Sin

Because thou hast hearkened unto the Voice of thy Wife, and hast eaten of the Tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, &c.

Genesis iii. 17.

Against God’s Will the direful Fruit
Of the forbidden Tree
The Husband by his foolish Wife
To taste induc’d we see.

A grievous Death they both deserv’d
For this Offence so great,
And we, their Children, subject are
To the same Laws of Fate.