Was a cheap penalty; ... that he had fallen

Down to the lowest depth of wretchedness,

His hope and consolation. But to lose

His human station in the scale of things, ...

To see brute nature scorn him, and renounce

Its homage to the human form divine; ...

Had then Almighty vengeance thus reveal’d

His punishment, and was he fallen indeed

Below fallen man, below redemption’s reach, ...

Made lower than the beasts, and like the beasts