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PARADISE LOST LIBRO IX
Thy swect converse and love so dearly joined.
To live again in these wild woods forlorn? 910
Should God create anoiher Eve. and I
Another rih afTord. yet loss of thee
Would never from my heari. No. no! I feel
The link of nature draw me: flesh of llesh.
Bone of my hone thou an. and from thy State
Mine never shall he parted. hliss or woe.'
So having said. as one from sad dismay
Recomforted. and. after thoughts disturbed.
Submitting to what seemed remediless.
Thus in calm mood his words to Eve he turned:- 92(1
’BoId deed thou hast presumed. adventurous Eve.
And peril great provoked. who thus hast dared
Had it been only coveting to eyc
That sacred fruit. sacred to abstinence.
Much more to taste it. under han to touch.
Bul past who can recall. or done undo?
Not God Omnipotent. ñor Fate! Yet so
Perhaps thou shalt not die: perhaps the fact
Is not so heinous now-foretasted fruit.
Profan'd first by the Serpent. by him First 930
Made common and unhallowed ere our taste.
Ñor yet on him found deadly: he yet lives—
Uves, as thou saidst. and gains to live. as Man.
Higher degree of Ufe: inducement strong
To us. as likely. tasting. to attain
Proportional ascent; which cannot be
But to be Gods. or Angels. demi-gods.
216 Ñor can I think that God. Creator wise.
Though threat'nmg. will in earnest so destroy
Us. his prime creatures. dignified so high. 940
Set over all his works: which. in our fall.
For us created. needs with us musí fail.
Dependen! made So God shall uncreate.
Be frustate. do. undo. and labour lose-
Not well conceived of God: w ho. though his power
Creation could repeat. yet would be loth
Us to abolish. lest the Adversan
Triumph and say: “Fickle their state whom God
Most favours; who can please him long? Me First
De tu dulce presencia y de tu amor
Viviendo en estos bosques solitarios'.’
Si Dios hace otra Eva y si yo mismo
Entrego otra costilla, tu vacio
Jamas se llenará. !No. no! Yo siento
EL la/o natural: carne de carne
Tu. y hueso de mis huesos. De tu estado
Yo no me apañare en dolor o gozo."
Dicho esto y como de un desmayo
Confortado, tras tristes pensamientos.
Como a lo irremediable sometido.
De forma más calmada a Eva le dice:
"Lo audaz has presumido, aventurera.
Provocando peligros y auda/mente-
Ojala solo fuera que a mirar-
Ese fruto sagrado de abstinencia
Comiste, que tocarlo m debías.
Pero ¿quién deshará lo que esta hecho?
Ni Dios omnipotente ni los hados
Quizas no morirás: quizas el hecho
No sea tan terrible, ya probado
Y profanado antes por la Sierpe.
Manchado, antes que tu y yo lo probáramos
No le ha sido letal porque ella vive
Y ha logrado vivir como los hombres
Con vida superior: fuerte razón
De que también comiendo alcanzaremos
Proporcional ascenso que sera
Ser dioses, semidioses o ser ángeles.
Ni puedo yo pensar que Dios, tan sabio.
Nos quiera destruir, aunque amenace.
Sus creaturas más altas, elevadas
Sobre el resto, que en nuestra destrucción
Se hundirá pues lo hizo por nosotros
Y nos sirve. Así Dios desharía
Lo que ha hecho, frustando su trabajo:
En Dios no es concebible, aunque bien puede
Sus obras repetir aunque no es lógico
Abolimos, no sea que el Contrario.
Se burle: "¡Cuanto cambian los que Dios
Favorece! ¿Quién va a agradarle? !A’mi