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diff --git a/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/Makefile b/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/Makefile deleted file mode 100644 index 8b2eedb..0000000 --- a/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/Makefile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -#brotli/tests - -include ../shared.mk - -BROTLI = .. - -all: test - -test: deps - ./compatibility_test.sh - ./roundtrip_test.sh - -deps : - $(MAKE) -C $(BROTLI)/tools - -clean : - rm -f testdata/*.{bro,unbro,uncompressed} - rm -f $(BROTLI)/{enc,dec,tools}/*.{un,}bro - $(MAKE) -C $(BROTLI)/tools clean diff --git a/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/compatibility_test.sh b/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/compatibility_test.sh deleted file mode 100755 index e907485..0000000 --- a/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/compatibility_test.sh +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash -# -# Test that the brotli command-line tool can decompress old brotli-compressed -# files. - -set -o errexit - -BRO=../tools/bro - -for file in testdata/*.compressed*; do - echo "Testing decompression of file $file" - expected=${file%.compressed*} - uncompressed=${expected}.uncompressed - $BRO -f -d -i $file -o $uncompressed - diff -q $uncompressed $expected - # Test the streaming version - cat $file | $BRO -d > $uncompressed - diff -q $uncompressed $expected - rm -f $uncompressed -done - diff --git a/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/roundtrip_test.sh b/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/roundtrip_test.sh deleted file mode 100755 index 9b05fce..0000000 --- a/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/roundtrip_test.sh +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash -# -# Roundtrip test for the brotli command-line tool. - -set -o errexit - -BRO=../tools/bro -INPUTS=""" -testdata/alice29.txt -testdata/asyoulik.txt -testdata/lcet10.txt -testdata/plrabn12.txt -../enc/encode.cc -../enc/dictionary.h -../dec/decode.c -$BRO -""" - -for file in $INPUTS; do - for quality in 1 6 9 11; do - echo "Roundtrip testing $file at quality $quality" - compressed=${file}.bro - uncompressed=${file}.unbro - $BRO -f -q $quality -i $file -o $compressed - $BRO -f -d -i $compressed -o $uncompressed - diff -q $file $uncompressed - # Test the streaming version - cat $file | $BRO -q $quality | $BRO -d >$uncompressed - diff -q $file $uncompressed - done -done diff --git a/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/testdata/10x10y b/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/testdata/10x10y deleted file mode 100644 index 3f9cf86..0000000 --- a/debian/vendor-h2o/deps/brotli/tests/testdata/10x10y +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -XXXXXXXXXXYYYYYYYYYY
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-
-
-
- ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
-
- Lewis Carroll
-
- THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 2.9
-
-
-
-
- CHAPTER I
-
- Down the Rabbit-Hole
-
-
- Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
-on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had
-peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
-pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'
-thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
-
- So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could,
-for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether
-the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble
-of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White
-Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
-
- There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice
-think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to
-itself, `Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought
-it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have
-wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural);
-but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-
-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to
-her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never
-before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to
-take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the
-field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop
-down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
-
- In another moment down went Alice after it, never once
-considering how in the world she was to get out again.
-
- The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,
-and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a
-moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself
-falling down a very deep well.
-
- Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she
-had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to
-wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look
-down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to
-see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and
-noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves;
-here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She
-took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was
-labelled `ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it
-was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing
-somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she
-fell past it.
-
- `Well!' thought Alice to herself, `after such a fall as this, I
-shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll
-all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it,
-even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely
-true.)
-
- Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end! `I
-wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud.
-`I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let
-me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for,
-you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her
-lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good
-opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to
-listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes,
-that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude
-or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was,
-or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to
-say.)
-
- Presently she began again. `I wonder if I shall fall right
-THROUGH the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the
-people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I
-think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this
-time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) `--but I shall
-have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.
-Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?' (and she tried
-to curtsey as she spoke--fancy CURTSEYING as you're falling
-through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) `And what
-an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll
-never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.'
-
- Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon
-began talking again. `Dinah'll miss me very much to-night, I
-should think!' (Dinah was the cat.) `I hope they'll remember
-her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were
-down here with me! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but
-you might catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know.
-But do cats eat bats, I wonder?' And here Alice began to get
-rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of
-way, `Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, `Do
-bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either
-question, it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt
-that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she
-was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very
-earnestly, `Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a
-bat?' when suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of
-sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
-
- Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a
-moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her
-was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in
-sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost:
-away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it
-say, as it turned a corner, `Oh my ears and whiskers, how late
-it's getting!' She was close behind it when she turned the
-corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found
-herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps
-hanging from the roof.
-
- There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked;
-and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the
-other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle,
-wondering how she was ever to get out again.
-
- Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of
-solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key,
-and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the
-doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or
-the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of
-them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low
-curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little
-door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key
-in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!
-
- Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small
-passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and
-looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.
-How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about
-among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but
-she could not even get her head though the doorway; `and even if
-my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, `it would be of
-very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish
-I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only
-know how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things
-had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few
-things indeed were really impossible.
-
- There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she
-went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on
-it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like
-telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (`which
-certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck
-of the bottle was a paper label, with the words `DRINK ME'
-beautifully printed on it in large letters.
-
- It was all very well to say `Drink me,' but the wise little
-Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry. `No, I'll look
-first,' she said, `and see whether it's marked "poison" or not';
-for she had read several nice little histories about children who
-had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant
-things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules
-their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker
-will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your
-finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had
-never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked
-`poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or
-later.
-
- However, this bottle was NOT marked `poison,' so Alice ventured
-to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort
-of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast
-turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished
-it off.
-
- * * * * * * *
-
- * * * * * *
-
- * * * * * * *
-
- `What a curious feeling!' said Alice; `I must be shutting up
-like a telescope.'
-
- And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and
-her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right
-size for going though the little door into that lovely garden.
-First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was
-going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about
-this; `for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, `in my
-going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be
-like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is
-like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember
-ever having seen such a thing.
-
- After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided
-on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when
-she got to the door, she found he had forgotten the little golden
-key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she
-could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly
-through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the
-legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when she had
-tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and
-cried.
-
- `Come, there's no use in crying like that!' said Alice to
-herself, rather sharply; `I advise you to leave off this minute!'
-She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very
-seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so
-severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered
-trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game
-of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious
-child was very fond of pretending to be two people. `But it's no
-use now,' thought poor Alice, `to pretend to be two people! Why,
-there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable
-person!'
-
- Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under
-the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on
-which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants.
-`Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, `and if it makes me grow larger,
-I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep
-under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I
-don't care which happens!'
-
- She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, `Which
-way? Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to
-feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to
-find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally
-happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the
-way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen,
-that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the
-common way.
-
- So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
-
- * * * * * * *
-
- * * * * * *
-
- * * * * * * *
-
-
-
-
- CHAPTER II
-
- The Pool of Tears
-
-
- `Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much
-surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good
-English); `now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that
-ever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her
-feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so
-far off). `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on
-your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure _I_ shan't
-be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself
-about you: you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be
-kind to them,' thought Alice, `or perhaps they won't walk the
-way I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of
-boots every Christmas.'
-
- And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it.
-`They must go by the carrier,' she thought; `and how funny it'll
-seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the
-directions will look!
-
- ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.
- HEARTHRUG,
- NEAR THE FENDER,
- (WITH ALICE'S LOVE).
-
-Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'
-
- Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in
-fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took
-up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
-
- Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one
-side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get
-through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to
-cry again.
-
- `You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, `a great
-girl like you,' (she might well say this), `to go on crying in
-this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!' But she went on all
-the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool
-all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the
-hall.
-
- After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the
-distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.
-It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a
-pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the
-other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to
-himself as he came, `Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she
-be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice felt so desperate
-that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit
-came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, `If you please,
-sir--' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid
-gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard
-as he could go.
-
- Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very
-hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking:
-`Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday
-things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in
-the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this
-morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little
-different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in
-the world am I? Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!' And she began
-thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age
-as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of
-them.
-
- `I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, `for her hair goes in such
-long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm
-sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she,
-oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, SHE'S she, and I'm I,
-and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know all the
-things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve,
-and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh dear!
-I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However, the
-Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography.
-London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome,
-and Rome--no, THAT'S all wrong, I'm certain! I must have been
-changed for Mabel! I'll try and say "How doth the little--"'
-and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons,
-and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and
-strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:--
-
- `How doth the little crocodile
- Improve his shining tail,
- And pour the waters of the Nile
- On every golden scale!
-
- `How cheerfully he seems to grin,
- How neatly spread his claws,
- And welcome little fishes in
- With gently smiling jaws!'
-
- `I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and
-her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, `I must be Mabel
-after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little
-house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so
-many lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm
-Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their
-heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look
-up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I
-like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down
-here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a
-sudden burst of tears, `I do wish they WOULD put their heads
-down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!'
-
- As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was
-surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little
-white kid gloves while she was talking. `How CAN I have done
-that?' she thought. `I must be growing small again.' She got up
-and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that,
-as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high,
-and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the
-cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it
-hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
-
-`That WAS a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at
-the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in
-existence; `and now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed
-back to the little door: but, alas! the little door was shut
-again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as
-before, `and things are worse than ever,' thought the poor child,
-`for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare
-it's too bad, that it is!'
-
- As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another
-moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. He first
-idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, `and in that
-case I can go back by railway,' she said to herself. (Alice had
-been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general
-conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find
-a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in
-the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and
-behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that
-she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine
-feet high.
-
- `I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about,
-trying to find her way out. `I shall be punished for it now, I
-suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That WILL be a queer
-thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.'
-
- Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a
-little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at
-first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then
-she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that
-it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.
-
- `Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, `to speak to this
-mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should
-think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no harm in
-trying.' So she began: `O Mouse, do you know the way out of
-this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!'
-(Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse:
-she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having
-seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, `A mouse--of a mouse--to a
-mouse--a mouse--O mouse!' The Mouse looked at her rather
-inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little
-eyes, but it said nothing.
-
- `Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; `I
-daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the
-Conqueror.' (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had
-no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) So she
-began again: `Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in
-her French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the
-water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright. `Oh, I beg
-your pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the
-poor animal's feelings. `I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'
-
- `Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate
-voice. `Would YOU like cats if you were me?'
-
- `Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone: `don't be
-angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah:
-I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her.
-She is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself,
-as she swam lazily about in the pool, `and she sits purring so
-nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face--and
-she is such a nice soft thing to nurse--and she's such a capital
-one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice again,
-for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt
-certain it must be really offended. `We won't talk about her any
-more if you'd rather not.'
-
- `We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end
-of his tail. `As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family
-always HATED cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear
-the name again!'
-
- `I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the
-subject of conversation. `Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?'
-The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: `There is
-such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you!
-A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly
-brown hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and
-it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I
-can't remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, you
-know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds!
-He says it kills all the rats and--oh dear!' cried Alice in a
-sorrowful tone, `I'm afraid I've offended it again!' For the
-Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and
-making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.
-
- So she called softly after it, `Mouse dear! Do come back
-again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't
-like them!' When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam
-slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice
-thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, `Let us get to
-the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll
-understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'
-
- It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded
-with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a
-Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious
-creatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the
-shore.
-
-
-
- CHAPTER III
-
- A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
-
-
- They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the
-bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their
-fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and
-uncomfortable.
-
- The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they
-had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed
-quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with
-them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had
-quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky,
-and would only say, `I am older than you, and must know better';
-and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was,
-and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no
-more to be said.
-
- At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among
-them, called out, `Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'LL
-soon make you dry enough!' They all sat down at once, in a large
-ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes
-anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad
-cold if she did not get dry very soon.
-
- `Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, `are you all ready?
-This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please!
-"William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was
-soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been
-of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and
-Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"'
-
- `Ugh!' said the Lory, with a shiver.
-
- `I beg your pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very
-politely: `Did you speak?'
-
- `Not I!' said the Lory hastily.
-
- `I thought you did,' said the Mouse. `--I proceed. "Edwin and
-Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him:
-and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found
-it advisable--"'
-
- `Found WHAT?' said the Duck.
-
- `Found IT,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: `of course you
-know what "it" means.'
-
- `I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said
-the Duck: `it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is,
-what did the archbishop find?'
-
- The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on,
-`"--found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William
-and offer him the crown. William's conduct at first was
-moderate. But the insolence of his Normans--" How are you
-getting on now, my dear?' it continued, turning to Alice as it
-spoke.
-
- `As wet as ever,' said Alice in a melancholy tone: `it doesn't
-seem to dry me at all.'
-
- `In that case,' said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, `I
-move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more
-energetic remedies--'
-
- `Speak English!' said the Eaglet. `I don't know the meaning of
-half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do
-either!' And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile:
-some of the other birds tittered audibly.
-
- `What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone,
-`was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'
-
- `What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she wanted much
-to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY
-ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.
-
- `Why,' said the Dodo, `the best way to explain it is to do it.'
-(And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter
-day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)
-
- First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (`the
-exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party
-were placed along the course, here and there. There was no `One,
-two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked,
-and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know
-when the race was over. However, when they had been running half
-an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called
-out `The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting,
-and asking, `But who has won?'
-
- This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of
-thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon
-its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare,
-in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At
-last the Dodo said, `EVERYBODY has won, and all must have
-prizes.'
-
- `But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices
-asked.
-
- `Why, SHE, of course,' said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with
-one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her,
-calling out in a confused way, `Prizes! Prizes!'
-
- Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand
-in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt
-water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.
-There was exactly one a-piece all round.
-
- `But she must have a prize herself, you know,' said the Mouse.
-
- `Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. `What else have
-you got in your pocket?' he went on, turning to Alice.
-
- `Only a thimble,' said Alice sadly.
-
- `Hand it over here,' said the Dodo.
-
- Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo
-solemnly presented the thimble, saying `We beg your acceptance of
-this elegant thimble'; and, when it had finished this short
-speech, they all cheered.
-
- Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked
-so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not
-think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble,
-looking as solemn as she could.
-
- The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise
-and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not
-taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on
-the back. However, it was over at last, and they sat down again
-in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more.
-
- `You promised to tell me your history, you know,' said Alice,
-`and why it is you hate--C and D,' she added in a whisper, half
-afraid that it would be offended again.
-
- `Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to
-Alice, and sighing.
-
- `It IS a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with
-wonder at the Mouse's tail; `but why do you call it sad?' And
-she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so
-that her idea of the tale was something like this:--
-
- `Fury said to a
- mouse, That he
- met in the
- house,
- "Let us
- both go to
- law: I will
- prosecute
- YOU. --Come,
- I'll take no
- denial; We
- must have a
- trial: For
- really this
- morning I've
- nothing
- to do."
- Said the
- mouse to the
- cur, "Such
- a trial,
- dear Sir,
- With
- no jury
- or judge,
- would be
- wasting
- our
- breath."
- "I'll be
- judge, I'll
- be jury,"
- Said
- cunning
- old Fury:
- "I'll
- try the
- whole
- cause,
- and
- condemn
- you
- to
- death."'
-
-
- `You are not attending!' said the Mouse to Alice severely.
-`What are you thinking of?'
-
- `I beg your pardon,' said Alice very humbly: `you had got to
-the fifth bend, I think?'
-
- `I had NOT!' cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily.
-
- `A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and
-looking anxiously about her. `Oh, do let me help to undo it!'
-
- `I shall do nothing of the sort,' said the Mouse, getting up
-and walking away. `You insult me by talking such nonsense!'
-
- `I didn't mean it!' pleaded poor Alice. `But you're so easily
-offended, you know!'
-
- The Mouse only growled in reply.
-
- `Please come back and finish your story!' Alice called after
-it; and the others all joined in chorus, `Yes, please do!' but
-the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little
-quicker.
-
- `What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as soon as it
-was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of
-saying to her daughter `Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you
-never to lose YOUR temper!' `Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the
-young Crab, a little snappishly. `You're enough to try the
-patience of an oyster!'
-
- `I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice aloud,
-addressing nobody in particular. `She'd soon fetch it back!'
-
- `And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?'
-said the Lory.
-
- Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about
-her pet: `Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for
-catching mice you can't think! And oh, I wish you could see her
-after the birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as soon as look
-at it!'
-
- This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party.
-Some of the birds hurried off at once: one the old Magpie began
-wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, `I really must be
-getting home; the night-air doesn't suit my throat!' and a Canary
-called out in a trembling voice to its children, `Come away, my
-dears! It's high time you were all in bed!' On various pretexts
-they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.
-
- `I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!' she said to herself in a
-melancholy tone. `Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I'm
-sure she's the best cat in the world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I
-wonder if I shall ever see you any more!' And here poor Alice
-began to cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited.
-In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of
-footsteps in the distance, and she looked up eagerly, half hoping
-that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was coming back to
-finish his story.
-
-
-
- CHAPTER IV
-
- The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
-
-
- It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and
-looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something;
-and she heard it muttering to itself `The Duchess! The Duchess!
-Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me
-executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where CAN I have
-dropped them, I wonder?' Alice guessed in a moment that it was
-looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she
-very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were
-nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to have changed since her
-swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and
-the little door, had vanished completely.
-
- Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about,
-and called out to her in an angry tone, `Why, Mary Ann, what ARE
-you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of
-gloves and a fan! Quick, now!' And Alice was so much frightened
-that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without
-trying to explain the mistake it had made.
-
- `He took me for his housemaid,' she said to herself as she ran.
-`How surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am! But I'd
-better take him his fan and gloves--that is, if I can find them.'
-As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door
-of which was a bright brass plate with the name `W. RABBIT'
-engraved upon it. She went in without knocking, and hurried
-upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann,
-and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and
-gloves.
-
- `How queer it seems,' Alice said to herself, `to be going
-messages for a rabbit! I suppose Dinah'll be sending me on
-messages next!' And she began fancying the sort of thing that
-would happen: `"Miss Alice! Come here directly, and get ready
-for your walk!" "Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to see
-that the mouse doesn't get out." Only I don't think,' Alice went
-on, `that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering
-people about like that!'
-
- By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with
-a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two
-or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and
-a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when
-her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-
-glass. There was no label this time with the words `DRINK ME,'
-but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. `I know
-SOMETHING interesting is sure to happen,' she said to herself,
-`whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll just see what this
-bottle does. I do hope it'll make me grow large again, for
-really I'm quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!'
-
- It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected:
-before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing
-against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being
-broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself
-`That's quite enough--I hope I shan't grow any more--As it is, I
-can't get out at the door--I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so
-much!'
-
- Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and
-growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in
-another minute there was not even room for this, and she tried
-the effect of lying down with one elbow against the door, and the
-other arm curled round her head. Still she went on growing, and,
-as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one
-foot up the chimney, and said to herself `Now I can do no more,
-whatever happens. What WILL become of me?'
-
- Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full
-effect, and she grew no larger: still it was very uncomfortable,
-and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting
-out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.
-
- `It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, `when one
-wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about
-by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that
-rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious, you know,
-this sort of life! I do wonder what CAN have happened to me!
-When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing
-never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There
-ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when
-I grow up, I'll write one--but I'm grown up now,' she added in a
-sorrowful tone; `at least there's no room to grow up any more
-HERE.'
-
- `But then,' thought Alice, `shall I NEVER get any older than I
-am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman-
--but then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn't like
-THAT!'
-
- `Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered herself. `How can you
-learn lessons in here? Why, there's hardly room for YOU, and no
-room at all for any lesson-books!'
-
- And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other,
-and making quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few
-minutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen.
-
- `Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. `Fetch me my gloves
-this moment!' Then came a little pattering of feet on the
-stairs. Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and
-she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she
-was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no
-reason to be afraid of it.
-
- Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it;
-but, as the door opened inwards, and Alice's elbow was pressed
-hard against it, that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it
-say to itself `Then I'll go round and get in at the window.'
-
- `THAT you won't' thought Alice, and, after waiting till she
-fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly
-spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. She did not
-get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall,
-and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was
-just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something
-of the sort.
-
- Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit's--`Pat! Pat! Where are
-you?' And then a voice she had never heard before, `Sure then
-I'm here! Digging for apples, yer honour!'
-
- `Digging for apples, indeed!' said the Rabbit angrily. `Here!
-Come and help me out of THIS!' (Sounds of more broken glass.)
-
- `Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?'
-
- `Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!' (He pronounced it `arrum.')
-
- `An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it
-fills the whole window!'
-
- `Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that.'
-
- `Well, it's got no business there, at any rate: go and take it
-away!'
-
- There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear
-whispers now and then; such as, `Sure, I don't like it, yer
-honour, at all, at all!' `Do as I tell you, you coward!' and at
-last she spread out her hand again, and made another snatch in
-the air. This time there were TWO little shrieks, and more
-sounds of broken glass. `What a number of cucumber-frames there
-must be!' thought Alice. `I wonder what they'll do next! As for
-pulling me out of the window, I only wish they COULD! I'm sure I
-don't want to stay in here any longer!'
-
- She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at
-last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a
-good many voice all talking together: she made out the words:
-`Where's the other ladder?--Why, I hadn't to bring but one;
-Bill's got the other--Bill! fetch it here, lad!--Here, put 'em up
-at this corner--No, tie 'em together first--they don't reach half
-high enough yet--Oh! they'll do well enough; don't be particular-
--Here, Bill! catch hold of this rope--Will the roof bear?--Mind
-that loose slate--Oh, it's coming down! Heads below!' (a loud
-crash)--`Now, who did that?--It was Bill, I fancy--Who's to go
-down the chimney?--Nay, I shan't! YOU do it!--That I won't,
-then!--Bill's to go down--Here, Bill! the master says you're to
-go down the chimney!'
-
- `Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?' said
-Alice to herself. `Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill!
-I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal: this fireplace is
-narrow, to be sure; but I THINK I can kick a little!'
-
- She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and
-waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess of what
-sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close
-above her: then, saying to herself `This is Bill,' she gave one
-sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next.
-
- The first thing she heard was a general chorus of `There goes
-Bill!' then the Rabbit's voice along--`Catch him, you by the
-hedge!' then silence, and then another confusion of voices--`Hold
-up his head--Brandy now--Don't choke him--How was it, old fellow?
-What happened to you? Tell us all about it!'
-
- Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, (`That's Bill,'
-thought Alice,) `Well, I hardly know--No more, thank ye; I'm
-better now--but I'm a deal too flustered to tell you--all I know
-is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes
-like a sky-rocket!'
-
- `So you did, old fellow!' said the others.
-
- `We must burn the house down!' said the Rabbit's voice; and
-Alice called out as loud as she could, `If you do. I'll set
-Dinah at you!'
-
- There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to
-herself, `I wonder what they WILL do next! If they had any
-sense, they'd take the roof off.' After a minute or two, they
-began moving about again, and Alice heard the Rabbit say, `A
-barrowful will do, to begin with.'
-
- `A barrowful of WHAT?' thought Alice; but she had not long to
-doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came
-rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face.
-`I'll put a stop to this,' she said to herself, and shouted out,
-`You'd better not do that again!' which produced another dead
-silence.
-
- Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all
-turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright
-idea came into her head. `If I eat one of these cakes,' she
-thought, `it's sure to make SOME change in my size; and as it
-can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I
-suppose.'
-
- So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find
-that she began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small
-enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and
-found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside.
-The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by
-two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle.
-They all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared; but she
-ran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself safe in a
-thick wood.
-
- `The first thing I've got to do,' said Alice to herself, as she
-wandered about in the wood, `is to grow to my right size again;
-and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden.
-I think that will be the best plan.'
-
- It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and
-simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the
-smallest idea how to set about it; and while she was peering
-about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over
-her head made her look up in a great hurry.
-
- An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round
-eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.
-`Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried
-hard to whistle to it; but she was terribly frightened all the
-time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it
-would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing.
-
- Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of
-stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped
-into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight,
-and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice
-dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run
-over; and the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy
-made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in
-its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was very
-like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every
-moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle
-again; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the
-stick, running a very little way forwards each time and a long
-way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat
-down a good way off, panting, with its tongue hanging out of its
-mouth, and its great eyes half shut.
-
- This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape;
-so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out
-of breath, and till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the
-distance.
-
- `And yet what a dear little puppy it was!' said Alice, as she
-leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself
-with one of the leaves: `I should have liked teaching it tricks
-very much, if--if I'd only been the right size to do it! Oh
-dear! I'd nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again! Let
-me see--how IS it to be managed? I suppose I ought to eat or
-drink something or other; but the great question is, what?'
-
- The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round
-her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see
-anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under
-the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her,
-about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under
-it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her
-that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it.
-
- She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of
-the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large
-caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded,
-quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice
-of her or of anything else.
-
-
-
- CHAPTER V
-
- Advice from a Caterpillar
-
-
- The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in
-silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its
-mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
-
- `Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.
-
- This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice
-replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--
-at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think
-I must have been changed several times since then.'
-
- `What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly.
-`Explain yourself!'
-
- `I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, `because
-I'm not myself, you see.'
-
- `I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.
-
- `I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very
-politely, `for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and
-being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'
-
- `It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
-
- `Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; `but
-when you have to turn into a chrysalis--you will some day, you
-know--and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll
-feel it a little queer, won't you?'
-
- `Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.
-
- `Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said Alice;
-`all I know is, it would feel very queer to ME.'
-
- `You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. `Who are YOU?'
-
- Which brought them back again to the beginning of the
-conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's
-making such VERY short remarks, and she drew herself up and said,
-very gravely, `I think, you ought to tell me who YOU are, first.'
-
- `Why?' said the Caterpillar.
-
- Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not
-think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in
-a VERY unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.
-
- `Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her. `I've something
-important to say!'
-
- This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back
-again.
-
- `Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.
-
- `Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as
-she could.
-
- `No,' said the Caterpillar.
-
- Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else
-to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth
-hearing. For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but
-at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth
-again, and said, `So you think you're changed, do you?'
-
- `I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; `I can't remember things as
-I used--and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!'
-
- `Can't remember WHAT things?' said the Caterpillar.
-
- `Well, I've tried to say "HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE," but it
-all came different!' Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.
-
- `Repeat, "YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM,"' said the Caterpillar.
-
- Alice folded her hands, and began:--
-
- `You are old, Father William,' the young man said,
- `And your hair has become very white;
- And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
- Do you think, at your age, it is right?'
-
- `In my youth,' Father William replied to his son,
- `I feared it might injure the brain;
- But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
- Why, I do it again and again.'
-
- `You are old,' said the youth, `as I mentioned before,
- And have grown most uncommonly fat;
- Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
- Pray, what is the reason of that?'
-
- `In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
- `I kept all my limbs very supple
- By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box--
- Allow me to sell you a couple?'
-
- `You are old,' said the youth, `and your jaws are too weak
- For anything tougher than suet;
- Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
- Pray how did you manage to do it?'
-
- `In my youth,' said his father, `I took to the law,
- And argued each case with my wife;
- And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
- Has lasted the rest of my life.'
-
- `You are old,' said the youth, `one would hardly suppose
- That your eye was as steady as ever;
- Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--
- What made you so awfully clever?'
-
- `I have answered three questions, and that is enough,'
- Said his father; `don't give yourself airs!
- Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
- Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!'
-
-
- `That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.
-
- `Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; `some of the
-words have got altered.'
-
- `It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar
-decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.
-
- The Caterpillar was the first to speak.
-
- `What size do you want to be?' it asked.
-
- `Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied;
-`only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.'
-
- `I DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar.
-
- Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in
-her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.
-
- `Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.
-
- `Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you
-wouldn't mind,' said Alice: `three inches is such a wretched
-height to be.'
-
- `It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar
-angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three
-inches high).
-
- `But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone.
-And she thought of herself, `I wish the creatures wouldn't be so
-easily offended!'
-
- `You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it
-put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.
-
- This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again.
-In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its
-mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got
-down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely
-remarking as it went, `One side will make you grow taller, and
-the other side will make you grow shorter.'
-
- `One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to
-herself.
-
- `Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had
-asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.
-
- Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a
-minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as
-it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question.
-However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they
-would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.
-
- `And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a
-little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment
-she felt a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her
-foot!
-
- She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but
-she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking
-rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.
-Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was
-hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and
-managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.
-
-
- * * * * * * *
-
- * * * * * *
-
- * * * * * * *
-
- `Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone of
-delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she
-found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could
-see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which
-seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay
-far below her.
-
- `What CAN all that green stuff be?' said Alice. `And where
-HAVE my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it I
-can't see you?' She was moving them about as she spoke, but no
-result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the
-distant green leaves.
-
- As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her
-head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted
-to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction,
-like a serpent. She had just succeeded in curving it down into a
-graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which
-she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she
-had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a
-hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating
-her violently with its wings.
-
- `Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.
-
- `I'm NOT a serpent!' said Alice indignantly. `Let me alone!'
-
- `Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more
-subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, `I've tried every
-way, and nothing seems to suit them!'
-
- `I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,' said
-Alice.
-
- `I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've
-tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; `but
-those serpents! There's no pleasing them!'
-
- Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no
-use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.
-
- `As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the
-Pigeon; `but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and
-day! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'
-
- `I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was
-beginning to see its meaning.
-
- `And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' continued
-the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, `and just as I was
-thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come
-wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!'
-
- `But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. `I'm a--I'm
-a--'
-
- `Well! WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon. `I can see you're
-trying to invent something!'
-
- `I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she
-remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day.
-
- `A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the
-deepest contempt. `I've seen a good many little girls in my
-time, but never ONE with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a
-serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be
-telling me next that you never tasted an egg!'
-
- `I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very
-truthful child; `but little girls eat eggs quite as much as
-serpents do, you know.'
-
- `I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; `but if they do, why
-then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.'
-
- This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent
-for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of
-adding, `You're looking for eggs, I know THAT well enough; and
-what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a
-serpent?'
-
- `It matters a good deal to ME,' said Alice hastily; `but I'm
-not looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I shouldn't
-want YOURS: I don't like them raw.'
-
- `Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it
-settled down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the
-trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled
-among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and
-untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the
-pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very
-carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and
-growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had
-succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
-
- It was so long since she had been anything near the right size,
-that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a
-few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. `Come,
-there's half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes
-are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to
-another! However, I've got back to my right size: the next
-thing is, to get into that beautiful garden--how IS that to be
-done, I wonder?' As she said this, she came suddenly upon an
-open place, with a little house in it about four feet high.
-`Whoever lives there,' thought Alice, `it'll never do to come
-upon them THIS size: why, I should frighten them out of their
-wits!' So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did
-not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself
-down to nine inches high.
-
-
-
- CHAPTER VI
-
- Pig and Pepper
-
-
- For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and
-wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came
-running out of the wood--(she considered him to be a footman
-because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only,
-she would have called him a fish)--and rapped loudly at the door
-with his knuckles. It was opened by another footman in livery,
-with a round face, and large eyes like a frog; and both footmen,
-Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all over their
-heads. She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and
-crept a little way out of the wood to listen.
-
- The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great
-letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to
-the other, saying, in a solemn tone, `For the Duchess. An
-invitation from the Queen to play croquet.' The Frog-Footman
-repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the
-words a little, `From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess
-to play croquet.'
-
- Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled
-together.
-
- Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into
-the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped
-out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the
-ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.
-
- Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked.
-
- `There's no sort of use in knocking,' said the Footman, `and
-that for two reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of the
-door as you are; secondly, because they're making such a noise
-inside, no one could possibly hear you.' And certainly there was
-a most extraordinary noise going on within--a constant howling
-and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish
-or kettle had been broken to pieces.
-
- `Please, then,' said Alice, `how am I to get in?'
-
- `There might be some sense in your knocking,' the Footman went
-on without attending to her, `if we had the door between us. For
-instance, if you were INSIDE, you might knock, and I could let
-you out, you know.' He was looking up into the sky all the time
-he was speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly uncivil. `But
-perhaps he can't help it,' she said to herself; `his eyes are so
-VERY nearly at the top of his head. But at any rate he might
-answer questions.--How am I to get in?' she repeated, aloud.
-
- `I shall sit here,' the Footman remarked, `till tomorrow--'
-
- At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate
-came skimming out, straight at the Footman's head: it just
-grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees
-behind him.
-
- `--or next day, maybe,' the Footman continued in the same tone,
-exactly as if nothing had happened.
-
- `How am I to get in?' asked Alice again, in a louder tone.
-
- `ARE you to get in at all?' said the Footman. `That's the
-first question, you know.'
-
- It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so.
-`It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, `the way all the
-creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!'
-
- The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for
-repeating his remark, with variations. `I shall sit here,' he
-said, `on and off, for days and days.'
-
- `But what am I to do?' said Alice.
-
- `Anything you like,' said the Footman, and began whistling.
-
- `Oh, there's no use in talking to him,' said Alice desperately:
-`he's perfectly idiotic!' And she opened the door and went in.
-
- The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of
-smoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a
-three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was
-leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to
-be full of soup.
-
- `There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!' Alice said to
-herself, as well as she could for sneezing.
-
- There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the
-Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was
-sneezing and howling alternately without a moment's pause. The
-only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook,
-and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from
-ear to ear.
-
- `Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for
-she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to
-speak first, `why your cat grins like that?'
-
- `It's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, `and that's why.
-Pig!'
-
- She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice
-quite jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed
-to the baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on
-again:--
-
- `I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I
-didn't know that cats COULD grin.'
-
- `They all can,' said the Duchess; `and most of 'em do.'
-
- `I don't know of any that do,' Alice said very politely,
-feeling quite pleased to have got into a conversation.
-
- `You don't know much,' said the Duchess; `and that's a fact.'
-
- Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought
-it would be as well to introduce some other subject of
-conversation. While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took
-the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work
-throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby
---the fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans,
-plates, and dishes. The Duchess took no notice of them even when
-they hit her; and the baby was howling so much already, that it
-was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not.
-
- `Oh, PLEASE mind what you're doing!' cried Alice, jumping up
-and down in an agony of terror. `Oh, there goes his PRECIOUS
-nose'; as an unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very
-nearly carried it off.
-
- `If everybody minded their own business,' the Duchess said in a
-hoarse growl, `the world would go round a deal faster than it
-does.'
-
- `Which would NOT be an advantage,' said Alice, who felt very
-glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her
-knowledge. `Just think of what work it would make with the day
-and night! You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn
-round on its axis--'
-
- `Talking of axes,' said the Duchess, `chop off her head!'
-
- Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant
-to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and
-seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: `Twenty-four
-hours, I THINK; or is it twelve? I--'
-
- `Oh, don't bother ME,' said the Duchess; `I never could abide
-figures!' And with that she began nursing her child again,
-singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a
-violent shake at the end of every line:
-
- `Speak roughly to your little boy,
- And beat him when he sneezes:
- He only does it to annoy,
- Because he knows it teases.'
-
- CHORUS.
-
- (In which the cook and the baby joined):--
-
- `Wow! wow! wow!'
-
- While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept
-tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing
-howled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words:--
-
- `I speak severely to my boy,
- I beat him when he sneezes;
- For he can thoroughly enjoy
- The pepper when he pleases!'
-
- CHORUS.
-
- `Wow! wow! wow!'
-
- `Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!' the Duchess said
-to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke. `I must go and
-get ready to play croquet with the Queen,' and she hurried out of
-the room. The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out,
-but it just missed her.
-
- Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-
-shaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all
-directions, `just like a star-fish,' thought Alice. The poor
-little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it,
-and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again,
-so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much
-as she could do to hold it.
-
- As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it,
-(which was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep
-tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its
-undoing itself,) she carried it out into the open air. `IF I
-don't take this child away with me,' thought Alice, `they're sure
-to kill it in a day or two: wouldn't it be murder to leave it
-behind?' She said the last words out loud, and the little thing
-grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time). `Don't
-grunt,' said Alice; `that's not at all a proper way of expressing
-yourself.'
-
- The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into
-its face to see what was the matter with it. There could be no
-doubt that it had a VERY turn-up nose, much more like a snout
-than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for
-a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at
-all. `But perhaps it was only sobbing,' she thought, and looked
-into its eyes again, to see if there were any tears.
-
- No, there were no tears. `If you're going to turn into a pig,
-my dear,' said Alice, seriously, `I'll have nothing more to do
-with you. Mind now!' The poor little thing sobbed again (or
-grunted, it was impossible to say which), and they went on for
-some while in silence.
-
- Alice was just beginning to think to herself, `Now, what am I
-to do with this creature when I get it home?' when it grunted
-again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some
-alarm. This time there could be NO mistake about it: it was
-neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be
-quite absurd for her to carry it further.
-
- So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to
-see it trot away quietly into the wood. `If it had grown up,'
-she said to herself, `it would have made a dreadfully ugly child:
-but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began
-thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as
-pigs, and was just saying to herself, `if one only knew the right
-way to change them--' when she was a little startled by seeing
-the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
-
- The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-
-natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great
-many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
-
- `Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at
-all know whether it would like the name: however, it only
-grinned a little wider. `Come, it's pleased so far,' thought
-Alice, and she went on. `Would you tell me, please, which way I
-ought to go from here?'
-
- `That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said
-the Cat.
-
- `I don't much care where--' said Alice.
-
- `Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
-
- `--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
-
- `Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk
-long enough.'
-
- Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another
-question. `What sort of people live about here?'
-
- `In THAT direction,' the Cat said, waving its right paw round,
-`lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,' waving the other paw,
-`lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.'
-
- `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
-
- `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here.
-I'm mad. You're mad.'
-
- `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
-
- `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
-
- Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on
-`And how do you know that you're mad?'
-
- `To begin with,' said the Cat, `a dog's not mad. You grant
-that?'
-
- `I suppose so,' said Alice.
-
- `Well, then,' the Cat went on, `you see, a dog growls when it's
-angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm
-pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.'
-
- `I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice.
-
- `Call it what you like,' said the Cat. `Do you play croquet
-with the Queen to-day?'
-
- `I should like it very much,' said Alice, `but I haven't been
-invited yet.'
-
- `You'll see me there,' said the Cat, and vanished.
-
- Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used
-to queer things happening. While she was looking at the place
-where it had been, it suddenly appeared again.
-
- `By-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat. `I'd
-nearly forgotten to ask.'
-
- `It turned into a pig,' Alice quietly said, just as if it had
-come back in a natural way.
-
- `I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished again.
-
- Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it
-did not appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the
-direction in which the March Hare was said to live. `I've seen
-hatters before,' she said to herself; `the March Hare will be
-much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won't be
-raving mad--at least not so mad as it was in March.' As she said
-this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a
-branch of a tree.
-
- `Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat.
-
- `I said pig,' replied Alice; `and I wish you wouldn't keep
-appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.'
-
- `All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite
-slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the
-grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
-
- `Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice;
-`but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever
-say in my life!'
-
- She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the
-house of the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house,
-because the chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was
-thatched with fur. It was so large a house, that she did not
-like to go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the lefthand
-bit of mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet high: even
-then she walked up towards it rather timidly, saying to herself
-`Suppose it should be raving mad after all! I almost wish I'd
-gone to see the Hatter instead!'
-
-
-
- CHAPTER VII
-
- A Mad Tea-Party
-
-
- There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house,
-and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a
-Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two
-were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and the
-talking over its head. `Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,'
-thought Alice; `only, as it's asleep, I suppose it doesn't mind.'
-
- The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded
-together at one corner of it: `No room! No room!' they cried
-out when they saw Alice coming. `There's PLENTY of room!' said
-Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one
-end of the table.
-
- `Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
-
- Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it
-but tea. `I don't see any wine,' she remarked.
-
- `There isn't any,' said the March Hare.
-
- `Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice
-angrily.
-
- `It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being
-invited,' said the March Hare.
-
- `I didn't know it was YOUR table,' said Alice; `it's laid for a
-great many more than three.'
-
- `Your hair wants cutting,' said the Hatter. He had been
-looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was
-his first speech.
-
- `You should learn not to make personal remarks,' Alice said
-with some severity; `it's very rude.'
-
- The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all
-he SAID was, `Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'
-
- `Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. `I'm glad
-they've begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that,' she
-added aloud.
-
- `Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?'
-said the March Hare.
-
- `Exactly so,' said Alice.
-
- `Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on.
-
- `I do,' Alice hastily replied; `at least--at least I mean what
-I say--that's the same thing, you know.'
-
- `Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. `You might just
-as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat
-what I see"!'
-
- `You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, `that "I
-like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!'
-
- `You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to
-be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the
-same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'
-
- `It IS the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and here the
-conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute,
-while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and
-writing-desks, which wasn't much.
-
- The Hatter was the first to break the silence. `What day of
-the month is it?' he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his
-watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking
-it every now and then, and holding it to his ear.
-
- Alice considered a little, and then said `The fourth.'
-
- `Two days wrong!' sighed the Hatter. `I told you butter
-wouldn't suit the works!' he added looking angrily at the March
-Hare.
-
- `It was the BEST butter,' the March Hare meekly replied.
-
- `Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,' the Hatter
-grumbled: `you shouldn't have put it in with the bread-knife.'
-
- The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then
-he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he
-could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, `It
-was the BEST butter, you know.'
-
- Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity.
-`What a funny watch!' she remarked. `It tells the day of the
-month, and doesn't tell what o'clock it is!'
-
- `Why should it?' muttered the Hatter. `Does YOUR watch tell
-you what year it is?'
-
- `Of course not,' Alice replied very readily: `but that's
-because it stays the same year for such a long time together.'
-
- `Which is just the case with MINE,' said the Hatter.
-
- Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to
-have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.
-`I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she
-could.
-
- `The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured
-a little hot tea upon its nose.
-
- The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without
-opening its eyes, `Of course, of course; just what I was going to
-remark myself.'
-
- `Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to
-Alice again.
-
- `No, I give it up,' Alice replied: `what's the answer?'
-
- `I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter.
-
- `Nor I,' said the March Hare.
-
- Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better
-with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that
-have no answers.'
-
- `If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you
-wouldn't talk about wasting IT. It's HIM.'
-
- `I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.
-
- `Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head
-contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'
-
- `Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: `but I know I have to
-beat time when I learn music.'
-
- `Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. `He won't stand
-beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do
-almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose
-it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons:
-you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the
-clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!'
-
- (`I only wish it was,' the March Hare said to itself in a
-whisper.)
-
- `That would be grand, certainly,' said Alice thoughtfully:
-`but then--I shouldn't be hungry for it, you know.'
-
- `Not at first, perhaps,' said the Hatter: `but you could keep
-it to half-past one as long as you liked.'
-
- `Is that the way YOU manage?' Alice asked.
-
- The Hatter shook his head mournfully. `Not I!' he replied.
-`We quarrelled last March--just before HE went mad, you know--'
-(pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) `--it was at the
-great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing
-
- "Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
- How I wonder what you're at!"
-
-You know the song, perhaps?'
-
- `I've heard something like it,' said Alice.
-
- `It goes on, you know,' the Hatter continued, `in this way:--
-
- "Up above the world you fly,
- Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Twinkle, twinkle--"'
-
-Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep
-`Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle--' and went on so long that
-they had to pinch it to make it stop.
-
- `Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse,' said the Hatter,
-`when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, "He's murdering the
-time! Off with his head!"'
-
- `How dreadfully savage!' exclaimed Alice.
-
- `And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful tone,
-`he won't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.'
-
- A bright idea came into Alice's head. `Is that the reason so
-many tea-things are put out here?' she asked.
-
- `Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: `it's always
-tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles.'
-
- `Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice.
-
- `Exactly so,' said the Hatter: `as the things get used up.'
-
- `But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice
-ventured to ask.
-
- `Suppose we change the subject,' the March Hare interrupted,
-yawning. `I'm getting tired of this. I vote the young lady
-tells us a story.'
-
- `I'm afraid I don't know one,' said Alice, rather alarmed at
-the proposal.
-
- `Then the Dormouse shall!' they both cried. `Wake up,
-Dormouse!' And they pinched it on both sides at once.
-
- The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. `I wasn't asleep,' he
-said in a hoarse, feeble voice: `I heard every word you fellows
-were saying.'
-
- `Tell us a story!' said the March Hare.
-
- `Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice.
-
- `And be quick about it,' added the Hatter, `or you'll be asleep
-again before it's done.'
-
- `Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the
-Dormouse began in a great hurry; `and their names were Elsie,
-Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well--'
-
- `What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great
-interest in questions of eating and drinking.
-
- `They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a
-minute or two.
-
- `They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice gently
-remarked; `they'd have been ill.'
-
- `So they were,' said the Dormouse; `VERY ill.'
-
- Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary ways
-of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went
-on: `But why did they live at the bottom of a well?'
-
- `Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very
-earnestly.
-
- `I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, `so
-I can't take more.'
-
- `You mean you can't take LESS,' said the Hatter: `it's very
-easy to take MORE than nothing.'
-
- `Nobody asked YOUR opinion,' said Alice.
-
- `Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter asked
-triumphantly.
-
- Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped
-herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the
-Dormouse, and repeated her question. `Why did they live at the
-bottom of a well?'
-
- The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and
-then said, `It was a treacle-well.'
-
- `There's no such thing!' Alice was beginning very angrily, but
-the Hatter and the March Hare went `Sh! sh!' and the Dormouse
-sulkily remarked, `If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the
-story for yourself.'
-
- `No, please go on!' Alice said very humbly; `I won't interrupt
-again. I dare say there may be ONE.'
-
- `One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he
-consented to go on. `And so these three little sisters--they
-were learning to draw, you know--'
-
- `What did they draw?' said Alice, quite forgetting her promise.
-
- `Treacle,' said the Dormouse, without considering at all this
-time.
-
- `I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: `let's all move
-one place on.'
-
- He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the
-March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather
-unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the
-only one who got any advantage from the change: and Alice was a
-good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset
-the milk-jug into his plate.
-
- Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began
-very cautiously: `But I don't understand. Where did they draw
-the treacle from?'
-
- `You can draw water out of a water-well,' said the Hatter; `so
-I should think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh,
-stupid?'
-
- `But they were IN the well,' Alice said to the Dormouse, not
-choosing to notice this last remark.
-
- `Of course they were', said the Dormouse; `--well in.'
-
- This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse
-go on for some time without interrupting it.
-
- `They were learning to draw,' the Dormouse went on, yawning and
-rubbing its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy; `and they drew
-all manner of things--everything that begins with an M--'
-
- `Why with an M?' said Alice.
-
- `Why not?' said the March Hare.
-
- Alice was silent.
-
- The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going
-off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up
-again with a little shriek, and went on: `--that begins with an
-M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness--
-you know you say things are "much of a muchness"--did you ever
-see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?'
-
- `Really, now you ask me,' said Alice, very much confused, `I
-don't think--'
-
- `Then you shouldn't talk,' said the Hatter.
-
- This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got
-up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep
-instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her
-going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that
-they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were
-trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.
-
- `At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she
-picked her way through the wood. `It's the stupidest tea-party I
-ever was at in all my life!'
-
- Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a
-door leading right into it. `That's very curious!' she thought.
-`But everything's curious today. I think I may as well go in at
-once.' And in she went.
-
- Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the
-little glass table. `Now, I'll manage better this time,' she
-said to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and
-unlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she went to
-work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her
-pocked) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the
-little passage: and THEN--she found herself at last in the
-beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool
-fountains.
-
-
-
- CHAPTER VIII
-
- The Queen's Croquet-Ground
-
-
- A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the
-roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at
-it, busily painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious
-thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up
-to them she heard one of them say, `Look out now, Five! Don't go
-splashing paint over me like that!'
-
- `I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; `Seven jogged
-my elbow.'
-
- On which Seven looked up and said, `That's right, Five! Always
-lay the blame on others!'
-
- `YOU'D better not talk!' said Five. `I heard the Queen say only
-yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!'
-
- `What for?' said the one who had spoken first.
-
- `That's none of YOUR business, Two!' said Seven.
-
- `Yes, it IS his business!' said Five, `and I'll tell him--it
-was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.'
-
- Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun `Well, of all
-the unjust things--' when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as
-she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the
-others looked round also, and all of them bowed low.
-
- `Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, `why you are
-painting those roses?'
-
- Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two. Two began in a
-low voice, `Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to
-have been a RED rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake;
-and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads
-cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore
-she comes, to--' At this moment Five, who had been anxiously
-looking across the garden, called out `The Queen! The Queen!'
-and the three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat upon
-their faces. There was a sound of many footsteps, and Alice
-looked round, eager to see the Queen.
-
- First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped
-like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and
-feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were
-ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the
-soldiers did. After these came the royal children; there were
-ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand
-in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next
-came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice
-recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous
-manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without
-noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the
-King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this
-grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS.
-
- Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on
-her face like the three gardeners, but she could not remember
-every having heard of such a rule at processions; `and besides,
-what would be the use of a procession,' thought she, `if people
-had all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn't see
-it?' So she stood still where she was, and waited.
-
- When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped
-and looked at her, and the Queen said severely `Who is this?'
-She said it to the Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in
-reply.
-
- `Idiot!' said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and,
-turning to Alice, she went on, `What's your name, child?'
-
- `My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,' said Alice very
-politely; but she added, to herself, `Why, they're only a pack of
-cards, after all. I needn't be afraid of them!'
-
- `And who are THESE?' said the Queen, pointing to the three
-gardeners who were lying round the rosetree; for, you see, as
-they were lying on their faces, and the pattern on their backs
-was the same as the rest of the pack, she could not tell whether
-they were gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her
-own children.
-
- `How should I know?' said Alice, surprised at her own courage.
-`It's no business of MINE.'
-
- The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her
-for a moment like a wild beast, screamed `Off with her head!
-Off--'
-
- `Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the
-Queen was silent.
-
- The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said
-`Consider, my dear: she is only a child!'
-
- The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave
-`Turn them over!'
-
- The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.
-
- `Get up!' said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the
-three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the
-King, the Queen, the royal children, and everybody else.
-
- `Leave off that!' screamed the Queen. `You make me giddy.'
-And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, `What HAVE you
-been doing here?'
-
- `May it please your Majesty,' said Two, in a very humble tone,
-going down on one knee as he spoke, `we were trying--'
-
- `I see!' said the Queen, who had meanwhile been examining the
-roses. `Off with their heads!' and the procession moved on,
-three of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate
-gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.
-
- `You shan't be beheaded!' said Alice, and she put them into a
-large flower-pot that stood near. The three soldiers wandered
-about for a minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly
-marched off after the others.
-
- `Are their heads off?' shouted the Queen.
-
- `Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!' the soldiers
-shouted in reply.
-
- `That's right!' shouted the Queen. `Can you play croquet?'
-
- The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question
-was evidently meant for her.
-
- `Yes!' shouted Alice.
-
- `Come on, then!' roared the Queen, and Alice joined the
-procession, wondering very much what would happen next.
-
- `It's--it's a very fine day!' said a timid voice at her side.
-She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously
-into her face.
-
- `Very,' said Alice: `--where's the Duchess?'
-
- `Hush! Hush!' said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone. He
-looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised
-himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and
-whispered `She's under sentence of execution.'
-
- `What for?' said Alice.
-
- `Did you say "What a pity!"?' the Rabbit asked.
-
- `No, I didn't,' said Alice: `I don't think it's at all a pity.
-I said "What for?"'
-
- `She boxed the Queen's ears--' the Rabbit began. Alice gave a
-little scream of laughter. `Oh, hush!' the Rabbit whispered in a
-frightened tone. `The Queen will hear you! You see, she came
-rather late, and the Queen said--'
-
- `Get to your places!' shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder,
-and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up
-against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or
-two, and the game began. Alice thought she had never seen such a
-curious croquet-ground in her life; it was all ridges and
-furrows; the balls were live hedgehogs, the mallets live
-flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double themselves up and to
-stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches.
-
- The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her
-flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away,
-comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down,
-but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened
-out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it
-WOULD twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a
-puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing:
-and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again,
-it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled
-itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this,
-there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she
-wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers
-were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the
-ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very
-difficult game indeed.
-
- The players all played at once without waiting for turns,
-quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in
-a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went
-stamping about, and shouting `Off with his head!' or `Off with
-her head!' about once in a minute.
-
- Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as
-yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might
-happen any minute, `and then,' thought she, `what would become of
-me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great
-wonder is, that there's any one left alive!'
-
- She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering
-whether she could get away without being seen, when she noticed a
-curious appearance in the air: it puzzled her very much at
-first, but, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to
-be a grin, and she said to herself `It's the Cheshire Cat: now I
-shall have somebody to talk to.'
-
- `How are you getting on?' said the Cat, as soon as there was
-mouth enough for it to speak with.
-
- Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. `It's no
-use speaking to it,' she thought, `till its ears have come, or at
-least one of them.' In another minute the whole head appeared,
-and then Alice put down her flamingo, and began an account of the
-game, feeling very glad she had someone to listen to her. The
-Cat seemed to think that there was enough of it now in sight, and
-no more of it appeared.
-
- `I don't think they play at all fairly,' Alice began, in rather
-a complaining tone, `and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't
-hear oneself speak--and they don't seem to have any rules in
-particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them--and
-you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive;
-for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next
-walking about at the other end of the ground--and I should have
-croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it
-saw mine coming!'
-
- `How do you like the Queen?' said the Cat in a low voice.
-
- `Not at all,' said Alice: `she's so extremely--' Just then
-she noticed that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so
-she went on, `--likely to win, that it's hardly worth while
-finishing the game.'
-
- The Queen smiled and passed on.
-
- `Who ARE you talking to?' said the King, going up to Alice, and
-looking at the Cat's head with great curiosity.
-
- `It's a friend of mine--a Cheshire Cat,' said Alice: `allow me
-to introduce it.'
-
- `I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: `however,
-it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
-
- `I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
-
- `Don't be impertinent,' said the King, `and don't look at me
-like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
-
- `A cat may look at a king,' said Alice. `I've read that in
-some book, but I don't remember where.'
-
- `Well, it must be removed,' said the King very decidedly, and
-he called the Queen, who was passing at the moment, `My dear! I
-wish you would have this cat removed!'
-
- The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great
-or small. `Off with his head!' she said, without even looking
-round.
-
- `I'll fetch the executioner myself,' said the King eagerly, and
-he hurried off.
-
- Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game
-was going on, as she heard the Queen's voice in the distance,
-screaming with passion. She had already heard her sentence three
-of the players to be executed for having missed their turns, and
-she did not like the look of things at all, as the game was in
-such confusion that she never knew whether it was her turn or
-not. So she went in search of her hedgehog.
-
- The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog,
-which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one
-of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her
-flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where
-Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up
-into a tree.
-
- By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back,
-the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight:
-`but it doesn't matter much,' thought Alice, `as all the arches
-are gone from this side of the ground.' So she tucked it away
-under her arm, that it might not escape again, and went back for
-a little more conversation with her friend.
-
- When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to
-find quite a large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute
-going on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who
-were all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent,
-and looked very uncomfortable.
-
- The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to
-settle the question, and they repeated their arguments to her,
-though, as they all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed
-to make out exactly what they said.
-
- The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off a
-head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had
-never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin
-at HIS time of life.
-
- The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could be
-beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.
-
- The Queen's argument was, that if something wasn't done about
-it in less than no time she'd have everybody executed, all round.
-(It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so
-grave and anxious.)
-
- Alice could think of nothing else to say but `It belongs to the
-Duchess: you'd better ask HER about it.'
-
- `She's in prison,' the Queen said to the executioner: `fetch
-her here.' And the executioner went off like an arrow.
-
- The Cat's head began fading away the moment he was gone, and,
-by the time he had come back with the Dutchess, it had entirely
-disappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and
-down looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game.
-
-
-
- CHAPTER IX
-
- The Mock Turtle's Story
-
-
- `You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old
-thing!' said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately
-into Alice's, and they walked off together.
-
- Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and
-thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had
-made her so savage when they met in the kitchen.
-
- `When I'M a Duchess,' she said to herself, (not in a very
-hopeful tone though), `I won't have any pepper in my kitchen AT
-ALL. Soup does very well without--Maybe it's always pepper that
-makes people hot-tempered,' she went on, very much pleased at
-having found out a new kind of rule, `and vinegar that makes them
-sour--and camomile that makes them bitter--and--and barley-sugar
-and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish
-people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you
-know--'
-
- She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a
-little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear.
-`You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you
-forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that
-is, but I shall remember it in a bit.'
-
- `Perhaps it hasn't one,' Alice ventured to remark.
-
- `Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. `Everything's got a
-moral, if only you can find it.' And she squeezed herself up
-closer to Alice's side as she spoke.
-
- Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first,
-because the Duchess was VERY ugly; and secondly, because she was
-exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice's shoulder,
-and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not
-like to be rude, so she bore it as well as she could.
-
- `The game's going on rather better now,' she said, by way of
-keeping up the conversation a little.
-
- `'Tis so,' said the Duchess: `and the moral of that is--"Oh,
-'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"'
-
- `Somebody said,' Alice whispered, `that it's done by everybody
-minding their own business!'
-
- `Ah, well! It means much the same thing,' said the Duchess,
-digging her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added,
-`and the moral of THAT is--"Take care of the sense, and the
-sounds will take care of themselves."'
-
- `How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to
-herself.
-
- `I dare say you're wondering why I don't put my arm round your
-waist,' the Duchess said after a pause: `the reason is, that I'm
-doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the
-experiment?'
-
- `HE might bite,' Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all
-anxious to have the experiment tried.
-
- `Very true,' said the Duchess: `flamingoes and mustard both
-bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock
-together."'
-
- `Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
-
- `Right, as usual,' said the Duchess: `what a clear way you
-have of putting things!'
-
- `It's a mineral, I THINK,' said Alice.
-
- `Of course it is,' said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree
-to everything that Alice said; `there's a large mustard-mine near
-here. And the moral of that is--"The more there is of mine, the
-less there is of yours."'
-
- `Oh, I know!' exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this
-last remark, `it's a vegetable. It doesn't look like one, but it
-is.'
-
- `I quite agree with you,' said the Duchess; `and the moral of
-that is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put
-more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than
-what it might appear to others that what you were or might have
-been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared
-to them to be otherwise."'
-
- `I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very
-politely, `if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it
-as you say it.'
-
- `That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess
-replied, in a pleased tone.
-
- `Pray don't trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,'
-said Alice.
-
- `Oh, don't talk about trouble!' said the Duchess. `I make you
-a present of everything I've said as yet.'
-
- `A cheap sort of present!' thought Alice. `I'm glad they don't
-give birthday presents like that!' But she did not venture to
-say it out loud.
-
- `Thinking again?' the Duchess asked, with another dig of her
-sharp little chin.
-
- `I've a right to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was
-beginning to feel a little worried.
-
- `Just about as much right,' said the Duchess, `as pigs have to
-fly; and the m--'
-
- But here, to Alice's great surprise, the Duchess's voice died
-away, even in the middle of her favourite word `moral,' and the
-arm that was linked into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up,
-and there stood the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded,
-frowning like a thunderstorm.
-
- `A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a low, weak
-voice.
-
- `Now, I give you fair warning,' shouted the Queen, stamping on
-the ground as she spoke; `either you or your head must be off,
-and that in about half no time! Take your choice!'
-
- The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment.
-
- `Let's go on with the game,' the Queen said to Alice; and Alice
-was too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her
-back to the croquet-ground.
-
- The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen's absence,
-and were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her,
-they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a
-moment's delay would cost them their lives.
-
- All the time they were playing the Queen never left off
-quarrelling with the other players, and shouting `Off with his
-head!' or `Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were
-taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave
-off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour
-or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the
-King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of
-execution.
-
- Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to
-Alice, `Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?'
-
- `No,' said Alice. `I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is.'
-
- `It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,' said the Queen.
-
- `I never saw one, or heard of one,' said Alice.
-
- `Come on, then,' said the Queen, `and he shall tell you his
-history,'
-
- As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low
-voice, to the company generally, `You are all pardoned.' `Come,
-THAT'S a good thing!' she said to herself, for she had felt quite
-unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.
-
- They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the
-sun. (IF you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.)
-`Up, lazy thing!' said the Queen, `and take this young lady to
-see the Mock Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and
-see after some executions I have ordered'; and she walked off,
-leaving Alice alone with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like
-the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would
-be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage
-Queen: so she waited.
-
- The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the
-Queen till she was out of sight: then it chuckled. `What fun!'
-said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.
-
- `What IS the fun?' said Alice.
-
- `Why, SHE,' said the Gryphon. `It's all her fancy, that: they
-never executes nobody, you know. Come on!'
-
- `Everybody says "come on!" here,' thought Alice, as she went
-slowly after it: `I never was so ordered about in all my life,
-never!'
-
- They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the
-distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and,
-as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart
-would break. She pitied him deeply. `What is his sorrow?' she
-asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the
-same words as before, `It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got
-no sorrow, you know. Come on!'
-
- So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with
-large eyes full of tears, but said nothing.
-
- `This here young lady,' said the Gryphon, `she wants for to
-know your history, she do.'
-
- `I'll tell it her,' said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow
-tone: `sit down, both of you, and don't speak a word till I've
-finished.'
-
- So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice
-thought to herself, `I don't see how he can EVEN finish, if he
-doesn't begin.' But she waited patiently.
-
- `Once,' said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, `I was
-a real Turtle.'
-
- These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only
-by an occasional exclamation of `Hjckrrh!' from the Gryphon, and
-the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very
-nearly getting up and saying, `Thank you, sir, for your
-interesting story,' but she could not help thinking there MUST be
-more to come, so she sat still and said nothing.
-
- `When we were little,' the Mock Turtle went on at last, more
-calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, `we went to
-school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call
-him Tortoise--'
-
- `Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked.
-
- `We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock
-Turtle angrily: `really you are very dull!'
-
- `You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple
-question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and
-looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. At
-last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, `Drive on, old fellow!
-Don't be all day about it!' and he went on in these words:
-
- `Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn't believe
-it--'
-
- `I never said I didn't!' interrupted Alice.
-
- `You did,' said the Mock Turtle.
-
- `Hold your tongue!' added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak
-again. The Mock Turtle went on.
-
- `We had the best of educations--in fact, we went to school
-every day--'
-
- `I'VE been to a day-school, too,' said Alice; `you needn't be
-so proud as all that.'
-
- `With extras?' asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously.
-
- `Yes,' said Alice, `we learned French and music.'
-
- `And washing?' said the Mock Turtle.
-
- `Certainly not!' said Alice indignantly.
-
- `Ah! then yours wasn't a really good school,' said the Mock
-Turtle in a tone of great relief. `Now at OURS they had at the
-end of the bill, "French, music, AND WASHING--extra."'
-
- `You couldn't have wanted it much,' said Alice; `living at the
-bottom of the sea.'
-
- `I couldn't afford to learn it.' said the Mock Turtle with a
-sigh. `I only took the regular course.'
-
- `What was that?' inquired Alice.
-
- `Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,' the Mock
-Turtle replied; `and then the different branches of Arithmetic--
-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'
-
- `I never heard of "Uglification,"' Alice ventured to say. `What
-is it?'
-
- The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. `What! Never
-heard of uglifying!' it exclaimed. `You know what to beautify
-is, I suppose?'
-
- `Yes,' said Alice doubtfully: `it means--to--make--anything--
-prettier.'
-
- `Well, then,' the Gryphon went on, `if you don't know what to
-uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.'
-
- Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about
-it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said `What else had you
-to learn?'
-
- `Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting
-off the subjects on his flappers, `--Mystery, ancient and modern,
-with Seaography: then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old
-conger-eel, that used to come once a week: HE taught us
-Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'
-
- `What was THAT like?' said Alice.
-
- `Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: `I'm
-too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'
-
- `Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: `I went to the Classics
-master, though. He was an old crab, HE was.'
-
- `I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: `he
-taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'
-
- `So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn;
-and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.
-
- `And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a
-hurry to change the subject.
-
- `Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: `nine the
-next, and so on.'
-
- `What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
-
- `That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon
-remarked: `because they lessen from day to day.'
-
- This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a
-little before she made her next remark. `Then the eleventh day
-must have been a holiday?'
-
- `Of course it was,' said the Mock Turtle.
-
- `And how did you manage on the twelfth?' Alice went on eagerly.
-
- `That's enough about lessons,' the Gryphon interrupted in a
-very decided tone: `tell her something about the games now.'
-
-
-
- CHAPTER X
-
- The Lobster Quadrille
-
-
- The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one flapper
-across his eyes. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for
-a minute or two sobs choked his voice. `Same as if he had a bone
-in his throat,' said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him
-and punching him in the back. At last the Mock Turtle recovered
-his voice, and, with tears running down his cheeks, he went on
-again:--
-
- `You may not have lived much under the sea--' (`I haven't,'
-said Alice)--`and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster--'
-(Alice began to say `I once tasted--' but checked herself hastily,
-and said `No, never') `--so you can have no idea what a delightful
-thing a Lobster Quadrille is!'
-
- `No, indeed,' said Alice. `What sort of a dance is it?'
-
- `Why,' said the Gryphon, `you first form into a line along the
-sea-shore--'
-
- `Two lines!' cried the Mock Turtle. `Seals, turtles, salmon,
-and so on; then, when you've cleared all the jelly-fish out of
-the way--'
-
- `THAT generally takes some time,' interrupted the Gryphon.
-
- `--you advance twice--'
-
- `Each with a lobster as a partner!' cried the Gryphon.
-
- `Of course,' the Mock Turtle said: `advance twice, set to
-partners--'
-
- `--change lobsters, and retire in same order,' continued the
-Gryphon.
-
- `Then, you know,' the Mock Turtle went on, `you throw the--'
-
- `The lobsters!' shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air.
-
- `--as far out to sea as you can--'
-
- `Swim after them!' screamed the Gryphon.
-
- `Turn a somersault in the sea!' cried the Mock Turtle,
-capering wildly about.
-
- `Back to land again, and that's all the first figure,' said the
-Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two creatures,
-who had been jumping about like mad things all this time, sat
-down again very sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice.
-
- `It must be a very pretty dance,' said Alice timidly.
-
- `Would you like to see a little of it?' said the Mock Turtle.
-
- `Very much indeed,' said Alice.
-
- `Come, let's try the first figure!' said the Mock Turtle to the
-Gryphon. `We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall
-sing?'
-
- `Oh, YOU sing,' said the Gryphon. `I've forgotten the words.'
-
- So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now
-and then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and
-waving their forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle
-sang this, very slowly and sadly:--
-
-
-`"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail.
-"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my
- tail.
-See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
-They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the
-dance?
-
-Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the
-dance?
-Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the
-dance?
-
-
-"You can really have no notion how delightful it will be
-When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to
- sea!"
-But the snail replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a look
- askance--
-Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the
- dance.
- Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join
- the dance.
- Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join
- the dance.
-
-`"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied.
-"There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
-The further off from England the nearer is to France--
-Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
-
- Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the
- dance?
- Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the
- dance?"'
-
-
-
- `Thank you, it's a very interesting dance to watch,' said
-Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last: `and I do so
-like that curious song about the whiting!'
-
- `Oh, as to the whiting,' said the Mock Turtle, `they--you've
-seen them, of course?'
-
- `Yes,' said Alice, `I've often seen them at dinn--' she
-checked herself hastily.
-
- `I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock Turtle, `but
-if you've seen them so often, of course you know what they're
-like.'
-
- `I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully. `They have their
-tails in their mouths--and they're all over crumbs.'
-
- `You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle:
-`crumbs would all wash off in the sea. But they HAVE their tails
-in their mouths; and the reason is--' here the Mock Turtle
-yawned and shut his eyes.--`Tell her about the reason and all
-that,' he said to the Gryphon.
-
- `The reason is,' said the Gryphon, `that they WOULD go with
-the lobsters to the dance. So they got thrown out to sea. So
-they had to fall a long way. So they got their tails fast in
-their mouths. So they couldn't get them out again. That's all.'
-
- `Thank you,' said Alice, `it's very interesting. I never knew
-so much about a whiting before.'
-
- `I can tell you more than that, if you like,' said the
-Gryphon. `Do you know why it's called a whiting?'
-
- `I never thought about it,' said Alice. `Why?'
-
- `IT DOES THE BOOTS AND SHOES.' the Gryphon replied very
-solemnly.
-
- Alice was thoroughly puzzled. `Does the boots and shoes!' she
-repeated in a wondering tone.
-
- `Why, what are YOUR shoes done with?' said the Gryphon. `I
-mean, what makes them so shiny?'
-
- Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she
-gave her answer. `They're done with blacking, I believe.'
-
- `Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went on in a deep
-voice, `are done with a whiting. Now you know.'
-
- `And what are they made of?' Alice asked in a tone of great
-curiosity.
-
- `Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather
-impatiently: `any shrimp could have told you that.'
-
- `If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts were
-still running on the song, `I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep
-back, please: we don't want YOU with us!"'
-
- `They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle
-said: `no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'
-
- `Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great surprise.
-
- `Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: `why, if a fish came
-to ME, and told me he was going a journey, I should say "With
-what porpoise?"'
-
- `Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice.
-
- `I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an offended
-tone. And the Gryphon added `Come, let's hear some of YOUR
-adventures.'
-
- `I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning,'
-said Alice a little timidly: `but it's no use going back to
-yesterday, because I was a different person then.'
-
- `Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle.
-
- `No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an
-impatient tone: `explanations take such a dreadful time.'
-
- So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when
-she first saw the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about
-it just at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on
-each side, and opened their eyes and mouths so VERY wide, but she
-gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly
-quiet till she got to the part about her repeating `YOU ARE OLD,
-FATHER WILLIAM,' to the Caterpillar, and the words all coming
-different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and said
-`That's very curious.'
-
- `It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the Gryphon.
-
- `It all came different!' the Mock Turtle repeated
-thoughtfully. `I should like to hear her try and repeat
-something now. Tell her to begin.' He looked at the Gryphon as
-if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice.
-
- `Stand up and repeat "'TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD,"' said
-the Gryphon.
-
- `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat
-lessons!' thought Alice; `I might as well be at school at once.'
-However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so
-full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was
-saying, and the words came very queer indeed:--
-
- `'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
- "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
- As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
- Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.'
-
- [later editions continued as follows
- When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
- And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark,
- But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
- His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.]
-
- `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,'
-said the Gryphon.
-
- `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it
-sounds uncommon nonsense.'
-
- Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her
-hands, wondering if anything would EVER happen in a natural way
-again.
-
- `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle.
-
- `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with
-the next verse.'
-
- `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How COULD
-he turn them out with his nose, you know?'
-
- `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was
-dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the
-subject.
-
- `Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated impatiently:
-`it begins "I passed by his garden."'
-
- Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would
-all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:--
-
- `I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
- How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie--'
-
- [later editions continued as follows
- The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
- While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
- When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
- Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:
- While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
- And concluded the banquet--]
-
- `What IS the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock Turtle
-interrupted, `if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far
-the most confusing thing I ever heard!'
-
- `Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon: and
-Alice was only too glad to do so.
-
- `Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the
-Gryphon went on. `Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you
-a song?'
-
- `Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,'
-Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather
-offended tone, `Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her "Turtle
-Soup," will you, old fellow?'
-
- The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes
-choked with sobs, to sing this:--
-
-
- `Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
- Waiting in a hot tureen!
- Who for such dainties would not stoop?
- Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
- Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
- Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
- Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
- Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
- Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
-
- `Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,
- Game, or any other dish?
- Who would not give all else for two p
- ennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
- Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
- Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
- Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
- Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
- Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!'
-
- `Chorus again!' cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had
-just begun to repeat it, when a cry of `The trial's beginning!'
-was heard in the distance.
-
- `Come on!' cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand,
-it hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.
-
- `What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon
-only answered `Come on!' and ran the faster, while more and more
-faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the
-melancholy words:--
-
- `Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
- Beautiful, beautiful Soup!'
-
-
-
- CHAPTER XI
-
- Who Stole the Tarts?
-
-
- The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when
-they arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts
-of little birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards:
-the Knave was standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on
-each side to guard him; and near the King was the White Rabbit,
-with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the
-other. In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large
-dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice
-quite hungry to look at them--`I wish they'd get the trial done,'
-she thought, `and hand round the refreshments!' But there seemed
-to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about
-her, to pass away the time.
-
- Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had
-read about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find that
-she knew the name of nearly everything there. `That's the
-judge,' she said to herself, `because of his great wig.'
-
- The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown
-over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he
-did it,) he did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly
-not becoming.
-
- `And that's the jury-box,' thought Alice, `and those twelve
-creatures,' (she was obliged to say `creatures,' you see, because
-some of them were animals, and some were birds,) `I suppose they
-are the jurors.' She said this last word two or three times over
-to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and
-rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the
-meaning of it at all. However, `jury-men' would have done just
-as well.
-
- The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates.
-`What are they doing?' Alice whispered to the Gryphon. `They
-can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun.'
-
- `They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon whispered in
-reply, `for fear they should forget them before the end of the
-trial.'
-
- `Stupid things!' Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but
-she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, `Silence in
-the court!' and the King put on his spectacles and looked
-anxiously round, to make out who was talking.
-
- Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their
-shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down `stupid things!'
-on their slates, and she could even make out that one of them
-didn't know how to spell `stupid,' and that he had to ask his
-neighbour to tell him. `A nice muddle their slates'll be in
-before the trial's over!' thought Alice.
-
- One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course,
-Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got
-behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it
-away. She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was
-Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of
-it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write
-with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very
-little use, as it left no mark on the slate.
-
- `Herald, read the accusation!' said the King.
-
- On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and
-then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:--
-
- `The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
- All on a summer day:
- The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
- And took them quite away!'
-
- `Consider your verdict,' the King said to the jury.
-
- `Not yet, not yet!' the Rabbit hastily interrupted. `There's
-a great deal to come before that!'
-
- `Call the first witness,' said the King; and the White Rabbit
-blew three blasts on the trumpet, and called out, `First
-witness!'
-
- The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in
-one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other. `I beg
-pardon, your Majesty,' he began, `for bringing these in: but I
-hadn't quite finished my tea when I was sent for.'
-
- `You ought to have finished,' said the King. `When did you
-begin?'
-
- The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into
-the court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse. `Fourteenth of March, I
-think it was,' he said.
-
- `Fifteenth,' said the March Hare.
-
- `Sixteenth,' added the Dormouse.
-
- `Write that down,' the King said to the jury, and the jury
-eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then
-added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
-
- `Take off your hat,' the King said to the Hatter.
-
- `It isn't mine,' said the Hatter.
-
- `Stolen!' the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who
-instantly made a memorandum of the fact.
-
- `I keep them to sell,' the Hatter added as an explanation;
-`I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.'
-
- Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at the
-Hatter, who turned pale and fidgeted.
-
- `Give your evidence,' said the King; `and don't be nervous, or
-I'll have you executed on the spot.'
-
- This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept
-shifting from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the
-Queen, and in his confusion he bit a large piece out of his
-teacup instead of the bread-and-butter.
-
- Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation, which
-puzzled her a good deal until she made out what it was: she was
-beginning to grow larger again, and she thought at first she
-would get up and leave the court; but on second thoughts she
-decided to remain where she was as long as there was room for
-her.
-
- `I wish you wouldn't squeeze so.' said the Dormouse, who was
-sitting next to her. `I can hardly breathe.'
-
- `I can't help it,' said Alice very meekly: `I'm growing.'
-
- `You've no right to grow here,' said the Dormouse.
-
- `Don't talk nonsense,' said Alice more boldly: `you know
-you're growing too.'
-
- `Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace,' said the Dormouse:
-`not in that ridiculous fashion.' And he got up very sulkily
-and crossed over to the other side of the court.
-
- All this time the Queen had never left off staring at the
-Hatter, and, just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to
-one of the officers of the court, `Bring me the list of the
-singers in the last concert!' on which the wretched Hatter
-trembled so, that he shook both his shoes off.
-
- `Give your evidence,' the King repeated angrily, `or I'll have
-you executed, whether you're nervous or not.'
-
- `I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' the Hatter began, in a
-trembling voice, `--and I hadn't begun my tea--not above a week
-or so--and what with the bread-and-butter getting so thin--and
-the twinkling of the tea--'
-
- `The twinkling of the what?' said the King.
-
- `It began with the tea,' the Hatter replied.
-
- `Of course twinkling begins with a T!' said the King sharply.
-`Do you take me for a dunce? Go on!'
-
- `I'm a poor man,' the Hatter went on, `and most things
-twinkled after that--only the March Hare said--'
-
- `I didn't!' the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry.
-
- `You did!' said the Hatter.
-
- `I deny it!' said the March Hare.
-
- `He denies it,' said the King: `leave out that part.'
-
- `Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said--' the Hatter went on,
-looking anxiously round to see if he would deny it too: but the
-Dormouse denied nothing, being fast asleep.
-
- `After that,' continued the Hatter, `I cut some more bread-
-and-butter--'
-
- `But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked.
-
- `That I can't remember,' said the Hatter.
-
- `You MUST remember,' remarked the King, `or I'll have you
-executed.'
-
- The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter,
-and went down on one knee. `I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' he
-began.
-
- `You're a very poor speaker,' said the King.
-
- Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately
-suppressed by the officers of the court. (As that is rather a
-hard word, I will just explain to you how it was done. They had
-a large canvas bag, which tied up at the mouth with strings:
-into this they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat
-upon it.)
-
- `I'm glad I've seen that done,' thought Alice. `I've so often
-read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, "There was some
-attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the
-officers of the court," and I never understood what it meant
-till now.'
-
- `If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,'
-continued the King.
-
- `I can't go no lower,' said the Hatter: `I'm on the floor, as
-it is.'
-
- `Then you may SIT down,' the King replied.
-
- Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was suppressed.
-
- `Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!' thought Alice. `Now we
-shall get on better.'
-
- `I'd rather finish my tea,' said the Hatter, with an anxious
-look at the Queen, who was reading the list of singers.
-
- `You may go,' said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the
-court, without even waiting to put his shoes on.
-
- `--and just take his head off outside,' the Queen added to one
-of the officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the
-officer could get to the door.
-
- `Call the next witness!' said the King.
-
- The next witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the
-pepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before
-she got into the court, by the way the people near the door began
-sneezing all at once.
-
- `Give your evidence,' said the King.
-
- `Shan't,' said the cook.
-
- The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a
-low voice, `Your Majesty must cross-examine THIS witness.'
-
- `Well, if I must, I must,' the King said, with a melancholy
-air, and, after folding his arms and frowning at the cook till
-his eyes were nearly out of sight, he said in a deep voice, `What
-are tarts made of?'
-
- `Pepper, mostly,' said the cook.
-
- `Treacle,' said a sleepy voice behind her.
-
- `Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out. `Behead that
-Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch
-him! Off with his whiskers!'
-
- For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the
-Dormouse turned out, and, by the time they had settled down
-again, the cook had disappeared.
-
- `Never mind!' said the King, with an air of great relief.
-`Call the next witness.' And he added in an undertone to the
-Queen, `Really, my dear, YOU must cross-examine the next witness.
-It quite makes my forehead ache!'
-
- Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list,
-feeling very curious to see what the next witness would be like,
-`--for they haven't got much evidence YET,' she said to herself.
-Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top
-of his shrill little voice, the name `Alice!'
-
-
-
- CHAPTER XII
-
- Alice's Evidence
-
-
- `Here!' cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the
-moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she
-jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with
-the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads
-of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding
-her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset
-the week before.
-
- `Oh, I BEG your pardon!' she exclaimed in a tone of great
-dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could,
-for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, and
-she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once
-and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.
-
- `The trial cannot proceed,' said the King in a very grave
-voice, `until all the jurymen are back in their proper places--
-ALL,' he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as
-he said do.
-
- Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she
-had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing
-was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable
-to move. She soon got it out again, and put it right; `not that
-it signifies much,' she said to herself; `I should think it
-would be QUITE as much use in the trial one way up as the other.'
-
- As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of
-being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and
-handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write
-out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed
-too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open,
-gazing up into the roof of the court.
-
- `What do you know about this business?' the King said to
-Alice.
-
- `Nothing,' said Alice.
-
- `Nothing WHATEVER?' persisted the King.
-
- `Nothing whatever,' said Alice.
-
- `That's very important,' the King said, turning to the jury.
-They were just beginning to write this down on their slates, when
-the White Rabbit interrupted: `UNimportant, your Majesty means,
-of course,' he said in a very respectful tone, but frowning and
-making faces at him as he spoke.
-
- `UNimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and
-went on to himself in an undertone, `important--unimportant--
-unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word
-sounded best.
-
- Some of the jury wrote it down `important,' and some
-`unimportant.' Alice could see this, as she was near enough to
-look over their slates; `but it doesn't matter a bit,' she
-thought to herself.
-
- At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily
-writing in his note-book, cackled out `Silence!' and read out
-from his book, `Rule Forty-two. ALL PERSONS MORE THAN A MILE
-HIGH TO LEAVE THE COURT.'
-
- Everybody looked at Alice.
-
- `I'M not a mile high,' said Alice.
-
- `You are,' said the King.
-
- `Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen.
-
- `Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: `besides,
-that's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.'
-
- `It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King.
-
- `Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice.
-
- The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily.
-`Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury, in a low, trembling
-voice.
-
- `There's more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,' said
-the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; `this paper has
-just been picked up.'
-
- `What's in it?' said the Queen.
-
- `I haven't opened it yet,' said the White Rabbit, `but it seems
-to be a letter, written by the prisoner to--to somebody.'
-
- `It must have been that,' said the King, `unless it was
-written to nobody, which isn't usual, you know.'
-
- `Who is it directed to?' said one of the jurymen.
-
- `It isn't directed at all,' said the White Rabbit; `in fact,
-there's nothing written on the OUTSIDE.' He unfolded the paper
-as he spoke, and added `It isn't a letter, after all: it's a set
-of verses.'
-
- `Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' asked another of
-they jurymen.
-
- `No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, `and that's the
-queerest thing about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.)
-
- `He must have imitated somebody else's hand,' said the King.
-(The jury all brightened up again.)
-
- `Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, `I didn't write it, and
-they can't prove I did: there's no name signed at the end.'
-
- `If you didn't sign it,' said the King, `that only makes the
-matter worse. You MUST have meant some mischief, or else you'd
-have signed your name like an honest man.'
-
- There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the
-first really clever thing the King had said that day.
-
- `That PROVES his guilt,' said the Queen.
-
- `It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. `Why, you don't
-even know what they're about!'
-
- `Read them,' said the King.
-
- The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. `Where shall I begin,
-please your Majesty?' he asked.
-
- `Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, `and go on
-till you come to the end: then stop.'
-
- These were the verses the White Rabbit read:--
-
- `They told me you had been to her,
- And mentioned me to him:
- She gave me a good character,
- But said I could not swim.
-
- He sent them word I had not gone
- (We know it to be true):
- If she should push the matter on,
- What would become of you?
-
- I gave her one, they gave him two,
- You gave us three or more;
- They all returned from him to you,
- Though they were mine before.
-
- If I or she should chance to be
- Involved in this affair,
- He trusts to you to set them free,
- Exactly as we were.
-
- My notion was that you had been
- (Before she had this fit)
- An obstacle that came between
- Him, and ourselves, and it.
-
- Don't let him know she liked them best,
- For this must ever be
- A secret, kept from all the rest,
- Between yourself and me.'
-
- `That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,'
-said the King, rubbing his hands; `so now let the jury--'
-
- `If any one of them can explain it,' said Alice, (she had
-grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit
-afraid of interrupting him,) `I'll give him sixpence. _I_ don't
-believe there's an atom of meaning in it.'
-
- The jury all wrote down on their slates, `SHE doesn't believe
-there's an atom of meaning in it,' but none of them attempted to
-explain the paper.
-
- `If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, `that saves a
-world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And
-yet I don't know,' he went on, spreading out the verses on his
-knee, and looking at them with one eye; `I seem to see some
-meaning in them, after all. "--SAID I COULD NOT SWIM--" you
-can't swim, can you?' he added, turning to the Knave.
-
- The Knave shook his head sadly. `Do I look like it?' he said.
-(Which he certainly did NOT, being made entirely of cardboard.)
-
- `All right, so far,' said the King, and he went on muttering
-over the verses to himself: `"WE KNOW IT TO BE TRUE--" that's
-the jury, of course-- "I GAVE HER ONE, THEY GAVE HIM TWO--" why,
-that must be what he did with the tarts, you know--'
-
- `But, it goes on "THEY ALL RETURNED FROM HIM TO YOU,"' said
-Alice.
-
- `Why, there they are!' said the King triumphantly, pointing to
-the tarts on the table. `Nothing can be clearer than THAT.
-Then again--"BEFORE SHE HAD THIS FIT--" you never had fits, my
-dear, I think?' he said to the Queen.
-
- `Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the
-Lizard as she spoke. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off
-writing on his slate with one finger, as he found it made no
-mark; but he now hastily began again, using the ink, that was
-trickling down his face, as long as it lasted.)
-
- `Then the words don't FIT you,' said the King, looking round
-the court with a smile. There was a dead silence.
-
- `It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and
-everybody laughed, `Let the jury consider their verdict,' the
-King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
-
- `No, no!' said the Queen. `Sentence first--verdict afterwards.'
-
- `Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. `The idea of having
-the sentence first!'
-
- `Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple.
-
- `I won't!' said Alice.
-
- `Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.
-Nobody moved.
-
- `Who cares for you?' said Alice, (she had grown to her full
-size by this time.) `You're nothing but a pack of cards!'
-
- At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying
-down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half
-of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on
-the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently
-brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the
-trees upon her face.
-
- `Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; `Why, what a long
-sleep you've had!'
-
- `Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told
-her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange
-Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and
-when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, `It WAS a
-curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it's
-getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she
-ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
-
- But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her
-head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of
-little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began
-dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:--
-
- First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the
-tiny hands were clasped upon her knee, and the bright eager eyes
-were looking up into hers--she could hear the very tones of her
-voice, and see that queer little toss of her head to keep back
-the wandering hair that WOULD always get into her eyes--and
-still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the whole place
-around her became alive the strange creatures of her little
-sister's dream.
-
- The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried
-by--the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the
-neighbouring pool--she could hear the rattle of the teacups as
-the March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal,
-and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate
-guests to execution--once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the
-Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once
-more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's
-slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs,
-filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable
-Mock Turtle.
-
- So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in
-Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and
-all would change to dull reality--the grass would be only
-rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the
-reeds--the rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep-
-bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd
-boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and
-all thy other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the
-confused clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the lowing of the
-cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle's
-heavy sobs.
