Fire V
Party like it’s 1674! Paradise Lost (book II, ll. 910 — 920):
Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
Confus’dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th’ Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds,
Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look’d a while,
Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow frith
He had to cross.
Author: bkerr
Posted: Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Category: Resources
Tags: abyss, air, causes, crossing, fire, frith, grave, nature, sea, shore, voyage, warie-fiend, womb, worlds
