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Who hates me, and hath hither thrust me down | I fung of chaos and eternal night;

Into this gloom of Tartarus profound,
To fit in hateful office here confin'd,"
Inhabitant of heaven, and heavenly born,
Here in perpetual agony and pain,

With terrors and with clamours compafs'd round
Of mine own brood, that on my bowels feed?
Thou art my father, thou my author, thou
My being gav'ft me, whom thould I obey
But thee? whom follow thou wilt bring me foon
To that new world of light and blifs, among
The gods who live at eafe, where I fhall reign
At thy right hand voluptuous, as beseems
Thy daughter and thy darling, without end.

Thus faying, from her fide the fatal key,
Sad inftrument of all our woe, she took;
And tow'rds the gate rolling her beftial train,
Forthwith the huge portcullis high up drew;
Which, but herself, not all the Stygian powers
Could once have mov'd then in the key-hole

turns

Th' intricate wards, and every bolt and bar
Of massy iron or felid rock with ease.
Unfaftens: on a fudden open fly,

With impetuous recoil and jarring found,
Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate
Harth thunder, that the lowest bottom shook
Of Erebus. She open'd, but to fhut
Excell'd her pow'r: the gates wide open stood,
That with extended wings a banner'd host,
Under fpread enfigns marching, might pafs thro'
With horfe and chariots rank'd in loose array;
So wide they stood, and like a furnace mouth
Caft forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame.
Before their eyes in fudden view appear
The fecrets of the hoary deep, a dark`
Illimitable ocean, without bound,

Without dimenfion, where length, breadth, and
height,

And time, and place are loft; where eldest Night
And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold
Eternal anarchy, amidft the noise
Of endless wars, and by confufion stand.

§ 55. Milton's Addrefs to the Sun. HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven

born,

Taught by the heavenly mufe to venture down
The dark defcent, and up to reafcend,
Though hard and rare: thee I revifit fafe,
And feel thy fov'reign vital lamp; but thou
Revifit'ft not thefe eyes, that roll in vain
To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;
So thick a drop ferene hath quench'd their orbs,
Or dim fuffufion veil'd. Yet not the more
Ccafe I to wander, where the mufes haunt
Clear fpring, or fhady grove, or funny hill,
Smit with the love of facred fong; but chief
Thee, Sion, and the flow ry brooks beneath,
That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow,
Nightly I vifit: nor fometimes forget
Thofe other two equall'd with me in fate,
So were I equall'd with them in renown,
Blind Thamyris, and blind Mæonides,
And Tirefias, and Phineus, prophets old:
Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move
Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird
Sings darkling, and in fhadieft covert hid
Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year
Seafons return, but not to me returns
Day, or the fweet approach of ev'n or morn,
Or fight of vernal bloom, or fummer's rofe,
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;
But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark
Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men
Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair
Prefented with a univerfal blank

Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd,
And wifdom at one entrance quite fhut out.
So much the rather thou, celeftial light,
Shine inward, and the mind thro' all her pow'rs
Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mift from thence
Purge and difperfe, that I may fee and tell
Of things invisible to mortal fight.

$56. Address from the Deity to his Sen.

'THOU, in Heaven and Earth the only peace Found out for mankind under wrath, O thou My fole complacence! well thou know'st how dear

To me are all my works, nor man the least,
firft-Though laft created; that for him I ipare
Thee from my bofom and right hand, to fave,
By lofing thee awhile, the whole race loft.
Thou therefore, whom thou only canft redeein,
Their nature alfo to thy nature join;
And be thyfelf Man anong inen on earth,
Made flesh, when time fhall be, of virgin feed,
By wondrous birth: be thou in Adam's room
The head of all mankind, though Adam's fon.
As in him perish all men, fo in thee,
As from a fecond root, fhall be reftor'd
As many as are reftor'd, without thee none.
His crime makes guilty all his fons; thy merit
Imputed fhall abfolve them who renounce
Their own both righteous and unrighteous deeds,
And live in thee tranfplanted, and from thee
Receive new life. So Man, as is moft juft,
Shall fatisfy for Man, be judg'd, and die,