-
- Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of
-hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how
-she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and
-loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about
-her other little children, and make THEIR eyes bright and eager
-with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of
-Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their
-simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys,
-remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
-
- THE END
-
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(HYMEN:) - -ROSALIND daughter to the banished duke. - -CELIA daughter to Frederick. - -PHEBE a shepherdess. - -AUDREY a country wench. - - Lords, pages, and attendants, &c. - (Forester:) - (A Lord:) - (First Lord:) - (Second Lord:) - (First Page:) - (Second Page:) - - -SCENE Oliver's house; Duke Frederick's court; and the - Forest of Arden. - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT I - - - -SCENE I Orchard of Oliver's house. - - - [Enter ORLANDO and ADAM] - -ORLANDO As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion - bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, - and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his - blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my - sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and - report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part, - he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more - properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you - that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that - differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses - are bred better; for, besides that they are fair - with their feeding, they are taught their manage, - and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his - brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the - which his animals on his dunghills are as much - bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so - plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave - me his countenance seems to take from me: he lets - me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a - brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my - gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that - grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I - think is within me, begins to mutiny against this - servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I - know no wise remedy how to avoid it. - -ADAM Yonder comes my master, your brother. - -ORLANDO Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will - shake me up. - - [Enter OLIVER] - -OLIVER Now, sir! what make you here? - -ORLANDO Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing. - -OLIVER What mar you then, sir? - -ORLANDO Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God - made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness. - -OLIVER Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile. - -ORLANDO Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them? - What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should - come to such penury? - -OLIVER Know you where your are, sir? - -ORLANDO O, sir, very well; here in your orchard. - -OLIVER Know you before whom, sir? - -ORLANDO Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know - you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle - condition of blood, you should so know me. The - courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that - you are the first-born; but the same tradition - takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers - betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me as - you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is - nearer to his reverence. - -OLIVER What, boy! - -ORLANDO Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this. - -OLIVER Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain? - -ORLANDO I am no villain; I am the youngest son of Sir - Rowland de Boys; he was my father, and he is thrice - a villain that says such a father begot villains. - Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand - from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy - tongue for saying so: thou hast railed on thyself. - -ADAM Sweet masters, be patient: for your father's - remembrance, be at accord. - -OLIVER Let me go, I say. - -ORLANDO I will not, till I please: you shall hear me. My - father charged you in his will to give me good - education: you have trained me like a peasant, - obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like - qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in - me, and I will no longer endure it: therefore allow - me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or - give me the poor allottery my father left me by - testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes. - -OLIVER And what wilt thou do? beg, when that is spent? - Well, sir, get you in: I will not long be troubled - with you; you shall have some part of your will: I - pray you, leave me. - -ORLANDO I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good. - -OLIVER Get you with him, you old dog. - -ADAM Is 'old dog' my reward? Most true, I have lost my - teeth in your service. God be with my old master! - he would not have spoke such a word. - - [Exeunt ORLANDO and ADAM] - -OLIVER Is it even so? begin you to grow upon me? I will - physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand - crowns neither. Holla, Dennis! - - [Enter DENNIS] - -DENNIS Calls your worship? - -OLIVER Was not Charles, the duke's wrestler, here to speak with me? - -DENNIS So please you, he is here at the door and importunes - access to you. - -OLIVER Call him in. - - [Exit DENNIS] - - 'Twill be a good way; and to-morrow the wrestling is. - - [Enter CHARLES] - -CHARLES Good morrow to your worship. - -OLIVER Good Monsieur Charles, what's the new news at the - new court? - -CHARLES There's no news at the court, sir, but the old news: - that is, the old duke is banished by his younger - brother the new duke; and three or four loving lords - have put themselves into voluntary exile with him, - whose lands and revenues enrich the new duke; - therefore he gives them good leave to wander. - -OLIVER Can you tell if Rosalind, the duke's daughter, be - banished with her father? - -CHARLES O, no; for the duke's daughter, her cousin, so loves - her, being ever from their cradles bred together, - that she would have followed her exile, or have died - to stay behind her. She is at the court, and no - less beloved of her uncle than his own daughter; and - never two ladies loved as they do. - -OLIVER Where will the old duke live? - -CHARLES They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and - a many merry men with him; and there they live like - the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young - gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time - carelessly, as they did in the golden world. - -OLIVER What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new duke? - -CHARLES Marry, do I, sir; and I came to acquaint you with a - matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand - that your younger brother Orlando hath a disposition - to come in disguised against me to try a fall. - To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit; and he that - escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him - well. Your brother is but young and tender; and, - for your love, I would be loath to foil him, as I - must, for my own honour, if he come in: therefore, - out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you - withal, that either you might stay him from his - intendment or brook such disgrace well as he shall - run into, in that it is a thing of his own search - and altogether against my will. - -OLIVER Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which - thou shalt find I will most kindly requite. I had - myself notice of my brother's purpose herein and - have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from - it, but he is resolute. I'll tell thee, Charles: - it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full - of ambition, an envious emulator of every man's - good parts, a secret and villanous contriver against - me his natural brother: therefore use thy - discretion; I had as lief thou didst break his neck - as his finger. And thou wert best look to't; for if - thou dost him any slight disgrace or if he do not - mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise - against thee by poison, entrap thee by some - treacherous device and never leave thee till he - hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other; - for, I assure thee, and almost with tears I speak - it, there is not one so young and so villanous this - day living. I speak but brotherly of him; but - should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must - blush and weep and thou must look pale and wonder. - -CHARLES I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come - to-morrow, I'll give him his payment: if ever he go - alone again, I'll never wrestle for prize more: and - so God keep your worship! - -OLIVER Farewell, good Charles. - - [Exit CHARLES] - - Now will I stir this gamester: I hope I shall see - an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why, - hates nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle, never - schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of - all sorts enchantingly beloved, and indeed so much - in the heart of the world, and especially of my own - people, who best know him, that I am altogether - misprised: but it shall not be so long; this - wrestler shall clear all: nothing remains but that - I kindle the boy thither; which now I'll go about. - - [Exit] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT I - - - -SCENE II Lawn before the Duke's palace. - - - [Enter CELIA and ROSALIND] - -CELIA I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry. - -ROSALIND Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; - and would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could - teach me to forget a banished father, you must not - learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure. - -CELIA Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight - that I love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father, - had banished thy uncle, the duke my father, so thou - hadst been still with me, I could have taught my - love to take thy father for mine: so wouldst thou, - if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously - tempered as mine is to thee. - -ROSALIND Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to - rejoice in yours. - -CELIA You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is - like to have: and, truly, when he dies, thou shalt - be his heir, for what he hath taken away from thy - father perforce, I will render thee again in - affection; by mine honour, I will; and when I break - that oath, let me turn monster: therefore, my - sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry. - -ROSALIND From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. Let - me see; what think you of falling in love? - -CELIA Marry, I prithee, do, to make sport withal: but - love no man in good earnest; nor no further in sport - neither than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst - in honour come off again. - -ROSALIND What shall be our sport, then? - -CELIA Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from - her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally. - -ROSALIND I would we could do so, for her benefits are - mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman - doth most mistake in her gifts to women. - -CELIA 'Tis true; for those that she makes fair she scarce - makes honest, and those that she makes honest she - makes very ill-favouredly. - -ROSALIND Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's office to - Nature's: Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, - not in the lineaments of Nature. - - [Enter TOUCHSTONE] - -CELIA No? when Nature hath made a fair creature, may she - not by Fortune fall into the fire? Though Nature - hath given us wit to flout at Fortune, hath not - Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument? - -ROSALIND Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, when - Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of - Nature's wit. - -CELIA Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither, but - Nature's; who perceiveth our natural wits too dull - to reason of such goddesses and hath sent this - natural for our whetstone; for always the dulness of - the fool is the whetstone of the wits. How now, - wit! whither wander you? - -TOUCHSTONE Mistress, you must come away to your father. - -CELIA Were you made the messenger? - -TOUCHSTONE No, by mine honour, but I was bid to come for you. - -ROSALIND Where learned you that oath, fool? - -TOUCHSTONE Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they - were good pancakes and swore by his honour the - mustard was naught: now I'll stand to it, the - pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and - yet was not the knight forsworn. - -CELIA How prove you that, in the great heap of your - knowledge? - -ROSALIND Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom. - -TOUCHSTONE Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and - swear by your beards that I am a knave. - -CELIA By our beards, if we had them, thou art. - -TOUCHSTONE By my knavery, if I had it, then I were; but if you - swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn: no - more was this knight swearing by his honour, for he - never had any; or if he had, he had sworn it away - before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard. - -CELIA Prithee, who is't that thou meanest? - -TOUCHSTONE One that old Frederick, your father, loves. - -CELIA My father's love is enough to honour him: enough! - speak no more of him; you'll be whipped for taxation - one of these days. - -TOUCHSTONE The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what - wise men do foolishly. - -CELIA By my troth, thou sayest true; for since the little - wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery - that wise men have makes a great show. Here comes - Monsieur Le Beau. - -ROSALIND With his mouth full of news. - -CELIA Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. - -ROSALIND Then shall we be news-crammed. - -CELIA All the better; we shall be the more marketable. - - [Enter LE BEAU] - - Bon jour, Monsieur Le Beau: what's the news? - -LE BEAU Fair princess, you have lost much good sport. - -CELIA Sport! of what colour? - -LE BEAU What colour, madam! how shall I answer you? - -ROSALIND As wit and fortune will. - -TOUCHSTONE Or as the Destinies decree. - -CELIA Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. - -TOUCHSTONE Nay, if I keep not my rank,-- - -ROSALIND Thou losest thy old smell. - -LE BEAU You amaze me, ladies: I would have told you of good - wrestling, which you have lost the sight of. - -ROSALIND You tell us the manner of the wrestling. - -LE BEAU I will tell you the beginning; and, if it please - your ladyships, you may see the end; for the best is - yet to do; and here, where you are, they are coming - to perform it. - -CELIA Well, the beginning, that is dead and buried. - -LE BEAU There comes an old man and his three sons,-- - -CELIA I could match this beginning with an old tale. - -LE BEAU Three proper young men, of excellent growth and presence. - -ROSALIND With bills on their necks, 'Be it known unto all men - by these presents.' - -LE BEAU The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the - duke's wrestler; which Charles in a moment threw him - and broke three of his ribs, that there is little - hope of life in him: so he served the second, and - so the third. Yonder they lie; the poor old man, - their father, making such pitiful dole over them - that all the beholders take his part with weeping. - -ROSALIND Alas! - -TOUCHSTONE But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies - have lost? - -LE BEAU Why, this that I speak of. - -TOUCHSTONE Thus men may grow wiser every day: it is the first - time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport - for ladies. - -CELIA Or I, I promise thee. - -ROSALIND But is there any else longs to see this broken music - in his sides? is there yet another dotes upon - rib-breaking? Shall we see this wrestling, cousin? - -LE BEAU You must, if you stay here; for here is the place - appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to - perform it. - -CELIA Yonder, sure, they are coming: let us now stay and see it. - - [Flourish. Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, ORLANDO, - CHARLES, and Attendants] - -DUKE FREDERICK Come on: since the youth will not be entreated, his - own peril on his forwardness. - -ROSALIND Is yonder the man? - -LE BEAU Even he, madam. - -CELIA Alas, he is too young! yet he looks successfully. - -DUKE FREDERICK How now, daughter and cousin! are you crept hither - to see the wrestling? - -ROSALIND Ay, my liege, so please you give us leave. - -DUKE FREDERICK You will take little delight in it, I can tell you; - there is such odds in the man. In pity of the - challenger's youth I would fain dissuade him, but he - will not be entreated. Speak to him, ladies; see if - you can move him. - -CELIA Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau. - -DUKE FREDERICK Do so: I'll not be by. - -LE BEAU Monsieur the challenger, the princesses call for you. - -ORLANDO I attend them with all respect and duty. - -ROSALIND Young man, have you challenged Charles the wrestler? - -ORLANDO No, fair princess; he is the general challenger: I - come but in, as others do, to try with him the - strength of my youth. - -CELIA Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your - years. You have seen cruel proof of this man's - strength: if you saw yourself with your eyes or - knew yourself with your judgment, the fear of your - adventure would counsel you to a more equal - enterprise. We pray you, for your own sake, to - embrace your own safety and give over this attempt. - -ROSALIND Do, young sir; your reputation shall not therefore - be misprised: we will make it our suit to the duke - that the wrestling might not go forward. - -ORLANDO I beseech you, punish me not with your hard - thoughts; wherein I confess me much guilty, to deny - so fair and excellent ladies any thing. But let - your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my - trial: wherein if I be foiled, there is but one - shamed that was never gracious; if killed, but one - dead that was willing to be so: I shall do my - friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me, the - world no injury, for in it I have nothing; only in - the world I fill up a place, which may be better - supplied when I have made it empty. - -ROSALIND The little strength that I have, I would it were with you. - -CELIA And mine, to eke out hers. - -ROSALIND Fare you well: pray heaven I be deceived in you! - -CELIA Your heart's desires be with you! - -CHARLES Come, where is this young gallant that is so - desirous to lie with his mother earth? - -ORLANDO Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest working. - -DUKE FREDERICK You shall try but one fall. - -CHARLES No, I warrant your grace, you shall not entreat him - to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him - from a first. - -ORLANDO An you mean to mock me after, you should not have - mocked me before: but come your ways. - -ROSALIND Now Hercules be thy speed, young man! - -CELIA I would I were invisible, to catch the strong - fellow by the leg. - - [They wrestle] - -ROSALIND O excellent young man! - -CELIA If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who - should down. - - [Shout. CHARLES is thrown] - -DUKE FREDERICK No more, no more. - -ORLANDO Yes, I beseech your grace: I am not yet well breathed. - -DUKE FREDERICK How dost thou, Charles? - -LE BEAU He cannot speak, my lord. - -DUKE FREDERICK Bear him away. What is thy name, young man? - -ORLANDO Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys. - -DUKE FREDERICK I would thou hadst been son to some man else: - The world esteem'd thy father honourable, - But I did find him still mine enemy: - Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed, - Hadst thou descended from another house. - But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth: - I would thou hadst told me of another father. - - [Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK, train, and LE BEAU] - -CELIA Were I my father, coz, would I do this? - -ORLANDO I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son, - His youngest son; and would not change that calling, - To be adopted heir to Frederick. - -ROSALIND My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul, - And all the world was of my father's mind: - Had I before known this young man his son, - I should have given him tears unto entreaties, - Ere he should thus have ventured. - -CELIA Gentle cousin, - Let us go thank him and encourage him: - My father's rough and envious disposition - Sticks me at heart. Sir, you have well deserved: - If you do keep your promises in love - But justly, as you have exceeded all promise, - Your mistress shall be happy. - -ROSALIND Gentleman, - - [Giving him a chain from her neck] - - Wear this for me, one out of suits with fortune, - That could give more, but that her hand lacks means. - Shall we go, coz? - -CELIA Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman. - -ORLANDO Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts - Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up - Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block. - -ROSALIND He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes; - I'll ask him what he would. Did you call, sir? - Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown - More than your enemies. - -CELIA Will you go, coz? - -ROSALIND Have with you. Fare you well. - - [Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA] - -ORLANDO What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue? - I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference. - O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown! - Or Charles or something weaker masters thee. - - [Re-enter LE BEAU] - -LE BEAU Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you - To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved - High commendation, true applause and love, - Yet such is now the duke's condition - That he misconstrues all that you have done. - The duke is humorous; what he is indeed, - More suits you to conceive than I to speak of. - -ORLANDO I thank you, sir: and, pray you, tell me this: - Which of the two was daughter of the duke - That here was at the wrestling? - -LE BEAU Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners; - But yet indeed the lesser is his daughter - The other is daughter to the banish'd duke, - And here detain'd by her usurping uncle, - To keep his daughter company; whose loves - Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters. - But I can tell you that of late this duke - Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece, - Grounded upon no other argument - But that the people praise her for her virtues - And pity her for her good father's sake; - And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady - Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well: - Hereafter, in a better world than this, - I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. - -ORLANDO I rest much bounden to you: fare you well. - - [Exit LE BEAU] - - Thus must I from the smoke into the smother; - From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother: - But heavenly Rosalind! - - [Exit] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT I - - - -SCENE III A room in the palace. - - - [Enter CELIA and ROSALIND] - -CELIA Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a word? - -ROSALIND Not one to throw at a dog. - -CELIA No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon - curs; throw some of them at me; come, lame me with reasons. - -ROSALIND Then there were two cousins laid up; when the one - should be lamed with reasons and the other mad - without any. - -CELIA But is all this for your father? - -ROSALIND No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how - full of briers is this working-day world! - -CELIA They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in - holiday foolery: if we walk not in the trodden - paths our very petticoats will catch them. - -ROSALIND I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart. - -CELIA Hem them away. - -ROSALIND I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him. - -CELIA Come, come, wrestle with thy affections. - -ROSALIND O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself! - -CELIA O, a good wish upon you! you will try in time, in - despite of a fall. But, turning these jests out of - service, let us talk in good earnest: is it - possible, on such a sudden, you should fall into so - strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son? - -ROSALIND The duke my father loved his father dearly. - -CELIA Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son - dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him, - for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate - not Orlando. - -ROSALIND No, faith, hate him not, for my sake. - -CELIA Why should I not? doth he not deserve well? - -ROSALIND Let me love him for that, and do you love him - because I do. Look, here comes the duke. - -CELIA With his eyes full of anger. - - [Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords] - -DUKE FREDERICK Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste - And get you from our court. - -ROSALIND Me, uncle? - -DUKE FREDERICK You, cousin - Within these ten days if that thou be'st found - So near our public court as twenty miles, - Thou diest for it. - -ROSALIND I do beseech your grace, - Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me: - If with myself I hold intelligence - Or have acquaintance with mine own desires, - If that I do not dream or be not frantic,-- - As I do trust I am not--then, dear uncle, - Never so much as in a thought unborn - Did I offend your highness. - -DUKE FREDERICK Thus do all traitors: - If their purgation did consist in words, - They are as innocent as grace itself: - Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not. - -ROSALIND Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor: - Tell me whereon the likelihood depends. - -DUKE FREDERICK Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough. - -ROSALIND So was I when your highness took his dukedom; - So was I when your highness banish'd him: - Treason is not inherited, my lord; - Or, if we did derive it from our friends, - What's that to me? my father was no traitor: - Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much - To think my poverty is treacherous. - -CELIA Dear sovereign, hear me speak. - -DUKE FREDERICK Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake, - Else had she with her father ranged along. - -CELIA I did not then entreat to have her stay; - It was your pleasure and your own remorse: - I was too young that time to value her; - But now I know her: if she be a traitor, - Why so am I; we still have slept together, - Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together, - And wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans, - Still we went coupled and inseparable. - -DUKE FREDERICK She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness, - Her very silence and her patience - Speak to the people, and they pity her. - Thou art a fool: she robs thee of thy name; - And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous - When she is gone. Then open not thy lips: - Firm and irrevocable is my doom - Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd. - -CELIA Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege: - I cannot live out of her company. - -DUKE FREDERICK You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself: - If you outstay the time, upon mine honour, - And in the greatness of my word, you die. - - [Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK and Lords] - -CELIA O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go? - Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine. - I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am. - -ROSALIND I have more cause. - -CELIA Thou hast not, cousin; - Prithee be cheerful: know'st thou not, the duke - Hath banish'd me, his daughter? - -ROSALIND That he hath not. - -CELIA No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love - Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one: - Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet girl? - No: let my father seek another heir. - Therefore devise with me how we may fly, - Whither to go and what to bear with us; - And do not seek to take your change upon you, - To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out; - For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale, - Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee. - -ROSALIND Why, whither shall we go? - -CELIA To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden. - -ROSALIND Alas, what danger will it be to us, - Maids as we are, to travel forth so far! - Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. - -CELIA I'll put myself in poor and mean attire - And with a kind of umber smirch my face; - The like do you: so shall we pass along - And never stir assailants. - -ROSALIND Were it not better, - Because that I am more than common tall, - That I did suit me all points like a man? - A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh, - A boar-spear in my hand; and--in my heart - Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will-- - We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, - As many other mannish cowards have - That do outface it with their semblances. - -CELIA What shall I call thee when thou art a man? - -ROSALIND I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page; - And therefore look you call me Ganymede. - But what will you be call'd? - -CELIA Something that hath a reference to my state - No longer Celia, but Aliena. - -ROSALIND But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal - The clownish fool out of your father's court? - Would he not be a comfort to our travel? - -CELIA He'll go along o'er the wide world with me; - Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away, - And get our jewels and our wealth together, - Devise the fittest time and safest way - To hide us from pursuit that will be made - After my flight. Now go we in content - To liberty and not to banishment. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT II - - - -SCENE I The Forest of Arden. - - - [Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three Lords, - like foresters] - -DUKE SENIOR Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, - Hath not old custom made this life more sweet - Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods - More free from peril than the envious court? - Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, - The seasons' difference, as the icy fang - And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, - Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, - Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say - 'This is no flattery: these are counsellors - That feelingly persuade me what I am.' - Sweet are the uses of adversity, - Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, - Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; - And this our life exempt from public haunt - Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, - Sermons in stones and good in every thing. - I would not change it. - -AMIENS Happy is your grace, - That can translate the stubbornness of fortune - Into so quiet and so sweet a style. - -DUKE SENIOR Come, shall we go and kill us venison? - And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, - Being native burghers of this desert city, - Should in their own confines with forked heads - Have their round haunches gored. - -First Lord Indeed, my lord, - The melancholy Jaques grieves at that, - And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp - Than doth your brother that hath banish'd you. - To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself - Did steal behind him as he lay along - Under an oak whose antique root peeps out - Upon the brook that brawls along this wood: - To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, - That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, - Did come to languish, and indeed, my lord, - The wretched animal heaved forth such groans - That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat - Almost to bursting, and the big round tears - Coursed one another down his innocent nose - In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool - Much marked of the melancholy Jaques, - Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook, - Augmenting it with tears. - -DUKE SENIOR But what said Jaques? - Did he not moralize this spectacle? - -First Lord O, yes, into a thousand similes. - First, for his weeping into the needless stream; - 'Poor deer,' quoth he, 'thou makest a testament - As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more - To that which had too much:' then, being there alone, - Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends, - ''Tis right:' quoth he; 'thus misery doth part - The flux of company:' anon a careless herd, - Full of the pasture, jumps along by him - And never stays to greet him; 'Ay' quoth Jaques, - 'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; - 'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look - Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?' - Thus most invectively he pierceth through - The body of the country, city, court, - Yea, and of this our life, swearing that we - Are mere usurpers, tyrants and what's worse, - To fright the animals and to kill them up - In their assign'd and native dwelling-place. - -DUKE SENIOR And did you leave him in this contemplation? - -Second Lord We did, my lord, weeping and commenting - Upon the sobbing deer. - -DUKE SENIOR Show me the place: - I love to cope him in these sullen fits, - For then he's full of matter. - -First Lord I'll bring you to him straight. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT II - - - -SCENE II A room in the palace. - - - [Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords] - -DUKE FREDERICK Can it be possible that no man saw them? - It cannot be: some villains of my court - Are of consent and sufferance in this. - -First Lord I cannot hear of any that did see her. - The ladies, her attendants of her chamber, - Saw her abed, and in the morning early - They found the bed untreasured of their mistress. - -Second Lord My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft - Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing. - Hisperia, the princess' gentlewoman, - Confesses that she secretly o'erheard - Your daughter and her cousin much commend - The parts and graces of the wrestler - That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles; - And she believes, wherever they are gone, - That youth is surely in their company. - -DUKE FREDERICK Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither; - If he be absent, bring his brother to me; - I'll make him find him: do this suddenly, - And let not search and inquisition quail - To bring again these foolish runaways. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT II - - - -SCENE III Before OLIVER'S house. - - - [Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting] - -ORLANDO Who's there? - -ADAM What, my young master? O, my gentle master! - O my sweet master! O you memory - Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here? - Why are you virtuous? why do people love you? - And wherefore are you gentle, strong and valiant? - Why would you be so fond to overcome - The bonny priser of the humorous duke? - Your praise is come too swiftly home before you. - Know you not, master, to some kind of men - Their graces serve them but as enemies? - No more do yours: your virtues, gentle master, - Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. - O, what a world is this, when what is comely - Envenoms him that bears it! - -ORLANDO Why, what's the matter? - -ADAM O unhappy youth! - Come not within these doors; within this roof - The enemy of all your graces lives: - Your brother--no, no brother; yet the son-- - Yet not the son, I will not call him son - Of him I was about to call his father-- - Hath heard your praises, and this night he means - To burn the lodging where you use to lie - And you within it: if he fail of that, - He will have other means to cut you off. - I overheard him and his practises. - This is no place; this house is but a butchery: - Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it. - -ORLANDO Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go? - -ADAM No matter whither, so you come not here. - -ORLANDO What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food? - Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce - A thievish living on the common road? - This I must do, or know not what to do: - Yet this I will not do, do how I can; - I rather will subject me to the malice - Of a diverted blood and bloody brother. - -ADAM But do not so. I have five hundred crowns, - The thrifty hire I saved under your father, - Which I did store to be my foster-nurse - When service should in my old limbs lie lame - And unregarded age in corners thrown: - Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed, - Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, - Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold; - And all this I give you. Let me be your servant: - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; - For in my youth I never did apply - Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, - Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo - The means of weakness and debility; - Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, - Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; - I'll do the service of a younger man - In all your business and necessities. - -ORLANDO O good old man, how well in thee appears - The constant service of the antique world, - When service sweat for duty, not for meed! - Thou art not for the fashion of these times, - Where none will sweat but for promotion, - And having that, do choke their service up - Even with the having: it is not so with thee. - But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree, - That cannot so much as a blossom yield - In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry - But come thy ways; well go along together, - And ere we have thy youthful wages spent, - We'll light upon some settled low content. - -ADAM Master, go on, and I will follow thee, - To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. - From seventeen years till now almost fourscore - Here lived I, but now live here no more. - At seventeen years many their fortunes seek; - But at fourscore it is too late a week: - Yet fortune cannot recompense me better - Than to die well and not my master's debtor. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT II - - - -SCENE IV The Forest of Arden. - - - [Enter ROSALIND for Ganymede, CELIA for Aliena, - and TOUCHSTONE] - -ROSALIND O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits! - -TOUCHSTONE I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary. - -ROSALIND I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's - apparel and to cry like a woman; but I must comfort - the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show - itself courageous to petticoat: therefore courage, - good Aliena! - -CELIA I pray you, bear with me; I cannot go no further. - -TOUCHSTONE For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear - you; yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you, - for I think you have no money in your purse. - -ROSALIND Well, this is the forest of Arden. - -TOUCHSTONE Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was - at home, I was in a better place: but travellers - must be content. - -ROSALIND Ay, be so, good Touchstone. - - [Enter CORIN and SILVIUS] - - Look you, who comes here; a young man and an old in - solemn talk. - -CORIN That is the way to make her scorn you still. - -SILVIUS O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her! - -CORIN I partly guess; for I have loved ere now. - -SILVIUS No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess, - Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover - As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow: - But if thy love were ever like to mine-- - As sure I think did never man love so-- - How many actions most ridiculous - Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy? - -CORIN Into a thousand that I have forgotten. - -SILVIUS O, thou didst then ne'er love so heartily! - If thou remember'st not the slightest folly - That ever love did make thee run into, - Thou hast not loved: - Or if thou hast not sat as I do now, - Wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise, - Thou hast not loved: - Or if thou hast not broke from company - Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, - Thou hast not loved. - O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe! - - [Exit] - -ROSALIND Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound, - I have by hard adventure found mine own. - -TOUCHSTONE And I mine. I remember, when I was in love I broke - my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for - coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the - kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her - pretty chopt hands had milked; and I remember the - wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took - two cods and, giving her them again, said with - weeping tears 'Wear these for my sake.' We that are - true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is - mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. - -ROSALIND Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of. - -TOUCHSTONE Nay, I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I - break my shins against it. - -ROSALIND Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion - Is much upon my fashion. - -TOUCHSTONE And mine; but it grows something stale with me. - -CELIA I pray you, one of you question yond man - If he for gold will give us any food: - I faint almost to death. - -TOUCHSTONE Holla, you clown! - -ROSALIND Peace, fool: he's not thy kinsman. - -CORIN Who calls? - -TOUCHSTONE Your betters, sir. - -CORIN Else are they very wretched. - -ROSALIND Peace, I say. Good even to you, friend. - -CORIN And to you, gentle sir, and to you all. - -ROSALIND I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold - Can in this desert place buy entertainment, - Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed: - Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd - And faints for succor. - -CORIN Fair sir, I pity her - And wish, for her sake more than for mine own, - My fortunes were more able to relieve her; - But I am shepherd to another man - And do not shear the fleeces that I graze: - My master is of churlish disposition - And little recks to find the way to heaven - By doing deeds of hospitality: - Besides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed - Are now on sale, and at our sheepcote now, - By reason of his absence, there is nothing - That you will feed on; but what is, come see. - And in my voice most welcome shall you be. - -ROSALIND What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture? - -CORIN That young swain that you saw here but erewhile, - That little cares for buying any thing. - -ROSALIND I pray thee, if it stand with honesty, - Buy thou the cottage, pasture and the flock, - And thou shalt have to pay for it of us. - -CELIA And we will mend thy wages. I like this place. - And willingly could waste my time in it. - -CORIN Assuredly the thing is to be sold: - Go with me: if you like upon report - The soil, the profit and this kind of life, - I will your very faithful feeder be - And buy it with your gold right suddenly. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT II - - - -SCENE V The Forest. - - - [Enter AMIENS, JAQUES, and others] - - SONG. -AMIENS Under the greenwood tree - Who loves to lie with me, - And turn his merry note - Unto the sweet bird's throat, - Come hither, come hither, come hither: - Here shall he see No enemy - But winter and rough weather. - -JAQUES More, more, I prithee, more. - -AMIENS It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. - -JAQUES I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck - melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. - More, I prithee, more. - -AMIENS My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you. - -JAQUES I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to - sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call you 'em stanzos? - -AMIENS What you will, Monsieur Jaques. - -JAQUES Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me - nothing. Will you sing? - -AMIENS More at your request than to please myself. - -JAQUES Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you; - but that they call compliment is like the encounter - of two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily, - methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me - the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will - not, hold your tongues. - -AMIENS Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; the - duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all - this day to look you. - -JAQUES And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is - too disputable for my company: I think of as many - matters as he, but I give heaven thanks and make no - boast of them. Come, warble, come. - - SONG. - Who doth ambition shun - - [All together here] - - And loves to live i' the sun, - Seeking the food he eats - And pleased with what he gets, - Come hither, come hither, come hither: - Here shall he see No enemy - But winter and rough weather. - -JAQUES I'll give you a verse to this note that I made - yesterday in despite of my invention. - -AMIENS And I'll sing it. - -JAQUES Thus it goes:-- - - If it do come to pass - That any man turn ass, - Leaving his wealth and ease, - A stubborn will to please, - Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame: - Here shall he see - Gross fools as he, - An if he will come to me. - -AMIENS What's that 'ducdame'? - -JAQUES 'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a - circle. I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll - rail against all the first-born of Egypt. - -AMIENS And I'll go seek the duke: his banquet is prepared. - - [Exeunt severally] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT II - - - -SCENE VI The forest. - - - [Enter ORLANDO and ADAM] - -ADAM Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food! - Here lie I down, and measure out my grave. Farewell, - kind master. - -ORLANDO Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? Live - a little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little. - If this uncouth forest yield any thing savage, I - will either be food for it or bring it for food to - thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. - For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at - the arm's end: I will here be with thee presently; - and if I bring thee not something to eat, I will - give thee leave to die: but if thou diest before I - come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said! - thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with thee quickly. - Yet thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear - thee to some shelter; and thou shalt not die for - lack of a dinner, if there live any thing in this - desert. Cheerly, good Adam! - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT II - - - -SCENE VII The forest. - - - [A table set out. Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and - Lords like outlaws] - -DUKE SENIOR I think he be transform'd into a beast; - For I can no where find him like a man. - -First Lord My lord, he is but even now gone hence: - Here was he merry, hearing of a song. - -DUKE SENIOR If he, compact of jars, grow musical, - We shall have shortly discord in the spheres. - Go, seek him: tell him I would speak with him. - - [Enter JAQUES] - -First Lord He saves my labour by his own approach. - -DUKE SENIOR Why, how now, monsieur! what a life is this, - That your poor friends must woo your company? - What, you look merrily! - -JAQUES A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, - A motley fool; a miserable world! - As I do live by food, I met a fool - Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, - And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, - In good set terms and yet a motley fool. - 'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I. 'No, sir,' quoth he, - 'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune:' - And then he drew a dial from his poke, - And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, - Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: - Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags: - 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, - And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; - And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, - And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; - And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear - The motley fool thus moral on the time, - My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, - That fools should be so deep-contemplative, - And I did laugh sans intermission - An hour by his dial. O noble fool! - A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear. - -DUKE SENIOR What fool is this? - -JAQUES O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier, - And says, if ladies be but young and fair, - They have the gift to know it: and in his brain, - Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit - After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd - With observation, the which he vents - In mangled forms. O that I were a fool! - I am ambitious for a motley coat. - -DUKE SENIOR Thou shalt have one. - -JAQUES It is my only suit; - Provided that you weed your better judgments - Of all opinion that grows rank in them - That I am wise. I must have liberty - Withal, as large a charter as the wind, - To blow on whom I please; for so fools have; - And they that are most galled with my folly, - They most must laugh. And why, sir, must they so? - The 'why' is plain as way to parish church: - He that a fool doth very wisely hit - Doth very foolishly, although he smart, - Not to seem senseless of the bob: if not, - The wise man's folly is anatomized - Even by the squandering glances of the fool. - Invest me in my motley; give me leave - To speak my mind, and I will through and through - Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, - If they will patiently receive my medicine. - -DUKE SENIOR Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do. - -JAQUES What, for a counter, would I do but good? - -DUKE SENIOR Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin: - For thou thyself hast been a libertine, - As sensual as the brutish sting itself; - And all the embossed sores and headed evils, - That thou with licence of free foot hast caught, - Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world. - -JAQUES Why, who cries out on pride, - That can therein tax any private party? - Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea, - Till that the weary very means do ebb? - What woman in the city do I name, - When that I say the city-woman bears - The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders? - Who can come in and say that I mean her, - When such a one as she such is her neighbour? - Or what is he of basest function - That says his bravery is not of my cost, - Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits - His folly to the mettle of my speech? - There then; how then? what then? Let me see wherein - My tongue hath wrong'd him: if it do him right, - Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free, - Why then my taxing like a wild-goose flies, - Unclaim'd of any man. But who comes here? - - [Enter ORLANDO, with his sword drawn] - -ORLANDO Forbear, and eat no more. - -JAQUES Why, I have eat none yet. - -ORLANDO Nor shalt not, till necessity be served. - -JAQUES Of what kind should this cock come of? - -DUKE SENIOR Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress, - Or else a rude despiser of good manners, - That in civility thou seem'st so empty? - -ORLANDO You touch'd my vein at first: the thorny point - Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show - Of smooth civility: yet am I inland bred - And know some nurture. But forbear, I say: - He dies that touches any of this fruit - Till I and my affairs are answered. - -JAQUES An you will not be answered with reason, I must die. - -DUKE SENIOR What would you have? Your gentleness shall force - More than your force move us to gentleness. - -ORLANDO I almost die for food; and let me have it. - -DUKE SENIOR Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. - -ORLANDO Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you: - I thought that all things had been savage here; - And therefore put I on the countenance - Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are - That in this desert inaccessible, - Under the shade of melancholy boughs, - Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time - If ever you have look'd on better days, - If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, - If ever sat at any good man's feast, - If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear - And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, - Let gentleness my strong enforcement be: - In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword. - -DUKE SENIOR True is it that we have seen better days, - And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church - And sat at good men's feasts and wiped our eyes - Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd: - And therefore sit you down in gentleness - And take upon command what help we have - That to your wanting may be minister'd. - -ORLANDO Then but forbear your food a little while, - Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn - And give it food. There is an old poor man, - Who after me hath many a weary step - Limp'd in pure love: till he be first sufficed, - Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger, - I will not touch a bit. - -DUKE SENIOR Go find him out, - And we will nothing waste till you return. - -ORLANDO I thank ye; and be blest for your good comfort! - - [Exit] - -DUKE SENIOR Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: - This wide and universal theatre - Presents more woeful pageants than the scene - Wherein we play in. - -JAQUES All the world's a stage, - And all the men and women merely players: - They have their exits and their entrances; - And one man in his time plays many parts, - His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, - Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel - And shining morning face, creeping like snail - Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, - Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, - Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, - Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, - Seeking the bubble reputation - Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, - In fair round belly with good capon lined, - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, - Full of wise saws and modern instances; - And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts - Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, - His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide - For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, - Turning again toward childish treble, pipes - And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, - That ends this strange eventful history, - Is second childishness and mere oblivion, - Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. - - [Re-enter ORLANDO, with ADAM] - -DUKE SENIOR Welcome. Set down your venerable burthen, - And let him feed. - -ORLANDO I thank you most for him. - -ADAM So had you need: - I scarce can speak to thank you for myself. - -DUKE SENIOR Welcome; fall to: I will not trouble you - As yet, to question you about your fortunes. - Give us some music; and, good cousin, sing. - - SONG. -AMIENS Blow, blow, thou winter wind. - Thou art not so unkind - As man's ingratitude; - Thy tooth is not so keen, - Because thou art not seen, - Although thy breath be rude. - Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: - Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: - Then, heigh-ho, the holly! - This life is most jolly. - Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, - That dost not bite so nigh - As benefits forgot: - Though thou the waters warp, - Thy sting is not so sharp - As friend remember'd not. - Heigh-ho! sing, &c. - -DUKE SENIOR If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son, - As you have whisper'd faithfully you were, - And as mine eye doth his effigies witness - Most truly limn'd and living in your face, - Be truly welcome hither: I am the duke - That loved your father: the residue of your fortune, - Go to my cave and tell me. Good old man, - Thou art right welcome as thy master is. - Support him by the arm. Give me your hand, - And let me all your fortunes understand. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT III - - - -SCENE I A room in the palace. - - - [Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, and OLIVER] - -DUKE FREDERICK Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be: - But were I not the better part made mercy, - I should not seek an absent argument - Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it: - Find out thy brother, wheresoe'er he is; - Seek him with candle; bring him dead or living - Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more - To seek a living in our territory. - Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine - Worth seizure do we seize into our hands, - Till thou canst quit thee by thy brothers mouth - Of what we think against thee. - -OLIVER O that your highness knew my heart in this! - I never loved my brother in my life. - -DUKE FREDERICK More villain thou. Well, push him out of doors; - And let my officers of such a nature - Make an extent upon his house and lands: - Do this expediently and turn him going. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT III - - - -SCENE II The forest. - - - [Enter ORLANDO, with a paper] - -ORLANDO Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love: - And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey - With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above, - Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway. - O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books - And in their barks my thoughts I'll character; - That every eye which in this forest looks - Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where. - Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree - The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she. - - [Exit] - - [Enter CORIN and TOUCHSTONE] - -CORIN And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone? - -TOUCHSTONE Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good - life, but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, - it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I - like it very well; but in respect that it is - private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it - is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in - respect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As - is it a spare life, look you, it fits my humour well; - but as there is no more plenty in it, it goes much - against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? - -CORIN No more but that I know the more one sickens the - worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money, - means and content is without three good friends; - that the property of rain is to wet and fire to - burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that a - great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that - he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may - complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred. - -TOUCHSTONE Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in - court, shepherd? - -CORIN No, truly. - -TOUCHSTONE Then thou art damned. - -CORIN Nay, I hope. - -TOUCHSTONE Truly, thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg, all - on one side. - -CORIN For not being at court? Your reason. - -TOUCHSTONE Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never sawest - good manners; if thou never sawest good manners, - then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness is - sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous - state, shepherd. - -CORIN Not a whit, Touchstone: those that are good manners - at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the - behavior of the country is most mockable at the - court. You told me you salute not at the court, but - you kiss your hands: that courtesy would be - uncleanly, if courtiers were shepherds. - -TOUCHSTONE Instance, briefly; come, instance. - -CORIN Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their - fells, you know, are greasy. - -TOUCHSTONE Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat? and is not - the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of - a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I say; come. - -CORIN Besides, our hands are hard. - -TOUCHSTONE Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow again. - A more sounder instance, come. - -CORIN And they are often tarred over with the surgery of - our sheep: and would you have us kiss tar? The - courtier's hands are perfumed with civet. - -TOUCHSTONE Most shallow man! thou worms-meat, in respect of a - good piece of flesh indeed! Learn of the wise, and - perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar, the - very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd. - -CORIN You have too courtly a wit for me: I'll rest. - -TOUCHSTONE Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man! - God make incision in thee! thou art raw. - -CORIN Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get - that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's - happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my - harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes - graze and my lambs suck. - -TOUCHSTONE That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes - and the rams together and to offer to get your - living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a - bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a - twelvemonth to a crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram, - out of all reasonable match. If thou beest not - damned for this, the devil himself will have no - shepherds; I cannot see else how thou shouldst - 'scape. - -CORIN Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress's brother. - - [Enter ROSALIND, with a paper, reading] - -ROSALIND From the east to western Ind, - No jewel is like Rosalind. - Her worth, being mounted on the wind, - Through all the world bears Rosalind. - All the pictures fairest lined - Are but black to Rosalind. - Let no fair be kept in mind - But the fair of Rosalind. - -TOUCHSTONE I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and - suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is the - right butter-women's rank to market. - -ROSALIND Out, fool! - -TOUCHSTONE For a taste: - If a hart do lack a hind, - Let him seek out Rosalind. - If the cat will after kind, - So be sure will Rosalind. - Winter garments must be lined, - So must slender Rosalind. - They that reap must sheaf and bind; - Then to cart with Rosalind. - Sweetest nut hath sourest rind, - Such a nut is Rosalind. - He that sweetest rose will find - Must find love's prick and Rosalind. - This is the very false gallop of verses: why do you - infect yourself with them? - -ROSALIND Peace, you dull fool! I found them on a tree. - -TOUCHSTONE Truly, the tree yields bad fruit. - -ROSALIND I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it - with a medlar: then it will be the earliest fruit - i' the country; for you'll be rotten ere you be half - ripe, and that's the right virtue of the medlar. - -TOUCHSTONE You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the - forest judge. - - [Enter CELIA, with a writing] - -ROSALIND Peace! Here comes my sister, reading: stand aside. - -CELIA [Reads] - - Why should this a desert be? - For it is unpeopled? No: - Tongues I'll hang on every tree, - That shall civil sayings show: - Some, how brief the life of man - Runs his erring pilgrimage, - That the stretching of a span - Buckles in his sum of age; - Some, of violated vows - 'Twixt the souls of friend and friend: - But upon the fairest boughs, - Or at every sentence end, - Will I Rosalinda write, - Teaching all that read to know - The quintessence of every sprite - Heaven would in little show. - Therefore Heaven Nature charged - That one body should be fill'd - With all graces wide-enlarged: - Nature presently distill'd - Helen's cheek, but not her heart, - Cleopatra's majesty, - Atalanta's better part, - Sad Lucretia's modesty. - Thus Rosalind of many parts - By heavenly synod was devised, - Of many faces, eyes and hearts, - To have the touches dearest prized. - Heaven would that she these gifts should have, - And I to live and die her slave. - -ROSALIND O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love - have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never - cried 'Have patience, good people!' - -CELIA How now! back, friends! Shepherd, go off a little. - Go with him, sirrah. - -TOUCHSTONE Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; - though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage. - - [Exeunt CORIN and TOUCHSTONE] - -CELIA Didst thou hear these verses? - -ROSALIND O, yes, I heard them all, and more too; for some of - them had in them more feet than the verses would bear. - -CELIA That's no matter: the feet might bear the verses. - -ROSALIND Ay, but the feet were lame and could not bear - themselves without the verse and therefore stood - lamely in the verse. - -CELIA But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name - should be hanged and carved upon these trees? - -ROSALIND I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder - before you came; for look here what I found on a - palm-tree. I was never so be-rhymed since - Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, which I - can hardly remember. - -CELIA Trow you who hath done this? - -ROSALIND Is it a man? - -CELIA And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck. - Change you colour? - -ROSALIND I prithee, who? - -CELIA O Lord, Lord! it is a hard matter for friends to - meet; but mountains may be removed with earthquakes - and so encounter. - -ROSALIND Nay, but who is it? - -CELIA Is it possible? - -ROSALIND Nay, I prithee now with most petitionary vehemence, - tell me who it is. - -CELIA O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful - wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that, - out of all hooping! - -ROSALIND Good my complexion! dost thou think, though I am - caparisoned like a man, I have a doublet and hose in - my disposition? One inch of delay more is a - South-sea of discovery; I prithee, tell me who is it - quickly, and speak apace. I would thou couldst - stammer, that thou mightst pour this concealed man - out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow- - mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at - all. I prithee, take the cork out of thy mouth that - may drink thy tidings. - -CELIA So you may put a man in your belly. - -ROSALIND Is he of God's making? What manner of man? Is his - head worth a hat, or his chin worth a beard? - -CELIA Nay, he hath but a little beard. - -ROSALIND Why, God will send more, if the man will be - thankful: let me stay the growth of his beard, if - thou delay me not the knowledge of his chin. - -CELIA It is young Orlando, that tripped up the wrestler's - heels and your heart both in an instant. - -ROSALIND Nay, but the devil take mocking: speak, sad brow and - true maid. - -CELIA I' faith, coz, 'tis he. - -ROSALIND Orlando? - -CELIA Orlando. - -ROSALIND Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and - hose? What did he when thou sawest him? What said - he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What makes - him here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he? - How parted he with thee? and when shalt thou see - him again? Answer me in one word. - -CELIA You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first: 'tis a - word too great for any mouth of this age's size. To - say ay and no to these particulars is more than to - answer in a catechism. - -ROSALIND But doth he know that I am in this forest and in - man's apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the - day he wrestled? - -CELIA It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the - propositions of a lover; but take a taste of my - finding him, and relish it with good observance. - I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn. - -ROSALIND It may well be called Jove's tree, when it drops - forth such fruit. - -CELIA Give me audience, good madam. - -ROSALIND Proceed. - -CELIA There lay he, stretched along, like a wounded knight. - -ROSALIND Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well - becomes the ground. - -CELIA Cry 'holla' to thy tongue, I prithee; it curvets - unseasonably. He was furnished like a hunter. - -ROSALIND O, ominous! he comes to kill my heart. - -CELIA I would sing my song without a burden: thou bringest - me out of tune. - -ROSALIND Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must - speak. Sweet, say on. - -CELIA You bring me out. Soft! comes he not here? - - [Enter ORLANDO and JAQUES] - -ROSALIND 'Tis he: slink by, and note him. - -JAQUES I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had - as lief have been myself alone. - -ORLANDO And so had I; but yet, for fashion sake, I thank you - too for your society. - -JAQUES God be wi' you: let's meet as little as we can. - -ORLANDO I do desire we may be better strangers. - -JAQUES I pray you, mar no more trees with writing - love-songs in their barks. - -ORLANDO I pray you, mar no more of my verses with reading - them ill-favouredly. - -JAQUES Rosalind is your love's name? - -ORLANDO Yes, just. - -JAQUES I do not like her name. - -ORLANDO There was no thought of pleasing you when she was - christened. - -JAQUES What stature is she of? - -ORLANDO Just as high as my heart. - -JAQUES You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been - acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them - out of rings? - -ORLANDO Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, from - whence you have studied your questions. - -JAQUES You have a nimble wit: I think 'twas made of - Atalanta's heels. Will you sit down with me? and - we two will rail against our mistress the world and - all our misery. - -ORLANDO I will chide no breather in the world but myself, - against whom I know most faults. - -JAQUES The worst fault you have is to be in love. - -ORLANDO 'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue. - I am weary of you. - -JAQUES By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found - you. - -ORLANDO He is drowned in the brook: look but in, and you - shall see him. - -JAQUES There I shall see mine own figure. - -ORLANDO Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher. - -JAQUES I'll tarry no longer with you: farewell, good - Signior Love. - -ORLANDO I am glad of your departure: adieu, good Monsieur - Melancholy. - - [Exit JAQUES] - -ROSALIND [Aside to CELIA] I will speak to him, like a saucy - lackey and under that habit play the knave with him. - Do you hear, forester? - -ORLANDO Very well: what would you? - -ROSALIND I pray you, what is't o'clock? - -ORLANDO You should ask me what time o' day: there's no clock - in the forest. - -ROSALIND Then there is no true lover in the forest; else - sighing every minute and groaning every hour would - detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock. - -ORLANDO And why not the swift foot of Time? had not that - been as proper? - -ROSALIND By no means, sir: Time travels in divers paces with - divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles - withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops - withal and who he stands still withal. - -ORLANDO I prithee, who doth he trot withal? - -ROSALIND Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the - contract of her marriage and the day it is - solemnized: if the interim be but a se'nnight, - Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of - seven year. - -ORLANDO Who ambles Time withal? - -ROSALIND With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that - hath not the gout, for the one sleeps easily because - he cannot study, and the other lives merrily because - he feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean - and wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden - of heavy tedious penury; these Time ambles withal. - -ORLANDO Who doth he gallop withal? - -ROSALIND With a thief to the gallows, for though he go as - softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there. - -ORLANDO Who stays it still withal? - -ROSALIND With lawyers in the vacation, for they sleep between - term and term and then they perceive not how Time moves. - -ORLANDO Where dwell you, pretty youth? - -ROSALIND With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the - skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat. - -ORLANDO Are you native of this place? - -ROSALIND As the cony that you see dwell where she is kindled. - -ORLANDO Your accent is something finer than you could - purchase in so removed a dwelling. - -ROSALIND I have been told so of many: but indeed an old - religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was - in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship - too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard - him read many lectures against it, and I thank God - I am not a woman, to be touched with so many - giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their - whole sex withal. - -ORLANDO Can you remember any of the principal evils that he - laid to the charge of women? - -ROSALIND There were none principal; they were all like one - another as half-pence are, every one fault seeming - monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it. - -ORLANDO I prithee, recount some of them. - -ROSALIND No, I will not cast away my physic but on those that - are sick. There is a man haunts the forest, that - abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on - their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies - on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of - Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger I would - give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the - quotidian of love upon him. - -ORLANDO I am he that is so love-shaked: I pray you tell me - your remedy. - -ROSALIND There is none of my uncle's marks upon you: he - taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage - of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner. - -ORLANDO What were his marks? - -ROSALIND A lean cheek, which you have not, a blue eye and - sunken, which you have not, an unquestionable - spirit, which you have not, a beard neglected, - which you have not; but I pardon you for that, for - simply your having in beard is a younger brother's - revenue: then your hose should be ungartered, your - bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe - untied and every thing about you demonstrating a - careless desolation; but you are no such man; you - are rather point-device in your accoutrements as - loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other. - -ORLANDO Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love. - -ROSALIND Me believe it! you may as soon make her that you - love believe it; which, I warrant, she is apter to - do than to confess she does: that is one of the - points in the which women still give the lie to - their consciences. But, in good sooth, are you he - that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind - is so admired? - -ORLANDO I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of - Rosalind, I am that he, that unfortunate he. - -ROSALIND But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? - -ORLANDO Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much. - -ROSALIND Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves - as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and - the reason why they are not so punished and cured - is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers - are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel. - -ORLANDO Did you ever cure any so? - -ROSALIND Yes, one, and in this manner. He was to imagine me - his love, his mistress; and I set him every day to - woo me: at which time would I, being but a moonish - youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing - and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, - inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles, for every - passion something and for no passion truly any - thing, as boys and women are for the most part - cattle of this colour; would now like him, now loathe - him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now weep - for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor - from his mad humour of love to a living humour of - madness; which was, to forswear the full stream of - the world, and to live in a nook merely monastic. - And thus I cured him; and this way will I take upon - me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's - heart, that there shall not be one spot of love in't. - -ORLANDO I would not be cured, youth. - -ROSALIND I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind - and come every day to my cote and woo me. - -ORLANDO Now, by the faith of my love, I will: tell me - where it is. - -ROSALIND Go with me to it and I'll show it you and by the way - you shall tell me where in the forest you live. - Will you go? - -ORLANDO With all my heart, good youth. - -ROSALIND Nay you must call me Rosalind. Come, sister, will you go? - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT III - - - -SCENE III The forest. - - - [Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY; JAQUES behind] - -TOUCHSTONE Come apace, good Audrey: I will fetch up your - goats, Audrey. And how, Audrey? am I the man yet? - doth my simple feature content you? - -AUDREY Your features! Lord warrant us! what features! - -TOUCHSTONE I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most - capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths. - -JAQUES [Aside] O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove - in a thatched house! - -TOUCHSTONE When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a - man's good wit seconded with the forward child - Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a - great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would - the gods had made thee poetical. - -AUDREY I do not know what 'poetical' is: is it honest in - deed and word? is it a true thing? - -TOUCHSTONE No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most - feigning; and lovers are given to poetry, and what - they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign. - -AUDREY Do you wish then that the gods had made me poetical? - -TOUCHSTONE I do, truly; for thou swearest to me thou art - honest: now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some - hope thou didst feign. - -AUDREY Would you not have me honest? - -TOUCHSTONE No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for - honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar. - -JAQUES [Aside] A material fool! - -AUDREY Well, I am not fair; and therefore I pray the gods - make me honest. - -TOUCHSTONE Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut - were to put good meat into an unclean dish. - -AUDREY I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul. - -TOUCHSTONE Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness! - sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may - be, I will marry thee, and to that end I have been - with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next - village, who hath promised to meet me in this place - of the forest and to couple us. - -JAQUES [Aside] I would fain see this meeting. - -AUDREY Well, the gods give us joy! - -TOUCHSTONE Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart, - stagger in this attempt; for here we have no temple - but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But what - though? Courage! As horns are odious, they are - necessary. It is said, 'many a man knows no end of - his goods:' right; many a man has good horns, and - knows no end of them. Well, that is the dowry of - his wife; 'tis none of his own getting. Horns? - Even so. Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer - hath them as huge as the rascal. Is the single man - therefore blessed? No: as a walled town is more - worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a - married man more honourable than the bare brow of a - bachelor; and by how much defence is better than no - skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to - want. Here comes Sir Oliver. - - [Enter SIR OLIVER MARTEXT] - - Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met: will you - dispatch us here under this tree, or shall we go - with you to your chapel? - -SIR OLIVER MARTEXT Is there none here to give the woman? - -TOUCHSTONE I will not take her on gift of any man. - -SIR OLIVER MARTEXT Truly, she must be given, or the marriage is not lawful. - -JAQUES [Advancing] - - Proceed, proceed I'll give her. - -TOUCHSTONE Good even, good Master What-ye-call't: how do you, - sir? You are very well met: God 'ild you for your - last company: I am very glad to see you: even a - toy in hand here, sir: nay, pray be covered. - -JAQUES Will you be married, motley? - -TOUCHSTONE As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and - the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and - as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling. - -JAQUES And will you, being a man of your breeding, be - married under a bush like a beggar? Get you to - church, and have a good priest that can tell you - what marriage is: this fellow will but join you - together as they join wainscot; then one of you will - prove a shrunk panel and, like green timber, warp, warp. - -TOUCHSTONE [Aside] I am not in the mind but I were better to be - married of him than of another: for he is not like - to marry me well; and not being well married, it - will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife. - -JAQUES Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee. - -TOUCHSTONE 'Come, sweet Audrey: - We must be married, or we must live in bawdry. - Farewell, good Master Oliver: not,-- - O sweet Oliver, - O brave Oliver, - Leave me not behind thee: but,-- - Wind away, - Begone, I say, - I will not to wedding with thee. - - [Exeunt JAQUES, TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY] - -SIR OLIVER MARTEXT 'Tis no matter: ne'er a fantastical knave of them - all shall flout me out of my calling. - - [Exit] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT III - - - -SCENE IV The forest. - - - [Enter ROSALIND and CELIA] - -ROSALIND Never talk to me; I will weep. - -CELIA Do, I prithee; but yet have the grace to consider - that tears do not become a man. - -ROSALIND But have I not cause to weep? - -CELIA As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep. - -ROSALIND His very hair is of the dissembling colour. - -CELIA Something browner than Judas's marry, his kisses are - Judas's own children. - -ROSALIND I' faith, his hair is of a good colour. - -CELIA An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour. - -ROSALIND And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch - of holy bread. - -CELIA He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun - of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; - the very ice of chastity is in them. - -ROSALIND But why did he swear he would come this morning, and - comes not? - -CELIA Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him. - -ROSALIND Do you think so? - -CELIA Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a - horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do - think him as concave as a covered goblet or a - worm-eaten nut. - -ROSALIND Not true in love? - -CELIA Yes, when he is in; but I think he is not in. - -ROSALIND You have heard him swear downright he was. - -CELIA 'Was' is not 'is:' besides, the oath of a lover is - no stronger than the word of a tapster; they are - both the confirmer of false reckonings. He attends - here in the forest on the duke your father. - -ROSALIND I met the duke yesterday and had much question with - him: he asked me of what parentage I was; I told - him, of as good as he; so he laughed and let me go. - But what talk we of fathers, when there is such a - man as Orlando? - -CELIA O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses, - speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks - them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of - his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse - but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble - goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly - guides. Who comes here? - - [Enter CORIN] - -CORIN Mistress and master, you have oft inquired - After the shepherd that complain'd of love, - Who you saw sitting by me on the turf, - Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess - That was his mistress. - -CELIA Well, and what of him? - -CORIN If you will see a pageant truly play'd, - Between the pale complexion of true love - And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain, - Go hence a little and I shall conduct you, - If you will mark it. - -ROSALIND O, come, let us remove: - The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. - Bring us to this sight, and you shall say - I'll prove a busy actor in their play. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT III - - - -SCENE V Another part of the forest. - - - [Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE] - -SILVIUS Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me; do not, Phebe; - Say that you love me not, but say not so - In bitterness. The common executioner, - Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard, - Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck - But first begs pardon: will you sterner be - Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops? - - [Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and CORIN, behind] - -PHEBE I would not be thy executioner: - I fly thee, for I would not injure thee. - Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye: - 'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable, - That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things, - Who shut their coward gates on atomies, - Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers! - Now I do frown on thee with all my heart; - And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee: - Now counterfeit to swoon; why now fall down; - Or if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame, - Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers! - Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee: - Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains - Some scar of it; lean but upon a rush, - The cicatrice and capable impressure - Thy palm some moment keeps; but now mine eyes, - Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not, - Nor, I am sure, there is no force in eyes - That can do hurt. - -SILVIUS O dear Phebe, - If ever,--as that ever may be near,-- - You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, - Then shall you know the wounds invisible - That love's keen arrows make. - -PHEBE But till that time - Come not thou near me: and when that time comes, - Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not; - As till that time I shall not pity thee. - -ROSALIND And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother, - That you insult, exult, and all at once, - Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty,-- - As, by my faith, I see no more in you - Than without candle may go dark to bed-- - Must you be therefore proud and pitiless? - Why, what means this? Why do you look on me? - I see no more in you than in the ordinary - Of nature's sale-work. 'Od's my little life, - I think she means to tangle my eyes too! - No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it: - 'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, - Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, - That can entame my spirits to your worship. - You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her, - Like foggy south puffing with wind and rain? - You are a thousand times a properer man - Than she a woman: 'tis such fools as you - That makes the world full of ill-favour'd children: - 'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her; - And out of you she sees herself more proper - Than any of her lineaments can show her. - But, mistress, know yourself: down on your knees, - And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love: - For I must tell you friendly in your ear, - Sell when you can: you are not for all markets: - Cry the man mercy; love him; take his offer: - Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer. - So take her to thee, shepherd: fare you well. - -PHEBE Sweet youth, I pray you, chide a year together: - I had rather hear you chide than this man woo. - -ROSALIND He's fallen in love with your foulness and she'll - fall in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as - she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll sauce her - with bitter words. Why look you so upon me? - -PHEBE For no ill will I bear you. - -ROSALIND I pray you, do not fall in love with me, - For I am falser than vows made in wine: - Besides, I like you not. If you will know my house, - 'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by. - Will you go, sister? Shepherd, ply her hard. - Come, sister. Shepherdess, look on him better, - And be not proud: though all the world could see, - None could be so abused in sight as he. - Come, to our flock. - - [Exeunt ROSALIND, CELIA and CORIN] - -PHEBE Dead Shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, - 'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?' - -SILVIUS Sweet Phebe,-- - -PHEBE Ha, what say'st thou, Silvius? - -SILVIUS Sweet Phebe, pity me. - -PHEBE Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius. - -SILVIUS Wherever sorrow is, relief would be: - If you do sorrow at my grief in love, - By giving love your sorrow and my grief - Were both extermined. - -PHEBE Thou hast my love: is not that neighbourly? - -SILVIUS I would have you. - -PHEBE Why, that were covetousness. - Silvius, the time was that I hated thee, - And yet it is not that I bear thee love; - But since that thou canst talk of love so well, - Thy company, which erst was irksome to me, - I will endure, and I'll employ thee too: - But do not look for further recompense - Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd. - -SILVIUS So holy and so perfect is my love, - And I in such a poverty of grace, - That I shall think it a most plenteous crop - To glean the broken ears after the man - That the main harvest reaps: loose now and then - A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon. - -PHEBE Know'st now the youth that spoke to me erewhile? - -SILVIUS Not very well, but I have met him oft; - And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds - That the old carlot once was master of. - -PHEBE Think not I love him, though I ask for him: - 'Tis but a peevish boy; yet he talks well; - But what care I for words? yet words do well - When he that speaks them pleases those that hear. - It is a pretty youth: not very pretty: - But, sure, he's proud, and yet his pride becomes him: - He'll make a proper man: the best thing in him - Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue - Did make offence his eye did heal it up. - He is not very tall; yet for his years he's tall: - His leg is but so so; and yet 'tis well: - There was a pretty redness in his lip, - A little riper and more lusty red - Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the difference - Between the constant red and mingled damask. - There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him - In parcels as I did, would have gone near - To fall in love with him; but, for my part, - I love him not nor hate him not; and yet - I have more cause to hate him than to love him: - For what had he to do to chide at me? - He said mine eyes were black and my hair black: - And, now I am remember'd, scorn'd at me: - I marvel why I answer'd not again: - But that's all one; omittance is no quittance. - I'll write to him a very taunting letter, - And thou shalt bear it: wilt thou, Silvius? - -SILVIUS Phebe, with all my heart. - -PHEBE I'll write it straight; - The matter's in my head and in my heart: - I will be bitter with him and passing short. - Go with me, Silvius. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT IV - - - -SCENE I The forest. - - - [Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and JAQUES] - -JAQUES I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted - with thee. - -ROSALIND They say you are a melancholy fellow. - -JAQUES I am so; I do love it better than laughing. - -ROSALIND Those that are in extremity of either are abominable - fellows and betray themselves to every modern - censure worse than drunkards. - -JAQUES Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing. - -ROSALIND Why then, 'tis good to be a post. - -JAQUES I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is - emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical, - nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the - soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's, - which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor - the lover's, which is all these: but it is a - melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, - extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's - contemplation of my travels, in which my often - rumination wraps me m a most humorous sadness. - -ROSALIND A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to - be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see - other men's; then, to have seen much and to have - nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands. - -JAQUES Yes, I have gained my experience. - -ROSALIND And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have - a fool to make me merry than experience to make me - sad; and to travel for it too! - - [Enter ORLANDO] - -ORLANDO Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind! - -JAQUES Nay, then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse. - - [Exit] - -ROSALIND Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and - wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your - own country, be out of love with your nativity and - almost chide God for making you that countenance you - are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a - gondola. Why, how now, Orlando! where have you been - all this while? You a lover! An you serve me such - another trick, never come in my sight more. - -ORLANDO My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise. - -ROSALIND Break an hour's promise in love! He that will - divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but - a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the - affairs of love, it may be said of him that Cupid - hath clapped him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant - him heart-whole. - -ORLANDO Pardon me, dear Rosalind. - -ROSALIND Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I - had as lief be wooed of a snail. - -ORLANDO Of a snail? - -ROSALIND Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he - carries his house on his head; a better jointure, - I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings - his destiny with him. - -ORLANDO What's that? - -ROSALIND Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be - beholding to your wives for: but he comes armed in - his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife. - -ORLANDO Virtue is no horn-maker; and my Rosalind is virtuous. - -ROSALIND And I am your Rosalind. - -CELIA It pleases him to call you so; but he hath a - Rosalind of a better leer than you. - -ROSALIND Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday - humour and like enough to consent. What would you - say to me now, an I were your very very Rosalind? - -ORLANDO I would kiss before I spoke. - -ROSALIND Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were - gravelled for lack of matter, you might take - occasion to kiss. Very good orators, when they are - out, they will spit; and for lovers lacking--God - warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. - -ORLANDO How if the kiss be denied? - -ROSALIND Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new matter. - -ORLANDO Who could be out, being before his beloved mistress? - -ROSALIND Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress, or - I should think my honesty ranker than my wit. - -ORLANDO What, of my suit? - -ROSALIND Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit. - Am not I your Rosalind? - -ORLANDO I take some joy to say you are, because I would be - talking of her. - -ROSALIND Well in her person I say I will not have you. - -ORLANDO Then in mine own person I die. - -ROSALIND No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is - almost six thousand years old, and in all this time - there was not any man died in his own person, - videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains - dashed out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he - could to die before, and he is one of the patterns - of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair - year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been - for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went - but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being - taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish - coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.' - But these are all lies: men have died from time to - time and worms have eaten them, but not for love. - -ORLANDO I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind, - for, I protest, her frown might kill me. - -ROSALIND By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come, now - I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on - disposition, and ask me what you will. I will grant - it. - -ORLANDO Then love me, Rosalind. - -ROSALIND Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays and all. - -ORLANDO And wilt thou have me? - -ROSALIND Ay, and twenty such. - -ORLANDO What sayest thou? - -ROSALIND Are you not good? - -ORLANDO I hope so. - -ROSALIND Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? - Come, sister, you shall be the priest and marry us. - Give me your hand, Orlando. What do you say, sister? - -ORLANDO Pray thee, marry us. - -CELIA I cannot say the words. - -ROSALIND You must begin, 'Will you, Orlando--' - -CELIA Go to. Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind? - -ORLANDO I will. - -ROSALIND Ay, but when? - -ORLANDO Why now; as fast as she can marry us. - -ROSALIND Then you must say 'I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.' - -ORLANDO I take thee, Rosalind, for wife. - -ROSALIND I might ask you for your commission; but I do take - thee, Orlando, for my husband: there's a girl goes - before the priest; and certainly a woman's thought - runs before her actions. - -ORLANDO So do all thoughts; they are winged. - -ROSALIND Now tell me how long you would have her after you - have possessed her. - -ORLANDO For ever and a day. - -ROSALIND Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando; - men are April when they woo, December when they wed: - maids are May when they are maids, but the sky - changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous - of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, - more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more - new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires - than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana - in the fountain, and I will do that when you are - disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and - that when thou art inclined to sleep. - -ORLANDO But will my Rosalind do so? - -ROSALIND By my life, she will do as I do. - -ORLANDO O, but she is wise. - -ROSALIND Or else she could not have the wit to do this: the - wiser, the waywarder: make the doors upon a woman's - wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and - 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly - with the smoke out at the chimney. - -ORLANDO A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say - 'Wit, whither wilt?' - -ROSALIND Nay, you might keep that cheque for it till you met - your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed. - -ORLANDO And what wit could wit have to excuse that? - -ROSALIND Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall - never take her without her answer, unless you take - her without her tongue. O, that woman that cannot - make her fault her husband's occasion, let her - never nurse her child herself, for she will breed - it like a fool! - -ORLANDO For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee. - -ROSALIND Alas! dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours. - -ORLANDO I must attend the duke at dinner: by two o'clock I - will be with thee again. - -ROSALIND Ay, go your ways, go your ways; I knew what you - would prove: my friends told me as much, and I - thought no less: that flattering tongue of yours - won me: 'tis but one cast away, and so, come, - death! Two o'clock is your hour? - -ORLANDO Ay, sweet Rosalind. - -ROSALIND By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend - me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous, - if you break one jot of your promise or come one - minute behind your hour, I will think you the most - pathetical break-promise and the most hollow lover - and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind that - may be chosen out of the gross band of the - unfaithful: therefore beware my censure and keep - your promise. - -ORLANDO With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my - Rosalind: so adieu. - -ROSALIND Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such - offenders, and let Time try: adieu. - - [Exit ORLANDO] - -CELIA You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate: - we must have your doublet and hose plucked over your - head, and show the world what the bird hath done to - her own nest. - -ROSALIND O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou - didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But - it cannot be sounded: my affection hath an unknown - bottom, like the bay of Portugal. - -CELIA Or rather, bottomless, that as fast as you pour - affection in, it runs out. - -ROSALIND No, that same wicked bastard of Venus that was begot - of thought, conceived of spleen and born of madness, - that blind rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes - because his own are out, let him be judge how deep I - am in love. I'll tell thee, Aliena, I cannot be out - of the sight of Orlando: I'll go find a shadow and - sigh till he come. - -CELIA And I'll sleep. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT IV - - - -SCENE II The forest. - - - [Enter JAQUES, Lords, and Foresters] - -JAQUES Which is he that killed the deer? - -A Lord Sir, it was I. - -JAQUES Let's present him to the duke, like a Roman - conqueror; and it would do well to set the deer's - horns upon his head, for a branch of victory. Have - you no song, forester, for this purpose? - -Forester Yes, sir. - -JAQUES Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it - make noise enough. - - SONG. -Forester What shall he have that kill'd the deer? - His leather skin and horns to wear. - Then sing him home; - - [The rest shall bear this burden] - - Take thou no scorn to wear the horn; - It was a crest ere thou wast born: - Thy father's father wore it, - And thy father bore it: - The horn, the horn, the lusty horn - Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT IV - - - -SCENE III The forest. - - - [Enter ROSALIND and CELIA] - -ROSALIND How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock? and - here much Orlando! - -CELIA I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain, he - hath ta'en his bow and arrows and is gone forth to - sleep. Look, who comes here. - - [Enter SILVIUS] - -SILVIUS My errand is to you, fair youth; - My gentle Phebe bid me give you this: - I know not the contents; but, as I guess - By the stern brow and waspish action - Which she did use as she was writing of it, - It bears an angry tenor: pardon me: - I am but as a guiltless messenger. - -ROSALIND Patience herself would startle at this letter - And play the swaggerer; bear this, bear all: - She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; - She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, - Were man as rare as phoenix. 'Od's my will! - Her love is not the hare that I do hunt: - Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well, - This is a letter of your own device. - -SILVIUS No, I protest, I know not the contents: - Phebe did write it. - -ROSALIND Come, come, you are a fool - And turn'd into the extremity of love. - I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand. - A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think - That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands: - She has a huswife's hand; but that's no matter: - I say she never did invent this letter; - This is a man's invention and his hand. - -SILVIUS Sure, it is hers. - -ROSALIND Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style. - A style for-challengers; why, she defies me, - Like Turk to Christian: women's gentle brain - Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention - Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect - Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter? - -SILVIUS So please you, for I never heard it yet; - Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty. - -ROSALIND She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes. - - [Reads] - - Art thou god to shepherd turn'd, - That a maiden's heart hath burn'd? - Can a woman rail thus? - -SILVIUS Call you this railing? - -ROSALIND [Reads] - - Why, thy godhead laid apart, - Warr'st thou with a woman's heart? - Did you ever hear such railing? - Whiles the eye of man did woo me, - That could do no vengeance to me. - Meaning me a beast. - If the scorn of your bright eyne - Have power to raise such love in mine, - Alack, in me what strange effect - Would they work in mild aspect! - Whiles you chid me, I did love; - How then might your prayers move! - He that brings this love to thee - Little knows this love in me: - And by him seal up thy mind; - Whether that thy youth and kind - Will the faithful offer take - Of me and all that I can make; - Or else by him my love deny, - And then I'll study how to die. - -SILVIUS Call you this chiding? - -CELIA Alas, poor shepherd! - -ROSALIND Do you pity him? no, he deserves no pity. Wilt - thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an - instrument and play false strains upon thee! not to - be endured! Well, go your way to her, for I see - love hath made thee a tame snake, and say this to - her: that if she love me, I charge her to love - thee; if she will not, I will never have her unless - thou entreat for her. If you be a true lover, - hence, and not a word; for here comes more company. - - [Exit SILVIUS] - - [Enter OLIVER] - -OLIVER Good morrow, fair ones: pray you, if you know, - Where in the purlieus of this forest stands - A sheep-cote fenced about with olive trees? - -CELIA West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom: - The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream - Left on your right hand brings you to the place. - But at this hour the house doth keep itself; - There's none within. - -OLIVER If that an eye may profit by a tongue, - Then should I know you by description; - Such garments and such years: 'The boy is fair, - Of female favour, and bestows himself - Like a ripe sister: the woman low - And browner than her brother.' Are not you - The owner of the house I did inquire for? - -CELIA It is no boast, being ask'd, to say we are. - -OLIVER Orlando doth commend him to you both, - And to that youth he calls his Rosalind - He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he? - -ROSALIND I am: what must we understand by this? - -OLIVER Some of my shame; if you will know of me - What man I am, and how, and why, and where - This handkercher was stain'd. - -CELIA I pray you, tell it. - -OLIVER When last the young Orlando parted from you - He left a promise to return again - Within an hour, and pacing through the forest, - Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, - Lo, what befell! he threw his eye aside, - And mark what object did present itself: - Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age - And high top bald with dry antiquity, - A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair, - Lay sleeping on his back: about his neck - A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself, - Who with her head nimble in threats approach'd - The opening of his mouth; but suddenly, - Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, - And with indented glides did slip away - Into a bush: under which bush's shade - A lioness, with udders all drawn dry, - Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch, - When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis - The royal disposition of that beast - To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead: - This seen, Orlando did approach the man - And found it was his brother, his elder brother. - -CELIA O, I have heard him speak of that same brother; - And he did render him the most unnatural - That lived amongst men. - -OLIVER And well he might so do, - For well I know he was unnatural. - -ROSALIND But, to Orlando: did he leave him there, - Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness? - -OLIVER Twice did he turn his back and purposed so; - But kindness, nobler ever than revenge, - And nature, stronger than his just occasion, - Made him give battle to the lioness, - Who quickly fell before him: in which hurtling - From miserable slumber I awaked. - -CELIA Are you his brother? - -ROSALIND Wast you he rescued? - -CELIA Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him? - -OLIVER 'Twas I; but 'tis not I I do not shame - To tell you what I was, since my conversion - So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am. - -ROSALIND But, for the bloody napkin? - -OLIVER By and by. - When from the first to last betwixt us two - Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed, - As how I came into that desert place:-- - In brief, he led me to the gentle duke, - Who gave me fresh array and entertainment, - Committing me unto my brother's love; - Who led me instantly unto his cave, - There stripp'd himself, and here upon his arm - The lioness had torn some flesh away, - Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted - And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind. - Brief, I recover'd him, bound up his wound; - And, after some small space, being strong at heart, - He sent me hither, stranger as I am, - To tell this story, that you might excuse - His broken promise, and to give this napkin - Dyed in his blood unto the shepherd youth - That he in sport doth call his Rosalind. - - [ROSALIND swoons] - -CELIA Why, how now, Ganymede! sweet Ganymede! - -OLIVER Many will swoon when they do look on blood. - -CELIA There is more in it. Cousin Ganymede! - -OLIVER Look, he recovers. - -ROSALIND I would I were at home. - -CELIA We'll lead you thither. - I pray you, will you take him by the arm? - -OLIVER Be of good cheer, youth: you a man! you lack a - man's heart. - -ROSALIND I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would - think this was well counterfeited! I pray you, tell - your brother how well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho! - -OLIVER This was not counterfeit: there is too great - testimony in your complexion that it was a passion - of earnest. - -ROSALIND Counterfeit, I assure you. - -OLIVER Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man. - -ROSALIND So I do: but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by right. - -CELIA Come, you look paler and paler: pray you, draw - homewards. Good sir, go with us. - -OLIVER That will I, for I must bear answer back - How you excuse my brother, Rosalind. - -ROSALIND I shall devise something: but, I pray you, commend - my counterfeiting to him. Will you go? - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT V - - - -SCENE I The forest. - - - [Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY] - -TOUCHSTONE We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey. - -AUDREY Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old - gentleman's saying. - -TOUCHSTONE A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile - Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the - forest lays claim to you. - -AUDREY Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in - the world: here comes the man you mean. - -TOUCHSTONE It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: by my - troth, we that have good wits have much to answer - for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold. - - [Enter WILLIAM] - -WILLIAM Good even, Audrey. - -AUDREY God ye good even, William. - -WILLIAM And good even to you, sir. - -TOUCHSTONE Good even, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy - head; nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend? - -WILLIAM Five and twenty, sir. - -TOUCHSTONE A ripe age. Is thy name William? - -WILLIAM William, sir. - -TOUCHSTONE A fair name. Wast born i' the forest here? - -WILLIAM Ay, sir, I thank God. - -TOUCHSTONE 'Thank God;' a good answer. Art rich? - -WILLIAM Faith, sir, so so. - -TOUCHSTONE 'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and - yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise? - -WILLIAM Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit. - -TOUCHSTONE Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying, - 'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man - knows himself to be a fool.' The heathen - philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape, - would open his lips when he put it into his mouth; - meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and - lips to open. You do love this maid? - -WILLIAM I do, sir. - -TOUCHSTONE Give me your hand. Art thou learned? - -WILLIAM No, sir. - -TOUCHSTONE Then learn this of me: to have, is to have; for it - is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out - of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty - the other; for all your writers do consent that ipse - is he: now, you are not ipse, for I am he. - -WILLIAM Which he, sir? - -TOUCHSTONE He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you - clown, abandon,--which is in the vulgar leave,--the - society,--which in the boorish is company,--of this - female,--which in the common is woman; which - together is, abandon the society of this female, or, - clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better - understanding, diest; or, to wit I kill thee, make - thee away, translate thy life into death, thy - liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with - thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy - with thee in faction; I will o'errun thee with - policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways: - therefore tremble and depart. - -AUDREY Do, good William. - -WILLIAM God rest you merry, sir. - - [Exit] - - [Enter CORIN] - -CORIN Our master and mistress seeks you; come, away, away! - -TOUCHSTONE Trip, Audrey! trip, Audrey! I attend, I attend. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT V - - - -SCENE II The forest. - - - [Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER] - -ORLANDO Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you - should like her? that but seeing you should love - her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should - grant? and will you persever to enjoy her? - -OLIVER Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the - poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden - wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with me, - I love Aliena; say with her that she loves me; - consent with both that we may enjoy each other: it - shall be to your good; for my father's house and all - the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I - estate upon you, and here live and die a shepherd. - -ORLANDO You have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow: - thither will I invite the duke and all's contented - followers. Go you and prepare Aliena; for look - you, here comes my Rosalind. - - [Enter ROSALIND] - -ROSALIND God save you, brother. - -OLIVER And you, fair sister. - - [Exit] - -ROSALIND O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee - wear thy heart in a scarf! - -ORLANDO It is my arm. - -ROSALIND I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws - of a lion. - -ORLANDO Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady. - -ROSALIND Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to - swoon when he showed me your handkerchief? - -ORLANDO Ay, and greater wonders than that. - -ROSALIND O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was - never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams - and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and - overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner - met but they looked, no sooner looked but they - loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner - sighed but they asked one another the reason, no - sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; - and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs - to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or - else be incontinent before marriage: they are in - the very wrath of love and they will together; clubs - cannot part them. - -ORLANDO They shall be married to-morrow, and I will bid the - duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing it - is to look into happiness through another man's - eyes! By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at - the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall - think my brother happy in having what he wishes for. - -ROSALIND Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind? - -ORLANDO I can live no longer by thinking. - -ROSALIND I will weary you then no longer with idle talking. - Know of me then, for now I speak to some purpose, - that I know you are a gentleman of good conceit: I - speak not this that you should bear a good opinion - of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are; - neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in - some little measure draw a belief from you, to do - yourself good and not to grace me. Believe then, if - you please, that I can do strange things: I have, - since I was three year old, conversed with a - magician, most profound in his art and yet not - damnable. If you do love Rosalind so near the heart - as your gesture cries it out, when your brother - marries Aliena, shall you marry her: I know into - what straits of fortune she is driven; and it is - not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient - to you, to set her before your eyes tomorrow human - as she is and without any danger. - -ORLANDO Speakest thou in sober meanings? - -ROSALIND By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I - say I am a magician. Therefore, put you in your - best array: bid your friends; for if you will be - married to-morrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will. - - [Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE] - - Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers. - -PHEBE Youth, you have done me much ungentleness, - To show the letter that I writ to you. - -ROSALIND I care not if I have: it is my study - To seem despiteful and ungentle to you: - You are there followed by a faithful shepherd; - Look upon him, love him; he worships you. - -PHEBE Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. - -SILVIUS It is to be all made of sighs and tears; - And so am I for Phebe. - -PHEBE And I for Ganymede. - -ORLANDO And I for Rosalind. - -ROSALIND And I for no woman. - -SILVIUS It is to be all made of faith and service; - And so am I for Phebe. - -PHEBE And I for Ganymede. - -ORLANDO And I for Rosalind. - -ROSALIND And I for no woman. - -SILVIUS It is to be all made of fantasy, - All made of passion and all made of wishes, - All adoration, duty, and observance, - All humbleness, all patience and impatience, - All purity, all trial, all observance; - And so am I for Phebe. - -PHEBE And so am I for Ganymede. - -ORLANDO And so am I for Rosalind. - -ROSALIND And so am I for no woman. - -PHEBE If this be so, why blame you me to love you? - -SILVIUS If this be so, why blame you me to love you? - -ORLANDO If this be so, why blame you me to love you? - -ROSALIND Who do you speak to, 'Why blame you me to love you?' - -ORLANDO To her that is not here, nor doth not hear. - -ROSALIND Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling - of Irish wolves against the moon. - - [To SILVIUS] - - I will help you, if I can: - - [To PHEBE] - - I would love you, if I could. To-morrow meet me all together. - - [To PHEBE] - - I will marry you, if ever I marry woman, and I'll be - married to-morrow: - - [To ORLANDO] - - I will satisfy you, if ever I satisfied man, and you - shall be married to-morrow: - - [To SILVIUS] - - I will content you, if what pleases you contents - you, and you shall be married to-morrow. - - [To ORLANDO] - - As you love Rosalind, meet: - - [To SILVIUS] - - as you love Phebe, meet: and as I love no woman, - I'll meet. So fare you well: I have left you commands. - -SILVIUS I'll not fail, if I live. - -PHEBE Nor I. - -ORLANDO Nor I. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT V - - - -SCENE III The forest. - - - [Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY] - -TOUCHSTONE To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will - we be married. - -AUDREY I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is - no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the - world. Here comes two of the banished duke's pages. - - [Enter two Pages] - -First Page Well met, honest gentleman. - -TOUCHSTONE By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song. - -Second Page We are for you: sit i' the middle. - -First Page Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking or - spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only - prologues to a bad voice? - -Second Page I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like two - gipsies on a horse. - - SONG. - It was a lover and his lass, - With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, - That o'er the green corn-field did pass - In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, - When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: - Sweet lovers love the spring. - - Between the acres of the rye, - With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino - These pretty country folks would lie, - In spring time, &c. - - This carol they began that hour, - With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, - How that a life was but a flower - In spring time, &c. - - And therefore take the present time, - With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino; - For love is crowned with the prime - In spring time, &c. - -TOUCHSTONE Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great - matter in the ditty, yet the note was very - untuneable. - -First Page You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time. - -TOUCHSTONE By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear - such a foolish song. God be wi' you; and God mend - your voices! Come, Audrey. - - [Exeunt] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - -ACT V - - - -SCENE IV The forest. - - - [Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER, - and CELIA] - -DUKE SENIOR Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy - Can do all this that he hath promised? - -ORLANDO I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not; - As those that fear they hope, and know they fear. - - [Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHEBE] - -ROSALIND Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged: - You say, if I bring in your Rosalind, - You will bestow her on Orlando here? - -DUKE SENIOR That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her. - -ROSALIND And you say, you will have her, when I bring her? - -ORLANDO That would I, were I of all kingdoms king. - -ROSALIND You say, you'll marry me, if I be willing? - -PHEBE That will I, should I die the hour after. - -ROSALIND But if you do refuse to marry me, - You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd? - -PHEBE So is the bargain. - -ROSALIND You say, that you'll have Phebe, if she will? - -SILVIUS Though to have her and death were both one thing. - -ROSALIND I have promised to make all this matter even. - Keep you your word, O duke, to give your daughter; - You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter: - Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me, - Or else refusing me, to wed this shepherd: - Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her. - If she refuse me: and from hence I go, - To make these doubts all even. - - [Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA] - -DUKE SENIOR I do remember in this shepherd boy - Some lively touches of my daughter's favour. - -ORLANDO My lord, the first time that I ever saw him - Methought he was a brother to your daughter: - But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born, - And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments - Of many desperate studies by his uncle, - Whom he reports to be a great magician, - Obscured in the circle of this forest. - - [Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY] - -JAQUES There is, sure, another flood toward, and these - couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of - very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. - -TOUCHSTONE Salutation and greeting to you all! - -JAQUES Good my lord, bid him welcome: this is the - motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in - the forest: he hath been a courtier, he swears. - -TOUCHSTONE If any man doubt that, let him put me to my - purgation. I have trod a measure; I have flattered - a lady; I have been politic with my friend, smooth - with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have - had four quarrels, and like to have fought one. - -JAQUES And how was that ta'en up? - -TOUCHSTONE Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the - seventh cause. - -JAQUES How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow. - -DUKE SENIOR I like him very well. - -TOUCHSTONE God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the like. I - press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country - copulatives, to swear and to forswear: according as - marriage binds and blood breaks: a poor virgin, - sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor - humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else - will: rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a - poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. - -DUKE SENIOR By my faith, he is very swift and sententious. - -TOUCHSTONE According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases. - -JAQUES But, for the seventh cause; how did you find the - quarrel on the seventh cause? - -TOUCHSTONE Upon a lie seven times removed:--bear your body more - seeming, Audrey:--as thus, sir. I did dislike the - cut of a certain courtier's beard: he sent me word, - if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the - mind it was: this is called the Retort Courteous. - If I sent him word again 'it was not well cut,' he - would send me word, he cut it to please himself: - this is called the Quip Modest. If again 'it was - not well cut,' he disabled my judgment: this is - called the Reply Churlish. If again 'it was not - well cut,' he would answer, I spake not true: this - is called the Reproof Valiant. If again 'it was not - well cut,' he would say I lied: this is called the - Counter-cheque Quarrelsome: and so to the Lie - Circumstantial and the Lie Direct. - -JAQUES And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut? - -TOUCHSTONE I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial, - nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we - measured swords and parted. - -JAQUES Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? - -TOUCHSTONE O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book; as you have - books for good manners: I will name you the degrees. - The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the - Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the - fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the - Countercheque Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with - Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All - these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may - avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven - justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the - parties were met themselves, one of them thought but - of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and - they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the - only peacemaker; much virtue in If. - -JAQUES Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at - any thing and yet a fool. - -DUKE SENIOR He uses his folly like a stalking-horse and under - the presentation of that he shoots his wit. - - [Enter HYMEN, ROSALIND, and CELIA] - - [Still Music] - -HYMEN Then is there mirth in heaven, - When earthly things made even - Atone together. - Good duke, receive thy daughter - Hymen from heaven brought her, - Yea, brought her hither, - That thou mightst join her hand with his - Whose heart within his bosom is. - -ROSALIND [To DUKE SENIOR] To you I give myself, for I am yours. - - [To ORLANDO] - - To you I give myself, for I am yours. - -DUKE SENIOR If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter. - -ORLANDO If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind. - -PHEBE If sight and shape be true, - Why then, my love adieu! - -ROSALIND I'll have no father, if you be not he: - I'll have no husband, if you be not he: - Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she. - -HYMEN Peace, ho! I bar confusion: - 'Tis I must make conclusion - Of these most strange events: - Here's eight that must take hands - To join in Hymen's bands, - If truth holds true contents. - You and you no cross shall part: - You and you are heart in heart - You to his love must accord, - Or have a woman to your lord: - You and you are sure together, - As the winter to foul weather. - Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing, - Feed yourselves with questioning; - That reason wonder may diminish, - How thus we met, and these things finish. - - SONG. - Wedding is great Juno's crown: - O blessed bond of board and bed! - 'Tis Hymen peoples every town; - High wedlock then be honoured: - Honour, high honour and renown, - To Hymen, god of every town! - -DUKE SENIOR O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me! - Even daughter, welcome, in no less degree. - -PHEBE I will not eat my word, now thou art mine; - Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine. - - [Enter JAQUES DE BOYS] - -JAQUES DE BOYS Let me have audience for a word or two: - I am the second son of old Sir Rowland, - That bring these tidings to this fair assembly. - Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day - Men of great worth resorted to this forest, - Address'd a mighty power; which were on foot, - In his own conduct, purposely to take - His brother here and put him to the sword: - And to the skirts of this wild wood he came; - Where meeting with an old religious man, - After some question with him, was converted - Both from his enterprise and from the world, - His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother, - And all their lands restored to them again - That were with him exiled. This to be true, - I do engage my life. - -DUKE SENIOR Welcome, young man; - Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding: - To one his lands withheld, and to the other - A land itself at large, a potent dukedom. - First, in this forest, let us do those ends - That here were well begun and well begot: - And after, every of this happy number - That have endured shrewd days and nights with us - Shall share the good of our returned fortune, - According to the measure of their states. - Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity - And fall into our rustic revelry. - Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all, - With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall. - -JAQUES Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly, - The duke hath put on a religious life - And thrown into neglect the pompous court? - -JAQUES DE BOYS He hath. - -JAQUES To him will I : out of these convertites - There is much matter to be heard and learn'd. - - [To DUKE SENIOR] - - You to your former honour I bequeath; - Your patience and your virtue well deserves it: - - [To ORLANDO] - - You to a love that your true faith doth merit: - - [To OLIVER] - - You to your land and love and great allies: - - [To SILVIUS] - - You to a long and well-deserved bed: - - [To TOUCHSTONE] - - And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage - Is but for two months victuall'd. So, to your pleasures: - I am for other than for dancing measures. - -DUKE SENIOR Stay, Jaques, stay. - -JAQUES To see no pastime I what you would have - I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave. - - [Exit] - -DUKE SENIOR Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites, - As we do trust they'll end, in true delights. - - [A dance] - - - - - AS YOU LIKE IT - - EPILOGUE - - -ROSALIND It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; - but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord - the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs - no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no - epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes, - and good plays prove the better by the help of good - epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am - neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with - you in the behalf of a good play! I am not - furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not - become me: my way is to conjure you; and I'll begin - with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love - you bear to men, to like as much of this play as - please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love - you bear to women--as I perceive by your simpering, - none of you hates them--that between you and the - women the play may please. 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-
-The Project Gutenberg Etext of LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS
-
-
-
-
- WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS
-
- PROCEEDINGS
-
-
-
- Edited by James Daly
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 9-10 June 1992
-
-
- Library of Congress
- Washington, D.C.
-
-
-
- Supported by a Grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
-
-
- *** *** *** ****** *** *** ***
-
-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
-
-
-Acknowledgements
-
-Introduction
-
-Proceedings
- Welcome
- Prosser Gifford and Carl Fleischhauer
-
- Session I. Content in a New Form: Who Will Use It and What Will They Do?
- James Daly (Moderator)
- Avra Michelson, Overview
- Susan H. Veccia, User Evaluation
- Joanne Freeman, Beyond the Scholar
- Discussion
-
- Session II. Show and Tell
- Jacqueline Hess (Moderator)
- Elli Mylonas, Perseus Project
- Discussion
- Eric M. Calaluca, Patrologia Latina Database
- Carl Fleischhauer and Ricky Erway, American Memory
- Discussion
- Dorothy Twohig, The Papers of George Washington
- Discussion
- Maria L. Lebron, The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials
- Discussion
- Lynne K. Personius, Cornell mathematics books
- Discussion
-
- Session III. Distribution, Networks, and Networking:
- Options for Dissemination
- Robert G. Zich (Moderator)
- Clifford A. Lynch
- Discussion
- Howard Besser
- Discussion
- Ronald L. Larsen
- Edwin B. Brownrigg
- Discussion
-
- Session IV. Image Capture, Text Capture, Overview of Text and
- Image Storage Formats
- William L. Hooton (Moderator)
- A) Principal Methods for Image Capture of Text:
- direct scanning, use of microform
- Anne R. Kenney
- Pamela Q.J. Andre
- Judith A. Zidar
- Donald J. Waters
- Discussion
- B) Special Problems: bound volumes, conservation,
- reproducing printed halftones
- George Thoma
- Carl Fleischhauer
- Discussion
- C) Image Standards and Implications for Preservation
- Jean Baronas
- Patricia Battin
- Discussion
- D) Text Conversion: OCR vs. rekeying, standards of accuracy
- and use of imperfect texts, service bureaus
- Michael Lesk
- Ricky Erway
- Judith A. Zidar
- Discussion
-
- Session V. Approaches to Preparing Electronic Texts
- Susan Hockey (Moderator)
- Stuart Weibel
- Discussion
- C.M. Sperberg-McQueen
- Discussion
- Eric M. Calaluca
- Discussion
-
- Session VI. Copyright Issues
- Marybeth Peters
-
- Session VII. Conclusion
- Prosser Gifford (Moderator)
- General discussion
-
-Appendix I: Program
-
-Appendix II: Abstracts
-
-Appendix III: Directory of Participants
-
-
- *** *** *** ****** *** *** ***
-
-
- Acknowledgements
-
-I would like to thank Carl Fleischhauer and Prosser Gifford for the
-opportunity to learn about areas of human activity unknown to me a scant
-ten months ago, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for
-supporting that opportunity. The help given by others is acknowledged on
-a separate page.
-
- 19 October 1992
-
-
- *** *** *** ****** *** *** ***
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
-The Workshop on Electronic Texts (1) drew together representatives of
-various projects and interest groups to compare ideas, beliefs,
-experiences, and, in particular, methods of placing and presenting
-historical textual materials in computerized form. Most attendees gained
-much in insight and outlook from the event. But the assembly did not
-form a new nation, or, to put it another way, the diversity of projects
-and interests was too great to draw the representatives into a cohesive,
-action-oriented body.(2)
-
-Everyone attending the Workshop shared an interest in preserving and
-providing access to historical texts. But within this broad field the
-attendees represented a variety of formal, informal, figurative, and
-literal groups, with many individuals belonging to more than one. These
-groups may be defined roughly according to the following topics or
-activities:
-
-* Imaging
-* Searchable coded texts
-* National and international computer networks
-* CD-ROM production and dissemination
-* Methods and technology for converting older paper materials into
-electronic form
-* Study of the use of digital materials by scholars and others
-
-This summary is arranged thematically and does not follow the actual
-sequence of presentations.
-
-NOTES:
- (1) In this document, the phrase electronic text is used to mean
- any computerized reproduction or version of a document, book,
- article, or manuscript (including images), and not merely a machine-
- readable or machine-searchable text.
-
- (2) The Workshop was held at the Library of Congress on 9-10 June
- 1992, with funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- The document that follows represents a summary of the presentations
- made at the Workshop and was compiled by James DALY. This
- introduction was written by DALY and Carl FLEISCHHAUER.
-
-
-PRESERVATION AND IMAGING
-
-Preservation, as that term is used by archivists,(3) was most explicitly
-discussed in the context of imaging. Anne KENNEY and Lynne PERSONIUS
-explained how the concept of a faithful copy and the user-friendliness of
-the traditional book have guided their project at Cornell University.(4)
-Although interested in computerized dissemination, participants in the
-Cornell project are creating digital image sets of older books in the
-public domain as a source for a fresh paper facsimile or, in a future
-phase, microfilm. The books returned to the library shelves are
-high-quality and useful replacements on acid-free paper that should last
-a long time. To date, the Cornell project has placed little or no
-emphasis on creating searchable texts; one would not be surprised to find
-that the project participants view such texts as new editions, and thus
-not as faithful reproductions.
-
-In her talk on preservation, Patricia BATTIN struck an ecumenical and
-flexible note as she endorsed the creation and dissemination of a variety
-of types of digital copies. Do not be too narrow in defining what counts
-as a preservation element, BATTIN counseled; for the present, at least,
-digital copies made with preservation in mind cannot be as narrowly
-standardized as, say, microfilm copies with the same objective. Setting
-standards precipitously can inhibit creativity, but delay can result in
-chaos, she advised.
-
-In part, BATTIN's position reflected the unsettled nature of image-format
-standards, and attendees could hear echoes of this unsettledness in the
-comments of various speakers. For example, Jean BARONAS reviewed the
-status of several formal standards moving through committees of experts;
-and Clifford LYNCH encouraged the use of a new guideline for transmitting
-document images on Internet. Testimony from participants in the National
-Agricultural Library's (NAL) Text Digitization Program and LC's American
-Memory project highlighted some of the challenges to the actual creation
-or interchange of images, including difficulties in converting
-preservation microfilm to digital form. Donald WATERS reported on the
-progress of a master plan for a project at Yale University to convert
-books on microfilm to digital image sets, Project Open Book (POB).
-
-The Workshop offered rather less of an imaging practicum than planned,
-but "how-to" hints emerge at various points, for example, throughout
-KENNEY's presentation and in the discussion of arcana such as
-thresholding and dithering offered by George THOMA and FLEISCHHAUER.
-
-NOTES:
- (3) Although there is a sense in which any reproductions of
- historical materials preserve the human record, specialists in the
- field have developed particular guidelines for the creation of
- acceptable preservation copies.
-
- (4) Titles and affiliations of presenters are given at the
- beginning of their respective talks and in the Directory of
- Participants (Appendix III).
-
-
-THE MACHINE-READABLE TEXT: MARKUP AND USE
-
-The sections of the Workshop that dealt with machine-readable text tended
-to be more concerned with access and use than with preservation, at least
-in the narrow technical sense. Michael SPERBERG-McQUEEN made a forceful
-presentation on the Text Encoding Initiative's (TEI) implementation of
-the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). His ideas were echoed
-by Susan HOCKEY, Elli MYLONAS, and Stuart WEIBEL. While the
-presentations made by the TEI advocates contained no practicum, their
-discussion focused on the value of the finished product, what the
-European Community calls reusability, but what may also be termed
-durability. They argued that marking up--that is, coding--a text in a
-well-conceived way will permit it to be moved from one computer
-environment to another, as well as to be used by various users. Two
-kinds of markup were distinguished: 1) procedural markup, which
-describes the features of a text (e.g., dots on a page), and 2)
-descriptive markup, which describes the structure or elements of a
-document (e.g., chapters, paragraphs, and front matter).
-
-The TEI proponents emphasized the importance of texts to scholarship.
-They explained how heavily coded (and thus analyzed and annotated) texts
-can underlie research, play a role in scholarly communication, and
-facilitate classroom teaching. SPERBERG-McQUEEN reminded listeners that
-a written or printed item (e.g., a particular edition of a book) is
-merely a representation of the abstraction we call a text. To concern
-ourselves with faithfully reproducing a printed instance of the text,
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN argued, is to concern ourselves with the representation
-of a representation ("images as simulacra for the text"). The TEI proponents'
-interest in images tends to focus on corollary materials for use in teaching,
-for example, photographs of the Acropolis to accompany a Greek text.
-
-By the end of the Workshop, SPERBERG-McQUEEN confessed to having been
-converted to a limited extent to the view that electronic images
-constitute a promising alternative to microfilming; indeed, an
-alternative probably superior to microfilming. But he was not convinced
-that electronic images constitute a serious attempt to represent text in
-electronic form. HOCKEY and MYLONAS also conceded that their experience
-at the Pierce Symposium the previous week at Georgetown University and
-the present conference at the Library of Congress had compelled them to
-reevaluate their perspective on the usefulness of text as images.
-Attendees could see that the text and image advocates were in
-constructive tension, so to say.
-
-Three nonTEI presentations described approaches to preparing
-machine-readable text that are less rigorous and thus less expensive. In
-the case of the Papers of George Washington, Dorothy TWOHIG explained
-that the digital version will provide a not-quite-perfect rendering of
-the transcribed text--some 135,000 documents, available for research
-during the decades while the perfect or print version is completed.
-Members of the American Memory team and the staff of NAL's Text
-Digitization Program (see below) also outlined a middle ground concerning
-searchable texts. In the case of American Memory, contractors produce
-texts with about 99-percent accuracy that serve as "browse" or
-"reference" versions of written or printed originals. End users who need
-faithful copies or perfect renditions must refer to accompanying sets of
-digital facsimile images or consult copies of the originals in a nearby
-library or archive. American Memory staff argued that the high cost of
-producing 100-percent accurate copies would prevent LC from offering
-access to large parts of its collections.
-
-
-THE MACHINE-READABLE TEXT: METHODS OF CONVERSION
-
-Although the Workshop did not include a systematic examination of the
-methods for converting texts from paper (or from facsimile images) into
-machine-readable form, nevertheless, various speakers touched upon this
-matter. For example, WEIBEL reported that OCLC has experimented with a
-merging of multiple optical character recognition systems that will
-reduce errors from an unacceptable rate of 5 characters out of every
-l,000 to an unacceptable rate of 2 characters out of every l,000.
-
-Pamela ANDRE presented an overview of NAL's Text Digitization Program and
-Judith ZIDAR discussed the technical details. ZIDAR explained how NAL
-purchased hardware and software capable of performing optical character
-recognition (OCR) and text conversion and used its own staff to convert
-texts. The process, ZIDAR said, required extensive editing and project
-staff found themselves considering alternatives, including rekeying
-and/or creating abstracts or summaries of texts. NAL reckoned costs at
-$7 per page. By way of contrast, Ricky ERWAY explained that American
-Memory had decided from the start to contract out conversion to external
-service bureaus. The criteria used to select these contractors were cost
-and quality of results, as opposed to methods of conversion. ERWAY noted
-that historical documents or books often do not lend themselves to OCR.
-Bound materials represent a special problem. In her experience, quality
-control--inspecting incoming materials, counting errors in samples--posed
-the most time-consuming aspect of contracting out conversion. ERWAY
-reckoned American Memory's costs at $4 per page, but cautioned that fewer
-cost-elements had been included than in NAL's figure.
-
-
-OPTIONS FOR DISSEMINATION
-
-The topic of dissemination proper emerged at various points during the
-Workshop. At the session devoted to national and international computer
-networks, LYNCH, Howard BESSER, Ronald LARSEN, and Edwin BROWNRIGG
-highlighted the virtues of Internet today and of the network that will
-evolve from Internet. Listeners could discern in these narratives a
-vision of an information democracy in which millions of citizens freely
-find and use what they need. LYNCH noted that a lack of standards
-inhibits disseminating multimedia on the network, a topic also discussed
-by BESSER. LARSEN addressed the issues of network scalability and
-modularity and commented upon the difficulty of anticipating the effects
-of growth in orders of magnitude. BROWNRIGG talked about the ability of
-packet radio to provide certain links in a network without the need for
-wiring. However, the presenters also called attention to the
-shortcomings and incongruities of present-day computer networks. For
-example: 1) Network use is growing dramatically, but much network
-traffic consists of personal communication (E-mail). 2) Large bodies of
-information are available, but a user's ability to search across their
-entirety is limited. 3) There are significant resources for science and
-technology, but few network sources provide content in the humanities.
-4) Machine-readable texts are commonplace, but the capability of the
-system to deal with images (let alone other media formats) lags behind.
-A glimpse of a multimedia future for networks, however, was provided by
-Maria LEBRON in her overview of the Online Journal of Current Clinical
-Trials (OJCCT), and the process of scholarly publishing on-line.
-
-The contrasting form of the CD-ROM disk was never systematically
-analyzed, but attendees could glean an impression from several of the
-show-and-tell presentations. The Perseus and American Memory examples
-demonstrated recently published disks, while the descriptions of the
-IBYCUS version of the Papers of George Washington and Chadwyck-Healey's
-Patrologia Latina Database (PLD) told of disks to come. According to
-Eric CALALUCA, PLD's principal focus has been on converting Jacques-Paul
-Migne's definitive collection of Latin texts to machine-readable form.
-Although everyone could share the network advocates' enthusiasm for an
-on-line future, the possibility of rolling up one's sleeves for a session
-with a CD-ROM containing both textual materials and a powerful retrieval
-engine made the disk seem an appealing vessel indeed. The overall
-discussion suggested that the transition from CD-ROM to on-line networked
-access may prove far slower and more difficult than has been anticipated.
-
-
-WHO ARE THE USERS AND WHAT DO THEY DO?
-
-Although concerned with the technicalities of production, the Workshop
-never lost sight of the purposes and uses of electronic versions of
-textual materials. As noted above, those interested in imaging discussed
-the problematical matter of digital preservation, while the TEI proponents
-described how machine-readable texts can be used in research. This latter
-topic received thorough treatment in the paper read by Avra MICHELSON.
-She placed the phenomenon of electronic texts within the context of
-broader trends in information technology and scholarly communication.
-
-Among other things, MICHELSON described on-line conferences that
-represent a vigorous and important intellectual forum for certain
-disciplines. Internet now carries more than 700 conferences, with about
-80 percent of these devoted to topics in the social sciences and the
-humanities. Other scholars use on-line networks for "distance learning."
-Meanwhile, there has been a tremendous growth in end-user computing;
-professors today are less likely than their predecessors to ask the
-campus computer center to process their data. Electronic texts are one
-key to these sophisticated applications, MICHELSON reported, and more and
-more scholars in the humanities now work in an on-line environment.
-Toward the end of the Workshop, Michael LESK presented a corollary to
-MICHELSON's talk, reporting the results of an experiment that compared
-the work of one group of chemistry students using traditional printed
-texts and two groups using electronic sources. The experiment
-demonstrated that in the event one does not know what to read, one needs
-the electronic systems; the electronic systems hold no advantage at the
-moment if one knows what to read, but neither do they impose a penalty.
-
-DALY provided an anecdotal account of the revolutionizing impact of the
-new technology on his previous methods of research in the field of classics.
-His account, by extrapolation, served to illustrate in part the arguments
-made by MICHELSON concerning the positive effects of the sudden and radical
-transformation being wrought in the ways scholars work.
-
-Susan VECCIA and Joanne FREEMAN delineated the use of electronic
-materials outside the university. The most interesting aspect of their
-use, FREEMAN said, could be seen as a paradox: teachers in elementary
-and secondary schools requested access to primary source materials but,
-at the same time, found that "primariness" itself made these materials
-difficult for their students to use.
-
-
-OTHER TOPICS
-
-Marybeth PETERS reviewed copyright law in the United States and offered
-advice during a lively discussion of this subject. But uncertainty
-remains concerning the price of copyright in a digital medium, because a
-solution remains to be worked out concerning management and synthesis of
-copyrighted and out-of-copyright pieces of a database.
-
-As moderator of the final session of the Workshop, Prosser GIFFORD directed
-discussion to future courses of action and the potential role of LC in
-advancing them. Among the recommendations that emerged were the following:
-
- * Workshop participants should 1) begin to think about working
- with image material, but structure and digitize it in such a
- way that at a later stage it can be interpreted into text, and
- 2) find a common way to build text and images together so that
- they can be used jointly at some stage in the future, with
- appropriate network support, because that is how users will want
- to access these materials. The Library might encourage attempts
- to bring together people who are working on texts and images.
-
- * A network version of American Memory should be developed or
- consideration should be given to making the data in it
- available to people interested in doing network multimedia.
- Given the current dearth of digital data that is appealing and
- unencumbered by extremely complex rights problems, developing a
- network version of American Memory could do much to help make
- network multimedia a reality.
-
- * Concerning the thorny issue of electronic deposit, LC should
- initiate a catalytic process in terms of distributed
- responsibility, that is, bring together the distributed
- organizations and set up a study group to look at all the
- issues related to electronic deposit and see where we as a
- nation should move. For example, LC might attempt to persuade
- one major library in each state to deal with its state
- equivalent publisher, which might produce a cooperative project
- that would be equitably distributed around the country, and one
- in which LC would be dealing with a minimal number of publishers
- and minimal copyright problems. LC must also deal with the
- concept of on-line publishing, determining, among other things,
- how serials such as OJCCT might be deposited for copyright.
-
- * Since a number of projects are planning to carry out
- preservation by creating digital images that will end up in
- on-line or near-line storage at some institution, LC might play
- a helpful role, at least in the near term, by accelerating how
- to catalog that information into the Research Library Information
- Network (RLIN) and then into OCLC, so that it would be accessible.
- This would reduce the possibility of multiple institutions digitizing
- the same work.
-
-
-CONCLUSION
-
-The Workshop was valuable because it brought together partisans from
-various groups and provided an occasion to compare goals and methods.
-The more committed partisans frequently communicate with others in their
-groups, but less often across group boundaries. The Workshop was also
-valuable to attendees--including those involved with American Memory--who
-came less committed to particular approaches or concepts. These
-attendees learned a great deal, and plan to select and employ elements of
-imaging, text-coding, and networked distribution that suit their
-respective projects and purposes.
-
-Still, reality rears its ugly head: no breakthrough has been achieved.
-On the imaging side, one confronts a proliferation of competing
-data-interchange standards and a lack of consensus on the role of digital
-facsimiles in preservation. In the realm of machine-readable texts, one
-encounters a reasonably mature standard but methodological difficulties
-and high costs. These latter problems, of course, represent a special
-impediment to the desire, as it is sometimes expressed in the popular
-press, "to put the [contents of the] Library of Congress on line." In
-the words of one participant, there was "no solution to the economic
-problems--the projects that are out there are surviving, but it is going
-to be a lot of work to transform the information industry, and so far the
-investment to do that is not forthcoming" (LESK, per litteras).
-
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-
-
- PROCEEDINGS
-
-
-WELCOME
-
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-GIFFORD * Origin of Workshop in current Librarian's desire to make LC's
-collections more widely available * Desiderata arising from the prospect
-of greater interconnectedness *
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-
-After welcoming participants on behalf of the Library of Congress,
-American Memory (AM), and the National Demonstration Lab, Prosser
-GIFFORD, director for scholarly programs, Library of Congress, located
-the origin of the Workshop on Electronic Texts in a conversation he had
-had considerably more than a year ago with Carl FLEISCHHAUER concerning
-some of the issues faced by AM. On the assumption that numerous other
-people were asking the same questions, the decision was made to bring
-together as many of these people as possible to ask the same questions
-together. In a deeper sense, GIFFORD said, the origin of the Workshop
-lay in the desire of the current Librarian of Congress, James H.
-Billington, to make the collections of the Library, especially those
-offering unique or unusual testimony on aspects of the American
-experience, available to a much wider circle of users than those few
-people who can come to Washington to use them. This meant that the
-emphasis of AM, from the outset, has been on archival collections of the
-basic material, and on making these collections themselves available,
-rather than selected or heavily edited products.
-
-From AM's emphasis followed the questions with which the Workshop began:
-who will use these materials, and in what form will they wish to use
-them. But an even larger issue deserving mention, in GIFFORD's view, was
-the phenomenal growth in Internet connectivity. He expressed the hope
-that the prospect of greater interconnectedness than ever before would
-lead to: 1) much more cooperative and mutually supportive endeavors; 2)
-development of systems of shared and distributed responsibilities to
-avoid duplication and to ensure accuracy and preservation of unique
-materials; and 3) agreement on the necessary standards and development of
-the appropriate directories and indices to make navigation
-straightforward among the varied resources that are, and increasingly
-will be, available. In this connection, GIFFORD requested that
-participants reflect from the outset upon the sorts of outcomes they
-thought the Workshop might have. Did those present constitute a group
-with sufficient common interests to propose a next step or next steps,
-and if so, what might those be? They would return to these questions the
-following afternoon.
-
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-FLEISCHHAUER * Core of Workshop concerns preparation and production of
-materials * Special challenge in conversion of textual materials *
-Quality versus quantity * Do the several groups represented share common
-interests? *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Carl FLEISCHHAUER, coordinator, American Memory, Library of Congress,
-emphasized that he would attempt to represent the people who perform some
-of the work of converting or preparing materials and that the core of
-the Workshop had to do with preparation and production. FLEISCHHAUER
-then drew a distinction between the long term, when many things would be
-available and connected in the ways that GIFFORD described, and the short
-term, in which AM not only has wrestled with the issue of what is the
-best course to pursue but also has faced a variety of technical
-challenges.
-
-FLEISCHHAUER remarked AM's endeavors to deal with a wide range of library
-formats, such as motion picture collections, sound-recording collections,
-and pictorial collections of various sorts, especially collections of
-photographs. In the course of these efforts, AM kept coming back to
-textual materials--manuscripts or rare printed matter, bound materials,
-etc. Text posed the greatest conversion challenge of all. Thus, the
-genesis of the Workshop, which reflects the problems faced by AM. These
-problems include physical problems. For example, those in the library
-and archive business deal with collections made up of fragile and rare
-manuscript items, bound materials, especially the notoriously brittle
-bound materials of the late nineteenth century. These are precious
-cultural artifacts, however, as well as interesting sources of
-information, and LC desires to retain and conserve them. AM needs to
-handle things without damaging them. Guillotining a book to run it
-through a sheet feeder must be avoided at all costs.
-
-Beyond physical problems, issues pertaining to quality arose. For
-example, the desire to provide users with a searchable text is affected
-by the question of acceptable level of accuracy. One hundred percent
-accuracy is tremendously expensive. On the other hand, the output of
-optical character recognition (OCR) can be tremendously inaccurate.
-Although AM has attempted to find a middle ground, uncertainty persists
-as to whether or not it has discovered the right solution.
-
-Questions of quality arose concerning images as well. FLEISCHHAUER
-contrasted the extremely high level of quality of the digital images in
-the Cornell Xerox Project with AM's efforts to provide a browse-quality
-or access-quality image, as opposed to an archival or preservation image.
-FLEISCHHAUER therefore welcomed the opportunity to compare notes.
-
-FLEISCHHAUER observed in passing that conversations he had had about
-networks have begun to signal that for various forms of media a
-determination may be made that there is a browse-quality item, or a
-distribution-and-access-quality item that may coexist in some systems
-with a higher quality archival item that would be inconvenient to send
-through the network because of its size. FLEISCHHAUER referred, of
-course, to images more than to searchable text.
-
-As AM considered those questions, several conceptual issues arose: ought
-AM occasionally to reproduce materials entirely through an image set, at
-other times, entirely through a text set, and in some cases, a mix?
-There probably would be times when the historical authenticity of an
-artifact would require that its image be used. An image might be
-desirable as a recourse for users if one could not provide 100-percent
-accurate text. Again, AM wondered, as a practical matter, if a
-distinction could be drawn between rare printed matter that might exist
-in multiple collections--that is, in ten or fifteen libraries. In such
-cases, the need for perfect reproduction would be less than for unique
-items. Implicit in his remarks, FLEISCHHAUER conceded, was the admission
-that AM has been tilting strongly towards quantity and drawing back a
-little from perfect quality. That is, it seemed to AM that society would
-be better served if more things were distributed by LC--even if they were
-not quite perfect--than if fewer things, perfectly represented, were
-distributed. This was stated as a proposition to be tested, with
-responses to be gathered from users.
-
-In thinking about issues related to reproduction of materials and seeing
-other people engaged in parallel activities, AM deemed it useful to
-convene a conference. Hence, the Workshop. FLEISCHHAUER thereupon
-surveyed the several groups represented: 1) the world of images (image
-users and image makers); 2) the world of text and scholarship and, within
-this group, those concerned with language--FLEISCHHAUER confessed to finding
-delightful irony in the fact that some of the most advanced thinkers on
-computerized texts are those dealing with ancient Greek and Roman materials;
-3) the network world; and 4) the general world of library science, which
-includes people interested in preservation and cataloging.
-
-FLEISCHHAUER concluded his remarks with special thanks to the David and
-Lucile Packard Foundation for its support of the meeting, the American
-Memory group, the Office for Scholarly Programs, the National
-Demonstration Lab, and the Office of Special Events. He expressed the
-hope that David Woodley Packard might be able to attend, noting that
-Packard's work and the work of the foundation had sponsored a number of
-projects in the text area.
-
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-
-SESSION I. CONTENT IN A NEW FORM: WHO WILL USE IT AND WHAT WILL THEY DO?
-
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-DALY * Acknowledgements * A new Latin authors disk * Effects of the new
-technology on previous methods of research *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Serving as moderator, James DALY acknowledged the generosity of all the
-presenters for giving of their time, counsel, and patience in planning
-the Workshop, as well as of members of the American Memory project and
-other Library of Congress staff, and the David and Lucile Packard
-Foundation and its executive director, Colburn S. Wilbur.
-
-DALY then recounted his visit in March to the Center for Electronic Texts
-in the Humanities (CETH) and the Department of Classics at Rutgers
-University, where an old friend, Lowell Edmunds, introduced him to the
-department's IBYCUS scholarly personal computer, and, in particular, the
-new Latin CD-ROM, containing, among other things, almost all classical
-Latin literary texts through A.D. 200. Packard Humanities Institute
-(PHI), Los Altos, California, released this disk late in 1991, with a
-nominal triennial licensing fee.
-
-Playing with the disk for an hour or so at Rutgers brought home to DALY
-at once the revolutionizing impact of the new technology on his previous
-methods of research. Had this disk been available two or three years
-earlier, DALY contended, when he was engaged in preparing a commentary on
-Book 10 of Virgil's Aeneid for Cambridge University Press, he would not
-have required a forty-eight-square-foot table on which to spread the
-numerous, most frequently consulted items, including some ten or twelve
-concordances to key Latin authors, an almost equal number of lexica to
-authors who lacked concordances, and where either lexica or concordances
-were lacking, numerous editions of authors antedating and postdating Virgil.
-
-Nor, when checking each of the average six to seven words contained in
-the Virgilian hexameter for its usage elsewhere in Virgil's works or
-other Latin authors, would DALY have had to maintain the laborious
-mechanical process of flipping through these concordances, lexica, and
-editions each time. Nor would he have had to frequent as often the
-Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University to consult
-the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. Instead of devoting countless hours, or
-the bulk of his research time, to gathering data concerning Virgil's use
-of words, DALY--now freed by PHI's Latin authors disk from the
-tyrannical, yet in some ways paradoxically happy scholarly drudgery--
-would have been able to devote that same bulk of time to analyzing and
-interpreting Virgilian verbal usage.
-
-Citing Theodore Brunner, Gregory Crane, Elli MYLONAS, and Avra MICHELSON,
-DALY argued that this reversal in his style of work, made possible by the
-new technology, would perhaps have resulted in better, more productive
-research. Indeed, even in the course of his browsing the Latin authors
-disk at Rutgers, its powerful search, retrieval, and highlighting
-capabilities suggested to him several new avenues of research into
-Virgil's use of sound effects. This anecdotal account, DALY maintained,
-may serve to illustrate in part the sudden and radical transformation
-being wrought in the ways scholars work.
-
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-MICHELSON * Elements related to scholarship and technology * Electronic
-texts within the context of broader trends within information technology
-and scholarly communication * Evaluation of the prospects for the use of
-electronic texts * Relationship of electronic texts to processes of
-scholarly communication in humanities research * New exchange formats
-created by scholars * Projects initiated to increase scholarly access to
-converted text * Trend toward making electronic resources available
-through research and education networks * Changes taking place in
-scholarly communication among humanities scholars * Network-mediated
-scholarship transforming traditional scholarly practices * Key
-information technology trends affecting the conduct of scholarly
-communication over the next decade * The trend toward end-user computing
-* The trend toward greater connectivity * Effects of these trends * Key
-transformations taking place * Summary of principal arguments *
-++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Avra MICHELSON, Archival Research and Evaluation Staff, National Archives
-and Records Administration (NARA), argued that establishing who will use
-electronic texts and what they will use them for involves a consideration
-of both information technology and scholarship trends. This
-consideration includes several elements related to scholarship and
-technology: 1) the key trends in information technology that are most
-relevant to scholarship; 2) the key trends in the use of currently
-available technology by scholars in the nonscientific community; and 3)
-the relationship between these two very distinct but interrelated trends.
-The investment in understanding this relationship being made by
-information providers, technologists, and public policy developers, as
-well as by scholars themselves, seems to be pervasive and growing,
-MICHELSON contended. She drew on collaborative work with Jeff Rothenberg
-on the scholarly use of technology.
-
-MICHELSON sought to place the phenomenon of electronic texts within the
-context of broader trends within information technology and scholarly
-communication. She argued that electronic texts are of most use to
-researchers to the extent that the researchers' working context (i.e.,
-their relevant bibliographic sources, collegial feedback, analytic tools,
-notes, drafts, etc.), along with their field's primary and secondary
-sources, also is accessible in electronic form and can be integrated in
-ways that are unique to the on-line environment.
-
-Evaluation of the prospects for the use of electronic texts includes two
-elements: 1) an examination of the ways in which researchers currently
-are using electronic texts along with other electronic resources, and 2)
-an analysis of key information technology trends that are affecting the
-long-term conduct of scholarly communication. MICHELSON limited her
-discussion of the use of electronic texts to the practices of humanists
-and noted that the scientific community was outside the panel's overview.
-
-MICHELSON examined the nature of the current relationship of electronic
-texts in particular, and electronic resources in general, to what she
-maintained were, essentially, five processes of scholarly communication
-in humanities research. Researchers 1) identify sources, 2) communicate
-with their colleagues, 3) interpret and analyze data, 4) disseminate
-their research findings, and 5) prepare curricula to instruct the next
-generation of scholars and students. This examination would produce a
-clearer understanding of the synergy among these five processes that
-fuels the tendency of the use of electronic resources for one process to
-stimulate its use for other processes of scholarly communication.
-
-For the first process of scholarly communication, the identification of
-sources, MICHELSON remarked the opportunity scholars now enjoy to
-supplement traditional word-of-mouth searches for sources among their
-colleagues with new forms of electronic searching. So, for example,
-instead of having to visit the library, researchers are able to explore
-descriptions of holdings in their offices. Furthermore, if their own
-institutions' holdings prove insufficient, scholars can access more than
-200 major American library catalogues over Internet, including the
-universities of California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
-Direct access to the bibliographic databases offers intellectual
-empowerment to scholars by presenting a comprehensive means of browsing
-through libraries from their homes and offices at their convenience.
-
-The second process of communication involves communication among
-scholars. Beyond the most common methods of communication, scholars are
-using E-mail and a variety of new electronic communications formats
-derived from it for further academic interchange. E-mail exchanges are
-growing at an astonishing rate, reportedly 15 percent a month. They
-currently constitute approximately half the traffic on research and
-education networks. Moreover, the global spread of E-mail has been so
-rapid that it is now possible for American scholars to use it to
-communicate with colleagues in close to 140 other countries.
-
-Other new exchange formats created by scholars and operating on Internet
-include more than 700 conferences, with about 80 percent of these devoted
-to topics in the social sciences and humanities. The rate of growth of
-these scholarly electronic conferences also is astonishing. From l990 to
-l991, 200 new conferences were identified on Internet. From October 1991
-to June 1992, an additional 150 conferences in the social sciences and
-humanities were added to this directory of listings. Scholars have
-established conferences in virtually every field, within every different
-discipline. For example, there are currently close to 600 active social
-science and humanities conferences on topics such as art and
-architecture, ethnomusicology, folklore, Japanese culture, medical
-education, and gifted and talented education. The appeal to scholars of
-communicating through these conferences is that, unlike any other medium,
-electronic conferences today provide a forum for global communication
-with peers at the front end of the research process.
-
-Interpretation and analysis of sources constitutes the third process of
-scholarly communication that MICHELSON discussed in terms of texts and
-textual resources. The methods used to analyze sources fall somewhere on
-a continuum from quantitative analysis to qualitative analysis.
-Typically, evidence is culled and evaluated using methods drawn from both
-ends of this continuum. At one end, quantitative analysis involves the
-use of mathematical processes such as a count of frequencies and
-distributions of occurrences or, on a higher level, regression analysis.
-At the other end of the continuum, qualitative analysis typically
-involves nonmathematical processes oriented toward language
-interpretation or the building of theory. Aspects of this work involve
-the processing--either manual or computational--of large and sometimes
-massive amounts of textual sources, although the use of nontextual
-sources as evidence, such as photographs, sound recordings, film footage,
-and artifacts, is significant as well.
-
-Scholars have discovered that many of the methods of interpretation and
-analysis that are related to both quantitative and qualitative methods
-are processes that can be performed by computers. For example, computers
-can count. They can count brush strokes used in a Rembrandt painting or
-perform regression analysis for understanding cause and effect. By means
-of advanced technologies, computers can recognize patterns, analyze text,
-and model concepts. Furthermore, computers can complete these processes
-faster with more sources and with greater precision than scholars who
-must rely on manual interpretation of data. But if scholars are to use
-computers for these processes, source materials must be in a form
-amenable to computer-assisted analysis. For this reason many scholars,
-once they have identified the sources that are key to their research, are
-converting them to machine-readable form. Thus, a representative example
-of the numerous textual conversion projects organized by scholars around
-the world in recent years to support computational text analysis is the
-TLG, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. This project is devoted to
-converting the extant ancient texts of classical Greece. (Editor's note:
-according to the TLG Newsletter of May l992, TLG was in use in thirty-two
-different countries. This figure updates MICHELSON's previous count by one.)
-
-The scholars performing these conversions have been asked to recognize
-that the electronic sources they are converting for one use possess value
-for other research purposes as well. As a result, during the past few
-years, humanities scholars have initiated a number of projects to
-increase scholarly access to converted text. So, for example, the Text
-Encoding Initiative (TEI), about which more is said later in the program,
-was established as an effort by scholars to determine standard elements
-and methods for encoding machine-readable text for electronic exchange.
-In a second effort to facilitate the sharing of converted text, scholars
-have created a new institution, the Center for Electronic Texts in the
-Humanities (CETH). The center estimates that there are 8,000 series of
-source texts in the humanities that have been converted to
-machine-readable form worldwide. CETH is undertaking an international
-search for converted text in the humanities, compiling it into an
-electronic library, and preparing bibliographic descriptions of the
-sources for the Research Libraries Information Network's (RLIN)
-machine-readable data file. The library profession has begun to initiate
-large conversion projects as well, such as American Memory.
-
-While scholars have been making converted text available to one another,
-typically on disk or on CD-ROM, the clear trend is toward making these
-resources available through research and education networks. Thus, the
-American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
-(ARTFL) and the Dante Project are already available on Internet.
-MICHELSON summarized this section on interpretation and analysis by
-noting that: 1) increasing numbers of humanities scholars in the library
-community are recognizing the importance to the advancement of
-scholarship of retrospective conversion of source materials in the arts
-and humanities; and 2) there is a growing realization that making the
-sources available on research and education networks maximizes their
-usefulness for the analysis performed by humanities scholars.
-
-The fourth process of scholarly communication is dissemination of
-research findings, that is, publication. Scholars are using existing
-research and education networks to engineer a new type of publication:
-scholarly-controlled journals that are electronically produced and
-disseminated. Although such journals are still emerging as a
-communication format, their number has grown, from approximately twelve
-to thirty-six during the past year (July 1991 to June 1992). Most of
-these electronic scholarly journals are devoted to topics in the
-humanities. As with network conferences, scholarly enthusiasm for these
-electronic journals stems from the medium's unique ability to advance
-scholarship in a way that no other medium can do by supporting global
-feedback and interchange, practically in real time, early in the research
-process. Beyond scholarly journals, MICHELSON remarked the delivery of
-commercial full-text products, such as articles in professional journals,
-newsletters, magazines, wire services, and reference sources. These are
-being delivered via on-line local library catalogues, especially through
-CD-ROMs. Furthermore, according to MICHELSON, there is general optimism
-that the copyright and fees issues impeding the delivery of full text on
-existing research and education networks soon will be resolved.
-
-The final process of scholarly communication is curriculum development
-and instruction, and this involves the use of computer information
-technologies in two areas. The first is the development of
-computer-oriented instructional tools, which includes simulations,
-multimedia applications, and computer tools that are used to assist in
-the analysis of sources in the classroom, etc. The Perseus Project, a
-database that provides a multimedia curriculum on classical Greek
-civilization, is a good example of the way in which entire curricula are
-being recast using information technologies. It is anticipated that the
-current difficulty in exchanging electronically computer-based
-instructional software, which in turn makes it difficult for one scholar
-to build upon the work of others, will be resolved before too long.
-Stand-alone curricular applications that involve electronic text will be
-sharable through networks, reinforcing their significance as intellectual
-products as well as instructional tools.
-
-The second aspect of electronic learning involves the use of research and
-education networks for distance education programs. Such programs
-interactively link teachers with students in geographically scattered
-locations and rely on the availability of electronic instructional
-resources. Distance education programs are gaining wide appeal among
-state departments of education because of their demonstrated capacity to
-bring advanced specialized course work and an array of experts to many
-classrooms. A recent report found that at least 32 states operated at
-least one statewide network for education in 1991, with networks under
-development in many of the remaining states.
-
-MICHELSON summarized this section by noting two striking changes taking
-place in scholarly communication among humanities scholars. First is the
-extent to which electronic text in particular, and electronic resources
-in general, are being infused into each of the five processes described
-above. As mentioned earlier, there is a certain synergy at work here.
-The use of electronic resources for one process tends to stimulate its
-use for other processes, because the chief course of movement is toward a
-comprehensive on-line working context for humanities scholars that
-includes on-line availability of key bibliographies, scholarly feedback,
-sources, analytical tools, and publications. MICHELSON noted further
-that the movement toward a comprehensive on-line working context for
-humanities scholars is not new. In fact, it has been underway for more
-than forty years in the humanities, since Father Roberto Busa began
-developing an electronic concordance of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas
-in 1949. What we are witnessing today, MICHELSON contended, is not the
-beginning of this on-line transition but, for at least some humanities
-scholars, the turning point in the transition from a print to an
-electronic working context. Coinciding with the on-line transition, the
-second striking change is the extent to which research and education
-networks are becoming the new medium of scholarly communication. The
-existing Internet and the pending National Education and Research Network
-(NREN) represent the new meeting ground where scholars are going for
-bibliographic information, scholarly dialogue and feedback, the most
-current publications in their field, and high-level educational
-offerings. Traditional scholarly practices are undergoing tremendous
-transformations as a result of the emergence and growing prominence of
-what is called network-mediated scholarship.
-
-MICHELSON next turned to the second element of the framework she proposed
-at the outset of her talk for evaluating the prospects for electronic
-text, namely the key information technology trends affecting the conduct
-of scholarly communication over the next decade: 1) end-user computing
-and 2) connectivity.
-
-End-user computing means that the person touching the keyboard, or
-performing computations, is the same as the person who initiates or
-consumes the computation. The emergence of personal computers, along
-with a host of other forces, such as ubiquitous computing, advances in
-interface design, and the on-line transition, is prompting the consumers
-of computation to do their own computing, and is thus rendering obsolete
-the traditional distinction between end users and ultimate users.
-
-The trend toward end-user computing is significant to consideration of
-the prospects for electronic texts because it means that researchers are
-becoming more adept at doing their own computations and, thus, more
-competent in the use of electronic media. By avoiding programmer
-intermediaries, computation is becoming central to the researcher's
-thought process. This direct involvement in computing is changing the
-researcher's perspective on the nature of research itself, that is, the
-kinds of questions that can be posed, the analytical methodologies that
-can be used, the types and amount of sources that are appropriate for
-analyses, and the form in which findings are presented. The trend toward
-end-user computing means that, increasingly, electronic media and
-computation are being infused into all processes of humanities
-scholarship, inspiring remarkable transformations in scholarly
-communication.
-
-The trend toward greater connectivity suggests that researchers are using
-computation increasingly in network environments. Connectivity is
-important to scholarship because it erases the distance that separates
-students from teachers and scholars from their colleagues, while allowing
-users to access remote databases, share information in many different
-media, connect to their working context wherever they are, and
-collaborate in all phases of research.
-
-The combination of the trend toward end-user computing and the trend
-toward connectivity suggests that the scholarly use of electronic
-resources, already evident among some researchers, will soon become an
-established feature of scholarship. The effects of these trends, along
-with ongoing changes in scholarly practices, point to a future in which
-humanities researchers will use computation and electronic communication
-to help them formulate ideas, access sources, perform research,
-collaborate with colleagues, seek peer review, publish and disseminate
-results, and engage in many other professional and educational activities.
-
-In summary, MICHELSON emphasized four points: 1) A portion of humanities
-scholars already consider electronic texts the preferred format for
-analysis and dissemination. 2) Scholars are using these electronic
-texts, in conjunction with other electronic resources, in all the
-processes of scholarly communication. 3) The humanities scholars'
-working context is in the process of changing from print technology to
-electronic technology, in many ways mirroring transformations that have
-occurred or are occurring within the scientific community. 4) These
-changes are occurring in conjunction with the development of a new
-communication medium: research and education networks that are
-characterized by their capacity to advance scholarship in a wholly unique
-way.
-
-MICHELSON also reiterated her three principal arguments: l) Electronic
-texts are best understood in terms of the relationship to other
-electronic resources and the growing prominence of network-mediated
-scholarship. 2) The prospects for electronic texts lie in their capacity
-to be integrated into the on-line network of electronic resources that
-comprise the new working context for scholars. 3) Retrospective conversion
-of portions of the scholarly record should be a key strategy as information
-providers respond to changes in scholarly communication practices.
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-VECCIA * AM's evaluation project and public users of electronic resources
-* AM and its design * Site selection and evaluating the Macintosh
-implementation of AM * Characteristics of the six public libraries
-selected * Characteristics of AM's users in these libraries * Principal
-ways AM is being used *
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-
-Susan VECCIA, team leader, and Joanne FREEMAN, associate coordinator,
-American Memory, Library of Congress, gave a joint presentation. First,
-by way of introduction, VECCIA explained her and FREEMAN's roles in
-American Memory (AM). Serving principally as an observer, VECCIA has
-assisted with the evaluation project of AM, placing AM collections in a
-variety of different sites around the country and helping to organize and
-implement that project. FREEMAN has been an associate coordinator of AM
-and has been involved principally with the interpretative materials,
-preparing some of the electronic exhibits and printed historical
-information that accompanies AM and that is requested by users. VECCIA
-and FREEMAN shared anecdotal observations concerning AM with public users
-of electronic resources. Notwithstanding a fairly structured evaluation
-in progress, both VECCIA and FREEMAN chose not to report on specifics in
-terms of numbers, etc., because they felt it was too early in the
-evaluation project to do so.
-
-AM is an electronic archive of primary source materials from the Library
-of Congress, selected collections representing a variety of formats--
-photographs, graphic arts, recorded sound, motion pictures, broadsides,
-and soon, pamphlets and books. In terms of the design of this system,
-the interpretative exhibits have been kept separate from the primary
-resources, with good reason. Accompanying this collection are printed
-documentation and user guides, as well as guides that FREEMAN prepared for
-teachers so that they may begin using the content of the system at once.
