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SINGERS. 
 
 ALL ANGELS. 
 
 THE SERAPHS, CHERUBS, AND THRONES. 
 
 THE VIRTUES. 
 
 THE ANGELS. 
 
 THE ANGEL OF THE EARTH. 
 
 THE ANGEL OF THE SUN. 
 
 THE ANGELS OF THE FIVE OLD PLANETS. 
 
 THE ANGEL OF VISIBLE BEAUTY. 
 
 THE ANGEL OF POETRY. 
 
 THE ANGEL OF MUSIC. 
 
 MICHAEL. 
 
 SATAN. 
 
 ALL DEVILS. 
 
 ADAM. 
 
 EVE. 
 
 VOICES OF THE MASK. 
 
 WAR. 
 FURIES. 
 VICTORS AND VANQUISHED. 
 PLAGUE. 
 FAMINE. 
 DISEASES. 
 
 ALL SEERS. 
 THE VOICE OF CHRIST. 
 
 {The Angels of Poetry and Music and the Angelic Chorus 
 also sing in the Mask.) 
 
hLSS 
 
 ACT I 
 
 HEAVEN 
 
 I 
 
 The Angel of the Earth has heard from the Earth 
 
 THE SINGING OF THE AnGELS IN HeAVEN, 
 AND COMES TO JOIN. 
 
 Angel of the Earth : 
 
 Hark! What solemn joy 
 On the wonder-shaken ways 
 Of the airy firmament, 
 Spreading down to the earth, 
 Hath drawn me hither intent! 
 
 'Tis angel voices, that frame 
 In the all-delighting Creator's praise 
 The hymn of man's birth. 
 
 Hark! It is come. Ah, near « 
 It Cometh: O hark! I hear 
 The eternal name. 
 
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4 EDEN 
 
 II 
 
 Hymn of the Angels. 
 All Angels : 
 
 God of might ! God of love ! God of light ! 
 
 I. Seraphs: We, Thy love-kindling fire, 
 
 Cherubs: We, Thy all-wise desire, 
 
 Thrones : We, Thine enduring might, 
 
 All: Udore Thee only, that art as Thou art, 
 God of might, God of love, God of light. 
 
 II. Virtues: We, of Thy beauty bright, 
 
 III. Angels: We, warriors for Thy right. 
 
 Who shield from heaven's heart 
 Evil o'erwhelmed in fiery night. 
 
 All: Adore Thee only, that art as Thou art, 
 God of light, God of love, God of might. 
 
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 Dialogue of the Angels. 
 
 Angel of the Earth : 
 
 What new delight, ye angels, hath woven your voices, 
 ♦ That, as they cease. 
 
 The floating music rejoices 
 Heaven's perpetual peace? 
 
ACT I i 
 
 jingel of the Sun : 
 
 To me hath He given the charge of the sun 
 To fill man's life with desire, , 
 
 And flood his days as they run 
 With the gay breath of his fire. 
 
 Angel of the Earth : 
 
 Lovely flowers at thy smile 
 Spring from the dusky sod, 
 Whose wonder awaited awhile 
 
 The purpose of God. 
 
 But what is man? 
 
 Angels of the Planets : 
 We on the orbits of the wandering spheres 
 Our secrets bright 
 Tune to thine ears, 
 And glorify man's night 
 With far-removed light. 
 
 Angel of the Earth : 
 
 I watch your courses from my throne, and see 
 Your eyes are bent on me. 
 But what is man? 
 
 Angel of Visible Beauty : 
 
 A voice spake also to me 
 
 From the highest. Behold! 
 My Virtue go forth, inhabit the land and sea ; 
 Thy vesture of broken light shall be, 
 J And thy crown of gold. 
 
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6 EDEN 
 
 Angel of the Earth: 
 
 Gloriously art thou clad, as thou art fair: 
 Thy beauty is everywhere. 
 But what is man? 
 
 Angel of Poetry : 
 
 Me also He called, and said 
 O Muse of my spirit descend, 
 And dream in the heart of the man I have made 
 My thoughts without end. 
 
 Angel of Music : 
 
 And unto me He spake, 
 Go wave thy rod in the azurous air; 
 The breath of his life into music shake, 
 That his love and joy find speech, and his prayer 
 A pathway to take. 
 
 IV 
 
 Madrigal. 
 
 All Angels : 
 
 Flames of pure love are we. 
 Echoes of God's decree, 
 Lovers of what He maketh : O sing His praise. 
 But man, while so he willeth to be, 
 A God is he. 
 Maker of what he loveth,— O sing his praise- 
 In His image array'd, 
 Who in a creature hath a creator made. 
 
ACT I r 
 
 V 
 
 A Song of God's Love. 
 
