That the false angel said unto me!
Alas! our Maker's bidding is broken,
For I have touched his own dear tree.
Our fleshly eyes are all unlokyn, _unlocked._
Naked for sin ourself we see;
That sorry apple that we have sokyn _sucked._
To death hath brought my spouse and me.

When the voice of God is heard, saying,

Adam, that with my hands I made,
Where art thou now? what hast thou wrought?

Adam replies, in two lines, containing the whole truth of man's spiritual
condition ever since:

Ah, Lord! for sin our flowers do fade:
I hear thy voice, but I see thee nought.

The vision had vanished, but the voice remained; for they that hear shall
live, and to the pure in heart one day the vision shall be restored, for
"they shall see God." There is something wonderfully touching in the
quaint simplicity of the following words of God to the woman:

Unwise woman, say me why
That thou hast done this foul folly,
And I made thee a great lady,
In Paradise for to play?

As they leave the gates, the angel with the flaming sword ends his speech