A learned and a happy ignoranceDivided meFrom all the vanity,From all the sloth, care, pain, and sorrow that advanceThe madness and the miseryOf men. No error, no distraction ISaw soil the earth or overcloud the sky.
A learned and a happy ignoranceDivided meFrom all the vanity,From all the sloth, care, pain, and sorrow that advanceThe madness and the miseryOf men. No error, no distraction ISaw soil the earth or overcloud the sky.
A learned and a happy ignoranceDivided meFrom all the vanity,From all the sloth, care, pain, and sorrow that advanceThe madness and the miseryOf men. No error, no distraction ISaw soil the earth or overcloud the sky.
A learned and a happy ignorance
Divided me
From all the vanity,
From all the sloth, care, pain, and sorrow that advance
The madness and the misery
Of men. No error, no distraction I
Saw soil the earth or overcloud the sky.
I knew not that there was a serpent's sting,Whose poison shedOn men, did overspreadThe world; nor did I dream of such a thingAs sin, in which mankind lay dead.They all were brisk and living wights to me,Yea, pure and full of immortality.
I knew not that there was a serpent's sting,Whose poison shedOn men, did overspreadThe world; nor did I dream of such a thingAs sin, in which mankind lay dead.They all were brisk and living wights to me,Yea, pure and full of immortality.
I knew not that there was a serpent's sting,Whose poison shedOn men, did overspreadThe world; nor did I dream of such a thingAs sin, in which mankind lay dead.They all were brisk and living wights to me,Yea, pure and full of immortality.
I knew not that there was a serpent's sting,
Whose poison shed
On men, did overspread
The world; nor did I dream of such a thing
As sin, in which mankind lay dead.
They all were brisk and living wights to me,
Yea, pure and full of immortality.
Joy, pleasure, beauty, kindness, glory, love,Sleep, day, life, light,Peace, melody, my sight,My ears and heart did fill and freely move.All that I saw did me delight.The Universe was then a world of treasure,To me an universal world of pleasure.
Joy, pleasure, beauty, kindness, glory, love,Sleep, day, life, light,Peace, melody, my sight,My ears and heart did fill and freely move.All that I saw did me delight.The Universe was then a world of treasure,To me an universal world of pleasure.
Joy, pleasure, beauty, kindness, glory, love,Sleep, day, life, light,Peace, melody, my sight,My ears and heart did fill and freely move.All that I saw did me delight.The Universe was then a world of treasure,To me an universal world of pleasure.
Joy, pleasure, beauty, kindness, glory, love,
Sleep, day, life, light,
Peace, melody, my sight,
My ears and heart did fill and freely move.
All that I saw did me delight.
The Universe was then a world of treasure,
To me an universal world of pleasure.
Unwelcome penitence was then unknown,Vain costly toys,Swearing and roaring boys,Shops, markets, taverns, coaches, were unshown;So all things were that drowned my joys:No thorns choked up my path, nor hid the faceOf bliss and beauty, nor eclipsed the place.
Unwelcome penitence was then unknown,Vain costly toys,Swearing and roaring boys,Shops, markets, taverns, coaches, were unshown;So all things were that drowned my joys:No thorns choked up my path, nor hid the faceOf bliss and beauty, nor eclipsed the place.
Unwelcome penitence was then unknown,Vain costly toys,Swearing and roaring boys,Shops, markets, taverns, coaches, were unshown;So all things were that drowned my joys:No thorns choked up my path, nor hid the faceOf bliss and beauty, nor eclipsed the place.
Unwelcome penitence was then unknown,
Vain costly toys,
Swearing and roaring boys,
Shops, markets, taverns, coaches, were unshown;
So all things were that drowned my joys:
No thorns choked up my path, nor hid the face
Of bliss and beauty, nor eclipsed the place.
Only what Adam in his first estate,Did I behold;Hard silver and dry goldAs yet lay under ground; my blessed fateWas more acquainted with the oldAnd innocent delights which he did seeIn his original simplicity.
Only what Adam in his first estate,Did I behold;Hard silver and dry goldAs yet lay under ground; my blessed fateWas more acquainted with the oldAnd innocent delights which he did seeIn his original simplicity.
Only what Adam in his first estate,Did I behold;Hard silver and dry goldAs yet lay under ground; my blessed fateWas more acquainted with the oldAnd innocent delights which he did seeIn his original simplicity.
Only what Adam in his first estate,
Did I behold;
Hard silver and dry gold
As yet lay under ground; my blessed fate
Was more acquainted with the old
And innocent delights which he did see
In his original simplicity.
Those things which first his Eden did adornMy infancyDid crown. SimplicityWas my protection when I first was born.Mine eyes those treasures first did seeWhich God first made. The first effects of LoveMy first enjoyments upon earth did prove;
Those things which first his Eden did adornMy infancyDid crown. SimplicityWas my protection when I first was born.Mine eyes those treasures first did seeWhich God first made. The first effects of LoveMy first enjoyments upon earth did prove;
Those things which first his Eden did adornMy infancyDid crown. SimplicityWas my protection when I first was born.Mine eyes those treasures first did seeWhich God first made. The first effects of LoveMy first enjoyments upon earth did prove;
Those things which first his Eden did adorn
My infancy
Did crown. Simplicity
Was my protection when I first was born.
Mine eyes those treasures first did see
Which God first made. The first effects of Love
My first enjoyments upon earth did prove;
And were so great, and so divine, so pure,So fair and sweet,So true; when I did meetThem here at first, they did my soul allure,And drew away my infant feetQuite from the works of men; that I might seeThe glorious wonders of the Deity.
And were so great, and so divine, so pure,So fair and sweet,So true; when I did meetThem here at first, they did my soul allure,And drew away my infant feetQuite from the works of men; that I might seeThe glorious wonders of the Deity.
And were so great, and so divine, so pure,So fair and sweet,So true; when I did meetThem here at first, they did my soul allure,And drew away my infant feetQuite from the works of men; that I might seeThe glorious wonders of the Deity.
And were so great, and so divine, so pure,
So fair and sweet,
So true; when I did meet
Them here at first, they did my soul allure,
And drew away my infant feet
Quite from the works of men; that I might see
The glorious wonders of the Deity.