 Angel of the Earth : 
 
 My sphere slowly turneth 
 Thro' night and day: 
 With fourfold jewels burneth 
 Her robe of airy array ; 
 An Emerald gemming of herb and tree, 
 A sparkling Sapphire of summer sea, 
 Her ripeness gloweth a Ruby of ruddy light, 
 Her winter Diamonds flash to the stars of night : 
 And out of the billowy cloud 
 Steals to my ear 
 The song of the sphere, 
 A thought of voyaging, born of beauty aloud, 
 
 (the song of the earth.) 
 
 O Maker, if all Thou madest were but for me, 
 
 Thy sun for m^ day, 
 The starry mantle of space to enfold me. 
 Thine angels to guard, Thy strength to uphold me, 
 
 And I to receive and obey! 
 
 Since thou alone art He 
 That worketh in secret and openly. 
 And nothing in vain; then I for Thee 
 
 I am, and ever will be 
 Thy only beloved. 
 
EDEN 
 
 VI 
 
 Chorus on Man's Free Will and Envy 
 OF HIS Condition. 
 
 All Angels: 
 
 A Spirit he for triumph high, 
 Arrived in rays of beauteous life 
 Our fixed loves in peace for ever free 
 
 By free desire to multiply. 
 O man, thou may'st with thy Creator vie: 
 
 Consider, consider 
 If to excel be worthy thine endeavour. 
 
 Let all Thy works, O God of might and love, 
 
 Praise Thee for ever: 
 As we. Thy heavenly works, praise and adore: 
 Let man for evermore 
 
 Praise Thee for ever. 
 
 God of might ! God of love, God of light ! 
 
 END OF ACT I 
 
ACT II 
 
 HELL 
 
 VII 
 
 Chorus of impatient Fiends awakening 
 Satan from his Sleep. 
 
 AH Devils : 
 
 Satan, Satan, awake! Satan, awake! 
 Thy hosts are idle on the clanging shore 
 Of the sulphury lake. Its hollow cup 
 O'erboils with cries that split the fiery welkin. 
 Awake ! if by those yelling lightning clefts 
 We may slip forth to invade the heaven and soil 
 The glory of God. Awake, Satan, awake! 
 Our starved furies feed, our clawing lust 
 Satiate, that hate may thrive. Satan, awake! 
 
lo EDEN 
 
 VIII 
 
 The Awakening of Satan. 
 
 Satan: I AWAKE. I awake. 
 
 Den}.: The king awaketh from his groaning sleep. 
 
 Satan: I awake. I awake. 
 
 Dev.: As smoke and fire from a far mountain cone 
 
 Burst suddenly forth — the ear awaits the sound. 
 Sat. : I have dreamed a curse on God ; the ruin of all. 
 All De-vils: Ho! ho! attend! 
 Silence! attend! 
 
 IX 
 
 Satan's Dream. 
 
 Satan : 
 
 In the visions of God that vex my spirit, 
 I saw the joy, and heard the song, whose echo 
 Sometimes makes vibrate here our iron vault: 
 Him now they praised for a new creation, 
 Higher than they, a left arm against us, 
 Galled man; to breed as we, but in a world 
 Of beauty, a wealth extravagant of space. 
 To serve Him as they will : His spirit with matter 
 God mingling made ; obedience so to steal 
 From the first forms of His disposing will. 
 
ACT II II 
 
 Chorus. 
 
 All De'vih : 
 
 Ha! Ha! Cease, ss! 
 'Tis good thou tell'st not evil. Shew us not 
 The praise of God: we will not hearken. Ha! 
 All that He made we hate, as our forefathers 
 Hated: What He maketh we hate, and what 
 He shall make shall be hate for evermore. 
 
 Ha! 
 'Tis good not ill : we will not hear thee. Ha ! 
 
 XI 
 
 Dialogue of the Devils with Satan. 
 
 Satan : 
 
 So hate ye and hiss Him aye. But hearken, fiends : 
 In the Creator's scheme I spy a blot. 
 What think ye ? If spirit and matter are joined in one, 
 How shall not spirit eternal pine and falter? 
 
 All De-vils : Ho ! 
 The spirit will falter and pine. 
 
 Satan: The senseless lump 
 
 May turn to corruption. 
 
 All Devils : Ho ! The senseless lump 
 May turn to corruption. 
 
 Satan : Ours is the earth ; 
 
 Ours is the soul of man, I have spied a blot 
 
 In God's new world. 'Tis bad and belongeth to ME. 
 
EDEN 
 
 XII 
 
 Chorus of satisfied Fiends. 
 
 J II Devils : 
 
 Ours shall man be, and all his generations, 
 For ever and ever ours: ours is the prize. 
 
