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08 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: Book nine, Part two, the Argument the Proceedings of Sin
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Speaker 1: and Death. God foretells the final victory of his son
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Speaker 1: over them and the renewing of all things, But for
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Speaker 1: the present commands his angels to make several alterations in
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Speaker 1: the heavens and elements. Adam more and more, perceiving his
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Speaker 1: fallen condition, heavily bewails, rejects the condolement of Eve. She persists,
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Speaker 1: and at length appeases him. Then, to evade the curse
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Speaker 1: likely to fall on their offspring, proposes to Adam violent ways,
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Speaker 1: which he approves not, but conceiving better hope, puts her
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Speaker 1: in mind of the late promise made them that her
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Speaker 1: seed should be revenged on the serpent, and exhorts her
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Speaker 1: with him to seek peace of the offended deity by
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Speaker 1: repentance and supplication. Meanwhile, in Paradise, the hellish pair too
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Speaker 1: soon arrived Sin therein power before once actual now in body,
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Speaker 1: and to dwell habitual habitant behind her death close following
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Speaker 1: pace for pace not mounted yet on his pale horse,
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Speaker 1: to whom Sin thus began. Second of Satan sprung all
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Speaker 1: conquering death. What think'st thou of our empire? Now? Though
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Speaker 1: earned with trabile difficult, not better far than still at
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Speaker 1: Hell's dark threshold, to have sat watch, unnamed, undreaded, and
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Speaker 1: thyself half starved. Whom thus the sin born monster answered
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Speaker 1: soon to me, who, with eternal famine pine alike, is
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Speaker 1: Hell or Paradise or Heaven their best where most with
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Speaker 1: ravin I may meet, which here, though plenteous, all too little,
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Speaker 1: seems to stuff this more, this vast, unhide bound corpse,
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Speaker 1: to whom the incestuous mother thus replied, thou. Therefore on
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Speaker 1: these herbs and fruits and flowers, feed first on each
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Speaker 1: beast next, and fish and fowl, no homely morsels, and
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Speaker 1: whatever thing the scythe of time mows down, devour, unspared,
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Speaker 1: till I in man, residing through the race. His thoughts,
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Speaker 1: his looks, words, actions all infect and season him thy
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Speaker 1: last and sweetest prey. This said. They both betook them
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Speaker 1: several ways, both to destroy or unimmortal make all kinds,
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Speaker 1: and for destruction to mature sooner or later, which the Almighty,
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Speaker 1: seeing from his transcendent seat the saints among to those
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Speaker 1: bright orders, uttered thus his voice, see with what heat
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Speaker 1: these dogs of hell advance to waste and have it
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Speaker 1: yonder world, which I so fair and good created, and
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Speaker 1: had still kept in that state, had not the folly
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Speaker 1: of man let in these wasteful furies who impute folly
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Speaker 1: to me. So doth the Prince of Hell and his adherance,
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Speaker 1: that with so much ease I suffer them to enter
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Speaker 1: and possess a place so heavenly and conniving, seem to
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Speaker 1: gratify my scornful enemies, that laugh, as if transported with
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Speaker 1: some fit of passion, I to them had quitted all
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Speaker 1: at random, yielded up to their misrule, And know not
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Speaker 1: that I called and drew them thither my hell hounds
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Speaker 1: to lick up the draft and filth which man's polluting
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Speaker 1: sin with taint hath shed on what was pure, till
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Speaker 1: crammed and gorged, and iigh burst with, sucked and glutted
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Speaker 1: offal at one sling of thy victorious arm, well, pleasing
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Speaker 1: son both sin and death, and yawning grave. At last,
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Speaker 1: through chaos hurled obstruct the mouth of Hell for ever,
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Speaker 1: and seal up his ravenous jaws. Then heaven and Earth
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Speaker 1: renewed shall be made pure to sanctity that shall receive
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Speaker 1: no stain. Till then the curse pronounced on both proceeds.
