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; Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. Paradise Begained. BOOK L I, WHO erewhile the happy garden sung, By one man's firm obedience fully tried Thou Spirit, who led'st this glorious Eremite 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 1 Full featherod, a term used in falconry. 1 John the Baptist |