Or of th' Eternal coeternal beam,
May I exprefs thee unblam'd? fince God is light,
And never but in unapproached light
Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,
Bright effluence of bright effence increate.
Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream,
Whofe fountain who shall tell? Before the fun,
Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice
Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest
The rifing world of waters dark and deep,
Won from the void and formlefs infinite.
Thee I revifit now with bolder wing,
Efcap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd
In that obfcure fojourn; while in my flight
Thro' utter and thro' middle darknefs borne,
With other notes than to th' Orphan Ivre,

And dying rife, and rifing with him raise
His brethren, ranfom'd with his own dear life.
So heavenly love fhall outdo hellish hate,
Giving to death, and dying to redeem,
So dearly to redeem what hellish hate
So eafily deftroy'd, and ftill deftroys

In those who, when they may, accept not grace.
Nor fhalt thou, by defcending to affume
Man's nature, leffen or degrade thine own,
Because thou haft, though thron'd in higheft blifs,
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
Godlike fruition, quitted all, to fave

A world from utter lofs, and haft been found
By merit more than birthright Son of God,
Found worthieft to be fo by being good,
Far more than great or high; becaufe in thee
Love hath abounded more than glory' abounds;
Therefore thy humiliation fhall exalt
With thee thy manhood alfo to this throne;
Here shalt thou fit incarnate, here fhalt reign
Both God and Man, Son both of God and Man,
Anointed univerfal King; all pow'r

I give thee; reign for ever, and affume
Thy merits; under thee, as head fupreme,
Thrones, princedoms, pow'rs, dominions, I re-

duce:

All knees to thee fhall bow, of them that bide
In heaven or earth, or under earth in hell.
When thou, attended glorioufly from heaven
Shalt in the fky appear, and from thee fend
The fummoning archangels to proclaim
Thy dread tribunal; forthwith from all winds
The living, and forthwith the cited dead
Of all paft ages, to the general doom
Shall haften; fuch a peal fhall roufe their fleep.
Then, all thy faints affembled, thou fhalt judge
Bad men and angels; they arraign'd shall sink
Beneath thy fentence; hell, her numbers full,
Thenceforth shall be for ever fhut. Meanwhile
The world fhall burn, and from her afhes fpring
New heaven and earth, wherein the just shall dwell,
And, after all their tribulations long,
See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,
With joy and love triumphing, and fair truth:
Then thou thy regal fceptre thalt lay by,
For regal fceptre then no more fhall need,
God fhall be all in all. But all ye Gods,
Adore him, who to compafs all this dies;
Adore the Son, and honour him as me.

No fooner had th' Almighty ceas'd, but all
The multitude of angels, with a shout
Loud as from numbers without number, sweet
As from blefs'd voices, uttering joy, heaven rung
With jubilee, and loud hofannas fill'd
Th' eternal regions: lowly reverent,
Tow'rds cither throne they bow, and to the ground
With folema adoration down they caft
Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold;
Immortal amarant, a flow'r which once
In Paradife, faft by the tree of life,
Began to bloom; but foon for man's offence
To heaven remov'd, where firft it grew, there

grows,

And flow'rs aloft fhading the fount of life,

And where the river of blifs through midst of heaven

Rolls o'er Elyfian flow'rs her amber ftream:
With these that never fade, the fpirits elect
Bind their refplendent locks, inwreath'd with
beams;

Now in loofe garlands thick thrown off, the bright
Pavement, that like a sea of jasper thone,
Impurpled with celeftial roses mil'd.
Then crown'd again, their golden harps they took;
Harps ever tun'd, that glittering by their fide
Like quivers hung, and with preainble sweet
Of charming fymphony they introduce
Their facred fong, and waken raptures high;
No voice exempt, no voice but well could join
Melodious part, fuch concord is in heaven."

