Hee Heavn of Heavens and all the Powers therein [ 390 ]
By thee created, and by thee threw down
Th Aspiring Dominations: thou that day
Thy Fathers dreadful Thunder didst not spare,
Nor stop thy flaming Chariot wheels, that shook
Heavns everlasting Frame, while ore the necks [ 395 ]
Thou drovst of warring Angels disarraid.
Back from pursuit thy Powers with loud acclaime
Thee oolld, Son of thy Fathers might,
To execute fierce vengean his foes,
Not so on Man; him through their malice falln, [ 400 ]
Father of Mercie and Grace, thou didst not doome
So strictly, but much more to pitie ene:
No sooner did thy dear and onely Son
Perceive thee purposd not to doom frail Man
So strictly, but much more to pitie end, [ 405 ]
He to appease thy wrauth, ahe strife
Of Merd Justi thy face disd,
Regardless of the Bliss wherei
Sed to thee, offerd himself to die
For mans offence. O unexampld love, [ 410 ]
Love no where to be fouhen Divine!
Hail Son of God, Saviour of Men, thy Name
Shall be the atter of my Song
Heh, and never shall my Harp thy praise
Fet, nor from thy Fathers praise disjoine. [ 415 ]
Thus they in Heavn, above the starry Sphear,
Thir happie hours in joy and hymning spent.
Mean while upon the firm opacous Globe
Of this round World, whose first vex divides
The luminous inferior Orbs, enclosd [ 420 ]
From Chaos and th inroad of Darkness old,
Satan alighted walks: a Globe farr off
It seemd, now seems a boundless ti
Dark, waste, and wild, uhe frown of Night
Starless exposd, and ever-threatning storms [ 425 ]
Of Chaos blustring round, i skie;
Save on that side which from the wall of Heavn
Though distant farr some small refle gaines
Of glimmering air less vext with tempest loud:
Here walkd the Fiend at large in spacious field. [ 430 ]