...wander and forlorne. Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible Diurnal Spheare; Standing on Earth, not rapt above the Pole, More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarce or mute, (VII. 12-25) Both the narrator's flying and his presumption are not wholly...

...continued to inspire him as he had undertaken to describe nothing less than the Creation of the world : Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe...fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone while Thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn...

...out in its Byronic context, but it belongs in its true context to quite a different poetic register: Standing on Earth, not rapt above the Pole, More safe I sing, with mortal voice, unchang'd To Hoarce or mute, though fall'n on evil dayes. On evil dayes though fall'n, and evil tongues...

...sphere; Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged 25 To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On...fallen, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly or when morn...

...there to wander and forlorn. Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible diurnal0 sphere; Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged 25 To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues; In...

...expansionism. . 302 • 57 ah, we have fallen on evil days!: Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. 7, lines 23-26: "Standing on Earth, not rapt above the Pole, / More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang'd / To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, / On evil days though tall'n, and evil tongues....

...ambivalent deity offers the same fragile illusion of security for Milton's speaker as it does for Job, "though fallen on evil days, / On evil days though...and evil tongues; / In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, / And solitude" (LM 7.25-28). The very presence of antimetabole here — the tautological...

...wander and forlorne. Half yet rcmaines unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible Diurnal Spheare; Standing on Earth, not rapt above the Pole More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarce or mute, though fall'n on evil dayes, On evil dayes though fall'n and evil tongues;...

...though from a lower Clime) Dismounted, on th' Aleian Field I fall Erroneous there to wander and forlorn. Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within...above the Pole, More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues;...

...though from a lower Clime) Dismounted, on th' Aleian Field I fall Erroneous there to wander and forlorn. Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within...above the Pole, More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days. On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues;...