PARADISE LOST — MAGNIFICENT ARROGANCE FROM CHAOS
One of the great poetical pictures from Milton is the scene of Beelzebub, or Satan, having been cast out of heaven, and now awaking, with his confederates in the burning lake of Chaos. Satan survey the scene: What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield,
And what is else not to be overcome;
That glory never shall his wrath or might
Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace
With suppliant knee, and deify his power
Who from the terror of this arm so late
Doubted his empire — that were low indeed,
That were an ignominy, and shame beneath
This downfall; [105-116] So stretched out huge in length the arch-fiend lay
Chained on the burning lake: nor ever thence
Had risen, or heaved his…
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