Lay sleeping, ran before, but found her waked; Whence thou return'st, and whither went'st, I know; Is to stay here; without thee here to stay I carry hence; though all by me is lost, So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard Ris'n from a river o'er the marish' glides, 1 An old word for marsh. Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, "They, hand in hand with wandering steps a and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.' - p. 366. Paradise Regained. BOOK I. I, WHO erewhile the happy garden sung, By one man's firm obedience fully tried Against the spiritual foe, and brought'st Him thence And unrecorded left through many an age, Now had the great Proclaimer,2 with a voice Full feathered, a term used in falconry. • John the Baptist. |