_Acquaint_ thyself with God, if thou would’st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou wast blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure, shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought. Brutes graze the mountain-top, with faces prone, And eyes intent upon the scanty herb It yields them: or recumbent on its brow Ruminate, heedless of the scene outspread Beneath, beyond, and stretching far away From inland regions to the distant main. Man views it and admires; but rests content With what he views. The landscape has his praise, But not its Author. Unconcerned who framed The Paradise he sees, he finds it such, And such well pleased to find it, asks no more. Not so the mind that has been touched from heaven, And in the schools of sacred wisdom taught To read his wonders, in whose thought the world, Fair as it is, existed ere it was. Not for its own sake merely, but for his Much more who fashioned it, he gives it praise; Praise that from earth resulting as it ought, To earth’s acknowledged Sovereign, finds at once Its only just proprietor in Him. _Cowper._ ADAM AND EVE. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.--Genesis, i. 27. By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.--Romans, v. 12. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in _Adam_ all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.--I. Corinthians, xv. 21, 22. The first man _Adam_ was made a living soul; the last _Adam_ was made a quickening spirit.--I. Corinthians, xv. 45. Thou man thy image mad’st, in dignity, In knowledge and in beauty like to thee; Placed in a heaven on earth: without his toil, The ever flourishing and fruitful soil Unpurchased food produced: all creatures were His subjects, serving more for love than fear. _Sandys._ For contemplation he, and valour formed; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime, declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad: She as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore Dishevelled, but in wanton ringlets waved As the vine curls her tendrils: which implied Subjection, but required with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best received. _Milton._