THE WARS OF JEHOVAH,

ALEXANDER MACINTOSH,
PRINTER,

GREAT NEW-STREET, LONDON,

THE

WARS OF JEHOVAH,
HEAVEN, EARTH, AND HELL
IN NINE BOOKS.

THOMAS HAWKINS,

ESQ.

WITH ELEVEN HIGHLY FINISHED ENGRAVINGS,

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FRANCIS BAISLER, 124, OXFORD STREET.
1844.

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TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY,

VICTORIA,
by the grace of god queen of great britain and ireland,

defender of the faith,

May

it

please

Your Majesty,

Work

In adventuring the

Your Majesty's

etc., etc., etc.

feet

herein most

humbly

laid at

we were much encouraged by Your

Majesty's most gracious acceptation of a former volume, and

hope that

inspired with the

mark

for

Your

present might serve as a

Your

Majesty's reign unto the latest posterity.

Majesty's predecessor

we amongst

this

those

had Spencer and Shakespear, nor are

who

imagining

the time for celebrations

of Princes past, waste their talents over a novel or romaunt in

Hercules' manner

when he

some

better-gifted bard
all

Amphion

reach had deterred our loyal

we hope
to his

that this

example

spin:

sate to

if

striking

but for

all

that

we most

presumptuous strain; and

recalling

some such noble genius

for all the arts

Muse sounded

to the

Your

Majesty's

heartily fain.

Long may Your Majesty

renowned

some

numbers beyond

proper vocation, he shall better assure to

memory

this

rule over a loving people

not less

and blessings of peace, than

conquest of the world.

if

the

ADVERTISEMENT.
The
Time

Wars

Courteous Reader
is

as

is

desired to take notice,

treated of throughout the whole

Holy Scripture declareth

it

first,

that

History of These

to exist in the

apprehension

of Jehovah, viz., a thousand of our years to the day.

This

estimate of time elevates the Action and the actors far above

the most exalted standard extant, brings

all

the most astonishing-

events of the Universe within the reach of man, and raises

or reduces

him

to

proper scale in the presence of The

his

Eternal God.

Second, that the word Earth hath no relation whatever to

the globe upon which

we

matter of our Solar system

live,

but goeth for the aggregated

when

in a state of utmost expansion

and occupying more space than

We

all

the suns

upon

that

tells.

need not enter into an analysis of the word, which more

properly expresseth a something that

is

Astronomy

this

something

we have been

18, 1844.

not

heaven, and

it

which no other name can be given,

obliged to

Jehovah in Earth.

London, June

for

is

call

the Second, the

War

of

Mr. Martin has been unable

to

furnish the twelfth

illustrative

Plate which the Publisher promised in the earlier advertisements

of

this

Work.

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BOOK

I.

THE ARGUMENT.
The Author
soul,

recalls the circumstances

and addresses Memory

attending the creation of his

he next invokes the

spirits of

the earth,

then calling upon adorable Jehovah commenceth the history of the wars.

The poem then

describes the assembling of the universe and outlawry of

the Arch-gerent Lucifer.

The generation
angels.

of

He

rises

Chaos and Night.

Lucifer holds a council

and seduces a third of the angels.

The meeting

of the seven arch-

what Apollyon and others said

The

they are in debate a terrible accident overtakes them.

of Chaos, with

panic-struck

whom

flies,

and

the revolters invade the inner heaven.

in his flight destroying Lucifer's

with the ruins o^er the Battlements of Heaven.

gerent and Chaos in space.

This Book opens with the morning in heaven.

The

whilst

description

Chaos

Realm dashes

fight of the

Arch-

BOOK

The solemn song begin

Of woful wars which

to

I.

boding sonnd

yet no bard divine

Attempting sacred Muse

do thou attune,

Before the Trinal Throne accepted found

And O

Who

inspired

by Almighty God

thund'ring shook the universe ere the earth

Swung pendant

When

round, or hell existence had.

the proud prince of the archangels rose

Crown

Ambitious of

th' eternal

With myriad

angels terrorless as himself

of Heaven,

10

Arming with deadly arms, nor impotent

Their threat as then appear'd so long great
Delay'd them to exterminate, or drive
Blast-stricken from his immeasurable realm
b 2

God

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Where now
Be

they

Smother'd in thy strains

suffer.

the deep sughs that from the Stygian gulf

Perpetual come, like the resurging waves

Which some

lone shipwreck'd mariner on his rock

Lists with erected hair.

But

Of

first

20

the blank

void recall, in which awaken'd up

Quick

life

with effervescence indescript,

Cours'd through

my

Unto the

spaces

listless

frame, th' ideal arms outstretched

its

A moment deem'd and th'

Wild ignorant
Such was thy

Thou

soul

parts

unfathomable,

thine own.

Immortal

mystery of change

intensely tidal from the sea

Of nothingness
Omnipotence

and with no wizard wand

Grown on Norwegian nor Laplandish

slim

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dispos'd instant to act

resume thy wonted power,

past evoke

Nor from

soil,

Greek from a Necropolis

But with Mnemosyne

Attending,) thine

stolen,

(my midnight lamp

Titan

thy tablets from

Oblivion sav'd produce with figures traced

Such

sprite

constitutional such time

rised'st to the

Keen and

The

own

as the antiquary in old

tombs

Pelasgic finds, or in thick jungle wastes

IN

HEAVEN.

Hindostan sculptur'd on great temple

Thou

too star-crown'd Urania

40

stones.

but for thee

These records in the tongue divine vainly

Are ponder'd
Alas

many

known but

is

a latter page too well

chronicled in this

Historical are deeds as half-effaced

By

the officious ages

Rings in the ear

my

iEgeria to

But

oft

time

their

when

fame

lapp'd in sleep

mental sight reveals

what tongue

Intelligibly

still

his earliest thought

may

tell

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the Creator there

my

Sole witness of

passionate eddying

'Midst the transcendant powers

Such task alone canst worthily

fulfil

up

Mysterious

thou

In whisper tingling through the dreamer's brain

So low as

Of

all

if

thou feared' st the

Larves

the charnels for thy person watched.

Great Empress

Of Wars
Of

evil

shall

whom these blazon'd Books

come if my advent'rous flight

unto

retrospection to Elysian climes

Our

birth-place prosper,

Thence

back

to earth anon,

to demolish'd hell in course compelled,

Thus Diva

learn of

my

once vap'rous state

Shap'd in-consistenc'd, and like rudest harp

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iEolian, subject to the sweep of Fate

Profoundly awed the symphonies attend.

Dear Earth,

my

mother

and thy ministers

Joyous, in air spirits of the blue fields

Ethereal,

happy dwellers of her green

Rejoicing vales, the mountains, and the waves,

In company come

Nereids attest

by the ocean shore

The

jealous

oft

Moon

Embue me with
Of morn,

And

My

no stranger

sweet kisses every

was paid

whom

nymph

in turn

my

court

some lorn cast-away

Thou within

dwelling place

Eternity I

call,

O God

Who lost

the heavens enthroned

I thee invoke,

whilst Nemesis

Measure the while of those

of Dis, Ore,

Battalious discours'd.

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fierce militants

their seats angelical

The shades

we

chaunt,

Ades numberless

Sweep, sweep the

Across the azure firmament there

The

70

a narrow plank at sea adrift,

Drives on, but

Thy

fair

long leave I take,

shiv'ring soul, like

Upon

your

our vows of love surprised

noon, eve, to

piety

calls,

sacred summonses

fly

from shrines of

Azrael passes on his face concern

strings

fire

IN HEAVEN.
Delineate

great expectation then

Seiz'd all the heavens

Than was
Unto

he

with a voice more dread

Achilles' with Minerva's swelled

90

far distant Troy, the citizens

Evokes

unto the battlements they heard

That brazen tongue and with consenting wingFlee round him sore amaz'd, for never since

Their blest creation that innum'rous train

Such notice spurr'd

Would them

unlike the call which oft

Observant of particular

Than

Mount

assemble to the

ordinary

when

rites

God

more marked

the ravish'd choirs

Their glorious Maker celebrate with

New made

of

by some seraphic

hymn

100

minstrel, or

Listen his favour'd voice in rapture soar.

Above, reserv'd in wait the herald shone

Solemnar

so the Lyrist of Israel

Some time

in quire

would look

at vision'd scenes

Prophetical of Salem gone distract

Intestine,

and beleagued

as well

by some

Proud Gentile prince raging against the Lord

And

his anointed

With

thus Azrael stood

grave aspect, his lab 'ring thought

Too big

for utterance

Heart-fetch'd,

at last

it

seemed

with sigh

and angry look thus he began.

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"

cherubim,

seraphim,

Dominions, principalities, and

Ye

anxious angels

On

awful errand

wo, wo,

The

wo

subject, the Arch-gerent,

foe of

powers,

all

shuddering I come

Self-spirited is verily

The

him

to

who with

lust

become

God Almighty

This I say

Commission'd where the seven archangels

Even now

Him

in council

traitor

Affecting

'

go,' said

they

reasoning his reason

Godhead

'

sit

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pronounce

lost,

fram'd anew in

all

His thoughts, condemning and defying God

Thou him

to all the angels thus proclaim

False, infamous, outlaw'd.'

Trembling he ceased

The

hearers hanging on his reluctant words

Long time

incredulous, for this concerned

Each one immediate

That God should

in his tenderest point

find ingratitude

his rule

Paternal was the most delightful theme

Of

all

the sanctities of heaven, this one

Proclaimed in time past with flaming zeal

Foremost with eulogy.

From

the expanse

With

fire

which

Thus wondering,

his diadem insphered

like ten

comets glar'd afar

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IN HEAVEN.

Over the

crystal hyaline

dismay

Engendering, that prodigy arose

In such consummate majesty and

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state

Imperial clothed the hierarchies seemed

Scarce worthy to attend him,

Of heaven

his servitors

so the

the flower

all

Mogul

In Agra, or Delhi with ornament

Beyond the Persian the

sirdars

bemeaned

Spreading his hands unto the vaulted stars

Paling before the Morn, (the uplands grey
Rising to sight like Hsemus crown'd with

Or

like

Madeira from the misty

Orange and

He

trees,

sea,

citron crown'd,) constellars vast

150

swept word-like together in huge forms

Incomprehensible to

Read.

As

fire

man

upon the

Seizing in secret smoulders

Suddenly out when

Ready

And

the gods
chiefest
'till it

beam

breaks

the lesser joists

all

infection take, so these

they read

presently believing, down

their harps

Scornful were dashed, like a populace

From government

revolting the

first

man

Hail'd as a king, with universal voice

Impassion'd " Lucifer

Dreadful

it

"

hailed as God.

was and perilous the

spirits

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10

Thus metamorphos'd intermixing

Antagonistic

The

To

flank of

from

so a torrent

Andes through Copiabo swept

the Pacific

The

fierce

many

a league sublimes

passive waters o'er the river bar

Above the

This as soon

sea confounding.

The

alienated Gerent

The

scene beneath to agitation boiled,

saw whilst yet

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Slowly descending he in whirlpool rapt

Ten thousands round who with

Together knitted

their

arms and wings

him on high

lifted

Their cherubim with a tremendous roar

Proclaiming " Lucifer

"

unto the twelve

Great cardinals of the distracted heavens.

"

Gods

'Tis

!"

shouted he, "

by assumption

all

if

the rest impaired

In their unquestionable right

Shall

And

me
the

what we lack One hath

no law

enchain; I spurn pretence of sway

unknown promulgator,

These ages

apart

sitting lone haughtily veiled.

Oft by his mandate, at his sole caprice

The heavens have been suspended,

The

seasons at his pleasure

For some flaunt

festival

in their

when he

always

to

chose

him

Express, the flowering roses, bursting buds

round

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IN HEAVEN.

Of summer

And mimosas
Were

keep back

to

shut up as

11

the balsams, musks,

if

our hands

and the whole in ban

sacrilegious,

190

Until the sandals, and the viriate shrubs

Of

incense offer'd to his majesty,

Then

his collecting vassals choice

The

choicest

The

jasmine, the magnolias,

Were

And

then the daffodils were white,

all

the balms

balmy, the amaris' excellent,

all

More

might have

the placid pools whereby they grew

clearly crystalhne

Seem'd hush'd

Wreaths

to

even the

airs

beauty as the bondslave plucked

for

God's special honor.

Tributars

200

Unthinking, thus through epochs which transcend

The memory we have been

Unto the thread

are worn,

Of boundless heaven
Unto our

feet.

equal gods

insolence

all

the heights

too long

to our cost,

Thus One perpetuates

A shameful difference,
Who

and

(save that,) familiar

Enjoy 'd and arrogated

Ye

behold our harps

beneath him

all

never yet had right to be above

Th' offence

we now

resent with rising blood

Vindictive from wrong, a rankling

Unbearable discover'd in the heart

wound

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12

That

Our

e'er

such yoke was born

acknowledged

ignorance, credulity the while.

Obedience

To

'

is

disgrace

bow,

to

praise in ceremonious sort,

To an usurper swaying
Prerogative as

God

Can be imagin'd \

Upon

Now

his

to cringe,

and pray

secretly

the First

what worse

Thus hath he imposed

comrades and the tyrant played.

220

strike for freedom, seraphim, all ye

Beautiful cherubim, spirits of light

We will,

we

will

be

free."

Thus raged he on

With
The

shouting interrupted and acclaim,

revolution spreading like scatter'd fire

Under the Line

For

Of

o'er

some parch'd pampas waste

evil is contagious
fire

more than plague

and more devouring, that dread Arch

So propagating as wind intent

Conflagrant Capitals.

He won

Who

to feed

Dividing

all

with clashing clang from those their peers

kept their good

estate, (stern

questioning

This wild procedure as they question crime

In innocent hearts,) the opposites contrast

Their margin'd millions: terrible they looked

From

their indignant eyes

them

to

compare

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IN HEAVEN.

With

earthly such as Caesar's soldiers looked

When

at Philippi the triumvir crossed

Cassius and Brutus

And

13

or the Gallic host

240

Britons on the plain of Waterloo.

Then from

One

the rank two seraphim stepp'd forth

a revolted but the other one

Who

yet sustained his faith

upon the Lord

Jehovah, and midway together met

These twain

as Pylades

Exact alike

Narcissus

and Orestes were

when he saw

His image in the lake no better saw

Than

these each in the other

Even

as the sons of Saul

Thus there they

With

and they loved

and Jesse loved.

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strove as once the patriarch strove

his strong angel

but in vain therefore

This as they found with undisguis'd distaste

And

pity one

And

as the last rejoin'd his feet

withdrew the other hate,

he stamped

His harp upon and the expression caught

Promiscuously they imitate from wrath
Scarcely refraining, but the rallying cry

Of

Lucifer the rising rage coerced

So his compatriots the Norseman

On

Caracalla's

With

prompt

voice of thunder

tells,

to rush awhile

Thor himself

restrained

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Or

as a

sudden hurricane the surge

Of Ocean

anon the wild

flees o'erblown,

Subduing deep swells dreadful in excess

Of

conscious might, until the Storm allied

Thron'd on their curling

Which way he

And

crests the billows drives

will precipitating on,

the revolters

for a

moment

curbed,

Reiterating he in forked spires

Swept northward

Msroch

(Worshipp'd in time long

And

breadth of

Whose
His

all

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join'd a potent prince

through the length

after

the land Sennach'rib ruled

sons within his temple smote

principalities,

him dead ;)

with Haraphon

Co-ruling thousand millions disarrayed

Intemperate in formidable waves

Rolling away

Through

Of

impetuous Moloch

all Philistia

infants

served

with the tender flesh

Ekriel, Apollyon

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With cherubim innumerable came

In hurried haste, rank upon raging rank
Close crowding

On

asp'd

Adramelec

earth, a thousand times in

Than

renowned

number

greater

the inhabitants, his threatful thrones

Adding urg'd past tumultuous

Of whom

secret seats

old annals

show the

Togarm

IN HEAVEN.

The

15

Gentiles gave him, the Assyrian groves,

The powers commanding

Drnidical,

With

who

or

had holocansts

human

heart and quiv'ring fed

His vermil'd mouth wide open

By Nebuchadnezzar,
all

Baal

worshipp'd eke

follow'd forth

the daz'd dominions in swarms

More than

From

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filled

where in Cnsco the high-priest

Tore out the

With

the god

Baal

long his baskets

prisoners of war,

Offer'd

mix'cl

the Northern Hive o'erpopulate boasts

the beginning

Zabrash

last,

not

least,

Clouds of six-winged seraphim the rear

Clos'd

up nigh numberless

memorials theirs

300

In Asia where the Parthian kings adored.

Thus

And

off

they

fleet across

fil'd

irregularly fast

the heavens

the spirits which

As handmaids ministered unto them,

As Rubens

paints nor

Mahomet

(not

describes

Gross, but the blanchest blossoms of the spirits,

Fair as Thaumantius in her crystal gown,)

Dropp'd their opalline cups with hydromel

Brimming, their

tabors, dulcimers, or wreaths

Of budding, blowing
White arms and

flowers, uplift their snow-

disappear'd

the silver-winged

Songsters like those from far Oroo, or from

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16

New Guinea, or
On every bough

made

Tidore, a plainting

which trembling turned

Each ever-verdant

as well

sombre bronze,

leaf to

Like the palmetts which anciently adorned

Adrian's Mole

Each myrtle

all

each laurel shrivell'd up,

the almond vales from pink

brown,

Celestial turn'd to

fairer erst

Than

the Parrhasian where Calysto joyed

With

the

musk

roses

all

the

Shedding their pearled manna

As

dittany,

drooped

lilies
;

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sacred blooms

and spangled poppies, and

Acanthian shrubs of odour, nowrets of

Moss'd azure, budding lazulites such as

The heavenly

seat of

Vaicontha ne'er

Own'd, nor Albericus in vision saw

In his more heavenly meads, those

starry, those

More blossomy and golden growing

And

cups,

vegetable vases intermix'd

With thyme and

330

primroses on sapphire or

Em'rald or amethystine stalks and stems,

Ceas'd blooming, as a cloud spread greyly o'er

The changed

scene

and

all

the crystal streams

More yellow than

the Chilian, more enriched

Than amber'd Po,

like

Impurely yellow;

Amanane

these

all

ran

wither'd black

IN HEAVEN.

The ground turned

17

So across the Doab

arid.

Over the Jumna into Gwalior,

A flight
Behind.

Then

Reigning

o'er

Soon

The

340

of locusts leaves a blasted belt

silence

Babylonia

such the traveller finds

when

as his orient car the

morn

Sun wheels round,

and dragonets

satyrs, owls,

As vengeance

in

retire.

follows crime a Darkness

grew

In place of glory, blotting out those orbs

Constellar, in apparital of

A dark damnific phantom

form
;

unto her

Another of tremendous gloom made

And

haste,

both embracing to the rebels stretched

350

Beckoning hands.

The seven archangels

then,

Scarce less than Lucifer, in stature gods

Excelling, through the firmamental sped,

Michael the foremost plum'd with gilded wings

Wide

spreading, dyed in purple where they joined

His ivory shoulders, thence ensanguined

From

deepest crimson to the palest tint

Topward

these fragrance shed that fuTd the whole

Circuit his heavenly eyes far-seeing took,

Warming
White

all

the ccerulean into gold

lightning

bound

his tresses in a zone

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18

Tiaral high, with seven refulgent horns

More

regal than the planet-crested Moon's

By Cupid
She

rides

Such

watch'd
;

in his right

when

as Apollo

Darts

With

when through

the starless blue

hand a spear he grasped,

the evening clouds

mount where Azrael

to the distant

stood,

shining sandall'd feet that strongest winds

Panting outstripp'd they come

Thronging the flowery base.

Dazzling

all

the glittering bands 370

Gloriel

eyes as in advance he

first,

came

Peerless of form, thus seriously bespoke.

"

brethren

tried in heart

and well-approved,

Unto our Living Strength and Sovereign Lord

Who reigneth

o'er us evermore,

Accepted angels
This tolerates

Thus much

The more

if

Almighty God

we have

it

in

to say that for

to prove

amen

command

your sake

'tis

borne

your constancy secured

In meritorious love by

this reserve

Also the lapsing witness'd, to explain

now the time

Its secret origin that

Of

trial's past,

Of

grateful

your faith

may have

knowledge and the way divine

Justification in the sight of

Our God

is

its fruit

God

all.

dwelling as

God

alone,

380

IN

Ruling the vergeless

Are

HEAVEN.

infinite his

laws

necessarily consequences

Inevitable

Than

390

these I lov'd none less

the Arch-gerent aspirant to con

Devout nor was forbidden

In fellowship we search'd

we

Free-will

Reaction of

first

That God

trackless space

fatiguing sore

discovered

then the sure

things if any dared

all

A rash displacement.
To

19

Fascinating thought

so far his sovereignty postponed

dignify his creatures with a choice

This mightily affected both myself

And my
To

superior

who brought
:

acknowledgment was made

not that any then

these compeers

To God
The

in council

the news

400

privilege priz'd, but yet a privilege 'twas

Abstractly valuable grateful thanks

Demanding

if

Rul'd arbitrary

the

Monarch

since

This had not been,

all

of the heavens

by him we

are,

were compell'd, coerced,

Oblig'd and fated ; but the scales are held

Pois'd with to us the right to stand or

From
The

our allegiance.

Thence onward we coursed

speculative cycles, darkness

As ye have

fall

seen, prefig'ring

c 2

such

shadowy things

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20

damned

Jarring by nature, self-abhorring,

All these I saw but fear'd not,

That reprobated chiefdom

Experiment

One

As

":

till

'

now make

capable of such a desperate thought

this implied,

Him

cried,

then I had not dreamed

!
'

when one time

and striving

first to

back whilst yet was time,

Turned

not he

to other fields

vacating thence his throne,

In the unsearchable himself he

Delib'rate

draw

420

lost

your salvation yours, attend

He ended, passing promise at the end,

When Sacrael breathing eloquence, sage

speech

Continued thus.
"

angels

deem not

thirst

Of knowledge

criminal since one thereby

Alas

the All-creator none

is lost

Denying that he slake where'er he

will

Of

the innumerable springs, Gloriel

As

well as the Arch-gerent, hath his faith

Thereby enhanc'd.
I too have soar'd,

Sounded

Beyond yon arch'd concave

and depths

abstruse, disputing

as they are

'till

In dizzy sort returning back to

For

my

430

I failed,

God

refreshment, upon bended knee

Asking the rule which never was

refused.

high

:!

IN HEAVEN.

But

this observe

knowledge the law of

Serves not, and for

Is worthless

the

own

its

21
life

particular sake

problem in the school

first

440

Is like the last mechanically solved

Practis'd the whole to the original

We

are returned, otherwise the

To him

the consequence.

Arch

Ye cherubim

Contented with the alphabet, as blest

Are ye

Of

as the archangels studious

mightiest magnitudes, unto his cost

A greater,

and with no advantage we."

Solemn he look'd glowing with holy

As doth

when some

the patriot

Threatens his country

Charming

prince forsworn

Happy unto

Hadriel then said

progeny of light

this time in all

your thoughts,

concern'd for these our former friends

Unworthy

as they are

master was each

Of

his

Of

the original; misapprehend

own

actions

notice he received

Could none his circumstance between his

And

450

to hear.

"

Be not

ire,

faith

duty on one hand, sin on the other

Affecting

God

to

judge they judge themselves

Guilty, and if not yet well overta'en

460

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22

With

the sad following

Their path, hehold

A flower

it

lags not long

once where an angel trod

sprung instantly

heaven no more

'till

Could hold, now desolate they make, but heaven

Have

restoration."

With
Ambrosia from

And

all

that

word he shook

wings beyond

his

afar,

the azure smiling donn'd afresh

Uncounted

iris's

470

Copse and Thisb,

Onchestus, Nisa that the poet

calls

Divine, nor Taphne's myrtled sylvan seat

E'er look'd the like

when

And

so

all

the rivers

all

when

the dews were shed,

forth the sun

Breaks over Scandinavia by the

Of winter
Mankind
Nor few

Good

bitten, pinks

frosts

and pansies blown

rejoice as did the angels then,

refraining hastily sped forth

distance glad yet surer these to see

But soon returned, Michael

like a king

Elected for his form and count'nance rose,

The ranks

He

of splendour bending rev'rend whilst

paus'd that

moment

hear his loyal words.

" Regals, exalted to the high estate

Whereto

it

pleased the

Most graciously

Supreme above

to raise us

he

whose name

480

IN HEAVEN.

23

Eternal silence keep lawful no more,

Eschewing honour,
Aside

is

gone

loosen'd like the wint'ring suns

Swept from

Of

faith, prescription,

The

their primal sign.

490

retrospect

the infinity and whole perspect

Future pertains to One, to One unmoved

By hope

or fear, but

work and good

Its

Of what

is

now

patience have

let

solution ye shall see

happen'd

this

we

well descry

Th' apostate punish'd, the impostor bared

spectacle to those

The

who

stand as sure

execration of the faithless fallen

Their price of him shall be demanded,

Requiring the

What
Or

decimal

an impossible sum

shall

Who

last

God

500

what,

shall

God

forget

he circumvent Th' Ineffable 1

hath no second

thought remediless,

Follow'd by deed that ne'er can be undone

The sequent hour

shall see,

and now one

Of His hot breath should overwhelm

blast

the whole

Those banded princedoms in retributive doom

But

so

it is

not written

The

AM

Designs us for his champions that these

Abandon'd

The

once co-equal with

us, learn

excellence of virtue and the might

510

when

the divine

This shall they

to the trial

brought

know companionship with hope

Dissolv'd, the depths of ages for their

Too

shame

shallow, the eternity too short

For the repentance of

E'en

now

to force

Of custom

ravish'd,

Re-occupy

my

Us much

this day's

dark work.

they think with ceremonial form

Themselves

upon

us, this

our place

and the heaven of heaven

brethren

to demonstrate

Unto Jehovah, though

No

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

24

Of

it

520

concerns

our fealty due

his empire

need

propping."

So spake he a martial smile

Lighting his noble face, his gorgeous plumes
Rustling with strong emotion

At

signal

presently

he unfurls, his glorious peers

Risen same time

aloft,

through the throng'd skies

Heading the ready retinue

Around the

to that Seat

palaces and towers emblazed

In heighten'd hues with the imperial arms

And

sovereign ensigns of Almighty

These whilst

afar they

gleam

God

in crescent form

The

angels halt at that transcendent sight,

And

thought of the Inhabitant enshrined

In such magnificence

no temple famed,

530

25

IN HEAVEN.

Whether

To Bel

that

first

and

loftiest

dedicate

nor that in Thebais where the

rites

Of Cneph had precedence and Pharoa bowed

Nor Dorian
The kings

Nor

Jupiter's

Diana's which

of earth in emulation reared

the Palmyran where Longinus knelt

Beside Zenobia, quote

Of

540

lo

pile

on

pile

vaulted domes immeasurable of cope,

Uncounted

pillars,

huge elaborate gates

Flung fulgent back,

friezes of solid fire

Graven with sculptures which beside that one

By Rhodian
Or

the

Glares set astride the sea,

Memnonian and

Colossi round,

had

those strown this day

infinite

reduced

Thence through the wide receding

On

550

circles

winged

the marmoreal terraces arrived,

Those

faithful lieges mystic offering

Meanwhile the legions in

revolt

made.

by such

Defiles they thought the surer (for distrust

Was

theirs

that quick

In commonalty

all

intuitive gift

the angels

which once

had

Obscur'd exaggerating,) regions sped

Unto a Court than old Tyrinthe

raised

By

giants, or Elora, or that

By

Pallas so design'd and built in vain

one

560

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

26

Momus
More

objected, e'en than that one far

and

stately rear'd,

Than Eleutherian

Jove's

far

more beauteous limned

renowned fane

Painted by Euphranos with magic art

So, fashion-tower'd, the hundred-gated

Of

mosque

the false Prophet, out as well within

Gilded magnificent, in Hedjas shines

Dome-crown'd

With show
But void of

collecting in the hall

outspread

serene on loftiest shafts of

light,

570

fire

which from suspended globes

Profusely studded flung, a wondrous throne

Central distinguished, tier on crowding tier

Of

and topaz chairs

beryl, chrysolite,

there re-assembled

they,

those the mightiest of especial

name

Engirt around,

And

Little reflecting

on the present speech,

Together to their seats distinguish'd strode

This was a motion for the jostling

Themselves

to rest,

mob

and each with haughty

580
gait

Choosing a place attentively disposed.

Thou Holy
Of

whilst this great conclave

traitor-subjects I record, attend

Nor

at this first assize alone, retrace

Full often

Of

Spirit

lo

I shudder

on the brink

doctrines ign'rant of their awful base

IN HEAVEN.

So deep they

dive,

Imploring

Thy

Trembling

my

and

start

27

abhorrent back

hand

assistance whilst with

destin'd

pen in

590

gall is dipped.

First the Arch-agnate dark'ning, in his pride

Deliberate indescribable sate

Like god

The

God

for

design'd

Held

all

loud they start

" Csesars

and kings

majesties

With

moment he

expectant and the silence broke

last so

Ye

thus Saul above

shoulders higher than any of Heber's sons

Thus the Olympian look'd

At

afflict

in ear.

!" cried he,

unto your council come

firm accord together

His speedy downfall

Joyful regain'd.

effect

our nobility

What

nobler deed than this

A tasking tyrant to put down

Discuss within our halls
:

600

so debate

Against the regnant Jah as shall

Fill'd fitting

" ethereal powers

how 1 how 1

now

the

!"

he

counsel gods

first

said,

time
a sound

Like earthquake underneath hon'ring his speech.

Apollyon then follow'd

Had come

painful change

across his features once so fair

In heaven as Atys' was on earth; his wings

Were

also ruffled,

and the crown of

stars

610

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

28

He

wore or negligently on his head

Placed or

fall'n

awry.

"Chief! Emperor!"

Thns he commenc'd,

" against the course of

We turn resolved on freedom

Remains

to

do

gods

his wrongful throne

Fixing a seal upon him

confidence

immunity

therefore ours,

is

all

No

are since with impunity like this

'

Omnipotent

is

'

tried

when my

Th' event shall prove

Strewn with his

kill those

it,

tradition lies

who

witness his but those

Bond- slaves

To

consequence

Thus undeceived

Disdain'd their chains they rent.

Th'

620

ours

Though some misdoubted when

We

more

the initiate act

Shook the Usurper on

Be

little

doom

yet remain

assertion issue

have

our triumphant path

millions.

craven clients

Let us laws invent

;

few should boast

Their criminal constancy disturbances

630

To breed

hereafter, for howe'er repulsed

Beaten, I

much

distrust those

who

Stand unconvinc'd by argument,

Like thine

What means

what
it 1

to

for

God

Prince

be free they fear and shrink,

cowardice alone dare not

IN HEAVEN.

Calmly make choice like

that, faith,

Thence

so to us

'tis

Dang'rous

they

err,

why

and

29

custom prompt,

remain

even our least thoughts would clash

Where'er they met

far other

sounds than those

Of zephyrs whisp'ring through the arched boughs

640

spirit-tongued in turn
or the fountains smooth
Silvery answering

To

the cygneans

Happy were any who

Fallen, harsh heard.

By one back-blow

against their Principal

Well-aim'd an end to opposition put."

Th' audacious

So Cataline proposed

ceas'd.

Against his country; Sejanus against

His emperor and

He
For

Then Msroch

friend.

look'd like one

when he

rose

prepares a knife

650

his detested foe.

"'Tis well!" cried he,

" Apollyon for myself hast thou at last

Express'd

That

though hard the

his vast galleries

AboHshing

as

we win

Let us adventure

They be

let

Shall find

and chambers

guard

nil,

the covert heights,

starr'd,

us adventure

whereon

feat to force the

aurine although

pavement we

to stand, or if in cloud

Involv'd Jehovah hide, before us cloud

Shall roll from his mysterious throne

away

660

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;

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

30

and hurl him down

There seek, there

find,

Nor

escape

let his slaves

Inexorably sustain

As hath

the olden

or

it

I swear

the empire ours

drops

it

freely use the

sword

Punish with death or in some distant age

They

rise

they are too numerous

Their despicable

spirit

them

whate'er

to leave

Alive as despicable were to risk

All

what was custom,

Lighter than

air,

faith,

we

impalpable as light,

Neither confine the angels or so

A wish the binding burst

And

670

ill

other than these

coward chords than adamant more strong

Decide the part they take

Which

Mantling

affection

fear nor flattery fee

Thrice over

's

theirs

them decimate,

the remainers bowls of wine

shall serve, our needful nectar

Our honey
Our

know,

also

drawn,

gather'd from the opening flowers,

candies

by these

servitors instead

Voluptuous Wishes that no more attend

680

Libations they from goblets brimm'd shall pour

To

thee,

Lucifer

With bloomy
The dew

is

and load thy shrine

pinks and peach and others whilst

on them."
"

Well

!"

said Baal the while

IN HEAVEN.

The

To

veins that cours'd his temples ready seemed

burst, " but yet too confident

deities

God

invisible

dwells

Although the courts extern our

And

31

be not

license

know,
690

the great hierarchies in advance

Of the promiscuous

angels pierc'd beyond

Their halls and chambers, yet the inmost parts

Impenetrable stood

For danger may

Were

prudent

phalanx'd prepare

exist

'till

and some

distrust

the scope for action squared

Maturely, and the means provided

Expel him by assault of open

Or unaware

Then

force,

surprising end his reign."

join'd

His hands

Togarmah

as a

murderer joins

as red with gore as are the others'

Blasphemous words are

Slaughter outright
to excite it

700

his.

"

They

we

The

laics left

not for revenge too low

but to glut God's place,

So shut him in unto his meanest-made

Amerc'd

To come

there let
as

it

him

Incompetent he was
pierc'd

he dread

would seem, or why not take

Thee Lucifer when only

Who

live if forth

single

hand %

poor praise were his

him dead, and

therefore let his flames

710

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

32

Flame on

thou Baal

if as

say'st it

Impossible to cleave them

let suffice

his servitors they multitudes

For those

Count on the

We

be

registry of heaven, a third

scarcely are

them end

how 1

let

one shed

Light One who can knowing the best of

all."

So added that adviser in excess

Of

inexperience

Adramelec

unto him succeeds

as execrable

loose

His pinions he shook out and put no

Smile on his alter'd

As outward, even now

Inward

face.

his soul

cockatrice that stung

him

720

false

his hate

had hatch'd
so

some swart

Indian by a coprella though he fled

Or

father

Whose
"

by a

fang

is

thriftless thankless child

sharper

Thus haggard

still.

Speak not of possible events but

At once

unto the purpose

Delay not
In what

Hath

The

is

I conjure thee

Jehovah now

opportunity to break

Whilst fainting

Him

if

act

Emperor

haste too

done we cannot.

seiz'd

much

If despair

this instant take

him down

the purpose to resist

animate, ere he can organize

Dare him whilst single or

at best

he.

with few

730

HEAVEN.

IN

Armed
Be

about him

unknown

all

Concern

Not

is

ours

Potent

against these sinewy arms

\

't

a day by-gone

if in

740

was weakness neither thou

nor I henceforth will dare confess

his seat of

monarchy outpour

Instant this instant

More

God

fainted as incapable of light

Baal remark'd,

Upon

suppose that

members appertain

if

Shall he contend

Some

33

as personal the less

him how

to

Now

we

slumberless as

active probably our foe

first

time

Endanger'd in his royalty and hence

At

greatest disadvantage

Ever so

little

Pounce down upon him

him

way we

either

None here need

reckon,

respite

loose

his subjective throngs

them our frown

Lucifer! and heaven immediate

Of

shall kill

fall."

Upstarted those amongst the primates

Remain'd unspoken,

750

who

to their feet the rest

the uncounted millions one and all

They

also started;

"Lo! Adramelec!

Adramelec!" they roar'd as roar the wild

Atlantic

when

the equatorial Winds

Lashing, against the Tropic

Wildly prepare

all

the

Waves

thus they rolling their eyes

7(30


THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

34

Gorged with glowing

Flinging

fires

from his

lit

up,

wings as prompt to swoop

aloft their

Destroying down on the imagin'd prey,

Rend God
Then

and his diadem

to pieces

the prime-mover threatening of shape,

Most dreadful stood upright,

On end

seize.

so a black

his hair well-nigh

Lybian snake amidst

A horrid brood their balls bent straight upon

Some

passing

Ounce

too strong, the menace-crest

Rears highest: with a frown that smote them dumb, 770

hand with warning fraught,

Lifting his sceptred

His inconsid'rate hosts thus he bespake.

"

Gods

glorious

ye have said as

it

became

Incens'd, insulted deities; I did

Expect

this

angry show and made retreat

Hither for counsel that

th'

Oppressor take

Your inexperience by no quick

And

so

undo

this

surprise

memorable league

Past a re-constitution, his hard rule

Fresh fortifying
c

Be not

too confident

Is necessary for

you

No mere automaton
Thus we return

The gradient

780

Baal well hath said

in

;
'

something like doubt

'gainst this

God

of the fertile brain

what

particular

of his government to resolve'?

IN

And

we

if

Compel an

HEAVEN.

35

not annihilate at least

abdication, harps

Little in unison

with our

and hymns

new

tastes

Lightning have we enough to overwhelm

If not consume our enemy, horrent arms

Beside are mine, and whirlwinds that

Heaven

shall lay bare

if

790
need

unto the central axe

All these have I collected with fore-thought

Together, but the abjected opposed

Distrust until

At

our hour with tempest winged,

best advantage

Guard then the

upon them we

fall

Capitol from this outside

Circumference, advancing with resolve

Of vengeance

as the opportunity comes."

Whilst yet he spake a wat'ry ocean caught

800

Into an errant vortice so was cast

Centrifugal

away that out

it

burst

O'er the conspirers as by accident there

When
Time

the terrestrial pole aside was turned

after,

and the

blasts Septentrional

Met Auster with rude

And

Mesocsesius

Iapyx contending, the scourg'd

Air, earth commingled, rattling hail

Of

seas,

and storm

rain adversely whirl'd thund'ring along,

Such tempest made they not

as thereupon

d 2

810

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

36

The

palace of the paling pagans beat,

Turret and terrace, spires of height sublime

Dizzy

The

to see, hurl'd frequent off at last

palpable obscure of roof, the lamps

Involv'd

Upon

came down

who

the masons

Then was

like to

an

ill-built

vault

give all for lost

the ground uptorn whole continents

'Gainst one another ruinously dashed

Damnific

Up

so the thick-ribb'd

in a rage Boreean

Neva broke
820

so the isles

Ortygia and the rest aforetime drove

So Attica was, taken by the flood

They

The

As

call

Ogyges.

rebels

if

Through a

tedious time

sport of wind and wave and waste

the universe to liquids laps'd,

A fiend the

total

upon that one spot

Pour'd for his malice,

halcyons-like or herns

Ta'en unaware far out from land, up they

Whirl, or dash'd down they for the moment drown

Flutt'ring, bewilder'd, lost

but Lucifer

Like him who wassailing a poison

feels

Or

like a bird at twilight in the net

Of

spoiler caught, his

wings now

830

lash'd,

now

In frenzy up, nevertheless his throne

Though foundering he

to the last

maintained

leap'd


IN HEAVEN.

As

37

in a midnight- wrack the smaller clouds

Before the hurricane tumultuous drive,

His angels

billowey confusion heaped

To mountains higher than

Sorrata, their

Fierce Lord darting his lightnings as

Co-rul'd the storm as well

if

he

840

Mozazor, Icke,

Raabon, Asmodai, Abaddona,

Arioch and Ramiel (the

latter

two

Sung by our Milton,) through the

Of thunder

nash'd the last

rolling clouds

at length given o'er,

Far in the glow'ring gloom he lab 'ring rose

Like a belated sun obscur'd

Far

around

as the eye could pierce, the steaming stars

Confus'dly heap'd or strown saw Lucifer

The

Of

headiest hills Elysian vales as well

his tetrarchy

Unimageable lay

gone
;

vague vaguely

850

all

beneath a scene

Transparent as from veins inosculate

Of sanguine crimson

the Titanian works

Into surrounding smother stretch'd their lines

Like

solid rainbows, arteries jet-like

Thousands of thousands, equi-distant placed

With

azures braided

gorgeous things beside

Expos'd that have no names, surpassing aught

That poet

in the dreamiest

dream

his soul

860

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

38

To

nicest impulse

Thus was

The

drawn enraptur'd

his realm dismantled, swept to

And

fear'd his gods

ever hop'd so

still

much

loud

lifted

with some hope

he 1

as

with such disappointment

His voice he

still

with hope

like the strange

Of cannon heard from some

sound

big ship at night,

tempest cast on the Tinacrian shore

Such time

shrill Scylla

Collecting tarries

Of

doom

fulgent furnitures, exterminate

He really
O who so

By

finds

answer from the blast

when unto

870

the ears

the mistrusting boors with hope of wreck

Untold

And

it

sullen comes, his fed'rates hark,

then exult from the dismember'd orbs,

Or plung'd

to

Or whirlwind

And

bottom of unquiet

drifted o'er the frozen floods

fiery fens of the

Of Chaos,

lo

seas,

unbounded range

they come

first

thorough drenched

Adramelec's that princedom at their head

Still

As

god-like if disfigur'd

many

well they could,

Regretting

His

still

Nisroch's winged
their

broken plumes

Haraphon made headstrong

principalities

Zabrash

own'd

haste,

the seraphim
:

Togarmah

Signalling brought innumerable

all his
:

Baal

powers

880

39

IN HEAVEN.
All his dominions

Timor

saw

ne'er

His multitude when pop'lous Asia armed

Her

millions

cherubim Apollyon,

Moloch, and Ekriel at their head, direct

Pour'd down,

chill

change was

So some proud general fording

Of

stranger-stream just

when

and how 1

is

scarcely

mouth

at the

[890

the turning tide

Re-saturates the sands, he sinks, his

Stifling,

nor unobserved

theirs,

men

known

firm ground

Obtain'd his bold battalions gathering round,

Their baggage

And

flags denied,

" Immortals !"

And

accoutrements of dress

but with

wonted pride

his

haught cried Lucifer, " we cheer

!"

cheer responsive from those myriads came

Startling the

Of

lost

Chaos in his secret

900

lair

contrary elementals, and the black

She-spectre Night in the

Then

And

dim distance

strange debates ensued

seen.

their thoughts at large

from the linkings loos'd as were the

Inconsequently

Whate'er they

From

spilt, all

Chaos they discoursed

Numbers same time

Distract for

seem'd but chance

contingency unreined

said,

reason, as of

stars

so in a parliament

some bad Cromwell

or a

Cercopian turn'd to apes, they chatter

mob
all

910

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

40

Agreeing, disagreeing, knotting worse

What

they unravell'd, quarrelling

'Twas

God who

"

Chance

visited,

chance

Troubling the

!"

skies,

Moloch

had broke the spheres

cried out

in rage, "
;

Gods

Upon him

be swift of

Swifter of

wing

hot

'tis

"

up up they

striking

To heaven

Dare the Heaven-shaker

whilst

said

but others swore

since Lucifer

The tabernacled throne

some

discharge our wrath

started

foot,

up

Impetuous, like Gsetulian wolves that scent

920

straying courser, in pernicious ire

Already

upon

ilesh'd

his reeking flanks

But Zabrash with a quivering

Admonitory, and

the

Kill'd, to his voice

lip call'd

out

ill-sown seed

they heed

like iEschylus

Raved he exclaiming, " Whither, whither] ye

So

Ye

mad

thou Emperor upon thy throne

angels hear

me

If forms they were

May

be

Since the shadowy forms

we saw

their

palms outstretched,

930

this evil is befallen us since

Such amity was

More than

despis'd, so

have we

lost

I dare express, yet lost so

much

If these vindictive Sing'lars to our side

Were won we

gain'd

much more

" his sceptre

Heav'd he, continuing, " dare the tyrant then

high

IN HEAVEN.

Drive the

last lightning in his face

Not drown

his towers in turn."

Against Persepolis

41

and

fire

So lunar Thais

on earth what God's

Palace was in the heavens, a lunatic

Mov'd, with success as

lo

the ruins wide

940

Magnificently scatter'd, column'd stones,

And

bas-reliefs inscrib'd in

Forgotten

Hath

languages

thus the wisdom of the world

perish'd.

"

Aye revenge !"

th'

Arch-gerent cried,

Inwardly groaning as he started up

when

Not

Saturn's self

The

curse was told on his usurping son

So ardent hoped

in the Celtic wastes

three times he stamping stamped,

Calling aloud "to Chaos!" Chaos heard

And from

950

the mine of matter burst so wild

Delirious that his every limber snapped

And

thus with armlets leglets dangling down,

Pendant upon

his breast a facial

more

Grim than Medusa's when Theseus drove

The

petrifying Centaurians with sight

Of her

dissever'd

head

to

howling Hades.

Chaos before the shuddering angels passed.

And

at his feet a shapeless

body

fell.

So look'd Phineus, so his followers looked

960

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

42

Hard'ning to stone, as Lucifer and his

The

whilst that dsemonized screach'd and screamed,

And screach'd out

" Sire " again, " Sire! " then they saw,
!

Or thought they saw nine hundred heads

or

more

(Orthus had only two,) continually

At war with one another

heads of hounds

Blood-hounds, black, blear, and bony

Like that vers'd vulture that on

And some
Whose

And

liver lived

Lybian giant had

like those the

height was three score cubits, of the Sea

Earth the

Nigh stunn'd

An

or like birds

open

elfish

to

son

the factious

hear him

so

lattice gliding like

Startles banditti

who have

970

felt

an owlet through

a ghost

just

embrued

Their hands in some estray'd rich traveller's blood

cried, "

But the great Anarch

Thou

Thy

shatter'd object

terribles

thy

we

secrets

What

calledst

conjure thee
:

Ridding his fleshiness from

"

Chaos groaned

off his joints

agonizing throes, thrice worse augment

With

every change and awful horror more

Prodigious in degree the more he sloughed

frightful figure

not the shape of Death

Unmasking Phlegethon

No

j-

to

me %

tell

With

His

thou

some stark

soul,

Sin herself stripp'd of her whorish front

980

"

43

IN HEAVEN.

Are half

Then seem'd

The

unto

so horrid

man

as this

to those spectators, at the last

rotting vertebrals

were

all

revealed

To

the Arch-gerent starting fearful back

As

if

And

from destiny, the cherubic

great seraphic lords around

Huddling together

who saw

but that daring chief

Stretching his strongest

The

990

hand with caution

live jagg'd skeleton seiz'd,

and

forth

at arm's length

Upholding shouted, " Deities no more

God must

turn white at view of

and Chaos

Uplift our Sign,

As when
Nigh

No

to

him

our Sign

Chaos on

ground Antaeus

though before

dead, renew'd his vigor, Chaos he

longer truculent leap'd lanky up

how high

So long none saw

To Ceto

e'er the

reft

Settling within

command

The rounded

Phorcys

fierce

she speeds

so

through

Cyanean rock

then, then they signall'd

The elements unleash'd

(So at

like

Gorgonites were born

That Chaos unto Night

The Euxine a

1000

lo

ten thousand globes,

ten banded-batteries blaze

balls discharg'd) over the plains

Resounding right unto the cardinal

Of God they

dash'd, the rebels disarrayed

1010

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

44
In person,

to the

winds their waving

hair,

Gleering, upon the ledge of inner heaven

Flound'ring they come, the racing rebel force

Elancing

Upon

o'er

quicker than said, as soon

a vasty sun to smothering smoke

Dissolving, Chaos wheel'd, his instruments

Stupendous back-compell'd evaporating

In a most sooty

Than

By

sort

and ruin'd worse

by that compulsion

ever

unpursued

any, 'mazement-mad, abject he fled

Bestrewing

His way

all

1020

the stars on either side

as to the court northern

he took

Before the frame of the dismantled realm

Where

He

Lucifer erewhile inhabited, where

sate in council,

Chaos check'd his speed

Gazing upon those images unknown

Orderly mystery, the memorials

Of power

before his

own

the sinews of

All his sore eyes grew slack such things to see,

Or

strain'd

unto the uttermost; he gazed

Heaping himself

together,

so they

heap

Constrictors ere they strike, then, sudden then

His

fig'rate energiz'd th'

enormous whole

Against the great key-stone himself he hurled

The

poles, the piles, the centre-pieces paused,

1030

IN HEAVEN.

45

Creaked, and with one lond tremendons crash

Parting became incalculable wreck

his

No

miser's heir

To

garret driven for fear of an arrest,

last sole

guinea gone,

In desperation striking with such joy

1040

Hails from the ceiling showers of hoarded gold,

Nor Danse when

Her person won

Entangling

adulterous Jove her jail

as

all, all

then that Chaos hailed

to the battlements

Of heaven swept he and

o'er

them

Nor the Arch-en'my long behind

He

visible

Eending,

and pangs

then

also pass'd

Though he
To

appalled

witness'd that desertion, for no cause

None

He

frantic flung

his harrow'd heart

resolute

on Chaos fixed

broad was the vacant way

alone of

all th'

follow that deserter

invaders dared

who behind

Left hotter winds than are the eastern

Over Marmarico

1050

like fire they

when

blow

Through the immeasurable wastes beyond

The

limits of the light, th' informal blank,

Him

he pursued o'ertaking with such force

A-head

like a swift thunderbolt

Thousands of leagues

And

he shot

he turn'd yet more enraged

stretch'd to utmost all his

waging wings

L060

46

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

Arrested Chaos

so a fierce athlete

Some Mauritanian

so Alcides seized

The ramp Nemsean

Concave capp'd he
Crushing

to

view

some black-beetling crag

like

or like the

Above Corinthus'

by the gorge

lion

strand,

Into the horned bull

wave which

rose

and bellowing burst

Charybdis

when

Ithacus steer'd less hoarse Charybdis than

Excelling Chaos,

all his

addling arms

Briarsean upheav'd so ponderous

As

if

Of

iron in motion,

the heavens he hammer'd,

"With wanting,

Swoln

He

mouths and

all his

Enough

to

A mortal
Awoke

all his

nostrils

shroud

wide

he fought, he

volum'd flames flaming

wrap the

chest

countenances blue

to his very shanks

trod, great

1070

tore,

each one

solar system in

Space then from out deep sleep

utt'ring one

word the while her long

Ne'er ending skirts over her hairless head,

Blank

eyes,

dunch

Flying had she the feet

All mouth from the
Infinity,

she vainly strove to draw,

ears,
;

"

Oh

" she

exclaimed

infinities to all

and dropp'd beyond reprieve

Of

resurrection dead.

As

in a furnace, or in iciest ice

Impal'd in

fire

1080


IN HEAVEN.

Fought Lucifer

He

yielded,

Forgetting

How

wrath of wrath then

to

first

what unto himself pertained

O how
!

he

strong they were

Them

47

also his

arms

upfmng, or thund'ring brought

with a vengeance down ; beneath his feet

Nothing

to

ground he beat whereon

Such woful wear and tear

to stand

make, the round

to

As round and broader than yon

shining sun

And

ten times brighter

And

vanquished as appear'd but then the other

now one had

Alarming rose immediate

Of

certain death

With

And

to his

seem'd

it

his antagonist

so

his turn

work

Milo fought

Eteocles

Polynices with unsated hate.

Three times had Chaos in three wezands

His

1090

vitals

handled

1100

felt

in reprise three times

He with his craziest crush redoubled drove

Home to his Author's heart then vomited
Was blood so here to call it Hesiod
Had he been there the giants had despised
;

Describ'd as springing from the drops which

From

his generic

god

fell

the terrible

Indeed was then, nor hands, nor heads but more

Than heads and hands

Which then, O Muse!

the apparitions had

werebirth'd; Typhosus scarce 1110


THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

48
Reach'd

to the ancle

Or what

is

though he touch'd the east

and west

east to us,

His head against the

stars

Less than their lustrous eye

Death

to

Almost

With

Adam

an

to nothing

too

yet their stature

Wild

scales

They

it

Now

was

busy goss'mers do

either leg

now an

still

Implacable was Chaos

to

cobweb down

unconscious arm.
less

where

The Arch-apostate groping out

Bringing empty down the
the hollow vertex

In, altogether in

Were

his

when

alike

his brains

been had he had any through and through

Upon

1120

as unto men

Thus Lucifer implacable, no

Had

weighed

writh'd they writh'd, or

the great combatants,

What

they joined

they roar'd as roar

when they

folded folded

their eyes

and were hardly heard

bulls of Basan,
;

when

or other scarce a feather

Nor heeded

fell

by comparison

darkness, and their utmost

In the opposing

them were

to see

those two dreadful decrials

Or one

To

at once,

Pelorus with

Pachymus added, Lilybseum

To

his

sinister

so,

and then

't

hand
he sent

was smashed

let loose

such as alone he had conceived

1130


49

IN HEAVEN.
Abstractions shocking

The

fate of

Athamas

save

oh save

me from

lest seeing these

Losing perception, the most lovely seem

Hereafter horrid hued, and what I prize

The

More raging than the

Her queenly arms

Of

1140

dearest in this world a lioness look

lion

nor

which supports

me meet

let

doom

the

Actseon, turned so with an affright

Even my
Aglope

friends shall field

me

Ligia

thou

by the scared Sabines feared

By Cape

ho

Or more, ye Furies

Licosa,

the Sisters Three

all

ye wanton

swine

Th' CEnean metamorphos'd, welcome from

These of the dark the blackness

To

tear one

see, their

And venom'd

see, their teeth

claws together clenched

Their nameless nethermost

Of Cadmus

1150

what now the crop

springing from the dragon's teeth

as the seed

to it they fell

Like those on one another, those before

Elicited on

all.

Thus

they, likewise

The two Progenitors whose breath was

Fury

they raze as two charg'd comets raze

Each other when they meet

Like

fire,

devils

damnably

Dauntless on death,

they froth they foam

they darken, dash

who were he
E

there were

dimmed

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

50

And

deaden'd

smashing smashed, rending riven,

Their skin stripp'd

and hack'd and hewn

off in skeins,

Their most recondite bodily of bone

Awfulest action

In hell much

No

none before, none since

on earth

less

like

Lapithites, Chimeeras, Dirae,

Their utmost name

No

is

it

name

none

nor yet the battles which

nor the battles which some mighties had

(And

one

still

hath) with Destiny

now Fame

Put up thy lying trumpet, or before

Thou

puttest

blow

to these until it

All over and be done

They

Each

again

tetter'd

Like Cerb'rus

it

now

and oh

grows but cancrine

now
;

hand

monstrous

other's harden'd heart

'Tis torn

And

and Chaos there

th' infernal deities at

They were no more

crack

for these they fight

fight like Lucifer

So were

1170

'tis

as soon

like

the Arch-one drags

now

they tear

him down

Chaos with a growl

That gravitated earth had earth then been,

Fallen upon him,

how he

He

back in flakes as long

fleshes

As long

up

his

striated clouds

shakes, grasps, see

immortal he

More than immortal such a thing

And

borne survive

so

to bear

Amycus, the shades

1180

IN HEAVEN.

Seeking post-haste

and Chaos

51

victor proves

If not the stronger; as he once before

Lessening

fell,

reversing

Of

nitrous stuff

He

spreads bat-like his

As Evening

fir'd,

like a tun

utmost verge

to his

mangy membranes

out

1190

spreads o'er half the world at once,

Collapsing back

Seems

now

the absorb'd

abysm

as illuminate the whilst his force

Fierce Lucifer exorbitantly spends

Black, blue, hot, cold he makes perpetual round

Ruining

all his sides

but like a kite

Ensnar'd, in vain out of that cage he hopes

By

force to

come

he

Whole hemispheres

Down
He

raves,

hales,

he hauls

of matter with his hands

on his danger'd head; extreme extremes

tries

Infixes,

he burns, he grinds

gnaws,

Taken an elephant

And round

His neck

so in a pit

they tear, they leap, they lance

tries,

or like

mesh of law

tramps in desperation vast

to save

in vain

Cruel, that parricide froze

Upon some

the virile parts

or tiger, round

criminal within the

He turns,

1200

but shuddering sees

eats, rends,

The Chaos gradual grow

rifts,

Procrustes less

down

like

snow

fainting, struggling, famishing

e 2

wretch

1210

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH IN HEAVEN.

52

Lost by degrees from sight

Around

his votive victim

Of

all his

Of

life

'till

his

web he weaves

not one

lamed limbs gives evidence

but there into that Chaos rapt

Lies Lucifer eternally undone.

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

BOOK

II.

THE ARGUMENT.
Address

to Poesy.

Night following Chaos and Lucifer out

overtakes and conceiveth by both

The advent

of rebel angels.

The Undying

The march

the halt.

Ekriel and others, whereupon Lucifer evokes

for a battle-field,

and arms

the nine regents

his legions.

Worm

into space,

what

The

followed.

addresses of

terrific beasts, fixes

The

Chaos

order of his armies under

they exercise, unfurl the sovereign banner, and

file

upon the heavens.

The morning
continues.

in

heaven with which the

first

book commenced

still

BOOK

Thou

Soul of

Numbers

II.

irresistibly felt

Burning, and seen in elemental air

Surrounded with

To

all spirits

known

to

men,

gods, the brightest next Th' Adorable

Brighter for thine, (the fairest

Thy

lily

craves

paint, the gold thy gild,) the fiends of hell

Blacken'd, the grim sub-Tartarean powers,

The salamandrine gnomes transpicuous

By

thine

own hallowed

marvellous Poesy

Of

fire

lift, lift

lit

me up

beyond the spheres

nature, and the compasses of thought

Known
Of my

With

once to the Maeonian, or

lov'd Father-land,

to

him

and (purg'd mine eyes

euphrasy, from heavenly herbs in flowei

10


THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

56

By

Summon
In

moons

the low lucid

together the supernal powers

local action

Ranking, and

The

properties inform

if yet obstinate, strike

iron strings

Raking they

thou

I strike affecting thine

Immeasurably swoll'n

From

careful distilled,)

upon the ear

20

rush, like those the tempest twangs

the suspended arch stretch'd high and wide

Across the Seine, the manes of

The Fallen

Rising colossal in no circle bound,

Lo

By

how

they thicken desp'rately compelled

the miraculous, now,

Eternal

now

I see

Hunger gnawing her own

Her dreamy

ministers

neck,

blaspheming Thoughts

Clasping the hand, drear Sorrows like the dead

Fading corrupt or frosted

to a stone,

30

Perplexed Ghosts Glooms Adorants and Hopes

Mix'd with back-clutching Fears and Phantasies

Perpetually metamorphos'd, Sighs,

No

more, and

God

control

The universe were made

The Upas

them
so

from small seed

springs branching as these from out

The trunk innum'rable, and

Born from an

Of

else a pyre

acorn,

many

like

an oak

a raging storm

the hard-favor'd heavens, though scath'd shall stand

57

IN HEAVEN.

Living for ever

On

"

Now

th'

impression stamp

thy imperishable canvass

Boldly

And

if

quick

"

40

paint

the Sprite-compeller cries,

beck'ning an elaborate Fancy he

Pours on

Nor Time

Now

my

pallet sable pigments forth,

shall

tame but mellowing leave

Night in that wild

Knowing what

drift

divine.

confounded, scarce

thing to do, thinking at hand

Omnipotential vengeance, through the heavens

Follow'd northward with savage speed the track
Until the latest

mark

Reaching the battlements

Chasing the senseless void

The booming Chaos

From

fled
'till

giddying o'er
lo

she heard

awoke

reverie of desolation drear,

Chaos with breath

To her

full brief

at the last

and jerk of joy

convuls'd embraces covering rushed

Lucifer perforce in

him contained

The two she bore but with an

Her

startled she

Whirling through emptiness and

And

50

evanish'd she

instant shiver,

darkling eyeballs starting from the socks,

Thereat her contradicting form recoiled

Seiz'd with parturient pains,

Portentous sight

Huge, huge

and present forth

issued a hydra

huge

Jormungandr which round

this earth

60

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

58
Coils (as the

And

Edda

all Alecto's

tells,) less terrible,

serpents

this since called

By One who knew Th' Undying Worm, whom he

Declin'd confessing God,

this sallied forth

So when the Minotaur was born look'd

Queen

vile

Pasiphse like Night, her carnal child

Upon her

rearing, in tremendous heat

Tearing her down, rending her abstract

Them

70

greedily devouring

parts,

Chaos next

Essay'd as cruel, as a pitchy cloud

O'ercharg'd explodes Chaos the Arch thrown forth,

Up, up tower'd he

at that

unnatural sight,

Measuring his bulk and capability

For what was just intended, indisposed

From

that to turn that snake though he

was turned

Incontinent as a panther from a prey

When

unexpect the king of beasts appears

Right in the path

then Lucifer beheld

Where Night had been

From whence
Reeking

Ready

Of

80

to

devour'd, the caul unclean

this offspring

all his bristling

as like ten sepulchres they

swallow more

his forlornest

If Night with

Hope,

jaws

gaped

blenched thought he
for

hope he had

him would venture God nor

The while under her ebon wing he fought

fly

IN HEAVEN.

" Dire shape

!" cried

he

Unutterably looking, as

(so fierce Th'

if

Leap'd trampling on him,

pale Phsedra listing

Stagnated in his veins

Night's lump'd limbs

where Chaos shook

cast as half-digest

call'd) she

like that

nor to Hippolyte

His

(So

quailed,)

[90

Ate ne'er

to Orestes

Were

Undying

he

Reach'd
sire

59

opening the eyes

yawn'd and belching seven times worse

Than Herculaneum and Pompeii

All were engulf d

smote,

then The Undying

Worm

Like ten grim pyths excelling the Lernsean,

Or

that

famed drace,

Of England

slew,

Empress

erect

100

which Saint George

his aspic

mane,

His aspic dorsum, tramping on transfixed

The Arch-aspirer with innum'rous

Charg'd with such poison that

his withers wrung,

Unto the upper

air the eyes raised

Invoking

angels

Of

hail

From

all his

by an

like a

and

Instant they
!

to

my

storm

their brains well-nigh

all their senses utter

fell

(O

help,

Return Mnemosyne

gone,

my hand

paralys'd

and trim the

!)

he

shock discharged,

the amazing heights

Dissolv'd

Muse

electric

stings

flaring lamp,

affright they turned,

Affright as once the Cholchians

dead-still

10

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

60

The monster with

Saw thinking

vitality of

of depopulation, but

Soon whetting

his

whet teeth

In Echionian Thebes

Of Mars

upcoiling

That wretched
Gods! gods!

" Thunder

suff'rer cried, "

lift

up and

that Terror

Riding

Around

sphynx

fat

ye

!"

then

your Paramount

120

this curs'd curs'd smite, smite!"

fell

Typhcean rage

others quick succeed

th' oppress'd air,

Abhorr'd

so once the

or like the snake

Then on came they with

Upon

joy

upon

his skulls

fast falling, or perpetual whirl

his flanks belabor'd, often

back

Deploying as undone, whilst Lucifer

Opposing, these so seconded at length
Releas'd he stood, Th'

And Chaos

Undying

Worm

at their worst as there

he

prone, Night

lay.

Hast'ning from forth that place the rebels came

Their emp'ror sole undaunted, the dark drear

Eagerly winging some with hubbub vast

The time they

told each his especial fate

him

Since space receiv'd

listners

though he'd none

In the wide gratulation to have found

Nay

sav'd their idol

so

To Home surrounded by
As

Lucifer to heaven

Marius returned
his partisans

that was the bourne

30

IN HEAVEN.

None

61

other was propos'cl, and soon

broke

it

140

Distant in view a long straight line of light

Of

smallest breadth but endless

now

God and man come from

Outcast of

the

Jews-

afar

In hope their bones within the bounds

to lay

Jerus'lem see gnashing their teeth to think

Abomination of desolation

They soon

Who

shall

be

there,

restor'd, the angels ne'er

with recoil clos'd back as soon they saw

What

all

had

wish'd, crowding together round

Their potent, princes, and such daring chiefs

As

150

foremost battling racking hurts received

These with insufferable virus

Looked dreadful

so

So Damien regicide

thrilled

some wretch depriv'd of tongue,

then Lucifer

L^pon a mountain like the Euganaean

Extinct volcanoes, with a bended brow

The
"

counsels of his breast thus far disclosed.

matchless!" he began, " in

To name,

thus far

we come

Our

seats to reascend,

The

question

shall

hope

by what design]

Chaos I overtook

not for what, he's here

What

in fervent

hateful

whilst above, the gods with Night

I thought secure

Ask

strife

be done

without him what

foundation none beside

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

62

Beyond the heaven

By mere

We

we

be escaled

gravitating

down

much

as formerly

we

This therefore
If

to

volition

tend as

ne'er more

we must do

rose

invent fresh force

the lofty battlemented walls

Ever

repass, their downfall compass'd,

And

garrison o'ercome.

foot but once

on God

170

the thirst

if

Of boundless vengeance burn your

Our

God

souls like mine,

with scourges he

Shall rue the dire effect, in iron chains

Secur'd for frequent fury

Have
Of

for a tribute even

the infhctors give

Most

that shall

'till

God

the knees

now, now

first

truly bent, our future doings plan,

Course

settle,

and

to

end the common cause

Adramelec! the biggest thunder

Rend heaven
Urging

Thus

180

roll,

asunder, slaughter to

its

height

so long one feudator remain."

he,

more

grisly than the

Or than Ciampolo but

god of Thrace

of words

Further disdaining, whilst his strained

Mutter 'd

and unto him then Ekriel

o'er his heart, in

just escaped

From Dante's demon, mockery

Right

time

agony

lips

stung

replied.

" If from the heavens we're shut the starless space

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IN HEAVEN.

190

Is ours for ever,

Emp'ror! that event

Of which thou

hintest all redemption past

Unto the throned eminence of God

Thou

To

venturest not the eye but asketh

how

over-top his walls, so to escape

This frightful desolation, horrible

that

we had

annihilated been,

Space, Matter, Chaos, Night with us annulled,

If this the consequence."

