text: " Oh heavens and earth! the veritable Satan's soliloquy on Niphate's top! "O thou that with surpassing glory crown'd Look'st from thy sole dominion like the God Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads to thee I call But with no friendly voice _and add thy name_ O SUN! to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell how glorious once above thy sphere Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king!" And so on for nearly a hundred lines in many a changeful strain arch-angelical all of heaven-remembering passion while ever as thus he spoke "Each passion dimm'd his face Thrice changed with pale ire envy and despair; Which marr'd his borrow'd visage and betray'd Him counterfeit if any eye beheld; For heavenly minds from such distempers foul Are ever clear