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"Live to ourselves, though in this vast recess /
Free, and to none accountable, preferring /
Hard liberty before the easy yoke /
Of servile pomp."

I mean, you can't say the devils sound unreasonable.

*guy who only reads fantasy voice* "Hmm... Getting a lot of Silmarillion vibes from this..."

Decided I wanted to finally read this. Much shorter than the page count says- I plan on just reading the poem, not Bible excerpts and critical essays about the poem...