She will follow after her lovers, But she won't overtake them; And she will seek them, But won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; For then was it better with me than now.'
In the historical perspective, the echo of this verse surely appears in the haunting dream of "Paradise Lost" which has never vanished from the conscience of humanity throughout its long and stubborn rebellion against the will of God.