Below are the lines I have to recite for a class. I chose these lines because they represent human understanding of God's covenant, and the relationship between desire, love, and worship.

Paradise Lost, Book 9 (l.235-250)

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord imposed
Labour, as to debar us when we need
Refreshment, whether food or talk between,
Food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse
Of looks, and smiles, for smiles from Reason flow,
To brute deni'd, and are of Love the food
Love, not the lowest end of human life.
For not to irksome toil, but to delight
He made us, and delight to reason joyn'd.
These paths and bow'rs doubt not but our joynt hands
Will keep from wilderness with ease, as wide
As we need walk, till younger hands ere long
Assist us. And if much converse perhaps
Thee satiate, to short absence I could yield.
For solitude sometimes is best society
And short retirement urges sweet return.

--John Milton