Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | V. Selections from “Paradise Lost” | | The Departure from Paradise | | John Milton (1608–1674) |
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IN either hand the hastening angel caught | |
| Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate | |
| Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast | |
| To the subjected plain; then disappeared. | |
| They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld | 5 |
| Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, | |
| Waved over by that naming brand; the gate | |
| With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. | |
| Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them soon; | |
| The world was all before them, where to choose | 10 |
| Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. | |
| They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, | |
| Through Eden took their solitary way. | | | | |
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