Arts & Sciences
Written in a Lady's Milton
From Lyra Elegantiarum, ed. Frederick Locker (London: E. Moxon, 1867)
Arts & Sciences
With virtue such as yours had Eve been arm'd,
In vain the fruit had blush'd, the serpent charm'd.
Nor had our bliss by penitence been bought,
Nor had frail Adam fall'n, nor Milton wrote,
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