-
-VECCIA described the evaluation project before talking about the public
-users of AM, limiting her remarks to public libraries, because FREEMAN
-would talk more specifically about schools from kindergarten to twelfth
-grade (K-12). Having started in spring 1991, the evaluation currently
-involves testing of the Macintosh implementation of AM. Since the
-primary goal of this evaluation is to determine the most appropriate
-audience or audiences for AM, very different sites were selected. This
-makes evaluation difficult because of the varying degrees of technology
-literacy among the sites. AM is situated in forty-four locations, of
-which six are public libraries and sixteen are schools. Represented
-among the schools are elementary, junior high, and high schools.
-District offices also are involved in the evaluation, which will
-conclude in summer 1993.
-
-VECCIA focused the remainder of her talk on the six public libraries, one
-of which doubles as a state library. They represent a range of
-geographic areas and a range of demographic characteristics. For
-example, three are located in urban settings, two in rural settings, and
-one in a suburban setting. A range of technical expertise is to be found
-among these facilities as well. For example, one is an "Apple library of
-the future," while two others are rural one-room libraries--in one, AM
-sits at the front desk next to a tractor manual.
-
-All public libraries have been extremely enthusiastic, supportive, and
-appreciative of the work that AM has been doing. VECCIA characterized
-various users: Most users in public libraries describe themselves as
-general readers; of the students who use AM in the public libraries,
-those in fourth grade and above seem most interested. Public libraries
-in rural sites tend to attract retired people, who have been highly
-receptive to AM. Users tend to fall into two additional categories:
-people interested in the content and historical connotations of these
-primary resources, and those fascinated by the technology. The format
-receiving the most comments has been motion pictures. The adult users in
-public libraries are more comfortable with IBM computers, whereas young
-people seem comfortable with either IBM or Macintosh, although most of
-them seem to come from a Macintosh background. This same tendency is
-found in the schools.
-
-What kinds of things do users do with AM? In a public library there are
-two main goals or ways that AM is being used: as an individual learning
-tool, and as a leisure activity. Adult learning was one area that VECCIA
-would highlight as a possible application for a tool such as AM. She
-described a patron of a rural public library who comes in every day on
-his lunch hour and literally reads AM, methodically going through the
-collection image by image. At the end of his hour he makes an electronic
-bookmark, puts it in his pocket, and returns to work. The next day he
-comes in and resumes where he left off. Interestingly, this man had
-never been in the library before he used AM. In another small, rural
-library, the coordinator reports that AM is a popular activity for some
-of the older, retired people in the community, who ordinarily would not
-use "those things,"--computers. Another example of adult learning in
-public libraries is book groups, one of which, in particular, is using AM
-as part of its reading on industrialization, integration, and urbanization
-in the early 1900s.
-
-One library reports that a family is using AM to help educate their
-children. In another instance, individuals from a local museum came in
-to use AM to prepare an exhibit on toys of the past. These two examples
-emphasize the mission of the public library as a cultural institution,
-reaching out to people who do not have the same resources available to
-those who live in a metropolitan area or have access to a major library.
-One rural library reports that junior high school students in large
-numbers came in one afternoon to use AM for entertainment. A number of
-public libraries reported great interest among postcard collectors in the
-Detroit collection, which was essentially a collection of images used on
-postcards around the turn of the century. Train buffs are similarly
-interested because that was a time of great interest in railroading.
-People, it was found, relate to things that they know of firsthand. For
-example, in both rural public libraries where AM was made available,
-observers reported that the older people with personal remembrances of
-the turn of the century were gravitating to the Detroit collection.
-These examples served to underscore MICHELSON's observation re the
-integration of electronic tools and ideas--that people learn best when
-the material relates to something they know.
-
-VECCIA made the final point that in many cases AM serves as a
-public-relations tool for the public libraries that are testing it. In
-one case, AM is being used as a vehicle to secure additional funding for
-the library. In another case, AM has served as an inspiration to the
-staff of a major local public library in the South to think about ways to
-make its own collection of photographs more accessible to the public.
-
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-FREEMAN * AM and archival electronic resources in a school environment *
-Questions concerning context * Questions concerning the electronic format
-itself * Computer anxiety * Access and availability of the system *
-Hardware * Strengths gained through the use of archival resources in
-schools *
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-
-Reiterating an observation made by VECCIA, that AM is an archival
-resource made up of primary materials with very little interpretation,
-FREEMAN stated that the project has attempted to bridge the gap between
-these bare primary materials and a school environment, and in that cause
-has created guided introductions to AM collections. Loud demand from the
-educational community, chiefly from teachers working with the upper
-grades of elementary school through high school, greeted the announcement
-that AM would be tested around the country.
-
-FREEMAN reported not only on what was learned about AM in a school
-environment, but also on several universal questions that were raised
-concerning archival electronic resources in schools. She discussed
-several strengths of this type of material in a school environment as
-opposed to a highly structured resource that offers a limited number of
-paths to follow.
-
-FREEMAN first raised several questions about using AM in a school
-environment. There is often some difficulty in developing a sense of
-what the system contains. Many students sit down at a computer resource
-and assume that, because AM comes from the Library of Congress, all of
-American history is now at their fingertips. As a result of that sort of
-mistaken judgment, some students are known to conclude that AM contains
-nothing of use to them when they look for one or two things and do not
-find them. It is difficult to discover that middle ground where one has
-a sense of what the system contains. Some students grope toward the idea
-of an archive, a new idea to them, since they have not previously
-experienced what it means to have access to a vast body of somewhat
-random information.
-
-Other questions raised by FREEMAN concerned the electronic format itself.
-For instance, in a school environment it is often difficult both for
-teachers and students to gain a sense of what it is they are viewing.
-They understand that it is a visual image, but they do not necessarily
-know that it is a postcard from the turn of the century, a panoramic
-photograph, or even machine-readable text of an eighteenth-century
-broadside, a twentieth-century printed book, or a nineteenth-century
-diary. That distinction is often difficult for people in a school
-environment to grasp. Because of that, it occasionally becomes difficult
-to draw conclusions from what one is viewing.
-
-FREEMAN also noted the obvious fear of the computer, which constitutes a
-difficulty in using an electronic resource. Though students in general
-did not suffer from this anxiety, several older students feared that they
-were computer-illiterate, an assumption that became self-fulfilling when
-they searched for something but failed to find it. FREEMAN said she
-believed that some teachers also fear computer resources, because they
-believe they lack complete control. FREEMAN related the example of
-teachers shooing away students because it was not their time to use the
-system. This was a case in which the situation had to be extremely
-structured so that the teachers would not feel that they had lost their
-grasp on what the system contained.
-
-A final question raised by FREEMAN concerned access and availability of
-the system. She noted the occasional existence of a gap in communication
-between school librarians and teachers. Often AM sits in a school
-library and the librarian is the person responsible for monitoring the
-system. Teachers do not always take into their world new library
-resources about which the librarian is excited. Indeed, at the sites
-where AM had been used most effectively within a library, the librarian
-was required to go to specific teachers and instruct them in its use. As
-a result, several AM sites will have in-service sessions over a summer,
-in the hope that perhaps, with a more individualized link, teachers will
-be more likely to use the resource.
-
-A related issue in the school context concerned the number of
-workstations available at any one location. Centralization of equipment
-at the district level, with teachers invited to download things and walk
-away with them, proved unsuccessful because the hours these offices were
-open were also school hours.
-
-Another issue was hardware. As VECCIA observed, a range of sites exists,
-some technologically advanced and others essentially acquiring their
-first computer for the primary purpose of using it in conjunction with
-AM's testing. Users at technologically sophisticated sites want even
-more sophisticated hardware, so that they can perform even more
-sophisticated tasks with the materials in AM. But once they acquire a
-newer piece of hardware, they must learn how to use that also; at an
-unsophisticated site it takes an extremely long time simply to become
-accustomed to the computer, not to mention the program offered with the
-computer. All of these small issues raise one large question, namely,
-are systems like AM truly rewarding in a school environment, or do they
-simply act as innovative toys that do little more than spark interest?
-
-FREEMAN contended that the evaluation project has revealed several strengths
-that were gained through the use of archival resources in schools, including:
-
- * Psychic rewards from using AM as a vast, rich database, with
- teachers assigning various projects to students--oral presentations,
- written reports, a documentary, a turn-of-the-century newspaper--
- projects that start with the materials in AM but are completed using
- other resources; AM thus is used as a research tool in conjunction
- with other electronic resources, as well as with books and items in
- the library where the system is set up.
-
- * Students are acquiring computer literacy in a humanities context.
-
- * This sort of system is overcoming the isolation between disciplines
- that often exists in schools. For example, many English teachers are
- requiring their students to write papers on historical topics
- represented in AM. Numerous teachers have reported that their
- students are learning critical thinking skills using the system.
-
- * On a broader level, AM is introducing primary materials, not only
- to students but also to teachers, in an environment where often
- simply none exist--an exciting thing for the students because it
- helps them learn to conduct research, to interpret, and to draw
- their own conclusions. In learning to conduct research and what it
- means, students are motivated to seek knowledge. That relates to
- another positive outcome--a high level of personal involvement of
- students with the materials in this system and greater motivation to
- conduct their own research and draw their own conclusions.
-
- * Perhaps the most ironic strength of these kinds of archival
- electronic resources is that many of the teachers AM interviewed
- were desperate, it is no exaggeration to say, not only for primary
- materials but for unstructured primary materials. These would, they
- thought, foster personally motivated research, exploration, and
- excitement in their students. Indeed, these materials have done
- just that. Ironically, however, this lack of structure produces
- some of the confusion to which the newness of these kinds of
- resources may also contribute. The key to effective use of archival
- products in a school environment is a clear, effective introduction
- to the system and to what it contains.
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-DISCUSSION * Nothing known, quantitatively, about the number of
-humanities scholars who must see the original versus those who would
-settle for an edited transcript, or about the ways in which humanities
-scholars are using information technology * Firm conclusions concerning
-the manner and extent of the use of supporting materials in print
-provided by AM to await completion of evaluative study * A listener's
-reflections on additional applications of electronic texts * Role of
-electronic resources in teaching elementary research skills to students *
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-
-During the discussion that followed the presentations by MICHELSON,
-VECCIA, and FREEMAN, additional points emerged.
-
-LESK asked if MICHELSON could give any quantitative estimate of the
-number of humanities scholars who must see or want to see the original,
-or the best possible version of the material, versus those who typically
-would settle for an edited transcript. While unable to provide a figure,
-she offered her impressions as an archivist who has done some reference
-work and has discussed this issue with other archivists who perform
-reference, that those who use archives and those who use primary sources
-for what would be considered very high-level scholarly research, as
-opposed to, say, undergraduate papers, were few in number, especially
-given the public interest in using primary sources to conduct
-genealogical or avocational research and the kind of professional
-research done by people in private industry or the federal government.
-More important in MICHELSON's view was that, quantitatively, nothing is
-known about the ways in which, for example, humanities scholars are using
-information technology. No studies exist to offer guidance in creating
-strategies. The most recent study was conducted in 1985 by the American
-Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and what it showed was that 50
-percent of humanities scholars at that time were using computers. That
-constitutes the extent of our knowledge.
-
-Concerning AM's strategy for orienting people toward the scope of
-electronic resources, FREEMAN could offer no hard conclusions at this
-point, because she and her colleagues were still waiting to see,
-particularly in the schools, what has been made of their efforts. Within
-the system, however, AM has provided what are called electronic exhibits-
--such as introductions to time periods and materials--and these are
-intended to offer a student user a sense of what a broadside is and what
-it might tell her or him. But FREEMAN conceded that the project staff
-would have to talk with students next year, after teachers have had a
-summer to use the materials, and attempt to discover what the students
-were learning from the materials. In addition, FREEMAN described
-supporting materials in print provided by AM at the request of local
-teachers during a meeting held at LC. These included time lines,
-bibliographies, and other materials that could be reproduced on a
-photocopier in a classroom. Teachers could walk away with and use these,
-and in this way gain a better understanding of the contents. But again,
-reaching firm conclusions concerning the manner and extent of their use
-would have to wait until next year.
-
-As to the changes she saw occurring at the National Archives and Records
-Administration (NARA) as a result of the increasing emphasis on
-technology in scholarly research, MICHELSON stated that NARA at this
-point was absorbing the report by her and Jeff Rothenberg addressing
-strategies for the archival profession in general, although not for the
-National Archives specifically. NARA is just beginning to establish its
-role and what it can do. In terms of changes and initiatives that NARA
-can take, no clear response could be given at this time.
-
-GREENFIELD remarked two trends mentioned in the session. Reflecting on
-DALY's opening comments on how he could have used a Latin collection of
-text in an electronic form, he said that at first he thought most scholars
-would be unwilling to do that. But as he thought of that in terms of the
-original meaning of research--that is, having already mastered these texts,
-researching them for critical and comparative purposes--for the first time,
-the electronic format made a lot of sense. GREENFIELD could envision
-growing numbers of scholars learning the new technologies for that very
-aspect of their scholarship and for convenience's sake.
-
-Listening to VECCIA and FREEMAN, GREENFIELD thought of an additional
-application of electronic texts. He realized that AM could be used as a
-guide to lead someone to original sources. Students cannot be expected
-to have mastered these sources, things they have never known about
-before. Thus, AM is leading them, in theory, to a vast body of
-information and giving them a superficial overview of it, enabling them
-to select parts of it. GREENFIELD asked if any evidence exists that this
-resource will indeed teach the new user, the K-12 students, how to do
-research. Scholars already know how to do research and are applying
-these new tools. But he wondered why students would go beyond picking
-out things that were most exciting to them.
-
-FREEMAN conceded the correctness of GREENFIELD's observation as applied
-to a school environment. The risk is that a student would sit down at a
-system, play with it, find some things of interest, and then walk away.
-But in the relatively controlled situation of a school library, much will
-depend on the instructions a teacher or a librarian gives a student. She
-viewed the situation not as one of fine-tuning research skills but of
-involving students at a personal level in understanding and researching
-things. Given the guidance one can receive at school, it then becomes
-possible to teach elementary research skills to students, which in fact
-one particular librarian said she was teaching her fifth graders.
-FREEMAN concluded that introducing the idea of following one's own path
-of inquiry, which is essentially what research entails, involves more
-than teaching specific skills. To these comments VECCIA added the
-observation that the individual teacher and the use of a creative
-resource, rather than AM itself, seemed to make the key difference.
-Some schools and some teachers are making excellent use of the nature
-of critical thinking and teaching skills, she said.
-
-Concurring with these remarks, DALY closed the session with the thought that
-the more that producers produced for teachers and for scholars to use with
-their students, the more successful their electronic products would prove.
-
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-
-SESSION II. SHOW AND TELL
-
-Jacqueline HESS, director, National Demonstration Laboratory, served as
-moderator of the "show-and-tell" session. She noted that a
-question-and-answer period would follow each presentation.
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-MYLONAS * Overview and content of Perseus * Perseus' primary materials
-exist in a system-independent, archival form * A concession * Textual
-aspects of Perseus * Tools to use with the Greek text * Prepared indices
-and full-text searches in Perseus * English-Greek word search leads to
-close study of words and concepts * Navigating Perseus by tracing down
-indices * Using the iconography to perform research *
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-
-Elli MYLONAS, managing editor, Perseus Project, Harvard University, first
-gave an overview of Perseus, a large, collaborative effort based at
-Harvard University but with contributors and collaborators located at
-numerous universities and colleges in the United States (e.g., Bowdoin,
-Maryland, Pomona, Chicago, Virginia). Funded primarily by the
-Annenberg/CPB Project, with additional funding from Apple, Harvard, and
-the Packard Humanities Institute, among others, Perseus is a multimedia,
-hypertextual database for teaching and research on classical Greek
-civilization, which was released in February 1992 in version 1.0 and
-distributed by Yale University Press.
-
-Consisting entirely of primary materials, Perseus includes ancient Greek
-texts and translations of those texts; catalog entries--that is, museum
-catalog entries, not library catalog entries--on vases, sites, coins,
-sculpture, and archaeological objects; maps; and a dictionary, among
-other sources. The number of objects and the objects for which catalog
-entries exist are accompanied by thousands of color images, which
-constitute a major feature of the database. Perseus contains
-approximately 30 megabytes of text, an amount that will double in
-subsequent versions. In addition to these primary materials, the Perseus
-Project has been building tools for using them, making access and
-navigation easier, the goal being to build part of the electronic
-environment discussed earlier in the morning in which students or
-scholars can work with their sources.
-
-The demonstration of Perseus will show only a fraction of the real work
-that has gone into it, because the project had to face the dilemma of
-what to enter when putting something into machine-readable form: should
-one aim for very high quality or make concessions in order to get the
-material in? Since Perseus decided to opt for very high quality, all of
-its primary materials exist in a system-independent--insofar as it is
-possible to be system-independent--archival form. Deciding what that
-archival form would be and attaining it required much work and thought.
-For example, all the texts are marked up in SGML, which will be made
-compatible with the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) when
-they are issued.
-
-Drawings are postscript files, not meeting international standards, but
-at least designed to go across platforms. Images, or rather the real
-archival forms, consist of the best available slides, which are being
-digitized. Much of the catalog material exists in database form--a form
-that the average user could use, manipulate, and display on a personal
-computer, but only at great cost. Thus, this is where the concession
-comes in: All of this rich, well-marked-up information is stripped of
-much of its content; the images are converted into bit-maps and the text
-into small formatted chunks. All this information can then be imported
-into HyperCard and run on a mid-range Macintosh, which is what Perseus
-users have. This fact has made it possible for Perseus to attain wide
-use fairly rapidly. Without those archival forms the HyperCard version
-being demonstrated could not be made easily, and the project could not
-have the potential to move to other forms and machines and software as
-they appear, none of which information is in Perseus on the CD.
-
-Of the numerous multimedia aspects of Perseus, MYLONAS focused on the
-textual. Part of what makes Perseus such a pleasure to use, MYLONAS
-said, is this effort at seamless integration and the ability to move
-around both visual and textual material. Perseus also made the decision
-not to attempt to interpret its material any more than one interprets by
-selecting. But, MYLONAS emphasized, Perseus is not courseware: No
-syllabus exists. There is no effort to define how one teaches a topic
-using Perseus, although the project may eventually collect papers by
-people who have used it to teach. Rather, Perseus aims to provide
-primary material in a kind of electronic library, an electronic sandbox,
-so to say, in which students and scholars who are working on this
-material can explore by themselves. With that, MYLONAS demonstrated
-Perseus, beginning with the Perseus gateway, the first thing one sees
-upon opening Perseus--an effort in part to solve the contextualizing
-problem--which tells the user what the system contains.
-
-MYLONAS demonstrated only a very small portion, beginning with primary
-texts and running off the CD-ROM. Having selected Aeschylus' Prometheus
-Bound, which was viewable in Greek and English pretty much in the same
-segments together, MYLONAS demonstrated tools to use with the Greek text,
-something not possible with a book: looking up the dictionary entry form
-of an unfamiliar word in Greek after subjecting it to Perseus'
-morphological analysis for all the texts. After finding out about a
-word, a user may then decide to see if it is used anywhere else in Greek.
-Because vast amounts of indexing support all of the primary material, one
-can find out where else all forms of a particular Greek word appear--
-often not a trivial matter because Greek is highly inflected. Further,
-since the story of Prometheus has to do with the origins of sacrifice, a
-user may wish to study and explore sacrifice in Greek literature; by
-typing sacrifice into a small window, a user goes to the English-Greek
-word list--something one cannot do without the computer (Perseus has
-indexed the definitions of its dictionary)--the string sacrifice appears
-in the definitions of these sixty-five words. One may then find out
-where any of those words is used in the work(s) of a particular author.
-The English definitions are not lemmatized.
-
-All of the indices driving this kind of usage were originally devised for
-speed, MYLONAS observed; in other words, all that kind of information--
-all forms of all words, where they exist, the dictionary form they belong
-to--were collected into databases, which will expedite searching. Then
-it was discovered that one can do things searching in these databases
-that could not be done searching in the full texts. Thus, although there
-are full-text searches in Perseus, much of the work is done behind the
-scenes, using prepared indices. Re the indexing that is done behind the
-scenes, MYLONAS pointed out that without the SGML forms of the text, it
-could not be done effectively. Much of this indexing is based on the
-structures that are made explicit by the SGML tagging.
-
-It was found that one of the things many of Perseus' non-Greek-reading
-users do is start from the dictionary and then move into the close study
-of words and concepts via this kind of English-Greek word search, by which
-means they might select a concept. This exercise has been assigned to
-students in core courses at Harvard--to study a concept by looking for the
-English word in the dictionary, finding the Greek words, and then finding
-the words in the Greek but, of course, reading across in the English.
-That tells them a great deal about what a translation means as well.
-
-Should one also wish to see images that have to do with sacrifice, that
-person would go to the object key word search, which allows one to
-perform a similar kind of index retrieval on the database of
-archaeological objects. Without words, pictures are useless; Perseus has
-not reached the point where it can do much with images that are not
-cataloged. Thus, although it is possible in Perseus with text and images
-to navigate by knowing where one wants to end up--for example, a
-red-figure vase from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts--one can perform this
-kind of navigation very easily by tracing down indices. MYLONAS
-illustrated several generic scenes of sacrifice on vases. The features
-demonstrated derived from Perseus 1.0; version 2.0 will implement even
-better means of retrieval.
-
-MYLONAS closed by looking at one of the pictures and noting again that
-one can do a great deal of research using the iconography as well as the
-texts. For instance, students in a core course at Harvard this year were
-highly interested in Greek concepts of foreigners and representations of
-non-Greeks. So they performed a great deal of research, both with texts
-(e.g., Herodotus) and with iconography on vases and coins, on how the
-Greeks portrayed non-Greeks. At the same time, art historians who study
-iconography were also interested, and were able to use this material.
-
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-
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-DISCUSSION * Indexing and searchability of all English words in Perseus *
-Several features of Perseus 1.0 * Several levels of customization
-possible * Perseus used for general education * Perseus' effects on
-education * Contextual information in Perseus * Main challenge and
-emphasis of Perseus *
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-
-Several points emerged in the discussion that followed MYLONAS's presentation.
-
-Although MYLONAS had not demonstrated Perseus' ability to cross-search
-documents, she confirmed that all English words in Perseus are indexed
-and can be searched. So, for example, sacrifice could have been searched
-in all texts, the historical essay, and all the catalogue entries with
-their descriptions--in short, in all of Perseus.
-
-Boolean logic is not in Perseus 1.0 but will be added to the next
-version, although an effort is being made not to restrict Perseus to a
-database in which one just performs searching, Boolean or otherwise. It
-is possible to move laterally through the documents by selecting a word
-one is interested in and selecting an area of information one is
-interested in and trying to look that word up in that area.
-
-Since Perseus was developed in HyperCard, several levels of customization
-are possible. Simple authoring tools exist that allow one to create
-annotated paths through the information, which are useful for note-taking
-and for guided tours for teaching purposes and for expository writing.
-With a little more ingenuity it is possible to begin to add or substitute
-material in Perseus.
-
-Perseus has not been used so much for classics education as for general
-education, where it seemed to have an impact on the students in the core
-course at Harvard (a general required course that students must take in
-certain areas). Students were able to use primary material much more.
-
-The Perseus Project has an evaluation team at the University of Maryland
-that has been documenting Perseus' effects on education. Perseus is very
-popular, and anecdotal evidence indicates that it is having an effect at
-places other than Harvard, for example, test sites at Ball State
-University, Drury College, and numerous small places where opportunities
-to use vast amounts of primary data may not exist. One documented effect
-is that archaeological, anthropological, and philological research is
-being done by the same person instead of by three different people.
-
-The contextual information in Perseus includes an overview essay, a
-fairly linear historical essay on the fifth century B.C. that provides
-links into the primary material (e.g., Herodotus, Thucydides, and
-Plutarch), via small gray underscoring (on the screen) of linked
-passages. These are handmade links into other material.
-
-To different extents, most of the production work was done at Harvard,
-where the people and the equipment are located. Much of the
-collaborative activity involved data collection and structuring, because
-the main challenge and the emphasis of Perseus is the gathering of
-primary material, that is, building a useful environment for studying
-classical Greece, collecting data, and making it useful.
-Systems-building is definitely not the main concern. Thus, much of the
-work has involved writing essays, collecting information, rewriting it,
-and tagging it. That can be done off site. The creative link for the
-overview essay as well as for both systems and data was collaborative,
-and was forged via E-mail and paper mail with professors at Pomona and
-Bowdoin.
-
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-CALALUCA * PLD's principal focus and contribution to scholarship *
-Various questions preparatory to beginning the project * Basis for
-project * Basic rule in converting PLD * Concerning the images in PLD *
-Running PLD under a variety of retrieval softwares * Encoding the
-database a hard-fought issue * Various features demonstrated * Importance
-of user documentation * Limitations of the CD-ROM version *
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-
-Eric CALALUCA, vice president, Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., demonstrated a
-software interpretation of the Patrologia Latina Database (PLD). PLD's
-principal focus from the beginning of the project about three-and-a-half
-years ago was on converting Migne's Latin series, and in the end,
-CALALUCA suggested, conversion of the text will be the major contribution
-to scholarship. CALALUCA stressed that, as possibly the only private
-publishing organization at the Workshop, Chadwyck-Healey had sought no
-federal funds or national foundation support before embarking upon the
-project, but instead had relied upon a great deal of homework and
-marketing to accomplish the task of conversion.
-
-Ever since the possibilities of computer-searching have emerged, scholars
-in the field of late ancient and early medieval studies (philosophers,
-theologians, classicists, and those studying the history of natural law
-and the history of the legal development of Western civilization) have
-been longing for a fully searchable version of Western literature, for
-example, all the texts of Augustine and Bernard of Clairvaux and
-Boethius, not to mention all the secondary and tertiary authors.
-
-Various questions arose, CALALUCA said. Should one convert Migne?
-Should the database be encoded? Is it necessary to do that? How should
-it be delivered? What about CD-ROM? Since this is a transitional
-medium, why even bother to create software to run on a CD-ROM? Since
-everybody knows people will be networking information, why go to the
-trouble--which is far greater with CD-ROM than with the production of
-magnetic data? Finally, how does one make the data available? Can many
-of the hurdles to using electronic information that some publishers have
-imposed upon databases be eliminated?
-
-The PLD project was based on the principle that computer-searching of
-texts is most effective when it is done with a large database. Because
-PLD represented a collection that serves so many disciplines across so
-many periods, it was irresistible.
-
-The basic rule in converting PLD was to do no harm, to avoid the sins of
-intrusion in such a database: no introduction of newer editions, no
-on-the-spot changes, no eradicating of all possible falsehoods from an
-edition. Thus, PLD is not the final act in electronic publishing for
-this discipline, but simply the beginning. The conversion of PLD has
-evoked numerous unanticipated questions: How will information be used?
-What about networking? Can the rights of a database be protected?
-Should one protect the rights of a database? How can it be made
-available?
-
-Those converting PLD also tried to avoid the sins of omission, that is,
-excluding portions of the collections or whole sections. What about the
-images? PLD is full of images, some are extremely pious
-nineteenth-century representations of the Fathers, while others contain
-highly interesting elements. The goal was to cover all the text of Migne
-(including notes, in Greek and in Hebrew, the latter of which, in
-particular, causes problems in creating a search structure), all the
-indices, and even the images, which are being scanned in separately
-searchable files.
-
-Several North American institutions that have placed acquisition requests
-for the PLD database have requested it in magnetic form without software,
-which means they are already running it without software, without
-anything demonstrated at the Workshop.
-
-What cannot practically be done is go back and reconvert and re-encode
-data, a time-consuming and extremely costly enterprise. CALALUCA sees
-PLD as a database that can, and should, be run under a variety of
-retrieval softwares. This will permit the widest possible searches.
-Consequently, the need to produce a CD-ROM of PLD, as well as to develop
-software that could handle some 1.3 gigabyte of heavily encoded text,
-developed out of conversations with collection development and reference
-librarians who wanted software both compassionate enough for the
-pedestrian but also capable of incorporating the most detailed
-lexicographical studies that a user desires to conduct. In the end, the
-encoding and conversion of the data will prove the most enduring
-testament to the value of the project.
-
-The encoding of the database was also a hard-fought issue: Did the
-database need to be encoded? Were there normative structures for encoding
-humanist texts? Should it be SGML? What about the TEI--will it last,
-will it prove useful? CALALUCA expressed some minor doubts as to whether
-a data bank can be fully TEI-conformant. Every effort can be made, but
-in the end to be TEI-conformant means to accept the need to make some
-firm encoding decisions that can, indeed, be disputed. The TEI points
-the publisher in a proper direction but does not presume to make all the
-decisions for him or her. Essentially, the goal of encoding was to
-eliminate, as much as possible, the hindrances to information-networking,
-so that if an institution acquires a database, everybody associated with
-the institution can have access to it.
-
-CALALUCA demonstrated a portion of Volume 160, because it had the most
-anomalies in it. The software was created by Electronic Book
-Technologies of Providence, RI, and is called Dynatext. The software
-works only with SGML-coded data.
-
-Viewing a table of contents on the screen, the audience saw how Dynatext
-treats each element as a book and attempts to simplify movement through a
-volume. Familiarity with the Patrologia in print (i.e., the text, its
-source, and the editions) will make the machine-readable versions highly
-useful. (Software with a Windows application was sought for PLD,
-CALALUCA said, because this was the main trend for scholarly use.)
-
-CALALUCA also demonstrated how a user can perform a variety of searches
-and quickly move to any part of a volume; the look-up screen provides
-some basic, simple word-searching.
-
-CALALUCA argued that one of the major difficulties is not the software.
-Rather, in creating a product that will be used by scholars representing
-a broad spectrum of computer sophistication, user documentation proves
-to be the most important service one can provide.
-
-CALALUCA next illustrated a truncated search under mysterium within ten
-words of virtus and how one would be able to find its contents throughout
-the entire database. He said that the exciting thing about PLD is that
-many of the applications in the retrieval software being written for it
-will exceed the capabilities of the software employed now for the CD-ROM
-version. The CD-ROM faces genuine limitations, in terms of speed and
-comprehensiveness, in the creation of a retrieval software to run it.
-CALALUCA said he hoped that individual scholars will download the data,
-if they wish, to their personal computers, and have ready access to
-important texts on a constant basis, which they will be able to use in
-their research and from which they might even be able to publish.
-
-(CALALUCA explained that the blue numbers represented Migne's column numbers,
-which are the standard scholarly references. Pulling up a note, he stated
-that these texts were heavily edited and the image files would appear simply
-as a note as well, so that one could quickly access an image.)
-
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-
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-FLEISCHHAUER/ERWAY * Several problems with which AM is still wrestling *
-Various search and retrieval capabilities * Illustration of automatic
-stemming and a truncated search * AM's attempt to find ways to connect
-cataloging to the texts * AM's gravitation towards SGML * Striking a
-balance between quantity and quality * How AM furnishes users recourse to
-images * Conducting a search in a full-text environment * Macintosh and
-IBM prototypes of AM * Multimedia aspects of AM *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-A demonstration of American Memory by its coordinator, Carl FLEISCHHAUER,
-and Ricky ERWAY, associate coordinator, Library of Congress, concluded
-the morning session. Beginning with a collection of broadsides from the
-Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, the only text
-collection in a presentable form at the time of the Workshop, FLEISCHHAUER
-highlighted several of the problems with which AM is still wrestling.
-(In its final form, the disk will contain two collections, not only the
-broadsides but also the full text with illustrations of a set of
-approximately 300 African-American pamphlets from the period 1870 to 1910.)
-
-As FREEMAN had explained earlier, AM has attempted to use a small amount
-of interpretation to introduce collections. In the present case, the
-contractor, a company named Quick Source, in Silver Spring, MD., used
-software called Toolbook and put together a modestly interactive
-introduction to the collection. Like the two preceding speakers,
-FLEISCHHAUER argued that the real asset was the underlying collection.
-
-FLEISCHHAUER proceeded to describe various search and retrieval
-capabilities while ERWAY worked the computer. In this particular package
-the "go to" pull-down allowed the user in effect to jump out of Toolbook,
-where the interactive program was located, and enter the third-party
-software used by AM for this text collection, which is called Personal
-Librarian. This was the Windows version of Personal Librarian, a
-software application put together by a company in Rockville, Md.
-
-Since the broadsides came from the Revolutionary War period, a search was
-conducted using the words British or war, with the default operator reset
-as or. FLEISCHHAUER demonstrated both automatic stemming (which finds
-other forms of the same root) and a truncated search. One of Personal
-Librarian's strongest features, the relevance ranking, was represented by
-a chart that indicated how often words being sought appeared in
-documents, with the one receiving the most "hits" obtaining the highest
-score. The "hit list" that is supplied takes the relevance ranking into
-account, making the first hit, in effect, the one the software has
-selected as the most relevant example.
-
-While in the text of one of the broadside documents, FLEISCHHAUER
-remarked AM's attempt to find ways to connect cataloging to the texts,
-which it does in different ways in different manifestations. In the case
-shown, the cataloging was pasted on: AM took MARC records that were
-written as on-line records right into one of the Library's mainframe
-retrieval programs, pulled them out, and handed them off to the contractor,
-who massaged them somewhat to display them in the manner shown. One of
-AM's questions is, Does the cataloguing normally performed in the mainframe
-work in this context, or had AM ought to think through adjustments?
-
-FLEISCHHAUER made the additional point that, as far as the text goes, AM
-has gravitated towards SGML (he pointed to the boldface in the upper part
-of the screen). Although extremely limited in its ability to translate
-or interpret SGML, Personal Librarian will furnish both bold and italics
-on screen; a fairly easy thing to do, but it is one of the ways in which
-SGML is useful.
-
-Striking a balance between quantity and quality has been a major concern
-of AM, with accuracy being one of the places where project staff have
-felt that less than 100-percent accuracy was not unacceptable.
-FLEISCHHAUER cited the example of the standard of the rekeying industry,
-namely 99.95 percent; as one service bureau informed him, to go from
-99.95 to 100 percent would double the cost.
-
-FLEISCHHAUER next demonstrated how AM furnishes users recourse to images,
-and at the same time recalled LESK's pointed question concerning the
-number of people who would look at those images and the number who would
-work only with the text. If the implication of LESK's question was
-sound, FLEISCHHAUER said, it raised the stakes for text accuracy and
-reduced the value of the strategy for images.
-
-Contending that preservation is always a bugaboo, FLEISCHHAUER
-demonstrated several images derived from a scan of a preservation
-microfilm that AM had made. He awarded a grade of C at best, perhaps a
-C minus or a C plus, for how well it worked out. Indeed, the matter of
-learning if other people had better ideas about scanning in general, and,
-in particular, scanning from microfilm, was one of the factors that drove
-AM to attempt to think through the agenda for the Workshop. Skew, for
-example, was one of the issues that AM in its ignorance had not reckoned
-would prove so difficult.
-
-Further, the handling of images of the sort shown, in a desktop computer
-environment, involved a considerable amount of zooming and scrolling.
-Ultimately, AM staff feel that perhaps the paper copy that is printed out
-might be the most useful one, but they remain uncertain as to how much
-on-screen reading users will do.
-
-Returning to the text, FLEISCHHAUER asked viewers to imagine a person who
-might be conducting a search in a full-text environment. With this
-scenario, he proceeded to illustrate other features of Personal Librarian
-that he considered helpful; for example, it provides the ability to
-notice words as one reads. Clicking the "include" button on the bottom
-of the search window pops the words that have been highlighted into the
-search. Thus, a user can refine the search as he or she reads,
-re-executing the search and continuing to find things in the quest for
-materials. This software not only contains relevance ranking, Boolean
-operators, and truncation, it also permits one to perform word algebra,
-so to say, where one puts two or three words in parentheses and links
-them with one Boolean operator and then a couple of words in another set
-of parentheses and asks for things within so many words of others.
-
-Until they became acquainted recently with some of the work being done in
-classics, the AM staff had not realized that a large number of the
-projects that involve electronic texts were being done by people with a
-profound interest in language and linguistics. Their search strategies
-and thinking are oriented to those fields, as is shown in particular by
-the Perseus example. As amateur historians, the AM staff were thinking
-more of searching for concepts and ideas than for particular words.
-Obviously, FLEISCHHAUER conceded, searching for concepts and ideas and
-searching for words may be two rather closely related things.
-
-While displaying several images, FLEISCHHAUER observed that the Macintosh
-prototype built by AM contains a greater diversity of formats. Echoing a
-previous speaker, he said that it was easier to stitch things together in
-the Macintosh, though it tended to be a little more anemic in search and
-retrieval. AM, therefore, increasingly has been investigating
-sophisticated retrieval engines in the IBM format.
-
-FLEISCHHAUER demonstrated several additional examples of the prototype
-interfaces: One was AM's metaphor for the network future, in which a
-kind of reading-room graphic suggests how one would be able to go around
-to different materials. AM contains a large number of photographs in
-analog video form worked up from a videodisc, which enable users to make
-copies to print or incorporate in digital documents. A frame-grabber is
-built into the system, making it possible to bring an image into a window
-and digitize or print it out.
-
-FLEISCHHAUER next demonstrated sound recording, which included texts.
-Recycled from a previous project, the collection included sixty 78-rpm
-phonograph records of political speeches that were made during and
-immediately after World War I. These constituted approximately three
-hours of audio, as AM has digitized it, which occupy 150 megabytes on a
-CD. Thus, they are considerably compressed. From the catalogue card,
-FLEISCHHAUER proceeded to a transcript of a speech with the audio
-available and with highlighted text following it as it played.
-A photograph has been added and a transcription made.
-
-Considerable value has been added beyond what the Library of Congress
-normally would do in cataloguing a sound recording, which raises several
-questions for AM concerning where to draw lines about how much value it can
-afford to add and at what point, perhaps, this becomes more than AM could
-reasonably do or reasonably wish to do. FLEISCHHAUER also demonstrated
-a motion picture. As FREEMAN had reported earlier, the motion picture
-materials have proved the most popular, not surprisingly. This says more
-about the medium, he thought, than about AM's presentation of it.
-
-Because AM's goal was to bring together things that could be used by
-historians or by people who were curious about history,
-turn-of-the-century footage seemed to represent the most appropriate
-collections from the Library of Congress in motion pictures. These were
-the very first films made by Thomas Edison's company and some others at
-that time. The particular example illustrated was a Biograph film,
-brought in with a frame-grabber into a window. A single videodisc
-contains about fifty titles and pieces of film from that period, all of
-New York City. Taken together, AM believes, they provide an interesting
-documentary resource.
-
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-
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-DISCUSSION * Using the frame-grabber in AM * Volume of material processed
-and to be processed * Purpose of AM within LC * Cataloguing and the
-nature of AM's material * SGML coding and the question of quality versus
-quantity *
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-
-During the question-and-answer period that followed FLEISCHHAUER's
-presentation, several clarifications were made.
-
-AM is bringing in motion pictures from a videodisc. The frame-grabber
-devices create a window on a computer screen, which permits users to
-digitize a single frame of the movie or one of the photographs. It
-produces a crude, rough-and-ready image that high school students can
-incorporate into papers, and that has worked very nicely in this way.
-
-Commenting on FLEISCHHAUER's assertion that AM was looking more at
-searching ideas than words, MYLONAS argued that without words an idea
-does not exist. FLEISCHHAUER conceded that he ought to have articulated
-his point more clearly. MYLONAS stated that they were in fact both
-talking about the same thing. By searching for words and by forcing
-people to focus on the word, the Perseus Project felt that they would get
-them to the idea. The way one reviews results is tailored more to one
-kind of user than another.
-
-Concerning the total volume of material that has been processed in this
-way, AM at this point has in retrievable form seven or eight collections,
-all of them photographic. In the Macintosh environment, for example,
-there probably are 35,000-40,000 photographs. The sound recordings
-number sixty items. The broadsides number about 300 items. There are
-500 political cartoons in the form of drawings. The motion pictures, as
-individual items, number sixty to seventy.
-
-AM also has a manuscript collection, the life history portion of one of
-the federal project series, which will contain 2,900 individual
-documents, all first-person narratives. AM has in process about 350
-African-American pamphlets, or about 12,000 printed pages for the period
-1870-1910. Also in the works are some 4,000 panoramic photographs. AM
-has recycled a fair amount of the work done by LC's Prints and
-Photographs Division during the Library's optical disk pilot project in
-the 1980s. For example, a special division of LC has tooled up and
-thought through all the ramifications of electronic presentation of
-photographs. Indeed, they are wheeling them out in great barrel loads.
-The purpose of AM within the Library, it is hoped, is to catalyze several
-of the other special collection divisions which have no particular
-experience with, in some cases, mixed feelings about, an activity such as
-AM. Moreover, in many cases the divisions may be characterized as not
-only lacking experience in "electronifying" things but also in automated
-cataloguing. MARC cataloguing as practiced in the United States is
-heavily weighted toward the description of monograph and serial
-materials, but is much thinner when one enters the world of manuscripts
-and things that are held in the Library's music collection and other
-units. In response to a comment by LESK, that AM's material is very
-heavily photographic, and is so primarily because individual records have
-been made for each photograph, FLEISCHHAUER observed that an item-level
-catalog record exists, for example, for each photograph in the Detroit
-Publishing collection of 25,000 pictures. In the case of the Federal
-Writers Project, for which nearly 3,000 documents exist, representing
-information from twenty-six different states, AM with the assistance of
-Karen STUART of the Manuscript Division will attempt to find some way not
-only to have a collection-level record but perhaps a MARC record for each
-state, which will then serve as an umbrella for the 100-200 documents
-that come under it. But that drama remains to be enacted. The AM staff
-is conservative and clings to cataloguing, though of course visitors tout
-artificial intelligence and neural networks in a manner that suggests that
-perhaps one need not have cataloguing or that much of it could be put aside.
-
-The matter of SGML coding, FLEISCHHAUER conceded, returned the discussion
-to the earlier treated question of quality versus quantity in the Library
-of Congress. Of course, text conversion can be done with 100-percent
-accuracy, but it means that when one's holdings are as vast as LC's only
-a tiny amount will be exposed, whereas permitting lower levels of
-accuracy can lead to exposing or sharing larger amounts, but with the
-quality correspondingly impaired.
-
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-TWOHIG * A contrary experience concerning electronic options * Volume of
-material in the Washington papers and a suggestion of David Packard *
-Implications of Packard's suggestion * Transcribing the documents for the
-CD-ROM * Accuracy of transcriptions * The CD-ROM edition of the Founding
-Fathers documents *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Finding encouragement in a comment of MICHELSON's from the morning
-session--that numerous people in the humanities were choosing electronic
-options to do their work--Dorothy TWOHIG, editor, The Papers of George
-Washington, opened her illustrated talk by noting that her experience
-with literary scholars and numerous people in editing was contrary to
-MICHELSON's. TWOHIG emphasized literary scholars' complete ignorance of
-the technological options available to them or their reluctance or, in
-some cases, their downright hostility toward these options.
-
-After providing an overview of the five Founding Fathers projects
-(Jefferson at Princeton, Franklin at Yale, John Adams at the
-Massachusetts Historical Society, and Madison down the hall from her at
-the University of Virginia), TWOHIG observed that the Washington papers,
-like all of the projects, include both sides of the Washington
-correspondence and deal with some 135,000 documents to be published with
-extensive annotation in eighty to eighty-five volumes, a project that
-will not be completed until well into the next century. Thus, it was
-with considerable enthusiasm several years ago that the Washington Papers
-Project (WPP) greeted David Packard's suggestion that the papers of the
-Founding Fathers could be published easily and inexpensively, and to the
-great benefit of American scholarship, via CD-ROM.
-
-In pragmatic terms, funding from the Packard Foundation would expedite
-the transcription of thousands of documents waiting to be put on disk in
-the WPP offices. Further, since the costs of collecting, editing, and
-converting the Founding Fathers documents into letterpress editions were
-running into the millions of dollars, and the considerable staffs
-involved in all of these projects were devoting their careers to
-producing the work, the Packard Foundation's suggestion had a
-revolutionary aspect: Transcriptions of the entire corpus of the
-Founding Fathers papers would be available on CD-ROM to public and
-college libraries, even high schools, at a fraction of the cost--
-$100-$150 for the annual license fee--to produce a limited university
-press run of 1,000 of each volume of the published papers at $45-$150 per
-printed volume. Given the current budget crunch in educational systems
-and the corresponding constraints on librarians in smaller institutions
-who wish to add these volumes to their collections, producing the
-documents on CD-ROM would likely open a greatly expanded audience for the
-papers. TWOHIG stressed, however, that development of the Founding
-Fathers CD-ROM is still in its infancy. Serious software problems remain
-to be resolved before the material can be put into readable form.
-
-Funding from the Packard Foundation resulted in a major push to
-transcribe the 75,000 or so documents of the Washington papers remaining
-to be transcribed onto computer disks. Slides illustrated several of the
-problems encountered, for example, the present inability of CD-ROM to
-indicate the cross-outs (deleted material) in eighteenth century
-documents. TWOHIG next described documents from various periods in the
-eighteenth century that have been transcribed in chronological order and
-delivered to the Packard offices in California, where they are converted
-to the CD-ROM, a process that is expected to consume five years to
-complete (that is, reckoning from David Packard's suggestion made several
-years ago, until about July 1994). TWOHIG found an encouraging
-indication of the project's benefits in the ongoing use made by scholars
-of the search functions of the CD-ROM, particularly in reducing the time
-spent in manually turning the pages of the Washington papers.
-
-TWOHIG next furnished details concerning the accuracy of transcriptions.
-For instance, the insertion of thousands of documents on the CD-ROM
-currently does not permit each document to be verified against the
-original manuscript several times as in the case of documents that appear
-in the published edition. However, the transcriptions receive a cursory
-check for obvious typos, the misspellings of proper names, and other
-errors from the WPP CD-ROM editor. Eventually, all documents that appear
-in the electronic version will be checked by project editors. Although
-this process has met with opposition from some of the editors on the
-grounds that imperfect work may leave their offices, the advantages in
-making this material available as a research tool outweigh fears about the
-misspelling of proper names and other relatively minor editorial matters.
-
-Completion of all five Founding Fathers projects (i.e., retrievability
-and searchability of all of the documents by proper names, alternate
-spellings, or varieties of subjects) will provide one of the richest
-sources of this size for the history of the United States in the latter
-part of the eighteenth century. Further, publication on CD-ROM will
-allow editors to include even minutiae, such as laundry lists, not
-included in the printed volumes.
-
-It seems possible that the extensive annotation provided in the printed
-volumes eventually will be added to the CD-ROM edition, pending
-negotiations with the publishers of the papers. At the moment, the
-Founding Fathers CD-ROM is accessible only on the IBYCUS, a computer
-developed out of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae project and designed for
-the use of classical scholars. There are perhaps 400 IBYCUS computers in
-the country, most of which are in university classics departments.
-Ultimately, it is anticipated that the CD-ROM edition of the Founding
-Fathers documents will run on any IBM-compatible or Macintosh computer
-with a CD-ROM drive. Numerous changes in the software will also occur
-before the project is completed. (Editor's note: an IBYCUS was
-unavailable to demonstrate the CD-ROM.)
-
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-
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-DISCUSSION * Several additional features of WPP clarified *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Discussion following TWOHIG's presentation served to clarify several
-additional features, including (1) that the project's primary
-intellectual product consists in the electronic transcription of the
-material; (2) that the text transmitted to the CD-ROM people is not
-marked up; (3) that cataloging and subject-indexing of the material
-remain to be worked out (though at this point material can be retrieved
-by name); and (4) that because all the searching is done in the hardware,
-the IBYCUS is designed to read a CD-ROM which contains only sequential
-text files. Technically, it then becomes very easy to read the material
-off and put it on another device.
-
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-
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-LEBRON * Overview of the history of the joint project between AAAS and
-OCLC * Several practices the on-line environment shares with traditional
-publishing on hard copy * Several technical and behavioral barriers to
-electronic publishing * How AAAS and OCLC arrived at the subject of
-clinical trials * Advantages of the electronic format and other features
-of OJCCT * An illustrated tour of the journal *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Maria LEBRON, managing editor, The Online Journal of Current Clinical
-Trials (OJCCT), presented an illustrated overview of the history of the
-joint project between the American Association for the Advancement of
-Science (AAAS) and the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC). The
-joint venture between AAAS and OCLC owes its beginning to a
-reorganization launched by the new chief executive officer at OCLC about
-three years ago and combines the strengths of these two disparate
-organizations. In short, OJCCT represents the process of scholarly
-publishing on line.
-
-LEBRON next discussed several practices the on-line environment shares
-with traditional publishing on hard copy--for example, peer review of
-manuscripts--that are highly important in the academic world. LEBRON
-noted in particular the implications of citation counts for tenure
-committees and grants committees. In the traditional hard-copy
-environment, citation counts are readily demonstrable, whereas the
-on-line environment represents an ethereal medium to most academics.
-
-LEBRON remarked several technical and behavioral barriers to electronic
-publishing, for instance, the problems in transmission created by special
-characters or by complex graphics and halftones. In addition, she noted
-economic limitations such as the storage costs of maintaining back issues
-and market or audience education.
-
-Manuscripts cannot be uploaded to OJCCT, LEBRON explained, because it is
-not a bulletin board or E-mail, forms of electronic transmission of
-information that have created an ambience clouding people's understanding
-of what the journal is attempting to do. OJCCT, which publishes
-peer-reviewed medical articles dealing with the subject of clinical
-trials, includes text, tabular material, and graphics, although at this
-time it can transmit only line illustrations.
-
-Next, LEBRON described how AAAS and OCLC arrived at the subject of
-clinical trials: It is 1) a highly statistical discipline that 2) does
-not require halftones but can satisfy the needs of its audience with line
-illustrations and graphic material, and 3) there is a need for the speedy
-dissemination of high-quality research results. Clinical trials are
-research activities that involve the administration of a test treatment
-to some experimental unit in order to test its usefulness before it is
-made available to the general population. LEBRON proceeded to give
-additional information on OJCCT concerning its editor-in-chief, editorial
-board, editorial content, and the types of articles it publishes
-(including peer-reviewed research reports and reviews), as well as
-features shared by other traditional hard-copy journals.
-
-Among the advantages of the electronic format are faster dissemination of
-information, including raw data, and the absence of space constraints
-because pages do not exist. (This latter fact creates an interesting
-situation when it comes to citations.) Nor are there any issues. AAAS's
-capacity to download materials directly from the journal to a
-subscriber's printer, hard drive, or floppy disk helps ensure highly
-accurate transcription. Other features of OJCCT include on-screen alerts
-that allow linkage of subsequently published documents to the original
-documents; on-line searching by subject, author, title, etc.; indexing of
-every single word that appears in an article; viewing access to an
-article by component (abstract, full text, or graphs); numbered
-paragraphs to replace page counts; publication in Science every thirty
-days of indexing of all articles published in the journal;
-typeset-quality screens; and Hypertext links that enable subscribers to
-bring up Medline abstracts directly without leaving the journal.
-
-After detailing the two primary ways to gain access to the journal,
-through the OCLC network and Compuserv if one desires graphics or through
-the Internet if just an ASCII file is desired, LEBRON illustrated the
-speedy editorial process and the coding of the document using SGML tags
-after it has been accepted for publication. She also gave an illustrated
-tour of the journal, its search-and-retrieval capabilities in particular,
-but also including problems associated with scanning in illustrations,
-and the importance of on-screen alerts to the medical profession re
-retractions or corrections, or more frequently, editorials, letters to
-the editors, or follow-up reports. She closed by inviting the audience
-to join AAAS on 1 July, when OJCCT was scheduled to go on-line.
-
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-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-DISCUSSION * Additional features of OJCCT *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-In the lengthy discussion that followed LEBRON's presentation, these
-points emerged:
-
- * The SGML text can be tailored as users wish.
-
- * All these articles have a fairly simple document definition.
-
- * Document-type definitions (DTDs) were developed and given to OJCCT
- for coding.
-
- * No articles will be removed from the journal. (Because there are
- no back issues, there are no lost issues either. Once a subscriber
- logs onto the journal he or she has access not only to the currently
- published materials, but retrospectively to everything that has been
- published in it. Thus the table of contents grows bigger. The date
- of publication serves to distinguish between currently published
- materials and older materials.)
-
- * The pricing system for the journal resembles that for most medical
- journals: for 1992, $95 for a year, plus telecommunications charges
- (there are no connect time charges); for 1993, $110 for the
- entire year for single users, though the journal can be put on a
- local area network (LAN). However, only one person can access the
- journal at a time. Site licenses may come in the future.
-
- * AAAS is working closely with colleagues at OCLC to display
- mathematical equations on screen.
-
- * Without compromising any steps in the editorial process, the
- technology has reduced the time lag between when a manuscript is
- originally submitted and the time it is accepted; the review process
- does not differ greatly from the standard six-to-eight weeks
- employed by many of the hard-copy journals. The process still
- depends on people.
-
- * As far as a preservation copy is concerned, articles will be
- maintained on the computer permanently and subscribers, as part of
- their subscription, will receive a microfiche-quality archival copy
- of everything published during that year; in addition, reprints can
- be purchased in much the same way as in a hard-copy environment.
- Hard copies are prepared but are not the primary medium for the
- dissemination of the information.
-
- * Because OJCCT is not yet on line, it is difficult to know how many
- people would simply browse through the journal on the screen as
- opposed to downloading the whole thing and printing it out; a mix of
- both types of users likely will result.
-
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-
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-PERSONIUS * Developments in technology over the past decade * The CLASS
-Project * Advantages for technology and for the CLASS Project *
-Developing a network application an underlying assumption of the project
-* Details of the scanning process * Print-on-demand copies of books *
-Future plans include development of a browsing tool *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Lynne PERSONIUS, assistant director, Cornell Information Technologies for
-Scholarly Information Services, Cornell University, first commented on
-the tremendous impact that developments in technology over the past ten
-years--networking, in particular--have had on the way information is
-handled, and how, in her own case, these developments have counterbalanced
-Cornell's relative geographical isolation. Other significant technologies
-include scanners, which are much more sophisticated than they were ten years
-ago; mass storage and the dramatic savings that result from it in terms of
-both space and money relative to twenty or thirty years ago; new and
-improved printing technologies, which have greatly affected the distribution
-of information; and, of course, digital technologies, whose applicability to
-library preservation remains at issue.
-
-Given that context, PERSONIUS described the College Library Access and
-Storage System (CLASS) Project, a library preservation project,
-primarily, and what has been accomplished. Directly funded by the
-Commission on Preservation and Access and by the Xerox Corporation, which
-has provided a significant amount of hardware, the CLASS Project has been
-working with a development team at Xerox to develop a software
-application tailored to library preservation requirements. Within
-Cornell, participants in the project have been working jointly with both
-library and information technologies. The focus of the project has been
-on reformatting and saving books that are in brittle condition.
-PERSONIUS showed Workshop participants a brittle book, and described how
-such books were the result of developments in papermaking around the
-beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The papermaking process was
-changed so that a significant amount of acid was introduced into the
-actual paper itself, which deteriorates as it sits on library shelves.
-
-One of the advantages for technology and for the CLASS Project is that
-the information in brittle books is mostly out of copyright and thus
-offers an opportunity to work with material that requires library
-preservation, and to create and work on an infrastructure to save the
-material. Acknowledging the familiarity of those working in preservation
-with this information, PERSONIUS noted that several things are being
-done: the primary preservation technology used today is photocopying of
-brittle material. Saving the intellectual content of the material is the
-main goal. With microfilm copy, the intellectual content is preserved on
-the assumption that in the future the image can be reformatted in any
-other way that then exists.
-
-An underlying assumption of the CLASS Project from the beginning was
-that it would develop a network application. Project staff scan books
-at a workstation located in the library, near the brittle material.
-An image-server filing system is located at a distance from that
-workstation, and a printer is located in another building. All of the
-materials digitized and stored on the image-filing system are cataloged
-in the on-line catalogue. In fact, a record for each of these electronic
-books is stored in the RLIN database so that a record exists of what is
-in the digital library throughout standard catalogue procedures. In the
-future, researchers working from their own workstations in their offices,
-or their networks, will have access--wherever they might be--through a
-request server being built into the new digital library. A second
-assumption is that the preferred means of finding the material will be by
-looking through a catalogue. PERSONIUS described the scanning process,
-which uses a prototype scanner being developed by Xerox and which scans a
-very high resolution image at great speed. Another significant feature,
-because this is a preservation application, is the placing of the pages
-that fall apart one for one on the platen. Ordinarily, a scanner could
-be used with some sort of a document feeder, but because of this
-application that is not feasible. Further, because CLASS is a
-preservation application, after the paper replacement is made there, a
-very careful quality control check is performed. An original book is
-compared to the printed copy and verification is made, before proceeding,
-that all of the image, all of the information, has been captured. Then,
-a new library book is produced: The printed images are rebound by a
-commercial binder and a new book is returned to the shelf.
-Significantly, the books returned to the library shelves are beautiful
-and useful replacements on acid-free paper that should last a long time,
-in effect, the equivalent of preservation photocopies. Thus, the project
-has a library of digital books. In essence, CLASS is scanning and
-storing books as 600 dot-per-inch bit-mapped images, compressed using
-Group 4 CCITT (i.e., the French acronym for International Consultative
-Committee for Telegraph and Telephone) compression. They are stored as
-TIFF files on an optical filing system that is composed of a database
-used for searching and locating the books and an optical jukebox that
-stores 64 twelve-inch platters. A very-high-resolution printed copy of
-these books at 600 dots per inch is created, using a Xerox DocuTech
-printer to make the paper replacements on acid-free paper.
-
-PERSONIUS maintained that the CLASS Project presents an opportunity to
-introduce people to books as digital images by using a paper medium.
-Books are returned to the shelves while people are also given the ability
-to print on demand--to make their own copies of books. (PERSONIUS
-distributed copies of an engineering journal published by engineering
-students at Cornell around 1900 as an example of what a print-on-demand
-copy of material might be like. This very cheap copy would be available
-to people to use for their own research purposes and would bridge the gap
-between an electronic work and the paper that readers like to have.)
-PERSONIUS then attempted to illustrate a very early prototype of
-networked access to this digital library. Xerox Corporation has
-developed a prototype of a view station that can send images across the
-network to be viewed.
-
-The particular library brought down for demonstration contained two
-mathematics books. CLASS is developing and will spend the next year
-developing an application that allows people at workstations to browse
-the books. Thus, CLASS is developing a browsing tool, on the assumption
-that users do not want to read an entire book from a workstation, but
-would prefer to be able to look through and decide if they would like to
-have a printed copy of it.
-
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-
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-DISCUSSION * Re retrieval software * "Digital file copyright" * Scanning
-rate during production * Autosegmentation * Criteria employed in
-selecting books for scanning * Compression and decompression of images *
-OCR not precluded *
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-
-During the question-and-answer period that followed her presentation,
-PERSONIUS made these additional points:
-
- * Re retrieval software, Cornell is developing a Unix-based server
- as well as clients for the server that support multiple platforms
- (Macintosh, IBM and Sun workstations), in the hope that people from
- any of those platforms will retrieve books; a further operating
- assumption is that standard interfaces will be used as much as
- possible, where standards can be put in place, because CLASS
- considers this retrieval software a library application and would
- like to be able to look at material not only at Cornell but at other
- institutions.
-
- * The phrase "digital file copyright by Cornell University" was
- added at the advice of Cornell's legal staff with the caveat that it
- probably would not hold up in court. Cornell does not want people
- to copy its books and sell them but would like to keep them
- available for use in a library environment for library purposes.
-
- * In production the scanner can scan about 300 pages per hour,
- capturing 600 dots per inch.
-
- * The Xerox software has filters to scan halftone material and avoid
- the moire patterns that occur when halftone material is scanned.
- Xerox has been working on hardware and software that would enable
- the scanner itself to recognize this situation and deal with it
- appropriately--a kind of autosegmentation that would enable the
- scanner to handle halftone material as well as text on a single page.
-
- * The books subjected to the elaborate process described above were
- selected because CLASS is a preservation project, with the first 500
- books selected coming from Cornell's mathematics collection, because
- they were still being heavily used and because, although they were
- in need of preservation, the mathematics library and the mathematics
- faculty were uncomfortable having them microfilmed. (They wanted a
- printed copy.) Thus, these books became a logical choice for this
- project. Other books were chosen by the project's selection committees
- for experiments with the technology, as well as to meet a demand or need.
-
- * Images will be decompressed before they are sent over the line; at
- this time they are compressed and sent to the image filing system
- and then sent to the printer as compressed images; they are returned
- to the workstation as compressed 600-dpi images and the workstation
- decompresses and scales them for display--an inefficient way to
- access the material though it works quite well for printing and
- other purposes.
-
- * CLASS is also decompressing on Macintosh and IBM, a slow process
- right now. Eventually, compression and decompression will take
- place on an image conversion server. Trade-offs will be made, based
- on future performance testing, concerning where the file is
- compressed and what resolution image is sent.
-
- * OCR has not been precluded; images are being stored that have been
- scanned at a high resolution, which presumably would suit them well
- to an OCR process. Because the material being scanned is about 100
- years old and was printed with less-than-ideal technologies, very
- early and preliminary tests have not produced good results. But the
- project is capturing an image that is of sufficient resolution to be
- subjected to OCR in the future. Moreover, the system architecture
- and the system plan have a logical place to store an OCR image if it
- has been captured. But that is not being done now.
-
- ******
-
-SESSION III. DISTRIBUTION, NETWORKS, AND NETWORKING: OPTIONS FOR
-DISSEMINATION
-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-ZICH * Issues pertaining to CD-ROMs * Options for publishing in CD-ROM *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Robert ZICH, special assistant to the associate librarian for special
-projects, Library of Congress, and moderator of this session, first noted
-the blessed but somewhat awkward circumstance of having four very
-distinguished people representing networks and networking or at least
-leaning in that direction, while lacking anyone to speak from the
-strongest possible background in CD-ROMs. ZICH expressed the hope that
-members of the audience would join the discussion. He stressed the
-subtitle of this particular session, "Options for Dissemination," and,
-concerning CD-ROMs, the importance of determining when it would be wise
-to consider dissemination in CD-ROM versus networks. A shopping list of
-issues pertaining to CD-ROMs included: the grounds for selecting
-commercial publishers, and in-house publication where possible versus
-nonprofit or government publication. A similar list for networks
-included: determining when one should consider dissemination through a
-network, identifying the mechanisms or entities that exist to place items
-on networks, identifying the pool of existing networks, determining how a
-producer would choose between networks, and identifying the elements of
-a business arrangement in a network.
-
-Options for publishing in CD-ROM: an outside publisher versus
-self-publication. If an outside publisher is used, it can be nonprofit,
-such as the Government Printing Office (GPO) or the National Technical
-Information Service (NTIS), in the case of government. The pros and cons
-associated with employing an outside publisher are obvious. Among the
-pros, there is no trouble getting accepted. One pays the bill and, in
-effect, goes one's way. Among the cons, when one pays an outside
-publisher to perform the work, that publisher will perform the work it is
-obliged to do, but perhaps without the production expertise and skill in
-marketing and dissemination that some would seek. There is the body of
-commercial publishers that do possess that kind of expertise in
-distribution and marketing but that obviously are selective. In
-self-publication, one exercises full control, but then one must handle
-matters such as distribution and marketing. Such are some of the options
-for publishing in the case of CD-ROM.
-
-In the case of technical and design issues, which are also important,
-there are many matters which many at the Workshop already knew a good
-deal about: retrieval system requirements and costs, what to do about
-images, the various capabilities and platforms, the trade-offs between
-cost and performance, concerns about local-area networkability,
-interoperability, etc.
-
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-
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-LYNCH * Creating networked information is different from using networks
-as an access or dissemination vehicle * Networked multimedia on a large
-scale does not yet work * Typical CD-ROM publication model a two-edged
-sword * Publishing information on a CD-ROM in the present world of
-immature standards * Contrast between CD-ROM and network pricing *
-Examples demonstrated earlier in the day as a set of insular information
-gems * Paramount need to link databases * Layering to become increasingly
-necessary * Project NEEDS and the issues of information reuse and active
-versus passive use * X-Windows as a way of differentiating between
-network access and networked information * Barriers to the distribution
-of networked multimedia information * Need for good, real-time delivery
-protocols * The question of presentation integrity in client-server
-computing in the academic world * Recommendations for producing multimedia
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Clifford LYNCH, director, Library Automation, University of California,
-opened his talk with the general observation that networked information
-constituted a difficult and elusive topic because it is something just
-starting to develop and not yet fully understood. LYNCH contended that
-creating genuinely networked information was different from using
-networks as an access or dissemination vehicle and was more sophisticated
-and more subtle. He invited the members of the audience to extrapolate,
-from what they heard about the preceding demonstration projects, to what
-sort of a world of electronics information--scholarly, archival,
-cultural, etc.--they wished to end up with ten or fifteen years from now.
-LYNCH suggested that to extrapolate directly from these projects would
-produce unpleasant results.
-
-Putting the issue of CD-ROM in perspective before getting into
-generalities on networked information, LYNCH observed that those engaged
-in multimedia today who wish to ship a product, so to say, probably do
-not have much choice except to use CD-ROM: networked multimedia on a
-large scale basically does not yet work because the technology does not
-exist. For example, anybody who has tried moving images around over the
-Internet knows that this is an exciting touch-and-go process, a
-fascinating and fertile area for experimentation, research, and
-development, but not something that one can become deeply enthusiastic
-about committing to production systems at this time.
-
-This situation will change, LYNCH said. He differentiated CD-ROM from
-the practices that have been followed up to now in distributing data on
-CD-ROM. For LYNCH the problem with CD-ROM is not its portability or its
-slowness but the two-edged sword of having the retrieval application and
-the user interface inextricably bound up with the data, which is the
-typical CD-ROM publication model. It is not a case of publishing data
-but of distributing a typically stand-alone, typically closed system,
-all--software, user interface, and data--on a little disk. Hence, all
-the between-disk navigational issues as well as the impossibility in most
-cases of integrating data on one disk with that on another. Most CD-ROM
-retrieval software does not network very gracefully at present. However,
-in the present world of immature standards and lack of understanding of
-what network information is or what the ground rules are for creating or
-using it, publishing information on a CD-ROM does add value in a very
-real sense.
-
-LYNCH drew a contrast between CD-ROM and network pricing and in doing so
-highlighted something bizarre in information pricing. A large
-institution such as the University of California has vendors who will
-offer to sell information on CD-ROM for a price per year in four digits,
-but for the same data (e.g., an abstracting and indexing database) on
-magnetic tape, regardless of how many people may use it concurrently,
-will quote a price in six digits.
-
-What is packaged with the CD-ROM in one sense adds value--a complete
-access system, not just raw, unrefined information--although it is not
-generally perceived that way. This is because the access software,
-although it adds value, is viewed by some people, particularly in the
-university environment where there is a very heavy commitment to
-networking, as being developed in the wrong direction.
-
-Given that context, LYNCH described the examples demonstrated as a set of
-insular information gems--Perseus, for example, offers nicely linked
-information, but would be very difficult to integrate with other
-databases, that is, to link together seamlessly with other source files
-from other sources. It resembles an island, and in this respect is
-similar to numerous stand-alone projects that are based on videodiscs,
-that is, on the single-workstation concept.
-
-As scholarship evolves in a network environment, the paramount need will
-be to link databases. We must link personal databases to public
-databases, to group databases, in fairly seamless ways--which is
-extremely difficult in the environments under discussion with copies of
-databases proliferating all over the place.
-
-The notion of layering also struck LYNCH as lurking in several of the
-projects demonstrated. Several databases in a sense constitute
-information archives without a significant amount of navigation built in.
-Educators, critics, and others will want a layered structure--one that
-defines or links paths through the layers to allow users to reach
-specific points. In LYNCH's view, layering will become increasingly
-necessary, and not just within a single resource but across resources
-(e.g., tracing mythology and cultural themes across several classics
-databases as well as a database of Renaissance culture). This ability to
-organize resources, to build things out of multiple other things on the
-network or select pieces of it, represented for LYNCH one of the key
-aspects of network information.
-
-Contending that information reuse constituted another significant issue,
-LYNCH commended to the audience's attention Project NEEDS (i.e., National
-Engineering Education Delivery System). This project's objective is to
-produce a database of engineering courseware as well as the components
-that can be used to develop new courseware. In a number of the existing
-applications, LYNCH said, the issue of reuse (how much one can take apart
-and reuse in other applications) was not being well considered. He also
-raised the issue of active versus passive use, one aspect of which is
-how much information will be manipulated locally by users. Most people,
-he argued, may do a little browsing and then will wish to print. LYNCH
-was uncertain how these resources would be used by the vast majority of
-users in the network environment.
-
-LYNCH next said a few words about X-Windows as a way of differentiating
-between network access and networked information. A number of the
-applications demonstrated at the Workshop could be rewritten to use X
-across the network, so that one could run them from any X-capable device-
--a workstation, an X terminal--and transact with a database across the
-network. Although this opens up access a little, assuming one has enough
-network to handle it, it does not provide an interface to develop a
-program that conveniently integrates information from multiple databases.
-X is a viewing technology that has limits. In a real sense, it is just a
-graphical version of remote log-in across the network. X-type applications
-represent only one step in the progression towards real access.
-
-LYNCH next discussed barriers to the distribution of networked multimedia
-information. The heart of the problem is a lack of standards to provide
-the ability for computers to talk to each other, retrieve information,
-and shuffle it around fairly casually. At the moment, little progress is
-being made on standards for networked information; for example, present
-standards do not cover images, digital voice, and digital video. A
-useful tool kit of exchange formats for basic texts is only now being
-assembled. The synchronization of content streams (i.e., synchronizing a
-voice track to a video track, establishing temporal relations between
-different components in a multimedia object) constitutes another issue
-for networked multimedia that is just beginning to receive attention.
-
-Underlying network protocols also need some work; good, real-time
-delivery protocols on the Internet do not yet exist. In LYNCH's view,
-highly important in this context is the notion of networked digital
-object IDs, the ability of one object on the network to point to another
-object (or component thereof) on the network. Serious bandwidth issues
-also exist. LYNCH was uncertain if billion-bit-per-second networks would
-prove sufficient if numerous people ran video in parallel.
-
-LYNCH concluded by offering an issue for database creators to consider,
-as well as several comments about what might constitute good trial
-multimedia experiments. In a networked information world the database
-builder or service builder (publisher) does not exercise the same
-extensive control over the integrity of the presentation; strange
-programs "munge" with one's data before the user sees it. Serious
-thought must be given to what guarantees integrity of presentation. Part
-of that is related to where one draws the boundaries around a networked
-information service. This question of presentation integrity in
-client-server computing has not been stressed enough in the academic
-world, LYNCH argued, though commercial service providers deal with it
-regularly.
-
-Concerning multimedia, LYNCH observed that good multimedia at the moment
-is hideously expensive to produce. He recommended producing multimedia
-with either very high sale value, or multimedia with a very long life
-span, or multimedia that will have a very broad usage base and whose
-costs therefore can be amortized among large numbers of users. In this
-connection, historical and humanistically oriented material may be a good
-place to start, because it tends to have a longer life span than much of
-the scientific material, as well as a wider user base. LYNCH noted, for
-example, that American Memory fits many of the criteria outlined. He
-remarked the extensive discussion about bringing the Internet or the
-National Research and Education Network (NREN) into the K-12 environment
-as a way of helping the American educational system.
-
-LYNCH closed by noting that the kinds of applications demonstrated struck
-him as excellent justifications of broad-scale networking for K-12, but
-that at this time no "killer" application exists to mobilize the K-12
-community to obtain connectivity.
-
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-
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-DISCUSSION * Dearth of genuinely interesting applications on the network
-a slow-changing situation * The issue of the integrity of presentation in
-a networked environment * Several reasons why CD-ROM software does not
-network *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-During the discussion period that followed LYNCH's presentation, several
-additional points were made.
-
-LYNCH reiterated even more strongly his contention that, historically,
-once one goes outside high-end science and the group of those who need
-access to supercomputers, there is a great dearth of genuinely
-interesting applications on the network. He saw this situation changing
-slowly, with some of the scientific databases and scholarly discussion
-groups and electronic journals coming on as well as with the availability
-of Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) and some of the databases that
-are being mounted there. However, many of those things do not seem to
-have piqued great popular interest. For instance, most high school
-students of LYNCH's acquaintance would not qualify as devotees of serious
-molecular biology.
-
-Concerning the issue of the integrity of presentation, LYNCH believed
-that a couple of information providers have laid down the law at least on
-certain things. For example, his recollection was that the National
-Library of Medicine feels strongly that one needs to employ the
-identifier field if he or she is to mount a database commercially. The
-problem with a real networked environment is that one does not know who
-is reformatting and reprocessing one's data when one enters a client
-server mode. It becomes anybody's guess, for example, if the network
-uses a Z39.50 server, or what clients are doing with one's data. A data
-provider can say that his contract will only permit clients to have
-access to his data after he vets them and their presentation and makes
-certain it suits him. But LYNCH held out little expectation that the
-network marketplace would evolve in that way, because it required too
-much prior negotiation.
-
-CD-ROM software does not network for a variety of reasons, LYNCH said.
-He speculated that CD-ROM publishers are not eager to have their products
-really hook into wide area networks, because they fear it will make their
-data suppliers nervous. Moreover, until relatively recently, one had to
-be rather adroit to run a full TCP/IP stack plus applications on a
-PC-size machine, whereas nowadays it is becoming easier as PCs grow
-bigger and faster. LYNCH also speculated that software providers had not
-heard from their customers until the last year or so, or had not heard
-from enough of their customers.
-
- ******
-
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-BESSER * Implications of disseminating images on the network; planning
-the distribution of multimedia documents poses two critical
-implementation problems * Layered approach represents the way to deal
-with users' capabilities * Problems in platform design; file size and its
-implications for networking * Transmission of megabyte size images
-impractical * Compression and decompression at the user's end * Promising
-trends for compression * A disadvantage of using X-Windows * A project at
-the Smithsonian that mounts images on several networks *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Howard BESSER, School of Library and Information Science, University of
-Pittsburgh, spoke primarily about multimedia, focusing on images and the
-broad implications of disseminating them on the network. He argued that
-planning the distribution of multimedia documents posed two critical
-implementation problems, which he framed in the form of two questions:
-1) What platform will one use and what hardware and software will users
-have for viewing of the material? and 2) How can one deliver a
-sufficiently robust set of information in an accessible format in a
-reasonable amount of time? Depending on whether network or CD-ROM is the
-medium used, this question raises different issues of storage,
-compression, and transmission.
-
-Concerning the design of platforms (e.g., sound, gray scale, simple
-color, etc.) and the various capabilities users may have, BESSER
-maintained that a layered approach was the way to deal with users'
-capabilities. A result would be that users with less powerful
-workstations would simply have less functionality. He urged members of
-the audience to advocate standards and accompanying software that handle
-layered functionality across a wide variety of platforms.
-
-BESSER also addressed problems in platform design, namely, deciding how
-large a machine to design for situations when the largest number of users
-have the lowest level of the machine, and one desires higher
-functionality. BESSER then proceeded to the question of file size and
-its implications for networking. He discussed still images in the main.
-For example, a digital color image that fills the screen of a standard
-mega-pel workstation (Sun or Next) will require one megabyte of storage
-for an eight-bit image or three megabytes of storage for a true color or
-twenty-four-bit image. Lossless compression algorithms (that is,
-computational procedures in which no data is lost in the process of
-compressing [and decompressing] an image--the exact bit-representation is
-maintained) might bring storage down to a third of a megabyte per image,
-but not much further than that. The question of size makes it difficult
-to fit an appropriately sized set of these images on a single disk or to
-transmit them quickly enough on a network.
-
-With these full screen mega-pel images that constitute a third of a
-megabyte, one gets 1,000-3,000 full-screen images on a one-gigabyte disk;
-a standard CD-ROM represents approximately 60 percent of that. Storing
-images the size of a PC screen (just 8 bit color) increases storage
-capacity to 4,000-12,000 images per gigabyte; 60 percent of that gives
-one the size of a CD-ROM, which in turn creates a major problem. One
-cannot have full-screen, full-color images with lossless compression; one
-must compress them or use a lower resolution. For megabyte-size images,
-anything slower than a T-1 speed is impractical. For example, on a
-fifty-six-kilobaud line, it takes three minutes to transfer a
-one-megabyte file, if it is not compressed; and this speed assumes ideal
-circumstances (no other user contending for network bandwidth). Thus,
-questions of disk access, remote display, and current telephone
-connection speed make transmission of megabyte-size images impractical.
-
-BESSER then discussed ways to deal with these large images, for example,
-compression and decompression at the user's end. In this connection, the
-issues of how much one is willing to lose in the compression process and
-what image quality one needs in the first place are unknown. But what is
-known is that compression entails some loss of data. BESSER urged that
-more studies be conducted on image quality in different situations, for
-example, what kind of images are needed for what kind of disciplines, and
-what kind of image quality is needed for a browsing tool, an intermediate
-viewing tool, and archiving.
-
-BESSER remarked two promising trends for compression: from a technical
-perspective, algorithms that use what is called subjective redundancy
-employ principles from visual psycho-physics to identify and remove
-information from the image that the human eye cannot perceive; from an
-interchange and interoperability perspective, the JPEG (i.e., Joint
-Photographic Experts Group, an ISO standard) compression algorithms also
-offer promise. These issues of compression and decompression, BESSER
-argued, resembled those raised earlier concerning the design of different
-platforms. Gauging the capabilities of potential users constitutes a
-primary goal. BESSER advocated layering or separating the images from
-the applications that retrieve and display them, to avoid tying them to
-particular software.
-
-BESSER detailed several lessons learned from his work at Berkeley with
-Imagequery, especially the advantages and disadvantages of using
-X-Windows. In the latter category, for example, retrieval is tied
-directly to one's data, an intolerable situation in the long run on a
-networked system. Finally, BESSER described a project of Jim Wallace at
-the Smithsonian Institution, who is mounting images in a extremely
-rudimentary way on the Compuserv and Genie networks and is preparing to
-mount them on America On Line. Although the average user takes over
-thirty minutes to download these images (assuming a fairly fast modem),
-nevertheless, images have been downloaded 25,000 times.
-
-BESSER concluded his talk with several comments on the business
-arrangement between the Smithsonian and Compuserv. He contended that not
-enough is known concerning the value of images.
-
- ******
-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-DISCUSSION * Creating digitized photographic collections nearly
-impossible except with large organizations like museums * Need for study
-to determine quality of images users will tolerate *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-During the brief exchange between LESK and BESSER that followed, several
-clarifications emerged.
-
-LESK argued that the photographers were far ahead of BESSER: It is
-almost impossible to create such digitized photographic collections
-except with large organizations like museums, because all the
-photographic agencies have been going crazy about this and will not sign
-licensing agreements on any sort of reasonable terms. LESK had heard
-that National Geographic, for example, had tried to buy the right to use
-some image in some kind of educational production for $100 per image, but
-the photographers will not touch it. They want accounting and payment
-for each use, which cannot be accomplished within the system. BESSER
-responded that a consortium of photographers, headed by a former National
-Geographic photographer, had started assembling its own collection of
-electronic reproductions of images, with the money going back to the
-cooperative.
-
-LESK contended that BESSER was unnecessarily pessimistic about multimedia
-images, because people are accustomed to low-quality images, particularly
-from video. BESSER urged the launching of a study to determine what
-users would tolerate, what they would feel comfortable with, and what
-absolutely is the highest quality they would ever need. Conceding that
-he had adopted a dire tone in order to arouse people about the issue,
-BESSER closed on a sanguine note by saying that he would not be in this
-business if he did not think that things could be accomplished.
-
- ******
-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-LARSEN * Issues of scalability and modularity * Geometric growth of the
-Internet and the role played by layering * Basic functions sustaining
-this growth * A library's roles and functions in a network environment *
-Effects of implementation of the Z39.50 protocol for information
-retrieval on the library system * The trade-off between volumes of data
-and its potential usage * A snapshot of current trends *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Ronald LARSEN, associate director for information technology, University
-of Maryland at College Park, first addressed the issues of scalability
-and modularity. He noted the difficulty of anticipating the effects of
-orders-of-magnitude growth, reflecting on the twenty years of experience
-with the Arpanet and Internet. Recalling the day's demonstrations of
-CD-ROM and optical disk material, he went on to ask if the field has yet
-learned how to scale new systems to enable delivery and dissemination
-across large-scale networks.
-
-LARSEN focused on the geometric growth of the Internet from its inception
-circa 1969 to the present, and the adjustments required to respond to
-that rapid growth. To illustrate the issue of scalability, LARSEN
-considered computer networks as including three generic components:
-computers, network communication nodes, and communication media. Each
-component scales (e.g., computers range from PCs to supercomputers;
-network nodes scale from interface cards in a PC through sophisticated
-routers and gateways; and communication media range from 2,400-baud
-dial-up facilities through 4.5-Mbps backbone links, and eventually to
-multigigabit-per-second communication lines), and architecturally, the
-components are organized to scale hierarchically from local area networks
-to international-scale networks. Such growth is made possible by
-building layers of communication protocols, as BESSER pointed out.
-By layering both physically and logically, a sense of scalability is
-maintained from local area networks in offices, across campuses, through
-bridges, routers, campus backbones, fiber-optic links, etc., up into
-regional networks and ultimately into national and international
-networks.
-
-LARSEN then illustrated the geometric growth over a two-year period--
-through September 1991--of the number of networks that comprise the
-Internet. This growth has been sustained largely by the availability of
-three basic functions: electronic mail, file transfer (ftp), and remote
-log-on (telnet). LARSEN also reviewed the growth in the kind of traffic
-that occurs on the network. Network traffic reflects the joint contributions
-of a larger population of users and increasing use per user. Today one sees
-serious applications involving moving images across the network--a rarity
-ten years ago. LARSEN recalled and concurred with BESSER's main point
-that the interesting problems occur at the application level.
-
-LARSEN then illustrated a model of a library's roles and functions in a
-network environment. He noted, in particular, the placement of on-line
-catalogues onto the network and patrons obtaining access to the library
-increasingly through local networks, campus networks, and the Internet.
-LARSEN supported LYNCH's earlier suggestion that we need to address
-fundamental questions of networked information in order to build
-environments that scale in the information sense as well as in the
-physical sense.
-
-LARSEN supported the role of the library system as the access point into
-the nation's electronic collections. Implementation of the Z39.50
-protocol for information retrieval would make such access practical and
-feasible. For example, this would enable patrons in Maryland to search
-California libraries, or other libraries around the world that are
-conformant with Z39.50 in a manner that is familiar to University of
-Maryland patrons. This client-server model also supports moving beyond
-secondary content into primary content. (The notion of how one links
-from secondary content to primary content, LARSEN said, represents a
-fundamental problem that requires rigorous thought.) After noting
-numerous network experiments in accessing full-text materials, including
-projects supporting the ordering of materials across the network, LARSEN
-revisited the issue of transmitting high-density, high-resolution color
-images across the network and the large amounts of bandwidth they
-require. He went on to address the bandwidth and synchronization
-problems inherent in sending full-motion video across the network.
-
-LARSEN illustrated the trade-off between volumes of data in bytes or
-orders of magnitude and the potential usage of that data. He discussed
-transmission rates (particularly, the time it takes to move various forms
-of information), and what one could do with a network supporting
-multigigabit-per-second transmission. At the moment, the network
-environment includes a composite of data-transmission requirements,
-volumes and forms, going from steady to bursty (high-volume) and from
-very slow to very fast. This aggregate must be considered in the design,
-construction, and operation of multigigabyte networks.
-
-LARSEN's objective is to use the networks and library systems now being
-constructed to increase access to resources wherever they exist, and
-thus, to evolve toward an on-line electronic virtual library.
-
-LARSEN concluded by offering a snapshot of current trends: continuing
-geometric growth in network capacity and number of users; slower
-development of applications; and glacial development and adoption of
-standards. The challenge is to design and develop each new application
-system with network access and scalability in mind.
-
- ******
-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-BROWNRIGG * Access to the Internet cannot be taken for granted * Packet
-radio and the development of MELVYL in 1980-81 in the Division of Library
-Automation at the University of California * Design criteria for packet
-radio * A demonstration project in San Diego and future plans * Spread
-spectrum * Frequencies at which the radios will run and plans to
-reimplement the WAIS server software in the public domain * Need for an
-infrastructure of radios that do not move around *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Edwin BROWNRIGG, executive director, Memex Research Institute, first
-polled the audience in order to seek out regular users of the Internet as
-well as those planning to use it some time in the future. With nearly
-everybody in the room falling into one category or the other, BROWNRIGG
-made a point re access, namely that numerous individuals, especially those
-who use the Internet every day, take for granted their access to it, the
-speeds with which they are connected, and how well it all works.
-However, as BROWNRIGG discovered between 1987 and 1989 in Australia,
-if one wants access to the Internet but cannot afford it or has some
-physical boundary that prevents her or him from gaining access, it can
-be extremely frustrating. He suggested that because of economics and
-physical barriers we were beginning to create a world of haves and have-nots
-in the process of scholarly communication, even in the United States.
-
-BROWNRIGG detailed the development of MELVYL in academic year 1980-81 in
-the Division of Library Automation at the University of California, in
-order to underscore the issue of access to the system, which at the
-outset was extremely limited. In short, the project needed to build a
-network, which at that time entailed use of satellite technology, that is,
-putting earth stations on campus and also acquiring some terrestrial links
-from the State of California's microwave system. The installation of
-satellite links, however, did not solve the problem (which actually
-formed part of a larger problem involving politics and financial resources).
-For while the project team could get a signal onto a campus, it had no means
-of distributing the signal throughout the campus. The solution involved
-adopting a recent development in wireless communication called packet radio,
-which combined the basic notion of packet-switching with radio. The project
-used this technology to get the signal from a point on campus where it
-came down, an earth station for example, into the libraries, because it
-found that wiring the libraries, especially the older marble buildings,
-would cost $2,000-$5,000 per terminal.
-
-BROWNRIGG noted that, ten years ago, the project had neither the public
-policy nor the technology that would have allowed it to use packet radio
-in any meaningful way. Since then much had changed. He proceeded to
-detail research and development of the technology, how it is being
-deployed in California, and what direction he thought it would take.
-The design criteria are to produce a high-speed, one-time, low-cost,
-high-quality, secure, license-free device (packet radio) that one can
-plug in and play today, forget about it, and have access to the Internet.
-By high speed, BROWNRIGG meant 1 megabyte and 1.5 megabytes. Those units
-have been built, he continued, and are in the process of being
-type-certified by an independent underwriting laboratory so that they can
-be type-licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. As is the
-case with citizens band, one will be able to purchase a unit and not have
-to worry about applying for a license.
-
-The basic idea, BROWNRIGG elaborated, is to take high-speed radio data
-transmission and create a backbone network that at certain strategic
-points in the network will "gateway" into a medium-speed packet radio
-(i.e., one that runs at 38.4 kilobytes), so that perhaps by 1994-1995
-people, like those in the audience for the price of a VCR could purchase
-a medium-speed radio for the office or home, have full network connectivity
-to the Internet, and partake of all its services, with no need for an FCC
-license and no regular bill from the local common carrier. BROWNRIGG
-presented several details of a demonstration project currently taking
-place in San Diego and described plans, pending funding, to install a
-full-bore network in the San Francisco area. This network will have 600
-nodes running at backbone speeds, and 100 of these nodes will be libraries,
-which in turn will be the gateway ports to the 38.4 kilobyte radios that
-will give coverage for the neighborhoods surrounding the libraries.
-
-BROWNRIGG next explained Part 15.247, a new rule within Title 47 of the
-Code of Federal Regulations enacted by the FCC in 1985. This rule
-challenged the industry, which has only now risen to the occasion, to
-build a radio that would run at no more than one watt of output power and
-use a fairly exotic method of modulating the radio wave called spread
-spectrum. Spread spectrum in fact permits the building of networks so
-that numerous data communications can occur simultaneously, without
-interfering with each other, within the same wide radio channel.
-
-BROWNRIGG explained that the frequencies at which the radios would run
-are very short wave signals. They are well above standard microwave and
-radar. With a radio wave that small, one watt becomes a tremendous punch
-per bit and thus makes transmission at reasonable speed possible. In
-order to minimize the potential for congestion, the project is
-undertaking to reimplement software which has been available in the
-networking business and is taken for granted now, for example, TCP/IP,
-routing algorithms, bridges, and gateways. In addition, the project
-plans to take the WAIS server software in the public domain and
-reimplement it so that one can have a WAIS server on a Mac instead of a
-Unix machine. The Memex Research Institute believes that libraries, in
-particular, will want to use the WAIS servers with packet radio. This
-project, which has a team of about twelve people, will run through 1993
-and will include the 100 libraries already mentioned as well as other
-professionals such as those in the medical profession, engineering, and
-law. Thus, the need is to create an infrastructure of radios that do not
-move around, which, BROWNRIGG hopes, will solve a problem not only for
-libraries but for individuals who, by and large today, do not have access
-to the Internet from their homes and offices.
-
- ******
-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-DISCUSSION * Project operating frequencies *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-During a brief discussion period, which also concluded the day's
-proceedings, BROWNRIGG stated that the project was operating in four
-frequencies. The slow speed is operating at 435 megahertz, and it would
-later go up to 920 megahertz. With the high-speed frequency, the
-one-megabyte radios will run at 2.4 gigabits, and 1.5 will run at 5.7.
-At 5.7, rain can be a factor, but it would have to be tropical rain,
-unlike what falls in most parts of the United States.
-
- ******
-
-SESSION IV. IMAGE CAPTURE, TEXT CAPTURE, OVERVIEW OF TEXT AND
- IMAGE STORAGE FORMATS
-
-William HOOTON, vice president of operations, I-NET, moderated this session.
-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-KENNEY * Factors influencing development of CXP * Advantages of using
-digital technology versus photocopy and microfilm * A primary goal of
-CXP; publishing challenges * Characteristics of copies printed * Quality
-of samples achieved in image capture * Several factors to be considered
-in choosing scanning * Emphasis of CXP on timely and cost-effective
-production of black-and-white printed facsimiles * Results of producing
-microfilm from digital files * Advantages of creating microfilm * Details
-concerning production * Costs * Role of digital technology in library
-preservation *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Anne KENNEY, associate director, Department of Preservation and
-Conservation, Cornell University, opened her talk by observing that the
-Cornell Xerox Project (CXP) has been guided by the assumption that the
-ability to produce printed facsimiles or to replace paper with paper
-would be important, at least for the present generation of users and
-equipment. She described three factors that influenced development of
-the project: 1) Because the project has emphasized the preservation of
-deteriorating brittle books, the quality of what was produced had to be
-sufficiently high to return a paper replacement to the shelf. CXP was
-only interested in using: 2) a system that was cost-effective, which
-meant that it had to be cost-competitive with the processes currently
-available, principally photocopy and microfilm, and 3) new or currently
-available product hardware and software.
-
-KENNEY described the advantages that using digital technology offers over
-both photocopy and microfilm: 1) The potential exists to create a higher
-quality reproduction of a deteriorating original than conventional
-light-lens technology. 2) Because a digital image is an encoded
-representation, it can be reproduced again and again with no resulting
-loss of quality, as opposed to the situation with light-lens processes,
-in which there is discernible difference between a second and a
-subsequent generation of an image. 3) A digital image can be manipulated
-in a number of ways to improve image capture; for example, Xerox has
-developed a windowing application that enables one to capture a page
-containing both text and illustrations in a manner that optimizes the
-reproduction of both. (With light-lens technology, one must choose which
-to optimize, text or the illustration; in preservation microfilming, the
-current practice is to shoot an illustrated page twice, once to highlight
-the text and the second time to provide the best capture for the
-illustration.) 4) A digital image can also be edited, density levels
-adjusted to remove underlining and stains, and to increase legibility for
-faint documents. 5) On-screen inspection can take place at the time of
-initial setup and adjustments made prior to scanning, factors that
-substantially reduce the number of retakes required in quality control.
-
-A primary goal of CXP has been to evaluate the paper output printed on
-the Xerox DocuTech, a high-speed printer that produces 600-dpi pages from
-scanned images at a rate of 135 pages a minute. KENNEY recounted several
-publishing challenges to represent faithful and legible reproductions of
-the originals that the 600-dpi copy for the most part successfully
-captured. For example, many of the deteriorating volumes in the project
-were heavily illustrated with fine line drawings or halftones or came in
-languages such as Japanese, in which the buildup of characters comprised
-of varying strokes is difficult to reproduce at lower resolutions; a
-surprising number of them came with annotations and mathematical
-formulas, which it was critical to be able to duplicate exactly.
-
-KENNEY noted that 1) the copies are being printed on paper that meets the
-ANSI standards for performance, 2) the DocuTech printer meets the machine
-and toner requirements for proper adhesion of print to page, as described
-by the National Archives, and thus 3) paper product is considered to be
-the archival equivalent of preservation photocopy.
-
-KENNEY then discussed several samples of the quality achieved in the
-project that had been distributed in a handout, for example, a copy of a
-print-on-demand version of the 1911 Reed lecture on the steam turbine,
-which contains halftones, line drawings, and illustrations embedded in
-text; the first four loose pages in the volume compared the capture
-capabilities of scanning to photocopy for a standard test target, the
-IEEE standard 167A 1987 test chart. In all instances scanning proved
-superior to photocopy, though only slightly more so in one.
-
-Conceding the simplistic nature of her review of the quality of scanning
-to photocopy, KENNEY described it as one representation of the kinds of
-settings that could be used with scanning capabilities on the equipment
-CXP uses. KENNEY also pointed out that CXP investigated the quality
-achieved with binary scanning only, and noted the great promise in gray
-scale and color scanning, whose advantages and disadvantages need to be
-examined. She argued further that scanning resolutions and file formats
-can represent a complex trade-off between the time it takes to capture
-material, file size, fidelity to the original, and on-screen display; and
-printing and equipment availability. All these factors must be taken
-into consideration.
-
-CXP placed primary emphasis on the production in a timely and
-cost-effective manner of printed facsimiles that consisted largely of
-black-and-white text. With binary scanning, large files may be
-compressed efficiently and in a lossless manner (i.e., no data is lost in
-the process of compressing [and decompressing] an image--the exact
-bit-representation is maintained) using Group 4 CCITT (i.e., the French
-acronym for International Consultative Committee for Telegraph and
-Telephone) compression. CXP was getting compression ratios of about
-forty to one. Gray-scale compression, which primarily uses JPEG, is much
-less economical and can represent a lossy compression (i.e., not
-lossless), so that as one compresses and decompresses, the illustration
-is subtly changed. While binary files produce a high-quality printed
-version, it appears 1) that other combinations of spatial resolution with
-gray and/or color hold great promise as well, and 2) that gray scale can
-represent a tremendous advantage for on-screen viewing. The quality
-associated with binary and gray scale also depends on the equipment used.
-For instance, binary scanning produces a much better copy on a binary
-printer.
-
-Among CXP's findings concerning the production of microfilm from digital
-files, KENNEY reported that the digital files for the same Reed lecture
-were used to produce sample film using an electron beam recorder. The
-resulting film was faithful to the image capture of the digital files,
-and while CXP felt that the text and image pages represented in the Reed
-lecture were superior to that of the light-lens film, the resolution
-readings for the 600 dpi were not as high as standard microfilming.
-KENNEY argued that the standards defined for light-lens technology are
-not totally transferable to a digital environment. Moreover, they are
-based on definition of quality for a preservation copy. Although making
-this case will prove to be a long, uphill struggle, CXP plans to continue
-to investigate the issue over the course of the next year.
-
-KENNEY concluded this portion of her talk with a discussion of the
-advantages of creating film: it can serve as a primary backup and as a
-preservation master to the digital file; it could then become the print
-or production master and service copies could be paper, film, optical
-disks, magnetic media, or on-screen display.
-
-Finally, KENNEY presented details re production:
-
- * Development and testing of a moderately-high resolution production
- scanning workstation represented a third goal of CXP; to date, 1,000
- volumes have been scanned, or about 300,000 images.
-
- * The resulting digital files are stored and used to produce
- hard-copy replacements for the originals and additional prints on
- demand; although the initial costs are high, scanning technology
- offers an affordable means for reformatting brittle material.
-
- * A technician in production mode can scan 300 pages per hour when
- performing single-sheet scanning, which is a necessity when working
- with truly brittle paper; this figure is expected to increase
- significantly with subsequent iterations of the software from Xerox;
- a three-month time-and-cost study of scanning found that the average
- 300-page book would take about an hour and forty minutes to scan
- (this figure included the time for setup, which involves keying in
- primary bibliographic data, going into quality control mode to
- define page size, establishing front-to-back registration, and
- scanning sample pages to identify a default range of settings for
- the entire book--functions not dissimilar to those performed by
- filmers or those preparing a book for photocopy).
-
- * The final step in the scanning process involved rescans, which
- happily were few and far between, representing well under 1 percent
- of the total pages scanned.
-
-In addition to technician time, CXP costed out equipment, amortized over
-four years, the cost of storing and refreshing the digital files every
-four years, and the cost of printing and binding, book-cloth binding, a
-paper reproduction. The total amounted to a little under $65 per single
-300-page volume, with 30 percent overhead included--a figure competitive
-with the prices currently charged by photocopy vendors.
-
-Of course, with scanning, in addition to the paper facsimile, one is left
-with a digital file from which subsequent copies of the book can be
-produced for a fraction of the cost of photocopy, with readers afforded
-choices in the form of these copies.
-
-KENNEY concluded that digital technology offers an electronic means for a
-library preservation effort to pay for itself. If a brittle-book program
-included the means of disseminating reprints of books that are in demand
-by libraries and researchers alike, the initial investment in capture
-could be recovered and used to preserve additional but less popular
-books. She disclosed that an economic model for a self-sustaining
-program could be developed for CXP's report to the Commission on
-Preservation and Access (CPA).
-
-KENNEY stressed that the focus of CXP has been on obtaining high quality
-in a production environment. The use of digital technology is viewed as
-an affordable alternative to other reformatting options.
-
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-ANDRE * Overview and history of NATDP * Various agricultural CD-ROM
-products created inhouse and by service bureaus * Pilot project on
-Internet transmission * Additional products in progress *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Pamela ANDRE, associate director for automation, National Agricultural
-Text Digitizing Program (NATDP), National Agricultural Library (NAL),
-presented an overview of NATDP, which has been underway at NAL the last
-four years, before Judith ZIDAR discussed the technical details. ANDRE
-defined agricultural information as a broad range of material going from
-basic and applied research in the hard sciences to the one-page pamphlets
-that are distributed by the cooperative state extension services on such
-things as how to grow blueberries.
-
-NATDP began in late 1986 with a meeting of representatives from the
-land-grant library community to deal with the issue of electronic
-information. NAL and forty-five of these libraries banded together to
-establish this project--to evaluate the technology for converting what
-were then source documents in paper form into electronic form, to provide
-access to that digital information, and then to distribute it.
-Distributing that material to the community--the university community as
-well as the extension service community, potentially down to the county
-level--constituted the group's chief concern.
-
-Since January 1988 (when the microcomputer-based scanning system was
-installed at NAL), NATDP has done a variety of things, concerning which
-ZIDAR would provide further details. For example, the first technology
-considered in the project's discussion phase was digital videodisc, which
-indicates how long ago it was conceived.
-
-Over the four years of this project, four separate CD-ROM products on
-four different agricultural topics were created, two at a
-scanning-and-OCR station installed at NAL, and two by service bureaus.
-Thus, NATDP has gained comparative information in terms of those relative
-costs. Each of these products contained the full ASCII text as well as
-page images of the material, or between 4,000 and 6,000 pages of material
-on these disks. Topics included aquaculture, food, agriculture and
-science (i.e., international agriculture and research), acid rain, and
-Agent Orange, which was the final product distributed (approximately
-eighteen months before the Workshop).
-
-The third phase of NATDP focused on delivery mechanisms other than
-CD-ROM. At the suggestion of Clifford LYNCH, who was a technical
-consultant to the project at this point, NATDP became involved with the
-Internet and initiated a project with the help of North Carolina State
-University, in which fourteen of the land-grant university libraries are
-transmitting digital images over the Internet in response to interlibrary
-loan requests--a topic for another meeting. At this point, the pilot
-project had been completed for about a year and the final report would be
-available shortly after the Workshop. In the meantime, the project's
-success had led to its extension. (ANDRE noted that one of the first
-things done under the program title was to select a retrieval package to
-use with subsequent products; Windows Personal Librarian was the package
-of choice after a lengthy evaluation.)
-
-Three additional products had been planned and were in progress:
-
- 1) An arrangement with the American Society of Agronomy--a
- professional society that has published the Agronomy Journal since
- about 1908--to scan and create bit-mapped images of its journal.
- ASA granted permission first to put and then to distribute this
- material in electronic form, to hold it at NAL, and to use these
- electronic images as a mechanism to deliver documents or print out
- material for patrons, among other uses. Effectively, NAL has the
- right to use this material in support of its program.
- (Significantly, this arrangement offers a potential cooperative
- model for working with other professional societies in agriculture
- to try to do the same thing--put the journals of particular interest
- to agriculture research into electronic form.)
-
- 2) An extension of the earlier product on aquaculture.
-
- 3) The George Washington Carver Papers--a joint project with
- Tuskegee University to scan and convert from microfilm some 3,500
- images of Carver's papers, letters, and drawings.
-
-It was anticipated that all of these products would appear no more than
-six months after the Workshop.
-
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-ZIDAR * (A separate arena for scanning) * Steps in creating a database *
-Image capture, with and without performing OCR * Keying in tracking data
-* Scanning, with electronic and manual tracking * Adjustments during
-scanning process * Scanning resolutions * Compression * De-skewing and
-filtering * Image capture from microform: the papers and letters of
-George Washington Carver * Equipment used for a scanning system *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Judith ZIDAR, coordinator, National Agricultural Text Digitizing Program
-(NATDP), National Agricultural Library (NAL), illustrated the technical
-details of NATDP, including her primary responsibility, scanning and
-creating databases on a topic and putting them on CD-ROM.
-
-(ZIDAR remarked a separate arena from the CD-ROM projects, although the
-processing of the material is nearly identical, in which NATDP is also
-scanning material and loading it on a Next microcomputer, which in turn
-is linked to NAL's integrated library system. Thus, searches in NAL's
-bibliographic database will enable people to pull up actual page images
-and text for any documents that have been entered.)
-
-In accordance with the session's topic, ZIDAR focused her illustrated
-talk on image capture, offering a primer on the three main steps in the
-process: 1) assemble the printed publications; 2) design the database
-(database design occurs in the process of preparing the material for
-scanning; this step entails reviewing and organizing the material,
-defining the contents--what will constitute a record, what kinds of
-fields will be captured in terms of author, title, etc.); 3) perform a
-certain amount of markup on the paper publications. NAL performs this
-task record by record, preparing work sheets or some other sort of
-tracking material and designing descriptors and other enhancements to be
-added to the data that will not be captured from the printed publication.
-Part of this process also involves determining NATDP's file and directory
-structure: NATDP attempts to avoid putting more than approximately 100
-images in a directory, because placing more than that on a CD-ROM would
-reduce the access speed.
-
-This up-front process takes approximately two weeks for a
-6,000-7,000-page database. The next step is to capture the page images.
-How long this process takes is determined by the decision whether or not
-to perform OCR. Not performing OCR speeds the process, whereas text
-capture requires greater care because of the quality of the image: it
-has to be straighter and allowance must be made for text on a page, not
-just for the capture of photographs.
-
-NATDP keys in tracking data, that is, a standard bibliographic record
-including the title of the book and the title of the chapter, which will
-later either become the access information or will be attached to the
-front of a full-text record so that it is searchable.
-
-Images are scanned from a bound or unbound publication, chiefly from
-bound publications in the case of NATDP, however, because often they are
-the only copies and the publications are returned to the shelves. NATDP
-usually scans one record at a time, because its database tracking system
-tracks the document in that way and does not require further logical
-separating of the images. After performing optical character
-recognition, NATDP moves the images off the hard disk and maintains a
-volume sheet. Though the system tracks electronically, all the
-processing steps are also tracked manually with a log sheet.
-
-ZIDAR next illustrated the kinds of adjustments that one can make when
-scanning from paper and microfilm, for example, redoing images that need
-special handling, setting for dithering or gray scale, and adjusting for
-brightness or for the whole book at one time.
-
-NATDP is scanning at 300 dots per inch, a standard scanning resolution.
-Though adequate for capturing text that is all of a standard size, 300
-dpi is unsuitable for any kind of photographic material or for very small
-text. Many scanners allow for different image formats, TIFF, of course,
-being a de facto standard. But if one intends to exchange images with
-other people, the ability to scan other image formats, even if they are
-less common, becomes highly desirable.
-
-CCITT Group 4 is the standard compression for normal black-and-white
-images, JPEG for gray scale or color. ZIDAR recommended 1) using the
-standard compressions, particularly if one attempts to make material
-available and to allow users to download images and reuse them from
-CD-ROMs; and 2) maintaining the ability to output an uncompressed image,
-because in image exchange uncompressed images are more likely to be able
-to cross platforms.
-
-ZIDAR emphasized the importance of de-skewing and filtering as
-requirements on NATDP's upgraded system. For instance, scanning bound
-books, particularly books published by the federal government whose pages
-are skewed, and trying to scan them straight if OCR is to be performed,
-is extremely time-consuming. The same holds for filtering of
-poor-quality or older materials.
-
-ZIDAR described image capture from microform, using as an example three
-reels from a sixty-seven-reel set of the papers and letters of George
-Washington Carver that had been produced by Tuskegee University. These
-resulted in approximately 3,500 images, which NATDP had had scanned by
-its service contractor, Science Applications International Corporation
-(SAIC). NATDP also created bibliographic records for access. (NATDP did
-not have such specialized equipment as a microfilm scanner.
-
-Unfortunately, the process of scanning from microfilm was not an
-unqualified success, ZIDAR reported: because microfilm frame sizes vary,
-occasionally some frames were missed, which without spending much time
-and money could not be recaptured.
-
-OCR could not be performed from the scanned images of the frames. The
-bleeding in the text simply output text, when OCR was run, that could not
-even be edited. NATDP tested for negative versus positive images,
-landscape versus portrait orientation, and single- versus dual-page
-microfilm, none of which seemed to affect the quality of the image; but
-also on none of them could OCR be performed.
-
-In selecting the microfilm they would use, therefore, NATDP had other
-factors in mind. ZIDAR noted two factors that influenced the quality of
-the images: 1) the inherent quality of the original and 2) the amount of
-size reduction on the pages.
-
-The Carver papers were selected because they are informative and visually
-interesting, treat a single subject, and are valuable in their own right.
-The images were scanned and divided into logical records by SAIC, then
-delivered, and loaded onto NATDP's system, where bibliographic
-information taken directly from the images was added. Scanning was
-completed in summer 1991 and by the end of summer 1992 the disk was
-scheduled to be published.
-
-Problems encountered during processing included the following: Because
-the microfilm scanning had to be done in a batch, adjustment for
-individual page variations was not possible. The frame size varied on
-account of the nature of the material, and therefore some of the frames
-were missed while others were just partial frames. The only way to go
-back and capture this material was to print out the page with the
-microfilm reader from the missing frame and then scan it in from the
-page, which was extremely time-consuming. The quality of the images
-scanned from the printout of the microfilm compared unfavorably with that
-of the original images captured directly from the microfilm. The
-inability to perform OCR also was a major disappointment. At the time,
-computer output microfilm was unavailable to test.
-
-The equipment used for a scanning system was the last topic addressed by
-ZIDAR. The type of equipment that one would purchase for a scanning
-system included: a microcomputer, at least a 386, but preferably a 486;
-a large hard disk, 380 megabyte at minimum; a multi-tasking operating
-system that allows one to run some things in batch in the background
-while scanning or doing text editing, for example, Unix or OS/2 and,
-theoretically, Windows; a high-speed scanner and scanning software that
-allows one to make the various adjustments mentioned earlier; a
-high-resolution monitor (150 dpi ); OCR software and hardware to perform
-text recognition; an optical disk subsystem on which to archive all the
-images as the processing is done; file management and tracking software.
-
-ZIDAR opined that the software one purchases was more important than the
-hardware and might also cost more than the hardware, but it was likely to
-prove critical to the success or failure of one's system. In addition to
-a stand-alone scanning workstation for image capture, then, text capture
-requires one or two editing stations networked to this scanning station
-to perform editing. Editing the text takes two or three times as long as
-capturing the images.
-
-Finally, ZIDAR stressed the importance of buying an open system that allows
-for more than one vendor, complies with standards, and can be upgraded.
-
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-WATERS *Yale University Library's master plan to convert microfilm to
-digital imagery (POB) * The place of electronic tools in the library of
-the future * The uses of images and an image library * Primary input from
-preservation microfilm * Features distinguishing POB from CXP and key
-hypotheses guiding POB * Use of vendor selection process to facilitate
-organizational work * Criteria for selecting vendor * Finalists and
-results of process for Yale * Key factor distinguishing vendors *
-Components, design principles, and some estimated costs of POB * Role of
-preservation materials in developing imaging market * Factors affecting
-quality and cost * Factors affecting the usability of complex documents
-in image form *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Donald WATERS, head of the Systems Office, Yale University Library,
-reported on the progress of a master plan for a project at Yale to
-convert microfilm to digital imagery, Project Open Book (POB). Stating
-that POB was in an advanced stage of planning, WATERS detailed, in
-particular, the process of selecting a vendor partner and several key
-issues under discussion as Yale prepares to move into the project itself.
-He commented first on the vision that serves as the context of POB and
-then described its purpose and scope.
-
-WATERS sees the library of the future not necessarily as an electronic
-library but as a place that generates, preserves, and improves for its
-clients ready access to both intellectual and physical recorded
-knowledge. Electronic tools must find a place in the library in the
-context of this vision. Several roles for electronic tools include
-serving as: indirect sources of electronic knowledge or as "finding"
-aids (the on-line catalogues, the article-level indices, registers for
-documents and archives); direct sources of recorded knowledge; full-text
-images; and various kinds of compound sources of recorded knowledge (the
-so-called compound documents of Hypertext, mixed text and image,
-mixed-text image format, and multimedia).
-
-POB is looking particularly at images and an image library, the uses to
-which images will be put (e.g., storage, printing, browsing, and then use
-as input for other processes), OCR as a subsequent process to image
-capture, or creating an image library, and also possibly generating
-microfilm.
-
-While input will come from a variety of sources, POB is considering
-especially input from preservation microfilm. A possible outcome is that
-the film and paper which provide the input for the image library
-eventually may go off into remote storage, and that the image library may
-be the primary access tool.
