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376 With sinfulness of men; thereby to learn True patience, and to temper joy with fear And pious sorrow, equally inured By moderation either state to bear, Prosperous or adverse: so shalt thou lead Safest thy life; and best prepared endure Thy mortal passage when it comes. Ascend This hill; let Eve—for I have drenched her eyes— Here sleep below, while thou to foresight wakest; As once thou sleptest, while she to life was formed."
 * To whom thus Adam gratefully replied:

"Ascend, I follow thee, safe guide, the path Thou leadest me, and to the hand of Heaven submit, However chastening; to the evil turn My obvious breast, arming to overcome By suffering, and earn rest from labor won, If so I may attain."—So both ascend In the visions of God. It was a hill, Of Paradise the highest, from whose top The hemisphere of earth, in clearest ken, Stretched out to the amplest reach of prospect lay. Not higher that hill, nor wider looking round, Whereon for different causes the Tempter set Our second Adam, in the wilderness,