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First Line: When adam and when eve left paradise
Last Line: Thee and thy realm of change and death and pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Adam & Eve


When Adam and when Eve left Paradise
Did they love on and cling together still,
Forgiving one another all that ill
The twain had wrought on such a different wise?
She propped upon his strength, and he in guise
Of lover tho' of lord, girt to fulfil
Their term of life and die when God should will;
Lie down and sleep, and having slept arise.
Boast not against us, O our enemy!
Today we fall, but we shall rise again;
We grope today, tomorrow we shall see:
What is today that we should fear today?
A morrow cometh which shall sweep away
Thee and thy realm of change and death and pain.





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