Work in eden

Paradise Lost primary

Adam and Eve rise to tend Eden’s garden, discuss dividing labor, and Adam warns that a malicious foe may attack them separately, especially to disturb their marriage and faith.

Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoined; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides Tending to wild. Thou therefore now advise, Or hear what to my mind first thoughts present: Let us divide our la…