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PARADISE REGAINED
THE FIRST BOOK
I, WHO erewhile the happy Garden sung?By one man's disobedience lost, now sing?Recovered Paradise to all mankind,?By one man's firm obedience fully tried?Through all temptation, and the Tempter foiled?In all his wiles, defeated and repulsed,?And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness.?Thou Spirit, who led'st this glorious Eremite?Into the desert, his victorious field?Against the spiritual foe, and brought'st him thence 10 By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire,?As thou art wont, my prompted song, else mute,?And bear through highth or depth of Nature's bounds,?With prosperous wing full summed, to tell of deeds?Above heroic, though in secret done,?And unrecorded left through many an age:?Worthy to have not remained so long unsung.?Now had the great Proclaimer, with a voice?More awful than the sound of trumpet, cried?Repentance, and Heaven's kingdom nigh at hand 20 To all baptized. To his great baptism flocked?With awe the regions round, and with them came?From Nazareth the son of Joseph deemed?To the flood Jordan--came as then obscure,?Unmarked, unknown. But him the Baptist soon?Descried, divinely warned, and witness bore?As to his worthier, and would have resigned?To him his heavenly office. Nor was long?His witness unconfirmed: on him baptized?Heaven opened, and in likeness of a Dove 30 The Spirit descended, while the Father's voice?From Heaven pronounced