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364 Shall perfect, and for these my death shall pay. Accept me, and in me from these receive The smell of peace toward Mankind: let him live Before thee reconciled, at least his days Numbered, though sad; till death, his doom—which I To mitigate thus plead, not to reverse— To better life shall yield him, where with me All my redeemed may dwell in joy and bliss, Made one with me, as I with thee am one."
 * To whom the Father, without cloud, serene:

"All thy request for Man, accepted Son, Obtain; all thy request was my decree. But, longer in that Paradise to dwell The law I gave to Nature him forbids; Those pure immortal elements, that know No gross, no unharmonious mixture foul, Eject him, tainted now, and purge him off, As a distemper, gross, to air as gross, And mortal food, as may dispose him best For dissolution wrought by sin, that first Distempered all things, and of incorrupt Corrupted. I at first with two fair gifts Created him endowed, with happiness And immortality; that fondly lost, This other served but to eternize woe, Till I provided death: so death becomes His final remedy, and, after life