Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love,
By name to come called Charity, the soul
Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loth
To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess
A Paradise within thee, happier far.

Let us descend now, therefore, from this top
Of speculation; for the hour precise
Exacts our parting hence; and, see! the guards,
By me encamped on yonder hill, expect
Their motion, at whose front a flaming sword,
In signal of remove, waves fiercely round.
We may no longer stay. Go, waken Eve;
Her also I with gentle dreams have calmed,
Portending good, and all her spirits composed
To meek submission: thou, at season fit,

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

He ended, and they both descend the hill.
Descended, Adam to the bower where Eve

Lay sleeping ran before, but found her waked;
And thus with words not sad she him received:-
"Whence thou return'st and whither went'st I know;
For God is also in sleep, and dreams advise,
Which he hath sent propitious, some great good
Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress
Wearied, I fell asleep. But now lead on;

In me is no delay; with thee to go

Is to stay here; without thee here to stay

Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me

Art all things under Heaven, all places thou,
Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
This further consolation yet secure

I carry hence: though all by me is lost,

Such favour I unworthy am voutsafed,

By me the Promised Seed shall all restore."

In either hand the hastening Angel caught
Our lingering Parents, and to the eastern gate
Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast
To the subjected plain-then disappeared.
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,

The earth is utterly broken down.

Fear is on every side.

OH

H that thou hadst but listened to my commandments! then would have been as a river thy peace, and thy prosperity as the waves of the sea.

All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God,

Who went before you in the way.

But his hand is stretched out still.

THE SHIELD OF THY HELP

Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate

With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms.

Some natural tears they dropped, 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 wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.

WHAT

HAT shall we do, that we may work the works of
God?

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

Oh that I knew where I might find him!

When shall I arise, and the night be gone?

What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness, and see not the light of heaven?

Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

We have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing.

Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?

Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

IN THE WORLD'S WILDERNESS"

THEY SHALL BE ALL TAUGHT OF GOD.-The Christ

Oh fall!

From what high state of bliss into what woe!

Oh how unlike the place from whence they fell!-MILTON

God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless, through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.

-WISDOM OF SOLOMON

Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction.-SOLOMON

Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.

Plough up your fallow ground, that ye may not sow among thorns.
The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

If a man love me, he will keep my words.

He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings.

Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.-THE WORD OF GOD

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"TAKE HEED THEREFORE HOW YE HEAR"

SOWER went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: