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Rh Abdiel that sight endured not, where he stood Among the mightiest, bent on highest deeds, And thus his own undaunted heart explores:
 * O Heaven! that such resemblance of the Highest

Should yet remain, where faith and realty Remain not! Wherefore should not strength and might There fail where virtue fails, or weakest prove Where boldest, though to sight unconquerable? His puissance, trusting in the Almighty's aid, I mean to try, whose reason I have tried Unsound and false. Nor is it aught but just, That he who in debate of truth hath won Should win in arms, in both disputes alike Victor; though brutish that contest and foul, When reason hath to deal with force, yet so Most reason is that reason overcome.
 * "So pondering, and from his armed peers

Forth stepping opposite, half-way he met His daring foe, at this prevention more Incensed, and thus securely him defied:
 * Proud, art thou met? Thy hope was to have reached

The highth of thy aspiring unopposed, The throne of God unguarded, and his side Abandoned at the terror of thy power Or potent tongue. Fool! not to think how vain