Or can, by gloss, evasion unto it be lent?”
To his mind, explanation having been inferred,
His appetites, perplexed, to taste the wheat preferred.[173]
A thorn the foot of Eden’s gardener thus rent.
A thief the chance perceived, the garden robbed, and went.370
Amazement o’er, the gardener’s himself again.[174]
He saw the thief had carried off th’ unguarded train.
He sobbed aloud: “My God, I’ve deeply sinned;” and sighed:
“A darkness came, and from the road I turn’d aside.”
Decree of God was thus a cloud the sun to veil.