Paradise Lost
Rereading the Expulsion
Satan's account
I
169: But see the angry victor hath recalled
170: His ministers of vengeance and pursuit
171: Back to the gates of heaven: the sulphurous hail
172: Shot after us in storm, o'erblown hath laid
173: The fiery surge, that from the precipice
174: Of heaven received us falling, and the thunder,
175: Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage,
176: Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now
177: To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.
Chaos' account
II
992: Made head against heaven's king, though overthrown.
993: I saw and heard, for such a numerous host
994: Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
995: With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
996: Confusion worse confounded; and heaven gates
997: Poured out by millions her victorious bands
998: Pursuing. I upon my frontiers here
999: Keep residence; if all I can will serve,
1000: That little which is left so to defend
1001: Encroached on still through our intestine broils
1002: Weakening the sceptre of old Night: first hell
1003: Your dungeon stretching far and wide beneath;
1004: Now lately heaven and earth, another world
1005: Hung o'er my realm, linked in a golden chain
1006: To that side heaven from whence your legions fell:
narrator's account
III
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