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Rh Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe. So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life."
 * So saying, from the tree her step she turned;

But first low reverence done, as to the Power That dwelt within, whose presence had infused Into the plant sciential sap, derived From nectar, drink of Gods. Adam the while, Waiting desirous her return, had wove Of choicest flowers a garland, to adorn Her tresses, and her rural labors crown, As reapers oft are wont their harvest-queen. Great joy he promised to his thoughts, and new Solace in her return, so long delayed: Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, Misgave him; he the faltering measure felt, And forth to meet her went, the way she took That morn when they first parted. By the Tree Of Knowledge he must pass, there he her met, Scarce from the tree returning; in her hand A bough of fairest fruit, that downy smiled, New gathered, and ambrosial smell diffused. To him she hasted; in her face Excuse Came prologue, and apology to prompt, Which, with bland words at will, she thus addressed:
 * "Hast thou not wondered Adam, at my stay?

Thee I have missed, and thought it long, deprived