The Poetical Works of John Milton


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Ris'n, and with hideous outcry rush'd between.  
O Father, what intends thy hand, she cry'd,  
Against thy only Son? What fury O Son,  
Possesses thee to bend that mortal Dart  
Against thy Fathers head? and know'st for whom;  
For him who sits above and laughs the while  
At thee ordain'd his drudge, to execute  
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What e're his wrath, which he calls Justice, bids,  
His wrath which one day will destroy ye both.  
She spake, and at her words the hellish Pest  
Forbore, then these to her Satan return'd:  
So strange thy outcry, and thy words so strange  
Thou interposest, that my sudden hand  
Prevented spares to tell thee yet by deeds  
What it intends; till first I know of thee,  
What thing thou art, thus double-form'd, and why  
In this infernal Vaile first met thou call'st  
Me Father, and that Fantasm call'st my Son?  
I know thee not, nor ever saw till now  
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Sight more detestable then him and thee.  
T' whom thus the Portress of Hell Gate reply'd;  
Hast thou forgot me then, and do I seem  
Now in thine eye so foul, once deemd so fair  
In Heav'n, when at th' Assembly, and in sight  
Of all the Seraphim with thee combin'd  
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In bold conspiracy against Heav'ns King,  
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