Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton

Author:John Milton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2011-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

Into their vacant room° and thence diffuse

His good to worlds and ages infinite.

‘So sang the Hierarchies. Meanwhile the Son

On his great expedition now appeared,

Girt with omnipotence, with radiance crowned

Of majesty divine, sapience and love

Immense, and all his Father in him shone. °

About his chariot numberless were poured

Cherub and Seraph,° Potentates and Thrones,

And Virtues, winged Spirits, and chariots winged

From the armoury of God,° where stand of old

Myriads, between two brazen mountains lodged

Against° a solemn day, harnessed at hand,

Celestial equipage, and now came forth

Spontaneous, for within them Spirit lived,

Attendant on their Lord. Heaven opened wide

Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound

On golden hinges moving,° to let forth

The King of Glory,° in his powerful Word

And Spirit coming to create new worlds.

On heavenly ground they stood, and from the shore

They viewed the vast immeasurable abyss,

Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild,°

Up from the bottom turned by furious winds

And surging waves, as mountains to assault

Heaven’s height, and with the centre mix the pole.

‘“Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou keep peace!”

Said then the omnific° Word: “your discord end!”

Nor stayed, but, on the wings of Cherubim

Uplifted, in paternal glory rode

Far into Chaos and the World unborn,

For Chaos heard his voice; him all his train

Followed in bright procession, to behold190 vacant room cf. ii, 835 196 cf. iii, 139. 198 Cherub and Seraph cf. i, 324 200 From the armoury of God cf. vi, 321 202 Against in readiness for 207 moving “might be a transitive participle agreeing with gates and governing sound; or again the whole phrase from harmonious to moving might be an ablative absolute,” observes C. S. Lewis, finding the syntactic ambiguity characteristic and profitable; cf. v, 253-55. 208 King of Glory Psalm xxiv, 8 212 dark, wasteful, wild cf. i, 60; ii, 588; iii, 424 217 omnific all-creating (Latin)

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