Rocks, dens, and caves! but I in none of these Now land, now sea, and shores with forest crowned, Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains, If I could joy in aught, sweet interchange With what delight could I have walked thee round, Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in Man. Productive in herb, plant, and nobler birth 111 Not in themselves, all their known virtue appears, In thee concentring all their precious beamsĬentring receivest from all those orbs in thee, Light above light, for thee alone, as seems, That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps, Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other heavens, With second thoughts, reforming what was old!įor what God, after better, worse would build? More justly, seat worthier of Gods, as built 100 "O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred His bursting passion into plaints thus poured: Thus he resolved, but first from inward grief Proceeding, which, in other beasts observed, Whatever sleights none would suspicious mark, To enter, and his dark suggestions hide 90įrom sharpest sight for in the wily snake Of thoughts revolved, his final sentence chose,įit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom The serpent subtlest beast of all the field. Most opportune might serve his wiles, and found With narrow search, and, with inspection deep, West from Orontes to the ocean barred 80Īt Dariën, thence to the land where flows Satan, involved in rising mist then sought Now not, though sin, not time, first wrought the change- 70 On the eighth return, and, on the coast averseįrom entrance or cherubic watch, by stealth He circled, four times crossed the car of Nightįrom pole to pole, traversing each colure With darkness thrice the equinoctial line The space of seven continued nights he rode His entrance, and forewarned the Cherubim ![]() ![]() Since Uriel, regent of the sun, descried 60 Of heavier on himself, fearless returned.-īy night he fled, and at midnight returned,įrom compassing the earth cautious of day, On Man's destruction, maugre what might hap When Satan, who late fled, before the threats Night's hemisphere had veiled the horizon round, 'Twixt day and night and now from end to end Twilight upon the earth, short arbiter 50 Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear. That name, unless an age too late, or coldĬlimate, or years, damp my intended wing,ĭepressed and much they may if all be mine, Nor skilled nor studious, higher argument Served up in hall with sewers and seneshals Or tilting furniture, emblazoned shields,īases and tinsel trappings, gorgeous knightsĪt joust and torneament then marshalled feast With long and tedious havoc, fabled knights, 30 Pleased me, long choosing and beginning late, Perplexed the Greek, and Cytherea's son -Īnd dictates to me slumbering, or inspires Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long That brought into this world a world of woe,ĭeath's harbinger: sad task! yet argument Those notes to tragic foul distrust, and breachĪnger and just rebuke, and judgement given, 10 With Man, as with his friend, familiar used The effects thereof in them both they seek to cover their nakedness then fall to variance and accusation of one another. Adam at first amazed, but perceiving her lost, resolves through vehemence of love to perish with her and extenuating the trespass eats also of the fruit. The Serpent now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat she, pleased with the taste, deliberates a while whether to impart thereof to Adam or not, at last brings him of the fruit, relates what persuaded her to eat thereof. Eve requires him to bring her to that tree, and finds it to be the Tree of Knowledge forbidden. Eve, wondering to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attained to human speech and such understanding not till now: the Serpent answers, that by tasting of a certain tree in the garden he attained both to speech and reason, till then void of both. ![]() The Serpent finds her alone his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking, with much flattery extolling Eve above all other creatures. Eve, loth to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her, going apart, the rather desirous to make trial of her strength Adam at last yields. Adam and Eve in the morning go forth to their labors, which Eve proposes to divide in several places, each laboring apart Adam consents not, alleging the danger, lest that enemy, of whom they were forewarned, should attempt her found alone. Satan having compassed the earth, with meditated guile returns as a midst by night into Paradise, enters unto the Serpent sleeping.
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