Paradise Lost Ⅶ 精彩片段：
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Who can impair thee, mighty King, or bound
Thy Empire? easily the proud attempt
Of Spirits apostat and thir Counsels vaine [ 610 ]
Thou hast repeld, while impiously they thought
Thee to diminish, and from thee withdraw
The number of thy worshippers. Who seekes
To lessen thee, against his purpose serves
To manifest the more thy might: his evil [ 615 ]
Thou usest, and from thence creatst more good.
Witness this new-made World, another Heavn
From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view
On the cleer Hyaline, the Glassie Sea;
Of amplitude almost immense, with Starrs [ 620 ]
Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a World