paradise lost:
Part of my soul I seek thee, and thee claim my other half': with that thy gentle hand siezed mine, I yielded, and from that time see how beauty is excelled by manly grace and wisdom, which alone is truly fair.
So spake our general mother, and with eyes of conjugal attraction unreproved, and meek surrender, half embracing leaned on our first father, half her swelling breast naked met his under the flowing gold of her loose tresses hid: he in delight both of her beauty and submissive charms smiled with superior love, as Jupiter on Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds that shed May flowers; and pressed her matron lip with kisses pure: aside the Devil turned for envy, yet with jealous leer malign eyed them askance, and to himself thus plained.
"Sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two imparadised in one another's arms the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust, where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire, among our other torments not the least, still unfulfilled with pain of longing pines; Yet let me not forget what I have gained from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems: One fatal tree there stands of Knowledge called, forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord evny them that? Can it be sin to know, can it be death? And do they only stand by ignorance, is that their happy state, the proof of their obedience and their faith?.."
Those who we are meant to be with have a way of coming back into our life when we least expect it.
So spake our general mother, and with eyes of conjugal attraction unreproved, and meek surrender, half embracing leaned on our first father, half her swelling breast naked met his under the flowing gold of her loose tresses hid: he in delight both of her beauty and submissive charms smiled with superior love, as Jupiter on Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds that shed May flowers; and pressed her matron lip with kisses pure: aside the Devil turned for envy, yet with jealous leer malign eyed them askance, and to himself thus plained.
"Sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two imparadised in one another's arms the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust, where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire, among our other torments not the least, still unfulfilled with pain of longing pines; Yet let me not forget what I have gained from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems: One fatal tree there stands of Knowledge called, forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord evny them that? Can it be sin to know, can it be death? And do they only stand by ignorance, is that their happy state, the proof of their obedience and their faith?.."
Those who we are meant to be with have a way of coming back into our life when we least expect it.