Hell their fit habitation fraught with fire : With jubilee advanc'd and as they went, What might have else to human race been hid; Which would be all his solace and revenge, Of disobedience; firm they might have stood, END OF THE SIXTH BOOK. PARADISE LOST. BOOK VII. DESCEND from heav'n, Urania, by that name, The meaning, not the name I call for thou Lest from this flying steed unrein'd (as once Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues ; Charg'd not to touch the interdicted tree, If they transgress, and slight that sole command, Of all tastes else to please their appetite, Though wand'ring. He with his consorted Eve With admiration and deep muse, to hear Of things so high and strange, things to their thought So unimaginable as hate in heav'n, And war so near the peace of God in bliss With such confusion: but the evil soon From whom it sprung, impossible to mix With blessedness. Whence Adam soon repeal'd |