Chapter CLIX

“But we were blind,” say they, “in mind;
too dim was Nature’s Light,
Our only guide, as hath been tried,
to bring us to the sight
Of our estate degenerate,
and curs’d by Adam’s Fa’l;
How we were born and lay forlorn
in bondage and in thrall.

CLX. [134]

“We did not know a Christ till now,
nor how fall’n men be saved,
Else would we not, right well we wot,
have so ourselves behaved.
“We should have mourn’d, we should have turn’d
from sin at thy Reproof,
And been more wise through thy advice,
for our own soul’s behoof.

_They are answered._