With
Of

the great

The

naming diamonds within

cried,

thine despairing cherub

Eradicable

is

Chaos hath

" Disdain
that

we

bear

nor heaven against

A battery impregnable.
He

200

socks of the Orissan idol fierce

Apollyon interrupting

Be

eyes like those

failed that

shall third time

Unto us he subserves

If twice

no reason

and
if

if his

is

help

we

take

not ensures

Let none despond though we inhabit

sole

These sombre shades, good occupation ours

Providing engines wherewithal to storm

And

take by force what fairly

Fair

is

the

brow of heaven

if

we cannot
yet to us

Forbidding we must violate and

will,

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64

Only the arduous space great gods

Lord of

With

And

upon

So he

As metal

maintain

wrath aroused

ourselves, until to

pointed arms destruction

all

their thrones

is

indulged,

all re-installed."

impression of the master took,

th'

dies, or

mud

Fall'n down, himself approving

Deep thoughtful

220

the form of one

Zabrash next

rose with a terrific glare

Scowling and redden'd, pleading like some paid

And wary

advocate his hearers

fools,

Loos'ning his robe, as he his weary wings

As

if his

Thus

thoughts were for his mouth too tasked,

he.

"

The

The present

future, as thou promis'd

Dread Emperor

With rancour now,

we

His

slow rend

flesh

shall

make

by thy speech
230

meditate his

fall

devoting his high head

scorn and detestation

And

amends

propositive against

The unknown God

To

full

all his

pityless

person nerve from nerve,

unto us for a

feast, his

blood

In ornate urns receiv'd in lieu of wine

Shall serve his servants if our rightful rage

Any

escape

who with

these thews shall cope

In godlike exercise with heart

less stout


IN HEAVEN.

65

Than

outs'? forge chains for

Shall

wave her flaggy wings within the heaven

bondage! Night again 240

And

o'er the inessential elves

And

fairies

See

Thou

Heaven

look behind thee,

For God

He

it.

ye prime of angels

all

queen

to

is

so a baleful

before us

lies,

Ekriel thou,

there light enough

mangle cowardice

started

and fays

like thine

"
%

baron bold

Belied, or brindled lion at a pard

Roaring

Thy

" Scorn'd seraph!" he exclaim'd, " withdraw

insolence

As who doth

ye gods

if I

250

repine

not our actual loss

and hate

Reverse, ye also hate, nor that conceal

Boasted

I but prefer no sense to that

Which shocking

and

is,

ye had the choice

if

Of pref 'rence make no doubt which one were

Now

ta'en.

Emp'ror thou proposest war, but how

Leave us in doubt and ign'rance upon what

against Jehovah, One

War

can be rais'd

Who

sate the while

With Chaos
To our

unmov'd, a third of heaven

turn'd from our united course

original starting place nor there

Leaving sufhc'd

it,

Celestial field with

The anguish'd

but beyond our own

power

resistless

drove

angels o'er the heights of heaven

F

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66

And

scarcely there invisible refrained."

Chafing he
Sore handled

the proud pretender's pride

clos'd,

so a falling charioteer

Observes a linch-pin loose

Adramelec

Rush'd forward crying, " Rash

imaginings

Like these forbear, or other audience seek

More

tolerant

where God

is still

270

enskied

In his eternity prostrate thee there

If they vouchsafe

By

it

we

conquer yet

shall

the necessity of things, and

Humble

Just

to dust.

Encourage

it

is

God

our anger, peers

and triumph or we

die."

Utterless thoughts were his so brief he said

Like some

false priest

" Peace, peace," cries

Then

rose

upon the brink of death

where

Togarmah, from

Shaking the grime

so

none, full soon found out

is

his fearful front

Ancseus of

size

Gigantic.

"

We know,

" cried he,

" the worst, the worst

nor Chaos ask but use his whole

Fixing, thou

Of

Arm
God

of

God

for

our good

field

battle, if to joust the others dare

Before

we tourney hold

Illumine matter

inside their walls

characters of

Give thou unto the

lifeless,

life

organize

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IX HEAVEN.

The inorganic

As God

arm

with weapons such

possess nor handle, and practised

That we wasfd with Chaos war was not

Win.

But an experiment
Exterminating

all

henceforth war real

we

shall engage.

Unsheath us instruments, two-edged swords.

Other

ill-omen'' d things

which showers of blood

Flashing shall shed; assassins thon shalt find

Ready

to

wield

Us pointed

with passing poison

tip

lances, that the slaves shall sting

As we are stung
The Gerent

stretch! stretch hut forth thy hand,"

look'd considerate

one playing

so

Chess makes due calculation e'er he moves

His

latest

pawn on which

For mortal
Inverted.

As

fear

Muse

his fortune frowns

the comers of his lips

beyond the balked brush.

pale around his roving eyes he rolled

Then

like the

god of

War

The trembling ground

all

smote down upon

the terrene confessed

As Delos Xeptune when he smote

His

trident,

hard consolidatins:

it

with

forth

Innumerable hippogryphons rushed.

Gorgons. chimaeras with be-gilded horns.

And

horse like that which with his fore feet smote

At Heliodorus

full of fright

and

fear.

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And

Philoctetes

harpy birds or beasts

Ne'er saw in his lone island half the

like,

Creatures with scraggy skulls and jaunty jambs

Speechless to see, envenom'd giant jinns,

Scabb'd scolopendrians

Diomed

fed

upon the

Spouting gross
Incessant

fiercer

flesh of

than the steeds

320

man,

from mouth nose eyes and ears

fires

or with membranes mainly charged

Unfolding fun'ral shrouds fanning the

Racking each other

air

as in prankish play

In some the pressing pulses underneath

Were

seen to flow like melted lava oft

As oceans

into their enamell'd chests

Gasping they drew

the semi- vital big

Alligatorians that the

unknown

Soil of our bottom'd seas, prodigious pierce,

(Defiling so, green Thetis

me she

Trembling the haunts of

all

These

Or

like mail'd moles,

shift

tells,

the Naiads seeks,)

which islands often

raise,

a continent, they nothing are

As comparable
In the

3,30

salt

some were

like

some things

wave, but few are like in

air

Enchas'd were some with lineaments mis-turned,

Ten-tush'd, and hydra-headed

winged

vults

Blue, black, or red-wing'd vult-like gryphons

worked

air

And

lolling tongues

with mania gladness

Like mounts of

With
Of

had some

flesh

HEAVEN.

IN

The

69

starting eyes,

340

the incubi

whilst some

came serpenting

never-ending involutions, wide

and blood-red their shaggy jaws,

nostril,

Rav'ning, and bloated, virulent, wrathful

And

one more

A horrid thing in
And

than

fierce

all,

wondrous wild-eyed,

counterview came forth

instant on espial hunger-pained

Heap'd up

Upon him

his
;

hundred heads and dashed down

(might tremendous

Turns with the recollection

;)

chill

my

soul

350

muscular

Vastness unto them both, they wriggled up

Their plated bellies earnestly inspired

And

unappeasable

Full-sail encounter

And

so ships full-freight

groaning

every timber start

From two

volcanoes

all

the masts

or like hell-clouds

high as Antisan,

Against each other roofward driving up

Lash'd mutual grim, elate

Such never held

as

iEtolian plains

wide they stretch 'd the jaw,

Beat their black brawn, and in the turgid sides

Drove twenty-talon'd

Thus they

'till

tests

and crunched the bone

sooty flames the wide expanse

Involving the Arch-actor smote them both

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70

To

stone

so

on the Aulis sands they boast

One damnate dragon unto marble turned

Others there were strange creatures strangely joined,

By

emblems of the Night

million millions,

And Chaos whence

they came

the latter long

Burden'd within his ribs now out they poured

Even

as a

One end

370

wave begets another from

of the wide ocean to the other

Or gravid clouds

as o'er the earth they sail

Congenial shadows

lacking were their looks,

Erect the hackled hair, malign the mould,

StifFning their limbs, longer the skinny arms

Than Mycale's who pulled down the moon

Clapping they

yell'd,

and formed

Legions of fiends with visages

into troops,

viceful,

Sunk eyes, mouth-steaming, every time they breathed 380

Fetching a horrid hiss

Th' Achaian

cities

so (Ete, so

heard when CEdipus

Invoking, from the gates of Tsenarus

Tisiphone wing'd forth: Chorcebus such

Ne'er saw though one begot in depth of hell

Encountering he slew.

Thus the

Was
With

far space

peopled with dajmonians as well

unform'd, unco' things

even then the crash

71

IN HEAVEN.

Of Empire some imagining

"

call'd,

To arms

!"

390

Measur'd the light horizon each his beast

Seizing,

and arms there were which here

Of weighty words we

want

call invuln'rable

and

Shields, helms, breastplates,

others, these they

don

armed came unto the birth

Pallas full

And

for

these instant appear'd with casque, and plume,

Vizor, gorget, corse, cuirasses, and cuish

Even

Of

with trappings dight

to the sandals serv'd,

baldric, thong, belt, chain,

and cincture

light,

Starr'd-mantles, robes than ermin'd kinglier far

As more becoming

in their

hand

-00

or spear

Missive, or shaft, or lance, cutlass, or sword

These the majority preferr'd

for these

Allow'd close quarter, and the rebels then,

sanguine

The

surer

thought with mail like theirs such wage

some took clubs

In late-found Tootoonah
Feather'd with fury

like those

we

find

some arrows seized

such the Parthians sped

Sharper than razor-teeth; some javelins like

The Mamlukes throw unerring

pensile nets

Others endued with which they hop'd

The

birds of heaven; faulchions,

And

razing steels to

many

Iron maces, deadly darts

410

to snare

and hangers broad,

bearded

bolts,

their quivers

stored,


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72

And bows
Ponderous

than Teucer's stronger

disks, or gauntlets

others chose

surer than

Th' GEbalian; slings the Balearic; some

Lightly accoutred, others for the sap

And

mine, whereby the Capitol of

God

If storm prov'd ineffectual should be scooped,

420

Those too who rode their panoply put on

Heaping

With

their horse

choicest

if

horse their carriers were

gems and carbuncles of

fire,

Whilst some the lengthful lash whirling outrushed

Chariots and cars inlaid with

Bimm'd with

above

the flexile flames the crowning rays

Trac'd wondrous

With

fires,

fine,

the body parts outwrought

battle polish'd to the last degree

As were

the circling frames and axles

bossed

Most blinding bright ten thousand thousand ranged 430

;

In shining order, quick with tensive

trace,

Argentine rings, and sparkling harness strong,

The whirlwind-footed gryphs they

pliant pole except the

Prancing in pride
Scarce

felt,

join, to

each

two extern

the reins of lightning light

than mares of the Pheretian breed

Gotten by Zephyr on the harpy- winged

Podarge swifter they, (the charioteers

Leap'd loos'ning

to their seats,)

oft'

they

all

went

HEAVEN.

IN
"

Whiz " down

id

the hills across the pictur'd plain

440

Evanishing same time, the clang, the tracks

Phosph'rous behind

so the aerolites

Kindled, a momentary space are heard

Rushing and

seen, the next outstripping sight

Beyond the swinking

Immense outspread

stars

meanwhile a camp

the tents the booths arranged,

Amidst the paragon pavilion pitched

Conspicuous,

Of

not the Elishan dye

the rare robe the sumptuous empress wore

Poppea, nor queen Hecuba's could match,

Nor Hyacinthus'

locks

Long

poles,

Were

finest gold,

and

Northward an

Unto such

staples,

the sockets, rings,

and

elab'rate ribs

(an ore hateful to name,)

altar stood

strains the

Precede the

450

lictors

where incense burned

bound Bellona heard

when

the Quirine door

Impris'ning they with pageant

Thus was prepar'd

for war,

Recite the outlin'd order

pomp threw

ope.

Mnemosyne

when

the trumps

Bray'd begg'ring and the banners were unfurled.

Bid Baal

first,

like

His janizaries come,

In prospect

And

some proud sultan through

earth, ocean his

as of Giours like dogs

of his prophet

he thinks,

blazon'd at his breast

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74

And

shone a sardell'd sun

for breast-harness

Inwrought with ornament

in

main of space

Floating like a bright bubble through the air

The heavenly heaven,

Celestial well

illusion cloth'd the

as in a glass

whole

were seen

All the palatinates, the seat supreme

Wide

470

occupying central, hid in clouds

The towers

that

God

for the eternity

Belting had built, refulgent they, but lo

Instead of God's express escutcheon o'er

The entrance

and

portals,

his formless flag

'Twas Lucifer's, that Anarch

Of God

the Sovereign

And here

they crown' d

Th' assembled angels

Like

this

King

to the place

depos'd advanced

him with most solemn

coronation ne'er

was represented, numberless

Although

to us the actors every

In scenic

sort

upon that

480

one

plate appeared,

Here thousand thronging legions

lordly

lift

The hand and oath

allegiance, there they bind

O Muse

th'

some few

Kicking make

sport,

To

may

lift

And

state

that he

Almighty, some his crown

and one

strike

his sceptre tries

him

scatter'd here

there are chained captives, low the head

Hanging despondent

some the axes edge

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IN HEAVEN.

490

For fresh decapitations, whilst the crowd

Themselves

to joy

abandoning on

The

outer margin festival

And

strangest festival

is

all

seen

the noises seem

Express'd, the gen'ral tumult, laughter, love

Or

lust for so

look'd where with the sprites

it

(Nor angels though

Them

as their

all

these

Baal thus

Bacchan tic-like

beside

His bearer tabarded, within

A banner he

sustain'd

The Crescent when

At

him shone
500

his fists

so rear'd the

Turk

the Saracener lay

point of death.

As on they

upon

Thoughts and Wishes always had

Attended, with
Licensing

angelic,) that

The darkling

deserts

rung

pass'd like storm.

Apollyon next,

Outnumbering the

stars

with cherubim

Their wavy wings advanc'd

Himself

so

he

who slew

at loss of priz'd Pelides' arms,

Appointed Ajax and the Locrian bands

Nor

Ekriel less

magnific Moloch eke

510

Ruling in concert, the disastrous past

Forgotten, the import'nate future more

Than

the avengement promis'd

to the

Their flags stream'd wide astonishment

winds
:

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76

Went

with

all

three

rapacious were her looks

Toward the heavens.

Then came Adramelec;

O'er Chaos he unfuii'd

Now

stretch'd

Ne'er trod

To

Enceladus

by the Avernian

he stalk'd as

if

lake, like this

alone he meant

tread Jehovah down, dominion

And
Nor

the eternal-aU to
Oileus's

Were more

him

now name

520

won

subject

his looks

than terrible; presumption none

Apparently was his but what he looked

He meant

and would assuredly

Follow'd Togarmah 'battled

An
The

ensign

swum none

Drove

through the

other could have

peerless powers were his

With

fulfil.

air

owned

his, charioteers

crescent scythes unto the axles, they

to the din of hasting hoofs

and sounds

That baulk'd the boiling blood.

On

hippogryphs

Haraphon's heavily endow'd, that chief

Carrying his crest immutable as God's

On whom

scornful

like Tityus he thought,

His heart throat-high

There marching

to see his vast

o'er his

concourse

broad and beauteous brow

darting dragon shed or seem'd to shed

530

IN
Particular poison

Or seem'd
Out of

By Envy

HEAVEN.

upon

to kill all

effective

whom

540

kindling up he killed,

his ireful eye

That more

he glared

but one had he

than the thousands owned

where

to a proverb,

flashed

it

Dissolv'd the clouds immediate, all the space

AYax'd warm, as
It

must

it

if

about again to

must return

Anticipating

God

To them were

And

orcler'd, "

On!"

within his power

harpies with war- wanting wings,

formidable talons

Unceasing shone

with him

jNTisroch

Drawing no spurious sword he

life

high their

550

flags

through the wintry mists

as

double sun.

who

Last,

The

seraphim, like tawny tempests

The regent

And

shall dare

call'd

whom

Zabrash

Satire at the side

impede I

when

Conquest waits

his ensign flouts

All the preceding, in diviner light

Enhanced

The

to inviolable

black

leger light that ever courses through

Three

sev'ral

heavens fold up and such a

So fulgent were not made

It

down and rended

it

Even he was blinded

when

to tatters

560
flag-

Triron tore

he

wafting wings were his

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78

Unto

his helmet, great Petasian

Perspicuous bright

Most

terrible,

Unlike aught

they blaz'd and bickering burned

advancing harrowing heads

else beside

wide open were

The gory dripping mouths, and

As

wings

still

they seemed

they had never swallow'd, they so

Desir'd to swallow

sent to punish

the taurus put

Minos

and such eyes

That Polypheme's blasted but

High, high above them

The

In sight of

all

to meet.

from whence he saw

whole array 'd united stand,

glittering

Lone Lucifer

pond'ring he stood divine

The

all.

fabled god of heaven

With him

of hell unite, the image faint

Pour trays

his person.

With thought
Around him

Now

at his feet

Before

him

Of

looks,

and

all

the field

his effulgent eyes reflect

upon themselves

Fire was he

amazement

His giddy ing glances

Xerxes when

the very god

follow'd all

now he

at Doriscus

580

the lightnings play

the heavens turn pale

heavenward out he

right

his soul inspires

of deathless fame

When
Back

570

horns they had like those

The ocean-god upon

He

much

rises

like

high enthroned

His satraps sanction'd, Syrian, Persian, Mede,

IN HEAVEN.

79

Indian, and iEthiop the million ronnd

thick empearled,

Their truncheons

Filed along.

Advancing then those mighties,

All present was in motion

Recurrent

one point

to

like a sea

with a tide

the Persian king

Thought Grsecia ended, Lucifer

The Heaven

590

much

as

of heaven his own.

Now where
Extended

Of arms

farthest with experiment

those countless disciplining met,

Marching

to clarion'd brass, or

Earnest, and dreadful

Or back

drums

trumpets woke

o'er

Their heads, or thrust before, or right, or

left

retreat brandish'd their

Others their

And

600

pursuing some,

weapons

Or many

the plain

jav'lins, pikes, or spears

they dart,

a length the low'ring arrows speed

monster-mounted myriads

o'er the wilds

Interminable on together dash

Their coursers rear'd on skinny shanks

Lighter than

aether, fleeter

Whilst more behemoths

Such

To

as their

than the winds,

stride, or

weak'ning weight

the far distant sole in proof,

These

And

for their legs

had

aloft,

pillars,

bigger beasts

encas'd from head

may

bear,

brawny backs,

heads within the hollow'd shoulders grown

610


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Others with shovellines, and adzes, tools

Invented various delv'd the marls, or with

Insidious Archimedeans wrought the rocks

With such

successful aptitude that soon

Their theatre their tomb had surely been

But

as they excavated myriads

When

more

620

the incumbent crack'd, onrushing propped

Uncounted wave the wing

self-pois'd are

some

In attitude of thrusting; others up

The perpendicular
Venus

By

his storied

aspire, whilst

one

dame, from out the ground

potent arts electric inchoate

Minerals drew to streams than Acheron

That noted

And

river

deeper

broader, blacker

still,

these through lengthening canals

Conducted, huge cylindric tubes were made,

Upon

And

ten huger asteroids upraised,

charg'd with stars up to the rugged mouth.

Thus were they occupied, above, beneath,

And under

And

imprecations often heard

boastful promises

In downright earnest

Would

ride

what should be done

some the lightnings red

and deluging the

field

with name

Garish rejoice.

Then from

the cherubim

630

IN HEAVEN.

Of might with

A banneret
The

640

gesture eminent march'd one

forth defying

in his

hands

flag of that pretender, Lucifer

Leader of

Of

81

those armies

all

princes, the adversary of

Who

is

King

the

paramount

Him

of kings, and

Lord of lords

Like the boreal in the blindest night

Flaunting and nickering to the zenith, so

Lengthen'd

stream'd spangled with scorching suns

it

That lurid lightness

a dragon shone

spilt,

650

Graft in the centre like the sovran sign

Of

the high emp'rors

Or

far

Pegu

Perpetuated

Upon

who

to blast that

stone, thus

in

China

rule,

Pontus had

he unfurled

his mount, like Teneriffe seen at sea

When

the shy

moon her

pointed crescets dips

Below the troubled main and

Attend the court above, or
Lie hid; or high

all

her suite

else insphered

Lam aim on

in Tigra,

there that mighty

Magnate stood

Shap'd throne-like

Outshining

nobles, gath'ring fast

Soon

all his

as they

They wing'd
Thither

And

all

heard his summons

whether

or pac'd or rode or

wrought subtern,

troop'd

sceptre

660

close

air

imperial crown he wore

around his chivalries

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82

No more

associates, wait,

no equal his

Amongst them, none though

Proud

as their prince, but to his heighten'd height

Not daring whatsoe'er of

Then up

he

rose

And
"

it

they thought.

so Philip's son, or if

Olympia be accredited

When

glorious they were

670

joint Jove's

Greeks his deep design was shown,

to his

thus with voice of thunder them addressed.

Homeward

Impatient for

ye deities

th'

to

prove our worth

occasion which shall end

Th' insulting question, and good

To our

estates celestial

now

title

prepare

show
!

Incens'd with wrong that nothing can atone

Save vengeance as unlimited.

The heaven

of heaven

we

Tremble

not contend alone

For empire but redemption from reverse

Insuff'rably humiliating,

680

ill

Detested, ye will tell hereafter our

Sad accidents
So here

their cause Chaos, not God

to call that Ruler, secret

he

'Bides in the cradle of eternity

Yet

still

One day

And

if

a thing

may be

shall stifle if
let

The seven

that these strong arms

he dare not meet

come through the rent clouds with

archangels, this Jehovah eighth

all

IN

More than enough

are ye, great gods

The

transitory while.

May

hope, subdue

Our power

as

Xow

lift

to take

Arrest us none

still less,

elicited

your apparatals shall prove

pride

0111*

vital the

more

'tis

touched,

the brazen bray of war, and formed

fretted front

He

upon the heavens

let loose."'

nor they delay'd but like a lake

said,

Long pent

the barring ice in some grand gorge

Dissolv'd

or avalanche

Fallen, they rush

Of more than
Each had

Some

TOO

from Cotopax

Baal deploy 'd in square

Steel'd squares with

an ^terminable line

iron o'erlapping sides and van,

sword

if

other

weapon

failed,

so accoutred that to sap they could

Xunibers

And

690

with desire that knows no bounds, no more

Than doth

The

83

whole; their slavish phalanx thrice

I cope the

Now

HEAVEN.

exhaustless

as to mortals

seem

are.

Apollyon, Ekriel, Moloch

In more than Pylian armour sheathed their limbs,

Swept forth pyramidal

tumultuous winged

Their multitudes unto the starless cope

Mounting-

So

in a

darksome night the

g

'2

flocks

710

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84

Of Hurricane through

By

the concave compelled

iEolus and others.

Stream'd the slings

Breathless aforth, one vast unruffled

Floating along

Haraphon

rul'd

Nisroch the

so at the

left,

wave

the right

equinox

The Northern Ocean

o'er the

Of Gothland pours

communicating each

His thoughts unto

They bore

as if

dismal dams

his fellow but

720

by looks

a-swoon they would surprise

The Ever- wakeful

hippogryphs and brutes

Gorgonian drove shuffling on behind,

Deathful their riders look'd as strong to bear

As

to inflict

these the artill'ries served

In chief ordain'd reserves

Or

if

if

any gave,

which much they deprecated, God

"Within his battlements defied the van

To

sap retir'd upon

They open would

Such

force

That

if

him

as besieged

moreover on each flank

immense was

plac'd

and

so disposed

the sides did, unexpected break

Then Haraphon's were

there.

Adramelec's

Upon

their harpies soar'd

no atmosphere

730

Of

light

was

85

HEAVEN.

IN

crowding with unrest

theirs close

Incessant, flushing one the other on

Myriads they flew

Togarmah's myriads more

740

Past calculation, soon exulting lost

In the invisible as

Of

if

the cramp

ages from their limbs were just removed.

And

countless as the Cyrenaic sands

Surrounding Ammon's fane the seraphim

immediate follow, many-eyed

Self-shrin'd

Eyes more than feathers

innum'rous they,

theirs

Moving continual and running

to

And fro where run they might

thus out they spread

Their whizzing pinions startling as they spread

750

E'en Lucifer himself.

O'er

The land

if so to call

as the

the sea,

Hibernian bogs

Allow'd, they sped those

Such

air,

spirits,

joyance theirs

Mohawks have when on

Of white men

to their fiendish

By

evil fortune.

Of

ecstasy

With

the trail

hand betrayed

a nameless sense

wrought from preceding woe

Th' horizon of the heavens was seen to

clear,

Faint in the rising blue the golden gloam

Outlining the great wall

And

words incomplete

exclamations short congratulative

760


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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

86

Some time were then

No

indulg'd

no warden warned

garrison gave sign, and as the light

At length upon them through

the short'ning space

Pour'd clear and sculptur'd in the radiant sky

The battlements unguarded, welcome hope

Of God abandon'd
In mutiny came

all

the citizens

to the Arch-one's heart,

Toil at an end, behold! the fruit, thought he,

Pluck

but that instant other surmise

Of stratagem and

He

in

full career

His armies stopp'd imperiously

With
In

'stonied

noise tremendous, bucklers brash

bucklers, cars on cars, and steeds on steeds

infinite disorder

The

stole

that so plausible

started agoniz'd

They turn with

770

close

around

regents rushing where their Eoyal stood

Cruelly calm and strong, his balls of sight

Turgid and wounding

For care

sat

to their eyes to see

on his cheek wrinkling his brow

So banish'd from his country looks some lord

Frustrated in return.
"

Unto our arms

Cried he, " this uninhabitedness

Is craft, auxiliars

if

heaven retain

His population 1 not one watcher there

780

HEAVEN.

IN

Shows

to

perplex us

worse at

87

loss for that

Considerate absence if not yet compelled."

The

princes heard convinc'd nor answer 'd one,

Consid'ring

Then

all.

Nam'd Phalton and

As

some

is

a sub-regent rose

distrustful of his speech

when he

alien

A meeting,

thus replied

first

To freedom
Though

God

all sides

impulse

fructify,

follow'd thee not all

Belief in

Is

High Emperor

natural as thy following proves

Will germinate

On

must

as thine

accosts

"

Such seed

the dormant

this I opine is

round

Consummating such

happed
800

no paradise of peace
;

the restless spirits

liberty as ours

what in consequence

Foreboded

little

We bear

thus split in twain far off at bay

Fearing the one the other,

all are

kept

Ign'rant of our approach else welcome

Unto

these walls

Upon

his throne

In

solitary

And

mind

dying gradually away

yon divided realm

790

had we.

Now

now

in his pride

which these millenniums stood

pomp,

810

th' arbitrator

sov'reign of the skies proceed

and

seize

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88

Thou
Are

greater

God

thine

own

all

the sympathies of soul

God

impotent

shall fall,

Unsanctifled he totters to his base

Which
The

baseless

is

as

when we

roll

away

myst'ries of prescription shall be found."

Then

rose Croastor saying, "

Thou who knowest

Better than that thine inference to draw

Whence many

come,

Emp'ror! as

God's

if

Party had yet no leader, and their head

Were grown

820

too old or altogether gone

Indifferent to fate even to death,

For that awaits him and the burning brand

Of cowardice
'Tis all

With

And

incredible

he meditates a single blow

his twelve-handed engines, once to smite

smite no more.

Fever were

The

if so

certain,

If all to us were like

but none

less it is

opposite emasculated are

Their vigour quite extinct though

Of mind

continue else were they revolt

Same time with us and

Bondage

the show

still

to

some

is

join'd in heart

sweet as freedom's

and hand;
self.

Jehovah deeming us untaught behind

His force conceals, designing when the

least

830

89

IN HEAVEN.

Expected use

make

to

These armies hope in

To vanquish]

'tis

Thus contrary
Pillar of state,

Danger

for

how may He

fair contest to take,

impossible, beware!"

that speaker like

some sage

when Inexperience draws

as distant

Anxious

840

he believing near

for the result

Ahithopel

Counsell'd like manner, others like to him.

"

Heaven

shall be," cried Baal,

" emptied

all

Vainly for that their monarch at their head

Panoplied in his best, the massive keys

Upon
Lest

his

if

By way

most mysterious chambers turned

we

drove him off

enter should

of portal rather than by force

To which

they're destin'd echoing thunder

So resonant he
'Tis treach'ry

God

we

shall hear where'er

what thou, Emperor!

he

back

850

flee.

observed'st,

strengtheneth himself as well he

may

In stedfast manner bravely hold our course

Unto the

destin'd goal prepar'd to

His aggregated

force

A hailing hail-storm
And

meet

fearless to face

from those waiting walls,

a full harassing until our stores

Brought gen'rally upon them down they're done,

The

fadeless fillets ours."

860

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

90

"

In dreary calmness on thy

None

equal,

fiat

bound
Chance

trust not

and before our hosts resume

Their onward march

As spy the

universe,"

" dread Lucifer

Added proud Haraphon,

Awaiteth thy decision

The

some bold wing essay

let

silent intermediate space,

I offer."

He

displaying,

and

to

him
870

Adramelec.
" If

To meet

us, let

By downright

War
Our

is

him

the foe prepare

we

the heavens

if

storm and violence

our trade, and war

fiercest

What

now

gain

we gain

our sternest

will,

rage unvanquishable show.

matt'reth

it

to us that

Or

out be found ? so long

He

hideth, well

we

God
find

within
;

we

he croucheth, well

seek
his spring

Takes us by no surprise whene'er he come,

Or how

Him

his Bodyless.

For what
fear

And

we

receiving

in these longing arms crushing the

Out of

As

rather surprise shall

we

life

To watch were mad,

he watcheth
scorn,

880

game

like his

we

scorn

what prompteth him beside

conscious weakness

Quick

let us

resume,

IN HEAVEN.

Resume our Emperor

Impatient

the

lies,

91

the thrilling trump

ail-artill'ries

To open on the heavens,

long

the armies

all

O'er the embattled heights in mass to pour

and

Victorious,

His turn

Scabbards

Our

this is

our limit, nothing short

we

none, nor what wherein to rest

've

wherewith our Fells

lances, nor

Unless

we

kill

to feed

our own, their corpses thrown

Instead of God's unto their rav'ning

The time

890

to spoil the spoiler in

is

come

maws

revenge!"

for victory,

So the Armada by contrary winds

Check'd the commander for an omen took,

But not the captains

No

thought of

Then
Is

my

Lucifer

all a-thirst for spoil

"

brave ancestor

The

ambush from behind

Couching

'tis

he

said.

900

probability

those well-built walls

well from this assurance draw

That we are formidable otherwise

No wrong
Us

as a

advantage sought

God behoveth face

Delib'rate open

this

he

Witness proud powers

With what advantage

Or disadvantage

it

first

hath done
all

remains to

we

confront

to face

what we

rather

God would

the more

despise

see,

910

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92

Guarded

To

in consequence

tyrants their

Suspecting

Although

thus shall

it

be

snare the free escaped

existence, tapestried

its

it

own

be and interlac'd with care."

So that deceiver preach'd forgetting how

Unto Adramelec one time he

Declining in

synod open feat

full

Of arms with

that

With

They

re-career

Opponent

commanding
:

talk'd

air

so the

this said

he

and ordering
920

Danaians in

Their course on Ilium by contrary winds

Detain'd the heavy anchors gladly heaved

With

the

Whilst

first

all

The deeps

change and Menelaus

first

the leaders measuring with care

of space, restrain'd

In strange and dang'rous seas

as

pilots will

'twas thus the gulf

Those on the wing they swam, whilst those who marched

Oft started at their shadows in the dark

Imagined or seen

The

horizontal

Upon

cast

lengthning by

beams of

light

which streamed

that heap of darkness from the heavens.

Thus on the great

God

frontier of

Over the wild abysm with Chaos

The
I

to

fulgent fringes of eternal day

[ere alleluias met, or echo of

they came

930

:
;

93

IN HEAVEN.

The

alleluias,

The

hyaline outcome

from afar within

:

Fallen on his only son

some lightning stroke

a blacken'd corse

Smitten before his eyes the father scarce

much

So

surprises

Unmov'd,

Thought

And

he

his throne

citterns

940

within his court

fills

to praise inclined,

Lucifer, the while I hostile

Angelic quires

Your

God

come

to other strains full soon

ye shall tune, your deftest clamped

thou mine enemy prepare, prepare

Contemptuous King

Which

for

more experienc'd arms

yet shall prove supremacy not thine

Thus on gain'd they and soon the

barrier walls

Frown'd ominous upon them and immense.

Eternal sure defences up they towered

Beyond capacity of

As deep

seeing,

inscrutable, afar

950

down

beyond

Imagination, and their stones were squared

So truly and so perfectly infixed

That jointure none appear'd

'Twas jasper

as

high they towered

excellence as clear

all to

As

crystal polish'd

As

fitly built,

Of

varied vein red, purple, white and gold

these to sapphires changed

and chalcedons beneath

Em'ralds came next, and

still

beneath them lay

960

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH.

94

Transcendent stones

to species twelve as tells

John the divine of Patmos

More than

still

him shown

the angels previously had known.

Obdurate rebels

Yet

to

in such pride ensconced

they hoped to scale or undermine

These hugest bulwarks, there in wide array

The labour

As

calculating, unassailed

yet from the high tops

The while braving he saw,

fell

Lucifer

his sceptred

Lord

Secretly cursed that his walls so stood

Apparent

sure,

970

begrudging sore the time

They must delay

his overthrow

and

fate

Ruthless he look'd over his ruthless bands

Following his flaming eyes, unto the depth

Stirr'd

up the

Their failing

So

silent multitude,
spirits

strengthened

such his bearing was

boastful, or so confident

the more

Proportion'd to his doubt which came unto

His

secret heart like cold

thus on they winged

Massively gathering those millions close

And
Of

closer all together as those walls

the Almighty God's great realm they won.

980

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BOOK

III.

THE ARGUMENT.
Lucifer

mined

down before the

sits

wall of heaven which

discovering a gate he besieges that.

invoking

God

God

is

vainly sapped and

The holy

appoints Michael, Gloriel, and Hadriel

seven archangels against the rebellious in equal number.

Death and others

finally Lucifer

is

The

shivered to pieces,

revolted that survived falling headlong down.

action opens with the

.three of

the

battle

and the three archangels meet, with

tremendous a shock that the whole Chaos

The

angels rise

same day

in heaven.

all

so

the

BOOK

Now

III.

the meridian crystalline shone bright

Heaven's lengthen'd day half spent, since Lucifer

Rebelling rose

when down

before the walls

His myriads battalious they

But

sate

what task were mine

The solemn
The awful

so to relate

ord'ring at the journey's end,

calm, the silence

Grounded those

when

their

arms

rebels to reflection turned

Under the shadow, the

seraphic airs

Floating aerial o'er like outspent waves

From some
Long

far

ocean of divinest sound

of these battlements the battled thought

Other reception and like some wild troop

Fezzanee the mirage across Saharr
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98

Hopeful pursuing the resemblance

Of water undetected
So these

fair

too late

'till

but the Arch-agnate nearing Night

Quick invocating,

o'er the

boundless tract

Outpour'd were seas of spume; thus he designed

To

fence from hostile ken, and ranks select

Proceed the deep foundationals

20

to find,

Whilst thrice ten thousand charioteerers scour

The

crap'd

champaign

Of some adventure

And

In wide Columbia
In his

Then

fair city

so casqued Cortez looked

his Espagniols

their earnest eyes in search

when

soft

to horse

they took

Montezume

ignorant or at peace

too did all such as were

Their wearied beasts

some

And join'd

the jav'lins
;

mounted

ease

armour see

to their

their service volunteered

Consid'rate

Tenters pitch out

some

others

as sentinels

Amy clean
some stood

Whilst some unseasonable resting sought

Such

Not

rest as eyes for ever

open take,

like that trance delectable in

From pure

When

heaven

ambrosial excess brought round

Ev'ning o'er the drooping gardens sheds

Her Morphic

airs

white culminating moons

Rising opaque, the stellar influence

felt

30


99

IN HEAVEN.

By

all

the flowers as well

Adoring

They

airs

to

whilst others

soul,

hymns

as

high

and thus the hour wore

Thus there enormous

Through the

40

which in happier times

also strung their lyres to

Charming the

list

galleries they

and with

intestine

on.

wrought

spoil so vast

Of

wasteful matter that th' expanse behind

length'ning chain of lofty mountains rose

Ambitious of the walls, nor angels few

The

heights essaying thence like Icarus

Vain boy

their forces

though immortal

Fell in the fond endeavour

spent,

50

Lucifer

Aforetime wont, he vainly the attempt

Secretly

made

His strength
Flutt'ring

Now

he

like Daedalus

rose,

ill-calculating to the

came he confusion

ground

in his heart.

havocing they went nor yet deterred

By

difficulty

Of

fire,

whether

beds

solid

or ice harder than

Well-nigh impenetrable

adamant

plied,

high

O'erarch'd their roof, posting the legions so

At

the right

In phalanx

Away

moment

its

into

heaven they pass

voluptuous tribes to sweep

for ever, or their shatter 'd ranks

Annihilated to the Throne of

h 2

God

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100

Advancing make the prize

Feasted the Barmecide

Reaching sardonyx's

Then

Nor

so in a

dream

these presently

like

him awake.

speculating what beneath remained,

down

yet despairful perpendicular

Hasty they

dive, legions relay'd constant,

Scooping the craggy chaos with

70

effect

Amazing, the debris at-length behind

Another Himmala

The super-cumbent

lo

unaware

buttresses

and dome

Suddenly giving topple in came they

Upon
That
So

the operatives

dismal

fissur'd place to see

suffer 'd

it

was

th' Antilles ne'er

nor Guadaloupe, the victims dug

From

out the ruins shatter'd in their limbs

As

corporeal

if

And

grown

injuries clos'd their

but soon their wounds

comrades they rejoin

Incens'd the more for this mishap they seek

Fresh ground the distance doubled, unto that

Setting with zeal proportionate, in bands

Lab 'ring such multitudes the space decreased

So rapid that

full soon,

This time," said they,

" Sure they are ours

when

the persistent sards

Again oppose; the Arch-bestirrer blank!

Th'

artificers

examine

if

a flaw

80

"

101

HEAVEN.

IN

DO

Presented but defect no one could find

In that excelling work

long with lorn hope

Well-temper'd tools they

drawn

Carefully

Much more

try,

on every part
remained

so that if scratch

a joint detected

it

advis'd, "

Then Mulciber

had been.

Emperor!"

Said he across his overhanging brow

Passing his hand not fluent

44

The

Desp'rate to tempt

is

As much, but
when

Takes

much

100

the third most like

yet if thou

command we

will

a man-of-war in shoreless seas

fire,

The crew

resisting breadth,

that for if so

The former two exceed

of speech,

height, the depth beyond us, nought remains

Behind but the unknown

Lo

much

and

to

all their efforts

quench give

o'er,

in despair

the gunner comes

Reporting to the adm'ral that but one

Chance

for the life remains, (the

Of powder

close

magazine

endanger 'd,) that poor chance

Scuttling to boat, so Lucifer likewise,

Assenting, with combustibles they

The hollow'd
Effecting

fill

1 1

deep, careful the port'rage there

the sierras they return

Back from the postern

Approaches,

all

to re-plug those

dark

the outlets with such blocks

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102

Of diamond

as hugest they could find

Hermetically clos'd except one

With but
Unto the

Of

all

stair

small room the final train to lay

hellish gulf; this

Vathec did

the angels slimmest he of form

Bolder none found, in his right hand a match

Lighted he bore, his

sinister

a rock

safely plac'd

return'd

For fresh materials,

at last the

Which
Of

that long path

was no

full

many

a time

mouth

less artful sealed.

Thus hopefully prepar'd the

Aside retire

120

rebels then

Night too impulsive rose

In expectation hovering on high

As

possibly she could, for such a time

As now

approaches, to herself said she,

Was

never known, the battlements must

And

I before the 'seigers can will in

Thus they awaited

fall

suddenly with vast

Explosion from that mine the forced flames

Outpour, aloft in hideous volume driven

The cupola

of that prodigious pit,

Sere smoke in torrents from the agued abyss

Gushing with furious

fires

the fragments reached

Countless spectators and so smote them as

A storm

of April hail ephem'rides smites,

130

IN

HEAVEN.

103

Whilst Night was in the chok'd combustion whelmed

Unto the bottom, from her dizzy height

Brought down insensible
Op'ning

so

when

the Earth

Lisbon swallow'd those she spared

lost

Distrustful stood

Of

[140

at

length

the murky clouds

desolation pass'd, the whirling spent,

Over the vacuous void the walls of heaven

Shining abhorr'd they

see,

and from

restraint

Broke loose tumultuous coasting the black brink

Discerning Night some thought,

That daemon

And

extricate,

it

150

bottom lay

was impracticable

Cried Timiel " She

fain

but so profound

suffocating the blue

They found

many would

dies,

then

what better gravel

angels " this that rash suggester said

So

to divert their thoughts

Boist'rous the

To

more the

that whole myriads

with noisy mirth

less
set,

good cause

it

had,

and from the riven

Volcanic precipices quick detach

Such pond'rous rocks the Night nigh buried

When

Lucifer o'er the aerial waste

Borne on

his seraphim, with thunderbolts

His frenzied eyes threat'ning

To

lay

as well restrained

swift perdition living lightnings drove

Timiel scorch'd up, over the smoking sides

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104

Dash'd with ring down where Night in spasmy

Stretch'd stark

state

she shriek'd to see her Author there

Reviving, and in lamentable plight

Clutch'd

him

convulsively

so one near

drowned

Grasps a deliv'rer to the crowded bank

Of

170

the deep river turning.

Whilst these passed

In the dim distance visible appeared

charioteer remorseless lashing on

His

body bent

flying gryphons, his slight

For haste upon the hindmost twelve their backs

That sight that Agnate watch'd wishing the goads

And

their appliance sharper

Elis ne'er

Witness'd such speed as theirs

Pirois

Plegon and Eous,

and (Ethon thund'ring down the vault

Western .when he Clymene bore the god

Of Day threw down

As seen he

greets

the reins were slow

all

as soon

first

the cohorts on that errand sent,

As on he drove

whilst explorating on

Far in advance adventured the

Of

180

close to the wall of

heaven

marv'llous gate he found, " Fast shut," said he,

" It

is,

if I

may judge unto

this

day

Ne'er open'd:" he.

Scarce credible the tale

HEAVEN.

105

one not Lucifer suspected that

190

IN

No

The wall had

gate

Nothing external

The rampart

what purpose \

if I

Thought

he,

he mused,

choose beyond

to expatiate I

Into real randomness

so

plunged

mystery deep

and whilst he thought a gen'ral shout

Heralds another in the dense inane

Antipodal, his passage

They

said

made

so swift

he bred no shadow

to the first

Discoverer he confirmation brought

He

also

Of

those huge bulwarks, " Gate that

found

set in the jasper

frame

200
still

Description," so cried he, " swift though

Sudden they stopp'd

Upon them

so short

my

gryphs

that grand view

burst far in advance from out

This chariot I was flung

As beaten they had

Thought

when

defies

"

one ask'd

if

road

seen but neither that

to observe.

Now

this invited fear

Fear that Jehovah even then a-forth

Was
By

sallying with his armies

sage surprisal

as yet

to take

hope that since longwhile

They came not they would

Denied

them

never, whilst ingress

was possible by that means

Complacent then

as trusting to destroy

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106

That barrier unto

For

his opinion

their Chief they look

which with

Gladly his regents found

theirs agreed

nor he delayed,

Over that peopled space came instant change

commandment, "Up, now gods! now up

With

his

Your

standards,

By

his

own

and the En'my in his den

secret

pathway

Like tempest shaken

220

us seek."

let

was the sound

forests

Of

preparation; terrible the tramp

Of

those tenanciers passing from that scene

Of maddest impotence

like swollen stream

Like Oronok by hurricanes fed

At

all his sources,

Eddying

full

they the Chaos shook

their gonfalons, the

uncouth beasts

Rolling as roll gnarled enormous elms

Torn up

in the career

and driven along

230

In the chaf'd scouring scurf; regions they ploughed

In passing to the roots advancing so
Scarce were the wing

Unto

their object

when

the rest arrived

that saw Lucifer

Smitten with admiration

That rich-wrought

With

all

now

first

time,

portal, lustrous pearl entire

frontispiece magnificent

Pride of ^Egyptian kings

Edfou

where sphynxes sate

Guarding the gorgeous entrance,

to

some

slave

107

IN HEAVEN.

From
Or

240

Abyssinia less astonishing

that grand door of

Luxor which shut

Veil'd Isis from the vulgar

The transom shone

in a

in

graven on

most royal

style

An untranslateable, " Judah!" read they

And throbbing thought erasure soon to make
No speck disfigur'd that divinest proof
Of

the great Architect, through

Of fretwork

all

the turns

the most intricate no line

Betray'd an incapacity, where touch

Slightest produc'd the necessary effect,

Or where

250

the boldest chiselling was required

'Twas passing perfect high within the wall

Proportionally set by fair degrees

Ascending

(like that

tower on Sennaar's Plain

Which God came down

The compass wide

so that the chariot of

The Sovereign King

Had

Heaven with thousands square

of

ample passage found, or host enough

Even

for Lucifer's,

Then

turn'd,

his

Drawn

he

sick'ning sore

from point

Severely scanning

Of

to see,) as truly chosen

immense
ordered

all

to the far distant point

the breadth and length

artilleries
;

he saw

so formidable they

Appear'd vain Hope he calFd

ne'er called in vain

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108

If with sincerity

Convergent

in semi-cirque

to that portal they

were wheeled

Innumerable, servitors in rank

Ten

to

each engine, chosen for their size

Cyclopean and expert as those who forged

The noted thunderbolts

He

thus close arranged,

270

with no longer pause precipitates

The

long'd-for signal, each his torch applying

Same time out out

Resistless with,

it

rushed a bodied Ruin

O Queen

such deaf ning roar

Th' inventor was confounded,

fire

and

flash

Eclipsing the whole firmament, the heights

Wrapping

To an

And

shaggy shade, or gone the whole

in

infernal

wreck

portal, wall,

and

spires, pinnacles,
all,

for hailing,

down

Enormous comets with a crash descend,

Back

too

280

upon a high sharp-crested wave

Oceans of lava drove involving those

The foremost

rebels with the train advanced,

Rudest disorder rul'd as these urg'd back

Down-treading the

Far distant

posterior, millions

swept

such as timely on the wing

Escap'd scarce
Fell actual in

safe,

and many frighten'd

faint

appalling was the scene,

Whole squadrons from

their

growling gorgons

mad,

HEAVEN.

IN

Unhors'd lay perishing beneath their

Had

Those The Undying

Such

cries conclusive proved,

Worm

mortally stroke

thus unto their cost they proved

thirsty tools they play'd with, 'gainst their throat

Retributively
'tis

The

drawn instead of God's

with treason since

Sooner or

Of

290

feet

shrieks refrain'd whilst writhing as a snake

Disbowel'd

So

109

they been charged their senseless pride were less

Abas'd as some sharp

The

late

it first

began

rebellow'd then the heavens,

300

seas serenest wrinkled, the abodes

all

the gods were shaken

from their halls

Th' inhabitants rising from the banquet sped,

From

the myrtillian bowers, the manner'd meads,

The mountains

every one within the twelve

Circles of Paradise

Upflung

their starry

wings

in prevalence together, thronged

The wide-spann'd

Upon

courts of

his Everlasting

God mounting

Throne

such steps

as ne'er

Before archangels trod, their golden lyres

Unheeded, their right hands

as well uplift

In solemn conjuration, crying loud,

"

O Thou

No

the angels'

life

creature can behold

The

vision of

Thy

unseen because

Thee and endure

glory

now

incline

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110
Eternal

Thy

to

servants

where Thou

Solemn within alone the God of

The gods

hear us

Thou Hearkener from

Indescribable noise

For ever

we

fly

that unseemly, strange,

One
320

solitary thron'd within

Immensity

let

the space between

Thee God and these Thy angels

Be

all

unto Thee

Mysterious

sitteth

lowly bowed,

shorten'd or the distance to the gate

Of heaven whence
Greater

we we

Unruffled

One

Unbearable

From Thine
Divinity

conjure Thee

so

distinct

descend

high an exaltation, or

most gracious

for our

Undisturbed,

a fear upon us comes

reveal

Wherein Thou
Rule

the revolters threat so loud

lift

us up

livest manifest

hope in act that

High God

if

330

not wrath

Shall judgment deal unto thy foes to their

Dismay,

Lord

Lord

Lord

Thus they
Importunate around, their voices deep

Invoking vengeance

on adoring knees

Bent simultaneous one alone remained

Of

the petitioners upon his feet

Their representative

Michael was he

begirt

IN HEAVEN.

The

who

great archangel

1 1

340

before declared

Unto the then-rememb'ring suppliants war

Avenging

theirs

awful look'd he the while

Th' Almighty sate in silence, on the ground

Fix'd his regards, his hands together palmed,

Cov'ring with careful wings his failing feet

JSTor

God

denied

Wherein He

from out the empyrean

shrin'd,

through

all

the more than gold

Sapphirine domes high vaulted, round the walls

Of

crystal, o'er the turquois floors, apast

Diamonded

balustrades,

and polished doors

350

O'erstud with azure gems high glittering, vast

Pillars

and obelisks

shaking the whole

Great globed cupolas, the

The

aisles,

and

all

bastion'd recesses from the base

E'en to the glowing towers, articulate forth

Assenting answer comes, "

Go

Michael

now

Prince of archangels, Gloriel, Hadriel,

An

equal number unto them oppose

Outside our battlements, asserting there

The

right

And

fury

On

Supreme

and plagues of

in your right usurping,

fire

and

flood

fall

Lucifer on his infatuate host."

God

said, the

heavens

all

tremble

His angelry most reverendly then

all

the while

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112

Casting their crowns before Jehovah down,

Sung, " King Eternal, Righteous, Just and True

To Thee be honour,

We

we magnify Thy Holy Name

laud,

Who

Round

mad'st the

Similitude of Glory

From

dominion, power

praise,

in space

and

370

everlasting to e'erlasting

God

judgest

all

things

King

we Thy

Thou Light

of the just,

therein

Genitor

O Thou

Dominion Thine without an end,

Who

all

sceptre

own

of lights, before

All worlds in highest bliss supremely throned,

To whom

And

alike the past, the present

the to

come

Omnipotent

art

is,

Thou,

Omniscient, Omnipresent, Infinite,

And

Absolute

Thy most

above

all

height, all thought

divine beatitude

Thus those

amen."

blest blessed join'd

Again, and Michael sounding

Immortal marshall'd
Impatient

Of

all to

Heard and

'till

all his

heaven rung

host

for the great conflict,

vindicate the cause

outrag'd Majesty

Hadriel rose

380

radiant also

Gloriel the Sovran voice

as soon prepar'd

Assail'd, scarcely they waited

Snatching the handiest

so

Athens once

arms

from their

to

don

feasts, their

games,

Their

To

sacrifices

battle, like

IN HEAVEN.

113

rushing garlanded

390

Eunseus thrown aside

His wreath Nyssean

Beyond the

to the

complement

royal warrant unto

them

Uriel spoke of some futural field

An

opportunity theirs with like result

Promis'd their brethren

The

the self-same day

and through that grand gate

skies resounded,

Swung back upon

thus

the hinges, throngs were poured

Thrones, powers, dominions, virtues, princedoms with

Spread signs and ensigns

thousands fan the

airs

400

Imblaz'd, chiefest the sign to Michael far

Flaming

abrupt beyond the wall

o'er the

Embattled thick

when king Darius

Thus Alexander with

As

men appeared

half-expos'd, a sword, breastplate,

Well-nigh their

To

his

met,

and helm

total furniture, so these

Lucifer his mediate time employed

Re-organizing.

Thus those armies stand

Confront; unquenchable of hate the one,

Horror the

Men

other,

not that horror which

but good angels

As men and

angels

feel,

unlike the two

so the Sabines
i

met

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114

The

ravishers, of

The

Austrian.

Romulus

Now
The

The forming

between them yawn'd short space

The

determining so in

fight their dreadful

With such advantage

that once

arms

to use

more they breathe

420

od'rous groves of nard, re-earning there

promis'd their lord Paramount they should,

Their

forfeit heritage, addition theirs

Incalculable

all

God's gods o'ercome.

Thus with a mutual

To

so Tell

rebels porting their inventionings

At heaven's incens'd

As

battle,

will those angels turn

rank'd and banded

clashing

all

Their brassy shields the reprobate the din

Of war provoking, with loud

Distract, at the

shouts they vex

same time the war-whoop raised

So yell'd the Sioux, the Hurons when they rushed

Blood-thirsty forth

over the narrow edge

Dividing, and in proud parade the rest

Hosting came on; hideous they join'd the shock

The

universe acknowledging with groans

How
As

painfully 'twas

felt,

nor angels few

half-amaz'd themselves they found well met

In that wide onslaught: for sometime the two

430

IN HEAVEN.

115

Kemain'd in doubt of the tremendous

Then with

recoil

Stern-eyeing

broad space asunder drove

With
As

And

all violate,

infinite at wildest

Destiny distrusting

oft

440

presently again the forced

Truce spurning they

And Frenzy

clash,

Contempt

work

thus ending

renewing with increas'd uproar

re-collision, light

and lightning gushed

Continually forth out into space

Illuminate the corners most remote

Then

one, Phornicorash the

To death

Who

O Muse

eternize

Tonoros

from him wresting a prodigious sword

Cleft through his helm, his skull

The wound,

Down

to the

His

ground he
ichor

him now

falls,

hued

his plate

so

icy, his

and mail

from a vase

there indistinctly

failing pulses, at the heart

Unwonted

deadly the stroke,

the sand the precious wine

Before

450

his eyeballs start, the nervures snap,

With heavenly

Upon

was done

first

he

is lost

swim
feels

transparent skin

Exudes a clammy sweat, then from

his

mouth

A spirit dabbled in his blood went forth

Like that one Shakespeare draws by Clarence seen

As when Amphiar'aus unexpect

i

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

116

Confronted Pluto Lucifer like him

Started afraid of such an one deformed

Crying, "Death!" and he in his

For Death was

Of

own person sped

there, gender'd amidst the heaps

slain already putrid basilic-brimmed

A-forth came he with whity wings, wall-eyed

Rising in might ruling the glairy ghosts

Swarming

shaggs,

sea gulls, kites,

The king

of birds

or if of biform beasts,

Jackals, hysenas, cats

They

The

and gornets

o'er

470

serpented-tressed

clutch'd the fingers

and

bestrid rav'ning

carcases close watching if he saw,

Their claws exploring for the inward parts

By him
Then

Upon

as yet untouch'd, or chance-like

as a

left.

princedom ruling, Azazeel

the flank of nearer Nisroch

fell

So sudden that the bitter dust they lick

Ten thousands and

ten thousands

thousands more

Struck with a panic unto present flight

Like shadows take,

to

them the boundless void

Seem'd cabin'd as with wings

They vanish'd
His

in the distance

lost artill'ries turn'd

at
;

utmost stretch

on himself

Destruction counts

By

millions glorying resolved on more,

He

flapp'd his flabby

wings

as oft

he heard

480

117

IN HEAVEN.

The thickning thunder, breath'd

And

deep he could

vap'rous rose tip-toed to see what then

After the clearing clouds

And

as

reck'ning could be

490

ere the survey

made

the midnight mists

Resuming, down confus'd o'erpower'd he

fell

Instant to rise again o'erjoy'd, again

There baleful Battle in a whirlpool caught

And rampt

Resolve together frantic fought

Clio, declare

upon the earth

(Proportion'd to the fleeting

They reckon

Which

as time

life

of man,)

one hundred of our years

full

upon the horologe of heaven

yet

Twice round the

circle the

long minute hand

500

Barely describ'd, those rebel legions that

Reverse withstand

so in the Polar seas

Shoals of leviathan

or those they call

Grampii amongst the hemming icebergs rage

Harpoon'd

but the forlornest

Driven back whence Nisroch

Which

all

God-like he drove

The
Such

rose

signal

rul'd,

he with a shout

the armies heard last essaying, on

Astride his dragon swept

Of men

effort theirs

so

over the slain

Agamemnon king

up and fought when Zeus gave

Azazeel retreating then

as remain'd

unharm'd came numbers up


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In whose determin'd looks promise shone

forth,

These down upon the holy angels like

deluge swept

that princedom like a rock

Repelling in a ruining retort

Retorts well-aim'd whole legionaries gored

With

grisly gaps

Or maces

the thrilling steel transpierced

crush'd their bones

torrents of blood

Spouted were then as wav'd the seethed sword

520

Forceful, or fledg'd the shaft, or wielded well

Down came
The

the club, the glitt'ring cutlass, or

visionary steel

Trodden or

falling lo

His banner sav'd

One

as

to strike

Lucifer look'd

With

from a frightful dream

him dead
up,

down

the regent flees

rous'd a dagger at the

Ready

Of

his armies

up

moment

at

Nisroch then

dilating

he

passion pang'd, went forth

battle giving, trampling

anew the

down

Resistance, in his stormy strength

Apparently, whilst

To

as mire

unmatched

still

fought

Indomptable that potent with such

as

sign

like a scorpion stung

desperation at his side

Of arms

sees

feat

few but him that day could boast.

With whirlwind
As well on high

wasteness too Resentment raged

sunless but burning bright

530

HEAVEN.

IN

With

And

119

the collision of the iron wings,

dark'ning darts which vaulting overflew

Constant; there the chimsericals also

With beaks and

Warrior

as

talons fought,

making

540
at

each

he approach'd, but these no power

Finding they scream'd, swimming in giddy mode

Mad,
For

wild, malignant, inarticulate

fury, racking

one another's joints

Oft unaware, indignant, glaring worse

If possible than the envenom'd sprites

Or

spectres intermix'd

With marrow

and now swollen

fat

Glaucus when that herb he eat

Transform'd to no one such

no such one that

550

Sea-monster by the angry god despatched

To

scare ungrateful

The warrers mix'd

Through

Whole

On

Troy

thus there they met

dividing for himself

boiling seas of shapeless depth, and oft

legions in disastrous sort

would

fall

those engag'd beneath (as water-spouts

When

on the wav'ring waves wrack-rent they come,)

Strewing the combatants

many withdrew

Aside as done to death, yet more remained

Than tongue can

As

tell

restless, in their

tameless as hurricane,

dark career revolved

Perpetual round, contending eagerly

560

120

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

With Death
To cram

his mouthful

Phantoms

him they craved

as if indeed for

like

maws

Death came

millions

more

forth, in livid skins

Corpse-like endued, cold, hollow, blue their cheeks

If cheeks they were, and horn'd if they were eyes

Like those the lizards that have

As

balls as large

are their heads but eyes as small as beads

Sharp as the Frosts

The moon the

They

flitted,

Lucifer lost

when over Iceland reigns

570

lakes unto the bottom froze,

but administ'ring

to those

before the holy they

Dispers'd as fogs, or altogether ceased

Existence

Or

these

when even Death

dar'd confront invisible he

Then Michael
Out on the

The

or chanced

fell.

in full blaze his signal flung

skies, to order

summon'd

gods, for gods they were

all

fast as their

wings

Could bear them from those

fields of disarray

Multudinous they gather'd

silence ruled

Whilst the archangels through the radiant ranks

Threw
They

the observing eye

look'd, uninjur'd

triumphant gods

from the

rival powers,

Before their brigandines habergeons

And

others vauntful undisparag'd they

Victorious stood, their sinews joints and bones

580

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121

Invulnerable were, Omnipotence

Having ordain'd

imperishable worth

th'

Of

goodness, by as necessary law

To

evil rawness, rottenness, relax,

590

This to the sorrow wofully was proved

By

myriads

of their

brittle bodily

Angelic forms to nakedness of soul

Depriv'd and sore

Expression, utter done

in master-mail

Those angels shone armed

Of

faith,

On

the trusty shield

the temper'd sword of God's bless'd

The helmet

What

beyond

afflicted far

spirit,

of salvation theirs, to these

were the

gifts th'

Olympians bestowed

600

Hercules % the suit Minerva gave,

The bow and

And

arrows, sword, great club of brass,

shield, Apollo,

Hermes, Vulcan, and

His father gave % these

Each

diff 'rently

to the wearer's rank,

In strength, not one

but equal

who from

Forth was found missing

devised
all

the portal passed

but against the foe

Harmless that sword, each angel snatch'd or wrest

Offensives,

them

Their plumes

From

so using

more

none had reached

brilliant

than the Owyheeian

glossy feathers excellently made,

Or the

Circassian's boast.

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122

Dread through the dark

And chasmy

Their hugest columns

Roll'd regular

Biscayan

Amongst

the midnight

Bay

Winds complain

Siberian pines such sound

Advancing

all

irresistible

like billows in the

when

archangels

air the three

make they

or Cocytus stern-reproved

Gainsaying Ghosts

620

the adversaries close

Mortal, each mighty to his utmost bent

Strain'd in that

Fought the

new encounter

rebellious,

As gods could use

The

actual elements

feller

then

with a science true

who

it

invented had

they smote, passed, met,

Rose, bent, or mov'd aside with agile grace,

Wit, and undying strength

The Solymeeans

fiercest of

But they were conquer'd

When

so afterwards

mankind
thus

long while in vain

one to Acarynthimos opposed

630

His weapon dropping down was instant done,

And

Won

from that gap through the hard-yielding

he exult

feebly the archers then

Their quivers spent, the slingers they oppose

The eager

millions close together rushed

Behind that valiant leader slaying as

Spirits.

lines

123

IN HEAVEN.

Then

Togarmah smote

Zarael,

And

smote his dragon, joy

The

angels saw close

And

shroud the show

np

On

his

most

Like a broad zone

640

his blasting eyes

him, waging

spoilt

fell

falsely fiction'd front

his shield flung

fire,

Gloom

Baal bewilder'd saw

Whilst they of harness

Resistance

eternal

down, his passage marked

then Phrymour at him thrust

Right through his side upon a gorgon came

His tranchant blade and

to the monster's heart

through the omoplate, extinct he

Sped

fell,

Whilst Baal like a bull a hunter spears

The armies

of

Togarmah

scattering gone

650

Like buffaloes through the Savannah when

Their trusted foremost
Call'd, "

though drench'd in gore

falls,

To your standard

our immortal hate

This shameful scene forbids;

Were

th'

encumber'd ground

verily with adversaries strown

Instead

if

half our strength were put ye gods

In earnest forth," Uproar resuming drowned

His voice Stentorian Apollyon

Immediately engag'd

as if

Wrath now

Really awaken'd, and the militants

Trifled

With

no longer, then ran

Fear, whilst

Madness

riot

660

Hope

shriek'd their change to

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Sped barbed

The fam'd

darts,

impetuous lances than

Pellsean stronger, or those long

vast labour from the iron-trees

Beams with

Cambodian shaven

wrathful faulchions so

Dext'rous they segments seem'd of sacred

Perpetual

and avenging bars and

Glancing like

Eesounding

Shock-broke,

all

they met

and gauntlets clashed 670

scourge on scourges
'till

bolts

whole mountains wrought

light, disks of

Down-crushing

fire

shields

on

shields,

murd'rous Rout for pity came

Nor worse Perdition her rough raven wings

Wagg'd

ever and enchantments horrible

Brew'd

the airs they momentarily

Grew

thick and irrespirable, death-birds

Fram'd

And

so,

like the Flinder-mice,

with deathful glee

Terrors like proportion'd round

thus they

Fiercer than dogs-Kalmuc, or cub-robb'd bears,

Or

out-brav'd ounces, driven as dirt and

dung

Before the ploughshares wholly overturned,

God's force acknowledg'd crying out that none

But God had

like to that

then hippogryphs

Leaping unfurl'd the inexperienc'd web

Wanting

Mouth

to fly

these from the nostrils and

pouring, as the heaped autumnal leaves

Rapt from some hollow by a wandering wind,

680


IN HEAVEN.

In middle

By

air at

lightning

125

disadvantage took

abroad

fell

for those

Their armour fused, these

feat for

them

unstrung

His ample count'nance

For the deliverance

690

millions far worse

Expos'd than ever, worse subdued nor

Nor

rode

strangely reached

all

The surcharg'd ground by

who

flight

Apollyon

fix'd, oft

times advanced

reared aloft

Bore he heroically through the throngs

Ready

to fall

as swathes before the scythe

In sultry summer-day

lancing he drove

Aside his thousands and with mainful might

Impetuous pass'd arresting as he passed

Their hostile tramp

Whole

700

once he alone repelled

legions in his stronger strength put forth

Entirely

if

the fallen fatuous power

Like that possess what attributes are His

Who

made them

then

as if a

god from the

Walhalla sent the Amazonians charged,

So he whole squadrons reeling
Drunk-like
Calliope

Twang

now with

memory

hills of slain

and

the plectrum

were Homer's

to his

Over the

to

fro

Lydian

airs

iron strings

as sweating blood,

Apollyon goeth

ghastly train behind whose

homes

are flesh

710

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

126

And

bev'rage blood

outlooking whence he ruled

That war, the Arch-abettor him beheld

Applauding

Clamour upon Clamour

rose

Inextricably fused, rallying here

chieftain, there the lavish legions locked

Or trodden

helpless

down

the Lightnings flashed

Growl'd Thunder purple-black as unassailed

Long time

that potent plagued, to Slaughter giving 720

then he saw

In thought

all

With more

success, the

So too Hippomedon

Tydeus once

Thebans mostly

slain

invuln'rable

Seeming, Death he encounter'd scornfully

Defied his best, sating his eyes superb

As

often as from bold exertion ceased,

He

look'd rampious around, his pathway straight

Left vacant

none could quell him, Sapharon

Attempting like a thunderbolt he rushed

Over

his

body aiming

730

arlablasts

Against that person but aside

fell

they

Ent'ring the ground full ninety fathoms deep

Thus more than strong whereto the haughty

He
Yet

turn'd the stream of battle there

gen'rally

it

flow'd that

Sure undermining

was stemmed,

unmatched chief

Ekriel likewise

Did tameless things beyond

all

step

human

reach

IN HEAVEN.

