Monday, April 6, 2026

Garden

The juice of Eden's bitter tree
Was in the cup from which he shrank,
And like our father Adam, he
Was doomed to die the day he drank.
Enacting there the Fall afresh,
He knew according to the flesh
    Our woe, and in obedience
    He did what Adam did in sin,
    That full atonement thus might thence begin.

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Garden

The juice of Eden's bitter tree Was in the cup from which he shrank, And like our father Adam, he Was doomed to die the day he drank. En...