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THE CREATION OF WOMAN.
WHEN God an end of making man had wrought,Flesh of His flesh and blood of His own blood,
He looked upon His work and deemed it good;
Then, overcasting in His pregnant thought
That which in time yet unaccomplished brought
To pass should be, how that His handwork should
Himself defy and in his upstart mood,
Vie with his maker, sighed and knew it naught:
Yet that His glorious work might not undo;
But, casting round for a device whereby
He might forefend Him from His creature new,
Bethought Him to his strivings to apply
A check and woman made, to clog his wings
And hinder him from over-venturings.
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