...who am alone
From all Eternitie, for none I know
Second to mee or like, equal much less.
Who is like God but God? And who exists
for God to love? No one, for God is One.
Milton imagines the infinite loneliness
of an infinite being. But God relents.
And in the creation of Eve, Milton
reveals the blessing of our finitude....
Eric Charles LeMay
The Loneliness of God
Poetry Daily August 2 2003
