(The heavenly messenger speaks)
"O Eve, lift up thine eyes,
and suffer us to instruct thee;
set thy keen pure glance
upwards clearly to the heavenly ones.
"O Woman, raise thy pure face,
to behold the soul of Adam,
as it is uplifted brightly
between hosts of archangels."
On that Eve turned
to behold the soul of Adam,
and she saw the beautiful peaceful soul
of Adam in the company of Michael.
While Eve was thus
recognising the soul of Adam,
she beheld coming towards it along the ways
hosts of angels chorus-singing.
Eve beheld a Seraph
moving nobly in front of the host
on three golden wings;
fair was the beloved thing[73] which he bore.
Then Eve beheld
three white shining birds
(which) across the sky from holy heaven
had arrived (?) in their lustre.
While she was watching the birds,
Eve herself without great trouble,
as with a flash of the full sun,
she became unable to look at them.
Up unto cloudy heaven was heard
the choir of the holy angels around Michael;
they spread their pleasant ranks then
circling about the altar of Adam.
The angels sustained a fitting harmony
round about the altar;
before all the host they burned a herb
which is called "ornamentum."