§ 57. Satan's Addrefs to the Sun.
THOU that, with furpaffing glory crown'd,
Look'ft from thy fole dominion like the god
Of this new world; at whofe fight all the ftars
Hide their diminith'd heads; to thee I call,
But with no friendly voice, and add thy name,
◇ Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams,
That bring to my remembrance from what ftate
I fell, how giorious once above thy sphere;
Till pride, and worse ambition, threw me down,
Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless
King.

Ah wherefore! he deferv'd no fuch return
From me, whom he created what I was,
In that bright eminence, and with his good
Upbraided none; nor was his fervice hard.
What could be lefs than to afford him praife,
The cafiek recompence, and pay him thanks,
How due! yet all his good prov'd ill in me,
And wrought but malice; lifted up fo high,
I 'fdain'd fubjection, and thought one step higher
Would fet me highest, and in a moment quit
The debt immense of endless gratitude,
So burdenfome ftill paying, till to owe,
Forgetful what from him I ftill receiv'd;
And understood not that a grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and difcharg'd; what burden then?
Oh had his powerful deftiny ordain'd
Me fome inferior angel, I had ftood
Then happy; no unbounded hope had rais'd
Ambition. Yet why not? fome other pow'r
As great might have afpir'd, and me though

mean

Drawn to his part; but other pow'rs as great
Fell not, but fand unshaken, from within
Or from without, to all temptations arm'd.
Hadft thou the fame free will and pow 'r to fland
Thou hadft: whom haft thou then, or what,
t'accufe,

But Heaven's free love, dealt equally to all!
Be then his love accurs'd, fince love or hate,
To me alike, it deals eternal woe.
Nay, curs'd be thou; fince against his thy will
Chofe freely what it now fo juftly rues.
Me miferable which way fhall I fiy

Infinite

Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myfelf am hell;
And in the loweft deep a lower deep
Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide,
To which the hell I fuffer feems a heaven.
Oh then at last relent: is there no place
Left for repentance, none for pardon left?
None left but by fubmiffion: and that word
Difdain forbids me, and my dread of shame
Among the fpi'rits beneath, whom I feduc'd
With other promises and other vaunts
Than to fubmit, boafting I could fubdue
Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, they little know
How dearly I abide that boaft fo vain,
Under what torments inwardly I groan,
While they adore me on the throne of hell.
With diadem and fceptre high advanc'd,
The lower ftill I fall, only fupreme
In mifery: fuch joy ambition finds.
But fay I could repent, and could obtain
By act of grace my former ftate; how foon
Would height recal high thoughts, how foon
unfay

What feign'd fubmiffion swore! eafe would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
For never can true reconcilement grow
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd fo deep:
Which would but lead me to a worfe relapfe,
And heavier fall: fo fhould I purchase dear
Short intermiflion bought with double fmart.
This knows my punisher: therefore as far
From granting he, as I from begging peace:
All hope excluded thus, behold inftead
Of us outcaft, exil'd, his new delight,
Mankind created, and for him this world.
So farewel hope, and with hope farewel fear,
Farewel remorfe: all good to me is lost :
Evil, be thou my good: by thee at least
Divided empire with Heaven's King I hold,
By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign;
As man ere long, and this new world, shall know.

$58. Defcription of Adam and Eve. TWO of far nobler thape, erect and tall,

Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majefty feem'd lords of all: And worthy feem'd; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker fhone, Truth, wifdom, fanctitude fevere and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom plac'd), Whence true authority in men: though both Not equal, as their fex not equal feem'd: For contemplation he, and valour form'd; For foftnefs the, and fweet attractive grace; He for God only, the for God in him. His fair large front and eye fublime declar'd Abfolute rule; and hyacinthian locks Round from his parted forclock manly hung Cluft ring, but not beneath his fhoulders broad: She, as a veil, down to the flender waift Her unadorned golden treffes wore Dithevell'd, but in wanton ringlets wav'd, As the vine curls her tendrils, which implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle fway, And by her yielded, by him beft receiv'd,

Yielded with coy fubmiffion, modeft pride,
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
Nor thofe myfterious parts were then conceal'd;
Then was not guilty thame, difhonest shame
Of nature's works, honour dishonourable,
Sin-bred, how have ye troubled all mankind
With fhows inftead, mere fhows of feeming pure,
And banith'd from man's life his happiest life,
Simplicity, and fpotlefs innocence!

