LIVRE XL

Le fils de Dieu intercède pour nos premiers pères, qui confessent leur faute; il présente leurs prières à soc père. Le Seigneur les exauce ; mais il déclare qu'ils ne sauroient rester

io3o Xo evils which our own misdeeds hâve «rougbt, He will instruct us praying, and ot (jrace Beseecbing him; so as we need not fear To pass commodiously this life, sustain'd By him with many comforts, till we end In dust, our final rest and native home. What better can we do, than, to tbe place Rcpairing wbere he judg'd us, prostrate fall Before him révèrent; and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg; with tears

1090 Watering tbe ground, and wilh our sighs tbe air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow' unfcign'd, and humiliation meek ? Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From bis displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most be seem'd and most severe, Wbat else but faveur, grâce, and mercy, shone?»

So spake our father pénitent; nor Eve Felt less remorse: ibey, forthwitb to ihe place Repairing where he judg'd tbem, prostrate fcll

iioo Before him révèrent; and both confess'd

Humbly their faults, and pardon begg'd ; with tears Watering tbe ground, and with tbeir sighs tlie air Frequenting, sent from bearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow' unfcign'd, and humiliation meek.