DO NOT abstain from DONUT

Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor—one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may eat the donut secure; and, in my choice, To eat the donut is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to eat all the donut in Hell than starve in Heav'n. Paradise Lost, Book I, Line...View all