Somehow—I don’t know how—a serpent tempted us,

And eat we did, and so were doomed to die;

Whereas before we were meant to live for ever.

Meantime, turned out——

Eve. You do not think then, Adam,

We have been disobedient unto God?

Adam. My child, how should I know, and what do you mean?

Your question’s not so simple as it looks;

For if you mean that God said this or that—

As that ‘You shall not touch those apples there,’