Shapes of Clay

Little's the good to sit and grieve

Because the serpent tempted Eve.

Better to wipe your eyes and take

A club and go out and kill a snake.

What do you gain by cursing Nick

For playing her such a scurvy trick?

Better go out and some villain find

Who serves the devil, and beat him blind.

But if you prefer, as I suspect,

To philosophize, why, then, reflect:

If the cunning rascal upon the limb

Hadn't tempted her she'd have tempted him.