So saying, he took for still he knew his power Not yet expir'd and to the Wilderness [ ] Brought back the Son of God, and left him there, Feigning to disappear. Darkness now rose, As day-light sunk, and brought in lowring night Her shadowy off-spring , unsubstantial both, Privation meer of light and absent day.
And now the Sun with more effectual beams Had chear'd the face of Earth, and dry'd the wet From drooping plant, or dropping tree; the birds Who all things now behold more fresh and green, [ ] After a night of storm so ruinous, Clear'd up their choicest notes in bush and spray To gratulate the sweet return of morn; Nor yet amidst this joy and brightest morn Was absent, after all his mischief done, [ ] The Prince of darkness, glad would also seem Of this fair change, and to our Saviour came, Yet with no new device, they all were spent, Rather by this his last affront resolv'd , Desperate of better course, to vent his rage, [ ] And mad despite to be so oft repell'd.
Him walking on a Sunny hill he found, Back'd on the North and West by a thick wood; Out of the wood he starts in wonted shape; And in a careless mood thus to him said. Fair morning yet betides thee, Son of God, After a dismal night; I heard the rack As Earth and Skie would mingle ; but my self Was distant; and these flaws, though mortals fear them As dangerous to the pillard frame of Heaven , [ ] Or to the Earths dark basis underneath, Are to the main as inconsiderable And harmless, if not wholesom , as a sneeze To mans less universe, and soon are gone; Yet as being oft times noxious where they light [ ] On man, beast, plant, wastful and turbulent, Like turbulencies in the affairs of men, Over whose heads they rore , and seem to point, They oft fore- signifie and threaten ill: This Tempest at this Desert most was bent; [ ] Of men at thee, for only thou here dwell'st.
Did I not tell thee, if thou didst reject The perfet season offer'd with my aid To win thy destin'd seat, but wilt prolong All to the push of Fate, persue thy way [ ] Of gaining David's Throne no man knows when, For both the when and how is no where told, Thou shalt be what thou art ordain'd , no doubt; For Angels have proclaim'd it, but concealing The time and means: If thou observe not this, be sure to find, What I foretold thee, many a hard assay Of dangers, and adversities and pains, E're thou of Israel's Scepter get fast hold; [ ] Whereof this ominous night that clos'd thee round, So many terrors, voices, prodigies May warn thee, as a sure fore-going sign.
So talk'd he, while the Son of God went on And staid not, but in brief him answer'd thus. Mee worse then wet thou find'st not; other harm Those terrors which thou speak'st of, did me none ; I never fear'd they could, though noising loud And threatning nigh; what they can do as signs Betok'ning or ill boding I contemn [ ] As false portents, not sent from God, but thee; Who knowing I shall raign past thy preventing, Obtrud'st thy offer'd aid, that I accepting At least might seem to hold all power of thee, Ambitious spirit, and wouldst be thought my God, [ ] And storm'st refus'd , thinking to terrifie Mee to thy will ; desist, thou art discern'd And toil'st in vain, nor me in vain molest.
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To whom the Fiend now swoln with rage reply'd: From that time seldom have I ceas'd to eye Thy infancy, thy childhood, and thy youth, Thy manhood last, though yet in private bred; Till at the Ford of Jordan whither all [ ] Flock'd to the Baptist, I among the rest, Though not to be Baptiz'd , by voice from Heav'n Heard thee pronounc'd the Son of God belov'd. Therefore I watch'd thy footsteps from that hour, And follow'd thee still on to this wast wild; Where by all best conjectures I collect Thou art to be my fatal enemy.
Therefore to know what more thou art then man, Worth naming Son of God by voice from Heav'n , Another method I must now begin. So saying he caught him up, and without wing Of Hippogrif bore through the Air sublime Over the Wilderness and o're the Plain; Till underneath them fair Jerusalem , The holy City, lifted high her Towers, [ ] And higher yet the glorious Temple rear'd Her pile, far off appearing like a Mount Of Alablaster, top't with golden Spires: There on the highest Pinacle he set The Son of God, and added thus in scorn: There stand, if thou wilt stand; to stand upright Will ask thee skill; I to thy Fathers house Have brought thee, and highest plac't , highest is best, Now shew thy Progeny; if not to stand, Cast thy self down; safely if Son of God: To whom thus Jesus: And as that Theban Monster that propos'd Her riddle, and him, who solv'd it not, devour'd ; That once found out and solv'd , for grief and spite Cast herself headlong from th' Ismenian steep, [ ] So strook with dread and anguish fell the Fiend, And to his crew, that sat consulting, brought Joyless tryumphals of his hop't success, Ruin, and desperation, and dismay, Who durst so proudly tempt the Son of God.
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True Image of the Father, whether thron'd In the bosom of bliss, and light of light Conceiving, or remote from Heaven, enshrin'd In fleshly Tabernacle, and human form, Wandring the Wilderness, whatever place, [ ] Habit, or state, or motion, still expressing The Son of God, with Godlike force indu'd Against th' Attempter of thy Fathers Throne, And Thief of Paradise; him long of old Thou didst debel , and down from Heav'n cast [ ] With all his Army, now thou hast aveng'd Supplanted Adam , and by vanquishing Temptation, hast regain'd lost Paradise, And frustrated the conquest fraudulent: He never more henceforth will dare set foot [ ] In Paradise to tempt; his snares are broke: For though that seat of earthly bliss be fail'd , A fairer Paradise is founded now For Adam and his chosen Sons, whom thou A Saviour art come down to re-install.
Hail Son of the most High, heir of both worlds, Queller of Satan, on thy glorious work Now enter, and begin to save mankind. Summary Discuss Reviews 0 These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God's justice-and what it truly means to be human.
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