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To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier farr. Let us descend now therefore from this top Of Speculation; for the hour precise Exacts our parting hence; and see the Guards, By mee encampt on yonder Hill, expect 590 Thir 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 calm'd Portending good, and all her spirits compos'd 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 Womans Seed) on all Mankind. 600 That ye may live, which will be many dayes, Both in one Faith unanimous though sad, With cause for evils past, yet much more cheer'd With meditation on the happie end. He ended, and they both descend the Hill; Descended, Adam to the Bowre where Eve Lay sleeping ran before, but found her wak't; And thus with words not sad she him receav'd. Whence thou returnst, & whither wentst, I know; For God is also in sleep, and Dreams advise, 610 Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since with sorrow and hearts distress Wearied I fell asleep: but now lead on; In mee is no delay; with thee to goe, Is to stay here; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling; thou to mee Art all things under Heav'n, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banisht hence. This further consolation yet secure I carry hence; though all by mee is lost, 620 Such favour I unworthie am voutsaft, By mee the Promis'd Seed shall all restore. So spake our Mother Eve, and Adam heard Well pleas'd, but answer'd not; for now too nigh Th' Archangel stood, and from the other Hill To thir fixt Station, all in bright array The Cherubim descended; on the ground Gliding meteorous, as Ev'ning Mist Ris'n from a River o're the marish glides, And gathers ground fast at the Labourers heel 630
Homeward returning. High in Front advanc't, The brandisht Sword of God before them blaz'd Fierce as a Comet; which with torrid heat, And vapour as the Libyan Air adust, Began to parch that temperate Clime; whereat In either hand the hastning Angel caught Our lingring Parents, and to th' Eastern Gate Let them direct, and down the Cliff as fast To the subjected Plaine; then disappeer'd. They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld 640 Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes: Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way. Notes: Argument: The Angel .... seed] Thence from the Flood relates, and by degrees explains who that seed 1667. 1-5 These five lines were added in the Second Edition (1674) when the original tenth book was divided into an eleventh and twelfth. The End. Transcriber's Note: Title page of first edition of Paradise Regained follows: PARADISE REGAIND. A POEM. In IV BOOKS To which is added SAMSON AGONISTES ------------------------------------------------------------ The Author JOHN MILTON ------------------------------------------------------------
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To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess<br />
A Paradise within thee, happier farr.<br />
Let us descend now therefore from this top<br />
Of Speculation; for the hour precise<br />
Exacts our parting hence; and see the Guards,<br />
By mee encampt on yonder Hill, expect 590<br />
Thir motion, at whose Front a flaming Sword,<br />
In signal of remove, waves fiercely round;<br />
We may no longer stay: go, waken Eve;<br />
Her also I with gentle Dreams have calm'd<br />
Portending good, and all her spirits compos'd<br />
To meek submission: thou at season fit<br />
Let her with thee partake what thou hast heard,<br />
Chiefly what may concern her Faith to know,<br />
The great deliverance by her Seed to come<br />
(For by the Womans Seed) on all Mankind. 600<br />
That ye may live, which will be many dayes,<br />
Both in one Faith unanimous though sad,<br />
With cause for evils past, yet much more cheer'd<br />
With meditation on the happie end.<br />
He ended, and they both descend the Hill;<br />
Descended, Adam to the Bowre where Eve<br />
Lay sleeping ran before, but found her wak't;<br />
And thus with words not sad she him receav'd.<br />
Whence thou returnst, & whither wentst, I know;<br />
For God is also in sleep, and Dreams advise, 610<br />
Which he hath sent propitious, some great good<br />
Presaging, since with sorrow and hearts distress<br />
Wearied I fell asleep: but now lead on;<br />
In mee is no delay; with thee to goe,<br />
Is to stay here; without thee here to stay,<br />
Is to go hence unwilling; thou to mee<br />
Art all things under Heav'n, all places thou,<br />
Who for my wilful crime art banisht hence.<br />
This further consolation yet secure<br />
I carry hence; though all by mee is lost, 620<br />
Such favour I unworthie am voutsaft,<br />
By mee the Promis'd Seed shall all restore.<br />
So spake our Mother Eve, and Adam heard<br />
Well pleas'd, but answer'd not; for now too nigh<br />
Th' Archangel stood, and from the other Hill<br />
To thir fixt Station, all in bright array<br />
The Cherubim descended; on the ground<br />
Gliding meteorous, as Ev'ning Mist<br />
Ris'n from a River o're the marish glides,<br />
And gathers ground fast at the Labourers heel 630