Page images
PDF
EPUB

OF MILTON'S

PARADISE LOST

WITH A NEW TRANSLATION

INTO ITALIAN POETRY VERSE BY VERSE

BY DOMENICO ARNALDI

VOLUME II.

GENOA

PRINTED FOR PONTHENIER

1852

DI MILTON

NUOVA EDIZIONE

CON UNA NUOVA TRADUZIONE

IN POESIA ITALIANA VERSO A VERSO

DI DOMENICO ARNALDI

VOLUME 11.

GENOVA

STABILIMENTO TIPOGRAFICO PONTHENIER

1852

PARADISE

LOST.

PARADISO

PERDUTO.

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small]

Raphael continues to relate how Michael and Gabriel were sent fort 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, towards 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 champain held his way: till Morn,
Wak'd by the circling Hours, with rosy hand
Unbarr'd 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

« PreviousContinue »