The epic of the fall of man; a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton . estial, but as manClad to meet man. Over his lucid armsA military vest of purple flowed. His starry helm unbuckled showed him primeIn manhood where youth ended ; by his in a glistering zodiac, hung the sword,Satans dire dread, and in his hand the bowed low ; he, kingly, from his stateInclined not, but his coming thus declared : — Adam, Heavens high behest no preface needs, But longer in this Paradise to dwellPermits not. To remove thee I am send thee from the Garden forth, to tillThe gro
The epic of the fall of man; a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton . estial, but as manClad to meet man. Over his lucid armsA military vest of purple flowed. His starry helm unbuckled showed him primeIn manhood where youth ended ; by his in a glistering zodiac, hung the sword,Satans dire dread, and in his hand the bowed low ; he, kingly, from his stateInclined not, but his coming thus declared : — Adam, Heavens high behest no preface needs, But longer in this Paradise to dwellPermits not. To remove thee I am send thee from the Garden forth, to tillThe ground whence thou wast taken, fitter soil. He added not ; for Adam, at the newsHeart-strook, with chilling gripe of sorrow stood,That all his senses bound ; Eve, who unseenYet all had heard, with audible lamentDiscovered soon the place of her retire :— O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death !Must I thus leave thee. Paradise ? thus leaveThee, native soil ? these happy walks and shades,Fit haunt of Gods, where I had hoped to spend,Quiet, though sad, the respite of that day. Aoic must thou seekAnotht-r ho»it\ a rmlot more-Joyless into i-xiU go. The Temptation and Fall of Man 261 That must be mortal to us both ? O flowers, That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names. Who now shall rear ye to the Sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount ? The Archangel and Adam descend together thehill, where the emissary of the Empyrean had an-nounced the object of his mission ; then Adam to the bower where EveLay sleeping ran before, but found her waked ;And thus with words not sad she him received :— * Whence thou returnst, and wither wentst, I know ;For God is also in sleep, and dreams advise,Which he hath sent propitious, some great goodPresaging, since, with sorrow and hearts distressWearied, I fell asleep. But now lead on ;In me is no delay ; w
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