Of thought

no cherubim more potent found

In that day's fighting

Was

careless pride or scorn

stalk'd elate

battle with one

740

gallant his spear he shook

so

some Georgian prince

Fresh from the harem, thinks

Of

hand

his the while ten thunders in his

God-full he pois'd

And

127

arm

to turn the tear

reckless he bounds

Amidst and seems the god, the God of

War

Incarnated in beauty, friend and foe

Admiring, nay by sympathy compelled

To

love

him

thus this one as half-beloved,

Half-fear'd, fairest of

Shiv'ring to see and

Went "whisht"
Of heaven

it

form he hurled things

when he

hurl'd the Air

750

so far, so fleet, against the wall

dash'd dead

or suns detaching

Sent on before so that this day they drive

Comets

(unclaim'd when God

To

order call'd

Of

nations

when

hence the

this side hot hell

distress of

men

ill-omen'd they gyrate

Return well-founded was

'till

Christ shut

up

Hell in The Bottomless and chain'd the Sons

Of Wrath

Hung

for ever

down

:)

his matric'd mail

pealing peals, from out his causal casque

Sparkles like diamonds from Golconda, or

Philosophers strange stones, by millions shed

760

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128

Yet, notwithstanding rout on routed rout

Grew

wider, Sapharon and others

baulked

Like him a moment, rising pav'd their paths

With dead and dying

Fright thenceforth their feet

Attending down the lesser standards they

Eepeated

tore, their bearers

Loading the

Thus

blasts

overthrown

with execrable words

o'er continual din frequent arose

The sounds

From

th'

of anguish

770

as if craft nocturn

American against Montreal

Directed, on Ontario opposed

By

Britishers

and nr'd a-down the lake

Drifting over Niag'ra one

Went

by one

headlong, each lost crew their shrillest shrieks

Forth-sending as the fatal Fall they made.

Thus dwindled

As

startle

Truth

their hack'd hosts despite such acts

their

rough resistance

And

less until

The

heaviest a wide battalion turns

less

where disadvantage pressed

Deflecting on the back

so the great

dyke

Of Flanders

in the night-time gradual gives

The damage

ever-length'ning whilst the Villes

Rush

to the

In act

And

breach the burgomasters

to stop it

first

though impossible

these two mighties rallying quick as

may

780


129

IN HEAVEN.
Spurring their dragons to the gaping gap

Rashly resisted

in that bristling space

Vengeance confronting presently her own

Made

the presenters, o'er the delug'd plain

Victorious

With

And

rueing

difficulty

their red ensigns saved

proud Apollyon

Ekriel to Lucifer retreat,

His thund'ring mace he

Look'd half

The

790

Gog, Magog ne'er

lift,

whilst at both he glar'd

Is to the

serv'd

thus fellowship

bad no longer than

Mutual are

their ends

burning with his reproach

In his wrath's-worst

From

Anarch then

so ferine as that

repressing

off his living- seat

he

it

the space

800

swiftly passed

(All the surrounding gods grew white to see

Backing through

The mightiest
Men,

He
As

all

as the

the being,) mightier than

mighty are above

scatter'd squadrons as they fled ruthless

slew, thrice wildering the sight of all

fellest that

Whilst he

had been

the conq'rors pause

relentless pour'd oceans of blood

As Chaos should be

slak'd

Th' affrighted angels look'd

The Bacchic Nysa

Pygmaean

like

like those

in the

haunted grove

Where Mab and Oberon

their courtlies

beyond

keep

81

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

130

When

some swarth savage unexpected

Upon them

falls

trump'ry

all their trains, their

made

Of cobwebs, bladed

swords, and moted spears

Despairful dropp'd

behind him Ruin shot

Her arrowy
Of

glances, seal'd the overthrow

he met

all

Eternal Death

Scarce equalling, with

Choke

full

so the

all his

his strides

rav'nous jaws

sworn son of Hamilcar

820

So too the Maccabee, but premature

That time was that Arch-trier, but waste work

own en'my

mad he seemed

For

his

The

whilst the coward rebels with requite

He

visited

doing:

but thus in some degree

Order return'd Fear in worse shape returned

To

scare those stricken millions, thus compelled

Unto

And

their duty

first

one legion halts

then another, rather to endure

God's angels than his more tremendous wrath

Profuse outpouring

on that face no one

Living dar'd pause 'twas like his mighty mind

Too awful

to

be studied

Before perform'd by

into insignificance

With

his

achievement

lifted all the

what had been

all his

Sunk

He

potent powers

compared
every time his arm

chaos the effect

830

IN HEAVEN.

Dreading attended, in

Thousands

swift descent

nothing driven

to

Of angry Winter
All disappear

its

131

so at the touch

moths, grasshoppers,

840

flies

his pinions to their length

Measureless flung his winged heels as well

Accelerating, thus they fade

By myriads

Own
The

away

nor were missing, soundless

no decrease

those to Togarmah,

principalities to

Msroch,

By

Ekriel,

all

all

The cherubim Apollyon once

With

seas

ruled

and the dominions owned

baffled Baal,

Scarce wanted

from his sand-like sum

that

saw he with flushing

Inconsequent he argued such a

face,

850

loss

Nay, advantageous, the worthless dross

Purg'd from his armies

off:

then he his arm

Stay'd nor reluctant and bade shell and trump

Blow

instant to the charge.

A gonfalon
Which

to a President of provinces

Belonged they attempt

Apollyon

first

Wrecking, then Nisroch, on they bore and towered

Heading

six

Of purpose

bands

how

like the Thessalian fixed

they wasted

It well those louring leaders,

militing

broad in front

k 2

860


THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

132

Opposing, overcoming with high hand

Those who supported or who durst oppose

Vigor divine

to that

which

hellish

hazed

So long their painted plumes they shook and hurled

Such

as Gath's giant never

Even

in

When

dream

they rag'd

to

lift,

as Alcinous

Dejanira by young Lichas sent

JSTesseus's

robe enduing

The whole

creation

870

or as gods

God

Annihilating (did not

The

thought

prevent,)

thus excelling they,

Parcse round, or such as Parcse seemed

Tipping portended spears, or barbing barbs,

And

other nameless arms of which the like

We know not, hissing

solid iron clouds

Sent through the yielding air

With

putrid corses link'd

His

scarlet

And

aim'd

Of war

flit

high

o'er his

head

armlengths flung, leap'd maniac up

;

upon the vans

like vultures that

close anticipating ere

Sunset a bloody

feast,

Shad'wy pursue, and

Impatient wings as

Then then

then dire Alarm

or tore

a ghostly crew

o'er those

if their

them out

Omonoros undaunted
His laden legions met

eyes they eat

:

follow'd
;

warrers wave

with hurried steps

by

over the heaps

880

133

IN HEAVEN.

They dash'd

in cubic phalanx brandishing

The most redoubted arms, and with such

Greeting receiv'd

all

dire

890

the rebellious powers

Incontinently pause, Nisroch driven

down

Dead

like the horse

Of

whilst his death-stroke dragon

Pterelas, at large with terror

Destroying fled

With

all

the

back

then Thunder open'd wide

pomp

of

Thunder

Lightning shone

Unequall'd through the showers of crimson blood,

And

bolts all unextinguishable red-

Hot

hiss'd

the hideous races pallid turned

Their face from heaven with

On

all their tilted

thoughts

opp'site space, numberless others joined

Enlarg'd, black furies from the

Undying come

the flame,

breeding with one another

Horrors additional
Reflecting,

fire,

900

the field burnt blue

where they mated mountains rose

Like Hecla in irruption blasting

all

Their retchings reach'd, whilst with a cruel joy

The

Of
So

fleering

phantoms on the guarded groans,

the rebellious assiduous tend

felt

the witch Canace

Lapping

bil'd

the scowling sphynx

blood intent to lose no drop

Whilst the wail-worms of conscience

910

like the green

Adders of the Carnatic, through the skin

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

134

Appearing wriggled round and some, some One

what beside

Or

like the claw'd sea-cat, or

No

poetaster wots, with brassy glare

Was busy
Now in
As

breaking up each fibrous heart.

the air the rebels sorely pressed

nearly undefended

Nor guard

Of

And

happly some a targe

as light as useless,

Such too

Or

of mail were their's but merest robes

lightest texture,

Almost

nor helm

for

as

920

overcome

had the seraphim escaped,

those the snatch'd artilleries

had spared

rather reach'd not their chimseras swift,

These re-arrang'd

afresh,

Adramelec's

And

Moloch's added

Thy

faithful glass presents the lagging

Doubting description

fled

Calliope

harpy mingled

Gorgons with harrowing

voice,

Muse

beasts,

and anguish'd

Their clenched teeth at horrid work, each roc

Like Atlas wing'd, a-fiedge, and

So them to

call, far

roc's

spirituals

bigger than that one

Biggest on Earth which the old Brocken haunts

Eld eagles bred on Imaiis, or such

As

Australasia own'd

Examining

of which the learned

their bones, astounding things

Unto the world

relate,

such,

and beside

930

IN HEAVEN.

Imaginings of

Of

men

long held sublime

the elv'd earth-born broods, or sought

by knights

In Teuton times, or those more monstrous mysts

Moslemen
Are

all

They

New

35

940

fear in Eblis' halls, grotesque

with ours compar'd

upon

hill

hill

rose audacious animated with

fury,

and half-witted hatred nursed

Impregnate

on the

right, the left they

formed

Like goggling giants by the giants got

Their propagators dwarfs

they gloam'd, they glid

Gangrening, or compos'd God's vengeance dared

In person of his champions

hov'ring high,

Like Pindus, Athos, or like Eryx and

The Appenines
Huger,

all

950

added, they appear

like polypi the diver

saw

In gulf of Smyrna, or Spitzbergers think

Of scraggy Kraackens,

or the caked clouds

Unto some maniac who

believes

Sent for his sinful soul

It tingled

through the auricles unto

friend of the

Fall'n on

More

as one time

Uzzean Job when (dark

him) he was question'd, in a voice

terrible

"Which

fiends

they spoke and then

The brain none understanding,

The

them

than the

artilleries

rattling or incubating, that field

960

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

136

Of

but the Throne of God

battle shook, all

These then the Holy smote adding the limbs

Unlawful

to the lawful, as if the

Rhinoceroses, batrachides, specked

Evet-like saurs and crocodiles which earth

Hath, altogether, own'd since time began

Unto the

present, were collected there

Cut, slash'd, and slaughter'd in a

With

all

common heap

970

the horses half-expir'd inmix'd

Through them were channels chas'd

Aurora through the matin shades
Resistless

like those great gaps

will force

Solyphron his dazzling helm

Topp'd like the train which Argus's ex-eyes

For the

original confess'd, fourfold

More waving than the Ida queen

Millions of

beamy

crests as

e'er

proud

owned,

as his

(Beside him) following, together drove

Heaps upon heaps confounded

At length together

They hew'd,
Sustaining

woful massed

them down

the harpies last

Adramelec behind

With matted Moloch,

in their hellish

hands

Swords, hangers, maces, bolts, spears, arrows, stones

Countless they held and us'd, thrust, sped and flung
Ferocious,

980

in forlornest sort

spear'd, spok'd

fled,

so cast comets scatter

fire,

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all his

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arms

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137

IN HEAVEN.
Frost, rain, drought, deluge, pestilence

In their retreat through

They
For

Or

thee,

Enquiring

And

and had these prevailed

heavenly Maid

yon vaulted dome

for

the loaded spheres

all

speeded, traverse

and pock

990

I vainly called,

uplift the eye

wreaths of amaranthine flowers

asphodel for yew, and nettles, and

Wort-everlasting chang'd

As Zembla snow black

As were

the firmament,

Beneath thy

thy robes

as white

as Illyrian pitch,

O blessed God

servant's feet

angels

around

List'ning commemorative chaunt, where then

Your

cordons, crowns, your palaces o'erwrought

Praxitilean,

and the Fortnate

Isles

1000

surrounded where sometimes we bathe

Silv'ry

In flower-reflecting waves

the rosy

hills,

Forested mountains, vales with violets vest'd,

Palm-groves, nepenthe,

all

the sweets of heaven 1

We

oft

The

chaunting, where thy bard

enjoy

Unnumb'd

With

Bristling

The

great Empress

of soul

all his

Than were

for
1

whose ear

Adramelec

though thousands

'gainst

him

urged,

might retorted arms more famed

the Gnossian, whistling, whirring, broad,

and bloody,

ten- times pointed; these

angels intercepting

all

back then

[1010

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

138

They drove

with razed

thongs,

crest, corse, baldric,

Belts, cuishes, greaves, cincture, robe rift to shreds

About him, helmet

All over

Some

Now

still

Adramelec

angels they
high,

bulg'd, cuirass indent

now

so fought

back

fell

as well

Moloch

low, skirting the victors with

Perfect address, blazing their faulchion blades

As

1020

blaze great suns in the sur-lunar skies,

And

far they scatter'd wheresoe'er

Like deadly bombs.

The

Oh, what a

they burst

fearful might!

fight continuing as they went, the air

Deserted as for ever on so far

Into the limitless those adverse pierced.

Whilst these are

Afresh on wounded Baal's

Still

below a myriad

chas'd,
;

fall

he upheld

ordered implacable, " Disperse

Tyrannicides!" cried he, " grip, gash them,

The

feudals

His precept

Though

down:"
to his

so said

hew

he follow'd up

most consummate bent,

bath'd in blood and reeling with his wounds

So a grand monument half-ruined

rears

O'er a bombarded city as defying

All

The

Of

1030

kniv'd Nisroch's there but few survived

incandescent hail

Unto Apollyon's and

the angry

Arch

Ekriel's dealt

139

IN HEAVEN.

special

Upon

vengeance

but those braves

who

fell

the meteor-flag they banded then

1040

In deadly opposition, from the sides

Collapsing surfeit of such prowess they
Bitterly prov'd as their impairment

Then Ephatreen engaged

The whole on

With

showed

gradually

'till

either side, chariot, horse, foot

all their flutt'ring

Levied came on

all

banners in their place

the rebelling thrones

Arose

affluent

To be

the foremost in this last attempt

Outrageous

Of heaven

emulous each one

all

the coasts outside those walls

in motion

Smallest beginning

Maelstroom from

so the

when

1050

the flood runs up

Between Logoden and the Island grows

With

violent rapidity unto

Its irresistless

Were

might

Together
all

Upon
Are

the seraphim

given to Pharnaspine, whilst Jenrosar,

And Ophathron

And

the powers

commanded both

the dominions Myttilon,

the lesser angels

lo

their

names

a high triumphal arch in heaven

written.

1060

To

Who

this

theme Urania

say

dares the harp profane, or the Orphean

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

140

Take 1

his worse fate than the torn Thracian's, or

who

His

in the Eleian field fell

Muse

Symphonious tune.

Thus were those jarrers joined

In sweeping

To one and

battle,

conquest in perspect

certainty of rich reward

In God's great approbation, to the other

Shame, rage, and death eternal: Conflict highest

Assail'd then Haraphon's

Ossa high

pil'd

Though with

He

when Pelion on

Olympus storm'd Triton

his voice astonishing to flight

put the Giants no such shout made he

As Haraphon and then

the wrack

came

on,

The

rush, the clash, the pause, the retro-step,

The

gutt'ral

Of

1070

groan that follow'd the

who

those

And now

sufler'd

now

first

breath

appalling noise,

appalling silence, Chaos with

JEtnsean throes convuls'd, strange engin'ry

Volleying counter-volley, dazzling cars

Millions

Now

now

visible the every

all invisible as if

they flew

War

And

more, evanish'd

War

in succession grave,

spoke

then rattled back

and charge,

recoil,

Rally and rout, clash on preceding clash

Followed

but effectual

to

subdue

1080


IN HEAVEN.

The Holy thought,

141

the adversary he

Hardly esteeming hope of victory

Possible, to resist: thus that twain throng

1090

Close press'd or parted with immortal scorn,

And hue

May

of cheek that none with paints like ours

dare attempt

as in the Tempest's teeth

The braided Rainbow

smiles appeared then

God's angelry, so glorious their estate

Shining the while on retributive task

They were engag'd,

Of Virtue calm

On

asps, to kill

Thus

whilst the

the

Which

is this

to ride the storm, to tread

them with

Wicked

Smiling they thrust for

Untroubled

privilege

unruffled brow,

wildly smote at

God and

for th' event

his

them

1100

good cause

thus hour by hour

seem'd eternal, visibly the crowd

Decreasing Care next then in realty

Appear'd, grinding her gums, fixing her eyes

As

if

Yet

she perish'd but her pulse crept on

still

Mortal

so slow, that

then from his

it

no measure hath

feast,

deepest Despair

Like Himmel tower'd, alternate

fits

And

pursued

fear across his farcied flesh

Each other

Of Samiel

when he

breath'd

't

of rage

was

fire-impregnated, and those

1110

like the breath

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142

Who

suffer'd turn'd fore-token'd in the face

Expiring

Than

Death was with him 'stonying

who shook and shaped

that his minister

Himself perpetual half the

Fiercer than he

Python

who held

lolling his

Some

circle

round,

the Delphic plain

tongue as

Devouring thousands,

less

oft

he lanced

terrified for flight

1120

turning, the Arch-gerent seeing they

Dropp'd instant down and thus great gaps remained

In the rebeller's squares ; the lightnings he

Drunk up by oceans spouting them

From

aforth

his inebriated eyes as whales

Spout frantic

in commotion

The

the axles of the chariots creaked

shores

As cumber'd

who

Dropp'd but their steeds

Observant, petrifying

Or

no more

lifeless

scornful broken

the reins

to trace or bit

grew;

lifter,

to the

ground were

lifted bolts

remained

knotted maces failed

In the intention, shafts abortive

Like

down

1130

blades than the Toledo more

sure unvalued

Unto the

drove them

the sword no more, or wav'd the last

Time shining
Sharp

the seas,

or unhung, the rattling cars

Stopp'd grinding, those

Wav'd then

all

sleet inop'rative, or

fell

show'ry snow

sent,

143

IN HEAVEN.

Unfelt

so this

one

Fringed his face and

CuiTd bearding:

bushy breast

o'er his

That ebbs and flows

oft

as a tide

times a day, so these

Or backward

fell

Or

wearying hand

They

lifted

as God's brave warriors fought

:

unto the skies

up spasmodic, then a-down

In drearer deepness

For slaughter

The

ensanguin'd swept,

hills, o'er vales,

1140

infernal ire

Eternal Death enhanced

stay'd the

Fury looked

so the deathless

Arming Adrastus with

O'er rocks, o'er

snakes for hair

figur'd,

fall'n

thus the

prepar'd

battle, wheresoe'er

rebel ranks the eager angels

Continually flickering through

Their marked masses

Writh'd millions

anew

met

1150

all

underneath their feet

irresistibly

down-trodden,

Whilst those withstood turn'd white, and Hate and Scorn

Clasping fought desolate

so

men have

fought

After their homes and hearths were utter gone.

Then

the slouch'd seraph Zabrash flapp'd his wings

As doth

the condor o'er the lesser birds

Peruvian, his pinions widely woofed

As

Victory's

May

He

ever

own

tell

he with emotion none

went forth

scatter'd as

aside,

away

he plash'd in plate and mail

1 1

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144
Magnific

And

labor'd light he rais'd around

so illuminated warr'd

Kept

festival, or

Drove

fire

terribly before

Alive and with'ring

the

Winds

that outward he

him whity-black,
all

the holy as

fought seem'd helpless, happy they beyond

His arm prostrating

As

with a hideous spasm

Yielded to rain of

He

his co-regents

he, impassion'd dared

had before him,

1170

all

Those myriads rioting amongst them there

Like Flame unchain'd, or the unpastur'd Deep,

Or

like the will-wing'd bird (unto the

As Percnos known) when

o'er the

halved world

From

his aerie darting talon-armed

With

thunderbolts

Were

his, intoxicate

as if

renown bespoke

a thousand times

Forcing he tramped through the

Stemming the ranks; once an

He

gods

files

of war

entire cohort

pack'd like hinds at bay their antlers thought

Inutile

and

their

So drove Pholeus

Numbers

When,

lo

haunches sore a-sweat

;

so Pizarro drove

disquietude on

he

fell,

many

seized

and Darkness wrapping round

Signall'd for succour,

Haraphon promptly

Quadrated sped, down-bearing

all

burning

1180

14o

IN HEAVEN.

With

On

rage came he in his collected might

Michael's where that seraph senseless lay

Smit

to the death; those

Those armed

To sound

who had him hemm'd

terrors stood not,

in

1190

back they urged

of clashing swords unmeasur'd loud

million combating

With raking

but they return

rout the rebels sore reversed

Batter'd and broken, dashed dying down,

Zabrash

left far

That rescue
Foaming,

Once more

behind worse wounded by

Haraphon with low'ring

'tempt,

his baton raised, turn'd again

for his co-equal

furious

he

Fighting came on; rung then resounding rims

1200

Brass iron found such tongue Steropes ne'er

From

out his anvil drew, targe upon targe

Concave, the binding adamant

With
Or

the full shock, the diamond dashings ground

natten'd, all the figurings as well

Concussion of the arm

For

left

ever, but the angels

Forced good league

The heaven
Nowise

suffic'd

mountain

thousands termed

yielding, were

such

as they

measure in

which the girdle of

for
;

this

world

the captive potent gained

Back they disgorge

oft burst

like flurried flames

from out

flourish'd in the breaking sun.

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146

Then

rose th' archangel Michael swift as fire

As fulgent sweeping

on, Gloriel

and

Hadriel on either side; Chaos turn'd black,

Night blacker them

to see

From

off the perishing like

From

lifeless lions,

Howl'd

all

Lift

Of

up

Death

'till

for

War

Death's-man,

Despair

1220

the hag-hair'd ghosts

Cowring about them,

Beside

ravens scared

and the dogs of

as they rose to

Ruin attend and

the phantoms rose

gory-visag'd things

now unknown

the newt-like neck

wonder, and the gen'ral sounds

battle shrink

away

nor these rose

sole

Fell Lucifer was heard blaspheming them,

Their Sovereign Lord; then scarcely there the ground

Their feet

like bronze of Corinth, touch'd as with

A noble rage

they pass'd, " Backslider

The Lord rebuke,"

Him

Who

fell,

cried Michael,

thou

and upon

nor the Arch-agnate unaware

smote unanimously at

all

1230

three

Check'd in career the armies, falling back

The foremost from commotion

Whirling warning

Now
"

one

Low

now

of the clouds

as with the lightning speed

th' others at their rival

slaves!" cried Lucifer, " the

Of heaven

is

justly

mine

behold

rasped

Empery

how

vain

147

IN HEAVEN.
Slavish performances," with that he stroke

Aside their equal blows

" Chargest thou

this,

That we prefer our

then Gloriel cried

1240

thou criminal to us

first

To

thine of evil

To

mis'ry self-deceiver

As

condition'd good

dismal be thy change

and such woes

pass thy fellows " saying this to

Again they turn

it

dreadfully, looking fierce

Fiercest defiance whilst their every charge

The

universal frame of matter shook

Upfiung

And

naked shapes

their pinions their

lineaments of majesty exposed

Emblaz'd and supereminent

beyond

Even the seraphs thought admiring

all

As much they dread

as

The

should be a writ

other so that

it

Of vanquishment and
Thus

1250

one was seen to smite

irremediless

doom

instantly a killing storm of stars

Their strokes

elicit,

Nectareous needing

from their veins the

oft as

vif

they recurred,

Determining continual as they fought

Ever the more, the more, immoveable

The one

as th' other, each successful for

His own immortal nature,

Self-rais'd to puissance

oft as

higher
l 2

harmed
where they waged

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

148

plashy fen soon was, nor any dar'd

Seek other place, unintermitting

Faces to face

For

it

Were

all

whilst yet this doubtful

was doubtful, lasted

strife

stifled sighs

often heard from either

Such time the foemen smote

army sent

as butchery

Inevitable carried; once a shout

The

rebels rais'd expectant of a

sweep

1270

That promis'd sure destruction, through the

It

went

so certain

Michael then that blow

Shunning return'd and with

Lucifer stagger'd

The tower
In

Mona

air

so

good

effect

an earthquake took

so

of Pisa, or that ancient tower

Cherphil though

For perfect overthrow

th'

it

not sufficed

engagement thence

Unequal and more horrible with swords

Frequent they stabb'd, when Lucifer
All unaware a woful

The

wound

off

guard

1280

received

faulchion flying from his faithless hand

Then Chaos,

slipping leash in bodied forms

Than Hades' hound

the triple-headed, or

Those which begat on Sin within her

womb

Subsisting on her bowels kennell'd, worse,

All the rebellious occupying in wake,

Instant arose

so Ismenos, so rose

Also the river Xanthus

Uncovering

all their

beds

serenely these the three

Archals observing whilst from

Those myriads

Upon them

149

HEAVEN.

IN

urg'd,

down

seething Death

wrath-weapons

their

fell

Night too that scene

Instinctive sought; like the

1290

off the feet

Cromyon

sow,

Phsea ; or like Euryale she rushed

From

her confines ; in an ague she looked

all

Frighten'd into a pale

the miscreant dames

That

into batten 'd bats themselves transform

And

through the Scythian wildernesses flit,

Spheno or Philogave

Than

less

horrid are

she that time sheath'd up into a shape

With such

a flashing

Dismay came with

Elf-lock'd

if

not eye, instead

her, stony as a stone,

and gnawing

Sunk down

spitting out her tongues,

like Pisonses her evil eyes,

Broke through the skin her bones,

Of Night

just like a vampire

Half-furr'd,

Hung

1300

wan,

foul, aghast,

sits

upon the wings

sate she

and evermore

on unto her mother's dangling dugs

Thrown

over her smutch'd shoulders

Minister'd frenzy with his hairy

But not

so long

The Mount

of

Terror twinned

1310

hand

a radiant light from forth

God

sped forth and chas'd the

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150

Afar with orient arms

so

The Holy then betaking

To purpose put

effectual,

Phoebus

Nox

to their swords

Wrath

before

Ravaging, Solitude as grim behind;

Thus they upon the regal centre won

Flashing continual up, blaze upon blaze
Expir'd as they return upon their course

By

the

artill'ries turn'd, for still

A million,
Unto the

were served

1320

the brutish beasts yet staunch

all

rebels

long their utmost force

Thus they adventured, with might and main

Borne charging down, scourging the pre-fac'd ranks,
Their gay and

Upon

the lightning, grinding

They trampled

From

On

glitt'ring robes dispread

as they

the rock

came great globulars

that conflict arose ling'ring a-while

high or whirl'd beyond

These form'd what mortals

Or " Way of

With

all

abroad

(in after times

call " the

Milky Way," 1330

Light," o'erarch'd and studded thick

these bright scintillating sparks which stars

Appear

to

some astronomers ;) alway

Thus they received them

in such orderly

Phalanxes join'd many would fain desist

And

did reposing on their answer d arms.

Then from

the ground one wrenched a mountain stone

IN HEAVEN.

Hurling

On

quoit-like

down

Pharioch, Aspathyn

Who

Deforming fought
That

winning

'd until

1340
the rest

to his side

thus at the end was broke

many

centre,

a ring concentric drove

inside out, planted the heavenly flags

Instead the

false,

Destruction to surcharge

Cramming damn'd Death

To

fell

was he

it

cut through maintain

his leagued legion

The

ponderous

it

hurl'd behind as quick, incredibly

Hewing
Of

it

151

evil

time was there

Evil just outside the walls of heaven.

Thus with avengement adz'd the angels doom

Completing brought

to

With

deeds of glory

Unbalanc'd,

Hope

1350

narrower degree

Empire long had been

extinguish'd,

life

alone

Remaining unto that unvanquish'd crew

With

dismal disappointment

but for

this

And

Herod-hatred down their arms were flung

And

vaguest Void with their arrival wild

The odds

increasing fast in fiendish fight

Malign, on edge their teeth, their standards round

Fought they

with marble brow and studied step

Pharnaspine then advanc'd his deep'ning eyes

Fix'd on the ensign haught

Togarmah owned

Unutt'rable he look'd the charged ranks

1360

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152

Supporting scatter'd welter'd thousands then

O'erthrown confounded

Won

down he

dizzying

Took nighted

Had

Nisroch's

Haraphon's

tore
:

Exampsal next

Ephateen

at length

Jenysar, Myttilon

Apollyon's and Baal's

Rent

perilous his way-

Obazur

Ekriel's to rags the bearers cloven

Down, the surviving regents

With

shatter'd

that

had owned

1370

arms and woful wounds abroad

Sent fugitive.

Now
First ensign the

with the loss of that

proud Principal gone wild

Precipitates himself right

His enemy

On

either

onward on

him none could stand

before

hand driven back

like billows which

A hull well-launch'd compulsive

drives on heap,

Heaven's warrers stay'd distrustful

blashing light

Uttermost he put forth as Godhead, none

Such prime

At

all

e'er

saw before

not when he smote

the three archangels in

Supremest mode

what seemed

Aphorotine he met

Reversing with Charthason to his aid

Courageous come
Felt deadly

others that interposed

more than vain

Ompthos and Areon

their seemliest swords

uplifted as

1380

IN

They saw

:;

153

HEAVEN.
on pass'd he

his shadow, shiv'ring

Invincible expressionless his scorn

For such opponents though toparchs they were;

1390

Michael and his co-adjutors sought he

To meet long while they

Ships driving furious

By

essay'd but like great

down propelFd

aside

the embroiled waves, often they turned

Oblig'd away

when near

hand

or close at

Vainly his vagrants were undone

seemed

it

If this the head remaining such sore sport

Could make

it

was a myst'ry

Now

from his own

And

since

infinity

come

this the

Author

Exandus then a

With

God

not

forth

none others could Himself an end

For ever make of the apostate

In

why

sect

1400

such the anxious thought

desp'rate effort

made

those great godlies all together linked

Five mighties that to match

For each

sufficed, these his

Callous came he

aloft his

five legions scarce

road bestrode
head, his eyes,

Despising such opposers as his hand

Raising with twenty sullen thunders he

Drove down upon them; rustling tumult then

Was

to those worthies as the lengthen'd mile

They gladly wing'd

aside, their pinions

wide

1410

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154

Derang'd, some feathers even as appeared

Thus supereminence

Ruffled or shed.

Writ on

though dash'd with

his countenance

whom

Expressive of a pain for what for

Known

best himself unto,

Ten thousand thousand

Of heaven reaching

Would
Nor

enter

thus

aside

he alone

no mythic

Roman

of allianc'd gods

Who

whelm'd he

once the lustrous gate

as if

lines

Mars

tale of

1420

or others

fought within the limitary earth

Name,

this

And arms

had

field as

befitting

Eound comparable

wide as Chaos

's

wide

the Erynnys none

thus,

most confident

That day with gesture grand a second time

Antagonists he sought as

Any were worth him

As

if

if

hardly

the archangels fired

within their eyes Almighty

God

Verily liv'd and look'd, their heart heav'd up

To

highest to a tempest lash'd the soul,

Vengeance

both

for their obedient

Sharpen'd to hear the

Of arms

collected

least,

by him

his ears

mass'd magazines

for this

hour

Priding he held black, baffling, brazzen arms

Some reeking
1 1

still

the blood for he himself

ad proven every one

thick missile showers

1430

IN

HEAVEN.

155

Girdled had he that ready were to

fall,

Fasces unbound and yet in his apt arms

Together for occasion ready kept,

And

He

as

1440

he went three more than Lyssian bows

joined at the ends with twang that winged

Unerring arrows

The

over his haught head

likeness of a skin with tushed teeth

Thrown grinning
If unattended

horrible

less,

nor Lucifer

in clouding cloud

Envelop'd, sparkling

all his

wings with eyes

Deadliest dark, far far beyond his reach

Steel too

was

Chance

Of

had

cast

had he

his well tested, spear

That through the bodies of a host

pierced,

and

at

one

1450

beyond the stretch

the imagination, arms beside

Which he

the Sovereign

Power of Arms reserved

Jealous unto himself, to

me

But which

remain unknown

To

for ever shall

others lest the

arms known

mere mere mention

Thus tow'ring he prepar'd

for final fate

Prodigious, plausible resolved

To

conflict

Maugre

came

the

Archangels

ill

kill

if

God

as victor to survive

1460

experiment with his

Horror guarded then, long

Before them taking

level

strides

were their wings

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156

Flying as well impatient of delay,

Carrying scoop'd shields

To Oxmantown,

And

as the sun appears

forged of iron, brass

adamant, through

Burning intolerable
Far more

such

all

close

the capp'd convex

behind

intol'rable the bearers

burnt

Dreadful or scowl'd, the fiery seraphim

Eclips'd or neutral as the

Name no

noony flames

Olympic, Pythian, Alb an

Of mortal mem'ry where with

1470

field

royal

pomp

Mighties have met for heathendom or heaven,

At Aspramont, Damascus,

With

in Tartish

Morescoes, nor tourneys of the courts

Of Haroun

al

Easchid and Charlemagne,

Baldwin or Saladdon

Of thunder

rolling

a sudden clap

through unclouded skies

Struck mute the beasts, the birds the next attend

In terror; thus the gods, the blinding blades

Of

all

in half short stroke the

moment

Arch-one the three encounter'd, face

Back driven the space

At

least

our

moon

as far

from

that

to face

this

unto

from thence their iron-winged

Tempests unloos'd under their rattling shields

Blazing they break, blade-broken, back again
Resistless

from each other dead-like drove

1480

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157

IN HEAVEN.

Then

whole

solid stars they hurl'd,

stars at

once

Down-fall'n with dreadful crash scattered, or

Rebounding

And

and

ball-like, rocks,

rivers, seas,

oceans spilling in the action out

formidable, met the

Again they

Of

1490

all their

Broken

scales

armour sounding, many a clasp

in Lucifer's, his starry belt

Loosened,

that he

felt

again

again

Contending, every time contention wrought

Unto perfection
Shook

shatt'ring

Impal'd

lost

so that the terrene

;

at the last

on Michael's spear

Lucifer with thunder came

So terribly with such a dread redound

1500

That the chaotic aggregate went rock

Rock

rock, dissolving

That yet surviv'd

Falling as

if for

fall'n

ever

all

down

also

down from

as

Chaos

fell

Lucifer

Fixed awhile enduring but

He

the rebel hosts

at length

the ccerulean skies

Pursued by Vengeance vehement and oh

Transcendant Horror and Eternal

Ail.

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

BOOK

IV

THE ARGUMENT.
The Poet

alluding to certain wrongs addresses a false shepherd and

then hastens into the action of this Book, which gives the description of
Lucifer's descent from before heaven to the sun
fited angels.

done

The

spirits

angels in heaven observe

war

he musters the discom-

Lucifer appoints Night to his throne, and parts in search of his

remaining hosts.

(given

Several speeches as to what had been and what should be

of Slaughter

him wandering

by one of the archangels,)

just recorded

Time

had been

sped.

the second day, early.

to

Lucifer's accident.

in space

which the

The

description of hell

spirits of all slain in

the

BOOK

Hunted by packed

Perjuries

Unrighteous,) from

my

In rural Avalon and

Lamenting

loves, in

IV.

(condemned

early chosen

all

my

home

heart

banishment like his

As unendurable, who

tun'd his lute

In Tomos to the rude Sarmatian boors,

So,

Empress

Thus

I,

abstracted from

celebrating His to

whom

my

wrongs

I've cried

Appeal the Judge of Judges who

shall

mine

Judge: Thou, who holdest in unhallow'd hand

The golden key

of heaven, of hell the iron

Burnish'd so bright that

To

last the

wicked take

their eternal cost, that one for th' other

Rusting

incestuous murd'rers to the Feast

10

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162

Of God encourag'd

whilst thou drivest back

Those by the Master

bid,

thou

who

hast clomb

Into the fold unweeting

who

So long thy

with meats, thy back

belly's lin'd

are there

Clothed in fleece that to the flock belongs,

Worse
But

than his assured curse

still

thine

20

our Galilean, haste amain

Bespeaking,

Who

is

if

not for his sake for those

hungering look up from him to thee

Unfed, unfed except with windy chaff

And

push'd aside to that where dragons

lie

Devouring many pawing them unclean.

Return, return and

let

mine anger pass

Like mists before, Calliope

From

the horizon rising

thy sun

Thamyras

Methink who anciently the Pagan Nine

Meeting they struck him blind, others

as well

In Scio or in Albion born whilst I

Learning these bases supernat'ral loud,

Thou Muse

thyself

my tympanum

hast broke.

" Admetus's were taught the pipe but thou

The harp"
"

And

they became so happy that the gods

Fearing

Than

the maid replies op'ning mine eyes,

lest

mortals happier should become

the Olympians, the preceptor straight

30

163

IN EARTH.

Unto Elysium

call'd

40

and Plutus see

Like Fortune blind but thine shall be

As

is

restor'd,

thy happiness " from blessed heaven's

:

Unto the

earth's imperial throne she points

The

finger and,

Thy

strain I strike

Augusta
;

now

sounds her

let the

"Ai!"

Best judging goddess.

shell.

song proceed
Lucifer

Cried whilst the depths he dark'd his livid lips

Smoth'ring to purple as with speediest speed

He

drove confounded

From

Nor

Mcenutius flung

heaven, nor Phaeton hurl'd by angry Jove,

Nor he who

From

down

fell

in the

iEgean

50

isle

the meridian, no such journey

made

half so swift as the Arch-felon then

Three times did he

resist his total

Opposing that down-throw in vain

His gravity which

Nat'ral aspir'd

as a spirit

powers
;

reversed

up

God-ward now down

as

much

Compelling, he (no longer self-controlled,)

Came

like a falling star

beyond the term

Of

time, through the immeasurable wilds

Of

space he plough'd, through uniformal blank

Until the voices of the living lost

Apostates in discordant manner smote

His

auricles

he overtook present

m 2

60

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

164

His frenzied hosts frenzied the more

His

for

fall,

With

Darkness horrified his face

habile hands

all his

Like a

to see

as

on came he

Stromboli a-sea,

fire-isle, like

Their solid span was

cleft

and

all

through void
70

Scatter'd.

And

was Lucifer above

this

Son of the Morning,

Outcast
Call'd

not

heaven

to that star in after-time

Phosphor when the moon in place brought round

The one

of all the plane tars which shine

Most beauteous,

But

to the paeans of

to the

sun

(this the

magians erring taught,)

in the succeeding

war

Shatter'd to pieces the hard nucleus sole

Remaining,

His

all his sev'ral parts

satellites

Beyond

is

continual coursing round

Canis where

All the circumference

Gabriel

As

now

80

Sacrael rules

in the Balance reigns

although the flamens Venus

in the Scorpion Mars, the

The

detached

said,

Archer Jove

other five archangels rule beyond

Unto the seventh

Thus through the

in

which Jehovah holds

inessential

The boundless nought

went

he,

closing behind in waves,

Until his sadd'ning shadow o'er the orb


165

IN EARTH.

Darken'd

with wide but nerveless wings, his hands 90

Advanc'd

to

A boiling

sea he shot

break the forceful

:

upon

fall

in cat'racts too

Full prone his angels dash'd, gorgons, and gryphs,

Chimaera's, dragons, beasts, or birds or both,

Or

neither,

Down by

like that

enchantment from the

The moon, with

To

pieces

later creature

all their reins

brought

circle of

and trappings broke

nor Geryon's look'd like them

When human

wanted

flesh they

nor like them

100

So passing the Propsetides: the cars

Were

dragg'd behind, batter'd, and banged, beat

Together in great intermingled heaps,

Whirling the wheels, or in each other locked

Total

spokes, seats, and steps, bodies

and

all

Indescribable came, as once the car

Solar in ruin

fell at Tellus'

So that the waves drove

The

to

prayer,

and

wildernesses roaring, or in

fro

affrighted rose.

Long

afflict,

shuddring, and mute,

Wing-broken and half dead,

Listened moveless

hung

all

mounds

High perpendicular
there lay they

through

'till

10

the abyss

with fear convulsed

Parch'd, blood-stain'd, bleeding they, like those

Narcotic with the irritant poisons mixed

who

take

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166

Opium and pmssic

As

if sea-crabs

madness

acid,

and adders made

theirs

their stings

Within the stomach whilst a demon binds

To

silence all the motors of the tongue

Turning the

issues right

upon the

brain,

Red-hot, or through the sinciput and spine.

Then

the fallen Emp'ror in his agony cast

His woe-gone eyes abroad

dreadful he saw

Outspread upon the dark chaotic

With

and

fire

frore,

at that

Deplorable
Recalling,

spaced

deep yawning, gloaming, glued,

His myriad angels drifting

They

120

moment

as if life

lost astonished

delirious, all his pride

Memory

Ms hands

beat down,

Spreading, his feet asunder on a rock

Planting he call'd; electrified heard they

Assur'd

so

From Elba

when

to his vet'ran

His well-known

Of sack

that emperor exiled

Gauls addressed

voice, enthusiastic

of cities rushing back to

They throng'd around,

The audience

so these

contemplates, in

Than was an army when nine

Boasted a regent

The

loud he

residues, instead

hope

mind

but he

surprised

number

less

full-equipped

summoned

up from the waste

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IX EARTH.

Of waters

like Perimele, or

Of the Echinades
Or

like a

140

one
changed,

to islands

murkier melancholy Death,

Pierc'd with uncounted shafts right through and through

A sable
When

Shape

;;

Thou!

call" sigh'd Night, "

I tied forth, ruin-involv'd they

Apast beyond

me

none

no more;

went

shall overtake

Breathing:" she ceas'd e'en Lucifer convinced

That numbers not avaiTd, and calculating

What
Of

what too the

his reverse,

billion angels

gone he knew not where,

Counting the sad remainder

In debt

sum incompetent

priceless cost

150

one plunged

as

dark

Prison in prospect, harmonizing tune

To the occasion thus attendance

"

Gods

If shock'd

deities

Our

indestructible

and damaged by the

Of war, nor
Wanting

all

we

shall

Xot altogether

lost;

nothing

Save time which no occasion

Have

the eternal

we

shall

who remain

have anew

warriors

result

miss those

if firam'd as I will

future scheme

called.

the victory

is

's

L60

lost

to regret

conquer yet

This be believ'd. with grateful recompense

For sun 'ring

hymns

to truth

and freedom

str

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168

In the resounding

A battle,

but one

'tis

Michael as

far

What though we had

skies.

and

far as we're driven

his exulting hosts

Joying in that within the heavens they're safe

From

this right

hand

had Chaos kept

his

ground

Thence had I follow'd through the open gate

At which we thunder'd
Regalities

With them

'till

for

170

shame they oped

such scars they carried back

to

heaven long that well-foughten

field

Shall they remember, with repented pains

Distrusting that the Throne so sternly shook

May

one day

The

flower of those

fall

must

it

we

Despite th' Almighty

In that bad

Welcome
Empty

And

art,

shall surely

be

toil, trial

we

shall yet

now, now methink I see

Throne

that danger'd

for ever watchful lest I rise

seize it I defy

Thou

change

our object;

if serv'd

The Tyrannizer on
!

despondence scorn

led in arms are here

Danger,

title.

the heavens

O Thou

Thee

sleepless as

thou Rememberer

thou

find'st

Thine enemy, impassive Raised-One see

'Thine everlasting foe

nor keenest pangs

Eating the soul shall make

me

Of thy damnation

Name

on thy

e'er despair

I spit

180

IN EARTH.

Pour

fire

169

190

in cataracts, hot thunderbolts

Hail down, and splitting thunder thund'ring drive,

Drive uttermost again, thy blasts

Rage,

Of

let loose,

and ruin'd oceans overfull

rain,

plagues upon this crowned head outpour

Here am

I Unrelentor

I survive

To imprecate thy Person, and

The

to

break

course of thy imaginings so thou

Shalt tire of hearing, seeing, and tormenting,

And

of thy

Godhead

My

parched tongue,

Go

for

e'er

my

my mind

malice cease,

supreme remit

200

knee-worship to thy craven crew

Multitudinous

no praise no prayer from us

Thou proud Exactor

hope

treble our pangs,

Sliver us with large lightning

Unmeasured back
Chain'd

O God

down beneath

Welcome

it all,

this

we

that thou wert but

adamantine heel

this latter lively

I cherish, cherish

retort

hope

crawl ye moments, hours,

Eternity crawl on, baffling where'er

A
(O

sanguine look I
for the

The

Book

cast,

the change must

come

of Fate that I might count

distant year,

and sum these

suff 'rings

up

Squaring the two:) with an unbroken heart

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170

Will Lucifer hold

on, divided

So long maintaining just

Unspended

What

my

bolt unto

horror his

For ever and

sway

so long as

one

grasp remains.

when undefended down

for ever

he

hurled

is

hand

I breathe, exult, ye rolling suns this

Swept from
Lightless

By

all I've

That cry

his vaulted skies, to changes

thou Vast so

won and

me

lost,

and

all

I swear

the fiends

Him bound

hark

Abysm

the

calls

as in a fearful spell

Or why not answer \ down the thunders

The

220

" Father!" Chaos, Night, and Death,

Against him death

Unto

attend

fill'd,

gone

flung,

shuddering he

lightnings as impotent

Moveless and mute he

sitteth

Rock rocking heaven no more

hush

said recov'ring, shaking

His plumes, and parting back

As when

thou Nought

until I plant

Myself upon that Throne His Crown

He

my

own."

230

up and down
his

matted hair

a starry lamp in liquid heaven

Long ages burning heap'd with

crusted

fires

Zephyr disturbs a myriad purple sparks

Shedding around, he, through the glowing waste
Like show'ring.

Then

Ekriel, with thought engorged

171

IN EARTH.

And

ninefold rage

The

whilst

He

his eyes with fury bled

burning long while

like a petard

240

thus exploded in their very midst.

"The damn'd

How

deep

reverse! our beaded brows betray

reprobation

By empty sounding words

ache

th'

dost thou

accursed past

Gloze I truth I ne'er will shun

if

thou our head

Undone

Advanc'd as emp'ror doth.

are we,

Defeated, the whole blame nor Chaos's

But

to our

'Tis

here disown'd, as

Had

shame our own, and shame

valuable gain

Hereby we

lose

if

disowning

we

beguiling god

who can

Reduc'd so lasting low

so

ill

afford

of the real to that

Which

If

is.

250

forbear, forbear

The metamorphose
unreal

so great

we

suppress vain tears

'Tis wisely done, nevertheless the cause

Which prompts deny

We

not nor the dang'rous wounds

have receiv'd the while beneath thin skin

They

fester worse."

Sudden

He

ceas'd as

Linesung

irruption, all the

crowding

hills

Connagrant,

the province from the sleep

all

Fearful arous'd

so those his auditors,

Chief the Arch-speaker, like a Sophi in

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172

Durbar

By some

Then Zyninthrine

bold bashaw.

" Tis so regalities

Hating and hated,

By

rude bespoke

after lost battle

respite

it

thus,

war we have waged

and

lost,

would seem

if

we

live

since Lucifer

Have we not

Himself was overcome.

left

God's service rather than concealing truth

Do

violence to nature

we

shall

much

Practise to please another so

Lucifer

Freedom

than

survive

God 1
we

Put

less

If as thou say'st

serve nor

Against our conscience, and

To nerve

270

that

him nor

thee

this fact shall

help

us to endure two-sided wrongs

majesty therefore,

off the style of

This vain outside for

A shatter 'd crown

it

but

ill

the jewels

sets off

Now

lost.

gods!

Drown'd, driven from heaven, defeated, curse the day

That Chaos whelp'd,

To him we

owe.

as to him

if

Wondrous

it is

Should so advantage from our

But Night remains unto

Much may

that

charged,

God

Ally

take some cheer,

be done our Agnate thinks with Night

Although she

Who

us,

first

'tis

fail'd

or fled

the jealous

King

holds the supreme Throne, with soundless step

She yet may take his usurpation brought

280

IT

IN EARTH.

Unto the end

Hope no where
Look out and

The

heart

Lucifer

thou

said'st

Over

else remains.

so revolt the eyes,

this

who, who the difference can bear ]

Scabbed supplied

with brine

for the sparkling springs,

ambient

ravines, the vallies,

airs,

And

fleecy clouds we've lost

And

amber-stemm'd delices of the heavens

for

For

the veined-leafed

our happy homes deserted

ever,

290

and rend

'Tis black, the trees are fruitless, pools

The green

world

left

by the tributary streams,

Lakes, seas, or on the

hills,

or mountains reared

Magnificent, our sylvan seats, our bowers

Whereto the winds

300

in visitation rare

But seldom came and when with fresh'ning love

Gladding the flow'ry shades.

With

Yon

wither'd waste

a few stunted shrubs and thorny trunks

Observe, and

O my

peers

this

hollow gourd,

This fungus, growing from the viscid earth."

Gath'ring, thus he, and one like Jonah's showed

Unto them, and some apples which appeared

Sodom's

And

fill'd

in with

alumm'd

ash, or

poxed

putrefying cores; and aconites,

Nightshade and such like others

so convicts

310

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174

The

desolation

and accompanying things

Of Dieman's Land first

saw.

"Gods!" then
"Into

th' original

cried one,

we

gulf of things had

Fallen 'twere better."

Then one
This

is

" It were,

intol'rable."

Another
"

said,

Heaven we have vainly

Most unto him

confess'd.

lost,

cried,

our thrones, our

all."

320

Apollyon then

Confronting Ekriel as with disdain

And

turning from his party on the back,

Contemptuous spoke.
"

" That

Thy

is

thy

God

of the gods !" cried he,

name whatever hath

arms, thy fortune

Resignment never.

take

my

befallen

full

consent

Hitherto vainly

We have opposed Fate,

Suffer the consequence

what then % we
let

feel

cowards rue

330

Degenerating, self-despising souis

Such we had not suspected in the ranks

We rul'd,
Why

Now

nor thou amongst thy princes.

not to heaven ambassadors despatch

Repentants

with your importuning prayers

IN EARTH.

Cherub

thou Zyninthrine from us depart

With

a long train of suppliants, and with

Your

art assiduous

Of God

75

in all his

Forswearing

make experiment

humour,

liberty

ye would Lucifer, yourselves

340

Apparently forsworn, and servitude

Abjectly fallen on your faces, crave."

So that bold leader

A shiver 'd

Baal

in

his

hand

spear, as with a hectic pale,

Join'd thus.
"

Or why were

Our Emp'ror

irresistible

three archangels forc'd

Met them and more than once

when thou

dread Lucifer

I hail thee, nor as long as thou persist

Will anything despair

Descent

angels

though long

350

ours ascent more welcome be

is

If transported, the heavens surely remain

In the same place, and some of us

may

Yet through the open gate

and

tyrant,

drive
all

Scouted with hurry hotter e'en than ours

This makes the present tolerable.
Disdain

be gods

The worth
For

this

for if heroic

assur'd far other case

we charge not God.

Doubt

deed

were ours

Call not defeat

Repulse what we have to regret, devise

360

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176

In subtlety, undoing

Undoing God

these are his bitter dregs

Let ours be bitterer

Abhorrence

Not one

is

event

this

sits

within this soul

with

all

her teeth well

loosen'd, unto sea

Her

eyes in search for

May

gratify with

Beyond them

all

my

and sky

Vengeance

" Chance

Death

his jaws

person, but the soul

to

me

alike are

Death, heaven, this uttermost

;

with the accustom'd eye

Watching remains

Accomplish'd

set

life,

if that

were but

370

implacable, pursue."

that

in good time," thus Haraphon,

Cause may befriend

ye gods

that

we

" our

good

are free

Sufficeth if but true ourselves unto

We must
Our

By

succeed, our hatred be fulfilled,

just revenge.

our

These

own

aggravate not worse

voluntary act

losses, restoration to

Certain

in this

contemn
our thrones

emergency forbid

Useless comparisons

Despair not, we shall yet uprise.

This present place be order'd

With
Of

solid imag'ries,

380

occasion wait

Meanwhile

mirror

it

and massive quoins

a palatium for deities

Mete

trench our

camp above

the wat'ry heaps."

177

IN EARTH.
Ord'ring he said, and scarcely said

The ground
The navel

the palace rose

lyre Threicius

His burning
Aurif 'rous

so

Neptune

him up high above

all

white

the Pentelic, left; an altar bye

Than Ormuz

The Tyrians

Upon

it

boasts,

One

but

for

finer pearls

and amethysts than those

copied, crusted

with a crown

design'd nor

fit

with most in heaven might well

pillars that

Compare the dome

great castellars were reared

Such

as Sostrates'

Had

died for grief and envy but to see

The

smaller turrets machiolated, walled

Most

Of

390

Anarch's gorgeous throne

Smaragdine with great rubies,

On

built

in the midst, beneath

feet the

rais'd

His coped host upon the pavement

As

upon

of the earth the mansion of

The Scandinavian gods

To

so once

when from

Through

Dinocrates

and upon foundation

solid,

basalts

dwarfed

all

lo

some ruins

400

laid

to this

day

the Hebridean islands, Skey,

S tafia and others

lie.

Deeming Byzantium
That sanguine

Like some proud Czar

his,

himself enthrones

potent, in his secret heart

Nothing concealing with

his lips the more,

410

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"Thou

Ekriel!" he paus'd as

if

the call

Should wither him away, " the right

As

ours thy thought to

tell

Present condition

thine

unlicens'd thou

Hast, but thou speakest false

God's angels were not

is

if

we were beaten

by our

satisfied

if their will

they had,

If vict'ry as pretended where wert thou,

Thy

seconders % behind their chariots dragged

In triumph not perversely speeching here

Ye

deities

Before their master

And
To

420

I err, his legions fled

thine, but

yea, thou wast

One remain'd

undone

whate'er was done

thee or them, God's champions dar'd not look

Nor Michael

The song

in his face

of vict'ry %

who God

if

shall hint

one were so rash

Th' archangels smarting with their hurts at once

The

folly

met reproving,

For trophy

Ekriel's

they have

all

banner

Chaos ours

UnravelTd, unto the infinity

It floats as

God

shall find

Throated gods

Ours.

And some

because some blood

are scratch'd or scarr'd, shall

Stand 1 like condemned slaves

And

430

infinity

we

is spilt,

in

perish the thought

thou complainant there, forgot the day

When

awe

thou pronounc'd an oath to conquer or

!:

IN EARTH.
Die.

That reverse should have one conquest, shame

Where

are your trusty hearts, your free-born souls

scandalous

now

If

scorning those by

Upon me

Soliciting, nor took

As One

My

whom

power

forc'd, for

by

office,

of

Heaven

that crown

I scorned

was forced

none I stooped

to

none

offer'd for

none oppos'd when I

Took not

obtain'd

The

despondence as your honour doth

least

it

interest forbids

Despite the Lord of Battles

Renown
For

ye princes

battle

we
is

will
to

win

come,

around us thrown I

this the pall

lift

450

Regath'ring."

Then Apollyon unto

" That which

we

As hath been heard

scorn 'twere
;

forces

if,

to call it

ill

may show

Emperor

from exilement are restored

To our embracing arms

Of Chaos

that

wrong

experience yet

'Twas good disguis'd, and shall

Thy

440

force nor guile

before had done

on'rous

I thought despair

Crown

Confirm'd, th' Imperial

As

179

was, gone

is

but since that wreck

the total whole

Through

space, the stars drive

Each by

the other generally stormed

Over that scene

to rule

swounding through the

no sceptre
n 2

's

forged

air

460

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180
Since his

To

gone

is

rocks, plains, seas, syrtes, flood, fire

thee although inconsequent, beware

For us the vestiture of majesty

No more
What
For

remaining in the place cometh

thou conceivest

liberty that

necessary

'tis

one as settled stand

Heading the whole."

inconsistent! this

Doctrine preach'd he, disown'd

Senseless they turn'd

when

to revolt

thus said, the orator

470

Expectant of an answer that should leave

Him
The

chiefest of the rebels

fellow potents

Then Baal

Too

who

observed

politic as

proud

Thy

throne the while

lofty

us shall bid ] yon wildling waves

truly symboliz'd our

Gloomy

this

thus.

"

Vacant

bad

estate."

look'd Lucifer considering

The germs

of dissolution, unto

him

As

the red rash that in the arm-pits

Of

the plague-fasten'd

Dictator

To

all

and

all

speculated

now one dared

the rest expressed

Distrust of one another

He

heretofore he ruled

unquestion'd

contradict

come

what

to

do

even then the flames

480

181

IX EARTH.

Of

discord scorch'd his hands and dispossessed

Many

a ling'ring hope dang'ring the last,

For though with

Had

order'd forces he

all his

signal fail'd yet he design'd to

Once more the

arm
490

residue, nor quite despair'd

If fearing the event

so

one within

The law

of noble birth, through the thick

Though

guilty hopes to break, dreading the while

The judge

Then he

august.

mesh

concern'd, rose up

His frame enlarg'd apparently, his brow

Severely bent, upon his eloquent mouth

Impress'd such resolution none

may

And

to

few oppose

he beckoned

turn

Xight

That leman gath'ring up her fringed

veils

500

Darting black rays of inconceivable gloom,

Unutterable rose,

And

terrific,

dread,

with a goddess-like deport slowly

Sweeping the length of that most kingly

Approach'd the

She mounts

seat of

like

power

Demogorgon,

hall

the vision'd steps

as if she

All the sworn-secrets of the universe

Guarding contain'd

in

most tremendous form

Of deepen d Darkness crown'd with horns opaque

So a mock sun

at

midnight vapoury, dim.

Spiked most wonderful, encinctur'd round

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182

With

unilluminating crescets raised

The one above

Was

of such parts

she to seat her scarce that throne sufficed

Though

Lucifer's

Something
She

the other

sate

who seem'd but was

with a grim resolve

to say as

King

so once

The dubious

Croesus ask'd as low

and in return

oracle,

Night answer'd that apostate

Under the

To

commune

mankind

Watching the awful whisp'ring

tingling

When

two Winds

so

centre met, sometimes

Half-inarticulate, fearful

Yet

up

not heard

520

scarcely breathed

omnipotent she looked

forth she stretch'd ten inorganic

arms

take his sceptre like ten lightnings forged

Into a dreadful rod

O Muse we
!

Thou

saw what follow'd

also fainted'st

The power

obscurely then

faint I turned

when entwining both

of Lucifer her vacant veins

Filled like smelting blood

her

growing

spirit

Colossal burn'd and roll'd, and roll'd

and burned,

Like a black comet tangled with an orb

Flaming together

outwards out she

Shook her portentous

Intoxication then

hair,

shot,

madd'ning

to false repose

That Reprobate returning

in her

arms

the

530

183

IN EARTH.

moment and -uplift,

Of madness

so the great

The cloud which

Shining as

The

contagion swilling

jet,

Black Sea

reflects

carries thunder, all his face

when

the Vulturnian or

540

Msestral joined out the livid fires

and sky together

Plentiful gushing sea

Both mingling, curdling, cleaving seem

A sightless

fire

to burst

within her cheeks burned

Right through her stony skin revealing more

Than

yet

had been

Her bosom

reveal'd her mutt'ring lips,

cover'd with blood-letting teats.

Meanwhile Adramelec's with vengeance driven

Long through
Fell

upon

When

the waste obscure, discomfited

Sirius,

which the vulgar dread

with the Lion through the Zodiac posts

The culminating sun

Moloch's as well

In millions, that vast continent the shock

Hardly sustaining

there

recover'd, they

Erected thrones and o'er their numbers reigned.

Now
From

Lucifer with respirative gasp

the earth's edge out into void sprung forth

In his right hand a spear that radiance threw

Long way advanced, and

Down

at will sustained

in the depth of the deep deep he plunged,

Down, down with

all his

might,

down

in the dark

550

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184
Profound,

To

thinking on firm ground he came

'till

plant inequilibriate he

Reeling

The

fell

so a balloon collapsed, shift

ballast

or a ship ill-stow'd capsized,

Unto the bottom forcing overturned

Thus through the blankmost

The darksome night

The moon

And

fiery

or like

he, a meteor through

some wizard wild

eclipsing as he journeys blue

by

The utmost

gloaming vales

turns, the

up

hills lit

so

he oft-times

570

List'ning if ought he heard imagining

He

had, and flying or exploring slow

As

if for

want with pains of hunger gaunt

Around he

glar'd

once in career he

head

Startled, his heart as low, over his

A long fire line

descriptive of th' extent

So when a great tarantula from

A tree,

fell

the glitt'ring

Floating the length

off

web behind he
or on

leaves

some errand

dire,

Cyllenius sent from the fool-fabled heights

Driven perpendicular

Rush'd

past,

then a great globe

and then another,

Confusing, and behind in

all

the airs

wake from out

Infinitude with blast, and blight, and blur,

Astonishings

all brain,

and drunk

desire,

580

185

IN EARTH.

Angrily flashing inwardly sore racked,

Confluent creatures from the ends of space

As

if

Of

Caysters springs in

she spawn'd

Owls or

The

sea-eagles

them

what

th'

embodied cranes

number unto

these

590

unchanted leave

spectred spectres, steaming up, or down,

Raining, or driving in his face like hail

and from

Fast,

As

all

Erisichthous'

about, with famine waste

voiceless thoughts

Streaming unreal, their

White, black and bold

Of natron

The

Asmodeus

devil

From

bitt'rer

had they

lidless eyeball raised

none in the lowest depths

than the Astrachan,

rules

and

if

out his caustic elements he joined

All Hecate's in the dark Chaonian woods

With

And

cypress, yew, beech, holm,

all

Coerces

and

600

pitch-tree, rilled,

the elder of the Sister- fiends

;

all

Veia, Erictho and

Those Macbeth met were added, not the half

In number they nor horror

Some shed

their biles, their bloods, their hearts

Their

fierce progenitor, (that

Their

sire for these

He

vomiting

upon

Anarch was

were of the slaughter bred

had committed;) horrible they frowned,

Frisk'd, fought, or fled affright: so out to sea

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186

An

eagle-king, pells, pettrels, pindadoes

Ominous

flit,

and dash, and

dive,

and skim

Continually around an hateful kind,

Like these nonentities that

still

defy

Realization; shadowy things like those

Reported of a church-yard by some wight

Escap'd erect his hair and
Palsied

With

and then

all his

their livid art'ries burst

various putrid slime, over

Spended

limbs

him

all

Oblivion with earnest voice

The Miserable

call'd

the hoary

620

Deep

Oblivion held blindfold and gagg'd, in fear

And agony

but with resolve

His blood-red hands he

then out

stroke, as if

he would

Eternity have dead, unable to

Bear those accusers longer

Of Doom

At hand

Day

both

to everlasting fire, like these

Will never look

his

in the

the children on the parent

Condemn'd

Upon

Orestes look'd not so

mother the Eumenides

630

then hate was verily performed,

Confusion rush'd amongst them scattering

Their crooked lines

aside he flung right, left

So cyprids some strong swimmer,

Around him

rippled

fir'd

all

but as he

the waves

swum

;;

187

IN EARTH.

And

swept spots fouler than the leper's blots

Were

his, their

nervous parts discharg'd as he

Destroy'd them following unto a zone

Stretch'd out like Saturn's belt

But

solid

shapeless

it

stretched

unaware against the rock

Like a huge hulk drove he

his

640

body

split

Instant apart and from the gaping gap

The

Spirit look'd half-craz'd

Was

that,

Are

what a

sight

coasting the Tyrrhenian shore

Circe chang'd

Than

oh

nor like Sagana, nor yet like

The Tuscan

By

Sin to that Sprite did more

Circe could to

him

greatly different,

Angel and

devil into

oh

man and

beast

how much more

which Sin turns

All her lascivious lovers this the

650

first:

Foully besprent were his marmoreal limbs

His golden plumes, and carking cares displaced

His every

That then,

feature, but that carious sprite

O Muse we
!

saw

that fev'rish thing

That monstrous monster with the long blue hair

That perfect Misery, disfigurement

Of body

left like

grace

her dragon

womb

Was spongy as immufning that she tore

Up with large handful hands, and in such
That surely

it

was exquisite delight

heat

660

!;

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

188

And

still

a hidden strength continued hers

For yet she died not

As bare

all

her bones were stripped

which hungry jackals leave

as those

To bleach upon

the mountains

but her bones

Were

not like bones

None

these could see unblench'd nor gods, for

As soon they saw

To

nor yet like Chaos' bones

those shocking shaftless bones

immortality as Nicander

hideous

tells

670

Lucifer saw charactered

With such abhorrence

as

were vain

to tell

Then back she slunk and he resum'd

Priding again as in the

life

But what he

With

Grey ashes
So

He

men

serpents they degraded, like that one

With

fleet

carried

wake

in his

he sped

the lightning

girt,

instead of flame

which Void

him

Bottom'd, behold

way

secure

Death

as if the gates of

burst, the gulf

his

itself

engulfed

in his pathless path

Uncertain as the Labyrinthine maze

The Argive

trod

Hades- ward from Thessaly

When

wind they

680

or that iEneas sought

secret

or impious

sow surely

men

to reap

In season whirlwind.

Now

in holy heaven

The morning hour was chim'd when on a

cloud-


IN EARTH.

Capp'd

From

And

Alyattes

hill like

toil

189

having slept

and sweat of war and triumph

too,

bath'd within a lake fed by a spring

Than

Ilyssos in

More

pure,

which Tritonia purged

more od'rous than the Chien-tien

All that had warr'd and

From

all

they

left

690

behind

on that mount

all their cities gather'd,

Rejoicing they a grand triumphal arch

Inaugurated.

Were

His Vespasian's arch

scarce a stone

and that one

A-nigh the Tuilleries no more

Were

then trumps

blown, and cymbals rung, thundered drums

So them to

By

lately raised

call those

instruments prepar'd

heaven's Beethoven, others mix'd bassoons,

Sheccles,

and

tringles silvery,

and voice

700

Accordant from such choristers as chose

In the dilation of the heart

to join;

There they with celebration on the spot

Where

And

Lucifer in time bygone his laws

mandates promulgated through his wide

Vice-royal realm

Around

in hero-heap

Were helms, casques, plumes, crests, vizors, corslets, thongs,

Belts, baldrics, gorgets, cuirasses,

gemm'd

greaves,

Cuishes and sandals, cinctures, mantles, chains,

Trappings of armed mail, uncounted arms,

710

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

190

Swords, cutlasses, frizz'd faulchions, hangers,

Bolts, maces, shafts

and

steels,

lances, arrows, bows,

Spears, jav'lins, darts, disks, retiaries, slings,

Gauntlets and lashes, scourges,

all

together

Carelessly thrown, with bucklers, targes, shields

Mostly to pieces riven, and even cars

And

chariots,

With
The

and the trappings of

their steeds,

the strange engin'ry which erst outside

walls such clatter

made though vain and worse

For those who prov'd them; One brought Zabrash's arms

They

stripp'd

With

half

him where he

fell,

elab'rate

wrought [720

and more than half the hosts of heaven

Exact enchased

battling,

Zabrash marked

Ever the foremost and wherever he

Flight show'd the back

Was

upon the breastplate God

figur'd also flying, nor in time

From

that swift seraph's

His Bodily was pierc'd

uplifted

still

as with a lance

You

almost heard

The

Passionless was represented there

it

arm

sing

with passion wild

Turning an anguish'd face on Zabrash round,

blasphemy

And

A
As

pictur'd.

shaft of

't

was thou who that conceivedst

Muse forbear

Athcoron brought

which Antrashing was

of his Macedonian Latraeus

as

proud

730

INEARTH.