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Speaker 1: He ended, and the heavenly audience loud sung Hallelujah, as
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Speaker 1: the sound of seas through multitude that sung. Just are
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Speaker 1: thy ways, righteous, are thy decrees on all thy works?
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Speaker 1: Who can extenuate thee next to the sun destined restorer
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Speaker 1: of mankind, by whom new heaven and Earth shall to
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Speaker 1: the ages rise or down from heaven descend. Such was
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Speaker 1: their song. While the Creator, calling forth by name his
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Speaker 1: mighty angels, gave them several charge as sortied best with
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Speaker 1: present things. The Sun had first his precepts, so to
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Speaker 1: move so shine as might effect the earth with cold
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Speaker 1: and heat scarce tolerable, and from the north, to call
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Speaker 1: decrepit winter from the south, to bring solsticial summer's heat
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Speaker 1: to the blank moon her office. They prescribed to the
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Speaker 1: other five their planetary motions and aspects sextile, square and
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Speaker 1: trine and opposite of noxious efficacy, and when to join
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Speaker 1: in sinner'd unbenign, and taught the fixed their influence malignant
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Speaker 1: when to shower, which of them rising with the sun
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Speaker 1: or falling, should prove tempestuous to the winds. They set
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Speaker 1: their corners when with blusters too confound sea, air and shore.
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Speaker 1: The thunder went to roll with terror through the darker
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Speaker 1: aerial hall. Some say he bid his angels turn askance
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Speaker 1: the poles of Earth twice ten degrees and more from
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Speaker 1: the Sun's axle. They with labor pushed oblique the centric globe.
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Speaker 1: Some say the Sun was bid turned rains from the
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Speaker 1: quinoctial road like distant Breadth to Taurus, with the seven
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Speaker 1: Atlantic Sisters and the Spartan Twins up to the Tropic Crab,
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Speaker 1: thence down a main by Leo and the Virgin, and
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Speaker 1: the scales as deep as Capricorn, to bring in change
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Speaker 1: of seasons to each climb. Else had the spring perpetual
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Speaker 1: smiled on Earth, with vernant flowers equal in days and nights,
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Speaker 1: except to those beyond the polar circles. To them, day
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Speaker 1: had unbeknighted shone, while the low sun, to recompense his
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Speaker 1: distance in their sight, had rounded still the horizon, and
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Speaker 1: not known of east or west, which had forbid the
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Speaker 1: snow from cold as stotty Land, and south as far
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Speaker 1: beneath mcgellen. At that tasted fruit, the Sun, as from
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Speaker 1: Thyestian banquet, turned his course intended else how had the
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Speaker 1: world inhabited, though sinless, more than now avoided pinching cold
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Speaker 1: and scorching heat. These changes in the heavens, though slow,
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Speaker 1: produced like change on sea and land sidereal blast, vapor
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Speaker 1: and mist and exhalation, hot, corrupt and pestilent. Now from
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Speaker 1: the north of Norumbega and the Samoyed shore, bursting their
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Speaker 1: brazen dungeon, armed with ice and snow and hail and
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Speaker 1: stormy gust and floor boreas and Kaikias, and our guestes
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Speaker 1: loud and Thrascius rend the woods and seize upturn with
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Speaker 1: adverse blast upturns them from the south, Notus and Afa
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Speaker 1: black with thundrous clouds from Sera Leonia, thwart of these
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Speaker 1: as fierce forth rushed the Levant and the ponent winds
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Speaker 1: Eurus and Zephyr with their lateral noise Sirocco and Libecco.
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Speaker 1: Thus began outrage from liveless things, but discord first daughter
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Speaker 1: of sin among the irrational death introduced through fierce antipathy.
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Speaker 1: Beast now with beast, and war, and fowl with fowl,
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Speaker 1: and fish with fish to graze the herb, all leaving
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Speaker 1: devoured each other, nor stood much in awe of man,
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Speaker 1: but fled him, or with countenance grim glared on him passing.
