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VITAL MOMENTS
When Eve looked close at her son, and saw
A shadowy Adam alive on his face,
Then, with a beauty was better than law,
Lovely Fidelity flowered in the place.
A shadowy Adam alive on his face,
Then, with a beauty was better than law,
Lovely Fidelity flowered in the place.
When Adam moved from his Love, to scan
Across the river the beckoning brake,
Then was the birth of adventurous man
Dicing with Death for Uncertainty's sake.
Across the river the beckoning brake,
Then was the birth of adventurous man
Dicing with Death for Uncertainty's sake.
When Abel lay in the noontide heat,
A clod by the altar, bloody and lorn,
Then did the Christ on his Heavenly seat
Taste of the vinegar, groan in the thorn.
A clod by the altar, bloody and lorn,
Then did the Christ on his Heavenly seat
Taste of the vinegar, groan in the thorn.
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