Their motion, at whofe front a flaming fword,

In fignal of remove, waves fiercely round;

We may no longer stay: go, waken Eve;

Her alfo I with gentle dreams have calm'd
Portending good, and all her spi'rits compos'd
To meek fubmiffion: thou at season fit

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Let her with thee partake what thou hast heard,
Chiefly what may concern her faith to know,
The great deliverance by her feed to come
(For by the Woman's feed) on all mankind:
That ye may live, which will be many days,
Both in one faith unanimous, though fad
With cause for evils past, yet much more chear'd
With meditation on the happy end.

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He ended, and they both defcend the hill; Defcended, Adam to the bow'r where Eve Lay sleeping ran before, but found her wak'd; And thus with words not fad fhe him receiv'd. Whence thou return'st, and whither went'st, I know; For God is alfo' in fleep, and dreams advise, Which he hath fent propitious, fome great good Prefaging, fince with forrow' and heart's distress Wearied I fell asleep: but now lead on, In me is no delay; with thee to go, Is to ftay here; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under Heav'n, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence. This further confolation yet fecure

I carry hence; though all by me is loft,

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Such

Such favor I unworthy am vouchsaf'd,

By me the promis'd Seed fhall all restore.

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So fpake our mother Eve, and Adam heard Well pleas'd, but answer'd not; for now too nigh 625 Th' Arch-Angel ftood, and from the other hill To their fix'd station, all in bright array The Cherubim defcended; on the ground Gliding meteorous, as evening mist Ris'n from a river o'er the marish glides, And gathers ground fast at the lab'rer's heel Homeward returning. High in front advanc'd The brandifh'd fword of God before them blaz'd Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat, And vapor as the Libyan air adust, Began to parch that temp'rate clime; whereat In either hand the haft'ning Angel caught Our ling'ring parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as faft To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They looking back, all th' eastern fide beheld Of Paradife, fo late their happy feat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms:

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Some natural tears they dropt, but wip'd them foon; The world was all before them, where to choofe Their place of reft, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and flow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

THE END OF PARADISE LOST.

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PARADISE REGAIN'D.

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PARADISE REGAIN' D.

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Who ere while the happy garden fung,
By one man's disobedience loft, now fing

Recover'd Paradife to all mankind,

By one man's firm obedience fully try'd
Through all temptation, and the tempter foil'd
In all his wiles, defeated and repuls'd,
And Eden rais'd in the waste wilderness.

Thou Spirit who ledst this glorious eremite
Into the defert, his victorious field,

Against the spiritual foe, and brought'ft him thence 10
By proof th' undoubted Son of God, inspire,
As thou art wont, my prompted fong else mute,
And bear through highth or depth of nature's bounds
With profp'rous wing full fumm'd, to tell of deeds
Above heroic, though in fecret done,
And unrecorded left through many an age,
Worthy t' have not remain'd so long unfung.

Now had the great Proclamer, with a voice
More awful than the found of trumpet, cry'd
Repentance, and Heav'n's kingdom nigh at hand
To all baptis'd: to his great baptifm flock'd
With awe the regions round, and with them came

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