-
-The purpose and scope of POB focus on imaging. Though related to CXP,
-POB has two features which distinguish it: 1) scale--conversion of
-10,000 volumes into digital image form; and 2) source--conversion from
-microfilm. Given these features, several key working hypotheses guide
-POB, including: 1) Since POB is using microfilm, it is not concerned with
-the image library as a preservation medium. 2) Digital imagery can improve
-access to recorded knowledge through printing and network distribution at
-a modest incremental cost of microfilm. 3) Capturing and storing documents
-in a digital image form is necessary to further improvements in access.
-(POB distinguishes between the imaging, digitizing process and OCR,
-which at this stage it does not plan to perform.)
-
-Currently in its first or organizational phase, POB found that it could
-use a vendor selection process to facilitate a good deal of the
-organizational work (e.g., creating a project team and advisory board,
-confirming the validity of the plan, establishing the cost of the project
-and a budget, selecting the materials to convert, and then raising the
-necessary funds).
-
-POB developed numerous selection criteria, including: a firm committed
-to image-document management, the ability to serve as systems integrator
-in a large-scale project over several years, interest in developing the
-requisite software as a standard rather than a custom product, and a
-willingness to invest substantial resources in the project itself.
-
-Two vendors, DEC and Xerox, were selected as finalists in October 1991,
-and with the support of the Commission on Preservation and Access, each
-was commissioned to generate a detailed requirements analysis for the
-project and then to submit a formal proposal for the completion of the
-project, which included a budget and costs. The terms were that POB would
-pay the loser. The results for Yale of involving a vendor included:
-broad involvement of Yale staff across the board at a relatively low
-cost, which may have long-term significance in carrying out the project
-(twenty-five to thirty university people are engaged in POB); better
-understanding of the factors that affect corporate response to markets
-for imaging products; a competitive proposal; and a more sophisticated
-view of the imaging markets.
-
-The most important factor that distinguished the vendors under
-consideration was their identification with the customer. The size and
-internal complexity of the company also was an important factor. POB was
-looking at large companies that had substantial resources. In the end,
-the process generated for Yale two competitive proposals, with Xerox's
-the clear winner. WATERS then described the components of the proposal,
-the design principles, and some of the costs estimated for the process.
-
-Components are essentially four: a conversion subsystem, a
-network-accessible storage subsystem for 10,000 books (and POB expects
-200 to 600 dpi storage), browsing stations distributed on the campus
-network, and network access to the image printers.
-
-Among the design principles, POB wanted conversion at the highest
-possible resolution. Assuming TIFF files, TIFF files with Group 4
-compression, TCP/IP, and ethernet network on campus, POB wanted a
-client-server approach with image documents distributed to the
-workstations and made accessible through native workstation interfaces
-such as Windows. POB also insisted on a phased approach to
-implementation: 1) a stand-alone, single-user, low-cost entry into the
-business with a workstation focused on conversion and allowing POB to
-explore user access; 2) movement into a higher-volume conversion with
-network-accessible storage and multiple access stations; and 3) a
-high-volume conversion, full-capacity storage, and multiple browsing
-stations distributed throughout the campus.
-
-The costs proposed for start-up assumed the existence of the Yale network
-and its two DocuTech image printers. Other start-up costs are estimated
-at $1 million over the three phases. At the end of the project, the annual
-operating costs estimated primarily for the software and hardware proposed
-come to about $60,000, but these exclude costs for labor needed in the
-conversion process, network and printer usage, and facilities management.
-
-Finally, the selection process produced for Yale a more sophisticated
-view of the imaging markets: the management of complex documents in
-image form is not a preservation problem, not a library problem, but a
-general problem in a broad, general industry. Preservation materials are
-useful for developing that market because of the qualities of the
-material. For example, much of it is out of copyright. The resolution
-of key issues such as the quality of scanning and image browsing also
-will affect development of that market.
-
-The technology is readily available but changing rapidly. In this
-context of rapid change, several factors affect quality and cost, to
-which POB intends to pay particular attention, for example, the various
-levels of resolution that can be achieved. POB believes it can bring
-resolution up to 600 dpi, but an interpolation process from 400 to 600 is
-more likely. The variation quality in microfilm will prove to be a
-highly important factor. POB may reexamine the standards used to film in
-the first place by looking at this process as a follow-on to microfilming.
-
-Other important factors include: the techniques available to the
-operator for handling material, the ways of integrating quality control
-into the digitizing work flow, and a work flow that includes indexing and
-storage. POB's requirement was to be able to deal with quality control
-at the point of scanning. Thus, thanks to Xerox, POB anticipates having
-a mechanism which will allow it not only to scan in batch form, but to
-review the material as it goes through the scanner and control quality
-from the outset.
-
-The standards for measuring quality and costs depend greatly on the uses
-of the material, including subsequent OCR, storage, printing, and
-browsing. But especially at issue for POB is the facility for browsing.
-This facility, WATERS said, is perhaps the weakest aspect of imaging
-technology and the most in need of development.
-
-A variety of factors affect the usability of complex documents in image
-form, among them: 1) the ability of the system to handle the full range
-of document types, not just monographs but serials, multi-part
-monographs, and manuscripts; 2) the location of the database of record
-for bibliographic information about the image document, which POB wants
-to enter once and in the most useful place, the on-line catalog; 3) a
-document identifier for referencing the bibliographic information in one
-place and the images in another; 4) the technique for making the basic
-internal structure of the document accessible to the reader; and finally,
-5) the physical presentation on the CRT of those documents. POB is ready
-to complete this phase now. One last decision involves deciding which
-material to scan.
-
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-
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-DISCUSSION * TIFF files constitute de facto standard * NARA's experience
-with image conversion software and text conversion * RFC 1314 *
-Considerable flux concerning available hardware and software solutions *
-NAL through-put rate during scanning * Window management questions *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-In the question-and-answer period that followed WATERS's presentation,
-the following points emerged:
-
- * ZIDAR's statement about using TIFF files as a standard meant de
- facto standard. This is what most people use and typically exchange
- with other groups, across platforms, or even occasionally across
- display software.
-
- * HOLMES commented on the unsuccessful experience of NARA in
- attempting to run image-conversion software or to exchange between
- applications: What are supposedly TIFF files go into other software
- that is supposed to be able to accept TIFF but cannot recognize the
- format and cannot deal with it, and thus renders the exchange
- useless. Re text conversion, he noted the different recognition
- rates obtained by substituting the make and model of scanners in
- NARA's recent test of an "intelligent" character-recognition product
- for a new company. In the selection of hardware and software,
- HOLMES argued, software no longer constitutes the overriding factor
- it did until about a year ago; rather it is perhaps important to
- look at both now.
-
- * Danny Cohen and Alan Katz of the University of Southern California
- Information Sciences Institute began circulating as an Internet RFC
- (RFC 1314) about a month ago a standard for a TIFF interchange
- format for Internet distribution of monochrome bit-mapped images,
- which LYNCH said he believed would be used as a de facto standard.
-
- * FLEISCHHAUER's impression from hearing these reports and thinking
- about AM's experience was that there is considerable flux concerning
- available hardware and software solutions. HOOTON agreed and
- commented at the same time on ZIDAR's statement that the equipment
- employed affects the results produced. One cannot draw a complete
- conclusion by saying it is difficult or impossible to perform OCR
- from scanning microfilm, for example, with that device, that set of
- parameters, and system requirements, because numerous other people
- are accomplishing just that, using other components, perhaps.
- HOOTON opined that both the hardware and the software were highly
- important. Most of the problems discussed today have been solved in
- numerous different ways by other people. Though it is good to be
- cognizant of various experiences, this is not to say that it will
- always be thus.
-
- * At NAL, the through-put rate of the scanning process for paper,
- page by page, performing OCR, ranges from 300 to 600 pages per day;
- not performing OCR is considerably faster, although how much faster
- is not known. This is for scanning from bound books, which is much
- slower.
-
- * WATERS commented on window management questions: DEC proposed an
- X-Windows solution which was problematical for two reasons. One was
- POB's requirement to be able to manipulate images on the workstation
- and bring them down to the workstation itself and the other was
- network usage.
-
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-THOMA * Illustration of deficiencies in scanning and storage process *
-Image quality in this process * Different costs entailed by better image
-quality * Techniques for overcoming various de-ficiencies: fixed
-thresholding, dynamic thresholding, dithering, image merge * Page edge
-effects *
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-
-George THOMA, chief, Communications Engineering Branch, National Library
-of Medicine (NLM), illustrated several of the deficiencies discussed by
-the previous speakers. He introduced the topic of special problems by
-noting the advantages of electronic imaging. For example, it is regenerable
-because it is a coded file, and real-time quality control is possible with
-electronic capture, whereas in photographic capture it is not.
-
-One of the difficulties discussed in the scanning and storage process was
-image quality which, without belaboring the obvious, means different
-things for maps, medical X-rays, or broadcast television. In the case of
-documents, THOMA said, image quality boils down to legibility of the
-textual parts, and fidelity in the case of gray or color photo print-type
-material. Legibility boils down to scan density, the standard in most
-cases being 300 dpi. Increasing the resolution with scanners that
-perform 600 or 1200 dpi, however, comes at a cost.
-
-Better image quality entails at least four different kinds of costs: 1)
-equipment costs, because the CCD (i.e., charge-couple device) with
-greater number of elements costs more; 2) time costs that translate to
-the actual capture costs, because manual labor is involved (the time is
-also dependent on the fact that more data has to be moved around in the
-machine in the scanning or network devices that perform the scanning as
-well as the storage); 3) media costs, because at high resolutions larger
-files have to be stored; and 4) transmission costs, because there is just
-more data to be transmitted.
-
-But while resolution takes care of the issue of legibility in image
-quality, other deficiencies have to do with contrast and elements on the
-page scanned or the image that needed to be removed or clarified. Thus,
-THOMA proceeded to illustrate various deficiencies, how they are
-manifested, and several techniques to overcome them.
-
-Fixed thresholding was the first technique described, suitable for
-black-and-white text, when the contrast does not vary over the page. One
-can have many different threshold levels in scanning devices. Thus,
-THOMA offered an example of extremely poor contrast, which resulted from
-the fact that the stock was a heavy red. This is the sort of image that
-when microfilmed fails to provide any legibility whatsoever. Fixed
-thresholding is the way to change the black-to-red contrast to the
-desired black-to-white contrast.
-
-Other examples included material that had been browned or yellowed by
-age. This was also a case of contrast deficiency, and correction was
-done by fixed thresholding. A final example boils down to the same
-thing, slight variability, but it is not significant. Fixed thresholding
-solves this problem as well. The microfilm equivalent is certainly legible,
-but it comes with dark areas. Though THOMA did not have a slide of the
-microfilm in this case, he did show the reproduced electronic image.
-
-When one has variable contrast over a page or the lighting over the page
-area varies, especially in the case where a bound volume has light
-shining on it, the image must be processed by a dynamic thresholding
-scheme. One scheme, dynamic averaging, allows the threshold level not to
-be fixed but to be recomputed for every pixel from the neighboring
-characteristics. The neighbors of a pixel determine where the threshold
-should be set for that pixel.
-
-THOMA showed an example of a page that had been made deficient by a
-variety of techniques, including a burn mark, coffee stains, and a yellow
-marker. Application of a fixed-thresholding scheme, THOMA argued, might
-take care of several deficiencies on the page but not all of them.
-Performing the calculation for a dynamic threshold setting, however,
-removes most of the deficiencies so that at least the text is legible.
-
-Another problem is representing a gray level with black-and-white pixels
-by a process known as dithering or electronic screening. But dithering
-does not provide good image quality for pure black-and-white textual
-material. THOMA illustrated this point with examples. Although its
-suitability for photoprint is the reason for electronic screening or
-dithering, it cannot be used for every compound image. In the document
-that was distributed by CXP, THOMA noticed that the dithered image of the
-IEEE test chart evinced some deterioration in the text. He presented an
-extreme example of deterioration in the text in which compounded
-documents had to be set right by other techniques. The technique
-illustrated by the present example was an image merge in which the page
-is scanned twice and the settings go from fixed threshold to the
-dithering matrix; the resulting images are merged to give the best
-results with each technique.
-
-THOMA illustrated how dithering is also used in nonphotographic or
-nonprint materials with an example of a grayish page from a medical text,
-which was reproduced to show all of the gray that appeared in the
-original. Dithering provided a reproduction of all the gray in the
-original of another example from the same text.
-
-THOMA finally illustrated the problem of bordering, or page-edge,
-effects. Books and bound volumes that are placed on a photocopy machine
-or a scanner produce page-edge effects that are undesirable for two
-reasons: 1) the aesthetics of the image; after all, if the image is to
-be preserved, one does not necessarily want to keep all of its
-deficiencies; 2) compression (with the bordering problem THOMA
-illustrated, the compression ratio deteriorated tremendously). One way
-to eliminate this more serious problem is to have the operator at the
-point of scanning window the part of the image that is desirable and
-automatically turn all of the pixels out of that picture to white.
-
- ******
-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-FLEISCHHAUER * AM's experience with scanning bound materials * Dithering
-*
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Carl FLEISCHHAUER, coordinator, American Memory, Library of Congress,
-reported AM's experience with scanning bound materials, which he likened
-to the problems involved in using photocopying machines. Very few
-devices in the industry offer book-edge scanning, let alone book cradles.
-The problem may be unsolvable, FLEISCHHAUER said, because a large enough
-market does not exist for a preservation-quality scanner. AM is using a
-Kurzweil scanner, which is a book-edge scanner now sold by Xerox.
-
-Devoting the remainder of his brief presentation to dithering,
-FLEISCHHAUER related AM's experience with a contractor who was using
-unsophisticated equipment and software to reduce moire patterns from
-printed halftones. AM took the same image and used the dithering
-algorithm that forms part of the same Kurzweil Xerox scanner; it
-disguised moire patterns much more effectively.
-
-FLEISCHHAUER also observed that dithering produces a binary file which is
-useful for numerous purposes, for example, printing it on a laser printer
-without having to "re-halftone" it. But it tends to defeat efficient
-compression, because the very thing that dithers to reduce moire patterns
-also tends to work against compression schemes. AM thought the
-difference in image quality was worth it.
-
- ******
-
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-DISCUSSION * Relative use as a criterion for POB's selection of books to
-be converted into digital form *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-During the discussion period, WATERS noted that one of the criteria for
-selecting books among the 10,000 to be converted into digital image form
-would be how much relative use they would receive--a subject still
-requiring evaluation. The challenge will be to understand whether
-coherent bodies of material will increase usage or whether POB should
-seek material that is being used, scan that, and make it more accessible.
-POB might decide to digitize materials that are already heavily used, in
-order to make them more accessible and decrease wear on them. Another
-approach would be to provide a large body of intellectually coherent
-material that may be used more in digital form than it is currently used
-in microfilm. POB would seek material that was out of copyright.
-
- ******
-
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-BARONAS * Origin and scope of AIIM * Types of documents produced in
-AIIM's standards program * Domain of AIIM's standardization work * AIIM's
-structure * TC 171 and MS23 * Electronic image management standards *
-Categories of EIM standardization where AIIM standards are being
-developed *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Jean BARONAS, senior manager, Department of Standards and Technology,
-Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), described the
-not-for-profit association and the national and international programs
-for standardization in which AIIM is active.
-
-Accredited for twenty-five years as the nation's standards development
-organization for document image management, AIIM began life in a library
-community developing microfilm standards. Today the association
-maintains both its library and business-image management standardization
-activities--and has moved into electronic image-management
-standardization (EIM).
-
-BARONAS defined the program's scope. AIIM deals with: 1) the
-terminology of standards and of the technology it uses; 2) methods of
-measurement for the systems, as well as quality; 3) methodologies for
-users to evaluate and measure quality; 4) the features of apparatus used
-to manage and edit images; and 5) the procedures used to manage images.
-
-BARONAS noted that three types of documents are produced in the AIIM
-standards program: the first two, accredited by the American National
-Standards Institute (ANSI), are standards and standard recommended
-practices. Recommended practices differ from standards in that they
-contain more tutorial information. A technical report is not an ANSI
-standard. Because AIIM's policies and procedures for developing
-standards are approved by ANSI, its standards are labeled ANSI/AIIM,
-followed by the number and title of the standard.
-
-BARONAS then illustrated the domain of AIIM's standardization work. For
-example, AIIM is the administrator of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group
-(TAG) to the International Standards Organization's (ISO) technical
-committee, TC l7l Micrographics and Optical Memories for Document and
-Image Recording, Storage, and Use. AIIM officially works through ANSI in
-the international standardization process.
-
-BARONAS described AIIM's structure, including its board of directors, its
-standards board of twelve individuals active in the image-management
-industry, its strategic planning and legal admissibility task forces, and
-its National Standards Council, which is comprised of the members of a
-number of organizations who vote on every AIIM standard before it is
-published. BARONAS pointed out that AIIM's liaisons deal with numerous
-other standards developers, including the optical disk community, office
-and publishing systems, image-codes-and-character set committees, and the
-National Information Standards Organization (NISO).
-
-BARONAS illustrated the procedures of TC l7l, which covers all aspects of
-image management. When AIIM's national program has conceptualized a new
-project, it is usually submitted to the international level, so that the
-member countries of TC l7l can simultaneously work on the development of
-the standard or the technical report. BARONAS also illustrated a classic
-microfilm standard, MS23, which deals with numerous imaging concepts that
-apply to electronic imaging. Originally developed in the l970s, revised
-in the l980s, and revised again in l991, this standard is scheduled for
-another revision. MS23 is an active standard whereby users may propose
-new density ranges and new methods of evaluating film images in the
-standard's revision.
-
-BARONAS detailed several electronic image-management standards, for
-instance, ANSI/AIIM MS44, a quality-control guideline for scanning 8.5"
-by 11" black-and-white office documents. This standard is used with the
-IEEE fax image--a continuous tone photographic image with gray scales,
-text, and several continuous tone pictures--and AIIM test target number
-2, a representative document used in office document management.
-
-BARONAS next outlined the four categories of EIM standardization in which
-AIIM standards are being developed: transfer and retrieval, evaluation,
-optical disc and document scanning applications, and design and
-conversion of documents. She detailed several of the main projects of
-each: 1) in the category of image transfer and retrieval, a bi-level
-image transfer format, ANSI/AIIM MS53, which is a proposed standard that
-describes a file header for image transfer between unlike systems when
-the images are compressed using G3 and G4 compression; 2) the category of
-image evaluation, which includes the AIIM-proposed TR26 tutorial on image
-resolution (this technical report will treat the differences and
-similarities between classical or photographic and electronic imaging);
-3) design and conversion, which includes a proposed technical report
-called "Forms Design Optimization for EIM" (this report considers how
-general-purpose business forms can be best designed so that scanning is
-optimized; reprographic characteristics such as type, rules, background,
-tint, and color will likewise be treated in the technical report); 4)
-disk and document scanning applications includes a project a) on planning
-platters and disk management, b) on generating an application profile for
-EIM when images are stored and distributed on CD-ROM, and c) on
-evaluating SCSI2, and how a common command set can be generated for SCSI2
-so that document scanners are more easily integrated. (ANSI/AIIM MS53
-will also apply to compressed images.)
-
- ******
-
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-BATTIN * The implications of standards for preservation * A major
-obstacle to successful cooperation * A hindrance to access in the digital
-environment * Standards a double-edged sword for those concerned with the
-preservation of the human record * Near-term prognosis for reliable
-archival standards * Preservation concerns for electronic media * Need
-for reconceptualizing our preservation principles * Standards in the real
-world and the politics of reproduction * Need to redefine the concept of
-archival and to begin to think in terms of life cycles * Cooperation and
-the La Guardia Eight * Concerns generated by discussions on the problems
-of preserving text and image * General principles to be adopted in a
-world without standards *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Patricia BATTIN, president, the Commission on Preservation and Access
-(CPA), addressed the implications of standards for preservation. She
-listed several areas where the library profession and the analog world of
-the printed book had made enormous contributions over the past hundred
-years--for example, in bibliographic formats, binding standards, and, most
-important, in determining what constitutes longevity or archival quality.
-
-Although standards have lightened the preservation burden through the
-development of national and international collaborative programs,
-nevertheless, a pervasive mistrust of other people's standards remains a
-major obstacle to successful cooperation, BATTIN said.
-
-The zeal to achieve perfection, regardless of the cost, has hindered
-rather than facilitated access in some instances, and in the digital
-environment, where no real standards exist, has brought an ironically
-just reward.
-
-BATTIN argued that standards are a double-edged sword for those concerned
-with the preservation of the human record, that is, the provision of
-access to recorded knowledge in a multitude of media as far into the
-future as possible. Standards are essential to facilitate
-interconnectivity and access, but, BATTIN said, as LYNCH pointed out
-yesterday, if set too soon they can hinder creativity, expansion of
-capability, and the broadening of access. The characteristics of
-standards for digital imagery differ radically from those for analog
-imagery. And the nature of digital technology implies continuing
-volatility and change. To reiterate, precipitous standard-setting can
-inhibit creativity, but delayed standard-setting results in chaos.
-
-Since in BATTIN'S opinion the near-term prognosis for reliable archival
-standards, as defined by librarians in the analog world, is poor, two
-alternatives remain: standing pat with the old technology, or
-reconceptualizing.
-
-Preservation concerns for electronic media fall into two general domains.
-One is the continuing assurance of access to knowledge originally
-generated, stored, disseminated, and used in electronic form. This
-domain contains several subdivisions, including 1) the closed,
-proprietary systems discussed the previous day, bundled information such
-as electronic journals and government agency records, and electronically
-produced or captured raw data; and 2) the application of digital
-technologies to the reformatting of materials originally published on a
-deteriorating analog medium such as acid paper or videotape.
-
-The preservation of electronic media requires a reconceptualizing of our
-preservation principles during a volatile, standardless transition which
-may last far longer than any of us envision today. BATTIN urged the
-necessity of shifting focus from assessing, measuring, and setting
-standards for the permanence of the medium to the concept of managing
-continuing access to information stored on a variety of media and
-requiring a variety of ever-changing hardware and software for access--a
-fundamental shift for the library profession.
-
-BATTIN offered a primer on how to move forward with reasonable confidence
-in a world without standards. Her comments fell roughly into two sections:
-1) standards in the real world and 2) the politics of reproduction.
-
-In regard to real-world standards, BATTIN argued the need to redefine the
-concept of archive and to begin to think in terms of life cycles. In
-the past, the naive assumption that paper would last forever produced a
-cavalier attitude toward life cycles. The transient nature of the
-electronic media has compelled people to recognize and accept upfront the
-concept of life cycles in place of permanency.
-
-Digital standards have to be developed and set in a cooperative context
-to ensure efficient exchange of information. Moreover, during this
-transition period, greater flexibility concerning how concepts such as
-backup copies and archival copies in the CXP are defined is necessary,
-or the opportunity to move forward will be lost.
-
-In terms of cooperation, particularly in the university setting, BATTIN
-also argued the need to avoid going off in a hundred different
-directions. The CPA has catalyzed a small group of universities called
-the La Guardia Eight--because La Guardia Airport is where meetings take
-place--Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Princeton, Penn State, Tennessee,
-Stanford, and USC, to develop a digital preservation consortium to look
-at all these issues and develop de facto standards as we move along,
-instead of waiting for something that is officially blessed. Continuing
-to apply analog values and definitions of standards to the digital
-environment, BATTIN said, will effectively lead to forfeiture of the
-benefits of digital technology to research and scholarship.
-
-Under the second rubric, the politics of reproduction, BATTIN reiterated
-an oft-made argument concerning the electronic library, namely, that it
-is more difficult to transform than to create, and nowhere is that belief
-expressed more dramatically than in the conversion of brittle books to
-new media. Preserving information published in electronic media involves
-making sure the information remains accessible and that digital
-information is not lost through reproduction. In the analog world of
-photocopies and microfilm, the issue of fidelity to the original becomes
-paramount, as do issues of "Whose fidelity?" and "Whose original?"
-
-BATTIN elaborated these arguments with a few examples from a recent study
-conducted by the CPA on the problems of preserving text and image.
-Discussions with scholars, librarians, and curators in a variety of
-disciplines dependent on text and image generated a variety of concerns,
-for example: 1) Copy what is, not what the technology is capable of.
-This is very important for the history of ideas. Scholars wish to know
-what the author saw and worked from. And make available at the
-workstation the opportunity to erase all the defects and enhance the
-presentation. 2) The fidelity of reproduction--what is good enough, what
-can we afford, and the difference it makes--issues of subjective versus
-objective resolution. 3) The differences between primary and secondary
-users. Restricting the definition of primary user to the one in whose
-discipline the material has been published runs one headlong into the
-reality that these printed books have had a host of other users from a
-host of other disciplines, who not only were looking for very different
-things, but who also shared values very different from those of the
-primary user. 4) The relationship of the standard of reproduction to new
-capabilities of scholarship--the browsing standard versus an archival
-standard. How good must the archival standard be? Can a distinction be
-drawn between potential users in setting standards for reproduction?
-Archival storage, use copies, browsing copies--ought an attempt to set
-standards even be made? 5) Finally, costs. How much are we prepared to
-pay to capture absolute fidelity? What are the trade-offs between vastly
-enhanced access, degrees of fidelity, and costs?
-
-These standards, BATTIN concluded, serve to complicate further the
-reproduction process, and add to the long list of technical standards
-that are necessary to ensure widespread access. Ways to articulate and
-analyze the costs that are attached to the different levels of standards
-must be found.
-
-Given the chaos concerning standards, which promises to linger for the
-foreseeable future, BATTIN urged adoption of the following general
-principles:
-
- * Strive to understand the changing information requirements of
- scholarly disciplines as more and more technology is integrated into
- the process of research and scholarly communication in order to meet
- future scholarly needs, not to build for the past. Capture
- deteriorating information at the highest affordable resolution, even
- though the dissemination and display technologies will lag.
-
- * Develop cooperative mechanisms to foster agreement on protocols
- for document structure and other interchange mechanisms necessary
- for widespread dissemination and use before official standards are
- set.
-
- * Accept that, in a transition period, de facto standards will have
- to be developed.
-
- * Capture information in a way that keeps all options open and
- provides for total convertibility: OCR, scanning of microfilm,
- producing microfilm from scanned documents, etc.
-
- * Work closely with the generators of information and the builders
- of networks and databases to ensure that continuing accessibility is
- a primary concern from the beginning.
-
- * Piggyback on standards under development for the broad market, and
- avoid library-specific standards; work with the vendors, in order to
- take advantage of that which is being standardized for the rest of
- the world.
-
- * Concentrate efforts on managing permanence in the digital world,
- rather than perfecting the longevity of a particular medium.
-
- ******
-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-DISCUSSION * Additional comments on TIFF *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-During the brief discussion period that followed BATTIN's presentation,
-BARONAS explained that TIFF was not developed in collaboration with or
-under the auspices of AIIM. TIFF is a company product, not a standard,
-is owned by two corporations, and is always changing. BARONAS also
-observed that ANSI/AIIM MS53, a bi-level image file transfer format that
-allows unlike systems to exchange images, is compatible with TIFF as well
-as with DEC's architecture and IBM's MODCA/IOCA.
-
- ******
-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-HOOTON * Several questions to be considered in discussing text conversion
-*
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-HOOTON introduced the final topic, text conversion, by noting that it is
-becoming an increasingly important part of the imaging business. Many
-people now realize that it enhances their system to be able to have more
-and more character data as part of their imaging system. Re the issue of
-OCR versus rekeying, HOOTON posed several questions: How does one get
-text into computer-readable form? Does one use automated processes?
-Does one attempt to eliminate the use of operators where possible?
-Standards for accuracy, he said, are extremely important: it makes a
-major difference in cost and time whether one sets as a standard 98.5
-percent acceptance or 99.5 percent. He mentioned outsourcing as a
-possibility for converting text. Finally, what one does with the image
-to prepare it for the recognition process is also important, he said,
-because such preparation changes how recognition is viewed, as well as
-facilitates recognition itself.
-
- ******
-
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-LESK * Roles of participants in CORE * Data flow * The scanning process *
-The image interface * Results of experiments involving the use of
-electronic resources and traditional paper copies * Testing the issue of
-serendipity * Conclusions *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Michael LESK, executive director, Computer Science Research, Bell
-Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore), discussed the Chemical Online
-Retrieval Experiment (CORE), a cooperative project involving Cornell
-University, OCLC, Bellcore, and the American Chemical Society (ACS).
-
-LESK spoke on 1) how the scanning was performed, including the unusual
-feature of page segmentation, and 2) the use made of the text and the
-image in experiments.
-
-Working with the chemistry journals (because ACS has been saving its
-typesetting tapes since the mid-1970s and thus has a significant back-run
-of the most important chemistry journals in the United States), CORE is
-attempting to create an automated chemical library. Approximately a
-quarter of the pages by square inch are made up of images of
-quasi-pictorial material; dealing with the graphic components of the
-pages is extremely important. LESK described the roles of participants
-in CORE: 1) ACS provides copyright permission, journals on paper,
-journals on microfilm, and some of the definitions of the files; 2) at
-Bellcore, LESK chiefly performs the data preparation, while Dennis Egan
-performs experiments on the users of chemical abstracts, and supplies the
-indexing and numerous magnetic tapes; 3) Cornell provides the site of the
-experiment; 4) OCLC develops retrieval software and other user interfaces.
-Various manufacturers and publishers have furnished other help.
-
-Concerning data flow, Bellcore receives microfilm and paper from ACS; the
-microfilm is scanned by outside vendors, while the paper is scanned
-inhouse on an Improvision scanner, twenty pages per minute at 300 dpi,
-which provides sufficient quality for all practical uses. LESK would
-prefer to have more gray level, because one of the ACS journals prints on
-some colored pages, which creates a problem.
-
-Bellcore performs all this scanning, creates a page-image file, and also
-selects from the pages the graphics, to mix with the text file (which is
-discussed later in the Workshop). The user is always searching the ASCII
-file, but she or he may see a display based on the ASCII or a display
-based on the images.
-
-LESK illustrated how the program performs page analysis, and the image
-interface. (The user types several words, is presented with a list--
-usually of the titles of articles contained in an issue--that derives
-from the ASCII, clicks on an icon and receives an image that mirrors an
-ACS page.) LESK also illustrated an alternative interface, based on text
-on the ASCII, the so-called SuperBook interface from Bellcore.
-
-LESK next presented the results of an experiment conducted by Dennis Egan
-and involving thirty-six students at Cornell, one third of them
-undergraduate chemistry majors, one third senior undergraduate chemistry
-majors, and one third graduate chemistry students. A third of them
-received the paper journals, the traditional paper copies and chemical
-abstracts on paper. A third received image displays of the pictures of
-the pages, and a third received the text display with pop-up graphics.
-
-The students were given several questions made up by some chemistry
-professors. The questions fell into five classes, ranging from very easy
-to very difficult, and included questions designed to simulate browsing
-as well as a traditional information retrieval-type task.
-
-LESK furnished the following results. In the straightforward question
-search--the question being, what is the phosphorus oxygen bond distance
-and hydroxy phosphate?--the students were told that they could take
-fifteen minutes and, then, if they wished, give up. The students with
-paper took more than fifteen minutes on average, and yet most of them
-gave up. The students with either electronic format, text or image,
-received good scores in reasonable time, hardly ever had to give up, and
-usually found the right answer.
-
-In the browsing study, the students were given a list of eight topics,
-told to imagine that an issue of the Journal of the American Chemical
-Society had just appeared on their desks, and were also told to flip
-through it and to find topics mentioned in the issue. The average scores
-were about the same. (The students were told to answer yes or no about
-whether or not particular topics appeared.) The errors, however, were
-quite different. The students with paper rarely said that something
-appeared when it had not. But they often failed to find something
-actually mentioned in the issue. The computer people found numerous
-things, but they also frequently said that a topic was mentioned when it
-was not. (The reason, of course, was that they were performing word
-searches. They were finding that words were mentioned and they were
-concluding that they had accomplished their task.)
-
-This question also contained a trick to test the issue of serendipity.
-The students were given another list of eight topics and instructed,
-without taking a second look at the journal, to recall how many of this
-new list of eight topics were in this particular issue. This was an
-attempt to see if they performed better at remembering what they were not
-looking for. They all performed about the same, paper or electronics,
-about 62 percent accurate. In short, LESK said, people were not very
-good when it came to serendipity, but they were no worse at it with
-computers than they were with paper.
-
-(LESK gave a parenthetical illustration of the learning curve of students
-who used SuperBook.)
-
-The students using the electronic systems started off worse than the ones
-using print, but by the third of the three sessions in the series had
-caught up to print. As one might expect, electronics provide a much
-better means of finding what one wants to read; reading speeds, once the
-object of the search has been found, are about the same.
-
-Almost none of the students could perform the hard task--the analogous
-transformation. (It would require the expertise of organic chemists to
-complete.) But an interesting result was that the students using the text
-search performed terribly, while those using the image system did best.
-That the text search system is driven by text offers the explanation.
-Everything is focused on the text; to see the pictures, one must press
-on an icon. Many students found the right article containing the answer
-to the question, but they did not click on the icon to bring up the right
-figure and see it. They did not know that they had found the right place,
-and thus got it wrong.
-
-The short answer demonstrated by this experiment was that in the event
-one does not know what to read, one needs the electronic systems; the
-electronic systems hold no advantage at the moment if one knows what to
-read, but neither do they impose a penalty.
-
-LESK concluded by commenting that, on one hand, the image system was easy
-to use. On the other hand, the text display system, which represented
-twenty man-years of work in programming and polishing, was not winning,
-because the text was not being read, just searched. The much easier
-system is highly competitive as well as remarkably effective for the
-actual chemists.
-
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-ERWAY * Most challenging aspect of working on AM * Assumptions guiding
-AM's approach * Testing different types of service bureaus * AM's
-requirement for 99.95 percent accuracy * Requirements for text-coding *
-Additional factors influencing AM's approach to coding * Results of AM's
-experience with rekeying * Other problems in dealing with service bureaus
-* Quality control the most time-consuming aspect of contracting out
-conversion * Long-term outlook uncertain *
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-
-To Ricky ERWAY, associate coordinator, American Memory, Library of
-Congress, the constant variety of conversion projects taking place
-simultaneously represented perhaps the most challenging aspect of working
-on AM. Thus, the challenge was not to find a solution for text
-conversion but a tool kit of solutions to apply to LC's varied
-collections that need to be converted. ERWAY limited her remarks to the
-process of converting text to machine-readable form, and the variety of
-LC's text collections, for example, bound volumes, microfilm, and
-handwritten manuscripts.
-
-Two assumptions have guided AM's approach, ERWAY said: 1) A desire not
-to perform the conversion inhouse. Because of the variety of formats and
-types of texts, to capitalize the equipment and have the talents and
-skills to operate them at LC would be extremely expensive. Further, the
-natural inclination to upgrade to newer and better equipment each year
-made it reasonable for AM to focus on what it did best and seek external
-conversion services. Using service bureaus also allowed AM to have
-several types of operations take place at the same time. 2) AM was not a
-technology project, but an effort to improve access to library
-collections. Hence, whether text was converted using OCR or rekeying
-mattered little to AM. What mattered were cost and accuracy of results.
-
-AM considered different types of service bureaus and selected three to
-perform several small tests in order to acquire a sense of the field.
-The sample collections with which they worked included handwritten
-correspondence, typewritten manuscripts from the 1940s, and
-eighteenth-century printed broadsides on microfilm. On none of these
-samples was OCR performed; they were all rekeyed. AM had several special
-requirements for the three service bureaus it had engaged. For instance,
-any errors in the original text were to be retained. Working from bound
-volumes or anything that could not be sheet-fed also constituted a factor
-eliminating companies that would have performed OCR.
-
-AM requires 99.95 percent accuracy, which, though it sounds high, often
-means one or two errors per page. The initial batch of test samples
-contained several handwritten materials for which AM did not require
-text-coding. The results, ERWAY reported, were in all cases fairly
-comparable: for the most part, all three service bureaus achieved 99.95
-percent accuracy. AM was satisfied with the work but surprised at the cost.
-
-As AM began converting whole collections, it retained the requirement for
-99.95 percent accuracy and added requirements for text-coding. AM needed
-to begin performing work more than three years ago before LC requirements
-for SGML applications had been established. Since AM's goal was simply
-to retain any of the intellectual content represented by the formatting
-of the document (which would be lost if one performed a straight ASCII
-conversion), AM used "SGML-like" codes. These codes resembled SGML tags
-but were used without the benefit of document-type definitions. AM found
-that many service bureaus were not yet SGML-proficient.
-
-Additional factors influencing the approach AM took with respect to
-coding included: 1) the inability of any known microcomputer-based
-user-retrieval software to take advantage of SGML coding; and 2) the
-multiple inconsistencies in format of the older documents, which
-confirmed AM in its desire not to attempt to force the different formats
-to conform to a single document-type definition (DTD) and thus create the
-need for a separate DTD for each document.
-
-The five text collections that AM has converted or is in the process of
-converting include a collection of eighteenth-century broadsides, a
-collection of pamphlets, two typescript document collections, and a
-collection of 150 books.
-
-ERWAY next reviewed the results of AM's experience with rekeying, noting
-again that because the bulk of AM's materials are historical, the quality
-of the text often does not lend itself to OCR. While non-English
-speakers are less likely to guess or elaborate or correct typos in the
-original text, they are also less able to infer what we would; they also
-are nearly incapable of converting handwritten text. Another
-disadvantage of working with overseas keyers is that they are much less
-likely to telephone with questions, especially on the coding, with the
-result that they develop their own rules as they encounter new
-situations.
-
-Government contracting procedures and time frames posed a major challenge
-to performing the conversion. Many service bureaus are not accustomed to
-retaining the image, even if they perform OCR. Thus, questions of image
-format and storage media were somewhat novel to many of them. ERWAY also
-remarked other problems in dealing with service bureaus, for example,
-their inability to perform text conversion from the kind of microfilm
-that LC uses for preservation purposes.
-
-But quality control, in ERWAY's experience, was the most time-consuming
-aspect of contracting out conversion. AM has been attempting to perform
-a 10-percent quality review, looking at either every tenth document or
-every tenth page to make certain that the service bureaus are maintaining
-99.95 percent accuracy. But even if they are complying with the
-requirement for accuracy, finding errors produces a desire to correct
-them and, in turn, to clean up the whole collection, which defeats the
-purpose to some extent. Even a double entry requires a
-character-by-character comparison to the original to meet the accuracy
-requirement. LC is not accustomed to publish imperfect texts, which
-makes attempting to deal with the industry standard an emotionally
-fraught issue for AM. As was mentioned in the previous day's discussion,
-going from 99.95 to 99.99 percent accuracy usually doubles costs and
-means a third keying or another complete run-through of the text.
-
-Although AM has learned much from its experiences with various collections
-and various service bureaus, ERWAY concluded pessimistically that no
-breakthrough has been achieved. Incremental improvements have occurred
-in some of the OCR technology, some of the processes, and some of the
-standards acceptances, which, though they may lead to somewhat lower costs,
-do not offer much encouragement to many people who are anxiously awaiting
-the day that the entire contents of LC are available on-line.
-
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-ZIDAR * Several answers to why one attempts to perform full-text
-conversion * Per page cost of performing OCR * Typical problems
-encountered during editing * Editing poor copy OCR vs. rekeying *
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-
-Judith ZIDAR, coordinator, National Agricultural Text Digitizing Program
-(NATDP), National Agricultural Library (NAL), offered several answers to
-the question of why one attempts to perform full-text conversion: 1)
-Text in an image can be read by a human but not by a computer, so of
-course it is not searchable and there is not much one can do with it. 2)
-Some material simply requires word-level access. For instance, the legal
-profession insists on full-text access to its material; with taxonomic or
-geographic material, which entails numerous names, one virtually requires
-word-level access. 3) Full text permits rapid browsing and searching,
-something that cannot be achieved in an image with today's technology.
-4) Text stored as ASCII and delivered in ASCII is standardized and highly
-portable. 5) People just want full-text searching, even those who do not
-know how to do it. NAL, for the most part, is performing OCR at an
-actual cost per average-size page of approximately $7. NAL scans the
-page to create the electronic image and passes it through the OCR device.
-
-ZIDAR next rehearsed several typical problems encountered during editing.
-Praising the celerity of her student workers, ZIDAR observed that editing
-requires approximately five to ten minutes per page, assuming that there
-are no large tables to audit. Confusion among the three characters I, 1,
-and l, constitutes perhaps the most common problem encountered. Zeroes
-and O's also are frequently confused. Double M's create a particular
-problem, even on clean pages. They are so wide in most fonts that they
-touch, and the system simply cannot tell where one letter ends and the
-other begins. Complex page formats occasionally fail to columnate
-properly, which entails rescanning as though one were working with a
-single column, entering the ASCII, and decolumnating for better
-searching. With proportionally spaced text, OCR can have difficulty
-discerning what is a space and what are merely spaces between letters, as
-opposed to spaces between words, and therefore will merge text or break
-up words where it should not.
-
-ZIDAR said that it can often take longer to edit a poor-copy OCR than to
-key it from scratch. NAL has also experimented with partial editing of
-text, whereby project workers go into and clean up the format, removing
-stray characters but not running a spell-check. NAL corrects typos in
-the title and authors' names, which provides a foothold for searching and
-browsing. Even extremely poor-quality OCR (e.g., 60-percent accuracy)
-can still be searched, because numerous words are correct, while the
-important words are probably repeated often enough that they are likely
-to be found correct somewhere. Librarians, however, cannot tolerate this
-situation, though end users seem more willing to use this text for
-searching, provided that NAL indicates that it is unedited. ZIDAR
-concluded that rekeying of text may be the best route to take, in spite
-of numerous problems with quality control and cost.
-
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-
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-DISCUSSION * Modifying an image before performing OCR * NAL's costs per
-page *AM's costs per page and experience with Federal Prison Industries *
-Elements comprising NATDP's costs per page * OCR and structured markup *
-Distinction between the structure of a document and its representation
-when put on the screen or printed *
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-
-HOOTON prefaced the lengthy discussion that followed with several
-comments about modifying an image before one reaches the point of
-performing OCR. For example, in regard to an application containing a
-significant amount of redundant data, such as form-type data, numerous
-companies today are working on various kinds of form renewal, prior to
-going through a recognition process, by using dropout colors. Thus,
-acquiring access to form design or using electronic means are worth
-considering. HOOTON also noted that conversion usually makes or breaks
-one's imaging system. It is extremely important, extremely costly in
-terms of either capital investment or service, and determines the quality
-of the remainder of one's system, because it determines the character of
-the raw material used by the system.
-
-Concerning the four projects undertaken by NAL, two inside and two
-performed by outside contractors, ZIDAR revealed that an in-house service
-bureau executed the first at a cost between $8 and $10 per page for
-everything, including building of the database. The project undertaken
-by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
-cost approximately $10 per page for the conversion, plus some expenses
-for the software and building of the database. The Acid Rain Project--a
-two-disk set produced by the University of Vermont, consisting of
-Canadian publications on acid rain--cost $6.70 per page for everything,
-including keying of the text, which was double keyed, scanning of the
-images, and building of the database. The in-house project offered
-considerable ease of convenience and greater control of the process. On
-the other hand, the service bureaus know their job and perform it
-expeditiously, because they have more people.
-
-As a useful comparison, ERWAY revealed AM's costs as follows: $0.75
-cents to $0.85 cents per thousand characters, with an average page
-containing 2,700 characters. Requirements for coding and imaging
-increase the costs. Thus, conversion of the text, including the coding,
-costs approximately $3 per page. (This figure does not include the
-imaging and database-building included in the NAL costs.) AM also
-enjoyed a happy experience with Federal Prison Industries, which
-precluded the necessity of going through the request-for-proposal process
-to award a contract, because it is another government agency. The
-prisoners performed AM's rekeying just as well as other service bureaus
-and proved handy as well. AM shipped them the books, which they would
-photocopy on a book-edge scanner. They would perform the markup on
-photocopies, return the books as soon as they were done with them,
-perform the keying, and return the material to AM on WORM disks.
-
-ZIDAR detailed the elements that constitute the previously noted cost of
-approximately $7 per page. Most significant is the editing, correction
-of errors, and spell-checkings, which though they may sound easy to
-perform require, in fact, a great deal of time. Reformatting text also
-takes a while, but a significant amount of NAL's expenses are for equipment,
-which was extremely expensive when purchased because it was one of the few
-systems on the market. The costs of equipment are being amortized over
-five years but are still quite high, nearly $2,000 per month.
-
-HOCKEY raised a general question concerning OCR and the amount of editing
-required (substantial in her experience) to generate the kind of
-structured markup necessary for manipulating the text on the computer or
-loading it into any retrieval system. She wondered if the speakers could
-extend the previous question about the cost-benefit of adding or exerting
-structured markup. ERWAY noted that several OCR systems retain italics,
-bolding, and other spatial formatting. While the material may not be in
-the format desired, these systems possess the ability to remove the
-original materials quickly from the hands of the people performing the
-conversion, as well as to retain that information so that users can work
-with it. HOCKEY rejoined that the current thinking on markup is that one
-should not say that something is italic or bold so much as why it is that
-way. To be sure, one needs to know that something was italicized, but
-how can one get from one to the other? One can map from the structure to
-the typographic representation.
-
-FLEISCHHAUER suggested that, given the 100 million items the Library
-holds, it may not be possible for LC to do more than report that a thing
-was in italics as opposed to why it was italics, although that may be
-desirable in some contexts. Promising to talk a bit during the afternoon
-session about several experiments OCLC performed on automatic recognition
-of document elements, and which they hoped to extend, WEIBEL said that in
-fact one can recognize the major elements of a document with a fairly
-high degree of reliability, at least as good as OCR. STEVENS drew a
-useful distinction between standard, generalized markup (i.e., defining
-for a document-type definition the structure of the document), and what
-he termed a style sheet, which had to do with italics, bolding, and other
-forms of emphasis. Thus, two different components are at work, one being
-the structure of the document itself (its logic), and the other being its
-representation when it is put on the screen or printed.
-
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-
-SESSION V. APPROACHES TO PREPARING ELECTRONIC TEXTS
-
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-HOCKEY * Text in ASCII and the representation of electronic text versus
-an image * The need to look at ways of using markup to assist retrieval *
-The need for an encoding format that will be reusable and multifunctional
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Susan HOCKEY, director, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
-(CETH), Rutgers and Princeton Universities, announced that one talk
-(WEIBEL's) was moved into this session from the morning and that David
-Packard was unable to attend. The session would attempt to focus more on
-what one can do with a text in ASCII and the representation of electronic
-text rather than just an image, what one can do with a computer that
-cannot be done with a book or an image. It would be argued that one can
-do much more than just read a text, and from that starting point one can
-use markup and methods of preparing the text to take full advantage of
-the capability of the computer. That would lead to a discussion of what
-the European Community calls REUSABILITY, what may better be termed
-DURABILITY, that is, how to prepare or make a text that will last a long
-time and that can be used for as many applications as possible, which
-would lead to issues of improving intellectual access.
-
-HOCKEY urged the need to look at ways of using markup to facilitate retrieval,
-not just for referencing or to help locate an item that is retrieved, but also to put markup tags in
-a text to help retrieve the thing sought either with linguistic tagging or
-interpretation. HOCKEY also argued that little advancement had occurred in
-the software tools currently available for retrieving and searching text.
-She pressed the desideratum of going beyond Boolean searches and performing
-more sophisticated searching, which the insertion of more markup in the text
-would facilitate. Thinking about electronic texts as opposed to images means
-considering material that will never appear in print form, or print will not
-be its primary form, that is, material which only appears in electronic form.
-HOCKEY alluded to the history and the need for markup and tagging and
-electronic text, which was developed through the use of computers in the
-humanities; as MICHELSON had observed, Father Busa had started in 1949
-to prepare the first-ever text on the computer.
-
-HOCKEY remarked several large projects, particularly in Europe, for the
-compilation of dictionaries, language studies, and language analysis, in
-which people have built up archives of text and have begun to recognize
-the need for an encoding format that will be reusable and multifunctional,
-that can be used not just to print the text, which may be assumed to be a
-byproduct of what one wants to do, but to structure it inside the computer
-so that it can be searched, built into a Hypertext system, etc.
-
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-WEIBEL * OCLC's approach to preparing electronic text: retroconversion,
-keying of texts, more automated ways of developing data * Project ADAPT
-and the CORE Project * Intelligent character recognition does not exist *
-Advantages of SGML * Data should be free of procedural markup;
-descriptive markup strongly advocated * OCLC's interface illustrated *
-Storage requirements and costs for putting a lot of information on line *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Stuart WEIBEL, senior research scientist, Online Computer Library Center,
-Inc. (OCLC), described OCLC's approach to preparing electronic text. He
-argued that the electronic world into which we are moving must
-accommodate not only the future but the past as well, and to some degree
-even the present. Thus, starting out at one end with retroconversion and
-keying of texts, one would like to move toward much more automated ways
-of developing data.
-
-For example, Project ADAPT had to do with automatically converting
-document images into a structured document database with OCR text as
-indexing and also a little bit of automatic formatting and tagging of
-that text. The CORE project hosted by Cornell University, Bellcore,
-OCLC, the American Chemical Society, and Chemical Abstracts, constitutes
-WEIBEL's principal concern at the moment. This project is an example of
-converting text for which one already has a machine-readable version into
-a format more suitable for electronic delivery and database searching.
-(Since Michael LESK had previously described CORE, WEIBEL would say
-little concerning it.) Borrowing a chemical phrase, de novo synthesis,
-WEIBEL cited the Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials as an example
-of de novo electronic publishing, that is, a form in which the primary
-form of the information is electronic.
-
-Project ADAPT, then, which OCLC completed a couple of years ago and in
-fact is about to resume, is a model in which one takes page images either
-in paper or microfilm and converts them automatically to a searchable
-electronic database, either on-line or local. The operating assumption
-is that accepting some blemishes in the data, especially for
-retroconversion of materials, will make it possible to accomplish more.
-Not enough money is available to support perfect conversion.
-
-WEIBEL related several steps taken to perform image preprocessing
-(processing on the image before performing optical character
-recognition), as well as image postprocessing. He denied the existence
-of intelligent character recognition and asserted that what is wanted is
-page recognition, which is a long way off. OCLC has experimented with
-merging of multiple optical character recognition systems that will
-reduce errors from an unacceptable rate of 5 characters out of every
-l,000 to an unacceptable rate of 2 characters out of every l,000, but it
-is not good enough. It will never be perfect.
-
-Concerning the CORE Project, WEIBEL observed that Bellcore is taking the
-topography files, extracting the page images, and converting those
-topography files to SGML markup. LESK hands that data off to OCLC, which
-builds that data into a Newton database, the same system that underlies
-the on-line system in virtually all of the reference products at OCLC.
-The long-term goal is to make the systems interoperable so that not just
-Bellcore's system and OCLC's system can access this data, but other
-systems can as well, and the key to that is the Z39.50 common command
-language and the full-text extension. Z39.50 is fine for MARC records,
-but is not enough to do it for full text (that is, make full texts
-interoperable).
-
-WEIBEL next outlined the critical role of SGML for a variety of purposes,
-for example, as noted by HOCKEY, in the world of extremely large
-databases, using highly structured data to perform field searches.
-WEIBEL argued that by building the structure of the data in (i.e., the
-structure of the data originally on a printed page), it becomes easy to
-look at a journal article even if one cannot read the characters and know
-where the title or author is, or what the sections of that document would be.
-OCLC wants to make that structure explicit in the database, because it will
-be important for retrieval purposes.
-
-The second big advantage of SGML is that it gives one the ability to
-build structure into the database that can be used for display purposes
-without contaminating the data with instructions about how to format
-things. The distinction lies between procedural markup, which tells one
-where to put dots on the page, and descriptive markup, which describes
-the elements of a document.
-
-WEIBEL believes that there should be no procedural markup in the data at
-all, that the data should be completely unsullied by information about
-italics or boldness. That should be left up to the display device,
-whether that display device is a page printer or a screen display device.
-By keeping one's database free of that kind of contamination, one can
-make decisions down the road, for example, reorganize the data in ways
-that are not cramped by built-in notions of what should be italic and
-what should be bold. WEIBEL strongly advocated descriptive markup. As
-an example, he illustrated the index structure in the CORE data. With
-subsequent illustrated examples of markup, WEIBEL acknowledged the common
-complaint that SGML is hard to read in its native form, although markup
-decreases considerably once one gets into the body. Without the markup,
-however, one would not have the structure in the data. One can pass
-markup through a LaTeX processor and convert it relatively easily to a
-printed version of the document.
-
-WEIBEL next illustrated an extremely cluttered screen dump of OCLC's
-system, in order to show as much as possible the inherent capability on
-the screen. (He noted parenthetically that he had become a supporter of
-X-Windows as a result of the progress of the CORE Project.) WEIBEL also
-illustrated the two major parts of the interface: l) a control box that
-allows one to generate lists of items, which resembles a small table of
-contents based on key words one wishes to search, and 2) a document
-viewer, which is a separate process in and of itself. He demonstrated
-how to follow links through the electronic database simply by selecting
-the appropriate button and bringing them up. He also noted problems that
-remain to be accommodated in the interface (e.g., as pointed out by LESK,
-what happens when users do not click on the icon for the figure).
-
-Given the constraints of time, WEIBEL omitted a large number of ancillary
-items in order to say a few words concerning storage requirements and
-what will be required to put a lot of things on line. Since it is
-extremely expensive to reconvert all of this data, especially if it is
-just in paper form (and even if it is in electronic form in typesetting
-tapes), he advocated building journals electronically from the start. In
-that case, if one only has text graphics and indexing (which is all that
-one needs with de novo electronic publishing, because there is no need to
-go back and look at bit-maps of pages), one can get 10,000 journals of
-full text, or almost 6 million pages per year. These pages can be put in
-approximately 135 gigabytes of storage, which is not all that much,
-WEIBEL said. For twenty years, something less than three terabytes would
-be required. WEIBEL calculated the costs of storing this information as
-follows: If a gigabyte costs approximately $1,000, then a terabyte costs
-approximately $1 million to buy in terms of hardware. One also needs a
-building to put it in and a staff like OCLC to handle that information.
-So, to support a terabyte, multiply by five, which gives $5 million per
-year for a supported terabyte of data.
-
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-
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-DISCUSSION * Tapes saved by ACS are the typography files originally
-supporting publication of the journal * Cost of building tagged text into
-the database *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-During the question-and-answer period that followed WEIBEL's
-presentation, these clarifications emerged. The tapes saved by the
-American Chemical Society are the typography files that originally
-supported the publication of the journal. Although they are not tagged
-in SGML, they are tagged in very fine detail. Every single sentence is
-marked, all the registry numbers, all the publications issues, dates, and
-volumes. No cost figures on tagging material on a per-megabyte basis
-were available. Because ACS's typesetting system runs from tagged text,
-there is no extra cost per article. It was unknown what it costs ACS to
-keyboard the tagged text rather than just keyboard the text in the
-cheapest process. In other words, since one intends to publish things
-and will need to build tagged text into a typography system in any case,
-if one does that in such a way that it can drive not only typography but
-an electronic system (which is what ACS intends to do--move to SGML
-publishing), the marginal cost is zero. The marginal cost represents the
-cost of building tagged text into the database, which is small.
-
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-SPERBERG-McQUEEN * Distinction between texts and computers * Implications
-of recognizing that all representation is encoding * Dealing with
-complicated representations of text entails the need for a grammar of
-documents * Variety of forms of formal grammars * Text as a bit-mapped
-image does not represent a serious attempt to represent text in
-electronic form * SGML, the TEI, document-type declarations, and the
-reusability and longevity of data * TEI conformance explicitly allows
-extension or modification of the TEI tag set * Administrative background
-of the TEI * Several design goals for the TEI tag set * An absolutely
-fixed requirement of the TEI Guidelines * Challenges the TEI has
-attempted to face * Good texts not beyond economic feasibility * The
-issue of reproducibility or processability * The issue of mages as
-simulacra for the text redux * One's model of text determines what one's
-software can do with a text and has economic consequences *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Prior to speaking about SGML and markup, Michael SPERBERG-McQUEEN, editor,
-Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), University of Illinois-Chicago, first drew
-a distinction between texts and computers: Texts are abstract cultural
-and linguistic objects while computers are complicated physical devices,
-he said. Abstract objects cannot be placed inside physical devices; with
-computers one can only represent text and act upon those representations.
-
-The recognition that all representation is encoding, SPERBERG-McQUEEN
-argued, leads to the recognition of two things: 1) The topic description
-for this session is slightly misleading, because there can be no discussion
-of pros and cons of text-coding unless what one means is pros and cons of
-working with text with computers. 2) No text can be represented in a
-computer without some sort of encoding; images are one way of encoding text,
-ASCII is another, SGML yet another. There is no encoding without some
-information loss, that is, there is no perfect reproduction of a text that
-allows one to do away with the original. Thus, the question becomes,
-What is the most useful representation of text for a serious work?
-This depends on what kind of serious work one is talking about.
-
-The projects demonstrated the previous day all involved highly complex
-information and fairly complex manipulation of the textual material.
-In order to use that complicated information, one has to calculate it
-slowly or manually and store the result. It needs to be stored, therefore,
-as part of one's representation of the text. Thus, one needs to store the
-structure in the text. To deal with complicated representations of text,
-one needs somehow to control the complexity of the representation of a text;
-that means one needs a way of finding out whether a document and an
-electronic representation of a document is legal or not; and that
-means one needs a grammar of documents.
-
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN discussed the variety of forms of formal grammars,
-implicit and explicit, as applied to text, and their capabilities. He
-argued that these grammars correspond to different models of text that
-different developers have. For example, one implicit model of the text
-is that there is no internal structure, but just one thing after another,
-a few characters and then perhaps a start-title command, and then a few
-more characters and an end-title command. SPERBERG-McQUEEN also
-distinguished several kinds of text that have a sort of hierarchical
-structure that is not very well defined, which, typically, corresponds
-to grammars that are not very well defined, as well as hierarchies that
-are very well defined (e.g., the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) and extremely
-complicated things such as SGML, which handle strictly hierarchical data
-very nicely.
-
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN conceded that one other model not illustrated on his two
-displays was the model of text as a bit-mapped image, an image of a page,
-and confessed to having been converted to a limited extent by the
-Workshop to the view that electronic images constitute a promising,
-probably superior alternative to microfilming. But he was not convinced
-that electronic images represent a serious attempt to represent text in
-electronic form. Many of their problems stem from the fact that they are
-not direct attempts to represent the text but attempts to represent the
-page, thus making them representations of representations.
-
-In this situation of increasingly complicated textual information and the
-need to control that complexity in a useful way (which begs the question
-of the need for good textual grammars), one has the introduction of SGML.
-With SGML, one can develop specific document-type declarations
-for specific text types or, as with the TEI, attempts to generate
-general document-type declarations that can handle all sorts of text.
-The TEI is an attempt to develop formats for text representation that
-will ensure the kind of reusability and longevity of data discussed earlier.
-It offers a way to stay alive in the state of permanent technological
-revolution.
-
-It has been a continuing challenge in the TEI to create document grammars
-that do some work in controlling the complexity of the textual object but
-also allowing one to represent the real text that one will find.
-Fundamental to the notion of the TEI is that TEI conformance allows one
-the ability to extend or modify the TEI tag set so that it fits the text
-that one is attempting to represent.
-
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN next outlined the administrative background of the TEI.
-The TEI is an international project to develop and disseminate guidelines
-for the encoding and interchange of machine-readable text. It is
-sponsored by the Association for Computers in the Humanities, the
-Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for
-Literary and Linguistic Computing. Representatives of numerous other
-professional societies sit on its advisory board. The TEI has a number
-of affiliated projects that have provided assistance by testing drafts of
-the guidelines.
-
-Among the design goals for the TEI tag set, the scheme first of all must
-meet the needs of research, because the TEI came out of the research
-community, which did not feel adequately served by existing tag sets.
-The tag set must be extensive as well as compatible with existing and
-emerging standards. In 1990, version 1.0 of the Guidelines was released
-(SPERBERG-McQUEEN illustrated their contents).
-
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN noted that one problem besetting electronic text has
-been the lack of adequate internal or external documentation for many
-existing electronic texts. The TEI guidelines as currently formulated
-contain few fixed requirements, but one of them is this: There must
-always be a document header, an in-file SGML tag that provides
-1) a bibliographic description of the electronic object one is talking
-about (that is, who included it, when, what for, and under which title);
-and 2) the copy text from which it was derived, if any. If there was
-no copy text or if the copy text is unknown, then one states as much.
-Version 2.0 of the Guidelines was scheduled to be completed in fall 1992
-and a revised third version is to be presented to the TEI advisory board
-for its endorsement this coming winter. The TEI itself exists to provide
-a markup language, not a marked-up text.
-
-Among the challenges the TEI has attempted to face is the need for a
-markup language that will work for existing projects, that is, handle the
-level of markup that people are using now to tag only chapter, section,
-and paragraph divisions and not much else. At the same time, such a
-language also will be able to scale up gracefully to handle the highly
-detailed markup which many people foresee as the future destination of
-much electronic text, and which is not the future destination but the
-present home of numerous electronic texts in specialized areas.
-
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN dismissed the lowest-common-denominator approach as
-unable to support the kind of applications that draw people who have
-never been in the public library regularly before, and make them come
-back. He advocated more interesting text and more intelligent text.
-Asserting that it is not beyond economic feasibility to have good texts,
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN noted that the TEI Guidelines listing 200-odd tags
-contains tags that one is expected to enter every time the relevant
-textual feature occurs. It contains all the tags that people need now,
-and it is not expected that everyone will tag things in the same way.
-
-The question of how people will tag the text is in large part a function
-of their reaction to what SPERBERG-McQUEEN termed the issue of
-reproducibility. What one needs to be able to reproduce are the things
-one wants to work with. Perhaps a more useful concept than that of
-reproducibility or recoverability is that of processability, that is,
-what can one get from an electronic text without reading it again
-in the original. He illustrated this contention with a page from
-Jan Comenius's bilingual Introduction to Latin.
-
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN returned at length to the issue of images as simulacra
-for the text, in order to reiterate his belief that in the long run more
-than images of pages of particular editions of the text are needed,
-because just as second-generation photocopies and second-generation
-microfilm degenerate, so second-generation representations tend to
-degenerate, and one tends to overstress some relatively trivial aspects
-of the text such as its layout on the page, which is not always
-significant, despite what the text critics might say, and slight other
-pieces of information such as the very important lexical ties between the
-English and Latin versions of Comenius's bilingual text, for example.
-Moreover, in many crucial respects it is easy to fool oneself concerning
-what a scanned image of the text will accomplish. For example, in order
-to study the transmission of texts, information concerning the text
-carrier is necessary, which scanned images simply do not always handle.
-Further, even the high-quality materials being produced at Cornell use
-much of the information that one would need if studying those books as
-physical objects. It is a choice that has been made. It is an arguably
-justifiable choice, but one does not know what color those pen strokes in
-the margin are or whether there was a stain on the page, because it has
-been filtered out. One does not know whether there were rips in the page
-because they do not show up, and on a couple of the marginal marks one
-loses half of the mark because the pen is very light and the scanner
-failed to pick it up, and so what is clearly a checkmark in the margin of
-the original becomes a little scoop in the margin of the facsimile.
-Standard problems for facsimile editions, not new to electronics, but
-also true of light-lens photography, and are remarked here because it is
-important that we not fool ourselves that even if we produce a very nice
-image of this page with good contrast, we are not replacing the
-manuscript any more than microfilm has replaced the manuscript.
-
-The TEI comes from the research community, where its first allegiance
-lies, but it is not just an academic exercise. It has relevance far
-beyond those who spend all of their time studying text, because one's
-model of text determines what one's software can do with a text. Good
-models lead to good software. Bad models lead to bad software. That has
-economic consequences, and it is these economic consequences that have
-led the European Community to help support the TEI, and that will lead,
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN hoped, some software vendors to realize that if they
-provide software with a better model of the text they can make a killing.
-
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-
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-DISCUSSION * Implications of different DTDs and tag sets * ODA versus SGML *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-During the discussion that followed, several additional points were made.
-Neither AAP (i.e., Association of American Publishers) nor CALS (i.e.,
-Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support) has a document-type
-definition for ancient Greek drama, although the TEI will be able to
-handle that. Given this state of affairs and assuming that the
-technical-journal producers and the commercial vendors decide to use the
-other two types, then an institution like the Library of Congress, which
-might receive all of their publications, would have to be able to handle
-three different types of document definitions and tag sets and be able to
-distinguish among them.
-
-Office Document Architecture (ODA) has some advantages that flow from its
-tight focus on office documents and clear directions for implementation.
-Much of the ODA standard is easier to read and clearer at first reading
-than the SGML standard, which is extremely general. What that means is
-that if one wants to use graphics in TIFF and ODA, one is stuck, because
-ODA defines graphics formats while TIFF does not, whereas SGML says the
-world is not waiting for this work group to create another graphics format.
-What is needed is an ability to use whatever graphics format one wants.
-
-The TEI provides a socket that allows one to connect the SGML document to
-the graphics. The notation that the graphics are in is clearly a choice
-that one needs to make based on her or his environment, and that is one
-advantage. SGML is less megalomaniacal in attempting to define formats
-for all kinds of information, though more megalomaniacal in attempting to
-cover all sorts of documents. The other advantage is that the model of
-text represented by SGML is simply an order of magnitude richer and more
-flexible than the model of text offered by ODA. Both offer hierarchical
-structures, but SGML recognizes that the hierarchical model of the text
-that one is looking at may not have been in the minds of the designers,
-whereas ODA does not.
-
-ODA is not really aiming for the kind of document that the TEI wants to
-encompass. The TEI can handle the kind of material ODA has, as well as a
-significantly broader range of material. ODA seems to be very much
-focused on office documents, which is what it started out being called--
-office document architecture.
-
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-CALALUCA * Text-encoding from a publisher's perspective *
-Responsibilities of a publisher * Reproduction of Migne's Latin series
-whole and complete with SGML tags based on perceived need and expected
-use * Particular decisions arising from the general decision to produce
-and publish PLD *
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-
-The final speaker in this session, Eric CALALUCA, vice president,
-Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., spoke from the perspective of a publisher re
-text-encoding, rather than as one qualified to discuss methods of
-encoding data, and observed that the presenters sitting in the room,
-whether they had chosen to or not, were acting as publishers: making
-choices, gathering data, gathering information, and making assessments.
-CALALUCA offered the hard-won conviction that in publishing very large
-text files (such as PLD), one cannot avoid making personal judgments of
-appropriateness and structure.
-
-In CALALUCA's view, encoding decisions stem from prior judgments. Two
-notions have become axioms for him in the consideration of future sources
-for electronic publication: 1) electronic text publishing is as personal
-as any other kind of publishing, and questions of if and how to encode
-the data are simply a consequence of that prior decision; 2) all
-personal decisions are open to criticism, which is unavoidable.
-
-CALALUCA rehearsed his role as a publisher or, better, as an intermediary
-between what is viewed as a sound idea and the people who would make use
-of it. Finding the specialist to advise in this process is the core of
-that function. The publisher must monitor and hug the fine line between
-giving users what they want and suggesting what they might need. One
-responsibility of a publisher is to represent the desires of scholars and
-research librarians as opposed to bullheadedly forcing them into areas
-they would not choose to enter.
-
-CALALUCA likened the questions being raised today about data structure
-and standards to the decisions faced by the Abbe Migne himself during
-production of the Patrologia series in the mid-nineteenth century.
-Chadwyck-Healey's decision to reproduce Migne's Latin series whole and
-complete with SGML tags was also based upon a perceived need and an
-expected use. In the same way that Migne's work came to be far more than
-a simple handbook for clerics, PLD is already far more than a database
-for theologians. It is a bedrock source for the study of Western
-civilization, CALALUCA asserted.
-
-In regard to the decision to produce and publish PLD, the editorial board
-offered direct judgments on the question of appropriateness of these
-texts for conversion, their encoding and their distribution, and
-concluded that the best possible project was one that avoided overt
-intrusions or exclusions in so important a resource. Thus, the general
-decision to transmit the original collection as clearly as possible with
-the widest possible avenues for use led to other decisions: 1) To encode
-the data or not, SGML or not, TEI or not. Again, the expected user
-community asserted the need for normative tagging structures of important
-humanities texts, and the TEI seemed the most appropriate structure for
-that purpose. Research librarians, who are trained to view the larger
-impact of electronic text sources on 80 or 90 or 100 doctoral
-disciplines, loudly approved the decision to include tagging. They see
-what is coming better than the specialist who is completely focused on
-one edition of Ambrose's De Anima, and they also understand that the
-potential uses exceed present expectations. 2) What will be tagged and
-what will not. Once again, the board realized that one must tag the
-obvious. But in no way should one attempt to identify through encoding
-schemes every single discrete area of a text that might someday be
-searched. That was another decision. Searching by a column number, an
-author, a word, a volume, permitting combination searches, and tagging
-notations seemed logical choices as core elements. 3) How does one make
-the data available? Tieing it to a CD-ROM edition creates limitations,
-but a magnetic tape file that is very large, is accompanied by the
-encoding specifications, and that allows one to make local modifications
-also allows one to incorporate any changes one may desire within the
-bounds of private research, though exporting tag files from a CD-ROM
-could serve just as well. Since no one on the board could possibly
-anticipate each and every way in which a scholar might choose to mine
-this data bank, it was decided to satisfy the basics and make some
-provisions for what might come. 4) Not to encode the database would rob
-it of the interchangeability and portability these important texts should
-accommodate. For CALALUCA, the extensive options presented by full-text
-searching require care in text selection and strongly support encoding of
-data to facilitate the widest possible search strategies. Better
-software can always be created, but summoning the resources, the people,
-and the energy to reconvert the text is another matter.
-
-PLD is being encoded, captured, and distributed, because to
-Chadwyck-Healey and the board it offers the widest possible array of
-future research applications that can be seen today. CALALUCA concluded
-by urging the encoding of all important text sources in whatever way
-seems most appropriate and durable at the time, without blanching at the
-thought that one's work may require emendation in the future. (Thus,
-Chadwyck-Healey produced a very large humanities text database before the
-final release of the TEI Guidelines.)
-
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-
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-DISCUSSION * Creating texts with markup advocated * Trends in encoding *
-The TEI and the issue of interchangeability of standards * A
-misconception concerning the TEI * Implications for an institution like
-LC in the event that a multiplicity of DTDs develops * Producing images
-as a first step towards possible conversion to full text through
-character recognition * The AAP tag sets as a common starting point and
-the need for caution *
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-
-HOCKEY prefaced the discussion that followed with several comments in
-favor of creating texts with markup and on trends in encoding. In the
-future, when many more texts are available for on-line searching, real
-problems in finding what is wanted will develop, if one is faced with
-millions of words of data. It therefore becomes important to consider
-putting markup in texts to help searchers home in on the actual things
-they wish to retrieve. Various approaches to refining retrieval methods
-toward this end include building on a computer version of a dictionary
-and letting the computer look up words in it to obtain more information
-about the semantic structure or semantic field of a word, its grammatical
-structure, and syntactic structure.
-
-HOCKEY commented on the present keen interest in the encoding world
-in creating: 1) machine-readable versions of dictionaries that can be
-initially tagged in SGML, which gives a structure to the dictionary entry;
-these entries can then be converted into a more rigid or otherwise
-different database structure inside the computer, which can be treated as
-a dynamic tool for searching mechanisms; 2) large bodies of text to study
-the language. In order to incorporate more sophisticated mechanisms,
-more about how words behave needs to be known, which can be learned in
-part from information in dictionaries. However, the last ten years have
-seen much interest in studying the structure of printed dictionaries
-converted into computer-readable form. The information one derives about
-many words from those is only partial, one or two definitions of the
-common or the usual meaning of a word, and then numerous definitions of
-unusual usages. If the computer is using a dictionary to help retrieve
-words in a text, it needs much more information about the common usages,
-because those are the ones that occur over and over again. Hence the
-current interest in developing large bodies of text in computer-readable
-form in order to study the language. Several projects are engaged in
-compiling, for example, 100 million words. HOCKEY described one with
-which she was associated briefly at Oxford University involving
-compilation of 100 million words of British English: about 10 percent of
-that will contain detailed linguistic tagging encoded in SGML; it will
-have word class taggings, with words identified as nouns, verbs,
-adjectives, or other parts of speech. This tagging can then be used by
-programs which will begin to learn a bit more about the structure of the
-language, and then, can go to tag more text.
-
-HOCKEY said that the more that is tagged accurately, the more one can
-refine the tagging process and thus the bigger body of text one can build
-up with linguistic tagging incorporated into it. Hence, the more tagging
-or annotation there is in the text, the more one may begin to learn about
-language and the more it will help accomplish more intelligent OCR. She
-recommended the development of software tools that will help one begin to
-understand more about a text, which can then be applied to scanning
-images of that text in that format and to using more intelligence to help
-one interpret or understand the text.
-
-HOCKEY posited the need to think about common methods of text-encoding
-for a long time to come, because building these large bodies of text is
-extremely expensive and will only be done once.
-
-In the more general discussion on approaches to encoding that followed,
-these points were made:
-
-BESSER identified the underlying problem with standards that all have to
-struggle with in adopting a standard, namely, the tension between a very
-highly defined standard that is very interchangeable but does not work
-for everyone because something is lacking, and a standard that is less
-defined, more open, more adaptable, but less interchangeable. Contending
-that the way in which people use SGML is not sufficiently defined, BESSER
-wondered 1) if people resist the TEI because they think it is too defined
-in certain things they do not fit into, and 2) how progress with
-interchangeability can be made without frightening people away.
-
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN replied that the published drafts of the TEI had met
-with surprisingly little objection on the grounds that they do not allow
-one to handle X or Y or Z. Particular concerns of the affiliated
-projects have led, in practice, to discussions of how extensions are to
-be made; the primary concern of any project has to be how it can be
-represented locally, thus making interchange secondary. The TEI has
-received much criticism based on the notion that everything in it is
-required or even recommended, which, as it happens, is a misconception
-from the beginning, because none of it is required and very little is
-actually actively recommended for all cases, except that one document
-one's source.
-
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN agreed with BESSER about this trade-off: all the
-projects in a set of twenty TEI-conformant projects will not necessarily
-tag the material in the same way. One result of the TEI will be that the
-easiest problems will be solved--those dealing with the external form of
-the information; but the problem that is hardest in interchange is that
-one is not encoding what another wants, and vice versa. Thus, after
-the adoption of a common notation, the differences in the underlying
-conceptions of what is interesting about texts become more visible.
-The success of a standard like the TEI will lie in the ability of
-the recipient of interchanged texts to use some of what it contains
-and to add the information that was not encoded that one wants, in a
-layered way, so that texts can be gradually enriched and one does not
-have to put in everything all at once. Hence, having a well-behaved
-markup scheme is important.
-
-STEVENS followed up on the paradoxical analogy that BESSER alluded to in
-the example of the MARC records, namely, the formats that are the same
-except that they are different. STEVENS drew a parallel between
-document-type definitions and MARC records for books and serials and maps,
-where one has a tagging structure and there is a text-interchange.
-STEVENS opined that the producers of the information will set the terms
-for the standard (i.e., develop document-type definitions for the users
-of their products), creating a situation that will be problematical for
-an institution like the Library of Congress, which will have to deal with
-the DTDs in the event that a multiplicity of them develops. Thus,
-numerous people are seeking a standard but cannot find the tag set that
-will be acceptable to them and their clients. SPERBERG-McQUEEN agreed
-with this view, and said that the situation was in a way worse: attempting
-to unify arbitrary DTDs resembled attempting to unify a MARC record with a
-bibliographic record done according to the Prussian instructions.
-According to STEVENS, this situation occurred very early in the process.
-
-WATERS recalled from early discussions on Project Open Book the concern
-of many people that merely by producing images, POB was not really
-enhancing intellectual access to the material. Nevertheless, not wishing
-to overemphasize the opposition between imaging and full text, WATERS
-stated that POB views getting the images as a first step toward possibly
-converting to full text through character recognition, if the technology
-is appropriate. WATERS also emphasized that encoding is involved even
-with a set of images.
-
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN agreed with WATERS that one can create an SGML document
-consisting wholly of images. At first sight, organizing graphic images
-with an SGML document may not seem to offer great advantages, but the
-advantages of the scheme WATERS described would be precisely that
-ability to move into something that is more of a multimedia document:
-a combination of transcribed text and page images. WEIBEL concurred in
-this judgment, offering evidence from Project ADAPT, where a page is
-divided into text elements and graphic elements, and in fact the text
-elements are organized by columns and lines. These lines may be used as
-the basis for distributing documents in a network environment. As one
-develops software intelligent enough to recognize what those elements
-are, it makes sense to apply SGML to an image initially, that may, in
-fact, ultimately become more and more text, either through OCR or edited
-OCR or even just through keying. For WATERS, the labor of composing the
-document and saying this set of documents or this set of images belongs
-to this document constitutes a significant investment.
-
-WEIBEL also made the point that the AAP tag sets, while not excessively
-prescriptive, offer a common starting point; they do not define the
-structure of the documents, though. They have some recommendations about
-DTDs one could use as examples, but they do just suggest tag sets. For
-example, the CORE project attempts to use the AAP markup as much as
-possible, but there are clearly areas where structure must be added.
-That in no way contradicts the use of AAP tag sets.
-
-SPERBERG-McQUEEN noted that the TEI prepared a long working paper early
-on about the AAP tag set and what it lacked that the TEI thought it
-needed, and a fairly long critique of the naming conventions, which has
-led to a very different style of naming in the TEI. He stressed the
-importance of the opposition between prescriptive markup, the kind that a
-publisher or anybody can do when producing documents de novo, and
-descriptive markup, in which one has to take what the text carrier
-provides. In these particular tag sets it is easy to overemphasize this
-opposition, because the AAP tag set is extremely flexible. Even if one
-just used the DTDs, they allow almost anything to appear almost anywhere.
-
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-
-SESSION VI. COPYRIGHT ISSUES
-
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-PETERS * Several cautions concerning copyright in an electronic
-environment * Review of copyright law in the United States * The notion
-of the public good and the desirability of incentives to promote it *
-What copyright protects * Works not protected by copyright * The rights
-of copyright holders * Publishers' concerns in today's electronic
-environment * Compulsory licenses * The price of copyright in a digital
-medium and the need for cooperation * Additional clarifications * Rough
-justice oftentimes the outcome in numerous copyright matters * Copyright
-in an electronic society * Copyright law always only sets up the
-boundaries; anything can be changed by contract *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-Marybeth PETERS, policy planning adviser to the Register of Copyrights,
-Library of Congress, made several general comments and then opened the
-floor to discussion of subjects of interest to the audience.
-
-Having attended several sessions in an effort to gain a sense of what
-people did and where copyright would affect their lives, PETERS expressed
-the following cautions:
-
- * If one takes and converts materials and puts them in new forms,
- then, from a copyright point of view, one is creating something and
- will receive some rights.
-
- * However, if what one is converting already exists, a question
- immediately arises about the status of the materials in question.
-
- * Putting something in the public domain in the United States offers
- some freedom from anxiety, but distributing it throughout the world
- on a network is another matter, even if one has put it in the public
- domain in the United States. Re foreign laws, very frequently a
- work can be in the public domain in the United States but protected
- in other countries. Thus, one must consider all of the places a
- work may reach, lest one unwittingly become liable to being faced
- with a suit for copyright infringement, or at least a letter
- demanding discussion of what one is doing.
-
-PETERS reviewed copyright law in the United States. The U.S.
-Constitution effectively states that Congress has the power to enact
-copyright laws for two purposes: 1) to encourage the creation and
-dissemination of intellectual works for the good of society as a whole;
-and, significantly, 2) to give creators and those who package and
-disseminate materials the economic rewards that are due them.
-
-Congress strives to strike a balance, which at times can become an
-emotional issue. The United States has never accepted the notion of the
-natural right of an author so much as it has accepted the notion of the
-public good and the desirability of incentives to promote it. This state
-of affairs, however, has created strains on the international level and
-is the reason for several of the differences in the laws that we have.
-Today the United States protects almost every kind of work that can be
-called an expression of an author. The standard for gaining copyright
-protection is simply originality. This is a low standard and means that
-a work is not copied from something else, as well as shows a certain
-minimal amount of authorship. One can also acquire copyright protection
-for making a new version of preexisting material, provided it manifests
-some spark of creativity.
-
-However, copyright does not protect ideas, methods, systems--only the way
-that one expresses those things. Nor does copyright protect anything
-that is mechanical, anything that does not involve choice, or criteria
-concerning whether or not one should do a thing. For example, the
-results of a process called declicking, in which one mechanically removes
-impure sounds from old recordings, are not copyrightable. On the other
-hand, the choice to record a song digitally and to increase the sound of
-violins or to bring up the tympani constitutes the results of conversion
-that are copyrightable. Moreover, if a work is protected by copyright in
-the United States, one generally needs the permission of the copyright
-owner to convert it. Normally, who will own the new--that is, converted-
--material is a matter of contract. In the absence of a contract, the
-person who creates the new material is the author and owner. But people
-do not generally think about the copyright implications until after the
-fact. PETERS stressed the need when dealing with copyrighted works to
-think about copyright in advance. One's bargaining power is much greater
-up front than it is down the road.
-
-PETERS next discussed works not protected by copyright, for example, any
-work done by a federal employee as part of his or her official duties is
-in the public domain in the United States. The issue is not wholly free
-of doubt concerning whether or not the work is in the public domain
-outside the United States. Other materials in the public domain include:
-any works published more than seventy-five years ago, and any work
-published in the United States more than twenty-eight years ago, whose
-copyright was not renewed. In talking about the new technology and
-putting material in a digital form to send all over the world, PETERS
-cautioned, one must keep in mind that while the rights may not be an
-issue in the United States, they may be in different parts of the world,
-where most countries previously employed a copyright term of the life of
-the author plus fifty years.
-
-PETERS next reviewed the economics of copyright holding. Simply,
-economic rights are the rights to control the reproduction of a work in
-any form. They belong to the author, or in the case of a work made for
-hire, the employer. The second right, which is critical to conversion,
-is the right to change a work. The right to make new versions is perhaps
-one of the most significant rights of authors, particularly in an
-electronic world. The third right is the right to publish the work and
-the right to disseminate it, something that everyone who deals in an
-electronic medium needs to know. The basic rule is if a copy is sold,
-all rights of distribution are extinguished with the sale of that copy.
-The key is that it must be sold. A number of companies overcome this
-obstacle by leasing or renting their product. These companies argue that
-if the material is rented or leased and not sold, they control the uses
-of a work. The fourth right, and one very important in a digital world,
-is a right of public performance, which means the right to show the work
-sequentially. For example, copyright owners control the showing of a
-CD-ROM product in a public place such as a public library. The reverse
-side of public performance is something called the right of public
-display. Moral rights also exist, which at the federal level apply only
-to very limited visual works of art, but in theory may apply under
-contract and other principles. Moral rights may include the right of an
-author to have his or her name on a work, the right of attribution, and
-the right to object to distortion or mutilation--the right of integrity.
-
-The way copyright law is worded gives much latitude to activities such as
-preservation; to use of material for scholarly and research purposes when
-the user does not make multiple copies; and to the generation of
-facsimile copies of unpublished works by libraries for themselves and
-other libraries. But the law does not allow anyone to become the
-distributor of the product for the entire world. In today's electronic
-environment, publishers are extremely concerned that the entire world is
-networked and can obtain the information desired from a single copy in a
-single library. Hence, if there is to be only one sale, which publishers
-may choose to live with, they will obtain their money in other ways, for
-example, from access and use. Hence, the development of site licenses
-and other kinds of agreements to cover what publishers believe they
-should be compensated for. Any solution that the United States takes
-today has to consider the international arena.
-
-Noting that the United States is a member of the Berne Convention and
-subscribes to its provisions, PETERS described the permissions process.
-She also defined compulsory licenses. A compulsory license, of which the
-United States has had a few, builds into the law the right to use a work
-subject to certain terms and conditions. In the international arena,
-however, the ability to use compulsory licenses is extremely limited.
-Thus, clearinghouses and other collectives comprise one option that has
-succeeded in providing for use of a work. Often overlooked when one
-begins to use copyrighted material and put products together is how
-expensive the permissions process and managing it is. According to
-PETERS, the price of copyright in a digital medium, whatever solution is
-worked out, will include managing and assembling the database. She
-strongly recommended that publishers and librarians or people with
-various backgrounds cooperate to work out administratively feasible
-systems, in order to produce better results.
-
-In the lengthy question-and-answer period that followed PETERS's
-presentation, the following points emerged:
-
- * The Copyright Office maintains that anything mechanical and
- totally exhaustive probably is not protected. In the event that
- what an individual did in developing potentially copyrightable
- material is not understood, the Copyright Office will ask about the
- creative choices the applicant chose to make or not to make. As a
- practical matter, if one believes she or he has made enough of those
- choices, that person has a right to assert a copyright and someone
- else must assert that the work is not copyrightable. The more
- mechanical, the more automatic, a thing is, the less likely it is to
- be copyrightable.
-
- * Nearly all photographs are deemed to be copyrightable, but no one
- worries about them much, because everyone is free to take the same
- image. Thus, a photographic copyright represents what is called a
- "thin" copyright. The photograph itself must be duplicated, in
- order for copyright to be violated.
-
- * The Copyright Office takes the position that X-rays are not
- copyrightable because they are mechanical. It can be argued
- whether or not image enhancement in scanning can be protected. One
- must exercise care with material created with public funds and
- generally in the public domain. An article written by a federal
- employee, if written as part of official duties, is not
- copyrightable. However, control over a scientific article written
- by a National Institutes of Health grantee (i.e., someone who
- receives money from the U.S. government), depends on NIH policy. If
- the government agency has no policy (and that policy can be
- contained in its regulations, the contract, or the grant), the
- author retains copyright. If a provision of the contract, grant, or
- regulation states that there will be no copyright, then it does not
- exist. When a work is created, copyright automatically comes into
- existence unless something exists that says it does not.
-
- * An enhanced electronic copy of a print copy of an older reference
- work in the public domain that does not contain copyrightable new
- material is a purely mechanical rendition of the original work, and
- is not copyrightable.
-
- * Usually, when a work enters the public domain, nothing can remove
- it. For example, Congress recently passed into law the concept of
- automatic renewal, which means that copyright on any work published
- between l964 and l978 does not have to be renewed in order to
- receive a seventy-five-year term. But any work not renewed before
- 1964 is in the public domain.
-
- * Concerning whether or not the United States keeps track of when
- authors die, nothing was ever done, nor is anything being done at
- the moment by the Copyright Office.
-
- * Software that drives a mechanical process is itself copyrightable.
- If one changes platforms, the software itself has a copyright. The
- World Intellectual Property Organization will hold a symposium 28
- March through 2 April l993, at Harvard University, on digital
- technology, and will study this entire issue. If one purchases a
- computer software package, such as MacPaint, and creates something
- new, one receives protection only for that which has been added.
-
-PETERS added that often in copyright matters, rough justice is the
-outcome, for example, in collective licensing, ASCAP (i.e., American
-Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers), and BMI (i.e., Broadcast
-Music, Inc.), where it may seem that the big guys receive more than their
-due. Of course, people ought not to copy a creative product without
-paying for it; there should be some compensation. But the truth of the
-world, and it is not a great truth, is that the big guy gets played on
-the radio more frequently than the little guy, who has to do much more
-until he becomes a big guy. That is true of every author, every
-composer, everyone, and, unfortunately, is part of life.
-
-Copyright always originates with the author, except in cases of works
-made for hire. (Most software falls into this category.) When an author
-sends his article to a journal, he has not relinquished copyright, though
-he retains the right to relinquish it. The author receives absolutely
-everything. The less prominent the author, the more leverage the
-publisher will have in contract negotiations. In order to transfer the
-rights, the author must sign an agreement giving them away.
-
-In an electronic society, it is important to be able to license a writer
-and work out deals. With regard to use of a work, it usually is much
-easier when a publisher holds the rights. In an electronic era, a real
-problem arises when one is digitizing and making information available.
-PETERS referred again to electronic licensing clearinghouses. Copyright
-ought to remain with the author, but as one moves forward globally in the
-electronic arena, a middleman who can handle the various rights becomes
-increasingly necessary.
-
-The notion of copyright law is that it resides with the individual, but
-in an on-line environment, where a work can be adapted and tinkered with
-by many individuals, there is concern. If changes are authorized and
-there is no agreement to the contrary, the person who changes a work owns
-the changes. To put it another way, the person who acquires permission
-to change a work technically will become the author and the owner, unless
-some agreement to the contrary has been made. It is typical for the
-original publisher to try to control all of the versions and all of the
-uses. Copyright law always only sets up the boundaries. Anything can be
-changed by contract.
-
- ******
-
-SESSION VII. CONCLUSION
-
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-GENERAL DISCUSSION * Two questions for discussion * Different emphases in
-the Workshop * Bringing the text and image partisans together *
-Desiderata in planning the long-term development of something * Questions
-surrounding the issue of electronic deposit * Discussion of electronic
-deposit as an allusion to the issue of standards * Need for a directory
-of preservation projects in digital form and for access to their
-digitized files * CETH's catalogue of machine-readable texts in the
-humanities * What constitutes a publication in the electronic world? *
-Need for LC to deal with the concept of on-line publishing * LC's Network
-Development Office exploring the limits of MARC as a standard in terms
-of handling electronic information * Magnitude of the problem and the
-need for distributed responsibility in order to maintain and store
-electronic information * Workshop participants to be viewed as a starting
-point * Development of a network version of AM urged * A step toward AM's
-construction of some sort of apparatus for network access * A delicate
-and agonizing policy question for LC * Re the issue of electronic
-deposit, LC urged to initiate a catalytic process in terms of distributed
-responsibility * Suggestions for cooperative ventures * Commercial
-publishers' fears * Strategic questions for getting the image and text
-people to think through long-term cooperation * Clarification of the
-driving force behind both the Perseus and the Cornell Xerox projects *
-+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-
-In his role as moderator of the concluding session, GIFFORD raised two
-questions he believed would benefit from discussion: 1) Are there enough
-commonalities among those of us that have been here for two days so that
-we can see courses of action that should be taken in the future? And, if
-so, what are they and who might take them? 2) Partly derivative from
-that, but obviously very dangerous to LC as host, do you see a role for
-the Library of Congress in all this? Of course, the Library of Congress
-holds a rather special status in a number of these matters, because it is
-not perceived as a player with an economic stake in them, but are there
-roles that LC can play that can help advance us toward where we are heading?
-
-Describing himself as an uninformed observer of the technicalities of the
-last two days, GIFFORD detected three different emphases in the Workshop:
-1) people who are very deeply committed to text; 2) people who are almost
-passionate about images; and 3) a few people who are very committed to
-what happens to the networks. In other words, the new networking
-dimension, the accessibility of the processability, the portability of
-all this across the networks. How do we pull those three together?
-
-Adding a question that reflected HOCKEY's comment that this was the
-fourth workshop she had attended in the previous thirty days, FLEISCHHAUER
-wondered to what extent this meeting had reinvented the wheel, or if it
-had contributed anything in the way of bringing together a different group
-of people from those who normally appear on the workshop circuit.
-
-HOCKEY confessed to being struck at this meeting and the one the
-Electronic Pierce Consortium organized the previous week that this was a
-coming together of people working on texts and not images. Attempting to
-bring the two together is something we ought to be thinking about for the
-future: How one can think about working with image material to begin
-with, but structuring it and digitizing it in such a way that at a later
-stage it can be interpreted into text, and find a common way of building
-text and images together so that they can be used jointly in the future,
-with the network support to begin there because that is how people will
-want to access it.
-
-In planning the long-term development of something, which is what is
-being done in electronic text, HOCKEY stressed the importance not only
-of discussing the technical aspects of how one does it but particularly
-of thinking about what the people who use the stuff will want to do.
-But conversely, there are numerous things that people start to do with
-electronic text or material that nobody ever thought of in the beginning.
-
-LESK, in response to the question concerning the role of the Library of
-Congress, remarked the often suggested desideratum of having electronic
-deposit: Since everything is now computer-typeset, an entire decade of
-material that was machine-readable exists, but the publishers frequently
-did not save it; has LC taken any action to have its copyright deposit
-operation start collecting these machine-readable versions? In the
-absence of PETERS, GIFFORD replied that the question was being
-actively considered but that that was only one dimension of the problem.
-Another dimension is the whole question of the integrity of the original
-electronic document. It becomes highly important in science to prove
-authorship. How will that be done?
-
-ERWAY explained that, under the old policy, to make a claim for a
-copyright for works that were published in electronic form, including
-software, one had to submit a paper copy of the first and last twenty
-pages of code--something that represented the work but did not include
-the entire work itself and had little value to anyone. As a temporary
-measure, LC has claimed the right to demand electronic versions of
-electronic publications. This measure entails a proactive role for the
-Library to say that it wants a particular electronic version. Publishers
-then have perhaps a year to submit it. But the real problem for LC is
-what to do with all this material in all these different formats. Will
-the Library mount it? How will it give people access to it? How does LC
-keep track of the appropriate computers, software, and media? The situation
-is so hard to control, ERWAY said, that it makes sense for each publishing
-house to maintain its own archive. But LC cannot enforce that either.
-
-GIFFORD acknowledged LESK's suggestion that establishing a priority
-offered the solution, albeit a fairly complicated one. But who maintains
-that register?, he asked. GRABER noted that LC does attempt to collect a
-Macintosh version and the IBM-compatible version of software. It does
-not collect other versions. But while true for software, BYRUM observed,
-this reply does not speak to materials, that is, all the materials that
-were published that were on somebody's microcomputer or driver tapes
-at a publishing office across the country. LC does well to acquire
-specific machine-readable products selectively that were intended to be
-machine-readable. Materials that were in machine-readable form at one time,
-BYRUM said, would be beyond LC's capability at the moment, insofar as
-attempting to acquire, organize, and preserve them are concerned--and
-preservation would be the most important consideration. In this
-connection, GIFFORD reiterated the need to work out some sense of
-distributive responsibility for a number of these issues, which
-inevitably will require significant cooperation and discussion.
-Nobody can do it all.
-
-LESK suggested that some publishers may look with favor on LC beginning
-to serve as a depository of tapes in an electronic manuscript standard.
-Publishers may view this as a service that they did not have to perform
-and they might send in tapes. However, SPERBERG-McQUEEN countered,
-although publishers have had equivalent services available to them for a
-long time, the electronic text archive has never turned away or been
-flooded with tapes and is forever sending feedback to the depositor.
-Some publishers do send in tapes.
-
-ANDRE viewed this discussion as an allusion to the issue of standards.
-She recommended that the AAP standard and the TEI, which has already been
-somewhat harmonized internationally and which also shares several
-compatibilities with the AAP, be harmonized to ensure sufficient
-compatibility in the software. She drew the line at saying LC ought to
-be the locus or forum for such harmonization.
-
-Taking the group in a slightly different direction, but one where at
-least in the near term LC might play a helpful role, LYNCH remarked the
-plans of a number of projects to carry out preservation by creating
-digital images that will end up in on-line or near-line storage at some
-institution. Presumably, LC will link this material somehow to its
-on-line catalog in most cases. Thus, it is in a digital form. LYNCH had
-the impression that many of these institutions would be willing to make
-those files accessible to other people outside the institution, provided
-that there is no copyright problem. This desideratum will require
-propagating the knowledge that those digitized files exist, so that they
-can end up in other on-line catalogs. Although uncertain about the
-mechanism for achieving this result, LYNCH said that it warranted
-scrutiny because it seemed to be connected to some of the basic issues of
-cataloging and distribution of records. It would be foolish, given the
-amount of work that all of us have to do and our meager resources, to
-discover multiple institutions digitizing the same work. Re microforms,
-LYNCH said, we are in pretty good shape.
-
-BATTIN called this a big problem and noted that the Cornell people (who
-had already departed) were working on it. At issue from the beginning
-was to learn how to catalog that information into RLIN and then into
-OCLC, so that it would be accessible. That issue remains to be resolved.
-LYNCH rejoined that putting it into OCLC or RLIN was helpful insofar as
-somebody who is thinking of performing preservation activity on that work
-could learn about it. It is not necessarily helpful for institutions to
-make that available. BATTIN opined that the idea was that it not only be
-for preservation purposes but for the convenience of people looking for
-this material. She endorsed LYNCH's dictum that duplication of this
-effort was to be avoided by every means.
-
-HOCKEY informed the Workshop about one major current activity of CETH,
-namely a catalogue of machine-readable texts in the humanities. Held on
-RLIN at present, the catalogue has been concentrated on ASCII as opposed
-to digitized images of text. She is exploring ways to improve the
-catalogue and make it more widely available, and welcomed suggestions
-about these concerns. CETH owns the records, which are not just
-restricted to RLIN, and can distribute them however it wishes.
-
-Taking up LESK's earlier question, BATTIN inquired whether LC, since it
-is accepting electronic files and designing a mechanism for dealing with
-that rather than putting books on shelves, would become responsible for
-the National Copyright Depository of Electronic Materials. Of course
-that could not be accomplished overnight, but it would be something LC
-could plan for. GIFFORD acknowledged that much thought was being devoted
-to that set of problems and returned the discussion to the issue raised
-by LYNCH--whether or not putting the kind of records that both BATTIN and
-HOCKEY have been talking about in RLIN is not a satisfactory solution.
-It seemed to him that RLIN answered LYNCH's original point concerning
-some kind of directory for these kinds of materials. In a situation
-where somebody is attempting to decide whether or not to scan this or
-film that or to learn whether or not someone has already done so, LYNCH
-suggested, RLIN is helpful, but it is not helpful in the case of a local,
-on-line catalogue. Further, one would like to have her or his system be
-aware that that exists in digital form, so that one can present it to a
-patron, even though one did not digitize it, if it is out of copyright.
-The only way to make those linkages would be to perform a tremendous
-amount of real-time look-up, which would be awkward at best, or
-periodically to yank the whole file from RLIN and match it against one's
-own stuff, which is a nuisance.
-
-But where, ERWAY inquired, does one stop including things that are
-available with Internet, for instance, in one's local catalogue?
-It almost seems that that is LC's means to acquire access to them.
-That represents LC's new form of library loan. Perhaps LC's new on-line
-catalogue is an amalgamation of all these catalogues on line. LYNCH
-conceded that perhaps that was true in the very long term, but was not
-applicable to scanning in the short term. In his view, the totals cited
-by Yale, 10,000 books over perhaps a four-year period, and 1,000-1,500
-books from Cornell, were not big numbers, while searching all over
-creation for relatively rare occurrences will prove to be less efficient.
-As GIFFORD wondered if this would not be a separable file on RLIN and
-could be requested from them, BATTIN interjected that it was easily
-accessible to an institution. SEVERTSON pointed out that that file, cum
-enhancements, was available with reference information on CD-ROM, which
-makes it a little more available.
-
-In HOCKEY's view, the real question facing the Workshop is what to put in
-this catalogue, because that raises the question of what constitutes a
-publication in the electronic world. (WEIBEL interjected that Eric Joule
-in OCLC's Office of Research is also wrestling with this particular
-problem, while GIFFORD thought it sounded fairly generic.) HOCKEY
-contended that a majority of texts in the humanities are in the hands
-of either a small number of large research institutions or individuals
-and are not generally available for anyone else to access at all.
-She wondered if these texts ought to be catalogued.
-
-After argument proceeded back and forth for several minutes over why
-cataloguing might be a necessary service, LEBRON suggested that this
-issue involved the responsibility of a publisher. The fact that someone
-has created something electronically and keeps it under his or her
-control does not constitute publication. Publication implies
-dissemination. While it would be important for a scholar to let other
-people know that this creation exists, in many respects this is no
-different from an unpublished manuscript. That is what is being accessed
-in there, except that now one is not looking at it in the hard-copy but
-in the electronic environment.
-
-LEBRON expressed puzzlement at the variety of ways electronic publishing
-has been viewed. Much of what has been discussed throughout these two
-days has concerned CD-ROM publishing, whereas in the on-line environment
-that she confronts, the constraints and challenges are very different.
-Sooner or later LC will have to deal with the concept of on-line
-publishing. Taking up the comment ERWAY made earlier about storing
-copies, LEBRON gave her own journal as an example. How would she deposit
-OJCCT for copyright?, she asked, because the journal will exist in the
-mainframe at OCLC and people will be able to access it. Here the
-situation is different, ownership versus access, and is something that
-arises with publication in the on-line environment, faster than is
-sometimes realized. Lacking clear answers to all of these questions
-herself, LEBRON did not anticipate that LC would be able to take a role
-in helping to define some of them for quite a while.
-
-GREENFIELD observed that LC's Network Development Office is attempting,
-among other things, to explore the limits of MARC as a standard in terms
-of handling electronic information. GREENFIELD also noted that Rebecca
-GUENTHER from that office gave a paper to the American Society for
-Information Science (ASIS) summarizing several of the discussion papers
-that were coming out of the Network Development Office. GREENFIELD said
-he understood that that office had a list-server soliciting just the kind
-of feedback received today concerning the difficulties of identifying and
-cataloguing electronic information. GREENFIELD hoped that everybody
-would be aware of that and somehow contribute to that conversation.
-
-Noting two of LC's roles, first, to act as a repository of record for
-material that is copyrighted in this country, and second, to make
-materials it holds available in some limited form to a clientele that
-goes beyond Congress, BESSER suggested that it was incumbent on LC to
-extend those responsibilities to all the things being published in
-electronic form. This would mean eventually accepting electronic
-formats. LC could require that at some point they be in a certain
-limited set of formats, and then develop mechanisms for allowing people
-to access those in the same way that other things are accessed. This
-does not imply that they are on the network and available to everyone.
-LC does that with most of its bibliographic records, BESSER said, which
-end up migrating to the utility (e.g., OCLC) or somewhere else. But just
-as most of LC's books are available in some form through interlibrary
-loan or some other mechanism, so in the same way electronic formats ought
-to be available to others in some format, though with some copyright
-considerations. BESSER was not suggesting that these mechanisms be
-established tomorrow, only that they seemed to fall within LC's purview,
-and that there should be long-range plans to establish them.
-
-Acknowledging that those from LC in the room agreed with BESSER
-concerning the need to confront difficult questions, GIFFORD underscored
-the magnitude of the problem of what to keep and what to select. GIFFORD
-noted that LC currently receives some 31,000 items per day, not counting
-electronic materials, and argued for much more distributed responsibility
-in order to maintain and store electronic information.
-
-BESSER responded that the assembled group could be viewed as a starting
-point, whose initial operating premise could be helping to move in this
-direction and defining how LC could do so, for example, in areas of
-standardization or distribution of responsibility.
-
-FLEISCHHAUER added that AM was fully engaged, wrestling with some of the
-questions that pertain to the conversion of older historical materials,
-which would be one thing that the Library of Congress might do. Several
-points mentioned by BESSER and several others on this question have a
-much greater impact on those who are concerned with cataloguing and the
-networking of bibliographic information, as well as preservation itself.
-
-Speaking directly to AM, which he considered was a largely uncopyrighted
-database, LYNCH urged development of a network version of AM, or
-consideration of making the data in it available to people interested in
-doing network multimedia. On account of the current great shortage of
-digital data that is both appealing and unencumbered by complex rights
-problems, this course of action could have a significant effect on making
-network multimedia a reality.
-
-In this connection, FLEISCHHAUER reported on a fragmentary prototype in
-LC's Office of Information Technology Services that attempts to associate
-digital images of photographs with cataloguing information in ways that
-work within a local area network--a step, so to say, toward AM's
-construction of some sort of apparatus for access. Further, AM has
-attempted to use standard data forms in order to help make that
-distinction between the access tools and the underlying data, and thus
-believes that the database is networkable.
-
-A delicate and agonizing policy question for LC, however, which comes
-back to resources and unfortunately has an impact on this, is to find
-some appropriate, honorable, and legal cost-recovery possibilities. A
-certain skittishness concerning cost-recovery has made people unsure
-exactly what to do. AM would be highly receptive to discussing further
-LYNCH's offer to test or demonstrate its database in a network
-environment, FLEISCHHAUER said.
-
-Returning the discussion to what she viewed as the vital issue of
-electronic deposit, BATTIN recommended that LC initiate a catalytic
-process in terms of distributed responsibility, that is, bring together
-the distributed organizations and set up a study group to look at all
-these issues and see where we as a nation should move. The broader
-issues of how we deal with the management of electronic information will
-not disappear, but only grow worse.
-
-LESK took up this theme and suggested that LC attempt to persuade one
-major library in each state to deal with its state equivalent publisher,
-which might produce a cooperative project that would be equitably
-distributed around the country, and one in which LC would be dealing with
-a minimal number of publishers and minimal copyright problems.
-
-GRABER remarked the recent development in the scientific community of a
-willingness to use SGML and either deposit or interchange on a fairly
-standardized format. He wondered if a similar movement was taking place
-in the humanities. Although the National Library of Medicine found only
-a few publishers to cooperate in a like venture two or three years ago, a
-new effort might generate a much larger number willing to cooperate.
-
-KIMBALL recounted his unit's (Machine-Readable Collections Reading Room)
-troubles with the commercial publishers of electronic media in acquiring
-materials for LC's collections, in particular the publishers' fear that
-they would not be able to cover their costs and would lose control of
-their products, that LC would give them away or sell them and make
-profits from them. He doubted that the publishing industry was prepared
-to move into this area at the moment, given its resistance to allowing LC
-to use its machine-readable materials as the Library would like.
-
-The copyright law now addresses compact disk as a medium, and LC can
-request one copy of that, or two copies if it is the only version, and
-can request copies of software, but that fails to address magazines or
-books or anything like that which is in machine-readable form.
-
-GIFFORD acknowledged the thorny nature of this issue, which he illustrated
-with the example of the cumbersome process involved in putting a copy of a
-scientific database on a LAN in LC's science reading room. He also
-acknowledged that LC needs help and could enlist the energies and talents
-of Workshop participants in thinking through a number of these problems.
-
-GIFFORD returned the discussion to getting the image and text people to
-think through together where they want to go in the long term. MYLONAS
-conceded that her experience at the Pierce Symposium the previous week at
-Georgetown University and this week at LC had forced her to reevaluate
-her perspective on the usefulness of text as images. MYLONAS framed the
-issues in a series of questions: How do we acquire machine-readable
-text? Do we take pictures of it and perform OCR on it later? Is it
-important to obtain very high-quality images and text, etc.?
-FLEISCHHAUER agreed with MYLONAS's framing of strategic questions, adding
-that a large institution such as LC probably has to do all of those
-things at different times. Thus, the trick is to exercise judgment. The
-Workshop had added to his and AM's considerations in making those
-judgments. Concerning future meetings or discussions, MYLONAS suggested
-that screening priorities would be helpful.
-
-WEIBEL opined that the diversity reflected in this group was a sign both
-of the health and of the immaturity of the field, and more time would
-have to pass before we convince one another concerning standards.
-
-An exchange between MYLONAS and BATTIN clarified the point that the
-driving force behind both the Perseus and the Cornell Xerox projects was
-the preservation of knowledge for the future, not simply for particular
-research use. In the case of Perseus, MYLONAS said, the assumption was
-that the texts would not be entered again into electronically readable
-form. SPERBERG-McQUEEN added that a scanned image would not serve as an
-archival copy for purposes of preservation in the case of, say, the Bill
-of Rights, in the sense that the scanned images are effectively the
-archival copies for the Cornell mathematics books.
-
-
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-
-
- Appendix I: PROGRAM
-
-
-
- WORKSHOP
- ON
- ELECTRONIC
- TEXTS
-
-
-
- 9-10 June 1992
-
- Library of Congress
- Washington, D.C.
-
-
-
- Supported by a Grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
-
-
-Tuesday, 9 June 1992
-
-NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION LAB, ATRIUM, LIBRARY MADISON
-
-8:30 AM Coffee and Danish, registration
-
-9:00 AM Welcome
-
- Prosser Gifford, Director for Scholarly Programs, and Carl
- Fleischhauer, Coordinator, American Memory, Library of
- Congress
-
-9:l5 AM Session I. Content in a New Form: Who Will Use It and What
- Will They Do?
-
- Broad description of the range of electronic information.
- Characterization of who uses it and how it is or may be used.
- In addition to a look at scholarly uses, this session will
- include a presentation on use by students (K-12 and college)
- and the general public.
-
- Moderator: James Daly
- Avra Michelson, Archival Research and Evaluation Staff,
- National Archives and Records Administration (Overview)
- Susan H. Veccia, Team Leader, American Memory, User Evaluation,
- and
- Joanne Freeman, Associate Coordinator, American Memory, Library
- of Congress (Beyond the scholar)
-
-10:30-
-11:00 AM Break
-
-11:00 AM Session II. Show and Tell.
-
- Each presentation to consist of a fifteen-minute
- statement/show; group discussion will follow lunch.
-
- Moderator: Jacqueline Hess, Director, National Demonstration
- Lab
-
- 1. A classics project, stressing texts and text retrieval
- more than multimedia: Perseus Project, Harvard
- University
- Elli Mylonas, Managing Editor
-
- 2. Other humanities projects employing the emerging norms of
- the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI): Chadwyck-Healey's
- The English Poetry Full Text Database and/or Patrologia
- Latina Database
- Eric M. Calaluca, Vice President, Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.
-
- 3. American Memory
- Carl Fleischhauer, Coordinator, and
- Ricky Erway, Associate Coordinator, Library of Congress
-
- 4. Founding Fathers example from Packard Humanities
- Institute: The Papers of George Washington, University
- of Virginia
- Dorothy Twohig, Managing Editor, and/or
- David Woodley Packard
-
- 5. An electronic medical journal offering graphics and
- full-text searchability: The Online Journal of Current
- Clinical Trials, American Association for the Advancement
- of Science
- Maria L. Lebron, Managing Editor
-
- 6. A project that offers facsimile images of pages but omits
- searchable text: Cornell math books
- Lynne K. Personius, Assistant Director, Cornell
- Information Technologies for Scholarly Information
- Sources, Cornell University
-
-12:30 PM Lunch (Dining Room A, Library Madison 620. Exhibits
- available.)
-
-1:30 PM Session II. Show and Tell (Cont'd.).
-
-3:00-
-3:30 PM Break
-
-3:30-
-5:30 PM Session III. Distribution, Networks, and Networking: Options
- for Dissemination.
-
- Published disks: University presses and public-sector
- publishers, private-sector publishers
- Computer networks
-
- Moderator: Robert G. Zich, Special Assistant to the Associate
- Librarian for Special Projects, Library of Congress
- Clifford A. Lynch, Director, Library Automation, University of
- California
- Howard Besser, School of Library and Information Science,
- University of Pittsburgh
- Ronald L. Larsen, Associate Director of Libraries for
- Information Technology, University of Maryland at College
- Park
- Edwin B. Brownrigg, Executive Director, Memex Research
- Institute
-
-6:30 PM Reception (Montpelier Room, Library Madison 619.)
