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Titanian, or Earth-born, that warrd on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast [ 200 ] Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th Ocean stream: Him haply slumbring on the Norway foam The Pilot of some small night-founderd Skiff,

Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, [ 205 ] With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes: So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay Chaind on the burning Lake, nor ever thence [ 210 ] Had risn or heavd his head, but that the will

And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs, That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation, while he sought [ 215 ] Evil to others, and enragd might see How all his malice servd but to bring forth Infinite goodness, grace and mercy shewn

On Man by him seduct, but on himself Treble confusion, wrath and vengeance pourd. [ 220 ] Forthwith upright he rears from off the Pool His mighty Stature; on each hand the flames Drivn backward slope thir pointing spires, and rowld In billows, leave ith midst a horrid Vale. Then with expanded wings he stears his flight [ 225 ]

Aloft, incumbent on the dusky Air That felt unusual weight, till on dry Land He lights, if it were Land that ever burnd With solid, as the Lake with liquid fire; And such appeard in hue, as when the force [ 230 ] Of subterranean wind transports a Hill Torn from Pelorus, or the shatterd side

Of thundring Ætna, whose combustible And feweld entrals thence conceiving Fire, Sublimd with Mineral fury, aid the Winds, [ 235 ]