 He shall hate God and good. He shall love us and 
 Here shall he dwell, and have delight in hell; 
 He here for ever, and all his generations, 
 For ever and ever coming, cursing God, 
 And serving thee for ever, Hell without end. 
 
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 Satan proposes his Design. 
 
 Satan : 
 
 I WILL go forth, and win his boasted will. 
 
 I will disguise : I will lie and deceive ; 
 
 Will fawn ; crouch ; bow down at his feet ; will cringe; 
 
 Smile; flatter his wandering eye ; his marvelling ear 
 
 I will beguile ; will snare his taste, his tongue. 
 
 His nostrils, his fine touch, will cozen and cheat, 
 
 Betray, undo to ruin; I will delude 
 
 His beating heart, and his mechanical mind 
 
 Of reason o'erreach, mislead, spoil, ravel and fool. 
 
 I will go forth, &c. {repeating himself). 
 
ACT II 13 
 
 XIV 
 
 The Praise of Satan. 
 
 Jill Devils :^ 
 
 Praise, Oho! praise to thee, thou king of hate; 
 
 Ancient of Chaos, essential flower of night ; 
 
 That wrappest in darkness, burnest with fire ; that 
 
 marrest 
 Beauty; that sappest strength; that broodest de- 
 lighting 
 For ever in ever-increasing desolation. 
 Forth go thou : lead us forth ; thine armed fiends 
 Let loose. Thy power extend. Be God's new world 
 Blasted with war and pain. Be all destroyed 
 But strife and sin and thee to reign for aye ; 
 
 King of death ! King of hate ! King of night ! 
 
 Ecbo of angelic song faintly heard in the 'vault : 
 God of might! God of love! God of light! 
 
 All Devils: Ha! ha! cease! ss! 
 
 END OF ACT II 
 
ACT III 
 
 EARTH 
 
 PART I. THE FALL. 
 
 XV 
 
 Morning Hymn and Love-song of Adam and Eve. 
 
 Adam and E've. 
 -Adam : 
 
 On the garden of earth arise, O Sun, 
 
 My world of joy display : 
 C6me, cl6ke night's sleepless eyes 
 
 With the blue robe of day. 
 
 To the eyes of earth thou arisest ; they shine ; 
 
 Thou shewest their way. 
 Thy glance o'ertaketh the streams in their flight ; 
 
 They drink of thy ray. 
 
ACT III 15 
 
 The awakening flowers their heads of light 
 
 Uplift in the shades. 
 Birds arouse their hymns of delight 
 On the paths of the glades. 
 Adam : 
 
 As a song-bird is the voice of thy love 
 
 In the Paradise of my heart. 
 Strength, light to my world of joy 
 As the sun thou art. 
 Together : 
 
 The waters are bright, the flowers are awake, 
 
 The sun is above. 
 Birds htjsh their songs: 'tis day 
 In the garden of love. 
 
 XVI 
 
 Eve sees and follows the Serpent. 
 
 Adam and Eve. 
 
 Eve : Behold ! what beauty glideth 
 
 Down from yon branching tree ! 
 He coileth round : he hideth 
 Under the flowers. O see ! 
 
 Adam: A brute is he. 
 
 Eve: See thou the sunlight glancing 
 
 Upon his motley squame:- 
 His agile tongue forth-dancing, 
 And eyes of flame. 
 
 Adam: Serpent his name, 
 
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i6 EDEN 
 
 E. Bid him stay. Jl. He would not stay. 
 
 E. Speak to him. A. He will answer not. 
 
 E. Call to him. A. He would not obey. 
 
 Savage ears have they; 
 
 Tongues and no speech; minds without thought. 
 
 E. Watch him. A. He will flee anon. 
 
 E. He flieth, follow ! A. He is gone. 
 E. I will follow. A. He will lead thee a vain chase.\ 
 E. I will follow. A. He will head thee in the race. 
 E. Follow! follow! A. Hewillhidehim in the grasses. 
 E. Follow! follow! A. In the thicket where he passes 
 He will lead thee a vain chase. 
 
 XVII 
 
 The Temptation. 
 Eve, Satan, and Chorus of -watching Angels, 
 
 Angels: TAKE heed, Eve, take heed! 
 
 E've: A voice I hear 
 
 I know not whence, within me or above. 
 
 Angels: Take heed, Eve, take heed! 
 
 E've: Who bids me fear? 
 
 Angels : Guard her, angels of love : 
 Satan on earth is come. 
 
ACT III 17 
 
 Satan : 
 
 My home is in this fairest tree : 
 Its fruit, in thy reach hung, 
 Untasted but by me, 
 Hath loosed my tongue. 
 
 Eve: 
 
 Thou, serpent, was 't that spake ? 
 
 Jrjgels : Take heed ! 
 
