Adam.
God made him, like the angels, innocent, And made a garden marvellously fair, With arbors green, sun-kissed and dew-besprent, And fruits and flowers whose fragrance filled the air; Where rivers four meandered with delight, And in the soil were gleaming treasures laid, Good gold and bdellium and the onyx bright; And set therein the man whom He had made; And proved to him by sad experience That not in bowers of indolence, supine On beds of ease, could ev'n Omnipotence Work out in man His last and best design; And in great love and wisdom drove him thence, And cursed him with a blessing most benign.
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