StoryTitle("caps", "From Samson Agonistes: First Selection") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh how comely it is and how reviving ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the Spirits of just men long opprest! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When God into the hands of thir deliverer ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Puts invincible might ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To quell the mighty of the Earth, th' oppressour, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The brute and boist'rous force of violent men ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hardy and industrious to support ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tyrannic power, but raging to pursue ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The righteous and all such as honour Truth; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He all thir Ammunition ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And feats of War defeats ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With plain Heroic magnitude of mind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And celestial vigour arm'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thir Armories and Magazins contemns, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Renders them useless, while ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With wingéd expedition ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Swift as the lightning glance he executes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His errand on the wicked, who surpris'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lose thir defence distracted and amaz'd.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>