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Book 10.  The Cherubim decended; on the ground 1520 Gliding meteorous, as Ev'ning Mit Ris'n from a River o're the marih glides, And gathers ground fat at the Labourers heel Homeward returning. High in Front advanc't, The brandiht Sword of God before them blaz'd Fierce as a Cornet ; which with torrid heat, And vapour as the Libyan Air adut, Began to parch that temperate Clime ; whereat In either hand the hatning Angel caught Our lingring Parents, and to th' Eatern Gate 1530 Led them direct, and down the Cliff as fat To the ubjected Plaine ; then diappeer'd. They looking back, all th' Eatern ide beheld Of Paradie, o late thir happie eat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes : Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them oon; The World was all before them, where to chooe Thir place of ret, and Providence thir guide : They hand in hand with wandring teps and low, 1540 Through Eden took thir olitarie way. THE END.