For bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss,
Tedious, unshard with thee, and odious soon. [ 880 ]
Thou therefore also taste, that equal Lot
May joyne us, equal Joy, as equal Love;
Least thou not tasting, different degree
Disjoyne us, and I then too late renounce
Deitie for thee, when Fate will not permit. [ 885 ]
Thus Eve with tnance blithe her storie told;
But in her Cheek distemper flushing glowd.
On th other side, Adam, soon as he heard
The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amazd,
Astoood and Blank, while horror chill [ 890 ]
Ran through his veins, and all his joynts relaxd;
From his slack hand the Garland wreathd for Eve
Down dropd, and all the faded Roses shed:
Speechless he stood and pale, till thus at length
First to himself he inward silence broke. [ 895 ]
O fairest of Creation, last a
Of all Gods works, Creature in whom excelld
Whatever to sight or thought be formd,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, [ 900 ]
Defact, deflourd, and now to Death devote?
Rather how hast thou yeelded tress
The strict forbiddance, how to violate
The sacred Fruit forbiddn! som cursed fraud
Of Eh beguild thee, yet unknown, [ 905 ]
And mee with thee hath ruind, for with thee
Certain my resolution is to Die;
How I live without thee, how foe
Thy sweet verse and Love so dearly joynd,
To live again in these wilde Woods forlorn? [ 910 ]
Should God create another Eve, and I
Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would never from my heart; no no, I feel
The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh,
Bone of my Bohou art, and from thy State [ 915 ]
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.