PARADISE REGAIN'D. BOOK I. I WHO ere while the happy Garden fung, By one Man's firm Obedience fully try'd In all his wiles, defeated and repuls'd, And Eden rais'd in the wafte Wilderness. Thou, Spirit, who ledft this glorious Eremite Into the Defart, his victorious Field Against the fpiritual Foe, and brought'ft him thence 10 By proof th' undoubted Son of God, infpire, As thou art wont, my prompted Song, elfe mute, And bear through height or depth of Nature's bounds 15 |