Milton’s Cosmos, or Satan Alighted
What the what, it’s in color! This is an improvement on an old comic. That’s Satan musing on the Earth from the very outermost shell of the cosmos, as in Book Three of Paradise Lost, lines 418–422:
Mean while upon the firm opacous Globe
Of this round World, whose first convex divides
The luminous inferior Orbs, enclos’d
From Chaos and th’ inroad of Darkness old,
Satan alighted walks….
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