Tuesday, April 16, 2019

And the Tempter Foiled


I who erewhile the happy Garden sung,
By one mans disobedience lost, now sing
Recover'd Paradise to all mankind,
By one mans firm obedience fully tri'd
Through all temptation, and the Tempter foil'd
In all his wiles, defeated and repuls't,
And Eden rais'd in the waste Wilderness.

- John Milton
"Paradise Regained"
Book I, Lines 1-7