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Track Listing
Book 1 - The Argument - This First Book Proposes
Book 1 - Of Man's First Disobedience, And The Fruit
There The Companions Of His Fall
Whereto With Speedy Words Th' Arch-Fiend Replied
Forthwith Upright He Rears From Off The Pool
He Scarce Had Ceased When The Superior Fiend
The Chief Were Those Who, From The Pit Of Hell
Next Came One Who Mourned In Earnest
All These And More Came Flocking
Thus Far These Beyond Compare Of Mortal Prowess
There Stood A Hill Not Far, Whose Grisly Top
Meanwhile The Winged Heralds, By Command
Book 2 - The Argument - The Consultation Begun
Book 2 - High On A Throne Of Royal State
He Ended Frowning, And His Look Denounced
War, Therefore, Open Or Concealed, Alike
Thus Belial, With Words Clothed In Reason's Garb
He Scarce Had Finished, When Such Murmur Filled
Thus Beelzebub Pleaded His Devilish Counsel
This Said, He Sat; And Expectation Held
The Stygian Council Thus Dissolved; And Forth
Beyond This Flood A Frozen Continent
Meanwhile The Adversary Of God And Man
So Spake The Grisly Terror, And In Shape
She Finished; And The Subtle Fiend His Lore Soone Learned
Thus Saying, From Her Side The Fatal Key
T' Whom Satan, Turning Boldly, Thus: - Ye Powers
Book 3 - The Argument - God Sitting On His Throne
Book 3 - Hail, Holy Light, Offspring Of Heaven Firstborn
Only Begotten Son, Seest Thou What Rage
O Father, Gracious Was That Word Which Clos'd
Father, Thy Word Is Past, Man Shall Find Grace
Thou, Therefore, Whom Thou Only Canst Redeem
No Sooner Had The Almighty Ceased, But All
Mean While Upon The Firm Opacous Globe
All This Dark Globe The Fiend Found As He Passed
There Lands The Fiend, A Spot Like Which Perhaps
Uriel, For Thou Of Those Seven Spirits That Stand
Book 4 - The Argument - Satan Now In Prospect Of Eden
Book 4 - O, For That Warning Voice, Which He, Who Saw
But Say I Could Repent, And Could Obtain
Now To The Ascent Of That Steep Savage Hill
Not That Fair Field Of Enna, Where Proserpine Gathering
O Hell! What Do Mine Eyes With Grief Behold!
To Whom Thus Eve Replied. O Thou For Whom
So Spake Our General Mother, And With Eyes
So Saying, His Proud Step He Scornful Turned
Now Came Still Evening On, And Twilight Gray
Thus Talking, Hand In Hand Alone They Passed
These, Lulled By Nightingales, Embracing Slept
The Fiend Replied Not, Overcome With Rage
To Whom The Warrior Angel Soon Replied
Book 5 - The Argument Morning Approacht
Book 5 - Now Morn, Her Rosy Steps In The Eastern Clime
Thus Eve Her Night Related, And Thus Adam Answered Sad
These Are Thy Glorious Works, Parent Of Good
On To Their Morning's Rural Work They Haste
Him Through The Spicy Forest Onward Come
Hail, Mother Of Mankind, Whose Fruitful Womb
O Adam, One Almighty Is, From Whom
High Matter Thou Enjoinest Me, O Prime Of Men
Now When Ambrosial Night With Clouds Exhaled
Mean While The Eternal Eye, Whose Sight Discerns
Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers
So Spake The Fervent Angel; But His Zeal
Book 6 - The Argument Raphael Continues To Relate
Book 6 - All Night The Dreadless Angel, Unpursued
So Spake The Sovran Voice, And Clouds Began
So Pondering, And From His Armed Peers
Now Storming Fury Rose
So Spake The Prince Of Angels; To Whom Thus
Mean While In Other Parts Like Deeds Deserved
He Sat; And In The Assembly Next Upstood
Now When Fair Morn Orient In Heaven Appeared