 Satan : 'Tis I, 
 
 Whom thou didst hold brute, mute, and dumb. 
 
 Angels : 
 
 Give heed, Eve, give heed : to thee we call : 
 
 child of earth, our voice is to thee. 
 
 Satan : 
 
 Give heed, Eve, give heed : to thee I call : I 
 Child of earth, my voice is to thee. 
 Am I not comely too, O fairest of all? 
 O wisest, I too am wise: hearken to me. 
 
 E-ve : In wonder 1 hearken. 
 
 Angels: Take heed, take heed! 
 
 Satan : 
 
 On the fair apples as I feed, 
 
 1 wise and ever wiser grow : 
 
 By knowledge is my spirit freed ; 
 All truth I know. 
 
 Angels : Man's speech he taketh : 
 
 Himself as God he maketh. 
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i8 EDEN 
 
 Satan : 
 There is no God. The heaven and light of life, 
 Thy wonder, sprang of chance. Sun, moon and stars, 
 The earth and all thereon, thou and thy man, 
 Thy river-watered garden, the fair trees, 
 The flowers, the birds and beasts and lesser life 
 Came all of chance from changeful matter's strife. 
 There is no God: He whom thou dream'st to love thee 
 Is but a shadow of thought. God there is none. 
 Think Him not, and He is not. Lo ! unseen, 
 Unfelt, unheard, what then is He ? — Thou 
 Art thine own God : wherefore be wise as I 
 Freely to see, touch, take, taste, as thou list. 
 Think as I : eat as I. 
 
 Angels : 'Tis death : consider ! 
 
 Satan : Thou SHALT NOT DIE. 
 
 Eve : Why doubteth my heart ? What dream I, to hear 
 Forbidding voices? — I will not fear — 
 Fair is the tree to the eyes, — 
 
 Nor planted in vain. — 
 The serpent hath eaten and liveth: — 
 
 He surely is wise : — 
 Good is the counsel he giveth : — 
 I will not refrain. 
 O beauteous fruit, whether for God's own pleasure 
 Or of thyself sprung, thou art mine. 
 
 Angels : The heavenly links are broken. 
 
 Evil is thought on earth, evil is spoken, 
 Evil is done. 
 
 Satan: The fruit of wisdom, the tree of pleasure: 
 Eat, eat: 'tis thine. 
 
ACT III 19 
 
 Eve: O sweet to the taste; intense, 
 
 Wondrous rapture of sense : 
 A joy of passion I find 
 Opening the eyes of the mind 
 To the truth thou spakest. 
 Of me, serpent, thou makest 
 A God indeed. 
 
 Satan: To Adam haste. 
 
 Eve: He too shall taste. 
 
 Satan {mocking Angels) : 
 
 Make speed, Eve, make speed ! 
 
 Eve : To him I haste. 
 
 Satan: He too shall taste. 
 
 Satan (alone) : 
 
 Ye boastful angels, eternal tyrants, behold, 
 
 Behold, behold! 
 Adam is fallen, he eateth : no longer now 
 In Hell to be confined I thither turn, 
 But thence to draw the friends of death : hereafter 
 On earth with men to inhabit evermore ; 
 'Less I with fire or flood or cumbering cold 
 Destroy God's* fanciful fabric and them. — Farewell. 
 
20 EDEN 
 
 XVIII 
 
 The Descent of Michael. 
 Dialogue of Angels, 
 
 The Angels that 'ivarned E-ve : 
 
 Eyes, whom the face of God delighteth, 
 
 Ye sight of His seeing! 
 A wonder ye see, not understood ; 
 
 The earth He willed into being, 
 His foe to combat inviteth. 
 Still from our heavenly tower look we down : 
 The will of His good 
 Redemption shall crown. 
 
 Twin balanced swords of flame descending. 
 On Michael attending, 
 What mean ye? who sayeth? 
 
 Angels attending Michael : 
 
 We may not tarry. 
 
 God's will to earth we carry, 
 
 Where Adam lamenteth and prayeth. 
 
ACT III 91 
 
 XIX 
 
 Adam's Lament. 
 
 jingels, Adam and Eve. 
 
 Adam : 
 
 Fled are my joy and peace. Why was I made? 
 Creator of all, why madest Thou me, 
 A breath in the dust, to be 
 Of itself afraid ? 
 
 My pride to be Thine Thou hast reft, the glory and 
 
 crown of my head ; 
 My robe of innocence rent; my nakedness Thou 
 piercest 
 
 With fiercest 
 
 Fangs of dread. {Distant thunder heard.) 
 
 Shall the mighty lion, his kindness forgetting, 
 Steal on me in the night to spring and rend me? 
 Or must I defend me 
 From the onslaught of eagles, my head besetting 
 With furious beak? What fate unshewn 
 O'ershadows my heart with horrible fears unknown ? 
 
