, Text to Speech, Immersion Reading, ESL, English as a second language, Read Along and Listen, Listen and Read Along, Bimodal Reading, Read with highlighted Words

Id: XguWegOHCUc

Length: 63min 51sec (3831 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 05 2019