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Let woman fear to teach and bear to learn, / Remembering the first woman's first mistake. / Eve had for pupil the inquiring snake, / Whose doubts she answered on a great concern; / But he the tables so contrived to turn, / It next was his to give and hers to take; / Till man deemed poison sweet for her sweet sake, / And fired a train by which the world must burn. / Did Adam love his Eve from first to last? / I think so; as we love who works us ill, / And wounds us to the quick, yet loves us still. / Love pardons the unpardonable past: / Love in a dominant embrace holds fast / His frailer self, and saves without her will.