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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360571" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eden bower</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was Lilith the wife of Adam:<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Not a drop of her blood was human,<br>But she was made like a soft sweet woman.<br>Lilith stood on the skirts of Eden;<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>She was the first that thence was driven;<br>With her was hell and with Eve was heaven.<br>In the ear of the Snake said Lilith:—<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>“To thee I come when the rest is over;<br>A snake was I when thou wast my lover.<br>“I was the fairest snake in Eden:<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>By the earth's will, new form and feature<br>Made me a wife for the earth's new creature.<br>“Take me thou as I come from Adam:<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Once again shall my love subdue thee;<br>The past is past and I am come to thee.<br>“O but Adam was thrall to Lilith!<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>All the threads of my hair are golden,<br>And there in a net his heart was holden.<br>“O and Lilith was queen of Adam!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>All the day and the night together<br>My breath could shake his soul like a feather.<br>“What great joys had Adam and Lilith!—<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>Sweet close rings of the serpent's twining,<br>As heart in heart lay sighing and pining.<br>“What bright babes had Lilith and Adam!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Shapes that coiled in the woods and waters,<br>Glittering sons and radiant daughters.<br>“O thou God, the Lord God of Eden!<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>Say, was this fair body for no man,<br>That of Adam's flesh thou mak'st him a woman?<br>“O thou Snake, the King-snake of Eden!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>God's strong will our necks are under,<br>But thou and I may cleave it in sunder.<br>“Help, sweet Snake, sweet lover of Lilith!<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>And let God learn how I loved and hated<br>Man in the image of God created.<br>“Help me once against Eve and Adam!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Help me once for this one endeavour,<br>And then my love shall be thine for ever!<br>“Strong is God, the fell foe of Lilith:<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>Nought in heaven or earth may affright Him;<br>But join thou with me and we will smite Him.<br>“Strong is God, the great God of Eden:<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Over all He made He hath power;<br>But lend me thou thy shape for an hour!<br>“Lend thy shape for the love of Lilith!<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>Look, my mouth and my cheek are ruddy,<br>And thou art cold, and fire is my body.<br>“Lend thy shape for the hate of Adam!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>That he may wail my joy that forsook him,<br>And curse the day when the bride-sleep took him.<br>“Lend thy shape for the shame of Eden!<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>Is not the foe-God weak as the foeman<br>When love grows hate in the heart of a woman?<br>“Wouldst thou know the heart's hope of Lilith?<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Then bring thou close thine head till it glisten<br>Along my breast, and lip me and listen.<br>“Am I sweet, O sweet Snake of Eden?<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>Then ope thine ear to my warm mouth's cooing<br>And learn what deed remains for our doing.<br>“Thou didst hear when God said to Adam:—<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>‘Of all this wealth I have made thee warden;<br>Thou'rt free to eat of the trees of the garden:<br>“‘Only of one tree eat not in Eden:<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>All save one I give to thy freewill,—<br>The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.’<br>“O my love, come nearer to Lilith!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>In thy sweet folds bind me and bend me,<br>And let me feel the shape thou shalt lend me.<br>“In thy shape I'll go back to Eden;<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>In these coils that Tree will I grapple,<br>And stretch this crowned head forth by the apple.<br>“Lo, Eve bends to the breath of Lilith!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>O how then shall my heart desire<br>All her blood as food to its fire!<br>“Lo, Eve bends to the words of Lilith!—<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>‘Nay, this Tree's fruit,—why should ye hate it,<br>Or Death be born the day that ye ate it?<br>“‘Nay, but on that great day in Eden,<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>By the help that in this wise Tree is,<br>God knows well ye shall be as He is.’<br>“Then Eve shall eat and give unto Adam;<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>And then they both shall know they are naked,<br>And their hearts ache as my heart hath achèd.<br>“Ay, let them hide `mid the trees of Eden,<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>As in the cool of the day in the garden<br>God shall walk without pity or pardon.<br>“Hear, thou Eve, the man's heart in Adam!<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>Of his brave words hark to the bravest:—<br>‘This the woman gave that thou gavest.’<br>“Hear Eve speak, yea list to her, Lilith!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Feast thine heart with words that shall sate it—<br>‘This the serpent gave and I ate it.’<br>“O proud Eve, cling close to thine Adam,<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>Driven forth as the beasts of his naming<br>By the sword that for ever is flaming.<br>“Know, thy path is known unto Lilith!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>While the blithe birds sang at thy wedding,<br>There her tears grew thorns for thy treading.<br>“O my love, thou Love-snake of Eden!<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>O to-day and the day to come after!<br>Loose me, love,—give breath to my laughter.<br>“O bright Snake, the Death-worm of Adam!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Wreathe thy neck with my hair's bright tether,<br>And wear my gold and thy gold together!<br>“On that day on the skirts of Eden,<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>In thy shape shall I glide back to thee,<br>And in my shape for an instant view thee.<br>“But when thou'rt thou and Lilith is Lilith,<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>In what bliss past hearing or seeing<br>Shall each one drink of the other's being!<br>“With cries of ‘Eve!’ and ‘Eden!’ and ‘Adam!’<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>How shall we mingle our love's caresses,<br>I in thy coils, and thou in my tresses!<br>“With those names, ye echoes of Eden,<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Fire shall cry from my heart that burneth,—<br>‘Dust he is and to dust returneth!’<br>“Yet to-day, thou master of Lilith,—<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>Wrap me round in the form I'll borrow<br>And let me tell thee of sweet to-morrow.<br>“In the planted garden eastward in Eden,<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Where the river goes forth to water the garden,<br>The springs shall dry and the soil shall harden.<br>“Yea, where the bride-sleep fell upon Adam,<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>None shall hear when the storm-wind whistles<br>Through roses choked among thorns and thistles.<br>“Yea, beside the east-gate of Eden,<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Where God joined them and none might sever,<br>The sword turns this way and that for ever.<br>“What of Adam cast out of Eden?<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>Lo! with care like a shadow shaken,<br>He tills the hard earth whence he was taken.<br>“What of Eve too, cast out of Eden?<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>Nay, but she, the bride of God's giving,<br>Must yet be mother of all men living.<br>“Lo, God's grace, by the grace of Lilith!<br>(Alas the hour!)<br>To Eve's womb, from our sweet to-morrow,<br>God shall greatly multiply sorrow.<br>“Fold me fast, O God-snake of Eden!<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>What more prize than love to impel thee?<br>Grip and lip my limbs as I tell thee!<br>“Lo! two babes for Eve and for Adam!<br>(Alas the hour!) <br>Lo! sweet Snake, the travail and treasure,—<br>Two men-children born for their pleasure!<br>“The first is Cain and the second Abel:<br>(Sing Eden Bower!)<br>The soul of one shall be made thy brother,<br>And thy tongue shall lap the blood of the other.”<br>(Alas the hour!)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</a><div class=q>
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(Sing Eden Bower!)
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But she was made like a soft sweet woman.
Lilith stood on the skirts of Eden;
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