-
- ******
-
-Wednesday, 10 June 1992
-
-DINING ROOM A, LIBRARY MADISON 620
-
-8:30 AM Coffee and Danish
-
-9:00 AM Session IV. Image Capture, Text Capture, Overview of Text and
- Image Storage Formats.
-
- Moderator: William L. Hooton, Vice President of Operations,
- I-NET
-
- A) Principal Methods for Image Capture of Text:
- Direct scanning
- Use of microform
-
- Anne R. Kenney, Assistant Director, Department of Preservation
- and Conservation, Cornell University
- Pamela Q.J. Andre, Associate Director, Automation, and
- Judith A. Zidar, Coordinator, National Agricultural Text
- Digitizing Program (NATDP), National Agricultural Library
- (NAL)
- Donald J. Waters, Head, Systems Office, Yale University Library
-
- B) Special Problems:
- Bound volumes
- Conservation
- Reproducing printed halftones
-
- Carl Fleischhauer, Coordinator, American Memory, Library of
- Congress
- George Thoma, Chief, Communications Engineering Branch,
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
-
-10:30-
-11:00 AM Break
-
-11:00 AM Session IV. Image Capture, Text Capture, Overview of Text and
- Image Storage Formats (Cont'd.).
-
- C) Image Standards and Implications for Preservation
-
- Jean Baronas, Senior Manager, Department of Standards and
- Technology, Association for Information and Image Management
- (AIIM)
- Patricia Battin, President, The Commission on Preservation and
- Access (CPA)
-
- D) Text Conversion:
- OCR vs. rekeying
- Standards of accuracy and use of imperfect texts
- Service bureaus
-
- Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Specialist, Online Computer
- Library Center, Inc. (OCLC)
- Michael Lesk, Executive Director, Computer Science Research,
- Bellcore
- Ricky Erway, Associate Coordinator, American Memory, Library of
- Congress
- Pamela Q.J. Andre, Associate Director, Automation, and
- Judith A. Zidar, Coordinator, National Agricultural Text
- Digitizing Program (NATDP), National Agricultural Library
- (NAL)
-
-12:30-
-1:30 PM Lunch
-
-1:30 PM Session V. Approaches to Preparing Electronic Texts.
-
- Discussion of approaches to structuring text for the computer;
- pros and cons of text coding, description of methods in
- practice, and comparison of text-coding methods.
-
- Moderator: Susan Hockey, Director, Center for Electronic Texts
- in the Humanities (CETH), Rutgers and Princeton Universities
- David Woodley Packard
- C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, Editor, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI),
- University of Illinois-Chicago
- Eric M. Calaluca, Vice President, Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.
-
-3:30-
-4:00 PM Break
-
-4:00 PM Session VI. Copyright Issues.
-
- Marybeth Peters, Policy Planning Adviser to the Register of
- Copyrights, Library of Congress
-
-5:00 PM Session VII. Conclusion.
-
- General discussion.
- What topics were omitted or given short shrift that anyone
- would like to talk about now?
- Is there a "group" here? What should the group do next, if
- anything? What should the Library of Congress do next, if
- anything?
- Moderator: Prosser Gifford, Director for Scholarly Programs,
- Library of Congress
-
-6:00 PM Adjourn
-
-
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-
-
- Appendix II: ABSTRACTS
-
-
-SESSION I
-
-Avra MICHELSON Forecasting the Use of Electronic Texts by
- Social Sciences and Humanities Scholars
-
-This presentation explores the ways in which electronic texts are likely
-to be used by the non-scientific scholarly community. Many of the
-remarks are drawn from a report the speaker coauthored with Jeff
-Rothenberg, a computer scientist at The RAND Corporation.
-
-The speaker assesses 1) current scholarly use of information technology
-and 2) the key trends in information technology most relevant to the
-research process, in order to predict how social sciences and humanities
-scholars are apt to use electronic texts. In introducing the topic,
-current use of electronic texts is explored broadly within the context of
-scholarly communication. From the perspective of scholarly
-communication, the work of humanities and social sciences scholars
-involves five processes: 1) identification of sources, 2) communication
-with colleagues, 3) interpretation and analysis of data, 4) dissemination
-of research findings, and 5) curriculum development and instruction. The
-extent to which computation currently permeates aspects of scholarly
-communication represents a viable indicator of the prospects for
-electronic texts.
-
-The discussion of current practice is balanced by an analysis of key
-trends in the scholarly use of information technology. These include the
-trends toward end-user computing and connectivity, which provide a
-framework for forecasting the use of electronic texts through this
-millennium. The presentation concludes with a summary of the ways in
-which the nonscientific scholarly community can be expected to use
-electronic texts, and the implications of that use for information
-providers.
-
-Susan VECCIA and Joanne FREEMAN Electronic Archives for the Public:
- Use of American Memory in Public and
- School Libraries
-
-This joint discussion focuses on nonscholarly applications of electronic
-library materials, specifically addressing use of the Library of Congress
-American Memory (AM) program in a small number of public and school
-libraries throughout the United States. AM consists of selected Library
-of Congress primary archival materials, stored on optical media
-(CD-ROM/videodisc), and presented with little or no editing. Many
-collections are accompanied by electronic introductions and user's guides
-offering background information and historical context. Collections
-represent a variety of formats including photographs, graphic arts,
-motion pictures, recorded sound, music, broadsides and manuscripts,
-books, and pamphlets.
-
-In 1991, the Library of Congress began a nationwide evaluation of AM in
-different types of institutions. Test sites include public libraries,
-elementary and secondary school libraries, college and university
-libraries, state libraries, and special libraries. Susan VECCIA and
-Joanne FREEMAN will discuss their observations on the use of AM by the
-nonscholarly community, using evidence gleaned from this ongoing
-evaluation effort.
-
-VECCIA will comment on the overall goals of the evaluation project, and
-the types of public and school libraries included in this study. Her
-comments on nonscholarly use of AM will focus on the public library as a
-cultural and community institution, often bridging the gap between formal
-and informal education. FREEMAN will discuss the use of AM in school
-libraries. Use by students and teachers has revealed some broad
-questions about the use of electronic resources, as well as definite
-benefits gained by the "nonscholar." Topics will include the problem of
-grasping content and context in an electronic environment, the stumbling
-blocks created by "new" technologies, and the unique skills and interests
-awakened through use of electronic resources.
-
-SESSION II
-
-Elli MYLONAS The Perseus Project: Interactive Sources and
- Studies in Classical Greece
-
-The Perseus Project (5) has just released Perseus 1.0, the first publicly
-available version of its hypertextual database of multimedia materials on
-classical Greece. Perseus is designed to be used by a wide audience,
-comprised of readers at the student and scholar levels. As such, it must
-be able to locate information using different strategies, and it must
-contain enough detail to serve the different needs of its users. In
-addition, it must be delivered so that it is affordable to its target
-audience. [These problems and the solutions we chose are described in
-Mylonas, "An Interface to Classical Greek Civilization," JASIS 43:2,
-March 1992.]
-
-In order to achieve its objective, the project staff decided to make a
-conscious separation between selecting and converting textual, database,
-and image data on the one hand, and putting it into a delivery system on
-the other. That way, it is possible to create the electronic data
-without thinking about the restrictions of the delivery system. We have
-made a great effort to choose system-independent formats for our data,
-and to put as much thought and work as possible into structuring it so
-that the translation from paper to electronic form will enhance the value
-of the data. [A discussion of these solutions as of two years ago is in
-Elli Mylonas, Gregory Crane, Kenneth Morrell, and D. Neel Smith, "The
-Perseus Project: Data in the Electronic Age," in Accessing Antiquity:
-The Computerization of Classical Databases, J. Solomon and T. Worthen
-(eds.), University of Arizona Press, in press.]
-
-Much of the work on Perseus is focused on collecting and converting the
-data on which the project is based. At the same time, it is necessary to
-provide means of access to the information, in order to make it usable,
-and them to investigate how it is used. As we learn more about what
-students and scholars from different backgrounds do with Perseus, we can
-adjust our data collection, and also modify the system to accommodate
-them. In creating a delivery system for general use, we have tried to
-avoid favoring any one type of use by allowing multiple forms of access
-to and navigation through the system.
-
-The way text is handled exemplifies some of these principles. All text
-in Perseus is tagged using SGML, following the guidelines of the Text
-Encoding Initiative (TEI). This markup is used to index the text, and
-process it so that it can be imported into HyperCard. No SGML markup
-remains in the text that reaches the user, because currently it would be
-too expensive to create a system that acts on SGML in real time.
-However, the regularity provided by SGML is essential for verifying the
-content of the texts, and greatly speeds all the processing performed on
-them. The fact that the texts exist in SGML ensures that they will be
-relatively easy to port to different hardware and software, and so will
-outlast the current delivery platform. Finally, the SGML markup
-incorporates existing canonical reference systems (chapter, verse, line,
-etc.); indexing and navigation are based on these features. This ensures
-that the same canonical reference will always resolve to the same point
-within a text, and that all versions of our texts, regardless of delivery
-platform (even paper printouts) will function the same way.
-
-In order to provide tools for users, the text is processed by a
-morphological analyzer, and the results are stored in a database.
-Together with the index, the Greek-English Lexicon, and the index of all
-the English words in the definitions of the lexicon, the morphological
-analyses comprise a set of linguistic tools that allow users of all
-levels to work with the textual information, and to accomplish different
-tasks. For example, students who read no Greek may explore a concept as
-it appears in Greek texts by using the English-Greek index, and then
-looking up works in the texts and translations, or scholars may do
-detailed morphological studies of word use by using the morphological
-analyses of the texts. Because these tools were not designed for any one
-use, the same tools and the same data can be used by both students and
-scholars.
-
-NOTES:
- (5) Perseus is based at Harvard University, with collaborators at
- several other universities. The project has been funded primarily
- by the Annenberg/CPB Project, as well as by Harvard University,
- Apple Computer, and others. It is published by Yale University
- Press. Perseus runs on Macintosh computers, under the HyperCard
- program.
-
-Eric CALALUCA
-
-Chadwyck-Healey embarked last year on two distinct yet related full-text
-humanities database projects.
-
-The English Poetry Full-Text Database and the Patrologia Latina Database
-represent new approaches to linguistic research resources. The size and
-complexity of the projects present problems for electronic publishers,
-but surmountable ones if they remain abreast of the latest possibilities
-in data capture and retrieval software techniques.
-
-The issues which required address prior to the commencement of the
-projects were legion:
-
- 1. Editorial selection (or exclusion) of materials in each
- database
-
- 2. Deciding whether or not to incorporate a normative encoding
- structure into the databases?
- A. If one is selected, should it be SGML?
- B. If SGML, then the TEI?
-
- 3. Deliver as CD-ROM, magnetic tape, or both?
-
- 4. Can one produce retrieval software advanced enough for the
- postdoctoral linguist, yet accessible enough for unattended
- general use? Should one try?
-
- 5. Re fair and liberal networking policies, what are the risks to
- an electronic publisher?
-
- 6. How does the emergence of national and international education
- networks affect the use and viability of research projects
- requiring high investment? Do the new European Community
- directives concerning database protection necessitate two
- distinct publishing projects, one for North America and one for
- overseas?
-
-From new notions of "scholarly fair use" to the future of optical media,
-virtually every issue related to electronic publishing was aired. The
-result is two projects which have been constructed to provide the quality
-research resources with the fewest encumbrances to use by teachers and
-private scholars.
-
-Dorothy TWOHIG
-
-In spring 1988 the editors of the papers of George Washington, John
-Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin were
-approached by classics scholar David Packard on behalf of the Packard
-Humanities Foundation with a proposal to produce a CD-ROM edition of the
-complete papers of each of the Founding Fathers. This electronic edition
-will supplement the published volumes, making the documents widely
-available to students and researchers at reasonable cost. We estimate
-that our CD-ROM edition of Washington's Papers will be substantially
-completed within the next two years and ready for publication. Within
-the next ten years or so, similar CD-ROM editions of the Franklin, Adams,
-Jefferson, and Madison papers also will be available. At the Library of
-Congress's session on technology, I would like to discuss not only the
-experience of the Washington Papers in producing the CD-ROM edition, but
-the impact technology has had on these major editorial projects.
-Already, we are editing our volumes with an eye to the material that will
-be readily available in the CD-ROM edition. The completed electronic
-edition will provide immense possibilities for the searching of documents
-for information in a way never possible before. The kind of technical
-innovations that are currently available and on the drawing board will
-soon revolutionize historical research and the production of historical
-documents. Unfortunately, much of this new technology is not being used
-in the planning stages of historical projects, simply because many
-historians are aware only in the vaguest way of its existence. At least
-two major new historical editing projects are considering microfilm
-editions, simply because they are not aware of the possibilities of
-electronic alternatives and the advantages of the new technology in terms
-of flexibility and research potential compared to microfilm. In fact,
-too many of us in history and literature are still at the stage of
-struggling with our PCs. There are many historical editorial projects in
-progress presently, and an equal number of literary projects. While the
-two fields have somewhat different approaches to textual editing, there
-are ways in which electronic technology can be of service to both.
-
-Since few of the editors involved in the Founding Fathers CD-ROM editions
-are technical experts in any sense, I hope to point out in my discussion
-of our experience how many of these electronic innovations can be used
-successfully by scholars who are novices in the world of new technology.
-One of the major concerns of the sponsors of the multitude of new
-scholarly editions is the limited audience reached by the published
-volumes. Most of these editions are being published in small quantities
-and the publishers' price for them puts them out of the reach not only of
-individual scholars but of most public libraries and all but the largest
-educational institutions. However, little attention is being given to
-ways in which technology can bypass conventional publication to make
-historical and literary documents more widely available.
-
-What attracted us most to the CD-ROM edition of The Papers of George
-Washington was the fact that David Packard's aim was to make a complete
-edition of all of the 135,000 documents we have collected available in an
-inexpensive format that would be placed in public libraries, small
-colleges, and even high schools. This would provide an audience far
-beyond our present 1,000-copy, $45 published edition. Since the CD-ROM
-edition will carry none of the explanatory annotation that appears in the
-published volumes, we also feel that the use of the CD-ROM will lead many
-researchers to seek out the published volumes.
-
-In addition to ignorance of new technical advances, I have found that too
-many editors--and historians and literary scholars--are resistant and
-even hostile to suggestions that electronic technology may enhance their
-work. I intend to discuss some of the arguments traditionalists are
-advancing to resist technology, ranging from distrust of the speed with
-which it changes (we are already wondering what is out there that is
-better than CD-ROM) to suspicion of the technical language used to
-describe electronic developments.
-
-Maria LEBRON
-
-The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials, a joint venture of the
-American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Online
-Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), is the first peer-reviewed journal
-to provide full text, tabular material, and line illustrations on line.
-This presentation will discuss the genesis and start-up period of the
-journal. Topics of discussion will include historical overview,
-day-to-day management of the editorial peer review, and manuscript
-tagging and publication. A demonstration of the journal and its features
-will accompany the presentation.
-
-Lynne PERSONIUS
-
-Cornell University Library, Cornell Information Technologies, and Xerox
-Corporation, with the support of the Commission on Preservation and
-Access, and Sun Microsystems, Inc., have been collaborating in a project
-to test a prototype system for recording brittle books as digital images
-and producing, on demand, high-quality archival paper replacements. The
-project goes beyond that, however, to investigate some of the issues
-surrounding scanning, storing, retrieving, and providing access to
-digital images in a network environment.
-
-The Joint Study in Digital Preservation began in January 1990. Xerox
-provided the College Library Access and Storage System (CLASS) software,
-a prototype 600-dots-per-inch (dpi) scanner, and the hardware necessary
-to support network printing on the DocuTech printer housed in Cornell's
-Computing and Communications Center (CCC).
-
-The Cornell staff using the hardware and software became an integral part
-of the development and testing process for enhancements to the CLASS
-software system. The collaborative nature of this relationship is
-resulting in a system that is specifically tailored to the preservation
-application.
-
-A digital library of 1,000 volumes (or approximately 300,000 images) has
-been created and is stored on an optical jukebox that resides in CCC.
-The library includes a collection of select mathematics monographs that
-provides mathematics faculty with an opportunity to use the electronic
-library. The remaining volumes were chosen for the library to test the
-various capabilities of the scanning system.
-
-One project objective is to provide users of the Cornell library and the
-library staff with the ability to request facsimiles of digitized images
-or to retrieve the actual electronic image for browsing. A prototype
-viewing workstation has been created by Xerox, with input into the design
-by a committee of Cornell librarians and computer professionals. This
-will allow us to experiment with patron access to the images that make up
-the digital library. The viewing station provides search, retrieval, and
-(ultimately) printing functions with enhancements to facilitate
-navigation through multiple documents.
-
-Cornell currently is working to extend access to the digital library to
-readers using workstations from their offices. This year is devoted to
-the development of a network resident image conversion and delivery
-server, and client software that will support readers who use Apple
-Macintosh computers, IBM windows platforms, and Sun workstations.
-Equipment for this development was provided by Sun Microsystems with
-support from the Commission on Preservation and Access.
-
-During the show-and-tell session of the Workshop on Electronic Texts, a
-prototype view station will be demonstrated. In addition, a display of
-original library books that have been digitized will be available for
-review with associated printed copies for comparison. The fifteen-minute
-overview of the project will include a slide presentation that
-constitutes a "tour" of the preservation digitizing process.
-
-The final network-connected version of the viewing station will provide
-library users with another mechanism for accessing the digital library,
-and will also provide the capability of viewing images directly. This
-will not require special software, although a powerful computer with good
-graphics will be needed.
-
-The Joint Study in Digital Preservation has generated a great deal of
-interest in the library community. Unfortunately, or perhaps
-fortunately, this project serves to raise a vast number of other issues
-surrounding the use of digital technology for the preservation and use of
-deteriorating library materials, which subsequent projects will need to
-examine. Much work remains.
-
-SESSION III
-
-Howard BESSER Networking Multimedia Databases
-
-What do we have to consider in building and distributing databases of
-visual materials in a multi-user environment? This presentation examines
-a variety of concerns that need to be addressed before a multimedia
-database can be set up in a networked environment.
-
-In the past it has not been feasible to implement databases of visual
-materials in shared-user environments because of technological barriers.
-Each of the two basic models for multi-user multimedia databases has
-posed its own problem. The analog multimedia storage model (represented
-by Project Athena's parallel analog and digital networks) has required an
-incredibly complex (and expensive) infrastructure. The economies of
-scale that make multi-user setups cheaper per user served do not operate
-in an environment that requires a computer workstation, videodisc player,
-and two display devices for each user.
-
-The digital multimedia storage model has required vast amounts of storage
-space (as much as one gigabyte per thirty still images). In the past the
-cost of such a large amount of storage space made this model a
-prohibitive choice as well. But plunging storage costs are finally
-making this second alternative viable.
-
-If storage no longer poses such an impediment, what do we need to
-consider in building digitally stored multi-user databases of visual
-materials? This presentation will examine the networking and
-telecommunication constraints that must be overcome before such databases
-can become commonplace and useful to a large number of people.
-
-The key problem is the vast size of multimedia documents, and how this
-affects not only storage but telecommunications transmission time.
-Anything slower than T-1 speed is impractical for files of 1 megabyte or
-larger (which is likely to be small for a multimedia document). For
-instance, even on a 56 Kb line it would take three minutes to transfer a
-1-megabyte file. And these figures assume ideal circumstances, and do
-not take into consideration other users contending for network bandwidth,
-disk access time, or the time needed for remote display. Current common
-telephone transmission rates would be completely impractical; few users
-would be willing to wait the hour necessary to transmit a single image at
-2400 baud.
-
-This necessitates compression, which itself raises a number of other
-issues. In order to decrease file sizes significantly, we must employ
-lossy compression algorithms. But how much quality can we afford to
-lose? To date there has been only one significant study done of
-image-quality needs for a particular user group, and this study did not
-look at loss resulting from compression. Only after identifying
-image-quality needs can we begin to address storage and network bandwidth
-needs.
-
-Experience with X-Windows-based applications (such as Imagequery, the
-University of California at Berkeley image database) demonstrates the
-utility of a client-server topology, but also points to the limitation of
-current software for a distributed environment. For example,
-applications like Imagequery can incorporate compression, but current X
-implementations do not permit decompression at the end user's
-workstation. Such decompression at the host computer alleviates storage
-capacity problems while doing nothing to address problems of
-telecommunications bandwidth.
-
-We need to examine the effects on network through-put of moving
-multimedia documents around on a network. We need to examine various
-topologies that will help us avoid bottlenecks around servers and
-gateways. Experience with applications such as these raise still broader
-questions. How closely is the multimedia document tied to the software
-for viewing it? Can it be accessed and viewed from other applications?
-Experience with the MARC format (and more recently with the Z39.50
-protocols) shows how useful it can be to store documents in a form in
-which they can be accessed by a variety of application software.
-
-Finally, from an intellectual-access standpoint, we need to address the
-issue of providing access to these multimedia documents in
-interdisciplinary environments. We need to examine terminology and
-indexing strategies that will allow us to provide access to this material
-in a cross-disciplinary way.
-
-Ronald LARSEN Directions in High-Performance Networking for
- Libraries
-
-The pace at which computing technology has advanced over the past forty
-years shows no sign of abating. Roughly speaking, each five-year period
-has yielded an order-of-magnitude improvement in price and performance of
-computing equipment. No fundamental hurdles are likely to prevent this
-pace from continuing for at least the next decade. It is only in the
-past five years, though, that computing has become ubiquitous in
-libraries, affecting all staff and patrons, directly or indirectly.
-
-During these same five years, communications rates on the Internet, the
-principal academic computing network, have grown from 56 kbps to 1.5
-Mbps, and the NSFNet backbone is now running 45 Mbps. Over the next five
-years, communication rates on the backbone are expected to exceed 1 Gbps.
-Growth in both the population of network users and the volume of network
-traffic has continued to grow geometrically, at rates approaching 15
-percent per month. This flood of capacity and use, likened by some to
-"drinking from a firehose," creates immense opportunities and challenges
-for libraries. Libraries must anticipate the future implications of this
-technology, participate in its development, and deploy it to ensure
-access to the world's information resources.
-
-The infrastructure for the information age is being put in place.
-Libraries face strategic decisions about their role in the development,
-deployment, and use of this infrastructure. The emerging infrastructure
-is much more than computers and communication lines. It is more than the
-ability to compute at a remote site, send electronic mail to a peer
-across the country, or move a file from one library to another. The next
-five years will witness substantial development of the information
-infrastructure of the network.
-
-In order to provide appropriate leadership, library professionals must
-have a fundamental understanding of and appreciation for computer
-networking, from local area networks to the National Research and
-Education Network (NREN). This presentation addresses these
-fundamentals, and how they relate to libraries today and in the near
-future.
-
-Edwin BROWNRIGG Electronic Library Visions and Realities
-
-The electronic library has been a vision desired by many--and rejected by
-some--since Vannevar Bush coined the term memex to describe an automated,
-intelligent, personal information system. Variations on this vision have
-included Ted Nelson's Xanadau, Alan Kay's Dynabook, and Lancaster's
-"paperless library," with the most recent incarnation being the
-"Knowledge Navigator" described by John Scully of Apple. But the reality
-of library service has been less visionary and the leap to the electronic
-library has eluded universities, publishers, and information technology
-files.
-
-The Memex Research Institute (MemRI), an independent, nonprofit research
-and development organization, has created an Electronic Library Program
-of shared research and development in order to make the collective vision
-more concrete. The program is working toward the creation of large,
-indexed publicly available electronic image collections of published
-documents in academic, special, and public libraries. This strategic
-plan is the result of the first stage of the program, which has been an
-investigation of the information technologies available to support such
-an effort, the economic parameters of electronic service compared to
-traditional library operations, and the business and political factors
-affecting the shift from print distribution to electronic networked
-access.
-
-The strategic plan envisions a combination of publicly searchable access
-databases, image (and text) document collections stored on network "file
-servers," local and remote network access, and an intellectual property
-management-control system. This combination of technology and
-information content is defined in this plan as an E-library or E-library
-collection. Some participating sponsors are already developing projects
-based on MemRI's recommended directions.
-
-The E-library strategy projected in this plan is a visionary one that can
-enable major changes and improvements in academic, public, and special
-library service. This vision is, though, one that can be realized with
-today's technology. At the same time, it will challenge the political
-and social structure within which libraries operate: in academic
-libraries, the traditional emphasis on local collections, extending to
-accreditation issues; in public libraries, the potential of electronic
-branch and central libraries fully available to the public; and for
-special libraries, new opportunities for shared collections and networks.
-
-The environment in which this strategic plan has been developed is, at
-the moment, dominated by a sense of library limits. The continued
-expansion and rapid growth of local academic library collections is now
-clearly at an end. Corporate libraries, and even law libraries, are
-faced with operating within a difficult economic climate, as well as with
-very active competition from commercial information sources. For
-example, public libraries may be seen as a desirable but not critical
-municipal service in a time when the budgets of safety and health
-agencies are being cut back.
-
-Further, libraries in general have a very high labor-to-cost ratio in
-their budgets, and labor costs are still increasing, notwithstanding
-automation investments. It is difficult for libraries to obtain capital,
-startup, or seed funding for innovative activities, and those
-technology-intensive initiatives that offer the potential of decreased
-labor costs can provoke the opposition of library staff.
-
-However, libraries have achieved some considerable successes in the past
-two decades by improving both their service and their credibility within
-their organizations--and these positive changes have been accomplished
-mostly with judicious use of information technologies. The advances in
-computing and information technology have been well-chronicled: the
-continuing precipitous drop in computing costs, the growth of the
-Internet and private networks, and the explosive increase in publicly
-available information databases.
-
-For example, OCLC has become one of the largest computer network
-organizations in the world by creating a cooperative cataloging network
-of more than 6,000 libraries worldwide. On-line public access catalogs
-now serve millions of users on more than 50,000 dedicated terminals in
-the United States alone. The University of California MELVYL on-line
-catalog system has now expanded into an index database reference service
-and supports more than six million searches a year. And, libraries have
-become the largest group of customers of CD-ROM publishing technology;
-more than 30,000 optical media publications such as those offered by
-InfoTrac and Silver Platter are subscribed to by U.S. libraries.
-
-This march of technology continues and in the next decade will result in
-further innovations that are extremely difficult to predict. What is
-clear is that libraries can now go beyond automation of their order files
-and catalogs to automation of their collections themselves--and it is
-possible to circumvent the fiscal limitations that appear to obtain
-today.
-
-This Electronic Library Strategic Plan recommends a paradigm shift in
-library service, and demonstrates the steps necessary to provide improved
-library services with limited capacities and operating investments.
-
-SESSION IV-A
-
-Anne KENNEY
-
-The Cornell/Xerox Joint Study in Digital Preservation resulted in the
-recording of 1,000 brittle books as 600-dpi digital images and the
-production, on demand, of high-quality and archivally sound paper
-replacements. The project, which was supported by the Commission on
-Preservation and Access, also investigated some of the issues surrounding
-scanning, storing, retrieving, and providing access to digital images in
-a network environment.
-
-Anne Kenney will focus on some of the issues surrounding direct scanning
-as identified in the Cornell Xerox Project. Among those to be discussed
-are: image versus text capture; indexing and access; image-capture
-capabilities; a comparison to photocopy and microfilm; production and
-cost analysis; storage formats, protocols, and standards; and the use of
-this scanning technology for preservation purposes.
-
-The 600-dpi digital images produced in the Cornell Xerox Project proved
-highly acceptable for creating paper replacements of deteriorating
-originals. The 1,000 scanned volumes provided an array of image-capture
-challenges that are common to nineteenth-century printing techniques and
-embrittled material, and that defy the use of text-conversion processes.
-These challenges include diminished contrast between text and background,
-fragile and deteriorated pages, uneven printing, elaborate type faces,
-faint and bold text adjacency, handwritten text and annotations, nonRoman
-languages, and a proliferation of illustrated material embedded in text.
-The latter category included high-frequency and low-frequency halftones,
-continuous tone photographs, intricate mathematical drawings, maps,
-etchings, reverse-polarity drawings, and engravings.
-
-The Xerox prototype scanning system provided a number of important
-features for capturing this diverse material. Technicians used multiple
-threshold settings, filters, line art and halftone definitions,
-autosegmentation, windowing, and software-editing programs to optimize
-image capture. At the same time, this project focused on production.
-The goal was to make scanning as affordable and acceptable as
-photocopying and microfilming for preservation reformatting. A
-time-and-cost study conducted during the last three months of this
-project confirmed the economic viability of digital scanning, and these
-findings will be discussed here.
-
-From the outset, the Cornell Xerox Project was predicated on the use of
-nonproprietary standards and the use of common protocols when standards
-did not exist. Digital files were created as TIFF images which were
-compressed prior to storage using Group 4 CCITT compression. The Xerox
-software is MS DOS based and utilizes off-the shelf programs such as
-Microsoft Windows and Wang Image Wizard. The digital library is designed
-to be hardware-independent and to provide interchangeability with other
-institutions through network connections. Access to the digital files
-themselves is two-tiered: Bibliographic records for the computer files
-are created in RLIN and Cornell's local system and access into the actual
-digital images comprising a book is provided through a document control
-structure and a networked image file-server, both of which will be
-described.
-
-The presentation will conclude with a discussion of some of the issues
-surrounding the use of this technology as a preservation tool (storage,
-refreshing, backup).
-
-Pamela ANDRE and Judith ZIDAR
-
-The National Agricultural Library (NAL) has had extensive experience with
-raster scanning of printed materials. Since 1987, the Library has
-participated in the National Agricultural Text Digitizing Project (NATDP)
-a cooperative effort between NAL and forty-five land grant university
-libraries. An overview of the project will be presented, giving its
-history and NAL's strategy for the future.
-
-An in-depth discussion of NATDP will follow, including a description of
-the scanning process, from the gathering of the printed materials to the
-archiving of the electronic pages. The type of equipment required for a
-stand-alone scanning workstation and the importance of file management
-software will be discussed. Issues concerning the images themselves will
-be addressed briefly, such as image format; black and white versus color;
-gray scale versus dithering; and resolution.
-
-Also described will be a study currently in progress by NAL to evaluate
-the usefulness of converting microfilm to electronic images in order to
-improve access. With the cooperation of Tuskegee University, NAL has
-selected three reels of microfilm from a collection of sixty-seven reels
-containing the papers, letters, and drawings of George Washington Carver.
-The three reels were converted into 3,500 electronic images using a
-specialized microfilm scanner. The selection, filming, and indexing of
-this material will be discussed.
-
-Donald WATERS
-
-Project Open Book, the Yale University Library's effort to convert 10,
-000 books from microfilm to digital imagery, is currently in an advanced
-state of planning and organization. The Yale Library has selected a
-major vendor to serve as a partner in the project and as systems
-integrator. In its proposal, the successful vendor helped isolate areas
-of risk and uncertainty as well as key issues to be addressed during the
-life of the project. The Yale Library is now poised to decide what
-material it will convert to digital image form and to seek funding,
-initially for the first phase and then for the entire project.
-
-The proposal that Yale accepted for the implementation of Project Open
-Book will provide at the end of three phases a conversion subsystem,
-browsing stations distributed on the campus network within the Yale
-Library, a subsystem for storing 10,000 books at 200 and 600 dots per
-inch, and network access to the image printers. Pricing for the system
-implementation assumes the existence of Yale's campus ethernet network
-and its high-speed image printers, and includes other requisite hardware
-and software, as well as system integration services. Proposed operating
-costs include hardware and software maintenance, but do not include
-estimates for the facilities management of the storage devices and image
-servers.
-
-Yale selected its vendor partner in a formal process, partly funded by
-the Commission for Preservation and Access. Following a request for
-proposal, the Yale Library selected two vendors as finalists to work with
-Yale staff to generate a detailed analysis of requirements for Project
-Open Book. Each vendor used the results of the requirements analysis to
-generate and submit a formal proposal for the entire project. This
-competitive process not only enabled the Yale Library to select its
-primary vendor partner but also revealed much about the state of the
-imaging industry, about the varying, corporate commitments to the markets
-for imaging technology, and about the varying organizational dynamics
-through which major companies are responding to and seeking to develop
-these markets.
-
-Project Open Book is focused specifically on the conversion of images
-from microfilm to digital form. The technology for scanning microfilm is
-readily available but is changing rapidly. In its project requirements,
-the Yale Library emphasized features of the technology that affect the
-technical quality of digital image production and the costs of creating
-and storing the image library: What levels of digital resolution can be
-achieved by scanning microfilm? How does variation in the quality of
-microfilm, particularly in film produced to preservation standards,
-affect the quality of the digital images? What technologies can an
-operator effectively and economically apply when scanning film to
-separate two-up images and to control for and correct image
-imperfections? How can quality control best be integrated into
-digitizing work flow that includes document indexing and storage?
-
-The actual and expected uses of digital images--storage, browsing,
-printing, and OCR--help determine the standards for measuring their
-quality. Browsing is especially important, but the facilities available
-for readers to browse image documents is perhaps the weakest aspect of
-imaging technology and most in need of development. As it defined its
-requirements, the Yale Library concentrated on some fundamental aspects
-of usability for image documents: Does the system have sufficient
-flexibility to handle the full range of document types, including
-monographs, multi-part and multivolume sets, and serials, as well as
-manuscript collections? What conventions are necessary to identify a
-document uniquely for storage and retrieval? Where is the database of
-record for storing bibliographic information about the image document?
-How are basic internal structures of documents, such as pagination, made
-accessible to the reader? How are the image documents physically
-presented on the screen to the reader?
-
-The Yale Library designed Project Open Book on the assumption that
-microfilm is more than adequate as a medium for preserving the content of
-deteriorated library materials. As planning in the project has advanced,
-it is increasingly clear that the challenge of digital image technology
-and the key to the success of efforts like Project Open Book is to
-provide a means of both preserving and improving access to those
-deteriorated materials.
-
-SESSION IV-B
-
-George THOMA
-
-In the use of electronic imaging for document preservation, there are
-several issues to consider, such as: ensuring adequate image quality,
-maintaining substantial conversion rates (through-put), providing unique
-identification for automated access and retrieval, and accommodating
-bound volumes and fragile material.
-
-To maintain high image quality, image processing functions are required
-to correct the deficiencies in the scanned image. Some commercially
-available systems include these functions, while some do not. The
-scanned raw image must be processed to correct contrast deficiencies--
-both poor overall contrast resulting from light print and/or dark
-background, and variable contrast resulting from stains and
-bleed-through. Furthermore, the scan density must be adequate to allow
-legibility of print and sufficient fidelity in the pseudo-halftoned gray
-material. Borders or page-edge effects must be removed for both
-compactibility and aesthetics. Page skew must be corrected for aesthetic
-reasons and to enable accurate character recognition if desired.
-Compound images consisting of both two-toned text and gray-scale
-illustrations must be processed appropriately to retain the quality of
-each.
-
-SESSION IV-C
-
-Jean BARONAS
-
-Standards publications being developed by scientists, engineers, and
-business managers in Association for Information and Image Management
-(AIIM) standards committees can be applied to electronic image management
-(EIM) processes including: document (image) transfer, retrieval and
-evaluation; optical disk and document scanning; and document design and
-conversion. When combined with EIM system planning and operations,
-standards can assist in generating image databases that are
-interchangeable among a variety of systems. The applications of
-different approaches for image-tagging, indexing, compression, and
-transfer often cause uncertainty concerning EIM system compatibility,
-calibration, performance, and upward compatibility, until standard
-implementation parameters are established. The AIIM standards that are
-being developed for these applications can be used to decrease the
-uncertainty, successfully integrate imaging processes, and promote "open
-systems." AIIM is an accredited American National Standards Institute
-(ANSI) standards developer with more than twenty committees comprised of
-300 volunteers representing users, vendors, and manufacturers. The
-standards publications that are developed in these committees have
-national acceptance and provide the basis for international harmonization
-in the development of new International Organization for Standardization
-(ISO) standards.
-
-This presentation describes the development of AIIM's EIM standards and a
-new effort at AIIM, a database on standards projects in a wide framework
-of imaging industries including capture, recording, processing,
-duplication, distribution, display, evaluation, and preservation. The
-AIIM Imagery Database will cover imaging standards being developed by
-many organizations in many different countries. It will contain
-standards publications' dates, origins, related national and
-international projects, status, key words, and abstracts. The ANSI Image
-Technology Standards Board requested that such a database be established,
-as did the ISO/International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Task Force
-on Imagery. AIIM will take on the leadership role for the database and
-coordinate its development with several standards developers.
-
-Patricia BATTIN
-
- Characteristics of standards for digital imagery:
-
- * Nature of digital technology implies continuing volatility.
-
- * Precipitous standard-setting not possible and probably not
- desirable.
-
- * Standards are a complex issue involving the medium, the
- hardware, the software, and the technical capacity for
- reproductive fidelity and clarity.
-
- * The prognosis for reliable archival standards (as defined by
- librarians) in the foreseeable future is poor.
-
- Significant potential and attractiveness of digital technology as a
- preservation medium and access mechanism.
-
- Productive use of digital imagery for preservation requires a
- reconceptualizing of preservation principles in a volatile,
- standardless world.
-
- Concept of managing continuing access in the digital environment
- rather than focusing on the permanence of the medium and long-term
- archival standards developed for the analog world.
-
- Transition period: How long and what to do?
-
- * Redefine "archival."
-
- * Remove the burden of "archival copy" from paper artifacts.
-
- * Use digital technology for storage, develop management
- strategies for refreshing medium, hardware and software.
-
- * Create acid-free paper copies for transition period backup
- until we develop reliable procedures for ensuring continuing
- access to digital files.
-
-SESSION IV-D
-
-Stuart WEIBEL The Role of SGML Markup in the CORE Project (6)
-
-The emergence of high-speed telecommunications networks as a basic
-feature of the scholarly workplace is driving the demand for electronic
-document delivery. Three distinct categories of electronic
-publishing/republishing are necessary to support access demands in this
-emerging environment:
-
- 1.) Conversion of paper or microfilm archives to electronic format
- 2.) Conversion of electronic files to formats tailored to
- electronic retrieval and display
- 3.) Primary electronic publishing (materials for which the
- electronic version is the primary format)
-
-OCLC has experimental or product development activities in each of these
-areas. Among the challenges that lie ahead is the integration of these
-three types of information stores in coherent distributed systems.
-
-The CORE (Chemistry Online Retrieval Experiment) Project is a model for
-the conversion of large text and graphics collections for which
-electronic typesetting files are available (category 2). The American
-Chemical Society has made available computer typography files dating from
-1980 for its twenty journals. This collection of some 250 journal-years
-is being converted to an electronic format that will be accessible
-through several end-user applications.
-
-The use of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) offers the means
-to capture the structural richness of the original articles in a way that
-will support a variety of retrieval, navigation, and display options
-necessary to navigate effectively in very large text databases.
-
-An SGML document consists of text that is marked up with descriptive tags
-that specify the function of a given element within the document. As a
-formal language construct, an SGML document can be parsed against a
-document-type definition (DTD) that unambiguously defines what elements
-are allowed and where in the document they can (or must) occur. This
-formalized map of article structure allows the user interface design to
-be uncoupled from the underlying database system, an important step
-toward interoperability. Demonstration of this separability is a part of
-the CORE project, wherein user interface designs born of very different
-philosophies will access the same database.
-
-NOTES:
- (6) The CORE project is a collaboration among Cornell University's
- Mann Library, Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), the American
- Chemical Society (ACS), the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), and
- OCLC.
-
-Michael LESK The CORE Electronic Chemistry Library
-
-A major on-line file of chemical journal literature complete with
-graphics is being developed to test the usability of fully electronic
-access to documents, as a joint project of Cornell University, the
-American Chemical Society, the Chemical Abstracts Service, OCLC, and
-Bellcore (with additional support from Sun Microsystems, Springer-Verlag,
-DigitaI Equipment Corporation, Sony Corporation of America, and Apple
-Computers). Our file contains the American Chemical Society's on-line
-journals, supplemented with the graphics from the paper publication. The
-indexing of the articles from Chemical Abstracts Documents is available
-in both image and text format, and several different interfaces can be
-used. Our goals are (1) to assess the effectiveness and acceptability of
-electronic access to primary journals as compared with paper, and (2) to
-identify the most desirable functions of the user interface to an
-electronic system of journals, including in particular a comparison of
-page-image display with ASCII display interfaces. Early experiments with
-chemistry students on a variety of tasks suggest that searching tasks are
-completed much faster with any electronic system than with paper, but
-that for reading all versions of the articles are roughly equivalent.
-
-Pamela ANDRE and Judith ZIDAR
-
-Text conversion is far more expensive and time-consuming than image
-capture alone. NAL's experience with optical character recognition (OCR)
-will be related and compared with the experience of having text rekeyed.
-What factors affect OCR accuracy? How accurate does full text have to be
-in order to be useful? How do different users react to imperfect text?
-These are questions that will be explored. For many, a service bureau
-may be a better solution than performing the work inhouse; this will also
-be discussed.
-
-SESSION VI
-
-Marybeth PETERS
-
-Copyright law protects creative works. Protection granted by the law to
-authors and disseminators of works includes the right to do or authorize
-the following: reproduce the work, prepare derivative works, distribute
-the work to the public, and publicly perform or display the work. In
-addition, copyright owners of sound recordings and computer programs have
-the right to control rental of their works. These rights are not
-unlimited; there are a number of exceptions and limitations.
-
-An electronic environment places strains on the copyright system.
-Copyright owners want to control uses of their work and be paid for any
-use; the public wants quick and easy access at little or no cost. The
-marketplace is working in this area. Contracts, guidelines on electronic
-use, and collective licensing are in use and being refined.
-
-Issues concerning the ability to change works without detection are more
-difficult to deal with. Questions concerning the integrity of the work
-and the status of the changed version under the copyright law are to be
-addressed. These are public policy issues which require informed
-dialogue.
-
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-
- Appendix III: DIRECTORY OF PARTICIPANTS
-
-
-PRESENTERS:
-
- Pamela Q.J. Andre
- Associate Director, Automation
- National Agricultural Library
- 10301 Baltimore Boulevard
- Beltsville, MD 20705-2351
- Phone: (301) 504-6813
- Fax: (301) 504-7473
- E-mail: INTERNET: PANDRE@ASRR.ARSUSDA.GOV
-
- Jean Baronas, Senior Manager
- Department of Standards and Technology
- Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM)
- 1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1100
- Silver Spring, MD 20910
- Phone: (301) 587-8202
- Fax: (301) 587-2711
-
- Patricia Battin, President
- The Commission on Preservation and Access
- 1400 16th Street, N.W.
- Suite 740
- Washington, DC 20036-2217
- Phone: (202) 939-3400
- Fax: (202) 939-3407
- E-mail: CPA@GWUVM.BITNET
-
- Howard Besser
- Centre Canadien d'Architecture
- (Canadian Center for Architecture)
- 1920, rue Baile
- Montreal, Quebec H3H 2S6
- CANADA
- Phone: (514) 939-7001
- Fax: (514) 939-7020
- E-mail: howard@lis.pitt.edu
-
- Edwin B. Brownrigg, Executive Director
- Memex Research Institute
- 422 Bonita Avenue
- Roseville, CA 95678
- Phone: (916) 784-2298
- Fax: (916) 786-7559
- E-mail: BITNET: MEMEX@CALSTATE.2
-
- Eric M. Calaluca, Vice President
- Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.
- 1101 King Street
- Alexandria, VA 223l4
- Phone: (800) 752-05l5
- Fax: (703) 683-7589
-
- James Daly
- 4015 Deepwood Road
- Baltimore, MD 21218-1404
- Phone: (410) 235-0763
-
- Ricky Erway, Associate Coordinator
- American Memory
- Library of Congress
- Phone: (202) 707-6233
- Fax: (202) 707-3764
-
- Carl Fleischhauer, Coordinator
- American Memory
- Library of Congress
- Phone: (202) 707-6233
- Fax: (202) 707-3764
-
- Joanne Freeman
- 2000 Jefferson Park Avenue, No. 7
- Charlottesville, VA 22903
-
- Prosser Gifford
- Director for Scholarly Programs
- Library of Congress
- Phone: (202) 707-1517
- Fax: (202) 707-9898
- E-mail: pgif@seq1.loc.gov
-
- Jacqueline Hess, Director
- National Demonstration Laboratory
- for Interactive Information Technologies
- Library of Congress
- Phone: (202) 707-4157
- Fax: (202) 707-2829
-
- Susan Hockey, Director
- Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH)
- Alexander Library
- Rutgers University
- 169 College Avenue
- New Brunswick, NJ 08903
- Phone: (908) 932-1384
- Fax: (908) 932-1386
- E-mail: hockey@zodiac.rutgers.edu
-
- William L. Hooton, Vice President
- Business & Technical Development
- Imaging & Information Systems Group
- I-NET
- 6430 Rockledge Drive, Suite 400
- Bethesda, MD 208l7
- Phone: (301) 564-6750
- Fax: (513) 564-6867
-
- Anne R. Kenney, Associate Director
- Department of Preservation and Conservation
- 701 Olin Library
- Cornell University
- Ithaca, NY 14853
- Phone: (607) 255-6875
- Fax: (607) 255-9346
- E-mail: LYDY@CORNELLA.BITNET
-
- Ronald L. Larsen
- Associate Director for Information Technology
- University of Maryland at College Park
- Room B0224, McKeldin Library
- College Park, MD 20742-7011
- Phone: (301) 405-9194
- Fax: (301) 314-9865
- E-mail: rlarsen@libr.umd.edu
-
- Maria L. Lebron, Managing Editor
- The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials
- l333 H Street, N.W.
- Washington, DC 20005
- Phone: (202) 326-6735
- Fax: (202) 842-2868
- E-mail: PUBSAAAS@GWUVM.BITNET
-
- Michael Lesk, Executive Director
- Computer Science Research
- Bell Communications Research, Inc.
- Rm 2A-385
- 445 South Street
- Morristown, NJ 07960-l9l0
- Phone: (201) 829-4070
- Fax: (201) 829-5981
- E-mail: lesk@bellcore.com (Internet) or bellcore!lesk (uucp)
-
- Clifford A. Lynch
- Director, Library Automation
- University of California,
- Office of the President
- 300 Lakeside Drive, 8th Floor
- Oakland, CA 94612-3350
- Phone: (510) 987-0522
- Fax: (510) 839-3573
- E-mail: calur@uccmvsa
-
- Avra Michelson
- National Archives and Records Administration
- NSZ Rm. 14N
- 7th & Pennsylvania, N.W.
- Washington, D.C. 20408
- Phone: (202) 501-5544
- Fax: (202) 501-5533
- E-mail: tmi@cu.nih.gov
-
- Elli Mylonas, Managing Editor
- Perseus Project
- Department of the Classics
- Harvard University
- 319 Boylston Hall
- Cambridge, MA 02138
- Phone: (617) 495-9025, (617) 495-0456 (direct)
- Fax: (617) 496-8886
- E-mail: Elli@IKAROS.Harvard.EDU or elli@wjh12.harvard.edu
-
- David Woodley Packard
- Packard Humanities Institute
- 300 Second Street, Suite 201
- Los Altos, CA 94002
- Phone: (415) 948-0150 (PHI)
- Fax: (415) 948-5793
-
- Lynne K. Personius, Assistant Director
- Cornell Information Technologies for
- Scholarly Information Sources
- 502 Olin Library
- Cornell University
- Ithaca, NY 14853
- Phone: (607) 255-3393
- Fax: (607) 255-9346
- E-mail: JRN@CORNELLC.BITNET
-
- Marybeth Peters
- Policy Planning Adviser to the
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-Paradise Lost by John Milton
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-that is was only a matter of days to get it into this shape you
-will see below. The original was, of course, in CAPS only, and
-so were all the other etexts of the 60's and early 70's. Don't
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-Paradise Lost
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-Book I
-
-
-Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
-Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
-Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
-With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
-Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
-Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
-Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
-That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
-In the beginning how the heavens and earth
-Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill
-Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed
-Fast by the oracle of God, I thence
-Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song,
-That with no middle flight intends to soar
-Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues
-Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
-And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer
-Before all temples th' upright heart and pure,
-Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first
-Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,
-Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss,
-And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark
-Illumine, what is low raise and support;
-That, to the height of this great argument,
-I may assert Eternal Providence,
-And justify the ways of God to men.
- Say first--for Heaven hides nothing from thy view,
-Nor the deep tract of Hell--say first what cause
-Moved our grand parents, in that happy state,
-Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off
-From their Creator, and transgress his will
-For one restraint, lords of the World besides.
-Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
- Th' infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile,
-Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
-The mother of mankind, what time his pride
-Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host
-Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring
-To set himself in glory above his peers,
-He trusted to have equalled the Most High,
-If he opposed, and with ambitious aim
-Against the throne and monarchy of God,
-Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud,
-With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power
-Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky,
-With hideous ruin and combustion, down
-To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
-In adamantine chains and penal fire,
-Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.
- Nine times the space that measures day and night
-To mortal men, he, with his horrid crew,
-Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf,
-Confounded, though immortal. But his doom
-Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought
-Both of lost happiness and lasting pain
-Torments him: round he throws his baleful eyes,
-That witnessed huge affliction and dismay,
-Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate.
-At once, as far as Angels ken, he views
-The dismal situation waste and wild.
-A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
-As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames
-No light; but rather darkness visible
-Served only to discover sights of woe,
-Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
-And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
-That comes to all, but torture without end
-Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed
-With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
-Such place Eternal Justice has prepared
-For those rebellious; here their prison ordained
-In utter darkness, and their portion set,
-As far removed from God and light of Heaven
-As from the centre thrice to th' utmost pole.
-Oh how unlike the place from whence they fell!
-There the companions of his fall, o'erwhelmed
-With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire,
-He soon discerns; and, weltering by his side,
-One next himself in power, and next in crime,
-Long after known in Palestine, and named
-Beelzebub. To whom th' Arch-Enemy,
-And thence in Heaven called Satan, with bold words
-Breaking the horrid silence, thus began:--
- "If thou beest he--but O how fallen! how changed
-From him who, in the happy realms of light
-Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
-Myriads, though bright!--if he whom mutual league,
-United thoughts and counsels, equal hope
-And hazard in the glorious enterprise
-Joined with me once, now misery hath joined
-In equal ruin; into what pit thou seest
-From what height fallen: so much the stronger proved
-He with his thunder; and till then who knew
-The force of those dire arms? Yet not for those,
-Nor what the potent Victor in his rage
-Can else inflict, do I repent, or change,
-Though changed in outward lustre, that fixed mind,
-And high disdain from sense of injured merit,
-That with the Mightiest raised me to contend,
-And to the fierce contentions brought along
-Innumerable force of Spirits armed,
-That durst dislike his reign, and, me preferring,
-His utmost power with adverse power opposed
-In dubious battle on the plains of Heaven,
-And shook his throne. What though the field be lost?
-All is not lost--the unconquerable will,
-And study of revenge, immortal hate,
-And courage never to submit or yield:
-And what is else not to be overcome?
-That glory never shall his wrath or might
-Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace
-With suppliant knee, and deify his power
-Who, from the terror of this arm, so late
-Doubted his empire--that were low indeed;
-That were an ignominy and shame beneath
-This downfall; since, by fate, the strength of Gods,
-And this empyreal sybstance, cannot fail;
-Since, through experience of this great event,
-In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced,
-We may with more successful hope resolve
-To wage by force or guile eternal war,
-Irreconcilable to our grand Foe,
-Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy
-Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven."
- So spake th' apostate Angel, though in pain,
-Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair;
-And him thus answered soon his bold compeer:--
- "O Prince, O Chief of many throned Powers
-That led th' embattled Seraphim to war
-Under thy conduct, and, in dreadful deeds
-Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King,
-And put to proof his high supremacy,
-Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate,
-Too well I see and rue the dire event
-That, with sad overthrow and foul defeat,
-Hath lost us Heaven, and all this mighty host
-In horrible destruction laid thus low,
-As far as Gods and heavenly Essences
-Can perish: for the mind and spirit remains
-Invincible, and vigour soon returns,
-Though all our glory extinct, and happy state
-Here swallowed up in endless misery.
-But what if he our Conqueror (whom I now
-Of force believe almighty, since no less
-Than such could have o'erpowered such force as ours)
-Have left us this our spirit and strength entire,
-Strongly to suffer and support our pains,
-That we may so suffice his vengeful ire,
-Or do him mightier service as his thralls
-By right of war, whate'er his business be,
-Here in the heart of Hell to work in fire,
-Or do his errands in the gloomy Deep?
-What can it the avail though yet we feel
-Strength undiminished, or eternal being
-To undergo eternal punishment?"
- Whereto with speedy words th' Arch-Fiend replied:--
-"Fallen Cherub, to be weak is miserable,
-Doing or suffering: but of this be sure--
-To do aught good never will be our task,
-But ever to do ill our sole delight,
-As being the contrary to his high will
-Whom we resist. If then his providence
-Out of our evil seek to bring forth good,
-Our labour must be to pervert that end,
-And out of good still to find means of evil;
-Which ofttimes may succeed so as perhaps
-Shall grieve him, if I fail not, and disturb
-His inmost counsels from their destined aim.
-But see! the angry Victor hath recalled
-His ministers of vengeance and pursuit
-Back to the gates of Heaven: the sulphurous hail,
-Shot after us in storm, o'erblown hath laid
-The fiery surge that from the precipice
-Of Heaven received us falling; and the thunder,
-Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage,
-Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now
-To bellow through the vast and boundless Deep.
-Let us not slip th' occasion, whether scorn
-Or satiate fury yield it from our Foe.
-Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild,
-The seat of desolation, void of light,
-Save what the glimmering of these livid flames
-Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend
-From off the tossing of these fiery waves;
-There rest, if any rest can harbour there;
-And, re-assembling our afflicted powers,
-Consult how we may henceforth most offend
-Our enemy, our own loss how repair,
-How overcome this dire calamity,
-What reinforcement we may gain from hope,
-If not, what resolution from despair."
- Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate,
-With head uplift above the wave, and eyes
-That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides
-Prone on the flood, extended long and large,
-Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge
-As whom the fables name of monstrous size,
-Titanian or Earth-born, that warred on Jove,
-Briareos or Typhon, whom the den
-By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast
-Leviathan, which God of all his works
-Created hugest that swim th' ocean-stream.
-Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam,
-The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff,
-Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell,
-With fixed anchor in his scaly rind,
-Moors by his side under the lee, while night
-Invests the sea, and wished morn delays.
-So stretched out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay,
-Chained on the burning lake; nor ever thence
-Had risen, or heaved his head, but that the will
-And high permission of all-ruling Heaven
-Left him at large to his own dark designs,
-That with reiterated crimes he might
-Heap on himself damnation, while he sought
-Evil to others, and enraged might see
-How all his malice served but to bring forth
-Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy, shewn
-On Man by him seduced, but on himself
-Treble confusion, wrath, and vengeance poured.
- Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool
-His mighty stature; on each hand the flames
-Driven backward slope their pointing spires, and,rolled
-In billows, leave i' th' midst a horrid vale.
-Then with expanded wings he steers his flight
-Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air,
-That felt unusual weight; till on dry land
-He lights--if it were land that ever burned
-With solid, as the lake with liquid fire,
-And such appeared in hue as when the force
-Of subterranean wind transprots a hill
-Torn from Pelorus, or the shattered side
-Of thundering Etna, whose combustible
-And fuelled entrails, thence conceiving fire,
-Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds,
-And leave a singed bottom all involved
-With stench and smoke. Such resting found the sole
-Of unblest feet. Him followed his next mate;
-Both glorying to have scaped the Stygian flood
-As gods, and by their own recovered strength,
-Not by the sufferance of supernal Power.
- "Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,"
-Said then the lost Archangel, "this the seat
-That we must change for Heaven?--this mournful gloom
-For that celestial light? Be it so, since he
-Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid
-What shall be right: farthest from him is best
-Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme
-Above his equals. Farewell, happy fields,
-Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,
-Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell,
-Receive thy new possessor--one who brings
-A mind not to be changed by place or time.
-The mind is its own place, and in itself
-Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
-What matter where, if I be still the same,
-And what I should be, all but less than he
-Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least
-We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
-Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
-Here we may reigh secure; and, in my choice,
-To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
-Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
-But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,
-Th' associates and co-partners of our loss,
-Lie thus astonished on th' oblivious pool,
-And call them not to share with us their part
-In this unhappy mansion, or once more
-With rallied arms to try what may be yet
-Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?"
- So Satan spake; and him Beelzebub
-Thus answered:--"Leader of those armies bright
-Which, but th' Omnipotent, none could have foiled!
-If once they hear that voice, their liveliest pledge
-Of hope in fears and dangers--heard so oft
-In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge
-Of battle, when it raged, in all assaults
-Their surest signal--they will soon resume
-New courage and revive, though now they lie
-Grovelling and prostrate on yon lake of fire,
-As we erewhile, astounded and amazed;
-No wonder, fallen such a pernicious height!"
- He scare had ceased when the superior Fiend
-Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield,
-Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,
-Behind him cast. The broad circumference
-Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
-Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
-At evening, from the top of Fesole,
-Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
-Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
-His spear--to equal which the tallest pine
-Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast
-Of some great ammiral, were but a wand--
-He walked with, to support uneasy steps
-Over the burning marl, not like those steps
-On Heaven's azure; and the torrid clime
-Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire.
-Nathless he so endured, till on the beach
-Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called
-His legions--Angel Forms, who lay entranced
-Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
-In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades
-High over-arched embower; or scattered sedge
-Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed
-Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew
-Busiris and his Memphian chivalry,
-While with perfidious hatred they pursued
-The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld
-From the safe shore their floating carcases
-And broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown,
-Abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood,
-Under amazement of their hideous change.
-He called so loud that all the hollow deep
-Of Hell resounded:--"Princes, Potentates,
-Warriors, the Flower of Heaven--once yours; now lost,
-If such astonishment as this can seize
-Eternal Spirits! Or have ye chosen this place
-After the toil of battle to repose
-Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find
-To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven?
-Or in this abject posture have ye sworn
-To adore the Conqueror, who now beholds
-Cherub and Seraph rolling in the flood
-With scattered arms and ensigns, till anon
-His swift pursuers from Heaven-gates discern
-Th' advantage, and, descending, tread us down
-Thus drooping, or with linked thunderbolts
-Transfix us to the bottom of this gulf?
-Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!"
- They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung
-Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch
-On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread,
-Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
-Nor did they not perceive the evil plight
-In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel;
-Yet to their General's voice they soon obeyed
-Innumerable. As when the potent rod
-Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day,
-Waved round the coast, up-called a pitchy cloud
-Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind,
-That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung
-Like Night, and darkened all the land of Nile;
-So numberless were those bad Angels seen
-Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell,
-'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires;
-Till, as a signal given, th' uplifted spear
-Of their great Sultan waving to direct
-Their course, in even balance down they light
-On the firm brimstone, and fill all the plain:
-A multitude like which the populous North
-Poured never from her frozen loins to pass
-Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons
-Came like a deluge on the South, and spread
-Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
-Forthwith, form every squadron and each band,
-The heads and leaders thither haste where stood
-Their great Commander--godlike Shapes, and Forms
-Excelling human; princely Dignities;
-And Powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones,
-Though on their names in Heavenly records now
-Be no memorial, blotted out and rased
-By their rebellion from the Books of Life.
-Nor had they yet among the sons of Eve
-Got them new names, till, wandering o'er the earth,
-Through God's high sufferance for the trial of man,
-By falsities and lies the greatest part
-Of mankind they corrupted to forsake
-God their Creator, and th' invisible
-Glory of him that made them to transform
-Oft to the image of a brute, adorned
-With gay religions full of pomp and gold,
-And devils to adore for deities:
-Then were they known to men by various names,
-And various idols through the heathen world.
- Say, Muse, their names then known, who first, who last,
-Roused from the slumber on that fiery couch,
-At their great Emperor's call, as next in worth
-Came singly where he stood on the bare strand,
-While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof?
- The chief were those who, from the pit of Hell
-Roaming to seek their prey on Earth, durst fix
-Their seats, long after, next the seat of God,
-Their altars by his altar, gods adored
-Among the nations round, and durst abide
-Jehovah thundering out of Sion, throned
-Between the Cherubim; yea, often placed
-Within his sanctuary itself their shrines,
-Abominations; and with cursed things
-His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned,
-And with their darkness durst affront his light.
-First, Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood
-Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears;
-Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,
-Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire
-To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite
-Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain,
-In Argob and in Basan, to the stream
-Of utmost Arnon. Nor content with such
-Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart
-Of Solomon he led by fraoud to build
-His temple right against the temple of God
-On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove
-The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence
-And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
-Next Chemos, th' obscene dread of Moab's sons,
-From Aroar to Nebo and the wild
-Of southmost Abarim; in Hesebon
-And Horonaim, Seon's real, beyond
-The flowery dale of Sibma clad with vines,
-And Eleale to th' Asphaltic Pool:
-Peor his other name, when he enticed
-Israel in Sittim, on their march from Nile,
-To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.
-Yet thence his lustful orgies he enlarged
-Even to that hill of scandal, by the grove
-Of Moloch homicide, lust hard by hate,
-Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell.
-With these came they who, from the bordering flood
-Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts
-Egypt from Syrian ground, had general names
-Of Baalim and Ashtaroth--those male,
-These feminine. For Spirits, when they please,
-Can either sex assume, or both; so soft
-And uncompounded is their essence pure,
-Not tried or manacled with joint or limb,
-Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones,
-Like cumbrous flesh; but, in what shape they choose,
-Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure,
-Can execute their airy purposes,
-And works of love or enmity fulfil.
-For those the race of Israel oft forsook
-Their Living Strength, and unfrequented left
-His righteous altar, bowing lowly down
-To bestial gods; for which their heads as low
-Bowed down in battle, sunk before the spear
-Of despicable foes. With these in troop
-Came Astoreth, whom the Phoenicians called
-Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns;
-To whose bright image nigntly by the moon
-Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs;
-In Sion also not unsung, where stood
-Her temple on th' offensive mountain, built
-By that uxorious king whose heart, though large,
-Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell
-To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind,
-Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured
-The Syrian damsels to lament his fate
-In amorous ditties all a summer's day,
-While smooth Adonis from his native rock
-Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood
-Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale
-Infected Sion's daughters with like heat,
-Whose wanton passions in the sacred proch
-Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led,
-His eye surveyed the dark idolatries
-Of alienated Judah. Next came one
-Who mourned in earnest, when the captive ark
-Maimed his brute image, head and hands lopt off,
-In his own temple, on the grunsel-edge,
-Where he fell flat and shamed his worshippers:
-Dagon his name, sea-monster,upward man
-And downward fish; yet had his temple high
-Reared in Azotus, dreaded through the coast
-Of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon,
-And Accaron and Gaza's frontier bounds.
-Him followed Rimmon, whose delightful seat
-Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks
-Of Abbana and Pharphar, lucid streams.
-He also against the house of God was bold:
-A leper once he lost, and gained a king--
-Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew
-God's altar to disparage and displace
-For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn
-His odious offerings, and adore the gods
-Whom he had vanquished. After these appeared
-A crew who, under names of old renown--
-Osiris, Isis, Orus, and their train--
-With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused
-Fanatic Egypt and her priests to seek
-Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms
-Rather than human. Nor did Israel scape
-Th' infection, when their borrowed gold composed
-The calf in Oreb; and the rebel king
-Doubled that sin in Bethel and in Dan,
-Likening his Maker to the grazed ox--
-Jehovah, who, in one night, when he passed
-From Egypt marching, equalled with one stroke
-Both her first-born and all her bleating gods.
-Belial came last; than whom a Spirit more lewd
-Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love
-Vice for itself. To him no temple stood
-Or altar smoked; yet who more oft than he
-In temples and at altars, when the priest
-Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons, who filled
-With lust and violence the house of God?
-In courts and palaces he also reigns,
-And in luxurious cities, where the noise
-Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers,
-And injury and outrage; and, when night
-Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
-Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
-Witness the streets of Sodom, and that night
-In Gibeah, when the hospitable door
-Exposed a matron, to avoid worse rape.
- These were the prime in order and in might:
-The rest were long to tell; though far renowned
-Th' Ionian gods--of Javan's issue held
-Gods, yet confessed later than Heaven and Earth,
-Their boasted parents;--Titan, Heaven's first-born,
-With his enormous brood, and birthright seized
-By younger Saturn: he from mightier Jove,
-His own and Rhea's son, like measure found;
-So Jove usurping reigned. These, first in Crete
-And Ida known, thence on the snowy top
-Of cold Olympus ruled the middle air,
-Their highest heaven; or on the Delphian cliff,
-Or in Dodona, and through all the bounds
-Of Doric land; or who with Saturn old
-Fled over Adria to th' Hesperian fields,
-And o'er the Celtic roamed the utmost Isles.
- All these and more came flocking; but with looks
-Downcast and damp; yet such wherein appeared
-Obscure some glimpse of joy to have found their Chief
-Not in despair, to have found themselves not lost
-In loss itself; which on his countenance cast
-Like doubtful hue. But he, his wonted pride
-Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore
-Semblance of worth, not substance, gently raised
-Their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears.
-Then straight commands that, at the warlike sound
-Of trumpets loud and clarions, be upreared
-His mighty standard. That proud honour claimed
-Azazel as his right, a Cherub tall:
-Who forthwith from the glittering staff unfurled
-Th' imperial ensign; which, full high advanced,
-Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind,
-With gems and golden lustre rich emblazed,
-Seraphic arms and trophies; all the while
-Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds:
-At which the universal host up-sent
-A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond
-Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
-All in a moment through the gloom were seen
-Ten thousand banners rise into the air,
-With orient colours waving: with them rose
-A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms
-Appeared, and serried shields in thick array
-Of depth immeasurable. Anon they move
-In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood
-Of flutes and soft recorders--such as raised
-To height of noblest temper heroes old
-Arming to battle, and instead of rage
-Deliberate valour breathed, firm, and unmoved
-With dread of death to flight or foul retreat;
-Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage
-With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase
-Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain
-From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they,
-Breathing united force with fixed thought,
-Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed
-Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil. And now
-Advanced in view they stand--a horrid front
-Of dreadful length and dazzling arms, in guise
-Of warriors old, with ordered spear and shield,
-Awaiting what command their mighty Chief
-Had to impose. He through the armed files
-Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse
-The whole battalion views--their order due,
-Their visages and stature as of gods;
-Their number last he sums. And now his heart
-Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength,
-Glories: for never, since created Man,
-Met such embodied force as, named with these,
-Could merit more than that small infantry
-Warred on by cranes--though all the giant brood
-Of Phlegra with th' heroic race were joined
-That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side
-Mixed with auxiliar gods; and what resounds
-In fable or romance of Uther's son,
-Begirt with British and Armoric knights;
-And all who since, baptized or infidel,
-Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban,
-Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond,
-Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore
-When Charlemain with all his peerage fell
-By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond
-Compare of mortal prowess, yet observed
-Their dread Commander. He, above the rest
-In shape and gesture proudly eminent,
-Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost
-All her original brightness, nor appeared
-Less than Archangel ruined, and th' excess
-Of glory obscured: as when the sun new-risen
-Looks through the horizontal misty air
-Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon,
-In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds
-On half the nations, and with fear of change
-Perplexes monarchs. Darkened so, yet shone
-Above them all th' Archangel: but his face
-Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care
-Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows
-Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride
-Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast
-Signs of remorse and passion, to behold
-The fellows of his crime, the followers rather
-(Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned
-For ever now to have their lot in pain--
-Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced
-Of Heaven, and from eteranl splendours flung
-For his revolt--yet faithful how they stood,
-Their glory withered; as, when heaven's fire
-Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines,
-With singed top their stately growth, though bare,
-Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared
-To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend
-From wing to wing, and half enclose him round
-With all his peers: attention held them mute.
-Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn,
-Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last
-Words interwove with sighs found out their way:--
- "O myriads of immortal Spirits! O Powers
-Matchless, but with th' Almighth!--and that strife
-Was not inglorious, though th' event was dire,
-As this place testifies, and this dire change,
-Hateful to utter. But what power of mind,
-Forseeing or presaging, from the depth
-Of knowledge past or present, could have feared
-How such united force of gods, how such
-As stood like these, could ever know repulse?
-For who can yet believe, though after loss,
-That all these puissant legions, whose exile
-Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to re-ascend,
-Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?
-For me, be witness all the host of Heaven,
-If counsels different, or danger shunned
-By me, have lost our hopes. But he who reigns
-Monarch in Heaven till then as one secure
-Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute,
-Consent or custom, and his regal state
-Put forth at full, but still his strength concealed--
-Which tempted our attempt, and wrought our fall.
-Henceforth his might we know, and know our own,
-So as not either to provoke, or dread
-New war provoked: our better part remains
-To work in close design, by fraud or guile,
-What force effected not; that he no less
-At length from us may find, who overcomes
-By force hath overcome but half his foe.
-Space may produce new Worlds; whereof so rife
-There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long
-Intended to create, and therein plant
-A generation whom his choice regard
-Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.
-Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps
-Our first eruption--thither, or elsewhere;
-For this infernal pit shall never hold
-Celestial Spirits in bondage, nor th' Abyss
-Long under darkness cover. But these thoughts
-Full counsel must mature. Peace is despaired;
-For who can think submission? War, then, war
-Open or understood, must be resolved."
- He spake; and, to confirm his words, outflew
-Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
-Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze
-Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged
-Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms
-Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war,
-Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
- There stood a hill not far, whose grisly top
-Belched fire and rolling smoke; the rest entire
-Shone with a glossy scurf--undoubted sign
-That in his womb was hid metallic ore,
-The work of sulphur. Thither, winged with speed,
-A numerous brigade hastened: as when bands
-Of pioneers, with spade and pickaxe armed,
-Forerun the royal camp, to trench a field,
-Or cast a rampart. Mammon led them on--
-Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell
-From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts
-Were always downward bent, admiring more
-The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold,
-Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed
-In vision beatific. By him first
-Men also, and by his suggestion taught,
-Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands
-Rifled the bowels of their mother Earth
-For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew
-Opened into the hill a spacious wound,
-And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire
-That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best
-Deserve the precious bane. And here let those
-Who boast in mortal things, and wondering tell
-Of Babel, and the works of Memphian kings,
-Learn how their greatest monuments of fame
-And strength, and art, are easily outdone
-By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour
-What in an age they, with incessant toil
-And hands innumerable, scarce perform.
-Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared,
-That underneath had veins of liquid fire
-Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude
-With wondrous art founded the massy ore,
-Severing each kind, and scummed the bullion-dross.
-A third as soon had formed within the ground
-A various mould, and from the boiling cells
-By strange conveyance filled each hollow nook;
-As in an organ, from one blast of wind,
-To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes.
-Anon out of the earth a fabric huge
-Rose like an exhalation, with the sound
-Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet--
-Built like a temple, where pilasters round
-Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid
-With golden architrave; nor did there want
-Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven;
-The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon
-Nor great Alcairo such magnificence
-Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine
-Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat
-Their kings, when Egypt with Assyria strove
-In wealth and luxury. Th' ascending pile
-Stood fixed her stately height, and straight the doors,
-Opening their brazen folds, discover, wide
-Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth
-And level pavement: from the arched roof,
-Pendent by subtle magic, many a row
-Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed
-With naptha and asphaltus, yielded light
-As from a sky. The hasty multitude
-Admiring entered; and the work some praise,
-And some the architect. His hand was known
-In Heaven by many a towered structure high,
-Where sceptred Angels held their residence,
-And sat as Princes, whom the supreme King
-Exalted to such power, and gave to rule,
-Each in his Hierarchy, the Orders bright.
-Nor was his name unheard or unadored
-In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land
-Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell
-From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove
-Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn
-To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
-A summer's day, and with the setting sun
-Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star,
-On Lemnos, th' Aegaean isle. Thus they relate,
-Erring; for he with this rebellious rout
-Fell long before; nor aught aviled him now
-To have built in Heaven high towers; nor did he scape
-By all his engines, but was headlong sent,
-With his industrious crew, to build in Hell.
- Meanwhile the winged Heralds, by command
-Of sovereign power, with awful ceremony
-And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim
-A solemn council forthwith to be held
-At Pandemonium, the high capital
-Of Satan and his peers. Their summons called
-From every band and squared regiment
-By place or choice the worthiest: they anon
-With hundreds and with thousands trooping came
-Attended. All access was thronged; the gates
-And porches wide, but chief the spacious hall
-(Though like a covered field, where champions bold
-Wont ride in armed, and at the Soldan's chair
-Defied the best of Paynim chivalry
-To mortal combat, or career with lance),
-Thick swarmed, both on the ground and in the air,
-Brushed with the hiss of rustling wings. As bees
-In spring-time, when the Sun with Taurus rides.
-Pour forth their populous youth about the hive
-In clusters; they among fresh dews and flowers
-Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank,
-The suburb of their straw-built citadel,
-New rubbed with balm, expatiate, and confer
-Their state-affairs: so thick the airy crowd
-Swarmed and were straitened; till, the signal given,
-Behold a wonder! They but now who seemed
-In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons,
-Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room
-Throng numberless--like that pygmean race
-Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves,
-Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side
-Or fountain, some belated peasant sees,
-Or dreams he sees, while overhead the Moon
-Sits arbitress, and nearer to the Earth
-Wheels her pale course: they, on their mirth and dance
-Intent, with jocund music charm his ear;
-At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
-Thus incorporeal Spirits to smallest forms
-Reduced their shapes immense, and were at large,
-Though without number still, amidst the hall
-Of that infernal court. But far within,
-And in their own dimensions like themselves,
-The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim
-In close recess and secret conclave sat,
-A thousand demi-gods on golden seats,
-Frequent and full. After short silence then,
-And summons read, the great consult began.
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-High on a throne of royal state, which far
-Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind,
-Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
-Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,
-Satan exalted sat, by merit raised
-To that bad eminence; and, from despair
-Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires
-Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue
-Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught,
-His proud imaginations thus displayed:--
- "Powers and Dominions, Deities of Heaven!--
-For, since no deep within her gulf can hold
-Immortal vigour, though oppressed and fallen,
-I give not Heaven for lost: from this descent
-Celestial Virtues rising will appear
-More glorious and more dread than from no fall,
-And trust themselves to fear no second fate!--
-Me though just right, and the fixed laws of Heaven,
-Did first create your leader--next, free choice
-With what besides in council or in fight
-Hath been achieved of merit--yet this loss,
-Thus far at least recovered, hath much more
-Established in a safe, unenvied throne,
-Yielded with full consent. The happier state
-In Heaven, which follows dignity, might draw
-Envy from each inferior; but who here
-Will envy whom the highest place exposes
-Foremost to stand against the Thunderer's aim
-Your bulwark, and condemns to greatest share
-Of endless pain? Where there is, then, no good
-For which to strive, no strife can grow up there
-From faction: for none sure will claim in Hell
-Precedence; none whose portion is so small
-Of present pain that with ambitious mind
-Will covet more! With this advantage, then,
-To union, and firm faith, and firm accord,
-More than can be in Heaven, we now return
-To claim our just inheritance of old,
-Surer to prosper than prosperity
-Could have assured us; and by what best way,
-Whether of open war or covert guile,
-We now debate. Who can advise may speak."
- He ceased; and next him Moloch, sceptred king,
-Stood up--the strongest and the fiercest Spirit
-That fought in Heaven, now fiercer by despair.
-His trust was with th' Eternal to be deemed
-Equal in strength, and rather than be less
-Cared not to be at all; with that care lost
-Went all his fear: of God, or Hell, or worse,
-He recked not, and these words thereafter spake:--
- "My sentence is for open war. Of wiles,
-More unexpert, I boast not: them let those
-Contrive who need, or when they need; not now.
-For, while they sit contriving, shall the rest--
-Millions that stand in arms, and longing wait
-The signal to ascend--sit lingering here,
-Heaven's fugitives, and for their dwelling-place
-Accept this dark opprobrious den of shame,
-The prison of his ryranny who reigns
-By our delay? No! let us rather choose,
-Armed with Hell-flames and fury, all at once
-O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way,
-Turning our tortures into horrid arms
-Against the Torturer; when, to meet the noise
-Of his almighty engine, he shall hear
-Infernal thunder, and, for lightning, see
-Black fire and horror shot with equal rage
-Among his Angels, and his throne itself
-Mixed with Tartarean sulphur and strange fire,
-His own invented torments. But perhaps
-The way seems difficult, and steep to scale
-With upright wing against a higher foe!
-Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench
-Of that forgetful lake benumb not still,
-That in our porper motion we ascend
-Up to our native seat; descent and fall
-To us is adverse. Who but felt of late,
-When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear
-Insulting, and pursued us through the Deep,
-With what compulsion and laborious flight
-We sunk thus low? Th' ascent is easy, then;
-Th' event is feared! Should we again provoke
-Our stronger, some worse way his wrath may find
-To our destruction, if there be in Hell
-Fear to be worse destroyed! What can be worse
-Than to dwell here, driven out from bliss, condemned
-In this abhorred deep to utter woe!
-Where pain of unextinguishable fire
-Must exercise us without hope of end
-The vassals of his anger, when the scourge
-Inexorably, and the torturing hour,
-Calls us to penance? More destroyed than thus,
-We should be quite abolished, and expire.
-What fear we then? what doubt we to incense
-His utmost ire? which, to the height enraged,
-Will either quite consume us, and reduce
-To nothing this essential--happier far
-Than miserable to have eternal being!--
-Or, if our substance be indeed divine,
-And cannot cease to be, we are at worst
-On this side nothing; and by proof we feel
-Our power sufficient to disturb his Heaven,
-And with perpetual inroads to alarm,
-Though inaccessible, his fatal throne:
-Which, if not victory, is yet revenge."
- He ended frowning, and his look denounced
-Desperate revenge, and battle dangerous
-To less than gods. On th' other side up rose
-Belial, in act more graceful and humane.
-A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed
-For dignity composed, and high exploit.
-But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
-Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear
-The better reason, to perplex and dash
-Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low--
- To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds
-Timorous and slothful. Yet he pleased the ear,
-And with persuasive accent thus began:--
- "I should be much for open war, O Peers,
-As not behind in hate, if what was urged
-Main reason to persuade immediate war
-Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast
-Ominous conjecture on the whole success;
-When he who most excels in fact of arms,
-In what he counsels and in what excels
-Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair
-And utter dissolution, as the scope
-Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.
-First, what revenge? The towers of Heaven are filled
-With armed watch, that render all access
-Impregnable: oft on the bodering Deep
-Encamp their legions, or with obscure wing
-Scout far and wide into the realm of Night,
-Scorning surprise. Or, could we break our way
-By force, and at our heels all Hell should rise
-With blackest insurrection to confound
-Heaven's purest light, yet our great Enemy,
-All incorruptible, would on his throne
-Sit unpolluted, and th' ethereal mould,
-Incapable of stain, would soon expel
-Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire,
-Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope
-Is flat despair: we must exasperate
-Th' Almighty Victor to spend all his rage;
-And that must end us; that must be our cure--
-To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose,
-Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
-Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
-To perish rather, swallowed up and lost
-In the wide womb of uncreated Night,
-Devoid of sense and motion? And who knows,
-Let this be good, whether our angry Foe
-Can give it, or will ever? How he can
-Is doubtful; that he never will is sure.
-Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire,
-Belike through impotence or unaware,
-To give his enemies their wish, and end
-Them in his anger whom his anger saves
-To punish endless? 'Wherefore cease we, then?'
-Say they who counsel war; 'we are decreed,
-Reserved, and destined to eternal woe;
-Whatever doing, what can we suffer more,
-What can we suffer worse?' Is this, then, worst--
-Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms?
-What when we fled amain, pursued and struck
-With Heaven's afflicting thunder, and besought
-The Deep to shelter us? This Hell then seemed
-A refuge from those wounds. Or when we lay
-Chained on the burning lake? That sure was worse.
-What if the breath that kindled those grim fires,
-Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage,
-And plunge us in the flames; or from above
-Should intermitted vengeance arm again
-His red right hand to plague us? What if all
-Her stores were opened, and this firmament
-Of Hell should spout her cataracts of fire,
-Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall
-One day upon our heads; while we perhaps,
-Designing or exhorting glorious war,
-Caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled,
-Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey
-Or racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk
-Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains,
-There to converse with everlasting groans,
-Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved,
-Ages of hopeless end? This would be worse.
-War, therefore, open or concealed, alike
-My voice dissuades; for what can force or guile
-With him, or who deceive his mind, whose eye
-Views all things at one view? He from Heaven's height
-All these our motions vain sees and derides,
-Not more almighty to resist our might
-Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles.
-Shall we, then, live thus vile--the race of Heaven
-Thus trampled, thus expelled, to suffer here
-Chains and these torments? Better these than worse,
-By my advice; since fate inevitable
-Subdues us, and omnipotent decree,
-The Victor's will. To suffer, as to do,
-Our strength is equal; nor the law unjust
-That so ordains. This was at first resolved,
-If we were wise, against so great a foe
-Contending, and so doubtful what might fall.
-I laugh when those who at the spear are bold
-And venturous, if that fail them, shrink, and fear
-What yet they know must follow--to endure
-Exile, or igominy, or bonds, or pain,
-The sentence of their Conqueror. This is now
-Our doom; which if we can sustain and bear,
-Our Supreme Foe in time may much remit
-His anger, and perhaps, thus far removed,
-Not mind us not offending, satisfied
-With what is punished; whence these raging fires
-Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames.
-Our purer essence then will overcome
-Their noxious vapour; or, inured, not feel;
-Or, changed at length, and to the place conformed
-In temper and in nature, will receive
-Familiar the fierce heat; and, void of pain,
-This horror will grow mild, this darkness light;
-Besides what hope the never-ending flight
-Of future days may bring, what chance, what change
-Worth waiting--since our present lot appears
-For happy though but ill, for ill not worst,
-If we procure not to ourselves more woe."
- Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb,
-Counselled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth,
-Not peace; and after him thus Mammon spake:--
- "Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven
-We war, if war be best, or to regain
-Our own right lost. Him to unthrone we then
-May hope, when everlasting Fate shall yield
-To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
-The former, vain to hope, argues as vain
-The latter; for what place can be for us
-Within Heaven's bound, unless Heaven's Lord supreme
-We overpower? Suppose he should relent
-And publish grace to all, on promise made
-Of new subjection; with what eyes could we
-Stand in his presence humble, and receive
-Strict laws imposed, to celebrate his throne
-With warbled hyms, and to his Godhead sing
-Forced hallelujahs, while he lordly sits
-Our envied sovereign, and his altar breathes
-Ambrosial odours and ambrosial flowers,
-Our servile offerings? This must be our task
-In Heaven, this our delight. How wearisome
-Eternity so spent in worship paid
-To whom we hate! Let us not then pursue,
-By force impossible, by leave obtained
-Unacceptable, though in Heaven, our state
-Of splendid vassalage; but rather seek
-Our own good from ourselves, and from our own
-Live to ourselves, though in this vast recess,
-Free and to none accountable, preferring
-Hard liberty before the easy yoke
-Of servile pomp. Our greatness will appear
-Then most conspicuous when great things of small,
-Useful of hurtful, prosperous of adverse,
-We can create, and in what place soe'er
-Thrive under evil, and work ease out of pain
-Through labour and endurance. This deep world
-Of darkness do we dread? How oft amidst
-Thick clouds and dark doth Heaven's all-ruling Sire
-Choose to reside, his glory unobscured,
-And with the majesty of darkness round
-Covers his throne, from whence deep thunders roar.
-Mustering their rage, and Heaven resembles Hell!
-As he our darkness, cannot we his light
-Imitate when we please? This desert soil
-Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold;
-Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise
-Magnificence; and what can Heaven show more?
-Our torments also may, in length of time,
-Become our elements, these piercing fires
-As soft as now severe, our temper changed
-Into their temper; which must needs remove
-The sensible of pain. All things invite
-To peaceful counsels, and the settled state
-Of order, how in safety best we may
-Compose our present evils, with regard
-Of what we are and where, dismissing quite
-All thoughts of war. Ye have what I advise."
- He scarce had finished, when such murmur filled
-Th' assembly as when hollow rocks retain
-The sound of blustering winds, which all night long
-Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull
-Seafaring men o'erwatched, whose bark by chance
-Or pinnace, anchors in a craggy bay
-After the tempest. Such applause was heard
-As Mammon ended, and his sentence pleased,
-Advising peace: for such another field
-They dreaded worse than Hell; so much the fear
-Of thunder and the sword of Michael
-Wrought still within them; and no less desire
-To found this nether empire, which might rise,
-By policy and long process of time,
-In emulation opposite to Heaven.
-Which when Beelzebub perceived--than whom,
-Satan except, none higher sat--with grave
-Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed
-A pillar of state. Deep on his front engraven
-Deliberation sat, and public care;
-And princely counsel in his face yet shone,
-Majestic, though in ruin. Sage he stood
-With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear
-The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look
-Drew audience and attention still as night
-Or summer's noontide air, while thus he spake:--
- "Thrones and Imperial Powers, Offspring of Heaven,
-Ethereal Virtues! or these titles now
-Must we renounce, and, changing style, be called
-Princes of Hell? for so the popular vote
-Inclines--here to continue, and build up here
-A growing empire; doubtless! while we dream,
-And know not that the King of Heaven hath doomed
-This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat
-Beyond his potent arm, to live exempt
-From Heaven's high jurisdiction, in new league
-Banded against his throne, but to remain
-In strictest bondage, though thus far removed,
-Under th' inevitable curb, reserved
-His captive multitude. For he, to be sure,
-In height or depth, still first and last will reign
-Sole king, and of his kingdom lose no part
-By our revolt, but over Hell extend
-His empire, and with iron sceptre rule
-Us here, as with his golden those in Heaven.
-What sit we then projecting peace and war?
-War hath determined us and foiled with loss
-Irreparable; terms of peace yet none
-Vouchsafed or sought; for what peace will be given
-To us enslaved, but custody severe,
-And stripes and arbitrary punishment
-Inflicted? and what peace can we return,
-But, to our power, hostility and hate,
-Untamed reluctance, and revenge, though slow,
-Yet ever plotting how the Conqueror least
-May reap his conquest, and may least rejoice
-In doing what we most in suffering feel?
-Nor will occasion want, nor shall we need
-With dangerous expedition to invade
-Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege,
-Or ambush from the Deep. What if we find
-Some easier enterprise? There is a place
-(If ancient and prophetic fame in Heaven
-Err not)--another World, the happy seat
-Of some new race, called Man, about this time
-To be created like to us, though less
-In power and excellence, but favoured more
-Of him who rules above; so was his will
-Pronounced among the Gods, and by an oath
-That shook Heaven's whole circumference confirmed.
-Thither let us bend all our thoughts, to learn
-What creatures there inhabit, of what mould
-Or substance, how endued, and what their power
-And where their weakness: how attempted best,
-By force of subtlety. Though Heaven be shut,
-And Heaven's high Arbitrator sit secure
-In his own strength, this place may lie exposed,
-The utmost border of his kingdom, left
-To their defence who hold it: here, perhaps,
-Some advantageous act may be achieved
-By sudden onset--either with Hell-fire
-To waste his whole creation, or possess
-All as our own, and drive, as we were driven,
-The puny habitants; or, if not drive,
-Seduce them to our party, that their God
-May prove their foe, and with repenting hand
-Abolish his own works. This would surpass
-Common revenge, and interrupt his joy
-In our confusion, and our joy upraise
-In his disturbance; when his darling sons,
-Hurled headlong to partake with us, shall curse
-Their frail original, and faded bliss--
-Faded so soon! Advise if this be worth
-Attempting, or to sit in darkness here
-Hatching vain empires." Thus beelzebub
-Pleaded his devilish counsel--first devised
-By Satan, and in part proposed: for whence,
-But from the author of all ill, could spring
-So deep a malice, to confound the race
-Of mankind in one root, and Earth with Hell
-To mingle and involve, done all to spite
-The great Creator? But their spite still serves
-His glory to augment. The bold design
-Pleased highly those infernal States, and joy
-Sparkled in all their eyes: with full assent
-They vote: whereat his speech he thus renews:--
-"Well have ye judged, well ended long debate,
-Synod of Gods, and, like to what ye are,
-Great things resolved, which from the lowest deep
-Will once more lift us up, in spite of fate,
-Nearer our ancient seat--perhaps in view
-Of those bright confines, whence, with neighbouring arms,
-And opportune excursion, we may chance
-Re-enter Heaven; or else in some mild zone
-Dwell, not unvisited of Heaven's fair light,
-Secure, and at the brightening orient beam
-Purge off this gloom: the soft delicious air,
-To heal the scar of these corrosive fires,
-Shall breathe her balm. But, first, whom shall we send
-In search of this new World? whom shall we find
-Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet
-The dark, unbottomed, infinite Abyss,
-And through the palpable obscure find out
-His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight,
-Upborne with indefatigable wings
-Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive
-The happy Isle? What strength, what art, can then
-Suffice, or what evasion bear him safe,
-Through the strict senteries and stations thick
-Of Angels watching round? Here he had need
-All circumspection: and we now no less
-Choice in our suffrage; for on whom we send
-The weight of all, and our last hope, relies."
- This said, he sat; and expectation held
-His look suspense, awaiting who appeared
-To second, or oppose, or undertake
-The perilous attempt. But all sat mute,
-Pondering the danger with deep thoughts; and each
-In other's countenance read his own dismay,
-Astonished. None among the choice and prime
-Of those Heaven-warring champions could be found
-So hardy as to proffer or accept,
-Alone, the dreadful voyage; till, at last,
-Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised
-Above his fellows, with monarchal pride
-Conscious of highest worth, unmoved thus spake:--
- "O Progeny of Heaven! Empyreal Thrones!
-With reason hath deep silence and demur
-Seized us, though undismayed. Long is the way
-And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
-Our prison strong, this huge convex of fire,
-Outrageous to devour, immures us round
-Ninefold; and gates of burning adamant,
-Barred over us, prohibit all egress.
-These passed, if any pass, the void profound
-Of unessential Night receives him next,
-Wide-gaping, and with utter loss of being
-Threatens him, plunged in that abortive gulf.
-If thence he scape, into whatever world,
-Or unknown region, what remains him less
-Than unknown dangers, and as hard escape?
-But I should ill become this throne, O Peers,
-And this imperial sovereignty, adorned
-With splendour, armed with power, if aught proposed
-And judged of public moment in the shape
-Of difficulty or danger, could deter
-Me from attempting. Wherefore do I assume
-These royalties, and not refuse to reign,
-Refusing to accept as great a share
-Of hazard as of honour, due alike
-To him who reigns, and so much to him due
-Of hazard more as he above the rest
-High honoured sits? Go, therefore, mighty Powers,
-Terror of Heaven, though fallen; intend at home,
-While here shall be our home, what best may ease
-The present misery, and render Hell
-More tolerable; if there be cure or charm
-To respite, or deceive, or slack the pain
-Of this ill mansion: intermit no watch
-Against a wakeful foe, while I abroad
-Through all the coasts of dark destruction seek
-Deliverance for us all. This enterprise
-None shall partake with me." Thus saying, rose
-The Monarch, and prevented all reply;
-Prudent lest, from his resolution raised,
-Others among the chief might offer now,
-Certain to be refused, what erst they feared,
-And, so refused, might in opinion stand
-His rivals, winning cheap the high repute
-Which he through hazard huge must earn. But they
-Dreaded not more th' adventure than his voice
-Forbidding; and at once with him they rose.
-Their rising all at once was as the sound
-Of thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend
-With awful reverence prone, and as a God
-Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven.
-Nor failed they to express how much they praised
-That for the general safety he despised
-His own: for neither do the Spirits damned
-Lose all their virtue; lest bad men should boast
-Their specious deeds on earth, which glory excites,
-Or close ambition varnished o'er with zeal.
- Thus they their doubtful consultations dark
-Ended, rejoicing in their matchless Chief:
-As, when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds
-Ascending, while the north wind sleeps, o'erspread
-Heaven's cheerful face, the louring element
-Scowls o'er the darkened landscape snow or shower,
-If chance the radiant sun, with farewell sweet,
-Extend his evening beam, the fields revive,
-The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds
-Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
-O shame to men! Devil with devil damned
-Firm concord holds; men only disagree
-Of creatures rational, though under hope
-Of heavenly grace, and, God proclaiming peace,
-Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife
-Among themselves, and levy cruel wars
-Wasting the earth, each other to destroy:
-As if (which might induce us to accord)
-Man had not hellish foes enow besides,
-That day and night for his destruction wait!
- The Stygian council thus dissolved; and forth
-In order came the grand infernal Peers:
-Midst came their mighty Paramount, and seemed
-Alone th' antagonist of Heaven, nor less
-Than Hell's dread Emperor, with pomp supreme,
-And god-like imitated state: him round
-A globe of fiery Seraphim enclosed
-With bright emblazonry, and horrent arms.
-Then of their session ended they bid cry
-With trumpet's regal sound the great result:
-Toward the four winds four speedy Cherubim
-Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy,
-By herald's voice explained; the hollow Abyss
-Heard far adn wide, and all the host of Hell
-With deafening shout returned them loud acclaim.
-Thence more at ease their minds, and somewhat raised
-By false presumptuous hope, the ranged Powers
-Disband; and, wandering, each his several way
-Pursues, as inclination or sad choice
-Leads him perplexed, where he may likeliest find
-Truce to his restless thoughts, and entertain
-The irksome hours, till his great Chief return.
-Part on the plain, or in the air sublime,
-Upon the wing or in swift race contend,
-As at th' Olympian games or Pythian fields;
-Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal
-With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form:
-As when, to warn proud cities, war appears
-Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush
-To battle in the clouds; before each van
-Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears,
-Till thickest legions close; with feats of arms
-From either end of heaven the welkin burns.
-Others, with vast Typhoean rage, more fell,
-Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air
-In whirlwind; Hell scarce holds the wild uproar:--
-As when Alcides, from Oechalia crowned
-With conquest, felt th' envenomed robe, and tore
-Through pain up by the roots Thessalian pines,
-And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw
-Into th' Euboic sea. Others, more mild,
-Retreated in a silent valley, sing
-With notes angelical to many a harp
-Their own heroic deeds, and hapless fall
-By doom of battle, and complain that Fate
-Free Virtue should enthrall to Force or Chance.
-Their song was partial; but the harmony
-(What could it less when Spirits immortal sing?)
-Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment
-The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet
-(For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sense)
-Others apart sat on a hill retired,
-In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high
-Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate--
-Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,
-And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
-Of good and evil much they argued then,
-Of happiness and final misery,
-Passion and apathy, and glory and shame:
-Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy!--
-Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm
-Pain for a while or anguish, and excite
-Fallacious hope, or arm th' obdured breast
-With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
-Another part, in squadrons and gross bands,
-On bold adventure to discover wide
-That dismal world, if any clime perhaps
-Might yield them easier habitation, bend
-Four ways their flying march, along the banks
-Of four infernal rivers, that disgorge
-Into the burning lake their baleful streams--
-Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate;
-Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;
-Cocytus, named of lamentation loud
-Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegeton,
-Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
-Far off from these, a slow and silent stream,
-Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls
-Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks
-Forthwith his former state and being forgets--
-Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
-Beyond this flood a frozen continent
-Lies dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
-Of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
-Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems
-Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
-A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
-Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
-Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
-Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire.
-Thither, by harpy-footed Furies haled,
-At certain revolutions all the damned
-Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change
-Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce,
-From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
-Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
-Immovable, infixed, and frozen round
-Periods of time,--thence hurried back to fire.
-They ferry over this Lethean sound
-Both to and fro, their sorrow to augment,
-And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach
-The tempting stream, with one small drop to lose
-In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,
-All in one moment, and so near the brink;
-But Fate withstands, and, to oppose th' attempt,
-Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
-The ford, and of itself the water flies
-All taste of living wight, as once it fled
-The lip of Tantalus. Thus roving on
-In confused march forlorn, th' adventurous bands,
-With shuddering horror pale, and eyes aghast,
-Viewed first their lamentable lot, and found
-No rest. Through many a dark and dreary vale
-They passed, and many a region dolorous,
-O'er many a frozen, many a fiery alp,
-Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death--
-A universe of death, which God by curse
-Created evil, for evil only good;
-Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds,
-Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things,
-Obominable, inutterable, and worse
-Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived,
-Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
- Meanwhile the Adversary of God and Man,
-Satan, with thoughts inflamed of highest design,
-Puts on swift wings, and toward the gates of Hell
-Explores his solitary flight: sometimes
-He scours the right hand coast, sometimes the left;
-Now shaves with level wing the deep, then soars
-Up to the fiery concave towering high.
-As when far off at sea a fleet descried
-Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds
-Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles
-Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring
-Their spicy drugs; they on the trading flood,
-Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape,
-Ply stemming nightly toward the pole: so seemed
-Far off the flying Fiend. At last appear
-Hell-bounds, high reaching to the horrid roof,
-And thrice threefold the gates; three folds were brass,
-Three iron, three of adamantine rock,
-Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire,
-Yet unconsumed. Before the gates there sat
-On either side a formidable Shape.
-The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair,
-But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
-Voluminous and vast--a serpent armed
-With mortal sting. About her middle round
-A cry of Hell-hounds never-ceasing barked
-With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
-A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
-If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
-And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
-Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
-Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
-Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
-Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
-In secret, riding through the air she comes,
-Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
-With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
-Eclipses at their charms. The other Shape--
-If shape it might be called that shape had none
-Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
-Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
-For each seemed either--black it stood as Night,
-Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,
-And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
-The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
-Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
-The monster moving onward came as fast
-With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
-Th' undaunted Fiend what this might be admired--
-Admired, not feared (God and his Son except,
-Created thing naught valued he nor shunned),
-And with disdainful look thus first began:--
- "Whence and what art thou, execrable Shape,
-That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance
-Thy miscreated front athwart my way
-To yonder gates? Through them I mean to pass,
-That be assured, without leave asked of thee.
-Retire; or taste thy folly, and learn by proof,
-Hell-born, not to contend with Spirits of Heaven."
- To whom the Goblin, full of wrath, replied:--
-"Art thou that traitor Angel? art thou he,
-Who first broke peace in Heaven and faith, till then
-Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms
-Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons,
-Conjured against the Highest--for which both thou
-And they, outcast from God, are here condemned
-To waste eternal days in woe and pain?
-And reckon'st thou thyself with Spirits of Heaven
-Hell-doomed, and breath'st defiance here and scorn,
-Where I reign king, and, to enrage thee more,
-Thy king and lord? Back to thy punishment,
-False fugitive; and to thy speed add wings,
-Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue
-Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart
-Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before."
- So spake the grisly Terror, and in shape,
-So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold,
-More dreadful and deform. On th' other side,
-Incensed with indignation, Satan stood
-Unterrified, and like a comet burned,
-That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
-In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
-Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head
-Levelled his deadly aim; their fatal hands
-No second stroke intend; and such a frown
-Each cast at th' other as when two black clouds,
-With heaven's artillery fraught, came rattling on
-Over the Caspian,--then stand front to front
-Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow
-To join their dark encounter in mid-air.
-So frowned the mighty combatants that Hell
-Grew darker at their frown; so matched they stood;
-For never but once more was wither like
-To meet so great a foe. And now great deeds
-Had been achieved, whereof all Hell had rung,
-Had not the snaky Sorceress, that sat
-Fast by Hell-gate and kept the fatal key,
-Risen, and with hideous outcry rushed between.
- "O father, what intends thy hand," she cried,
-"Against thy only son? What fury, O son,
-Possesses thee to bend that mortal dart
-Against thy father's head? And know'st for whom?
-For him who sits above, and laughs the while
-At thee, ordained his drudge to execute
-Whate'er his wrath, which he calls justice, bids--
-His wrath, which one day will destroy ye both!"
- She spake, and at her words the hellish Pest
-Forbore: then these to her Satan returned:--
- "So strange thy outcry, and thy words so strange
-Thou interposest, that my sudden hand,
-Prevented, spares to tell thee yet by deeds
-What it intends, till first I know of thee
-What thing thou art, thus double-formed, and why,
-In this infernal vale first met, thou call'st
-Me father, and that phantasm call'st my son.
-I know thee not, nor ever saw till now
-Sight more detestable than him and thee."
- T' whom thus the Portress of Hell-gate replied:--
-"Hast thou forgot me, then; and do I seem
-Now in thine eye so foul?--once deemed so fair
-In Heaven, when at th' assembly, and in sight
-Of all the Seraphim with thee combined
-In bold conspiracy against Heaven's King,
-All on a sudden miserable pain
-Surprised thee, dim thine eyes and dizzy swum
-In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast
-Threw forth, till on the left side opening wide,
-Likest to thee in shape and countenance bright,
-Then shining heavenly fair, a goddess armed,
-Out of thy head I sprung. Amazement seized
-All th' host of Heaven; back they recoiled afraid
-At first, and called me Sin, and for a sign
-Portentous held me; but, familiar grown,
-I pleased, and with attractive graces won
-The most averse--thee chiefly, who, full oft
-Thyself in me thy perfect image viewing,
-Becam'st enamoured; and such joy thou took'st
-With me in secret that my womb conceived
-A growing burden. Meanwhile war arose,
-And fields were fought in Heaven: wherein remained
-(For what could else?) to our Almighty Foe
-Clear victory; to our part loss and rout
-Through all the Empyrean. Down they fell,
-Driven headlong from the pitch of Heaven, down
-Into this Deep; and in the general fall
-I also: at which time this powerful key
-Into my hands was given, with charge to keep
-These gates for ever shut, which none can pass
-Without my opening. Pensive here I sat
-Alone; but long I sat not, till my womb,
-Pregnant by thee, and now excessive grown,
-Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes.
-At last this odious offspring whom thou seest,
-Thine own begotten, breaking violent way,
-Tore through my entrails, that, with fear and pain
-Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew
-Transformed: but he my inbred enemy
-Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart,
-Made to destroy. I fled, and cried out Death!
-Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed
-From all her caves, and back resounded Death!
-I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems,
-Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far,
-Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed,
-And, in embraces forcible and foul
-Engendering with me, of that rape begot
-These yelling monsters, that with ceaseless cry
-Surround me, as thou saw'st--hourly conceived
-And hourly born, with sorrow infinite
-To me; for, when they list, into the womb
-That bred them they return, and howl, and gnaw
-My bowels, their repast; then, bursting forth
-Afresh, with conscious terrors vex me round,
-That rest or intermission none I find.
-Before mine eyes in opposition sits
-Grim Death, my son and foe, who set them on,
-And me, his parent, would full soon devour
-For want of other prey, but that he knows
-His end with mine involved, and knows that I
-Should prove a bitter morsel, and his bane,
-Whenever that shall be: so Fate pronounced.
-But thou, O father, I forewarn thee, shun
-His deadly arrow; neither vainly hope
-To be invulnerable in those bright arms,
-Through tempered heavenly; for that mortal dint,
-Save he who reigns above, none can resist."
- She finished; and the subtle Fiend his lore
-Soon learned, now milder, and thus answered smooth:--
- "Dear daughter--since thou claim'st me for thy sire,
-And my fair son here show'st me, the dear pledge
-Of dalliance had with thee in Heaven, and joys
-Then sweet, now sad to mention, through dire change
-Befallen us unforeseen, unthought-of--know,
-I come no enemy, but to set free
-From out this dark and dismal house of pain
-Both him and thee, and all the heavenly host
-Of Spirits that, in our just pretences armed,
-Fell with us from on high. From them I go
-This uncouth errand sole, and one for all
-Myself expose, with lonely steps to tread
-Th' unfounded Deep, and through the void immense
-To search, with wandering quest, a place foretold
-Should be--and, by concurring signs, ere now
-Created vast and round--a place of bliss
-In the purlieus of Heaven; and therein placed
-A race of upstart creatures, to supply
-Perhaps our vacant room, though more removed,
-Lest Heaven, surcharged with potent multitude,
-Might hap to move new broils. Be this, or aught
-Than this more secret, now designed, I haste
-To know; and, this once known, shall soon return,
-And bring ye to the place where thou and Death
-Shall dwell at ease, and up and down unseen
-Wing silently the buxom air, embalmed
-With odours. There ye shall be fed and filled
-Immeasurably; all things shall be your prey."
- He ceased; for both seemed highly pleased, and Death
-Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
-His famine should be filled, and blessed his maw
-Destined to that good hour. No less rejoiced
-His mother bad, and thus bespake her sire:--
- "The key of this infernal Pit, by due
-And by command of Heaven's all-powerful King,
-I keep, by him forbidden to unlock
-These adamantine gates; against all force
-Death ready stands to interpose his dart,
-Fearless to be o'ermatched by living might.
-But what owe I to his commands above,
-Who hates me, and hath hither thrust me down
-Into this gloom of Tartarus profound,
-To sit in hateful office here confined,
-Inhabitant of Heaven and heavenly born--
-Here in perpetual agony and pain,
-With terrors and with clamours compassed round
-Of mine own brood, that on my bowels feed?
-Thou art my father, thou my author, thou
-My being gav'st me; whom should I obey
-But thee? whom follow? Thou wilt bring me soon
-To that new world of light and bliss, among
-The gods who live at ease, where I shall reign
-At thy right hand voluptuous, as beseems
-Thy daughter and thy darling, without end."
- Thus saying, from her side the fatal key,
-Sad instrument of all our woe, she took;
-And, towards the gate rolling her bestial train,
-Forthwith the huge portcullis high up-drew,
-Which, but herself, not all the Stygian Powers
-Could once have moved; then in the key-hole turns
-Th' intricate wards, and every bolt and bar
-Of massy iron or solid rock with ease
-Unfastens. On a sudden open fly,
-With impetuous recoil and jarring sound,
-Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate
-Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook
-Of Erebus. She opened; but to shut
-Excelled her power: the gates wide open stood,
-That with extended wings a bannered host,
-Under spread ensigns marching, mibht pass through
-With horse and chariots ranked in loose array;
-So wide they stood, and like a furnace-mouth
-Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame.
-Before their eyes in sudden view appear
-The secrets of the hoary Deep--a dark
-Illimitable ocean, without bound,
-Without dimension; where length, breadth, and height,
-And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night
-And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold
-Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise
-Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
-For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce,
-Strive here for mastery, and to battle bring
-Their embryon atoms: they around the flag
-Of each his faction, in their several clans,
-Light-armed or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift, or slow,
-Swarm populous, unnumbered as the sands
-Of Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil,
-Levied to side with warring winds, and poise
-Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere
-He rules a moment: Chaos umpire sits,
-And by decision more embroils the fray
-By which he reigns: next him, high arbiter,
-Chance governs all. Into this wild Abyss,
-The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave,
-Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,
-But all these in their pregnant causes mixed
-Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,
-Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
-His dark materials to create more worlds--
-Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend
-Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,
-Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith
-He had to cross. Nor was his ear less pealed
-With noises loud and ruinous (to compare
-Great things with small) than when Bellona storms
-With all her battering engines, bent to rase
-Some capital city; or less than if this frame
-Of Heaven were falling, and these elements
-In mutiny had from her axle torn
-The steadfast Earth. At last his sail-broad vans
-He spread for flight, and, in the surging smoke
-Uplifted, spurns the ground; thence many a league,
-As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides
-Audacious; but, that seat soon failing, meets
-A vast vacuity. All unawares,
-Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb-down he drops
-Ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour
-Down had been falling, had not, by ill chance,
-The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud,
-Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him
-As many miles aloft. That fury stayed--
-Quenched in a boggy Syrtis, neither sea,
-Nor good dry land--nigh foundered, on he fares,
-Treading the crude consistence, half on foot,
-Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail.
-As when a gryphon through the wilderness
-With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale,
-Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth
-Had from his wakeful custody purloined
-The guarded gold; so eagerly the Fiend
-O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,
-With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,
-And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
-At length a universal hubbub wild
-Of stunning sounds, and voices all confused,
-Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear
-With loudest vehemence. Thither he plies
-Undaunted, to meet there whatever Power
-Or Spirit of the nethermost Abyss
-Might in that noise reside, of whom to ask
-Which way the nearest coast of darkness lies
-Bordering on light; when straight behold the throne
-Of Chaos, and his dark pavilion spread
-Wide on the wasteful Deep! With him enthroned
-Sat sable-vested Night, eldest of things,
-The consort of his reign; and by them stood
-Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name
-Of Demogorgon; Rumour next, and Chance,
-And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled,
-And Discord with a thousand various mouths.
- T' whom Satan, turning boldly, thus:--"Ye Powers
-And Spirtis of this nethermost Abyss,
-Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy
-With purpose to explore or to disturb
-The secrets of your realm; but, by constraint
-Wandering this darksome desert, as my way
-Lies through your spacious empire up to light,
-Alone and without guide, half lost, I seek,
-What readiest path leads where your gloomy bounds
-Confine with Heaven; or, if some other place,
-From your dominion won, th' Ethereal King
-Possesses lately, thither to arrive
-I travel this profound. Direct my course:
-Directed, no mean recompense it brings
-To your behoof, if I that region lost,
-All usurpation thence expelled, reduce
-To her original darkness and your sway
-(Which is my present journey), and once more
-Erect the standard there of ancient Night.
-Yours be th' advantage all, mine the revenge!"
- Thus Satan; and him thus the Anarch old,
-With faltering speech and visage incomposed,
-Answered: "I know thee, stranger, who thou art-- ***
-That mighty leading Angel, who of late
-Made head against Heaven's King, though overthrown.
-I saw and heard; for such a numerous host
-Fled not in silence through the frighted Deep,
-With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
-Confusion worse confounded; and Heaven-gates
-Poured out by millions her victorious bands,
-Pursuing. I upon my frontiers here
-Keep residence; if all I can will serve
-That little which is left so to defend,
-Encroached on still through our intestine broils
-Weakening the sceptre of old Night: first, Hell,
-Your dungeon, stretching far and wide beneath;
-Now lately Heaven and Earth, another world
-Hung o'er my realm, linked in a golden chain
-To that side Heaven from whence your legions fell!
-If that way be your walk, you have not far;
-So much the nearer danger. Go, and speed;
-Havoc, and spoil, and ruin, are my gain."
- He ceased; and Satan stayed not to reply,
-But, glad that now his sea should find a shore,
-With fresh alacrity and force renewed
-Springs upward, like a pyramid of fire,
-Into the wild expanse, and through the shock
-Of fighting elements, on all sides round
-Environed, wins his way; harder beset
-And more endangered than when Argo passed
-Through Bosporus betwixt the justling rocks,
-Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunned
-Charybdis, and by th' other whirlpool steered.
-So he with difficulty and labour hard
-Moved on, with difficulty and labour he;
-But, he once passed, soon after, when Man fell,
-Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain,
-Following his track (such was the will of Heaven)
-Paved after him a broad and beaten way
-Over the dark Abyss, whose boiling gulf
-Tamely endured a bridge of wondrous length,
-From Hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb
-Of this frail World; by which the Spirits perverse
-With easy intercourse pass to and fro
-To tempt or punish mortals, except whom
-God and good Angels guard by special grace.
