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Invulnerable, impenetrably armed;400
Such high advantages their innocence
Gave them above their foes; not to have sinned,
Not to have disobeyed; in fight they stood
Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pained
By wound, though from their place by violence moved.
"Now Night her course began, and, over Heaven
Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposed,
And silence on the odious din of war.
Under her cloudy covert both retired,
Victor and vanquished. On the foughten field410
Michaël and his Angels prevalent
Encamping placed in guard their watches round,
Cherubic waving fires; on the other part,
Satan with his rebellious disappeared,
Far in the dark dislodged; and; void of rest,
His potentates to council called by night,
And in the midst thus undismayed began:
"'O now in danger tried, now known in arms
Not to be overpowered, companions dear,
Found worthy not of liberty alone,420
Too mean pretense, but what we more affect
Honor, dominion, glory, and renown,
Who have sustained one day in doubtful fight
—And if one day, why not eternal days?—
What Heaven's Lord had powerfullest to send
Against us from about his throne, and judged