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Rh As far removed from God and light of Heaven As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole. Oh how unlike the place from whence they fell! There the companions of his fall, o'erwhelmed With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire, He soon discerns, and, weltering by his side, One next himself in power and next in crime, Long after known in Palestine and named Beëlzebub: to whom the arch-enemy, And thence in Heaven called Satan, with bold words Breaking the horrid silence, thus began:
 * "If thou beest he,—but oh how fallen! how changed

From him, who, in the happy realms of light, Clothed with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright!—if he, whom mutual league, United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise Joined with me once, now misery hath joined In equal ruin. . . into what pit thou seest From what highth fallen, so much the stronger proved He with his thunder. And till then who knew The force of those dire arms? Yet not for those, Nor what the potent victor in his rage