BOOK TI. PARADISE LOST. 57 Down had been falling, had not byrill chance 935 The ftrong rebuff offome tumultuous clouds InftinEL wish fire and nitre, hurried him As many miles aloft : that fury flay'd, Qlencht in a boggy Syrtis, neither fea, Nor good 4:17 land, nigh founder'd on he fares, gio Treading the crude cootittence, half on foot, Half flying ; behooves him now both oar and fad. As when a glfon, through the wildernefa With winged cow e o'er hill or moory Purfues the Arimaipian, who by flealth 945 Had from his wakeful cuttojy purloin'd The guarded gold : fo eagerly the fiend O'er hog or fteep, through (trait, rough, denfe, or rare With head, hands, wings or feet purfues his way; And iwims, or finks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 9.50 At length a univerfal hubbub wild Of Bunning founds, and voices all confus'l, Born through the hollow Dark atEults his ear With loudett vehemence : thither he plies, Undaunted to meet there whatever Pow'r, 955 Or tpirit of the nethermoft Abyfs, Might in that 'toile refide, of whom to afk Which way the neareft coati of darknefs lies Bordering on light : when (trait behold the throne Of Chaos, and his dark pavilion fpread 960 Wide on the wakeful Deep : with him inthron'd Sate fable vetted Night, deka of things, The confort of his reign : and by them flood Oxhus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon : Rumor next and Chance, 995 And Tumult and Confufion all imbroil'd, And difcord with a thoufand various mouths. V whom Satan turning boldly, thus.-Ye Pow'r; And fpirits of this nethermoit K Chaos .4.1.1111151=mew
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