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When Adam first saw Eve he said: / "O lovely creature, share my bed." / Before consenting, she her gaze / Fixed on the greensward to appraise, / As well as vision could avouch, / The value of the proffered couch.
And seeing that the grass was green / And neatly clipped with a machine -- / Observing that the flow'rs were rare / Varieties, and some were fair, / The posts of precious woods, besprent / With fragrant balsams, diffluent, / And all things suited to her worth, / She raised her angel eyes from earth / To his and, blushing to confess, / Murmured: "I love you, Adam -- yes." / Since then her daughters, it is said, / Look always down when asked to wed.