IV. THE FALL AND EXPULSION FROM PARADISE. (viii.)
l. 1105
The Devil was jealous thereat
with Adam and his children,
their being here, without evil,
in their perfect bodies (on their passage) to heaven.
All the living creatures in the flesh
my Holy King has created them,
outside Paradise without strife
Adam it is who used to order them.
At the time when out of every quarter
the hosts of the seven heavens used to gather round my High King,
every fair corporeal creature
used to come together to Adam.
Each of them out of this place cheerfully,[37]
at his call to adore him;
to Adam, joyous the custom,
they used to come to delight him.
From heaven God ruled
all the living things
that they should come out of every district without fierceness[38]
till they arrived before (the gate of) Paradise.
Then they would return right-hand-wise
without seed of pride or any murmuring,
each of them to its very pure abode
after taking leave of Adam.
The very fierce, double-headed beast,
was subtle and watchful, with (his) twenty hosts,
how under heaven he shall find a way
to bring about the destruction of Adam.