Thus the image of Adam had life, and dwelt in Paradise.
(There) Adam beheld (two ?) peacocks of no ordinary beauty,
And the Angel Gabriel appeared.
‘Verily, O Angel Gabriel, I am solitary,
Easier is it to live in pairs, I crave a wife.’
God Almighty spake, saying, ‘Command Adam
To pray at dawn a prayer of two genuflexions.’
Then Adam prayed, and our Lady Eve descended,
And was captured by the Prophet Adam;
But before he had finished his prayer she was taken back,