 In blackest night I shall be shrouded for ever, 
 Away from thee. Eve, out of thy sight. 
 
 No eyes of love to recall me thence. 
 Thy weeping eyes shall then be closed in night, 
 Forgotten in blackness dense, 
 
22 EDEN 
 
 Where good nor ill cometh : sun shineth there never, 
 Nor horrors of soul the darkness can darken. 
 
 {Thunder.) 
 jingels above in the thunder; 
 
 Adam ! Adam ! 
 E've : Hearken! O hearken! 
 Adam : 
 
 No other repose. Ye lightning swords of flame 
 To dust of earth smite me : {Lightning.) 
 
 From dust I came. {Thunder.) 
 
 Angels aho've : 
 
 Adam ! Adam ! 
 
 XX 
 
 The Prayer. 
 
 Adam and E've, 
 Adam : 
 
 Hide, hide from heaven our shame! 
 JEve : 
 
 Nay, seek we God : call on His name, 
 Since ill we have done. 
 Adam: III have we done. 
 
 Eve : If thou despair, 
 
 How shall He hear our prayer? 
 Adam: How hear our prayer? 
 
ACT III 23 
 
 Eve: O Adam, pray: 
 
 Speak for us, Adam, say 
 
 Father of heaven, forgive, restore— 
 
 Adam : 
 
 Father of heaven, forgive, restore. 
 
 E.andA.: Turn not away. 
 
 Thy weeping children do not disregard. 
 
 Thy work of love with love amend. 
 A.andE.: Thy making, by ourselves unmade— 
 In pain and grief, by terror and sorrow marred, 
 
 In the dust low laid — 
 {Together) : Create once more ; 
 
 Bid Thou to honour again arise. 
 One hope of Thee we crave. 
 Our broken hearts receive ; unto our heavy cries 
 Bow Thine ear and save. 
 
 XXI 
 
 The Sentence of Expulsion. 
 
 Michael^ <with two Angels^ and Adam. 
 
 Michael, with the two Angels : 
 
 Adam, thy prayer is heard in heaven. 
 
 Thou fal'n most in despair, lament no more. 
 
 From Eden tho' thou'rt driven, 
 
 Yet unto thee, 
 
 And to thy children to be born to thee. 
 
 The Earth and all her joy is given. 
 
24 EDEN 
 
 Take heart, look forth and see ! 
 Thou fal'n most in despair, lament no more. 
 Adam : Angel of God ! 
 Angels: Lament no more. 
 Adam : Of my lament, 
 
 When in despair I fell, 
 I do repent. 
 Angels : Thy prayer is heard. 
 Adam : Angel of God ! 
 Angels : Lament no more. 
 
 Adam /In thy word I rejoice. 
 And in thy voice 
 I comfort me. 
 But of my sons tell me, for thou canst tell, 
 
 The fault wherein I fell 
 Shall they too rue, nor in this garden dwell? 
 Michael and Angels : 
 
 Fear not, rejoice at their birth ; 
 For them shall Earth 
 As Eden be. 
 We that behold their Father's face, 
 
 Will shield their grace. 
 Their steps of joy, their voice of mirth. 
 To gladden the Earth 
 They shall be free. 
 
 END OF PART I 
 
ACT III 25 
 
 PART II. ADAM'S VISION. 
 
 XXII 
 
 Vision of War. 
 
 Michael, Adam, War, Chorus of Furies, Warriors, and 
 Vanquished. 
 
 Michael : 
 
 Such child thou wert; 
 Now, since man thou art, 
 Will terrors, sorrows, deaths and doubts surround 
 thee. 
 Let wisdom lead thee there, where innocence first 
 found thee. 
 
 And fear thou not. 
 Adam: I will not fear. 
 
 Thee rather. Angel, I bid unfold 
 Some of the curse to be. 
 Michael : 
 
 Ah ! if thou those ills wouldst see, 
 
 Watch as here we sit : 
 I will majie before thee flit, 
 In shadow and music of a pageant vain, 
 Sights that soon thy sons in earnest shall behold. 
 Name thou each as I send him. 
 
 See on the plain afar 
 
 With banners and armM train, 
 
 What plague accurst 
 
 Rideth the first. 
 
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26 EDEN 
 
 jidam : Alas ! I call him War, 
 
 And furies attend him. 
 
 Furies : 
 
 War, War ! To the attack ! 
 
