Paradise Regained

Though Milton, sexist, claims that Eden's state
Was one in which the woman newly made
By nature was devised subordinate
To man, and thus supposed a lesser grade
Of human, made (as often quoted) not
For God direct, as Adam was intended
But merely God-in-him, as if her thought
Were fully secondary. This is mended
If we recall (as Milton often would)
We do not live in Eden anymore
But in a new and fallen world, and good
And evil both are changed. I ask, therefore
If in this fallen world, knowledge increased
The time of sexism has finally ceased.