This horror will grow milde, this darkness light, besides what hope the never-ending flight of future dayes may bring, what chance, what change worth waiting, since our present lot appeers1.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. “Paradise Lost.” 21 January 2015. ↩