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[How backward man himself to blame!]

The man said, The woman whom Thou gavest, &c. —iii. 12.

How backward man himself to blame!
How ready I, like Adam, am
To palliate what I first would hide,
To' excuse what cannot be denied,
Or dare with boldest blasphemy
To charge my sin, O God, on Thee!