Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VI. Human Experience | | The Faithful Angel | | John Milton (1608–1674) |
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THE SERAPH Abdiel, faithful found | |
| Among the faithless, faithful only he; | |
| Among innumerable false, unmoved, | |
| Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, | |
| His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; | 5 |
| Nor number, nor example with him wrought | |
| To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, | |
| Though single. From amidst them forth he passed, | |
| Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained | |
| Superior, nor of violence fearèd aught; | 10 |
| And with retorted scorn his back he turned | |
| On those proud towers to swift destruction doomed. | | | | |
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