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Let us descend now therefore from this top
Of speculation; for the hour precise
Exacts our parting hence. And see! the guards, 590
By me encamped on yonder hill, except
Their motion; at whose front a flaming sword,
In signal of remove, waves fiercely round.
We may no longer stay: go, waken Eve.
Her also I with gentle dreams have calmed,
Portending good, and all her spirits composed
To meek submission thou, at season fit.
Let her with thee partake what thou hast heard;
Chiefly what may concern her faith to know,
The great deliverance by her seed to come—600
For by the Woman's Seed—on all mankind;
That ye may live, which shall be many days,
Both in one faith unanimous, though sad
With cause for evils past, yet much more cheered
With meditation on the happy end."
He ended, and they both descend the hill.
Descended, Adam to the bower where Eve
Lay sleeping ran before her, but found her waked,
And thus with words not sad she him received:
"Whence thou returnest, and whither wentest, I know; 610
For God is also in sleep, and dreams advise,
Which he hath sent propitious, some great good
Presaging, since with sorrow and heart's distress