{"id":278,"date":"2014-04-07T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T17:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edificeproject.ua.edu\/?page_id=278"},"modified":"2014-05-06T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:32:52","slug":"book-2-lines-817-44","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edificeproject.ua.edu\/?page_id=278","title":{"rendered":"Book 2, lines 817-44"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Daughter, since thou claim’st me for thy Sire,<\/strong>
\nAnd my fair Son here shows’t me, the dear pledge
\nOf dalliance had with thee in Heav’n, and joys<\/strong>
\n Then sweet, now sad to mention,<\/strong><\/a> through dire change [820]
\nBefall’n us unforeseen, unthought of,<\/strong> know
\nI come no enemy, but to set free<\/strong>
\n From out of this dark and dismal house of pain,<\/strong>
\n Both him and thee,<\/strong> and all the heav’nly Host
\nOf Spirits that in our just pretenses arm’d [825]<\/strong>
\nFell with us from on high: from them I go
\nThis uncouth errand sole, and one for all<\/strong>
\n Myself expose,<\/strong><\/a> with lonely steps to tread
\nTh’ unfounded deep, and through the void immense
\nTo search with wand’ring quest a place foretold [830]
\nShould be, and, by concurring signs, ere now
\nCreated vast and round, a place of bliss
\nIn the Purlieus of Heav’n, and therein plac’t
\nA race of upstart Creatures,<\/strong> to supply
\nPerhaps our vacant room, though more remov’d [835]
\nLest Heav’n surcharg’d with potent multitude<\/strong>
\n Might hap to move new broils:<\/strong> Be this or aught
\nThan this more secret now design’d, I haste
\nTo know, and this once known, shall soon return,
\nAnd bring ye to the place where Thou and Death [840]
\nShall dwell at ease, and up and down unseen
\nWing silently the buxom Air, imbalm’d
\nWith odors; there ye shall be fed and fill’d
\nImmeasurably, all things shall be your prey.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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