1、Milton, John, 1608-1674. 1608-1674Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library 1: Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit 2: Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast 3: Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, 4: With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man 5: Restore us, and regain th
2、e blissful Seat, 6: Sing Heavnly Muse, that on the secret top 7: Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire 8: That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, 9: In the Beginning how the Heavns and Earth 10: Rose out of CHAOS: Or if SION Hill 11: Delight thee more, and SILOAS Brook that flowd 12: Fast by
3、the Oracle of God; I thence 13: Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, 14: That with no middle flight intends to soar 15: Above th AONIAN Mount, while it pursues 16: Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime. 17: And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer 18: Before all Temples th upright heart and p
4、ure, 19: Instruct me, for Thou knowst; Thou from the first 20: Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 21: Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss 22: And madst it pregnant: What in me is dark 23: Illumine, what is low raise and support; 24: That to the highth of this great Argument 25: I m
5、ay assert th Eternal Providence, 26: And justifie the wayes of God to men. 27: Say first, for Heavn hides nothing from thy view 28: Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause 29: Movd our Grand Parents in that happy State, 30: Favourd of Heavn so highly, to fall off 裬31: From their Creator, an
6、d transgress his Will 32: For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? 33: Who first seducd them to that fowl revolt? 34: Th infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile 35: Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceivd 36: The Mother of Mankinde, what time his Pride 37: Had cast him out from Heav
7、n, with all his Host 38: Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring 39: To set himself in Glory above his Peers, 40: He trusted to have equald the most High, 41: If he opposd; and with ambitious aim 42: Against the Throne and Monarchy of God 43: Raisd impious War in Heavn and Battel proud 44: W
8、ith vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power 45: Hurld headlong flaming from th Ethereal Skie 46: With hideous ruine and combustion down 47: To bottomless perdition, there to dwell 48: In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, 49: Who durst defie th Omnipotent to Arms. 50: Nine times the Space that measures
9、Day and Night 51: To mortal men, he with his horrid crew 52: Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe 53: Confounded though immortal: But his doom 54: Reservd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful ey
10、es 57: That witnessd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate: 59: At once as far as Angels kenn he views 60: The dismal Situation waste and wilde, 61: A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round 62: As one great Furnace flamd, yet from those flames 63: No light, but rath
11、er darkness visible 64: Servd only to discover sights of woe, 65: Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 66: And rest can never dwell, hope never comes 67: That comes to all; but torture without end 68: Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed 69: With ever-burning Sulphur unconsumd: 70: Such pl
12、ace Eternal Justice had prepard 71: For those rebellious, here their Prison ordaind 72: In utter darkness, and their portion set 73: As far removd from God and light of Heavn 74: As from the Center thrice to th utmost Pole. 75: O how unlike the place from whence they fell! 76: There the companions o
13、f his fall, orewhelmd 77: With Floods and Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire, 78: He soon discerns, and weltring by his side 79: One next himself in power, and next in crime, 80: Long after known in PALESTINE, and namd 81: BEELZEBUB. To whom th Arch-Enemy, 82: And thence in Heavn calld Satan, with bold words 83: Breaking the horrid silence thus began.
