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Which he hath fent propitious, fome great good Prefaging, fince with forrow and heart's diftrefs

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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 Heav'n, all places thou,
Who for my wilful crime art bapifh'd hence.
This further confolation yet secure

I carry hence; though all by me is loft,
Such favor I unworthy am vouchsaf'd,
By me the promis'd feed fhall all restore.

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So fpake our mother Eve; and Adam heard Well pleas'd, but answer'd not: for now too

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Th' Arch-Angel ftood; and from the other hill
To their fix'd station, all in bright array
The Cherubim defcended; on the ground.
Gliding meteorous, as ev'ning mist

Ris'n from a river, o'er the marifh glides; 630
And gathers ground faft at the lab'rer's heel
Homeward returning. High in front advanc'd
The brandifh'd fword of God before them

blaz'd;

Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat,
And vapors as the Libyan air aduft,

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Began to parch that temperate clime: whereat In either hand the haft'ning Angel caught

Our ling'ring parents, and to th' eastern gate
Led them direct; and down the cliff as faft
To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. 640
They looking back, all th' eastern fide beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy feat!

Wav'd over by that flaming brand; the gate
With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms.
Some natural tears they drops, but wip'd them
foon;

645 The world was all before them, where to

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Their place of reft, and Providence their guide.

They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and flow,

Through Eden took their folitary way.

The End.

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· PARADISE REGAIN'D

A POEM

IN FOUR BOOKS

WRITTEN BY

JOHN MILTO N.

PARADISE REGAIN'D.

BOOK I.

I who ere while the happy garden fung,
By one man's difobedience loft, now fing
Recover'd Paradife to all mankind,

By one man's firm obedience fully try'd
Through all temptation, and the tempter

foil'd

In all his wiles, defeated and repuls'd,
And Eden rais'd in the waste wilderness.

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Thou Spirit who ledft this glorious eremite Into the defert, his victorious field,

Against the spiritual foe, and brought'st him

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By proof th' undoubted Son of God, inspire, As thou art wont, my prompted fong else

mute,

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