ADAM AND EVE.

To Eve, the tempter thus began ;—
" Queen of this universe, do not believe
Those rigid threats of death. Ye shall not die."
——" Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck’d, she ate !
Earth felt the wound ; and nature from her seat,
Signing through all her works, gave signs of wo,
That all was lost."———
" On my experience, Adam, freely taste"—
" She gave him of that fair enticing fruit
With liberal hand : he scrupled not to eat,
Against his better knowledge" ———
" Earth trembled from her entrails, as again
In pangs ; and nature gave a second groan."
Milton.

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