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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 12 by CONRAD AIKEN CONTRA MORTEM: THE STONE by HAYDEN CARRUTH DRUMS AND BRASS by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON LA NOCHE TRISTE by ROBERT FROST THE SACHEM OF THE CLOUDS (A THANKSGIVING LEGEND) by ROBERT FROST |