An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

Fallen into wrath divine,

As their own ruin on themselves to invite,

Insensate left, or to sense reprobate, 1685

And with blindness internal struck.

Semichorus. But he, though blind of sight,

Despised, and thought extinguished quite,

With inward eyes illuminated,

His fiery virtue roused 1690

From under ashes into sudden flame,

And as an evening dragon came,