Status Updates From Paradise Lost

“With frontispiece of diamond and gold
Embellished, thick with sparkling orient gems
The portal shone, inimitable on earth
By model, or by shading pencil drawn.” III, 506-9

“…whether to dare
The fiend by easy ascent, or aggravate
His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss.” 523-25

“Looks down the wonder at the sudden view
Of all this world at once.” 542-3

I’m like too stupid n too unfamiliar w the bible for this book club pick but we persist