So pafs'd they naked on, nor fhunn'd the fight
Of God or angel; for they thought no ill:
So hand in hand they pafs'd, the loveliest pair
That ever fince in love's embraces met;
Adam the goodlieft man of men fince born
His fons, the fairest of her daughters Eve,
Under a tuft of fhade that on a green
Stood whifp'ring soft, by a fresh fountain-fide
They fat them down; and after no more toil
Of their fweet gard'ning labour than fuffic'd
To recommend cool Zephyr, and made cafe
More eafy, wholefome thirst and appetite
More grateful, to their fupper-fruits they fell
Nectarine fruits, which the compliant boughs
Yielded them, fide-long as they fat recline
On the foft downy bank damark'd with flowers
The favory pulp they chew, and in the rind,
Still as they thirfted, fcoop the brimming stream
Nor gentle purpofe, nor endearing fmiles,
Wanted, nor youthful dalliance, as befeems
Fair couple, link'd in happy nuptial league,
Alone as they.

§ 59. Adam's Address to Eve, relative to the
Tree of Knowledge, and Eve's Reply.
SOLE partner, and fole part, of all thefe joys,
Dearer thy felf than all; needs must the Pow'r
That made us, and for us this ample world,
Be infinitely good, and of his good
As liberal and free as infinite;
That rais'd us from the duft, and plac'd us here
In all this happinefs, who at his hand
Have nothing merited, nor can perform
Ought whereof he hath need; he who requires
From us no other service than to keep
This one, this cafy charge, of all the trees
In Paradife that bear delicious fruit
So various, not to taste that only tree

Of knowledge, planted by the tree of life;
So near grows death to life, whate'er death is,
Some dreadful thing, no doubt; for well thou
know ft

God hath pronounc'd it death to tafte that tree,
The only fign of our obedience left
Among fo many figns of pow'r and rule
Conferr'd upon us, and dominion given
Over all other creatures that poffets

Earth, air, and fea. Then let us not think hard
One eafy prohibition, who enjoy
Free leave fo large to all things elfe, and choice
Unlimited of manifold delights:

But let us ever praife him, and extol
His bounty, following cur delightful task,
To prune thefe growing plants, and tend thefe

flow'rs,

Which were it toilfome, yet with thee were sweet.

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To whom thus Eve replied: Othou for whom | § 60. Difcourfe between Adam and Eve, retiring And from whom I was form'd, flesh of thy fleth, And without whom am to no end, my guide And head, what thou haft fald is juft and right. For we to him indeed all praifes owe, And daily thanks: I chiefly, who enjoy So far the happier lot, enjoying thee Præcminent by fo much odds, while thou Like confort to thyfelf cauft no where find. That day I oft remember, when from fleep I firft awak'd, and found myself repos'd Under a fhade on flow'rs, much wond'ring where And what I was, whence thither brought, and

how.

Not diftant far from thence a murin'ring found
Of waters infued from a cave, and spread
Into a liquid plain, then stood unmov'd

Pure as th' expanfe of heaven; I thither went
With unexperienc'd thought, and laid me down
On the green bank, to look into the clear
Smooth lake, that to me feem'd another sky.
As I bent down to look, just oppofite
A thape within the wat'ry gleam appear'd,
Bending to look on me: I started back,
It started back; but pleas'd I foon return'd,
Pleas'd it return'd as foon, with anfwering looks
Of fympathy and love: there I had fix'd'
Mine eyes till now, and pin'd with vain defire,
Had not a voice thus warn'd me: What thou feeft,
What there thou feeft, fair creature, is thy felf;
With thee it came and goes: but follow me,
And I will bring thee where no fhadow stays
Thy coining, and thy foft embraces, he
Whole image thou art; him thou shalt enjoy
Infeparably thine, to him fhalt bear
Multitudes like thyfelf, and thence be call'd
Mother of human race. What could I do,
But follow ftraight, invifibly thus led?
Till I efpied thee, fair indeed and tall,
Under a platan; yet methought lefs fair,
Lefs winning foft, lefs amiably mild,
Than that fmooth wat'ry image: back I turn'd;
Thou following criedft aloud, Return, fair Eve;
Whom flieft thou? whom thou flicft, of him

