Anot in Squadrons and gross Bands, [ 570 ]
On bold adventure to discover wide
t dismal world, if any Clime perhaps
Migation, bend
Four he Banks
Of four infernal Rivers t disgorge [ 575 ]
Into treams;
Abyx te,
Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;
Cocytus, namd of lamentation loud
ream; fierce Pon [ 580 ]
orrent fire inflame h rage.
Farr off from t stream,
Lethe River of Oblivion roules
rie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks,
Fortate and being forgets, [ 585 ]
Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Beyond tinent
Lies dark and ual storms
Of hirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land
t, but gathers heap, and ruin seems [ 590 ]
Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,
A gulf profound as t Serbonian Bog
Bet Damiata and Mount Casius old,
he parching Air
Burns frore, and cold performs t of Fire. [ 595 ]
ted Furies haild,
At certain revolutions all the damnd
Are brougurns tter change
Of fierce extreams, extreams by change more fierce,
From Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice [ 600 ]
t Eto pine
Immovable, infixt, and frozen round,
Periods of time, to fire.
thean Sound
Boto and fro, to augment, [ 605 ]
And o reach
tempting stream, o loose
In s forgetfulness all pain and woe,
All in one moment, and so neer the brink;
But fate ands, and to oppose ttempt [ 610 ]
Medusa error guards
t self ter flies
All taste of living wig fled
tantalus. thus roving on
In confusd marcrous Bands [ 615 ]
it
Vie table lot, and found
No rest: through many a dark and drearie Vaile
they passd, and many a Region dolorous,
Oer many a Frozen, many a fierie Alpe, [ 620 ]
Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and sh,
A Universe of death, which God by curse
Created evil, for evil only good,
ure breeds,
Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, [ 625 ]
Abominable, inutterable, and worse
t have feignd, or fear conceivd,
Gorgons and hydras, and Chimeras dire.