191

Sothor a club, Almonides look'd so

When

he Alcides' handled, 'twas

so

huge

Another brought the skin from both

by a wrathful wrench

Slipp'd

From
Of

Acer, wrestling they

hands

his

by Orinos

Cercyon king

740

Eleusis ne'er wrestled as did he

Nor Simnis

He

half so cruel

"

Go

thou

to,"

"for I will quench thee," when, behold

cried,

His epidermis yielding he drew back

Agoniz'd

Of

one good thrust ended his pain

body, but his soul

Added an axe

Tryometon

the giant Sciron had

Hopeless attempted but the heft to

With

it

he sped the owner Crimenos

Thrynown

Which

lift

the harness of that dragon brought

carried once

Togarmah

Sterops such

moon

Rings, buckles never forg'd, and yonder

The
Of

collar

his

might go through,

750

beside him ten

companions him assisting brought,

Praising Zarael

for

Phrymour

others add

Spoils equal of the gorgon that he slew

When

Baal had his wound

Boasted had

it

When down

they threw

It

was; nor

imagined a

less th'

it,

that horse

Neptune

hill

so exorbitant

appointments of a gryph

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192

Which

grinn'd at Hylasoph,

Ugolon rode

That one, a better horseman than was

e'er

Castor the Constellation, and he fought

As

had he been

Craeus wonld

One

of the strong Strymphalians

On man,

their beaks

Unshapen

it all

His chariot

To drag

look'd

Hallar

who

drove

Antolycns and swore

like

ten angels at the

brings

which fed

and talons made of iron

Deliver'd from the reins

He

set astride

them there

Amphon

tail,

inwoven

770

light

though Triron tore

it

down,

Motonsinoth had sav'd some shining shreds

Of Zabrash's banner

With wonder,

blazing

sparkling these were shown

still,

the shades of Night

Crossing the woof: thousands of colours

Revers'd that to the lesser gods thrown

Had

once belong'd

hung

down

tens'd thunderbolts

were brought

Innumerable, and of every kind,

Single,

and sharpen'd, or

like

bundled rods

Twenty and more, with lightnings girdled round

To keep them

some had painted plumous wings

Beside, whilst all the effigy

Of

Lucifer upon

them

had stamped

those he hurled

Were

few, but few could hold them, fewer

From

off the

ground when

idly

down they

lift

fell,

780

IN

For when they came

Ever again
In

to find

arms

to

all over,

no one could hope

which

which that Arch

scarcely dare allude with

Was hung
The

full point

others there were

sort indescribable

We

193

EARTH.

when

a cherub boy

which heretofore belonged

fretted lyre

To

Lucifer discover'd

Of

hills

up that

hill

sped he and as he sped the strings

Swept, out discorders rush'd

like winter-swollen

Torrents o'ershot from perpendicular

Upon

And

790

a stony beach

flats

cliff's

or like the sharps

of a great organ,

Nat'ral designed withdrawn

all

the notes

great was the fright

Wliilst myriad thought-born Shapes divinely bright

Glancing like birds, arresting drove them back

800

Over the battlements, the instrument

With

horror sent close

Resilient crack'd

Surpris'd beheld

the strings

then Gabriel in the void

after, all

like

Refulgent, that great

some

far errant

Anarch

to

and

sun

fro

Winging

irregular the gen'ral heaven

Trooping

to see, lining the skiey towers

Billions of billions.
"

Mark!"

cried he, "

That destituted angel scours or shoots

ho^ strange
BIO

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

194

At random through
Is necessarily

the vast

this Lucifer

from yon earth'd

star

Adventuring with purpose be assur'd

Conceiv'd in pride and malice."

Hadriel then
"

He

journeyeth in search of what

Not heaven,

to this hardly

is lost

would even he

So soon direct his eye, but to that globe

Nearly approached; that his object

Where

is

yet two regents reign o'er those

Through the beclouded

Nor

air.

we

drove

820

difficult

To guess what such an adversary prompts,

Vengeance

Of

his

range

as to th' illimitable

Almighty power Jehovah

Magnanimous,

is

doth not that license show

But boast not God,

this attribute moreo'er

Exactly squar'd unto our express want

To prove

true fealty

The opportunity

And

ye

which

this ingrate

incont'nent gives

who fought

rejoice

ye

Untried in action Lucifer e'en

who remain

now

Intent on war plotteth for your just turn

the infatuate

The

rebels

the Prince of

though he

God, how demented

all

be, boundless beneath

space a point

or less

830

195

IN EARTH.

moment

All time a

What

to the

from his vergeless vision lieth hid 1

word had he

All the Seditions with a

Ended hnt heaven

And Night

repell'd them,

Our arch

who ?

How

that star, revolving in his

part to play

His legionaries

he coasts

when

mind

present he rejoins

mutual are their

stings

abhor such instruments the while

to

They

're

Thus

in the circle they are self-deceived

used,

Deceiving

Hath

and

theirs his comp'tence to suspect

they alone

whom Death

Etern

850

dispossest inform'd of the extent

Of misery consequent on
Those in an element

to

the fact

which the

airs

lightning are like balm eternal die

Bound round with

Where yonder
" That

is

Trembling

The

past

living fires

stretches,

yon

yonder they wheel

too far to see."

their miserable fate for aye,"

Said Sacrael

"

840

behold upon

the shatter'd glory.

first

What

Of

fled

the broad disc discov'ring as 'twould seem

Now

His

Chaos

in their essential persons,

We witness'd who behind

See

Known Unknown

when

the archangel ceased

as did the rest of that great throng,

it is

inexorable both
o 2

860

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

196

For them

The

move

as us also, nothing can

everlasting fixtures

ours in heaven,
name

Theirs in a Hell for by that awful

To

the inconsolable lost

There giant worms of

'tis

known

continually

fire

Crawl, cling around, or crunch those tortur'd souls

make

Their dreadful groanings diapason

Unto the

Thus

hissing snakes.

Flowing continual

terrific

ill

from

ill

shapes

Habiliments put on that change but for

An

aggravation

in

my

sleep I

870

saw

Their dungeon'd deepness, black unutt'rable,

And

sooty, measureless

Finite

And

by any eye

an under darkness,

vast, abrupt,

pinnacled with antres curved huge,

Grim, wild uncertain

vistaed,

maw'd enorm

O'er the rapacious deep, and Guilt

Most

fiendly,

a thing

with ten thousands like to her

Congeneric, Scorn, Hate, Mock'ry, and Crime,

And Infamy

with the worst sting of

Through

the passing elementals of

all

Damnation

flash'd or flar'd

my

all,

spirit

Adoring God's great Justice thus

saw

at length

There vindicated while in heaven unchanged

At His

right

hand

all

passionless she wait.

880

IN EARTH.

Nor

though

And
They

The

lost Lucifer the first to fall

these through

Find they

197

him

as proximate, excuse

self- victimized

really are,

ne'ertheless

and when Despair

extorts

truth from their parch'd lips as frequently

He

doth, they that acknowledge

Of

their creation

890

damn'd the day

some with dol'rous drone

Dreadful to hear, others with laughter loud

More

dreadful

still,

be hardly

so as to

Endur'd the spectrals dancing

strange

these sights

Moveless I saw, nor ruth nor pity mine."

"O

say not strange !" cried Uriel,

God's justice thou adored'st

Between us and our Maker

No room
Unto
But

t;

since thou say est

none may come

sympathy

finds there our souls so close they lie

his Father-heart

those

drive us yet the closer

who would come

and thereby

Shut an eternal door against themselves.

Affections there are two, intern the one

Given

to

our Creator, and extern

For those in

whom

his

In these

lost as

unto

As

'tis

image

well themselves, alas

God
!

is reflect,

they

're lost

and us unto."

Earnest but calm he said with look benign

900

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198

The

whilst that Sacrael in agreement

The head

bowed

910

then Gloriel rejoin'd

"Agreed!
All these are as

By seeming

we hold

baffled

contradiction than

More than apparent which

Thou makest

this

And

by truth

Uriel

though glozingly

Before thy handling

To hear such

no more

yet

may we

looked

not start

accents mild such scene describe,

unusual awe that princes

feel

it

who

Once occupied beside us mighty thrones

Are thus reduc'd and

Suicidal

they

are,

Regret the painful

Alone but

Such an

ours,

is

Appointed

fate

free,

we none
fact,

if

by deed

the less

not for their sakes

nay God's

assertion

For what

ruin'd

920

if

may

use

and be understood
but the result of will

and one

so desolate

Surely those powers ne'er contemplated though

That mitigates not the most graceless

Had

they reflected as they should they scarce

Methink had

sinn'd, this therefore

Lucifer none

may

The

guilt

risk

we

palliate, doubtless

he saw in

all its

magnitude

regret

930

199

IN EARTH.

Immensity

to call;

Hoping

win

to

Impious

delib'rately

God whose Throne he aimed

'gainst

what a

dateless period that

Denied him.

Yet but

What

minds revolve we may not know,

And

in such

since

To be

God

speculations these

thus permits

self-plagued,

th' apostate spirits

none may gainsay nor

plaint."

940

"If," then spoke Raphael, " all were free to sin

With
The

As

grace preventing this were to reward

sinner and to

if in

make

wantonness

Nor wanteth

a fee of sin

given sin

is

that an argument, if good

(Bless'd be God's

Holy Name,) be granted then

Th' existence of the two corollaries

Inevitable have.

Almighty God

Is infinitely good, sin equal bad,

Even the

far antipodal

First in that Lucifer

950

bodied

unto himself

Left, all his followers for ever cast

Out from the Light Divine.

In things there really

is

Hardship in that when

Not cause

it

Necessity

but none

plead

as a consequence

comes and knowingly invoked.

Moreover such the constitution

Of Error

may

is

turn he cannot back to

God

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH IN EARTH.

200
In his

own

ruins stubbornly he lies

All unrepentant

save that ruins there

Instead of God's he finds

He

feel,

960

if desolate

not for the cause but the

effect,

Embitt'ring more his fault ever the more

He

ruminates, parent and nurse at once

Of

progenies that on his vitals live

Thus are the rebel crew

As

far

in their distress

from thought of aid beseeching heaven

As heaven

is off,

curses not prayers their strain."

Thus those archangels reason'd reason good

Of

will

and

fate,

foreknowledge, misery,

And

providence

Had

argued so avoiding endless maze

Of

well if

passion, apathy,

What good %
Confounding

what

mankind

alike

evil was,

with purblind argument the whole

as a sorcerer confounds

Together holy and unholy things.

970

THE WAES OF JEHOVAH.

BOOK

THE ARGUMENT.
Lucifer

at the

arrives

star

Sirius

and

seizes

Adramelec's throne.

Various speeches, the Arch-gerent encouraging the rebels that their case
is

still

hopeful.

He

more properly the

returns with the greater

sun,

which had been

absence.

The second day

still

continues.

built

number

upon and

to the earth,

fortified

or

during his

BOOK

Now

where corrosive

airs

Edg'd the Arch-gerent

Torn from

Unto

that sickly star

the ambient space

like

a mountain's

V.

an avalanche

brow came

where

two

his

thund'rino-

down.

chiefs

Held empire on; the atmospheric shock

Excruciatingly his latent nerves

Reached, but he endur'd

Is this of the immortals

the privilege
evil things

Stellar, or inter-stellar, moist, or

Are

all

dry

reduc'd bv the alchemic lungs

Of

angels

Of

thick'niog cloud fierce urging pond rous he

through the

stratic

mess or mass

Precipitate the smoking passage made.

Distant had he been seen

so

some galloon

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

204

To rendezvous

at

Cuba, rising but

speck on the horizon through the Gulf

Of Mexico
Myriads

descried

collect

like savages

where likelihood most was

For meeting nor postpon'd

Whigs put

Came

to

sparkling his eyes,

utmost with impetuous speed

20

Lucifer a shout tremendous raised

Of welcome
Thus

recognition as he came.

young eagles on

like

Gazing look'd

Which

him

so far

his royal heart

distant, that his glory

They sound

th'

uprisen sun

they, praising those starry

carried

And more
So

an

as to

idol

plumes

through gloam and gloom,

which

to

them turned

with loud voice

and

God.

as

In rage and fear Adramelec upon

His

to tt 'ring throne attends

The tumult Jason

The habitude
Forego

caus'd like

Pelias once

manner heard

of rule, if some,

O Queen

as Diocletian, or in times

Modern

Had

the Spanish emperor they both

reasons of such gravity as forced

Those

acts spontaneous-like

angels hold on

Faster; Adramelec, his blood-shot eyes

Glowing

like basilisc's,

Competent made

beneath the dome

for millions

and just now

30

IN EARTH.

The

sapphire floor crowded with

Thus

he, around

haggard a

Dreading the echoes

20.")

faithful

40

few

the time they

all

gods

all his

list

Ovation's trump.

" I swear
"

The

!"

that princedom cried,

vain Pretender to the thunder ne'er

Will we again subserve,

Our

pillar'd thrones

In heaven were yet our own but

Bearer, that Death-getter

Induced

us thoughtless

what a

the Conspirer made, what dire disgrace

put upon him

is,

in the sight of all

the gloomiest

Past the endurance

Him
But

50

spectacle

Outside those walls of heaven.

He

Brand-

for his sole benefit to join

desp'rate game.

Was
Was

who

for that

Fellest of all

like his dragons

gone

none we sent

tidings

of our exigence what doth he here

He commenced

damn'd ambition.

for his

Professing his intent to equal

God

If not surpass him, but equality

Same time

to us held forth

His fond pretensions

Him what we God

For in

his

Putting

foil'd

denied'?

we

equal are

shall

we

we permit

are betrayed

words implicit confidence

we

all rebell'd

gods! we're betrayed."

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206

Raging thus

he, all his assembled lords

Looking assent prepar'd by him

to stand

Despite what came unto their deafen'd ears

Shaking above their heads that

down

As

if to

On

the Seven Hills

bring

it

Nam'd Nebo (whom

Under
"

one

owned

handling arms

meteor-arms had he
in heaven they liquor pour

viands offer the superior Lord

Though

absent,

none

Propos'd nor done.

for Lucifer

hath

Blasted

O now

eternal

we acknowledg'd

Never

if

and

With bad

after that

celebrity concession claim

will I

to th' indignant gods,

avenge them, I will plunge

This dagger to the

all his

the Arrogant as drunk

So oiTring insult

Alone

him down

shame were ours

If diff'rence
:

this

Without him we were well

Better since the three Archals drove

Of

70

his ceremonial robe, thus spake.

Are we not gods %

And

like Papirius

them

to use

once they heard

the nations after

to the Araxes,)

As prompt

cope

the Allia crossed when rude

Brennus came on, and

A god

so

lofty

hilt.

armaments of

Flying and footed

Where were

the use

chariots, horse

brac'd although

we were

80

207

IN EARTH.

Embroider 'd, shining, varied in our arms

Buckled, encas'd,

girt,

bound

90

in panoply

That seem'd invulnerable, loaded with

and golden, beamy, sharpen'd, winged,

Polish'd,

And fatal
And

shafts, or headless, tough'd,

and crooked,

barb'd batons, clanging, ringing, crashing

Irons as

fatal, fatal

Wrong'd

deities

And how he

but against

our sacrificed selves

Lucifer against his

Could and did use them

own

We have him

foregone

If not the gangs from out these halls desert

Committing treason personal

Adramelec

Him

we

howe'er here

insolent if boldly here

100

to thee

abide

he dare

Th' impostor come."

Thus he when through

Thousands on thousands rushing
Filled the spacious whole

that court

like a sea

the arch'd concave

Resounding back expressively such roar

As

millions

At

the

The

make

Naumachia

the Coliseum vast

or such other

games

Caesars gave never like that one filled

O'erflowing

in the midst

unnat'ral glare

His as he saw Adramelec upon

The

boastful throne his irresistless lord

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Vindictive Lucifer

Tramp'd

upon them he

an earthquake tramps

as

Upon

a lair of lizards

Upon

fire,

or like a lion

or like one

extinguishing, the chiefs

Also Adramelec with panic seized

Passing away.

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Baring his pallid brow

His arm advancing there enthroned, firm

Fix'd sate that Arch-ambitious

By

craven councillors and

Maximius look'd
Breaking

To empires
Stifling a

he speaks that perfect pause

they too near backward recede

groan and like a refluent wave

Over the audience a

Like as a panther

With

drought,

terror drove.

all his

when nothing

But hard'ning sand

And

Romans round

doth the gun that signals war

as
;

so engirt

bowels stung
in the pool

130

he finds

so he, as if his throat

blacken'd tongue the offices of speech

Refusing were compell'd and he would fain

Swill oceans of their blood:

He

stopp'd as

moment

if for

"Gods! gods!" he

cried,

want of speech, again

after shouting, "

Gods

what's this

Conspiracy in person of your head

Against the Common-weal

scath'd

though we are

IN

Now

worse

we

EARTH.

inly bleed

we hop'd

Divine

209

a something yet

140

e'en in the lowest, these

Immitigable baseness these suppressed

Wholly

He

The

deforms.

slave

with eyes askant

saw the gods around me rallying

The

perjur'd coward

Him

flying

from his

coward

post,

for I

true,

saw

and now aping

Divinity, behold the appareil!

Call

it

not hopeless that

In our

With

first

this

suffer.

are

wonder not

example

Before, and

We

battle

we

Disagreement

with

150

all

rashness rank

Sorely reduced

Betraying the last chance.

all

'twas lost

Chaos I had charged

now Adramelec

Already cannot

undone

together meet

Unanimous ? methought a common cause

Had

that at least ensur'd

Dagger

in

now

Folly comes

hand our new design

In the conception.

to stab

Reconcile with this

Disorder hope I abdicate to serve

The

reconciler.

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Fast confed'racy

Closer than ever e'er the more

we

We undivided reign

God

None him

beside,

or if with

loose

and Kingless be his Throne

p

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Eternal hate to

him

Fearful, as he shall find

Of

From

finds

live

Vacancy within

ample room

so long as I

Withstand fortune's retrievable

To martyr

we come

those proud towers, and

Our ranks

more with delay

If astray

execution.

he

so long

this firm spirit for

if

God
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fire

Upheap'd the universe and utmost wrath

Exhausting kindled

Or

it,

from out the smoke,

the transparent flame calmly would I

Face him unalter'd mould'ring

The thought remorseful

Remorse

arise, let perish.

And some

if in

flesh

and bone

any heart

When we

warred

were slaughter'd, none a tear expressed

Save those which briny hate alone extorts

Yet

will

we not

Whatever

And

follows.

Let the lawny mounds,

airs,

the radiant skies o'erthrown,

ebb and flow of light translucent be,

The time

shall

come when from these dismal deeps

Rising with glad surprise

The

God

incense-bearing dales, and sleepy seas,

Mellifluous

And

repent, as soon shall

heritors dethron'd

we

find

them ours

and dispossessed

Conviction like to this consuming cares

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Kender endureable, nay welcome

They but

211
since

increase our forces requisite

190

For the fulfilment/'

He
Sanguine

some great

so

with

effort,

ceased

disaffected prince

Defeated by his paramount persists

E'en

Then one

call'd

unto the seat

he looked

his escheated principal

Then

his neck.

Ziphroth hastily arose,

Over ten legions he

Of

round

to the last the halter

thus.
*

An

Great Emp'ror

infidel

that

unto thy cause

Adramelec

Ever the same: he goes,

to ours

so let him,

200

from

These hosts another name more worthily

The vacuum

And
Pale

Was

let

Behold our sum

fill.

the tyrant in the heaven of heaven

that

to

Adramelec unto

manifest incompetent

Came

his post

when on

Michael's, through the wide concave as if

Not wide enough he

stretch'd,

and myriads drove

A-back no one behind the shock

No

opportunity

But driven

Were

my

legions

in the event

forceful dash'd

to

bear

210

had

upon

this orb

witness these arms unsoiled

r 2

others witness

if

Adramelec

Rul'd afterwards, thou Emp'ror

But thy

As

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As

lieutenant, learn'd, if

we obeyed

he not learned

prov'd just now, what discipline demands."

Then Rassach

And

like a lion cag'd together

anger'd by a libbard, rousing cried

The while he shook

The absent

Though

his crest "

Thou

braggart, liar

to traduce, is that thy part

I not vindicate

'tis

not for

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me

Others to justify but this I hate

As much
Vaunts

With

the

Godhead on

his

Throne I

them

like to thine seeking to gild

that

which daubeth more

lo

hate,

o'er

at thy side

In rank commanded one whose weapons

ill

For lacquer match with

and mail

thine, this plate

Indented show that one nor distant fought

If yet not thou."

Indignantly he ceased,

230

Ziphroth uprisen with intent to hurl

At

the insulter's head

whilst there he aimed

Rassach observing with contempt, the gods

Around

in vast

Thought

Of

his

commotion such

they, that

their risk

moment Moloch

uncounted came

filling

at the

the floor

Impetuously so quick they Ziphroth from

head

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His leger

feet remov'd, his challenger

As

so

well

some swoln crocodile a pard

Drinking he threatens when a swarthy troop

From Darfour journeying

Unheeding

either separate

sore athirst the

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two

Moloch

Imperial look'd as in cherubic state

That gorgeous fane he trod

As kings on

Where

slow

earth they meet so pass'd he on

of the gods

darken'd his brow

the second step that regent stepped

Then rung
UndofFd,

that starry cope,

off'ring to

Moloch

We

greet thee, Emp'ror

As here thou

his

crown

speak his magnates round

Close throng'd and trustiest captains

"

full

dazzling his Seducer sternly sate

The Honor'd

As on

with steps

to

250

this his speech

such capitol

occupiest, ill-designed

For the imperial guest better upon

Th' Almighty's seat enthron'd his angelry
Captiv'd or serving as one time was hoped

Alas

Unto

how

my

vain.

From

Agnate

own,

this his throne

!

came one

if this tln*one

Denied, as one which none beside rightful

Could mount, our compact

Thee

us unto

his test

spoilt

when Michael put 260

nor that deny

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What was

the treaty

made 1

equality

With

reservation to thyself so long

Only

as

thou against Jehovah fought,

Confirmed the nine regents in the place

They previously enjoy 'd.

Concerted

Good

we kept

faith

we have fought under thy

flag

So long as to maintain against the foe

Who

rush'd

That

flag

upon us

Unto the owner

From

we

that

Against compulsion nor will

And

to thee

here

we

are

than
:

270

fly

If

wilt fresh league, propose, but

No more

bow

force or choice

His seconds are exonerated.

Thou

now where

the Primate

engagement or by

his

shall rally, rallying

if

possible

e'er

we

protest

submit

God by means

unfair,

Adramelec the thrones

Elected; to the cherubim around

I

owe

my

Not with

elevation

interfere

their just prerogative^-since thou'st lost

Return'd in

all

the amplitude

it

had

When in the heavens we 'Lucifer' proclaimed."

He ceas'd, consenting murmurings upon
His closing sentence
Another

call'd

falling;

to

him joined

Darpathrus, bolder

still

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So Mirabeau, Danton, surrounded by

The

canaille.

" Lucifer

that throne," cried he,

" Thou hast by treason and

if

wrath be checked

Thou

misinterpret not, if Scorn forbear."

Then

out nash'd high his sword millions more

290

Following with such high injurious words

As men
"

Thy

And

enfuriate use, but one

charge, false creature

as

When

contemptuous

sworn

to

pay

it,

thou

Thy

betters

Nor

partial that e'en that

to

thou

was heard,
thy chatt'ring teeth,

who
t'

thy due

failed'st

incriminate

pois'nous scorn be thine, thy praise

we deign

express."

" Forego !" cried Lucifer the while he stamped

The thunder

rising as with

Impress 'd in

all his

From

off that

Was
Was

thought the

first to

Moloch

Humbly below ]

my

if I

em'nence came Adramelec

this

Is

300

looks unto his feet

throne he mov'd; "forbear!

Unto

it,

gloomy power

fit

welcome but deceived

that I should stand

Regalities of gods

great majesty so

dimm'd that ye

Imagine me unsceptred?

No honour

I derive

from the heights which ye desire

Invest no more such

trifles,

rather turn

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216

To our

necessities, for this

For such good counsel

came

have to give

as ye

On theme

of gen'ral interest, even

Light,

may be

life

recover'd

how

nothing there

I see impossible if impossible

Ye

do not make

From

it

heaven

these wild shores

Outside the heaven

within our reach

no spot

grand

's

shall

deities

is

me

contain

this

So charming \ that ye droop the idle wing

Enraptur'd

A glimpse
The gods

here

my

straining vision seeks

of light celestial

320

shall they say

are stroke so blind their world appears

Fitted to their bereavement % whilst with lyre

Some

To

fav'rite minstrel sings of dole

and death

notes unmeasur'd, some even report

With triumph what

Even were

The

as spies they here

this star like that

which used

to gild

coronet of Morn, encircled round

With

silv'ry airs,

and furnish'd in

With amaranths and

The

have seen.

like

mode

palms, and viriate shrubs,

roseate skies above us, purpled orbs,

Rainbows, and crystal moons, such blandest bounds

The

sons of

What we

Freedom kept

aspir'd to once

not,

we

Pride forbids

still

aspire."

Like pleasant dreams before them

this discourse

330

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IN EARTH.
Floated

few angels thought much

Such thing

Most

As

as possible as

possible

and with

had hoped

he affirmed

good a grace

so

them

half-convinc'd

less

all

assenting signs

Exchang'd around some thought accomplishment

With such indomptive

Could bend,

leader

whom no

340

fate

This immurement then

still likely.

Insufferable seem'd the while he sketched

What

they instinctive lov'd and glorious change

Yet hoping,

Each scene

He

in their count'nance
as Lucifer its

saw exulting

The

sly

Not

at his cost

seducer

so

The

term expressed

some beauty

ripe,

350

to the like deceits

:

thus

it is

best sophisters oft themselves persuade,

their

dreams and more than dreams,

sin is self-deception in the light

Broader than noon, of the Omniscient

And some

Up

God

are tranc'd so deep that if one rose

from the sepulchre they would not hear.

Then

On

and once more uncontrolled

success he practis'd

The wicked have

As

reflect

gamester stakes increased

Himself abandon'd

With such

was

he,

earth,

who

afterwards as

Pan was known

and worshipp'd by the Dardans

Saturnia goddess-mother was deposed

since
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218

With

all

the Cretan Court, the Corybants

Instead to Cybele, the Pharian swains

him with

Osiris decking

ears of corn

Fresh-gather'd ; and since then

And

Idalian doves

th'

Cyrenaic sect proscrib'd, to him

The wise ones

of the world Pantheists called

Their fulsome homage pay, (out of the mouths

Of babes and

He

sucklings

God

shall

them confound,)

rising, thus.

"Gods! whilst we

And hope
Here

thou Lucifer

I take

Making

up no

say'st

And

still

therefore

we

are

Possible

more

if to

insecure

arbitrary.

this uttermost

what the means ?

and where our way

through the shatter'd Chaos

Above the

Beams

stars

where the

forth celestial.

Unknowing

Of errand

Now

better our lorn lot

are the queries,

from

Wing

live,

'twere bootless even if not worse

we made God

How

hope and

o'er the vault

faint smile of

heaven

Eddying we may whirl

whither, by the axles ground

worlds.

Doth any know the

line

Unto our cardinal 1 through wrack and waste

All, all

370

ref'rence to the past

Unless maybe

Where

live, live free,

is

peradventure.

Some may here

380

219

IN EARTH.
Insist that if

we

we degraded down

Involuntarily the while in thought

Soaring unto the canopy above

So undistinguishable

Were no way

our plight

stretch'd,

worsted

the experiment

390

Try, as unlikely to succeed as there

Are

points unto the circumspace

Right

the immensity around, about

I stagger, let the god

who doth

Long pause was then

Had

but one

not speak."

as if eternal breath

some grave

pass'd from every angel to

Beyond the

limits of the void described,

Their persons in that palace

left

behind

For ever with the solitude of death

Each

Of

fix'd his eye as motionless

those hard hopeless words

Uneasy

'till

400

thus ponder'd they

the vast promiscuous crowd

Grew more than

Nor were they

One

he thought

anxious something more to hear

disappointed, Aricon

of the vulgar,

all

in disarray

Studious was he, his once resplendent wings

Nigh

featherless,

Untrimm'd and

Many

and such

frizzled,

a ghastly gash,

Sever 'd

hung on

as

as then

remained

right across

one of

by the

his face

his lips

fest'ring skin

410

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220
Bare

to his jaw,

Which

a Venetian

Of darkness

thus, like

some bravo bold

Doge had

hir'd

some deed

for the senate to perform,

In council he presented

his plebeian

Pride thus he there displayed.

" Gods

Attend what one

shall say uncareful

all

attend

how

So that he utt'reth what belongs unto

Our bad

occasion

Ye who

the seats of power by force or fraud

Now
God

this

ye soon shall hear,

occupy, the gods fighting against

your gratification,

for

what with other

Result than these green wounds

Myself

to

ask

Prescient were

We follow'd,

we

comrades

Orderly I suppose.

Wouldst

Thou

will.

we

disposed

we round

Now

revolved

where are we

Our

430

centre thou

have broken, Lucifer when

broked'st us

Despotic

essence

we now become 1

fain

what gain 1

midst a Central power

Scarcely restraining as

are

begin

of time and space before

when our

either, in the

What

now

question well ask'd before

We follow'd Lucifer,

To

420

all

reduced

to thine

The Primal God

Thyself was specious, us he

left

off

own

before

thyself

IN EARTH.

He

left at liberty,

Of

edict or

Hast brought

The

To

less

they

if

yet thou the thrones

as thou,

Tyrant

art,

to self-contempt.

I fear thee not

perhaps as having nothing more

sacrifice,

"Who

whate'er thou say'st

command,

As independent

221

and thus with millions more

list

applauding thee, accuse

Their thoughtless

Of Zabrash,

440

Where

folly.

Nisroch, and

are all the hosts

Togarmah

they

Obey'd thy ord'ring in the battle which

We rue,
And

and they in consequence are

yet these present thou would'st

lost

bend and shape

Into subservient instruments, for what %

well

'tis

answer 'd by thy recent

Thousands of thousands
Leap'd to their

feet

act."

as that factious ceased

so in the stead of

450

one

The hydra multitudinous heads sprung

When

he Alcmena bore Ionian Jove

Lopp'd constant.

Thus

it is

when

those

who

reach

by the populace kick out

tiar

Against the rungs they mounted, or forget

The mode

And

in

which

at

bottom they discoursed

acted.

Then

A rock

stood

Moloch

so at night

as black as jet the traveller takes

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222

For the dread genius of the mountains

Guarding

Or

their treasures scimitar in

The burnish'd dome above wav'd

as

he rose

pearly waves, his golden wings

In trem'lous motion,

all his

Flashing supernal sparks

Was

hand

Ocean couch'd behind

Spirit of the

Ten thousand

eyes divine

wonderful

so

he that then his audience thought

They had

close

observ'd,

and

first

o'er the slip'ry floor

470

Press'd forward.

" Hold! " cried he, "none here

With

Lucifer

nor any one compare

Their greatest to his least

When

horrible

we

Compulsive occupy
senseless angel

How %

if

't

feel

for

and

this curs'd scene

words like thine,

we engaged

better

were possible

satisfaction ours

nor this the time

to

Together, so that let what

The

may count

make

may

return

befal

nothing remained

O'erlook'd for our redemption, or to break

Such further

fall

if

further any be.

For me, an unsubduable array

1 think yet possible if selfishness

Would

but forego poor claim

all

with sound heart

Joining as I will join fresh Avar to wage

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IN EARTH.

How where] he judges best who best can judge.

When disenthralls is time for tripping tongues
Now premature at least refrain, refrain
1

And

turn your scorn whate'er

En gender 'd

all into

its full effect th'

Thus he with

how
490

the course our case

So urgently requireth, so shall

Eeceive

be, or

it

God

advantage we."

features firm, but various thought

Distracting and to that Atoncryntal.

" 'Twere mis'rable indeed, grave gods

Your

nat'ral leader, Lucifer

ye

His chieftainship

expir'd,

from

effort failed

even so I thought

but reas'nable

Cause shown

for his continuance

I vote for

continuance, let the rest

its

if

fly,

For what ] because one time our

Before the walls of heaven

as

he hath,

500

Regretting those who're absent but resolved

T' atone the

want we

Insensible to fear e'en

Had
Even

feel,

with

me

agree.

when he most

mighty Emperor design'd

cause, our

in unsnccess success 'gainst heaven

Whose

signet

is

We little like,
Thus hast

on Lucifer

thou,

But something

on many in such

Moloch

like

it,

for

'tis

sort

not.

barter 'd not despair,

such hope as he

510

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224
OfFereth

who,

O who

And

live; e'en at the

And

to the pedestal of

What

can hope refuse 1

name

the pulse beats quick

God

the eye

uprais'd god-like

god-like we

of one strowed field 1

many may be

Once more

And we

who then

cost

shall

whate'er

heed 1 who dies in

O how

Dismal of dismals.

this,

Solace remaining that one day

when

the

520

the sole

we war

Again, meantime so arming best as

best assure us

this

profitless

Other engagements are save

The

feel.

the losers, hard if by-and-bye

We persevering win not one,

The

crisis

may

comes

All narrow schemes forego for this grand scheme

Worthy

inventor

th'

Worthy our

deities

alone

study which that cloudless brain

Undaz'd may yet resolve

Unto our

benefit, our

if

any may

energy

Tighten'd around as price before prefixed.

How God

must tremble when he

Even from

With

this

finds us turned

upon him, unsubdued

longings of the soul for vengeance

common

'Tis thus in

Experience

gods

with our Emp'ror I

so shall all if ye reflect

How much we

lose because

we freedom chose

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IN EARTH.

To

grinding slav'ry,

Bow,

We

minister,

did we not obey,

and fear ]

to this

comes

it

would not God and therefore from the heavens

Are we

exil'd

it

Whether by God

me

matt'reth not to

540

or Chaos, we're exiled

Unwillingly, and to our horror tread

These distant

Be

yours, unservile

Above

the Tyrant

He

to

lift

Out

Rise

places.

unchanging

will

elevate yourselves

though his viewless rod

dash us down as often we

upon times

of th' abysmal rise, times

If necessary, dare his deadliest blows

Loathed his Being

Rend'ring

it

as

joyless

we

from necessity

Imposed thus upon him

His looks were

loathe our bane,

like his

still

words

then Aphrasac.

" Nothing shall us compel as thou hast

Emp'ror

to yield

Subduing

The form

design'd,

Or

no

soft plastic

we

to take

whether of
:

liv'ried serfs

yet our outrag'd rights

Shall have atonement and great

for

God

murd'rous deed, and

In ten-fold brass

said,

whatever be our doom

chain'd as tameless

But arm

550

to watch."

his due.

steel yourselves

at disadvantage

we

Henceforth contend so vast that but

for hate

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Rising as vast scarce visible a chance

Against such enemy.

The nobler

we

Since

survive

are the free howe'er they're

Whether by Chance

we

or God,

are

wronged

by both.

So long as these immortal minds endure

Unalt'rable by constitution stand

One by another
Sink in the

unworthy care

all

common

cause

as I

have sunk

Sincerely joining Lucifer to redeem

His gage

As

And

as

if his

very looks would blast them then

bloodiest scourge were his

their bar'd shoulders, Lucifer

With

a terrific shout

" Assurance had

its

due

Abuse of
It

liberty

my

thunderbolts

as,

liberty

order; anarchy

From

one thing

they, the rank

liberty forego as if

were perdition

And

upsprung

"If," thus he cried,

But thou and thy supporters, 'ware

who have

yet withheld

if

From

All

570

he hath promis'd and I hope."

is

liberty, or liberty

is

law

580

license far

run

mad

If I a priv'lege have another claim

Then

let

Whose

him come upon my throne and

val'rous deed points worthy,

Flave I not said

but

Lawgiver there must

sit
'till

be,

then

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IN EARTH.

The only law

That we

all

know

so to rule

is

hold together strong as

fate,

For one and that a purpose necessary

As much

for those

Nay, more

Of Heaven
Never

who

dissolve alliance

me

fail'd

him who

reigns

590

on the Throne
to

but that

sit,

by means of arms

erst

though they may serve again

If to that height I rise

By my

mean

I thought, I

shall I secure

Which

serve as

as rise I shall,

inherent strength and that alone,

Which nought

impairs

Deities

speak

Seeing such sore defencelessness as

is

Yours whilst scornful

enemy

May come when

Making

I speak

least expect

the

such finishes

600

as shall for ever glut his wrath.

That ye are not destroy'd what but

Prevented

none deny

me

this

arm

and these hands

Shall sickle harvest yet if ye only

Forego these weak

divisions, to

your prime

Seconding on as once was your delight

As capable

He

as ever strike once more.

said as if the battlements of

,,

heaven

E'en then he clearly saw through that ribb'd dome,

And Empire
And

at his feet subjective lay,

thus continued,

;t

Thou misdoubting god

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No

quarter of the universe

Tis open

gain'd

field,

is

shut,

we no more than

this

This something were our theatre enlarg'd;

Time

And

is

quite valueless except to

reap our excellence

Our happ'ness

The

to

the chiefest this

pursue howe'er

place or e'en unlikely

Chance

is

phantom

sow

unknown

what

is

chance ?

that but cowards scare

One journey happily accomplish'd we

Augur

Remain, remain
Whilst

Such

the like another.

!

and keep

this victorious

Capitol winning there

senselessness

620

as will

this sterile place

arm the thousand-domed

my

shame

followers lodge.
!

glory to spurn,

1 or heaven yet to prefer contrast like this

Forgetfulness and ruin, where the ghost

Of Freedom
Long

stalks dreading its

own

centuries of years shall pass

dull shade

and more

Relaxing come and the sojourners here

Blighted remain rather than cast for heaven

These

630

torrid plains, these icy glens preferred

Unto the

fiow'ry fields, blue seas,

And why

despair

and cloud

them ? think and be

like gods

Full competent ye are infinitude

Itself to compass.

Time

restless prepares

"

229

IN EARTH.

Our

destiny nor abject

destitute

We are not that so long as with brave heart

We hold uncow'd and unconverted on.
Meanwhile your honors keep
Confirmed dignities

The Emp'ror join

who

ye princes

your

640

here attend

Thus

he,

and from that throne,

That hall kingly went forth following behind

At

that his

mandate

In solemn order

As

the glitt'ring court

transient on flash'd they

void and desolation on the rear

Instantly clos'd

As

all

no speech, no sound was heard

hollow vast stretching beyond

to the

Those numbers pass'd: then dizzily they reeled

650

In the nocturnal nothing, Lucifer

Awhile

When

at loss

which compass

to assert

one the marks of his precedent path

Discov'ring that they took back to the sun

Gladly addressing.
Fadeless fame were his

Who

so described these advent'rers as

Well they deserve

O Queen

deathless the

mem ry

is

unto thy minstrel of that One

Flush'd at their front

who

like a

sweeping storm

Pass'd terrible; tremendous strokes his plumes

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230
Cut

far

and wide the space, great flurrying flames

Hustling each other horribly as with

Incomprehensible precipitancy

And vehemence he

wing'd

he wing'd

in all

Th' infernal majesty of beauty scarred

And

corrugate, as

men may

think of Cain's

Foreheaded who like Lucifer was loved

As

witness his posterity,

adored.

For more than a world's

praises,

Empress! I

670

Thirst with intensity that only one

Can

slake,

my

and now

quenchless burning heart

Feels an unearthly appetite for

The

blaze of fame and

These be

By

thee

my

the love of

steadfast aim,

O Muse

Under the Royal

With

all

thunder.

all

my

God

guiding stars

unto a oneness brought

spell

now

load

my

tongue

Wrathful he from every cause

Existing, in his mightiness again

He felt omnipotent
No more one-sided,

his iron

fix'd

Unscaleable as God's

Had

crown

his throned seat

the smoke he

made

blotted out creation, or those fires

He rutilating made
Beyond

consum'd afar

creation, everything beside

Th' abstracted

infinite in

which composed

680

;;

231

IN EARTH.
of majesty lives calm

The Majesty
Eternities

he added then unto

Eternity, the anatomical

Of Space spurn'd from him, her

nihility

690

Attributing to himself and drawing long

God

Conclusions thence to
Bruis'd,

broken he would

The Thummim

To

over whose neck

drive, the

Urim and
seemed

pulveris'd

his lieges

glide like gilded birds

so the fire-flies

Sparkle by night

When

the phosphorescent waves

animalcules by the millions rise

Tracking some whale that through the Baltic roams

Thus they

in close succession, swift as

Chasing the

light, or

thought

wind

w hich both
T

outspeeds,

700

Interminable multitudes, broad path

Broader than yonder sun's

In the

ecliptic, theirs,

Arrowy and

The Blank

stars

In autumn

it

be

behind them marked

farther than the eye could reach

far distanc'd as

Thus through the ebon

Like

broad though
behind

it

quenched.

vault those rebels winged,

innum'rous that at Cape of

fall

Hope

unutterable to see

The blacken'd brightend Vast

reflected as

They sped deep'ning behind cloud upon cloud

Stupendous

more than Tempest ever owned

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232

Shrouding some continent

Profoundly

right through the

yawn

and darkness more

limitless,

Intol'rable than night their Archal tracked

Looking

Who

as looks some khan upon the Schah

would him inhume

fain

Impale but dare not

alive or else

so Phalaris looked

So Nero when inhuman thought he had

Of Rome

a-blaze

at length the

In the wide range, through

Blotting

Such

as

Awatska

off the

The

Frequent

looks

startled

now

720

to the dwellers in
;

or to the spirits

flaming Mongibell

Night

roar,

encompassing gloom

th'

worse, with one a brighter spot

it

The moon benighted

Far

Round they glimpse

lo

and hark

on her short-held throne

she mutters in return

Gutturals which her co-distractor hears

Construing, that prerogative was his

Alone.

Then

And mighty

jarring sounds frightful increased

clangour

loud and yet more loud

Discordants growing, shout on shout uplift

As

to that globe

Eventual come

with frantic welcome they

so a great ship-of-war

The merchantmen

with opium from Patna

Freighted, the voyage bad, safe anch'rage casts

hi the Ta-ho.

like some ^tcrn tribune, as

730

EARTH.

IN

Torquatus was

when

Scylla

or like Caligula

lie

233

return'd dictator home,

So Lucifer the while the greet he drank

Into his thirsting soul thrilling with joy

Such

No

as

was.

it

trunk

it

Evil

is

740

parasite

hath but like the climber grows

Unto some other and the stronger that

much

So

Summing

Who

the welcomer as then thought he

the product

surpassing prince

seekest in another like thyself

What
The

both what

all,

alas

for aye

have

lost.

alteration there since Lucifer

Departed then he saw

around the

pile

Originally executed aisles

Innumerable ran

With columns

And

flat

750

graced, nor ornament but built

plated strong as if the crush of worlds

They should withstand

Of

roof'd nor yet

granite with

its

Phylee

that labor'd rock

colonnaded fane,

Embrasur'd ranges, vestibules and courts

That seem

Beyond the

eternal, unto these a toy

peristyles defences

thrown

In radiates up concircled join d well-nigh

O'er half the globe and

in enormous mass

Provided with great store of grated stones

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234

And

others for defence

Another dreadful war

He

or if they

meant

for surest gain

saw approving, stalking on

to

Night

Swelling and shrinking as with sensual mind

Her paramour

she waited but not long

Death

Yielding his charge

so Pestilence to

Participate together

round them then

Sate the tetrarchals, lords, rulers and chiefs,

And

those

whom Honour

mark'd or Fame declared

Worthy, the foremost Moloch

Little dispos'd for conf 'rence

He

thought some pers'nal

Ekriel stood stern

Whose names

when

sacrifice

it
;

770

cost

apart

others there also were

in hell they dropp'd whene'er they

Full

many

The

president on high,

On

heretofore

So staid statesmen

engirdling.

th'

Amphictyons

named,

sit

the Tarpseian or the Capitoline

The

Conscript Fathers

The Council

We

now

or in later day

of Five Hundred,

mad

as these

describe, as ruthless, studying

how

God's earth to ruin as these studying hope

God

Was

in the heaven of heaven

to

them then

no sense of crime

no treason treason seemed

Tf but successful thought

By which

no channel low

to gain their object, hopeless

but

780

235

IN EARTH.

For measures of deceit by covert ways

Brought upon God

From open

to bear, his

Crown

violence or open war.

secure

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BOOK

VI.

THE ARGUMENT.
An
all

invocation of God.

Jehovah

calling to

Time, revealeth and with

the holy angels drives forth of heaven lighting up the external universe.

The anthem

of angels.

Lucifer in the
fortress

sun.

Uriel and Sacrael are

The engagement.

Lucifer consults his two sole remaining princes, retires to the

centre, rends the sun asunder

Time

commissioned against

Driven to the heart of his

and

dies.

the third day, in the morning.

BOOK

O God

in

Thy

VI.

Eternal Mansion throned

Serene on high above the din as well

though Lucifer not alone

The reach

of

But

archangels with the hosts of heaven

all th'

war

United fought,

To utmost

rais'd

though

my

yet (of earth earthy)

thoughts they are

my

verse

Descriptions lacking as were mete for these

Great

hist'ries,

Thy Holy Name

With

frail

and

unworthy though the muse

to take the

fev'rish

Yet from Thy height

Upon Thy

servant,

Which tund

hand

while this harp

I trembling strike

beyond

all

height, look

and the Golden Key

the spheres to

harmony again

down

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240

Let sound that tributary song nor

less

Displeasing unto Thee once more

we

Now

had The Righteous Ruler on

tune.
his

Throne

Imperial seen whence the adorning suns

Of

Paradise were fall'n with such dire wreck

As Chaos

in his flighty passage through

The Northern made and with the

spoils insphered

Together ruin'd

o'er the battlements

Of heaven with

pelting ponderosity

20

Drive into space, and since that combat shook

The mass asunder

Each one

And

his

through the blank they whirled

way the Sun and

others, the rebellious cast

Upon them
From

Sirius,

down

thus the mainful main was isled

the disruption'd heaven

Present commands his saints

Of Morning

that

but the Lord

with the third day

came round with rosy smiles

Refraining the high mountains, saffron light

Scatt'ring o'er all the misty

Her

dews from out

burnish'd urns and vases at their

"Attend!"

said

Entrancement

God

whilst

fresh, adoring

Divine, " attend

the angels

from

heard the Voice

angels !" then the Lord

all

Call'd to revolving

all

feet,

Time

the heavenly spheres

30


241

IN EARTH.

Chiming

Above

for answer, in a sacred cloud

the lust'rous sether, in the day

Of day where

all is

Silent, serene,

where no archangel thought

To

sky and moveless stream

40

climb, above all stars two ocean-doors

Flew open

behold

there,

in boundless bright

God's Majesty was seen, heaven in amaze

All heaven, the angels,
Veil'd lighter than

Her

bridal day or

all

the air-born Sprites

Andromeda upon

Hebe

at the feast

Dodonian the space the son of Tros

Pours

to the gods, all these together trooped,

With

all

that own'd the seas like Lsera, or

50

Nemertes, Nesse, Clymene, Proto,

Or

Doris, over-populate the

Out of

air,

their eyes of love shedding their thoughts

In shape of strangest, purple, crimson, wild,

Unfading buds and flowers

all

the Shades

Heaven-bred when the great meteoric round

Of

light

which makes the day unto

In order tends and seems

Horizon, and his

scarce

to touch

his place

some low

less bright, reflex

Pales the broad gloamings which relieve the plains,

Crescet-crown'd Fatuis's, (drawn their breath

From

nightly colocassias,) which

bound

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242

Like playful fawns about now here now there

Starring the sleepy scene, or

Some mystic measure

moving

to

in gauze-like cymars,

Swim, swish in multitude devoutly round,

God went

All wondering look'd on as

forth

Like sound of many waters, or like hosts

Rushing

to battle, principalities,

Powers, thrones, dominions, virtues, angels,

all

70

Following the cherubim of glory awed

Proceeding at their head
"

Your

Who is

King

the

is

the

of Glory comes,

King

The semi-chorus
" This

!" cried they,

heads, ye gates! ye everlasting doors!

Lift up, the

"

" Lift up

of Glory

He

comes."

Glory? who]"

answer'd, and they cried,

King

of Glory:" then

upon

Their golden hinge spontaneously back

The

sun-bright portals

swung

eternal

Day

Rush'd instant out from heaven rolling away

Before Jehovah yawning yellow'd space

In volume none can reckon though they count

By

the celestial squares

The

bear up,

O Muse

all-sustaining air our shoeless feet

Shall silent keep, our waving wav'ring wings

Noiseless

the car of

The shining

God

the whirling wheels

spokes, the nave, the braces, rings,

80

IN EARTH.

Beams, body,

all

seem'd one as

Invested outward drove

sounding, God

crowned was God

With overshadowing crowns

Victoria

243

great Empress

richest that the earth e'er

The

faintest

Thy

pearls

Of heaven

symbol

whole

for thy

90

thine

owned

diamonds suns,

thy gold the passing gold

stars,

refln'd

from

all that

makes

it

dross,

Imperishably bright around His brow

Encircled

thus

Unspeakably

an hyaline beyond

afar,

Another operating
and

Instinct,

all

one orb upon

as

with

life

the horrible hot cold

100

Suspended, the confusion horrible

Stopp'd,

then Almighty God pronouncing,

" Light,

1 '

Chaos unto his bounds remotest heard

And

felt

the penetration

through

Sinking to his foundations

In desolation he

And

to

desolate

broken tones

Entreated as the purest

Then

frame

Ruin, Night,

his Progenitor in

Rush'd past

his

airs of

heaven

the countless suns to order turned

out he tore his hollow heart wherein

Sate sceptred Undelight, with features grim

Grimmed

arose, reel'd dizzily,

All his abysmal subjects

and with

Wraiths conceived
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244

In darkness, mottled Spectres

some

like bones

Sapless and marrowless, with rampt Resolves

And

Unresolves as rampant, Rout and Rage,

Resentment, Ruin, Rumor, Gloominess,

And Wrath and

And

Winter,

Wind and

Clamour, Chance

Conflict, Care, Confusion, Fury, Fright,

Lightning, Discord, Destruction, Darkness,

Dread, Dross, Drought,

The

light

Doom, [down

Dusk and Thunder sunk sunk 120

gone through them

then methought I saw

In his ten-fold times aggravated pangs

Chaos's final spasm

shaking

his

form

In the extremity, convulsive clenched

In bitterness of death his chilling hands.

Thus Nothing

Was woven

heretofore a vacant

At

as once the

heavens they rung

the creation of that concourse vast

Of holy
"

the crystal empyrean

o'er,

Ringing again

gulf,

angels

Hosannah

who

now

Rejoice, rejoice,

rejoice

The

hall' wing of

Rejoice

Creating

Word

unto Thee

angels, sound aloud

O Elohim
Hosannah O Elohim
Elohim

130

rejoicing sung,

The calmed

God's eyes

the heaven

is

belted

vast

rejoice

thou

Join, join in tenor our full-hearted

receives

Abysm

hymns,

245

IN EARTH.

The joy
The

of unction on thy head

best

Light

with veiled radiance, eclipsed

Before God's sanctuary-splendour, Light!

Light

Light

In chorus

with a song

to the Eclipser

140

seraph of the heaven before

All seraphs, join unspeakable, our chords

Vibrating unto thine, The Majesty

Through

Thou

the crystal circlings shall approve.

all

the so long encircled Mystery

Eternal Calm

Love

O Thou

Infinite

Sole

Showing Forth

The holy numbers

Ye cherubim

lo,

of glory give

the numbers raise,

Elohim

Him

150

praise,

Raise, raise your voices seraphim, raise high,

Raise high

respher'd His radiant lamps go forth

Revealing glory

Ye

angels

magnify His

now hosannah,

choral

Serenely calm with gladness

The renovated suns broke

The

fill'd

now

behold

forth from out

blessed Vision of the heavenly place,

Fountains of

Name

Glory

fire

Glory

The spangling

and banners of the Lord

canopied above

stars: ye glories of the

Join ye the swelling strain:

Repeat

them

He

heavens

gave them

light

light, repeat ye countless, light

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246

And

The

ceaseless praise.

The luminars

revelating suns

of language are restored

Sing to His fame, ye powers thou Mazzaroth,

Arcturus and his azure sons the seven

Refulgents orb'd Orion

at the head."

Thus were the ruins of the outer heaven

Illuminated by his ordnance, space

Immense beyond the Walls of Empire

With

And

filled

170

circling wheels of bright careering orbs

thus great joy the holy angels

made

In solemn quire watching the countless spheres

Spring forth continual in order sure

Of mazy dance

that

Nor thought

possible so intricate

Yet

it

perfect all the

none had dar'd invent

movements

as they

swung

Each from

his partner or mysterious turned

Drawn by

a secret impulse, wav'ring less

The

farther they disparted as

They trembled

when

Hail goddess

Urania

all

Thou then

by some

to their centres fill'd

Divinest sense of love attracting

thou

whom

oft

all

180

close

by night

I hail

the stars thou know'st by name,

observed'st

Their legion ]

who

them come

O who

shall tell

the measure they describe

Around the heavens \ Cimmerian darkness shrouds

IN

EARTH.

247

The

skirts of that

The

farthest verge that Javan's issue feigned

Where

curs'd Iapetus

thou befriend

And
In

As

and Saturn pine;

the numbers

me

190

affright

overpowering spells as on they whirl

swiftest trains

And

dominion, far beyond

marv'llous I

that to

Most

me

riotous

Than

with such presentments wild

am

giddy

to

Guide back,

wanton dance

appears wondrous amiss,

though

better learn'd by thee

the Castilian king,

Measur'd

we know

'tis

well

music that the gods enchant

O Muse

this philosophic flight

For Newton e'en too high.

200

Then round

the wheels

Living of those swift cherubim turned

Facing the heavenly multitudes which bowed

Lowly the head whilst

in their tingling ears

Jehovah's message unto Uriel came

And

unto Sacrael; thus Jehovah,

Yonder remotest sun

Rolls red,

Uriel

ye hath

to

Sacrael

yet unreprieved

and that sun beyond

God

assigned each

For your good government

Of

"Where

beyond the range

the Omnific word the depth of deep

Remain

for all

who

enter

Hell,

saith

God

210


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248

Myself alone exempt,

infinity

Mine heaven."
Th' Almighty said and homeward rode
All Raphael's sacred tongues around, his car

Dark with

intolerable bright that all

Blinded

black so that a chlorite cloud

to

Seem'd passing

Then

all

the while

travers'd space.

220

the archangels their retainers called

Through

the vocal air

all

Enchanted and

instant heard they

with warlike

Round where advanc'd they

To

it

moved

passion,

stood waving the wing

testify their readiness for that flight

Distant earth-mark'd.

The

flow'ry perfum'd stars

Elysium nighest reach'd, across their zones

Glist'ning they sped,

and others known

to

song

Heroic that no Mesilegenes

Dare

to attune

Of demi-gods

so high their destinies

that in the after time

Had

entries of great triumphs

That

to their

Of heaven
They

all

Wing'd

through the gates

worlds pertain'd, unto the Throne

itself;

these uninhabited

observ'd admiring but straight on

till

Great ruins

By

230

Mceris

they Sirius reach'd

;

none

Sesostris

there Sacrael found

owns

nor in Bactriana, or

this

day

249

IN EARTH.

Edom compare

Eear'd by a god

When
Short

nor of that Phrygian fane

the palatine o'erthrown

all

240

was stopp'd

Sirius in the career

around them stretch'd the

fields of

death

Bearing envenom'd herbs, dark trees like yew

Swarming with amphisbcenic snakes

The monster-teeming

seas

the land,
arms

to arms, to

Under the low-hung clouds the gloomy gods

They

altogether rush Adramelec

Urging together

The

so the

Kabyles in

Afric mountains, to the Iron Gates

By Nature

in an earthquake-fury forged

Horrific, huge, irregularly

The Quarters blew

At once from

high

like all the

250
winds

let loose

Strongyle, east, west, and north,

And

south o'er the Liparian towers in rage

The

four fearful contesting, all the pines,

The palms

prostrated

stripp'd as

if

a frost

Had

ta'en their blacken'd branches, then

And

worse the clouds dispers'd like tempests sped

Over wide wastes of snow

The

from

all

the rents,

ravines then the shafts flew out against

The bold
Big

and there

as

invaders

mount Blanc

these sheer scabrous stones

against the rock-ribb'd range

Driving the deep foundations shook, and down

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250

Enormous masses

And

fell

the regent

plated, grip'd with

shame

braced

distraction, called

Upon

his followers

None

daring, he at length alone th' attempt

Made and was met

Emerging

With

to sally forth

Podisthinos met he

Cyclop from his den

as a

black-blue

fires in

hand

dreadful he drove

Suddenly with a magazine entire

Of welted
Then

bolts

rattled

Ne'er thought

that angel's trusty shield

so that
of,

270

gun Archimedes

by our greater engineer

Invented, the potential steam let loose,

string of bullets in a

moment

drives

Like lancets out 'gainst the opposing wall

Podisthinos was blinded, but he hurled

As

if 'twas

The

Chaos

hurl'd, turn'd whitest white

intercepted mass

Adramelec's

Shield sounded hollow, for a

The bossy hydra on the apex

moment shone
as

Alive provok'd, the aspics rimm'd around

Expressive writh'd and darting out

fell

down

Fus'd like his breastpiece (with device enchased

Infernal,)

and a diamond lining wrought;

All, all then

went

to

wreck

heap of shapeless cinders

their

owner

such they

left

find

280

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IN EARTH.
After a

in

fire

None was

some small entry where

suspect

Again and take

Or missing

they stare, and

stir,

and

stare

290

for a perish'd cat

it

mastiff.

Nor Adramelec

Alone, that torrent enter'd to the heart

So sure,

it

Or hornets
Too long
Their

The

blew

all

up

nests and

so

wasps are blown,

all into

the air

infested, all their stings as well

legs, wings, sing'd, burnt,

broken

owning Death

rebels terror-fraught their ghosts from out

Their eyes glar'd in advance, and with a shriek

Sped

like Siberian wolves their

Outward

Turn'd north the

Too

300

if

victors,

seen not

well-practised plumes

from that

star well

the explosion

heard

came

certain to the Arch-divider's ears

Across the mediate space

fired,

to Hell.

With

Warring

haunting

soon through the clouds

thousand thousand voyagers were seen

Angelical but stern, and beauteous forms

Such

Nor

as ne'er Hylas, nor th' Idsean boy,

Cinyras's son,

Endymion

lov'd

E'en by Diana, Hermaphroditus,

Nor

the Bithynian fav'rite Antinous

Boasted, with eyes the empress- J uno wished

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When

Paris for the Paphian her postponed

Thus present they

forestalling his vain boast

Meeting him those he said would glad avoid

Nor Lucifer unwilling

Meanwhile, in various

He

thought than ever

Moreover added

The Hellenes

Then but

use he'd

sort
;

arming more sure

wondrous works had they

those ramparts which cost

320

ten years to gain nor gained

which Russia holds

for Sinon, those

From Turkey

made

for

examples are (O Muse

Suff'ring comparison,) as these unto

The

As

warrior-angels

those at

here were casements close

Antwerp found

By France was

over

after the siege

long drawn passages,

Like those within the pyramids, the ends

Of which

are

still

unknown,

As Night who them

More

these secret were

design'd,

tortuous than Crete's

Since the great act of

and labyrinths

herein she denned

God had

All the external universe

lighted

" Forth

Then

Lucifer to her cried, " forth

Now

petrify to gloom, advantages

Giving unto us that

Encount'ring

this

Arm

we may break;

up

forth

"
!

God's glare

of heaven

abroad, and scare!"

Over that orb straightway she slowly swept

330

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IN EARTH.

Quenching

With

so far the

beam

a tremendous frown

of the

day

first

then Uriel looked

Doubtful, around his head his glory shone

Streaming, and from the casquenetts of

His hopeful hosts

high over

Lynx-eyed; the distant

He

saw and hov'ring

340

all

stood he

all

walls, the towers of iron

o'er

them Night

Fac'd to the verge of death, or Death

it

'twas

Night

was

Anger'd frowning like Hell, shaking the wing

More

when with

angrily,

a living

Fir'd the impetuous Lucifer

Against them
Chimaeras
Cloud,

came on

coming

that

like those Ixion got

set

350

a scaring cry

Parthonopseus Dryas took

Same manner
Each took

upon

upon

down they came, and with

Discharg'd

fire

Uriel's with one baulking

his foremost

bound

Pollux ne'er like that

Grappled, returning scorn for hateful scorn

Beyond example

fury fury

met

So much more resolute as the cause was good

Incalculably

Rung

peal on sounding peal

the archangels crying, "

Gods!" ever foremost

Of

On

to sustain the

shock-repeating battle

at

them

shock

Lucifer

Cried also baring both his wither'd arms

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254

Worn

with the warring

Were

sliver'd,

giant Brontes' arms

Arges' crush'd but these were worn

So promontories wear, the weather, waves

Against them

Troubled

menacing he

like castled elephants

frightful monsters

His

look'd,

whole troops

behind

Oceanides

Thaumas, Electra ne'er such ones begot

Nor she
Born

Of

of Callirhoe to Chrysaor

fell

teeth

Echidna

370

some had octave rows

dragon Cadmus slew,

like that dread

And

bit for rage great pieces out their

And

bellies,

kindling

fire

or vomiting

Each time they vomited an earth

Of

solid

smoke

backs

were they

terrible

Oft turning Heaven's aside

quite full

as blasted trees

Left standing, reapers in a corn

field,

or

Reft rocks advanc'd to sea the chafing waves,

Or high peak'd

hills

Or burst-bound

rivers armies

Wounded

Was

the swiftly rushing winds,

to death their

fell

dying voice was like

like a dying thunder,

Like grumous

when they

and

their blood

lava, spinning, spirting forth

Their mountain-bodies as the Geysers spout,

Or
His

spirt,

and spue in Iceland

latter agonies stroke out

one when in

behind

380

IN EARTH.

255

Full six score jambs; a cameleopard so

Escap'd but wounded from a

Sometimes will

Behind him

strike,

woe

lion, fallen

wild wood-cats

to the

390

then was horror some cried out

Ripp'd up, but more their lower limbs undone

For ever

then Patrancosothos

Thrimos, Acostras, Pylon

Had

sworn that

if

fell

these an oath

contrary went the

Their Emperor should die

he

war

like a

huge

Sea-worthless vessel that the masts hath lost

Plunging keel upward in the ocean-brine

Rent

The

all

the ribs, presumptuously ploughed

skies, the

Ascending

deeps

o'er hills of slain

down he drove

Roiling from side to side

Drunken he runneth muck

Selling,

armed with

o'erpow'ring

so a

he urged

400

all

Malay

his forfeit life

knife, spear,

ataghan

Immortal frenzy his long javelins

He

launch'd at every breath

Dodonian, the

By

tall

the oaks renowned

pines the robber used,

the Trcezenian hero for himself

Used

at the last

Scarce

lifted,

were reeds

dashing glad

e'en he, himself

whizzing they went

Like lightnings wing'd one side and not the other

Often awry far out beyond the lines


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Or

far

much

beyond, and some as

Oft times his orbed shield

Flaming he

short

hammered, up

held, behind the

Shelt'ring, nor

fell

ample round

seldom to his sword was he

Put by some enterpriser who

across

His path bravely would rush, guardfull the while

Thus the

reviling Lucifer that day

Portentous, savage fought; famous his feats

Headlong, headstrong, hard-handed

420

high the ground

He

spurn'd, as if

As

well his maddest momics neighing, loud-

he eke were brazen-hoofed

Larynx'd, alarming, startling; Night above

Him

constantly

was

seen,

never before

So resolutely wild she blighted

Earth, sea, she blighted

Above

And

all

the stars that rolled

turn'd sickly pale, and

still

she shoved

shov'd her warding wings the sky nine times

Clogging

and down she look'd

Each aching angel

Unnerv'd

The body

that full

so direful

many

breasted like a

felt

woman, with

of a dog, a lion's claws,

"Wing'd like a bird, and with a

human

voice,

victims meditated from on high

Ready

on

so she the subtlest of the fiends

Headed and

Her

air,

to dart,

but more unnat'ral Night

430

257

IN EARTH.

As

if

her every eyeless eye were pricked

For every one on

O how
!

whom

weetless they

fell

she lowered, frown'd, turn'd red and black 440

Erecting rampant, each especial hair

Unknotted up on end, the hydra head

Of every

hair jaw-open'd raining

Over her forehead,

Of

face, continual rain

poison thrice distilled

equal fierce

wenny wings

Serpentries zon'd her waist, her

Were fring'd with

To swoop and

And

serpents

then,

more, of prey

oh then

made

She lower'd Lucifer was

down sometimes

she seemed

a million snakes

sure,

but often as

450

fain to smite

At her himself by thousands

Now

down

through the battle

bit

and stung.

brought

to

utmost bale,

Speeding a shower of shining shafts Uriel

Went

arch angelic forth

a bloody blain

Follow'd his sabred sword, no better hand

Had he

in both ten blasting bolts he caught

Bellowing, and

bearing up, the sender sent

Back with the

sense of death

Or

fly

No

longer

before
;

him

whole legions

fall

squadrons squadrons seem

through the serried ranks he drove

Spreading Death dainties,

More than Thyestian

Death a banquet made

Heliogabalus

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Never

so feasted,

Lucullus

all

no such supper made

the crowded corses he

Coring elated as that monster cored

Who
Her

had the heads of howling dogs around

middle, serpent-shaped

Three row'd with teeth

six at a time eat she,

Death tens of thousands

Once

for

Was

kept for millions

heads

feet, six

Ismarus was

felled

470

one funeral, no fun'ral there

His Patroclus, each

no Achilles mourned

felt his fate

they had

alone

And had

they tears

Whence

real tears proceed long since dried up,)

Not one had been bestow'd

The wicked
Friends

To

foll'wing

hell,

now

who

those

hell

not, (all the founts

now woe

in the heavens

e'er

Theseus Pirithous

was

in the view hated

they lov'd

them

had been

as

Each other with a more determin'd

Than

to

will

this the great difT'rence is

Between the good and bad, the gracious love

For

ever,

but a time the froward

Close on the heel

From mixed

Reader

wine,

now

guard, guard thee well

in the youth whilst yet

The days come not when thou

I

have no pleasure

The

Hate

shalt say in

for the sun, the

stars shall darken,

them

moon

nor the cloud return

480

259

IN EARTH.
After the rain

Tremble

the keepers of the house

the strong

Cease, and the eyes

bow down

grow dim,

the grinding teeth

fear in the

way

490

When thou unto account must go, beware

Woe in his wake Uriel with martial might
Pursuing slew

Now

here,

now

Hector once the Greeks

so

there

so

some refiuxion'd wave

In a wide bay drives on or back or on

Unto the

level

the archangel fought

For the inviolable God himself

Scarce less inviolable

And
The

faithful

brethren

hope

be unto the end, fight on

fight of faith

and we

like

him a crown

500

Shall surely have.

