But soon he grew angry, thinking about all the lost pleasures and the unending pain. But his doom / Reserv'd him to more wrath for now the thought / Both of lost happiness and lasting pain / Torments him For nine days he and his evil followers were lying helpless in the fires of Hell. Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night / To mortal men, he with his horrid crew / Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe / Confounded though immortal: After a terrible war, God threw him into Hell for daring to fight him.
Him the Almighty Power / Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie / With hideous ruine and combustion down / To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, / Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms. They supported him in his ambition to glorify himself-even to the point of waging war against God. His pride had gotten him thrown out of Heaven with all his followers. Had cast him out from Heav’n, with all his Host / Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring / To set himself in Glory above his Peers, / He trusted to have equal'd the most High, / If he oppos'd and with ambitious aim / Against the Throne and Monarchy of God / Rais'd impious War in Heav'n and Battel proud His envy and thirst for revenge made him go trick Eve the way he did.
Who made them do this awful thing? It was the snake, wasn’t it. Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt? / Th' infernal Serpent he it was, whose guile / Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd / The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride He had given them the whole world, except for one little thing. You know everything about Heaven and Hell, so tell me, what was it that made Adam and Eve go against God's orders? They seemed so happy. Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State, / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From thir Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? Enlighten me where I am ignorant and strengthen my abilities so that I can correctly explain God's great purpose to men. Illumin, what is low raise and support / That to the highth of this great Argument / I may assert Eternal Providence, / And justifie the wayes of God to men. You sat like a dove with your wings spread over the dark emptiness and made it come to life. Instruct me, for Thou know'st Thou from the first / Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread / Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss / And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark I want you to teach me, Holy Spirit, because you value goodness more than fancy churches. And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer / Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, I'm asking for your help because I want to write a great work different from any that has ever been written before.
Fast by the Oracle of God I thence / Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, / That with no middle flight intends to soar / Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues / Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime. You are the heavenly spirit who inspired Moses in his teachings. Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top / Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire / That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, / In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth / Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill / Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd Tell me about man's first sin, when he tasted the forbidden fruit and caused all our troubles, until Jesus came and saved us. Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit / Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast / Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, / With loss of Eden, till one greater Man / Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
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