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From Book IV of John Milton's "Paradise Lost," in which Satan notices the Tree of Knowledge and sees what's about to happen to Adam and Eve as a setup (in which he'll gladly play his part).

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Delicious Paradise, crowns with her enclosure green,
a woody theater of stately view.

Two creatures new to sight and strange:
Far nobler shape erect and tall,
with native honor clad
seemed lords of all.

Oh, fair foundation.

Simple and spotless innocence of God or angel.
Naked and hand in hand they passed.

Ah gentle pair, ye little think
your change approaches
when all delights will vanish,
deliver ye to woe.

Oh, fair foundation.

One fatal tree stands of Knowledge called,
Forbidden to taste: can it be sin to know?
Why should their Lord envy them that?
Proof of their obedience and their faith?
By ignorance is that their happy state?

He hath no need, requires no other service,
not to taste that only tree

So near grows Death to Life,
what ere Death is.
Oh, fair foundation
whereon to build their ruin!

Oh, fair foundation.

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

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