Was challenged, was as nothing to compare

With the deep agony which on that night,—

That dreadful night in which he was betrayed,—

Our Surety felt, when in Gethsemane

He took upon himself to pay the full

Ransom and penalty of that first sin

Which Adam sinned, and all his race in him.

Of that first sin did Adam put the blame

On Eve, "the woman whom thou gavest me."

Eve on the serpent shifted it, and proud