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SCENE I CHORUS OF ANGELS Singing	A
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Now let us garlands weave	B
Of all the fairest flowers	C
Now at this early dawn	D
For new made man and his companion dear	E
Let all with festive joy	F
And with melodious song	G
Of the great Architect	H
Applaud this noblest work	I
And speak the joyous sound	J
Man is the wonder both of Earth and Heaven	K
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FIRST Angel	L
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Your warbling now suspend	M
You pure angelic progeny of God	N
Behold the labour emulous of Heaven	K
Behold the woody scene	O
Decked with a thousand flowers of grace divine	P
Here man resides here ought he to enjoy	F
In his fair mate eternity of bliss	Q
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SECOND Angel	L
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How exquisitely sweet	R
This rich display of flowers	C
This airy wild of fragrance	S
So lovely to the eye	T
And to the sense so sweet	R
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THIRD Angel	L
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O the sublime Creator	U
How marvellous his works and more his power	U
Such is the sacred flame	V
Of his celestial love	W
Not able to confine it in himself	X
He breathed as fruitful sparks	Y
From his creative breast	Z
The Angels Heaven Man Woman and the World	A2
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FOURTH Angel	L
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Yes mighty Lord yes hallowed love divine	P
Who ever in thyself completely blest	Z
Unconscious of a want	B2
Who from thyself alone and at thy will	C2
Bright with beignant flames	D2
Without the aid of matter or of form	E2
By efficacious power	U
Hast of mere nothing formed	F2
The whole angelic host	G2
With potency endowed	H2
And that momentous gift	I2
Either by sin to fall	J2
Or by volition stand	K2
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FIFTH Angel	L
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Hence our Almighty Maker	U
To render us more worthy of his Heaven	K
And to confirm us in eternal grace	L2
Presented to our homage	M2
The pure Incarnate Word	N2
That as a recompense for hallowed toil	O2
So worthily achieved	P2
We might adore him humble	L
For there's a written law	Q2
In the records of Heaven	K
That not a work of God that breathes and lives	R2
And is endowed with reason	K
Shall hold a seat in Heaven	K
If it incline not first with holy zeal	S2
In tender adoration to the Word	N2
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SIXTH Angel	L
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Justly each Spirit in the realms above	W
And all of mortal race	L2
And every foe to Heaven	K
Should bow the knee in reverence of the Word	N2
Since this is he whom from eternity	T2
God in the awful depth	U2
Of his sublime and fruitful mind produced	V2
He is not accident but substance true	W2
As rare as perfect and as truly great	X2
As his high Author holy and divine	P
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SEVENTH Angel	L
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This living Word image express of God	N
Is a resemblance of his mighty substance	S
Whence he is called the Son the Son of God	N
Even as the Father God	N
The generated Word	N2
By generation yields not unto time	Y2
Since from eternity the eternal Father	U
Produced his Son whence he rejoices there	Z2
Great offspring of great Father there for ever	U
For ever he is born	A3
There he is fed and fostered	N2
With plenitude of grace	L2
Imparted by his Sire	U
There was the Father ever and the Son	K
Was ever at his side or in the Father	U
Nor younger is the Son	K
Than his Almighty Sire	U
Nor elder is the Father	U
Than his eternal Son	K
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EIGHTH Angel	L
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O Son O Sire O God O Man O Word	N2
Let all with bended knee	T2
With humble adoration reverence you	W2
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NINTH Angel	L
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O Lucifer now doomed to endless pain	B3
Hadst thou been joined with us	C3
In worship of the Word	N2
How hadst thou now been blessed in thy God	N
But thou in pride alone yes thou alone	D3
In thy great wisdom foolish	E3
Hast scorned the Paragon	F3
And wouldst not reverence the Incarnate God	N
Whence by thy folly thou hast fallen as far	G3
As thy proud soul expected to ascend	M
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TENTH Angel	L
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Monster of fierceness dwell	H3
In thy obscure recess	I3
And for thy weighty crime	Y2
Incessant feel and infinite thy pain	B3
For infinite has been thy vast offence	I3
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ELEVENTH Angel	L
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Reside for ever in the deep abyss	I3
For well the world's eternal Master knows	I3
Again to fill those high celestial seats	I3
That by your ruin you have vacant left	J3
Behold man fashioned from the earth who lives	I3
Like plants that vegetate	X2
See in a moment's space	I3
How the pure breath of life	K3
Breathed on his visage by the power divine	P
Endows the wondrous creature with a soul	L3
A pure immortal soul	L3