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Speaker 1: These were from without the growing miseries which Adam saw
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Speaker 1: already in part, though hid in gloomiest shade, to sorrow, abandoned,
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Speaker 1: but worse felt within, and in a troubled sea of passion,
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Speaker 1: tossed thus to disburden sort with sad complaint, Oh, miserable
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Speaker 1: of happy? Is this the end of this new glorious world?
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Speaker 1: And me so late the glory of that glory, who
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Speaker 1: now become a cursed of blessed? Hide me from the
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Speaker 1: face of God, whom to behold was then my height
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Speaker 1: of happiness. Yet well, if he would end the misery,
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Speaker 1: I deserved it and would bear my own deservings. But
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Speaker 1: this will not serve. All that I eat, or drink,
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Speaker 1: or shall beget is propagated. Curse, Oh voice, once heard,
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Speaker 1: delightfully increase and multiply. Now death to hear. For what
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Speaker 1: can I increase or multiply but curses on my head,
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Speaker 1: who of all ages to succeed, but feeling the evil
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Speaker 1: on him brought by me, will curse my head, ill
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Speaker 1: fail our ancestor impure. For this we may thank Adam bud,
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Speaker 1: It's thanks shall be the execration. So besides mine own
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Speaker 1: that bide upon me, all from me shall with a
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Speaker 1: fierce reflux on me, redowned on me as on their
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Speaker 1: natural center light heavy, though in their place, oh, fleeting
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Speaker 1: joys of paradise, dear bought with lasting woes? Did I
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Speaker 1: request thee maker from my clay to mold me? Man?
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Speaker 1: Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me? Or
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Speaker 1: here place in this delicious garden, as my will concurred
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Speaker 1: not to my being, it were but right and equal
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Speaker 1: to reduce me to my dust, desirous to resign and
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Speaker 1: render back all I received, unable to perform thy terms
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Speaker 1: too hard by which I was to hold the good
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Speaker 1: I sought, not to the loss of that sufficient penalty.
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Speaker 1: Why hast thou added the sense of endless woes? Inexplicable?
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Speaker 1: Thy justice seems yet to say truth too late. I
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Speaker 1: thus con test, then should have been refused those terms,
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Speaker 1: whatever when they were proposed, Thou didst accept them? Wilt
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Speaker 1: thou enjoy the good? Then cavil the conditions? And though
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Speaker 1: God made thee without thy leave, what if thy son
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Speaker 1: proved disobedient and reproved retort. Wherefore didst thou beget me?
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Speaker 1: I sought it? Not wouldst thou admit for his contempt
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Speaker 1: of thee that proud excuse yet him, not thy election,
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Speaker 1: but natural necessity begot God made thee of choice his own,
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Speaker 1: and of his own to serve him. Thy reward was
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Speaker 1: of his grace. Thy punishment, then justly is at his will?
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Speaker 1: Be it so for I submit his doom? Is fair
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Speaker 1: that dust I am, and shall to dust returned, Oh,
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Speaker 1: welcome hour whenever, Why delays his hand to execute what
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Speaker 1: his decree fixed on this day? Why do I overlive?
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Speaker 1: Why am I mocked with death and lengthened out to
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Speaker 1: deathless pain? How gladly would I meet mortality my sentence
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Speaker 1: and be earth insensible? Glad would lay me down as
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Speaker 1: in my mother's lap. There I should rest and sleep
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Speaker 1: secure his dreadful voice. No more with thunder in my ears,
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Speaker 1: No fear of worse to me and to my offspring,
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Speaker 1: would torment me with cruel expectation. Yet one doubt pursues
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Speaker 1: me still lest all I cannot die, lest that pure
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Speaker 1: breath of life, the spirit of man which God inspired,
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Speaker 1: cannot together perish with this corporeal clod, then in the
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Speaker 1: grave or in some other dismal place. Who knows? But
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Speaker 1: I shall die a living death, oh thought horrid? If true?
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Speaker 1: Yet why it was but breath of life that sinned?
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Speaker 1: What dies? But what had life? And sin? The body
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Speaker 1: properly hath neither all of me? Then shall die? Let
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Speaker 1: this appease the doubt, since humane reach. No further knows.
