"I also must change Their nature, and revoke the high decree Unchangeable, eternal, which ordain’d Their freedom; they themsel
ves ordain’d their fall. The first sort by their own suggestion fell, Self-temped, self-deprav’d: man falls, deceiv’d, By th’other first: man, therefore, shall find grace, The other none. In mercy, and justice both, Through heaven and earth, so shall my glory excel; But mercy, first and last, shall brightest shine."
Explanation:This is a quote from John Milton's Paradise Lost. This work is considered to be the greatest of all the post-Classical epic poems, and probably the last major epic.
