Such happy interview and fair event
Of love and youth not lost, Songs, Garlands, Flours,
And charming Symphotachd the heart [ 595 ]
Of Adam, soon end to admit delight,
The bent of Nature; which he thus expressd.
True opener of mine eyes, prime Angel blest,
Much better seems this Vision, and more hope
Of peaceful dayes portends, then those two past; [ 600 ]
Those were of hate ah, or pain much worse,
Here Nature seems fulfilld in all her ends.
To whom thus Michael. Judg not what is best
By pleasure, though to Nature seemi,
Created, as thou art, to nobler end [ 605 ]
Holie and pure, itie divine.
Those Tents thou sawst so pleasant, were the Tents
Of wiess, wherein shall dwell his Race
Who slew his Brother; studious they appere
Of Arts that polish Life, Iers rare, [ 610 ]
Unmindful of thir Maker, though his Spirit
Taught them, but they his gifts aowledgd none.
Yet they a beauteous shall beget;
For that fair femal Troop thou sawst, that seemd
Of Goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, [ 615 ]
Yet empty of all good wherein sists
Womans domestiour and chief praise;
Bred onely and pleted to the taste
Of lustful appeteo sing, to dance,
To dress, and troule the Tongue, and roule the Eye. [ 620 ]
To these that sober Raen, whose lives
Religious titld them the Sons of God,
Shall yield up all thir vertue, all thir fame
Ignobly, to the traines and to the smiles
Of these fair Atheists, and now swim in joy, [ 625 ]
(Erelong to swim at large) and laugh; for which
The world erelong a world of tears must weepe.
To whom thus Adam of short joy bereft.
O pittie and shame, that they who to live well
Enterd so faire, should turn aside to tread [ 630 ]
Paths i, or in the mid way faint!