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Speaker 1: For though the Lord of all be infinite, is his
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Speaker 1: wrath also be it? Man is not so but mortal doomed.
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Speaker 1: How can he exercise wrath without end on man whom
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Speaker 1: death must end? Can he make deathless? Death? That were
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Speaker 1: to make strange contradiction, which to God himself impossible, is
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Speaker 1: held as argument of weakness, not of power. Will he
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Speaker 1: draw out, for anger's sake, finite to infinite in punished man,
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Speaker 1: to satisfy his rigor satisfied. Never that were to extend
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Speaker 1: his sentence beyond dust and Nature's law by which all
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Speaker 1: causes else according still to the reception of their matter,
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Speaker 1: act not to the extent of their own sphere. But
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Speaker 1: say that death be not one stroke, as I supposed,
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Speaker 1: bereaving sense, but endless misery. From this day onward which
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Speaker 1: I feel begun both in me and without me, and
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Speaker 1: so last to perpetuity a me that fear comes thundering
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Speaker 1: back with dreadful revolution on my defenseless head. Both death
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Speaker 1: and I am found eternal and incorporate both, nor I
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Speaker 1: on my part single in me, all posterity stands cursed,
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Speaker 1: fear patrimony that I must leave ye sons, Oh, were
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Speaker 1: I able to waste it all myself and leave ye
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Speaker 1: none so disinherited, how would ye bless me now your curse? Ah?
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Speaker 1: Why should all mankind for one man's fault thus guiltless
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Speaker 1: be condemned? If guiltless but from me? What can proceed
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Speaker 1: but all corrupt both mind and will depraved? Not to
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Speaker 1: do only but to will the same with me? How
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Speaker 1: can they acquitted stand in sight of God Him? After
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Speaker 1: all disputes forced, I absolve all my evasions, vain and reasonings,
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Speaker 1: though through mazes leads me still, but to my own
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Speaker 1: conviction first and last, on me me only, as the
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Speaker 1: source and spring of all corruption. All the blame lights
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Speaker 1: due So might the wrath fond wish couldst thou support
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Speaker 1: that burden heavier than the earth, to bear than all
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Speaker 1: the world much heavier, though divided with that bad woman.
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Speaker 1: Thus what thou desist and what they fearest a light
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Speaker 1: destroys all hope of refuge and concludes thee miserable, beyond
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Speaker 1: all past, example and future, to Satan only like both
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Speaker 1: crime and doom, O conscience, into what abyss of fears
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Speaker 1: and horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I
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Speaker 1: find no way, but deep to deeper plunged. Thus Adam
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Speaker 1: to himself lamented loud through the still night, not now
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Speaker 1: as ere man fell, wholesome and cool and mild, but
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Speaker 1: with black air, accompanied with damps and dreadful gloom, which
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Speaker 1: to his evil conscience represented all things with double terror.
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Speaker 1: On the ground outstretched, he lay on the cold ground,
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Speaker 1: and Oft cursed his creation death, as Oft accused of
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Speaker 1: tardy execution, since denounced the day of his offense. Why
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Speaker 1: comes not death? Said he, with one thrice acceptable stroke
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Speaker 1: to end me? Shall truth fail to keep her word?
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Speaker 1: Justice divine not hasten to be just? But death comes
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Speaker 1: not at call? Justice divine mend's not her slowest pace
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Speaker 1: for prayers or cries. O woods, old fountains, hillocks, dales,
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Speaker 1: and bowers, with other echo late I tort your shades
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Speaker 1: to answer and resound far other song, whom thus afflicted.