 Warriors, fiuith trumpets : 
 
 The enemy ! See ! the enemy ! 
 War: 
 Vengeance, Victory ! On, my furies, o'erthrow ; 
 Smite them, my men renowned ! 
 My captains of fight ! 
 Trumpets : 
 
 On ! Run ! With your onset bear them down ! 
 War: In the force of his might, 
 
 In the enemy's anger I take my delight, 
 In fierce resistance and bloody breath, 
 {With Furies) : 
 
 In cries of the wounded, despairing and flying, 
 In groans of the dying. 
 In corpses and death. 
 Trumpets : 
 
 Firm, firm, ye spearmen! Hold to your steel! 
 War: No master but I. Their kings and lords 
 Shall bow the knee: 
 Their women shall be 
 The slaves of your fury, their men the prey of your 
 swords. 
 Trumpets : 
 
 Ye horsemen, break them, scatter them, tread them 
 down! 
 
ACT III 27 
 
 Furies : 
 
 Thou stealest as night, thou leapest as dawn of 
 day, 
 Thou smitest with noonday rays of fire. 
 fVar : Uplift your swords to slay : 
 
 Spur forward your steeds! They tire. 
 Trumpets : 
 Victory, victory ! Revenge ! To the sword ! Sp^re 
 not! 
 Furies : 
 
 O conquering king, none reigneth but thou : 
 Our arms restrain not our maddened steeds. 
 At every stroke an enemy bleeds : 
 In death they bow. 
 ffar and Furies : 
 
 They fly, they fly ! 
 Trumpets : 
 
 Follow, pursue the flying ! Destroy, destroy ! 
 Vanquished : 
 
 Spare, spare ! 
 Furies: Die, die! 
 
 Vanquished : 
 
 We are fallen. 
 Furies: Ye perish, ye die. 
 
 Vanquished : 
 We yield. Our arms we yield. Spare, spare ! We 
 
 yield 
 Our country and cities to be thine ; ourselves 
 To be thy slaves, our children and our wives. 
 Spare, spare our lives ! 
 Trumpets : 
 
 Pursue, o'ertake, surround ; surround and slay ! 
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28 EDEN 
 
 Vanquished : 
 As a lion thy teeth close on us, they crush, devour. 
 Devour no more ! Spare, spare ! 
 Furies : Die, die ! 
 
 PiEAN. 
 
 Furies : 
 
 Lion of War, that roarest thy name, 
 Destroyer of man, 
 The earth thou dost ravish, her children thou slayest ; 
 When thou wilt burn, the winds are thy fan. 
 The field quaketh whereon thou playest ; 
 And when thyself thou arrayest. 
 The sun crowns thee with flame. 
 Adam : 
 
 Be these my sons ! Alas ! 
 Michael : They are gone. 
 
 XXIII 
 
 Vision of Plague, Famine, and Diseases. 
 
 Adam : Ah, see ! 
 
 What shapes hideous and lean float o'er the land. 
 Their faces veiled, twin devils hand in hand, 
 With silent swoop. Plague ! Famine ! and behind 
 Diseases ! cramped misfeatures of all kind ; 
 Direful their forms, direful their names shall be. 
 
ACT III 
 
 29 
 
 Plague : 
 
 I WALK the winds unseen. 
 Famine: I follow thee fast. 
 
 Plague : 
 
 I tarnish the sky, 
 I ingender the flood 
 With atoms of death, 
 Famine: I powder the blast 
 
 With mildew and mould: 
 Plague : 
 
 To enter the blood 
 With drink and breath. 
 Famine: Seeds of worms and locusts rank, 
 
 Rust and fungus dank, 
 Plague : 
 
 Out of my culturing horn 
 Of poison I shower 
 My curses unclean. 
 Famine: To tetter the vines, 
 
 And smirch the com 
 With blight and branding sour. 
 Plague : 
 
 Men and beasts sicken and die; 
 They cannot escape. 
 Famine: The earth I enfold, 
 
 And she pines; 
 Men and beasts famish and die. 
 
 Together : In terror they ] /' 
 
 ( lie : 
 
 They cannot escape ; 
 
 They I ^^^^^" \ and die. 
 ^ ^ famish^ 
 
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30 EDEN 
 
 Diseases : We are your train. 
 
 We enter men's bodies made sick with a sign ; 
 Ndrve, muscle, and vein, 
 Hedrt, liver, and brain, 
 Each hath his choice: 
 And if they repine, 
 We cry with their voice 
 Our chorus of pain. 
 
 (pain chorus.) 
 
 Ah ! Ah ! Pain racks us : our brains reel and swim ; 
 We fall, with sudden faintings fall, in spasms of horror. 
 With cramping cold we creep : our eyes grow dim : 
 Our trembling limbs wither: our bones decay. 
 With ghastly aches we pine. In terror 
 And melancholy shudderings drowned, our joy is fled. 
 Our beauty and strength are dead. 
 
 Tortured we cannot sleep, in pangs of fire 
 Quenchless, that no thirst, quenchless thirst, can 
 
 allay. 
 Tottering in hideous dances of despairing death, 
 Gnawed by secret cankerings deep, 
 With suffocated breath. 
 
