Page:Paradise lost by Milton, John.djvu/373

Rh So send them forth, though sorrowing, yet in peace; And on the east side of the garden place, Where entrance up from Eden easiest climbs, Cherubic watch, and of a sword the flame Wide-waving, all approach far off to fright, And guard all passage to the Tree of Life; Lest Paradise a receptacle prove To Spirits foul, and all my trees their prey, With whose stolen fruit Man once more to delude."
 * He ceased, and the archangelic Power prepared

For swift descent; with him the cohort bright Of watchful Cherubim. Four faces each Had, like a double Janus, all their shape Spangled with eyes, more numerous than those Of Argus, and more wakeful than to drowse, Charmed with Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed Of Hermes, or his opiate rod. Meanwhile, To resolute the World with sacred light, Leucothea waked, and with fresh dews embalmed The earth; when Adam and first matron Eve Had ended now their orisons, and found Strength added from above, new hope to spring Out of dispair, joy, but with fear yet linked; Which thus to Eve his welcome words renewed:
 * "Eve, easily may faith admit that all

The good which we enjoy from Heaven descend.