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Speaker 1: When sad Eve beheld desolate where she sat, approaching nigh
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Speaker 1: soft words to his fierce passion, she essayed, But her
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Speaker 1: with stern regard, he thus repell'd out of my sight. Thou, serpent,
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Speaker 1: that name best befits THEE with him, lead thyself as
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Speaker 1: false and hateful. Nothing wants but that thy shape, like
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Speaker 1: his and color serpentine, may show thy inward fraud. To
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Speaker 1: warn all creatures from THEE henceforth, lest that too heavenly
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Speaker 1: form pretended to hellish falsehood sneer them. But for THEE
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Speaker 1: I had persisted happy, had not thy pride and wandering vanity,
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Speaker 1: when least was safe, rejected my forewarning, and disdained not
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Speaker 1: to be trusted, longing to be seen though by the
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Speaker 1: devil himself, him overweening to overreach. But with the serpent
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Speaker 1: meeting fooled and beguiled by him, Thou aye by THEE
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Speaker 1: to trust THEE. From my side, imagin'd wise, constant, mature,
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Speaker 1: proof against all assaults, and understood not all was but
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Speaker 1: a show rather than solid virtue, all but a rib
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Speaker 1: crooked by nature, bent as now appears more to the
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Speaker 1: part sinister from me drawn well, if thrown out as
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Speaker 1: supernumerary to my just number found a wide did God
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Speaker 1: create a wise that peopled highest heaven with spirits masculine,
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Speaker 1: Create at last this novelty on earth, this fair defect
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Speaker 1: of nature, And not fill the world at once with
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Speaker 1: men as angels without feminine, or find some other way
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Speaker 1: to generate mankind. This mischief had not then befallen, and
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Speaker 1: more that shall befall innumerable disturbances on earth through female
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Speaker 1: snares and straight conjunction with his sex. For either he
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Speaker 1: never shall find out fit mate, but such as some
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Speaker 1: misfortune brings him, or mistake, or whom he wishes most,
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Speaker 1: shall seldom gain through her perverseness, but shall see her
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Speaker 1: gained by a far worse Or if she love withheld
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Speaker 1: by parents, or his happiest choice too late, shall meet
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Speaker 1: already linked and wedlock bound to a fell adversary his
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Speaker 1: hate or shame, which infinite calamities shall cause to human
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Speaker 1: life and household peace confound, he added not, and from
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Speaker 1: her turn, but Eve not so repulsed with tears that
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Speaker 1: ceased not flowing, and tresses all disordered at his feet,
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Speaker 1: fell humble, and embracing them, besought his peace, and thus
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Speaker 1: preceded in her plaint. Forsake me not thus Adam witness Heaven,
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Speaker 1: what love sincere and reverence in my heart I bear
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Speaker 1: THEE and unwitting have offended, unhappily deceived, Thy suppliant, I
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Speaker 1: beg and clasp thy knees. Bereave me not whereon I live,
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Speaker 1: Thy gentle looks, thy aid, thy counsel in this uttermost distress,
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Speaker 1: my only strength, and stay forlorn of THEE. Whither shall
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Speaker 1: I betake me where subsist? While yet we live scarce
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Speaker 1: one short hour perhaps between us two, Let there be peace,
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Speaker 1: both joining as joined in injuries, one enmity against a
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Speaker 1: foe by doom express assigned us that cruel serpent on me.
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Speaker 1: Exercise not thy hatred for this misery befam on me,
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Speaker 1: already lost me than thyself, more miserable both of sin.
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Speaker 1: But thou against God only I against God and THEE,
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Speaker 1: and to the place of judgment will return there with
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Speaker 1: my cries in fortune Heaven, that all the sentence from
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Speaker 1: thy head removed may light on me sole cause to
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Speaker 1: thee of all this woe me me only just object
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Speaker 1: of all his ire. She ended, weeping, and her lowly
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Speaker 1: plight immovable, till peace obtained from fault acknowledged and deplored
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Speaker 1: in adam wrought commiseration. Soon his heart relented towards her,
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Speaker 1: his life so late and sole delight now at his feet,
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Speaker 1: submissive in distress, creature so fair, his reconcilement, seeking his counsel,
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Speaker 1: whom she had displeased, His aid as one disarmed his anger,
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Speaker 1: all he lost, and thus with peaceful words upraised her.
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Speaker 1: Soon unwary and too desirous as before, So now of
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Speaker 1: what thou know'st not, who disas't the punishment all on thyself?
