“THE WOMAN GAVE ME OF THE TREE.”
When Eve upon the first of men
The apple pressed with specious cant,
Oh, what a thousand pities, then,
That Adam was not Adamant.
THE BLADES OF THE SHEARS.
Two lawyers when a knotty case was o’er,
Shook hands, and were as friendly as before;
“Zounds!” said the client, “I would fain know how
You can be friends, who were such foes just now?”