Publisher's Synopsis
I, WHO erewhile the happy Garden sungBy one man's disobedience lost, now singRecovered Paradise to all mankind, By one man's firm obedience fully triedThrough all temptation, and the Tempter foiledIn all his wiles, defeated and repulsed, And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness.Thou Spirit, who led'st this glorious EremiteInto the desert, his victorious fieldAgainst the spiritual foe, and brought'st him then