thou art,

His fleth, his bone; to give thee being I lent
Out of iny fide to thee, nearest to my heart,
Subftantial life, to have thee by my fide
Henceforth an individual folace dear;
Part of my foul I feek thee, and thee claim
My other half: with that thy gentle hand
Seiz'd mine I yielded: and from that time fee
How beauty is excell'd by manly grace,
And wifdoin, which alone is truly fair.

So pale our general mother, and with eyes
Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd,
And meck furrender, half embracing lean'd
On our first father: half her fwelling breaft
Naked met his under the flowing gold
Of her loofe treffes hid; he in delight
Born of her beauty and fubmiffive charms,
Smil'd with fuperior love, as Jupiter

On Juno fmiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flow'rs; and prefs'd her matron lip With kiues pure.

to Reft, with the Description of their Bower. NOW came ftill evening on, and twilight gray Had in her fober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beaft and bird, They to their graffy couch, thefe to their nefts, Were flunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous defcant fung: Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living faphirs: Hefperus, that led The ftarry hoft, rode brightest, till the moon Rifing in clouded majefty, at length Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light,

And o'er the dark her filver mantle threw.

When Adam thus to Eve: Fair confort, th' hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to reft, Mind us of like repofe, fince God hath fet Labour and reft, as day and night, to men Succeffive: and the timely dew of fleep Now falling with soft flumb'rous weight inclines Our eye-lids: other creatures all day long Kove idle unemploy'd, and lefs need reft; Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heaven on all his ways; While other animals unactive range, And of their doings God takes no account. To-morrow, ere fresh morning ftreak the east With first approach of light, we must be risen, And at our pleafant labour, to reform Yon flow'ry arbours, yonder alleys green, Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our fcant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth; Thofe bloffoms alfo, and thofe dropping gums, That lie beftrewn, unfightly and unfmooth, Afk riddance, if we mean to tread with cafe: Meanwhile, as Nature wills, night bids us reft.

Towhom thus Eve,with perfect beautyadorn'd: My author and disposer, what thou bidd'st Unargued I obey: "fo God ordains: God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise, With thee converfing, I forget all time; All fcafons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rifing sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the fun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flow'r, Glift ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After foft fhow'rs; and fweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild; then filent night, With this her folemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of Heaven, her ftarry train: But neither breath of morn, when the afcends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising fun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flow'r, Glift ring with dew; nor fragrance after show'rs; Nor grateful evening mild; nor filent night With this her folemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittring ftar-light, without thee is sweet. But wherefore all night long thine thefe for whom

This glorious fight, when fleep hath hut all eyes? To whom our general ancestor replied:

Daughter

Daughter of God and Man, accomplish'd Eve,
Thele have their courfe to finith round the earth

By morrow ev'ning, and from land to land
In order, though to nations yet unborn,
Minit ring light prepar'd, they fet and rise;
Left total darkness thould by night regain
Her old poffeffion, and extinguith life
In nature and all things; which these soft fires
Not only enlighten, but with kindly heat
Of various influence foment and warm,
Temper or nourish, or in part fhed down
Their ftellar virtue on all kinds that grow
On earth, made hereby apter to receive
Perfection from the fun's more potent ray.
Thefe then, though unbeheld in deep of night,
Shine not in vain; nor think, tho' men were none,
That heaven would want fpectators, God want
praife:

