RECITATIVE.
ADAM.
O Eve! in evil hour thou didst give ear
To that false worm, of whomsoever taught
To counterfeit man's voice, true in our fall,
False in our promis'd rising, since our eyes
Open'd we find indeed, and find we know
Both good and evil, good lost, and evil got,
Bad fruit of knowledge!
AIR.
“How shall I behold
“Henceforth or God, or angel, erst with joy,
“And rapture oft beheld? O! might I here
“In solitude live savage, in some glade
“Obscur'd, where highest woods, impenetrable
“To star, or sun-light, spread their umbrage broad,
“And brown as evening. Cover me, ye pines,
“Ye cedars, with innumerable boughs
“Hide me, where I may never see them more.”