Paradise Lost Ⅴ 精彩片段：
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As yet this World was not, and Chaos Wilde
Reignd where these Heavns now rowl, where Earth now rests
Upon her Center poisd, when on a day
(For Time, though in Eternitie, applid [ 580 ]
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future) on such day
As Heavns great Year brings forth, th Empyreal Host
Of Angels by Imperial summons calld,
Innumerable before th Almighties Throne [ 585 ]
Forthwith from all the ends of Heavn appeerd
Under thir Hierarchs in orders bright
Ten thousand thousand Ensignes high advancd,
Standards and Gonfalons twixt Van and Reare
Streame in the Aire, and for distinction serve [ 590 ]