- But now at last the sacred influence
-Of light appears, and from the walls of Heaven
-Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night
-A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins
-Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire,
-As from her outmost works, a broken foe,
-With tumult less and with less hostile din;
-That Satan with less toil, and now with ease,
-Wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light,
-And, like a weather-beaten vessel, holds
-Gladly the port, though shrouds and tackle torn;
-Or in the emptier waste, resembling air,
-Weighs his spread wings, at leisure to behold
-Far off th' empyreal Heaven, extended wide
-In circuit, undetermined square or round,
-With opal towers and battlements adorned
-Of living sapphire, once his native seat;
-And, fast by, hanging in a golden chain,
-This pendent World, in bigness as a star
-Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.
-Thither, full fraught with mischievous revenge,
-Accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies.
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-Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn,
-Or of the Eternal coeternal beam
-May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light,
-And never but in unapproached light
-Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee
-Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
-Or hear"st thou rather pure ethereal stream,
-Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun,
-Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice
-Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest ***
-The rising world of waters dark and deep,
-Won from the void and formless infinite.
-Thee I re-visit now with bolder wing,
-Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd
-In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight
-Through utter and through middle darkness borne,
-With other notes than to the Orphean lyre
-I sung of Chaos and eternal Night;
-Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down
-The dark descent, and up to re-ascend,
-Though hard and rare: Thee I revisit safe,
-And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou
-Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain
-To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;
-So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs,
-Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more
-Cease I to wander, where the Muses haunt,
-Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill,
-Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief
-Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath,
-That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow,
-Nightly I visit: nor sometimes forget
-So were I equall'd with them in renown,
-Thy sovran command, that Man should find grace;
-Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides,
-And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old:
-Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move
-Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird
-Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid
-Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year
-Seasons return; but not to me returns
-Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,
-Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
-Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;
-But cloud instead, and ever-during dark
-Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men
-Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair
-Presented with a universal blank
-Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd,
-And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
-So much the rather thou, celestial Light,
-Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers
-Irradiate; there plant eyes, all mist from thence
-Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell
-Of things invisible to mortal sight.
-Now had the Almighty Father from above,
-From the pure empyrean where he sits
-High thron'd above all highth, bent down his eye
-His own works and their works at once to view:
-About him all the Sanctities of Heaven
-Stood thick as stars, and from his sight receiv'd
-Beatitude past utterance; on his right
-The radiant image of his glory sat,
-His only son; on earth he first beheld
-Our two first parents, yet the only two
-Of mankind in the happy garden plac'd
-Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,
-Uninterrupted joy, unrivall'd love,
-In blissful solitude; he then survey'd
-Hell and the gulf between, and Satan there
-Coasting the wall of Heaven on this side Night
-In the dun air sublime, and ready now
-To stoop with wearied wings, and willing feet,
-On the bare outside of this world, that seem'd
-Firm land imbosom'd, without firmament,
-Uncertain which, in ocean or in air.
-Him God beholding from his prospect high,
-Wherein past, present, future, he beholds,
-Thus to his only Son foreseeing spake.
-Only begotten Son, seest thou what rage
-Transports our Adversary? whom no bounds
-Prescrib'd no bars of Hell, nor all the chains
-Heap'd on him there, nor yet the main abyss
-Wide interrupt, can hold; so bent he seems
-On desperate revenge, that shall redound
-Upon his own rebellious head. And now,
-Through all restraint broke loose, he wings his way
-Not far off Heaven, in the precincts of light,
-Directly towards the new created world,
-And man there plac'd, with purpose to assay
-If him by force he can destroy, or, worse,
-By some false guile pervert; and shall pervert;
-For man will hearken to his glozing lies,
-And easily transgress the sole command,
-Sole pledge of his obedience: So will fall
-He and his faithless progeny: Whose fault?
-Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of me
-All he could have; I made him just and right,
-Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
-Such I created all the ethereal Powers
-And Spirits, both them who stood, and them who fail'd;
-Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
-Not free, what proof could they have given sincere
-Of true allegiance, constant faith or love,
-Where only what they needs must do appear'd,
-Not what they would? what praise could they receive?
-What pleasure I from such obedience paid,
-When will and reason (reason also is choice)
-Useless and vain, of freedom both despoil'd,
-Made passive both, had serv'd necessity,
-Not me? they therefore, as to right belong$ 'd,
-So were created, nor can justly accuse
-Their Maker, or their making, or their fate,
-As if predestination over-rul'd
-Their will dispos'd by absolute decree
-Or high foreknowledge they themselves decreed
-Their own revolt, not I; if I foreknew,
-Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault,
-Which had no less proved certain unforeknown.
-So without least impulse or shadow of fate,
-Or aught by me immutably foreseen,
-They trespass, authors to themselves in all
-Both what they judge, and what they choose; for so
-I form'd them free: and free they must remain,
-Till they enthrall themselves; I else must change
-Their nature, and revoke the high decree
-Unchangeable, eternal, which ordain'd
-$THeir freedom: they themselves ordain'd their fall.
-The first sort by their own suggestion fell,
-Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man falls, deceiv'd
-By the other first: Man therefore shall find grace,
-The other none: In mercy and justice both,
-Through Heaven and Earth, so shall my glory excel;
-But Mercy, first and last, shall brightest shine.
-Thus while God spake, ambrosial fragrance fill'd
-All Heaven, and in the blessed Spirits elect
-Sense of new joy ineffable diffus'd.
-Beyond compare the Son of God was seen
-Most glorious; in him all his Father shone
-Substantially express'd; and in his face
-Divine compassion visibly appear'd,
-Love without end, and without measure grace,
-Which uttering, thus he to his Father spake.
-O Father, gracious was that word which clos'd
-Thy sovran command, that Man should find grace;
-, that Man should find grace;
-For which both Heaven and earth shall high extol
-Thy praises, with the innumerable sound
-Of hymns and sacred songs, wherewith thy throne
-Encompass'd shall resound thee ever blest.
-For should Man finally be lost, should Man,
-Thy creature late so lov'd, thy youngest son,
-Fall circumvented thus by fraud, though join'd
-With his own folly? that be from thee far,
-That far be from thee, Father, who art judge
-Of all things made, and judgest only right.
-Or shall the Adversary thus obtain
-His end, and frustrate thine? shall he fulfill
-His malice, and thy goodness bring to nought,
-Or proud return, though to his heavier doom,
-Yet with revenge accomplish'd, and to Hell
-Draw after him the whole race of mankind,
-By him corrupted? or wilt thou thyself
-Abolish thy creation, and unmake
-For him, what for thy glory thou hast made?
-So should thy goodness and thy greatness both
-Be question'd and blasphem'd without defence.
-To whom the great Creator thus replied.
-O son, in whom my soul hath chief delight,
-Son of my bosom, Son who art alone.
-My word, my wisdom, and effectual might,
-All hast thou spoken as my thoughts are, all
-As my eternal purpose hath decreed;
-Man shall not quite be lost, but sav'd who will;
-Yet not of will in him, but grace in me
-Freely vouchsaf'd; once more I will renew
-His lapsed powers, though forfeit; and enthrall'd
-By sin to foul exorbitant desires;
-Upheld by me, yet once more he shall stand
-On even ground against his mortal foe;
-By me upheld, that he may know how frail
-His fallen condition is, and to me owe
-All his deliverance, and to none but me.
-Some I have chosen of peculiar grace,
-Elect above the rest; so is my will:
-The rest shall hear me call, and oft be warn'd
-Their sinful state, and to appease betimes
-The incensed Deity, while offer'd grace
-Invites; for I will clear their senses dark,
-What may suffice, and soften stony hearts
-To pray, repent, and bring obedience due.
-To prayer, repentance, and obedience due,
-Though but endeavour'd with sincere intent,
-Mine ear shall not be slow, mine eye not shut.
-And I will place within them as a guide,
-My umpire Conscience; whom if they will hear,
-Light after light, well us'd, they shall attain,
-And to the end, persisting, safe arrive.
-This my long sufferance, and my day of grace,
-They who neglect and scorn, shall never taste;
-But hard be harden'd, blind be blinded more,
-That they may stumble on, and deeper fall;
-And none but such from mercy I exclude.
-But yet all is not done; Man disobeying,
-Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins
-Against the high supremacy of Heaven,
-Affecting God-head, and, so losing all,
-To expiate his treason hath nought left,
-But to destruction sacred and devote,
-He, with his whole posterity, must die,
-Die he or justice must; unless for him
-Some other able, and as willing, pay
-The rigid satisfaction, death for death.
-Say, heavenly Powers, where shall we find such love?
-Which of you will be mortal, to redeem
-Man's mortal crime, and just the unjust to save?
-Dwells in all Heaven charity so dear?
-And silence was in Heaven: $ on Man's behalf
-He ask'd, but all the heavenly quire stood mute,
-Patron or intercessour none appear'd,
-Much less that durst upon his own head draw
-The deadly forfeiture, and ransom set.
-And now without redemption all mankind
-Must have been lost, adjudg'd to Death and Hell
-By doom severe, had not the Son of God,
-In whom the fulness dwells of love divine,
-His dearest mediation thus renew'd.
-Father, thy word is past, Man shall find grace;
-And shall grace not find means, that finds her way,
-The speediest of thy winged messengers,
-To visit all thy creatures, and to all
-Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought?
-Happy for Man, so coming; he her aid
-Can never seek, once dead in sins, and lost;
-Atonement for himself, or offering meet,
-Indebted and undone, hath none to bring;
-Behold me then: me for him, life for life
-I offer: on me let thine anger fall;
-Account me Man; I for his sake will leave
- Thy bosom, and this glory next to thee
- Freely put off, and for him lastly die
- Well pleased; on me let Death wreak all his rage.
- Under his gloomy power I shall not long
- Lie vanquished. Thou hast given me to possess
- Life in myself for ever; by thee I live;
- Though now to Death I yield, and am his due,
- All that of me can die, yet, that debt paid,
- $ thou wilt not leave me in the loathsome grave
- His prey, nor suffer my unspotted soul
- For ever with corruption there to dwell;
- But I shall rise victorious, and subdue
- My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
- Death his death's wound shall then receive, and stoop
- Inglorious, of his mortal sting disarmed;
- I through the ample air in triumph high
- Shall lead Hell captive maugre Hell, and show
-The powers of darkness bound. Thou, at the sight
- Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
- While, by thee raised, I ruin all my foes;
- Death last, and with his carcase glut the grave;
- Then, with the multitude of my redeemed,
- Shall enter Heaven, long absent, and return,
- Father, to see thy face, wherein no cloud
- Of anger shall remain, but peace assured
- And reconcilement: wrath shall be no more
- Thenceforth, but in thy presence joy entire.
- His words here ended; but his meek aspect
- Silent yet spake, and breathed immortal love
- To mortal men, above which only shone
- Filial obedience: as a sacrifice
- Glad to be offered, he attends the will
- Of his great Father. Admiration seized
- All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,
- Wondering; but soon th' Almighty thus replied.
- O thou in Heaven and Earth the only peace
- Found out for mankind under wrath, O thou
- My sole complacence! Well thou know'st how dear
- To me are all my works; nor Man the least,
- Though last created, that for him I spare
- Thee from my bosom and right hand, to save,
- By losing thee a while, the whole race lost.
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- Thou, therefore, whom thou only canst redeem,
- Their nature also to thy nature join;
- And be thyself Man among men on Earth,
- Made flesh, when time shall be, of virgin seed,
- By wondrous birth; be thou in Adam's room
-The head of all mankind, though Adam's son.
-As in him perish all men, so in thee,
-As from a second root, shall be restored
-As many as are restored, without thee none.
-His crime makes guilty all his sons; thy merit,
-Imputed, shall absolve them who renounce
-Their own both righteous and unrighteous deeds,
-And live in thee transplanted, and from thee
-Receive new life. So Man, as is most just,
-Shall satisfy for Man, be judged and die,
-And dying rise, and rising with him raise
-His brethren, ransomed with his own dear life.
-So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate,
-Giving to death, and dying to redeem,
-So dearly to redeem what hellish hate
-So easily destroyed, and still destroys
-In those who, when they may, accept not grace.
-Nor shalt thou, by descending to assume
-Man's nature, lessen or degrade thine own.
-Because thou hast, though throned in highest bliss
-Equal to God, and equally enjoying
-God-like fruition, quitted all, to save
-A world from utter loss, and hast been found
-By merit more than birthright Son of God,
-Found worthiest to be so by being good,
-Far more than great or high; because in thee
-Love hath abounded more than glory abounds;
-Therefore thy humiliation shall exalt
-With thee thy manhood also to this throne:
-Here shalt thou sit incarnate, here shalt reign
-Both God and Man, Son both of God and Man,
-Anointed universal King; all power
-I give thee; reign for ever, and assume
-Thy merits; under thee, as head supreme,
-Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions, I reduce:
-All knees to thee shall bow, of them that bide
-In Heaven, or Earth, or under Earth in Hell.
-When thou, attended gloriously from Heaven,
-Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
-The summoning Arch-Angels to proclaim
-Thy dread tribunal; forthwith from all winds,
-The living, and forthwith the cited dead
-Of all past ages, to the general doom
-Shall hasten; such a peal shall rouse their sleep.
-Then, all thy saints assembled, thou shalt judge
-Bad Men and Angels; they, arraigned, shall sink
-Beneath thy sentence; Hell, her numbers full,
-Thenceforth shall be for ever shut. Mean while
-The world shall burn, and from her ashes spring
-New Heaven and Earth, wherein the just shall dwell,
-And, after all their tribulations long,
-See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,
-With joy and peace triumphing, and fair truth.
-Then thou thy regal scepter shalt lay by,
-For regal scepter then no more shall need,
-God shall be all in all. But, all ye Gods,
-Adore him, who to compass all this dies;
-Adore the Son, and honour him as me.
-No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all
-The multitude of Angels, with a shout
-Loud as from numbers without number, sweet
-As from blest voices, uttering joy, Heaven rung
-With jubilee, and loud Hosannas filled
-The eternal regions: Lowly reverent
-Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground
-With solemn adoration down they cast
-Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold;
-Immortal amarant, a flower which once
-In Paradise, fast by the tree of life,
-Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence
-To Heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,
-And flowers aloft shading the fount of life,
-And where the river of bliss through midst of Heaven
-Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream;
-With these that never fade the Spirits elect
-Bind their resplendent locks inwreathed with beams;
-Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the bright
-Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone,
-Impurpled with celestial roses smiled.
-Then, crowned again, their golden harps they took,
-Harps ever tuned, that glittering by their side
-Like quivers hung, and with preamble sweet
-Of charming symphony they introduce
-Their sacred song, and waken raptures high;
-No voice exempt, no voice but well could join
-Melodious part, such concord is in Heaven.
-Thee, Father, first they sung Omnipotent,
-Immutable, Immortal, Infinite,
-Eternal King; the Author of all being,
-Fonntain of light, thyself invisible
-Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sit'st
-Throned inaccessible, but when thou shadest
-The full blaze of thy beams, and, through a cloud
-Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine,
-Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear,
-Yet dazzle Heaven, that brightest Seraphim
-Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes.
-Thee next they sang of all creation first,
-Begotten Son, Divine Similitude,
-In whose conspicuous countenance, without cloud
-Made visible, the Almighty Father shines,
-Whom else no creature can behold; on thee
-Impressed the effulgence of his glory abides,
-Transfused on thee his ample Spirit rests.
-He Heaven of Heavens and all the Powers therein
-By thee created; and by thee threw down
-The aspiring Dominations: Thou that day
-Thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare,
-Nor stop thy flaming chariot-wheels, that shook
-Heaven's everlasting frame, while o'er the necks
-Thou drovest of warring Angels disarrayed.
-Back from pursuit thy Powers with loud acclaim
-Thee only extolled, Son of thy Father's might,
-To execute fierce vengeance on his foes,
-Not so on Man: Him through their malice fallen,
-Father of mercy and grace, thou didst not doom
-So strictly, but much more to pity incline:
-No sooner did thy dear and only Son
-Perceive thee purposed not to doom frail Man
-So strictly, but much more to pity inclined,
-He to appease thy wrath, and end the strife
-Of mercy and justice in thy face discerned,
-Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat
-Second to thee, offered himself to die
-For Man's offence. O unexampled love,
-Love no where to be found less than Divine!
-Hail, Son of God, Saviour of Men! Thy name
-Shall be the copious matter of my song
-Henceforth, and never shall my heart thy praise
-Forget, nor from thy Father's praise disjoin.
-Thus they in Heaven, above the starry sphere,
-Their happy hours in joy and hymning spent.
-Mean while upon the firm opacous globe
-Of this round world, whose first convex divides
-The luminous inferiour orbs, enclosed
-From Chaos, and the inroad of Darkness old,
-Satan alighted walks: A globe far off
-It seemed, now seems a boundless continent
-Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of Night
-Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms
-Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky;
-Save on that side which from the wall of Heaven,
-Though distant far, some small reflection gains
-Of glimmering air less vexed with tempest loud:
-Here walked the Fiend at large in spacious field.
-As when a vultur on Imaus bred,
-Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,
-Dislodging from a region scarce of prey
-To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids,
-On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward the springs
-Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams;
-But in his way lights on the barren plains
-Of Sericana, where Chineses drive
-With sails and wind their cany waggons light:
-So, on this windy sea of land, the Fiend
-Walked up and down alone, bent on his prey;
-Alone, for other creature in this place,
-Living or lifeless, to be found was none;
-None yet, but store hereafter from the earth
-Up hither like aereal vapours flew
-Of all things transitory and vain, when sin
-With vanity had filled the works of men:
-Both all things vain, and all who in vain things
-Built their fond hopes of glory or lasting fame,
-Or happiness in this or the other life;
-All who have their reward on earth, the fruits
-Of painful superstition and blind zeal,
-Nought seeking but the praise of men, here find
-Fit retribution, empty as their deeds;
-All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand,
-Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixed,
-Dissolved on earth, fleet hither, and in vain,
-Till final dissolution, wander here;
-Not in the neighbouring moon as some have dreamed;
-Those argent fields more likely habitants,
-Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold
-Betwixt the angelical and human kind.
-Hither of ill-joined sons and daughters born
-First from the ancient world those giants came
-With many a vain exploit, though then renowned:
-The builders next of Babel on the plain
-Of Sennaar, and still with vain design,
-New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build:
-Others came single; he, who, to be deemed
-A God, leaped fondly into Aetna flames,
-Empedocles; and he, who, to enjoy
-Plato's Elysium, leaped into the sea,
-Cleombrotus; and many more too long,
-Embryos, and idiots, eremites, and friars
-White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery.
-Here pilgrims roam, that strayed so far to seek
-In Golgotha him dead, who lives in Heaven;
-And they, who to be sure of Paradise,
-Dying, put on the weeds of Dominick,
-Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised;
-They pass the planets seven, and pass the fixed,
-And that crystalling sphere whose balance weighs
-The trepidation talked, and that first moved;
-And now Saint Peter at Heaven's wicket seems
-To wait them with his keys, and now at foot
-Of Heaven's ascent they lift their feet, when lo
-A violent cross wind from either coast
-Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry
-Into the devious air: Then might ye see
-Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tost
-And fluttered into rags; then reliques, beads,
-Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls,
-The sport of winds: All these, upwhirled aloft,
-Fly o'er the backside of the world far off
-Into a Limbo large and broad, since called
-The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown
-Long after; now unpeopled, and untrod.
-All this dark globe the Fiend found as he passed,
-And long he wandered, till at last a gleam
-Of dawning light turned thither-ward in haste
-His travelled steps: far distant he descries
-Ascending by degrees magnificent
-Up to the wall of Heaven a structure high;
-At top whereof, but far more rich, appeared
-The work as of a kingly palace-gate,
-With frontispiece of diamond and gold
-Embellished; thick with sparkling orient gems
-The portal shone, inimitable on earth
-By model, or by shading pencil, drawn.
-These stairs were such as whereon Jacob saw
-Angels ascending and descending, bands
-Of guardians bright, when he from Esau fled
-To Padan-Aram, in the field of Luz
-Dreaming by night under the open sky
-And waking cried, This is the gate of Heaven.
-Each stair mysteriously was meant, nor stood
-There always, but drawn up to Heaven sometimes
-Viewless; and underneath a bright sea flowed
-Of jasper, or of liquid pearl, whereon
-Who after came from earth, failing arrived
-Wafted by Angels, or flew o'er the lake
-Rapt in a chariot drawn by fiery steeds.
-The stairs were then let down, whether to dare
-The Fiend by easy ascent, or aggravate
-His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss:
-Direct against which opened from beneath,
-Just o'er the blissful seat of Paradise,
-A passage down to the Earth, a passage wide,
-Wider by far than that of after-times
-Over mount Sion, and, though that were large,
-Over the Promised Land to God so dear;
-By which, to visit oft those happy tribes,
-On high behests his angels to and fro
-Passed frequent, and his eye with choice regard
-From Paneas, the fount of Jordan's flood,
-To Beersaba, where the Holy Land
-Borders on Egypt and the Arabian shore;
-So wide the opening seemed, where bounds were set
-To darkness, such as bound the ocean wave.
-Satan from hence, now on the lower stair,
-That scaled by steps of gold to Heaven-gate,
-Looks down with wonder at the sudden view
-Of all this world at once. As when a scout,
-Through dark?;nd desart ways with?oeril gone
-All?might,?;t?kast by break of cheerful dawn
-Obtains the brow of some high-climbing hill,
-Which to his eye discovers unaware
-The goodly prospect of some foreign land
-First seen, or some renowned metropolis
-With glistering spires and pinnacles adorned,
-Which now the rising sun gilds with his beams:
-Such wonder seised, though after Heaven seen,
-The Spirit malign, but much more envy seised,
-At sight of all this world beheld so fair.
-Round he surveys (and well might, where he stood
-So high above the circling canopy
-Of night's extended shade,) from eastern point
-Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears
-Andromeda far off Atlantick seas
-Beyond the horizon; then from pole to pole
-He views in breadth, and without longer pause
-Down right into the world's first region throws
-His flight precipitant, and winds with ease
-Through the pure marble air his oblique way
-Amongst innumerable stars, that shone
-Stars distant, but nigh hand seemed other worlds;
-Or other worlds they seemed, or happy isles,
-Like those Hesperian gardens famed of old,
-Fortunate fields, and groves, and flowery vales,
-Thrice happy isles; but who dwelt happy there
-He staid not to inquire: Above them all
-The golden sun, in splendour likest Heaven,
-Allured his eye; thither his course he bends
-Through the calm firmament, (but up or down,
-By center, or eccentrick, hard to tell,
-Or longitude,) where the great luminary
-Aloof the vulgar constellations thick,
-That from his lordly eye keep distance due,
-Dispenses light from far; they, as they move
-Their starry dance in numbers that compute
-Days, months, and years, towards his all-cheering lamp
-Turn swift their various motions, or are turned
-By his magnetick beam, that gently warms
-The universe, and to each inward part
-With gentle penetration, though unseen,
-Shoots invisible virtue even to the deep;
-So wonderously was set his station bright.
-There lands the Fiend, a spot like which perhaps
-Astronomer in the sun's lucent orb
-Through his glazed optick tube yet never saw.
-The place he found beyond expression bright,
-Compared with aught on earth, metal or stone;
-Not all parts like, but all alike informed
-With radiant light, as glowing iron with fire;
-If metal, part seemed gold, part silver clear;
-If stone, carbuncle most or chrysolite,
-Ruby or topaz, to the twelve that shone
-In Aaron's breast-plate, and a stone besides
-Imagined rather oft than elsewhere seen,
-That stone, or like to that which here below
-Philosophers in vain so long have sought,
-In vain, though by their powerful art they bind
-Volatile Hermes, and call up unbound
-In various shapes old Proteus from the sea,
-Drained through a limbeck to his native form.
-What wonder then if fields and regions here
-Breathe forth Elixir pure, and rivers run
-Potable gold, when with one virtuous touch
-The arch-chemick sun, so far from us remote,
-Produces, with terrestrial humour mixed,
-Here in the dark so many precious things
-Of colour glorious, and effect so rare?
-Here matter new to gaze the Devil met
-Undazzled; far and wide his eye commands;
-For sight no obstacle found here, nor shade,
-But all sun-shine, as when his beams at noon
-Culminate from the equator, as they now
-Shot upward still direct, whence no way round
-Shadow from body opaque can fall; and the air,
-No where so clear, sharpened his visual ray
-To objects distant far, whereby he soon
-Saw within ken a glorious Angel stand,
-The same whom John saw also in the sun:
-His back was turned, but not his brightness hid;
-Of beaming sunny rays a golden tiar
-Circled his head, nor less his locks behind
-Illustrious on his shoulders fledge with wings
-Lay waving round; on some great charge employed
-He seemed, or fixed in cogitation deep.
-Glad was the Spirit impure, as now in hope
-To find who might direct his wandering flight
-To Paradise, the happy seat of Man,
-His journey's end and our beginning woe.
-But first he casts to change his proper shape,
-Which else might work him danger or delay:
-And now a stripling Cherub he appears,
-Not of the prime, yet such as in his face
-Youth smiled celestial, and to every limb
-Suitable grace diffused, so well he feigned:
-Under a coronet his flowing hair
-In curls on either cheek played; wings he wore
-Of many a coloured plume, sprinkled with gold;
-His habit fit for speed succinct, and held
-Before his decent steps a silver wand.
-He drew not nigh unheard; the Angel bright,
-Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turned,
-Admonished by his ear, and straight was known
-The Arch-Angel Uriel, one of the seven
-Who in God's presence, nearest to his throne,
-Stand ready at command, and are his eyes
-That run through all the Heavens, or down to the Earth
-Bear his swift errands over moist and dry,
-O'er sea and land: him Satan thus accosts.
-Uriel, for thou of those seven Spirits that stand
-In sight of God's high throne, gloriously bright,
-The first art wont his great authentick will
-Interpreter through highest Heaven to bring,
-Where all his sons thy embassy attend;
-And here art likeliest by supreme decree
-Like honour to obtain, and as his eye
-To visit oft this new creation round;
-Unspeakable desire to see, and know
-All these his wonderous works, but chiefly Man,
-His chief delight and favour, him for whom
-All these his works so wonderous he ordained,
-Hath brought me from the quires of Cherubim
-Alone thus wandering. Brightest Seraph, tell
-In which of all these shining orbs hath Man
-His fixed seat, or fixed seat hath none,
-But all these shining orbs his choice to dwell;
-That I may find him, and with secret gaze
-Or open admiration him behold,
-On whom the great Creator hath bestowed
-Worlds, and on whom hath all these graces poured;
-That both in him and all things, as is meet,
-The universal Maker we may praise;
-Who justly hath driven out his rebel foes
-To deepest Hell, and, to repair that loss,
-Created this new happy race of Men
-To serve him better: Wise are all his ways.
-So spake the false dissembler unperceived;
-For neither Man nor Angel can discern
-Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
-Invisible, except to God alone,
-By his permissive will, through Heaven and Earth:
-And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
-At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
-Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
-Where no ill seems: Which now for once beguiled
-Uriel, though regent of the sun, and held
-The sharpest-sighted Spirit of all in Heaven;
-Who to the fraudulent impostor foul,
-In his uprightness, answer thus returned.
-Fair Angel, thy desire, which tends to know
-The works of God, thereby to glorify
-The great Work-master, leads to no excess
-That reaches blame, but rather merits praise
-The more it seems excess, that led thee hither
-From thy empyreal mansion thus alone,
-To witness with thine eyes what some perhaps,
-Contented with report, hear only in Heaven:
-For wonderful indeed are all his works,
-Pleasant to know, and worthiest to be all
-Had in remembrance always with delight;
-But what created mind can comprehend
-Their number, or the wisdom infinite
-That brought them forth, but hid their causes deep?
-I saw when at his word the formless mass,
-This world's material mould, came to a heap:
-Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
-Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
-Till at his second bidding Darkness fled,
-Light shone, and order from disorder sprung:
-Swift to their several quarters hasted then
-The cumbrous elements, earth, flood, air, fire;
-And this ethereal quintessence of Heaven
-Flew upward, spirited with various forms,
-That rolled orbicular, and turned to stars
-Numberless, as thou seest, and how they move;
-Each had his place appointed, each his course;
-The rest in circuit walls this universe.
-Look downward on that globe, whose hither side
-With light from hence, though but reflected, shines;
-That place is Earth, the seat of Man; that light
-His day, which else, as the other hemisphere,
-Night would invade; but there the neighbouring moon
-So call that opposite fair star) her aid
-Timely interposes, and her monthly round
-Still ending, still renewing, through mid Heaven,
-With borrowed light her countenance triform
-Hence fills and empties to enlighten the Earth,
-And in her pale dominion checks the night.
-That spot, to which I point, is Paradise,
-Adam's abode; those lofty shades, his bower.
-Thy way thou canst not miss, me mine requires.
-Thus said, he turned; and Satan, bowing low,
-As to superiour Spirits is wont in Heaven,
-Where honour due and reverence none neglects,
-Took leave, and toward the coast of earth beneath,
-Down from the ecliptick, sped with hoped success,
-Throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel;
-Nor staid, till on Niphates' top he lights.
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-O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw
-The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud,
-Then when the Dragon, put to second rout,
-Came furious down to be revenged on men,
-Woe to the inhabitants on earth! that now,
-While time was, our first parents had been warned
-The coming of their secret foe, and 'scaped,
-Haply so 'scaped his mortal snare: For now
-Satan, now first inflamed with rage, came down,
-The tempter ere the accuser of mankind,
-To wreak on innocent frail Man his loss
-Of that first battle, and his flight to Hell:
-Yet, not rejoicing in his speed, though bold
-Far off and fearless, nor with cause to boast,
-Begins his dire attempt; which nigh the birth
-Now rolling boils in his tumultuous breast,
-And like a devilish engine back recoils
-Upon himself; horrour and doubt distract
-His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir
-The Hell within him; for within him Hell
-He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell
-One step, no more than from himself, can fly
-By change of place: Now conscience wakes despair,
-That slumbered; wakes the bitter memory
-Of what he was, what is, and what must be
-Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue.
-Sometimes towards Eden, which now in his view
-Lay pleasant, his grieved look he fixes sad;
-Sometimes towards Heaven, and the full-blazing sun,
-Which now sat high in his meridian tower:
-Then, much revolving, thus in sighs began.
-O thou, that, with surpassing glory crowned,
-Lookest from thy sole dominion like the God
-Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars
-Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call,
-But with no friendly voice, and add thy name,
-Of Sun! to tell thee how I hate thy beams,
-That bring to my remembrance from what state
-I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere;
-Till pride and worse ambition threw me down
-Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:
-Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return
-From me, whom he created what I was
-In that bright eminence, and with his good
-Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
-What could be less than to afford him praise,
-The easiest recompence, and pay him thanks,
-How due! yet all his good proved ill in me,
-And wrought but malice; lifted up so high
-I sdeined subjection, and thought one step higher
-Would set me highest, and in a moment quit
-The debt immense of endless gratitude,
-So burdensome still paying, still to owe,
-Forgetful what from him I still received,
-And understood not that a grateful mind
-By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
-Indebted and discharged; what burden then
-O, had his powerful destiny ordained
-Me some inferiour Angel, I had stood
-Then happy; no unbounded hope had raised
-Ambition! Yet why not some other Power
-As great might have aspired, and me, though mean,
-Drawn to his part; but other Powers as great
-Fell not, but stand unshaken, from within
-Or from without, to all temptations armed.
-Hadst thou the same free will and power to stand?
-Thou hadst: whom hast thou then or what to accuse,
-But Heaven's free love dealt equally to all?
-Be then his love accursed, since love or hate,
-To me alike, it deals eternal woe.
-Nay, cursed be thou; since against his thy will
-Chose freely what it now so justly rues.
-Me miserable! which way shall I fly
-Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
-Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;
-And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep
-Still threatening to devour me opens wide,
-To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
-O, then, at last relent: Is there no place
-Left for repentance, none for pardon left?
-None left but by submission; and that word
-Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame
-Among the Spirits beneath, whom I seduced
-With other promises and other vaunts
-Than to submit, boasting I could subdue
-The Omnipotent. Ay me! they little know
-How dearly I abide that boast so vain,
-Under what torments inwardly I groan,
-While they adore me on the throne of Hell.
-With diadem and scepter high advanced,
-The lower still I fall, only supreme
-In misery: Such joy ambition finds.
-But say I could repent, and could obtain,
-By act of grace, my former state; how soon
-Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay
-What feigned submission swore? Ease would recant
-Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
-For never can true reconcilement grow,
-Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep:
-Which would but lead me to a worse relapse
-And heavier fall: so should I purchase dear
-Short intermission bought with double smart.
-This knows my Punisher; therefore as far
-From granting he, as I from begging, peace;
-All hope excluded thus, behold, in stead
-Mankind created, and for him this world.
-So farewell, hope; and with hope farewell, fear;
-Farewell, remorse! all good to me is lost;
-Evil, be thou my good; by thee at least
-Divided empire with Heaven's King I hold,
-By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign;
-As Man ere long, and this new world, shall know.
-Thus while he spake, each passion dimmed his face
-Thrice changed with pale, ire, envy, and despair;
-Which marred his borrowed visage, and betrayed
-Him counterfeit, if any eye beheld.
-For heavenly minds from such distempers foul
-Are ever clear. Whereof he soon aware,
-Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm,
-Artificer of fraud; and was the first
-That practised falsehood under saintly show,
-Deep malice to conceal, couched with revenge:
-Yet not enough had practised to deceive
-Uriel once warned; whose eye pursued him down
- The way he went, and on the Assyrian mount
- Saw him disfigured, more than could befall
- Spirit of happy sort; his gestures fierce
- He marked and mad demeanour, then alone,
- As he supposed, all unobserved, unseen.
- So on he fares, and to the border comes
- Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
- Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green,
- As with a rural mound, the champaign head
- Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides
-Access denied; and overhead upgrew
- Insuperable height of loftiest shade,
- Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,
- A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend,
- Shade above shade, a woody theatre
- Of stateliest view. Yet higher than their tops
- The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung;
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-Which to our general sire gave prospect large
-Into his nether empire neighbouring round.
-And higher than that wall a circling row
-Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit,
-Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue,
-Appeared, with gay enamelled colours mixed:
-On which the sun more glad impressed his beams
-Than in fair evening cloud, or humid bow,
-When God hath showered the earth; so lovely seemed
-That landskip: And of pure now purer air
-Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires
-Vernal delight and joy, able to drive
-All sadness but despair: Now gentle gales,
-Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense
-Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole
-Those balmy spoils. As when to them who fail
-Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past
-Mozambick, off at sea north-east winds blow
-Sabean odours from the spicy shore
-Of Araby the blest; with such delay
-Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league
-Cheered with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles:
-So entertained those odorous sweets the Fiend,
-Who came their bane; though with them better pleased
-Than Asmodeus with the fishy fume
-That drove him, though enamoured, from the spouse
-Of Tobit's son, and with a vengeance sent
-From Media post to Egypt, there fast bound.
-Now to the ascent of that steep savage hill
-Satan had journeyed on, pensive and slow;
-But further way found none, so thick entwined,
-As one continued brake, the undergrowth
-Of shrubs and tangling bushes had perplexed
-All path of man or beast that passed that way.
-One gate there only was, and that looked east
-On the other side: which when the arch-felon saw,
-Due entrance he disdained; and, in contempt,
-At one flight bound high over-leaped all bound
-Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within
-Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf,
-Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey,
-Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve
-In hurdled cotes amid the field secure,
-Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold:
-Or as a thief, bent to unhoard the cash
-Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors,
-Cross-barred and bolted fast, fear no assault,
-In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles:
-So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold;
-So since into his church lewd hirelings climb.
-Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life,
-The middle tree and highest there that grew,
-Sat like a cormorant; yet not true life
-Thereby regained, but sat devising death
-To them who lived; nor on the virtue thought
-Of that life-giving plant, but only used
-For prospect, what well used had been the pledge
-Of immortality. So little knows
-Any, but God alone, to value right
-The good before him, but perverts best things
-To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.
-Beneath him with new wonder now he views,
-To all delight of human sense exposed,
-In narrow room, Nature's whole wealth, yea more,
-A Heaven on Earth: For blissful Paradise
-Of God the garden was, by him in the east
-Of Eden planted; Eden stretched her line
-From Auran eastward to the royal towers
-Of great Seleucia, built by Grecian kings,
-Of where the sons of Eden long before
-Dwelt in Telassar: In this pleasant soil
-His far more pleasant garden God ordained;
-Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow
-All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste;
-And all amid them stood the tree of life,
-High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit
-Of vegetable gold; and next to life,
-Our death, the tree of knowledge, grew fast by,
-Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
-Southward through Eden went a river large,
-Nor changed his course, but through the shaggy hill
-Passed underneath ingulfed; for God had thrown
-That mountain as his garden-mould high raised
-Upon the rapid current, which, through veins
-Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn,
-Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill
-Watered the garden; thence united fell
-Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood,
-Which from his darksome passage now appears,
-And now, divided into four main streams,
-Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm
-And country, whereof here needs no account;
-But rather to tell how, if Art could tell,
-How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks,
-Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold,
-With mazy errour under pendant shades
-Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed
-Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art
-In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon
-Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain,
-Both where the morning sun first warmly smote
-The open field, and where the unpierced shade
-Imbrowned the noontide bowers: Thus was this place
-A happy rural seat of various view;
-Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm,
-Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind,
-Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true,
-If true, here only, and of delicious taste:
-Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks
-Grazing the tender herb, were interposed,
-Or palmy hillock; or the flowery lap
-Of some irriguous valley spread her store,
-Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose:
-Another side, umbrageous grots and caves
-Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine
-Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps
-Luxuriant; mean while murmuring waters fall
-Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake,
-That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned
-Her crystal mirrour holds, unite their streams.
-The birds their quire apply; airs, vernal airs,
-Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune
-The trembling leaves, while universal Pan,
-Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance,
-Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field
-Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers,
-Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis
-Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain
-To seek her through the world; nor that sweet grove
-Of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspired
-Castalian spring, might with this Paradise
-Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle
-Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham,
-Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove,
-Hid Amalthea, and her florid son
-Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye;
-Nor where Abassin kings their issue guard,
-Mount Amara, though this by some supposed
-True Paradise under the Ethiop line
-By Nilus' head, enclosed with shining rock,
-A whole day's journey high, but wide remote
-From this Assyrian garden, where the Fiend
-Saw, undelighted, all delight, all kind
-Of living creatures, new to sight, and strange
-Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall,
-Godlike erect, with native honour clad
-In naked majesty seemed lords of all:
-And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine
-The image of their glorious Maker shone,
-Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure,
-(Severe, but in true filial freedom placed,)
-Whence true authority in men; though both
-Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed;
-For contemplation he and valour formed;
-For softness she and sweet attractive grace;
-He for God only, she for God in him:
-His fair large front and eye sublime declared
-Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
-Round from his parted forelock manly hung
-Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
-She, as a veil, down to the slender waist
-Her unadorned golden tresses wore
-Dishevelled, but in wanton ringlets waved
-As the vine curls her tendrils, which implied
-Subjection, but required with gentle sway,
-And by her yielded, by him best received,
-Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
-And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
-Nor those mysterious parts were then concealed;
-Then was not guilty shame, dishonest shame
-Of nature's works, honour dishonourable,
-Sin-bred, how have ye troubled all mankind
-With shows instead, mere shows of seeming pure,
-And banished from man's life his happiest life,
-Simplicity and spotless innocence!
-So passed they naked on, nor shunned the sight
-Of God or Angel; for they thought no ill:
-So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair,
-That ever since in love's embraces met;
-Adam the goodliest man of men since born
-His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
-Under a tuft of shade that on a green
-Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side
-They sat them down; and, after no more toil
-Of their sweet gardening labour than sufficed
-To recommend cool Zephyr, and made ease
-More easy, wholesome thirst and appetite
-More grateful, to their supper-fruits they fell,
-Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs
-Yielded them, side-long as they sat recline
-On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers:
-The savoury pulp they chew, and in the rind,
-Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream;
-Nor gentle purpose, nor endearing smiles
-Wanted, nor youthful dalliance, as beseems
-Fair couple, linked in happy nuptial league,
-Alone as they. About them frisking played
-All beasts of the earth, since wild, and of all chase
-In wood or wilderness, forest or den;
-Sporting the lion ramped, and in his paw
-Dandled the kid; bears, tigers, ounces, pards,
-Gambolled before them; the unwieldy elephant,
-To make them mirth, used all his might, and wreathed
-His?kithetmroboscis; close the serpent sly,
-Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine
-His braided train, and of his fatal guile
-Gave proof unheeded; others on the grass
-Couched, and now filled with pasture gazing sat,
-Or bedward ruminating; for the sun,
-Declined, was hasting now with prone career
-To the ocean isles, and in the ascending scale
-Of Heaven the stars that usher evening rose:
-When Satan still in gaze, as first he stood,
-Scarce thus at length failed speech recovered sad.
-O Hell! what do mine eyes with grief behold!
-Into our room of bliss thus high advanced
-Creatures of other mould, earth-born perhaps,
-Not Spirits, yet to heavenly Spirits bright
-Little inferiour; whom my thoughts pursue
-With wonder, and could love, so lively shines
-In them divine resemblance, and such grace
-The hand that formed them on their shape hath poured.
-Ah! gentle pair, ye little think how nigh
-Your change approaches, when all these delights
-Will vanish, and deliver ye to woe;
-More woe, the more your taste is now of joy;
-Happy, but for so happy ill secured
-Long to continue, and this high seat your Heaven
-Ill fenced for Heaven to keep out such a foe
-As now is entered; yet no purposed foe
-To you, whom I could pity thus forlorn,
-Though I unpitied: League with you I seek,
-And mutual amity, so strait, so close,
-That I with you must dwell, or you with me
-Henceforth; my dwelling haply may not please,
-Like this fair Paradise, your sense; yet such
-Accept your Maker's work; he gave it me,
-Which I as freely give: Hell shall unfold,
-To entertain you two, her widest gates,
-And send forth all her kings; there will be room,
-Not like these narrow limits, to receive
-Your numerous offspring; if no better place,
-Thank him who puts me loth to this revenge
-On you who wrong me not for him who wronged.
-And should I at your harmless innocence
-Melt, as I do, yet publick reason just,
-Honour and empire with revenge enlarged,
-By conquering this new world, compels me now
-To do what else, though damned, I should abhor.
-So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
-The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
-Then from his lofty stand on that high tree
-Down he alights among the sportful herd
-Of those four-footed kinds, himself now one,
-Now other, as their shape served best his end
-Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied,
-To mark what of their state he more might learn,
-By word or action marked. About them round
-A lion now he stalks with fiery glare;
-Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied
-In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play,
-Straight couches close, then, rising, changes oft
-His couchant watch, as one who chose his ground,
-Whence rushing, he might surest seize them both,
-Griped in each paw: when, Adam first of men
-To first of women Eve thus moving speech,
-Turned him, all ear to hear new utterance flow.
-Sole partner, and sole part, of all these joys,
-Dearer thyself than all; needs must the Power
-That made us, and for us this ample world,
-Be infinitely good, and of his good
-As liberal and free as infinite;
-That raised us from the dust, and placed us here
-In all this happiness, who at his hand
-Have nothing merited, nor can perform
-Aught whereof he hath need; he who requires
-From us no other service than to keep
-This one, this easy charge, of all the trees
-In Paradise that bear delicious fruit
-So various, not to taste that only tree
-Of knowledge, planted by the tree of life;
-So near grows death to life, whate'er death is,
-Some dreadful thing no doubt; for well thou knowest
-God hath pronounced it death to taste that tree,
-The only sign of our obedience left,
-Among so many signs of power and rule
-Conferred upon us, and dominion given
-Over all other creatures that possess
-Earth, air, and sea. Then let us not think hard
-One easy prohibition, who enjoy
-Free leave so large to all things else, and choice
-Unlimited of manifold delights:
-But let us ever praise him, and extol
-His bounty, following our delightful task,
-To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers,
-Which were it toilsome, yet with thee were sweet.
-To whom thus Eve replied. O thou for whom
-And from whom I was formed, flesh of thy flesh,
-And without whom am to no end, my guide
-And head! what thou hast said is just and right.
-For we to him indeed all praises owe,
-And daily thanks; I chiefly, who enjoy
-So far the happier lot, enjoying thee
-Pre-eminent by so much odds, while thou
-Like consort to thyself canst no where find.
-That day I oft remember, when from sleep
-I first awaked, and found myself reposed
-Under a shade on flowers, much wondering where
-And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.
-Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound
-Of waters issued from a cave, and spread
-Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved
-Pure as the expanse of Heaven; I thither went
-With unexperienced thought, and laid me down
-On the green bank, to look into the clear
-Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky.
-As I bent down to look, just opposite
-A shape within the watery gleam appeared,
-Bending to look on me: I started back,
-It started back; but pleased I soon returned,
-Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks
-Of sympathy and love: There I had fixed
-Mine eyes till now, and pined with vain desire,
-Had not a voice thus warned me; 'What thou seest,
-'What there thou seest, fair Creature, is thyself;
-'With thee it came and goes: but follow me,
-'And I will bring thee where no shadow stays
-'Thy coming, and thy soft embraces, he
-'Whose image thou art; him thou shalt enjoy
-'Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear
-'Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called
-'Mother of human race.' What could I do,
-But follow straight, invisibly thus led?
-Till I espied thee, fair indeed and tall,
-Under a platane; yet methought less fair,
-Less winning soft, less amiably mild,
-Than that smooth watery image: Back I turned;
-Thou following cryedst aloud, 'Return, fair Eve;
-'Whom flyest thou? whom thou flyest, of him thou art,
-'His flesh, his bone; to give thee being I lent
-'Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart,
-'Substantial life, to have thee by my side
-'Henceforth an individual solace dear;
-'Part of my soul I seek thee, and thee claim
-'My other half:' With that thy gentle hand
-Seised mine: I yielded;and from that time see
-How beauty is excelled by manly grace,
-And wisdom, which alone is truly fair.
-So spake our general mother, and with eyes
-Of conjugal attraction unreproved,
-And meek surrender, half-embracing leaned
-On our first father; half her swelling breast
-Naked met his, under the flowing gold
-Of her loose tresses hid: he in delight
-Both of her beauty, and submissive charms,
-Smiled with superiour love, as Jupiter
-On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds
-That shed Mayflowers; and pressed her matron lip
-With kisses pure: Aside the Devil turned
-For envy; yet with jealous leer malign
-Eyed them askance, and to himself thus plained.
-Sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two,
-Imparadised in one another's arms,
-The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill
-Of bliss on bliss; while I to Hell am thrust,
-Where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,
-Among our other torments not the least,
-Still unfulfilled with pain of longing pines.
-Yet let me not forget what I have gained
-From their own mouths: All is not theirs, it seems;
-One fatal tree there stands, of knowledge called,
-Forbidden them to taste: Knowledge forbidden
-Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
-Envy them that? Can it be sin to know?
-Can it be death? And do they only stand
-By ignorance? Is that their happy state,
-The proof of their obedience and their faith?
-O fair foundation laid whereon to build
-Their ruin! hence I will excite their minds
-With more desire to know, and to reject
-Envious commands, invented with design
-To keep them low, whom knowledge might exalt
-Equal with Gods: aspiring to be such,
-They taste and die: What likelier can ensue
-But first with narrow search I must walk round
-This garden, and no corner leave unspied;
-A chance but chance may lead where I may meet
-Some wandering Spirit of Heaven by fountain side,
-Or in thick shade retired, from him to draw
-What further would be learned. Live while ye may,
-Yet happy pair; enjoy, till I return,
-Short pleasures, for long woes are to succeed!
-So saying, his proud step he scornful turned,
-But with sly circumspection, and began
-Through wood, through waste, o'er hill, o'er dale, his roam
-Mean while in utmost longitude, where Heaven
-With earth and ocean meets, the setting sun
-Slowly descended, and with right aspect
-Against the eastern gate of Paradise
-Levelled his evening rays: It was a rock
-Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds,
-Conspicuous far, winding with one ascent
-Accessible from earth, one entrance high;
-The rest was craggy cliff, that overhung
-Still as it rose, impossible to climb.
-Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat,
-Chief of the angelick guards, awaiting night;
-About him exercised heroick games
-The unarmed youth of Heaven, but nigh at hand
-Celestial armoury, shields, helms, and spears,
-Hung high with diamond flaming, and with gold.
-Thither came Uriel, gliding through the even
-On a sun-beam, swift as a shooting star
-In autumn thwarts the night, when vapours fired
-Impress the air, and shows the mariner
-From what point of his compass to beware
-Impetuous winds: He thus began in haste.
-Gabriel, to thee thy course by lot hath given
-Charge and strict watch, that to this happy place
-No evil thing approach or enter in.
-This day at highth of noon came to my sphere
-A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
-More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
-God's latest image: I described his way
-Bent all on speed, and marked his aery gait;
-But in the mount that lies from Eden north,
-Where he first lighted, soon discerned his looks
-Alien from Heaven, with passions foul obscured:
-Mine eye pursued him still, but under shade
-Lost sight of him: One of the banished crew,
-I fear, hath ventured from the deep, to raise
-New troubles; him thy care must be to find.
-To whom the winged warriour thus returned.
-Uriel, no wonder if thy perfect sight,
-Amid the sun's bright circle where thou sitst,
-See far and wide: In at this gate none pass
-The vigilance here placed, but such as come
-Well known from Heaven; and since meridian hour
-No creature thence: If Spirit of other sort,
-So minded, have o'er-leaped these earthly bounds
-On purpose, hard thou knowest it to exclude
-Spiritual substance with corporeal bar.
-But if within the circuit of these walks,
-In whatsoever shape he lurk, of whom
-Thou tellest, by morrow dawning I shall know.
-So promised he; and Uriel to his charge
-Returned on that bright beam, whose point now raised
-Bore him slope downward to the sun now fallen
-Beneath the Azores; whether the prime orb,
-Incredible how swift, had thither rolled
-Diurnal, or this less volubil earth,
-By shorter flight to the east, had left him there
-Arraying with reflected purple and gold
-The clouds that on his western throne attend.
-Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray
-Had in her sober livery all things clad;
-Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,
-They to their grassy couch, these to their nests
-Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
-She all night long her amorous descant sung;
-Silence was pleased: Now glowed the firmament
-With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led
-The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
-Rising in clouded majesty, at length
-Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light,
-And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
-When Adam thus to Eve. Fair Consort, the hour
-Of night, and all things now retired to rest,
-Mind us of like repose; since God hath set
-Labour and rest, as day and night, to men
-Successive; and the timely dew of sleep,
-Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines
-Our eye-lids: Other creatures all day long
-Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest;
-Man hath his daily work of body or mind
-Appointed, which declares his dignity,
-And the regard of Heaven on all his ways;
-While other animals unactive range,
-And of their doings God takes no account.
-To-morrow, ere fresh morning streak the east
-With first approach of light, we must be risen,
-And at our pleasant labour, to reform
-Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green,
-Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown,
-That mock our scant manuring, and require
-More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth:
-Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums,
-That lie bestrown, unsightly and unsmooth,
-Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease;
-Mean while, as Nature wills, night bids us rest.
-To whom thus Eve, with perfect beauty adorned
-My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst
-Unargued I obey: So God ordains;
-God is thy law, thou mine: To know no more
-Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
-With thee conversing I forget all time;
-All seasons, and their change, all please alike.
-Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet,
-With charm of earliest birds: pleasant the sun,
-When first on this delightful land he spreads
-His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower,
-Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth
-After soft showers; and sweet the coming on
-Of grateful Evening mild; then silent Night,
-With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon,
-And these the gems of Heaven, her starry train:
-But neither breath of Morn, when she ascends
-With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun
-On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower,
-Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers;
-Nor grateful Evening mild; nor silent Night,
-With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon,
-Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
-But wherefore all night long shine these? for whom
-This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?
-To whom our general ancestor replied.
-Daughter of God and Man, accomplished Eve,
-These have their course to finish round the earth,
-By morrow evening, and from land to land
-In order, though to nations yet unborn,
-Ministring light prepared, they set and rise;
-Lest total Darkness should by night regain
-Her old possession, and extinguish life
-In Nature and all things; which these soft fires
-Not only enlighten, but with kindly heat
-Of various influence foment and warm,
-Temper or nourish, or in part shed down
-Their stellar virtue on all kinds that grow
-On earth, made hereby apter to receive
-Perfection from the sun's more potent ray.
-These then, though unbeheld in deep of night,
-Shine not in vain; nor think, though men were none,
-That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise:
-Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
-Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep:
-All these with ceaseless praise his works behold
-Both day and night: How often from the steep
-Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard
-Celestial voices to the midnight air,
-Sole, or responsive each to others note,
-Singing their great Creator? oft in bands
-While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk,
-With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds
-In full harmonick number joined, their songs
-Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven.
-Thus talking, hand in hand alone they passed
-On to their blissful bower: it was a place
-Chosen by the sovran Planter, when he framed
-All things to Man's delightful use; the roof
-Of thickest covert was inwoven shade
-Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew
-Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side
-Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub,
-Fenced up the verdant wall; each beauteous flower,
-Iris all hues, roses, and jessamin,
-Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought
-Mosaick; underfoot the violet,
-Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay
-Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone
-Of costliest emblem: Other creature here,
-Bird, beast, insect, or worm, durst enter none,
-Such was their awe of Man. In shadier bower
-More sacred and sequestered, though but feigned,
-Pan or Sylvanus never slept, nor Nymph
-Nor Faunus haunted. Here, in close recess,
-With flowers, garlands, and sweet-smelling herbs,
-Espoused Eve decked first her nuptial bed;
-And heavenly quires the hymenaean sung,
-What day the genial Angel to our sire
-Brought her in naked beauty more adorned,
-More lovely, than Pandora, whom the Gods
-Endowed with all their gifts, and O! too like
-In sad event, when to the unwiser son
-Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared
-Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged
-On him who had stole Jove's authentick fire.
-Thus, at their shady lodge arrived, both stood,
-Both turned, and under open sky adored
-The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven,
-Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe,
-And starry pole: Thou also madest the night,
-Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day,
-Which we, in our appointed work employed,
-Have finished, happy in our mutual help
-And mutual love, the crown of all our bliss
-Ordained by thee; and this delicious place
-For us too large, where thy abundance wants
-Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground.
-But thou hast promised from us two a race
-To fill the earth, who shall with us extol
-Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake,
-And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
-This said unanimous, and other rites
-Observing none, but adoration pure
-Which God likes best, into their inmost bower
-Handed they went; and, eased the putting off
-These troublesome disguises which we wear,
-Straight side by side were laid; nor turned, I ween,
-Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites
-Mysterious of connubial love refused:
-Whatever hypocrites austerely talk
-Of purity, and place, and innocence,
-Defaming as impure what God declares
-Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.
-Our Maker bids encrease; who bids abstain
-But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?
-Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source
-Of human offspring, sole propriety
-In Paradise of all things common else!
-By thee adulterous Lust was driven from men
-Among the bestial herds to range; by thee
-Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure,
-Relations dear, and all the charities
-Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
-Far be it, that I should write thee sin or blame,
-Or think thee unbefitting holiest place,
-Perpetual fountain of domestick sweets,
-Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced,
-Present, or past, as saints and patriarchs used.
-Here Love his golden shafts employs, here lights
-His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings,
-Reigns here and revels; not in the bought smile
-Of harlots, loveless, joyless, unendeared,
-Casual fruition; nor in court-amours,
-Mixed dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball,
-Or serenate, which the starved lover sings
-To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.
-These, lulled by nightingales, embracing slept,
-And on their naked limbs the flowery roof
-Showered roses, which the morn repaired. Sleep on,
-Blest pair; and O!yet happiest, if ye seek
-No happier state, and know to know no more.
-Now had night measured with her shadowy cone
-Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault,
-And from their ivory port the Cherubim,
-Forth issuing at the accustomed hour, stood armed
-To their night watches in warlike parade;
-When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake.
-Uzziel, half these draw off, and coast the south
-With strictest watch; these other wheel the north;
-Our circuit meets full west. As flame they part,
-Half wheeling to the shield, half to the spear.
-From these, two strong and subtle Spirits he called
-That near him stood, and gave them thus in charge.
-Ithuriel and Zephon, with winged speed
-Search through this garden, leave unsearched no nook;
-But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge,
-Now laid perhaps asleep, secure of harm.
-This evening from the sun's decline arrived,
-Who tells of some infernal Spirit seen
-Hitherward bent (who could have thought?) escaped
-The bars of Hell, on errand bad no doubt:
-Such, where ye find, seise fast, and hither bring.
-So saying, on he led his radiant files,
-Dazzling the moon; these to the bower direct
-In search of whom they sought: Him there they found
-Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve,
-Assaying by his devilish art to reach
-The organs of her fancy, and with them forge
-Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams;
-Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint
-The animal spirits, that from pure blood arise
-Like gentle breaths from rivers pure, thence raise
-At least distempered, discontented thoughts,
-Vain hopes, vain aims, inordinate desires,
-Blown up with high conceits ingendering pride.
-Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
-Touched lightly; for no falshood can endure
-Touch of celestial temper, but returns
-Of force to its own likeness: Up he starts
-Discovered and surprised. As when a spark
-Lights on a heap of nitrous powder, laid
-Fit for the tun some magazine to store
-Against a rumoured war, the smutty grain,
-With sudden blaze diffused, inflames the air;
-So started up in his own shape the Fiend.
-Back stept those two fair Angels, half amazed
-So sudden to behold the grisly king;
-Yet thus, unmoved with fear, accost him soon.
-Which of those rebel Spirits adjudged to Hell
-Comest thou, escaped thy prison? and, transformed,
-Why sat'st thou like an enemy in wait,
-Here watching at the head of these that sleep?
-Know ye not then said Satan, filled with scorn,
-Know ye not me? ye knew me once no mate
-For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar:
-Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
-The lowest of your throng; or, if ye know,
-Why ask ye, and superfluous begin
-Your message, like to end as much in vain?
-To whom thus Zephon, answering scorn with scorn.
-Think not, revolted Spirit, thy shape the same,
-Or undiminished brightness to be known,
-As when thou stoodest in Heaven upright and pure;
-That glory then, when thou no more wast good,
-Departed from thee; and thou resemblest now
-Thy sin and place of doom obscure and foul.
-But come, for thou, be sure, shalt give account
-To him who sent us, whose charge is to keep
-This place inviolable, and these from harm.
-So spake the Cherub; and his grave rebuke,
-Severe in youthful beauty, added grace
-Invincible: Abashed the Devil stood,
-And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
-Virtue in her shape how lovely; saw, and pined
-His loss; but chiefly to find here observed
-His lustre visibly impaired; yet seemed
-Undaunted. If I must contend, said he,
-Best with the best, the sender, not the sent,
-Or all at once; more glory will be won,
-Or less be lost. Thy fear, said Zephon bold,
-Will save us trial what the least can do
-Single against thee wicked, and thence weak.
-The Fiend replied not, overcome with rage;
-But, like a proud steed reined, went haughty on,
-Champing his iron curb: To strive or fly
-He held it vain; awe from above had quelled
-His heart, not else dismayed. Now drew they nigh
-The western point, where those half-rounding guards
-Just met, and closing stood in squadron joined,
-A waiting next command. To whom their Chief,
-Gabriel, from the front thus called aloud.
-O friends! I hear the tread of nimble feet
-Hasting this way, and now by glimpse discern
-Ithuriel and Zephon through the shade;
-And with them comes a third of regal port,
-But faded splendour wan; who by his gait
-And fierce demeanour seems the Prince of Hell,
-Not likely to part hence without contest;
-Stand firm, for in his look defiance lours.
-He scarce had ended, when those two approached,
-And brief related whom they brought, where found,
-How busied, in what form and posture couched.
-To whom with stern regard thus Gabriel spake.
-Why hast thou, Satan, broke the bounds prescribed
-To thy transgressions, and disturbed the charge
-Of others, who approve not to transgress
-By thy example, but have power and right
-To question thy bold entrance on this place;
-Employed, it seems, to violate sleep, and those
-Whose dwelling God hath planted here in bliss!
-To whom thus Satan with contemptuous brow.
-Gabriel? thou hadst in Heaven the esteem of wise,
-And such I held thee; but this question asked
-Puts me in doubt. Lives there who loves his pain!
-Who would not, finding way, break loose from Hell,
-Though thither doomed! Thou wouldst thyself, no doubt
-And boldly venture to whatever place
-Farthest from pain, where thou mightst hope to change
-Torment with ease, and soonest recompense
-Dole with delight, which in this place I sought;
-To thee no reason, who knowest only good,
-But evil hast not tried: and wilt object
-His will who bounds us! Let him surer bar
-His iron gates, if he intends our stay
-In that dark durance: Thus much what was asked.
-The rest is true, they found me where they say;
-But that implies not violence or harm.
-Thus he in scorn. The warlike Angel moved,
-Disdainfully half smiling, thus replied.
-O loss of one in Heaven to judge of wise
-Since Satan fell, whom folly overthrew,
-And now returns him from his prison 'scaped,
-Gravely in doubt whether to hold them wise
-Or not, who ask what boldness brought him hither
-Unlicensed from his bounds in Hell prescribed;
-So wise he judges it to fly from pain
-However, and to 'scape his punishment!
-So judge thou still, presumptuous! till the wrath,
-Which thou incurrest by flying, meet thy flight
-Sevenfold, and scourge that wisdom back to Hell,
-Which taught thee yet no better, that no pain
-Can equal anger infinite provoked.
-But wherefore thou alone? wherefore with thee
-Came not all hell broke loose? or thou than they
-Less hardy to endure? Courageous Chief!
-The first in flight from pain! hadst thou alleged
-To thy deserted host this cause of flight,
-Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.
-To which the Fiend thus answered, frowning stern.
-Not that I less endure, or shrink from pain,
-Insulting Angel! well thou knowest I stood
-Thy fiercest, when in battle to thy aid
-The blasting vollied thunder made all speed,
-And seconded thy else not dreaded spear.
-But still thy words at random, as before,
-Argue thy inexperience what behoves
-From hard assays and ill successes past
-A faithful leader, not to hazard all
-Through ways of danger by himself untried:
-I, therefore, I alone first undertook
-To wing the desolate abyss, and spy
-This new created world, whereof in Hell
-Fame is not silent, here in hope to find
-Better abode, and my afflicted Powers
-To settle here on earth, or in mid air;
-Though for possession put to try once more
-What thou and thy gay legions dare against;
-Whose easier business were to serve their Lord
-High up in Heaven, with songs to hymn his throne,
-And practised distances to cringe, not fight,
-To whom the warriour Angel soon replied.
-To say and straight unsay, pretending first
-Wise to fly pain, professing next the spy,
-Argues no leader but a liear traced,
-Satan, and couldst thou faithful add? O name,
-O sacred name of faithfulness profaned!
-Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?
-Army of Fiends, fit body to fit head.
-Was this your discipline and faith engaged,
-Your military obedience, to dissolve
-Allegiance to the acknowledged Power supreme?
-And thou, sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem
-Patron of liberty, who more than thou
-Once fawned, and cringed, and servily adored
-Heaven's awful Monarch? wherefore, but in hope
-To dispossess him, and thyself to reign?
-But mark what I arreed thee now, Avant;
-Fly neither whence thou fledst! If from this hour
-Within these hallowed limits thou appear,
-Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained,
-And seal thee so, as henceforth not to scorn
-The facile gates of Hell too slightly barred.
-So threatened he; but Satan to no threats
-Gave heed, but waxing more in rage replied.
-Then when I am thy captive talk of chains,
-Proud limitary Cherub! but ere then
-Far heavier load thyself expect to feel
-From my prevailing arm, though Heaven's King
-Ride on thy wings, and thou with thy compeers,
-Us'd to the yoke, drawest his triumphant wheels
-In progress through the road of Heaven star-paved.
-While thus he spake, the angelick squadron bright
-Turned fiery red, sharpening in mooned horns
-Their phalanx, and began to hem him round
-With ported spears, as thick as when a field
-Of Ceres ripe for harvest waving bends
-Her bearded grove of ears, which way the wind
-Sways them; the careful plowman doubting stands,
-Left on the threshing floor his hopeless sheaves
-Prove chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarmed,
-Collecting all his might, dilated stood,
-Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved:
-His stature reached the sky, and on his crest
-Sat Horrour plumed; nor wanted in his grasp
-What seemed both spear and shield: Now dreadful deeds
-Might have ensued, nor only Paradise
-In this commotion, but the starry cope
-Of Heaven perhaps, or all the elements
-At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn
-With violence of this conflict, had not soon
-The Eternal, to prevent such horrid fray,
-Hung forth in Heaven his golden scales, yet seen
-Betwixt Astrea and the Scorpion sign,
-Wherein all things created first he weighed,
-The pendulous round earth with balanced air
-In counterpoise, now ponders all events,
-Battles and realms: In these he put two weights,
-The sequel each of parting and of fight:
-The latter quick up flew, and kicked the beam,
-Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake the Fiend.
-Satan, I know thy strength, and thou knowest mine;
-Neither our own, but given: What folly then
-To boast what arms can do? since thine no more
-Than Heaven permits, nor mine, though doubled now
-To trample thee as mire: For proof look up,
-And read thy lot in yon celestial sign;
-Where thou art weighed, and shown how light, how weak,
-If thou resist. The Fiend looked up, and knew
-His mounted scale aloft: Nor more;but fled
-Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.
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-Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime
-Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl,
-When Adam waked, so customed; for his sleep
-Was aery-light, from pure digestion bred,
-And temperate vapours bland, which the only sound
-Of leaves and fuming rills, Aurora's fan,
-Lightly dispersed, and the shrill matin song
-Of birds on every bough; so much the more
-His wonder was to find unwakened Eve
-With tresses discomposed, and glowing cheek,
-As through unquiet rest: He, on his side
-Leaning half raised, with looks of cordial love
-Hung over her enamoured, and beheld
-Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep,
-Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice
-Mild, as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes,
-Her hand soft touching, whispered thus. Awake,
-My fairest, my espoused, my latest found,
-Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight!
-Awake: The morning shines, and the fresh field
-Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring
-Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove,
-What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed,
-How nature paints her colours, how the bee
-Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
-Such whispering waked her, but with startled eye
-On Adam, whom embracing, thus she spake.
-O sole in whom my thoughts find all repose,
-My glory, my perfection! glad I see
-Thy face, and morn returned; for I this night
-(Such night till this I never passed) have dreamed,
-If dreamed, not, as I oft am wont, of thee,
-Works of day past, or morrow's next design,
-But of offence and trouble, which my mind
-Knew never till this irksome night: Methought,
-Close at mine ear one called me forth to walk
-With gentle voice; I thought it thine: It said,
-'Why sleepest thou, Eve? now is the pleasant time,
-'The cool, the silent, save where silence yields
-'To the night-warbling bird, that now awake
-'Tunes sweetest his love-laboured song; now reigns
-'Full-orbed the moon, and with more pleasing light
-'Shadowy sets off the face of things; in vain,
-'If none regard; Heaven wakes with all his eyes,
-'Whom to behold but thee, Nature's desire?
-'In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment
-'Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.'
-I rose as at thy call, but found thee not;
-To find thee I directed then my walk;
-And on, methought, alone I passed through ways
-That brought me on a sudden to the tree
-Of interdicted knowledge: fair it seemed,
-Much fairer to my fancy than by day:
-And, as I wondering looked, beside it stood
-One shaped and winged like one of those from Heaven
-By us oft seen; his dewy locks distilled
-Ambrosia; on that tree he also gazed;
-And 'O fair plant,' said he, 'with fruit surcharged,
-'Deigns none to ease thy load, and taste thy sweet,
-'Nor God, nor Man? Is knowledge so despised?
-'Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste?
-'Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold
-'Longer thy offered good; why else set here?
-This said, he paused not, but with venturous arm
-He plucked, he tasted; me damp horrour chilled
-At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold:
-But he thus, overjoyed; 'O fruit divine,
-'Sweet of thyself, but much more sweet thus cropt,
-'Forbidden here, it seems, as only fit
-'For Gods, yet able to make Gods of Men:
-'And why not Gods of Men; since good, the more
-'Communicated, more abundant grows,
-'The author not impaired, but honoured more?
-'Here, happy creature, fair angelick Eve!
-'Partake thou also; happy though thou art,
-'Happier thou mayest be, worthier canst not be:
-'Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods
-'Thyself a Goddess, not to earth confined,
-'But sometimes in the air, as we, sometimes
-'Ascend to Heaven, by merit thine, and see
-'What life the Gods live there, and such live thou!'
-So saying, he drew nigh, and to me held,
-Even to my mouth of that same fruit held part
-Which he had plucked; the pleasant savoury smell
-So quickened appetite, that I, methought,
-Could not but taste. Forthwith up to the clouds
-With him I flew, and underneath beheld
-The earth outstretched immense, a prospect wide
-And various: Wondering at my flight and change
-To this high exaltation; suddenly
-My guide was gone, and I, methought, sunk down,
-And fell asleep; but O, how glad I waked
-To find this but a dream! Thus Eve her night
-Related, and thus Adam answered sad.
-Best image of myself, and dearer half,
-The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep
-Affects me equally; nor can I like
-This uncouth dream, of evil sprung, I fear;
-Yet evil whence? in thee can harbour none,
-Created pure. But know that in the soul
-Are many lesser faculties, that serve
-Reason as chief; among these Fancy next
-Her office holds; of all external things
-Which the five watchful senses represent,
-She forms imaginations, aery shapes,
-Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames
-All what we affirm or what deny, and call
-Our knowledge or opinion; then retires
-Into her private cell, when nature rests.
-Oft in her absence mimick Fancy wakes
-To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes,
-Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams;
-Ill matching words and deeds long past or late.
-Some such resemblances, methinks, I find
-Of our last evening's talk, in this thy dream,
-But with addition strange; yet be not sad.
-Evil into the mind of God or Man
-May come and go, so unreproved, and leave
-No spot or blame behind: Which gives me hope
-That what in sleep thou didst abhor to dream,
-Waking thou never will consent to do.
-Be not disheartened then, nor cloud those looks,
-That wont to be more cheerful and serene,
-Than when fair morning first smiles on the world;
-And let us to our fresh employments rise
-Among the groves, the fountains, and the flowers
-That open now their choisest bosomed smells,
-Reserved from night, and kept for thee in store.
-So cheered he his fair spouse, and she was cheered;
-But silently a gentle tear let fall
-From either eye, and wiped them with her hair;
-Two other precious drops that ready stood,
-Each in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell
-Kissed, as the gracious signs of sweet remorse
-And pious awe, that feared to have offended.
-So all was cleared, and to the field they haste.
-But first, from under shady arborous roof
-Soon as they forth were come to open sight
-Of day-spring, and the sun, who, scarce up-risen,
-With wheels yet hovering o'er the ocean-brim,
-Shot parallel to the earth his dewy ray,
-Discovering in wide landskip all the east
-Of Paradise and Eden's happy plains,
-Lowly they bowed adoring, and began
-Their orisons, each morning duly paid
-In various style; for neither various style
-Nor holy rapture wanted they to praise
-Their Maker, in fit strains pronounced, or sung
-Unmeditated; such prompt eloquence
-Flowed from their lips, in prose or numerous verse,
-More tuneable than needed lute or harp
-To add more sweetness; and they thus began.
-These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,
-Almighty! Thine this universal frame,
-Thus wonderous fair; Thyself how wonderous then!
-Unspeakable, who sitst above these heavens
-To us invisible, or dimly seen
-In these thy lowest works; yet these declare
-Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
-Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light,
-Angels; for ye behold him, and with songs
-And choral symphonies, day without night,
-Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in Heaven
-On Earth join all ye Creatures to extol
-Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
-Fairest of stars, last in the train of night,
-If better thou belong not to the dawn,
-Sure pledge of day, that crownest the smiling morn
-With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere,
-While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
-Thou Sun, of this great world both eye and soul,
-Acknowledge him thy greater; sound his praise
-In thy eternal course, both when thou climbest,
-And when high noon hast gained, and when thou fallest.
-Moon, that now meetest the orient sun, now flyest,
-With the fixed Stars, fixed in their orb that flies;
-And ye five other wandering Fires, that move
-In mystick dance not without song, resound
-His praise, who out of darkness called up light.
-Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth
-Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run
-Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix
-And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change
-Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
-Ye Mists and Exhalations, that now rise
-From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray,
-Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold,
-In honour to the world's great Author rise;
-Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky,
-Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers,
-Rising or falling still advance his praise.
-His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow,
-Breathe soft or loud; and, wave your tops, ye Pines,
-With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
-Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow,
-Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
-Join voices, all ye living Souls: Ye Birds,
-That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend,
-Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
-Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk
-The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep;
-Witness if I be silent, morn or even,
-To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade,
-Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
-Hail, universal Lord, be bounteous still
-To give us only good; and if the night
-Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed,
-Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark!
-So prayed they innocent, and to their thoughts
-Firm peace recovered soon, and wonted calm.
-On to their morning's rural work they haste,
-Among sweet dews and flowers; where any row
-Of fruit-trees over-woody reached too far
-Their pampered boughs, and needed hands to check
-Fruitless embraces: or they led the vine
-To wed her elm; she, spoused, about him twines
-Her marriageable arms, and with him brings
-Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn
-His barren leaves. Them thus employed beheld
-With pity Heaven's high King, and to him called
-Raphael, the sociable Spirit, that deigned
-To travel with Tobias, and secured
-His marriage with the seventimes-wedded maid.
-Raphael, said he, thou hearest what stir on Earth
-Satan, from Hell 'scaped through the darksome gulf,
-Hath raised in Paradise; and how disturbed
-This night the human pair; how he designs
-In them at once to ruin all mankind.
-Go therefore, half this day as friend with friend
-Converse with Adam, in what bower or shade
-Thou findest him from the heat of noon retired,
-To respite his day-labour with repast,
-Or with repose; and such discourse bring on,
-As may advise him of his happy state,
-Happiness in his power left free to will,
-Left to his own free will, his will though free,
-Yet mutable; whence warn him to beware
-He swerve not, too secure: Tell him withal
-His danger, and from whom; what enemy,
-Late fallen himself from Heaven, is plotting now
-The fall of others from like state of bliss;
-By violence? no, for that shall be withstood;
-But by deceit and lies: This let him know,
-Lest, wilfully transgressing, he pretend
-Surprisal, unadmonished, unforewarned.
-So spake the Eternal Father, and fulfilled
-All justice: Nor delayed the winged Saint
-After his charge received; but from among
-Thousand celestial Ardours, where he stood
-Veiled with his gorgeous wings, up springing light,
-Flew through the midst of Heaven; the angelick quires,
-On each hand parting, to his speed gave way
-Through all the empyreal road; till, at the gate
-Of Heaven arrived, the gate self-opened wide
-On golden hinges turning, as by work
-Divine the sovran Architect had framed.
-From hence no cloud, or, to obstruct his sight,
-Star interposed, however small he sees,
-Not unconformed to other shining globes,
-Earth, and the garden of God, with cedars crowned
-Above all hills. As when by night the glass
-Of Galileo, less assured, observes
-Imagined lands and regions in the moon:
-Or pilot, from amidst the Cyclades
-Delos or Samos first appearing, kens
-A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight
-He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky
-Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing
-Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan
-Winnows the buxom air; till, within soar
-Of towering eagles, to all the fowls he seems
-A phoenix, gazed by all as that sole bird,
-When, to enshrine his reliques in the Sun's
-Bright temple, to Egyptian Thebes he flies.
-At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise
-He lights, and to his proper shape returns
-A Seraph winged: Six wings he wore, to shade
-His lineaments divine; the pair that clad
-Each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breast
-With regal ornament; the middle pair
-Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round
-Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold
-And colours dipt in Heaven; the third his feet
-Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail,
-Sky-tinctured grain. Like Maia's son he stood,
-And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance filled
-The circuit wide. Straight knew him all the bands
-Of Angels under watch; and to his state,
-And to his message high, in honour rise;
-For on some message high they guessed him bound.
-Their glittering tents he passed, and now is come
-Into the blissful field, through groves of myrrh,
-And flowering odours, cassia, nard, and balm;
-A wilderness of sweets; for Nature here
-Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will
-Her virgin fancies pouring forth more sweet,
-Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
-Him through the spicy forest onward come
-Adam discerned, as in the door he sat
-Of his cool bower, while now the mounted sun
-Shot down direct his fervid rays to warm
-Earth's inmost womb, more warmth than Adam needs:
-And Eve within, due at her hour prepared
-For dinner savoury fruits, of taste to please
-True appetite, and not disrelish thirst
-Of nectarous draughts between, from milky stream,
-Berry or grape: To whom thus Adam called.
-Haste hither, Eve, and worth thy sight behold
-Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape
-Comes this way moving; seems another morn
-Risen on mid-noon; some great behest from Heaven
-To us perhaps he brings, and will vouchsafe
-This day to be our guest. But go with speed,
-And, what thy stores contain, bring forth, and pour
-Abundance, fit to honour and receive
-Our heavenly stranger: Well we may afford
-Our givers their own gifts, and large bestow
-From large bestowed, where Nature multiplies
-Her fertile growth, and by disburthening grows
-More fruitful, which instructs us not to spare.
-To whom thus Eve. Adam, earth's hallowed mould,
-Of God inspired! small store will serve, where store,
-All seasons, ripe for use hangs on the stalk;
-Save what by frugal storing firmness gains
-To nourish, and superfluous moist consumes:
-But I will haste, and from each bough and brake,
-Each plant and juciest gourd, will pluck such choice
-To entertain our Angel-guest, as he
-Beholding shall confess, that here on Earth
-God hath dispensed his bounties as in Heaven.
-So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste
-She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent
-What choice to choose for delicacy best,
-What order, so contrived as not to mix
-Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring
-Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change;
-Bestirs her then, and from each tender stalk
-Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields
-In India East or West, or middle shore
-In Pontus or the Punick coast, or where
-Alcinous reigned, fruit of all kinds, in coat
-Rough, or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell,
-She gathers, tribute large, and on the board
-Heaps with unsparing hand; for drink the grape
-She crushes, inoffensive must, and meaths
-From many a berry, and from sweet kernels pressed
-She tempers dulcet creams; nor these to hold
-Wants her fit vessels pure; then strows the ground
-With rose and odours from the shrub unfumed.
-Mean while our primitive great sire, to meet
-His God-like guest, walks forth, without more train
-Accompanied than with his own complete
-Perfections; in himself was all his state,
-More solemn than the tedious pomp that waits
-On princes, when their rich retinue long
-Of horses led, and grooms besmeared with gold,
-Dazzles the croud, and sets them all agape.
-Nearer his presence Adam, though not awed,
-Yet with submiss approach and reverence meek,
-As to a superiour nature bowing low,
-Thus said. Native of Heaven, for other place
-None can than Heaven such glorious shape contain;
-Since, by descending from the thrones above,
-Those happy places thou hast deigned a while
-To want, and honour these, vouchsafe with us
-Two only, who yet by sovran gift possess
-This spacious ground, in yonder shady bower
-To rest; and what the garden choicest bears
-To sit and taste, till this meridian heat
-Be over, and the sun more cool decline.
-Whom thus the angelick Virtue answered mild.
-Adam, I therefore came; nor art thou such
-Created, or such place hast here to dwell,
-As may not oft invite, though Spirits of Heaven,
-To visit thee; lead on then where thy bower
-O'ershades; for these mid-hours, till evening rise,
-I have at will. So to the sylvan lodge
-They came, that like Pomona's arbour smiled,
-With flowerets decked, and fragrant smells; but Eve,
-Undecked save with herself, more lovely fair
-Than Wood-Nymph, or the fairest Goddess feigned
-Of three that in mount Ida naked strove,
-Stood to entertain her guest from Heaven; no veil
-She needed, virtue-proof; no thought infirm
-Altered her cheek. On whom the Angel Hail
-Bestowed, the holy salutation used
-Long after to blest Mary, second Eve.
-Hail, Mother of Mankind, whose fruitful womb
-Shall fill the world more numerous with thy sons,
-Than with these various fruits the trees of God
-Have heaped this table!--Raised of grassy turf
-Their table was, and mossy seats had round,
-And on her ample square from side to side
-All autumn piled, though spring and autumn here
-Danced hand in hand. A while discourse they hold;
-No fear lest dinner cool; when thus began
-Our author. Heavenly stranger, please to taste
-These bounties, which our Nourisher, from whom
-All perfect good, unmeasured out, descends,
-To us for food and for delight hath caused
-The earth to yield; unsavoury food perhaps
-To spiritual natures; only this I know,
-That one celestial Father gives to all.
-To whom the Angel. Therefore what he gives
-(Whose praise be ever sung) to Man in part
-Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found
-No ingrateful food: And food alike those pure
-Intelligential substances require,
-As doth your rational; and both contain
-Within them every lower faculty
-Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste,
-Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate,
-And corporeal to incorporeal turn.
-For know, whatever was created, needs
-To be sustained and fed: Of elements
-The grosser feeds the purer, earth the sea,
-Earth and the sea feed air, the air those fires
-Ethereal, and as lowest first the moon;
-Whence in her visage round those spots, unpurged
-Vapours not yet into her substance turned.
-Nor doth the moon no nourishment exhale
-From her moist continent to higher orbs.
-The sun that light imparts to all, receives
-From all his alimental recompence
-In humid exhalations, and at even
-Sups with the ocean. Though in Heaven the trees
-Of life ambrosial fruitage bear, and vines
-Yield nectar; though from off the boughs each morn
-We brush mellifluous dews, and find the ground
-Covered with pearly grain: Yet God hath here
-Varied his bounty so with new delights,
-As may compare with Heaven; and to taste
-Think not I shall be nice. So down they sat,
-And to their viands fell; nor seemingly
-The Angel, nor in mist, the common gloss
-Of Theologians; but with keen dispatch
-Of real hunger, and concoctive heat
-To transubstantiate: What redounds, transpires
-Through Spirits with ease; nor wonder;if by fire
-Of sooty coal the empirick alchemist
-Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
-Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold,
-As from the mine. Mean while at table Eve
-Ministered naked, and their flowing cups
-With pleasant liquours crowned: O innocence
-Deserving Paradise! if ever, then,
-Then had the sons of God excuse to have been
-Enamoured at that sight; but in those hearts
-Love unlibidinous reigned, nor jealousy
-Was understood, the injured lover's hell.
-Thus when with meats and drinks they had sufficed,
-Not burdened nature, sudden mind arose
-In Adam, not to let the occasion pass
-Given him by this great conference to know
-Of things above his world, and of their being
-Who dwell in Heaven, whose excellence he saw
-Transcend his own so far; whose radiant forms,
-Divine effulgence, whose high power, so far
-Exceeded human; and his wary speech
-Thus to the empyreal minister he framed.
-Inhabitant with God, now know I well
-Thy favour, in this honour done to Man;
-Under whose lowly roof thou hast vouchsafed
-To enter, and these earthly fruits to taste,
-Food not of Angels, yet accepted so,
-As that more willingly thou couldst not seem
-At Heaven's high feasts to have fed: yet what compare
-To whom the winged Hierarch replied.
-O Adam, One Almighty is, from whom
-All things proceed, and up to him return,
-If not depraved from good, created all
-Such to perfection, one first matter all,
-Endued with various forms, various degrees
-Of substance, and, in things that live, of life;
-But more refined, more spiritous, and pure,
-As nearer to him placed, or nearer tending
-Each in their several active spheres assigned,
-Till body up to spirit work, in bounds
-Proportioned to each kind. So from the root
-Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves
-More aery, last the bright consummate flower
-Spirits odorous breathes: flowers and their fruit,
-Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed,
-To vital spirits aspire, to animal,
-To intellectual; give both life and sense,
-Fancy and understanding; whence the soul
-Reason receives, and reason is her being,
-Discursive, or intuitive; discourse
-Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours,
-Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
-Wonder not then, what God for you saw good
-If I refuse not, but convert, as you
-To proper substance. Time may come, when Men
-With Angels may participate, and find
-No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare;
-And from these corporal nutriments perhaps
-Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit,
-Improved by tract of time, and, winged, ascend
-Ethereal, as we; or may, at choice,
-Here or in heavenly Paradises dwell;
-If ye be found obedient, and retain
-Unalterably firm his love entire,
-Whose progeny you are. Mean while enjoy
-Your fill what happiness this happy state
-Can comprehend, incapable of more.
-To whom the patriarch of mankind replied.
-O favourable Spirit, propitious guest,
-Well hast thou taught the way that might direct
-Our knowledge, and the scale of nature set
-From center to circumference; whereon,
-In contemplation of created things,
-By steps we may ascend to God. But say,
-What meant that caution joined, If ye be found
-Obedient? Can we want obedience then
-To him, or possibly his love desert,
-Who formed us from the dust and placed us here
-Full to the utmost measure of what bliss
-Human desires can seek or apprehend?
-To whom the Angel. Son of Heaven and Earth,
-Attend! That thou art happy, owe to God;
-That thou continuest such, owe to thyself,
-That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.
-This was that caution given thee; be advised.
-God made thee perfect, not immutable;
-And good he made thee, but to persevere
-He left it in thy power; ordained thy will
-By nature free, not over-ruled by fate
-Inextricable, or strict necessity:
-Our voluntary service he requires,
-Not our necessitated; such with him
-Finds no acceptance, nor can find; for how
-Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve
-Willing or no, who will but what they must
-By destiny, and can no other choose?
-Myself, and all the angelick host, that stand
-In sight of God, enthroned, our happy state
-Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds;
-On other surety none: Freely we serve,
-Because we freely love, as in our will
-To love or not; in this we stand or fall:
-And some are fallen, to disobedience fallen,
-And so from Heaven to deepest Hell; O fall
-From what high state of bliss, into what woe!
-To whom our great progenitor. Thy words
-Attentive, and with more delighted ear,
-Divine instructer, I have heard, than when
-Cherubick songs by night from neighbouring hills
-Aereal musick send: Nor knew I not
-To be both will and deed created free;
-Yet that we never shall forget to love
-Our Maker, and obey him whose command
-Single is yet so just, my constant thoughts
-Assured me, and still assure: Though what thou tellest
-Hath passed in Heaven, some doubt within me move,
-But more desire to hear, if thou consent,
-The full relation, which must needs be strange,
-Worthy of sacred silence to be heard;
-And we have yet large day, for scarce the sun
-Hath finished half his journey, and scarce begins
-His other half in the great zone of Heaven.
-Thus Adam made request; and Raphael,
-After short pause assenting, thus began.
-High matter thou enjoinest me, O prime of men,
-Sad task and hard: For how shall I relate
-To human sense the invisible exploits
-Of warring Spirits? how, without remorse,
-The ruin of so many glorious once
-And perfect while they stood? how last unfold
-The secrets of another world, perhaps
-Not lawful to reveal? yet for thy good
-This is dispensed; and what surmounts the reach
-Of human sense, I shall delineate so,
-By likening spiritual to corporal forms,
-As may express them best; though what if Earth
-Be but a shadow of Heaven, and things therein
-Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
-As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild
-Reigned where these Heavens now roll, where Earth now rests
-Upon her center poised; when on a day
-(For time, though in eternity, applied
-To motion, measures all things durable
-By present, past, and future,) on such day
-As Heaven's great year brings forth, the empyreal host
-Of Angels by imperial summons called,
-Innumerable before the Almighty's throne
-Forthwith, from all the ends of Heaven, appeared
-Under their Hierarchs in orders bright:
-Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced,
-Standards and gonfalons 'twixt van and rear
-Stream in the air, and for distinction serve
-Of hierarchies, of orders, and degrees;
-Or in their glittering tissues bear imblazed
-Holy memorials, acts of zeal and love
-Recorded eminent. Thus when in orbs
-Of circuit inexpressible they stood,
-Orb within orb, the Father Infinite,
-By whom in bliss imbosomed sat the Son,
-Amidst as from a flaming mount, whose top
-Brightness had made invisible, thus spake.
-Hear, all ye Angels, progeny of light,
-Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers;
-Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand.
-This day I have begot whom I declare
-My only Son, and on this holy hill
-Him have anointed, whom ye now behold
-At my right hand; your head I him appoint;
-And by myself have sworn, to him shall bow
-All knees in Heaven, and shall confess him Lord:
-Under his great vice-gerent reign abide
-United, as one individual soul,
-For ever happy: Him who disobeys,
-Me disobeys, breaks union, and that day,
-Cast out from God and blessed vision, falls
-Into utter darkness, deep ingulfed, his place
-Ordained without redemption, without end.
-So spake the Omnipotent, and with his words
-All seemed well pleased; all seemed, but were not all.
-That day, as other solemn days, they spent
-In song and dance about the sacred hill;
-Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere
-Of planets, and of fixed, in all her wheels
-Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,
-Eccentrick, intervolved, yet regular
-Then most, when most irregular they seem;
-And in their motions harmony divine
-So smooths her charming tones, that God's own ear
-Listens delighted. Evening now approached,
-(For we have also our evening and our morn,
-We ours for change delectable, not need;)
-Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn
-Desirous; all in circles as they stood,
-Tables are set, and on a sudden piled
-With Angels food, and rubied nectar flows
-In pearl, in diamond, and massy gold,
-Fruit of delicious vines, the growth of Heaven.
-On flowers reposed, and with fresh flowerets crowned,
-They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
-Quaff immortality and joy, secure
-Of surfeit, where full measure only bounds
-Excess, before the all-bounteous King, who showered
-With copious hand, rejoicing in their joy.
-Now when ambrosial night with clouds exhaled
-From that high mount of God, whence light and shade
-Spring both, the face of brightest Heaven had changed
-To grateful twilight, (for night comes not there
-In darker veil,) and roseat dews disposed
-All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest;
-Wide over all the plain, and wider far
-Than all this globous earth in plain outspread,
-(Such are the courts of God) the angelick throng,
-Dispersed in bands and files, their camp extend
-By living streams among the trees of life,
-Pavilions numberless, and sudden reared,
-Celestial tabernacles, where they slept
-Fanned with cool winds; save those, who, in their course,
-Melodious hymns about the sovran throne
-Alternate all night long: but not so waked
-Satan; so call him now, his former name
-Is heard no more in Heaven; he of the first,
-If not the first Arch-Angel, great in power,
-In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught
-With envy against the Son of God, that day
-Honoured by his great Father, and proclaimed
-Messiah King anointed, could not bear
-Through pride that sight, and thought himself impaired.
-Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,
-Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour
-Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolved
-With all his legions to dislodge, and leave
-Unworshipt, unobeyed, the throne supreme,
-Contemptuous; and his next subordinate
-Awakening, thus to him in secret spake.
-Sleepest thou, Companion dear? What sleep can close
-Thy eye-lids? and rememberest what decree
-Of yesterday, so late hath passed the lips
-Of Heaven's Almighty. Thou to me thy thoughts
-Wast wont, I mine to thee was wont to impart;
-Both waking we were one; how then can now
-Thy sleep dissent? New laws thou seest imposed;
-New laws from him who reigns, new minds may raise
-In us who serve, new counsels to debate
-What doubtful may ensue: More in this place
-To utter is not safe. Assemble thou
-Of all those myriads which we lead the chief;
-Tell them, that by command, ere yet dim night
-Her shadowy cloud withdraws, I am to haste,
-And all who under me their banners wave,
-Homeward, with flying march, where we possess
-The quarters of the north; there to prepare
-Fit entertainment to receive our King,
-The great Messiah, and his new commands,
-Who speedily through all the hierarchies
-Intends to pass triumphant, and give laws.
-So spake the false Arch-Angel, and infused
-Bad influence into the unwary breast
-Of his associate: He together calls,
-Or several one by one, the regent Powers,
-Under him Regent; tells, as he was taught,
-That the Most High commanding, now ere night,
-Now ere dim night had disincumbered Heaven,
-The great hierarchal standard was to move;
-Tells the suggested cause, and casts between
-Ambiguous words and jealousies, to sound
-Or taint integrity: But all obeyed
-The wonted signal, and superiour voice
-Of their great Potentate; for great indeed
-His name, and high was his degree in Heaven;
-His countenance, as the morning-star that guides
-The starry flock, allured them, and with lies
-Drew after him the third part of Heaven's host.
-Mean while the Eternal eye, whose sight discerns
-Abstrusest thoughts, from forth his holy mount,
-And from within the golden lamps that burn
-Nightly before him, saw without their light
-Rebellion rising; saw in whom, how spread
-Among the sons of morn, what multitudes
-Were banded to oppose his high decree;
-And, smiling, to his only Son thus said.
-Son, thou in whom my glory I behold
-In full resplendence, Heir of all my might,
-Nearly it now concerns us to be sure
-Of our Omnipotence, and with what arms
-We mean to hold what anciently we claim
-Of deity or empire: Such a foe
-Is rising, who intends to erect his throne
-Equal to ours, throughout the spacious north;
-Nor so content, hath in his thought to try
-In battle, what our power is, or our right.
-Let us advise, and to this hazard draw
-With speed what force is left, and all employ
-In our defence; lest unawares we lose
-This our high place, our sanctuary, our hill.
-To whom the Son with calm aspect and clear,
-Lightning divine, ineffable, serene,
-Made answer. Mighty Father, thou thy foes
-Justly hast in derision, and, secure,
-Laughest at their vain designs and tumults vain,
-Matter to me of glory, whom their hate
-Illustrates, when they see all regal power
-Given me to quell their pride, and in event
-Know whether I be dextrous to subdue
-Thy rebels, or be found the worst in Heaven.
-So spake the Son; but Satan, with his Powers,
-Far was advanced on winged speed; an host
-Innumerable as the stars of night,
-Or stars of morning, dew-drops, which the sun
-Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
-Regions they passed, the mighty regencies
-Of Seraphim, and Potentates, and Thrones,
-In their triple degrees; regions to which
-All thy dominion, Adam, is no more
-Than what this garden is to all the earth,
-And all the sea, from one entire globose
-Stretched into longitude; which having passed,
-At length into the limits of the north
-They came; and Satan to his royal seat
-High on a hill, far blazing, as a mount
-Raised on a mount, with pyramids and towers
-From diamond quarries hewn, and rocks of gold;
-The palace of great Lucifer, (so call
-That structure in the dialect of men
-Interpreted,) which not long after, he
-Affecting all equality with God,
-In imitation of that mount whereon
-Messiah was declared in sight of Heaven,
-The Mountain of the Congregation called;
-For thither he assembled all his train,
-Pretending so commanded to consult
-About the great reception of their King,
-Thither to come, and with calumnious art
-Of counterfeited truth thus held their ears.
-Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers;
-If these magnifick titles yet remain
-Not merely titular, since by decree
-Another now hath to himself engrossed
-All power, and us eclipsed under the name
-Of King anointed, for whom all this haste
-Of midnight-march, and hurried meeting here,
-This only to consult how we may best,
-With what may be devised of honours new,
-Receive him coming to receive from us
-Knee-tribute yet unpaid, prostration vile!
-Too much to one! but double how endured,
-To one, and to his image now proclaimed?
-But what if better counsels might erect
-Our minds, and teach us to cast off this yoke?
-Will ye submit your necks, and choose to bend
-The supple knee? Ye will not, if I trust
-To know ye right, or if ye know yourselves
-Natives and sons of Heaven possessed before
-By none; and if not equal all, yet free,
-Equally free; for orders and degrees
-Jar not with liberty, but well consist.
-Who can in reason then, or right, assume
-Monarchy over such as live by right
-His equals, if in power and splendour less,
-In freedom equal? or can introduce
-Law and edict on us, who without law
-Err not? much less for this to be our Lord,
-And look for adoration, to the abuse
-Of those imperial titles, which assert
-Our being ordained to govern, not to serve.
-Thus far his bold discourse without controul
-Had audience; when among the Seraphim
-Abdiel, than whom none with more zeal adored
-The Deity, and divine commands obeyed,
-Stood up, and in a flame of zeal severe
-The current of his fury thus opposed.
-O argument blasphemous, false, and proud!
-Words which no ear ever to hear in Heaven
-Expected, least of all from thee, Ingrate,
-In place thyself so high above thy peers.
-Canst thou with impious obloquy condemn
-The just decree of God, pronounced and sworn,
-That to his only Son, by right endued
-With regal scepter, every soul in Heaven
-Shall bend the knee, and in that honour due
-Confess him rightful King? unjust, thou sayest,
-Flatly unjust, to bind with laws the free,
-And equal over equals to let reign,
-One over all with unsucceeded power.
-Shalt thou give law to God? shalt thou dispute
-With him the points of liberty, who made
-Thee what thou art, and formed the Powers of Heaven
-Such as he pleased, and circumscribed their being?
-Yet, by experience taught, we know how good,
-And of our good and of our dignity
-How provident he is; how far from thought
-To make us less, bent rather to exalt
-Our happy state, under one head more near
-United. But to grant it thee unjust,
-That equal over equals monarch reign:
-Thyself, though great and glorious, dost thou count,
-Or all angelick nature joined in one,
-Equal to him begotten Son? by whom,
-As by his Word, the Mighty Father made
-All things, even thee; and all the Spirits of Heaven
-By him created in their bright degrees,
-Crowned them with glory, and to their glory named
-Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers,
-Essential Powers; nor by his reign obscured,
-But more illustrious made; since he the head
-One of our number thus reduced becomes;
-His laws our laws; all honour to him done
-Returns our own. Cease then this impious rage,
-And tempt not these; but hasten to appease
-The incensed Father, and the incensed Son,
-While pardon may be found in time besought.
-So spake the fervent Angel; but his zeal
-None seconded, as out of season judged,
-Or singular and rash: Whereat rejoiced
-The Apostate, and, more haughty, thus replied.
-That we were formed then sayest thou? and the work
-Of secondary hands, by task transferred
-From Father to his Son? strange point and new!
-Doctrine which we would know whence learned: who saw
-When this creation was? rememberest thou
-Thy making, while the Maker gave thee being?
-We know no time when we were not as now;
-Know none before us, self-begot, self-raised
-By our own quickening power, when fatal course
-Had circled his full orb, the birth mature
-Of this our native Heaven, ethereal sons.
-Our puissance is our own; our own right hand
-Shall teach us highest deeds, by proof to try
-Who is our equal: Then thou shalt behold
-Whether by supplication we intend
-Address, and to begirt the almighty throne
-Beseeching or besieging. This report,
-These tidings carry to the anointed King;
-And fly, ere evil intercept thy flight.
-He said; and, as the sound of waters deep,
-Hoarse murmur echoed to his words applause
-Through the infinite host; nor less for that
-The flaming Seraph fearless, though alone
-Encompassed round with foes, thus answered bold.
-O alienate from God, O Spirit accursed,
-Forsaken of all good! I see thy fall
-Determined, and thy hapless crew involved
-In this perfidious fraud, contagion spread
-Both of thy crime and punishment: Henceforth
-No more be troubled how to quit the yoke
-Of God's Messiah; those indulgent laws
-Will not be now vouchsafed; other decrees
-Against thee are gone forth without recall;
-That golden scepter, which thou didst reject,
-Is now an iron rod to bruise and break
-Thy disobedience. Well thou didst advise;
-Yet not for thy advice or threats I fly
-These wicked tents devoted, lest the wrath
-Impendent, raging into sudden flame,
-Distinguish not: For soon expect to feel
-His thunder on thy head, devouring fire.
-Then who created thee lamenting learn,
-When who can uncreate thee thou shalt know.
-So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found
-Among the faithless, faithful only he;
-Among innumerable false, unmoved,
-Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
-His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal;
-Nor number, nor example, with him wrought
-To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind,
-Though single. From amidst them forth he passed,
-Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained
-Superiour, nor of violence feared aught;
-And, with retorted scorn, his back he turned
-On those proud towers to swift destruction doomed.
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-All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued,
-Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn,
-Waked by the circling Hours, with rosy hand
-Unbarred the gates of light. There is a cave
-Within the mount of God, fast by his throne,
-Where light and darkness in perpetual round
-Lodge and dislodge by turns, which makes through Heaven
-Grateful vicissitude, like day and night;
-Light issues forth, and at the other door
-Obsequious darkness enters, till her hour
-To veil the Heaven, though darkness there might well
-Seem twilight here: And now went forth the Morn
-Such as in highest Heaven arrayed in gold
-Empyreal; from before her vanished Night,
-Shot through with orient beams; when all the plain
-Covered with thick embattled squadrons bright,
-Chariots, and flaming arms, and fiery steeds,
-Reflecting blaze on blaze, first met his view:
-War he perceived, war in procinct; and found
-Already known what he for news had thought
-To have reported: Gladly then he mixed
-Among those friendly Powers, who him received
-With joy and acclamations loud, that one,
-That of so many myriads fallen, yet one
-Returned not lost. On to the sacred hill
-They led him high applauded, and present
-Before the seat supreme; from whence a voice,
-From midst a golden cloud, thus mild was heard.
-Servant of God. Well done; well hast thou fought
-The better fight, who single hast maintained
-Against revolted multitudes the cause
-Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms;
-And for the testimony of truth hast borne
-Universal reproach, far worse to bear
-Than violence; for this was all thy care
-To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds
-Judged thee perverse: The easier conquest now
-Remains thee, aided by this host of friends,
-Back on thy foes more glorious to return,
-Than scorned thou didst depart; and to subdue
-By force, who reason for their law refuse,
-Right reason for their law, and for their King
-Messiah, who by right of merit reigns.
-Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince,
-And thou, in military prowess next,
-Gabriel, lead forth to battle these my sons
-Invincible; lead forth my armed Saints,
-By thousands and by millions, ranged for fight,
-Equal in number to that Godless crew
-Rebellious: Them with fire and hostile arms
-Fearless assault; and, to the brow of Heaven
-Pursuing, drive them out from God and bliss,
-Into their place of punishment, the gulf
-Of Tartarus, which ready opens wide
-His fiery Chaos to receive their fall.
-So spake the Sovran Voice, and clouds began
-To darken all the hill, and smoke to roll
-In dusky wreaths, reluctant flames, the sign
-Of wrath awaked; nor with less dread the loud
-Ethereal trumpet from on high 'gan blow:
-At which command the Powers militant,
-That stood for Heaven, in mighty quadrate joined
-Of union irresistible, moved on
-In silence their bright legions, to the sound
-Of instrumental harmony, that breathed
-Heroick ardour to adventurous deeds
-Under their God-like leaders, in the cause
-Of God and his Messiah. On they move
-Indissolubly firm; nor obvious hill,
-Nor straitening vale, nor wood, nor stream, divides
-Their perfect ranks; for high above the ground
-Their march was, and the passive air upbore
-Their nimble tread; as when the total kind
-Of birds, in orderly array on wing,
-Came summoned over Eden to receive
-Their names of thee; so over many a tract
-Of Heaven they marched, and many a province wide,
-Tenfold the length of this terrene: At last,
-Far in the horizon to the north appeared
-From skirt to skirt a fiery region, stretched
-In battailous aspect, and nearer view
-Bristled with upright beams innumerable
-Of rigid spears, and helmets thronged, and shields
-Various, with boastful argument portrayed,
-The banded Powers of Satan hasting on
-With furious expedition; for they weened
-That self-same day, by fight or by surprise,
-To win the mount of God, and on his throne
-To set the Envier of his state, the proud
-Aspirer; but their thoughts proved fond and vain
-In the mid way: Though strange to us it seemed
-At first, that Angel should with Angel war,
-And in fierce hosting meet, who wont to meet
-So oft in festivals of joy and love
-Unanimous, as sons of one great Sire,
-Hymning the Eternal Father: But the shout
-Of battle now began, and rushing sound
-Of onset ended soon each milder thought.
-High in the midst, exalted as a God,
-The Apostate in his sun-bright chariot sat,
-Idol of majesty divine, enclosed
-With flaming Cherubim, and golden shields;
-Then lighted from his gorgeous throne, for now
-"twixt host and host but narrow space was left,
-A dreadful interval, and front to front
-Presented stood in terrible array
-Of hideous length: Before the cloudy van,
-On the rough edge of battle ere it joined,
-Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,
-Came towering, armed in adamant and gold;
-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 fight 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 terrour of thy power
-Or potent tongue: Fool!not to think how vain
-Against the Omnipotent to rise in arms;
-Who out of smallest things could, without end,
-Have raised incessant armies to defeat
-Thy folly; or with solitary hand
-Reaching beyond all limit, at one blow,
-Unaided, could have finished thee, and whelmed
-Thy legions under darkness: But thou seest
-All are not of thy train; there be, who faith
-Prefer, and piety to God, though then
-To thee not visible, when I alone
-Seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent
-From all: My sect thou seest;now learn too late
-How few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
-Whom the grand foe, with scornful eye askance,
-Thus answered. Ill for thee, but in wished hour
-Of my revenge, first sought for, thou returnest
-From flight, seditious Angel! to receive
-Thy merited reward, the first assay
-Of this right hand provoked, since first that tongue,
-Inspired with contradiction, durst oppose
-A third part of the Gods, in synod met
-Their deities to assert; who, while they feel
-Vigour divine within them, can allow
-Omnipotence to none. But well thou comest
-Before thy fellows, ambitious to win
-From me some plume, that thy success may show
-Destruction to the rest: This pause between,
-(Unanswered lest thou boast) to let thee know,
-At first I thought that Liberty and Heaven
-To heavenly souls had been all one; but now
-I see that most through sloth had rather serve,
-Ministring Spirits, trained up in feast and song!
-Such hast thou armed, the minstrelsy of Heaven,
-Servility with freedom to contend,
-As both their deeds compared this day shall prove.
-To whom in brief thus Abdiel stern replied.
-Apostate! still thou errest, nor end wilt find
-Of erring, from the path of truth remote:
-Unjustly thou depravest it with the name
-Of servitude, to serve whom God ordains,
-Or Nature: God and Nature bid the same,
-When he who rules is worthiest, and excels
-Them whom he governs. This is servitude,
-To serve the unwise, or him who hath rebelled
-Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee,
-Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled;
-Yet lewdly darest our ministring upbraid.
-Reign thou in Hell, thy kingdom; let me serve
-In Heaven God ever blest, and his divine
-Behests obey, worthiest to be obeyed;
-Yet chains in Hell, not realms, expect: Mean while
-From me returned, as erst thou saidst, from flight,
-This greeting on thy impious crest receive.
-So saying, a noble stroke he lifted high,
-Which hung not, but so swift with tempest fell
-On the proud crest of Satan, that no sight,
-Nor motion of swift thought, less could his shield,
-Such ruin intercept: Ten paces huge
-He back recoiled; the tenth on bended knee
-His massy spear upstaid; as if on earth
-Winds under ground, or waters forcing way,
-Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat,
-Half sunk with all his pines. Amazement seised
-The rebel Thrones, but greater rage, to see
-Thus foiled their mightiest; ours joy filled, and shout,
-Presage of victory, and fierce desire
-Of battle: Whereat Michael bid sound
-The Arch-Angel trumpet; through the vast of Heaven
-It sounded, and the faithful armies rung
-Hosanna to the Highest: Nor stood at gaze
-The adverse legions, nor less hideous joined
-The horrid shock. Now storming fury rose,
-And clamour such as heard in Heaven till now
-Was never; arms on armour clashing brayed
-Horrible discord, and the madding wheels
-Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise
-Of conflict; over head the dismal hiss
-Of fiery darts in flaming vollies flew,
-And flying vaulted either host with fire.
-So under fiery cope together rushed
-Both battles main, with ruinous assault
-And inextinguishable rage. All Heaven
-Resounded; and had Earth been then, all Earth
-Had to her center shook. What wonder? when
-Millions of fierce encountering Angels fought
-On either side, the least of whom could wield
-These elements, and arm him with the force
-Of all their regions: How much more of power
-Army against army numberless to raise
-Dreadful combustion warring, and disturb,
-Though not destroy, their happy native seat;
-Had not the Eternal King Omnipotent,
-From his strong hold of Heaven, high over-ruled
-And limited their might; though numbered such
-As each divided legion might have seemed
-A numerous host; in strength each armed hand
-A legion; led in fight, yet leader seemed
-Each warriour single as in chief, expert
-When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway
-Of battle, open when, and when to close
-The ridges of grim war: No thought of flight,
-None of retreat, no unbecoming deed
-That argued fear; each on himself relied,
-As only in his arm the moment lay
-Of victory: Deeds of eternal fame
-Were done, but infinite; for wide was spread
-That war and various; sometimes on firm ground
-A standing fight, then, soaring on main wing,
-Tormented all the air; all air seemed then
-Conflicting fire. Long time in even scale
-The battle hung; till Satan, who that day
-Prodigious power had shown, and met in arms
-No equal, ranging through the dire attack
-Of fighting Seraphim confused, at length
-Saw where the sword of Michael smote, and felled
-Squadrons at once; with huge two-handed sway
-Brandished aloft, the horrid edge came down
-Wide-wasting; such destruction to withstand
-He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb
-Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield,
-A vast circumference. At his approach
-The great Arch-Angel from his warlike toil
-Surceased, and glad, as hoping here to end
-Intestine war in Heaven, the arch-foe subdued
-Or captive dragged in chains, with hostile frown
-And visage all inflamed first thus began.
-Author of evil, unknown till thy revolt,
-Unnamed in Heaven, now plenteous as thou seest
-These acts of hateful strife, hateful to all,
-Though heaviest by just measure on thyself,
-And thy adherents: How hast thou disturbed
-Heaven's blessed peace, and into nature brought
-Misery, uncreated till the crime
-Of thy rebellion! how hast thou instilled
-Thy malice into thousands, once upright
-And faithful, now proved false! But think not here
-To trouble holy rest; Heaven casts thee out
-From all her confines. Heaven, the seat of bliss,
-Brooks not the works of violence and war.
-Hence then, and evil go with thee along,
-Thy offspring, to the place of evil, Hell;
-Thou and thy wicked crew! there mingle broils,
-Ere this avenging sword begin thy doom,
-Or some more sudden vengeance, winged from God,
-Precipitate thee with augmented pain.
-So spake the Prince of Angels; to whom thus
-The Adversary. Nor think thou with wind
-Of aery threats to awe whom yet with deeds
-Thou canst not. Hast thou turned the least of these
-To flight, or if to fall, but that they rise
-Unvanquished, easier to transact with me
-That thou shouldst hope, imperious, and with threats
-To chase me hence? err not, that so shall end
-The strife which thou callest evil, but we style
-The strife of glory; which we mean to win,
-Or turn this Heaven itself into the Hell
-Thou fablest; here however to dwell free,
-If not to reign: Mean while thy utmost force,
-And join him named Almighty to thy aid,
-I fly not, but have sought thee far and nigh.
-They ended parle, and both addressed for fight
-Unspeakable; for who, though with the tongue
-Of Angels, can relate, or to what things
-Liken on earth conspicuous, that may lift
-Human imagination to such highth
-Of Godlike power? for likest Gods they seemed,
-Stood they or moved, in stature, motion, arms,
-Fit to decide the empire of great Heaven.
