Earth’s surface was
With grass not yet be-greened; while far and wide
The dusky ways, with black unending night
Did ocean cover.
Of the great Over-Lord God-Almighty, he says—
In Him, beginning never,
Or origin hath been; but he is aye supreme
Over heaven’s thrones, with high majesty
Righteous and mighty.
And again,—that you may make for yourselves comparison with the treatment and method of Milton,—I quote this picture of Satan in hell:—