I Want to Go Home...

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Ok, I want to talk about the scene in book four where Satan gets to earth and looks around at Eden.  I don't know about the rest of you, but this passage hurts my heart for several reasons.
As soon as Satan lands in Eden he is overcome with sadness and grief (lines27-28), and in line 31 it's written that he begins to speak his next words in sighs; he's anguished.

"...to thee I call but with no friendly voice and add thy name, O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams that bring to my rememberance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere till pride and worse ambition threw me down, warring in Heav'n against Heav'ns matchless king. Ah wherefore! He deserved no such return from me, whom He created what I was In that bright eminence...... Nor was His service hard: What could be lss than to afford him praise, the easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks?"
"Yet all His good proved ill in me and wrought but malice. Lifted up so high I 'sdeigned subjection and thought one step higher would set me high'st and in a moment quit the debt immense of endless gratitude so burdensome still paying!"

I'll stop before I quote all of it, but Satan is finally admitting his mistake! Amid all his boastful talk about being "free" and trying to justify his decision, after seeing the beauty of God's creation for just a few moments and realizing that he can never be forgiven, he admits his grave error.  I have big imagination and I often picture the scenes in my head. When I read this passage Satan is no longer anger or jealousy; he is regret and sadness and all of me wants to hug him. Can you imagine being in his position where you made a mistake and no matter how much you regret it or how many times you apologize, you cant be forgiven? It's heartwrenching. He's finally sorry but its too late. He cant go home.

P.S- I commented on Natalie's and Trey's posts 

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