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Speaker 1: Alas bear thine own first, ill able to sustain his
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Speaker 1: full wrath, whose thou feel'st as yet least part, and
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Speaker 1: my displeasure bear so ill. If prayers could alter high decrees,
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Speaker 1: I to that place, would speed before thee and be
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Speaker 1: louder heard that on my head all might be visited.
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Speaker 1: Thy frouty and infirmer sex forgiven to me, committed and
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Speaker 1: by me exposed. But rise, let us no more content
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Speaker 1: or blame each other. Blamed enough elsewhere, But strive in
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Speaker 1: offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden
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Speaker 1: in our share of woe. Since this day's death denounced,
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Speaker 1: if aught, I see, will prove no sudden but a
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Speaker 1: slow paced evil, a long day's dying, to augment our
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Speaker 1: pain and to our seed, O hapless seed derived to
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Speaker 1: whom thus eve recovering heart, replied Adam, by sad experiment,
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Speaker 1: I know how little weight my words, with THEE confined
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Speaker 1: found so erroneous, thence by just event found so unfortunate,
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Speaker 1: nevertheless restored by THEE vile as I am to place
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Speaker 1: of new acceptance, hopeful to regain Thy love, the sole
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Speaker 1: contentment of my heart, living or dying from THEE, I
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Speaker 1: will not hide what thoughts in my unquiet breast are
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Speaker 1: risen tending to some relief of our extremes or end,
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Speaker 1: though sharp and sad, yet tolerable as in our evils,
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Speaker 1: and of easier choice. If care of our descent perplexed us,
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Speaker 1: most which must be borne to certain woe, devoured by
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Speaker 1: death at last, and miserable it is to be to
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Speaker 1: others cause of misery our own begotten and of our loins,
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Speaker 1: to bring into this cursed world a woeful race that
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Speaker 1: after wretched life must be at last food. For so
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Speaker 1: foul a monster in thy power, it lies yet ere
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Speaker 1: conception to prevent the race unblest to being yet unbegot childless.
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Speaker 1: Thou art childless, remain so death shall be deceiv'd his glut,
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Speaker 1: and with us too be forced to satisfy his ravenous
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Speaker 1: More so if thou judge it hard and difficult conversing
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Speaker 1: looking loving, to abstain from love's do rights, nuptial embraces
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Speaker 1: sweet and with desire, to languish without hope before the
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Speaker 1: present object, languishing with light desire, which would be misery
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Speaker 1: and torment, less than none of what we dread. Then
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Speaker 1: both ourselves and seed at once to free from what
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Speaker 1: we fear. For both, let us make short, Let us
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Speaker 1: seek death or he not found supply with our own
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Speaker 1: hands his office on ourselves. Why stand we longer shivering
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Speaker 1: under fears that show no end but death, and have
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Speaker 1: the power of many ways to die, the shortest, choosing
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Speaker 1: destruction with destruction to destroy, she ended here, or vehement
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Speaker 1: despair broke off the rest so much of death her
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Speaker 1: thoughts had entertained, as dyed her cheeks with pale but
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Speaker 1: Adam with such counsel nothing swayed to better hopes. His
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Speaker 1: more attentive mind laboring had raised. And thus to Eve replied, Eve,
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Speaker 1: thy contempt of life and pleasure seems to argue in
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Speaker 1: THEE something more sublime and excellent than what thy mind condemns.
