What Else Is Pastoral? by Hiltner Ken.;

Author:Hiltner, Ken.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8014-6124-8
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)

I was in (would I could describe it well)

A darke, light, pleasant, profitable hell.

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To guide us in that vault of endlesse night,

There young and old with glim’ring candles burning,

Digge, delve, and labour, turning and returning,

Some in a hole with baskets and with baggs,

Resembling furies, or infernall haggs:

There one like Tantall feeding, and there one,

Like Sisiphus he rowles the restlesss stone.

Yet all I saw was pleasure mixt with profit,

Which prov’d it to be no tormenting Tophet;

For in this honest, worthy, harmelesse hell,

There ne’r did any Damned Divell dwell:

And th’ owner of it gaines by ‘t more true glory,

Then Rome doth by fantastick Purgatory.32

Not everyone, however, found such mines to be an “honest, worthy, harmelesse hell.” Given that in 1661 Evelyn had already drawn attention to the sooty, sulfurous plumes emerging from industrial smokestacks, it is perhaps not surprising that just a few years later Milton, whose vision of Hell is paved in “firm brimstone,” has a sulfur-filled hill spewing out thick smoke in Paradise Lost:

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