WILLIAM BLAKE: 'The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of

Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowin it'.
PE!"# B#$$%E $%ELLE#: 'Milton's Devil as a &oral 'ein is far superior to his (od'.
PA!ADI$E L)$*
Is this the Region, this the oil, the !li"e,
aid then the lost Ar+h Anel, this the seat
That we "ust change for Heav'n, this "ournful gloo"
#or that celestial light$ %e it so, since hee
&ho now is ovran can dis'ose and bid
&hat shall be right( fardest fro" hi" is best
&ho" reason hath e)uald, force hath "ade su'rea"
Above his e)uals. ,arewel happy ,ields
Where -oy for ever dwells: %ail horrours. hail
Infernal world. and thou profoundest %ell
!e+eive thy new Possessor: )ne who 'rins
A &ind not to 'e +han'd 'y Pla+e or *i&e/
*he &ind is its own pla+e. and in it self
"an &ake a %eav'n of %ell. a %ell of %eav'n/
What &atter where. if I 'e still the sa&e.
And what I should be, all but less then hee
&ho" Thunder hath "ade greater$ %ere at least
We shall 'e free* th' Al"ighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence(
Here we "ay reign secure, and in "y choyce
*o rein is worth a&'ition thouh in %ell:
Better to rein in %ell. then serve in %eav'n/
%ut wherefore let we then our faithful friends,
Th' associates and co'artners of our loss
+ye thus astonisht on th' oblivious ,ool,
And call the" not to share with us their 'art
In this unha''y Mansion, or once "ore
&ith rallied Ar"s to try what "ay be yet
Regaind in Heav'n, or what "ore lost in Hell$
-&hat hath night to do with slee'$.
-Awa/e, arise or be for ever fall0n..
-All is not lost, the uncon)uerable will, and study of revenge, i""ortal hate, and the courage never to sub"it or yield..
-1ever can true reconcile"ent grow where wounds of deadly hate have 'ierced so dee'....
-I sung of !haos and 2ternal 1ight,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dar/ descent, and u' to reascend....
-Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw 3irtue in her sha'e how lovely( and 'ined his loss.
-Me "iserable4 &hich way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite des'air$
Whi+h way I fly is hell0 &yself a& hell0
And in the lowest dee' a lower dee',
till threat'ning to devour "e, o'ens wide,
To which the hell I suffer see"s a heaven..
-Into this wild Abyss5 The wo"b of 1ature, and 'erha's her grave665 7f neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,5 %ut all
these in their 'regnant causes "i8ed5 !onfusedly, and which thus "ust ever fight,5 9nless the Al"ighty Ma/er the"
ordain5 %is dark &aterials to create "ore worlds,665 Into this wild Abyss the wary #iend5 tood on the brin/ of Hell and
loo/ed a while,5 ,ondering his voyage* for no narrow frith5 He had to cross. .
-This horror will grow "ild, this dar/ness light..
-7 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy bea"s
That bring to "y re"e"brance fro" what state I fell, how glorious once above thy s'here..
-#reely they stood who stood, and fell who fell..
-#or so I created the" free and free they "ust re"ain..
-hould God create another 2ve, and I
Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee
&ould never fro" "y heart* no no, I feel
The +in/ of 1ature draw "e( #lesh of #lesh,
%one of "y %one thou art, and fro" thy tate
Mine never shall be 'arted, bliss or woe..
-7ur state cannot be severed, we are one,
7ne flesh* to lose thee were to lose "yself..
-#ro" his li's51ot words alone 'leased her..
-&ho overco"es
%y force, hath overco"e but half his foe..
-They, loo/ing bac/, all the eastern side beheld
7f ,aradise, so late their ha''y seat,
&aved over by that fla"ing brand, the gate
&ith dreadful faces thronged and fiery ar"s(
o"e natural tears they dro''ed, but wi'ed the" soon*
*he world was all 'efore the&, where to choose
Their 'lace of rest, and ,rovidence their guide*
They, hand in hand, with wandering ste's and slow,
Through 2den too/ their solitary way..
-&hat is dar/ within "e, illu"ine..
-%e strong, live ha''y and love, but first of all
%i& who& to love is to o'ey, and /ee'
His great co""and4.
-Knowlede for'idden1
$uspi+ious. reasonless/ Why should their Lord
Envy the& that1 "an it 'e a sin to know1
"an it 'e death1.
-7ur cure, to be no "ore* sad cure4.
-And that "ust end us, that "ust be our cure(
To be no "ore. ad cure4 #or who would lose,
Though full of 'ain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To 'erish, rather, swallowed u' and lost
In the wide wo"b of uncreated night
Devoid of sense and "otion$.
-7f "an's first disobedience, and the fruit57f that forbidden tree, whose "ortal taste5%rought death into the world, and all
our woe,5&ith loss of 2den, till one greater Man5Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,5ing heavenly "use.
-Ah, why should all &ankind
,or one &an's fault. 'e +onde&ned.
If uiltless$.