What further would be learnt. Live while ye may,

Conspicuous farr, winding with one ascent [ 545 ]

Still as it rose, impossible to climbe.

Of her loose tresses hid: he in delight

With more desire to know, and to reject

Mean while in utmost Longitude, where Heavn

The happier Eden, shall enjoy thir fill

The rest was craggie cliff, that overhung

Equal with Gods; aspiring to be such,

By Ignorance, is that thir happie stareａｄ•９９csw.ｃｏmte,

Sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two [ 505 ]

With Earth and Ocean meets, the setting Sun [ 540 ]

Envie them that? can it be sin to know,

Can it be death? and do they onely stand

This Garden, and no corner leave unspid;

To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt [ 525 ]

Short pleasures, for long woes are to succeed. [ 535 ]

And meek surrender, half imbracing leand

Forbidden them to taste:九九藏書 Knowledge forbiddn? [ 515 ]

But with sly circumspection, and began

Yet let me not forget what I have gaind

Thir ruine! Hence I will excite thir minds

Eyd them askance, and to himself thus plaind.

Slowly descended, and with right aspect

On our first Father, half her swelling Breast [ 495 ]

Accessible from Earth, one entrance high;

Through wood, through waste, ore hill, ore dale his roam.

Suspicious, reasonlessｈｔｔps://reaｄ.99ｃｓｗ.cｏｍ. Why should thir Lord

So saying, his proud step he scornful turnd,

On Juno smiles, when he impregns the Clouds [ 500 ]

Yet happie pair; enjoy, till I return,

For envie, yet with jealous leer maligne

Some wandring Spirit of Heavn, by Fountain side,

Smild with superior Love, as Jupiter

Both of her Beauty and submissive Charms

Or in thick shade retird, from him to draw

Leveld his eevning Rayes: it was a Rock

O fairｅaｄ.99ｃsw.cｏｍr foundation laid whereon to build

Of conjugal attraction unreprovd,

A chance but chance may lead where I may meet [ 530 ]

Against the eastern Gate of Paradise

So spake our general Mother, and with eyes

With kisses pure: aside the Devil turnd

From thir own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:

One fatal Tree there stands of Knowledge calld,

Of Alablaster, pild up to the Clouds,

Envious commands, invented with designe

They taste九-九-藏-書 and die: what likelier can ensue?

That shed May Flowers; and pressd her Matron lip

Imparadist in one anothers arms

Among our other torments not the least, [ 510 ]

Still unfulfilld with pain of longing pines;

Where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,

But first with narrow search I must walk round

The proof of thir obedience and thir faith? [ 520 ]

Of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust,

Naked met his under the flowing Gold