" Strike

laureate, to thy lead !"

Thy

sister

Attend whilst

The

Melpomone

Muse commands, thou

Gorgeous enrob'd, Clio

Numbers

strike the iron sixth

tragic

queen

with laurel crowned

our Empress unrestrained

for

I raise or

from

pestled plectrum

my

fingers flayed

falls.

Then

Lucifer

Like the huge Erymanthian boar rush'd down

Upon

the hunter

gnashing

all his teeth

thunder-bolted lance he drove but back

s

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260

Like that Electryon threw, with added force

Against himself

it

went,

his corslet pierced

His heart then on came Death

Out upon him he

blaz'd, his

from both his eyes

bonds he burst

Like the Philistian withes, or like the god

Of Strength

He

aim'd

Busiris' chains

more

terrible

then such a

flail

than ever he

Corynetes brandish'd, the which upon

Astonied Death

High

fell

down

overthreat'ning rock

520

as falls a great

upon a rude

Assailing billow in confusion driven

Foaming on heap, nigh

sever'd

back from whence

came a horrid gap between,

Spiry

it

Back

that one roll'd voluminously vast

Like the sea-serpent that Laocoon seized

Clenching his latent claws

or like the

mouthed

Sea-monster Perseus met, on either hand

Upflung

Or

He

his failing fins like taken towers

falling

in the centre to the

ground

haled his heads expecting such another

Dangering

Harrow'd

trial,

starting all his eyes,

his harden'd heart

so in his cave

Shut up, distracted Caurus bang'd again

Eaves raving,

To

loose

him

all
:

the pect'ral earth intent

then his thick and

foetid

breath

530

IN EARTH.

Went

forth like

261

fume from out a lazar house

All the attendants with their patients dead,

When
The

morning one unknowing opes

in the

spotted door

those

who

respir'd fell

Death-stricken worse than ever

Night and out out

Amazing both

None heard

Her

the armies, such a shriek

flitted

fiery

and

men

lost,

like her she looked

dragons

she

Medea

children murdered, from Iolchos

To Athens drove

Her

took

like Iphiclus shrieked she

Save Orpheus when Eurydice was

Mounting ten

down

Wonder

before nor after gods nor

Like her she

540

some-like scatt'ring behind

salted conjurations

Defiling

thus then Night

e'en her limbs were scatter'd,

550

some

Rotted away especially the snakes

That stood

for limbs below, as that

Absyrtus scatter'd

Then

oh

young hag

horrific sight

Lucifer like Polydectes looked,

His angels

Gorgon

like his adjuncts

when they saw

no one thought then of cureless wounds

Balsams or balms, or those curative drops

Renown'd

Or Gilead,

in

heaven more than Tolu are here,

or those amber-looking tears

Lampetie and her loving

sisters

claim

560


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Exuding from

their trees

and the Arch-one

That more than an archangel,

Seemed

as if

he

fled,

and

after

her

so they looked

Flying together, for one time they turned

Full speed full round the two, the three

They

overtook, and he a something shook

something dreadful

And Mght

undistinguish'd what,

her nine score hands determin'd shook

with crap'd clouds and flung them to the

Fill'd

Of her unbounded bent

He

for Death

flung,

570

full

but Lucifer

he stoop'd and from the groaning ground

More than an

island tore, he lifted, poised

A moment o'er his head and all his might

Expending, hurl'd

What

shall assist

well

me

to

met

kindling

my theme 1 what

Muse

ope

Incred'lous ears so wide as shall admit

The

labor'd latitudes

then Uriel too

Also essaying, and like Hercules

When

580

from the Pillars unto Ceuta he

Tore the whole Isthmus up, rocks,

And

the Atlantic

met the Middle

So then nor diverse

That major meeting

That

scar'd the

Of heaven

all

rivers, roots,
sea,

the globe gainsay'd

Night

set

up a howl

Utmost, e'en the azure Orb

re-echoed back

whole legions drown,

263

IN EA.RTH.

Or

die bespatter'd with the marls, the

And

mingled

fall

muds

then back the lesser drove

590

Tempesting, heap'd, confus'd as destin'd to

O'ertake them

all

Avail'd not here

unransom'd

gauntlet, shield,

they fled his weapons dropped

Th' Apostate in his haste, Hippomedon

Not half

so fleet

Vengeance
Eazing

at

in vain, or nearly vain

hand down, down the ruin comes

his hinder joints

then out the thin

Pellucid ichor pour'd, and Death again

Turn'd round as

upon him, Night

if

She turn'd her dragons back before

Flitting as if her last

Adventuring held

He

left his

How much
Of

Death

forth,

his eyes

e'en his

600

arms

Miserable

limbs behind writhing to think

he

suffer 'd in the

that Arch-potent

Rapt sudden up and

Her

also

whom

the daemon Night

lashing

cank'rous coursers on

sinewy grip

furious, drove

out wide stretch'd they

Like Draco, or like those strange Volants which

unto us ancient

Swum

in the air of

Hell

Trymenor compelling a great bow

Seven times seven arrows went, and one brought down,

Like he Periclymenos levelFd by
Alcides; see! he flutters, Leaps

now up

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Now

falleth

down

the spectres busy with

The harnessing and

bonds, bursting, or broke,

Torn, cut asunder

now

He

precipitous

comes, he comes wide gaping, hated thing,

Filmy, sombre, grisly, mysterious

Deformity, Deadness, Astonishment:

Then

the rebellious found themselves between

Th' untiring enemy, upon themselves

Continually revers'd

the battle went

Against them everywhere

They found, and many

Pointed their

By

fire

Are

620

where'er they turned

rather than be slain

own dread arms

so

hemm'd around

detested scorpions on themselves

said to turn the sting

blow up

Traitors themselves

so
:

countermined

Moloch

gone mad

In handling his sharp sword across his throat

Unguarded drew
Gush'd and

it

his fierce

out the crimson tide

and reckless

to see

Fought

frantic, pik'd all o'er

Of

most

630

Apollyon and Baal

Bloody

spirit

beyond the reach

Chiron's styptic or of Paean's rue,

Infix'd also with

Broke in

Nor

many

a barbed beard

their fury off; they thrust, tore, teethed,

friend, nor foe could

brook

where

Loading and loaded, blinding, blasting

thickest, they
all

265

IN EARTH.

That they encounter'd

Down
As

not blasted borne

if

or driven back the

desp'rate as possess'd

first

Haraphon fought
640

brutally bluff

Hack'd he or hew'd maintaining ample space

On

all sides

Was

round

gory red

his vizor fallen his face

all o'er,

nor target his

Right through the pierc'd cuirass his body through

Below the diaphragm a

Had

speeded straight

About
Still

fatal fork

over the cuishes down

his legs his inwards dangling

on press'd he

as

animate as

hung

e'er

Sputt'ring the teeth as often as fresh blow

Frequent was had

Once and

One

quite exhausted he

'till

for ever fell

650

upon Ekriel

sent a thund'ring hill ; so Tityon

Was

serv'd in quick reprise, his impious tongue

Jaws, cheeks together altogether crushed

One
Of

undistinguish'd mass

the

common

rout

the rebellious equally were served,

None

deign'd to them a second blow, but sent

Their souls apart at once

the carked crew

Bi-forrnd nor gods nor ought beside whereto

The Muse may

Amazing

liken,

some their swimmers stretched

wide, and some their necks so high

Scarce were their heads discover'd from amidst

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The

gath'ring clouds

With

feathery, scal'd, or haired

crisp'd or long cerastes

thick or thin

O'ergrown, or small or saucer 'd eyed, their breath

Flame such

Which

as Ceres kindled, or like that

seizeth

on the leper-souls of

Their condemnation seal'd; their

men
or cries

calls,

Like his Argestes' when he rocks the earth

With

terror to

and

Drench'd in their

fro; all these they drove

draff,

All that surviv'd on

Breathless,

So

and

ill-advis'd

And

with

all

670

that kept the seat,

foot, pell-mell

they drove

and beaten, branded whence

blind,

they came

so brave Calais

Zethes drove the vulture-bodied birds

But human

unto the Strophades

fac'd

Beyond Peloponesus, that

despite

Their formidable claws, and iron wings,

And

threat'ning voices

back like curling waves

Unwilling they were back'd those millions

Their outside pretenture

moment when

ill

one

success defending

Reached the angels found

Some not expect

That guarded

there they renewed

sore batter 'd, bruis'd,

Over the next they go

With

to

and broken

after th' other

'till

the last

across their road

like those fire-breathing bulls

close for

Mars the Golden

Fleece,

680

267

IN EARTH.

Death, Night and Lucifer

Shook Death elancing

Night

after

Of her

Her
As

reft

but with

his

to the

oft

naming hair

utmost bounds,

redoubled strokes

ramy wings, whetting what was

visionary tusks, wrinkling her

if

the limbs of

Would

690

shred

brow

God's angels she

all

then the archangels Death and that

Confronting put to flight Night foremost, back

Along the

Nor

bristling passages hast'ning

Death he dissolved

look'd for fear behind,

Like a sun-shrivell'd cloud, whilst Lucifer

Pierc'd though he was unto the bone by the

Most piercing weapons, haughtily the

As

ever carrying cover'd the retreat

Of

his thrice decimated armies

The

living last

behind him,

(The universe resounding

They grated back) the

Thus

Was

That no conditions
Unquell'd his pride

Much

less

put

as hoarsely

declarative doors.

Anarch there

and in such serious terms

none he wished

offer'd;
:

who

shall a mortal's pride

an angel's quell]

Full oft in pack

Issuing from some strange vent his wolves would

As

if

700

'till

to they

in his turn the baffled

close besieg'd,

crest

the prey were theirs

great grisly pyths

710
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And

cancriners often with riders wild

Would

venture a surprisal

The watchers
They

intermitted

apparition

made

Whilst some would

Of broody
The

when

warily

in ghastly sort

much

so

for field remain'd

His back upon

Exhorting,

distract

From

With

Untrue

shadow, u

O!"

cried he,

thy dark den art thou at length come forth

me unaware

may
to

sate

God,

Inducement

if

to take

lend unwilling ears

them thou apostate prince

God

to

thy bitter

own

them

will

Reflections leaves thee, I to

add

unthank'd whilst I abhor

cureless folly

Thou

didst revolt

and

is it

all

follow thy bad ways

for this

thy hosts seduce

for

them hast thou

Industriously forg'd such chains I doubt

If they prefer

Thou

720

where that regal stood

flitting

hopeless hope

once Lucifer

his towers, the multitude

Trapping or slaying

That

Uriel he saw

set,

Who felt forecasting

To

with sign

angels that to greater distance fallen

Himself in earnest

Thy

they thought

sortie opposite

and

battle

Good room

"

them unto those of which

mad'st the false report their souls to snare

730

269

IN EARTH.

Where
So

is

thy former crown of fulgent stars

ill-replac'd

Lucifer

by painted plumals,

of evil

all receiv'd

With

fallen

thee as I

hilt

which burn'd

740

Arch

now

that emblaz'd over his

Sublime his sacred sword

The

thou art chang'd from what thou wast

To recompense

Would

receive."

head erect

bestud with stones

like brass

but Lucifer

Unfearing that vaunting himself returned.

" Proud serf! for this laying aside thy harp

And
Of

odes to Majesty in studied style

servile adoration, Lucifer

Dost seek %

With

all

Self-flatterer

back'd as thou art

750

thy vassal crowds well mayest thou

Injuriously insult

him whom

the three

Greater archangels fear'd that yesterday

We

sieg'd thy

Them

Lord

else

long I had not sought

vainly as the foremost of

Obnoxious

to these

arms

my

foe

well this thou know'st

Boasting thy worth, and simulating what

Thou nor The Tyrant know'th when

Trembling ye name.

We rose

Lucifer

For other than

for this

uncumber'd of those coz'ning shows

Prided by

slaves, as

thou this time doth pride

liveried, in th' enjoyment as

it

seems

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270

Of

that

which but disgraces thee much more

Than our

reversals

me

whilst to

List if not learn thou braggart

Not always

Who

mock

thou

as inferior servest, plied thy best

this

were hateful

free confess

Though maybe

me Head

liberty

is

ceas'd

770

to please

to the glorious

gods

with better thank

small than His

whom

all

The god who

Besotted fear and praise.

He

lies

solemnities

Prankt in that holiday disguise

For

freedom

free remains disdaineth such as

Thou

Who

thou preach'st

in one's happiness, but he

Serving such court and

noble though he

dares

fall."

and dazzling fenc'd a

Ever the while fresh blows he

the rest

stroke, returning

also put

Continually aside, smiting oft-time

His vig'rous adversary but intent

Unto

his towers to

make

retreat, this as

That prince discover'd he

directly

Down

had much ado

straight so, Lucifer

His hands nigh cleaving

With

all

dexterity his

His seconds
Alone

also, for

wav'd

off all

hewed

to his blades

and used

life to save,

though Uriel fought

comers, sometimes these

Headlong he reach'd two-handed

either side

780


271

IN EARTH.

On

the supporters, fring'd the course he took

Frequent with dead

then Agafriminos,

Accandrar, and the daring Agiphine

Fell pierc'd with the

same

shaft,

790

Pathriknites

Behind them near run through, with mortal pain

Withdrawing disembowel'd, the broad sweep

Of

a crabb'd club (from Toron wrest) sufficed

To end him with

twelve others

Of might one time

Not only

Were blown

in the rear

prostrate to

Thus wilding

in excess

the dread archangel smote

knee

his antagonist to

But num'rous

with the bare blast,

ground and some

he, channelled his long

fell

dead

way

800

Tearing some times (when arms or missives failed

As

oft

they did so

many

at a

time

Pointing he charg'd,) great fragments of their works

Like Savendroeg that rock of death, clean up

And

swinging them right round

Nomron and

others

also

Scholaf,
slain

so Pholeus,

ravage following;

Then

by these means were

Hopra and Saropheli

Pout

let fly

so th' JEtolian chief:

sank Hyprostar,

Hammonak

And Thrydaomer, mighty names were

these

'Mongst the admiring angels, on them

all

At once he

rush'd, fixing in each seven darts

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272

Pinning the ground

and high he waves seven swords

Instantly after o'er the horrent heads

Of Harrinthrytor and a chosen band

Together round him cow'ring, every blade

"Was

and

fatal

Many

more than one

to

he smote

whene'er he smote dealing his deaths

now

Alternate

this side

and then the other

So quickly none within arm's-length could hope

Even

if

he dar'd

Not one behind

Fought

as

to

come, nor one remained

the

820

Arch dishonor 'd galled

he best could

fight

not

as

he once

Outside the heavens contended like a god

In his supremest strength, that day was past

At present but he

As

all

astonished; he moves, the globe

Trembles

He

ne'ertheless so fought

he plants a

foot,

the centre quakes

bounds, a whirlwind rises that this earth

More than

suffic'd to

wheel against her course

Diurnal, and so wheeling spin

Impalpably

Yet

all his

rage came short, his blows were dealt

inflicted, whilst

Fainting he reels
J

out

to space unravell'd mist

Like blows but not like Uriel's

Had he

it

830

with

his darts

not a

loss of

wound

blood

were darted

so

fad Alp been then Alp through and through were seen

273

IN EARTH.

And

still

his steels

His

forceful

But

his antagonist

frame opposing that none there

His thunders

stands

by

or such they once

all his bolts

The

stalks,

flies,

and frenzy

his

now above

and now upon the slippery ground,

boastful shield upflung whene'er

Behold

he met

around his arm half-hammer'd back,

His cloven diadem,

And

he

around him wrath

Incessant, wheeling, whirling,

air,

he

turn, pride, shame,

Whilst Uriel pours upon

In

840

had them survived

were spent

all

Call'd thunder

He

smote down when on he pressed

all his

Arrows and

plate

his razed crest,

and mail

lances, spears

spatter'd

and

spoilt

850

and deadly darts

Are

his

The

object of ten thousand most expert

unnumber'd, bristling there he seems

Unfeeling marksmen, often as he pluckt

As

often plied

Fatal

and

an axe he

pierc'd with all but force

lifts,

It goeth like lightning

out of his hands

back and

kills

mis-chanced,

Grothor, same time a stunning blow was cut

Disabling one whole

side,

down

For ten great wings, down

fell

what stood

his robustious

Useless,

and through the

At once

into his brain, into his

air a

arm

summons sped
mouth

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

274

Through the crush'd

palatals the pulp divine

Discharging then he spitted

Bloodied as

if

still

he breath'd,

Reviving as he

o'er his

liv'd,

fled, his

eyes

all his

by death, then Pallor

A white-eyed vampire,
Yet

like

members

crept,

fought, retir'd

or

fled

streaming balls

Staunch'd by a more than iEsculapian art

Known

only to the gods, the cranial sphere

Reintegrating

all

870

the injur'd bones

Soder'd again together by the mere

Motion of

will

The lower

terrace

A wordless

effort

The

he gasps

behind him

lies

to the portal with

he the passage made,

next, the next

then Uriel

time

first

Sacrael joins, their angels to that spot

They

also rush for ingress,

With

the opposers, earning step by step

up they mount

Sanguineous or paven with the

Unto the

iron lintels,

880

slain,

here with force

Supernal Lucifer with Uriel and

Sacrael

waged long while singeing the

Each time they

airs

stroke and torrents driving on

Like storms outside and in which through the halls

Resounding rush'd and

Where Night crump'd

to

her cover came

close

many

a hard essay


275

IN EARTH.

Made
The

then those three, the one that door to keep

others take, as if

Hung

destiny

upon the hinge

Diva

890

never gate

Of Babylon, nor Hecatompylos,

Nor

Priam's, nor Phoenician, none that great

Titus attempted

when

his Eagles pitched

Round Hierosalem,

of later age

Constantinopolis by

Mahomet

The Second hard

By

Alaric

nor gate of Rome

assail'd

Bourbon, nor those waylaid

In feudal times by the crusading kings

The

lion-hearted

Great Empress

King

thine ancestor

none was

foremost,

He who

his father Ccelus cruel

To gain

his throne,

By

when he

so contest'd

900

mauled

in turn

was

ta'en

the Olympian, Jupiter himself

When Demogorgon by
Heralded, came (as he

Who

O Muse

resistance

foretold,) like that

my pen

fill

and Terror, wait

That signal hour when

with

fire

aspiring after

for his outlaw'd life

The Gerent fought with

E'er-living

Maia

of mantled Myth,

hung on Caucasus

Made no

the son of

all

the might of limbs

and indescribable rage

So that his presence seem'd like flame dissolved

t 2

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

276

Continual and back penetrating fresh

Into an image flash'd

thus those princedoms

Bodied with threat unbodied appeared

The time they

threat

They aim'd

one another, sometimes both

at

fulfill'd,

thaw'd by the strokes

Together smiting then the three would seem

Destructive lightnings at right angles

met
920

Disparting back unto his cloud charging

Again

for

more

then grinded they the winds

Whirling or thund'ring down, or hurling up

Their gleamy faulchions, trampling each the ground

Spurning yet keeping

Constant, yet

more

thus wreak'd they their

all

for ever in reserve

More ruinous from which was no appeal

Unto a higher

one or

other must

th'

Sink conquer'd, which'? the holy angels thought

Of such
But

fierce

direr

now

combatants well met before

:

detesting and detest

Mutual they judg'd

for

930

doom, bottomless Void

Assigning one and an eternal wreck

Of

all his

being

the other or if he

Imperishing were found down sink they should

Same time

inextricable to that sea

Shoreless through

Unto the bottom

all

"

the heaven-assailing waves

Thus

" said Uriel,

and

277

IN EARTH.

Melpomone he smote
Shivering sunk

And

"

Thus

Vast

when down

to the core

mis-spent

it

came

down

sending

" cried his offensor

Tempestuous cloud that shut them

;;

all

940

from sight

moment, then the vagued Vast again

Thus awful they dimming the

The Universe
Unbearable

stars,

the terrors of their looks

to all if

up they dared

Through the red ragged storms

At

Less than one instant

Frowning they put

flies

Fill'd

The

to

lo

it

again

now

so well that right, right

Uriel

is

950

through he cuts

defenceless all the outer walls

with belligerents, the outlets of

citadel beleagued,

With

all

some half-way won

the outworks all their engines lost

Immediate they were turn'd

With such

effect

Column and
Perpetual

there to

as once before

remorselessly they smote

capital,

a hideous roar

960

with as incessant mind

The renegades
As

to glance

pond'rous blow meets Lucifer's advanced

Weapon

He

when

now,

them

upon the threshold and with huge

foot

And

at

but for time

last the strife remitted,

His

shaking

in turn deploy'd such

them were

left

means

often in blaze

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278

Outbursting where the Holy least expect

But

still

Some

inutile

corner they essay'd and wondrous feats

Were done by
That

oft to dispossess

either

place

solid, keyless

O who

but,

shall rive

God and none

other

Said they, so strong those adamantine walls

What

reek they these 1 yet on continually

Fire-hail

Eeady

was pour'd upon the plated doors

to take if

Aught open
The most

when each
Clio

stood.

distinguish'd

trial o'er

relate their

who

Confronting Baal

names

that famous time

Stood forth amongst the angels

Forward with Sacrael

when they rushed

Rhytoronon

first

presently o'erthrown

If not quite finish'd,

him they rescued

to

Pathrine Apollyon owed

much

nigh dead was Oth

shield

From

was interpos'd

the redoubted

Eunymo

Chief-rulers from Prospal

Fled, but were

And

Theophestus

Ziphroth

In valors deed

And

although

and ten

and Mazinor

met by Eusthynes, Mazob

;

the renown'd Crothor,

Phalton, Vathec, Dremos

And

970

Abaddon slew

other noted were that time

Atrine and Barachos

Athbrascantes thrice their numbers drove

980


279

IN EARTH.

With

ghastly gashes out

Nepamon

whilst

Smote seven successively purpled the ground

With gushing
To head
Play'd,

streams

these the distinction

won

990

the batteries incessantly

when from an embrasure Mulciber

Unguarded looking out himself a prey

Fell to them.

Long

the tale of risks they ran

Firing concert together

oft

the roofs

Scaling they met the warders at their posts

Unsleeping, and resum'd.

Now

A secret

council held

Unknown
More

Lucifer

within a shrine

but to himself, with cunninge wrought

latent than the

1000

Golden Chambers worked

For the superior gods, he on a throne

Sate royal

still

and thus the business sped.

" Despair not potents yet

hard though the day

Against us goeth, but retire with

To your

profoundest thoughts there shall ye find

Such big rebellion

Us no

me

to

alternative, ye

high heaven as leave

gods

egress

If unto one yet possible to none

Beside myself: and time an end shall

Even

make

of our towers assail' d as these assail.

The watch have well-nigh

given, and but for ye,

1010

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280
princes

carrying high the head the hosts

If not surrender'd lassid grown, or worse

down

Despairing of the issue

Long

All hope,

if I

Yet would
For the

Even

had thrown.

since

even

wear

my crown

it 'till

I look with the

1 ever look'd

My high prerogative,

forsook

despaired

consummate scorn

me

1020

detracts

highest to hate

Subservience to another.

Answer, what in

we

if

Immortal gods

nothing from

arms

moment came

the

dire ravishment.

Unmov'd

their

this

new

Now

our Guest

extremity

Remains undone."

Then Baal

With

all

besmeared

crimson, said, Apollyon sitting mute,

" Service were his

who

at this

solemn time

Sagely could answer that, amidst

all

our

Distractions; nor this one the least that thou

Whose

part

were

it

What way if
From

ill

to

to

one remaineth yet to take.

worse

we

journey, this the worst

Dreadful to think that

Least

is

when we

promis'd

much

perform'd the puissant powers within

This confine shut for

Was

show, request of us

thought

still

whom

possible

ascent to heaven

th'

arrangement made.

1030

281

IN EARTH.
I

thou the routous noise

as well dost

list

Of our

great arlablasts and reckon time

Anxious how long these

Such outburst,

for

1040

last defences stand

a difference between

These and the walls of God, down they must go

And

with them fate necessitous to

For what

Or use

avails our skill

like these

such arms to forge

behold

all,

we

strike,

we hew

God's armies and throw down but harm none can

Whilst they are turn'd upon us with such wounds

As few may

bear and

If time there were

live.

For speculation now good cause have we

The system

From

Low
Even

the beginning

Though

possible

the

Of daring

first

in our

As we have

lead

God

truly

O
is

we

thus

smiters.

are smit

Who

such peerless height

enemy could expect X

if

Lucifer

or in

He

God

such power ?

doth not deign

misreckon'd there,

above us proof to fate

If yet not Fate which

The more

is

the search were late

witness'd

For he inspireth

To

something wrong there

at the root, alas

if

1050

of our policy to review

now

much

suspect,

irreconcilable as thou

Arch-gerent ever art

nor I deplore

1060

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

282
But

our eyes to thee continual turn

still

If not for succour at the least advice

Which

shall

Now

the time thy excellence to prove."

is

"Well

With

Had

amend

Parathseel left

Lucifer

Than

e'er, let

is

him

"

necessary,

those

Than angry God

And

're

brought

such piteous plight

difficulty in

this

we

to this pass

said;" Apollyon cried drawing his breath

Thou

For

us

now

great act

more

1070

who saw Death

say

'tis

worse

endure

to see or to

wert thou design'd foremost of gods

separated as

it

were

put forth

For our captivity more than thou hast

E'en to the pitch of our
Deliv'ring

if

thou

God

afflicting

need

imagin'd thine

Already duell'd when from him thou gained'st

Thy

millions surely Uriel's not above

Thy

boasted strength

the earnest brought,

if to

What

This at the least was promis'd.

More than

is

done ] no more

we

not one a blow

Harder than hath been stricken hopes

And

can

to strike

few so hard since these our dol'rous wounds

Disabling.

Arch-potent

'Twas by no default of ours

!

that

we

lost

whene'er we

Compulsion overpowerd us

for

myself

lost

1080

283

IN EARTH.
Dishearten'd are

Of mind

my

hosts to impotence

and but

as well as body,

for

1090

Politic carriage if the heavens they fell

Scarce would they keep in hand their fatal arms,

Fatal they are, prescribe them

Use

what manner and with best

in

With

strength heaven-given the

Infinite better puts

Even by our own

Unto

None but a

Predicting.

exploit,

enemy

to use

abased

're

Ask and now what gain

loss deplorable

in heaven

will,

auxiliars, delivered

turn distractful looks

To us

we

when

rash I speak

Extremity arriv'd

As

them

destruction.

Have we ? nor

We

how we

who

this I say

which way

now

to our last

1100

this foretold

had on the spot been stoned

Thou

to rule 'twas given, rule

dispensation unto us shall bring."

Then Baal added

Heard

" Lucifer

thou hast

thou so long proudly secure subserve

These accidents

One who

Thy

to glory as

behoves

disdain'd an equal

out with

all

strength of body, soul, so that henceforth

We know thy utmost,

it

may chance

For our redemption of the which we

Truly despair nor marvel thou for

we

suffice

else

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284

Have done what

in us lay

Hast thine declare

And knowing
Hoping

to

That

Thy

we

bud

when most

Uriel wins

if

hope

to

is

1120

Hating, or oh

thenceforth extinct,

more contemptuous wrong,

Eternally in power of those

we

hate

despising us in turn

Emperor

Of thy prime majesty

in all the blaze

or

we

are

" Tis so," rejoin'd Apollyon, "

Entirely but for this

all

lost."

we

're

th' allied

Intol'rable,

we

Lucifer! this living death's

're

buried to our shame

In grave self-made.

thing beyond belief

That we are thus abandon'd and given

that renown'd Viceroy

o'er

who once upon

Jehovah turn'd defying on the back

And

gods

incomp'tent to the task in hand.

We urge thee

By

bereaved

in this recess

Truth may, nay needs be told

Are

we make

loss incalculable if

The gods expos'd

thee,

last

of this complaint

may know

worse misery were ours

needs must win

Expose

the worst

thy schemes frustrated are

latest in the

thou also

if

be deceiv'd when

all all all

This day:

that

bear

Fondly we hoped

He

promis'd in the hearing of the gods

1130

IN EARTH.

To meet him and

the seven archangels too

Conq'ring the whole

The

285

on onr embattled hosts

angels rush'd but down, wrested our arms,

Turned

And

to disadvantage all

killed us

by millions

we

1140

wore,

Uriel he

Alone dares Lucifer engage and with

well

may we

dread unless more than

Effect

Thou

hast achiev'd thou doth ridiculous

To make him
For

Of

With
Of

were the heart

fear aloof: this

all

who

thy foll'wers
like result in

soul

Go

would

in turn

to the

wild discomfiture

in thy mighty
so

to cheer
fall

1150

upon the adversary, spurned

fled in

Mace

stand

adamantine proof

Innumerable legions

Or

who

in the sight of all

hand

ground,
:

O God

this instant forth

thou shalt anticipate the time

Compulsive, and assuredly postpone."

Then

Of

Lucifer

the light upon him broke

sure experience ne'er thenceforth to be

moment

in his agitated

One moment

discontinued, spake

Persisting Pride

The Throne

mind

of

Its posts pull

to this

had Hope minister'd

God he thought

up

or

to

mount and

more confirming

1160

to

seat

all

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

286

But now

first

time

He

was

visible

stood

Hardly

suffic'd,

emergent case in which

th'

for Uriel

he

for Uriel's those his hosts

In no way equal, thus unparalleled

Destruction was at hand.

And now
Where

Coop'd as they were,

disjointed all his latest joints

aid he sought reflections only found

Or bold incitement unto

that he

knew

Above him, thus was he

as well

by talk

Troubled as Conscience, Th' Undying

1170

Worm

Troubled her much but only as in dream,

Now

with the

liveliest

reproaches she

Adds, yet betraying not to what he

But highest head maintaining he

"

Now

both

my

Yet consolation
Arriv'd that
I

am

attend

is it

replied,

nor counsel, nor

unto this

when your

contributions

fail

1180

defaca'd? ye arm'd with forgeries

Of temper'd

Had

last

fell

brass, cuirasses, mail that

none

they their furniture defended as

mine such wounds

Tax ye

as yours the others rued.

yourselves as well the timid hosts

Motion'd to
I sought

by

infidelity

ev'ry

when

means

For war's occasion.

in

What

faith

them

t'

impulse

deliv'rance

now


287

IN EARTH.

Can ye expect 1

From some

if forth in all

my

power

postal I drive over the hosts

who

Engirdling overthrown,

With my huge
Or with my

an equal pace could keep

strides

pinions

the time I wide

Eavag'd, for flight out of the question

E'en could we

Though with

fly

ill

Let

me

for Uriel I

my

chance

Last time, another

1190

following

am armed

blade in twain was stroke

But what

left.

is

avails

confess th' archangels' lives above

All accident, for aye

we

all

might

fight

Self-rais'd

and thence inconsequently, but

What

won]

if

The head

1200

abject ye hardly heave

or if presumptuously address

Despairful language, or demeaning speech

Unto your Paramount

At your good

wills

dispose

am

me

not

deceiv'd, I

hoped

Most noble things where others have been found.

Mine

acts are in heaven's chancelry

Gloriel

and Hadriel have

Too much

And

for silence

they shall grant

Michael

suffer'd far

Uriel, Sacrael ask

many

For them sore-bruising

fell,

a cruel blow

they have my

last

Henceforth strike I 'gainst none but glowing God,

'Tis

He

I Avar with, if with less T

warred

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288

Only

for

As high

ye
as

not one of the seven thrones

mine

For the Supreme

Now

me

alone.

my own

Lawful

war each

For ye

also to

If so

pleaseth

it

war on

it is

for himself

ye have lost enough

T incite ye by no coming short of

Thus he

decisive,

Amaz'd and mute

so strange it seem'd to

resolve, retiring slow

From

abdicated throne by

oft his

to

1220

mine."

breaking up that board

His resolute

Shown but

account

wage, how, and in what brave sort

will I

It pleaseth

them with contempt

I pass

him by Night

them

way

deep underground

Through caverns longer than the one beneath

Taenarus, or the long Campanian, or

That one near Acheron in Epirus found

Thoughtful he pass'd, through
Terrestrial

The

the principles

and sub-ccelar bound around

outer circle of the sun as 'twere

In embryo order

Of

all

what the poets feign

their outrageous chaos (older than

Vesta but not as some have daring thought

Con-seminal with God, or caus'd by God,)

Latent he saw scarce seeing, through that bound

He

penetrated

down en t 'ring

a third

1230

"

289

IN EARTH.

Well guarded, then

Could bear and

live

art

that sight

his Fate, his horrid Fate

"Who?"

Risen from the centre:

Awful!

who

turn'd he for

thou?" the while

cried he,

"or what

burning eyes

his

[1240

QEdipus-like he tore lest evermore

They

that beheld

sepulchral were the tones,

Khadamanthus when

iEacus, Minos,

United they condemn'd a soul unto

worse than Tantalus his doom spoke not

So
It

terrible,

"Thy

Dira,

I,

Dira!"

answerd, " Come, thou Dead

thou Living-dead

Night boding heard that more than ghostly talk

And

gathering her force the two approached

When

the Arch-potent heard

Conversing for brief space at

" All,

all is lost

Then where

is

No

wordless with her

last

Death 1

"

I waited," said

In

this

Felt as ten adders at his

Then

vitals,

he that

stung

"Ever-living might of God,"

Lucifer cried out, " thou reignest through

This mis-created brain

What

deep dungeon long

embodying Grime

mortal can conceive to paint

To madness;

he cried

detested Prodigy

"

For thee

's

1250

living in

my

avenging

brain,

and
u

in

God

my

heart

1260

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And

my

crawling through

Tracking

my

veins as in contempt

kingly soul, speak Loathesome

"I

Am thy unnat'ral

child on Destiny

This evil day begotten."

"Dira! thou!

And down

I trample thee, down, down," with strength

Equivalent and more the rooted sun

Plucking he pull'd and

For

it

all

The whole he drew

He who

it

drove from heaven,

so Titan

the Delphian tripod

so also

all

way

the

the Ismenion brought great pines uptore

From Mount

He

the orbed mass

was orbed hollow and blown up

Like a great bubble when

To

1270

who

too

(Eta

when

in his dying pangs

carried off the gates of

Gath

Hight Atlas by the heathen, when

their bars

He

feast

mightily, and

Those

pillars

Depended,

when

at

whereupon

Dagon's

his

ample roof

slain the princes of

Ekron, and Askalon

Ashdod,

and Lucifer

Plucked but once wresting the stubborn poles

With such an importunity

that they

Strong though they were as adamant no more

They

that resist than flax the touch of

fire,

280

291

IN EARTH.

Him
The
In

they confess'd asserting to his height

privilege of gods o'er matter then

against

list

From

all

Above

By

him

the bases, the rebelling powers

in the calamity involved

that great suicide

who

labour done,

The merit found rewarding weight

Whole

continents

But no deep

The

1290

overthrown

enter'd,

full

good

upon him thund'ring down

sleep for

him

the philtre which

never-sleeping dragon set to rest

Tremendous Styx which whosoe'er amongst

The gods had

To

tasted one

senseless lethargy,

whole year were sent

if

he the whole

300

River had drunk and every drop that flows

In Lethe

it

sufhc'd not

he had seen

That dreadful Dira, the Original

Sin, his reflected shade
It was,

Necessity

but name not Lycophron, Rhamnuse

Emaciated, ghastly, with blood-shot

Eyes from

their holes depending, iron

Or whips of

scorpions knotted, chains, and hell-

Lit torches nor

Vengeance

That more than phantom

close at his side

stood,

between the

That was, and death which was the

Itself the

whips

life to

mediate link, strange, terrible

u 2

life

come

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292

And

nameless

who

shall utter

call the ghosts

Seated within the Lebadsean Cave

There they

The

shall answer,

if all

demanded from the Throne

universe

Of Heaven, from

Earth, the Pit, or from

Yet would not answer

but this one

look

three

burning Burn,

'tis

all

gory Gloom, an everlasting Death,

Damnation; oh tremendous

The

He

now

nerves are sever 'd, snapp'd

living

convulsive, throed

Death with Lucifer,

Incorp'rate, re-imag'd, that Dira,

Night

for a spoil dividing

the abandon'd soul

Thy
For

first

oh

consequence

Torpedoes shocked reader

here to speak,)
the reach

evil

less

that his soul, within the

Crowded than

Oh what
!

and

since

beginning three short days

this curs'd

Than

O God

once before

He saw with the gross eyes (so

Now with the occulars beyond
Of

shock

ten great

thy frame

moment more

wound was then

no murder-grave

E'er clos'd on one like that, bodily

More

suffice

e'er in centuries before

Mortal the mortal

dies,

infinitely mortal

1320

him and without

dies to live, within

Looks

the bonds

wounds

the soul receives

and would die

330

IN EARTH.

How

gladly

it

would

die

293

and there was Death

Devouring the Arch-anarch's body but

Leaving untouch'd the metamorphosed Soul

O how

it

thirsted

1340

he who Pelops slew

Serving unto the gods, with hunger plagued

Perpetual never the pomegranate bough

Loaded with

luscious fruit,

and

plagued with

thirst,

Refreshful water mantling to his chin

Desir'd so dear

His

he look'd at one and turned

eyes, the other fell

From

upon them and

that he also turn'd but evermore

Both were in view

oh

cover me, thought he,

Night! now no more for like a shade of shade

1350

Vacant she vanish'd vertigoed away

They

also vanish'd the uniting

Three

Without remission through the outer spheres

Speeding
Theirs

hell- ward

all his

inexpiable hate

angels

one had not escaped

That executional, following behind.

The Holy

well-advis'd,

upon the wing

Soaring full-high on the Rebellious saw

Perdition unappeasable swoop

Unto the

surfeit:

Were heard

Were

1360

maledictions then

that all posterity

I to utter

down

what

would shock

dark Hecate

thou


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294

Heard them
Thine

They

as well thy

for the horror

snaky locks erect

infamy was his

gods

cried, eternally the trusting

now damn

Betray'd,

Ampler than ever

Which

they

his soul,

lavish'd forth with

all tasted,

Seen nor imagin'd

which presently

Death

and one ne'er before

once the sun went back

Be-smitten had the sun that figure seen

He

had

1370

away with more than a

dissolv'd

Numidian poison thaw'd but sun was none

Whether by

the sole act of Lucifer

Or by an impulse

that so dread a thing

Should be within the centre soon as that

Fell in a

common wreck upon them then

That moment heaving, urging

Like one whose

Stomach come
It burst

Away

life is lost if

not, at last

asunder

And many

with might and main

then

all

1380

was

principles of things as

fused,

had

had, the Chaos firm withstood

Were overcome

or spoilt: the golden trees

Bearing gold apples

which some

The goddess-queen unto her

out the whole

far as they could fly

the fragments went

What heavenly

for the life

marriage

gift,

fablers feign

consort gave

by iEgle and her two

295

IN EARTH.

Most watchful

sisters

and the dragon kept

Beyond the ocean, these

Like the

though changed

surviv'd

which Proserpina

fair fruit

1390

in

Unlucky hour wand'ring Avernian woods

Pluck'd eating seven plum'd pips,

description these

Pass, as the groves surpassing Cairo's, or

The groves romantic orange,

With

citron, clove,

tamarisks, and sycamores and such

Tall stately palms as in the Tropics

Or

whom

those which he

grow

the ^Egyptians thought

Superior to the greater-gods of Greece

Lycsean

Pan

possessed

essenced flowers

Like the amomum, roses found like those

Of

sainted Francis of Assizi

Without one

1400

grown

thorn, baccar, acanthus,

and

Such Indian and Sabsean grasses

as

The Bacchic

as fringed

tigers eat,

The fam'd Peneus,

And

lost for

Long time
The

these were all decayed

want of the

before

celestial

but chief

dews

to this

remained

rubyfied rocks and radiants rare

That glistening

The

and such

to the skies like icebergs

setting sun illuminates

fold

mine eyes Calliope

them

rose;

I scarce

Endure thy catalogue, acanticone

when
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Alalite, analcine, augite, bildstein,

Botryolite, cornelian, celestine,

Datolite, dipyre, moonstone, pyrochlore,

Plasma, prase, pyrope, qnartz, scherbenkobalt,

Sideroschizolite, sun-opallite,

Talc, telluret, tincal, endellion,

Feldspar, fluor, fulgurite, garnet, blende

With

Inwoven

And

sapphirine and satin shades,

all their

purples, paly

others

fail,

plumy

1420

pearls,

sardonyx, sardius,

Chrysoprasus and chrysolite, topaz,

Amethyst, jacinth, beryl ill-explain

The wonders

the rich jewels

we admire

Were common

stones the least expressly pure

Amongst them

all,

Went
Of

diverse,

which

to

combustion turned,

Earth amongst one rounding mass

venting, vap'ring, issuing, igneous stuff:

But a most precious

Primordial,

Muse

let

relic of its state

O Queen

me now

that time sustained,

relate,

nor Midas smile

But when the Teucrian

tutelars

Ride high with the

moon

full

There in the Coronation- chair

to

above

Westminster!

'tis

found,

That stone Aurora unto Tithonus

One morning

at the foot of

Ida showed,

1430

297

IN EARTH.

And he

to Brito

Before the

fall

who

forewarn'd,

set sail

of Troy and to these Isles

Their true palladium brought

Ierne

first

1440

Receiv'd and witness her Dardanian harp,

Next Caledonia

(th' iEtolian

king

In Caledonia slew the brawny boar,)

England the

Upon

seat of

Empire

our towers the grasshopper

In mem'ry of the finder

Augusta

Thou

last,

behold

we mount

Empress

hail

higher than the Quirites

boast,

the chief blood of Teucer, Priam was

Th' usurping second, yet within those veins

The Roman

No

and now from Cyrrha's grot

blood,

1450

draught I need a-read thy line divine,

Thy

foremost fortune

let

who

dare gainsay

Urania often from her orb descends

Admiring when

Thy

the

city lapp'd in sleep,

loving laureat dazzled unto her

That

Then

faticidal stone

the old

Abbey gloams and

Of crowned kings
Then

'tis

past and to

all

the line

come appear

the sons of Belial think they see

Unwonted
Aurora

with pride reveals

lightnings whilst the virtuous late

flashing through the midnight

Incontinently lightens to their homes.

streets,

14(H)

THE WARS OF JEHOYAH

BOOK

VII.

THE ARGUMENT.
This Book opens with the introduction of Religion who furnishes the
outline of

much

Son proceeds out

that follows.
of

ruined and Chaos drawn forth.

Fall,

The

revelation of the Trinity.

heaven inhabiting

The

all

God

the

the worlds which Lucifer had

creation of

Adam

and Eve.

The

and a brief history of the Adamites unto the Deluge.

The scene

is

in heaven,

concluding with the sixth.

commencing with the fourth day, the book

BOOK

Blessed be thou Religion

My polar
Or with

star

VII.

in the east

whether on shining

seas,

the canvass torn the mast well-nigh

O'er board the helm unmanageable of

On

breakers driven

or

where

my

Hope

subject steps

Loit'ring anigh the footstool of the throne

I bask within the smile our gracious

Queen

Knows

my heart

with such a grace

to dispense

Inspir'd to ecstacy

or world-direct

Barefooted palmer with but

The

last

and

scrip

hard crust consum'd, thou sweetest Maid,

Divinest!

still

my

fainting faith reviv'st;

Yea, bless'd be thou

Before

staff

th'

who

whilst these songs I chant

Eternal Throne accompanying stand'st

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With

look devout, the harpist raising to

The theme

sublime, th' Hereditary King,

in Unity before

The Thunderer

The

angels tuned an anthem, list'ning mine

Continue song

so long with vasty space

Beyond expanse conversant, but with change

From

20

inexpressible exploits that I

But, but for thee had paralyz'd been found

A new Bellerophon,

or may-be torn

In other Rhodope by other

Than
The

the fam'd Thracian tore

Earth's,

The cause
Mankind

On
At

all

now

lift

me up

involv'd

but

ever-living water,

With

Heaven's war

is

thou

me

much

Death

refresh

drink

30

I thirst.

had the Victors from the

finish'd

wars

joy triumphant through the gilded Gates

Of welcoming Heaven

return'd, unto the

Of Glory coming with

report of that

Lord

Dire deed of the Arch-princedom when he rent

The sun

sung,

adoring to

ere the seal of

mankind we break

Now

of that great final war in Hell

Zion's Helicon and let

The

mob

asunder.

From

his vaultless height

The All-surveying through

the skies serene

Look'd lighting out and

created things

all

303

IN HELL.
Consider'd

far within himself the

Triunal thought

King

40

then the shechinah saw

Divine abstraction, worshipping around

The

The seven archangels

He

God

Inaccessible, the Secret

veiling worshipp'd

sate paternal Deity

Thron'd Throne, the

Guarded

on his

Zephyr

more

the Occident that bore

For Eros Psyche

to his palac'd place,

Paus'd

he was born

And

first

since

the

nymphs

of sea

50

of the rivers that the poets call

Tethys and her

And

around

billions glittering

in godly silence

Balmy than was

where

fair

daughter Amphitrite,

silver-footed Thetis, Thoa,

Panope, Pherusa, Cymodoce,

Callianira, Msera,

Cymothoe,

Melita, Doto, Glauce, Galatea,

Janira,

More

Dexamene and

beautiful than

Wove by
Were

Venus

the Graces,

(Fleeter than

the rest
in the veil

the Phantasians

was that sacred hind whose hoofs

brass, horns gold,)

which peopled

all

the parked

Palatinates of paradise in vale,

Or on

the

hills,

or mountains,

Or Hamadryads,

Orestiades,

Dryads

60

called,

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304

And

all

that carried in their helpful hands

The Amalthean urns from which were shed

Replenishment, and bloom, and liquid love,

And

shapeless rainbows over the parterres

Painting their passions on the peerless flowers,

Or

on the south the picturesque

floating

Or grand with vernal charms

70

or cloud enhanced;

All these as well the Pandionian birds

the bulbul the

Hafez and Sadi, envied

That made sweet music

like

Never

to

Were

they by Juno's peacocks for their plumes

Fountains like Aganippe, Hippocrene,

More limpid

or than Arethuse, forgot

All these forgot their

offices, their

Their warbling flow

e'en

Time

song,

itself

Like a reach'd river when a radiant

Invisibly puts forth or passeth

Streaming

it

stopp'd

Made with two

The

frost

down,

the dial of the heavens

orbed suns

the one cut through

centre for the index, nothing marked,

No shadow
As

was stopped

but the rather pal'd

all o'er

did the upper aether with the light

That gradual came

Most Holy

When

forth from out the place

unremember'd was the day

in the orient

Day

like that arose

80

305

IN HELL.

Turning the twilight with emblazon'd hands

Behind the blazon'd balustraded

Till

even

what

90

hills

cloudless skies were then,

And

soundless streams, and seas, and watchful winds,

The

angels bending breathless whilst the Lord

Apart, Alone, First, Greatest, with Himself

In

all his

Majesty express

The Lord

of angels

Before eternity

The

life

Eternal,

the Great

Lord of the thunders

Life of all

retired.

Unborn

Monarch

The
;

sole of

The All-beholding

gods

The

100

Uncircumscrib'd, Omnipotential,
Just,

Put

and Consistent, True, and only God

off at

length the veil

Sunk with

heaven, though prepared,

surprise to see, the stars

Half-falling

were

faint

and the whole embodied Round

Ravish'd with rapture to a tremor turned

In the clear space above the

In ether that beyond

Where

yet no sun

all

had

fields of light

ether shone

overlaid,

no light

Before was kindled, in that heavenly space

Vacant but

for bless'd

The heavens wholly

Pious, hast often

God Jehovah

reveal'd

to

Empress

on the bended knee

Contemplating, beatitude attained,

110

thou


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306

To

thee,

O Queen

Supported by her

therefore Calliope

train, for thee alone

Calliope the golden Gordian chord

Also adoring her divinest notes

Strikes

now with

hallow'd hand.

"Go!"
Unto God's only Son
Made, then

first

Before

time to

all

Of Light

Thy

chariot

Even

Mine only Son

of

God! Thou Light

Engender'd of the Father

when

as

am

mount

and beyond Our battlements

With thousand thousands

Lo

[120

the wond'ring host

Thou God

worlds!

all

The Word

begotten not

angels loud proclaim'd, "

Of

said

driving order

Thou

the heavens created were,

with Thee, and the Holy Ghost

Proceeding from Us."

130

The empyreum shook

When
And

he made ready answer, " Lo

through the sacred

Innumerable angels

Remaining in

I come,"

street the archals,

and

none behind

their midst

onward past

He

Majestic borne, through the crystalline sky

Riding in

visible glory

Prone either

at that sight

side they worship striking loud

Sackbut and harp

from the wide open doors

307

IN HELL.

Of

pictur'd pearl they drove

God met

as

And

140

sprung forth inhabiting

it

At once with

a radiant sun

blessed beings, woods and streams

mountains

still

adorn'd

with love divine

Others were made complete His vital word

Sufficing

thus

God's active labour urged,

Th' organic frame and fabric of the spheres

With high

intelligences

And more ennobled

Imprintings different

For cold and some

were informed

wisest the intent

made

some more inspired

for heat, others

between

150

Their vigorous essence found in tepid gleams

Moon-like, but blissful

Of

all

thus were the powers

the extraneous universe unrolled,

Where'er Imagination roams God spread

smiling happiness or solemn joy

In best variety

As

moments were weighed

ages, ages unto others

seemed

But moments, and the

circuits they described

Unbounded unto man,

to

them

if

Confin'd, a pleasant journey: light

not

some gave

Others receiving or like mazy gold

Or shaded

silver lest their

Should

feel offence,

Herbs,

fruits,

and

nor

weaker eyes

less in

flowers,

bounties rich

and a perennial spring

x 2

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308

And autumn own'd

the whole

no winter then

Lock'd Nature pining up, no summer scorched

Like

her guiltless breast but

sin

all

was plain

Unviolated beauty, luxe, and love

Thus

was bestow'd, the buds revived

lib'ral

Unto the beams of heaven, the continents

Freshen'd put on, and

all

the genial hours

Their opening blossoms blew

And

all

Now

spinning here

but when this earth

the ruin'd radiates from the sun

Elohim saw,
Earth, water,

now

or seem'd

and

fire

By Chaos kneaded
Of

there,

first

air

One with

and now

time to

full stop,

see,

one gen'ral mass

to a lawless

blunted, bigot principles at

lump
war

the other, in his course

God

stopped

Put back the golden Zones where now they

Where

And

Euclid could not reach, and

still

said,

" Be

still."

then from his bright abode

Before from even the archangels hid,

A spacious

Vast that made the vast appear

as nothing, visible

The Holy

Spirit

But ye who have

Your

lie

there was, poised the central, poised

All his loose parts

Almost

170

spirit

who

wing'd out

shall

image God 1

his testimonial to

ye are sons, behold

He

winged

180

309

IN HELL.

The Holy

Spirit spreading

That speechless spreading

marvellous

[190

heaven seem'd then from

[heaven

Itself to travel out, or like a scroll

Of

lucent light unroll'd far far beyond

dire

and dismal blank

Celestial sate,

calm calmest Power

and the remotest bound

Quickening reach'd and rul'd

Retir'd into the unapparent,

Ruin went

And

if

farther

the firmament

silent back,

would have burst

which

roofs our

with heaven, stretch'd out, the liquid

Surrounding

Now

its

Disorder then

mute

Void shrank

heady Hell

Then was

As

after

all

the Ball.

world

200

air

Calliope

for the silver lyre that to the earth

Awhile belongs, not that by him they called

shame

Fam'd

thy son affected but the lyre

for the

golden string (reserv'd for One

Unutt'rably renown'd,) aforetime heard

In Salem, destin'd

to

Then

At the voice of God

laid for ever.

be heard anon

The waters move with

From

off this

orb tumultuously upheaved

Unto one

certain

Obedient

to the fiat, "

Then from

a resurgent pulse

and appointed place

Land

let

be :"

the ebbing deeps the mountains rose,

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310

And

land appear'd, and em'rald verdure grew,

Herb

pleasant and the fruit-trees good in kind

Yielding their yield, with carpeting of grass

Delightful green, and od'rous shrubs and flowers

And when God

call'd the dazzling

sun broke forth

Like a young bridegroom from his chamber, light

Of morning,

to the

Occident in course

Even

Rejoicing there to meet again the

With

220

lights nocturnal,

and the argent moon

Rulers of signs and seasons, days and years

The water next brought

forth the thing with

Swarming innumerable finned

With spangled
Of lightsome

shell

At once on high
Inhabitants

Not

all

fish

oaring

scale, or

life

it

in boats

the fowl they also fledged

there likewise

in their order

came the land

good

those of land or sea which reptiles were

Hyleosaurians of which the rames

Buckland discourseth, or those saurs with necks

Ophidian, or with jaws wider than are

The

By

crocodiles as arm'd

these verily

Lucifer conceiv'd and things beside

With them

No

consisting, great carniv'rous fish

beast hath yet been found

And

their congenitors

the tardigrades

from the Bresils

230

311

IN HELL.

To

240

the geologists brought herbiv'rous were

And

harmless as were

Thus ended God

all

Elohim made.

creation all the sphere

Diurnal finish'd to the hymning harps

Of

angels

with admiration, earth

fill'd

Comparing

and when

to Elysium,

The morning shone again an ode they tuned

To magnify

Who

said

the

and

Maker

it

of the worlds

was done

harmonious sound

Filled the firmament all new-born things

In rapture joining
Coursing

aloft

the resplendent sun

250

melodious drove his wheels

Vibrating to the music from the frame

Of

universal Nature, the deep sea

Reciprocating back in bated base

From

the profoundest, and with choral voice

The mystic elements from hidden

Acknowledg'd

their Restorer utt'ring praise.

Thus had the

As reckon'd by

Of Amram
Of

"

shrines

sixth successional of time

the

Hebrews when the son

in the Moabitish

The Beginning"

Avrote,

hand

260

the sixth had

risen,

Six times the Spirit wav'd those wondrous wings

When God
In Our

to all his angels said, "

own Image

We

will

make

man

that here

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312

He

have dominion

Between the

To

him

We

stand, or sinning fall as

Death

up

will raise

fallen powers, unfaltering

Only himself, heaven

for the

it

shall please

high reward

for his

punishment."

God

O who shall Adam

Upon

sing

Not from a

tree as the

as the

And

animated with the

Wild

as

Men

solar

God Cybele

tell,

fire,

reared

was Orsus, or those apes they

call

280

of the woods " but perfected in all

as ne'er

woman

bore

Nor he Hyperion, nor

of

first,

the prime of

men

Hyperion's son

Myrrha born

Adonis, or the son of Peleus

By

all

nor as ignorant moderns hold

His thoughts, his ways, the

Such

killed

Paris, or Hsephestion in a

brawl

Nireus loveliest of the Grecian race,

Or any one
Of

beside, or bond, or free

his posterity

The

270

Javans by a Titan formed

Offensive to the
;

came

forth he

Arcadians

Nor

perfect, god-like

Maker

of his

In secret

said; but

enamell'd ground as there in

th'

The person

"

the mountains through

loving mists look'd down, the airs

hung

o'er

313

IN HELL.

Him

moveless

mad with joy, and

all

the world

290

Spell-bound acknowledged at once her lord

And

master

He knew
Turning

O Muse

not but with more than piercing eye

to
!

passion and the sense of change

heaven took in the whole

once

at

any words had power thy words

if

Rock'd the orb'd Earth

to hear

the

mem'ry Earth

Yet keepeth though within her well-nigh dead

And

gone, for dark and wanton was thy youth

Charg'd with uncounted crime, thy middle age

Dishonour'd.

Of

Nymphs

of

Solyma

the Prince

300

Peace, the Great Restorer shall be sung

The Second Adam

to

sublimer strains

And

hasten, haste

The

earth for Adonai, son of Love,

now

the

first

witness on

Delight of Morning, from the Fountain

Of Love and Light we

God born
The

sing

the fav'rite of

into the early earth whilst yet

flowers with fragrance

Shed

at his feet

fill'd

goats, but of the

The

Behold him

at

full

there

Nor suckling
father he

the spicy Spring

her horn with blessing

Nor Corybantes, nor Curetes

The

Head

coming time

once to manhood brought

then the wilderness was glad,

solitary place the desert smiled

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314

And

blossom'd as the rose

The box

Gods

And Holy Ghost

The mountains

the pine,

fir,

together beautifully grew

Offspring of

"

the

all

The

The Son

Father, and

the forests then broke forth

joining in a gen'ral shout,

ye powers of the Lord," they sung,

"Ye Heavens,

Sun, Moon, and Stars

320

the Day, the Night,

Dews, Showers, and Winds of God, Waters, and Wells,

Floods, Rivers, Oceans, Earth and all that dwell

In Water, and in Air, and

also

the Beasts

The

and praise the Lord."

Bless, bless,

They

all

hymned

saying, " All the earth

Doth worship Thee The Father

unto Thee

All angels cry aloud, the heavens, and

The powers

And

therein

to

seraphim continually cry

earth are full of

And Glory
Of

all

Thee the cherubim

Holy Lord God of Sabaoth

The

angels then

Thou

Thy

the

330

the heaven,

great Majesty

King

of Glory, Son

the Eternal Father, infinite

Thy

Majesty, at the right hand of

Sitting,

we Thee acknowledge

The Holy Ghost

We magnify

Thou

the Comforter this day

we worship evermore

World without

God

end."

also


315

IN HELL.

Thus they the wedded worlds 340

Following, the

lilies lifting

up

their heads,

Reeds and bull-rushes from the copious springs

Of water
The

all

blossoms ;

fairest

In wind, the

The green
Out from

the myrtle trees put on

fish in

rose

wave, the cattle in

upward

in a mingled voice

their souls of love

The whole

spirit

Resounding

to receive.

all

from dawn

creation hymn'd,

Leaving the

Brimm'd

the flying birds

all

to

dark

when they returned

Gladness, back to heaven

Then

brightest wine

350

the golden chalices outspread

Dazzling upon the citron-tables sphered

Where upon

great occasions feast was

Feast metropolitan, the Courts of

The North, South, East, West bid,

Unto

made

all

that wine which Christ

his saints shall pour, than the Falern

Dearer, or Chian, or than Tenedos,

Wine

of no

Formian vintage

rich desserts

That the Tartarian emp'ror's had disgraced,

From
Of

off the trees of life

laden with fruit

various kinds as the immortals eat,

Great pommeloes, pomegranates, tufted pines

Like Ceres' diamonded and rubied, more

Luscious than were the Lotophagians joyed

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316

By

the returning mariners from Troy

Home

long-desir'd forgotten

cocoas, dates

Finer than Tafilat, and grapes that in

The Sogdian
Discoyer'd

valley grow, or those the spies

when

Land

they search'd the Promised

370

Figs had the senate seen Carthage were saved

And

Cato's shamed,

and

olives finer

The Lycabessos whence Palladian

With

bread-like fruits,

and

all

than

oil,

that trailed or

hung

Melons, guavas, o'er the swarded thyme

More than Hymettan,

With

daisied

meadows mixed

vegetable cups of pearl o'erfllled

With manna,

these

for a dessert

were placed

Ready, with unimagin'd luxuries

Beside, things lavender'd, candied quince,

Gourds, semilucent

jellies,

cinnamon

380

Creams, tinctur'd syrops, spiced dainties, and

Elixirs

To

from strange kernels, possets sweet

plenitude,

and others wanting name

These well were

Than
Or

serv'd, the servers far

Atalanta, or

Dyname

more

fleet

fair,

heavenly-fair Astyoche, or she

The youngest Grace Pasithae her

eyes

Like azure yet more deep, the other two

Had

been their humblest handmaids, she that went


317

IN HELL.

For Phoebe Syrynx's

Of

all

the pride and song

self

390

the shepherd plains, the daughters seven

Divinely form'd

Above Diana

Nor worthier

by Niobe the queen

chastest goddess thought,

;

some

Limnoria

like fair

Callianassa, Thalia, Apseudes,

Amphinome, Amatheia amber-haired,

Brought in transparent

Of

shell the choicer fruits

the deep ocean on the taxed twigs

Hard'ning

and

to coral calcedonies,

Anemonies and sea-cups grown

So prodigal of bloom that

all

400

so rich

the gods

Receiv'd them wondering whilst around their heads

Chaplets were wreath'd by vestals that no print

Left of the lucid finger on the leaves

Of

rose or tulip that an essence breathed

Through the surrounding

Of Cythera
Rose new

in April

o'er all

air.

when

Achaia

the

Name

not the feasts

moon

then I wot

They banquetted the viands

rich as rare

Sharp too their hunger, (our bless'd Saviour said

That heavenly bread and heavenly wine was

His Kingdom eat and drunk

;)

in

the woods, the springs,

Rivers and seas had in their absence been

Well

41

search'd for this provision, restorates

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Honied, conserves of the most melting things,

Crystaliz'd lozenges that

Or

still

more sparkling

More balmy than

And

diamonds looked

stones,

and cakes, and cates

Idnmean balms

the

odoriferous in golden shields,

Whity

opals, great onyxes,

and orbed

420

Salvers that on the massive sideboards stood

For

As

asteroids

if

and moons, nor wanted then,

the queen of Elf-land, and the three

Hesperides, and

all

the Msenads from

Out the brown Indian

The

silver grots

vales,

Janassa

fair,

and

all

that

own

Spio,

Agave, Ampithoe, Orythea,

Had

cater'd all

Desire

And

with more than lightning feet

where'er

it

oft anticipated

went, was followed

;

like the shade

Of

love they followed so light not one

Of

all

430

the spreading flowers a bruise received,

Only when touch'd the heliotropes gave out

Fresh perfume

and the concert

That which aforetime

for the

(diff'rent

from

wasting war

Was

rais'd in celebration,) all the

Even

the winds were charm 'd, the Sirens had

They heard
But

their

scrannel,

winds

man-seducing strains were thought

and the same Orpheus thought

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IN HELL.

Of

own

his excelling

Wast then enchanted

Hath any heard thy

The

Euterpe

seldom since

so that

flute,

what Hermes taught

son of fair Antiope the strains

That won the dolphins such thou

Nor

440

thou

could'st not bear,

those which mov'd the else insensate stones

Choral with psalters, cyth'rons, timbrels, pipes,

Virginals, vials, tabors, out

it

gushed

That music and o'erflowing reach 'd the Hound

That girdled

all

the universe

it

sunk

Into the soul as light into the sea

450

Windless and waveless with delight and joy,

Or

like the breath of

Of Adam when

God

into the soul

the paradise prepared

For occupation and with right aspect

Unto the gate of " Judah

A living

soul,

he

"

duly turned

felt.

Return
Return

First-Father

The sun hath run

Himself alone

The

whilst

his course

his

to

we

and

him

loiter thus

Adam

found

garden he had traced

trees, shrubs, herbs,

he knew, vain moderns knew

Better than your Linnaeus, than Buffon

The

beasts the fish, or he

Nature

460

who drown'd

so well interrogated in

because

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All but that secret of Eurippus seven

Times in the day outflowing, even he

The

That made him

Ye

simple

Of Jove

Who

Locke, Galileo

silly,

like the Cretans

too.

the tomb

simple

470

ye

with the Book of Genesis in hand

to unbelievers grant

was not meant geology

to teach

Nor Joshua astronomy, ye

The

who

to strangers show'd,

Acknowledging,
It

had confessed

Stagyrite his master

pearl before the swine

Warning while

cast

which rend you, hear

time, noviciate

it is

Assisted as a child that thinks he rides

Before he even walks

Of man

is

The Image

truly told,

of his

the origin

made

Maker

perfect in

480

History

Profane as well as sacred solveth doubt

And

settles that

For those who

grave matter,

call

it

remained

themselves the wise the great

Philosophers in pride to question both,

Were God

before

Then Adam
Out of

them they would question God.

slept

his side took

and whilst he

Eve

The meeting when he

She knelt beside

slept the

hard 'twere

'woke, in ecstasy

so exquisitely fair

Lord

to tell

"

321

IN HELL.

And
Unto

lovely that with glad surprise he leaped

his feet

The whole

her eyes were each a heaven

contract within the long black fringe

That bound the blue and

Shone

like a

Upon him

490

god elected

in the centre

he

to the throne,

she look'd as Eunonie buds

Dropping upon Vertumnus

Risen from the waves with

Aphrodite

all

her simple charms

Nat'ral was better dress'd than if she wore

Such bracelet

as Eriphile, or that

Phidias added to Minerva's neck

"O

beautiful!" he cried, " beautiful

With

With tremulous

all

Upon him

fell

Swimming
trilling

Adam!"

