...campaigns and Satan's continue at the climactic episode of the Fall: So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat:...all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. (ix.78o-84) 63 Milton seems also to echo this passage in introducing his own account of the Roman conquest...

...Milton's Paradise Lost, bk. 9, lines 781-84, where the Fall is recounted: Eve's "rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;...her Works, gave signs of woe, / That all was lost." The last half of the sentence echoes Luke 22:19 an(J ' Corinthians 11:24, the latter of which reads,...

...mind?' 780 So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate; Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...of woe That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk 785 The guilty serpent, and well might, for Eve, Intent now only on her taste, naught else Regarded;...

...future for humanity on earth. . . . her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing thtough all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Like the ending of Lycidas, the final image...

...fruit, thus disobeying God's command but also breaking the bond between humanity and the natural world. "Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, /...her works, gave signs of woe / That all was lost" tix. 782,41. The serpent slinks away, leaving Eve to ponder what she has done. In the Hebrew Bible...

...hinders then To reach, and feed at once both Body and Mind? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 780 Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat:...slunk The guilty Serpent, and well might, for Eve 785 Intent now wholly on her taste, naught else Regarded, such delight till then, as seem'd, In Fruit...

...mind? So saying, her rash hand in evil hour 780 Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing...well might, for Eve Intent now wholly on her taste, naught else Regarded, such delight till then, as seemed, In fruit she never tasted, whether true Or...

...often as 'Mother Nature', depicted variously as benign or threatening. Milton in Paradise Lost says, 'Earth felt the wound and Nature from her seat, sighing...all her works, gave signs of woe that all was lost.' If personified, nature is rarely if ever personified as male. God, on the other hand, in monotheistic...

...Satan has slithered away as Eve nears the moment of Original Sin. There is only Eve — and the Earth. Earth felt the Wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing...all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost. (9.782-84) And at Adam's Fall the Earth is again present: Earth trembled from her entrails, as again...

...transgression, being beguiled and deceived, (2 Corinthians 11:3). Milton wrote: "She plucked, she ate; Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat, Sighing...her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost." And truly all was lost as far as man's perfect communion with God was concerned. Adam's sin was deliberate,...