Now I See Peace To Corrupt No

For Contemplation He And Valour Formed; / For Softness She And Sweet Attractive Grace, / He For God Only, She For God In Him: / His Fair Large Front And Eye Sublime Declared / Absolute Rule.

Justice Divine Mends Not Her Slowest Pace For Prayers Or Cries.

The World Was All Before Them, Where To Choose Their Place Of Rest, And Providence Their Guide: They Hand In Hand, With Wandering Steps And Slow, Through Eden Took Their Solitary Way.

Law Can Discover Sin, But Not Remove, Save By Those Shadowy Expiations Weak.

Revenge, At First Though Sweet, Bitter Ere Long Back On Itself Recoils.