Paradise Regained by John Milton - Akasha Classics AkashaPublishing.Com - I WHO erewhile the happy Garden sung By one mans disobedience lost now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind By one mans 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 ledst this glorious Eremite Into the desert his victorious field Against the spiritual foe and broughtst him thence By proof the undoubted Son of God inspire As thou art wont my prompted song else mute And bear through highth or depth of Natures 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
