'Ira PARADISE LOST, Boort IV, Beall, bird, infed, or worm durft enter none; Such was their awe of man. In fhady bow'r 705 More facred and lequefter'd, though but frign'd, Pan or Sylvanus never flept, nor Nymph, Nor Faunus haunted. Here in clofe recefs With flowers, garlands, and fweet-fmelling herbs, Efpoufed Eve deckt &II her nuptial bed, 710 And heav'nly Quires the Hyrnerman Tung; What day the genial Angel to our fire Brought her in naked beauty, more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora, whom the Gods Endow'd with all their gifts, (and 0, too like 715 In fad event!) when to th' unwifer fon Of Japhet brought by Hermes, fhe infnar'd Mankind with her fair looks, to be aveng'd On him who had Hole Jove's authentic fire, Thus at their fhady Lodge arriv'd, both flood, 72o Both turn'd, and under open flay ador'd The God that made both flay, air, earth and heav'n, Which they beheld, the moon's refplendent globe, And (lorry Pole : Thou aifo man'a the night, Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day 725 Which we in our appointed work employ'd Have finifh'd, happy in our mutual help, And mutual love, the crown of all our blifs Ordain'd by thee, and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants 730 Partakers, and uncrop'd falls to the ground. But thou hail prornis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who (bail with us extol Thy goodneis infinite, both when we wake, And when we Peek, as now, thy gift of deep. 735 This laid unanimous, and other rites Obferving none, but adoration pure, Which
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