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    256 Leaves of Antiquity : from the German of jferder *

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    Eve came thither , longing to taste of the fruit , when the feathered testimony of truth ^ raised his voice terribly frptfi the tree , and prol pjhesied thus : - "Thou victim of deceit , whither art thou erring ? To behold what , dost thou open thy : eyes ? WjU ' st thou become

    \ vis 3 by seeing that thou art naked i Will ' st thou become a goddess by feeling thyself poor ? ' * But Eve ' s looks were fixed on the deceiving fruit , and on her cunning deceiver ; she disobeyed the command 9 / the Lord , and listened not to the prophetic voice of the bird *

    When death came upon all creatures , the phoenix was set apart , that he might , to eternal ages , be the innocent witness of paradise . But he was compelled

    with the seduced pair , and with all . the living , to abandon the sea , t of innocence * He would no longer be king of the birds , who were now become hostile to each

    otherj and his former peaceful and happy throne was now ascended by a bird of prey , the blood-thirsty eagle . Immortality also could not be given him , in the now impoisoncd and more thick atmosphere of the earth ,

    but in the way of transformation : but by a transformation , which succeeded only after the lapse of centuries , and then gloriously and rapidly restored him to his

    pristine youth . When his hour approaches he is allowed to fly into paradise , he breaks the old dry branches from the tree of life and the tree of knowledge , in the flame of which his limbs are

    dissolved . The branches from the tree of wi&dom bring him death , the flame from the tree of life restores him to His youth . He then retires again into the wilder .

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    ness , and mourns over the Ixm of Paradise . He * the most beautiful , solitary , seldom-seen , aad still more seldom-heeded , bird-of immortal truth .

    6 . The Death bf Adam-. Adam * £ vas nine hundred ami thirty years old , as he felt in his limbs the sentence of his Jutfge , Thou shalt die the death . " Let all my sons stand before me , " said he to the afflicted Eve , " that I may once more see them , and bless

    them . And they all came at the word of their father ., m ^ ny hundred in their number , and they wept and prayed for his life * " Which among ye" said Adam , i € W * M S ° to t ^ w ° l y mountain ? Peradventure he may find mercy for me , and bring me fruit from the tree . " And each of liis sons

    offered himself , and Seth the most pious of them all , was selected by the father to make the joiiniey . With his head covered with ashes , he hastened , and did not

    tarry till he stood before the gat © of paradise . Ci Let him find nicix-y , " so prayed he , " O thou merciful , and send my lather-fruit from the tree of life " And the

    angel of the Lord stood on a sud * den before him * like a shining cherub , but he held instead ot the fruit of the tree of life , a thrce-lcavod brunch in his hand . *• Bear it to thy father , " said , he ,-benignly , < 6 as his last refreshment : for eternal life is not for

    him on this earth . Therefore tarry not by the way , for bis hour is come . " Swiftly as an angel of consolation Seth hastened to his father , and he threw himself before him , and said , A 6 O father , I bring thee not fruit from th <*

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/28/