10.08.2014, 12:37
ADAM
THE chaste young world gleamed round him ; Paradise
All freshly radiant from the hand of God —
Its dewy ways by human feet untrod —
Revealed its virgin beauties to his eyes.
Above him soared the wondrous turqoise skies;
Beneath his feet rare flowers gemmed the sod;
And in the east he saw the morning, shod
With golden fire, behind the palms arise.
Not yet the Tempter, with his honeyed wiles,
Had entered earth to vex the peace thereof,
But spicy airs roved through the vine-wreathed aisles
And in the laurel cooed the turtle dove ;
Still, cold and vain were Eden's balmiest smiles
To lonely Adam — lacking woman's love.
THE chaste young world gleamed round him ; Paradise
All freshly radiant from the hand of God —
Its dewy ways by human feet untrod —
Revealed its virgin beauties to his eyes.
Above him soared the wondrous turqoise skies;
Beneath his feet rare flowers gemmed the sod;
And in the east he saw the morning, shod
With golden fire, behind the palms arise.
Not yet the Tempter, with his honeyed wiles,
Had entered earth to vex the peace thereof,
But spicy airs roved through the vine-wreathed aisles
And in the laurel cooed the turtle dove ;
Still, cold and vain were Eden's balmiest smiles
To lonely Adam — lacking woman's love.