268 PARADISE LOST. BOOK. X6 Thus laying, from His radiant feat He role 85 Of high collateral glory : Him Thrones, and Pow'ts, Princedoms, and Dominations miniftrant, Accompany'd to heaven-gate : from whence Eden, and all the coact in profpeet Down he defcended Itrait : (the (peed of Gods 90 Time counts not, tho' with fwifteft minutes wing'd.) Now was the fun in weftern cadence low From noon; and gentle airs, due at their hour, To fan the earth now wak'd, and uffier in The ev'ning cool ; when He, from wrath more cool, Came, the mild Judge, and Interceffor both, 96 Tu fentence man : the voice of God they heard, Now walking in the garden, by loft winds Br tr4ht to their ears, while day declin'd : they heard, And from His prefence hid themielves, among Ino The thickeft trees, both man and wife : till God Approaching, thus to Adam cail'd aloud. Where art thou Adam, wont with joy to meet My coming feen far-off? I mifs thee here, Not pleas'd ; thus entertain'd with folitude, 105 Where obvious duty e'er-while appear'd unfought Or come I leis confpicuous ? Or what change Abfents thee ? Or what chance detains ? Come forth I He came, and with him Eve, more loth, tho' firft Tooffend ; difcountenanc'd both, and dilcompos'd : Love was not in their looks, either to God Or to each other ; but apparent guilt, ,And fhame, and perturbation, and defpair, Anger, and obilinacy, and hate, and guile : Wnence Adam, fault'ring long, thus anfwer'd brief. I heard Thee in the garden, and of Thy voice 1, 1 6 Afraid, being naked, hid my telf.-To whom The
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