Paradise Lost: Paraphrase of Book I (lines 84 - 191)
"Is that you? How changed you are now that you have become a fallen angel! I remember how you were in heaven, where your brightness outshone all of the other bright angels. You joined with me in a glorious enterprise of rebellion once, and now you are joined with me again in misery in the pit of hell. God has proven stronger with his thunder-who knew the force of his power? But despite the fact that he is victorious, I neither repent nor change my inner conviction that what I did was right, although I am changed in my exterior appearance. My mind is set as to what we should do. You and I engaged in a rebellion with one hundred other spirits who also disliked God's reign and shook his throne, even though we did not beat Him. So what if we lost? All is not lost! Our will, our careful study of how to take our revenge, our hate and our courage are still there. We can overcome anything. No matter how great God's glory or anger, I will never ask for mercy on my knees. I defy his power. After all, not so long ago he was ter
We will get inner reinforcement from hope and, if not, resolution from despair. That would be low, to ask for mercy, given how close I came to defeating him. Soon his bold compatriot answered: "O Prince, O Chief of many royal power that lead the angels to war and terrible deeds without fear. But be sure that to do good will never be our task, instead to do bad will be our only happiness. The heaven's eternal King has shown proof of his supremacy. We must not lose this chance, since his scorn or temporarily abated rage has given us some relief. Look at that dull plain, forlorn and wild and desolate of light except for those glimmering flames casting pale and dreadful shadows. The hail that smells like sulfur and covered us in a storm and the thunder and red lightening are gone. Let's go there, far off from these waves of fire and rest, if there can be any rest here. We will reassemble our suffering army and discuss how we can offend our enemy and overcome our loss and the dire circumstances we find ourselves in. See the angry victor has recalled his ministers of vengeance back to heaven. Perhaps his rage is at an end for now. What if our conqueror, whom I now believe to be Almighty, since only an Almighty power could have overpowered our great force, has left our strength and spirit intact to make us suffer more so we may suffer his vengeance even more? Or does he want to use us do his will in hell, working in the fire or in the gloomy depths of this pit? If that is the case what does it matter if we still feel strong here while we undergo eternal punishment?" Quickly, the Arch-fiend replied, "Fallen cherub, to be weak is to be miserable no matter what you are doing or suffering. I see and regret the terrible event that lost us heaven and laid us low.
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