The Fifth Day

LET US RECEIVE THE PROCLAMATION OF LENT WITH JOY!
FOR IF OUR FOREFATHER ADAM HAD KEPT THE FAST,
WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DEPRIVED OF PARADISE.
THE FRUIT WHICH KILLED US WAS BEAUTIFUL TO SEE AND GOOD TO EAT,
SO LET US NOT BE FOOLED BY OUR EYES,
FOR AFTER FOOD IS EATEN, IT IS WORTHLESS.
LET US FLEE FROM INTEMPERANCE,
SO THAT WE MAY NOT BE CONQUERED BY PASSIONS AFTER HAVING OUR FILL.
LET US SIGN OURSELVES WITH THE BLOOD OF THE ONE
WHO, FOR OUR SAKE, WAS VOLUNTARILY LED TO DEATH,
SO THAT THE DESTROYER MIGHT NOT TOUCH US.
SO WE WILL PARTAKE OF THE SACRED PASCHA OF CHRIST//
FOR THE SALVATION OF OUR SOULS.

Here is a reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost on the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise  on Youtube.

And earlier:

I am bowed down to the earth, O Christ,
by the burden of my sinful deeds,
and in dark discouragement I cry to You, Lover of mankind:
By Your precious blood heal the incurable wounds of my soul
that I may sing the praises of Your Divinity.

I have made iniquity my food and heedlessness my drink,
and I continue without any change.
I take pleasure in abstaining from food to no purpose,
for such is not the fast the Lord has chosen.