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Paradise Lost and Regained by John Milton
Paradise Lost and Regained by John Milton
John Milton
John Milton
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Contents
PARADISE LOST
BOOK I.
BOOK II.
BOOK III
BOOK IV.
BOOK V.
BOOK VI.
BOOK VII.
BOOK VIII.
BOOK IX.
BOOK X.
PARADISE REGAINED
Had cast him out from Heav’n, with all his Host
Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring
Say, Muse, their Names then known, who first, who last,
BOOK II.
Our own good from our selves, and from our own
BOOK III
And Spirits, both them who stood & them who faild;
As if Predestination over-rul’d
And shall grace not find means, that finds her way,
BOOK IV.
Through wood, through waste, o’re hil, o’re dale his roam.
The God that made both Skie, Air, Earth & Heav’n
Where thou art weigh’d, & shown how light, how weak,
BOOK V.
What life the Gods live there, and such live thou.
And when high Noon hast gaind, & when thou fallst.
Earth and the Sea feed Air, the Air those Fires
Ethereal, and as lowest first the Moon;
All seemd well pleas’d, all seem’d, but were not all.
New Laws from him who reigns, new minds may raise
BOOK VI.
All Heart they live, all Head, all Eye, all Eare,
And Wings were set with Eyes, with Eyes the Wheels
BOOK VII.
And saw that it was good, and said, Let th’ Earth
And God made two great Lights, great for thir use
Thy mate, who sees when thou art seen least wise.
BOOK VIII.
Now not, though Sin, not Time, first wraught the change,
For whom all this was made, all this will soon
But say, where grows the Tree, from hence how far?
She scarse had said, though brief, when now more bold
BOOK IX.
Her Seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel.
And Chains they made all fast, too fast they made
Beast now with Beast gan war, & Fowle with Fowle,
BOOK X.
Nor love thy Life, nor hate; but what thou livst
The Men though grave, ey’d them, and let thir eyes
But who was that Just Man, whom had not Heav’n
With thir four Wives, and God made fast the dore.
All would have then gon well, peace would have crownd
With soft foot towards the deep, who now had stopt
Shall hold thir course, till fire purge all things new,
THE END.
PARADISE REGAINED
THE FIRST BOOK
THE SECOND BOOK
“Where will this end? Four times ten days I have passed
THE THIRD BOOK
The world thou hast not seen, much less her glory,
With herds the pasture thronged, with flocks the hills; 260
THE FOURTH BOOK
(Such are from God inspired, not such from thee); 350
That once found out and solved, for grief and spite