The CURSE.
Cursed is the Ground for thy Sake; in Sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the Days of thy Life, &c.
Genesis iii. 17.
Curs’d be the Earth for thy Offence,
And barren be the Ground,
And full of Toil and Labour great,
Thy anxious Life be found;
Till Death thy lifeless Limbs replace
In Earth’s cold narrow Womb,