by John Milton
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"Those rigid threats of death; ye shall not die: How should ye? by the fruit? it gives you life To knowledge. By the Threat'ner? look on me, Me who have touched and tasted, yet both live, And life more perfect have attained than Fate;"
"Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love;"
"With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixèd thought"
"Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove Where Venus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis that before her lies."