Millions of fpiritual creatures walk the earth
Unfeen, both when we wake, and when we fleep:
All thefe with ceafelefs praife his works behold
Both day and night: how often from the freep
Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard
Celestial voices to the midnight air,
Sple, or refponfive each to other's note,
Singing their great Creator! oft in bands
While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk
With heavenly touch of inftrumental founds
In full harmonic number join'd, their fongs
Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven.
Thus talking, hand in hand alone they pafs'd
On to their blifsful bow'r: it was a place
Chos'n by the fov'ran Planter, when he fram'd
All things to man's delightful ufe; the roof
Of thickest covert was inwoven shade
Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew
Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either fide
Acanthus, and each odorous bushy thrub
Fenc'd up the verdant wall; each beauteous flow'r,
Iris all hues, rofes and jeffamin,

Rear'd high their flourish'd heads between, and
Mofaic; under foot the violet, [wrought
Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay
Broider'd theground,more colour'd thanwith ftone
Of costlieft emblem: other creature here,
Beast, bird, infect, or worm, durft enter none;
Such was their awe of inan. In fhadier bower
More facred and fequefter'd, tho' but feign'd,
Pan or Sylvanus never flept, nor nymph,
Nor Faunus haunted. Here in close recefs,
With flowers, garlands, and fwcet-finelling herbs
Efpoufed Eve deck'd firft her nuptial bed,
And heavenly quires the hymenaan fung,
What day the genial angel to our fire
Brought her in naked beauty more adorn'd,
More lovely than Pandora, whom the Gods
Endow'd with all their gifts, and oh too like
In fad event, when to th' unwifer fon

Of Japhet brought by Hermes, fhe enfnar'd
Mankind with her fair looks, to be aveng'd
On him who had ftole Jove's authentic fire.
Thus at their fhady lodge arriv'd, both stood,
Both turn'd, and under open fky ador'd
The God that made both íky, air, earth,and heaven,

Which they beheld, the moon's refplendent globe,
And starry pole: Thou allo mad’st the night,
Maker omnipotent! and thou the day,
Which we in our appointed work employ'd
Have finifh'd, happy in our mutual help,
And mutual love, the crown of all our blifs
Ordain'd by thee; and this delicious place
For us too large, where thy abundance wants
Partakers, and uncropt fails to the ground.
But thou haft promis'd from us two a race
To fill the earth, who fhall with us extol
Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake,
And when we feek, as now, thy gift of fleep.

§ 61. Wedded Love.

HAIL, wedded love, myfterious law, true fource
Of human offspring, fole propriety

In Paradife, of all things common elfe.
By thee adult'rous luft was driven from men
Among the beftial herds to range; by thee
Founded in reafon, loyal, juft, and pure,
Relations dear, and all the charities

Of father, fon, and brother, first were known.
Far be it, that I fhould write thee fin or blame,
Or think thee unbefitting holicft place,
Perpetual fountain of domeftic sweets,
Whofe bed is undefil'd and chafte pronoune'd,
Prefent, or past, as faints and patriarchs us'd.
Here Love his golden fhafts employs, here lights
His conftant lamp, and waves his purple wings,
Reigns here and revels; not in the bought fmile
Of harlots, lovelefs, joylefs, unendear'd,
Cafual fruition; nor in court-amours,
Mix'd dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball,
Or ferenate, which the starv'd lover fings
To his proud fair, beft quitted with dildain.
62. Adam's Morning Salutation; and Eve's
Account of ber Dream.

NOW morn her roty steps in th' eastern clime

Advancing, fow'd the earth with orient pearl; When Adam wak'd, so custom'd, for his fleep As airy light from pure digeftion bred, And temp rate vapours bland, which th' only foun Of leaves and fuming rills, Aurora's fan, Lightly difpers'd, and the thrill matin fong Of birds on ev'ry bough; so much the more His wonder was to find unwaken'd Eve With trelles difcompos'd, and glowing check, As through unquiet reft: he on his fide, Leaning half rais'd, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or atleep, Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand foft touching, whisper'd thus: Awake, My faireft, my cfpous'd, my latest found, Heaven's laft beft gift, my ever-new delight, Awake: the morning fhines, and the freth field Calls us; we lofe the prime, to mark how fpring Our tender plants, how blows the citron giove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the Lee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid fweet.

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