-Now waved their fiery swords, and in the air
-Made horrid circles; two broad suns their shields
-Blazed opposite, while Expectation stood
-In horrour: From each hand with speed retired,
-Where erst was thickest fight, the angelick throng,
-And left large field, unsafe within the wind
-Of such commotion; such as, to set forth
-Great things by small, if, nature's concord broke,
-Among the constellations war were sprung,
-Two planets, rushing from aspect malign
-Of fiercest opposition, in mid sky
-Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound.
-Together both with next to almighty arm
-Up-lifted imminent, one stroke they aimed
-That might determine, and not need repeat,
-As not of power at once; nor odds appeared
-In might or swift prevention: But the sword
-Of Michael from the armoury of God
-Was given him tempered so, that neither keen
-Nor solid might resist that edge: it met
-The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite
-Descending, and in half cut sheer; nor staid,
-But with swift wheel reverse, deep entering, shared
-All his right side: Then Satan first knew pain,
-And writhed him to and fro convolved; so sore
-The griding sword with discontinuous wound
-Passed through him: But the ethereal substance closed,
-Not long divisible; and from the gash
-A stream of necturous humour issuing flowed
-Sanguine, such as celestial Spirits may bleed,
-And all his armour stained, ere while so bright.
-Forthwith on all sides to his aid was run
-By Angels many and strong, who interposed
-Defence, while others bore him on their shields
-Back to his chariot, where it stood retired
-From off the files of war: There they him laid
-Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame,
-To find himself not matchless, and his pride
-Humbled by such rebuke, so far beneath
-His confidence to equal God in power.
-Yet soon he healed; for Spirits that live throughout
-Vital in every part, not as frail man
-In entrails, heart of head, liver or reins,
-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 colour, shape, or size
-Assume, as?kikes them best, condense or rare.
-Mean while 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 blasphemous; but anon
-Down cloven to the waist, with shattered arms
-And uncouth pain fled bellowing. On each wing
-Uriel, and Raphael, 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 through plate and mail.
-Nor stood unmindful Abdiel to annoy
-The atheist crew, but with redoubled blow
-Ariel, and Arioch, and the violence
-Of Ramiel scorched and blasted, overthrew.
-I might relate of thousands, and their names
-Eternize here on earth; but those elect
-Angels, contented with their fame in Heaven,
-Seek not the praise of men: The other sort,
-In might though wonderous and in acts of war,
-Nor of renown less eager, yet by doom
-Cancelled from Heaven and sacred memory,
-Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell.
-For strength from truth divided, and from just,
-Illaudable, nought merits but dispraise
-And ignominy; yet to glory aspires
-Vain-glorious, and through infamy seeks fame:
-Therefore eternal silence be their doom.
-And now, their mightiest quelled, the battle swerved,
-With many an inroad gored; deformed rout
-Entered, and foul disorder; all the ground
-With shivered armour strown, and on a heap
-Chariot and charioteer lay overturned,
-And fiery-foaming steeds; what stood, recoiled
-O'er-wearied, through the faint Satanick host
-Defensive scarce, or with pale fear surprised,
-Then first with fear surprised, and sense of pain,
-Fled ignominious, to such evil brought
-By sin of disobedience; till that hour
-Not liable to fear, or flight, or pain.
-Far otherwise the inviolable Saints,
-In cubick phalanx firm, advanced entire,
-Invulnerable, impenetrably armed;
-Such high advantages their innocence
-Gave them above their foes; not to have sinned,
-Not to have disobeyed; in fight they stood
-Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pained
-By wound, though from their place by violence moved,
-Now Night her course began, and, over Heaven
-Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposed,
-And silence on the odious din of war:
-Under her cloudy covert both retired,
-Victor and vanquished: On the foughten field
-Michael and his Angels prevalent
-Encamping, placed in guard their watches round,
-Cherubick waving fires: On the other part,
-Satan with his rebellious disappeared,
-Far in the dark dislodged; and, void of rest,
-His potentates to council called by night;
-And in the midst thus undismayed began.
-O now in danger tried, now known in arms
-Not to be overpowered, Companions dear,
-Found worthy not of liberty alone,
-Too mean pretence! but what we more affect,
-Honour, dominion, glory, and renown;
-Who have sustained one day in doubtful fight,
-(And if one day, why not eternal days?)
-What Heaven's Lord had powerfullest to send
-Against us from about his throne, and judged
-Sufficient to subdue us to his will,
-But proves not so: Then fallible, it seems,
-Of future we may deem him, though till now
-Omniscient thought. True is, less firmly armed,
-Some disadvantage we endured and pain,
-Till now not known, but, known, as soon contemned;
-Since now we find this our empyreal form
-Incapable of mortal injury,
-Imperishable, and, though pierced with wound,
-Soon closing, and by native vigour healed.
-Of evil then so small as easy think
-The remedy; perhaps more valid arms,
-Weapons more violent, when next we meet,
-May serve to better us, and worse our foes,
-Or equal what between us made the odds,
-In nature none: If other hidden cause
-Left them superiour, while we can preserve
-Unhurt our minds, and understanding sound,
-Due search and consultation will disclose.
-He sat; and in the assembly next upstood
-Nisroch, of Principalities the prime;
-As one he stood escaped from cruel fight,
-Sore toiled, his riven arms to havock hewn,
-And cloudy in aspect thus answering spake.
-Deliverer from new Lords, leader to free
-Enjoyment of our right as Gods; yet hard
-For Gods, and too unequal work we find,
-Against unequal arms to fight in pain,
-Against unpained, impassive; from which evil
-Ruin must needs ensue; for what avails
-Valour or strength, though matchless, quelled with pain
-Which all subdues, and makes remiss the hands
-Of mightiest? Sense of pleasure we may well
-Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine,
-But live content, which is the calmest life:
-But pain is perfect misery, the worst
-Of evils, and, excessive, overturns
-All patience. He, who therefore can invent
-With what more forcible we may offend
-Our yet unwounded enemies, or arm
-Ourselves with like defence, to me deserves
-No less than for deliverance what we owe.
-Whereto with look composed Satan replied.
-Not uninvented that, which thou aright
-Believest so main to our success, I bring.
-Which of us who beholds the bright surface
-Of this ethereous mould whereon we stand,
-This continent of spacious Heaven, adorned
-With plant, fruit, flower ambrosial, gems, and gold;
-Whose eye so superficially surveys
-These things, as not to mind from whence they grow
-Deep under ground, materials dark and crude,
-Of spiritous and fiery spume, till touched
-With Heaven's ray, and tempered, they shoot forth
-So beauteous, opening to the ambient light?
-These in their dark nativity the deep
-Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame;
-Which, into hollow engines, long and round,
-Thick rammed, at the other bore with touch of fire
-Dilated and infuriate, shall send forth
-From far, with thundering noise, among our foes
-Such implements of mischief, as shall dash
-To pieces, and o'erwhelm whatever stands
-Adverse, that they shall fear we have disarmed
-The Thunderer of his only dreaded bolt.
-Nor long shall be our labour; yet ere dawn,
-Effect shall end our wish. Mean while revive;
-Abandon fear; to strength and counsel joined
-Think nothing hard, much less to be despaired.
-He ended, and his words their drooping cheer
-Enlightened, and their languished hope revived.
-The invention all admired, and each, how he
-To be the inventer missed; so easy it seemed
-Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought
-Impossible: Yet, haply, of thy race
-In future days, if malice should abound,
-Some one intent on mischief, or inspired
-With devilish machination, might devise
-Like instrument to plague the sons of men
-For sin, on war and mutual slaughter bent.
-Forthwith from council to the work they flew;
-None arguing stood; innumerable hands
-Were ready; in a moment up they turned
-Wide the celestial soil, and saw beneath
-The originals of nature in their crude
-Conception; sulphurous and nitrous foam
-They found, they mingled, and, with subtle art,
-Concocted and adusted they reduced
-To blackest grain, and into store conveyed:
-Part hidden veins digged up (nor hath this earth
-Entrails unlike) of mineral and stone,
-Whereof to found their engines and their balls
-Of missive ruin; part incentive reed
-Provide, pernicious with one touch to fire.
-So all ere day-spring, under conscious night,
-Secret they finished, and in order set,
-With silent circumspection, unespied.
-Now when fair morn orient in Heaven appeared,
-Up rose the victor-Angels, and to arms
-The matin trumpet sung: In arms they stood
-Of golden panoply, refulgent host,
-Soon banded; others from the dawning hills
-Look round, and scouts each coast light-armed scour,
-Each quarter to descry the distant foe,
-Where lodged, or whither fled, or if for fight,
-In motion or in halt: Him soon they met
-Under spread ensigns moving nigh, in slow
-But firm battalion; back with speediest sail
-Zophiel, of Cherubim the swiftest wing,
-Came flying, and in mid air aloud thus cried.
-Arm, Warriours, arm for fight; the foe at hand,
-Whom fled we thought, will save us long pursuit
-This day; fear not his flight;so thick a cloud
-He comes, and settled in his face I see
-Sad resolution, and secure: Let each
-His adamantine coat gird well, and each
-Fit well his helm, gripe fast his orbed shield,
-Borne even or high; for this day will pour down,
-If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower,
-But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire.
-So warned he them, aware themselves, and soon
-In order, quit of all impediment;
-Instant without disturb they took alarm,
-And onward moved embattled: When behold!
-Not distant far with heavy pace the foe
-Approaching gross and huge, in hollow cube
-Training his devilish enginery, impaled
-On every side with shadowing squadrons deep,
-To hide the fraud. At interview both stood
-A while; but suddenly at head appeared
-Satan, and thus was heard commanding loud.
-Vanguard, to right and left the front unfold;
-That all may see who hate us, how we seek
-Peace and composure, and with open breast
-Stand ready to receive them, if they like
-Our overture; and turn not back perverse:
-But that I doubt; however witness, Heaven!
-Heaven, witness thou anon! while we discharge
-Freely our part: ye, who appointed stand
-Do as you have in charge, and briefly touch
-What we propound, and loud that all may hear!
-So scoffing in ambiguous words, he scarce
-Had ended; when to right and left the front
-Divided, and to either flank retired:
-Which to our eyes discovered, new and strange,
-A triple mounted row of pillars laid
-On wheels (for like to pillars most they seemed,
-Or hollowed bodies made of oak or fir,
-With branches lopt, in wood or mountain felled,)
-Brass, iron, stony mould, had not their mouths
-With hideous orifice gaped on us wide,
-Portending hollow truce: At each behind
-A Seraph stood, and in his hand a reed
-Stood waving tipt with fire; while we, suspense,
-Collected stood within our thoughts amused,
-Not long; for sudden all at once their reeds
-Put forth, and to a narrow vent applied
-With nicest touch. Immediate in a flame,
-But soon obscured with smoke, all Heaven appeared,
-From those deep-throated engines belched, whose roar
-Embowelled with outrageous noise the air,
-And all her entrails tore, disgorging foul
-Their devilish glut, chained thunderbolts and hail
-Of iron globes; which, on the victor host
-Levelled, with such impetuous fury smote,
-That, whom they hit, none on their feet might stand,
-Though standing else as rocks, but down they fell
-By thousands, Angel on Arch-Angel rolled;
-The sooner for their arms; unarmed, they might
-Have easily, as Spirits, evaded swift
-By quick contraction or remove; but now
-Foul dissipation followed, and forced rout;
-Nor served it to relax their serried files.
-What should they do? if on they rushed, repulse
-Repeated, and indecent overthrow
-Doubled, would render them yet more despised,
-And to their foes a laughter; for in view
-Stood ranked of Seraphim another row,
-In posture to displode their second tire
-Of thunder: Back defeated to return
-They worse abhorred. Satan beheld their plight,
-And to his mates thus in derision called.
-O Friends! why come not on these victors proud
-Ere while they fierce were coming; and when we,
-To entertain them fair with open front
-And breast, (what could we more?) propounded terms
-Of composition, straight they changed their minds,
-Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell,
-As they would dance; yet for a dance they seemed
-Somewhat extravagant and wild; perhaps
-For joy of offered peace: But I suppose,
-If our proposals once again were heard,
-We should compel them to a quick result.
-To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood.
-Leader! the terms we sent were terms of weight,
-Of hard contents, and full of force urged home;
-Such as we might perceive amused them all,
-And stumbled many: Who receives them right,
-Had need from head to foot well understand;
-Not understood, this gift they have besides,
-They show us when our foes walk not upright.
-So they among themselves in pleasant vein
-Stood scoffing, hightened in their thoughts beyond
-All doubt of victory: Eternal Might
-To match with their inventions they presumed
-So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn,
-And all his host derided, while they stood
-A while in trouble: But they stood not long;
-Rage prompted them at length, and found them arms
-Against such hellish mischief fit to oppose.
-Forthwith (behold the excellence, the power,
-Which God hath in his mighty Angels placed!)
-Their arms away they threw, and to the hills
-(For Earth hath this variety from Heaven
-Of pleasure situate in hill and dale,)
-Light as the lightning glimpse they ran, they flew;
-From their foundations loosening to and fro,
-They plucked the seated hills, with all their load,
-Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops
-Up-lifting bore them in their hands: Amaze,
-Be sure, and terrour, seized the rebel host,
-When coming towards them so dread they saw
-The bottom of the mountains upward turned;
-Till on those cursed engines' triple-row
-They saw them whelmed, and all their confidence
-Under the weight of mountains buried deep;
-Themselves invaded next, and on their heads
-Main promontories flung, which in the air
-Came shadowing, and oppressed whole legions armed;
-Their armour helped their harm, crushed in and bruised
-Into their substance pent, which wrought them pain
-Implacable, and many a dolorous groan;
-Long struggling underneath, ere they could wind
-Out of such prison, though Spirits of purest light,
-Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.
-The rest, in imitation, to like arms
-Betook them, and the neighbouring hills uptore:
-So hills amid the air encountered hills,
-Hurled to and fro with jaculation dire;
-That under ground they fought in dismal shade;
-Infernal noise! war seemed a civil game
-To this uproar; horrid confusion heaped
-Upon confusion rose: And now all Heaven
-Had gone to wrack, with ruin overspread;
-Had not the Almighty Father, where he sits
-Shrined in his sanctuary of Heaven secure,
-Consulting on the sum of things, foreseen
-This tumult, and permitted all, advised:
-That his great purpose he might so fulfil,
-To honour his anointed Son avenged
-Upon his enemies, and to declare
-All power on him transferred: Whence to his Son,
-The Assessour of his throne, he thus began.
-Effulgence of my glory, Son beloved,
-Son, in whose face invisible is beheld
-Visibly, what by Deity I am;
-And in whose hand what by decree I do,
-Second Omnipotence! two days are past,
-Two days, as we compute the days of Heaven,
-Since Michael and his Powers went forth to tame
-These disobedient: Sore hath been their fight,
-As likeliest was, when two such foes met armed;
-For to themselves I left them; and thou knowest,
-Equal in their creation they were formed,
-Save what sin hath impaired; which yet hath wrought
-Insensibly, for I suspend their doom;
-Whence in perpetual fight they needs must last
-Endless, and no solution will be found:
-War wearied hath performed what war can do,
-And to disordered rage let loose the reins
-With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes
-Wild work in Heaven, and dangerous to the main.
-Two days are therefore past, the third is thine;
-For thee I have ordained it; and thus far
-Have suffered, that the glory may be thine
-Of ending this great war, since none but Thou
-Can end it. Into thee such virtue and grace
-Immense I have transfused, that all may know
-In Heaven and Hell thy power above compare;
-And, this perverse commotion governed thus,
-To manifest thee worthiest to be Heir
-Of all things; to be Heir, and to be King
-By sacred unction, thy deserved right.
-Go then, Thou Mightiest, in thy Father's might;
-Ascend my chariot, guide the rapid wheels
-That shake Heaven's basis, bring forth all my war,
-My bow and thunder, my almighty arms
-Gird on, and sword upon thy puissant thigh;
-Pursue these sons of darkness, drive them out
-From all Heaven's bounds into the utter deep:
-There let them learn, as likes them, to despise
-God, and Messiah his anointed King.
-He said, and on his Son with rays direct
-Shone full; he all his Father full expressed
-Ineffably into his face received;
-And thus the Filial Godhead answering spake.
-O Father, O Supreme of heavenly Thrones,
-First, Highest, Holiest, Best; thou always seek'st
-To glorify thy Son, I always thee,
-As is most just: This I my glory account,
-My exaltation, and my whole delight,
-That thou, in me well pleased, declarest thy will
-Fulfilled, which to fulfil is all my bliss.
-Scepter and power, thy giving, I assume,
-And gladlier shall resign, when in the end
-Thou shalt be all in all, and I in thee
-For ever; and in me all whom thou lovest:
-But whom thou hatest, I hate, and can put on
-Thy terrours, as I put thy mildness on,
-Image of thee in all things; and shall soon,
-Armed with thy might, rid Heaven of these rebelled;
-To their prepared ill mansion driven down,
-To chains of darkness, and the undying worm;
-That from thy just obedience could revolt,
-Whom to obey is happiness entire.
-Then shall thy Saints unmixed, and from the impure
-Far separate, circling thy holy mount,
-Unfeigned Halleluiahs to thee sing,
-Hymns of high praise, and I among them Chief.
-So said, he, o'er his scepter bowing, rose
-From the right hand of Glory where he sat;
-And the third sacred morn began to shine,
-Dawning through Heaven. Forth rushed with whirlwind sound
-The chariot of Paternal Deity,
-Flashing thick flames, wheel within wheel undrawn,
-Itself instinct with Spirit, but convoyed
-By four Cherubick shapes; four faces each
-Had wonderous; as with stars, their bodies all
-And wings were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels
-Of beryl, and careering fires between;
-Over their heads a crystal firmament,
-Whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid with pure
-Amber, and colours of the showery arch.
-He, in celestial panoply all armed
-Of radiant Urim, work divinely wrought,
-Ascended; at his right hand Victory
-Sat eagle-winged; beside him hung his bow
-And quiver with three-bolted thunder stored;
-And from about him fierce effusion rolled
-Of smoke, and bickering flame, and sparkles dire:
-Attended with ten thousand thousand Saints,
-He onward came; far off his coming shone;
-And twenty thousand (I their number heard)
-Chariots of God, half on each hand, were seen;
-He on the wings of Cherub rode sublime
-On the crystalline sky, in sapphire throned,
-Illustrious far and wide; but by his own
-First seen: Them unexpected joy surprised,
-When the great ensign of Messiah blazed
-Aloft by Angels borne, his sign in Heaven;
-Under whose conduct Michael soon reduced
-His army, circumfused on either wing,
-Under their Head imbodied all in one.
-Before him Power Divine his way prepared;
-At his command the uprooted hills retired
-Each to his place; they heard his voice, and went
-Obsequious; Heaven his wonted face renewed,
-And with fresh flowerets hill and valley smiled.
-This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured,
-And to rebellious fight rallied their Powers,
-Insensate, hope conceiving from despair.
-In heavenly Spirits could such perverseness dwell?
-But to convince the proud what signs avail,
-Or wonders move the obdurate to relent?
-They, hardened more by what might most reclaim,
-Grieving to see his glory, at the sight
-Took envy; and, aspiring to his highth,
-Stood re-embattled fierce, by force or fraud
-Weening to prosper, and at length prevail
-Against God and Messiah, or to fall
-In universal ruin last; and now
-To final battle drew, disdaining flight,
-Or faint retreat; when the great Son of God
-To all his host on either hand thus spake.
-Stand still in bright array, ye Saints; here stand,
-Ye Angels armed; this day from battle rest:
-Faithful hath been your warfare, and of God
-Accepted, fearless in his righteous cause;
-And as ye have received, so have ye done,
-Invincibly: But of this cursed crew
-The punishment to other hand belongs;
-Vengeance is his, or whose he sole appoints:
-Number to this day's work is not ordained,
-Nor multitude; stand only, and behold
-God's indignation on these godless poured
-By me; not you, but me, they have despised,
-Yet envied; against me is all their rage,
-Because the Father, to whom in Heaven s'preme
-Kingdom, and power, and glory appertains,
-Hath honoured me, according to his will.
-Therefore to me their doom he hath assigned;
-That they may have their wish, to try with me
-In battle which the stronger proves; they all,
-Or I alone against them; since by strength
-They measure all, of other excellence
-Not emulous, nor care who them excels;
-Nor other strife with them do I vouchsafe.
-So spake the Son, and into terrour changed
-His countenance too severe to be beheld,
-And full of wrath bent on his enemies.
-At once the Four spread out their starry wings
-With dreadful shade contiguous, and the orbs
-Of his fierce chariot rolled, as with the sound
-Of torrent floods, or of a numerous host.
-He on his impious foes right onward drove,
-Gloomy as night; under his burning wheels
-The stedfast empyrean shook throughout,
-All but the throne itself of God. Full soon
-Among them he arrived; in his right hand
-Grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent
-Before him, such as in their souls infixed
-Plagues: They, astonished, all resistance lost,
-All courage; down their idle weapons dropt:
-O'er shields, and helms, and helmed heads he rode
-Of Thrones and mighty Seraphim prostrate,
-That wished the mountains now might be again
-Thrown on them, as a shelter from his ire.
-Nor less on either side tempestuous fell
-His arrows, from the fourfold-visaged Four
-Distinct with eyes, and from the living wheels
-Distinct alike with multitude of eyes;
-One Spirit in them ruled; and every eye
-Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire
-Among the accursed, that withered all their strength,
-And of their wonted vigour left them drained,
-Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fallen.
-Yet half his strength he put not forth, but checked
-His thunder in mid volley; for he meant
-Not to destroy, but root them out of Heaven:
-The overthrown he raised, and as a herd
-Of goats or timorous flock together thronged
-Drove them before him thunder-struck, pursued
-With terrours, and with furies, to the bounds
-And crystal wall of Heaven; which, opening wide,
-Rolled inward, and a spacious gap disclosed
-Into the wasteful deep: The monstrous sight
-Struck them with horrour backward, but far worse
-Urged them behind: Headlong themselves they threw
-Down from the verge of Heaven; eternal wrath
-Burnt after them to the bottomless pit.
-Hell heard the unsufferable noise, Hell saw
-Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would have fled
-Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep
-Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
-Nine days they fell: Confounded Chaos roared,
-And felt tenfold confusion in their fall
-Through his wild anarchy, so huge a rout
-Incumbered him with ruin: Hell at last
-Yawning received them whole, and on them closed;
-Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire
-Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain.
-Disburdened Heaven rejoiced, and soon repaired
-Her mural breach, returning whence it rolled.
-Sole victor, from the expulsion of his foes,
-Messiah his triumphal chariot turned:
-To meet him all his Saints, who silent stood
-Eye-witnesses of his almighty acts,
-With jubilee advanced; and, as they went,
-Shaded with branching palm, each Order bright,
-Sung triumph, and him sung victorious King,
-Son, Heir, and Lord, to him dominion given,
-Worthiest to reign: He, celebrated, rode
-Triumphant through mid Heaven, into the courts
-And temple of his Mighty Father throned
-On high; who into glory him received,
-Where now he sits at the right hand of bliss.
-Thus, measuring things in Heaven by things on Earth,
-At thy request, and that thou mayest beware
-By what is past, to thee I have revealed
-What might have else to human race been hid;
-The discord which befel, and war in Heaven
-Among the angelick Powers, and the deep fall
-Of those too high aspiring, who rebelled
-With Satan; he who envies now thy state,
-Who now is plotting how he may seduce
-Thee also from obedience, that, with him
-Bereaved of happiness, thou mayest partake
-His punishment, eternal misery;
-Which would be all his solace and revenge,
-As a despite done against the Most High,
-Thee once to gain companion of his woe.
-But listen not to his temptations, warn
-Thy weaker; let it profit thee to have heard,
-By terrible example, the reward
-Of disobedience; firm they might have stood,
-Yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.
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-Book VII
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-Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name
-If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine
-Following, above the Olympian hill I soar,
-Above the flight of Pegasean wing!
-The meaning, not the name, I call: for thou
-Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top
-Of old Olympus dwellest; but, heavenly-born,
-Before the hills appeared, or fountain flowed,
-Thou with eternal Wisdom didst converse,
-Wisdom thy sister, and with her didst play
-In presence of the Almighty Father, pleased
-With thy celestial song. Up led by thee
-Into the Heaven of Heavens I have presumed,
-An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air,
-Thy tempering: with like safety guided down
-Return me to my native element:
-Lest from this flying steed unreined, (as once
-Bellerophon, though from a lower clime,)
-Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall,
-Erroneous there to wander, and forlorn.
-Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound
-Within the visible diurnal sphere;
-Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole,
-More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged
-To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days,
-On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues;
-In darkness, and with dangers compassed round,
-And solitude; yet not alone, while thou
-Visitest my slumbers nightly, or when morn
-Purples the east: still govern thou my song,
-Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
-But drive far off the barbarous dissonance
-Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race
-Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard
-In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears
-To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned
-Both harp and voice; nor could the Muse defend
-Her son. So fail not thou, who thee implores:
-For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.
-Say, Goddess, what ensued when Raphael,
-The affable Arch-Angel, had forewarned
-Adam, by dire example, to beware
-Apostasy, by what befel in Heaven
-To those apostates; lest the like befall
-In Paradise to Adam or his race,
-Charged not to touch the interdicted tree,
-If they transgress, and slight that sole command,
-So easily obeyed amid the choice
-Of all tastes else to please their appetite,
-Though wandering. He, with his consorted Eve,
-The story heard attentive, and was filled
-With admiration and deep muse, to hear
-Of things so high and strange; things, to their thought
-So unimaginable, as hate in Heaven,
-And war so near the peace of God in bliss,
-With such confusion: but the evil, soon
-Driven back, redounded as a flood on those
-From whom it sprung; impossible to mix
-With blessedness. Whence Adam soon repealed
-The doubts that in his heart arose: and now
-Led on, yet sinless, with desire to know
-What nearer might concern him, how this world
-Of Heaven and Earth conspicuous first began;
-When, and whereof created; for what cause;
-What within Eden, or without, was done
-Before his memory; as one whose drouth
-Yet scarce allayed still eyes the current stream,
-Whose liquid murmur heard new thirst excites,
-Proceeded thus to ask his heavenly guest.
-Great things, and full of wonder in our ears,
-Far differing from this world, thou hast revealed,
-Divine interpreter! by favour sent
-Down from the empyrean, to forewarn
-Us timely of what might else have been our loss,
-Unknown, which human knowledge could not reach;
-For which to the infinitely Good we owe
-Immortal thanks, and his admonishment
-Receive, with solemn purpose to observe
-Immutably his sovran will, the end
-Of what we are. But since thou hast vouchsafed
-Gently, for our instruction, to impart
-Things above earthly thought, which yet concerned
-Our knowing, as to highest wisdom seemed,
-Deign to descend now lower, and relate
-What may no less perhaps avail us known,
-How first began this Heaven which we behold
-Distant so high, with moving fires adorned
-Innumerable; and this which yields or fills
-All space, the ambient air wide interfused
-Embracing round this floried Earth; what cause
-Moved the Creator, in his holy rest
-Through all eternity, so late to build
-In Chaos; and the work begun, how soon
-Absolved; if unforbid thou mayest unfold
-What we, not to explore the secrets ask
-Of his eternal empire, but the more
-To magnify his works, the more we know.
-And the great light of day yet wants to run
-Much of his race though steep; suspense in Heaven,
-Held by thy voice, thy potent voice, he hears,
-And longer will delay to hear thee tell
-His generation, and the rising birth
-Of Nature from the unapparent Deep:
-Or if the star of evening and the moon
-Haste to thy audience, Night with her will bring,
-Silence; and Sleep, listening to thee, will watch;
-Or we can bid his absence, till thy song
-End, and dismiss thee ere the morning shine.
-Thus Adam his illustrious guest besought:
-And thus the Godlike Angel answered mild.
-This also thy request, with caution asked,
-Obtain; though to recount almighty works
-What words or tongue of Seraph can suffice,
-Or heart of man suffice to comprehend?
-Yet what thou canst attain, which best may serve
-To glorify the Maker, and infer
-Thee also happier, shall not be withheld
-Thy hearing; such commission from above
-I have received, to answer thy desire
-Of knowledge within bounds; beyond, abstain
-To ask; nor let thine own inventions hope
-Things not revealed, which the invisible King,
-Only Omniscient, hath suppressed in night;
-To none communicable in Earth or Heaven:
-Enough is left besides to search and know.
-But knowledge is as food, and needs no less
-Her temperance over appetite, to know
-In measure what the mind may well contain;
-Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns
-Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.
-Know then, that, after Lucifer from Heaven
-(So call him, brighter once amidst the host
-Of Angels, than that star the stars among,)
-Fell with his flaming legions through the deep
-Into his place, and the great Son returned
-Victorious with his Saints, the Omnipotent
-Eternal Father from his throne beheld
-Their multitude, and to his Son thus spake.
-At least our envious Foe hath failed, who thought
-All like himself rebellious, by whose aid
-This inaccessible high strength, the seat
-Of Deity supreme, us dispossessed,
-He trusted to have seised, and into fraud
-Drew many, whom their place knows here no more:
-Yet far the greater part have kept, I see,
-Their station; Heaven, yet populous, retains
-Number sufficient to possess her realms
-Though wide, and this high temple to frequent
-With ministeries due, and solemn rites:
-But, lest his heart exalt him in the harm
-Already done, to have dispeopled Heaven,
-My damage fondly deemed, I can repair
-That detriment, if such it be to lose
-Self-lost; and in a moment will create
-Another world, out of one man a race
-Of men innumerable, there to dwell,
-Not here; till, by degrees of merit raised,
-They open to themselves at length the way
-Up hither, under long obedience tried;
-And Earth be changed to Heaven, and Heaven to Earth,
-One kingdom, joy and union without end.
-Mean while inhabit lax, ye Powers of Heaven;
-And thou my Word, begotten Son, by thee
-This I perform; speak thou, and be it done!
-My overshadowing Spirit and Might with thee
-I send along; ride forth, and bid the Deep
-Within appointed bounds be Heaven and Earth;
-Boundless the Deep, because I Am who fill
-Infinitude, nor vacuous the space.
-Though I, uncircumscribed myself, retire,
-And put not forth my goodness, which is free
-To act or not, Necessity and Chance
-Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.
-So spake the Almighty, and to what he spake
-His Word, the Filial Godhead, gave effect.
-Immediate are the acts of God, more swift
-Than time or motion, but to human ears
-Cannot without process of speech be told,
-So told as earthly notion can receive.
-Great triumph and rejoicing was in Heaven,
-When such was heard declared the Almighty's will;
-Glory they sung to the Most High, good will
-To future men, and in their dwellings peace;
-Glory to Him, whose just avenging ire
-Had driven out the ungodly from his sight
-And the habitations of the just; to Him
-Glory and praise, whose wisdom had ordained
-Good out of evil to create; instead
-Of Spirits malign, a better race to bring
-Into their vacant room, and thence diffuse
-His good to worlds and ages infinite.
-So sang the Hierarchies: Mean while the Son
-On his great expedition now appeared,
-Girt with Omnipotence, with radiance crowned
-Of Majesty Divine; sapience and love
-Immense, and all his Father in him shone.
-About his chariot numberless were poured
-Cherub, and Seraph, Potentates, and Thrones,
-And Virtues, winged Spirits, and chariots winged
-From the armoury of God; where stand of old
-Myriads, between two brazen mountains lodged
-Against a solemn day, harnessed at hand,
-Celestial equipage; and now came forth
-Spontaneous, for within them Spirit lived,
-Attendant on their Lord: Heaven opened wide
-Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound
-On golden hinges moving, to let forth
-The King of Glory, in his powerful Word
-And Spirit, coming to create new worlds.
-On heavenly ground they stood; and from the shore
-They viewed the vast immeasurable abyss
-Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild,
-Up from the bottom turned by furious winds
-And surging waves, as mountains, to assault
-Heaven's highth, and with the center mix the pole.
-Silence, ye troubled Waves, and thou Deep, peace,
-Said then the Omnifick Word; your discord end!
-Nor staid; but, on the wings of Cherubim
-Uplifted, in paternal glory rode
-Far into Chaos, and the world unborn;
-For Chaos heard his voice: Him all his train
-Followed in bright procession, to behold
-Creation, and the wonders of his might.
-Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand
-He took the golden compasses, prepared
-In God's eternal store, to circumscribe
-This universe, and all created things:
-One foot he centered, and the other turned
-Round through the vast profundity obscure;
-And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds,
-This be thy just circumference, O World!
-Thus God the Heaven created, thus the Earth,
-Matter unformed and void: Darkness profound
-Covered the abyss: but on the watery calm
-His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread,
-And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth
-Throughout the fluid mass; but downward purged
-The black tartareous cold infernal dregs,
-Adverse to life: then founded, then conglobed
-Like things to like; the rest to several place
-Disparted, and between spun out the air;
-And Earth self-balanced on her center hung.
-Let there be light, said God; and forthwith Light
-Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure,
-Sprung from the deep; and from her native east
-To journey through the aery gloom began,
-Sphered in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun
-Was not; she in a cloudy tabernacle
-Sojourned the while. God saw the light was good;
-And light from darkness by the hemisphere
-Divided: light the Day, and darkness Night,
-He named. Thus was the first day even and morn:
-Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung
-By the celestial quires, when orient light
-Exhaling first from darkness they beheld;
-Birth-day of Heaven and Earth; with joy and shout
-The hollow universal orb they filled,
-And touched their golden harps, and hymning praised
-God and his works; Creator him they sung,
-Both when first evening was, and when first morn.
-Again, God said, Let there be firmament
-Amid the waters, and let it divide
-The waters from the waters; and God made
-The firmament, expanse of liquid, pure,
-Transparent, elemental air, diffused
-In circuit to the uttermost convex
-Of this great round; partition firm and sure,
-The waters underneath from those above
-Dividing: for as earth, so he the world
-Built on circumfluous waters calm, in wide
-Crystalline ocean, and the loud misrule
-Of Chaos far removed; lest fierce extremes
-Contiguous might distemper the whole frame:
-And Heaven he named the Firmament: So even
-And morning chorus sung the second day.
-The Earth was formed, but in the womb as yet
-Of waters, embryon immature involved,
-Appeared not: over all the face of Earth
-Main ocean flowed, not idle; but, with warm
-Prolifick humour softening all her globe,
-Fermented the great mother to conceive,
-Satiate with genial moisture; when God said,
-Be gathered now ye waters under Heaven
-Into one place, and let dry land appear.
-Immediately the mountains huge appear
-Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave
-Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky:
-So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low
-Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep,
-Capacious bed of waters: Thither they
-Hasted with glad precipitance, uprolled,
-As drops on dust conglobing from the dry:
-Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct,
-For haste; such flight the great command impressed
-On the swift floods: As armies at the call
-Of trumpet (for of armies thou hast heard)
-Troop to their standard; so the watery throng,
-Wave rolling after wave, where way they found,
-If steep, with torrent rapture, if through plain,
-Soft-ebbing; nor withstood them rock or hill;
-But they, or under ground, or circuit wide
-With serpent errour wandering, found their way,
-And on the washy oose deep channels wore;
-Easy, ere God had bid the ground be dry,
-All but within those banks, where rivers now
-Stream, and perpetual draw their humid train.
-The dry land, Earth; and the great receptacle
-Of congregated waters, he called Seas:
-And saw that it was good; and said, Let the Earth
-Put forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed,
-And fruit-tree yielding fruit after her kind,
-Whose seed is in herself upon the Earth.
-He scarce had said, when the bare Earth, till then
-Desart and bare, unsightly, unadorned,
-Brought forth the tender grass, whose verdure clad
-Her universal face with pleasant green;
-Then herbs of every leaf, that sudden flowered
-Opening their various colours, and made gay
-Her bosom, smelling sweet: and, these scarce blown,
-Forth flourished thick the clustering vine, forth crept
-The swelling gourd, up stood the corny reed
-Embattled in her field, and the humble shrub,
-And bush with frizzled hair implicit: Last
-Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread
-Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemmed
-Their blossoms: With high woods the hills were crowned;
-With tufts the valleys, and each fountain side;
-With borders long the rivers: that Earth now
-Seemed like to Heaven, a seat where Gods might dwell,
-Or wander with delight, and love to haunt
-Her sacred shades: though God had yet not rained
-Upon the Earth, and man to till the ground
-None was; but from the Earth a dewy mist
-Went up, and watered all the ground, and each
-Plant of the field; which, ere it was in the Earth,
-God made, and every herb, before it grew
-On the green stem: God saw that it was good:
-So even and morn recorded the third day.
-Again the Almighty spake, Let there be lights
-High in the expanse of Heaven, to divide
-The day from night; and let them be for signs,
-For seasons, and for days, and circling years;
-And let them be for lights, as I ordain
-Their office in the firmament of Heaven,
-To give light on the Earth; and it was so.
-And God made two great lights, great for their use
-To Man, the greater to have rule by day,
-The less by night, altern; and made the stars,
-And set them in the firmament of Heaven
-To illuminate the Earth, and rule the day
-In their vicissitude, and rule the night,
-And light from darkness to divide. God saw,
-Surveying his great work, that it was good:
-For of celestial bodies first the sun
-A mighty sphere he framed, unlightsome first,
-Though of ethereal mould: then formed the moon
-Globose, and every magnitude of stars,
-And sowed with stars the Heaven, thick as a field:
-Of light by far the greater part he took,
-Transplanted from her cloudy shrine, and placed
-In the sun's orb, made porous to receive
-And drink the liquid light; firm to retain
-Her gathered beams, great palace now of light.
-Hither, as to their fountain, other stars
-Repairing, in their golden urns draw light,
-And hence the morning-planet gilds her horns;
-By tincture or reflection they augment
-Their small peculiar, though from human sight
-So far remote, with diminution seen,
-First in his east the glorious lamp was seen,
-Regent of day, and all the horizon round
-Invested with bright rays, jocund to run
-His longitude through Heaven's high road; the gray
-Dawn, and the Pleiades, before him danced,
-Shedding sweet influence: Less bright the moon,
-But opposite in levelled west was set,
-His mirrour, with full face borrowing her light
-From him; for other light she needed none
-In that aspect, and still that distance keeps
-Till night; then in the east her turn she shines,
-Revolved on Heaven's great axle, and her reign
-With thousand lesser lights dividual holds,
-With thousand thousand stars, that then appeared
-Spangling the hemisphere: Then first adorned
-With their bright luminaries that set and rose,
-Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day.
-And God said, Let the waters generate
-Reptile with spawn abundant, living soul:
-And let fowl fly above the Earth, with wings
-Displayed on the open firmament of Heaven.
-And God created the great whales, and each
-Soul living, each that crept, which plenteously
-The waters generated by their kinds;
-And every bird of wing after his kind;
-And saw that it was good, and blessed them, saying.
-Be fruitful, multiply, and in the seas,
-And lakes, and running streams, the waters fill;
-And let the fowl be multiplied, on the Earth.
-Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay,
-With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals
-Of fish that with their fins, and shining scales,
-Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft
-Bank the mid sea: part single, or with mate,
-Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through groves
-Of coral stray; or, sporting with quick glance,
-Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold;
-Or, in their pearly shells at ease, attend
-Moist nutriment; or under rocks their food
-In jointed armour watch: on smooth the seal
-And bended dolphins play: part huge of bulk
-Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
-Tempest the ocean: there leviathan,
-Hugest of living creatures, on the deep
-Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims,
-And seems a moving land; and at his gills
-Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
-Mean while the tepid caves, and fens, and shores,
-Their brood as numerous hatch, from the egg that soon
-Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosed
-Their callow young; but feathered soon and fledge
-They summed their pens; and, soaring the air sublime,
-With clang despised the ground, under a cloud
-In prospect; there the eagle and the stork
-On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build:
-Part loosely wing the region, part more wise
-In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way,
-Intelligent of seasons, and set forth
-Their aery caravan, high over seas
-Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing
-Easing their flight; so steers the prudent crane
-Her annual voyage, borne on winds; the air
-Floats as they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes:
-From branch to branch the smaller birds with song
-Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings
-Till even; nor then the solemn nightingale
-Ceased warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays:
-Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed
-Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck,
-Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows
-Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit
-The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower
-The mid aereal sky: Others on ground
-Walked firm; the crested cock whose clarion sounds
-The silent hours, and the other whose gay train
-Adorns him, coloured with the florid hue
-Of rainbows and starry eyes. The waters thus
-With fish replenished, and the air with fowl,
-Evening and morn solemnized the fifth day.
-The sixth, and of creation last, arose
-With evening harps and matin; when God said,
-Let the Earth bring forth soul living in her kind,
-Cattle, and creeping things, and beast of the Earth,
-Each in their kind. The Earth obeyed, and straight
-Opening her fertile womb teemed at a birth
-Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms,
-Limbed and full grown: Out of the ground up rose,
-As from his lair, the wild beast where he wons
-In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den;
-Among the trees in pairs they rose, they walked:
-The cattle in the fields and meadows green:
-Those rare and solitary, these in flocks
-Pasturing at once, and in broad herds upsprung.
-The grassy clods now calved; now half appeared
-The tawny lion, pawing to get free
-His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds,
-And rampant shakes his brinded mane; the ounce,
-The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole
-Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw
-In hillocks: The swift stag from under ground
-Bore up his branching head: Scarce from his mould
-Behemoth biggest born of earth upheaved
-His vastness: Fleeced the flocks and bleating rose,
-As plants: Ambiguous between sea and land
-The river-horse, and scaly crocodile.
-At once came forth whatever creeps the ground,
-Insect or worm: those waved their limber fans
-For wings, and smallest lineaments exact
-In all the liveries decked of summer's pride
-With spots of gold and purple, azure and green:
-These, as a line, their long dimension drew,
-Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all
-Minims of nature; some of serpent-kind,
-Wonderous in length and corpulence, involved
-Their snaky folds, and added wings. First crept
-The parsimonious emmet, provident
-Of future; in small room large heart enclosed;
-Pattern of just equality perhaps
-Hereafter, joined in her popular tribes
-Of commonalty: Swarming next appeared
-The female bee, that feeds her husband drone
-Deliciously, and builds her waxen cells
-With honey stored: The rest are numberless,
-And thou their natures knowest, and gavest them names,
-Needless to thee repeated; nor unknown
-The serpent, subtlest beast of all the field,
-Of huge extent sometimes, with brazen eyes
-And hairy mane terrifick, though to thee
-Not noxious, but obedient at thy call.
-Now Heaven in all her glory shone, and rolled
-Her motions, as the great first Mover's hand
-First wheeled their course: Earth in her rich attire
-Consummate lovely smiled; air, water, earth,
-By fowl, fish, beast, was flown, was swum, was walked,
-Frequent; and of the sixth day yet remained:
-There wanted yet the master-work, the end
-Of all yet done; a creature, who, not prone
-And brute as other creatures, but endued
-With sanctity of reason, might erect
-His stature, and upright with front serene
-Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from thence
-Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven,
-But grateful to acknowledge whence his good
-Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes
-Directed in devotion, to adore
-And worship God Supreme, who made him chief
-Of all his works: therefore the Omnipotent
-Eternal Father (for where is not he
-Present?) thus to his Son audibly spake.
-Let us make now Man in our image, Man
-In our similitude, and let them rule
-Over the fish and fowl of sea and air,
-Beast of the field, and over all the Earth,
-And every creeping thing that creeps the ground.
-This said, he formed thee, Adam, thee, O Man,
-Dust of the ground, and in thy nostrils breathed
-The breath of life; in his own image he
-Created thee, in the image of God
-Express; and thou becamest a living soul.
-Male he created thee; but thy consort
-Female, for race; then blessed mankind, and said,
-Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the Earth;
-Subdue it, and throughout dominion hold
-Over fish of the sea, and fowl of the air,
-And every living thing that moves on the Earth.
-Wherever thus created, for no place
-Is yet distinct by name, thence, as thou knowest,
-He brought thee into this delicious grove,
-This garden, planted with the trees of God,
-Delectable both to behold and taste;
-And freely all their pleasant fruit for food
-Gave thee; all sorts are here that all the Earth yields,
-Variety without end; but of the tree,
-Which, tasted, works knowledge of good and evil,
-Thou mayest not; in the day thou eatest, thou diest;
-Death is the penalty imposed; beware,
-And govern well thy appetite; lest Sin
-Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
-Here finished he, and all that he had made
-Viewed, and behold all was entirely good;
-So even and morn accomplished the sixth day:
-Yet not till the Creator from his work
-Desisting, though unwearied, up returned,
-Up to the Heaven of Heavens, his high abode;
-Thence to behold this new created world,
-The addition of his empire, how it showed
-In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair,
-Answering his great idea. Up he rode
-Followed with acclamation, and the sound
-Symphonious of ten thousand harps, that tuned
-Angelick harmonies: The earth, the air
-Resounded, (thou rememberest, for thou heardst,)
-The heavens and all the constellations rung,
-The planets in their station listening stood,
-While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.
-Open, ye everlasting gates! they sung,
-Open, ye Heavens! your living doors;let in
-The great Creator from his work returned
-Magnificent, his six days work, a World;
-Open, and henceforth oft; for God will deign
-To visit oft the dwellings of just men,
-Delighted; and with frequent intercourse
-Thither will send his winged messengers
-On errands of supernal grace. So sung
-The glorious train ascending: He through Heaven,
-That opened wide her blazing portals, led
-To God's eternal house direct the way;
-A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold
-And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear,
-Seen in the galaxy, that milky way,
-Which nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest
-Powdered with stars. And now on Earth the seventh
-Evening arose in Eden, for the sun
-Was set, and twilight from the east came on,
-Forerunning night; when at the holy mount
-Of Heaven's high-seated top, the imperial throne
-Of Godhead, fixed for ever firm and sure,
-The Filial Power arrived, and sat him down
-With his great Father; for he also went
-Invisible, yet staid, (such privilege
-Hath Omnipresence) and the work ordained,
-Author and End of all things; and, from work
-Now resting, blessed and hallowed the seventh day,
-As resting on that day from all his work,
-But not in silence holy kept: the harp
-Had work and rested not; the solemn pipe,
-And dulcimer, all organs of sweet stop,
-All sounds on fret by string or golden wire,
-Tempered soft tunings, intermixed with voice
-Choral or unison: of incense clouds,
-Fuming from golden censers, hid the mount.
-Creation and the six days acts they sung:
-Great are thy works, Jehovah! infinite
-Thy power! what thought can measure thee, or tongue
-Relate thee! Greater now in thy return
-Than from the giant Angels: Thee that day
-Thy thunders magnified; but to create
-Is greater than created to destroy.
-Who can impair thee, Mighty King, or bound
-Thy empire! Easily the proud attempt
-Of Spirits apostate, and their counsels vain,
-Thou hast repelled; while impiously they thought
-Thee to diminish, and from thee withdraw
-The number of thy worshippers. Who seeks
-To lessen thee, against his purpose serves
-To manifest the more thy might: his evil
-Thou usest, and from thence createst more good.
-Witness this new-made world, another Heaven
-From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view
-On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea;
-Of amplitude almost immense, with stars
-Numerous, and every star perhaps a world
-Of destined habitation; but thou knowest
-Their seasons: among these the seat of Men,
-Earth, with her nether ocean circumfused,
-Their pleasant dwelling-place. Thrice happy Men,
-And sons of Men, whom God hath thus advanced!
-Created in his image, there to dwell
-And worship him; and in reward to rule
-Over his works, on earth, in sea, or air,
-And multiply a race of worshippers
-Holy and just: Thrice happy, if they know
-Their happiness, and persevere upright!
-So sung they, and the empyrean rung
-With halleluiahs: Thus was sabbath kept.
-And thy request think now fulfilled, that asked
-How first this world and face of things began,
-And what before thy memory was done
-From the beginning; that posterity,
-Informed by thee, might know: If else thou seekest
-Aught, not surpassing human measure, say.
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-The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
-So charming left his voice, that he a while
-Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear;
-Then, as new waked, thus gratefully replied.
-What thanks sufficient, or what recompence
-Equal, have I to render thee, divine
-Historian, who thus largely hast allayed
-The thirst I had of knowledge, and vouchsafed
-This friendly condescension to relate
-Things, else by me unsearchable; now heard
-With wonder, but delight, and, as is due,
-With glory attributed to the high
-Creator! Something yet of doubt remains,
-Which only thy solution can resolve.
-When I behold this goodly frame, this world,
-Of Heaven and Earth consisting; and compute
-Their magnitudes; this Earth, a spot, a grain,
-An atom, with the firmament compared
-And all her numbered stars, that seem to roll
-Spaces incomprehensible, (for such
-Their distance argues, and their swift return
-Diurnal,) merely to officiate light
-Round this opacous Earth, this punctual spot,
-One day and night; in all her vast survey
-Useless besides; reasoning I oft admire,
-How Nature wise and frugal could commit
-Such disproportions, with superfluous hand
-So many nobler bodies to create,
-Greater so manifold, to this one use,
-For aught appears, and on their orbs impose
-Such restless revolution day by day
-Repeated; while the sedentary Earth,
-That better might with far less compass move,
-Served by more noble than herself, attains
-Her end without least motion, and receives,
-As tribute, such a sumless journey brought
-Of incorporeal speed, her warmth and light;
-Speed, to describe whose swiftness number fails.
-So spake our sire, and by his countenance seemed
-Entering on studious thoughts abstruse; which Eve
-Perceiving, where she sat retired in sight,
-With lowliness majestick from her seat,
-And grace that won who saw to wish her stay,
-Rose, and went forth among her fruits and flowers,
-To visit how they prospered, bud and bloom,
-Her nursery; they at her coming sprung,
-And, touched by her fair tendance, gladlier grew.
-Yet went she not, as not with such discourse
-Delighted, or not capable her ear
-Of what was high: such pleasure she reserved,
-Adam relating, she sole auditress;
-Her husband the relater she preferred
-Before the Angel, and of him to ask
-Chose rather; he, she knew, would intermix
-Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute
-With conjugal caresses: from his lip
-Not words alone pleased her. O! when meet now
-Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?
-With Goddess-like demeanour forth she went,
-Not unattended; for on her, as Queen,
-A pomp of winning Graces waited still,
-And from about her shot darts of desire
-Into all eyes, to wish her still in sight.
-And Raphael now, to Adam's doubt proposed,
-Benevolent and facile thus replied.
-To ask or search, I blame thee not; for Heaven
-Is as the book of God before thee set,
-Wherein to read his wonderous works, and learn
-His seasons, hours, or days, or months, or years:
-This to attain, whether Heaven move or Earth,
-Imports not, if thou reckon right; the rest
-From Man or Angel the great Architect
-Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge
-His secrets to be scanned by them who ought
-Rather admire; or, if they list to try
-Conjecture, he his fabrick of the Heavens
-Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move
-His laughter at their quaint opinions wide
-Hereafter; when they come to model Heaven
-And calculate the stars, how they will wield
-The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive
-To save appearances; how gird the sphere
-With centrick and eccentrick scribbled o'er,
-Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb:
-Already by thy reasoning this I guess,
-Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest
-That bodies bright and greater should not serve
-The less not bright, nor Heaven such journeys run,
-Earth sitting still, when she alone receives
-The benefit: Consider first, that great
-Or bright infers not excellence: the Earth
-Though, in comparison of Heaven, so small,
-Nor glistering, may of solid good contain
-More plenty than the sun that barren shines;
-Whose virtue on itself works no effect,
-But in the fruitful Earth; there first received,
-His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.
-Yet not to Earth are those bright luminaries
-Officious; but to thee, Earth's habitant.
-And for the Heaven's wide circuit, let it speak
-The Maker's high magnificence, who built
-So spacious, and his line stretched out so far;
-That Man may know he dwells not in his own;
-An edifice too large for him to fill,
-Lodged in a small partition; and the rest
-Ordained for uses to his Lord best known.
-The swiftness of those circles attribute,
-Though numberless, to his Omnipotence,
-That to corporeal substances could add
-Speed almost spiritual: Me thou thinkest not slow,
-Who since the morning-hour set out from Heaven
-Where God resides, and ere mid-day arrived
-In Eden; distance inexpressible
-By numbers that have name. But this I urge,
-Admitting motion in the Heavens, to show
-Invalid that which thee to doubt it moved;
-Not that I so affirm, though so it seem
-To thee who hast thy dwelling here on Earth.
-God, to remove his ways from human sense,
-Placed Heaven from Earth so far, that earthly sight,
-If it presume, might err in things too high,
-And no advantage gain. What if the sun
-Be center to the world; and other stars,
-By his attractive virtue and their own
-Incited, dance about him various rounds?
-Their wandering course now high, now low, then hid,
-Progressive, retrograde, or standing still,
-In six thou seest; and what if seventh to these
-The planet earth, so stedfast though she seem,
-Insensibly three different motions move?
-Which else to several spheres thou must ascribe,
-Moved contrary with thwart obliquities;
-Or save the sun his labour, and that swift
-Nocturnal and diurnal rhomb supposed,
-Invisible else above all stars, the wheel
-Of day and night; which needs not thy belief,
-If earth, industrious of herself, fetch day
-Travelling east, and with her part averse
-From the sun's beam meet night, her other part
-Still luminous by his ray. What if that light,
-Sent from her through the wide transpicuous air,
-To the terrestrial moon be as a star,
-Enlightening her by day, as she by night
-This earth? reciprocal, if land be there,
-Fields and inhabitants: Her spots thou seest
-As clouds, and clouds may rain, and rain produce
-Fruits in her softened soil for some to eat
-Allotted there; and other suns perhaps,
-With their attendant moons, thou wilt descry,
-Communicating male and female light;
-Which two great sexes animate the world,
-Stored in each orb perhaps with some that live.
-For such vast room in Nature unpossessed
-By living soul, desart and desolate,
-Only to shine, yet scarce to contribute
-Each orb a glimpse of light, conveyed so far
-Down to this habitable, which returns
-Light back to them, is obvious to dispute.
-But whether thus these things, or whether not;
-But whether the sun, predominant in Heaven,
-Rise on the earth; or earth rise on the sun;
-He from the east his flaming road begin;
-Or she from west her silent course advance,
-With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps
-On her soft axle, while she paces even,
-And bears thee soft with the smooth hair along;
-Sollicit not thy thoughts with matters hid;
-Leave them to God above; him serve, and fear!
-Of other creatures, as him pleases best,
-Wherever placed, let him dispose; joy thou
-In what he gives to thee, this Paradise
-And thy fair Eve; Heaven is for thee too high
-To know what passes there; be lowly wise:
-Think only what concerns thee, and thy being;
-Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there
-Live, in what state, condition, or degree;
-Contented that thus far hath been revealed
-Not of Earth only, but of highest Heaven.
-To whom thus Adam, cleared of doubt, replied.
-How fully hast thou satisfied me, pure
-Intelligence of Heaven, Angel serene!
-And, freed from intricacies, taught to live
-The easiest way; nor with perplexing thoughts
-To interrupt the sweet of life, from which
-God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares,
-And not molest us; unless we ourselves
-Seek them with wandering thoughts, and notions vain.
-But apt the mind or fancy is to rove
-Unchecked, and of her roving is no end;
-Till warned, or by experience taught, she learn,
-That, not to know at large of things remote
-From use, obscure and subtle; but, to know
-That which before us lies in daily life,
-Is the prime wisdom: What is more, is fume,
-Or emptiness, or fond impertinence:
-And renders us, in things that most concern,
-Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seek.
-Therefore from this high pitch let us descend
-A lower flight, and speak of things at hand
-Useful; whence, haply, mention may arise
-Of something not unseasonable to ask,
-By sufferance, and thy wonted favour, deigned.
-Thee I have heard relating what was done
-Ere my remembrance: now, hear me relate
-My story, which perhaps thou hast not heard;
-And day is not yet spent; till then thou seest
-How subtly to detain thee I devise;
-Inviting thee to hear while I relate;
-Fond! were it not in hope of thy reply:
-For, while I sit with thee, I seem in Heaven;
-And sweeter thy discourse is to my ear
-Than fruits of palm-tree pleasantest to thirst
-And hunger both, from labour, at the hour
-Of sweet repast; they satiate, and soon fill,
-Though pleasant; but thy words, with grace divine
-Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety.
-To whom thus Raphael answered heavenly meek.
-Nor are thy lips ungraceful, Sire of men,
-Nor tongue ineloquent; for God on thee
-Abundantly his gifts hath also poured
-Inward and outward both, his image fair:
-Speaking, or mute, all comeliness and grace
-Attends thee; and each word, each motion, forms;
-Nor less think we in Heaven of thee on Earth
-Than of our fellow-servant, and inquire
-Gladly into the ways of God with Man:
-For God, we see, hath honoured thee, and set
-On Man his equal love: Say therefore on;
-For I that day was absent, as befel,
-Bound on a voyage uncouth and obscure,
-Far on excursion toward the gates of Hell;
-Squared in full legion (such command we had)
-To see that none thence issued forth a spy,
-Or enemy, while God was in his work;
-Lest he, incensed at such eruption bold,
-Destruction with creation might have mixed.
-Not that they durst without his leave attempt;
-But us he sends upon his high behests
-For state, as Sovran King; and to inure
-Our prompt obedience. Fast we found, fast shut,
-The dismal gates, and barricadoed strong;
-But long ere our approaching heard within
-Noise, other than the sound of dance or song,
-Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
-Glad we returned up to the coasts of light
-Ere sabbath-evening: so we had in charge.
-But thy relation now; for I attend,
-Pleased with thy words no less than thou with mine.
-So spake the Godlike Power, and thus our Sire.
-For Man to tell how human life began
-Is hard; for who himself beginning knew
-Desire with thee still longer to converse
-Induced me. As new waked from soundest sleep,
-Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid,
-In balmy sweat; which with his beams the sun
-Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed.
-Straight toward Heaven my wondering eyes I turned,
-And gazed a while the ample sky; till, raised
-By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung,
-As thitherward endeavouring, and upright
-Stood on my feet: about me round I saw
-Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains,
-And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these,
-Creatures that lived and moved, and walked, or flew;
-Birds on the branches warbling; all things smiled;
-With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
-Myself I then perused, and limb by limb
-Surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran
-With supple joints, as lively vigour led:
-But who I was, or where, or from what cause,
-Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake;
-My tongue obeyed, and readily could name
-Whate'er I saw. Thou Sun, said I, fair light,
-And thou enlightened Earth, so fresh and gay,
-Ye Hills, and Dales, ye Rivers, Woods, and Plains,
-And ye that live and move, fair Creatures, tell,
-Tell, if ye saw, how I came thus, how here?--
-Not of myself;--by some great Maker then,
-In goodness and in power pre-eminent:
-Tell me, how may I know him, how adore,
-From whom I have that thus I move and live,
-And feel that I am happier than I know.--
-While thus I called, and strayed I knew not whither,
-From where I first drew air, and first beheld
-This happy light; when, answer none returned,
-On a green shady bank, profuse of flowers,
-Pensive I sat me down: There gentle sleep
-First found me, and with soft oppression seised
-My droused sense, untroubled, though I thought
-I then was passing to my former state
-Insensible, and forthwith to dissolve:
-When suddenly stood at my head a dream,
-Whose inward apparition gently moved
-My fancy to believe I yet had being,
-And lived: One came, methought, of shape divine,
-And said, 'Thy mansion wants thee, Adam; rise,
-'First Man, of men innumerable ordained
-'First Father! called by thee, I come thy guide
-'To the garden of bliss, thy seat prepared.'
-So saying, by the hand he took me raised,
-And over fields and waters, as in air
-Smooth-sliding without step, last led me up
-A woody mountain; whose high top was plain,
-A circuit wide, enclosed, with goodliest trees
-Planted, with walks, and bowers; that what I saw
-Of Earth before scarce pleasant seemed. Each tree,
-Loaden with fairest fruit that hung to the eye
-Tempting, stirred in me sudden appetite
-To pluck and eat; whereat I waked, and found
-Before mine eyes all real, as the dream
-Had lively shadowed: Here had new begun
-My wandering, had not he, who was my guide
-Up hither, from among the trees appeared,
-Presence Divine. Rejoicing, but with awe,
-In adoration at his feet I fell
-Submiss: He reared me, and 'Whom thou soughtest I am,'
-Said mildly, 'Author of all this thou seest
-'Above, or round about thee, or beneath.
-'This Paradise I give thee, count it thine
-'To till and keep, and of the fruit to eat:
-'Of every tree that in the garden grows
-'Eat freely with glad heart; fear here no dearth:
-'But of the tree whose operation brings
-'Knowledge of good and ill, which I have set
-'The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith,
-'Amid the garden by the tree of life,
-'Remember what I warn thee, shun to taste,
-'And shun the bitter consequence: for know,
-'The day thou eatest thereof, my sole command
-'Transgressed, inevitably thou shalt die,
-'From that day mortal; and this happy state
-'Shalt lose, expelled from hence into a world
-'Of woe and sorrow.' Sternly he pronounced
-The rigid interdiction, which resounds
-Yet dreadful in mine ear, though in my choice
-Not to incur; but soon his clear aspect
-Returned, and gracious purpose thus renewed.
-'Not only these fair bounds, but all the Earth
-'To thee and to thy race I give; as lords
-'Possess it, and all things that therein live,
-'Or live in sea, or air; beast, fish, and fowl.
-'In sign whereof, each bird and beast behold
-'After their kinds; I bring them to receive
-'From thee their names, and pay thee fealty
-'With low subjection; understand the same
-'Of fish within their watery residence,
-'Not hither summoned, since they cannot change
-'Their element, to draw the thinner air.'
-As thus he spake, each bird and beast behold
-Approaching two and two; these cowering low
-With blandishment; each bird stooped on his wing.
-I named them, as they passed, and understood
-Their nature, with such knowledge God endued
-My sudden apprehension: But in these
-I found not what methought I wanted still;
-And to the heavenly Vision thus presumed.
-O, by what name, for thou above all these,
-Above mankind, or aught than mankind higher,
-Surpassest far my naming; how may I
-Adore thee, Author of this universe,
-And all this good to man? for whose well being
-So amply, and with hands so liberal,
-Thou hast provided all things: But with me
-I see not who partakes. In solitude
-What happiness, who can enjoy alone,
-Or, all enjoying, what contentment find?
-Thus I presumptuous; and the Vision bright,
-As with a smile more brightened, thus replied.
-What callest thou solitude? Is not the Earth
-With various living creatures, and the air
-Replenished, and all these at thy command
-To come and play before thee? Knowest thou not
-Their language and their ways? They also know,
-And reason not contemptibly: With these
-Find pastime, and bear rule; thy realm is large.
-So spake the Universal Lord, and seemed
-So ordering: I, with leave of speech implored,
-And humble deprecation, thus replied.
-Let not my words offend thee, Heavenly Power;
-My Maker, be propitious while I speak.
-Hast thou not made me here thy substitute,
-And these inferiour far beneath me set?
-Among unequals what society
-Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
-Which must be mutual, in proportion due
-Given and received; but, in disparity
-The one intense, the other still remiss,
-Cannot well suit with either, but soon prove
-Tedious alike: Of fellowship I speak
-Such as I seek, fit to participate
-All rational delight: wherein the brute
-Cannot be human consort: They rejoice
-Each with their kind, lion with lioness;
-So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined:
-Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl
-So well converse, nor with the ox the ape;
-Worse then can man with beast, and least of all.
-Whereto the Almighty answered, not displeased.
-A nice and subtle happiness, I see,
-Thou to thyself proposest, in the choice
-Of thy associates, Adam! and wilt taste
-No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
-What thinkest thou then of me, and this my state?
-Seem I to thee sufficiently possessed
-Of happiness, or not? who am alone
-From all eternity; for none I know
-Second to me or like, equal much less.
-How have I then with whom to hold converse,
-Save with the creatures which I made, and those
-To me inferiour, infinite descents
-Beneath what other creatures are to thee?
-He ceased; I lowly answered. To attain
-The highth and depth of thy eternal ways
-All human thoughts come short, Supreme of things!
-Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee
-Is no deficience found: Not so is Man,
-But in degree; the cause of his desire
-By conversation with his like to help
-Or solace his defects. No need that thou
-Shouldst propagate, already Infinite;
-And through all numbers absolute, though One:
-But Man by number is to manifest
-His single imperfection, and beget
-Like of his like, his image multiplied,
-In unity defective; which requires
-Collateral love, and dearest amity.
-Thou in thy secresy although alone,
-Best with thyself accompanied, seekest not
-Social communication; yet, so pleased,
-Canst raise thy creature to what highth thou wilt
-Of union or communion, deified:
-I, by conversing, cannot these erect
-From prone; nor in their ways complacence find.
-Thus I emboldened spake, and freedom used
-Permissive, and acceptance found; which gained
-This answer from the gracious Voice Divine.
-Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleased;
-And find thee knowing, not of beasts alone,
-Which thou hast rightly named, but of thyself;
-Expressing well the spirit within thee free,
-My image, not imparted to the brute;
-Whose fellowship therefore unmeet for thee
-Good reason was thou freely shouldst dislike;
-And be so minded still: I, ere thou spakest,
-Knew it not good for Man to be alone;
-And no such company as then thou sawest
-Intended thee; for trial only brought,
-To see how thou couldest judge of fit and meet:
-What next I bring shall please thee, be assured,
-Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self,
-Thy wish exactly to thy heart's desire.
-He ended, or I heard no more; for now
-My earthly by his heavenly overpowered,
-Which it had long stood under, strained to the highth
-In that celestial colloquy sublime,
-As with an object that excels the sense
-Dazzled and spent, sunk down; and sought repair
-Of sleep, which instantly fell on me, called
-By Nature as in aid, and closed mine eyes.
-Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell
-Of fancy, my internal sight; by which,
-Abstract as in a trance, methought I saw,
-Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape
-Still glorious before whom awake I stood:
-Who stooping opened my left side, and took
-From thence a rib, with cordial spirits warm,
-And life-blood streaming fresh; wide was the wound,
-But suddenly with flesh filled up and healed:
-The rib he formed and fashioned with his hands;
-Under his forming hands a creature grew,
-Man-like, but different sex; so lovely fair,
-That what seemed fair in all the world, seemed now
-Mean, or in her summed up, in her contained
-And in her looks; which from that time infused
-Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before,
-And into all things from her air inspired
-The spirit of love and amorous delight.
-She disappeared, and left me dark; I waked
-To find her, or for ever to deplore
-Her loss, and other pleasures all abjure:
-When out of hope, behold her, not far off,
-Such as I saw her in my dream, adorned
-With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow
-To make her amiable: On she came,
-Led by her heavenly Maker, though unseen,
-And guided by his voice; nor uninformed
-Of nuptial sanctity, and marriage rites:
-Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye,
-In every gesture dignity and love.
-I, overjoyed, could not forbear aloud.
-This turn hath made amends; thou hast fulfilled
-Thy words, Creator bounteous and benign,
-Giver of all things fair! but fairest this
-Of all thy gifts! nor enviest. I now see
-Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, myself
-Before me: Woman is her name;of Man
-Extracted: for this cause he shall forego
-Father and mother, and to his wife adhere;
-And they shall be one flesh, one heart, one soul.
-She heard me thus; and though divinely brought,
-Yet innocence, and virgin modesty,
-Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth,
-That would be wooed, and not unsought be won,
-Not obvious, not obtrusive, but, retired,
-The more desirable; or, to say all,
-Nature herself, though pure of sinful thought,
-Wrought in her so, that, seeing me, she turned:
-I followed her; she what was honour knew,
-And with obsequious majesty approved
-My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower
-I led her blushing like the morn: All Heaven,
-And happy constellations, on that hour
-Shed their selectest influence; the Earth
-Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill;
-Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs
-Whispered it to the woods, and from their wings
-Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub,
-Disporting, till the amorous bird of night
-Sung spousal, and bid haste the evening-star
-On his hill top, to light the bridal lamp.
-Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought
-My story to the sum of earthly bliss,
-Which I enjoy; and must confess to find
-In all things else delight indeed, but such
-As, used or not, works in the mind no change,
-Nor vehement desire; these delicacies
-I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers,
-Walks, and the melody of birds: but here
-Far otherwise, transported I behold,
-Transported touch; here passion first I felt,
-Commotion strange! in all enjoyments else
-Superiour and unmoved; here only weak
-Against the charm of Beauty's powerful glance.
-Or Nature failed in me, and left some part
-Not proof enough such object to sustain;
-Or, from my side subducting, took perhaps
-More than enough; at least on her bestowed
-Too much of ornament, in outward show
-Elaborate, of inward less exact.
-For well I understand in the prime end
-Of Nature her the inferiour, in the mind
-And inward faculties, which most excel;
-In outward also her resembling less
-His image who made both, and less expressing
-The character of that dominion given
-O'er other creatures: Yet when I approach
-Her loveliness, so absolute she seems
-And in herself complete, so well to know
-Her own, that what she wills to do or say,
-Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best:
-All higher knowledge in her presence falls
-Degraded; Wisdom in discourse with her
-Loses discountenanced, and like Folly shows;
-Authority and Reason on her wait,
-As one intended first, not after made
-Occasionally; and, to consummate all,
-Greatness of mind and Nobleness their seat
-Build in her loveliest, and create an awe
-About her, as a guard angelick placed.
-To whom the Angel with contracted brow.
-Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part;
-Do thou but thine; and be not diffident
-Of Wisdom; she deserts thee not, if thou
-Dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,
-By attributing overmuch to things
-Less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
-For, what admirest thou, what transports thee so,
-An outside? fair, no doubt, and worthy well
-Thy cherishing, thy honouring, and thy love;
-Not thy subjection: Weigh with her thyself;
-Then value: Oft-times nothing profits more
-Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right
-Well managed; of that skill the more thou knowest,
-The more she will acknowledge thee her head,
-And to realities yield all her shows:
-Made so adorn for thy delight the more,
-So awful, that with honour thou mayest love
-Thy mate, who sees when thou art seen least wise.
-But if the sense of touch, whereby mankind
-Is propagated, seem such dear delight
-Beyond all other; think the same vouchsafed
-To cattle and each beast; which would not be
-To them made common and divulged, if aught
-Therein enjoyed were worthy to subdue
-The soul of man, or passion in him move.
-What higher in her society thou findest
-Attractive, human, rational, love still;
-In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
-Wherein true love consists not: Love refines
-The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat
-In reason, and is judicious; is the scale
-By which to heavenly love thou mayest ascend,
-Not sunk in carnal pleasure; for which cause,
-Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
-To whom thus, half abashed, Adam replied.
-Neither her outside formed so fair, nor aught
-In procreation common to all kinds,
-(Though higher of the genial bed by far,
-And with mysterious reverence I deem,)
-So much delights me, as those graceful acts,
-Those thousand decencies, that daily flow
-From all her words and actions mixed with love
-And sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned
-Union of mind, or in us both one soul;
-Harmony to behold in wedded pair
-More grateful than harmonious sound to the ear.
-Yet these subject not; I to thee disclose
-What inward thence I feel, not therefore foiled,
-Who meet with various objects, from the sense
-Variously representing; yet, still free,
-Approve the best, and follow what I approve.
-To love, thou blamest me not; for Love, thou sayest,
-Leads up to Heaven, is both the way and guide;
-Bear with me then, if lawful what I ask:
-Love not the heavenly Spirits, and how their love
-Express they? by looks only? or do they mix
-Irradiance, virtual or immediate touch?
-To whom the Angel, with a smile that glowed
-Celestial rosy red, Love's proper hue,
-Answered. Let it suffice thee that thou knowest
-Us happy, and without love no happiness.
-Whatever pure thou in the body enjoyest,
-(And pure thou wert created) we enjoy
-In eminence; and obstacle find none
-Of membrane, joint, or limb, exclusive bars;
-Easier than air with air, if Spirits embrace,
-Total they mix, union of pure with pure
-Desiring, nor restrained conveyance need,
-As flesh to mix with flesh, or soul with soul.
-But I can now no more; the parting sun
-Beyond the Earth's green Cape and verdant Isles
-Hesperian sets, my signal to depart.
-Be strong, live happy, and love! But, first of all,
-Him, whom to love is to obey, and keep
-His great command; take heed lest passion sway
-Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will
-Would not admit: thine, and of all thy sons,
-The weal or woe in thee is placed; beware!
-I in thy persevering shall rejoice,
-And all the Blest: Stand fast;to stand or fall
-Free in thine own arbitrement it lies.
-Perfect within, no outward aid require;
-And all temptation to transgress repel.
-So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus
-Followed with benediction. Since to part,
-Go, heavenly guest, ethereal Messenger,
-Sent from whose sovran goodness I adore!
-Gentle to me and affable hath been
-Thy condescension, and shall be honoured ever
-With grateful memory: Thou to mankind
-Be good and friendly still, and oft return!
-So parted they; the Angel up to Heaven
-From the thick shade, and Adam to his bower.
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-No more of talk where God or Angel guest
-With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd,
-To sit indulgent, and with him partake
-Rural repast; permitting him the while
-Venial discourse unblam'd. I now must change
-Those notes to tragick; foul distrust, and breach
-Disloyal on the part of Man, revolt,
-And disobedience: on the part of Heaven
-Now alienated, distance and distaste,
-Anger and just rebuke, and judgement given,
-That brought into this world a world of woe,
-Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery
-Death's harbinger: Sad talk!yet argument
-Not less but more heroick than the wrath
-Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued
-Thrice fugitive about Troy wall; or rage
-Of Turnus for Lavinia disespous'd;
-Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long
-Perplexed the Greek, and Cytherea's son:
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-If answerable style I can obtain
-Of my celestial patroness, who deigns
-Her nightly visitation unimplor'd,
-And dictates to me slumbering; or inspires
-Easy my unpremeditated verse:
-Since first this subject for heroick song
-Pleas'd me long choosing, and beginning late;
-Not sedulous by nature to indite
-Wars, hitherto the only argument
-Heroick deem'd chief mastery to dissect
-With long and tedious havock fabled knights
-In battles feign'd; the better fortitude
-Of patience and heroick martyrdom
-Unsung; or to describe races and games,
-Or tilting furniture, imblazon'd shields,
-Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds,
-Bases and tinsel trappings, gorgeous knights
-At joust and tournament; then marshall'd feast
-Serv'd up in hall with sewers and seneshals;
-The skill of artifice or office mean,
-Not that which justly gives heroick name
-To person, or to poem. Me, of these
-Nor skill'd nor studious, higher argument
-Remains; sufficient of itself to raise
-That name, unless an age too late, or cold
-Climate, or years, damp my intended wing
-Depress'd; and much they may, if all be mine,
-Not hers, who brings it nightly to my ear.
-The sun was sunk, and after him the star
-Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring
-Twilight upon the earth, short arbiter
-"twixt day and night, and now from end to end
-Night's hemisphere had veil'd the horizon round:
-When satan, who late fled before the threats
-Of Gabriel out of Eden, now improv'd
-In meditated fraud and malice, bent
-On Man's destruction, maugre what might hap
-Of heavier on himself, fearless returned
-From compassing the earth; cautious of day,
-Since Uriel, regent of the sun, descried
-His entrance, and foreworned the Cherubim
-That kept their watch; thence full of anguish driven,
-The space of seven continued nights he rode
-With darkness; thrice the equinoctial line
-He circled; four times crossed the car of night
-From pole to pole, traversing each colure;
-On the eighth returned; and, on the coast averse
-From entrance or Cherubick watch, by stealth
-Found unsuspected way. There was a place,
-Now not, though sin, not time, first wrought the change,
-Where Tigris, at the foot of Paradise,
-Into a gulf shot under ground, till part
-Rose up a fountain by the tree of life:
-In with the river sunk, and with it rose
-Satan, involved in rising mist; then sought
-Where to lie hid; sea he had searched, and land,
-From Eden over Pontus and the pool
-Maeotis, up beyond the river Ob;
-Downward as far antarctick; and in length,
-West from Orontes to the ocean barred
-At Darien ; thence to the land where flows
-Ganges and Indus: Thus the orb he roamed
-With narrow search; and with inspection deep
-Considered every creature, which of all
-Most opportune might serve his wiles; and found
-The Serpent subtlest beast of all the field.
-Him after long debate, irresolute
-Of thoughts revolved, his final sentence chose
-Fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom
-To enter, and his dark suggestions hide
-From sharpest sight: for, in the wily snake
-Whatever sleights, none would suspicious mark,
-As from his wit and native subtlety
-Proceeding; which, in other beasts observed,
-Doubt might beget of diabolick power
-Active within, beyond the sense of brute.
-Thus he resolved, but first from inward grief
-His bursting passion into plaints thus poured.
-More justly, seat worthier of Gods, as built
-With second thoughts, reforming what was old!
-O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred
-For what God, after better, worse would build?
-Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other Heavens
-That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps,
-Light above light, for thee alone, as seems,
-In thee concentring all their precious beams
-Of sacred influence! As God in Heaven
-Is center, yet extends to all; so thou,
-Centring, receivest from all those orbs: in thee,
-Not in themselves, all their known virtue appears
-Productive in herb, plant, and nobler birth
-Of creatures animate with gradual life
-Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in Man.
-With what delight could I have walked thee round,
-If I could joy in aught, sweet interchange
-Of hill, and valley, rivers, woods, and plains,
-Now land, now sea and shores with forest crowned,
-Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these
-Find place or refuge; and the more I see
-Pleasures about me, so much more I feel
-Torment within me, as from the hateful siege
-Of contraries: all good to me becomes
-Bane, and in Heaven much worse would be my state.
-But neither here seek I, no nor in Heaven
-To dwell, unless by mastering Heaven's Supreme;
-Nor hope to be myself less miserable
-By what I seek, but others to make such
-As I, though thereby worse to me redound:
-For only in destroying I find ease
-To my relentless thoughts; and, him destroyed,
-Or won to what may work his utter loss,
-For whom all this was made, all this will soon
-Follow, as to him linked in weal or woe;
-In woe then; that destruction wide may range:
-To me shall be the glory sole among
-The infernal Powers, in one day to have marred
-What he, Almighty styled, six nights and days
-Continued making; and who knows how long
-Before had been contriving? though perhaps
-Not longer than since I, in one night, freed
-From servitude inglorious well nigh half
-The angelick name, and thinner left the throng
-Of his adorers: He, to be avenged,
-And to repair his numbers thus impaired,
-Whether such virtue spent of old now failed
-More Angels to create, if they at least
-Are his created, or, to spite us more,
-Determined to advance into our room
-A creature formed of earth, and him endow,
-Exalted from so base original,
-With heavenly spoils, our spoils: What he decreed,
-He effected; Man he made, and for him built
-Magnificent this world, and earth his seat,
-Him lord pronounced; and, O indignity!
-Subjected to his service angel-wings,
-And flaming ministers to watch and tend
-Their earthly charge: Of these the vigilance
-I dread; and, to elude, thus wrapt in mist
-Of midnight vapour glide obscure, and pry
-In every bush and brake, where hap may find
-The serpent sleeping; in whose mazy folds
-To hide me, and the dark intent I bring.
-O foul descent! that I, who erst contended
-With Gods to sit the highest, am now constrained
-Into a beast; and, mixed with bestial slime,
-This essence to incarnate and imbrute,
-That to the highth of Deity aspired!
-But what will not ambition and revenge
-Descend to? Who aspires, must down as low
-As high he soared; obnoxious, first or last,
-To basest things. Revenge, at first though sweet,
-Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils:
-Let it; I reck not, so it light well aimed,
-Since higher I fall short, on him who next
-Provokes my envy, this new favourite
-Of Heaven, this man of clay, son of despite,
-Whom, us the more to spite, his Maker raised
-From dust: Spite then with spite is best repaid.
-So saying, through each thicket dank or dry,
-Like a black mist low-creeping, he held on
-His midnight-search, where soonest he might find
-The serpent; him fast-sleeping soon he found
-In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled,
-His head the midst, well stored with subtile wiles:
-Not yet in horrid shade or dismal den,
-Nor nocent yet; but, on the grassy herb,
-Fearless unfeared he slept: in at his mouth
-The Devil entered; and his brutal sense,
-In heart or head, possessing, soon inspired
-With act intelligential; but his sleep
-Disturbed not, waiting close the approach of morn.
-Now, when as sacred light began to dawn
-In Eden on the humid flowers, that breathed
-Their morning incense, when all things, that breathe,
-From the Earth's great altar send up silent praise
-To the Creator, and his nostrils fill
-With grateful smell, forth came the human pair,
-And joined their vocal worship to the quire
-Of creatures wanting voice; that done, partake
-The season prime for sweetest scents and airs:
-Then commune, how that day they best may ply
-Their growing work: for much their work out-grew
-The hands' dispatch of two gardening so wide,
-And Eve first to her husband thus began.
-Adam, well may we labour still to dress
-This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower,
-Our pleasant task enjoined; but, till more hands
-Aid us, the work under our labour grows,
-Luxurious by restraint; what we by day
-Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind,
-One night or two with wanton growth derides
-Tending to wild. Thou therefore now advise,
-Or bear what to my mind first thoughts present:
-Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice
-Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind
-The woodbine round this arbour, or direct
-The clasping ivy where to climb; while I,
-In yonder spring of roses intermixed
-With myrtle, find what to redress till noon:
-For, while so near each other thus all day
-Our task we choose, what wonder if so near
-Looks intervene and smiles, or object new
-Casual discourse draw on; which intermits
-Our day's work, brought to little, though begun
-Early, and the hour of supper comes unearned?
-To whom mild answer Adam thus returned.
-Sole Eve, associate sole, to me beyond
-Compare above all living creatures dear!
-Well hast thou motioned, well thy thoughts employed,
-How we might best fulfil the work which here
-God hath assigned us; nor of me shalt pass
-Unpraised: for nothing lovelier can be found
-In woman, than to study houshold good,
-And good works in her husband to promote.
-Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed
-Labour, as to debar us when we need
-Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,
-Food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse
-Of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow,
-To brute denied, and are of love the food;
-Love, not the lowest end of human life.
-For not to irksome toil, but to delight,
-He made us, and delight to reason joined.
-These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands
-Will keep from wilderness with ease, as wide
-As we need walk, till younger hands ere long
-Assist us; But, if much converse perhaps
-Thee satiate, to short absence I could yield:
-For solitude sometimes is best society,
-And short retirement urges sweet return.
-But other doubt possesses me, lest harm
-Befall thee severed from me; for thou knowest
-What hath been warned us, what malicious foe
-Envying our happiness, and of his own
-Despairing, seeks to work us woe and shame
-By sly assault; and somewhere nigh at hand
-Watches, no doubt, with greedy hope to find
-His wish and best advantage, us asunder;
-Hopeless to circumvent us joined, where each
-To other speedy aid might lend at need:
-Whether his first design be to withdraw
-Our fealty from God, or to disturb
-Conjugal love, than which perhaps no bliss
-Enjoyed by us excites his envy more;
-Or this, or worse, leave not the faithful side
-That gave thee being, still shades thee, and protects.
-The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
-Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,
-Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
-To whom the virgin majesty of Eve,
-As one who loves, and some unkindness meets,
-With sweet austere composure thus replied.
-Offspring of Heaven and Earth, and all Earth's Lord!
-That such an enemy we have, who seeks
-Our ruin, both by thee informed I learn,
-And from the parting Angel over-heard,
-As in a shady nook I stood behind,
-Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.
-But, that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt
-To God or thee, because we have a foe
-May tempt it, I expected not to hear.
-His violence thou fearest not, being such
-As we, not capable of death or pain,
-Can either not receive, or can repel.
-His fraud is then thy fear; which plain infers
-Thy equal fear, that my firm faith and love
-Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced;
-Thoughts, which how found they harbour in thy breast,
-Adam, mis-thought of her to thee so dear?
-To whom with healing words Adam replied.
-Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve!
-For such thou art; from sin and blame entire:
-Not diffident of thee do I dissuade
-Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid
-The attempt itself, intended by our foe.
-For he who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses
-The tempted with dishonour foul; supposed
-Not incorruptible of faith, not proof
-Against temptation: Thou thyself with scorn
-And anger wouldst resent the offered wrong,
-Though ineffectual found: misdeem not then,
-If such affront I labour to avert
-From thee alone, which on us both at once
-The enemy, though bold, will hardly dare;
-Or daring, first on me the assault shall light.
-Nor thou his malice and false guile contemn;
-Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce
-Angels; nor think superfluous other's aid.
-I, from the influence of thy looks, receive
-Access in every virtue; in thy sight
-More wise, more watchful, stronger, if need were
-Of outward strength; while shame, thou looking on,
-Shame to be overcome or over-reached,
-Would utmost vigour raise, and raised unite.
-Why shouldst not thou like sense within thee feel
-When I am present, and thy trial choose
-With me, best witness of thy virtue tried?
-So spake domestick Adam in his care
-And matrimonial love; but Eve, who thought
-Less attributed to her faith sincere,
-Thus her reply with accent sweet renewed.
-If this be our condition, thus to dwell
-In narrow circuit straitened by a foe,
-Subtle or violent, we not endued
-Single with like defence, wherever met;
-How are we happy, still in fear of harm?
-But harm precedes not sin: only our foe,
-Tempting, affronts us with his foul esteem
-Of our integrity: his foul esteem
-Sticks no dishonour on our front, but turns
-Foul on himself; then wherefore shunned or feared
-By us? who rather double honour gain
-From his surmise proved false; find peace within,
-Favour from Heaven, our witness, from the event.
-And what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed
-Alone, without exteriour help sustained?
-Let us not then suspect our happy state
-Left so imperfect by the Maker wise,
-As not secure to single or combined.
-Frail is our happiness, if this be so,
-And Eden were no Eden, thus exposed.
-To whom thus Adam fervently replied.
-O Woman, best are all things as the will
-Of God ordained them: His creating hand
-Nothing imperfect or deficient left
-Of all that he created, much less Man,
-Or aught that might his happy state secure,
-Secure from outward force; within himself
-The danger lies, yet lies within his power:
-Against his will he can receive no harm.
-But God left free the will; for what obeys
-Reason, is free; and Reason he made right,
-But bid her well be ware, and still erect;
-Lest, by some fair-appearing good surprised,
-She dictate false; and mis-inform the will
-To do what God expressly hath forbid.
-Not then mistrust, but tender love, enjoins,
-That I should mind thee oft; and mind thou me.
-Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve;
-Since Reason not impossibly may meet
-Some specious object by the foe suborned,
-And fall into deception unaware,
-Not keeping strictest watch, as she was warned.
-Seek not temptation then, which to avoid
-Were better, and most likely if from me
-Thou sever not: Trial will come unsought.
-Wouldst thou approve thy constancy, approve
-First thy obedience; the other who can know,
-Not seeing thee attempted, who attest?
-But, if thou think, trial unsought may find
-Us both securer than thus warned thou seemest,
-Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more;
-Go in thy native innocence, rely
-On what thou hast of virtue; summon all!
-For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
-So spake the patriarch of mankind; but Eve
-Persisted; yet submiss, though last, replied.
-With thy permission then, and thus forewarned
-Chiefly by what thy own last reasoning words
-Touched only; that our trial, when least sought,
-May find us both perhaps far less prepared,
-The willinger I go, nor much expect
-A foe so proud will first the weaker seek;
-So bent, the more shall shame him his repulse.
-Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand
-Soft she withdrew; and, like a Wood-Nymph light,
-Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train,
-Betook her to the groves; but Delia's self
-In gait surpassed, and Goddess-like deport,
-Though not as she with bow and quiver armed,
-But with such gardening tools as Art yet rude,
-Guiltless of fire, had formed, or Angels brought.
-To Pales, or Pomona, thus adorned,
-Likest she seemed, Pomona when she fled
-Vertumnus, or to Ceres in her prime,
-Yet virgin of Proserpina from Jove.
-Her long with ardent look his eye pursued
-Delighted, but desiring more her stay.
-Oft he to her his charge of quick return
-Repeated; she to him as oft engaged
-To be returned by noon amid the bower,
-And all things in best order to invite
-Noontide repast, or afternoon's repose.
-O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve,
-Of thy presumed return! event perverse!
-Thou never from that hour in Paradise
-Foundst either sweet repast, or sound repose;
-Such ambush, hid among sweet flowers and shades,
-Waited with hellish rancour imminent
-To intercept thy way, or send thee back
-Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss!
-For now, and since first break of dawn, the Fiend,
-Mere serpent in appearance, forth was come;
-And on his quest, where likeliest he might find
-The only two of mankind, but in them
-The whole included race, his purposed prey.
-In bower and field he sought, where any tuft
-Of grove or garden-plot more pleasant lay,
-Their tendance, or plantation for delight;
-By fountain or by shady rivulet
-He sought them both, but wished his hap might find
-Eve separate; he wished, but not with hope
-Of what so seldom chanced; when to his wish,
-Beyond his hope, Eve separate he spies,
-Veiled in a cloud of fragrance, where she stood,
-Half spied, so thick the roses blushing round
-About her glowed, oft stooping to support
-Each flower of slender stalk, whose head, though gay
-Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold,
-Hung drooping unsustained; them she upstays
-Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while
-Herself, though fairest unsupported flower,
-From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.
-Nearer he drew, and many a walk traversed
-Of stateliest covert, cedar, pine, or palm;
-Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen,
-Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers
-Imbordered on each bank, the hand of Eve:
-Spot more delicious than those gardens feigned
-Or of revived Adonis, or renowned
-Alcinous, host of old Laertes' son;
-Or that, not mystick, where the sapient king
-Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse.
-Much he the place admired, the person more.
-As one who long in populous city pent,
-Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air,
-Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe
-Among the pleasant villages and farms
-Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight;
-The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine,
-Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound;
-If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass,
-What pleasing seemed, for her now pleases more;
-She most, and in her look sums all delight:
-Such pleasure took the Serpent to behold
-This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve
-Thus early, thus alone: Her heavenly form
-Angelick, but more soft, and feminine,
-Her graceful innocence, her every air
-Of gesture, or least action, overawed
-His malice, and with rapine sweet bereaved
-His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought:
-That space the Evil-one abstracted stood
-From his own evil, and for the time remained
-Stupidly good; of enmity disarmed,
-Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge:
-But the hot Hell that always in him burns,
-Though in mid Heaven, soon ended his delight,
-And tortures him now more, the more he sees
-Of pleasure, not for him ordained: then soon
-Fierce hate he recollects, and all his thoughts
-Of mischief, gratulating, thus excites.
-Thoughts, whither have ye led me! with what sweet
-Compulsion thus transported, to forget
-What hither brought us! hate, not love;nor hope
-Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste
-Of pleasure; but all pleasure to destroy,
-Save what is in destroying; other joy
-To me is lost. Then, let me not let pass
-Occasion which now smiles; behold alone
-The woman, opportune to all attempts,
-Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,
-Whose higher intellectual more I shun,
-And strength, of courage haughty, and of limb
-Heroick built, though of terrestrial mould;
-Foe not informidable! exempt from wound,
-I not; so much hath Hell debased, and pain
-Enfeebled me, to what I was in Heaven.
-She fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods!
-Not terrible, though terrour be in love
-And beauty, not approached by stronger hate,
-Hate stronger, under show of love well feigned;
-The way which to her ruin now I tend.
-So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed
-In serpent, inmate bad! and toward Eve
-Addressed his way: not with indented wave,
-Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear,
-Circular base of rising folds, that towered
-Fold above fold, a surging maze! his head
-Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes;
-With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect
-Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass
-Floated redundant: pleasing was his shape
-And lovely; never since of serpent-kind
-Lovelier, not those that in Illyria changed,
-Hermione and Cadmus, or the god
-In Epidaurus; nor to which transformed
-Ammonian Jove, or Capitoline, was seen;
-He with Olympias; this with her who bore
-Scipio, the highth of Rome. With tract oblique
-At first, as one who sought access, but feared
-To interrupt, side-long he works his way.
-As when a ship, by skilful steersmen wrought
-Nigh river's mouth or foreland, where the wind
-Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sail:
-So varied he, and of his tortuous train
-Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve,
-To lure her eye; she, busied, heard the sound
-Of rusling leaves, but minded not, as used
-To such disport before her through the field,
-From every beast; more duteous at her call,
-Than at Circean call the herd disguised.
-He, bolder now, uncalled before her stood,
-But as in gaze admiring: oft he bowed
-His turret crest, and sleek enamelled neck,
-Fawning; and licked the ground whereon she trod.
-His gentle dumb expression turned at length
-The eye of Eve to mark his play; he, glad
-Of her attention gained, with serpent-tongue
-Organick, or impulse of vocal air,
-His fraudulent temptation thus began.
-Wonder not, sovran Mistress, if perhaps
-Thou canst, who art sole wonder! much less arm
-Thy looks, the Heaven of mildness, with disdain,
-Displeased that I approach thee thus, and gaze
-Insatiate; I thus single;nor have feared
-Thy awful brow, more awful thus retired.
-Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair,
-Thee all things living gaze on, all things thine
-By gift, and thy celestial beauty adore
-With ravishment beheld! there best beheld,
-Where universally admired; but here
-In this enclosure wild, these beasts among,
-Beholders rude, and shallow to discern
-Half what in thee is fair, one man except,
-Who sees thee? and what is one? who should be seen
-A Goddess among Gods, adored and served
-By Angels numberless, thy daily train.
-So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned:
-Into the heart of Eve his words made way,
-Though at the voice much marvelling; at length,
-Not unamazed, she thus in answer spake.
-What may this mean? language of man pronounced
-By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed?
-The first, at least, of these I thought denied
-To beasts; whom God, on their creation-day,
-Created mute to all articulate sound:
-The latter I demur; for in their looks
-Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears.
-Thee, Serpent, subtlest beast of all the field
-I knew, but not with human voice endued;
-Redouble then this miracle, and say,
-How camest thou speakable of mute, and how
-To me so friendly grown above the rest
-Of brutal kind, that daily are in sight?
-Say, for such wonder claims attention due.
-To whom the guileful Tempter thus replied.
-Empress of this fair world, resplendent Eve!
-Easy to me it is to tell thee all
-What thou commandest; and right thou shouldst be obeyed:
-I was at first as other beasts that graze
-The trodden herb, of abject thoughts and low,
-As was my food; nor aught but food discerned
-Or sex, and apprehended nothing high:
-Till, on a day roving the field, I chanced
-A goodly tree far distant to behold
-Loaden with fruit of fairest colours mixed,
-Ruddy and gold: I nearer drew to gaze;
-When from the boughs a savoury odour blown,
-Grateful to appetite, more pleased my sense
-Than smell of sweetest fennel, or the teats
-Of ewe or goat dropping with milk at even,
-Unsucked of lamb or kid, that tend their play.
-To satisfy the sharp desire I had
-Of tasting those fair apples, I resolved
-Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once,
-Powerful persuaders, quickened at the scent
-Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.
-About the mossy trunk I wound me soon;
-For, high from ground, the branches would require
-Thy utmost reach or Adam's: Round the tree
-All other beasts that saw, with like desire
-Longing and envying stood, but could not reach.
-Amid the tree now got, where plenty hung
-Tempting so nigh, to pluck and eat my fill
-I spared not; for, such pleasure till that hour,
-At feed or fountain, never had I found.
-Sated at length, ere long I might perceive
-Strange alteration in me, to degree
-Of reason in my inward powers; and speech
-Wanted not long; though to this shape retained.
-Thenceforth to speculations high or deep
-I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind
-Considered all things visible in Heaven,
-Or Earth, or Middle; all things fair and good:
-But all that fair and good in thy divine
-Semblance, and in thy beauty's heavenly ray,
-United I beheld; no fair to thine
-Equivalent or second! which compelled
-Me thus, though importune perhaps, to come
-And gaze, and worship thee of right declared
-Sovran of creatures, universal Dame!
-So talked the spirited sly Snake; and Eve,
-Yet more amazed, unwary thus replied.
-Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt
-The virtue of that fruit, in thee first proved:
-But say, where grows the tree? from hence how far?
-For many are the trees of God that grow
-In Paradise, and various, yet unknown
-To us; in such abundance lies our choice,
-As leaves a greater store of fruit untouched,
-Still hanging incorruptible, till men
-Grow up to their provision, and more hands
-Help to disburden Nature of her birth.
-To whom the wily Adder, blithe and glad.
-Empress, the way is ready, and not long;
-Beyond a row of myrtles, on a flat,
-Fast by a fountain, one small thicket past
-Of blowing myrrh and balm: if thou accept
-My conduct, I can bring thee thither soon
-Lead then, said Eve. He, leading, swiftly rolled
-In tangles, and made intricate seem straight,
-To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy
-Brightens his crest; as when a wandering fire,
-Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night
-Condenses, and the cold environs round,
-Kindled through agitation to a flame,
-Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends,
-Hovering and blazing with delusive light,
-Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way
-To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool;
-There swallowed up and lost, from succour far.
-So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud
-Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the tree
-Of prohibition, root of all our woe;
-Which when she saw, thus to her guide she spake.
-Serpent, we might have spared our coming hither,
-Fruitless to me, though fruit be here to excess,
-The credit of whose virtue rest with thee;
-Wonderous indeed, if cause of such effects.
-But of this tree we may not taste nor touch;
-God so commanded, and left that command
-Sole daughter of his voice; the rest, we live
-Law to ourselves; our reason is our law.
-To whom the Tempter guilefully replied.
-Indeed! hath God then said that of the fruit
-Of all these garden-trees ye shall not eat,
-Yet Lords declared of all in earth or air$?
-To whom thus Eve, yet sinless. Of the fruit
-Of each tree in the garden we may eat;
-But of the fruit of this fair tree amidst
-The garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat
-Thereof, nor shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
-She scarce had said, though brief, when now more bold
-The Tempter, but with show of zeal and love
-To Man, and indignation at his wrong,
-New part puts on; and, as to passion moved,
-Fluctuates disturbed, yet comely and in act
-Raised, as of some great matter to begin.
-As when of old some orator renowned,
-In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence
-Flourished, since mute! to some great cause addressed,
-Stood in himself collected; while each part,
-Motion, each act, won audience ere the tongue;
-Sometimes in highth began, as no delay
-Of preface brooking, through his zeal of right:
-So standing, moving, or to highth up grown,
-The Tempter, all impassioned, thus began.
-O sacred, wise, and wisdom-giving Plant,
-Mother of science! now I feel thy power
-Within me clear; not only to discern
-Things in their causes, but to trace the ways
-Of highest agents, deemed however wise.
-Queen of this universe! do not believe
-Those rigid threats of death: ye shall not die:
-How should you? by the fruit? it gives you life
-To knowledge; by the threatener? look on me,
-Me, who have touched and tasted; yet both live,
-And life more perfect have attained than Fate
-Meant me, by venturing higher than my lot.
-Shall that be shut to Man, which to the Beast
-Is open? or will God incense his ire
-For such a petty trespass? and not praise
-Rather your dauntless virtue, whom the pain
-Of death denounced, whatever thing death be,
-Deterred not from achieving what might lead
-To happier life, knowledge of good and evil;
-Of good, how just? of evil, if what is evil
-Be real, why not known, since easier shunned?
-God therefore cannot hurt ye, and be just;
-Not just, not God; not feared then, nor obeyed:
-Your fear itself of death removes the fear.
-Why then was this forbid? Why, but to awe;
-Why, but to keep ye low and ignorant,
-His worshippers? He knows that in the day
-Ye eat thereof, your eyes that seem so clear,
-Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then
-Opened and cleared, and ye shall be as Gods,
-Knowing both good and evil, as they know.
-That ye shall be as Gods, since I as Man,
-Internal Man, is but proportion meet;
-I, of brute, human; ye, of human, Gods.
-So ye shall die perhaps, by putting off
-Human, to put on Gods; death to be wished,
-Though threatened, which no worse than this can bring.
-And what are Gods, that Man may not become
-As they, participating God-like food?
-The Gods are first, and that advantage use
-On our belief, that all from them proceeds:
-I question it; for this fair earth I see,
-Warmed by the sun, producing every kind;
-Them, nothing: if they all things, who enclosed
-Knowledge of good and evil in this tree,
-That whoso eats thereof, forthwith attains
-Wisdom without their leave? and wherein lies
-The offence, that Man should thus attain to know?
-What can your knowledge hurt him, or this tree
-Impart against his will, if all be his?
-Or is it envy? and can envy dwell
-In heavenly breasts? These, these, and many more
-Causes import your need of this fair fruit.
-Goddess humane, reach then, and freely taste!
-He ended; and his words, replete with guile,
-Into her heart too easy entrance won:
-Fixed on the fruit she gazed, which to behold
-Might tempt alone; and in her ears the sound
-Yet rung of his persuasive words, impregned
-With reason, to her seeming, and with truth:
-Mean while the hour of noon drew on, and waked
-An eager appetite, raised by the smell
-So savoury of that fruit, which with desire,
-Inclinable now grown to touch or taste,
-Solicited her longing eye; yet first
-Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.
-Great are thy virtues, doubtless, best of fruits,
-Though kept from man, and worthy to be admired;
-Whose taste, too long forborn, at first assay
-Gave elocution to the mute, and taught
-The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise:
-Thy praise he also, who forbids thy use,
-Conceals not from us, naming thee the tree
-Of knowledge, knowledge both of good and evil;
-Forbids us then to taste! but his forbidding
-Commends thee more, while it infers the good
-By thee communicated, and our want:
-For good unknown sure is not had; or, had
-And yet unknown, is as not had at all.
-In plain then, what forbids he but to know,
-Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise?
-Such prohibitions bind not. But, if death
-Bind us with after-bands, what profits then
-Our inward freedom? In the day we eat
-Of this fair fruit, our doom is, we shall die!
-How dies the Serpent? he hath eaten and lives,
-And knows, and speaks, and reasons, and discerns,
-Irrational till then. For us alone
-Was death invented? or to us denied
-This intellectual food, for beasts reserved?
-For beasts it seems: yet that one beast which first
-Hath tasted envies not, but brings with joy
-The good befallen him, author unsuspect,
-Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile.
-What fear I then? rather, what know to fear
-Under this ignorance of good and evil,
-Of God or death, of law or penalty?
-Here grows the cure of all, this fruit divine,
-Fair to the eye, inviting to the taste,
-Of virtue to make wise: What hinders then
-To reach, and feed at once both body and mind?
-So saying, her rash hand in evil hour
-Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat!
-Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
-Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe,
-That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk
-The guilty Serpent; and well might;for Eve,
-Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else
-Regarded; such delight till then, as seemed,
-In fruit she never tasted, whether true
-Or fancied so, through expectation high
-Of knowledge; not was Godhead from her thought.
-Greedily she ingorged without restraint,
-And knew not eating death: Satiate at length,
-And hightened as with wine, jocund and boon,
-Thus to herself she pleasingly began.
-O sovran, virtuous, precious of all trees
-In Paradise! of operation blest
-To sapience, hitherto obscured, infamed.
-And thy fair fruit let hang, as to no end
-Created; but henceforth my early care,
-Not without song, each morning, and due praise,
-Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease
-Of thy full branches offered free to all;
-Till, dieted by thee, I grow mature
-In knowledge, as the Gods, who all things know;
-Though others envy what they cannot give:
-For, had the gift been theirs, it had not here
-Thus grown. Experience, next, to thee I owe,
-Best guide; not following thee, I had remained
-In ignorance; thou openest wisdom's way,
-And givest access, though secret she retire.
-And I perhaps am secret: Heaven is high,
-High, and remote to see from thence distinct
-Each thing on Earth; and other care perhaps
-May have diverted from continual watch
-Our great Forbidder, safe with all his spies
-About him. But to Adam in what sort
-Shall I appear? shall I to him make known
-As yet my change, and give him to partake
-Full happiness with me, or rather not,
-But keeps the odds of knowledge in my power
-Without copartner? so to add what wants
-In female sex, the more to draw his love,
-And render me more equal; and perhaps,
-A thing not undesirable, sometime
-Superiour; for, inferiour, who is free
-This may be well: But what if God have seen,
-And death ensue? then I shall be no more!
-And Adam, wedded to another Eve,
-Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct;
-A death to think! Confirmed then I resolve,
-Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe:
-So dear I love him, that with him all deaths
-I could endure, without him live no life.
-So saying, from the tree her step she turned;
-But first low reverence done, as to the Power
-That dwelt within, whose presence had infused
-Into the plant sciential sap, derived
-From nectar, drink of Gods. Adam the while,
-Waiting desirous her return, had wove
-Of choicest flowers a garland, to adorn
-Her tresses, and her rural labours crown;
-As reapers oft are wont their harvest-queen.
-Great joy he promised to his thoughts, and new
-Solace in her return, so long delayed:
-Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,
-Misgave him; he the faltering measure felt;
-And forth to meet her went, the way she took
-That morn when first they parted: by the tree
-Of knowledge he must pass; there he her met,
-Scarce from the tree returning; in her hand
-A bough of fairest fruit, that downy smiled,
-New gathered, and ambrosial smell diffused.
-To him she hasted; in her face excuse
-Came prologue, and apology too prompt;
-Which, with bland words at will, she thus addressed.
-Hast thou not wondered, Adam, at my stay?
-Thee I have missed, and thought it long, deprived
-Thy presence; agony of love till now
-Not felt, nor shall be twice; for never more
-Mean I to try, what rash untried I sought,
-The pain of absence from thy sight. But strange
-Hath been the cause, and wonderful to hear:
-This tree is not, as we are told, a tree
-Of danger tasted, nor to evil unknown
-Opening the way, but of divine effect
-To open eyes, and make them Gods who taste;
-And hath been tasted such: The serpent wise,
-Or not restrained as we, or not obeying,
-Hath eaten of the fruit; and is become,
-Not dead, as we are threatened, but thenceforth
-Endued with human voice and human sense,
-Reasoning to admiration; and with me
-Persuasively hath so prevailed, that I
-Have also tasted, and have also found
-The effects to correspond; opener mine eyes,
-Dim erst, dilated spirits, ampler heart,
-And growing up to Godhead; which for thee
-Chiefly I sought, without thee can despise.
-For bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss;
-Tedious, unshared with thee, and odious soon.
-Thou therefore also taste, that equal lot
-May join us, equal joy, as equal love;
-Lest, thou not tasting, different degree
-Disjoin us, and I then too late renounce
-Deity for thee, when Fate will not permit.
-Thus Eve with countenance blithe her story told;
-But in her cheek distemper flushing glowed.
-On the other side Adam, soon as he heard
-The fatal trespass done by Eve, amazed,
-Astonied stood and blank, while horrour chill
-Ran through his veins, and all his joints relaxed;
-From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve
-Down dropt, and all the faded roses shed:
-Speechless he stood and pale, till thus at length
-First to himself he inward silence broke.
-O fairest of Creation, last and best
-Of all God's works, Creature in whom excelled
-Whatever can to sight or thought be formed,
-Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
-How art thou lost! how on a sudden lost,
-Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote!
-Rather, how hast thou yielded to transgress
-The strict forbiddance, how to violate
-The sacred fruit forbidden! Some cursed fraud
-Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
-And me with thee hath ruined; for with thee
-Certain my resolution is to die:
-How can I live without thee! how forego
-Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined,
-To live again in these wild woods forlorn!
-Should God create another Eve, and I
-Another rib afford, yet loss of thee
-Would never from my heart: no, no!I feel
-The link of Nature draw me: flesh of flesh,
-Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
-Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
-So having said, as one from sad dismay
-Recomforted, and after thoughts disturbed
-Submitting to what seemed remediless,
-Thus in calm mood his words to Eve he turned.
-Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve,
-And peril great provoked, who thus hast dared,
-Had it been only coveting to eye
-That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence,
-Much more to taste it under ban to touch.
-But past who can recall, or done undo?
-Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate; yet so
-Perhaps thou shalt not die, perhaps the fact
-Is not so heinous now, foretasted fruit,
-Profaned first by the serpent, by him first
-Made common, and unhallowed, ere our taste;
-Nor yet on him found deadly; yet he lives;
-Lives, as thou saidst, and gains to live, as Man,
-Higher degree of life; inducement strong
-To us, as likely tasting to attain
-Proportional ascent; which cannot be
-But to be Gods, or Angels, demi-Gods.
-Nor can I think that God, Creator wise,
-Though threatening, will in earnest so destroy
-Us his prime creatures, dignified so high,
-Set over all his works; which in our fall,
-For us created, needs with us must fail,
-Dependant made; so God shall uncreate,
-Be frustrate, do, undo, and labour lose;
-Not well conceived of God, who, though his power
-Creation could repeat, yet would be loth
-Us to abolish, lest the Adversary
-Triumph, and say; "Fickle their state whom God
-"Most favours; who can please him long? Me first
-"He ruined, now Mankind; whom will he next?"
-Matter of scorn, not to be given the Foe.
-However I with thee have fixed my lot,
-Certain to undergo like doom: If death
-Consort with thee, death is to me as life;
-So forcible within my heart I feel
-The bond of Nature draw me to my own;
-My own in thee, for what thou art is mine;
-Our state cannot be severed; we are one,
-One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
-So Adam; and thus Eve to him replied.
-O glorious trial of exceeding love,
-Illustrious evidence, example high!
-Engaging me to emulate; but, short
-Of thy perfection, how shall I attain,
-Adam, from whose dear side I boast me sprung,
-And gladly of our union hear thee speak,
-One heart, one soul in both; whereof good proof
-This day affords, declaring thee resolved,
-Rather than death, or aught than death more dread,
-Shall separate us, linked in love so dear,
-To undergo with me one guilt, one crime,
-If any be, of tasting this fair fruit;
-Whose virtue for of good still good proceeds,
-Direct, or by occasion, hath presented
-This happy trial of thy love, which else
-So eminently never had been known?
-Were it I thought death menaced would ensue
-This my attempt, I would sustain alone
-The worst, and not persuade thee, rather die
-Deserted, than oblige thee with a fact
-Pernicious to thy peace; chiefly assured
-Remarkably so late of thy so true,
-So faithful, love unequalled: but I feel
-Far otherwise the event; not death, but life
-Augmented, opened eyes, new hopes, new joys,
-Taste so divine, that what of sweet before
-Hath touched my sense, flat seems to this, and harsh.
-On my experience, Adam, freely taste,
-And fear of death deliver to the winds.
-So saying, she embraced him, and for joy
-Tenderly wept; much won, that he his love
-Had so ennobled, as of choice to incur
-Divine displeasure for her sake, or death.
-In recompence for such compliance bad
-Such recompence best merits from the bough
-She gave him of that fair enticing fruit
-With liberal hand: he scrupled not to eat,
-Against his better knowledge; not deceived,
-But fondly overcome with female charm.
-Earth trembled from her entrails, as again
-In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan;
-Sky loured; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops
-Wept at completing of the mortal sin
-Original: while Adam took no thought,
-Eating his fill; nor Eve to iterate
-Her former trespass feared, the more to sooth
-Him with her loved society; that now,
-As with new wine intoxicated both,
-They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel
-Divinity within them breeding wings,
-Wherewith to scorn the earth: But that false fruit
-Far other operation first displayed,
-Carnal desire inflaming; he on Eve
-Began to cast lascivious eyes; she him
-As wantonly repaid; in lust they burn:
-Till Adam thus 'gan Eve to dalliance move.
