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Woman.

When our first parents liv’d in blissful ease,

In Eden’s flowery fields, enjoying peace,

Who was it caus’d those blissful days to cease?

A Woman.

Who was’t (beguil’d by our inveterate foe),

Gave to man’s happiness a mortal blow,

And brought into the world, sin, death, and woe?

A Woman.