Name: A Golden Chain
Duration: P00H02M09S
Description: From Book II of John Milton's "Paradise Lost," in which Satan is banished, crushed by the realization that he's never going back, and then sees Earth hanging below him like a tantalizing ornament.

A Golden Chain

from John Milton's Paradise Lost (Demos) by Jonathan Salem Baskin

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From Book II of John Milton's "Paradise Lost," in which Satan is banished, crushed by the realization that he's never going back, and then sees Earth hanging below him like a tantalizing ornament.

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Now sad to mention,
through dire change befallen unforeseen.
I come to set free
from this house of pain.

This errand soul,
and one for all
with lonely steps to tread.
Th’ void immense to search a place foretold

With thoughts inflamed of high design,
puts on swift wings, toward the Gates of Hell he flies,
and explores his solitary quest;

He scours the right
some times the left,
then soars up in the clouds.
Spreads his wings, at leisure to behold:

Light appears,
and from the walls of Heaven,
Shoots into night nature begins

Far off,
Empyreal Heaven, extended wide
once his native seat.

Accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies,
full, with mischievous revenge.

This pendant world,
in bigness as a star and fast, by
hanging in a golden chain.

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from John Milton's Paradise Lost (Demos), released June 27, 2022
Ted Sofios, guitar

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Jonathan Salem Baskin Chicago, Illinois

i'm a writer, musician, and science junkie.

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