-Eve, now I see thou art exact of taste,
-And elegant, of sapience no small part;
-Since to each meaning savour we apply,
-And palate call judicious; I the praise
-Yield thee, so well this day thou hast purveyed.
-Much pleasure we have lost, while we abstained
-From this delightful fruit, nor known till now
-True relish, tasting; if such pleasure be
-In things to us forbidden, it might be wished,
-For this one tree had been forbidden ten.
-But come, so well refreshed, now let us play,
-As meet is, after such delicious fare;
-For never did thy beauty, since the day
-I saw thee first and wedded thee, adorned
-With all perfections, so inflame my sense
-With ardour to enjoy thee, fairer now
-Than ever; bounty of this virtuous tree!
-So said he, and forbore not glance or toy
-Of amorous intent; well understood
-Of Eve, whose eye darted contagious fire.
-Her hand he seised; and to a shady bank,
-Thick over-head with verdant roof imbowered,
-He led her nothing loth; flowers were the couch,
-Pansies, and violets, and asphodel,
-And hyacinth; Earth's freshest softest lap.
-There they their fill of love and love's disport
-Took largely, of their mutual guilt the seal,
-The solace of their sin; till dewy sleep
-Oppressed them, wearied with their amorous play,
-Soon as the force of that fallacious fruit,
-That with exhilarating vapour bland
-About their spirits had played, and inmost powers
-Made err, was now exhaled; and grosser sleep,
-Bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams
-Incumbered, now had left them; up they rose
-As from unrest; and, each the other viewing,
-Soon found their eyes how opened, and their minds
-How darkened; innocence, that as a veil
-Had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone;
-Just confidence, and native righteousness,
-And honour, from about them, naked left
-To guilty Shame; he covered, but his robe
-Uncovered more. So rose the Danite strong,
-Herculean Samson, from the harlot-lap
-Of Philistean Dalilah, and waked
-Shorn of his strength. They destitute and bare
-Of all their virtue: Silent, and in face
-Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute:
-Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed,
-At length gave utterance to these words constrained.
-O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give ear
-To that false worm, of whomsoever taught
-To counterfeit Man's voice; true in our fall,
-False in our promised rising; since our eyes
-Opened we find indeed, and find we know
-Both good and evil; good lost, and evil got;
-Bad fruit of knowledge, if this be to know;
-Which leaves us naked thus, of honour void,
-Of innocence, of faith, of purity,
-Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained,
-And in our faces evident the signs
-Of foul concupiscence; whence evil store;
-Even shame, the last of evils; of the first
-Be sure then.--How shall I behold the face
-Henceforth of God or Angel, erst with joy
-And rapture so oft beheld? Those heavenly shapes
-Will dazzle now this earthly with their blaze
-Insufferably bright. O! might I here
-In solitude live savage; in some glade
-Obscured, where highest woods, impenetrable
-To star or sun-light, spread their umbrage broad
-And brown as evening: Cover me, ye Pines!
-Ye Cedars, with innumerable boughs
-Hide me, where I may never see them more!--
-But let us now, as in bad plight, devise
-What best may for the present serve to hide
-The parts of each from other, that seem most
-To shame obnoxious, and unseemliest seen;
-Some tree, whose broad smooth leaves together sewed,
-And girded on our loins, may cover round
-Those middle parts; that this new comer, Shame,
-There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
-So counselled he, and both together went
-Into the thickest wood; there soon they chose
-The fig-tree; not that kind for fruit renowned,
-But such as at this day, to Indians known,
-In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms
-Branching so broad and long, that in the ground
-The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow
-About the mother tree, a pillared shade
-High over-arched, and echoing walks between:
-There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat,
-Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds
-At loop-holes cut through thickest shade: Those leaves
-They gathered, broad as Amazonian targe;
-And, with what skill they had, together sewed,
-To gird their waist; vain covering, if to hide
-Their guilt and dreaded shame! O, how unlike
-To that first naked glory! Such of late
-Columbus found the American, so girt
-With feathered cincture; naked else, and wild
-Among the trees on isles and woody shores.
-Thus fenced, and, as they thought, their shame in part
-Covered, but not at rest or ease of mind,
-They sat them down to weep; nor only tears
-Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within
-Began to rise, high passions, anger, hate,
-Mistrust, suspicion, discord; and shook sore
-Their inward state of mind, calm region once
-And full of peace, now tost and turbulent:
-For Understanding ruled not, and the Will
-Heard not her lore; both in subjection now
-To sensual Appetite, who from beneath
-Usurping over sovran Reason claimed
-Superiour sway: From thus distempered breast,
-Adam, estranged in look and altered style,
-Speech intermitted thus to Eve renewed.
-Would thou hadst hearkened to my words, and staid
-With me, as I besought thee, when that strange
-Desire of wandering, this unhappy morn,
-I know not whence possessed thee; we had then
-Remained still happy; not, as now, despoiled
-Of all our good; shamed, naked, miserable!
-Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve
-The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek
-Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.
-To whom, soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve.
-What words have passed thy lips, Adam severe!
-Imputest thou that to my default, or will
-Of wandering, as thou callest it, which who knows
-But might as ill have happened thou being by,
-Or to thyself perhaps? Hadst thou been there,
-Or here the attempt, thou couldst not have discerned
-Fraud in the Serpent, speaking as he spake;
-No ground of enmity between us known,
-Why he should mean me ill, or seek to harm.
-Was I to have never parted from thy side?
-As good have grown there still a lifeless rib.
-Being as I am, why didst not thou, the head,
-Command me absolutely not to go,
-Going into such danger, as thou saidst?
-Too facile then, thou didst not much gainsay;
-Nay, didst permit, approve, and fair dismiss.
-Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent,
-Neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me.
-To whom, then first incensed, Adam replied.
-Is this the love, is this the recompence
-Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve! expressed
-Immutable, when thou wert lost, not I;
-Who might have lived, and joyed immortal bliss,
-Yet willingly chose rather death with thee?
-And am I now upbraided as the cause
-Of thy transgressing? Not enough severe,
-It seems, in thy restraint: What could I more
-I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold
-The danger, and the lurking enemy
-That lay in wait; beyond this, had been force;
-And force upon free will hath here no place.
-But confidence then bore thee on; secure
-Either to meet no danger, or to find
-Matter of glorious trial; and perhaps
-I also erred, in overmuch admiring
-What seemed in thee so perfect, that I thought
-No evil durst attempt thee; but I rue
-The errour now, which is become my crime,
-And thou the accuser. Thus it shall befall
-Him, who, to worth in women overtrusting,
-Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook;
-And, left to herself, if evil thence ensue,
-She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
-Thus they in mutual accusation spent
-The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning;
-And of their vain contest appeared no end.
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-Mean while the heinous and despiteful act
-Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how
-He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve,
-Her husband she, to taste the fatal fruit,
-Was known in Heaven; for what can 'scape the eye
-Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart
-Omniscient? who, in all things wise and just,
-Hindered not Satan to attempt the mind
-Of Man, with strength entire and free will armed,
-Complete to have discovered and repulsed
-Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend.
-For still they knew, and ought to have still remembered,
-The high injunction, not to taste that fruit,
-Whoever tempted; which they not obeying,
-(Incurred what could they less?) the penalty;
-And, manifold in sin, deserved to fall.
-Up into Heaven from Paradise in haste
-The angelick guards ascended, mute, and sad,
-For Man; for of his state by this they knew,
-Much wondering how the subtle Fiend had stolen
-Entrance unseen. Soon as the unwelcome news
-From Earth arrived at Heaven-gate, displeased
-All were who heard; dim sadness did not spare
-That time celestial visages, yet, mixed
-With pity, violated not their bliss.
-About the new-arrived, in multitudes
-The ethereal people ran, to hear and know
-How all befel: They towards the throne supreme,
-Accountable, made haste, to make appear,
-With righteous plea, their utmost vigilance
-And easily approved; when the Most High
-Eternal Father, from his secret cloud,
-Amidst in thunder uttered thus his voice.
-Assembled Angels, and ye Powers returned
-From unsuccessful charge; be not dismayed,
-Nor troubled at these tidings from the earth,
-Which your sincerest care could not prevent;
-Foretold so lately what would come to pass,
-When first this tempter crossed the gulf from Hell.
-I told ye then he should prevail, and speed
-On his bad errand; Man should be seduced,
-And flattered out of all, believing lies
-Against his Maker; no decree of mine
-Concurring to necessitate his fall,
-Or touch with lightest moment of impulse
-His free will, to her own inclining left
-In even scale. But fallen he is; and now
-What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass
-On his transgression,--death denounced that day?
-Which he presumes already vain and void,
-Because not yet inflicted, as he feared,
-By some immediate stroke; but soon shall find
-Forbearance no acquittance, ere day end.
-Justice shall not return as bounty scorned.
-But whom send I to judge them? whom but thee,
-Vicegerent Son? To thee I have transferred
-All judgement, whether in Heaven, or Earth, or Hell.
-Easy it may be seen that I intend
-Mercy colleague with justice, sending thee
-Man's friend, his Mediator, his designed
-Both ransom and Redeemer voluntary,
-And destined Man himself to judge Man fallen.
-So spake the Father; and, unfolding bright
-Toward the right hand his glory, on the Son
-Blazed forth unclouded Deity: He full
-Resplendent all his Father manifest
-Expressed, and thus divinely answered mild.
-Father Eternal, thine is to decree;
-Mine, both in Heaven and Earth, to do thy will
-Supreme; that thou in me, thy Son beloved,
-Mayest ever rest well pleased. I go to judge
-On earth these thy transgressours; but thou knowest,
-Whoever judged, the worst on me must light,
-When time shall be; for so I undertook
-Before thee; and, not repenting, this obtain
-Of right, that I may mitigate their doom
-On me derived; yet I shall temper so
-Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most
-Them fully satisfied, and thee appease.
-Attendance none shall need, nor train, where none
-Are to behold the judgement, but the judged,
-Those two; the third best absent is condemned,
-Convict by flight, and rebel to all law:
-Conviction to the serpent none belongs.
-Thus saying, from his radiant seat he rose
-Of high collateral glory: Him Thrones, and Powers,
-Princedoms, and Dominations ministrant,
-Accompanied to Heaven-gate; from whence
-Eden, and all the coast, in prospect lay.
-Down he descended straight; the speed of Gods
-Time counts not, though with swiftest minutes winged.
-Now was the sun in western cadence low
-From noon, and gentle airs, due at their hour,
-To fan the earth now waked, and usher in
-The evening cool; when he, from wrath more cool,
-Came the mild Judge, and Intercessour both,
-To sentence Man: The voice of God they heard
-Now walking in the garden, by soft winds
-Brought to their ears, while day declined; they heard,
-And from his presence hid themselves among
-The thickest trees, both man and wife; till God,
-Approaching, thus to Adam called aloud.
-Where art thou, Adam, wont with joy to meet
-My coming seen far off? I miss thee here,
-Not pleased, thus entertained with solitude,
-Where obvious duty ere while appeared unsought:
-Or come I less conspicuous, or what change
-Absents thee, or what chance detains?--Come forth!
-He came; and with him Eve, more loth, though first
-To offend; discountenanced both, and discomposed;
-Love was not in their looks, either to God,
-Or to each other; but apparent guilt,
-And shame, and perturbation, and despair,
-Anger, and obstinacy, and hate, and guile.
-Whence Adam, faltering long, thus answered brief.
-I heard thee in the garden, and of thy voice
-Afraid, being naked, hid myself. To whom
-The gracious Judge without revile replied.
-My voice thou oft hast heard, and hast not feared,
-But still rejoiced; how is it now become
-So dreadful to thee? That thou art naked, who
-Hath told thee? Hast thou eaten of the tree,
-Whereof I gave thee charge thou shouldst not eat?
-To whom thus Adam sore beset replied.
-O Heaven! in evil strait this day I stand
-Before my Judge; either to undergo
-Myself the total crime, or to accuse
-My other self, the partner of my life;
-Whose failing, while her faith to me remains,
-I should conceal, and not expose to blame
-By my complaint: but strict necessity
-Subdues me, and calamitous constraint;
-Lest on my head both sin and punishment,
-However insupportable, be all
-Devolved; though should I hold my peace, yet thou
-Wouldst easily detect what I conceal.--
-This Woman, whom thou madest to be my help,
-And gavest me as thy perfect gift, so good,
-So fit, so acceptable, so divine,
-That from her hand I could suspect no ill,
-And what she did, whatever in itself,
-Her doing seemed to justify the deed;
-She gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
-To whom the Sovran Presence thus replied.
-Was she thy God, that her thou didst obey
-Before his voice? or was she made thy guide,
-Superiour, or but equal, that to her
-Thou didst resign thy manhood, and the place
-Wherein God set thee above her made of thee,
-And for thee, whose perfection far excelled
-Hers in all real dignity? Adorned
-She was indeed, and lovely, to attract
-Thy love, not thy subjection; and her gifts
-Were such, as under government well seemed;
-Unseemly to bear rule; which was thy part
-And person, hadst thou known thyself aright.
-So having said, he thus to Eve in few.
-Say, Woman, what is this which thou hast done?
-To whom sad Eve, with shame nigh overwhelmed,
-Confessing soon, yet not before her Judge
-Bold or loquacious, thus abashed replied.
-The Serpent me beguiled, and I did eat.
-Which when the Lord God heard, without delay
-To judgement he proceeded on the accused
-Serpent, though brute; unable to transfer
-The guilt on him, who made him instrument
-Of mischief, and polluted from the end
-Of his creation; justly then accursed,
-As vitiated in nature: More to know
-Concerned not Man, (since he no further knew)
-Nor altered his offence; yet God at last
-To Satan first in sin his doom applied,
-Though in mysterious terms, judged as then best:
-And on the Serpent thus his curse let fall.
-Because thou hast done this, thou art accursed
-Above all cattle, each beast of the field;
-Upon thy belly groveling thou shalt go,
-And dust shalt eat all the days of thy life.
-Between thee and the woman I will put
-Enmity, and between thine and her seed;
-Her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel.
-So spake this oracle, then verified
-When Jesus, Son of Mary, second Eve,
-Saw Satan fall, like lightning, down from Heaven,
-Prince of the air; then, rising from his grave
-Spoiled Principalities and Powers, triumphed
-In open show; and, with ascension bright,
-Captivity led captive through the air,
-The realm itself of Satan, long usurped;
-Whom he shall tread at last under our feet;
-Even he, who now foretold his fatal bruise;
-And to the Woman thus his sentence turned.
-Thy sorrow I will greatly multiply
-By thy conception; children thou shalt bring
-In sorrow forth; and to thy husband's will
-Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
-On Adam last thus judgement he pronounced.
-Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife,
-And eaten of the tree, concerning which
-I charged thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat thereof:
-Cursed is the ground for thy sake; thou in sorrow
-Shalt eat thereof, all the days of thy life;
-Thorns also and thistles it shall bring thee forth
-Unbid; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
-In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
-Till thou return unto the ground; for thou
-Out of the ground wast taken, know thy birth,
-For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
-So judged he Man, both Judge and Saviour sent;
-And the instant stroke of death, denounced that day,
-Removed far off; then, pitying how they stood
-Before him naked to the air, that now
-Must suffer change, disdained not to begin
-Thenceforth the form of servant to assume;
-As when he washed his servants feet; so now,
-As father of his family, he clad
-Their nakedness with skins of beasts, or slain,
-Or as the snake with youthful coat repaid;
-And thought not much to clothe his enemies;
-Nor he their outward only with the skins
-Of beasts, but inward nakedness, much more.
-Opprobrious, with his robe of righteousness,
-Arraying, covered from his Father's sight.
-To him with swift ascent he up returned,
-Into his blissful bosom reassumed
-In glory, as of old; to him appeased
-All, though all-knowing, what had passed with Man
-Recounted, mixing intercession sweet.
-Mean while, ere thus was sinned and judged on Earth,
-Within the gates of Hell sat Sin and Death,
-In counterview within the gates, that now
-Stood open wide, belching outrageous flame
-Far into Chaos, since the Fiend passed through,
-Sin opening; who thus now to Death began.
-O Son, why sit we here each other viewing
-Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives
-In other worlds, and happier seat provides
-For us, his offspring dear? It cannot be
-But that success attends him; if mishap,
-Ere this he had returned, with fury driven
-By his avengers; since no place like this
-Can fit his punishment, or their revenge.
-Methinks I feel new strength within me rise,
-Wings growing, and dominion given me large
-Beyond this deep; whatever draws me on,
-Or sympathy, or some connatural force,
-Powerful at greatest distance to unite,
-With secret amity, things of like kind,
-By secretest conveyance. Thou, my shade
-Inseparable, must with me along;
-For Death from Sin no power can separate.
-But, lest the difficulty of passing back
-Stay his return perhaps over this gulf
-Impassable, impervious; let us try
-Adventurous work, yet to thy power and mine
-Not unagreeable, to found a path
-Over this main from Hell to that new world,
-Where Satan now prevails; a monument
-Of merit high to all the infernal host,
-Easing their passage hence, for intercourse,
-Or transmigration, as their lot shall lead.
-Nor can I miss the way, so strongly drawn
-By this new-felt attraction and instinct.
-Whom thus the meager Shadow answered soon.
-Go, whither Fate, and inclination strong,
-Leads thee; I shall not lag behind, nor err
-The way, thou leading; such a scent I draw
-Of carnage, prey innumerable, and taste
-The savour of death from all things there that live:
-Nor shall I to the work thou enterprisest
-Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid.
-So saying, with delight he snuffed the smell
-Of mortal change on earth. As when a flock
-Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remote,
-Against the day of battle, to a field,
-Where armies lie encamped, come flying, lured
-With scent of living carcasses designed
-For death, the following day, in bloody fight:
-So scented the grim Feature, and upturned
-His nostril wide into the murky air;
-Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
-Then both from out Hell-gates, into the waste
-Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark,
-Flew diverse; and with power (their power was great)
-Hovering upon the waters, what they met
-Solid or slimy, as in raging sea
-Tost up and down, together crouded drove,
-From each side shoaling towards the mouth of Hell;
-As when two polar winds, blowing adverse
-Upon the Cronian sea, together drive
-Mountains of ice, that stop the imagined way
-Beyond Petsora eastward, to the rich
-Cathaian coast. The aggregated soil
-Death with his mace petrifick, cold and dry,
-As with a trident, smote; and fixed as firm
-As Delos, floating once; the rest his look
-Bound with Gorgonian rigour not to move;
-And with Asphaltick slime, broad as the gate,
-Deep to the roots of Hell the gathered beach
-They fastened, and the mole immense wrought on
-Over the foaming deep high-arched, a bridge
-Of length prodigious, joining to the wall
-Immoveable of this now fenceless world,
-Forfeit to Death; from hence a passage broad,
-Smooth, easy, inoffensive, down to Hell.
-So, if great things to small may be compared,
-Xerxes, the liberty of Greece to yoke,
-From Susa, his Memnonian palace high,
-Came to the sea: and, over Hellespont
-Bridging his way, Europe with Asia joined,
-And scourged with many a stroke the indignant waves.
-Now had they brought the work by wonderous art
-Pontifical, a ridge of pendant rock,
-Over the vexed abyss, following the track
-Of Satan to the self-same place where he
-First lighted from his wing, and landed safe
-From out of Chaos, to the outside bare
-Of this round world: With pins of adamant
-And chains they made all fast, too fast they made
-And durable! And now in little space
-The confines met of empyrean Heaven,
-And of this World; and, on the left hand, Hell
-With long reach interposed; three several ways
-In sight, to each of these three places led.
-And now their way to Earth they had descried,
-To Paradise first tending; when, behold!
-Satan, in likeness of an Angel bright,
-Betwixt the Centaur and the Scorpion steering
-His zenith, while the sun in Aries rose:
-Disguised he came; but those his children dear
-Their parent soon discerned, though in disguise.
-He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk
-Into the wood fast by; and, changing shape,
-To observe the sequel, saw his guileful act
-By Eve, though all unweeting, seconded
-Upon her husband; saw their shame that sought
-Vain covertures; but when he saw descend
-The Son of God to judge them, terrified
-He fled; not hoping to escape, but shun
-The present; fearing, guilty, what his wrath
-Might suddenly inflict; that past, returned
-By night, and listening where the hapless pair
-Sat in their sad discourse, and various plaint,
-Thence gathered his own doom; which understood
-Not instant, but of future time, with joy
-And tidings fraught, to Hell he now returned;
-And at the brink of Chaos, near the foot
-Of this new wonderous pontifice, unhoped
-Met, who to meet him came, his offspring dear.
-Great joy was at their meeting, and at sight
-Of that stupendious bridge his joy encreased.
-Long he admiring stood, till Sin, his fair
-Enchanting daughter, thus the silence broke.
-O Parent, these are thy magnifick deeds,
-Thy trophies! which thou viewest as not thine own;
-Thou art their author, and prime architect:
-For I no sooner in my heart divined,
-My heart, which by a secret harmony
-Still moves with thine, joined in connexion sweet,
-That thou on earth hadst prospered, which thy looks
-Now also evidence, but straight I felt,
-Though distant from thee worlds between, yet felt,
-That I must after thee, with this thy son;
-Such fatal consequence unites us three!
-Hell could no longer hold us in our bounds,
-Nor this unvoyageable gulf obscure
-Detain from following thy illustrious track.
-Thou hast achieved our liberty, confined
-Within Hell-gates till now; thou us impowered
-To fortify thus far, and overlay,
-With this portentous bridge, the dark abyss.
-Thine now is all this world; thy virtue hath won
-What thy hands builded not; thy wisdom gained
-With odds what war hath lost, and fully avenged
-Our foil in Heaven; here thou shalt monarch reign,
-There didst not; there let him still victor sway,
-As battle hath adjudged; from this new world
-Retiring, by his own doom alienated;
-And henceforth monarchy with thee divide
-Of all things, parted by the empyreal bounds,
-His quadrature, from thy orbicular world;
-Or try thee now more dangerous to his throne.
-Whom thus the Prince of darkness answered glad.
-Fair Daughter, and thou Son and Grandchild both;
-High proof ye now have given to be the race
-Of Satan (for I glory in the name,
-Antagonist of Heaven's Almighty King,)
-Amply have merited of me, of all
-The infernal empire, that so near Heaven's door
-Triumphal with triumphal act have met,
-Mine, with this glorious work; and made one realm,
-Hell and this world, one realm, one continent
-Of easy thorough-fare. Therefore, while I
-Descend through darkness, on your road with ease,
-To my associate Powers, them to acquaint
-With these successes, and with them rejoice;
-You two this way, among these numerous orbs,
-All yours, right down to Paradise descend;
-There dwell, and reign in bliss; thence on the earth
-Dominion exercise and in the air,
-Chiefly on Man, sole lord of all declared;
-Him first make sure your thrall, and lastly kill.
-My substitutes I send ye, and create
-Plenipotent on earth, of matchless might
-Issuing from me: on your joint vigour now
-My hold of this new kingdom all depends,
-Through Sin to Death exposed by my exploit.
-If your joint power prevail, the affairs of Hell
-No detriment need fear; go, and be strong!
-So saying he dismissed them; they with speed
-Their course through thickest constellations held,
-Spreading their bane; the blasted stars looked wan,
-And planets, planet-struck, real eclipse
-Then suffered. The other way Satan went down
-The causey to Hell-gate: On either side
-Disparted Chaos overbuilt exclaimed,
-And with rebounding surge the bars assailed,
-That scorned his indignation: Through the gate,
-Wide open and unguarded, Satan passed,
-And all about found desolate; for those,
-Appointed to sit there, had left their charge,
-Flown to the upper world; the rest were all
-Far to the inland retired, about the walls
-Of Pandemonium; city and proud seat
-Of Lucifer, so by allusion called
-Of that bright star to Satan paragoned;
-There kept their watch the legions, while the Grand
-In council sat, solicitous what chance
-Might intercept their emperour sent; so he
-Departing gave command, and they observed.
-As when the Tartar from his Russian foe,
-By Astracan, over the snowy plains,
-Retires; or Bactrin Sophi, from the horns
-Of Turkish crescent, leaves all waste beyond
-The realm of Aladule, in his retreat
-To Tauris or Casbeen: So these, the late
-Heaven-banished host, left desart utmost Hell
-Many a dark league, reduced in careful watch
-Round their metropolis; and now expecting
-Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
-Of foreign worlds: He through the midst unmarked,
-In show plebeian Angel militant
-Of lowest order, passed; and from the door
-Of that Plutonian hall, invisible
-Ascended his high throne; which, under state
-Of richest texture spread, at the upper end
-Was placed in regal lustre. Down a while
-He sat, and round about him saw unseen:
-At last, as from a cloud, his fulgent head
-And shape star-bright appeared, or brighter; clad
-With what permissive glory since his fall
-Was left him, or false glitter: All amazed
-At that so sudden blaze the Stygian throng
-Bent their aspect, and whom they wished beheld,
-Their mighty Chief returned: loud was the acclaim:
-Forth rushed in haste the great consulting peers,
-Raised from their dark Divan, and with like joy
-Congratulant approached him; who with hand
-Silence, and with these words attention, won.
-Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers;
-For in possession such, not only of right,
-I call ye, and declare ye now; returned
-Successful beyond hope, to lead ye forth
-Triumphant out of this infernal pit
-Abominable, accursed, the house of woe,
-And dungeon of our tyrant: Now possess,
-As Lords, a spacious world, to our native Heaven
-Little inferiour, by my adventure hard
-With peril great achieved. Long were to tell
-What I have done; what suffered;with what pain
-Voyaged th' unreal, vast, unbounded deep
-Of horrible confusion; over which
-By Sin and Death a broad way now is paved,
-To expedite your glorious march; but I
-Toiled out my uncouth passage, forced to ride
-The untractable abyss, plunged in the womb
-Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wild;
-That, jealous of their secrets, fiercely opposed
-My journey strange, with clamorous uproar
-Protesting Fate supreme; thence how I found
-The new created world, which fame in Heaven
-Long had foretold, a fabrick wonderful
-Of absolute perfection! therein Man
-Placed in a Paradise, by our exile
-Made happy: Him by fraud I have seduced
-From his Creator; and, the more to encrease
-Your wonder, with an apple; he, thereat
-Offended, worth your laughter! hath given up
-Both his beloved Man, and all his world,
-To Sin and Death a prey, and so to us,
-Without our hazard, labour, or alarm;
-To range in, and to dwell, and over Man
-To rule, as over all he should have ruled.
-True is, me also he hath judged, or rather
-Me not, but the brute serpent in whose shape
-Man I deceived: that which to me belongs,
-Is enmity which he will put between
-Me and mankind; I am to bruise his heel;
-His seed, when is not set, shall bruise my head:
-A world who would not purchase with a bruise,
-Or much more grievous pain?--Ye have the account
-Of my performance: What remains, ye Gods,
-But up, and enter now into full bliss?
-So having said, a while he stood, expecting
-Their universal shout, and high applause,
-To fill his ear; when, contrary, he hears
-On all sides, from innumerable tongues,
-A dismal universal hiss, the sound
-Of publick scorn; he wondered, but not long
-Had leisure, wondering at himself now more,
-His visage drawn he felt to sharp and spare;
-His arms clung to his ribs; his legs entwining
-Each other, till supplanted down he fell
-A monstrous serpent on his belly prone,
-Reluctant, but in vain; a greater power
-Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned,
-According to his doom: he would have spoke,
-But hiss for hiss returned with forked tongue
-To forked tongue; for now were all transformed
-Alike, to serpents all, as accessories
-To his bold riot: Dreadful was the din
-Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now
-With complicated monsters head and tail,
-Scorpion, and Asp, and Amphisbaena dire,
-Cerastes horned, Hydrus, and Elops drear,
-And Dipsas; (not so thick swarmed once the soil
-Bedropt with blood of Gorgon, or the isle
-Ophiusa,) but still greatest he the midst,
-Now Dragon grown, larger than whom the sun
-Ingendered in the Pythian vale or slime,
-Huge Python, and his power no less he seemed
-Above the rest still to retain; they all
-Him followed, issuing forth to the open field,
-Where all yet left of that revolted rout,
-Heaven-fallen, in station stood or just array;
-Sublime with expectation when to see
-In triumph issuing forth their glorious Chief;
-They saw, but other sight instead! a croud
-Of ugly serpents; horrour on them fell,
-And horrid sympathy; for, what they saw,
-They felt themselves, now changing; down their arms,
-Down fell both spear and shield; down they as fast;
-And the dire hiss renewed, and the dire form
-Catched, by contagion; like in punishment,
-As in their crime. Thus was the applause they meant,
-Turned to exploding hiss, triumph to shame
-Cast on themselves from their own mouths. There stood
-A grove hard by, sprung up with this their change,
-His will who reigns above, to aggravate
-Their penance, laden with fair fruit, like that
-Which grew in Paradise, the bait of Eve
-Used by the Tempter: on that prospect strange
-Their earnest eyes they fixed, imagining
-For one forbidden tree a multitude
-Now risen, to work them further woe or shame;
-Yet, parched with scalding thirst and hunger fierce,
-Though to delude them sent, could not abstain;
-But on they rolled in heaps, and, up the trees
-Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks
-That curled Megaera: greedily they plucked
-The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew
-Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed;
-This more delusive, not the touch, but taste
-Deceived; they, fondly thinking to allay
-Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit
-Chewed bitter ashes, which the offended taste
-With spattering noise rejected: oft they assayed,
-Hunger and thirst constraining; drugged as oft,
-With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws,
-With soot and cinders filled; so oft they fell
-Into the same illusion, not as Man
-Whom they triumphed once lapsed. Thus were they plagued
-And worn with famine, long and ceaseless hiss,
-Till their lost shape, permitted, they resumed;
-Yearly enjoined, some say, to undergo,
-This annual humbling certain numbered days,
-To dash their pride, and joy, for Man seduced.
-However, some tradition they dispersed
-Among the Heathen, of their purchase got,
-And fabled how the Serpent, whom they called
-Ophion, with Eurynome, the wide--
-Encroaching Eve perhaps, had first the rule
-Of high Olympus; thence by Saturn driven
-And Ops, ere yet Dictaean Jove was born.
-Mean while in Paradise the hellish pair
-Too soon arrived; Sin, there in power before,
-Once actual; now in body, and to dwell
-Habitual habitant; behind her Death,
-Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet
-On his pale horse: to whom Sin thus began.
-Second of Satan sprung, all-conquering Death!
-What thinkest thou of our empire now, though earned
-With travel difficult, not better far
-Than still at Hell's dark threshold to have sat watch,
-Unnamed, undreaded, and thyself half starved?
-Whom thus the Sin-born monster answered soon.
-To me, who with eternal famine pine,
-Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven;
-There best, where most with ravine I may meet;
-Which here, though plenteous, all too little seems
-To stuff this maw, this vast unhide-bound corps.
-To whom the incestuous mother thus replied.
-Thou therefore on these herbs, and fruits, and flowers,
-Feed first; on each beast next, and fish, and fowl;
-No homely morsels! and, whatever thing
-The sithe of Time mows down, devour unspared;
-Till I, in Man residing, through the race,
-His thoughts, his looks, words, actions, all infect;
-And season him thy last and sweetest prey.
-This said, they both betook them several ways,
-Both to destroy, or unimmortal make
-All kinds, and for destruction to mature
-Sooner or later; which the Almighty seeing,
-From his transcendent seat the Saints among,
-To those bright Orders uttered thus his voice.
-See, with what heat these dogs of Hell advance
-To waste and havock yonder world, which I
-So fair and good created; and had still
-Kept in that state, had not the folly of Man
-Let in these wasteful furies, who impute
-Folly to me; so doth the Prince of Hell
-And his adherents, that with so much ease
-I suffer them to enter and possess
-A place so heavenly; and, conniving, seem
-To gratify my scornful enemies,
-That laugh, as if, transported with some fit
-Of passion, I to them had quitted all,
-At random yielded up to their misrule;
-And know not that I called, and drew them thither,
-My Hell-hounds, to lick up the draff and filth
-Which Man's polluting sin with taint hath shed
-On what was pure; til, crammed and gorged, nigh burst
-With sucked and glutted offal, at one sling
-Of thy victorious arm, well-pleasing Son,
-Both Sin, and Death, and yawning Grave, at last,
-Through Chaos hurled, obstruct the mouth of Hell
-For ever, and seal up his ravenous jaws.
-Then Heaven and Earth renewed shall be made pure
-To sanctity, that shall receive no stain:
-Till then, the curse pronounced on both precedes.
-He ended, and the heavenly audience loud
-Sung Halleluiah, as the sound of seas,
-Through multitude that sung: Just are thy ways,
-Righteous are thy decrees on all thy works;
-Who can extenuate thee? Next, to the Son,
-Destined Restorer of mankind, by whom
-New Heaven and Earth shall to the ages rise,
-Or down from Heaven descend.--Such was their song;
-While the Creator, calling forth by name
-His mighty Angels, gave them several charge,
-As sorted best with present things. The sun
-Had first his precept so to move, so shine,
-As might affect the earth with cold and heat
-Scarce tolerable; and from the north to call
-Decrepit winter; from the south to bring
-Solstitial summer's heat. To the blanc moon
-Her office they prescribed; to the other five
-Their planetary motions, and aspects,
-In sextile, square, and trine, and opposite,
-Of noxious efficacy, and when to join
-In synod unbenign; and taught the fixed
-Their influence malignant when to shower,
-Which of them rising with the sun, or falling,
-Should prove tempestuous: To the winds they set
-Their corners, when with bluster to confound
-Sea, air, and shore; the thunder when to roll
-With terrour through the dark aereal hall.
-Some say, he bid his Angels turn ascanse
-The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more,
-From the sun's axle; they with labour pushed
-Oblique the centrick globe: Some say, the sun
-Was bid turn reins from the equinoctial road
-Like distant breadth to Taurus with the seven
-Atlantick Sisters, and the Spartan Twins,
-Up to the Tropick Crab: thence down amain
-By Leo, and the Virgin, and the Scales,
-As deep as Capricorn; to bring in change
-Of seasons to each clime; else had the spring
-Perpetual smiled on earth with vernant flowers,
-Equal in days and nights, except to those
-Beyond the polar circles; to them day
-Had unbenighted shone, while the low sun,
-To recompense his distance, in their sight
-Had rounded still the horizon, and not known
-Or east or west; which had forbid the snow
-From cold Estotiland, and south as far
-Beneath Magellan. At that tasted fruit
-The sun, as from Thyestean banquet, turned
-His course intended; else, how had the world
-Inhabited, though sinless, more than now,
-Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat?
-These changes in the Heavens, though slow, produced
-Like change on sea and land; sideral blast,
-Vapour, and mist, and exhalation hot,
-Corrupt and pestilent: Now from the north
-Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shore,
-Bursting their brazen dungeon, armed with ice,
-And snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw,
-Boreas, and Caecias, and Argestes loud,
-And Thrascias, rend the woods, and seas upturn;
-With adverse blast upturns them from the south
-Notus, and Afer black with thunderous clouds
-From Serraliona; thwart of these, as fierce,
-Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds,
-Eurus and Zephyr, with their lateral noise,
-Sirocco and Libecchio. Thus began
-Outrage from lifeless things; but Discord first,
-Daughter of Sin, among the irrational
-Death introduced, through fierce antipathy:
-Beast now with beast 'gan war, and fowl with fowl,
-And fish with fish; to graze the herb all leaving,
-Devoured each other; nor stood much in awe
-Of Man, but fled him; or, with countenance grim,
-Glared on him passing. These were from without
-The growing miseries, which Adam saw
-Already in part, though hid in gloomiest shade,
-To sorrow abandoned, but worse felt within;
-And, in a troubled sea of passion tost,
-Thus to disburden sought with sad complaint.
-O miserable of happy! Is this the end
-Of this new glorious world, and me so late
-The glory of that glory, who now become
-Accursed, of blessed? hide me from the face
-Of God, whom to behold was then my highth
-Of happiness!--Yet well, if here would end
-The misery; I deserved it, and would bear
-My own deservings; but this will not serve:
-All that I eat or drink, or shall beget,
-Is propagated curse. O voice, once heard
-Delightfully, Encrease and multiply;
-Now death to hear! for what can I encrease,
-Or multiply, but curses on my head?
-Who of all ages to succeed, but, feeling
-The evil on him brought by me, will curse
-My head? Ill fare our ancestor impure,
-For this we may thank Adam! but his thanks
-Shall be the execration: so, besides
-Mine own that bide upon me, all from me
-Shall with a fierce reflux on me rebound;
-On me, as on their natural center, light
-Heavy, though in their place. O fleeting joys
-Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
-Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
-To mould me Man? did I solicit thee
-From darkness to promote me, or here place
-In this delicious garden? As my will
-Concurred not to my being, it were but right
-And equal to reduce me to my dust;
-Desirous to resign and render back
-All I received; unable to perform
-Thy terms too hard, by which I was to hold
-The good I sought not. To the loss of that,
-Sufficient penalty, why hast thou added
-The sense of endless woes? Inexplicable
-Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out
-To deathless pain? How gladly would I meet
-Mortality my sentence, and be earth
-Insensible! How glad would lay me down
-As in my mother's lap! There I should rest,
-And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no more
-Would thunder in my ears; no fear of worse
-To me, and to my offspring, would torment me
-With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt
-Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die;
-Lest that pure breath of life, the spirit of Man
-Which God inspired, cannot together perish
-With this corporeal clod; then, in the grave,
-Or in some other dismal place, who knows
-But I shall die a living death? O thought
-Horrid, if true! Yet why? It was but breath
-Of life that sinned; what dies but what had life
-And sin? The body properly had neither,
-All of me then shall die: let this appease
-The doubt, since human reach no further knows.
-For though the Lord of all be infinite,
-Is his wrath also? Be it, Man is not so,
-But mortal doomed. How can he exercise
-Wrath without end on Man, whom death must end?
-Can he make deathless death? That were to make
-Strange contradiction, which to God himself
-Impossible is held; as argument
-Of weakness, not of power. Will he draw out,
-For anger's sake, finite to infinite,
-In punished Man, to satisfy his rigour,
-Satisfied never? That were to extend
-His sentence beyond dust and Nature's law;
-By which all causes else, according still
-To the reception of their matter, act;
-Not to the extent of their own sphere. But say
-That death be not one stroke, as I supposed,
-Bereaving sense, but endless misery
-From this day onward; which I feel begun
-Both in me, and without me; and so last
-To perpetuity;--Ay me!that fear
-Comes thundering back with dreadful revolution
-On my defenceless head; both Death and I
-Am found eternal, and incorporate both;
-Nor I on my part single; in me all
-Posterity stands cursed: Fair patrimony
-That I must leave ye, Sons! O, were I able
-To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!
-So disinherited, how would you bless
-Me, now your curse! Ah, why should all mankind,
-For one man's fault, thus guiltless be condemned,
-It guiltless? But from me what can proceed,
-But all corrupt; both mind and will depraved
-Not to do only, but to will the same
-With me? How can they then acquitted stand
-In sight of God? Him, after all disputes,
-Forced I absolve: all my evasions vain,
-And reasonings, though through mazes, lead me still
-But to my own conviction: first and last
-On me, me only, as the source and spring
-Of all corruption, all the blame lights due;
-So might the wrath! Fond wish!couldst thou support
-That burden, heavier than the earth to bear;
-Than all the world much heavier, though divided
-With that bad Woman? Thus, what thou desirest,
-And what thou fearest, alike destroys all hope
-Of refuge, and concludes thee miserable
-Beyond all past example and future;
-To Satan only like both crime and doom.
-O Conscience! into what abyss of fears
-And horrours hast thou driven me; out of which
-I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged!
-Thus Adam to himself lamented loud,
-Through the still night; not now, as ere Man fell,
-Wholesome, and cool, and mild, but with black air
-Accompanied; with damps, and dreadful gloom;
-Which to his evil conscience represented
-All things with double terrour: On the ground
-Outstretched he lay, on the cold ground; and oft
-Cursed his creation; Death as oft accused
-Of tardy execution, since denounced
-The day of his offence. Why comes not Death,
-Said he, with one thrice-acceptable stroke
-To end me? Shall Truth fail to keep her word,
-Justice Divine not hasten to be just?
-But Death comes not at call; Justice Divine
-Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries,
-O woods, O fountains, hillocks, dales, and bowers!
-With other echo late I taught your shades
-To answer, and resound far other song.--
-Whom thus afflicted when sad Eve beheld,
-Desolate where she sat, approaching nigh,
-Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed:
-But her with stern regard he thus repelled.
-Out of my sight, thou Serpent! That name best
-Befits thee with him leagued, thyself as false
-And hateful; nothing wants, but that thy shape,
-Like his, and colour serpentine, may show
-Thy inward fraud; to warn all creatures from thee
-Henceforth; lest that too heavenly form, pretended
-To hellish falshood, snare them! But for thee
-I had persisted happy; had not thy pride
-And wandering vanity, when least was safe,
-Rejected my forewarning, and disdained
-Not to be trusted; longing to be seen,
-Though by the Devil himself; him overweening
-To over-reach; but, with the serpent meeting,
-Fooled and beguiled; by him thou, I by thee
-To trust thee from my side; imagined wise,
-Constant, mature, proof against all assaults;
-And understood not all was but a show,
-Rather than solid virtue; all but a rib
-Crooked by nature, bent, as now appears,
-More to the part sinister, from me drawn;
-Well if thrown out, as supernumerary
-To my just number found. O! why did God,
-Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven
-With Spirits masculine, create at last
-This novelty on earth, this fair defect
-Of nature, and not fill the world at once
-With Men, as Angels, without feminine;
-Or find some other way to generate
-Mankind? This mischief had not been befallen,
-And more that shall befall; innumerable
-Disturbances on earth through female snares,
-And strait conjunction with this sex: for either
-He never shall find out fit mate, but such
-As some misfortune brings him, or mistake;
-Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain
-Through her perverseness, but shall see her gained
-By a far worse; or, if she love, withheld
-By parents; or his happiest choice too late
-Shall meet, already linked and wedlock-bound
-To a fell adversary, his hate or shame:
-Which infinite calamity shall cause
-To human life, and houshold peace confound.
-He added not, and from her turned; but Eve,
-Not so repulsed, with tears that ceased not flowing
-And tresses all disordered, at his feet
-Fell humble; and, embracing them, besought
-His peace, and thus proceeded in her plaint.
-Forsake me not thus, Adam! witness Heaven
-What love sincere, and reverence in my heart
-I bear thee, and unweeting have offended,
-Unhappily deceived! Thy suppliant
-I beg, and clasp thy knees; bereave me not,
-Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid,
-Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress,
-My only strength and stay: Forlorn of thee,
-Whither shall I betake me, where subsist?
-While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps,
-Between us two let there be peace; both joining,
-As joined in injuries, one enmity
-Against a foe by doom express assigned us,
-That cruel Serpent: On me exercise not
-Thy hatred for this misery befallen;
-On me already lost, me than thyself
-More miserable! Both have sinned;but thou
-Against God only; I against God and thee;
-And to the place of judgement will return,
-There with my cries importune Heaven; that all
-The sentence, from thy head removed, may light
-On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe;
-Me, me only, just object of his ire!
-She ended weeping; and her lowly plight,
-Immoveable, till peace obtained from fault
-Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought
-Commiseration: Soon his heart relented
-Towards her, his life so late, and sole delight,
-Now at his feet submissive in distress;
-Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking,
-His counsel, whom she had displeased, his aid:
-As one disarmed, his anger all he lost,
-And thus with peaceful words upraised her soon.
-Unwary, and too desirous, as before,
-So now of what thou knowest not, who desirest
-The punishment all on thyself; alas!
-Bear thine own first, ill able to sustain
-His full wrath, whose thou feelest as yet least part,
-And my displeasure bearest so ill. If prayers
-Could alter high decrees, I to that place
-Would speed before thee, and be louder heard,
-That on my head all might be visited;
-Thy frailty and infirmer sex forgiven,
-To me committed, and by me exposed.
-But rise;--let us no more contend, nor blame
-Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive
-In offices of love, how we may lighten
-Each other's burden, in our share of woe;
-Since this day's death denounced, if aught I see,
-Will prove no sudden, but a slow-paced evil;
-A long day's dying, to augment our pain;
-And to our seed (O hapless seed!) derived.
-To whom thus Eve, recovering heart, replied.
-Adam, by sad experiment I know
-How little weight my words with thee can find,
-Found so erroneous; thence by just event
-Found so unfortunate: Nevertheless,
-Restored by thee, vile as I am, to place
-Of new acceptance, hopeful to regain
-Thy love, the sole contentment of my heart
-Living or dying, from thee I will not hide
-What thoughts in my unquiet breast are risen,
-Tending to some relief of our extremes,
-Or end; though sharp and sad, yet tolerable,
-As in our evils, and of easier choice.
-If care of our descent perplex us most,
-Which must be born to certain woe, devoured
-By Death at last; and miserable it is
-To be to others cause of misery,
-Our own begotten, and of our loins to bring
-Into this cursed world a woeful race,
-That after wretched life must be at last
-Food for so foul a monster; in thy power
-It lies, yet ere conception to prevent
-The race unblest, to being yet unbegot.
-Childless thou art, childless remain: so Death
-Shall be deceived his glut, and with us two
-Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw.
-But if thou judge it hard and difficult,
-Conversing, looking, loving, to abstain
-From love's due rights, nuptial embraces sweet;
-And with desire to languish without hope,
-Before the present object languishing
-With like desire; which would be misery
-And torment less than none of what we dread;
-Then, both ourselves and seed at once to free
-From what we fear for both, let us make short, --
-Let us seek Death; -- or, he not found, supply
-With our own hands his office on ourselves:
-Why stand we longer shivering under fears,
-That show no end but death, and have the power,
-Of many ways to die the shortest choosing,
-Destruction with destruction to destroy? --
-She ended here, or vehement despair
-Broke off the rest: so much of death her thoughts
-Had entertained, as dyed her cheeks with pale.
-But Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed,
-To better hopes his more attentive mind
-Labouring had raised; and thus to Eve replied.
-Eve, thy contempt of life and pleasure seems
-To argue in thee something more sublime
-And excellent, than what thy mind contemns;
-But self-destruction therefore sought, refutes
-That excellence thought in thee; and implies,
-Not thy contempt, but anguish and regret
-For loss of life and pleasure overloved.
-Or if thou covet death, as utmost end
-Of misery, so thinking to evade
-The penalty pronounced; doubt not but God
-Hath wiselier armed his vengeful ire, than so
-To be forestalled; much more I fear lest death,
-So snatched, will not exempt us from the pain
-We are by doom to pay; rather, such acts
-Of contumacy will provoke the Highest
-To make death in us live: Then let us seek
-Some safer resolution, which methinks
-I have in view, calling to mind with heed
-Part of our sentence, that thy seed shall bruise
-The Serpent's head; piteous amends! unless
-Be meant, whom I conjecture, our grand foe,
-Satan; who, in the serpent, hath contrived
-Against us this deceit: To crush his head
-Would be revenge indeed! which will be lost
-By death brought on ourselves, or childless days
-Resolved, as thou proposest; so our foe
-Shal 'scape his punishment ordained, and we
-Instead shall double ours upon our heads.
-No more be mentioned then of violence
-Against ourselves; and wilful barrenness,
-That cuts us off from hope; and savours only
-Rancour and pride, impatience and despite,
-Reluctance against God and his just yoke
-Laid on our necks. Remember with what mild
-And gracious temper he both heard, and judged,
-Without wrath or reviling; we expected
-Immediate dissolution, which we thought
-Was meant by death that day; when lo!to thee
-Pains only in child-bearing were foretold,
-And bringing forth; soon recompensed with joy,
-Fruit of thy womb: On me the curse aslope
-Glanced on the ground; with labour I must earn
-My bread; what harm? Idleness had been worse;
-My labour will sustain me; and, lest cold
-Or heat should injure us, his timely care
-Hath, unbesought, provided; and his hands
-Clothed us unworthy, pitying while he judged;
-How much more, if we pray him, will his ear
-Be open, and his heart to pity incline,
-And teach us further by what means to shun
-The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow!
-Which now the sky, with various face, begins
-To show us in this mountain; while the winds
-Blow moist and keen, shattering the graceful locks
-Of these fair spreading trees; which bids us seek
-Some better shroud, some better warmth to cherish
-Our limbs benummed, ere this diurnal star
-Leave cold the night, how we his gathered beams
-Reflected may with matter sere foment;
-Or, by collision of two bodies, grind
-The air attrite to fire; as late the clouds
-Justling, or pushed with winds, rude in their shock,
-Tine the slant lightning; whose thwart flame, driven down
-Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine;
-And sends a comfortable heat from far,
-Which might supply the sun: Such fire to use,
-And what may else be remedy or cure
-To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought,
-He will instruct us praying, and of grace
-Beseeching him; so as we need not fear
-To pass commodiously this life, sustained
-By him with many comforts, till we end
-In dust, our final rest and native home.
-What better can we do, than, to the place
-Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall
-Before him reverent; and there confess
-Humbly our faults, and pardon beg; with tears
-Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air
-Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign
-Of sorrow unfeigned, and humiliation meek
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-Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn
-From his displeasure; in whose look serene,
-When angry most he seemed and most severe,
-What else but favour, grace, and mercy, shone?
-So spake our father penitent; nor Eve
-Felt less remorse: they, forthwith to the place
-Repairing where he judged them, prostrate fell
-Before him reverent; and both confessed
-Humbly their faults, and pardon begged; with tears
-Watering the ground, and with their sighs the air
-Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign
-Of sorrow unfeigned, and humiliation meek.
-Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood
-Praying; for from the mercy-seat above
-Prevenient grace descending had removed
-The stony from their hearts, and made new flesh
-Regenerate grow instead; that sighs now breathed
-Unutterable; which the Spirit of prayer
-Inspired, and winged for Heaven with speedier flight
-Than loudest oratory: Yet their port
-Not of mean suitors; nor important less
-Seemed their petition, than when the ancient pair
-In fables old, less ancient yet than these,
-Deucalion and chaste Pyrrha, to restore
-The race of mankind drowned, before the shrine
-Of Themis stood devout. To Heaven their prayers
-Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds
-Blown vagabond or frustrate: in they passed
-Dimensionless through heavenly doors; then clad
-With incense, where the golden altar fumed,
-By their great intercessour, came in sight
-Before the Father's throne: them the glad Son
-Presenting, thus to intercede began.
-See$ Father, what first-fruits on earth are sprung
-From thy implanted grace in Man; these sighs
-And prayers, which in this golden censer mixed
-With incense, I thy priest before thee bring;
-Fruits of more pleasing savour, from thy seed
-Sown with contrition in his heart, than those
-Which, his own hand manuring, all the trees
-Of Paradise could have produced, ere fallen
-From innocence. Now therefore, bend thine ear
-To supplication; hear his sighs, though mute;
-Unskilful with what words to pray, let me
-Interpret for him; me, his advocate
-And propitiation; all his works on me,
-Good, or not good, ingraft; my merit those
-Shall perfect, and for these my death shall pay.
-Accept me; and, in me, from these receive
-The smell of peace toward mankind: let him live
-Before thee reconciled, at least his days
-Numbered, though sad; till death, his doom, (which I
-To mitigate thus plead, not to reverse,)
-To better life shall yield him: where with me
-All my redeemed may dwell in joy and bliss;
-Made one with me, as I with thee am one.
-To whom the Father, without cloud, serene.
-All thy request for Man, accepted Son,
-Obtain; all thy request was my decree:
-But, longer in that Paradise to dwell,
-The law I gave to Nature him forbids:
-Those pure immortal elements, that know,
-No gross, no unharmonious mixture foul,
-Eject him, tainted now; and purge him off,
-As a distemper, gross, to air as gross,
-And mortal food; as may dispose him best
-For dissolution wrought by sin, that first
-Distempered all things, and of incorrupt
-Corrupted. I, at first, with two fair gifts
-Created him endowed; with happiness,
-And immortality: that fondly lost,
-This other served but to eternize woe;
-Till I provided death: so death becomes
-His final remedy; and, after life,
-Tried in sharp tribulation, and refined
-By faith and faithful works, to second life,
-Waked in the renovation of the just,
-Resigns him up with Heaven and Earth renewed.
-But let us call to synod all the Blest,
-Through Heaven's wide bounds: from them I will not hide
-My judgements; how with mankind I proceed,
-As how with peccant Angels late they saw,
-And in their state, though firm, stood more confirmed.
-He ended, and the Son gave signal high
-To the bright minister that watched; he blew
-His trumpet, heard in Oreb since perhaps
-When God descended, and perhaps once more
-To sound at general doom. The angelick blast
-Filled all the regions: from their blisful bowers
-Of amarantine shade, fountain or spring,
-By the waters of life, where'er they sat
-In fellowships of joy, the sons of light
-Hasted, resorting to the summons high;
-And took their seats; till from his throne supreme
-The Almighty thus pronounced his sovran will.
-O Sons, like one of us Man is become
-To know both good and evil, since his taste
-Of that defended fruit; but let him boast
-His knowledge of good lost, and evil got;
-Happier! had it sufficed him to have known
-Good by itself, and evil not at all.
-He sorrows now, repents, and prays contrite,
-My motions in him; longer than they move,
-His heart I know, how variable and vain,
-Self-left. Lest therefore his now bolder hand
-Reach also of the tree of life, and eat,
-And live for ever, dream at least to live
-For ever, to remove him I decree,
-And send him from the garden forth to till
-The ground whence he was taken, fitter soil.
-Michael, this my behest have thou in charge;
-Take to thee from among the Cherubim
-Thy choice of flaming warriours, lest the Fiend,
-Or in behalf of Man, or to invade
-Vacant possession, some new trouble raise:
-Haste thee, and from the Paradise of God
-Without remorse drive out the sinful pair;
-From hallowed ground the unholy; and denounce
-To them, and to their progeny, from thence
-Perpetual banishment. Yet, lest they faint
-At the sad sentence rigorously urged,
-(For I behold them softened, and with tears
-Bewailing their excess,) all terrour hide.
-If patiently thy bidding they obey,
-Dismiss them not disconsolate; reveal
-To Adam what shall come in future days,
-As I shall thee enlighten; intermix
-My covenant in the Woman's seed renewed;
-So send them forth, though sorrowing, yet in peace:
-And on the east side of the garden place,
-Where entrance up from Eden easiest climbs,
-Cherubick watch; and of a sword the flame
-Wide-waving; all approach far off to fright,
-And guard all passage to the tree of life:
-Lest Paradise a receptacle prove
-To Spirits foul, and all my trees their prey;
-With whose stolen fruit Man once more to delude.
-He ceased; and the arch-angelick Power prepared
-For swift descent; with him the cohort bright
-Of watchful Cherubim: four faces each
-Had, like a double Janus; all their shape
-Spangled with eyes more numerous than those
-Of Argus, and more wakeful than to drouse,
-Charmed with Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed
-Of Hermes, or his opiate rod. Mean while,
-To re-salute the world with sacred light,
-Leucothea waked; and with fresh dews imbalmed
-The earth; when Adam and first matron Eve
-Had ended now their orisons, and found
-Strength added from above; new hope to spring
-Out of despair; joy, but with fear yet linked;
-Which thus to Eve his welcome words renewed.
-Eve, easily my faith admit, that all
-The good which we enjoy from Heaven descends;
-But, that from us aught should ascend to Heaven
-So prevalent as to concern the mind
-Of God high-blest, or to incline his will,
-Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer
-Or one short sigh of human breath, upborne
-Even to the seat of God. For since I sought
-By prayer the offended Deity to appease;
-Kneeled, and before him humbled all my heart;
-Methought I saw him placable and mild,
-Bending his ear; persuasion in me grew
-That I was heard with favour; peace returned
-Home to my breast, and to my memory
-His promise, that thy seed shall bruise our foe;
-Which, then not minded in dismay, yet now
-Assures me that the bitterness of death
-Is past, and we shall live. Whence hail to thee,
-Eve rightly called, mother of all mankind,
-Mother of all things living, since by thee
-Man is to live; and all things live for Man.
-To whom thus Eve with sad demeanour meek.
-Ill-worthy I such title should belong
-To me transgressour; who, for thee ordained
-A help, became thy snare; to me reproach
-Rather belongs, distrust, and all dispraise:
-But infinite in pardon was my Judge,
-That I, who first brought death on all, am graced
-The source of life; next favourable thou,
-Who highly thus to entitle me vouchsaf'st,
-Far other name deserving. But the field
-To labour calls us, now with sweat imposed,
-Though after sleepless night; for see!the morn,
-All unconcerned with our unrest, begins
-Her rosy progress smiling: let us forth;
-I never from thy side henceforth to stray,
-Where'er our day's work lies, though now enjoined
-Laborious, till day droop; while here we dwell,
-What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks?
-Here let us live, though in fallen state, content.
-So spake, so wished much humbled Eve; but Fate
-Subscribed not: Nature first gave signs, impressed
-On bird, beast, air; air suddenly eclipsed,
-After short blush of morn; nigh in her sight
-The bird of Jove, stooped from his aery tour,
-Two birds of gayest plume before him drove;
-Down from a hill the beast that reigns in woods,
-First hunter then, pursued a gentle brace,
-Goodliest of all the forest, hart and hind;
-Direct to the eastern gate was bent their flight.
-Adam observed, and with his eye the chase
-Pursuing, not unmoved, to Eve thus spake.
-O Eve, some further change awaits us nigh,
-Which Heaven, by these mute signs in Nature, shows
-Forerunners of his purpose; or to warn
-Us, haply too secure, of our discharge
-From penalty, because from death released
-Some days: how long, and what till then our life,
-Who knows? or more than this, that we are dust,
-And thither must return, and be no more?
-Why else this double object in our sight
-Of flight pursued in the air, and o'er the ground,
-One way the self-same hour? why in the east
-Darkness ere day's mid-course, and morning-light
-More orient in yon western cloud, that draws
-O'er the blue firmament a radiant white,
-And slow descends with something heavenly fraught?
-He erred not; for by this the heavenly bands
-Down from a sky of jasper lighted now
-In Paradise, and on a hill made halt;
-A glorious apparition, had not doubt
-And carnal fear that day dimmed Adam's eye.
-Not that more glorious, when the Angels met
-Jacob in Mahanaim, where he saw
-The field pavilioned with his guardians bright;
-Nor that, which on the flaming mount appeared
-In Dothan, covered with a camp of fire,
-Against the Syrian king, who to surprise
-One man, assassin-like, had levied war,
-War unproclaimed. The princely Hierarch
-In their bright stand there left his Powers, to seise
-Possession of the garden; he alone,
-To find where Adam sheltered, took his way,
-Not unperceived of Adam; who to Eve,
-While the great visitant approached, thus spake.
-Eve$ now expect great tidings, which perhaps
-Of us will soon determine, or impose
-New laws to be observed; for I descry,
-From yonder blazing cloud that veils the hill,
-One of the heavenly host; and, by his gait,
-None of the meanest; some great Potentate
-Or of the Thrones above; such majesty
-Invests him coming! yet not terrible,
-That I should fear; nor sociably mild,
-As Raphael, that I should much confide;
-But solemn and sublime; whom not to offend,
-With reverence I must meet, and thou retire.
-He ended: and the Arch-Angel soon drew nigh,
-Not in his shape celestial, but as man
-Clad to meet man; over his lucid arms
-A military vest of purple flowed,
-Livelier than Meliboean, or the grain
-Of Sarra, worn by kings and heroes old
-In time of truce; Iris had dipt the woof;
-His starry helm unbuckled showed him prime
-In manhood where youth ended; by his side,
-As in a glistering zodiack, hung the sword,
-Satan's dire dread; and in his hand the spear.
-Adam bowed low; he, kingly, from his state
-Inclined not, but his coming thus declared.
-Adam, Heaven's high behest no preface needs:
-Sufficient that thy prayers are heard; and Death,
-Then due by sentence when thou didst transgress,
-Defeated of his seisure many days
-Given thee of grace; wherein thou mayest repent,
-And one bad act with many deeds well done
-Mayest cover: Well may then thy Lord, appeased,
-Redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim;
-But longer in this Paradise to dwell
-Permits not: to remove thee I am come,
-And send thee from the garden forth to till
-The ground whence thou wast taken, fitter soil.
-He added not; for Adam at the news
-Heart-struck with chilling gripe of sorrow stood,
-That all his senses bound; Eve, who unseen
-Yet all had heard, with audible lament
-Discovered soon the place of her retire.
-O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death!
-Must I thus leave thee$ Paradise? thus leave
-Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades,
-Fit haunt of Gods? where I had hope to spend,
-Quiet though sad, the respite of that day
-That must be mortal to us both. O flowers,
-That never will in other climate grow,
-My early visitation, and my last
- ;t even, which I bred up with tender hand
-From the first opening bud, and gave ye names!
-Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank
-Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
-Thee lastly, nuptial bower! by me adorned
-With what to sight or smell was sweet! from thee
-How shall I part, and whither wander down
-Into a lower world; to this obscure
-And wild? how shall we breathe in other air
-Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits?
-Whom thus the Angel interrupted mild.
-Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign
-What justly thou hast lost, nor set thy heart,
-Thus over-fond, on that which is not thine:
-Thy going is not lonely; with thee goes
-Thy husband; whom to follow thou art bound;
-Where he abides, think there thy native soil.
-Adam, by this from the cold sudden damp
-Recovering, and his scattered spirits returned,
-To Michael thus his humble words addressed.
-Celestial, whether among the Thrones, or named
-Of them the highest; for such of shape may seem
-Prince above princes! gently hast thou told
-Thy message, which might else in telling wound,
-And in performing end us; what besides
-Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair,
-Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring,
-Departure from this happy place, our sweet
-Recess, and only consolation left
-Familiar to our eyes! all places else
-Inhospitable appear, and desolate;
-Nor knowing us, nor known: And, if by prayer
-Incessant I could hope to change the will
-Of Him who all things can, I would not cease
-To weary him with my assiduous cries:
-But prayer against his absolute decree
-No more avails than breath against the wind,
-Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth:
-Therefore to his great bidding I submit.
-This most afflicts me, that, departing hence,
-As from his face I shall be hid, deprived
-His blessed countenance: Here I could frequent
-With worship place by place where he vouchsafed
-Presence Divine; and to my sons relate,
-'On this mount he appeared; under this tree
-'Stood visible; among these pines his voice
-'I heard; here with him at this fountain talked:
-So many grateful altars I would rear
-Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone
-Of lustre from the brook, in memory,
-Or monument to ages; and theron
-Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers:
-In yonder nether world where shall I seek
-His bright appearances, or foot-step trace?
-For though I fled him angry, yet recalled
-To life prolonged and promised race, I now
-Gladly behold though but his utmost skirts
-Of glory; and far off his steps adore.
-To whom thus Michael with regard benign.
-Adam, thou knowest Heaven his, and all the Earth;
-Not this rock only; his Omnipresence fills
-Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives,
-Fomented by his virtual power and warmed:
-All the earth he gave thee to possess and rule,
-No despicable gift; surmise not then
-His presence to these narrow bounds confined
-Of Paradise, or Eden: this had been
-Perhaps thy capital seat, from whence had spread
-All generations; and had hither come
-From all the ends of the earth, to celebrate
-And reverence thee, their great progenitor.
-But this pre-eminence thou hast lost, brought down
-To dwell on even ground now with thy sons:
-Yet doubt not but in valley, and in plain,
-God is, as here; and will be found alike
-Present; and of his presence many a sign
-Still following thee, still compassing thee round
-With goodness and paternal love, his face
-Express, and of his steps the track divine.
-Which that thou mayest believe, and be confirmed
-Ere thou from hence depart; know, I am sent
-To show thee what shall come in future days
-To thee, and to thy offspring: good with bad
-Expect to hear; supernal grace contending
-With sinfulness of men; thereby to learn
-True patience, and to temper joy with fear
-And pious sorrow; equally inured
-By moderation either state to bear,
-Prosperous or adverse: so shalt thou lead
-Safest thy life, and best prepared endure
-Thy mortal passage when it comes.--Ascend
-This hill; let Eve (for I have drenched her eyes)
-Here sleep below; while thou to foresight wakest;
-As once thou sleptst, while she to life was formed.
-To whom thus Adam gratefully replied.
-Ascend, I follow thee, safe Guide, the path
-Thou leadest me; and to the hand of Heaven submit,
-However chastening; to the evil turn
-My obvious breast; arming to overcome
-By suffering, and earn rest from labour won,
-If so I may attain. -- So both ascend
-In the visions of God. It was a hill,
-Of Paradise the highest; from whose top
-The hemisphere of earth, in clearest ken,
-Stretched out to the amplest reach of prospect lay.
-Not higher that hill, nor wider looking round,
-Whereon, for different cause, the Tempter set
-Our second Adam, in the wilderness;
-To show him all Earth's kingdoms, and their glory.
-His eye might there command wherever stood
-City of old or modern fame, the seat
-Of mightiest empire, from the destined walls
-Of Cambalu, seat of Cathaian Can,
-And Samarchand by Oxus, Temir's throne,
-To Paquin of Sinaean kings; and thence
-To Agra and Lahor of great Mogul,
-Down to the golden Chersonese; or where
-The Persian in Ecbatan sat, or since
-In Hispahan; or where the Russian Ksar
-In Mosco; or the Sultan in Bizance,
-Turchestan-born; nor could his eye not ken
-The empire of Negus to his utmost port
-Ercoco, and the less maritim kings
-Mombaza, and Quiloa, and Melind,
-And Sofala, thought Ophir, to the realm
-Of Congo, and Angola farthest south;
-Or thence from Niger flood to Atlas mount
-The kingdoms of Almansor, Fez and Sus,
-Morocco, and Algiers, and Tremisen;
-On Europe thence, and where Rome was to sway
-The world: in spirit perhaps he also saw
-Rich Mexico, the seat of Montezume,
-And Cusco in Peru, the richer seat
-Of Atabalipa; and yet unspoiled
-Guiana, whose great city Geryon's sons
-Call El Dorado. But to nobler sights
-Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed,
-Which that false fruit that promised clearer sight
-Had bred; then purged with euphrasy and rue
-The visual nerve, for he had much to see;
-And from the well of life three drops instilled.
-So deep the power of these ingredients pierced,
-Even to the inmost seat of mental sight,
-That Adam, now enforced to close his eyes,
-Sunk down, and all his spirits became entranced;
-But him the gentle Angel by the hand
-Soon raised, and his attention thus recalled.
-Adam, now ope thine eyes; and first behold
-The effects, which thy original crime hath wrought
-In some to spring from thee; who never touched
-The excepted tree; nor with the snake conspired;
-Nor sinned thy sin; yet from that sin derive
-Corruption, to bring forth more violent deeds.
-His eyes he opened, and beheld a field,
-Part arable and tilth, whereon were sheaves
-New reaped; the other part sheep-walks and folds;
-I' the midst an altar as the land-mark stood,
-Rustick, of grassy sord; thither anon
-A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought
-First fruits, the green ear, and the yellow sheaf,
-Unculled, as came to hand; a shepherd next,
-More meek, came with the firstlings of his flock,
-Choicest and best; then, sacrificing, laid
-The inwards and their fat, with incense strowed,
-On the cleft wood, and all due rights performed:
-His offering soon propitious fire from Heaven
-Consumed with nimble glance, and grateful steam;
-The other's not, for his was not sincere;
-Whereat he inly raged, and, as they talked,
-Smote him into the midriff with a stone
-That beat out life; he fell;and, deadly pale,
-Groaned out his soul with gushing blood effused.
-Much at that sight was Adam in his heart
-Dismayed, and thus in haste to the Angel cried.
-O Teacher, some great mischief hath befallen
-To that meek man, who well had sacrificed;
-Is piety thus and pure devotion paid?
-To whom Michael thus, he also moved, replied.
-These two are brethren, Adam, and to come
-Out of thy loins; the unjust the just hath slain,
-For envy that his brother's offering found
-From Heaven acceptance; but the bloody fact
-Will be avenged; and the other's faith, approved,
-Lose no reward; though here thou see him die,
-Rolling in dust and gore. To which our sire.
-Alas! both for the deed, and for the cause!
-But have I now seen Death? Is this the way
-I must return to native dust? O sight
-Of terrour, foul and ugly to behold,
-Horrid to think, how horrible to feel!
-To whom thus Michael. Death thou hast seen
-In his first shape on Man; but many shapes
-Of Death, and many are the ways that lead
-To his grim cave, all dismal; yet to sense
-More terrible at the entrance, than within.
-Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die;
-By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more
-In meats and drinks, which on the earth shall bring
-Diseases dire, of which a monstrous crew
-Before thee shall appear; that thou mayest know
-What misery the inabstinence of Eve
-Shall bring on Men. Immediately a place
-Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark;
-A lazar-house it seemed; wherein were laid
-Numbers of all diseased; all maladies
-Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms
-Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds,
-Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs,
-Intestine stone and ulcer, colick-pangs,
-Demoniack phrenzy, moaping melancholy,
-And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy,
-Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence,
-Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
-Dire was the tossing, deep the groans; Despair
-Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch;
-And over them triumphant Death his dart
-Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked
-With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
-Sight so deform what heart of rock could long
-Dry-eyed behold? Adam could not, but wept,
-Though not of woman born; compassion quelled
-His best of man, and gave him up to tears
-A space, till firmer thoughts restrained excess;
-And, scarce recovering words, his plaint renewed.
-O miserable mankind, to what fall
-Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!
-Better end here unborn. Why is life given
-To be thus wrested from us? rather, why
-Obtruded on us thus? who, if we knew
-What we receive, would either no accept
-Life offered, or soon beg to lay it down;
-Glad to be so dismissed in peace. Can thus
-The image of God in Man, created once
-So goodly and erect, though faulty since,
-To such unsightly sufferings be debased
-Under inhuman pains? Why should not Man,
-Retaining still divine similitude
-In part, from such deformities be free,
-And, for his Maker's image sake, exempt?
-Their Maker's image, answered Michael, then
-Forsook them, when themselves they vilified
-To serve ungoverned Appetite; and took
-His image whom they served, a brutish vice,
-Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.
-Therefore so abject is their punishment,
-Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own;
-Or if his likeness, by themselves defaced;
-While they pervert pure Nature's healthful rules
-To loathsome sickness; worthily, since they
-God's image did not reverence in themselves.
-I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.
-But is there yet no other way, besides
-These painful passages, how we may come
-To death, and mix with our connatural dust?
-There is, said Michael, if thou well observe
-The rule of Not too much; by temperance taught,
-In what thou eatest and drinkest; seeking from thence
-Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight,
-Till many years over thy head return:
-So mayest thou live; till, like ripe fruit, thou drop
-Into thy mother's lap; or be with ease
-Gathered, nor harshly plucked; for death mature:
-This is Old Age; but then, thou must outlive
-Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty; which will change
-To withered, weak, and gray; thy senses then,
-Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forego,
-To what thou hast; and, for the air of youth,
-Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
-A melancholy damp of cold and dry
-To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
-The balm of life. To whom our ancestor.
-Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong
-Life much; bent rather, how I may be quit,
-Fairest and easiest, of this cumbrous charge;
-Which I must keep till my appointed day
-Of rendering up, and patiently attend
-My dissolution. Michael replied.
-Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest
-Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven:
-And now prepare thee for another sight.
-He looked, and saw a spacious plain, whereon
-Were tents of various hue; by some, were herds
-Of cattle grazing; others, whence the sound
-Of instruments, that made melodious chime,
-Was heard, of harp and organ; and, who moved
-Their stops and chords, was seen; his volant touch,
-Instinct through all proportions, low and high,
-Fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue.
-In other part stood one who, at the forge
-Labouring, two massy clods of iron and brass
-Had melted, (whether found where casual fire
-Had wasted woods on mountain or in vale,
-Down to the veins of earth; thence gliding hot
-To some cave's mouth; or whether washed by stream
-From underground;) the liquid ore he drained
-Into fit moulds prepared; from which he formed
-First his own tools; then, what might else be wrought
-Fusil or graven in metal. After these,
-But on the hither side, a different sort
-From the high neighbouring hills, which was their seat,
-Down to the plain descended; by their guise
-Just men they seemed, and all their study bent
-To worship God aright, and know his works
-Not hid; nor those things last, which might preserve
-Freedom and peace to Men; they on the plain
-Long had not walked, when from the tents, behold!
-A bevy of fair women, richly gay
-In gems and wanton dress; to the harp they sung
-Soft amorous ditties, and in dance came on:
-The men, though grave, eyed them; and let their eyes
-Rove without rein; till, in the amorous net
-Fast caught, they liked; and each his liking chose;
-And now of love they treat, till the evening-star,
-Love's harbinger, appeared; then, all in heat
-They light the nuptial torch, and bid invoke
-Hymen, then first to marriage rites invoked:
-With feast and musick all the tents resound.
-Such happy interview, and fair event
-Of love and youth not lost, songs, garlands, flowers,
-And charming symphonies, attached the heart
-Of Adam, soon inclined to admit delight,
-The bent of nature; which he thus expressed.
-True opener of mine eyes, prime Angel blest;
-Much better seems this vision, and more hope
-Of peaceful days portends, than those two past;
-Those were of hate and death, or pain much worse;
-Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.
-To whom thus Michael. Judge not what is best
-By pleasure, though to nature seeming meet;
-Created, as thou art, to nobler end
-Holy and pure, conformity divine.
-Those tents thou sawest so pleasant, were the tents
-Of wickedness, wherein shall dwell his race
-Who slew his brother; studious they appear
-Of arts that polish life, inventers rare;
-Unmindful of their Maker, though his Spirit
-Taught them; but they his gifts acknowledged none.
-Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget;
-For that fair female troop thou sawest, that seemed
-Of Goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay,
-Yet empty of all good wherein consists
-Woman's domestick honour and chief praise;
-Bred only and completed to the taste
-Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance,
-To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye:
-To these that sober race of men, whose lives
-Religious titled them the sons of God,
-Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame
-Ignobly, to the trains and to the smiles
-Of these fair atheists; and now swim in joy,
-Erelong to swim at large; and laugh, for which
-The world erelong a world of tears must weep.
-To whom thus Adam, of short joy bereft.
-O pity and shame, that they, who to live well
-Entered so fair, should turn aside to tread
-Paths indirect, or in the mid way faint!
-But still I see the tenour of Man's woe
-Holds on the same, from Woman to begin.
-From Man's effeminate slackness it begins,
-Said the Angel, who should better hold his place
-By wisdom, and superiour gifts received.
-But now prepare thee for another scene.
-He looked, and saw wide territory spread
-Before him, towns, and rural works between;
-Cities of men with lofty gates and towers,
-Concourse in arms, fierce faces threatening war,
-Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise;
-Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed,
-Single or in array of battle ranged
-Both horse and foot, nor idly mustering stood;
-One way a band select from forage drives
-A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine,
-From a fat meadow ground; or fleecy flock,
-Ewes and their bleating lambs over the plain,
-Their booty; scarce with life the shepherds fly,
-But call in aid, which makes a bloody fray;
-With cruel tournament the squadrons join;
-Where cattle pastured late, now scattered lies
-With carcasses and arms the ensanguined field,
-Deserted: Others to a city strong
-Lay siege, encamped; by battery, scale, and mine,
-Assaulting; others from the wall defend
-With dart and javelin, stones, and sulphurous fire;
-On each hand slaughter, and gigantick deeds.
-In other part the sceptered heralds call
-To council, in the city-gates; anon
-Gray-headed men and grave, with warriours mixed,
-Assemble, and harangues are heard; but soon,
-In factious opposition; till at last,
-Of middle age one rising, eminent
-In wise deport, spake much of right and wrong,
-Of justice, or religion, truth, and peace,
-And judgement from above: him old and young
-Exploded, and had seized with violent hands,
-Had not a cloud descending snatched him thence
-Unseen amid the throng: so violence
-Proceeded, and oppression, and sword-law,
-Through all the plain, and refuge none was found.
-Adam was all in tears, and to his guide
-Lamenting turned full sad; O!what are these,
-Death's ministers, not men? who thus deal death
-Inhumanly to men, and multiply
-Ten thousandfold the sin of him who slew
-His brother: for of whom such massacre
-Make they, but of their brethren; men of men
-But who was that just man, whom had not Heaven
-Rescued, had in his righteousness been lost?
-To whom thus Michael. These are the product
-Of those ill-mated marriages thou sawest;
-Where good with bad were matched, who of themselves
-Abhor to join; and, by imprudence mixed,
-Produce prodigious births of body or mind.
-Such were these giants, men of high renown;
-For in those days might only shall be admired,
-And valour and heroick virtue called;
-To overcome in battle, and subdue
-Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite
-Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch
-Of human glory; and for glory done
-Of triumph, to be styled great conquerours
-Patrons of mankind, Gods, and sons of Gods;
-Destroyers rightlier called, and plagues of men.
-Thus fame shall be achieved, renown on earth;
-And what most merits fame, in silence hid.
-But he, the seventh from thee, whom thou beheldst
-The only righteous in a world preverse,
-And therefore hated, therefore so beset
-With foes, for daring single to be just,
-And utter odious truth, that God would come
-To judge them with his Saints; him the Most High
-Rapt in a balmy cloud with winged steeds
-Did, as thou sawest, receive, to walk with God
-High in salvation and the climes of bliss,
-Exempt from death; to show thee what reward
-Awaits the good; the rest what punishment;
-Which now direct thine eyes and soon behold.
-He looked, and saw the face of things quite changed;
-The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar;
-All now was turned to jollity and game,
-To luxury and riot, feast and dance;
-Marrying or prostituting, as befel,
-Rape or adultery, where passing fair
-Allured them; thence from cups to civil broils.
-At length a reverend sire among them came,
-And of their doings great dislike declared,
-And testified against their ways; he oft
-Frequented their assemblies, whereso met,
-Triumphs or festivals; and to them preached
-Conversion and repentance, as to souls
-In prison, under judgements imminent:
-But all in vain: which when he saw, he ceased
-Contending, and removed his tents far off;
-Then, from the mountain hewing timber tall,
-Began to build a vessel of huge bulk;
-Measured by cubit, length, and breadth, and highth;
-Smeared round with pitch; and in the side a door
-Contrived; and of provisions laid in large,
-For man and beast: when lo, a wonder strange!
-Of every beast, and bird, and insect small,
-Came sevens, and pairs; and entered in as taught
-Their order: last the sire and his three sons,
-With their four wives; and God made fast the door.
-Mean while the south-wind rose, and, with black wings
-Wide-hovering, all the clouds together drove
-From under Heaven; the hills to their supply
-Vapour, and exhalation dusk and moist,
-Sent up amain; and now the thickened sky
-Like a dark cieling stood; down rushed the rain
-Impetuous; and continued, till the earth
-No more was seen: the floating vessel swum
-Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow
-Rode tilting o'er the waves; all dwellings else
-Flood overwhelmed, and them with all their pomp
-Deep under water rolled; sea covered sea,
-Sea without shore; and in their palaces,
-Where luxury late reigned, sea-monsters whelped
-And stabled; of mankind, so numerous late,
-All left, in one small bottom swum imbarked.
-How didst thou grieve then, Adam, to behold
-The end of all thy offspring, end so sad,
-Depopulation! Thee another flood,
-Of tears and sorrow a flood, thee also drowned,
-And sunk thee as thy sons; till, gently reared
-By the Angel, on thy feet thou stoodest at last,
-Though comfortless; as when a father mourns
-His children, all in view destroyed at once;
-And scarce to the Angel utter'dst thus thy plaint.
-O visions ill foreseen! Better had I
-Lived ignorant of future! so had borne
-My part of evil only, each day's lot
-Enough to bear; those now, that were dispensed
-The burden of many ages, on me light
-At once, by my foreknowledge gaining birth
-Abortive, to torment me ere their being,
-With thought that they must be. Let no man seek
-Henceforth to be foretold, what shall befall
-Him or his children; evil he may be sure,
-Which neither his foreknowing can prevent;
-And he the future evil shall no less
-In apprehension than in substance feel,
-Grievous to bear: but that care now is past,
-Man is not whom to warn: those few escaped
-Famine and anguish will at last consume,
-Wandering that watery desart: I had hope,
-When violence was ceased, and war on earth,
-All would have then gone well; peace would have crowned
-With length of happy days the race of Man;
-But I was far deceived; for now I see
-Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
-How comes it thus? unfold, celestial Guide,
-And whether here the race of Man will end.
-To whom thus Michael. Those, whom last thou sawest
-In triumph and luxurious wealth, are they
-First seen in acts of prowess eminent
-And great exploits, but of true virtue void;
-Who, having spilt much blood, and done much wast
-Subduing nations, and achieved thereby
-Fame in the world, high titles, and rich prey;
-Shall change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth,
-Surfeit, and lust; till wantonness and pride
-Raise out of friendship hostile deeds in peace.
-The conquered also, and enslaved by war,
-Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose
-And fear of God; from whom their piety feigned
-In sharp contest of battle found no aid
-Against invaders; therefore, cooled in zeal,
-Thenceforth shall practice how to live secure,
-Worldly or dissolute, on what their lords
-Shall leave them to enjoy; for the earth shall bear
-More than enough, that temperance may be tried:
-So all shall turn degenerate, all depraved;
-Justice and temperance, truth and faith, forgot;
-One man except, the only son of light
-In a dark age, against example good,
-Against allurement, custom, and a world
-Offended: fearless of reproach and scorn,
-The grand-child, with twelve sons encreased, departs
-From Canaan, to a land hereafter called
-Egypt, divided by the river Nile;
-See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths
-Into the sea: To sojourn in that land
-He comes, invited by a younger son
-In time of dearth; a son, whose worthy deeds
-Raise him to be the second in that realm
-Of Pharaoh: There he dies, and leaves his race
-Growing into a nation, and now grown
-Suspected to a sequent king, who seeks
-To stop their overgrowth, as inmate guests
-Or violence, he of their wicked ways
-Shall them admonish; and before them set
-The paths of righteousness, how much more safe
-And full of peace; denouncing wrath to come
-On their impenitence; and shall return
-Of them derided, but of God observed
-The one just man alive; by his command
-Shall build a wonderous ark, as thou beheldst,
-To save himself, and houshold, from amidst
-A world devote to universal wrack.
-No sooner he, with them of man and beast
-Select for life, shall in the ark be lodged,
-And sheltered round; but all the cataracts
-Of Heaven set open on the Earth shall pour
-Rain, day and night; all fountains of the deep,
-Broke up, shall heave the ocean to usurp
-Beyond all bounds; till inundation rise
-Above the highest hills: Then shall this mount
-Of Paradise by might of waves be moved
-Out of his place, pushed by the horned flood,
-With all his verdure spoiled, and trees adrift,
-Down the great river to the opening gulf,
-And there take root an island salt and bare,
-The haunt of seals, and orcs, and sea-mews' clang:
-To teach thee that God attributes to place
-No sanctity, if none be thither brought
-By men who there frequent, or therein dwell.
-And now, what further shall ensue, behold.
-He looked, and saw the ark hull on the flood,
-Which now abated; for the clouds were fled,
-Driven by a keen north-wind, that, blowing dry,
-Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed;
-And the clear sun on his wide watery glass
-Gazed hot, and of the fresh wave largely drew,
-As after thirst; which made their flowing shrink
-From standing lake to tripping ebb, that stole
-With soft foot towards the deep; who now had stopt
-His sluces, as the Heaven his windows shut.
-The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground,
-Fast on the top of some high mountain fixed.
-And now the tops of hills, as rocks, appear;
-With clamour thence the rapid currents drive,
-Towards the retreating sea, their furious tide.
-Forthwith from out the ark a raven flies,
-And after him, the surer messenger,
-A dove sent forth once and again to spy
-Green tree or ground, whereon his foot may light:
-The second time returning, in his bill
-An olive-leaf he brings, pacifick sign:
-Anon dry ground appears, and from his ark
-The ancient sire descends, with all his train;
-Then with uplifted hands, and eyes devout,
-Grateful to Heaven, over his head beholds
-A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow
-Conspicuous with three lifted colours gay,
-Betokening peace from God, and covenant new.
-Whereat the heart of Adam, erst so sad,
-Greatly rejoiced; and thus his joy broke forth.
-O thou, who future things canst represent
-As present, heavenly Instructer! I revive
-At this last sight; assured that Man shall live,
-With all the creatures, and their seed preserve.
-Far less I now lament for one whole world
-Of wicked sons destroyed, than I rejoice
-For one man found so perfect, and so just,
-That God vouchsafes to raise another world
-From him, and all his anger to forget.
-But say, what mean those coloured streaks in Heaven
-Distended, as the brow of God appeased?
-Or serve they, as a flowery verge, to bind
-The fluid skirts of that same watery cloud,
-Lest it again dissolve, and shower the earth?
-To whom the Arch-Angel. Dextrously thou aimest;
-So willingly doth God remit his ire,
-Though late repenting him of Man depraved;
-Grieved at his heart, when looking down he saw
-The whole earth filled with violence, and all flesh
-Corrupting each their way; yet, those removed,
-Such grace shall one just man find in his sight,
-That he relents, not to blot out mankind;
-And makes a covenant never to destroy
-The earth again by flood; nor let the sea
-Surpass his bounds; nor rain to drown the world,
-With man therein or beast; but, when he brings
-Over the earth a cloud, will therein set
-His triple-coloured bow, whereon to look,
-And call to mind his covenant: Day and night,
-Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
-Shall hold their course; till fire purge all things new,
-Both Heaven and Earth, wherein the just shall dwell.
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-As one who in his journey bates at noon,
-Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused
-Betwixt the world destroyed and world restored,
-If Adam aught perhaps might interpose;
-Then, with transition sweet, new speech resumes.
-Thus thou hast seen one world begin, and end;
-And Man, as from a second stock, proceed.
-Much thou hast yet to see; but I perceive
-Thy mortal sight to fail; objects divine
-Must needs impair and weary human sense:
-Henceforth what is to come I will relate;
-Thou therefore give due audience, and attend.
-This second source of Men, while yet but few,
-And while the dread of judgement past remains
-Fresh in their minds, fearing the Deity,
-With some regard to what is just and right
-Shall lead their lives, and multiply apace;
-Labouring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop,
-Corn, wine, and oil; and, from the herd or flock,
-Oft sacrificing bullock, lamb, or kid,
-With large wine-offerings poured, and sacred feast,
-Shall spend their days in joy unblamed; and dwell
-Long time in peace, by families and tribes,
-Under paternal rule: till one shall rise
-Of proud ambitious heart; who, not content
-With fair equality, fraternal state,
-Will arrogate dominion undeserved
-Over his brethren, and quite dispossess
-Concord and law of nature from the earth;
-Hunting (and men not beasts shall be his game)
-With war, and hostile snare, such as refuse
-Subjection to his empire tyrannous:
-A mighty hunter thence he shall be styled
-Before the Lord; as in despite of Heaven,
-Or from Heaven, claiming second sovranty;
-And from rebellion shall derive his name,
-Though of rebellion others he accuse.
-He with a crew, whom like ambition joins
-With him or under him to tyrannize,
-Marching from Eden towards the west, shall find
-The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge
-Boils out from under ground, the mouth of Hell:
-Of brick, and of that stuff, they cast to build
-A city and tower, whose top may reach to Heaven;
-And get themselves a name; lest, far dispersed
-In foreign lands, their memory be lost;
-Regardless whether good or evil fame.
-But God, who oft descends to visit men
-Unseen, and through their habitations walks
-To mark their doings, them beholding soon,
-Comes down to see their city, ere the tower
-Obstruct Heaven-towers, and in derision sets
-Upon their tongues a various spirit, to rase
-Quite out their native language; and, instead,
-To sow a jangling noise of words unknown:
-Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud,
-Among the builders; each to other calls
-Not understood; till hoarse, and all in rage,
-As mocked they storm: great laughter was in Heaven,
-And looking down, to see the hubbub strange,
-And hear the din: Thus was the building left
-Ridiculous, and the work Confusion named.
-Whereto thus Adam, fatherly displeased.
-O execrable son! so to aspire
-Above his brethren; to himself assuming
-Authority usurped, from God not given:
-He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
-Dominion absolute; that right we hold
-By his donation; but man over men
-He made not lord; such title to himself
-Reserving, human left from human free.
-But this usurper his encroachment proud
-Stays not on Man; to God his tower intends
-Siege and defiance: Wretched man!what food
-Will he convey up thither, to sustain
-Himself and his rash army; where thin air
-Above the clouds will pine his entrails gross,
-And famish him of breath, if not of bread?
-To whom thus Michael. Justly thou abhorrest
-That son, who on the quiet state of men
-Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue
-Rational liberty; yet know withal,
-Since thy original lapse, true liberty
-Is lost, which always with right reason dwells
-Twinned, and from her hath no dividual being:
-Reason in man obscured, or not obeyed,
-Immediately inordinate desires,
-And upstart passions, catch the government
-From reason; and to servitude reduce
-Man, till then free. Therefore, since he permits
-Within himself unworthy powers to reign
-Over free reason, God, in judgement just,
-Subjects him from without to violent lords;
-Who oft as undeservedly enthrall
-His outward freedom: Tyranny must be;
-Though to the tyrant thereby no excuse.
-Yet sometimes nations will decline so low
-From virtue, which is reason, that no wrong,
-But justice, and some fatal curse annexed,
-Deprives them of their outward liberty;
-Their inward lost: Witness the irreverent son
-Of him who built the ark; who, for the shame
-Done to his father, heard this heavy curse,
-Servant of servants, on his vicious race.
-Thus will this latter, as the former world,
-Still tend from bad to worse; till God at last,
-Wearied with their iniquities, withdraw
-His presence from among them, and avert
-His holy eyes; resolving from thenceforth
-To leave them to their own polluted ways;
-And one peculiar nation to select
-From all the rest, of whom to be invoked,
-A nation from one faithful man to spring:
-Him on this side Euphrates yet residing,
-Bred up in idol-worship: O, that men
-(Canst thou believe?) should be so stupid grown,
-While yet the patriarch lived, who 'scaped the flood,
-As to forsake the living God, and fall
-To worship their own work in wood and stone
-For Gods! Yet him God the Most High vouchsafes
-To call by vision, from his father's house,
-His kindred, and false Gods, into a land
-Which he will show him; and from him will raise
-A mighty nation; and upon him shower
-His benediction so, that in his seed
-All nations shall be blest: he straight obeys;
-Not knowing to what land, yet firm believes:
-I see him, but thou canst not, with what faith
-He leaves his Gods, his friends, and native soil,
-Ur of Chaldaea, passing now the ford
-To Haran; after him a cumbrous train
-Of herds and flocks, and numerous servitude;
-Not wandering poor, but trusting all his wealth
-With God, who called him, in a land unknown.
-Canaan he now attains; I see his tents
-Pitched about Sechem, and the neighbouring plain
-Of Moreh; there by promise he receives
-Gift to his progeny of all that land,
-From Hameth northward to the Desart south;
-(Things by their names I call, though yet unnamed;)
-From Hermon east to the great western Sea;
-Mount Hermon, yonder sea; each place behold
-In prospect, as I point them; on the shore
-Mount Carmel; here, the double-founted stream,
-Jordan, true limit eastward; but his sons
-Shall dwell to Senir, that long ridge of hills.
-This ponder, that all nations of the earth
-Shall in his seed be blessed: By that seed
-Is meant thy great Deliverer, who shall bruise
-The Serpent's head; whereof to thee anon
-Plainlier shall be revealed. This patriarch blest,
-Whom faithful Abraham due time shall call,
-A son, and of his son a grand-child, leaves;
-Like him in faith, in wisdom, and renown:
-The grandchild, with twelve sons increased, departs
-From Canaan to a land hereafter called
-Egypt, divided by the river Nile
-See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths
-Into the sea. To sojourn in that land
-He comes, invited by a younger son
-In time of dearth, a son whose worthy deeds
-Raise him to be the second in that realm
-Of Pharaoh. There he dies, and leaves his race
-Growing into a nation, and now grown
-Suspected to a sequent king, who seeks
-To stop their overgrowth, as inmate guests
-Too numerous; whence of guests he makes them slaves
-Inhospitably, and kills their infant males:
-Till by two brethren (these two brethren call
-Moses and Aaron) sent from God to claim
-His people from enthralment, they return,
-With glory and spoil, back to their promised land.
-But first, the lawless tyrant, who denies
-To know their God, or message to regard,
-Must be compelled by signs and judgements dire;
-To blood unshed the rivers must be turned;
-Frogs, lice, and flies, must all his palace fill
-With loathed intrusion, and fill all the land;
-His cattle must of rot and murren die;
-Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss,
-And all his people; thunder mixed with hail,
-Hail mixed with fire, must rend the Egyptians sky,
-And wheel on the earth, devouring where it rolls;
-What it devours not, herb, or fruit, or grain,
-A darksome cloud of locusts swarming down
-Must eat, and on the ground leave nothing green;
-Darkness must overshadow all his bounds,
-Palpable darkness, and blot out three days;
-Last, with one midnight stroke, all the first-born
-Of Egypt must lie dead. Thus with ten wounds
-The river-dragon tamed at length submits
-To let his sojourners depart, and oft
-Humbles his stubborn heart; but still, as ice
-More hardened after thaw; till, in his rage
-Pursuing whom he late dismissed, the sea
-Swallows him with his host; but them lets pass,
-As on dry land, between two crystal walls;
-Awed by the rod of Moses so to stand
-Divided, till his rescued gain their shore:
-Such wondrous power God to his saint will lend,
-Though present in his Angel; who shall go
-Before them in a cloud, and pillar of fire;
-By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire;
-To guide them in their journey, and remove
-Behind them, while the obdurate king pursues:
-All night he will pursue; but his approach
-Darkness defends between till morning watch;
-Then through the fiery pillar, and the cloud,
-God looking forth will trouble all his host,
-And craze their chariot-wheels: when by command
-Moses once more his potent rod extends
-Over the sea; the sea his rod obeys;
-On their embattled ranks the waves return,
-And overwhelm their war: The race elect
-Safe toward Canaan from the shore advance
-Through the wild Desart, not the readiest way;
-Lest, entering on the Canaanite alarmed,
-War terrify them inexpert, and fear
-Return them back to Egypt, choosing rather
-Inglorious life with servitude; for life
-To noble and ignoble is more sweet
-Untrained in arms, where rashness leads not on.
-This also shall they gain by their delay
-In the wide wilderness; there they shall found
-Their government, and their great senate choose
-Through the twelve tribes, to rule by laws ordained:
-God from the mount of Sinai, whose gray top
-Shall tremble, he descending, will himself
-In thunder, lightning, and loud trumpets' sound,
-Ordain them laws; part, such as appertain
-To civil justice; part, religious rites
-Of sacrifice; informing them, by types
-And shadows, of that destined Seed to bruise
-The Serpent, by what means he shall achieve
-Mankind's deliverance. But the voice of God
-To mortal ear is dreadful: They beseech
-That Moses might report to them his will,
-And terrour cease; he grants what they besought,
-Instructed that to God is no access
-Without Mediator, whose high office now
-Moses in figure bears; to introduce
-One greater, of whose day he shall foretel,
-And all the Prophets in their age the times
-Of great Messiah shall sing. Thus, laws and rites
-Established, such delight hath God in Men
-Obedient to his will, that he vouchsafes
-Among them to set up his tabernacle;
-The Holy One with mortal Men to dwell:
-By his prescript a sanctuary is framed
-Of cedar, overlaid with gold; therein
-An ark, and in the ark his testimony,
-The records of his covenant; over these
-A mercy-seat of gold, between the wings
-Of two bright Cherubim; before him burn
-Seven lamps as in a zodiack representing
-The heavenly fires; over the tent a cloud
-Shall rest by day, a fiery gleam by night;
-Save when they journey, and at length they come,
-Conducted by his Angel, to the land
-Promised to Abraham and his seed:--The rest
-Were long to tell; how many battles fought
-How many kings destroyed; and kingdoms won;
-Or how the sun shall in mid Heaven stand still
-A day entire, and night's due course adjourn,
-Man's voice commanding, 'Sun, in Gibeon stand,
-'And thou moon in the vale of Aialon,
-'Till Israel overcome! so call the third
-From Abraham, son of Isaac; and from him
-His whole descent, who thus shall Canaan win.
-Here Adam interposed. O sent from Heaven,
-Enlightener of my darkness, gracious things
-Thou hast revealed; those chiefly, which concern
-Just Abraham and his seed: now first I find
-Mine eyes true-opening, and my heart much eased;
-Erewhile perplexed with thoughts, what would become
-Of me and all mankind: But now I see
-His day, in whom all nations shall be blest;
-Favour unmerited by me, who sought
-Forbidden knowledge by forbidden means.
-This yet I apprehend not, why to those
-Among whom God will deign to dwell on earth
-So many and so various laws are given;
-So many laws argue so many sins
-Among them; how can God with such reside?
-To whom thus Michael. Doubt not but that sin
-Will reign among them, as of thee begot;
-And therefore was law given them, to evince
-Their natural pravity, by stirring up
-Sin against law to fight: that when they see
-Law can discover sin, but not remove,
-Save by those shadowy expiations weak,
-The blood of bulls and goats, they may conclude
-Some blood more precious must be paid for Man;
-Just for unjust; that, in such righteousness
-To them by faith imputed, they may find
-Justification towards God, and peace
-Of conscience; which the law by ceremonies
-Cannot appease; nor Man the mortal part
-Perform; and, not performing, cannot live.
-So law appears imperfect; and but given
-With purpose to resign them, in full time,
-Up to a better covenant; disciplined
-From shadowy types to truth; from flesh to spirit;
-From imposition of strict laws to free
-Acceptance of large grace; from servile fear
-To filial; works of law to works of faith.
-And therefore shall not Moses, though of God
-Highly beloved, being but the minister
-Of law, his people into Canaan lead;
-But Joshua, whom the Gentiles Jesus call,
-His name and office bearing, who shall quell
-The adversary-Serpent, and bring back
-Through the world's wilderness long-wandered Man
-Safe to eternal Paradise of rest.
-Mean while they, in their earthly Canaan placed,
-Long time shall dwell and prosper, but when sins
-National interrupt their publick peace,
-Provoking God to raise them enemies;
-From whom as oft he saves them penitent
-By Judges first, then under Kings; of whom
-The second, both for piety renowned
-And puissant deeds, a promise shall receive
-Irrevocable, that his regal throne
-For ever shall endure; the like shall sing
-All Prophecy, that of the royal stock
-Of David (so I name this king) shall rise
-A Son, the Woman's seed to thee foretold,
-Foretold to Abraham, as in whom shall trust
-All nations; and to kings foretold, of kings
-The last; for of his reign shall be no end.
-But first, a long succession must ensue;
-And his next son, for wealth and wisdom famed,
-The clouded ark of God, till then in tents
-Wandering, shall in a glorious temple enshrine.
-Such follow him, as shall be registered
-Part good, part bad; of bad the longer scroll;
-Whose foul idolatries, and other faults
-Heaped to the popular sum, will so incense
-God, as to leave them, and expose their land,
-Their city, his temple, and his holy ark,
-With all his sacred things, a scorn and prey
-To that proud city, whose high walls thou sawest
-Left in confusion; Babylon thence called.
-There in captivity he lets them dwell
-The space of seventy years; then brings them back,
-Remembering mercy, and his covenant sworn
-To David, stablished as the days of Heaven.
-Returned from Babylon by leave of kings
-Their lords, whom God disposed, the house of God
-They first re-edify; and for a while
-In mean estate live moderate; till, grown
-In wealth and multitude, factious they grow;
-But first among the priests dissention springs,
-Men who attend the altar, and should most
-Endeavour peace: their strife pollution brings
-Upon the temple itself: at last they seise
-The scepter, and regard not David's sons;
-Then lose it to a stranger, that the true
-Anointed King Messiah might be born
-Barred of his right; yet at his birth a star,
-Unseen before in Heaven, proclaims him come;
-And guides the eastern sages, who inquire
-His place, to offer incense, myrrh, and gold:
-His place of birth a solemn Angel tells
-To simple shepherds, keeping watch by night;
-They gladly thither haste, and by a quire
-Of squadroned Angels hear his carol sung.
-A virgin is his mother, but his sire
-The power of the Most High: He shall ascend
-The throne hereditary, and bound his reign
-With Earth's wide bounds, his glory with the Heavens.
-He ceased, discerning Adam with such joy
-Surcharged, as had like grief been dewed in tears,
-Without the vent of words; which these he breathed.
-O prophet of glad tidings, finisher
-Of utmost hope! now clear I understand
-What oft my steadiest thoughts have searched in vain;
-Why our great Expectation should be called
-The seed of Woman: Virgin Mother, hail,
-High in the love of Heaven; yet from my loins
-Thou shalt proceed, and from thy womb the Son
-Of God Most High: so God with Man unites!
-Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise
-Expect with mortal pain: Say where and when
-Their fight, what stroke shall bruise the victor's heel.
-To whom thus Michael. Dream not of their fight,
-As of a duel, or the local wounds
-Of head or heel: Not therefore joins the Son
-Manhood to Godhead, with more strength to foil
-Thy enemy; nor so is overcome
-Satan, whose fall from Heaven, a deadlier bruise,
-Disabled, not to give thee thy death's wound:
-Which he, who comes thy Saviour, shall recure,
-Not by destroying Satan, but his works
-In thee, and in thy seed: Nor can this be,
-But by fulfilling that which thou didst want,
-Obedience to the law of God, imposed
-On penalty of death, and suffering death;
-The penalty to thy transgression due,
-And due to theirs which out of thine will grow:
-So only can high Justice rest appaid.
-The law of God exact he shall fulfil
-Both by obedience and by love, though love
-Alone fulfil the law; thy punishment
-He shall endure, by coming in the flesh
-To a reproachful life, and cursed death;
-Proclaiming life to all who shall believe
-In his redemption; and that his obedience,
-Imputed, becomes theirs by faith; his merits
-To save them, not their own, though legal, works.
-For this he shall live hated, be blasphemed,
-Seised on by force, judged, and to death condemned
-A shameful and accursed, nailed to the cross
-By his own nation; slain for bringing life:
-But to the cross he nails thy enemies,
-The law that is against thee, and the sins
-Of all mankind, with him there crucified,
-Never to hurt them more who rightly trust
-In this his satisfaction; so he dies,
-But soon revives; Death over him no power
-Shall long usurp; ere the third dawning light
-Return, the stars of morn shall see him rise
-Out of his grave, fresh as the dawning light,
-Thy ransom paid, which Man from death redeems,
-His death for Man, as many as offered life
-Neglect not, and the benefit embrace
-By faith not void of works: This God-like act
-Annuls thy doom, the death thou shouldest have died,
-In sin for ever lost from life; this act
-Shall bruise the head of Satan, crush his strength,
-Defeating Sin and Death, his two main arms;
-And fix far deeper in his head their stings
-Than temporal death shall bruise the victor's heel,
-Or theirs whom he redeems; a death, like sleep,
-A gentle wafting to immortal life.
-Nor after resurrection shall he stay
-Longer on earth, than certain times to appear
-To his disciples, men who in his life
-Still followed him; to them shall leave in charge
-To teach all nations what of him they learned
-And his salvation; them who shall believe
-Baptizing in the profluent stream, the sign
-Of washing them from guilt of sin to life
-Pure, and in mind prepared, if so befall,
-For death, like that which the Redeemer died.
-All nations they shall teach; for, from that day,
-Not only to the sons of Abraham's loins
-Salvation shall be preached, but to the sons
-Of Abraham's faith wherever through the world;
-So in his seed all nations shall be blest.
-Then to the Heaven of Heavens he shall ascend
-With victory, triumphing through the air
-Over his foes and thine; there shall surprise
-The Serpent, prince of air, and drag in chains
-Through all his realm, and there confounded leave;
-Then enter into glory, and resume
-His seat at God's right hand, exalted high
-Above all names in Heaven; and thence shall come,
-When this world's dissolution shall be ripe,
-With glory and power to judge both quick and dead;
-To judge the unfaithful dead, but to reward
-His faithful, and receive them into bliss,
-Whether in Heaven or Earth; for then the Earth
-Shall all be Paradise, far happier place
-Than this of Eden, and far happier days.
-So spake the Arch-Angel Michael; then paused,
-As at the world's great period; and our sire,
-Replete with joy and wonder, thus replied.
-O Goodness infinite, Goodness immense!
-That all this good of evil shall produce,
-And evil turn to good; more wonderful
-Than that which by creation first brought forth
-Light out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand,
-Whether I should repent me now of sin
-By me done, and occasioned; or rejoice
-Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring;
-To God more glory, more good-will to Men
-From God, and over wrath grace shall abound.
-But say, if our Deliverer up to Heaven
-Must re-ascend, what will betide the few
-His faithful, left among the unfaithful herd,
-The enemies of truth? Who then shall guide
-His people, who defend? Will they not deal
-Worse with his followers than with him they dealt?
-Be sure they will, said the Angel; but from Heaven
-He to his own a Comforter will send,
-The promise of the Father, who shall dwell
-His Spirit within them; and the law of faith,
-Working through love, upon their hearts shall write,
-To guide them in all truth; and also arm
-With spiritual armour, able to resist
-Satan's assaults, and quench his fiery darts;
-What man can do against them, not afraid,
-Though to the death; against such cruelties
-With inward consolations recompensed,
-And oft supported so as shall amaze
-Their proudest persecutors: For the Spirit,
-Poured first on his Apostles, whom he sends
-To evangelize the nations, then on all
-Baptized, shall them with wonderous gifts endue
-To speak all tongues, and do all miracles,
-As did their Lord before them. Thus they win
-Great numbers of each nation to receive
-With joy the tidings brought from Heaven: At length
-Their ministry performed, and race well run,
-Their doctrine and their story written left,
-They die; but in their room, as they forewarn,
-Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves,
-Who all the sacred mysteries of Heaven
-To their own vile advantages shall turn
-Of lucre and ambition; and the truth
-With superstitions and traditions taint,
-Left only in those written records pure,
-Though not but by the Spirit understood.
-Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names,
-Places, and titles, and with these to join
-Secular power; though feigning still to act
-By spiritual, to themselves appropriating
-The Spirit of God, promised alike and given
-To all believers; and, from that pretence,
-Spiritual laws by carnal power shall force
-On every conscience; laws which none shall find
-Left them inrolled, or what the Spirit within
-Shall on the heart engrave. What will they then
-But force the Spirit of Grace itself, and bind
-His consort Liberty? what, but unbuild
-His living temples, built by faith to stand,
-Their own faith, not another's? for, on earth,
-Who against faith and conscience can be heard
-Infallible? yet many will presume:
-Whence heavy persecution shall arise
-On all, who in the worship persevere
-Of spirit and truth; the rest, far greater part,
-Will deem in outward rites and specious forms
-Religion satisfied; Truth shall retire
-Bestuck with slanderous darts, and works of faith
-Rarely be found: So shall the world go on,
-To good malignant, to bad men benign;
-Under her own weight groaning; till the day
-Appear of respiration to the just,
-And vengeance to the wicked, at return
-Of him so lately promised to thy aid,
-The Woman's Seed; obscurely then foretold,
-Now ampler known thy Saviour and thy Lord;
-Last, in the clouds, from Heaven to be revealed
-In glory of the Father, to dissolve
-Satan with his perverted world; then raise
-From the conflagrant mass, purged and refined,
-New Heavens, new Earth, ages of endless date,
-Founded in righteousness, and peace, and love;
-To bring forth fruits, joy and eternal bliss.
-He ended; and thus Adam last replied.
-How soon hath thy prediction, Seer blest,
-Measured this transient world, the race of time,
-Till time stand fixed! Beyond is all abyss,
-Eternity, whose end no eye can reach.
-Greatly-instructed I shall hence depart;
-Greatly in peace of thought; and have my fill
-Of knowledge, what this vessel can contain;
-Beyond which was my folly to aspire.
-Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best,
-And love with fear the only God; to walk
-As in his presence; ever to observe
-His providence; and on him sole depend,
-Merciful over all his works, with good
-Still overcoming evil, and by small
-Accomplishing great things, by things deemed weak
-Subverting worldly strong, and worldly wise
-By simply meek: that suffering for truth's sake
-Is fortitude to highest victory,
-And, to the faithful, death the gate of life;
-Taught this by his example, whom I now
-Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest.
-To whom thus also the Angel last replied.
-This having learned, thou hast attained the sum
-Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars
-Thou knewest by name, and all the ethereal powers,
-All secrets of the deep, all Nature's works,
-Or works of God in Heaven, air, earth, or sea,
-And all the riches of this world enjoyedst,
-And all the rule, one empire; only add
-Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith,
-Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love,
-By name to come called charity, the soul
-Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loth
-To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess
-A Paradise within thee, happier far.--
-Let us descend now therefore from this top
-Of speculation; for the hour precise
-Exacts our parting hence; and see!the guards,
-By me encamped on yonder hill, expect
-Their motion; at whose front a flaming sword,
-In signal of remove, waves fiercely round:
-We may no longer stay: go, waken Eve;
-Her also I with gentle dreams have calmed
-Portending good, and all her spirits composed
-To meek submission: thou, at season fit,
-Let her with thee partake what thou hast heard;
-Chiefly what may concern her faith to know,
-The great deliverance by her seed to come
-(For by the Woman's seed) on all mankind:
-That ye may live, which will be many days,
-Both in one faith unanimous, though sad,
-With cause, for evils past; yet much more cheered
-With meditation on the happy end.
-He ended, and they both descend the hill;
-Descended, Adam to the bower, where Eve
-Lay sleeping, ran before; but found her waked;
-And thus with words not sad she him received.
-Whence thou returnest, and whither wentest, I know;
-For God is also in sleep; and dreams advise,
-Which he hath sent propitious, some great good
-Presaging, since with sorrow and heart's distress
-Wearied I fell asleep: But now lead on;
-In me is no delay; with thee to go,
-Is to stay here; without thee here to stay,
-Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me
-Art all things under $Heaven, all places thou,
-Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
-This further consolation yet secure
-I carry hence; though all by me is lost,
-Such favour I unworthy am vouchsafed,
-By me the Promised Seed shall all restore.
-So spake our mother Eve; and Adam heard
-Well pleased, but answered not: For now, too nigh
-The Arch-Angel stood; and, from the other hill
-To their fixed station, all in bright array
-The Cherubim descended; on the ground
-Gliding meteorous, as evening-mist
-Risen from a river o'er the marish glides,
-And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel
-Homeward returning. High in front advanced,
-The brandished sword of God before them blazed,
-Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat,
-And vapour as the Libyan air adust,
-Began to parch that temperate clime; whereat
-In either hand the hastening Angel caught
-Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate
-Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast
-To the subjected plain; then disappeared.
-They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
-Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
-Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate
-With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms:
-Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them soon;
-The world was all before them, where to choose
-Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
-They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
-Through Eden took their solitary way.
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-[The End]
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