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Paradise Lost Ⅰ-第4章

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on the firm brimstone; and fill all the plain; ' 350 '

a multitude; like which the populous north

pourd never from her frozen loyns; to pass

rhene or the danaw; when her barbarous sons

came like a deluge on the south; and spread

beneath gibralter to the lybian sands。 ' 355 '

forthwith from every squadron and each band

the heads and leaders thither hast where stood

thir great mander; godlike shapes and forms

excelling human; princely dignities;

and powers that earst in heaven sat on thrones; ' 360 '

though of thir names in heavnly records now

be no memorial blotted out and rasd

by thir rebellion; from the books of life。

nor had they yet among the sons of eve

got them new names; till wandring ore the earth; ' 365 '

through gods high sufferance for the tryal of man;

by falsities and lyes the greatest part

of mankind they corrupted to forsake

god thir creator; and th invisible

glory of him that made them; to transform ' 370 '

oft to the image of a brute; adornd

with gay religions full of pomp and gold;

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and devils to adore for deities:

then were they known to men by various names;

and various idols through the heathen world。 ' 375 '

say; muse; thir names then known; who first; who last;

rousd from the slumber; on that fiery couch;

at thir great emperors call; as next in worth

came singly where he stood on the bare strand;

while the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof? ' 380 '

the chief were those who from the pit of hell

roaming to seek thir prey on earth; durst fix

thir seats long after next the seat of god;

thir altars by his altar; gods adord

among the nations round; and durst abide ' 385 '

jehovah thundring out of sion; thrond

between the cherubim; yea; often placd

within his sanctuary it self thir shrines;

abominations; and with cursed things

his holy rites; and solemn feasts profand; ' 390 '

and with thir darkness durst affront his light。

first moloch; horrid king besmeard with blood

of human sacrifice; and parents tears;

though for the noyse of drums and timbrels loud

thir childrens cries unheard; that past through fire ' 395 '

to his grim idol。 him the ammonite

worshipt in rabba and her watry plain;

in argob and in basan; to the stream

of utmost arnon。 nor content with such

audacious neighbourhood; the wisest heart ' 400 '

of solomon he led by fraud to build

his temple right against the temple of god

on that opprobrious hill; and made his grove

the pleasant vally of hinnom; tophet thence

and black gehenna calld; the type of hell。 ' 405 '

next chemos; th obscene dread of moabs sons;

from aroar to nebo; and the wild

of southmost abarim; in hesebon

and horonaim; seons realm; beyond

the flowry dale of sibma clad with vines; ' 410 '

and eleale to th asphaltick pool。

peor his other name; when he enticd

israel in sittim on thir march from nile

to do him wanton rites; which cost them woe。

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yet thence his lustful orgies he enlargd ' 415 '

even to that hill of scandal; by the grove

of moloch homicide; lust hard by hate;

till good josiah drove them thence to hell。

with these came they; who from the bordring flood

of old euphrates to the brook that parts ' 420 '

egypt from syrian ground; had general names

of baalim and ashtaroth; those male;

these feminine。 for spirits when they please

can either sex assume; or both; so soft

and unpounded is thir essence pure; ' 425 '

not tid or manacld with joynt or limb;

nor founded on the brittle strength of bones;

like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose

dilated or condenst; bright or obscure;

can execute thir aerie purposes; ' 430 '

and works of love or enmity fulfill。

for those the race of israel oft forsook

thir living strength; and unfrequented left

his righteous altar; bowing lowly down

to bestial gods; for which thir heads as low ' 435 '

bowd down in battel; sunk before the spear

of despicable foes。 with these in troop

came astoreth; whom the phoenicians calld

astarte; queen of heavn; with crescent horns;

to whose bright image nightly by the moon ' 440 '

sidonian virgins paid thir vows and songs;

in sion also not unsung; where stood

her temple on th offensive mountain; built

by that uxorious king; whose heart though large;

beguild by fair idolatresses; fell ' 445 '

to idols foul。 thammuz came next behind;

whose annual wound in lebanon allurd

the syrian damsels to lament his fate

in amorous dittyes all a summers day;

while smooth adonis from his native rock ' 450 '

ran purple to the sea; supposd with blood

of thammuz yearly wounded: the love…tale

infected sions daughters with like heat;

whose wanton passions in the sacred porch

ezekiel saw; when by the vision led ' 455 '

his eye survayd the dark idolatries

of alienated judah。 next came one

who mournd in earnest; when the captive ark

maimd his brute image; head and hands lopt off

in his own temple; on the grunsel edge; ' 460 '

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where he fell flat; and shamd his worshipers:

dagon his name; sea monster; upward man

and downward fish: yet had his temple high

reard in azotus; dreaded through the coast

of palestine; in gath and ascalon ' 465 '

and accaron and gazas frontier bounds。

him followd rimmon; whose delightful seat

was fair damascus; on the fertil banks

of abbana and pharphar; lucid streams。

he also against the house of god was bold: ' 470 '

a leper once he lost and gaind a king;

ahaz his sottish conquerour; whom he drew

gods altar to disparage and displace

for one of syrian mode; whereon to burn

his odious offrings; and adore the gods ' 475 '

whom he had vanquisht。 after these appeard

a crew who under names of old renown;

osiris; isis; orus and their train

with monstrous shapes and sorceries abusd

fanatic egypt and her priests; to seek ' 480 '

thir wandring gods disguisd in brutish forms

rather then human。 nor did isr
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