• From “Paradise Lost,” Book V.
            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;
    Nor number, nor example with him wrought
    To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind,
    Though single. From...