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PARADISE LOST.
BOOK VI.
THE ARGUMENT.
- Raphael continues to relate how Michael and Gabriel were sent forth to battle against Satan and his Angels. The first fight described: Satan and his Powers retire under night: he calls a council, invents devilish engines, which in the second day's fight put Michael and his Angels to some disorder: but they at length, pulling up mountains, overwhelmed both the force and machines of Satan: yet the tumult not so ending, God on the third day sends Messiah his Son, for whom he had reserved the glory of that victory: he, in the power of his Father, coming to the place, and causing all his legions to stand still on either side, with his chariot and thunder driving into the midst of his enemies, pursues them unable to resist toward the wall of Heaven; which opening, they leap down with horror and confusion into the place of punishment prepared for them in the Deep: Messiah returns with triumph to his Father.
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued,
Through Heaven's wide champaign, 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 is perpetual round