Satan Beheld Their Plight
Effulgence Of My Glory, Son Beloved
So Said, He, O'er His Scepter Bowing, Rose
So Spake The Son, And Into Terrour Changed
Book 7 - The Argument Raphael At The Request Of Adam
Book 7 - Descend From Heaven, Urania, By That Name
Great Things, And Full Of Wonder In Our Ears
At Least Our Envious Foe Hath Failed, Who Thought
Then Staid The Fervid Wheels, And In His Hand
He Scarce Had Said, When The Bare Earth, Till Then
And God Said, Let The Waters Generate
The Sixth, And Of Creation Last, Arose
Here Finished He, And All That He Had Made
Book 8 - The Argument - Adam Inquires Concerning Celestial Motions
Book 8 - The Angel Ended, And In Adam's Ear
And Raphael Now, To Adam's Doubt Proposed
But Whether Thus These Things, Or Whether Not
For Man To Tell How Human Life Began
Sternly He Pronounced The Rigid Interdiction
He Ceased; I Lowly Answered. To Attain
She Heard Me Thus; And Though Divinely Brought
To Whom Thus, Half Abashed, Adam Replied
Book 9 - The Argument - Satan Having Compast The Earth
Book 9 - No More Of Talk Where God Or Angel Guest
More Justly, Seat Worthier Of Gods, As Built
Now, When As Sacred Light Began To Dawn
Offspring Of Heaven And Earth, And All Earth's Lord!
To Whom Thus Adam Fervently Replied
For Now, And Since First Break Of Dawn, The Fiend
So Spake The Enemy Of Mankind, Enclosed
So Glozed The Tempter, And His Proem Tuned
Lead Then, Said Eve. He, Leading, Swiftly Rolled
Of Good, How Just? Of Evil, If What Is Evil
He Ended; And His Words, Replete With Guile
Earth Felt The Wound; And Nature From Her Seat
To Him She Hasted; In Her Face Excuse
Bold Deed Thou Hast Presumed, Adventurous Eve
Eve, Now I See Thou Art Exact Of Taste
So Counselled He, And Both Together Went
Book 10 - The Argument - Mans Transgression Known
Book 10 - Mean While The Heinous And Despiteful Act
Thus Saying, From His Radiant Seat He Rose
Which When The Lord God Heard, Without Delay
Mean While, Ere Thus Was Sinned And Judged On Earth
So, If Great Things To Small May Be Compared
So Saying He Dismissed Them; They With Speed
So Having Said, A While He Stood, Expecting
Mean While In Paradise The Hellish Pair
Such Was Their Song
O Miserable Of Happy! Is This The End
Yet One Doubt Pursues Me Still, Lest All I Cannot Die
Thus Adam To Himself Lamented Loud
Forsake Me Not Thus, Adam! Witness Heaven
But Adam, With Such Counsel Nothing Swayed
Book 11 - The Argument - The Son Of God Presents To His Father
Book 11 - Thus They, In Lowliest Plight, Repentant Stood
O Sons, Like One Of Us Man Is Become
So Spake, So Wished Much Humbled Eve; But Fate
O Unexpected Stroke, Worse Than Of Death!
But This Pre-Eminence Thou Hast Lost, Brought Down
But Him The Gentle Angel By The Hand
Immediately A Place Before His Eyes Appeared
He Looked, And Saw A Spacious Plain, Whereon
He Looked, And Saw Wide Territory Spread
He Looked, And Saw The Face Of Things Quite Changed
To Whom Thus Michael.
The Ark No More Now Floats, But Seems On Ground
Book 12 - The Argument - The Angel Michael Continues From The Flood
Book 12 - As One Who In His Journey Bates At Noon
To Whom Thus Michael
But First, The Lawless Tyrant, Who Denies
Here Adam Interposed. O Sent From Heaven
There In Captivity He Lets Them Dwell
For This He Shall Live Hated, Be Blasphemed
So Spake The Arch-Angel Michael; Then Paused
How Soon Hath Thy Prediction, Seer Blest
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