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Did any bird come flying / After Adam and Eve, / When the door was shut against them / And they sat down to grieve?
I think not Eve's peacock / Splendid to see, / And I think not Adam's eagle; / But a dove may be.
Did any beast come pushing / Through the thorny hedge / Into the thorny, thistly world / Out from Eden's edge?
I think not a lion, / Though his strength is such; / But an innocent loving lamb / May have done as much.
If the dove preached from her bough / And the lamb from his sod, / The lamb and the dove / Were preachers sent from God.