BOOK XI. PARADISE LOST: 309 Adam! heav'n's high beheil no preface needs: Sufficient that thy pray'rs are heard, and Death, (Then due by fentence when thou didft tranfgrefs) Defeated of his feifure many days, `Giv'n thee of grace, wherein thou mayft repent, 255 And one bad ad with many deeds well done May'ft cover : well may then thy Lord, appeas'd, Redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim. But longer in this Paradife to dwell Permits not : to remove thee I am come, 260 And fend thee from the garden forth, to till The ground whence thou wall taken, titter foil I He added not ; for Adam at the news Heart fit uck with chilling gripe of forrow flood, That all his fenfes bound ! Eve, who unfeen 265 Yet all had heard, with audible lament Difcover'd foon the place of her retire. 0 unexpeded flroke, worie than of Death! Mull I thus leave thee, Paradife ? thus leave Thee, native foil, thele happy walks and thades, 270 Fit haunt of Gods ? where I had hope to fpend, Qaiet, though fad, the respite of that day That mull be mortal to us both ! 0 flow'rs, That never will in other climate grow ; My early vifitation, and my laft 275 At ev'n, which I breed up with tender hand From the firft op'ning bud, and gave ye names! Who now fhall rear ye to the fun, or rank Your tribes, and water from th' ambrofial fount ? Thee laftly, nuptial bow'r, by me adorn'd 280 With what to fight or fmell was Tweet ! from thee How fhall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world ; to this obfcure, And
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