 | Joseph Ellis Duncan - Eden in literature - 1972 - 329 pages
...and fuming rills" and "the shrill Song / Of Birds on every bough," and is eager to go with Eve to see "how blows the Citron Grove, / What drops the Myrrh, and what the balmy Reed" (V, 5-8, 21-23). The couple's morning prayer is a hymn to the natural beauties of Paradise. After Raphael... | |
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