The Wife

Of the Woman Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All die

Ecclesiasticus xxv. 4.

From Eve, the Mother of Mankind,
Our Parent Adam’s Wife,
Sprang Sin, and thence fell Death arose,
The Enemy of Life.

Let not, howe’er, thy tender Mind
To Grief a Victim fall,
If Death should thee to quit this World,
Like other Mortals, call.