SATAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN. On to Freedom! On to Freedom! Out of all the shames of Egypt- On to Freedom! On to Freedom! 59 SATAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN. MILTON. This famous speech affords opportunity for the grandest declamation. It is studded with points-anger, hate, scorn, admiration and defiance. The student should read, and reread, and ponder over every line, until he catches the exact meaning intended to be conveyed-then, following the examples already given, he should declaim it repeatedly : O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, SATAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN. So burdensome still paying, still to owe: Me some inferior angel, I had stood Then happy; no unbounded hope had raised Hadst thou the same free will and power to stand? Be then his love accursed, since love or hate, To me alike, it deals eternal woe. Nay, cursed be thou; since against his thy will. Me miserable! which way shall I fly By act of grace, my former state; how soon Would height recall high thoughts, how soon unsay . Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep: THE MILLS OF GOD. 1 Which would but lead me to a worse relapse 63 THE MILLS OF GOD. DUGANNE. Apart from the noble sentiments of these verses, and their exquisite diction-in which every word is the best that could possibly be used as in a piece of faultless mosaic every minute stone is so placed as to impart strength, brilliancy, and harmony-they afford an excellent example of lofty, dignified recitation : Those mills of God! those tireless mills! And we, O God! with impious will, And so, like Samson-blind and bound- |