Is to our Life and its short Course,
With constant Steps pursues.
Reflect then in thy Prime of Life
(Life’s transitory Day)
That to thy End it thee conducts
By gradual Decay.
[20] The Original of this Passage has no corresponding Words in the Translation of the Bible now in Use, and the above is therefore inserted from the former Translation.
The WIFE.
Of the Woman came the Beginning of Sin, and through her we all die.