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200 Cannot but by annihilating die; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid air. All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please, They limb themselves, and color, shape, or size Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.
 * "Meanwhile in other parts like deeds deserved

Memorial, where the might of Gabriel fought, And with fierce ensigns pierced the deep array Of Moloch, furious king, who him defied, And at his chariot-wheels to drag him bound Threatened, nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphémous; but anon, Down cloven to the waist, with shattered arms And uncouth pain fled bellowing. On each wing Uriel and Raphaël his vaunting foe, Though huge and in a rock of diamond armed, Vanquished Adramelech and Asmadai, Two potent Thrones, that to be less than Gods Disdained; but meaner thoughts learned in their flight, Mangled with ghastly wounds though plate and mail. Nor stood unmindful Abdiel to annoy The athiestatheist [sic] crew, but, with redoubled blow, Ariel, and Arioch, and the violence Of Ramiel, scorched and blasted, overthrew.