May we not bid the happy dream revive?
H. Alas! they say when weakness or when vice
Expels a foolish pair from Paradise,
The guardian power to prayer has no regard;
The knowledge once obtain’d, the gate is barr’d;
Or, could we enter, we should still repine,
Unless we could the knowledge too resign.— 380
Yet let us calmly view our present fate,
And make a humbler Eden of our state;
With this advantage, that what now we gain,