That graced and lovely with exalted powers	I3
Shines the great faithful image of its God	N
Behold it has the gift to merit highly	T2
The option to deserve or heaven or hell	H3
In free will perfect as the first of angels	I3
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TWELFTH Angel	L
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Yes man alone was formed in just derision	K
Of all the infernal host	G2
As lord of this fair world and all that lives	I3
The ornament of all	J2
The miracle of nature	U
The perfect heir of heaven	K
Related to the angels	I3
Adopted son of God	N
And semblance of the Holy Trinity	T2
What couldst thou hope for more what more attain	B3
Creature miraculous	I3
In whom the eternal Lord	M3
Has now vouchsafed in signalise his power	U
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THIRTEENTH Angel	L
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How singular and worthy is his form	E2
Upright in stature meek in dignity	T2
Well fashioned are his limbs and his complexion	K
Well tempered with a high majestic brow	N3
A brow turned upward to his native sky	T
In language eloquent in thought sublime	Y2
For contemplation of his Maker formed	F2
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FOURTEENTH Angel	L
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Placed in a state of innocence is man	O3
Primeval justice is his blessed gift	I2
Hence are his senses to his reason subject	H
His body to his mind	P3
Enjoying reason as his prime endowment	Q3
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FIFTEENTH Angel	L
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Supernal love held him too highly dear	E
To let him dwell alone	D3
And thence of lovely woman	K
Fair faithful aid bestowed on man the gift	I2
Adam 'tis thine alone	D3
To keep thy duty to thy Lord unstained	R3
In his command of the forbidden fruit	S3
Thy gift of freedom keep inviolate	T3
And though he fashioned thee without thy aid	U3
Think not without thy aid he means to save thee	T2
But since descending from the heights of heaven	K
We come as kind attendants upon man	O3
Now let us haste to Eden's flowery banks	I3
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ALL THE ANGELS SING	A
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Now take we happy flight	V3
To Paradise adorned with fairest flowers	I3
There let us almost worship	W3
The mighty lord of this transcendent world	A2
And joyous let us sing	A
This flowery heaven and Adam as its God	N
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SCENE II	X3
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Adam O mighty Lord of mighty things sublime	Y2
O my supreme Creator	U
O bounteous in thy love	W
To me thy humble servant such rare blessings	I3
With liberal hand thou givest	N
Where'er I turn my eyes	I3
I see myself revered	N
Approach ye animals that range the field	N
And ye now close your variegated wings	I3
Ye pleasing birds in me you look on Adam	Y3
On him ordained to name	V
All things that gracious God has made for man	O3
And praise with justice praise	I3
Him who created me who made you all	J2
And in his bounteous love with me rejoice	I3
But what do I behold blest that I am	Z3
My dear my sweet companion	K
Who comes to hail me with a gift of flowers	I3
And with these sylvan honours crown my brow	N3
Go stately lion go and thou with scales	I3
Impenetrable armed	N
Rhinoceros whose pride can strike to earth	A4
The unconquered elephant	N
Thou fiery courser bound along the fields	I3
And with thy neighing shake the echoing vale	B4
Thou camel and all here or beast or bird	N
Retire in homage to approaching Eve	B
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Eve Oh what delight more dear	E
Than that which Adam in my sight enjoys	I3
Draws him far off from me Ye tender flowers	I3
Where may I find on you	W2
The traces of his step	C4
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Lurcone See man and woman hide thyself and watch	D4
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Adam No more fatigue my eyes	I3
Nor with thy animated glances dart	N
Such radiance lightning round	N
Turn the clear Heaven of thy serener face	I3
To him who loves its light	N
See thy beloved Adam	Y3
Behold him my sweet love	W
O thou who art alone	D3
Joy of the world and dear delight of man	O3
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Lurcone Dread the approach of evil	L
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Guliar Dread the deceit of hell	H3
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Eve By sovereign content	N
I feel my tongue enchained	N
But though my voice be mute	N
My countenance may seem more eloquent	N
Expressing though in silence all my joy	F
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Adam O my companion dear	E
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Lurcone And soon perchance thy foe	E4
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Adam O thou my sweetest life	K3
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Guliar Perchance thy bitter death	F4
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Eve Take gentle Adam from my hand these flowers	I3
With these my gift let me entwine thy locks	I3
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Adam Ye lilies and ye shrubs of showy hue	W2
Jasmine as ivory pure	G4
Ye spotless graces of the shining field	N
And thou most lovely rose	I3
Of tint most delicate	N