Poems on Several Occasions To which is added Gondibert and Birtha, A Tragedy. By William Thompson |
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PARADISE REGAIN'D: To a Friend. |
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PARADISE REGAIN'D: To a Friend.
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Lord of Himself, and Sole of Humankind,In Rectitude of Reason Adam shone:
Till the Still-Voice infus'd into his Mind,
“It is not good for Man to be alone.”
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By God's own Hand his Virgin-Eve was led.Now Paradise with fresher Beauties glows:
The conscious Roses form a blushing bed:
Consenting Nature sooths Them to repose.
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A Single is an inconsistent-Life:Compleatly-blest, O Friend! to Thee is given,
A sweet, a fair, a wise, a modest Wife,
The Bloom of Innocence, and Blush of Heav'n!
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May Eden-Life in bright Succession flow,When All was Happiness, for Love was All:
Her Beauties will a Paradise bestow,
And both your Virtues guard you from a Fall.
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