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THE FIRST BOOK	A
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I WHO erewhile the happy Garden sung	B
By one man's disobedience lost now sing	C
Recovered Paradise to all mankind	D
By one man's firm obedience fully tried	E
Through all temptation and the Tempter foiled	F
In all his wiles defeated and repulsed	G
And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness	H
Thou Spirit who led'st this glorious Eremite	G
Into the desert his victorious field	G
Against the spiritual foe and brought'st him thence	I
By proof the undoubted Son of God inspire	J
As thou art wont my prompted song else mute	G
And bear through highth or depth of Nature's bounds	K
With prosperous wing full summed to tell of deeds	L
Above heroic though in secret done	M
And unrecorded left through many an age	N
Worthy to have not remained so long unsung	B
Now had the great Proclaimer with a voice	O
More awful than the sound of trumpet cried	G
Repentance and Heaven's kingdom nigh at hand	G
To all baptized To his great baptism flocked	G
With awe the regions round and with them came	P
From Nazareth the son of Joseph deemed	G
To the flood Jordan came as then obscure	Q
Unmarked unknown But him the Baptist soon	R
Descried divinely warned and witness bore	S
As to his worthier and would have resigned	G
To him his heavenly office Nor was long	T
His witness unconfirmed on him baptized	G
Heaven opened and in likeness of a Dove	U
The Spirit descended while the Father's voice	O
From Heaven pronounced him his beloved Son	M
That heard the Adversary who roving still	V
About the world at that assembly famed	G
Would not be last and with the voice divine	W
Nigh thunder struck the exalted man to whom	X
Such high attest was given a while surveyed	G
With wonder then with envy fraught and rage	N
Flies to his place nor rests but in mid air	Y
To council summons all his mighty Peers	Z
Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved	G
A gloomy consistory and them amidst	G
With looks aghast and sad he thus bespake	T
O ancient Powers of Air and this wide World	G
For much more willingly I mention Air	Y
This our old conquest than remember Hell	A2
Our hated habitation well ye know	B2
How many ages as the years of men	C2
This Universe we have possessed and ruled	G
In manner at our will the affairs of Earth	D2
Since Adam and his facile consort Eve	E2
Lost Paradise deceived by me though since	F2
With dread attending when that fatal wound	G
Shall be inflicted by the seed of Eve	E2
Upon my head Long the decrees of Heaven	M
Delay for longest time to Him is short	G
And now too soon for us the circling hours	G2
This dreaded time have compassed wherein we	H2
Must bide the stroke of that long threatened wound	G
At least if so we can and by the head	G
Broken be not intended all our power	I2
To be infringed our freedom and our being	T
In this fair empire won of Earth and Air	Y
For this ill news I bring The Woman's Seed	G
Destined to this is late of woman born	J2
His birth to our just fear gave no small cause	K2
But his growth now to youth's full flower displaying	T
All virtue grace and wisdom to achieve	E2
Things highest greatest multiplies my fear	L2
Before him a great Prophet to proclaim	P
His coming is sent harbinger who all	M2
Invites and in the consecrated stream	N2
Pretends to wash off sin and fit them so	B2
Purified to receive him pure or rather	I2
To do him honour as their King All come	O2
And he himself among them was baptized	G
Not thence to be more pure but to receive	E2
The testimony of Heaven that who he is	P2
Thenceforth the nations may not doubt I saw	Q2
The Prophet do him reverence on him rising	T
Out of the water Heaven above the clouds	R2
Unfold her crystal doors thence on his head	G
A perfet Dove descend whate'er it meant	G
And out of Heaven the sovraign voice I heard	G
'This is my Son beloved in him am pleased '	-
His mother than is mortal but his Sire	I2
He who obtains the monarchy of Heaven	M
And what will He not do to advance his Son	M
His first begot we know and sore have felt	G
When his fierce thunder drove us to the Deep	S2
Who this is we must learn for Man he seems	T2
In all his lineaments though in his face	U2
The glimpses of his Father's glory shine	W
Ye see our danger on the utmost edge	V2
Of hazard which admits no long debate	G
But must with something sudden be opposed	G
Not force but well couched fraud well woven snares	W2
Ere in the head of nations he appear	L2
Their king their leader and supreme on Earth	D2
I when no other durst sole undertook	T
The dismal expedition to find out	G
And ruin Adam and the exploit performed	G
Successfully a calmer voyage now	X2
Will waft me and the way found prosperous once	Y2
Induces best to hope of like success	Z2
He ended and his words impression left	G
Of much amazement to the infernal crew	A3
Distracted and surprised with deep dismay	B3
At these sad tidings But no time was then	C2
For long indulgence to their fears or grief	C3
Unanimous they all commit the care	Y
And management of this man enterprise	D3
To him their great Dictator whose attempt	G
At first against mankind so well had thrived	G
In Adam's overthrow and led their march	E3
From Hell's deep vaulted den to dwell in light	G
Regents and potentates and kings yea gods	F3
Of many a pleasant realm and province wide	G
So to the coast of Jordan he directs	G3
His easy steps girded with snaky wiles	H3
Where he might likeliest find this new declared	G
This man of men attested Son of God	G
Temptation and all guile on him to try	I3
So to subvert whom he suspected raised	G
To end his reign on Earth so long enjoyed	G
But contrary unweeting he fulfilled	G
The purposed counsel pre ordained and fixed	G
Of the Most High who in full frequence bright	G
Of Angels thus to Gabriel smiling spake	T
Gabriel this day by proof thou shalt behold	G
Thou and all Angels conversant on Earth	D2
With Man or men's affairs how I begin	J3
To verify that solemn message late	G
On which I sent thee to the Virgin pure	Q
In Galilee that she should bear a son	M
Great in renown and called the Son of God	G
Then told'st her doubting how these things could be	H2
To her a virgin that on her should come	O2
The Holy Ghost and the power of the Highest	G
O'ershadow her This Man born and now upgrown	M
To shew him worthy of his birth divine	M
And high prediction henceforth I expose	K3
To Satan let him tempt and now assay	H2
His utmost subtlety because he boasts	L3
And vaunts of his great cunning to the throng	T
Of his Apostasy He might have learnt	G
Less overweening since he failed in Job	M3
Whose constant perseverance overcame	P
Whate'er his cruel malice could invent	G
He now shall know I can produce a man	M
Of female seed far abler to resist	G
All his solicitations and at length	N3
All his vast force and drive him back to Hell	A2
Winning by conquest what the first man lost	G
By fallacy surprised But first I mean	M
To exercise him in the Wilderness	H
There he shall first lay down the rudiments	O3
Of his great warfare ere I send him forth	P3
To conquer Sin and Death the two grand foes	K3
By humiliation and strong sufferance	K3
His weakness shall o'ercome Satanic strength	N3
And all the world and mass of sinful flesh	Q3
That all the Angels and aethereal Powers	K3
They now and men hereafter may discern	M
From what consummate virtue I have chose	K3
This perfet man by merit called my Son	M
To earn salvation for the sons of men	M
So spake the Eternal Father and all Heaven	M
Admiring stood a space then into hymns	K3
Burst forth and in celestial measures moved	G
Circling the throne and singing while the hand	G
Sung with the voice and this the argument	G
Victory and triumph to the Son of God	G
Now entering his great duel not of arms	K3
But to vanquish by wisdom hellish wiles	K3

John Milton

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