ACT III 3.1 
 
 XXIV 
 
 Vision of Good. 
 
 Michael sbeivs to Adam the Muses. 
 
 Adam : 
 
 Woe ! woe to the earth ! Now rather far 
 In the hon's mouth of fury would I be crushed, 
 Than by the least 
 Of these black skeletons be possest. 
 Michael : 
 
 Weep not, nor stay these evils to deplore. 
 Close to thine eyes. Part now their lids again. 
 And name the sight. 
 Adam : 
 
 Two forms I see, that in the evening sky 
 Upgather robes of splendour. Great their beauty, 
 Baffling my sense. These are the powers of Love ; 
 They should be comforters of sorrow ; Muses 
 I call them: Together on high. 
 
 Over forest and plain as they fly, 
 O'er mountain and sea 
 Their voices come floating. 
 
 Angel of Poetry : 
 
 Gome, fairest spirit ! 
 Angel of Music : Fairest spirit, come! 
 Angel of Poetry : 
 
 I link my hand in thine. 
 Angel of Music : I lean on thee. 
 
32 EDEi^I 
 
 Poetry : Thy generous fantasy 
 
 To my proud thought surrender, be thou mine. 
 Music: I yield to thee. 
 
 Poetry : I have launched a boat 
 
 On the ocean of thought : 
 Music : I spread my sail ; it hath caught 
 
 God's breath ; we float. 
 Both : We float. 
 
 The prow of thy passion furrows the night 
 
 In starry ripples of flying light. 
 Adam : 
 
 Behind them, O happy sight ! my sons I see, 
 Crowned and bright as the Seraphim, 
 
 That in God's presence sing the threefold hymn. 
 Michael : Knowest thou their names ? 
 Adam : The memory of their names 
 
 Wings back to me thro' time on feathery flames. 
 
 XXV 
 
 Vision of All-Seers. 
 
 Chorus 0/ A II- Seers : 
 
 We come, O Muse of delight ; we follow thy voice. 
 In thy praise we rejoice. 
 
 The unseen we adore 
 In music and prayer ; 
 
ACT III 33 
 
 In palaces fair 
 
 Hath knowledge her throne ; 
 Thy love we have pictured, and carved in stone 
 The forms of desire. 
 
 With wisdom for joy 
 Our pleasure hath played, 
 Our labour hath made 
 The small to be great, 
 A rapture of sorrow, a beauty of fate, 
 In forms of desire. 
 
 We follow thy thought, O beauteous best, 
 But yet, yet are not our spirits at rest. 
 
 Angel of Poetry : 
 
 O wavering mind of man, to what dost thou aspire? 
 
 All-Seers : 
 
 Thy smile is of God, 
 Thy teaching is truth ; 
 The glory of youth 
 Thy wisdom hath won; 
 Thy beauty, a flower, doth gaze on the sun, 
 With eyes of desire. 
 
 But O, our heart escapeth in fire, 
 Our love flieth away in breath. 
 
 Angel : 
 
 The sorrow of Adam is it ? the terror of death ? 
 
 All-Seers : 
 
 The sorrow of Adam it is, the terror of death. 
 
34 EDEN 
 
 XXVI 
 
 The Vision of Christ. 
 
 Chorus of Angels : 
 
 Glory to God on high! 
 
 Adam : 
 
 Who Cometh now, that all the Angel-throng 
 Usher him with glad song ? 
 
 Angels : 
 
 Glory to God on high! To men be peace! 
 Michael : The vision granteth thee to see 
 The Son of Man. Look for no other. 
 
 Voice of CHRIST: 
 
 ©omc unto 0itl 
 Angels : O come to Him ! 
 CHRIST: ^e toearg anD ]^eab2=latjcn. 
 Angels : O come to Him ! 
 CHRIST: ^nt) 31 feill gibe gou xm. 
 Angels: He will give you rest. 
 Angels of Poetry and Music : 
 O Son of Man, to Thee our wings we vail. 
 All-Seers : 
 
 All hail, Christ, all hail! 
 
 We have waited for Thee. 
 CHRIST: 
 
 Cafee ifWfi gofee upon gou, ant (earn of i$le. 
 Angels : O learn of Him! 
 
ACT III 35 
 
 CHRIST: ipot 5 am lofelg of f)taxt 
 
 Angels : O learn of Him ! 
 
 CHRIST: ^nD ge gj^all finU gour rest. 
 
 Angels : Ye shall find your rest. 
 
 {Somniferous music*) 
 
 XXVII 
 
 Sleep Chorus. 
 Michael : 
 
 They sleep, they sleep ; they are fallen asleep. 
 
