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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Genesis BK VII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 322-336) The other fiends who waged so fierce a war with God<br>lay wrapped in flames. They suffer torment, hot and surging<br>flame in the midst of hell, broad-stretching blaze of fire and<br>bitter smoke, darkness and gloom, because they broke allegiance<br>unto God. Their folly and the angel's pride deceived them. They<br>would not heed the word of God. Great was their punishment! <br>They fell, through folly and through pride, to fiery depths of<br>flame in hell. They sought another home devoid of light and<br>filled with fire -- a mighty flaming death. The fiends perceived<br>that through the might of God, because of their presumptuous<br>hearts and boundless insolence, they had won a measureless woe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 337-355) Then spake their haughty king, who formerly was<br>fairest of the angels, most radiant in heaven, beloved of his<br>Leader and dear unto his Lord, until they turned to folly, and<br>Almighty God was moved to anger at their wantonness, and hurled<br>him down to depths of torment on that bed of death. He named him<br>with a name, and said their leader should be called from<br>thenceforth Satan. He bade him rule the black abyss of hell in<br>place of striving against God. Satan spake -- who now must needs<br>have charge of hell and dwell in the abyss -- in bitterness he<br>spake who once had been God's angel, radiant-hued in heaven,<br>until his pride and boundless arrogance betrayed him, so that he<br>would not do the bidding of the Lord of hosts. Bitterness was<br>welling in his heart; and round him blazed his cruel torment. <br>These words he spake:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 355-367) &quot;This narrow place is little like those other<br>realms we knew, on high in heaven, allotted by my Lord, though<br>the Almighty hath not granted us to hold our state, or rule our<br>kingdom. He hath done us wrong to hurl us to the fiery depths of<br>hell, and strip us of our heavenly realm. He hath ordained that<br>human kind shall settle there. That is my greatest grief that<br>Adam -- wrought of earth -- should hold my firm-set throne and<br>live in joy, while we endure this bitter woe in hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 368-388) &quot;Alas! could I but use my hands and have my<br>freedom for an hour, one winter hour, then with this host I would<br>-- But bands of iron crush me down, the bondage of my chains is<br>heavy. I am stripped of my dominion. Firmly are hell's fetters<br>forged upon me. Above me and below a blaze of fire! Never have<br>I seen a realm more fatal -- flame unassuaged that surges over<br>hell. Ensnaring links and heavy shackles hold me. My ways are<br>trammelled up; my feet are bound; my hands are fastened. Closed<br>are the doors of hell, the way cut off. I may not escape out of<br>my bonds, but mighty gyves of tempered iron, hammered hot, press<br>hard upon me. God hath set His foot upon my neck. So I know the<br>Lord of hosts hath read the purpose of my heart, and knew full<br>well that strife would grow between our host and Adam over the<br>heavenly realm, had I the freedom of my hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Caedmon">Caedmon</a><div class=q>
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