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Excerpt from A Christmas Offering
Adam! I see thy faith is strong; Speak thy request, nor hesitate too long. A friend, a partner give to sweeten life, And then these rural scenes are Paradise, Then, Adam, sleep! And to thee I'll give A form for whom thou'lt ever wish to live. Then from his side the ivory bone he takes, A beauteous woman of the same he makes. But 0! Our hearts are bent on pleasure here The disappointment oft times is severe. But Adam wanders forth we know not where, And leaves alone the unprotected fair. The fiend, on search, the separation knew This is my time, and I'll improve it, too Say, beauteous Eve, hast thou no greater mind, Than to these simple flowers to be confined? Take this delicious fruit, and then you'll see That greater glories are in store for thee. That is forbidden fruit; 0 no not I; For if I eat, then I must surely die. Misrepresented is the fruit I give I eat the same, and yet you see I live. Her innocence had never known a lie So to his treacherous art she did comply. She took the apple! When she ate the same, The poisonous juice had tainted every vein. But Adam comes. Say, lovely Eve, where is thy beauty fled? Where is the bloom that tinged thy cheek with red? Who has been here 2 A treacherous friend! And I believed his lie I ate the apple - J alone must die. In some remotest corner let me be, And die alone, dear friend, unseen by thee. Dear Adam, do not grieve; Perhaps thy God will grant another Eve. No other Eve shall e'er entwine this heart Bone of my bone, from thee I cannot part. He ate the apple, while all nature grieved, And every leaf became a sensitive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.