——On she came,
Led by her heav'nly Maker,——
And guided by his voice,——
Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her eye,
I overjoy'd could not forbear aloud.
This turn has made amends.——
Book VIII. v. 484.
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Picture XIX.
Eve at the forbidden Tree.
——Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;
——Back to the thicket slunk
The guilty serpent.—— Book IX. v. 780.
Picture XX.
Adam resolved to share the fate of Eve; the Guardian Angels leaving the Garden.
——if death
Consort with thee, death is to me as life;
Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
So Adam, and thus Eve to him reply'd.
O glorious trial of exceeding love,
Illustrious evidence, example high!
So saying, she embrac'd him, and for joy
Tenderly wept——
Up into Heav'n from Paradise in haste
Th' angelic guards ascended, mute and sad
For Man——
Book IX. v. 953, 958, 990.—Book X. v. 17.
Picture XXI.
Eve, after the Sentence and departure of the Judge,
despairing, supported by Adam.