Classic Poem

I.

Lord of Himself, and Sole of Humankind,
In Rectitude of Reason Adam shone:
Till the Still-Voice infus'd into his Mind,
" It is not good for Man to be alone. "

II.

By God's own Hand his Virgin-Eve was led.
Now Paradise with fresher Beauties glows:
The conscious Roses form a blushing bed:
Consenting Nature sooths Them to repose.

III.

A Single is an inconsistent-Life:
Compleatly-blest, O Friend! to Thee is given,
A sweet, a fair, a wise, a modest Wife,
The Bloom of Innocence , and Blush of Heav'n!

IV.

May Eden-Life in bright Succession flow,
When All was Happiness, for Love was All:
Her Beauties will a Paradise bestow,
And both your Virtues guard you from a Fall .