Ye Cedars, with innumerable boughs

Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowrd

Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel, [ 1040 ]

And brown as Evening: Cover me ye Pines,

Took largely, of thir mutual guilt the Seale,

Even shame, the last of evils; of the first

Of all thir vertue: silent, and in face

Of foul concupiscence; whence evil store;

Will dazle now this earthly, with thir blaze

Soon found thir Eye九_九_藏_書s how opnd, and thir minds

Of Innocence, of Faith, of Puritie, [ 1075 ]

To counterfet Mans voice, true in our Fall,

There they thir fill of Love and Loves disport

He led her nothing loath; Flours were the Couch,

Had shadowd them from knowing ill, was gon, [ 1055 ]

To guiltie shame hee coverd, but his Robe

Encumberd, now had left them, up they rose

To Starr or Sun-light, spread thir 九九藏書umbrage broad,

Made erre, was now exhald, and grosser sleep

Bad Fruit of Knowledge, if this be to know,

Hide me, where I may never see them more. [ 1090 ]

Both Good and Evil, Good lost, and Evil got,

Be sure then. How shall I behold the face [ 1080 ]

Which leaves us naked thus, of Honour void,

At length gave utterance to these words constraind.

As from unrest, and each the other viewing,

Just https://read.99csw.comconfidence, and native righteousness

And in our Faces evident the signes

Of Philistean Dalilah, and wakd

How darknd; innocence, that as a veile

And rapture so oft beheld? those heavnly shapes

About thir spirits had plaid, and inmost powers

In solitude live savage, in some glade [ 1085 ]

Insufferably bright. O might I here

Obscurd, where highest Woods impenetrable

Opnd we find indeed, and fiｒeａｄ.９９ｃｓw•ｃｏmnd we know

And honour from about them, naked left

To that false Worm, of whomsoever taught

Our wonted Ornaments now soild and staind,

Herculean Samson from the Harlot-lap [ 1060 ]

The solace of thir sin, till dewie sleep

False in our promisd Rising; since our Eyes [ 1070 ]

Her hand he seisd, and to a shadie bank,

And Hyacinth, Earths freshest softest lap.

Bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams [九-九-藏-書 1050 ]

Henceforth of God or Angel, earst with joy

Till Adam, though not less then Eve abasht, [ 1065 ]

Oppressd them, wearied with thir amorous play. [ 1045 ]

That with exhilerating vapour bland

Uncoverd more, so rose the Danite strong

Shorn of his strength, They destitute and bare

Soon as the force of that fallacious Fruit,

Confounded long they sate, as struckn mute,

O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give eare