 The night descendeth : 
 The promise of God hath brought them peace; 
 The vision endeth. 
 Sleep, Adam, sleep ; Sleep, Eve ; forget your woes. 
 
 From all distress the sweet release, 
 Of longest day of toil the easy close 
 This ever shall be. 
 Sleep, sleep! 
 
 Chorus of Angels : 
 
 In Paradise no more shall he awake ; 
 When the day breaketh. 
 As a dream, when he awaketh, 
 His childhood shall be. 
 Sleep, sleep ! 
 Of Angel-songs their sons shall tell. 
 Of the tree. 
 Of the garden where they might dwell, 
 
 Of the serpent of Hell, 
 Of the fruit they did take, and fell. 
 
36 EDEN 
 
 As a dream, as a dream, shall their childhood be, 
 As a dream ; and their hope as a memory. 
 Sleep, Adam, sleep: Sleep, Eve, and rest you well. 
 
 XXVIII 
 
 Chorus of Angels returning to Heaven. 
 
 All Angels : 
 
 Glory to God on high! To man be peace. 
 
 Alleluiah ! Alleluiah ! 
 
 Amen, 
 
 THE END 
 
NOTES 
 
This poem was written for musical composition, and is now 
 printed for the convenience of the musical public. Its poetic 
 form is not always such as I could wish ; but the time in 
 which it had to be written tuas less than I would have spent 
 on it ; and it may some day be revised. 
 
 No. I. Hark ! refers to the prelude. 
 In the score the prelude is numbered i . No. 2 comprises 
 I and II of the poem ; the other numbers correspond. 
 
 No. II. The Virtues stand for the second hierarchical 
 order ^ of Dominations^ Virtues and Po^vers. Ihe Angels 
 stand for the third order ^ of Princedoms ^ Archangels and 
 Angels, 
 
 No. V. Secret and openly. 
 
 Colui che volse il sesto 
 Alio stremo del mondo, e dentro ad esso 
 Distinse tanto occulto e manifesto. 
 
 Dante, Par. xix. 14. 
 
 No. VI. Rays of beauteous life. 
 
 O ben creato spirito, che, a' rai 
 Di vita eterna. Par. iii. 13. 
 
 Line 3. Fixed for ever free. 
 
 lo veggio ben, diss' io, sacra lucerna, 
 Come libero amore in questa corte 
 Basta a seguir la provvidenza eterna. 
 
 Par. xxi. 25. 
 
NOTES 39 
 
 Line 7. If to excel be worthy thine endeavour. 
 Gary's translation of 
 
 Vedi se far si dee I' uomo eccellente. 
 Par. ix. 14. 
 
 No. XVI. See thou the sunh'ght glancing 
 Upon his motley squame. 
 
 Compare 
 
 O com' il Sol co' raggi suoi dorando 
 Quelle di bei colori accese squamme. 
 
 These lines occur in L'Adamo, Andreini's poem, from 
 nvhich Milton is supposed to hwve taken the scheme of his un- 
 ivritten and impossible tragedy ADAM UNPARADISED. 
 Milton's original sketch is exposed in the Library at Trinity 
 College, Cambridge, and there gave Mr. Stanford the happy 
 notion of making an Oratorio of it, I nvas in Cambridge 
 in May last year, and had already given my poem to 
 Mr, Stanford, ivheti happening one day to be in the Library 
 I saw for the first time Milton's MS,, ivhich I kneiu only 
 from books. The Sub -librarian, Mr. White, observing that 
 I ivas unusually interested, told me that he had lately suc- 
 ceeded in obtaining a copy of the first edition o/" Andreini's 
 book, Milan 161 3. He offered to sho^jo it me, and then, pro 
 singulari sua humanitate, let me take it aivay to read. 
 The strange coincidence of diction (which my quotation shcnvs 
 must excuse this long story. There are also some accidental 
 coincidences of thought. I had not read the translation of 
 L'Adamo made by Cowper and Hayley, (which is printed 
 (ivith Cowpefs poems. 
 
 No. XVII. Child of Earth, our voice is to thee. — 
 Prov. viii. 4. 
 
40 EDEN 
 
 No. XIX. The glory and crown of my head. — 
 Job xix. 9. 
 
 My robe of innocence. 
 T:his is that robe of Adam in Milt on ^ Par. Lost, ix. 1058. 
 
 Together in blackness dense, &c. — Job x. 21, 22. 
 
 No. XXIII. We cry with their voice. 
 The authority of Jeremy Taylor has been pointed out 
 to me. Justifying the complaints of the sick, he says, 
 ' For there is the voice of man, and there is the voice 
 of the disease.' Holy Dying, ii. 2. 
 
 R. B. 
 
 Tat tendon, March '91. 
 
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