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From Book V of John Milton's "Paradise Lost," in which Eve dreams that she tastes the forbidden fruit, after which she soars into the sky and is frightened by what she sees, then wakes up relieved that it was a dream.

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For I this night have dreamed,
brought me on to the tree.
Beside it stood one winged like one from Heaven

‘Oh, fair plant,’ said he, ‘with fruit surcharged,
is knowledge so despised?
This said, he plucked, he tasted.

Me damp horror chilled
But he thus, overjoyed; ‘O fruit divine,
able to make gods of men:

And why not since good, the more communicated, the author not impaired, but honored more?’

‘Here, taste this, and be among the gods,
ascend to Heaven and see
what life the gods live there, and such live thou!’

I could not but taste:

Forthwith up to the clouds, with him I flew,
and underneath beheld, the earth outstretched immense.

Suddenly, my guide was gone,
and I sunk down and fell asleep.
Oh, how glad I waked
to find this but a dream!
But a dream.

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from John Milton's Paradise Lost (Demos), released June 27, 2022

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