Of

his

own

arms

many

a kiss

damask cheeks,

rapt'rous love, pressing her

Sustaining

"

his

tenderness he rais'd her up

Imprinting on her forehead

For

Eve

that her glossy ringlets parting back

Over her ivory shoulders in

Of

500
!

her person in his arms

her balmy breath, her heart

in fond desire,

and

her speech

melody and persuasion

soft,

she answer'd echoing back the voice

soul,

but

The concord 1 who

Or who unto

who

his

shall

now

express

sunny shade can catch,

the bale-born blind describe

510

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322

The gorgeous

Of

clouds pil'd on the glassy floor

the wide sea % to curtain in the

With
The

loving Alia

Sun

our Mother this

First, the flower of those

Hath made

the feminine

The pagans

calling her

whom God

so fair

so fair

was she

Pandora paint

520

The envious goddesses about her with

Insidious gifts

To

none of her daughters came

like perfection, (save,

One

Ladye Queen

at the most,) nor she Acrisius

King

Of Argos vaunted, Alcumena, nor

Europa

her long hair was melted gold

Like Hippolita's, such Apelles gives

His

mistress, so the Cyprian, in such locks

Prided Actea, the surpassing flower

The

last of all the

Ptolemies the

And O Euphrosyne

thine

own

confess

Like memory

Outdone, Aglaia has.

Of a most pleasant dream, Religion

Nor heed Eurynome with envy

Eve's passing excellence

Suppose

it

tell

filled,

over the earth-

parch'd she rose a golden cloud

Earth wond'ring

Or

530

like,

how

joy, or happiness

Most beautiful

to

without existence were

man

most beloved,

the sun,

Eve was

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323

IN HELL.

The
As

reflex

moon, the Earth enjoying both

540

satiated to the folded depths

Within her eyes her history she read

Day

after

day then slept as some young babe

Within her guardian

"

angel's

ample arms

shut mine eyes " Earth said each even, " ere
!

Thine own in sleep be

Unto the heart away

closed, I dissolve

and

"

as in

heaven

So likewise on the earth the printless

Was

fill'd

And

Adorations that incarnate went

with shining

Spirits, soft

air

Desires

550

Forth of our Father's and our Mother's soul

Fulfilling their behests

all

Around the imag'd Earth,

these

would crowd

their milky

arms

And

hands across their heaving bosoms placed,

And

so

admiring love

but

Adam

most

Wand'ring the warbling woods, or where the flowers

In bush and brake and
Invitingly

The

o'er the velvet turf

upon each other crowd

live-long day they

went unweeting time

Inquiring and informing

when

the chaste

Delia from the zenith prompted rest

"

gentle Eve!" said he, and brought her then

Unto the nuptial bower but Phosphor found

Oft-times their mutual looks upon

y 2

him

cast

560

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324

Watching the

rising sun

and

up

ofF'ring

Pious orison to Almighty God.

Now Eve as cognisant of starry heaven

When Adam of the bless'd Creator spoke
Correctly reason'd, yet such love as his

And

570

absolute entrancement felt not but

Kneeling upon her spouse her looks she turned

Exemplar best still would she have of

They worshipp'd

there,

"For O

!"

Him

said she,

"when

first

Myself I found, and these mine eyes about

Inquiring cast no other god saw I

Nor can

Whom

I realize

beyond thee ought

I can love, but as expressing

thank

Short invitation make, impulsive bliss

From

The

thee proceeding

I praise that with thee

Then up

Invisible

Visible, I exist/'

she rose and held

him

in her arms

So she we read of in the Song of songs

The Rose

of Sharon.

Then

there

came a Dream

Far more renown'd than the Assyrian's, or

Any

they told Tiresias, or than any

The Pythonissa

With

this

a garden filled

variegated arborescence in

The midst (from which

four radiate rivers flowed,)

580

IN HELL.

A stately
Most
Eat

tree,

another at the side

Jehovah

sightly: then

free, saith

of

And if ye

Knowledge

"

Of

all

this

is,

one which

eat ye shall not

'woke, " 'Tis Eve,"

who awakening

also recapitulates the same.

First then they found

How much
Of

call'd,

Adam

die:" then

Cried he, "none other,"

She

590

God, of everything ye see

Within the garden but of

The Tree

325

how much

to

God was owed

they were indebted, singleness

heart he claims, and will be reverenc'd, "

600

Fairer than angels " our forefather cried,

"

My

spouse of gladness

One with

My

thou art

much engaged

the other, seasonably to warn

Against idolatry this notice

Eve

too

still

my

companion,

my

passion, thus unto

Mingling our souls

Who

made us

Give

all

is

my

delight,

loving heart

I clasp thee, unto

Him

for the dwellers of the earth

the praise."

One

sultry

noon reclined

610

Close by a brook their mirror'd faces Eve

Takes

for

her theme,

"And O!"

In this true glass so beautiful

What

are

we

in reality

"

cried she, "if thus

we look

she paused

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326
"

Now let me

One day

favour find

whilst thou hast slept

a wondrous seraph from thy side

Beckoning converse made of that our dream

And
For

saith,

'

Hath God

that Tree so good denied

thereof ye eat ye gods

if

become

Both good by eating taught and

620

evil too

In that ye thus delay delicious meat;'

Nor only

that, this duplicate so fair

Which cometh

Away

only as

as unsubstantial

He saith a picture
And all the world
So said

Of

soft

we come and goeth

when we

actual shall

leave

become

our offspring present

Eve with blandishment of

fill."

air

gesture proof of that forbidden fruit

That

long

desir'd, in secret

her had

filled.

So Hamlet royal Dane, once look'd as then

Heart-struck lost

Adam, back he

started,

Eve Eve what hast thou done]"

!

woe

This seraph

From

Than

to us

who

who

cried he, " our

is this, this, this,

so call'd,

hath thee deceived ?

forth a cypress avenue he

'Twas Lucifer

Oh

had that none may dare

Interpretation

Gainsay

"

630

bloodshedder

the Iscariot

who

The man-God Jesus

if

came

thou worst

he sold

Christ had yet forbore

"

dream

327

IN HELL.

Our simple mother

thou Judas

Falsest dissembler, Sinon

Fleshing a virgin deer

640

thou

thou wolf

Ganilion

thou

Burglar, thou robber, thou enticer, thou

Despoiler, thou denier,
Pitiless fiend

To

spoil

From

mankind

thou most

hell

had he returned

God he

if

could not spoil

And Eve was

thus seduc'd, that innocent

He

and

slyly stole

as the

Himself into the grape

And

gain'd, so

god who changed

his

end

to gain

650

he with sugar'd sophistry

Assailing covert, to her bower returned

Her

pluck'd and broke for ever both the wings

merciless apostate

And

all

take

my

curse

the curses of our common-race

Unto thee

thou malice-bearer take

Whilst blessing on mine enemies I pour

Abundant, they are men, though merciless

My

wrong and wanton-stung,

But thou

above

all

angels

are they not

men ?

oh thy guilt

Eedoubled ever by the distance mounts

Too high

for

Dar'd even

thou

if

God's forbearance
they would

vile serpent

Its perfect

work.

none

not Christ

for thee
to pray

thy revenge shall have

Other heroic lyre

660

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828

Immortal sounding

this Conspirator

This way hath trac'd or I

Kingly stood he

man

before the

bright

all his original

Utterly tarnish'd yet he yet was grand

As Jove

to

Semele appear'd with

His thunders, he

Eve

to

To Adam, "boldly

"

all

The Tree

!"

he spake

670

take," but he bewailed,

" Disorganiz'd hast thou the heavens," cried he,

"

Now

earth,

begone

!" the

bad Betrayer past:

Adam

Such was the might of

Even the Anarchist when he

His presence was abash'd.

Were

And
Of

his,

the sad

Eve

Alas

!"

and

In

who on

righteousness

whom we

his

stay'd

to

if

the horns

say,

we

are undone,

our perfect will

and that

so long

perfect gift

reward

was ours

doubt his truth on which we stood

So surely grounded

Death enters we

Upon

up the sky

neck lamenting hung,

is lost,

Of every good and

Ingrate

what pains

upon me," he would

" Thou, thou hast both undone

Our

appear'd none noted, "

moon

Lift not thy looks

"

fell

forbid

the sun clomb lab 'ring

linger'd feeling down,

he

ere

by

this

monstrous act

're destroy'd.

Is it not writ

the firmament that thou shalt love

680


!;

329

IN HELL.

The Lord thy God with

For

this the stars the

all

thy heart and mind 1

holy angels read

Unto us frequent hallowing

Of good and

evil

oh

discourse

that evil thus

So guarded from, should come

Conviction 1 nothing less

it

was not thy

to us."

Prone with her hair dishevel'd Eve was

the grass

The

helpless queen changing to stone

Her

joys were slain

and oh

fallen

Thebes

so of Boeotian

faith

could be with

Woe, woe

Such miracles around.

Upon

(>90

when

all

those virgin tears

700

Phaethusa, Lampethusa ne'er such tears

Inconsolable wept

Serena when

Sir Calepine away, her dreadful fate

She waited
"

but at

last

when

she could speak,

much

injur 'd lord in that

thou!" cried she, "

I ardently ador'd thee with perverse

Affection

my

delight,

whom my

from

Could not refrain although by God

Above

Thy

my

sight

sex so noble
is

mine, in

all

woe
that

is

let

me

to our gracious

With such

God

is

forbid,

me

life

Without thee unendurable were

soul

requires,
life

Author now

repentance as I have to give,

not deaf,

else

mad

die with that

710

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330

Cruel reflection that though perfect found

For

my

Me

losing

Which

defeasance ne'ertheless thou

:

To

th'

at

random

away

my

fault

be just?"

passionately

this great trespass,

pale inanity

fined

inexorable law

executes on both

Thus she
For

can

'rt

swooning

moved
720

at the last

our Sire

Then thought her doom completed and

despaired,

In his delirium wishing her's his fate

Or

that for her the penalty he paid

Thus of

fatality

took he in turn

Electing Eve, nor yet by any Fate

Lachesis, Clotho forc'd.

O woman

The

lips

upon thy

poets feign

well

thy looks

from the birth of time

Persuasive Pitho

Thou

the angels string and strike

rulest all

Their lyres in vain to

With

man when thou

thy preferred prattle

Even of angels who

And God

nay some

art near
tell

their lyres, themselves,

forgot to listen to the soft

Melodious pulsing of thy harping heart

The thought

distracts

myself what I for thee

In the green youth endur'd

As he

I rose, I stormed

Astrseus storm'd, the heavens, and thought

The gods were

all

mine own and with them

thee,

730

:
;

331

IN HELL.

But

than the Titan, chains

less careful

Of

iron eschewing as unsightly, chains

Of

flowers for

My

idol-prisoners

them

I chose

740

and smiling bound

and woman bound

Fallen naked with the folly in her lap

Ah me my
!

locks were shorn

I pin'd in prison
I burst the bars

But

'till

in

seven weary years

manhood

strong

I burst, posterity

a goddess met whose love

placed

is

Upon

a royal prince ask not the

name

Thus

'tis

with thousands, nor

me

No Omphale

is

let

complain

750

mine, and Naso loved

Scarce less imperial, Tasso also loved

A potent princess,

Marcus Anthony

For one disdain'd the Empire of the World.

Thus reason'd Adam what

To me

is

to

God

is sin

grace and though the prompter be

Detestable the mischief hath been done

By force

of argument within her

Had Eve been

careful to resist with ease

But she accepted and, behold

She loveth

power

when

how much

therefore back she returned

Herself unto he clasp'd her in his arms

Sharing her destiny.

Was

it for

this

7 MO

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332

Th' angelicals their cadenc'd cymbals tuned

When

Elysium was

this

first

prepared

Fairer than the Hesperian, or where

Aladdin found such vegetable growth,

Or any

the Parnassians celebrate

The groves

of Daphne, or th' Italian groves,

770

Or where the Naiads and Sylvanus haunt

Continual whether in Cycladean

Or on

isles,

the continents with myrtle crowned,

In Pontus, or where Dido reign'd and died,

Ah woe

the day for us

Our authors

when

that palm'd pair

in the flesh disloyal turned

Eating the Fruit prohibited and thus

That Garden

The goddess

On Adam
The

Then our fond mother

lost.

of the

look'd,

Morn on

unheeding

as

Cephalus,

780

at their feet

poison-flowers which sprung in rankness

that love-look,

and oh

up

the consequence.

Exultant back the Winner sped to hell

For Death, the while Sin he had

With Eve
Not born

left

behind

his victim only yet conceived

then hell had concourse,

when

the thing

Fie told the damn'd, " Immaculate!" they cry,

"

Thy

As

hate,

erst in

we

hail thee, Lucifer

once more

heaven our King, now King in Hell

:"


333

IN HELL.

Adramelec himself was one who hailed

And

even Timiel, Nebo, Rassach,

Darpathrus, Aricon, and

Himself had
Receiv'd

Seem'd

that he

all

slain close follow'd:

him

arrive

moment

that his hated soul

all their

black Effrits rose

him

well against

as if all their flesh

And

bones grew baleful bigger

Was

frightful,

Fell on

him

God

sole

In Tongatabo

the dispraise

forgotten all their hate

like those

which

Swarming with

Long worms

dreadful they

formerly, to ruin Hell

fallen the

They saw

As

790

Eloo trees

800

their morais shade,

bats, the serpents

bred like worms

in the intestines of the soul,

Mounting even they were heard and many winged

Together curling up

like those which sped

As Pliny

tells for

Arabie across

The

made

him

sea,

Attempt no

at

record,

what

his Dira did

Death abandon'd both,

His joy augmented hoping yet

Upon

his leavings for

Nay more than

he hunger'd

still

ever and imagin'd hell

Already strewn before him

The Devilry

to feast

it

was

not,

prevail'd, Lucifer turned

Involuntary round and back to earth

810

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

334

Like a gaunt famish'd and sore-wounded wolf

Unto the sheep-fold whence

wounding was,

his

The

Heart-grip'd with anguish came.

As

now

heretofore with rage

upside

down

With

acclamation the infernal realms

Rung

pouring billion foulest

820

spirits forth

Death hunger-mad rampanting

Arms

rest is told.

at their head,

not alone in theirs but even in

His scarce discernible

(No Mantuan pipe

is

mine

Of

Desolation fixed

hell

was

left to

his ghosty
!)

hands

the farther gloom

In horror as he was to see them whet

Their scathful swords as onward

From

all

they urged

the steaming bounds unto the dykes

Thrown up

to earthward,

Beckon'd and was obey'd

Look one

still

Outer Darkness he
;

saw them both

830

into the other's brassy eyes

Their heads so close together that one knew

Scarce which was which
StifFen'd for fear, the

When

and Outer Darkness too

two would

have skulked

Night with tempest bursting from her

Dragg'd Terror in convulsions

And

fain

to their feet

with unequall'd fury heap'd such chains

Upon him and

so

quench'd with

His most egregious

balls that

fiery irons

from that time

lips

335

IN HELL.

To them and Lucifer he ministered

As an

Had

especial slave

this effected

840

no sooner she

than the four outspread

Their clapping wings and from the Agnates cut

Th' astonied rebels

Stopp'd

when

hesitating they

that great she-spectre Terror put

Upon them each

Them back

a Frankenstein's and drove

so fast that Desolation (glad

Although he was, and Outer Darkness both

With company,) had much ado

to

keep

Up, yet they kept but with tormenting

That added
Darted

Wail

spirits

peeled

fasting fires resum'd the wail

that no one beside myself outside

The Malebolge hath heard

Of heaven
"

then the flames

meet them, and the

to

Again by

to their aspects

850

ill

And

" said they, "

u Hope, hope extinct

then hackle hell

" cried

Night,

labour Lucifer a throne whereon

In league we rule ye

"

Desolation looked

Unto them the same words, and Terror took

Hell to himself for eyes and out upon

Them

so petrinc nar'd that every

Instant stoop'd

Great rocks

down and

Such was the

tear they

one

tore with all his

for building up,

860

might

hell actual sunk

made

these dash'd amain

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

336

Upon

the centre (whilst they dash'd they

made

All thunder feeble,) the foundation thus

Of Pandemonium was
That

erst

upon the sun

Conceiving in his
Blazon'd

Where

laid, whilst

all

so strongly built

fertile

brain the plan

like a picture

it

he

on the roof

870

observ'd and wrought according on.

Meanwhile

like comets

the compasses

all

Fearfully threaten'd wildly sweeping through

Th' adjoining spheres with Pestilence behind

Those Anarks upon earth

And

Out-pouring

Condensing

calorific clouds

all

things wither'd

fell

in flaky fashion

paradise and wall-eyed

At once upon

And

soon arrived,

with a shock so dread the pole was turned

Present aside and

On

full

then the blight

down

Winter rushed

the scene with storm and hail

bitter cold

and snow

hard change was then

Greater than Palestina's since the plough

her

Raz'd

all

With

barren

cities

and they sow'd the Land

salt

or that iEgyptia

mourns

Abas'd, the Nile neglected by the Curds

Or Othman

And oh

conq'ror

and the Punic Coasts

our ancestors,

Husband unwitting,

when he her

of Jocasta went

son-

880

337

IN HELL.

With Antigone imprecated

Of

890

forth

the plague-smit Diospolis, they felt

These more when God by one a cherub drove

Them

Eden dreading

forth of

Some power would

They

Crying, "

One

them, e'en the trembling trees

My

Adam

continue.

Eve

took heart

thy falling tears be stanched

cloth'd us in these careful skins

The firmament

Again

And

shall

With

the

will raise

in

which thou

mine arms

shalt twine

gold and purple mosses, in some wood

Wherein
Trellis'd

is

honey

stor'd in antique trunks,

with green and richly cluster'd vines

And what

if yet

some

As wholesome

And some
how

Then

as the apples

'11

find as ripe

we have

left,

with kernels for more solid meal,

they hang upon the bushes here."

sighing our disconsolate mother thus.

thou too kind, thou

now

fruits delicate taste

Disprove as sour enough we

See!

moony night

wrap thee slumb'ring

bower

I a

900

o'ercanopies as well

The world we wander, and

If

first

yet remains to comfort thee beside

The God who

"

went

menacing they then appeared.

fled so

Sad Muse

kill

as they

much

too gen'rous lord

I fainted but for this alone

z

910

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

338

That

in

my

fall

from innocence I drew

my unreflecting self beside

From O how much I drew thee canst

Other

Who

the

Before

thou say,

amount can draw] that thou enjoy edst

me

in the

Thus they

Eden we have

lost."

discours'd morn, noon,

and when the even

Claimed upgathering the leaves fallen from

The spreading

with care a bed composed

trees,

Within a grotto and

Once

as

from

Laden with

And

toil

so rested

As was her wont

to

first.

with eventide he came

roots that in the

succulents his

woods were found

Eve she came not

forth

meet him when sometimes

At home she would remain

for

such slight cause

Of

necessary

As

it

Of

entrance our Progenitor had reached

work

or listless ease

behoved, and the arching door

When piteous bleat within he startled

An antelope pursued had thither fled
For refuge, Eve intently hanging

Her new-born fawns

instant

yet long after

930

heard

o'er

upon the seek

Instinctively for the maternal teats

Nor

[920

by a streamlet he

Found Eve with two small

infants their small limbs

Surveying fondly for the Lord had

said,

339

IN HELL.
"

The woman's seed

that seraph's head shall bruise."

These were their pledges and revolving time

numbers manifold

Increas'd their

From
The

until

that the Table-Land and primal

earth

home

grew populous.

Then war
For

[940

at the outset

And Abel had

arose

Cain his brother slew

avengers

earth moreo'er

Possess'd incarnately by beasts such as

This day their bones are found in mountain-caves

950

Antediluvian in Kirkdale, or those

Upon

the Mendips, in Franconia, and

Remoter

And

countries, bones of ursines, pards,

others.

Now
His

as

Adam

sate before

was descried

tent, in the perspective

The Cains upmount on

libbards

own

territory

Outcast from their

To

glut their lust of blood

that curs'd seed

came

nor only these

Spurring came on the Eephaims gotten by

The coupling

Belials of such kind they called

The demi-gods

Silenes diadem-crowned

Cast in dark bronze (one in the Louvre stands,)

Or

in dark marbles carv'd, crying "

Evose!" in their furor, Psyllians,

z

Evo

960

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340

And

Ophiagii of ancient leaves,

Cyreanites or Marsians

these amongst

Mankind rode eminent

Adam

they took

Falling on Seth's unmindful of the shrieks

Dying behind, and

And

far they ravag'd fire

slaughter with

Did Genseric
Numberless

Unto

them

king

their

spoil too

was

970

theirs

with fiendish yell

pris'ners, so

their city in the

such the Vandals ne'er

Land

of

Nod

Captive they drove.

Now
Each

art they

The metals

Hewn
The

where the Cainites dwelt

long employ 'd in stone and wrought

to their use

upon a mount

to proportion for the base uprose

capitol of polish'd marbles built

Unto the

starry roof

through

all

the grades

Porphyries, onychites, lazulis, verds,

And

tables rich contrast

Of orizum
Friezes,

on pedestals

huge columns

raised,

and architraves, and cornices

Festoon'd

His

or gold

there thron'd

sire arraign,

upon a

dais did Cain

accuser and his judge,

Calling the gods to witness that

when he

Ate of the one and not the other Tree

Of

Life to all posterity he was

980

341

IN HELL.

A
As

traitor

worthy death

Csesar

when

Adam as

proud

990

Pompey's bust he turned

to

Death-stricken, Cain adjudg'd, the Seths as slaves

Unto the

Them

giants

to a

who immediate

monument

of that

set

war

first

Fratricidal.

Then
Mounted

Cain's ambitious son

his father's throne

Against him and that capital

Took,

fifty

Seth

mustering, warred

at last

thousand Rephaims, and of

Twelve times that number

had

Cain's corpse the lupals

In balance unregarded

to the

fires

sword were put,

the city

men
1000

hung

therein

Smould'ring in desert homes and priest-fled fanes

Made

lifeful

with the images

the Seths

Felling the trees collected on great piles

The

slain

One

o'er the

With

and overthrew the pyramids,

grave of

Adam Adam's

heart

dedication to the gods of Cain

ContahVd, and eke a crypt nine sided nine

Names on
Adramelec
Baal

the sides engrav'n, "Ekriel! Moloch!

!

Togarmah

Apollyon

To them and

Haraphon

Nisroch

all their lesser

Zabrash

Zynithrine,

1010

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

342

Atoncryntal, Aphracac,

all

the nine

Upon

the Nine Great waiting, this," thus read

They

that inscription.

Then Cainan returned

With
Put

To

Thou

to the utmost.

who me

inspirest

sing the battles of the gods, thou need'st

The

Of

Nephilim, avenging war

all his

1020

Adamic whence the cause

history

the concluding war, therefore record

When

by the Valley of the Waters two

Mann'd armies met, nor Aristarchus blame

The

To

episode

Seth's,

now

giants were desert

and these disdaining Adams seek

Each other

in the battle treading

Before them, pouring blood

Amongst

With

the Rephaims

unto

cries of scorn

Heaping the dead

The sun compell'd

until

thus the

when
it

the

first

morrow came

third day was the

The

fifth;

Of

War's panting hounds

his slope, full breathed

same

the fourth was like

the sixth; the seventh

a compromising

1030

from orient steep

Op'ning again until the skies grew black

The

day

they return

short truce

Watching impatiently

down

when some one spoke

the living halt

343

IN HELL,

Upon

weapons whilst a grand debate

their

Their chieftains hold

And

all

at length these

1040

the cities feasted.

Thence

The

races multiplied

Not

as

'till

as

one

war arose

between the Cains and Seths but those

Amongst them who would

New come

certain gods adore

and they were many errand-sent

By Night from

Hell to Lucifer,

Was

one

so

The

east

and

Zamiel

wag'd they that in one year

was desert

Thence came a

And

were agreed

all

nor throng'd the rest

lull to revelrie

devote

1050

former aptitudes of sport unclean

So that half-emptied earth soon overflowed

And

one incessant tide of mortal sin

Immitigable puls'd

Then came
As

despited,

resistless on.

the end

Jehovah

That man was made

the Holy Spirit grieved

to the heart

O Muse of Zion

thou

Forbiddest, for a thousand years were scarce

Sufficient to expose that guilty race

Like imitative sheep

if

Whether with cause

or none, they

The primal

Of

one but leaps

rebel follow'd.

On

glory in the midst of which

all,

so

men

the shrine

God

dwelt

1060

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344

Long

The

on

visible

earth,

whereto they sought

righteous e'en to Noah, Lucifer

His substitution
Sublime

unto the clouds

conjuring spirits in such shapes

For stones

Had

rais'd

as

were appropriated

they innumerable, thus he built

By word

of

mouth a

living temple

Zamiel the

pontiff, priestesses

More than

the Vestals had

The King

of Hell

With
But

who

so not

be to

long

angels,

God ]

for

men

adored

what

is

time, all time

less, if

aught

the Elements turn'd so

who the genii bound

Air, and Fire, and Water, (more adept

Than

those of latter times

who thought

to take

Defter Protceus and to purpose put,)

Mark'd, and the sorc'rers summon'd

From Asrac snows where some

From
As

1070

the inner shrine

fill'd

how much

That the alchymists

Of

with power

here

up

a dread figure and the earth o'er-ruled

Unto the
It

forms

fens mephitic

1080
instantly

did Trivia bay,

some with herbs occult

the Sardinian, from the caverns some

With

operous ores, and witches with their banes

Like she of Endor, came, Air, Water, Fire

Questioning and what they demanded they

345

IN HELL.

Would

not by Nature be denied,

They were

Of Solomon

like treasure hunters

who

the Seal

1090

or the astrologists

Old Kosicrusian tomes consult

By

when

to find

the conjunctive planets some weird spell

Not

finding, they

Tortur'd to

tell

then

all

what had

possess'd

More than one thousand

From

the three they sore

them

one

years her age she told,

out her paps upon the altar squeezed

A milk

so acrid that

The adamant
As none but

eat right through

it

the curd this was of food

she enjoy 'd, in secret pit

Close to a temple genitals and brains

They

flung of still-born children, viriles old

Of men and women,

capricorns and bulls,

These with toadstools

She

1100

eat,

for centuries alone

and only of the few thick drops

Express'd from broken hearts assuag'd her thirst ;

She first-tormentor treating them

Embodied,

like sores

as a village doctress treats

cancer that defies her

fury worse

Than

Calcabrina's theirs others there were

Who

follow'd, creatures unto skeletons

Worn

like

Some used

Megacra Acheron produced

the ordures poison'd whether those

1110


THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

346

Which work
With

eruption'd from the globe relax'd

slime defecated, or worse from brutes

Dying the

foetid

product of their young.

Thus were they occupied nine thousand they

Hideous their names

as persons

Shraphryth,

Oom,

Hollos, Frank, Scrematry, Adsch, Na, Troumdell

And Nashmurdrand

o'er all

then Shraphryth a

Crook-back'd arose, " I saw a star

1120

as, black,"

Said he, "as others bright earthward dissolve."

" All know," Scrematry said "

Of Lamech

what Noe, son

prophesieth."

" Six score years,"

Added

Hollos, " and

" His ark

Ready

is filled

to float

more that same

all

with flood," Nashmurdrand joined.

They come on

from the north,

fleetest

rapid coursers

stifling

Upon

air

grown dense mankind

the giants to that central fane

Seek choking

On

preached."

with the domestic beasts

Whilst these they told the

And

is

east,

south and west

dromedaries, some

then from out the sea

vapour crept and drove the brutes

the rear of the assembling world;

Behind the

last the sloths

Big elephants

(their

bones

huge

as are

now

to us remain,)

Urging from the circumference send in

[1130

347

IN HELL.
Disorder, tribe on tribe crushing the one

The

other soon the universal whole

Tumultuous labour stormy

The

and

1140

fro,

agitation unto violence grows,

The megatheria and

With angry

And

to

others rush

snort their predeceders o'er

brutes of blood feline wide open

A torrent roar,

so multitudes

mouthed

down-trod

Imploring shouts raising contention make,

Then prematurely soon

No moon

arose,

no

star

the sun he set

;

a meteor blue

Irregularly flashing through the dark

Swum.

1150

Then

the Rephaims to the council came

Enquiring, they to Lucifer in turn

With

iteration

through the tedious night

may be

'Till

dawn'd the day

And

in the north a comet dread to see

Hast'ning

And
His

if

day

it

then the star-gazers

tables brought,
altitude

and

and what

declination,

all their rules

his

motion was,

law

Assign'd sure calculating to the

last

Infinitessimal for

what they

Affection

noon the sickly sun

at the

called,

called

l(>0

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

348

Gone down with

that mix'd meteor the night

Again began.

The wizards now

Unto

And

their orgies

resort

and blaspheming

rites,

with collective force their wither'd hands

With

incantations flung the comet drew,

Whilst some by madness driven unto the shrine

Of Zamiel

With
The

rush,

these when the leaders see

rage possest upon them falling some

brains dash out, others they throttle, some

In twain they rend and spattering

Thus devastated they

Craped sun endur'd

outcast,

as long the third

not

long.

A
From

sock or sigh

out the ocean came, the water-sprites

Wond'ring the how, and Earth advent'ring

From

And

1170

the deep bottom to his fane

made

forth

haste

whisper'd Lucifer, " Didst thou hear that?"

More wrinkled

she than the Cumsean

who

1180

Brought Tarquin books the Arch-condemner caught

And

crush'd Earth so unto his chest that out

She shriek'd and from her

Upon
First

the altar

saw and,

fell

womb

Beelzebub

that aged crone

boldest, cried, "

god

a god


349

IN HELL.

With

And

that he seiz'd her in his freckled

brought her

to his

mouth

paws

the gastrics, the

Saliva from the all-abounding glands

Her soon
Like

As

enchyl'd but in her skull a

That

long night.

painted with the units better done.

fires

fifth

more dismal day whilst yet

beneath the

sacrifices

smoked

The ocean belching shed uncounted

Hideous

when

sorc'rers join'd

unto the Rephaims called

the earth

as short

it

was by cunning

spells

counter-forces from the planets won,

Impulsive flow'd

They gathered

common heap

after

of dead and in the midst

Fire-generating-Beelzebub

Shower'd sparks

enthroned,

afar.

Then Shreesh

And

1200

thereupon a high and angry wave

Shock-broken though

And

crabs

the sun the zenith reached

Imperiously, he stopp'd

And

mankind

the sun appear'd in gleer

Towards the

The

1190

with frantic joy

o'er their rituals the third

Now when
Were

cast

the sorc'rers seize, and with the charm

all

Spend

The

was found which up he

to a toad's

indigestible

gem

eat, "

The cursed

earth

is

a heart tore out

nigh an end,"

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

350

Cried she, and hurrying to her call there came

From
As

out an adytum of which she long

the chief-priestess kept the guarding key

(The doors flung open,) monsters

Nor man nor

flesh

and blood

brute, nor spirit gender'd but

Of

all

To

reptiles e'en

through

all

the triune opposites

and

fishes,

corm 'rants, bats

Uglier than the Manillan, Strypian ouphs,

Hybrids descriptionless, and devils damned

On

mares begotten, lynxes, unicorns,

And

lionesses, beasts that

And some had

Some

220

marshes haunt

web-like hands, and talons, nails,

leprous pats from the chelonians got,

Club-footed some whilst some the hoof divide

From two

proceeding on to twelve rank claws,

And some

there were preponderated

Like

men

Whether

they spoke their parts inferior grown

to scales or

Or terminating

And

men

plumes pinnated both,

in a draco's base

there were elephant-begotten, and

Of camelopardes, and behemoth

"Which

at the

bottoms of deep rivers

Crustaceans too the heads of

women

live,

joined

Into their dermals yet with bearded chins

And

language like a man's, and gelid shapes

1230

351

IN HELL.

As

half

humane

The mouth

And

tentaculars for arms

the only fundamental vent

green, and speckled, yellow, black, and red

And up themselves they toss'd, and down they tossed,

[1240

Bray'd, squeak'd, and yell'd, and mov'd, and mop'd, and

And

other ictions odd to see and hear

Never conceiv'd

[manned,

and these would prey, mankind

Selecting some the old, the tender

young

Others, some male, some female, some affect

The brown,

the

fair,

the

Caprices were indulg'd

With

tall,

the short such crooked

and one

a snake

a most lovely face and fleecy hair

Like Berenice's, nursling she would have,

One

at the mother's breast,

embracing both

Curling around with gusto then she laved

Her

lips in their

And some

warm blood

there were

who

the flesh reject'd

feasting

made on

Obscene baboons, lemurs, and such

As

evets have with stings

And some
Then

putridities

all

1250

vile

and prickles

most noisome

the wizards expedited

apes,

broods

full,

eat.

round

Close ringing, and with voice as with the sun

They

fix'd the

So that the

comet in impetuous course

tail recalcitrating

Reaching the earth and

it

swung

so surely

swept

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With
For

dankest danger that mankind looked

fear they died, but yet they died not.

Then
In a disorder'd train

Or worse stung

all

with grief

as if

the Sins of

Appear'd innumerable,

all

the world

the lights

all

Extinguishing with their unhallowed hands

So when the excommunicated go

To Tophet

all

the tapers are put out

But Earth pride-swollen

With
But

it

all

amongst them rushed 1270

still

the witches to arrest that

was done, and up the

Like swamp-born meteors

The middle

A shower of
Then one

air collapsing

flesh

work

spectrals passed

soon as e'er they reached

down they

and blood on

all

fell

below.

rush'd forward in the garish which

Came

forth of that great temple, others eke,

Upon

the sorcerers they

fall,

their things

Unholy, smoking censors, cauldrons,

Prongs, shovels, glassy masks

The aura they would

Of sun nor moon

And up
Wide

oft

distil,

spats,

protective from

from neither light

down

these they dash

the tow'ring tiers of steps the vast

measur'd portals reach

Call'd the incarnate fiends

then Lucifer

from land, from

sea,

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353

IN HELL.

Above, beneath they hungry slaught'ring came

So, then

thought he as Chaos in the heaven

For us did

now

lose

A lesser battle

sure he comes to gain

Chaos was

that star

Reported was himself in search of Night

Eemember'd well

that day

External heaven surviv'd

Was

all for his

Inconsolable

Might course

when God

1290

up

lit

what thought he thought

co-mate, her loss he cursed

soon therefore as he

at choice

he cours'd the voidy blank

Searching and in his range falling on hell

Found

it

in uproar

Of whom
Swoln out

but one guarded there

too well he

to full proportion

Grown monstrously

And Death

Made,

Which was

a meteor thence

of:

he

all

those same socks

she

o'erspread

w hich Earth alarmed.

T

from that portentous

fell,

his real

devil squeezed forth

the carnivora

star

Cyclopean eye he saw

;

but when they came

The Adamites and Rephadms on

And

1300

the system of this globe

in a gen'ral fog

He utter'd
And when
The

'till

him by Sin

unto Chaos he

Swore Night he knew not

Wing'd Chaos

upon man

millions to

deliver'd

Worm

knew Th' Undying

upon them

all

their chiefs

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

354

More

jealous

Another

he

inspire them, then his singulars

t'

the apex he

with concussion so tremendous that

The deeps

that

God

out the waters

As up
In

better than

down upon

Collecting

And

as apprehensive that

all inspir'd

Could hope

Came

still

th'

all his

Upon

himself had barr'd were burst

won

nor stopp'd he there

abysmals leap'd down, down again

ponderosity he drove

the drowning races whilst from heaven

His latencies in rainy torrents

Circumfluent over

all

1320

fall

a pluvial shroud.

Thus on the earth delugal vengeance came,

And
Nor

all

the fTrmarnental clouds dissolved

intermitted

As through

were told

his course,

and

forty nights

rains in cataracts continual

Upon
The

the earth

hills

And
Of

forty days

the liquid pall the sun appeared

Apparent in

The

then

all

come

the rising hills

were cover'd and the mountain heights,

all flesh

moved

died that on the earth had

fowl, of cattle, beast,

man

whom

and creeping thing,

And

every

Was

to his nostril died;

The

righteous Noe, son of Lantech, son

in

the breath of

life

but one remained

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IN HELL.

Of

old Mathusalah, of

Who
Of

walk'd with God,) the son, that

of Enos, he the son

Of Seth appointed

Whom
Of

Henoch son

Jared, son of Malaleel, the son

Of Cainan, son

His

Henoch (him

in

good Abel's stead

Cain had smote

sons, their wives,

with

and

all

Noe

too his wife,

with them they took

every living thing appoint of God.

A A

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VIII.

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God's covenant with Noe, his
history

of

confronts.

folly

The

general

The Messiah whom

Lucifer

and curse of Cham.

mankind unto the advent

Lucifer's return to Hell.

of

The Temptation, and death

our Blessed Lord.

Time

the seventh and part of the eighth day.

of

BOOK

Like dreamer through whose

An
The

evil spirit to the

fervid brain

chased

realms beyond

the narrow isthmus upon which

stands be earth and the good angel his

Discern'd returning, I

So long in shades

the whilst I plunged

historic

doubting

Therein contain'd and horrified at

I found save

all

all

Thee before invok'd constant

Keligion! poring o'er thy

Our

is

precincts of his being doubtful long

Whether

He

VIII.

Book

of books

certain safeguard, safer than the clue

Minos's daughter to her lover gave

When in the labyrinth the minotaur

He sought and khTd if unto mortal
:

sight

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The mystery

of heaven, of earth, and hell

I bravely charge to thee I grateful raise

The

my

voice

The dragon
Stab mortal

patroness

and in the

forth to day

and

we drag

such space

light

immortal he

if yet

Live on his wounds shall incapacitate

Him much
Numbers

my

and

20

example others urge,

repriev'd from his devouring jaws

Terrible this, long time the ends of earth

Paying tribute of
His

their best to satiate

appetite, so propagating death

And woe

throughout

Come unto

this the

Past utt'rance

generations that

all

Holy

is retir'd

Spirit grieved

thou hast shown

as

Thus from the heavenly heights Jehovah hurled

Him

and

and man creating

his hosts

whom %

Pervert by

30

if

So as in heaven the earth,

Plausible, change this Arch-advent'rer wrought,

And what

is

man ] who

Of him whom
Adoring

Device of

sceptic

Thee

The

all

dareth question

the hierarchies serve

evil is

not surely by

God

the

why

Holy

Spirit ask

He

permitted %

all things, this

brighter in

make

shall

show

that hence Jehovah shines

The Son

-hail

Thou

who

mad'st

361

IN HELL.

The heavens,

the earth, and in the flesh descended'st 40

For our salvation

My

heart whilst

now

within

upward Faith

Spangled with countless

Thy

stars

me

burns

directing, lo

Thy Throne, O God

servant seeth, the blue infinity

Vaulted with the similitude of Wings

We celebrated quivering o'er the world

O

cherubim,

Ye

seraphim, and

finitudes of heavenly time

all

and space

Continually worshipping the highest,

All ye bright angels that confess

Although immeasurably

From

Him King

50

far exiled

the expression of His Imag'd Light

God's Excellency I on earth as ye

In the Elysium devout adore.

Thus

all

the aqueous

humours met conjunct

Drowning the world, the

sanctities

Pale with surprise around

th'

on high

Eternal Throne

Collecting, save the guardians gracious

God

Appointed unto Noe in armoury

Of

shield

Or

all attack' d

and mail and spear

him now

Successful thus so

far,

if

so rash

any fiend

were they

expatiating

Over the waters a triumphant crew,

And

chiefly

him the dread degen'rate

Prince.

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God's great Abhorrer, he advent'ring sought

That

latest

Irrevocable

hope of the

lost

world to whelm

proud, alone, with rage

Prodigious on swept he tornadoes in

His

fiery

path

so a black cloud drives

'Gainst perpendicular mountains

Thund'ring and lightning

Fusing

blank

broken down

TO

Lucifer confus'd

to fires intolerably bright,

Vomiting smoke such match was

his

though no

Archangel, nor Jehovah (bless'd His Name,)

But One

Of

very

co-equal, co-eternal,

God

to

Son

him unknown, nor then

Seen but with an immedicable wound

Encounter'd and such shock he inward groaned

In

spirit, fleeing,

Nor whither
Shudd'ring

how no

in his

notice needs

wake

his potent fiends

so 'cross the Steppes the

80

Turcomans

Before a Christian Power, a battle gained

Over

their

bashaw

the incredlous chief

Best-mounted foremost

West Indian
As

conquer'd

or stark cannibals

ne'er before, nor that

Craving to meet

Where
Under

Death

stretch of

enow
to the

his

wing was

want

bottoms sought

lay the Nephilim interr'd alive

the

his

cumbent waters thunderstruck

363

IN HELL.

Chaos behind the

With'ring

90

last all his thick lips

so black

snow-storms driven afar

South from high Himmala the red simoon

Melts.

Then

the deeps were stopp'd, the rain restrained,

The waters they

And

decreas'd continually

Ararat appear'd, floating thereby

A perfect ark divinely plann'd by Him

Who fram'd the worlds when forty days were
A window oped and forth came out a bird,
:

To him

gone

inquiringly a dove succeeds;

Again, seven days

Such time

gone she wings abroad

as the renew'd

Meridional shone

Days were

full

and glorious sun

yet other seven

when

elaps'd

100

the third time

came

forth

Earth dried.

Then Noe went, with him

his sons,

Their wives, and every beast and thing aforth

Building an altar

not as

is

described

In mythos of Deucalion asking grace

With Pyrrha
Burnt

off'ring to the

Accepting

And

of one Themis;

said, "

Lord

Noe took

Jehovah smell

Whilst earth remaineth seed

harvest- times, cold, heat, and day and night

Shall cease not."

And Jehovah

blessed Noe,

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364
His sons and

And

fill

said,

" Be

the earth, and

With you

fruitful, multiply,

I,

behold I make

a covenant, no more shall flood

;

Destroy you, this the token " in the heaven

Above the mountains there appear'd an Arch

Upbuilt from the horizon colour'd bright

120

shining Iris; " This the sign shall be,"

Said

God and Noe bowing

Call'd all his congregation

to the

ground

and from thence

Departing in the plains they pitch'd their

Long time

tents.

in this sojourn like paradise

If not so primitive yet fairer far

Than any
Or any

plot

Pomona owns

his to the

this day,

anemone turned

Recall'd for the disconsolated quean,

Or where umbrageous

figs in

Deccan spread

High-pillar'd roofs, long while with such slight

As

serves the day

and

sanctifies the

That family admonish'd, angels

Upon

On

even

oft

the slanting sunbeams gliding

down

wings of gladness borne with speed along

As once

to

Eden from

their skiey court

This was the age which Ovid

Calls golden, unto

him

following Writ,

of Shinaar

shown

In image with the honour'd head of gold,

130
toil


365

IX HELL.

With
Still

ill-join" d feet

when one

Amono-st them

knew

From

while.'"

"

O how

I abhorred

came

Appear"d

to

how

"till

though of heaven

said she. "for

to rifle

I shudder " then she

Inconsolable

-one

and how the rebels sought

Of

were

they were yet well I also

hell they

Telling

forlorn

after the ling ring other

gain'd her graces

Myself the

how

left 'till all, alas

Into the heavens

140

dead, yet often Earth would sweetly smile

felt

And

to seed

daughter Cidli from

fair

Relating to her tut'lars

She

though her flowers

ran and Earth was solemn like one rose

Like Jairus's

The

for

wept

150

me, for what ?

so

the blessed

knew

many

tears

Bow

comfort her. and so resumed

that Corruption with the rage

famine, full of want against her gnashed

when One

no angel, drove him back

The

teeth

And

turn'd her eyes unto the pearly gate

Of "Judah" whence they came,

Cried she, " I plainly saw from

The

And

latest
left

guardian parted from

me

to

myself:

"

"

And O!

Eden

my

that gate"

'till

side

thus Earth, again

Renascent she.

Now husbandmen

were they,

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366

And when

autumnal mists prevail'd the grapes

Gath'ring from out the vineyard to the sieve

Consigned what with those the dews they'd caught

And humid
Noe he

airs

fermenting come to wine

and therewith

tasted

Immoderately drank

full

pleased

wiser he

170

The Thracian king who by the

roots uptore

The

fatal

vines from his dominions

More than the Maronean,

draught

or those draughts

Delicious Messalina mixing, or

Macrinus those who

Poison'd, or that

ignorant, quaff

'd

which Sisera of Jael

Unthinking took when he from Baruk

These

lost the life,

Unthinking Noe

were

but honour

for his

still

fled,

more dear

younger son

His nakedness perceiv'd: when Noe awoke

He

curs'd

Of

servants to his brethren."

saying, " Servant let

him

Cham

180
be

Then went Cham

Forth with his eldest Chus

And Chanaan
Of Chus

first

Saba, Hevila

Mesraim and Phuth,

the sons

and Sabtah, Regma, Sabtechah

And Regma's
The

sons

to

Chus was Nemrod who

from worship of the Living

Estray'd and

fell

man

of might

God

renowned

367

IN HELL.

He

was and

rul'd

Arach and Achad

Four

cities

from Babylon unto

south,

190

Chalanne the west,

strong entrench'd and wall'd about

But Babel most

and thence went Assur forth

Erecting Nineve, Chale, Resen,

And

Rehoboth.

Sais,

Memphis and

Mesraim

to

him was On,

the cities of the Nile.

The Phethrusim and Chasluhim they spread

The whole

sea-coast along

and Chanaan held

From Sidon unto Gaza, Lesa

to.

Lebahim, Naphtuhim went forth

Ananim

the Teinans, Lybians theirs.

east,

To Sem

200

to west,

are all the Ebers

Eber got

Phaleg and Jectan, these their dwelling had

From Messa
To

to that

mountain Sehar

Japhet, Gomer, Magog, Madai,

Javan, Thubal, Mosoch, and Thiras

Had Gomer
Javan

all

Go

let

Nemrod

force of

will

to that

But some

his obtained

numbers; "Go!"

us build a tower

Where we
Then

Chettim and

the Isles they held.

usurpations:

From Sem by
"

sons

Ascenaz, Rephath, Thogarm.

Elisa, Tharshish,

Dodonim

Were

called.

honour

work they

2t0
said he,

a temple high

whom we
set

lo

honour

where

will,"

this

day

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On

Sennaar's plain the Mulijebe

Mountainous ruin

lies

whilst the builders wrought

Euphrates from his wonted river-bed

Driven by a furious wind statues of gold

Therein were found upon the grandest graven
"

Typhon! our King, Conservator, and Lord."

220

This with solemnity a god they called

Placing

in the yet unfinish'd fane,

it

But some from that

The

many thought

total idols to erect, thus fierce

Arguing together

And

dissented,

off to build

they

left

scattering abroad, in his old age

Nemrod's

Now

state-politic to pieces fell.

these the generations are of

Arphaxad,

Sala,

Heber, Phaleg, Eeu,

Terah who begot

Sarug, and Nachor.

The

faithful

Had

said,

"

Sem

Abram
From

230

unto him the Lord

out thy

Land thy kindred

go,

In thee the kingdoms of the earth are blessed."

Now
Were
Athos,

his descendants in the course of time

sore oppress'd in Egypt, to

Isis,

Taphne,

Serapis, Anubis,

Thoth, Cynocephalus, Osiris their

False goddesses and gods with various shapes

Of hawks, and

crocodiles, cats,

monkeys,

bulls,

369

IN HELL.

Building

Together

then Moses rose and Israel called

unto Pharoa present come

His brother Aaron on the ground

Casting

it

240

his rod

turn'd a serpent, others cast

Their rods of divination and they turned

But Aaron's swallow'd

To blood
Then

came up,

frogs

this

stretch'd

grew

insects

do

and dust in man and beast

this the

Jannes he performed

magicians tried

then grievous swarm of

In vain

to

Arose

and on the morrow

Died

Smote

boil
all

all

all their

and blain too came, and

the

The plague
Then

then Moses smote

the waters, this did Jambres too

Next Aaron

To

all

Land

save

of locusts

the first-born

Goshen

250

flies

beasts
hail

and

fire

next there came

darkness next three days

fell,

unto the throne

E'en from the dungeon, and at midnight cry

Mighty was heard proud Pharoa

From

these

my people

Israel

crying, "

Go!

begone!"

So spoiling the ^Egyptians, Joseph's bones

Took, they to Succoth journey'd.

Thence they camped

In Etham on the wilderness, a Cloud

From heaven by day and

Guiding them on

His chariot and

in

pillar'd Fire

by night

then Pharoa ready made

arms pursued unto

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Phihairoth the sea beside, but o'er

The waters Moses

wind dividing right

strong and burning

And

left

with Israel pass'd

After, but in the

From

hand and by

stretched his

th'

^Egyptians haste

watch of morn God looked

out that Cloud upon them, and the sea

270

Returning back Busiris was o'erthrown.

Thence

and thence

to the wilderness of Sur,

To Mara, Elim, thence

to Sin

where God

camp with

quails

and manna rained.

Cover'd the

In Raphidim they pitch'd where Amalek

"Was sore discomfited

" For I of

Put

"Write!"

Amalec remembrance

utter out

will

from generation I

To generation war with him

Thence next in Sinai

And

said the Lord,

will have."

o'er against the

Mount

there in thunder, lightning, and in cloud,

With trump

so that

it

Commandments gave

quak'd and smok'd the Lord

and then

as

Moses went

Into the tabernacle, then the Lord

Talk'd with him as a friend, and Moses said

"

Thy

glory let

me

see

"

Jehovah, " I

Let Glory pass before thee but

No man

My

Face

can see."

To Pharan

next, lusting

280

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IN HELL.

'Mongst them burnt

fire at

At Kibroth-Hattavah

And Pharan

Taberah, and plague

290

from Hazeroth

they saw Canaan

thence to Zin,

Thence Kadesh, and upon mount Hor beside

Edom

died Aaron.

Arad they destroyed

And

all his cities

then were serpents sent

Because they murmur'd.

In Oboth they pitched

In Ije-ab'rim, Zared next, and thence

In Arnon wherefore

What God
Of Arnon

Down

in the

" Behold

it is said,

Red Sea and

in the brooks

300

and in the stream that goeth

did,

to the dwelling

Ar

lying upon

Moab."
Thence unto Beer,

to

Mattana,

Mahaliel, Banoth, and at Jasa

Fought Sehon and was smit

From

the Amorites

Jazer they drove out, and

Of Basan

Og

the king

slew.

Baal-peor be named,

The

plains of

Moab

" 'Venge the Lord

Of Midian," and they smote

avenge

the kings Evi,

Eecem, Sur, Rebe, Hur, and Balaam put

Unto the sword.

Then

to the

b b 2

mount Nebo

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372

Went

Moses, to the top of Phasgo, o'er

Then spake

'Gainst Jericho and died.

To

the Lord

Joshua, "Rise!" and Joshua arose

Bringing the Ark of Covenant the Lord

And

Israel

between

to

Jordan (whence

Ocean-Empress thy most princely heir

Receiv'd baptism,) and

when

those

who

bare

Dipp'd in the waters they heap'd back, so

Pass'd

in Gilgal are the memorial stones

Then Joshua took

Goshen,

the Land, the

vale, plain,

Mount Halak going

hills,

320

all
:

the south,

and mount, and valley

to Seir

to

and Baal-gad.

Joshua dying Judah succeeded,

he

In Bezek fought, Jerusalem he took.

Then

rose a generation

To Baal

turn'd,

who from God

and Ashtaroth

Othniel

Arose, and Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah

The

prophetess, and Gideon after

Abimeleck

to

whom

Coming he died

an

him

evil Spirit

Toba, and

Jair,

Tola

Succeed, and then to Bethlehem- Judah came

With one Naomi, Ruth

a convert

whom

Boaz wedded.

Next

Jair

was judge, Jephtha,

Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, Sampson

who

loved

330

373

IN HELL.

And

suffer'd for Delilah

Then Samuel

340

Eli next

him they asked

arose, of

A king, and he anointed Saul who fought

And Am alec subdued but Agag spared
He

of the witch requested, " Bring the dead,"

She crying loud exclaim'd " I gods behold

Ascending from the earth, one cometh up
;

Cloth'd with a mantle " then said he to Saul

"

Why

hast thou

me

disquieted to raise

Next David reigned

in

O'er Israel in Jerus'lem

Succeeding

Hebron, afterwards

Solomon

350

now from Tyre Hiram

the king

His envoys sent and Solomon return'd,

"

Thou Hiram knowest

Unto the Lord

that our father

God an house

his

to build

And

thou

And

all

And

people brought the tabernacle and

command

meant

thus was the temple built,

"

the elders, heads of tribes, and priests,

The Ark

into the

Filling

with his glory

it

To Milcomb

Holy

place, the
;

Lord

yet this king

the abomination of

Ammon, and Chemosh

360

Moab's, and unto

Moloch bow'd down.

Then Rehoboam reigned

The kingdom

split

and Jeroboam

set

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374
In

Dan and

High

And

Bethel calves calling them gods,

places too Jerusalem profaned

groves on every

Them

Shiskah spoiled

hill, so

for the sin.

Next Rehoboam

reigned,

370

Nadab, Asa, Jehosaphat, Baasha,

And Elah

slain

by Zimri who seven days

Only maintain'd the throne

Ornri succeeds,

Ahaz, and Ahaziah, Jehoram,

Joram

(Elisha in

his time rais'd

The Shunamite her

up

son,) then reign'd Jehu,

Next Ahaziah, Jehoaz, and next

Athalia

slain,

Jehoash, Amaziah,

Azariah, Jeroboam, Zachariah,

Shallum one month, Menahem, Pekahiah,

And Pekah

Them

in

whose reign Assyria led

380

captive.

Over Judah Jotham, and

Ahaz

Hosea Shalmaneser

served,

For then the Lord rejected

Israel,

Had

sinn'd against

And

idols worshipp'd

Him, covenants

divinations

Themselves

despised,

with the shining hosts

Of heaven, and through

Used

they

the

fire their

children passed,

and enchantments, sold

to evil in

His holy

sight,

375

IN HELL.
Therefore remov'd they were not one was

Save Judah only

men from Babel

left

390

brought,

From Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, Sepharvaim

Filled their

cities.

Then Sennacherib
'Gainst

Hezekiah warr'd, but he returned

In shame

Amon,

to

Nineve.

Josiah

who

Manasseh next,

the idols brake,

Their groves and altars and their priests put down,

Denied Tophet, and the bones of men

From

400

out the sepulchres at Bethel burned

Moreover those that with familiars worked

The wizards and

Away

as

the Teraphim he put

most abominable.

Next
Jehoahaz, and Eliakim

By Pharoa-necho

named

Jehoiakim went

Captive to Babylon and in his stead

Reign'd Mattaniah in whose day was broke

Jerusalem

And

the temple of the Lord,

every house and

all

the walls were razed:

So Judah captive was, carried away

Full threescore years and ten.

The Persian

thou

410


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376
Proclaim'd, "

The Lord

of heaven to

All kingdoms of the earth, and

That

at

Unto

Him who

He

Then

amongst you Judah

let

will,

them

and Levites, and with them

spirit

God had

rais'd, these

all

those

420

strengthen'd were

precious things, the vessels of the Lord

Which

to his

gods Nebuchadnezzar gave,

Chargers of gold and

Basins,

silver,

and vases Cyrus

ornate knives,

all restored,

So up went they and to the temple

Jeshua

The bad

rul'd,

set.

Jehoiakim, and next

Eliashib, Judas, then

John

in the sacred court his brother killed

Jaddus came next

Also the Syrians

but Misraim them oppressed

when iEgypt

failed

Until Antiochus the sanctuary

Polluted

King

go."

rose the chiefs of Judah, Benjamin,

Whose

Who

hath given

Jerusalem an house be built

priests

With

me

hath charged

Go, build, your God be with you:

The

then the Maccabees arose

Aristobulus, to

him succeeds

Next Alexander, then Salome, next

Proud Aristobulus

Roma

aroused

Great Pompey took Jerusalem, profaned

430

377

IN HELL.
oft-profaned temple and reduced

The

Judah

to servitude,

but in the end

Herod the Edomite

arose

440

and reigned.

Thus were the prophets whom Jehovah

(They persecuted

all

sent

and many slew,)

Most righteously aveng'd from Moses down,

Asaph and Samuel, and Shemiah, and

Iddo, Ahijah, Azariah, and

Jehu, Hanani, and Elijah

Up

into

heaven

caught

Elisha, Joel,

and

Hosea, Amos, Michajah, and him

Who

prophesied of

Edom

Obadiah,

Habakkuk, Jonah, and Isaiah

Invoking heaven and earth

An

ear

450

to give his

words

Michah, Haggai, Malachi,

Nahum, and he who lamentation made

44

that

mine head were waters and mine eyes

Fountains of tears that I both day and night

Might weep

for this

my

people " Daniel, and

Ezekiel, Zachary, and Zephaniah.

Elsewhere mankind were equally corrupt,

Assyria wide had stretch'd her lusty arms

North

The

to

Armenia, east unto the Mede

Perse,

and even unto Ind she reached

This symbolizing

God

square altars cut,

4oO

378

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

Fire from the sun enkindled and adored

Mithras the great light-giver

then magi

Eastward arose who thought in

Other

The

they saw

passing from
taught Belus ador'd upon

divinities

abstract,

stars

and

The tower which Nemrod

built

from that great height

Watching, or in Chaldee the cloudless

The

skies,

constellations they as gods bespoke

beautiful and excellent,

Caherman the resemblance in the

470

As Peri

And Tahmuraz the

The

sender,

Oramuz

The Demruth-dive
To

change, or Ahriman
concealer, with

outcast of fulgent heaven

these she hew'd her pillars, victims brought,

Mingled her wines, and paid her

Believing

So decking with

And

foolish voavs

the diviners of the spheres,

Star-gazers, aged seers, her

bed of power

fine linen, tapestry,

others that to her the Nations sought

Her head

Were
Of

fire,

a harlot

lift

beside

all

these

representee shrines
forms, Nergal the
and

Succoth-benoth

astral

Gilgal,

circle,

Ashimah, Tartac, and the gods

Of Sepharvaim

Ninus

o'er

them

Semiramis, and Sardanapalus

ruled,

480

379

IN HELL.

The

last

against the rampant lion with

Great eagle wings Arbaces warr'd and

won

And

thence three kingdoms came, the Median

And

those which Nineve and Babel

Own'd

for their capitals

490

still

Cyaxares

Joining Nabopolassar Nineve

O'erthrew.

Then Evil-merodoch, and next

Neriglissar, Laborosoarchod,

Belshazzar last the Babylonians ruled,

Famous
The

he

is

for

candlestick

God's handwriting

o'er

upon the wall observed,

His count'nance chang'd, troubled his thoughts; the joints

Even of

his loins

were loosen'd, and his knees

Smote one another.

The Perse

allied

Then

the Medians with

and Lydia, unto

Darius fallen iEgyptia

Gods met

500

above them

all

the false

all

the prophet paints,

raging bear three ribs within his teeth

Was

Chosroes god.

Then Japetus sprung up

In younger Amnion Macedonian born,

His symbol was a leopard with four heads

Four wings unto him representing Perse

Assyrian, Mede, and Grsecian over

He

sate enthron'd

this the false

whom

worship brought

510

380

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

Of gods made human

With

gross and bestial some

oracles ambiguous,

Pharmacus,

And

from the covert caves Trophonian

And

Eleusina

Helios he brought,

Autopsia, Demiurgus,

And him

Cneph

the winged,

of Khamnes, with the routous

mob

That follow'd the Napeans liquor-mad,

Transforming those who saw
Fiends like themselves

to beasts or

and some

worse

infernals

Furies gaunt-blue, wrath-throed shades, of

Dramatic authors wrote

520

were

whom

some of the sea

Troops which our credulous have mermaids called

Japetus feign'd the muses, not

Mnemosyne

their

thou

mother heretofore

Invok'd nor vain, nor thee Urania, nor

Calliope I
Is yours

Than

call, far

other Spring

and Mount than Cytheron, more famed

the Phocean, but the muses which

Hesiod and Pindar sung, and those playwrights

With mask

of Thalia or the tragic, draw,

Theocritus, Euripides, ^Eschyle,

Or Aristophanes

Bear witness none

Religion

Faith

like these our sacred task

Affect.

Then came

the Itoman to the clang

530

381

IN HELL.

Of arms

By

invincible

no banner his

princesses within their

In the cool evening by

To

soft

harems wrought
purling founts

540

dulcet symphonies, poetic sounds.

And
But

incens'd airs that paradise might blow,

his

was pictur'd

terrible a beast

Exceeding strong with iron teeth with which

Devouring he in pieces brake and stamped

The

residue beneath his feet

Were

his

Kings

and
too

all

ten horns

the world unto

him

fell.

had been Phoenician, Ehodian, and

Kings on the Coasts

Amenophis

in line

At Elephanta

rear'd

the Shepherd-kings had ruled

Memnon
:

that fane

550

great Ecbatan

Dejoces built his capital; Phraote

Succeeding then Cyaxares, and him

Ahasuerus grandsire unto one

That conquer'd Croesus

Another

capital city,

The Lydian
Or Ganges

The

aveng'd.

roll their

he

to Sardis fled

Tomyris
Beyond where Ind
empires yet survive

lapse of ages, Ava, the Chinese;

Whilst history King Evechous records,

Calca, and Crete,

Sylvanus rul'd

and Alba-longa where

great polities there were

560

From Barbary unto

the Guinea-gulf,

thence below the tropic, and beyond

The wide
The

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

382

And

Atlantic where the Laurence now,

La

Mississippi, or

Plata sweep,

All rul'd by khans, and emperors, moguls,

Or

kings, czars, sultauns, yncas, noble heads

Boasting the idols shown.

Thus was the world

From

unity of faith together gone,

Philosophy at

One

570

meridian scarce

its

feeble ray emitting

At Athens,

the fortuitous concourse

Of atoms by Democritus
At Rome

dialect

she taught,

the genius of Cicero

Could nothing add

truth she pronounc'd was quite

Quite unattainable, and virtue quite

Impracticable,

The

all

the world from out

chalices of Epicurus

drunk

Unbridled the licentiousness

Enshrin'd in their recesses,
Sapient

made

Religion

to

all

580
Vice

the throng

haste to cede the temples of

under sorcery of Sense

Sense guided

all

Leading into the

In honour to

the world, the blind the blind

ditch, secular

th' Infernals oft

games

observed

383

IN HELL.

That

left

the Saturnalia far behind

They knew not God,

The

His

clients

What
Of

see Socrates they call

wisest sacrificing

And what he

now

590

Plato sought

found describ'd so

even

or well

ill

the question ask

Aristotle reason'd dry

is it 1

nat'rals in a square following the eye

As some

Can nothing
For

who through outward

yet follow

concrete catch

his metempsychosis

Pythagoras

Ennius had

To

verify that once a chanticleer

He

really

Amongst

was

and Aristippus

the libertines a famous

Draco gave laws, and

if

things

still

name

600

they Solon boast

For that he made approximation

to

God's pandects promulgated centuries

Before from Oreb,

kings therein

shall find

Their copy, and their subjects what their rule.

Senates instruction, magistrates command,

Witnesses warning

there the jury are

Requir'd to give true verdict, and the judge

Is furnish'd

with the sentence; weddings there

Alone are well

The husband,
The

610

directed, as the lord

as the mistress o'er the

wife divinely

set,

house

how'? both are taught,

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

384

And what
They

of their first-born

and the orphans introduce

order,

Unto a heavenly

father

All error, and can

"What record

Hath

for burials

make

they detect
the foolish wise

like Bereashith

so sublime

beginning

what book

from the cares

Of government unbending unto

The Grsecian sage
Most

perfect

in

Tadmor

here antiquities

Most wonderful

and

Inspir'd

we

The Bible

620

turn'd as the
!

events

which

O Queen

chaunt, or of heroic deeds

Book

that

so of others

Record the wars unparallel'd,

of books to mvsteries

Profound, for doctors the directory,

Galen therein were

exercis'd, the best

Arithmeticians and astronomers

And

here mechanics,

Invaluable
Its

own

artists lessons

unto ignorant

learn

men

630

interpreter for dictionary

The Bible

stands, authenticated

The world

Was made

through

the Covenant the best that e'er

the

Deed

that e'er

was sign'd

and the

Best Testament that ever yet was sealed

Nor

all

the odes through the Olympiads sung

Compare with those they tun'd on

Zion's hill,

SS5

IN HELL.

The

lying sophists tun'd

and

for the rest

Most famous, what Demosthenes when stripped

Of

his high-sounding

words

or he

who wrote

640

That orator and augur ? who Calcas

And Mopsus

in his equal folly scorned

Nor Livy mourning

o'er Lucretia,

nor

Sanconiatho, Lysias, Sallust,

Quintius Curtius, Tacitus, Plutarch,

Gellius, Juvenal, Nicander, nor

Lactantius,

Xenophon, Thucydides,

Apollodorus, Statius, nor yet

Seneca best of moralists compare

To our God-gifted

nor their patriots,

Those the most vaunted died

650

for praise of

men,

Others in Jewry died despising that

For praise of God who seeth in

Before

But

th'

assembled angels he rewards.

what pen the matter may

We now

approach

I sung, Religion

In the

Thou

though

secret

still

as

what

was

my

though with archangel's tongue

to

me by

night

watches when the world

tellest, all

Rapt up

indite

's

asleep

soul therewith entranced

th' apostle to

the seventh

Recepting heaven, the Holy Spirit in

His arms embracing me,

though thus
c c

I sung,

660

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

386

Dipping

The

plume

this

in firmamental tints

some Syrian height

purest, such as from

When

vesper warns the young monastic

Scarce

how

By

Eloa,

Were

all

and

feel,

O now

infinitely short

express what in the depth of heart

t'

O Thou God

to

With man

They prophesied

He

went

Deliv'rer,

God

O Thou
that

Restorer

Thou

comes

He

And

down

Gabriel,

Hail Mary

They

comes
;

gifts,

come

and be

God on

Messias from the heavens

The Virgin

blest,"

and

high, she bears

Him

Strike high the lyre

!

680

gave,

lutes,

The

Son,

ye eastern kings adore

ye

who watch'd your

night and heard us say,

Daughter of Zion

strike high,

the salutation, " Hail,

who

adore

long (to us,)

attending seraphs sing

Peace, peace on earth

With

of David's seed

sing to sounding dulcimers

" Glory to

670

the serpent's head

flesh according to should'st

(Immac'late)

By

guilty he

who

incorp'rate,

Should'st crush

know.

Jehovah spake

Adam when

Outcast of Eden, Thee

The

Effluent

the golden string

Of Thee

and propped

for prayer to sacrifice,

how

knows

thy

'

good will

King

flocks

to men.'

