Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, [ 205 ]

Of subterranean wind transports a Hill

In billows, leave ith midst a horrid Vale.

Chaind on the burning Lake, nor ever thence [ 210 ]

And such appeard in hue, as when the force [ 230 ]

With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind

Drivn backward slope thir pointing spires, and rowld

Titanian, or Earth-born, that warrd on Jove,

And feweld entrals thence conceiving Fire,

Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den

Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night

Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes:

九九藏书网Created hugest that swim th Ocean stream:

Torn from Pelorus, or the shatterd side

With solid, as the Lake with liquid fire;

Heap on himself damnation, while he sought [ 215 ]

Infinite goodness, grace and mercy shewn

So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay

Aloft, in九_九_藏_书_网cumbent on the dusky Air

Forthwith upright he rears from off the Pool

Sublimd with Mineral fury, aid the Winds, [ 235 ]

And high permission of all-ruling Heaven

How all his malice servd but to bring forth

His mighty Stature; on each hand the flames

Him haply slumbring on th

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He lights, if it were Land that ever burnd

Then with expanded wings he stears his flight [ 225 ]

Left him at large to his own dark designs,

Had risn or heavd his head, but that the will

Evil to others, and enragd might see

That with reiterated crimes he might

By ancient http://www.99lib.netTarsus held, or that Sea-beast [ 200 ]

That felt unusual weight, till on dry Land

Of thundring Ætna, whose combustible

Leviathan, which God of all his works

On Man by him seduct, but on himself

The Pilot of some small night-founderd Skiff,

Treble confusion, wrath and vengeance pourd. [ 220 ]