Sunday 29 September 2013

Be Not Conformed To This World

From John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book Five;

"So spoke the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found;
Among the faithless faithful only he,
Among innumerable false unmoved,
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal;
Nor number nor example with him wrought
To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind,
Though single. From amidst them forth he passed,
Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained
Superior, nor of violence feared aught;
And with retorted scorn his back he turned
On those proud towers, to swift destruction doomed."

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