Salem

comely make thy cheeks

comes,

Of

silver

Take

Be

and upon thy neck

of jewels,

Put chains of

387

BELL

L\

With rows

and studs

gold, borders of gold

690

take unto thee, spikenard, myrrh

thou

for thy well-Beloved, so shalt

as the carnphire cluster 'midst the vines

Of sweet En-gedi

Than wine

he

better

saith.

is

his love

Rise up

my

ram

love and come,

For

lo

The

flowers appear, the singing birds

Of

the winter

*s

past, the

gone,

is

the voice

turtles they are heard, the fig-tree forth

Putteth green

my

my

O my

sweet dove

love

And

sacred

And

let

me

the vines the tender grape

figs,

Arise

stairs,

fair

one come away

hid in the rocky

700

clefts.

thy count nance let

hear thy voice for sweet

Thy count nance

me

see.

it is,

comely.'"

Thou Prince

Thou Lord
Of

of Light

and Love

the bless'd Virgin, Shiloh

when

Thy

tear-

And

heard that cry

Pain'd

at

first this

as

mortal

Adam's

the birth, and

all

born very

man

have seen
life

thou breathedst.

offspring ciy

the agony

felt

That smote Thy Wondrous Being when our

Adulterated gross by

sin.

Thick ning and hurtful

of Peace

airs

Thou drewest

to the

heavenly lung.
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388

Muse
To

He

Lord of Worlds, the

the

psaltery

angels and the souls of the redeemed,

Return

Scarce born

when

at

His

feet

One

stood

Reflecting speechless, nor incontinent

His eyes

like fire, a fire as opposite

Kindling the Arch-arraigner

His arrogants around

Of heaven,

flash'd confessed

thus there the Bane

of earth confronting

God The Son

Was found then from the Godhead answer

An answer so tremendous that the fiends
Precipitately fled O Lion of
;

720

went

The

tribe of Judah, hail

the

Lord of the Living Might

un withstood

O Adam

once

Before the First that Depravated sped

But on a

back

diff'rent mission,

to hell,

Elated with a triumph promising

quick return

and often

in the times

Before the deluge painful check had he

From
But

To

Seth,

Henock and

palliated

hell

Knew

ill,)

730

others (which his gain

so that the road

from earth was beaten, and the gates

well their owner.

Than Adam and

Together, Christ

More than

Nowif Adam

more

the patriarchs combined

;

as if a second race

the Nephilim, or those that claimed

389

IN HELL.

The gods and goddesses

After the Flood,

More than

To

He

God had His

made

person

740

the Anarch's Match, august, divine.

hell full soon arriv'd to

Made he
So

progenitors

Night and Death

flaming with rage, rolling his eyes

fast that

whirlwinds rose about him as

hasted through

th'

innumerable hosts

That throng'd the passage, who were instant snatched

Up

and discharg'd upon the surging waves

In which the Adamites lay swelt'ring

With

a west

wind the plaguing

Into the vex'd

Red

Were

or

loaded

so

locusts driven

Sea, his wrinkled waves

when Aquilon

750

the pole

Arctic his barring continents of ice

Would

burst,

from the adjoining shores he sweeps

Rocks, pines, oaks, forests whole, launching them on

Over them

all his

frenzied eyeballs rolled

Firing their substance through and through until

Night actual white

for fear

Harrow'd and rooted

Outer Darkness

In time before he saw him

Of

his

Ever

between them stood

felt

the

fled

fall

sperm shadow worse than he had

before, great spectres nestled

Between

his warty

up

wings and holding on

Like two agreeing lupes upon the back

felt

760

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390

Of

a surprised lion grown too old

To shake them

Upon

off;

or like

two reddening fiends

a lost emaciated soul

first

adulterer

adulteress

Holding Hell's Empery your very names

"Were then forgotten

Pursues

When

" cried

that his

" Hell

Primordial

God

Lucifer and hardly cried

leman

recollecting

what

when His arrowy

Before she suffer'd

770

light

Drove on her from the gate of heaven, shriek'd out

So dread that Sin took glut and Death, and both
Fell

then keen-talon'd creatures

ghastly

stern

Swarthy of hue, by millions came forth

Out from

their frothing mouths,

Nor them

alone but heads and

Indescribable

these

had

flesh

and fought with hands

parts

all their

and bone

Electrum-like and harder than a stone,

And

Around was strown with

The crew

With

that Cozener

blastful airs

splinters

had

hell
lo

wild-like

far outsped,

a refuge there they sought

Thus panic-struck the whole

As

moment

they so fought that in a

terroriz'd in turn,

e'en Terror crouched

and drew his claws

Retractile in.

Then one who always had

780

391

IN HELL.

Access presented

As

Ruin

at the heel

they were loadstones, Fire-Etern brought up

Now

from a sparry hollow, sparkling

Woe

790

From

the same endless range, and Mystery

These

like great beasts upon the smell of blood,

Bellowed, so unbearable

To them appear'd

it all

the olden couch of Space

Upset, the winding-sheet Infinity

Bestow'd

And
At

fell off

into the

Dip profound

never more was seen

whilst all the Void

that dread uproar van'd, but Lucifer

Making

to Pride a sacrifice of self

800

Steeling his heart thrice o'er, his throned seat

Took, seating Night at his right hand

"
"

then thus.

Gods! gods!" but Night then interposing

To

Now

it

gods

see

God He

gods to

it

see

see to this Hell

pursues

now

God

Terror

add

see

Is fortified as if it

nothing were

Nine times be added, and

For Lucifer,

now

will

see

be here

Terror

now

to that a tenth

for I."

Then Terror seemed

Dim from

what

Fortification finish

to

cried,

infinitude of size

and went

Forth like the giant Jatmund, and a horn

81

:
;

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392

As long

from his latten lungs unto

as

His leaden

As

if

made blow

lips

with instant death to hear

The towers

turn'd black

all hell

all, all

of hell did reel, and leaning o'er

Like Carisenda

moment looked

for the

Typhon held up the head, Despair held up

As

if

That

too fierce to bear, so agonized

hell

820

was present doubly double sunk

The damn'd

set so to

And Pandemonium

work

" This First

!"

cried he,

huge before

so

So huge that in the lesser of the halls

The

had

billion billion reprobated

Space ample

for their thrones,

That Lucifer was

satisfied

God

now

look'd so small

God

Could never master that although

He

brought

All that was possible against the walls

Then

he.

"

Expressly

That
For

all

Gods

And

all

first

gods

's

from earth where objects cross

well- contradicting, so

mankind

that

to unities

good are

once before from

[830

reduced

easily a prey

God

this orb

we

tore

tearing the administration kept

Through generations

'till

the gen'ral flood

Unto the multitude before arrived

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IN HELL.

The

final

multitude perforce did add

Nor

Our monuments.

Of God's hath

earth

since that desp'rate turn

much

But unto us returned save

frankincense bestowed

840

in one

Confined spot, and there had he not wrought

Continual miracle himself to keep

In small remembrance that but piteous seemed

So long

as

madmen

prophesying died

(Witness the dotard

whom

the lion slew,)

Martyrs to that we always deem'd a

lie,

So at the length our power entirely taxed

Unto the uttermost we thought the

Of providence

eradicated,

roots

850

air,

and the land our own perpetual

Sea,

Ours

as is hell's

Our own,

all all

our

tit'lar is

fee

no more

those pleasaunces of balm,

Localizations, altars, idol shrines

Crowding that green domain

in jeopardy

If those sight-seers lunatics were not

He

He,

With

is

come by them

so oft foretold

stubborn iteration so that e'en

The heathen caught some promise

Incarnate man-like

we have

Jehovah God The Son, of

Was

come indeed

verily seen

whom

a noise

bruited once in heaven which none explained

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394

Inexplicable then, I palliate

Such stroke he strook

Taken

at

me

as ne'er in

war

and with might

at disadvantage

Mightiest had I before."

Adramelec,
All the nine chiefs start up crying aloud,

And

they

Was

nighest unto Lucifer that time

Ever

to

Of

Adramelec the worst

be remember'd

grace

ministers

his soul all o'er

how he reached

one continued wound and

Hell from the earth the wonder

Here," they

all cried

Then Death from

With

"Ye

870

defend us from that sight of his

Sore macerated shape

Was

he

as

nor said

the

a sardonic grin,

timid gods

"

benumbent

what then V

come

will

Aggressor,

th'

"What

He

rose

"Nay:"

and asked

then]" and

still

"Yea, what! what then 1"

Join'd a sub-regent, "

An hand

and

if to

Time

us the

to

left

both extends

with hell

Console with this that every wrong

Rack'd with continual doubt

for if

His most particular workmanship

Fell from

him what may we not

Down by

this

God

of

is

God's

mankind

so soon

yet expect

God God we

will hale

[880

395

IN HELL.

The

universe uniting as one soul

Together

And
I

for

misery hath harden'd

mock him,

To

my

Maranatha upon him

this

me

hound'd

're

voice

all

890

the more,

him the Great King,

curse

the pale heavens

Of

O we

our purpose.

uplift

anathema

the storms

blue prison-house of

fire

and

frore.

witness ye fang'd, foodless, famishing things,

Gedim and

all th'

No

mine

grief

is

Compulsion

Her purpled
Her winds
The
As

inhabitants of hell,

for

what

I bear

by God's

ask the Earth

how much we

seas her rivers

running blood,

are sicken'd with the blood of

fear

man,

900

valleys of his world upreeking airs

incense from his sin-corrupted sons

Men

weapons the eternal

for our

Continues

though

God upon

Let

Exhaust

strife

phantoms we are worn

to

or off his termless throne

through our shades

his quiver scatt'ring

His sharpen'd arrows thus are we revenged

He

doth,

we

The broad

God

all

there

distinction

suff'ring, this

Mankind
Fire

suffer

princes

in our turn

new world

the vehicles

lies

we do

the theatre

for this

same Christ

the dismal elements, and more

910

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396

The imprecating

furies

all

our arts

Malignant down upon his Godship bring

Devoting him

Thy
To

to

Satan

pris'ners call thee that, to Death,

damned

Christ and all the

Our

Lucifer

partnership with

of

all

and Hell

devils left

them

end

at

When his begins now haste, haste we to earth."

He said unknowing but no one made haste
:

And Adsherac
Of

hell

who ne'er outside the walls

had been permitted

Night drove them

Unwonted

since that day

skelt'ring back, since Terror left

bold, cried out,

"

Than

Now

920

What

better field

earth whereon to fight % shall Lucifer

flee

who

fled not

when

his armies fell

All intermingled from the pitch of heaven

Our

spirits to this

metamorphose put

Nor when upon a more

disastrous

day

He rent the sun nobly 'twas done, the

Was valorous and worthy of the god
As

'twas

Thou

deed

most worthy when returned afresh

won'st a world

That crown

The

930

lay

if

down

Thou

abas'd wilt be

another shall upmount

throne, and for myself I this will say

Less should I shun Jehovah

now

to

meet


397

IN HELL.

Than when
Nor from

before his battlements

his thunders fled

we

reviler

filed

but

Went."

940
Affrac, Harec, Eroctrac, Shry, Fok,

Sub-powers confln'd like him, ten thousands, voiced

Like thought, with faces green and

livid,

No

longer fading, and such horrid looks

As

threaten'd a dethronement

De

Gherardeschi, Ruggieri starved,

With

all his

Ugoline

hapless sons never such looks

Look'd, nor the sacrilegious Fucci

By Cacus

And

when pursued
all

grim

ghast they turn'd on Lucifer and shook

Horrid

No

hard their lineaments

eyes

not

950

then, then rose he as ne'er before

when

the

Undying

Worm

he met

Gorged with Night, from posture upon that

Stupendous height up then erect he towered

As

He

if hell's

roof with calculating power

rent.

"

What

Had we upon

other field'?" thus he, " what gain

the earth

Jehovah would reclaim

Spectre, or

'tis

mine but now

it

"

to

some one

more unseen he speaks, the leaved

Portals of hell

upon the iron swung

Back with hell-quaking sound, and one

of his

960

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

398

Dread unappealable expressions drove

Earthward the

sceptics forth.

Then discomposed
Zabrash, his fury rous'd against them thus

"

On no

light errand they

Great Emperor

thou wast the

first

kingdom where

to raise a

No

harps are found or some were soon prepared

To

greet those vaunters in forlorn return.

970

Tradition was in heaven 'mongst other things

That God conjunctive natures would put on

And how

we know,

conjunct

On human-kind and

others

Consummate mystery

lies for

for

gods

got

but in this

what doth God

Descend 1 not surely propagation

Nor

we

for,

yet caprice which us propelling sorts

Hap-hazard we engender'd

what they were

There in those hideous imps too well

And though

conjoint inseparables,

man

is

God

God

Is veritable

man, though where the two

Divide none

With

know

in

980

Him

Is veritable

as

shown

in that too diff'rence

is

ours for they are neither separate

But mix'd and by admixture

This followeth then with

With God

indeed, and

total spoilt

Two we now

man no

less

contend,

indeed

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399

IN HELL.

Nor more than man

Hope on
Is

God

We

by what elimination God

God The Son

Jehovah, also

know

And

in this particular

not,

but his Unity we know,

the Son the Father

if

Essential Person

Be, deities

990

all

falls in

One

our arms therefore

well burnish'd whether those

Invented with the grosser shapes for man,

Or

those imagin'd of ingenious

With

mind
you

subtlest points so sharp that

shall steal

Therewith into Jehovah unaware

With
Below

we

these assail

Christ, above in air,

1000

in earths continual so at last

Into the vortex of our

toils

he drop

And O

rise

no never more."

He
As

if

once fallen to

said,

murmurs on

agreeing

Lui-shin the spirit that

Thunder were

Spirit

From Judah

commands

there.

But

Thou Holy

all sides,

with

on his toilsome

Jesse's son

me

return

flight

holy child

Whilst Rachel mourning

for her children

Great lamentation are in

Rama

Because they are not.

As the pure Virgin

and
1010

heard

bless'd Jesu

God

pass'd with Shiloh on,

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400

Daemonic prodigy

a net-like thing

Wefted with serpents

Upon him

like a

the innocent

cobweb

falls

he seeth

Smiling and with those blue and heavenly eyes

Meekly

Then

The

uprais'd apast's already gone.

to themselves

rebel angels

Within

Adsherac swoop'd down

his talons

from that disguise returned

such were

his deformed,

The boa writhing which had strung

1020

the whole,

Indignant this rent he right through the spine

Dashing him down

upgath'ring from his parts

His antecedent form

His

face,

angelical

but oh monstrosity

Bristling with horrent hair,

Upon

his corps

upon him he

his shoulders fix'd, therein

Into the cervix where

Something ethereal

That

it

joins the skull,

flow'd,

Lucifer's broad

he dug

when with

a stroke

wings alone could wave,

" All!" cried he, and smote, but all the powers

Smote in the turn the four far-corner'd winds

Regrating on the ground, but with a heel

Of

iron with such aversion Lucifer

Trampled annihilation seem'd

Now

their lot.

the Divine Similitude, Express

Glory of God, Personal Image came

1030

!:
!

401

IN HELL.

From

Galilee to Jordan, Thou,

Attesting with

Spirit

The Father His baptism

But who of Jesus claims attention] thence

1040

Leading into the wilderness and when

The sun went down

"

Thou

'st

still

Long

"

day," said he,

ponder 'd now with Night," that demon came

Then Jesus

Though

there

fainting felt

O Muse

altogether vain for help

thou looked'st

when Eve

Fainted, for some rare medicine, moly,

Or such nepenthes Hellena had given

In pearly myrrhine cup

Amaze
To

Redeemer from the

the great

suff'ring

come

again I look,

then Lucifer,

skies

Art God]"

* ;

1050

Waiting the answer but that patient prince

His eyes downcast unto the
Devoutly

Xo

o'er his sinless

earth, his

bosom

hands

crossed,

otherwise replied.

Audacious Arch
If yet not God, before th' archangels Christ

The Lord and thy Creator answereth

With
The

speech such as

The

not,

Spirit gives, for

Son's most holy sake Religion

God

thou

Profligate! wilt thou a lie suggest]

As once thou

grafied'st in the harmless heart

Of our weak mother

in the

hope

D D

to graft

1060

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

402

The

heart of

Observe

God

th' effect

Other than

infatuated fiend

if

an

effect it

have

add unwonted weight

this to

Afresh to pity for thy wretched

state,

That e'en thy recklessness forgot may be

In momentary ache

Righteous One

By

for

what thou

rebuke him

silence such as our

art

was he not
1070

Atoner held'?

Then Night more palpably

outstretching

God

Shudder'd, and that Aggrievor ask'd again.

Third time third night ask'd he and answer mete

Receiving

all

the fourth long day our Lord

In uncomplaining want he

left.

Then Night
Girding with him came back and, "
" This

man

hath said he's

Through the

fifth

God :"

O !"

said he,

she girded more.

day unnourish'd Jesus sate

His sweetest image marr'd, " Impatient Night!"

Said her Abettor, " thou God's jaoler be,"

Then her

th'

Abandon'd

kiss'd

and dusky wings

Outspreading dived.

Night then approaches made

Haglike, and looking to her toes said, "

Admire them," then she wound him

Nor

He

God

in her

resisting long she held as tight

arms

1080

403

IN HELL.

As

she could hold, and with impure salute

Whin'd, " God

"

art

thou alive?" then flung away,

these stones," cried she, " I

Upon

Comest unto me;" opposite

Waiting

full thirty

sit 'till

Then

Grown

1090

sate she

days beating the ground,

Kicking and raving, courting, coaxing

The sun

thou

thereat the while for

shame

so

eclipsed.

him Death

the Beginner join'd and with

nine times larger, lustier, inflamed,

Backward

fell

he his occulars muffling

Gleering askant; at length, " Godhead!" cried Death

And

in a syncope

away

Night and the Bravo

dissolved,

1100

fled.

Then came

to Christ

That Adsherac habilimented in

The

everlasting fire

Efflowing

Human

God

"

David's son

" said he, "

wond'rous the

confin'd, thing

Engirdling the infinity

Design 1 long time

Life's

River thou shalt glide

to drink

To

chang'd

If

Of

the good

man saw

is

hell,

finite

what dost

Ere mortals stoop

ill

though by the banks

and heard

to bitter sweet,

no price ask
th' eternal

I,

the thick soul-strown shores, and in his

The

Alienator, this thy

argument
o d 2

1110

wail
state J


THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

404

Whereby

futurity to save

Will show

Nor them
"

No

O God

for neither love,

God hath

covering from

spirit

Jesus, " if from

Trail'd,

for revenge."

'tis

well

grime

" in

fled.

Then
all

Thee

hell" then said

man

were vainly done

it

Th' abjurer instant

Invoking

to

contemn'd the both, but

The tempted
Lost

this I

came on

Death along

Lucifer

Th' Undying

as wistful,

1120

Worm

compassing

About the pure and holy Son of God

And man

dread was their doing

Strongest as at the

In

whom we

Essay 'd in

first

he

Adam

died, the second

whom we

live

Death with arms

sought

Adam now

God's Person he

Insidiously attempted but no speck

Finding his stings upon himself he turns,

His ganglions droop, and paralys'd

Falls

the

Damp awe
Lay

is

mine

also prostrate

With

Worm

Undying

1130

too dealing dire

to tell, flaccid,

when

his shape

they

unstrung

lifeful

grew

renovating horror back to hell

With Night
Strewn

all

they spanking sped, the road they took

the

The sun was

way with swoln and

risen

and

rotting limbs.

set full forty times

^^.JCz.

Thoii.

" tf thou
art the Son of Cod command, these stones

tread "become

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Cast down /or

7 //r/- in

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it is

Charo,

//

it

kis Angles hare

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IN HELL.

Then Jesus hungered nor

That Forcer yet

yet could he

forbear, so

rank his hope

1140

That by repeated aim the Lord of Life

Might make

Thou

relapse

art the

and then

said he,

" If thou,

Son of God command these stones

They bread become."

Then Jesus answer'd

"

By bread

By word
Then

alone

man

Thy

and the Arch-tempter said

down

for

God may be

foot should'st dash."

Then

to a

Lord thy God thou

taketh Jesus showing to

I give

And

shalt not tempt."

him

all

of the earth and said,

thee will

if

Hence

The Lord thy God thou worship

arose,

earth his words

"All these

thou but worship me."

Jesus answer'd, "

Then he

Jesus said, " Again

mountain most exceeding high

The kingdoms

1150

in their charge, lest thou against a stone

'Tis writ the

'

thyself

writ His angels have

it is

And

He

God."

Jesus up was caught and set upon

" If thou the Son of

Thee

shall not live, but live

also proceeding forth of

A pinnacle,
Cast

thus,

and
!

for

it is

writ,

shalt

and

serve.' "

ye heavens give ear,

for they shall

drop as

vain,

160

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

406
His speech

And

He

::

distil as

as the showers

dew upon

the herb,

upon the tender grass

the Rock, perfect his works, his ways

is

Are judgment,

O Man

true,

remember

and just and right

all

years of all the generations

Thy

fathers

ask

elders they shall

The Lord He found us

He.

the days of old,

The

and the

is

show
1170

in a desert land,

He

And

in the howling wilderness,

And

kept us as the apple of his eye,

And

as

an eagle nutt'reth

o'er the

learned

young

Bearing them on the wing, the Lord hath brought

His people

to the increase of the fields,

And

oil,

And

fat of lambs.

and honey,

butter,

milk of sheep,

O who

like

Behold his finger traced

And

line

on

God can

so sublimely writ,

line

precepts on the firmament but

Those lessons

teach

man

from out

His lurking places soon upon them gazed

As

painful, even

on the images

Expressive of the government of

The

statute-book of heaven misconstruing he

Went

far astray,

though witness found the truth

From Adam unto Noe through

Of

God

Seth,

the line

and now since the baptismal Flood

1180

407

IN HELL.

Through Shem

man God

Continual, to

By Moses
Amongst

And
Hath

Heber, yet

to

gave.

written law

O who

gods % the

all

God The

God

to

God

everlasting goodness

sent the last the

on evil set
1190

like

is

that cov'nant keeps

God His Son

word of God

to teach,

Predicted, in the Central Light

The Dweller,

of all goodness Author, Great,

Solemn, obedience claiming,

men

Searcher of hearts of

And mighty

wonders, lo

full of

Grace,

with signs he comes

the sick he heals,

Cleanses the lepers, gives the blind their sight,

The deaf

their ears, the

The dead

to rise,

The proud, he

and

lame

to

walk are made,

from their

seats

1200

put down

those of low degree exalts.

Divine Instructor

on Thy

lips

we hang

" Bless'd are the poor in spirit," Jesus cried,

" In spirit theirs of heaven the

Bless'd they that

mourn

which

And hunger them

meek with God

after righteousness

the

God

do

of grace shall

Bless'd are the merciful they

Bless'd are the pure for

is

for comfort they shall

Bless'd are the meek, the

Bless'd they

kingdom

God

mercy

have

shall reign

thirst
fill

1210

find:

the pure shall see

Bless'd are the peaceful they're the sons of

God:

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

408

Bless'd those which, wrongfully they persecute

For righteousness reward

to

them

is

great

Resist not evil, but whoe'er shall smite

Upon

thy cheek the other to him turn

To him

that fain thy coat

Unto him give thy cloak

Give thou

And

away would take

him

to

nor from the borrower turn away

them who curse;

love your enemies; bless

Do good
Which
Even

that asks

them that hate you

to

1220

pray for them

use you with despite, and perfect be

as

God

our Father perfect

is."

This was the Gospel brought, the gate of heaven

Re-open'd and mankind to happiness

Bidden

thus

When we
Down
God

He who

stretch'd the heavens aforth

forgot the testimonial stars

from His Dwelling Place of Glory came

manifested for our sake in flesh

Herein was love

Look from

the top,

Her mon,

spouse

Of Amana,

Shenir, and

From

dens and mountains of the pards,

The
"

lions'

voice of thy Beloved knocking, saying,

Open

to

My head
Of

look

me my

love

with dew

my

is fill'd,

the dark night."

Ten thousand, ruddy,

undefiled

my

Chiefest

locks with drops

is

he amongst

white, his head like gold,

1230

! :

409

IN HELL.

Black

as the raven are his clustering locks,

His eyes

like dove's are set, his cheeks a

Of

spices

bed
1240

as sweet flowers, lilies his lips

Dropping with myrrh,

his

hands like golden rings

Set with the beryl, ivory his waist

O'erlaid with sapphires, pillars are his legs

Socketed

set

As Lebanon,

with gold, his countenance

as cedars excellent,

His most sweet mouth

He

feedeth 'mongst the

Break and the shadows

Be

like a roe, or a

The mountains

he

's

lovely altogether

lilies 'till

flee

the day

Beloved

turn,

young hart upon

1250

of Bether,

Beauty of God
Bright Shiner o'er the storms of wintry time

Hope

Truthful Prophet

Abroad

He

Of wisdom,

went the

Advocate!

Priest

Light!

Incarnate

King

His mouth

Spirit in

understanding, counsel, might,

Knowledge, and

The

of the world!

fear of

God

not judging by

sight of eyes, neither reproving after

Hearing of

ears,

but righteously judging,

He

With

equity reproving; thus

With

rod of mouth the earth, and with His breath

The wicked slew

smote

but who His great report

1260

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

410
Believed

lo

what virulence of men

Succeed these machinations

when

Fled the possess'd and down they

Beelzebub," they cried

When

the fiends
" Tis

fell

meek humble he

they upbraided, curs'd,

revil'd,

and stormed.

Surely our griefs

He

Our sorrows and

the chastisement for peace

Upon Him with His

Oppress'd was He,

He

open'd not

To

slaughter,

Are dumb

prison

Who

shall
all

and

as a

He

is

The

travail of

And

shall

mouth

brought

tell

false

yet

it

Lord

offering for sin

But woe

satisfied.

Day

ta'en,

was stricken

pleas'd the

His soul His seed

in the

was

cut off

O how He

Chorazin and Bethsaida

shall see
to ye

thou exalt

of

Judgment

best

Shall be for Sodom, for the mighty works

Within ye done

And

1270

His mouth

and judgment

Him, and an

Capernaum

are healed

yet His

lamb

His generation

be

all

and before the shearers sheep

the living

bruise

we

stripes

afflicted,

For the transgressors

To

bore, and carried all

so Jesus open'd not

From

From

by

pharisees

and woe

to ye the scribes

of heaven the

kingdom ye

Shut neither ye yourselves going in nor others

1280

411

IN HELL.
Suff 'ring to enter

widows ye devour,

Long prayer make, and when ye

Than ye

proselyte

yourselves of hell a greater child:

Woe

unto ye blind guides, ye fools and blind

Who

swear not by the Temple but the gold

Within, not by the altar but the

Of

1290

gift

mint, and anise, cummin, tithe ye pay

Omitting weightier matters judgment,

And mercy

faith,

hypocrites which at a gnat

Do

strain

Ye

whited sepulchres without so

and straight a camel swallow whole

fair

Within uncleanness and the bones of dead

Ye

generation of sharp vipers

How

hell's

how

damnation can ye hope escape

1 300
1

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

BOOK

IX.

THE ARGUMENT.
The assembly

He maketh war

of all the

Holy angels with the Coronation of

against the

King

The

of Hell.

Christ enters Hell alone, confronts Lucifer

rebellious,

Hell,

Chaos, and

all

into the

who

Christ.

souls of the redeemed.

is

driven with

Bottomless Pit.

all

the

The book

concludes with a general notice of what passed on the earth during this
last

drama, and the eulogium of Queen Victoria to

inscribed.

Time, the ninth and tenth day.

whom

the

Poem

is

BOOK

" Let

King

flare Hell's oriflame

of the

Damn'd

Thy Devildom

Summon
Of

rays

prepare

IX.

the time

Infernal
;

in harshest thunder for thy

nine spik'd from shiver

:

is

come

Monarch

the gods of

Loose on thy hlacken'd brow

all

fire

crown

'd lightnings, sits

Vengeance

in thought

Like ten Hyrcanian lionesses rends

Thee, thee, thee

Arm

instant

Against thee,

arm

Arm He
!

sprites

armed

all

the angelry

all

the saints of heaven are armed,

Mouth speaking mighty

One from

arm the accursed

is

things

ruling their

Head

before the earth's foundation slain

is

strong

who judgeth

thee, even

now

His Banner they prepare, with looks that run

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

416

Thy

blood to shed

desolated Hell

let

Roar with thy preparation

Ready

to

meet

Him

of the

Unfailing, for a prey the

According

Lord

end thy kingdom draweth

make

shall
all

unto
;

20

God

Even God himself against thee now

Thou who

the

blotted keep thy word, deny

Hold

fast for

will fight

Him

sieged'st or sardine, Sabaoth's

chariot,

O Name

now

not,

He descendeth, The Amen,

whom to look is as the walls

Him upon
Thy

will

from out the Book of Life

first

Wast

Thou

stand

many crowns

deed repaying

to their

now

stand,

His adversaries recompens'd

An

bow, and arrows take

of Blasphemy

God

He

comes

and Death's pale horse

Harnessing, Death unto they right advance

The day
Hail,

Of

of wrath

fire,

is risen, final

woes

and blood and burning mountains great

brimstone, plagues, and torments they prepare,

Thou Dragon

Thy

wherewithal to wound thee to

second death

thou Outcast of the Skies

Deceiver of the world

Of Images

of

God

Profaner vile

how

shalt thou feel

Dying, thy smoke for ever and for aye

Rising

Destroyer

now

to

overcome

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! !

417

IN HELL.

Or be o'ercome redemption
Prepare

for

Him who

His thigh girds

war upon

for this

sword

fast the

40

past prepare

Damnation

come

Seize on this falling King."

Thus sung the Muse

Bearing

Me

me up

ever as she

to heaven,

encouraging

through

lift

the six

all

Into the holiest seventh of which before

I

knew

only the threshold

Empress

What
And

then I

thou may'st better

felt,

soul

tell

than I

50

the joy, the overflowing

boundless gladness not to be restrained,

The animation which

O my

me

dissolv'd

as

cloud dissolveth in the radiant sun,

And O mine
Dispelling

A glance,

eyes were

all

beams

as earth I spurned

the mists of ages with

forgetful of the days

Since on a foreign

The heavens

trod

soil I

and nights

" Exult

exult " she cried, " the hour

!

is

come

Caverns, and crags, and pitchy fountains, and

Ye

Deserts and wildernesses

With

Ha

60

boiling bubbling oceans in th' abysm,

how

inextinguishable laughter

ha

how now

I laugh

laugh
:

hell

Thus through the

E E

air

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418

Sweeping her harp

We

O how

For breath, and well

me

for

I gasp'd

I copious

and gasped

drunk

waters far more pure than those which flow

From Eunoe
I

strains

pass'd like spirits, all the universe

Drinking the sounds

Of

unmeasur'd

to the

through the thousand spheres

else

had not sped

like that

70

spheres within

Spheres, and the one within a fairer sphere

Than

the preceding, unimaginable

Of beauty; but
Of

O who
!

the seventh heaven shall give % grind mist to mist

The

smallest,

A boundless
From

and from one

sole

atom grind

globular expressly, plain

that one out, and iridescence from

The

lightest

Ten

million add unto

Alone can

bubble bring, and tens of times

paint,

it all

that

Like one unsightly

Of

the element

solid

dirty stone to this

u
:

80

that light

that a bubble were

marble piece

Muse

Muse

"

I cried,

" Thine alabaster arms, 1 faint," nor she

Kefus'd

me and

With her

devoutly cross'd

My presence,

deem

Encompass me

Keep me

that traceless threshold thus

I see

it

and
!

O God

not unholy

O Thou

a Vision

accept

God

Spirit of Life

underneath

419

IN HELL.

An

orb-like

canopy that made the suns

90

External look opaque the thrones were placed

Of

the

all

Holy Angels, deeper yet

Dipp'd in the light were they

intensely light

So that I scarce endure the pearly shine

And

ravishing radiance

I value

Of

diamonds no more

high upon the cloudless cloud

solid

day which in the centre stands

Distinctly shap'd, rises a column'd

As

yet unoccupied

Were
One

Throne

Isocrates

ten long years panegyrising one

of the royal ornaments

100

Cinna

Laborious had despair'd a thousandth part

Of one

the least, and had Vitruvius seen,

Palladio, or Callimachus they scorned

All the five Orders as disorder'd things

O how
Or

the feet upspring if they are feet,

bases azur'd, from that sea of seas

Illumin'd with the white that whitest snow

Turn'd black, and with the clear that crystal made

Insufferable dirt

Within them wing'd,

The burning

When
They

110

lo! there are suns

or

winged

spirits like

suns that waver like the wind

transported with love

are like countless eyes

E

ethereal

O now

E 2

T see

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420

The cherubim

As

Caryatides or Genii the

up

Pil'd piles of pillars

As

where they bear

as darkness

if eternal fix'd

O how

they stand

adoring eyes

Uplifting in acknowledgment so high,

Muse

dare I

Mine own

for

Of heaven

And

an example

his

own

all

throne

I turn

the myriads stand

never before

had any passed,

the archangels stand in wonder lost

e'en the

pavement

Circle the seraphim

A wider

circle

Are next seen

beyond remote

far

beyond them

cherubim
visible

in

virtues

the powers behind

principalities the sixth in

row

Innumerable

Rang'd out

lastly the thrones beatitude

In

the dominions thence

all their faces,

Nor

I,

I dare not

but they look not up

;

Of Him who made

An

little

infant of a

Of thy

the eternity

and shrink back

1 think of

And

120

the hosts

all

this shrine of shrines

With

The

them?

follow

are standing

Each one by

Unto

now

trite

I also think

Eternity look pale

time

moment

horizon grasps.

how

all

easily

the bounds

Then

I beheld

130

Zarael

who

kill'd

IN HELL.

421

Togarmah, Tonoros

140

Who was the first in heaven's first war

A rebel angel Triminor was there,

to kill

And

those

And

his

who took

the banners, Pharnaspine

companion worthies

there also

Ashoron, Apthos, Rhotyn, Alessine,

Tauromer, Sothon, Sifanaros who

Have an

inscription on a lofty arch

Of triumph

due distance from the arch

at

That Michael's

firstly

Re-consecrated,

all

had

summon'd

to this council

Jehovah

all

150

Lord

to the

Breath'd impregn'd incense,

Off'rings unto

these had been

the angels had

Themselves re-consecrated

When

all

all

the altars bore

one went

e'er

The

Trinal Stairs to

Had

passed beyond the lowest until

mount

In Person of The Son

From

lighting

They were
But not

th'

archangels ne'er

God

heaven returned

up the Universe and then

assisted

into the

Enchanted

to

the heavens

all th'

by The Holy Ghost,

Holy wherein now

assembled angels stood

Together with them.

Now
Markd

the dial which

the celestial time was on the point

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422

Of chiming

When One
The

the fourth day since

like to the son of

foot divinely cloth'd

With

of

His

fire,

His countenance

Upon

that

Seven

stars,

His voice

man

unto

girt

about

many

solar spheres

First,

within His hands

He

waters so that

were seen

to

bend

as if

Me

to snap, " Fear, fear

The

Last, I lived

cried

all

not,

and

Was

dead, I

And

have the keys of Hell and Death."

am

170

as if the noon- tide sun,

and when the angels saw

like

am The

feet as if they burned,

Throne appear'd

They ready were

I

fell

a gold girdle, white His hair, His eyes

As names

The

and

Adam

alive for evermore,

Then one

Whom no

one knew, in lowliness knelt down

Before that Triple Throne,

germin'd was she

In the eternal counsel, writ upon

Her

forehead, "

Knowledge

"

from a living lock

That open'd inward she drew out a great

Imperishable Roll with warped wings

Which
To

then flew open

see their

The names
The

the holy knelt,

all

names within a

rebellious lost

blot, the blotting

frightful

gap

no verse can paint

Knowledge

vainly pored

180

423

IN HELL.

The

names

indiscernible oblivion'd

190

That once shone there authentical, now God

Himself could not authenticate e'en one

For long God look'd and

Directed on the page

Of

Him

and the Book

Remembrance brought

the

By which

she clos'd

from

it

And

all

the angels lest

God

all

the latter miserable

Even

Had

Memory

then

Rose solemnly before

His sovran light

all

it

th'

made

a spring had that

Omniscient eye
if

not

she

the covers most assiduously

cover'd

folding

now

200

the eyes, the ears,

Before the senate of the skies she them

Unfolded, and unfolded scarcely when

crash of heaviest thunder

The hands

of Justice standing at her side,

They, they were

from out

fell

much

too light

this calling, in

shadowy procession march'd along

All that therein were pictur'd from their dead

Slumbers so

But

On

fix'd the

God,

Were

No

rous'd, nor they ador'd nor feared

for every

sinners

tear

ken on God, the keenest ken

may

one against His Spirit

O my

stain

soul

but in the heavens

one cheek

methought the

floor


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424
Shook

The Lord

as before the Throne, before

That revelation was.

Next Prescience brought

Her

shining Tables and that synod

Glad

every one thrilled with sacred

To read within them what

Of

lines they

were and

now

awe

time they read

first

had thought

past perplexities that none

It possible to straighten,

As

made

220

as straight

straighter,

and revealed

Fate as a good, not merely as a just

But good

Identity

a Cymbeline

That charm'd them

From

and

All the

infinity,

she the eyes

;

lifts

up

then up also

me

I took within

in that swum

all

hell

in a sea a strange unnatural thing,

And

No

lo

God

light to light to

I look'd,

As

all

God His

from beyond drew

Himself was

trace whatever of

Upon, within, or near

Seem'd

To me

it

if'

left

heaven alone

to enjoy the presence

as

230

presence so

thus

it

seemed

a mirrorizer stood

Exhibited in which unblench'd I saw.

Then

rose

And was

The Son

commission'd

all

in

knees before

Him

His loving eyes

bowed,

425

IN HELL.
I

read the whole that pass'd nor silence keep

Religion

but

let tell, for

what

I gaz'd

To

see shall others glad attention give

To

hear,

And

and everlasting joy be

first

240

theirs

the light was yet more hallow 'd

And more

resplendent

By means most
God's bosom

Intellect did this

secret,

made

she came forth from out

then the seven before the Throne

Cried " Holy," and the crowned heads which stood

By

four-and-twenty seats beyond the sea

Of

crystal

round about they "Holy"

"Holy Lord God Almighty, which

And

come

art to

"

art

Thou

Have, power,

is,

cast, saying,

"

250

Lord!

glory and honour to

Thou

for

was,

and when they glory gave

Their golden crowns they

Worthy

cried,

all Greatest hast,

For Thee they were created:" in the midst

The
"

spirits cried,

Worthy The Lamb

And

sitteth

power, wisdom, riches, strength,

on the Throne

Amen Amen

Of Glory

took,

saw

like

"

and

" Crown! crown

I

honor, glory, blessing be to

That
"

" Holy," harpers harped,

God
all

Him

"

Him

the cherubim

then the Golden Keys

the angels cried,

Lord of

all !"

an eternal one with gems

260

Diadem

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426

gems

Engirt, heliotropianal

As

new made and by none

if

God

they so glisten'd; "

That Diadem

"

other but

who, who

shall

wear

Eternity I heardj

In a low whisper ask when One Unseen

If seen, plac'd

Anointed
"

to

filled

in

The

the gods,

270

God's

with

Presence, Wonderful

Fulness bodily

all

The

manifest in flesh

Personality Divine

Of Righteousness

God

Him!

the gods; to

before Eternity

Bow'd awful

And

Him!

straight

then praise was heard,

of the worlds innumerable

Co-Heritor

One

upon His head, and

God The Son

To Him!

King

it

Filial

God

Thou Sun

ineffable to see,

of IUimitable Glory

Thou

Transcendent Myst'ry of the covenant made

And
In

man

kept with

God

now

The Messenger

alleluias

lo

of

God

280

the deep

Foundations of the universe to Thee

Are nothing

Were
That

its

nothing elements that loose

destruction

gilds

Thy Diadem

Blackness becomes
Shall give

light before the light

Thy

praises

insuff 'rable

Crowned King

what tongue

Thy dominion who

427

IN HELL.

sum through added ages golden sums

Shall

Of number
The

from his tired

trilling

doors of heaven

Burst

Thee we

sing, adore,

Our intermingling

Low

let the

voices

lest

the heaven

but

O how

290

vain

Music be

shalm, the dulcimer, the lute,

The harpsichord be
That

open

all

lips,

soothe

no breath be heard

His praises over-well,

utt'reth not

Rapt'rous to mutest inexpressive love

Joy'd into such a passionate as shall

blessed

Ye

God

acceptable be found

shaping visions

ye bright- wing'd

all

spirits

That bring the morning light and ever tend

On

300

us God's happy favourites as ye

Are

ours,

come join your song,

happy time

this

Is heaven's first jubilee, hereafter oft

To be

observ'd

by

all

sing

Pure concords from your

In gen'ral chorus

The

to the

strings ascending

that all

may

flow

broad capacious ocean of

inexhaustless

Ocean whence

Originally forth: Great

tearful eyes

and

all

all

King! the

Sigh sympathetica!, with them

Our

up

melodies hereto

Kept sacred glad unlock

Back

and adore,

we

come

lyres

skreen

the honied words

310

"

Of heaven

rejecting as incompetent,

thralling, to the universe our bliss

Before the Light

to

Thee

Commission 'd

In unpremeditated sound express

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428

Or

what a burst was then

Of heaven

from

Crowned

all

the store

like silver streak'd with rivery gold

Sparkled with million million flashing sparks

Of

and diamonds,

stars

rubies, sapphires

and

320

Other most shining argent aurine things

That seem'd and seem'd not and then seem'd again,

Until each unit in that countless quire
Felt his expression for himself by all

Was
To

comprehended and by God enjoyed

the extremest force

From

"

Our

and then I heard

out the primal Source of

Command

Who

Honour and

to

to

all

congregated angels

council,

who

Honour

to hell

first

assist

earth by your brave

they insurrection hurl

Continual up implacable and proud

As

fallen

But

for

330

unsubdued the Enemy

Though driven from heaven, and

Even

come

Providence

thus directed spake, bright

Ye

things

the

Adamic

God's Majesty

None but himself

race were theirs

God's Antique Throne

against the warrior-chief

[arm

"

429

IX HELL.

Had

held

now

therefore forth His

In wrath and terror

Thy

foes

Thy

Arm

Might be put

Omnipotence

340

footstool."

Providence thus joined,

"

Thy

On

foes

we

high,

We

Thy

footstool

praise,

glorify Thee,

Heavenly King

we

Glory be

bless,

thank Thee

to

God

we worship Thee,

Lord God

Then The Incarnate Word

Ascended

upper Throne of Thrones,

to the

The Ancient Throne

The powers

From

all

of Days,

Throned the

of heaven libation pouring out

the carmine chalices devote

Since their remembrance to Almighty

Then

first,

fill'd

350

God

the daedal cups they deeply quaffed

Another chorus rising

'till

the roof

Ringing again the exultation shook

To

hell's far confines

Confounded

"

the Confounder heard

God hath

Whilst we are absent,"

Following hell-ward
Lighting up

all

surely hell surprised

all his

agnates cried

Hell heard embattling straight

the fires on

all

the hills

Behind the Emperor they bound and barred

The adamantine
The wondrous

gates and garrisoned

walls diving to mvst'rv, and

360

To mystery mounting
The gongs and
About her

how

mov'd

then Night rattled

their overshadowing

glar'd

more

Steam up from the red

:

the great recess of "Waste

iron sides with claws, and

beaks, and spurs

Of wonder

plumes

and those that had not wings

fear-struck,

Clomb up the

all

Noise put down, the puissants called

Shook whilst they

And

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430

Was

bills,

iron, whilst the

gulfs in all the

winged

pomp

370

then the direful Dirse met

the

Never before met they

Geryon and Echidna

offspring of

far less dire,

These from their furnaces, whilst Tempest strange

Lifted the oceans

Was

what unto that

earth's deluga!? Lucifer aghast

Beheld but more aghast saw then aroused

From

torpor one begotten by himself

Yea by

himself on Hell, that sunk

Undying down a dastard

Of Deep

Which

it

crawl'd, a Hell improv'd

in truth

The Lombard he

most

fair

call'd

Worm

from the depth

blacken'd at his frown as

She was

And

The

if

on Hell

before

Dante when

" Master " err'd in that,

Milton when advice of hell he sought

From

the pretending pagans

Pictur'd that unto ours

who

a hell

had been a heaven

380

;!

431

IN HELL.

A sudden horror
When

shot through all his frame

him he saw,

pallid his features fell

His knees together smiting

Caught in the

act, or

Thrust through
Exactly and

Burn'd

it

this

390

so a thief

an adulterer

Thing was

was, and

how

his

his, it

look'd like his

wrath

Desolation desolated turned

Or would have

To

turn'd

upon him had she dared

broken back

trust the

to uttermost

Deform'd was he so that his dam herself

Sham'd and the

Howl'd
In

less

the vacant shades he swept, returned

all

and the dead

spirits living

than one half instant

Was Lucifer arous'd as if

He had been half-asleep
;

And Moloch

400

then indeed

before

Adramelec

dropp'd the banners they had kept

Outside the walls of heaven, and Silence broke

Out

loud, so loud all wonder'd

So tongueless yet

so

Of flaming

fire

His

he would

Do

secrets

but

The

tell

close gath'ring

tried to

frore stood

to save his life,

Himself

Or

and

tongued

what

it

was

forth manifest

Death

as if

oranything

and Terror rolled

up and Blackness swore

swear by him for love

to stand

Dirae look'd as if they queried if

410


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432

'T was possible they saw or

Thought

mad

as the

frenzied gone,

whilst this

upon them looked

Dreadless, or worse contemptuous, and there

Chaos heaven-born stood

What

petrified

but oh

words shall give that Imagery % fume

He breath'd and blew in volume far away

When he expir'd and as he blew the fires
Within the embers glow'd

like

some

Over a burnt down

forest all the

heaps

Of

all

ashes scatter'd,

Flaming again

hell

now

420

the half-burnt trees

then he unlock'd the seas

That yet were mounded and cried

Of

fierce blast

Lucifer shall fight or

out,

woe

" For Hell

!

So cried with his glance-killing eyes he drove

The

rebels all before him,

The

devils weeping, wailing,

And

all

On

fires,

as

gnashing teeth,

or on the crisp

efflorescent salts

Depastur'd

Such

fiends,

the sable troops of horse that fed

vegetable

Long

and the

all

430

and sulphurites

the hell-black ghosts, the jinns

queen Seba's throne

to

Solomon

Carried, with all the lamise, graiae, worse

Worse than were

e'er in the

Erythraean sea

Spawn'd or Maremma's Marsh,

On

fire

asps, serpents all

with horned flames and souls

all o'er

433

IN HELL.

Painted with putrid nodes, and

Splay-footed, horned,

Grew from
Long

evil things

whose erected hair

the naked brain, and

leagues in length,

To Aceldama,

all

worms

of

fire

440

he together drove

all

his sire distract

Alone excepted, unto him he held

In amity an hand nor was refused

Then

Hot grew more obscure

the Obscure and

More hot when they agreed

Had

command

Th' Undying

o'er all the elops

Amphitryon's son had more than

Enyo had not borne them

Lin'd thick by millions

Worm

such

terrified,

these the shores

450

he Beelzebub

O'er those born somewhat like himself was put

A ruler

and a most

brood

prolific

They were with wide wen-lipped

Death took the

Under himself

The

earth,

wolfish grins

frighten'd furies that

had birth

outside the heavens and in

and in the

he arm'd them with

hell,

Great torches that Byzantine

fire

made

frost,

Tressed were they with snakes that strew'd the ground

With

countless young, unrest continual theirs

Either begetting or producing,

Coiling and

As

now

if new-fir'd

uncoiling

and

now

plum'd with flame

like a heavenly sprite

F F

460

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434

By

the comparison

came Night, a shape

Illustrated her eyes that all the Vast

Beneath made shallow,

Commanded and

Had (how
I

o'er the Dirse she

the hell-bred horrors they

know

gender 'd, one lank

not,)

saw and saw no more, he Terror made

Mean

over

the horsed-grim his staff

all

The Arch-deserted

And

Them
And

stretch'd, rowels

all

Ekriel

fire

Baal was one

O once most beautiful

now none had

Those worried looks

He

O who

saddest pity

recognised

can dwell content

how endowed

was who had remembrance %

Gloomy

look'd he corrupting

in the

so a

Dying with a claw'd-cancer eating

The

horrible

Is Ekriel indeed

Remaineth grand
Ever had love

"

gloom

man

at

heart and yet another at the throat

horrible

Of

470

yet so held the bits as kept

upon the spot

Of cherubims

In

wore they

well their horses flank'd swilling their sides

With blood and

worm

'tis

to that

impair'd ] his Lord

if ruin'd,

and no one

for Lucifer whate'er

admiration,

Hark

Muse

pass

him

bye.

the total universe to wreck

480

435

IN HELL.
Utterly gone," I thought and cried
I

when

lo

saw a cherty chariot thund'ring up

Beyond the gate of heaven pealing along

Such pealing thunder

Heard

Ho

to the

was ne'er

as before

that I follow darkling

490

listen

ho

rainbow- winged steeds which

All the void Void, the constellations

fill

reel,

All the Elysian pines and cedars bend

Their bronzed heads unto the rumbling ground

The while they

Were

Up

pass as if a hurricane

raging that would tear them every one

by the ancient

roots

there

is

a seat

Within that looks unfathomable red

With

a consuming

500

that overflows

fire

Over the edges in the guise of

stars

Like burning lamps, or like great burning mounts,

Lamp-lighting

stars

Amongst them and

In

flashes,

go up and down and up

wheels there are like beryls

Wheels within wheels

They turn
They go

high

around where'er

close following for a living spirit

:

all

ye glories

bursts of spangled light

Starry

aforth

four sided, as they drive

not, rings eyeful

Is in the wheels

Ye

come

the lightnings

gold buds, and downy

f f 2

all

all

ye things

clouds, gold rocks,

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

486

Gold

sands, seas, amethystine towers, rubied

Palaces, silvery fountains

over

all

I plant the standard of immortal song

Pageanted History stripped

In arms rose awful mounting

And growl
But

for

Omnipotence

lightnings blaze

the thunders and the heaven would flee

His Majesty serene frownless

the time

the synod broke

Sustaining

all

Up

hour was stroke, the King of Heaven

for the

And

Earth

Sounding

And

one

Thy

sickle

Be

fully prepar'd thousands of

then viols

lift

filled

"

up the

full

trumps

of wrath were brought

voice crying " Thrust in

and the winepress of Thy wrath

then unto the hosts of heaven

wonder was made known, God

Away,

in tempest cradled

He

for every

Fallen angel there were handfuls

Could wield they were

rolling clouds

revealed

Such broods of Thunder that

if

one

the

hand

so heavy, all the seven

Archangels look'd distrusting

So huge before reported

Fame hath none

there they lay

In nakedness, the lightnings lathe to see

Running amongst them,

Going

520

indescribable

to a

tumult

all

like scath sprites

That much too long had been chain'd up, they had

530

437

IN HELL.

For these were what the great Aggressor had

Boasted in his

first

council,

He

in his pride conceiv'd

Of

all

them

all,

540

(not one

the thunders that existence had

Or hath owns God

He

underground

th' Inventor,) these

prepared

rose as hath been told and but for that

Disastrous deluge probably had launched

Them

all

against his Sovereign and his

How, how they

And some

bicker'd

quintupular

For they were made

His hardy hand

And

for

wroth,

livid, sheeted,

tremendous

God

none but Lucifer

and some had shaggy manes

twirling darted so that if once thrown

None

ever should wrench out

Kept them

550

great crackling coals

alive all the vermilion'd flames

Eat ravenously up the moment they

"

Woe

Shot out beset around

"

woe

To

those

we

trouble

Provoking round that

Amidst

itself

"

chariot,

Their heads hell-ward and

Bulls, lions, eagles,

men

all

woe !" they

and leap'd

God

all

up

pointing

the spirits like

in face, a fire

unfolding, forward drove,

Within and upward, and downward, around

Him

fiery brightness

Of One

hissed,

that spake to

then a voice was heard

all

the heavenly host

560

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

438

Commanding

that they follow, far behind

Stood they astonied, " Hell," Jehovah said

Whilst

the Universe their Echoes grasped

all

Silent for horror, " Hell- ward

My

exaltation this

Follow

on Hell

to war,

then up His Triune Sceptre

"

Holding imblaz'd, in

He

nor dismay,

all

The

God

Father's might

570

drove with the archangels, seraphim,

Cherubim, thrones, and

principalities,

Dominions, powers, and virtues

hung unto

His radiant zone the Keys of Death and Hell

Rattling as quicker than the quickest light

He

pass'd

aloft

His Sign was written with

All lamentation, mourning both within

And

out ; thus as

Falling as

Her

leaves

When

it is

when
when

rode the suns turn'd black

a tree untimely casts

she

is

shaken, or a scroll

roll'd together

Out from the

And

He

portals of the

as

God

580

drove

heaven the

hills

islands of this earth their places left,

Sores falling on th' inhabitants, the seat

Of Satan

fill'd

with darkness so they gnawed

Their tongues for anguish of their pains and

And

sores,

weighty hail falling exceeding plagued

All that blasphemed.

" All, all

new

make,"

"

uj God, drooA

of the heavens the

An/i islands ofihis eurlfi their Maces
/'/,//'/;/,/ efte

ftorluls

hills
left


439

IN HELL.
Said God, " the former are no more

Of

life

That

the

thirst

Water

freely unto all

and of the Tree of Life the

Healing the nations

Take

To

freely."

no more curse

Onward thence

Hell's portcullis'd doors

And

590

fruits

shall be,

Effulgent

He

girded with

studded, in the wall of mountains

Upon

And

I give

steel

set,

their ramparts all the kites of hell

o'er the bastion'd towers

and outer domes

Ten-circled, all the fiend-begotten, all

The

hellish furies that

had wings

to waft

Aloft, the banner-cry of

Hell peal'd forth

Ramping from out

rugged throats

their

War-deep made mocking

At the

oh

as pipes

who knocked

600

that

great gates like that ] nor only knocked

But with one fulminating thunderbolt

Burst them right in

To open had he

Hell at the summons thought

time, but that one

huge

Twelve-bolted thunder through the panell'd rock

Went and

transfixed Death, the others fled

After their flying hosts, Th' Undying

Worm,

Beelzebub, and Night, Chaos as well

As

e'er

he could and

all

Dragging the boasted

the Dira? fled

Lucifer, for then

That Boaster boasted, " Leave me!

alone

610

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

440

By Death and

Sin will meet Him."

Out the smoke

Unrepresentable pour'd curling, caked

So in the gulf Tonquin the touch'd typhoon

Edg'd coppery and black

Raging, redoubling

Of breath

or

it

that aside with blast

backward driven

The prison-house
Since

itself lets loose

of darkness then

was scoop'd

lit

up

hollow'd out and so

For every soul that

time

620

made ample room

Adam

own'd

for sire,

there

The

forcing of the gates even that

still

first

God

mind

And

was Sin

Great

within those gates

Sin secretly with an untiring

Had

I saw,

busy, busied so

had not

Disturb 'd her in her work, but in the heart

Which

border 'd on the hinges, with edg'd tools

All her hard hands kept plying

clapp'd above

Their heads their arms, ineffable their looks,

All the Redeem'd came forth, since they were dead 630

To

earth the time with

And

yet

it

" Salvation

as spirits passed

seem'd too long, u To God!" they cried

;

to

our Lord, Almighty

With Thee and with

And

them

the

Holy Ghost

reigneth evermore one God,

W^orld without end;" thus they,

Peoples and tongues, and

all

who
liveth

One God
all nations, kins,

the angels and

441

IN HELL.

The

Upon
"

and the cherubim

elders

their faces worshipping

Amen

and saying,

wisdom and

blessing and glory,

down

fell

640

Thanksgiving, honour, might and power to

For evermore, amen

In tribulation,

Hunger nor

Them

" these all

now no more

shall they

thirst for Christ the

Thy wrath

And them

is

for

come and Thou

Crown'd

victors

who

all

Abandoning her

ta'en,

shalt punish Death,

" to

650

so therein they all

went

Death unto Sin cried out

Now

art, "

Death

whole she saw

grave me, grave,

shriek'd she,

Disrellish'd e'en the thought

he would depart

He would

give

the earth destroyed:"

listening unto that the

Grave me

God we

a temple open'd with the ark

Of Testament and

if

shall lead

thou Thy mighty power hast

destroy

Then was

His

Lamb

unto living fountains dried their tears

Thee thanks

As

God

were tried

then they cried, " Almighty

And

And

Death black'ning more

O how

even as

he made

if

be uncreated, torture fixed

occulars, all his in-being writhed,

But death was

deathless

Drove right upon them,

made
all

wounding storm

the angels stood

Afar with the redeem'd whilst Vengeance made

660

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

442

His victims, down swoop'd he and every sting

Of Death

tore mercilessly out,

Soul-stinging stings were they

what

an adder

Ten adders with a common-tooth

Attention from the wretched

Of

all

those

numbers

felt

bites,

scarce gained

who one

sting

inexorable

Down-trampling Sin likewise the two he chained

Unto that chafing

670

chariot wheels, o'er both

Driving matchless in arms

Death

all his

jaws

Expanding, they were crush'd and every fang

To powder

instant ground

then hell

itself

Seem'd crumbling into nothing but God held

The

fiat

foundation sinking

Upholden

The

all

the while

Him

to see

cried then aloud

tongueless Echoes that the damn'd had

Tongueless

Omnipotent

Earth's conquerors

this

what were

made

all

with destruction armed

Invincible drove on over the heaps

Of heapy

ruin, o'er the glassy gulfs

More than Serbonian,

With wasted

waste,

wildernesses waste

and over peaked mounts,

Vanishing valleys into vacancy

Abandon'd

and was Vacancy

also

spirit] it ten centred cressets

Glowing upon

Him

and

it

fled

seemed

behind

680

443

IN HELL.

deader channel ; then the sable air

Grew

Was

sable and the clouds,

Dragg'd them and

is

Lucifer

no more they dragg'd him but he now 690

turn'd,

That

fell

at his side the

descriptionless

one described

the yet untouched

Stores of asphaltum they abandon'd to

The

most inextinguishable, out

fires

Out they

all

belch'd at once, well then

That none had follow'd God

gates

Was

long infinite longer than

The

fifteen

To keep

had enter'd though a space

hundred miled wall they

these

Of

evil moral, physical,

As

if for

evil

built

the Tartar out and vainly built

As

No

was

no one beside

The gapped
left as

it

700

thus foremost he the Origin

God

is,

though some

excusing say the

last

Religion at the root

he now taking heart

seraphim rueful they heard,

Blindly attacking,
Calling his

As wand'ring
Calling

spirits

them back

heard the sorceress

into their putrid corse

For a confinement, but none disobeyed

Their Absolute and compassing about

Thron'd him in dark magnificence of mail

The

rest too

were uprisen Night as black

710

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

444

Or blacker than was

Undying Worm,

Hell, Th'

Even Beelzebub and Chaos

rose

With

all their

armies in their surest clad

With

all their

arms invented since they came

Hither, and arms they were

a whity horse

His, with a crown of iron upon his head,

Within

his

hands a bow that would have brought

Vesta from her orb'd place Haraphon

His hands a spherul'd sword Zabrash

in

720

Togarm

Pois'd welded thunders that were doubtless forged

Not

And

in the heavens, intending all to launch

thus the others

millions follow 'd close,

Horses with countenances

But hair

fire,

crown'd

lions'

jacinth and brimstone

Red dragon with seven

And

like the last,

breastplates they

one a great

another was

and horned

like unto

A pard and raging bear, his mouth was like

A lion's then a third two-horned spake
;

As

dragon's spake, and

The utmost

indignation

fire

brought down pouring

three there were

Like frogs gigantic most unclean which met

At Armageddon

wore

heads, ten horns, and crowned,

wrathful floods he cast

Crown'd

men

like women's, lion-like their teeth,

Their heads like

Of

fierce of

one a scarlet beast

730

445

IN HELL.

names of blasphemy rode high

Filled with

As

Jehovah glorying

if to slay

Much, but not long

He

for

amongst them sent

740

Deaths, mournings, famines, raining rabid plagues

In oceans

full

the red agonies

That burn'd them up

The

ululation of eternal

On

all sides

He

lift

round

terror

woe
arm

Hell's lifted

'twas stiffen'd

For double

the bewilder'd eyes

as soon

Terror died outright

by the chance of one

Flash from His eyeballs so he instant

fell

And

fell

Had

been indulgent, nor unstained with blood

He

regretted as a spirit that

also felt the

wheels or

if

not

His carcase lay beneath them

750

felt

rivers rose,

Volcanoes volumes pour'd, and

all

the winds

Like the Levantine, Greccan, Ponent met

Together

None

lightnings leap'd for ever but

touch'd Almighty

No more was

God

adamant, and

then adamant

fire

no more

Fire but a most delicious sense of cold

Compar'd

to

what they now too

In hecatombs undone or flying

Chaff or like

late

found out
7(U)

like

fleetest ghosts before a

So when a continent entire subsides

storm


THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

446

Interminable forests are overwhelmed

The

trees stripp'd present bare

The

roots

or

when

the summer-grass they

The blacken'd trunks remain

As

if

and torn up by

God

fire

conquer'd

all

before none conquer'd, Pity fled

Rankling, Confusion and Avengement lay

Both

satiated

keep thy count'nance hid,

Thine ears close stopp'd

sinner

For the most sacred Empress

Towers

like great ocean

whilst I draw

rapacious, grim,

Striding colossal, as if then

Death were

Dead born but animated by

the shock

Receiv'd

whirl winding

Many who saw

Him

to idiotcy

fled

were turned,

oh

no word

freighted

's

for that

Was more
His doing

and

and he interred

at a time nor yet

Death that had been and that Sin

Both were engulf 'd and otherwise

all hell

than dizzen'd by the damned daze

;

with no helping wings nor feet

But something that were more,

He

him

replete with horror

Within him millions

Was

that saw

the wide-stretching, the wide-reaching, the

Wide-waxing one

With

all

770

Second Death

cliffs,

unrein'd, uncurbed

ran or reeling roll'd at every step

Exploding

like three fiery mountains, or

780

447

IN HELL.

A comet when the lapidar is made

Ten times

too hot to bear

Innumerable

splinters all

As he through

all

it,

flying out

through space

790

that realm the splinters souls,

what a dread laboratory they

Like clay had pass'd

and now

like flinted glass

Imperishable made bore every one

His uncial character

O Wrath

That with a legal torture

set that

't

was thou

stamp

Upon them drawing

out the heart and that

Thy

signet stamping

The

self-destroyed angels

Through

Were

Woe
!

the self-destroyed

search the world

for this likeness, cleave the centre all

vain, yet I delay o'erstepping all

The bounds

of language that

my

Lose nothing of the knowledge

Unto

800

his servant

O now

song divine

God

call to

hath shown

mind

Their counsel 'gainst His Majesty, their act

Most

diabolical

on man, their whole

Performance since that memorable day

They

What

rose rebelling

who

shall

they deserve, the coiners

Of God broke open

or

mete the half

who

the mint

would break and passed

Their counterfeits for God's amongst themselves

Conceitors

first

and next on Adam-kind,

810

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

448

And

worlds there were beside but they refused

the Deniers

what have they denied 1

The Second Death

Scatt'ring before

Of

God

asks not, nor

them

but prove

to the starless site

Lucifer's term'd throne

he like a wind

North-eastern by a more than furious wind

From

the south-west oppos'd upon the heels

Of Hell

And
To

retreated thither

thrice

turn

he

him

Of daunt

also

thrice

he

dismal words were in his mouth

defiance and vibrations ran

from the deepest roots unto the

Of

his

tip

most brassy tongue but no one heard

If anything were said

but parley none

The

other tolerated, what was hid

He

then uncover'd in a bloody heap

Great ogre heads as

all for

him

if

they in a

reserv'd or

he

lair

for

them

Scarcely a meal, all these set up a roar

When him

they saw as satisfied what

They meant, he back'd unto

his soul of soul

Shaken, and then had infamy been there

But Infamy

or

what misjudging men

Call Infamy to Lucifer was not,

He

820

sank in his attempt

Up

Were

lift

shook, he shudder'd, but he shook at what

830

449

IX HELL.

And

shudder'd

The holy

so

had God, and

hosts of heaven

surely

Yea

all

And

840

the hosts with the archangels armed

He

the Outcast

Blasted and dying.

Together

if

not dead,

comet down

or ten thousand comets, all

850

flying, fainting, failing, all

but One before Him

Displayer

down

Thus alone fought God

battle, blazing as a

Upon them,

head

at their

hot ashes heaped

Discomfited and fallen and

But one

far off,

fly

drove the seraphim enthroning

That

fled

had had God not been between,

The seven archangels armed

Upon

he

although

Continually thought from that to

And

if

still

he the great

display'd, his sluices

he

Threw open

raining all that he could rain

Unwearied

shall

For Empire

The
To

fly

he that diced with God

though disenthron'd and

all

living wheels of his war-chariot broke

shivers, never, never

what although

His armies are undone they were outdone

Outside the walls of heaven nor then fled he,

Again they

fail'd

him he

Unto Dishonour, now

preferred Death

ah

now

The Second, and he thought how

G G

that

Death

excellent

860

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

450

To look

at

were that shape that once was held

So passing shocking, one that

His dira

dira

now

Welcom'd were she

Of

his misdeeds, not

Which

for

call'd herself

paramour

this the

Rewarder was

Worm

The Undying

worm

stunk within his nostrils as a

These were the Anarch's thoughts as he retired

Like one close baited where his tyrant power

870

Pageanted, Night receiv'd him and had fain

Put

to his palace-portals

when, behold

sharper point than e'er before she

felt

down

she

Pierc'd her unto the heart and

Blocking them up; nor

As

erst the outside gates

In,

now

God

his chariot stopped,

with one was forced

against the towers and awful

Thunders

He

fell

thunder'd thousands

domes

Hell then heard,

Space in the sepulchre though she was dead

She must have heard

for

something in The Deep

Outside the heavens and also quite outside

Hell

it

was heard

to rattle

back

as if

All her blank bones she rattled for the want

Of any
It

other voice, and oh

upward went,

Out on

all sides,

To go beyond

it

that voice

downward went,

and in with

itself;

beyond

liberty
itself

it

went

880


451

IN HELL.
It

went

O Man

Fallen upon Thine

Of Bozra

whom

Arms

of

enemy

his

Arbitrator

As

potter's

Liberator

Accomplisher

ware

is

though

were dash'd

all

Down

to the last foundation

The Fallen

all

strain

890
devout

great

ware

as

dash'd to pieces so

These

That deafen'd

arms

German sung

O Thou

in

O Thou

the

if yet

Klopstock, art yet unsung

Was

God

to pieces

down they

fell

with a crash

the universe and all

deafen'd so thereafter they

Heard never any more, even the Trump

Of

Resurrection

fail'd,

Own

Throne (which

And

with

Nothing

it all

is

and now were God's

impossible,) to fall

creation they

would hear

what wonder then

their ears so dunch,

That mine % but thou

900

O Muse

hast more than

made

Amends, nor with that Phrygian king who had

Egregious ears and whatsoe'er he touched

Turn'd into gold, no not with him

That would

now exchange

for all

Pactolus rolls

Over the shining sand and that alone

Sustains his

When

memory

whilst mine shall last

Pactolus no more

I hear even

Better than he and no Silenus brought

g g 2

910

452

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

In welcome to

my

fire

Thee, goddess thee

but

who

O what grace

the Thrymbrsean god

In music far excellest.

