Boox. IV. PARADISE LOST. 103 Pleas'd it return'd as loon with anfwering looks Of fympAthy and love : there I had fix'd 465 Mine eyes till now, and pin'd with vain defire, Had not a voice thus warn'd me, " What thou feeft, C6 What there thou feea, fair Creature, is thy felf, " With thee it came and goes : but follow me, And 1 will bring thee where no Iliad= flays 470 CC Thy coming, and thy loft embraces, he Whole image thou art, him thou (halt enjoy cc " Infeparably thine, to him (halt bear " Multitudes like thy felf, and thence be call'd " Mother of human race," What could I do, 475 But follow (trait, invifibly thus led ? Till I elpy'd thee, fair indeed and tall, Under a plantan, yet methought leis fair, Lefs winning loft, leis amiably Than that fmooth watry image : back I turn'd, 48 Thou following cry'da aloud, return fair Eve, Whom fly'fl thou ? whom thou fly'11, ofhim thou art, His flefh, his bone ; to give thee being I lent Out of my fide to thee, neareft my heart Subaantial life, to have thee by my fide 485 Henceforth an individual folace dear. Part of my foul, I leek thee, and thee claim My other half !-with that thy gentle hand Seis'd mine, I yielded, and from that time fee How beauty is excell'd by manly grace, 49° And wifdorn, which alone is truly fair. So fpake our general mother, and with eyes Of conjugal attra6tion, unreprov'd, - And meek furrender, half embracing lean'd On our fira father ; half her fwelling breaft Naked met his under the flowing gold Of her loofe 4a-es hid : he in delight 495 Both
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