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| 9. �Fall�n Cherub, to be weak is miserable Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight,� Paradise Lost, Book I, Milton, Lines 157-160. �All Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors:� The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Voice of the Devil, Blake. �Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call�d Body is a portion of the Soul discern�d by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.� The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Voice of the Devil, Blake. �I know, however, that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand. So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders that I will perform in it; after that he will let you go.� Exodus 3:19-20, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 10. �They hand in hand with wand�ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.� Paradise Lost, Book XII, Milton, Lines 648-649. �The darkness of that battle in the West, Where all of high and holy dies away.� Idylls of the King, "To the Queen", Tennyson, Lines 65-66. �He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse.� Malachi 4:6, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. �And his soul flew, resentful of its fate, Down to the Shades, with many a sigh and groan.� The Aeneid, Vergil, Book XII, Translated by Patric Dickinson, Page 298, New York: Mentor, 1961. �If prophecies of bards are ever truthful, I shall be living, always.� Metamporphosis, Ovid, Book XV, Translated by Rolfe Humphries, Page 392, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. Back to Poems Back to Index E-mail the Poet |