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Speaker 1: But self destruction, thereforesought refutes that excellence thought in THEE,
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Speaker 1: and implies not thy contempt, but anguish and regret for
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Speaker 1: loss of life and pleasure over loved. Or if thou
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Speaker 1: covet death as utmost end of misery, so thinking to
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Speaker 1: evade the penalty, pronounced doubt not, but God hath wiselier
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Speaker 1: armed his vengeful are than so to be forestalled. Much
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Speaker 1: more I fear lest death so snatched will not exempt
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Speaker 1: us from the pain we are by doom to pay. Rather,
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Speaker 1: such acts of constumacy will provoke the Highest to make
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Speaker 1: death in us live. Then let us seek some safer resolution,
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Speaker 1: which methinks I have in view, calling to mind with
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Speaker 1: heed part of our sentence that thy seed shall bruise
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Speaker 1: the serpent's head. Piteous amends unless be meant whom I
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Speaker 1: conjecture our grand foes, Satan, who in the serpent hath
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Speaker 1: contrived against us. This deceit to crush his head would
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Speaker 1: be revenge indeed, which will be lost by death brought
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Speaker 1: on ourselves or childish days resolved as thou proposest, so
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Speaker 1: our foe shall escape his punishment ordained, and we instead
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Speaker 1: shall double hours upon our heads. No more be mentioned
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Speaker 1: than of violence against ourselves and wilful barrenness that cuts
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Speaker 1: us off from hope, and save us only rancor and pride, impatience,
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Speaker 1: and despite reluctance against God and his just yoke laid
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Speaker 1: on our necks. Remember with what mild and gracious temper
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Speaker 1: he both heard and judged, without wrath or reviling. We
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Speaker 1: expected immediate dissolution, which we thought was meant by death
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Speaker 1: that day, when low to thee pains only in childbearing
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Speaker 1: were foretold, and bringing forth soon recompensed with joy fruit
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Speaker 1: of thy womb on me see the cursor slope glanced
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Speaker 1: on the ground with labor. I must earn my bread.
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Speaker 1: What harm idleness had been worse. My labour will sustain me,
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Speaker 1: and less cold or heat should injure us his timely care.
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Speaker 1: Hath unbesought provided, and his hands clothed us unworthy pitying
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Speaker 1: while he judged, how much more if we pray him,
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Speaker 1: will his ear be open and his heart to pity
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Speaker 1: incline and teach us further by what means to shun
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Speaker 1: th inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow, which now
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Speaker 1: the sky with various face begins to show us in
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Speaker 1: this mountain, while the winds blow, moist and keen, shattering
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Speaker 1: the graceful locks of these fair spreading trees, which bids
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Speaker 1: us seek some better shroud, some better warmth, to cherish
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Speaker 1: our limbs benumbed. Ere this diurnal star leave cold the night.
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Speaker 1: How we his gathered beams reflected may with matter sear foment,
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Speaker 1: or by collision of two bodies, grind the air atrite
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Speaker 1: to fire. As late the clouds justling or pushed with
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Speaker 1: winds rude in their shock, tying the slant lightning, whose
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Speaker 1: thwart flame driven down kindles the gummy bark of fir
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Speaker 1: or pine, and sends a comfortable heat from far, which
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Speaker 1: might supply the sun such fire to use. And what
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Speaker 1: may else be remedy or cure to evils which our
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Speaker 1: own misdeeds have brought. He will instruct us praying and
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Speaker 1: of grace beseeching him, so as we need not fear
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Speaker 1: to pass commodiously this life sustained by him, with many comforts,
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Speaker 1: till we end in dust, our final rest and native home.
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Speaker 1: What better can we do than to the place repairing
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Speaker 1: where he judged us prostrate, fall before him, reverent, and
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Speaker 1: there confess humbly our faults and pardon beg, with tears
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Speaker 1: watering the ground, and with our side the air frequenting
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Speaker 1: sent from heart's contrite in sign of sorrow, unfeigned and
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Speaker 1: humiliation meek. Undoubtedly he will relent and turn from his displeasure,
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Speaker 1: in whose look serene, when angry most he seemed, and
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Speaker 1: most severe, What else but favor, grace and mercy shone,
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Speaker 1: So spake our father, penitent nor eve felt less remorse.
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Speaker 1: They forthwith to the place repairing, where he judged them prostrate,
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Speaker 1: fell before him, reverent, and both confessed humbly their faults
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Speaker 1: and pardon begged, with tears watering the ground, and with
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Speaker 1: their sighs the air frequenting sent from Heart's contrite in
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Speaker 1: sign of sorrow, unfeigned and humiliation Meek, And of Part
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Speaker 1: two of Book nine,