...free. But alas, he soon abused his liberty, and plucked the forbidden fruit. Awful, was the result, for Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost! The penalty was death, not temporal merely, but eternal, for the crime was committed against an eternal...

...would seem to us to have had intrinsic value. But it was only holiness that God valued. Sin entered, " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lest." There were then generated the thorn and the thistle, and the curse of God lighted upon every...

...presumptuous hand, took of the baneful fruit, and cat, to her own destruction. She pluck'd, she eat ; Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost. 6. Pleased with the-taste of the fruit, and fancying herself already in possession...

...So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Earth ielt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." la this example Earth, an inanimate material object, is described as feeling, and Nature, an object...

...and mind 7" So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate ! Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wos That all was lost, liack to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent, and well might ; for Eve, Intent...

...srtying, her rash hand, in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she ate ; I '..M i ii felt the wound ; and nature from her seat Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost. — ix. 780. All the circumstances and ages of men, poverty, riches, youth, old...

...into the world, and all our woe." She also gave to Adam " that fair enticing fruit." He eat : — " Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost." And what was the light they discovered ? They beheld that they were naked. They had lost their primitive...

...eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as godf, knowing good and evil." She listened and yielded — " Earth felt the wound, and nature, from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo That all was lost." She was then made the instrument of seducing the man also — and both were...

...poet, ' So saying, her rash hand in evil boiir Forth reaching.to the fruit, she plucked, she eat : Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing...her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." IBID. ix. 780. These sentiments, however, are not the creations of the poet's fancy, they merely re-echo...

...mind ? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! 780 Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty Serpent ; and well might ; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste,...