And when Adam outwitted God by eating the apple
And saw through the lie,
God drove him out of Eden to keep him from taking
The fruit of immortal life.
(Wendell P. Bloyd)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
If we who are in life cannot speakOf profound experiences,
Why do you marvel that the dead
Do not tell you of death?
Edgar Lee Masters
I went up and down the streets
Here and there by day and night,
Through all hours of the night caring for the poor who were sick.
Edgar Lee Masters
But not content,
Wishing to own two thousand acres,
I bustled through the years with axe and plow,
Toiling, denying myself, my wife, my sons, my daughters.
Edgar Lee Masters
And gates ajar -- yes, so they were;
You left them open and stray goats entered your garden.
Edgar Lee Masters
It is well to abstain from murder and lust,
To forgive, do good to others, worship God
Without graven images.
Edgar Lee Masters
There were Benjamin Pantier and his wife,
Good in themselves, but evil toward each other:
He oxygen, she hydrogen,
Their son, a devastating fire.
Edgar Lee Masters
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