To their fixed station, all in bright array, The Archangel stood, and from the other hill Well pleased, but answered not for now too nigh Michael in either hand leads them out of Paradise, the fiery sword waving behind them, and the Cherubim taking their stations to guard the place. To leave this Paradise, but shall possessĪdam, greatly satisfied and recomforted by these relations and promises, descends the hill with Michael wakens Eve, who all this while had slept, but with gentle dreams composed to quietness of mind and submission. Of all the rest then wilt thou not be loth Or works of God in heaven, air, earth, or sea.Īnd all the riches of this world enjoyedst,ĭeeds to thy knowledge answerable add faith,Īdd virtue, patience, temperance add love, Thou knewest by name, and all the ethereal powers,Īll secrets of the Deep, all Nature’s works. Of wisdom hope no higher, though all the stars “This having learned, thou hast attained the sum With earth’s wide bounds, his glory with the heavens.” The throne hereditary, and bound his reign Of squadroned Angels, hear his carol sung. They gladly thither haste, and, by a quire To simple shepherds, keeping watch by night His place, to offer incense, myrrh, and gold. Unseen before in heaven, proclaims him come,Īnd guides the eastern sages, who inquire Then lose it to a stranger, that the trueīarred of his right yet at his birth a star, The sceptre, and regard not David’s sons, Upon the temple itself: at last they seize Men who attend the altar, and should mostĮndeavor peace! Their strife pollution brings “But first among the priests dissension springs, His incarnation, death, resurrection, and ascension the state of the Church till his second coming. Gustave Doré (1832–1883), They Beseech that Moses Might Report to them His Will, and Terror Cease (Book 12, 236-238) (1866), engraving for ‘Paradise Lost’, John Milton, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, further details not known.

One greater, of whose day he shall foretell,Īnd all the Prophets, in their age, the times That Moses might report to them his will,Īnd terror cease he grants what they besought, The Serpent, by what means he shall achieve Ordain them laws part, such as appertainĪnd shadows, of that destined Seed to bruise In thunder, lightning, and loud trumpets sound, Shall tremble, he descending, will himself “God, from the Mount of Sinai, whose grey top Then, in the mention of Abraham, comes by decrees to explain who that Seed of the Woman shall be, which was promised Adam and Eve in the Fall Thou therefore give due audience, and attend. Henceforth what is to come I will relate Much thou hast yet to see, but I perceive

“Thus thou hast seen one world begin and end The Angel Michael continues, from the Flood, to relate what shall succeed Adam pleads, but submits: The Angel leads him up to a high hill sets before him in vision what shall happen till the Flood.

Adam shews to Eve certain ominous signs he discerns Michael’s approach goes out to meet him the Angel denounces their departure. God accepts them, but declares that they must no longer abide in Paradise: sends Michael with a band of Cherubim to dispossess them but first to reveal to Adam future things: Michael’s coming down. In the eleventh book: The Son of God presents to his Father the prayers of our first parents now repenting, and intercedes for them.

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