And If By Prayer Incessant I Could

Satan; So Call Him Now, His Former Name Is Heard No More In Heaven.

That Practis'd Falsehood Under Saintly Shew, Deep Malice To Conceal, Couch'd With Revenge.

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint.

At His Birth A Star, Unseen Before In Heaven, Proclaims Him Come.

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. 1 Paradise Lost. Book I. Line 22.