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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=585903" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fall of Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hand omnipotent, in endless space,<br>From chaos, formed a world and found a place,<br>Where, through the countless ages, yet unborn,<br>A star might shine from dusk to rosy morn.<br>Great mountains rose, majestic in their might,<br>And sun-kissed hills, aglow with mellow light,<br>And rippling streams went purling through the dales,<br>To silver lakes that glistened in the vales.<br>A subtle fragrance filled each shifting breeze,<br>The scent of flowers in bloom and budding trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So beautiful the earth, in Nature's eyes,<br>A soul was sent to dwell, in human guise,<br>A form of god-like beauty and of might.<br>To drink the sunshine and to dream at night,<br>In those old days, when first the world began,<br>Strange visions came to Nature's first child, Man.<br>Unclad and lone, he roved from spot to spot<br>And longed and yearned for something which was not.<br>Until, at last, a prayer went up to Heaven<br>And Nature's noblest gift to man was given:<br>A gentle, throbbing, trembling, beauteous maid,<br>Fair as the man, but with a softer shade,<br>Endowed with beauty and a thousand charms<br>That sought the sheltering clasp of loving arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As children play, in childhood's happy hours,<br>They romped and played among the sylvan bowers,<br>Or sported in the streams whose waters sweet<br>Ran cool beneath the trees at Noonday's heat.<br>And when night's sable banners were unfurled<br>And darkness wound her arms about the world,<br>On beds of roses, in some vine-clad nest,<br>Their drowsy senses found untroubled rest<br>And wandering zephyrs swetp across them there,<br>Unclad, but anashamed, in Eden fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No thought had come to them of wild desire<br>And yet, at times, a smouldering, hidden fire<br>Seemed slumbering deep within and fiercer burned.<br>When, in their sleep, they toward each other turned,<br>One ambient night of blissful summer-time,<br>A perfect night of Eden's balmy clime,<br>Eve stretched her languorous limbs in restless sleep<br>And Adam, at her side, sought slumber deep.<br>Some trifling thing, perhaps a wind-swayed fern,<br>A leaf--a bird--caused both of them to turn.<br>Eve's rounded arm was thrown above her head,<br>Her dimpled knee, just lifted from its bed,<br>When, by this chance, this trifle, light as air,<br>Their warm lips met, and, trembling, lingered there.<br>They slept no more from dusk to rosy dawn,<br>'Mongst roses red or on some grassy lawn,<br>But wakened often, from strange dreams of bliss,<br>To find their mouths all melting in a kiss.<br>Their hearts were filled with vague, unknown desire,<br>Nor knew they how to quench the wondrous fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A wild unrest upon them settled down<br>And Adam's brow would often wear a frown,<br>And then again, he'd stroke her glorious hair<br>And gaze into her eyes and call her fair,<br>Then clasp her fiercely, with encircling arm,<br>As though to shield her from impending harm,<br>Then wildly kiss her--eyes--mouth--neck and breast,<br>While she against him, tightly, closely press't.<br>Still waited, hungered, starved for something more.<br>Yet little knew what nature had in store.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just how the fall occurred, so long ago,<br>The modern world should naturally know.<br>Not touching on his grievous fall from grace,<br>But just a hint at what we knoe took place,<br>And if his fall was premature, what then!<br>That sometimes happens to the best of men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eve's little, truant, tapering fingers slim,<br>Beloved of Adam and caressed by him,<br>By accident, one night, grew wondrous wise,<br>And found just where the trees of knowledge rise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amazed, surprised, confounded, if you please,<br>But, womanlike, inclined a bit to tease,<br>She tried experiments of many a kind,<br>To learn by which she most delight could find.<br>And Adam, dizzy with her new-found charms,<br>Gave way to every pressure of her arms<br>And gave her childish innocence full sway,<br>Nor cared to check her or to say her: "Nay."<br>Then suddenly, with savage, passionate clasp,<br>She drew him to her with an eager grasp<br>And sank exhausted, yet with cheeks aflame,<br>Athrill with feelings which she could not name<br>And Adam, swept away, on seas of bliss,<br>Poured all his soul in one, long, clinging kiss.<br>'T was pain, 't was pleasure, 't was a joy intense.<br>It seemed as though along each quivering sense,<br>Swift rivulets of fire had found their way<br>And burned their hearts. The knew not night nor day,<br>Nor life, nor death, nor aught that mortals know.<br>They only knew they loved each other so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor dreamed they, even yet, of further joy,<br>The one swift dream that comes without alloy,<br>And blends two loving natures into one,<br>Too sweet to last--that ends ere 'tis begun.<br>It came to them like lightning from the sky.<br>Each thought the very hour of death was nigh,<br>Yet longed to live. Delirious pain<br>Went sweeping through their inmost souls again<br>And black oblivion brooded for an hour,<br>O'er passion's birth in Eden's rosy bower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when, at last, Eve wakened from her swoon,<br>The night had fled. The glare of Eden's noon<br>Sent showers of golden light through wavering trees,<br>And subtle fragrance lingered on the breeze.<br>Throughout the realm of Eden's joyous bower,<br>All things that lived were happy in that hour,<br>For, led by sweet desire, example given,<br>They found, on earth, the one foretaste of Heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And since you must know all there is to know,<br>When Eve awakened, in a blushing glow,<br>Her thirst for knowledge, seeking to know all,<br>Discovered first the secret of the fall.<br>She sought the source of her new-found delight.<br>Turned pale, grew faint and trembled at the sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Tree of Knowledge stood--ah! yes, it stood.<br>Past tense, you see--and while the past was good,<br>The present need was great, without a doubt<br>And pretty Eve began to fret and pout.<br>She wept and sighed and said "I see it all,<br>For here was death and there, alas! the fall."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by  - <i><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/" target=_blank></a></i><div class=q>
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