Titanian, or Earth-born, that warrd on Jove,
Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den
By aarsus held, or that Sea-beast [ 200 ]
Leviathan, which God of all his works
Created hugest that swim th O stream:
Him haply slumbring on the Norway foam
The Pilot of some small night-founderd Skiff,
Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, [ 205 ]
With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind
Moors by his side uhe Lee, while Night
Is the Sea, and wished Morn delayes:
So stretcht out huge ih the Arch-fiend lay
d on the burning Lake, nor ever thence [ 210 ]
Had risn or heavd his head, but that the will
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven
Left him at large to his own dark designs,
That with reiterated crimes he might
Heap on himself damnation, while he sought [ 215 ]
Evil to others, and enragd might see
How all his malice servd but t forth
Infinite goodness, grad mercy shewn
On Man by him seduct, but on himself
Treble fusion, wrath and vengeance pourd. [ 220 ]
Forthwith upright he rears from off the Pool
His mighty Stature; on each hand the flames
Drivn backward slope thir pointing spires, and rowld
In billows, leave ith midst a horrid Vale.
Then with expanded wings he stears his flight [ 225 ]
Aloft, incumbent on the dusky Air
That felt unusual weight, till on dry Land
He lights, if it were Land that ever burnd
With solid, as the Lake with liquid fire;
And such appeard in hue, as when the force [ 230 ]
Of subterranean wind transports a Hill
Torn from Pelorus, or the shatterd side
Of thundring Ætna, whose bustible
And feweld entrals thence ceiving Fire,
Sublimd with Mineral fury, aid the Winds, [ 235 ]