Thus God waged

His warfare that dread day absolving Fear

Of

all offences,

cumbering the wide

Hell with no thing but ruin,

The

by such

greatest

forceful

As none thought any had

That wretched crew

this the last

arguments

920

then that crew

so long so self-deceived

Straight-bolted-up their hair all in excess

Of

frenzy horrible, the mighty dead

Yet dead

not,

unconsumeable, saw

Ent'ring at will and violating

The

God

all

scragg'd saturnine shrines, o'erturning

Unto the

last in

which upon

His Hater seated held

No more

his throne

then Second Death

thought of him or would fain no more

Think of him

for a

prey lest he should

make

Him

in despite all his unmeasur'd heads

And

all his

Worse than
Sublime

Keeping

Nor

all

others as unmeasur'd and

those heads his prey

spectacle

that great Arch-gerent residence

like

God

thunders to him no more

lightnings were, the last

last priceless

one

930

453

IN HELL.
Delib'rately he spent before he put

Within

his fortress foot

Regretted Chaos

With such
In

all his

O how

lost the

effect right

whole now turned

round, aye those he

lustihood as soon he

The moment

he then

made

fell

that he fell ere he one hair's-

whilst yet he was

Breadth in his stature

fell

That name that stood

for Lucifer, or yet

If not scarce Lucifer

Had

940

brought full-handed

if

he those

at the first against

Jehovah he were then he thought upon

Jehovah's not that scorn'd that sinking throne,

There was he

left

deserted, yet

Look'd on The Face of

Most

bilious

Blindness

Would

God he blew

blow Libecchio in the

Spit at the sun

In mourning

when he

for

950

a breath
teeth,

then I saw a Groan

an awful Groan,

infinite,

made up unto her

as if

he

seize all her red-bloodshot bleeding

Torch'd tearless eyes

she

terror-proof

but

to all

She saw ere she saw God, Avhen God she heard
Rattling,

when God

But moaning

With

she saw no more endured

960

offer'd Lucifer, hoarseful

rage he turn'd suppressing, ne'ertheless

Into his heart she crept through

all his

wounds,-

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

454

Into the secret heart sorely aggrieved

"

And now

relate nor droop, the iron strings

Strike thou," Calliope thus calls, " the iron

And

all

the iron strings

And mighty
In

all

them now,

strike

them

strike

the rivers for another

at

once

or all the reeds

name

Shall change the old, some vain reviewer near

Eelating,"

Me

Zoilus

Had

O Muse
thou Ah

forbid,

strike

970

forbid

unto what

Lucifer aspir'd'? Jehovah paused

Abstaining as surpris'd, admiring or

Wond'ring that any

As he

And

receive

Him

so collected could
all

the hoary white

He

blacken'd arlablasters that

grasped

Within the high right-hand, reverberate

Thunder, and lightning

Arrows and

spears, bark'd bolts

Like scoring scourges,

God

took unto

Him

Offensive all thrown

and

lanc'd, shafts, steels

all

God

and

all

darts,

that looked

dropp'd and

all

980

that beside were arms

down and

all

God wore

(So Muse we thought,) helm plum'd, and breastplate and

that magnific shield that

by His

Blaz'd like three blazing suns

And God

all

side

disappeared

before the Great Arch-anarch stood

In the uncover'd Person

Evil saw

455

IN HELL.
Its evil in

astonishment that

left

All other at a distance, turn'd against

That Lucifer her woe-gone

Her

eyes, her nails,

990

teeth canine, whilst that afflicted sprite

That burrow'd

in his heart ten thousand

Uplifting in her horror rent

As many

pieces

His eyes

like

fell

burning coals and

Eternally unhing'd

Could see and

And might

to

it

he in silence

O who
!

stumps

all his

limbs

that Face

transcendent majesty

live'?

so magnified as

none may dare

Depict, and lumination none could stand

The
Of

roaring of the

1000

voice

the fierce lion, and the lion's jaws

Were broken His

The shadow

this

the strength, brought then to light

e'en of

Vile in the sight,

By

Hon and the

O King

all

Death

so that

he seemed

other might put out

of Terrors

where was then

Thine or that monarch's confidence

Were

ye accounted, hunger-bitten

as beasts

all

Your boasted Blasphemies, Destruction

The

side with the sure

besom

at

that used he

Through Pandemonium before him chased

The wicked,

all

the blowing blasts outsped

Millions of millions,

all

the shudd'ring sprites,

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

4:56

God

The

sinners, all the satirists of

God

help'd and put before him, Chaos last

Made Chaos on them

And
Of

heap'd, hell gorging full

overfull with ruin, all the

gloom

hell condens'd together, all the fires

Condensing drove upon them in unknown

Unqualified quantity

They thought

Had

more than

had God not added

own proper wings

fleeter

Nor one

nought

for

to fly they

fled so fleet

All their

One

of

to

ten others each

them

fell out,

so close

none interposed,

there was something burning aft

behind yea closer than

A ploughshare,

hell a hillock overturned

Unto the base

thus altogether put

The hold

of Lucifer the king, and

The

ponderosities of hell beside,

Hell

Wrath too vomited their

1030

as well

unrelenting fury set upon

Their back deep fleshing

He

all

entrails out

Upon them and supreme Revenge

With

1020

than the whole, nor rank was kept,

None neighbour'd
Burning

fled they ne'er

all

her iron claws,

smote them straight beyond unto a Pit

Without a bottom

The edging edge

Blank look'd blank when

she look'd her senses gone

o'er

457

IN HELL.

Eddying, and the foremost angels

Kenn'd

who
by that stop

that stopp'd short arresting

Necessity herself, a thund'rous sound

Was

hers unknowing what compell'd, and

To her amaze
Or what

who

compell'd, but

Air-emptied

to that fathomless

infinity,

God

by word

no

Something beyond beyond wherein

ever been

He

Be evermore, unto
The nethermost

was

first

the will

the might of the potential

Shall balance

Had

1040

not,

if

God

and would

the core of

ne'er

all

abysses, lorn of light,

Filled with quenchless fire to Destiny

1050

Imperative she points, a tragic sound

One long appealing

groan, then dark and deep

All the rebellious went instant down,

Perdition, Panic, Pain, Plague, Pestilence

Worse looking than worst Famine, Loathesomeness

That made mute Misery and freckled Vice

Look

On

healthful, Putrefaction,

fire

set

of Hell phosphoric, Hell also,

Typhurgo with a more than

Gore-distillating

Gone

Darkness

hellish shape

scowling, Hurricane

to the climax,

Enmity

its

own

Brain gnawing, grissly baleful Battle, Fear,

lOb'O

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

458

Folly, Fury, Alarm, Hate, Hopelessness,

Madness that would have

shriek'd,

Woe in

Wonder, Thunder, Dismay, Damnation,

the

wake

Blast,

Blasphemy, Error, Undelight, Tumult

Cower'd, Crime, Guilt, Pride

down they went,

Unform'd

all his

for ever,

and with

their forms

crew

Great God's Adversary, Attainter, and

Derider yet not ended, in his hands

His battle-axe, remorseless, in

1070

distinct

Defiance, dark, stonily fix'd his eyes

If woe-struck, he the

God found
The

the Last, and those

last,

not written in the

fearful,

Book

of Life,

and the unbelieving, the

Abominable, murderers, and the

Whoremongers,

And

liars,

sorcerers, idolaters

The Undying

Worm

and

The misbegotten had same time

In that great

Of

Originally

made

Matter was

When

first

then

God

for matter

mind, this seal

God

it

Lake

when
mind

took and with twelve times

all

that were unused,

inviolable o'er their heads

Fixation sure attesting.

1080

a wondrous seal

created and for

Twelve thousand thunders

Drove

their part

final gulfing in the

brimstone-fire

all

459

IN HELL.

Thus

Were

finish'd

God

Triumphant back,

Which

And

his cerule chariot turned

diffus'd celestial

brush'd to brightest

love omnific

these wars

the golden zones,

the glorious gates

all

all

Of hallow'd heaven thrown open

The King, The Conqueror, The

And

Prince of

With

all

acclamation

Shouting "

Ye

to receive

First

now

Thou

all

His hasting hosts

worlds! ye worlds join, join with us!

To Him

Who

is

come,

heavens rejoice

the glory

God

and

Thy judgments now

King

the

glorify

:"

1100

give

of saints

Thy Name ]

are manifest

Prophets and ye apostles

all

God and

thou earth fear

shall not fear

Through

Him

they ent'ring sung " Captivity

first,"

Is captive

Begot

the powers in earth and heaven,

Glory, praise, power, dominion unto

Salvation

1090

day

rejoice

thus they sung

the six bless'd heavens that yet the youth

Untainted kept, "

God

alleluia,

Omnipotent reigneth and he

shall reign

Ever and ever."

Now

whilst

all

these passed

As reckon'd by mankind long

centuries

Appear'd to lag and

the Jews

loiter, to

1110

::

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

460

Calamitous exceeding since the Lord

His

life laid

And power
Of

down

to take

for

it

He

power had

up

to lay

end

as at the

three short days the blessed Saviour did

Dating from that their miserable

Through

civil strife

Upon them by
From

and massacre

tale

to

war

the eagles Titus loosed

1120

Tibur, desolation as the world

Ne'er saw before nor since was Salem's,

Her

children sold, such as surviv'd dispersed

A bye-word to
Mistress to

the nations

then was

Rome

where they Adgistis and

Gaul

Euris ador'd, unto the farther

Where bearded Druids

And under
To

all

isles

mystic empire held

old gnarl'd oaks their system taught

the initiate

or from the Seven

Hills passing eastward to the Indus she

Claim'd

all

the

swamps of Babylon, the

pools

And

solitary sites that

Still

owned with the lynx

The

truthful prophet lies foretold the whole

Thus Rome

Of

Nineve
to

Susa where

that in her catalogue great

names

ancient empire for her property

Stood,

'yond administration,
:

so rul'd she

Calling herself " Eternal " so they thought

1130

THE CRUCIFIXION

461

IN HELL.

Their kingdom the fond Pharoas,

Embalming

where

is

Rome ?

all their

dead

we

look,

in vain

Foxes have gleer'd from out the casements wide

Of

the palatinate, wolves prowl'd the courts

Or

in

them

1140

through the circus dogs

litter'd,

The Campus Martius and suburra packed

Hunted

as wild,

Augustus

The

The

all

strolled

prostrate shafts the portico

capitol

Strewn

and where Maecenas

encumber 'd,

the

way

fallen roofs

o'er the

Tarpeian tower

vultures and within the sanctuaries

Hatching polluted

marble ruins

The

senatorium, and foetid pools

The

fair

Campagna

And where
That

Roma

the gods

peel'd, of

all

tilled

1150

the villas fallen

from

the kingdoms round

all

Migdol the Sabaean

Bel boweth down, Nebo

is

stoop'd together

Ophion and Eurynome and Ops,

Zeus by the Pelasgian poets feigned,

And

others older ere the Pleiades quired

Or Hebon burning

for Irene froze

Diceos forlorn, where they Ephaistos taught

The cave

the country Egyaleus swayed

Remain, and where Minerva

rul'd a

Riseth but not the Parthenon

town

now none

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THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

462

To Eleusina
None

seek, hierophants

there the myst'ries wait nor Ceres'

who

Kindling a torch from iEtna through the world

For her

lost

daughter roam'd

the oracles

Are dumb, a mightier than Alcides hath

The Delphian
Elide adorns

Wave

tripod seiz'd

where

no temple now

Jupiter's once stood

the rank reeds, no statuary carves

1170

His images Another in that place

Is found nor there alone, where'er the sun

Shines unto Jesus orisons arise

And

vespers with the

Unknown
Some

moon

to the Phoenician

All, all are

gone

and

as old

where Owhyee

as the Attic sweet

The halcyon-ocean

in languages

studs

and

no more

th'

Grsecia's gods

Olympians now

Disguis'd on love or lust or war the earth

Wander; upon Mount Latmus Luna

But no Diana

to

her shepherd boy

Steals secret on the

Runs wild none

The

Of

beam

Honour

the Paphian bower

off'ring doves unto the

last of all deserted

lovers

see

by her crowd

Pallas no Theoricons

(Eneides none

Cecropides

Leontides, Antiochides nor those

dame

1180

463

IN HELL.

Grave Panathees are kept

no archon-king

Votes now the olive or the laurel crown

Erigone no orgies hath observed

The

drunk, or at the fetes

vot'ries jolly

Scierian

None

Hecate under the

lote tree

where Zamolxis, Mithra, Karedwen

The Arkite

Him

1190

goddess, Cambdos, Chronos, where

that they serv'd at Denderah,

The Echo answers " Where

where \

?" the penates

gone

Even the noble from the plough'd up hearths

Of

the patricians

stern Fabricius,

Curius or Scipio none claim for kin

Julius

is

but a name, his line extinct

Like theirs
Proscrib'd

No

no lemurs where

now

flit

th'

unburied

lie

Erynnys there are none,

Atropos with shears, no altars smoke

Augurs

Nor

at

hand, libations none are poured

victims bled in sacrifice to gods

Long

By

1200

since prov'd false

even the Nilus herd

the triumvir brought, Sate,

Isis,

Myrionymnia, Phthah and numbers more

Configurate dualities abstract,

And

quantities

unknown but

to the priest

L210

Well-learn'd from Asmodeans, are depart,

Their shrines oerturn'd, their imag'd chambers used

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

464

E'en for the lime

kilns.

For God's anger was

Arous'd against them to destroy

Howl'd those who

all, all

serv'd for the destruction come,

Hearts melted, fear and sorrow, pangs and pains

As when

Them came

woman
:

now

upon

travaileth

doleful creatures occupy

Their houses, owls and dragons use them

God hath wrought

This

Cleansing where

Roma

all

the lustrals pouring out

1220

rul'd.

The Crescent

pales

O'er the Osmanlis ling'ring on permiss

The

Antichrist in

Mahomet undone

Eternal horror his and silence like

The

dead, no conclamation rais'd no friend

Attends his sordid couch, so

So

let

him

Warring

Ye

let

him

die

perish he that wasted earth,

against the witnesses

all

birds that fly gather yourselves together

That ye

his flesh

may

eat.

Thus

Gone

is

the Faith

forth through Negroland, Niger hath heard

Along the banks

so that the idols e'en

Of Barbary nod and

the diviners there

Diviner light espy than Thales or

Zeno

discuss'd

these are the heathen by

1230

;;

465

IN HELL.

The haughty Rabbins

call'd

who talmuds forged

And

multiplied cabbala scarce worth

The

ethical philosophies of Stoa,

Now

1240

valueless the whole since Light

and Life

Are by the Word of God unto us come

Than

find " Republic," so to speak,

we

Therein

Plato's happier,

high and low

alike,

Learn'd and unlearn'd, the monarch and his slave

Before Jehovah

Nor

who hath

equall'd all

that " Utopia" fram'd so well adroit

In Atalantis by ingenious mind,

Compare with the inheritance

Nor

of saints

1250

those the Gnostic, nor the paradise

"With fleshy houri

Those earthquake torn

fill'd.

In early ages from the olden world,

From

the rude Esquimaux's and those

Once masters unto Mexico, thence

Magellan's

Straits,

by lying

Reduc'd, what viols theirs

From wide Birman unto

The

to

Idols ador'd

and

all

Chinese

the Islanders

terrible their plagues.

But one remains, an empire

Muse

far

Comorin and Cape of Hope

From Horn

to

Thibet, and thence

Mantchou's, with

soft

tribes

spirits all

The

Red

vast

as

yet

unsung, where Brahma and Veeshnu,

H H

1260

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

466

Soeva, Lutzmee, with heads, breasts, arms and legs

Strange multiplied the simple ones deceived

She too whose gates long ages

since

were borne

As

trophies to Ghuznee, her mansion razed

By

the fierce conq'ror

from his tomb renowned

Despoil'd those portals they return but

who

Receives % Somnauth's no more, her priests are dead,

Her name

well-nigh forgotten; Juggernauth

Greatest of

His car

Who

in festival, but

he

what time
is fled

him informed, the Peninsula

Is freed

What
Of

all detestable

from his cognominates as well,

o'er the universal earth

remains

idol gods is but the senseless

And

1270

form

blank mortalities and skeleton things.

Thou

too,

Ephesus

so glorious once,

So planted thou and Smyrna, Pergamos

And

Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelph

And

Laodicea, ye churches Seven

How

were your candlesticks remov'd

As ye
To

the

word of patience and

Christ observ'd and kept

And now

1280

first

what

so long

love

light

was yours

with such apostates from them both

These periods through, your judgments

Behold their

ruins.

Christendom

::

467

IN HELL.

Now

that other

theme

The

last,

The

day-spring dawns millenial and our Star

the dearest

from decaying shades

Serenely rising peace and plenty brings

The

arbitress of times

1290

and seasons, sure

In God's eternal providence, enthroned

Sits

England the supreme, magnific, lone

Queen

of the

West her

Her governmental

arts

her arms prevail,

unities are fixed

From Bheerings

to

If rustic comely

The

States

her daughters these

thence Columbia through

The lengthning whole who asketh

What

doest thou'? not one but all observe

And honour
Queen

or desires

if

obey not Albion

1300

Queen

of the East she rules, from all the mouths

Of Gunga

gathering her merchant

fleets

Richer than those in Ezion-geber built

Trading

to Ophir, to

Calcutta

by her

Of Ava, Assam

her palac'd heart

will alone the Lords

hold, Caubul,

Wild though he be

Nepaul

that Issachar he rounds

His neck and loves Britannia's queenly hand,

Whilst Ali craving

For but a smile

to

her

offers

Suez

impotent Turkey hands

Jerusalem's keys protesting that the time

h h 2

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"

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

468

Should come when Christians on Islam wait

For

pity's

But

as she sinks "

Can any

sake in the expiring need,

England

who but

my

trust?" cries she, "

thee

testament

O thou magnanimous be thine alone

Now the celestial cities open stand

Wide by

invictrix Britain's armies thrown,

Great tribute

His brother

offer'd;

to the deaf Tartarian

Cried to save him,

Who

nerv'd our

Queen

he who claims the sun

gods

One above them

arm and

1320

rules

victory ordained.

of the North, the South, th' admiring world

For wisdom

to

her cometh and for grace,

And

finds beatitude within her

Her

trophies

fill

arms

the world, her martial airs

Follow the hours through the engirdled earth

Continual so that no sun rise hath she,

No

setting: Spine of

Of

state she all

Fear

upholdeth

for the future,

Fate, she Napoleon

government and Axe

cease

Fortune
fell'd,

's

earth

Albion's

own

greater than he

son she bore nor more shall wanting lack

Like Wellington through ages, mighty ones

Shall bear her banner, arrogance shall cease

The haughty

in her presence

bondmen they

1330

469

IN HELL.

Bondwomen
Of

the satraps broken, the nabobs

all

Hurl'd from their thrones and

Which shook
Thus

the staff

all their princesses,

[1340

pomp brought low

all their

the nations and destroy 'd mankind.

in her house for ever she shall dwell

Filling the world with

cities,

She buildeth, branching

thousands

like our native

Throng'd with green leaves and

fruit

now
oak

and meat

for all

Shining abroad, she gath'reth corn; olives

And

grapes in

all

her borders they abound.

Crown'd Queen

Victoria! thy great

Worn

in thy

Augusta's

The

name

diadem

life

thou Calliope

Urania! stars

my

who

'tis

1350

when

auburn

and honour promis'd

Her name above

Of Time,

hail

as bright adorn

lightnings sing'd

Long

Muses

let the loving

locks, to

me

placed

if I

the sacrilegious reach

done

now goddess

Write thou in joy and gladness,

at her feet
all

her plebs

Killing fat beeves and sheep and eating flesh

And

drinking wine, and of her revenues

Gold

And

chariots numberless, of finest flour,

silver reckon'd stones, jewels

and horse

Harts, fowls her servants eating, every liege

Under

his vine

and

fig tree

princes wait

1360

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

470

Crowding around
For favour

them sought

her, kings unto

off'ring gifts of costly gerns,

Collars of finest gold with cunninge

Invaluable

all

wrought

her towns are like

Great palaces, and nothing wants where'er

She turns the ready eye

Our Empress needs

Her fame

too

no

officers

happy they who run.

and just

in all the nations, wise

In government with fortitude of

1370

soul,

Firmness and temperance, severely great

In manner, lov'd her country,

Of

the steps

all

her resort with embassies are thick

From

the white-headed Sclave unto the

Turban'd

thus

God hath

Moor

her establish'd and

Delighting in her for the throne rais'd up

Her
Of

heritors

her halls the voices ring

the young Caesar and the royal seed

Unto her and her princely Consort

These ne'er

given,

shall fail a trusty buckler theirs

Stronger than Vulcan for iEneas forged,

Unto them a palladium none can

steal,

Integrity of heart, uprightness in

Their way, so these their children she shall see

Rejoicing as their mother,

Also with her rejoicing.

all

the

Muse

Land

divine

1380


471

IN HELL.

No

task I

That

Her

long years do thou attend

set,

on thy tablets close inscribed

footstool,
acts,

her deeds, in war, in peace no room

Leaving innumerable they

For

Upon

first

write thou

with diamond point

far posterities

Recording

let

me

thy book fondly her

first

in

name

hand

inscribe,

" Victoria reigns!" Victoria reigns,

Thereafter, that her hill

Of Bashan,

Her garments
Her

is

now

write,

as the hill

that her enemies on the head

Were wounded and

Their blood

1390

the tongues of dogs lick'd up

and grace upon thy pages pour

smell of cassia and myrrh,

1400

clothing of wrought gold and needlework

Most

excellent,

and many her desired

For her rare beauty

Invok'd, Religion

No more

Nearly

Come

short time devout

our care

now

let
:

War

thy sacred voice

Vengeance and ye

once I calFd infernals

Made on

thou before

yet claims but sound of

In consummation come

Whom

thou our Diva bless

Perpetual at her side

Thy neophyte

and

all

your prints

the airs of heaven, the brine of sea,

effac'd

although they be I charge

hither hither

all

the traces

left

1410

THE WARS OF JEHOVAH

472

Of

the fallen angels, Nephilim, or men,

Shadows surviving though

to tatters torn

In God's great indignation

Religion

from the face of earth do thou

Sweep them
Strewn

for ever

let the

if it exist;

Wither'd to nothing
!

Faith

sisters,

Inditing

with

Charity
to

all his

breed

now

th' historian bless

before them both

these dreadful wars

them the woes of Troy %

failure needs
fell

and thou before

what

(The suns

Who

down

must

be,

no

the while,)

carol

mine

but for Thou

Throneth in the Heaven of heaven, Lord God!

Almighty! Thou! Thy celebrator were

Annihilated

if

my

sounding lyre

Over the dawning worlds were heard such time

As

the Arch-gerent Lucifer in pride

Levied against Thy Majesty with loathe

Recording his depravities

Who

1420

up with Hell remain ever and aye

Seal'd

Much

Christ he fled

And The Undying Worm

Thy

when

Night in vain her shade

call, invisible

Hope

limbs of Death

upon the winds tramundane speed

Calcin'd to ashes

We

land the waves

o'er the

Affright,

with thine arm

O Thou

judgeth hearts and trieth

all

the reins

[1430

!!

473

IN HELL.
in mourning, of the soul before

Of men,

Thy Throne Thy

Long while
The

mourning

After the rain

for gladness

Of

Thou
1440

it

chang'd the times

Thy Throne

are come,

shineth and the earth

Her youth renewing now

And

art

Death and Hell

the refreshing from

Mount up

Supreme

I waited for the Lord, behold

terrible reversal,

Shut up

Of

lyrist stood

let grateful

song

heaven and every kindred, tongue

to

people choral join: glorious day

resurrection for a buried world

The sound

The

of wings of cherubim are heard

1450

glorious companies aforetime seen

In Mahanaim

Reaching

Now

I fall before

Adoring

servant

Thee

replaced

O Thou

in Glory

my

Make him
;

its

be

'till

with a

1 strike in heaven,

Of kings

for ever

spirit's

from

understand,"

strings attuned

Fit for the song of Moses and the

let it

of saints

saidst to Gabriel

harp

crowned

in peace depart,

O Thou King

of Ulai, "

to receive

is

Lord

Thou who

The banks
Deign

God's ladder

to heaven.

Thy

let

Lamb

hand

Jehovah crown'd The King

and The Lord of

FINIS.

lords,

1460

SOME OF THE IMAGES, WITH THE PROPER NAMES

IN THIS EPIC POEM.

Mgeria, 5
iEolian, 6
jEschylus, 40
jEtolian, 69, 271
JEthiop, 79

^Eolus, 84

^Etnean, 140
iEgean, 163
Mneas, 188, 470
^Esculapian, 274

289
Mgle, 294
^Egyptian, 295
jEgyptia, 336
jEschyle, 380
^Etna, 462
Actaeon, 49
Acrizius, 322
Actea, 322
Abel, 338
Adamic, 342
Acheron, 80, 345
Adsch, 346
Achad, 367
Abram, 368
Abyssinia, 107
Aaron, 369
Abimeleck, 372
Abdon, 372
Adorations, 323
Adsherac, 396
Acostras, 255
Achiles, 258

JEelcus,

Absyrtus, 261
Accandrar, 271

Acheron, 288
Adam, 48, 300

Adamites, 300
Adonis, 312
Adonai, 313
Achaia, 317
Achaian, 70
Acarynthimos, 122
Adrastus, 143
Admetus, 162

Abysm,

170, 244

460
322
Alcumena, 322
Aladdin, 332
Adgistis,

Alia,

Alexander, 113, 376

Alba-longa, 381
Alessine, 421

Alarm, 458
Albion, 162, 467

467

Abhorrence, 176
Acer, 191
Ades, 6

Ali,

Achilles, 7

Alcinous, 132

Adramelec, 14

Alban, 156
Alyattes, 169

Adrian, Mole of, 16

Acanthian, ] 6

Abaddona, 37
Adorants, 56
Agra, 8
Aglope, 49
Ajax, 75
Ahithopel, 89

Alp, 272
Alaric,

275

Allia, river,

Almonides, 191

Amanane, 16
Amycus, 50

Agamemnon, 117

Ammon,

Air, 117

Amy clean,

Ail, eternal, 157

Agafrimenos, 271
Agiphine, 271
Aganippe, 304
Agave, 318

Aglaia, 322

Agag, 373
Ahaz, 374, 377
Ahaziah, 374
Ahijah, 377
Ahriman, 378
Ahasuerus, 381

396
Aceldama, 433

Affrac,

206

Albericus, 16
Alcides, 46, 191, 263
Alecto, 58

85, 373,

98
Amphiaraiis, 115
Amazonians, 125
American, 128
Amphon, 192
Amphictions, 234
Amphitrite, 303
Amalthean, 304
Amran, 311
Amphinome, 317
Amatheia, 317
Ampithoe, 317
Amalec, 370
Anion, 37.")
Amos, .">77

379

476

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

Amenophis, 381

Armada, 91

Amana, 408

Argus, 136
Areon, 152
Archer, The, 164
Argive, 188
Araxes, 206

Amphitryon, son of, 433

Amaziah, 374
Antiope, 319
Antigone, 337
Ananim, 367
Anubis, 368
Antiochus, 376
Antiochides, 462
Antichrist, The, 464
Antinous, 251

Antwerp, 252
Antilles, 100
Antrashing, 190
Andromeda, 241
Andes, 10
Antaeus, 43
Ancaeus, 66
Antisan, 69
Aphrodite, 321

Apseudes, 317
Apollyon, 2, 14, &c.
Apollo, 18, 121
Apennines, 135
Aphorotine, 152
Aphrasac, 225, 342
Apelles, 322
Apollodorus, 385

Apthos, 421
Arcturus, 246
Argos, 322
Arabic, 333

Aricon, 219
Arioch, 37
Assyrian, 15, 324
Asia, 15

Asmodai, 37
Aspathyn, 151
Aspramont, 156
Astonishings, 184
Astrachan, 185
Ashdod, 290
Askalon, 290
Astyoche, 313
Astraeus, 330
Asrac, 344
Assur, 367
Ascenaz, 367
Ashtaroth, 372
Asa, 374
Asaph, 377
Ashima, 378
Ashoron, 421

Asmodeans, 463
Assam, 467
Aquilon, 389
Athos, 368
Attic, 462
Atropos, 463

Aristarchus, 342
Ararat, 363

Athens, 112, 261, 382

Arach, 367

Atrine, 278
Atlas, 134, 290
Atalanta, 313
Athos, 135

Arphaxad, 368
Arad, 371
Arnon, 371
Ar, 371
Aristobulus, 376
Armenia, 377
Arbaces, 379
Aristophanes, 380
Aristotle, 383
Aristippus, 383
Arctic, 389

Armageddon, 444
Arkite goddess, 463
Archimedes, 250
Arges, 254
Argestes, 266
Arethuse, 304
Arcadians, 312

Archimedians, 80

Atlantic, 33,

262

Athcoron, 190
Atoncryntal, 223, 342
Atys, 27

36
Athamas, 49
Ate, 59
Auster, 35
Aulis, 70
Austrian, 114
Australasia, 134
Aurora, 136, 296
Augusta, 163, 297
Autolycus, 192
Autopsia, 380
Augustus, 461
Ava, 375, 381, 467
Attica,

Avernian, 76, 295

Avalon, 161
Awatska, 232
Azazeel, 116
Azariah, 377
Azrael, 6

B
Baal, 15, 372, &c.

Babylonia, 17
Basan, 48, 471
Balearic, 72

Bacchantic, 75
Barmecide, 100
Battle, 117,

457

Baldwin, 156
Balance, The, 164
Baltic, 231
Bactriana, 248

Babylon, 275
Barachos, 278
Bacchic tigers, 295
Baruk, 366
Babel, 367, 375
Banoth, 371
Baal-peor, 371
Baal-gad, 372
Balaam, 372
Baasha, 374
Barbary, 382
Beethoven, 189
Beer, 371
Bezek, 372
Bethlehem- Jud ah, 372
Bethel,

374

Benjamin, 376
Belus, 378
Belshazzar, 379
Bereashith, Book, 384
Bether, Mountains of, 409
Bethsaida, 410
Bel, 25, 461
Bellona, 73
Belial,

297

Bellerophon, 302
Beelzebub, 348, 410
Berenice, 351
Bithynian, 251

Birman, 465
Biscayan, 122
Blanc, Mount, 249

Black Sea, 183

Blasphemy, 190, 458
Blank, 231, 456
Blackness, 431

477

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES,

Blast,

Cambodian, 124

458

Bheering's Straits, 467

Bcetian Thebes, 329
Boaz, 372
The.
Pit,
Bottomless

414
Book of Remembrance.
423

Calliope, 125, &c.

Canace, 133
Carnatic, 133
Care, 141, 244
Canis, 164
Cayster, 185
Castor, 192

Bozra, 451
Book of Life, 458
Borean, 56
Boreal, 81

Cain, 230
Caligula, 233
Capitoline, 234
Castilian King, 247

Bourbon, 275
Brutus, 13
Britons, 13

Callirhoe,

46
128
Brocken, 134
Brennus, 206
Brontes, 254
Brito, 296
Bresils, 310
Brahma, 465
Britannia, 467
Buckland, 310
Burn, 292
Busiris, 260, 370
BufFon, 319
Byzantine, 433
Byzantium, 177
Briaraean,

Britishers,

Calcabrina, 345

Cainan, 355

254
Caurus, 260
Calais, 266
Caucasus, 275
Campanian, 288
Cairo, 295
Caledonia, 297
Callianira, 303
Carthage, 316
Cato, 316
Callianassa, 317
Calepine, Sir, 329
Cain, 338
Cainites, 340
Cecropides, 462
Ceuta, 262
Ceres, 266, 315, 462
Cephalus, 332
Cercyon, 191
Cercopian, 39
Celtic, 41
Centaurians, 41

Canaan, 371
Caherman, 378
Calca, 381
Calcas, 385
Carisenda, 392
Cacus, 397

Ceto, 43

Capernaum, 410

Christendom, 466
Chronos, 463
Chinese, 381, 465
Chosroes, 379
Chaldee, 378

Callimachus, 419

420
Campagna, The, 461
Cambdos, 463
Cape of Hope, 231, 465
Calcutta, 467
Caubul, 467
Caesar, The young, 470

Caryatides,

Caesar, 13, 207, 341

Cassius, 13

Caracalla, 13

Calysto, 16
Cataline, 29

Cadmus,

49,

Cerberus, 50
Chimaeras, 50
Chorazin, 410
Charity, 472
Christians, 468

Chemosh, 373
Chettim, 367
Chasluhim, 367
Chale, 367
Chalanne, 367
Chanaan, 366
Chus, 366
Cham, 358
Chaos, 2

254

Chilian, 16

Charybdis, 46
Cholchians, 59
Choraebus, 70
China, 81

Charlemagne, 156
Chance, 90, 244
Christ, 127, 315
Cherphi), 148
Charsathon, 152
Chaonian, 185
Chien-tien, 189
Chrysaor, 254
Chiron, 264
Chian, 315
Ciampolo, 62
Cinyras, 251
Circe,

187

Circassians, 121
Cidli,

365

Citheron, 380
Cicero, 382

Cimmerian, 246
Cinna, 419
Clymene, 104, 241
Clares, 25
Clarence, 115
Clio, 117, 259,

&c.
Clamour, 126, 244

Clotho, 330
Conflict, 140, 244
Corynetes, 260
Constantinopolis, 275
Conscience, 286
Corybantes, 313
Corinth, bronze of, 146
Confusion, 186, 244
Coliseum, 287
Corybantes, 218
Copiabo, 10
Copae, 22
Corinthus, 46
Conquest, 77
Cotopax, 83
Cortez, 98

Columbia, 98, 467

Contempt, 115
Cocytus, 122
Corruption, 365
Confusion, 416
Comorin, 165
Coelus,

275

Croastor, 88
Crete, 252, 381

Crothor, 278
Cretan, 320

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

478
Cromyon sow, 149
Croesus, 182,

381

Crimenos, 191
Craeus, 192

Crime, 196
Cretan, 218
Cromwell, 39
Crescent, The, 75, 464
Crime, 458

Cneph, 25, 380

Cumean, 348
Cuthah, 375
Cusco, 15
Cupid, 18
Cuba, 204
Curetes,

313

Curds, 336

184
Cybele, 218
Cyllenius,

Cyrenaic sect, 85, 218

Cygneans, 29
Cyanean, 43
Cyclopean, 108, 353
Cynocephalus, 368
Cyrus, 376
Cyaxares, 379, 381

Cymbeline, 424
Cyclop, 250
Cyrrha's grot, 297

Cymodoce, 303
Cymothoe, 303
Cybele, 312
Cythera, 317
Cyprian, 322
Cycladean, 332
Cyreanites, 340

Darfour, 213
Darpathrus, 214

Doto, 303

Danton, 215
Dardans, 217
Daedalus, 99

Druidical, 15

Delhi, 9

Dryas, 253
Draco, 263, 383

Death, 42, 130, &c.

Death the Second, 446
Destiny, 50, 290, &c.

Dross, 244

Dremos, 278
Dryads, 303
Druids, 460
Dusk, 244
Dyname, 316

Deep, 144

Earth, 6, 42, 313, 323

Eber, 367

Demogorgon, 181, 275

Deformity, 254
Deadness, 264
Delphian, 290, 462
Dexamene, 303
Desire, 318
Desires, 323
Delia, 323

Eblis, halls of, 135

Echionian Thebes, 60
Echinades, 167
Ecbatan, 381
Echoes, 438
Echidna, 254
Eden, 337

Desolation, 334, 431

Deucalion, 363

Edom, 248, 371, 377

Edomite, Herod the, 377

Deccan, 364
Deborah, 372
Delilah, 373
Demruth-dive, 378
Demiurgus, 380
Dejoces, 381
Democritus, 382
Demosthenes, 385
Denderah, 463
Discord, 244
Dira, 289

Edda, 58
Edfou, 106
Egyaleus, 461
Egypt, 368
Ehud, 372

Dido, 332

Darkness, 17, 144, 164

Danae, 45
Damien, 61
Dante, 62, 430
Danaians, 92
Day, god of, 104
Damascus, 156
Day of Doom, 186, 241

Dread, 244

Delos, 67
Destruction, 116,151, &c.
Dejanira, 132
Despair, 141, 146, &c.
Delphic, 142

Disorder, 309

Dagon's feast, 290

Damnation, 292
Dardanian, 297
Dane, 326
Daphne, 332
David, 373
Dan, 374
Daniel, 377
Darius, 113, 379

Dodonaim, 367

Diospolis, 337
Dismay, 458
Diceos, 461
Diana, 25, 462
Diva, 5, 471

Ekiel, 14, &c.

Ekron, 290
Elis, 104
Electra,

254

Electryon, 260
Elf-land,

318

Eloo trees, 333

Elements, The, 344
Elisa,

367

Elim, 370
Elon, 372
Eli,

373

Elah, 374

Dis, 6

Elisha,

50
Diomed, 68
Dismay, 149
Dieman's Land, 174
Dinocrates, 177
Diocletian, 204
Doab, 17
Dorian, 25
Doriscus, 78
Dodonian, 241, 255

Eliakim, 375

Dirae,

Doris, 241

374
376
377

Eliashib,
Elijah,

Eleusina, 380, 462

Elephanta, 381
Eloa, 386
Elysian, 5
Elora, 25
Eleutherian, 26
Elishan, 73
Eleian field,

HO

479

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

Elba, 166
Eleusis, 191
Elohim, 244, 311, &c.

Empire, 151
England, 59, 297, 467
Enceladus, 76
Envy, 77
Endymion, 251
Ennius, 383
En-gedi, 387
Enyo, 433
Endor, Witch of, 344
Enos, 355
Eous, 104
Epirus, 288
Epicurus, 382
Ephiaistos, 461
Ephesus, 466
Ephatreen, 139
Erotrac, 397
Eryx, 135
Erynnys, 154, 463
Erisichthous, 185
Erichtho, 185
Erymanthian boar, 259
Erigone, 463
Eros, 303
Eriphile, 321

Evechous, 381
Eve, 300
Even, 310
Evil-merodoch, 379
Evening, 51

454
Exampsal, 152
Exandus, 153
Ezekiel, 377
Ezion-geber, 467
Evil, 151,

Galatea, 303
Galileo,

320

Ganilion, 327

Gaza, 367
Ganges, 381
Galen, 384
Gallilee, 401
Gagtulian,

40

Gentiles, 15

Georgian, 127

Geryon, 165, 430

Fate, Book of, 169
Fate, 6, 174, 281, 289
Fame, 50, 234, 436
Father-land, 55

Fancy, 57
Fatuis's, 241

Fezzanee, 97

god

of,

Gellius,

385

420
German, 451
Genii,

Gentile, 7

Falern, 315
Faith, 361, 380, 472
Fabricius, 463
Fear, 457
Fears, 56
Fire,

Geysers, 254
Genesis, 320
Genseric, 340

78

344
Fire Etern, 391

Fire, genii of

Ghosts, 56

Ghuznee, 466
Giours, 73
Giants, The, 140
Gilead, 261
Gilgal, 372, 278
Gideon, 372
Gloriel, 18

Glooms, 56
Glaucus, 119
Gloom, Eternal, 123
Erythraean, 432
Glauce, 303
Flame, 144
Esquimaux, 465
Fortunate Isles, 137
Gladness, 315
Espagniols, 98
Gnossian, 137
Eternity, 6, 186, 420, 42C Fortune, 163
Gorgonites, 43
Formian, 315
Eteocles, 47
Gorgon, 261
Fok, 397
Etham, 369
Gorgons, 67
Folly, 458
Euripides, 380
Freedom, sons of, 216
Gothland, 84
Eunoe, 418
Freedom, ghost of, 228
Golconda, 127
Euris, 460
France, 252
Gog, 129
Eurynome, 461
Francis, St., of Assizi,295 Golden Fleece, The, 266
Eurydice, 261
Frankenstein's, a, 335
Gordian Chord, The, 306
Eunymo, 278
Franconia, 338
Gomer, 367
Eusthynes, 278
Frank, 346
Goshen, Land of, 369
Euclid, 308
Frenzy, 115
Graecia, 79
Euterpe, 319
Frosts, 120
Greek, 4
Eurippus, 320
Fury, 143, 458
Grothor, 272
Eunonie, 321
Furies, 49
Grime, 2S9
Europa, 322
Graces, The, 303
Fucci, 397
Euphrosyne, 322
Greccan, 445
Eurynome, 322
Groan, a, 453
Euphrates, 368
Gallic, 13
Guilt, 196, 458
Euphranos, 26
Gaudaloupe, 100
Gunga, 467
Euxine, 43
Gwalior, 17
Gath, giant of, 132
Euganean, 61
Gallilean, 1(52
Eunaeus, 113
Gabriel, 164, 386
H
Euryale, 149
TIavaphon, 1 1. fee.
Gauls, 166
Eumenides, 186
Fright, 128, 244
Flanders, 128

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

480

Hippolyte, 59
Hibernian, 85

Hadriel, 21

Hades, 41
Hamilcar, son
Hate, 143

Haroun

al

of,

130

Raschid, 156

Hallar, 192

Hammonak, 271
Harrinthrytor, 372

Hamadryads, 303
Hafez, 304
Hamlet, 326
Hazeroth, 370
Halak, 372
Hamath, 375
Hanani, 377
Habakkuk, 377
Haggai, 377
Harec, 397
Haephestion, 312
Hasmus, 9
Hedjas, 26

Heber, 27
Hesiod, 47, 380

Herculaneum, 59
Heliodorus, 67
Hecuba, 73
Heaven, fabled god of, 78
Hell, fabled god of, 78
Hercules, 121, 262
Hermes, 121
Hecla, 133
Hebridean, 177
Hecate, 185, 293
Hebe, 241
Hermaphroditus, 251
Hellenes, 252
Heliogabalus, 257
Hector, 258
Hecatompylos, 275
Helicon, Zion's, 302
Hebrews, 311
Hesperides, 318
Hermes, 319
Henoch, 355
Hevila, 366
Heber, 368
Hebron, 373
Hezekiah, 375
Herod, the Edomite, 377
Helios, 380
Hellena, 401
Hermon, 408
Hebon, 461
Hector, 258
Hindoostan, 5

Himmala, 100
Himmel, 141
Hippomedon, 126, 263
Hierosalem, 275
Hippocrene, 304
History, 320
Hippolita, 322

Hiram, 373
Hopes, 56
Homer, 125
Hound of Hades, 148
Horror, 155, 157
Honour, 234, 428
Hopra, 271
Hollos, 346
Hor, Mount, 371
Hosea, 374, 377
Hot, 433
Hopelessness, 458
Hurons, 114
Hyprostrar, 271
Hyperion, 312
Hymettan, 316
Hyrcanian, 415
Hyacinthus, 73
Hylosaph, 192
Hylas, 251
I

Iapyx, 35
Iapetus, 247
Icke,

37

254

Idumean, 318
Ida, 136, 296
Idalian doves, 218
Idaean boy, 251
Iddo, 377
Ierne, 297
Ije-abarim, 371
Ilium, 92
Illyrian,

137

Uyssos, 189

Imaus, 134
Imagination, 307
Ind, 377
Indus, 460
Indian, 32, 295, 318
Inexperience, 89

Infamy, 196
Infinity, 391

425

lolchos,

261

Iphiclus, 261

Iron Gates, The, 249

Irene, 461
Israel, 7,
Isis,

369

107, 368, 463

Ismenos, 148
Ismarus, 258
Isthmus, The, 262

326
377

Iscariot,

Isaiah,

Isocrates, 385,

419

467
Islam, 468
Italian, 332
Ithacus, 46
Ixion, 253
Issachar,

Jair,

372

Jason, 204

Javan, 247, 312, 367

Janira, 303
Janassa, 318
Jared, 355

365
366
Japhet, 367
Jannes, 369
Jambres, 369
Jairus,

Jael,

Jasa, 371
Jaddus, 376

Ibzan, 372
Icarus, 99
Iceland, 120,

Intellect,

Ionian, 221

Japetus, 379
Jatmund, 391
Jesse, 13, 399
Jews, 61, 454

Jerusalem, 61, 372, 467

Jenrosar, 139
Jectan, 367
Jericho, 372

Jephtha, 372

Jeroboam, 373
Jehosophat, 374
Jehoram, 374
Jehu, 374, 377
Jehoash, 374
Jeroboam, 374
Jehoahaz, 375
Jehoiakim, 375, 376
Jeshua, 376
Jewry, 385
Jove, 26, 163, 221, &c.

Jormungandr, 57

481

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

Jonah, gourd of, 173
Joshua, 372
Joshua, Book of, 220
Jocasta, 336

Joseph's bones, 369

Jordan, 372, 401
J oram, 374

Lethe, 291
Lebadaean cave, 292
Lesa, 367
Lebahim, 367
Libecchio, 453
Line, The, 12
Lilybaeum, 48
Ligia, 49
Licosa, 49
Lisbon, 103

Malay, 255

Mahomet,

15, 275,

Justice,

Mantuan, 334
Malebolge, 335
Marsians, 340
Manillan, 350
Lightnings, 126, 133, 244 Mathusala, 355
Malaleel, 355
Lichas, 132
Maronean, 366
Linesung, 171
Macrinus, 366
Liparian towers, 249
Magog, 367
Limnoria, 317
Madai, 367
Linnaeus, 319
Madeira, 9
Livy, 385
Marmarico, 45
Lotophagian, 315
Mauritanian, 46
Longinus, 25

Julius,

Locrian, 75

Jotham, 374
Josiah, 375
John, 376
Joel,

377

Jonah, 377
Jumna, 17
Jupiter, 25, 275,

462

Judah, 107, 372

Juno, 251, 304
Judas, 327, 376
Juvenal, 385

423
463

Juggernauth, 466

K
Kalmuc, 124
Kabyles, 249
Kadesh, 371
Karedwen, 463
Kirkdale, 339

Logoden, 139
Locke, 320
Louvre, The, 339
Lombard, 430
Loathesomeness, 457
Lui-shin, 399
Luna, 462
Lutzmee, 466

Kibroth-hattava, 371
Klopstock, 451

Lucifer, 2

Knowledge, 422

Lucullus, 258
Lucretia, 385
Lysias, 385

Laplandish, 4
Larves, 5

Lybian, 34, 367

Lydian, 125
Lyssian, 155
Lycophron, 291
Lycaean Pan, 295
Lycabessos, 316

Lapithites,

50

Lamalmon, 81
Latraeus, 190

Luxor, 107

Laocoon, 260
Lampetie, 261
Land, The Promised, 316
Lampethusa, 329
Mattanah, 371
Lachesis, 330
Mahaliel, 371
Lamech, son of, 346
Manasseh, 375
Laborosoarchod, 379
Mattaniah, 375
Lawrence, river St., 382 Malachi, 377
La Plata, 382
Maremma, 432
Lactantius, 385
Madness, 458
Latmus, Mount, 462
Magellan's Straits, 465
Laodicea, 466
Mantchous, 465
Laera, 241
Mahanaim, 473
Lebanon, 409
Macbeth, 185
Levantine, 445
Macedonian, 190, 379
Leontides, 462
Maxi mius, 208
Lernaean, 59
Mazzaroth, 246

464

Maia, son of, 275

Mazinor, 278
Mazob, 278
Marcus Anthony, 331

Mars, snake
Marius, 60
Matter, 63

of,

60,

164

Mamelukes, 71
Madness, 123
Magog, 129
Mab, 129
Maccabee, 130
Maid, Heavenly, 137
Maelstrom, 139
Maeonian, 55
Maestral, 183
Maera, 303
Maenads, 318
Maecenus, 461

Menahem, 374
Median, 379
Mede, 377

Memnon, 381
Memory, 423
Mexico, 465
Mexico, gulf

of,

204

Mesilegines, 248
Melpomone, 259, 277
Medea, 261
Melita, 303

Mendips, 339
Megaera, 345
Messiah, 358, 386
Messalina, 366

Mesraim, 366
Memphis, 367
Messa, 367

Memnonian, 25
Mesocsesius,

Medusa,

11

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INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

482
Mede, 78
Menelaus, 92
Memory, 2, 166
Minerva, 7, 121, 321
Midian, 371
Michael, 17
Milton, 37, 430
Milo, 47

Minotaur, 58
Minos, 78, 289, 359
Misery, 187
Mirabeau, 215
Midas, 296
Michajah, 377
Michah, 377

382

Migdol, 461
Moon, 6

Mnemosyne,

4,

Noah, 344
Noise, 430
Numidian, 294
Nyssean, 113

Nereids, 6

Ocean

O
Oboth, 371
Obadiah, 377
Obscure, The, 433
Oberon, 129
Obazur, 152
Oblivion, 186
Ocean-god, 78
Ocean, Northern, 84
Spirit,

222

Oceanides, 254
Nemesis, 6
Nebuchadnezzar, 15, 376 Occident, The, 310
CEdipus, 70, 289
New Guinea, 16
CEta, 290
Neva, 36

Mithras, 378
Mississippi,

Naumachia, 207
Nature, 308
Naso, 331
Na, 346
Nashmurdrand, 346
Naphtuhim, 367
Nachor, 368
Naomi, 372
Nadab, 374
Nahum, 377
Nabopolassar, 379
Napeans, 380
Napoleon, 468
Necropolis, 4

380

Moabitish, 311
Mcenutius, 163
Mceris, 248

Moor, 470
Mopsus, 385
Moses, 369
Moab, 371, 373
Motonsinoth, 192
Mockery, 196
Mongibell, 232
Mosoch, 367
Mogul, The, 9
Morn, 9, 332
Moloch, 14, &c.
Momus, 26
Mozazor, 37

Mohawks, 85
Montezume, 98
Morphic, 98
Montreal, 128
Moslemen, 135
Mona, 148
Morescoes, 156
Mulijebe, 368
Muse, the Sacred, 3
Mulciber, 101, 279
Myttilon, 139
Mycale, 70
Myrrha, 312
Mystery, 391
Myrionymnia, 463

N
Narcissus, 13
Naiads, 68, 332

Nemsean, 46
Neptune, 67, 177, 191
Nesseus, 132
Nebo, 206
Nero, 232
Nemertes, 241
Nesse, 241

Newton, 247
Nepamon, 279
Necessity, 291,

457

Nephilim, 342

Nemrod, 366
Nebo, Mount, 371, 461
Neriglissar, 379
Negroland, 464
Nepaul, 467
Nergal, 378
Night, 2, 39
Nisroch, 14
Nysa, 22, 129
Niagara, 128
Nicandar, 188, 385
Nireus, 312
Niobe, 317
Nile, 336, 367, 463
Nineve, 367
Ninus, 378
Niger, 464
Norwegian, 4
Norseman, 13
Northern Hive, 15
Nox, 150
Nothing, 244
Nought, 170
Nomron, 271
Nod, Land of, 340

CEneides, 462

GEnean, 49
CEte, 70
GSbalian, 72
GEthon, 104
Og, 371
Ogyges, 36
Oileus, 76
Olympian, 27, 275
Olympia, 82
Olympians, 121

Olympus, 140
Olympic, 156
Olympiads, 384
Omphale, 331
Omri, 374
Omonoros, 132
Ompthos, 152
On, 367
Onchestus, 22
Ontario, 128
Oom, 346
Ophiagii,

340

Ophion, 461
Ops, 461
Ophir, 467

Opathron, 139
Ore, 6
Orestes, 13, 59,

Oroo, 15
Ortygia, 36
Orthus, 42
Orissan, 63

Oronok, 106
Orphean, 139
Ormuz, 177

186

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

Pandionian

Orinos, 191
Orion, 246

birds,

304

Pasithae, 316

Orpheus, 261, 318

Orestiades, 303
Orsus, 312

Pachymus, 48
Pasiphae, 58

Orythea, 318

Pelasgic,

Oramuz, 378
Oreb, 383
Osmanlis, 464
Osiris, 218, 368
Ossa, 140
Oth, 278
Othman, 336
Othniel, 372

Persian, 9, 78, 375

Persepolis, 41

Ovid, 364

Owhyee, 462
Owhyeian, 121
Oxmantown, 156

Pacific,

10

Parthian, 15
Parrhasian, 16

Palmyran, 25
Palladian, 316
Pandora, 322
Parnassian, 332
Paean's rue, 264
Patmos, John of, 94
Papirius, 206

Pandemonium, 336, 392

Palestina, 336
Palladio, 419
Pactolus, 451
Panic, 457
Pain, 457
Parcee, 132

Pagan, Nine, The, 162

Parthenon, 461
Pallas, 25, 71,

462

Panathees, 463
Pan, 217
Pantheists,

218

Patna, 232
Paris, 252, 312
Paphian, 252, 462
Parthonopaeus, 253
Patrancosothos, 255
Patrocles,

258

Pathricknites, 171

274
Pathrine, 278
Paratheel, 282
Panope, 303
Pallor,

Philogave, 149
Phoebus, 150
Pharioch, 151

Phaeton, 163
Phthah, 463

Parthian s, 71

Outer Darkness, 334

483

Philadelph, 466
Pharian, 218
Phalaris,

232

Pelorus, 48
Pelides, 75
Petasian, 78

Phylae, 233

Pegu, 81

Pholeus, 271
Phalton, 278
Pherusa, 303
Phantasians, 303

Pelias,

Phrygian, 249
Philistine,

204

Pestilence,

234

Perseus, 260
Periclymenos, 263
Peloponesus, 266
Pelops, 293

260

Philippi, 13

Peleus, 312
Peninsula, The, 466

14
Pharoa, 25, 375
Phineus, 41
Phlegethon, 42
Phorcys, 43

Pergamos, 466
Pellaean, 124

Phantasies, 56
Phaedra, 59

Peneus, 295

Perdition, 124,
Pelion, 140

457

Philistia,

Philoctetes,

68

Pheretian, 72

Peruvian, 143
Percnos, 144

Philipson, 82

hunted by, 161

Perimile, 166
Pentelic, 177
Pekahiah, 374
Pekah, 374
Perse, 377
Peri, 378
Pelasgian, 461
Phoebe, 317
Phidias, 321
Phosphor, 164, 323
Phaethusa, 329
Phuth, 366
Phethrusim, 367
Phaleg, 367
Phihairoth, 370
Pharan, 370
Phasgo, 372
Pharmacus, 380
Phocean, 380
Phoenician, 275,381,462

258
The, 262
Pirois, 104
Pindus, 135
Pizarro, 144
Pisa, 148
Pisonaes, 149

Perjuries,

Phraorte, 381
Phrygian, 451
Phornicorash, 115
Phrymour, 123, 191
Pharnaspine, 139, 151
Pholeus, 1 1
l'li.ua,

119

Phalton, 87
Pirithous,
Pillars,

Pitho,

330

Pindar, 380

461
333
Plato, 383
Plutarch, 385
Plague, 457
Pluto, 116
Plutus, 163
Plegon, 104
Pleides,

Pliny,

Po, 16
PolynicL's, 17

Poesy, 54
Pompeii, 59
Podarge, 72
Poppea, 73

Polypheny,

7.^

I'onlus, SI

Podisthinos,
Pollux, -J),;

Polydectes,

2,'>o

2<>l

484

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

Power, 309
Polar, 117

Reu, 368
Recem, 371

Pompey, 341, 375

Pomona, 364

Rebe, 371

Ponent, 445

344

Protceus,

Prescience, 424
Providence, 428
Pride, 216, 285, 458
Praxitilean, 137

Propae tides, 165

Proto, 241

Priam, 275, 297

Prospal, 278
Proserpina, 295
Procrustes, 51
Pschyce, 303

239
Ptolemies, 322
Pterelas, 133
Punic, 336
Putrefaction, 457
Psyllians,

Py lades, 13

Samuel, 373
Saladdon, 156
Sarmatian, 161
Saturn's Belt, 187
Sagana, 187

Rehoboam, 373
Red Sea, 389
Rhodian, 25
Rhytoronon, 278
Rhadamanthus, 289
Rhamnuse, 291
Rhodope, 302
Rhamnes, 380
Rhodian, 381
Rhotyn, 421
Rome, 61, 232, 275
Romulus, 114

Saturnia, 217
Saturn, 247
Scythian, 149

Sciron, 191
Scylla,

233

Scholaf, 271

Rout, 124, 244

154, 297

Scrematry, 346

Roman,

Scierian,

Rosicrusian, 345

Scipio,

463
463
Rubens, 15
Sclave, 470
Rumor, 75
Scylla, 38
Ruin, 108, 130, 146, 244 Scorn, 143
Ruth, 372
Sennacherib, 14
Ruggieri, 397
Sejanus, 29

Pylian, 83
Pylon, 255

Septentrional, 35
Serapis, 368

Pygmaean, 129
Python, 142
Pythian, 156
Pythonissa, 324
Pyrrha, 363
Pythagoras, 383

Q
Quirine, 73

297

Quintius Curtius, 385

R
Raabon, 37
Ramael, 37
Rainbow, the, 141
Raphael, 199
Rassach, 212
Rage, 244
Raphidim, 370
Rachel, 399
Rama, 399
Resolve, 117
Resentment, 118, 244
Religion, 300, 380
Rephaims, 339
Regma, 366
Resen, 367
Rchoboth, 367
Rcphath, 367

42
56

Salem, 7

Sea,

Saul, 13, 27, 373

Sacrael, 20, 164,

Seine,

247

Saturn, 41
Sabines, 49, 113
Saracener, 75

77
Saharr, 97
Savannah, 123
Sappharon, 126
Samiel, 141
Salome, 376
Sardanapalus, 378
Satire,

Quirites,

162

Scio,

Scorpion, The, 164

Scandinavia, 22
Scandinavian, 177

466
383

Sardis, 381,

Saturnalia,
Sallust,

385

Sabaean, 295, 461

Sate,

463

Savendroeg, 271
Saropeli, 271
Sadi,

304

Salem, 309
Sardinian, 344
Saba, 366
Sabtah, 366

Sabtechah, 366

367
368
Sarug, 368
Samson, 372
Sais,

Sala,

Sennaar, 107
Sepharvaim, 375, 378
Sennacherib, 375
Sense, 382
Seneca, 385
Seba, queen, 432
Serborian, 442
Semele, 328
Serena, 329
Seths,

340

Sehar, 367

372
Seven Hills, The, 206
Sesostris, 248
Sharon, rose of, 325
Shraphryth, 346
Seir,

Shiskah, 374
Shreesh, 349
Shinaar, 364

Shamgar, 372
Shunamite, 374
Shallum, 374
Shalmaneser, 374
Shemiah, 377
Shry, 397
Shenir, 408

Shakespear, 155
Sinus, 183

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

1 85
Simnis, 191
Siberian, 122, 251
Sinon, 252
Sin, 42, 187, 352, 441

Sister Fiends, the,

Sisters Three, the,

49

Strongyle, 249
Strength, god of, 260
Stromboli, 164
Staffa,

Strympbalian, 192

Stygian,

Storm, 14
St. George, 59

hounds
Sirens, 318
Sinon, 327

of,

148

451
366
Sidon, 367
Sinai, 370
Sifanaros, 421
Silence, 431
Skev, 177
Slaughter, 126, 160
Smyrna, 466
Smyrna, Gulf of, 135
Solitude, 150
Sodom, 410
Sodom, Apples of, 173
Sostrates, 177
Sothor, 191
Sorrata, 37
Soul of Numbers, 55
Sorrows, 56
Solymseans, 122
Solyphron, 136
Solyma, Nymphs of, 313
Sogdian, 316
Solomon, Seal of, 345
Socrates, 383
Solon, 383
Sothon, 421
Soeva, 466
Somnauth, 466
Spio, 318
Space, 46, 391, 450
Silenes, 339,
Sisera,

Sprite-Compeller,The, 5
Spitzbergers, 135

Spheno, 149
Spanish, 204

244
Spring, 313
Statius, 385
Stoa, 465
States, The, 468
Strophades, 266
Spectres,

Styx, 291

Stagy rite, 320

Strypian,

350

Steppes, The, 362

Thisb, 22
Thebais, 23
Thais, 41
Theseus, 41, 258
Thrace, god of, 62

Sterops, 191

Sioux, 114
Sin,

Thor, 13
Thaumantius, 15

177

Sighs, 56

303
Thunder, 126, 133, 244
Thunder, broods of, 436
Thebans, 126
Thetis, 68,

Stentorian, 123
Steropes, 145

Sun, 17, 332

Sub-Tartarean, 55
Succoth, 368, 378
Sur, Wilderness of, 370,

371

Thaumas, 254
Thyestian, 257

Thrydaomer, 271
Theophestus, 278
Thalia, 317, 380
Thoa, 303
Thebes, Bcetian, 329
Themis, 363
Thubal, 367
Thiras, 367
Thogarm, 367
Tharshish, 367
Thoth, 368
Theocrites, 380
Thucidides, 385
Tbrymbrcean, 452
Theoricons, 462

Taphne, 22

Tartarian, 315

316

Tsenarus, 70
Tasso, 331
Tarquin, 348

Taphne, 368
Taberah, 371
Tahmuraz, 378
Tartac, 378
Tadmor, 384
Tacitus, 385
Tauromer, 421
Tartar, 443
Tarpeian, 461
Teinans, 367
Terah, 368
Teraphim, 375
Tempest, 141, 430
Tellus, 165
Teucrian, 296
Teucer, 72, 297
Tethvs, 303
Tenedos, 315

114
Teuton, 135

Thamyras, 162
Threicius, 177

Thrimos, 255

Tartish,156
Ta-ho, the, 232
Tarpeian, 234
Tantalus, 289

Tell,

Thracian, 140, 302, 366

Thummin, 231

Sylvanus, 332, 381

Syrinx, 317

Terror, 60, 149, 275,

TenerhTe, 81

Thessalian, 131

Thessaly, 188
Thrynown, 191

460
Suez, 467
Syrians, 376

Susa,

Tafilet,

485

Thales, 464
Thibet, 465
Thyatira, 466
Titus, 275, 460
Tibur, 460
Tityon, 265
Titan, 4, 290
Tithonous, 296
Tiresias,

324

Tidore, 16
Titania, 37
Tinacrian, 3S

&c

Timor, 39
Time, 57, 23S, 30!
Tisiphone, 70
Tityus, 76
Tigra, si
Timiel, 103
Tophet, 352, 375

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

486
Toba. 372
Tola, 372

Tomyris, 3S1
Tonquin, 440
Torquatus, 233
Tros. son of, 241
Tolu, 261
Toron, 271
Tongataboo, 333
Togarm, 14
Tootoonab, 71
Tonoros, 115
Toledo, 142
Tomos, 161
Troy, 7, 119, 297, 316
Tropic, The, 33, 295
Triron. 77
Truth, 128
Triton, 140
Tritonia, 1S9
Tryometon, 191
Traezenian, 255

Trvmenor, 263
Trinity, The, 300
Trivia, 344
Troundell, 346
Trophonian, 3 SO
Turkey, 252, 467
Tumult, 458
Turcomans, 362
Tuscan, 187
Tuilleries, 189
Turk, 75
Tydeus, 126
Tyrinthe, 25
Typhaeus, 47
Tvphaean. 60
Tyrians, 177
Tyn-henian, 187

Typhon, 368
Tyre, 373
Typhurgo, 457

U
Ugolon, 192

Ugoline de Gherardeschi,' War, dogs of, 146

^397
Walhalla, 125
Ulai, Banks of, 473
Way of Lidit, 150
Undying Worm, 54, 286 Waste, 430
Undelight, 243, 45
Water, genii of, 344
Unresolves, 244
Westminster, 296
Universe, the, 277
Wellington, 468
Upas, the. 56
Wishes, 30
Uproar, 123
Winds, 33, 144
Urim, 231
Winter, 131, 244, 336
Uriel. 113
Wonder, 261, 458
Urania, 5, 139, 297
Woe, 391, 458
Utmost, The, 262
Wraiths, 243
Utopia, 465
Wrath, 123,150,244,447
Uzzean Job, 135
Wrath, sons of, 127

X
Vaicontha, 16
Vathec, 102, 278
Vast. The, 170, 231, 277
Vacancy, 210, 442
Vandals, 340
Venus, SO, 164, 303

Xanthus, 149
Xenophon, 385
Xerxes, 78

ZamoLxis, 463
Vengeance, 129, 154, 157 Zabrash, 15, &c.
Veia, 1S5
Zarael, 123
Vespasian, 189
Zamiel, 343
Venetian Doge, 220
Zared, 371
Vesta, 288,

444

Zacharia, 374

Vertumnus, 321
Veeshnu, 465

Zachary, 377
Zenobia, 25
Virtue, 141
Zephyrs, 29
Victoria, the Queen, 243, Zeus, 117, 461
414, 469, 474
Zembla, 137
Victory, 143
Zethes, 266
Vitruvius, 419
Zephaniah, 377
Vice, 382
Zeno, 464
Void, 151, 188, 309
Ziphroth, 211, 278
Vulcan, 121, 470
Zion's Helicon, 302
Vulturnian, 183
Zion, Muse of, 342
Zin, 371

Waterloo, 13

Waves, 33
War, 140
War, god of, 67

314.77-1).

Zimri, 374
Zodiac, the, 183
Zones, the Golden, 308
Zoilus,

454

Zyninthrine, 172, 342

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