Adam Quote by Thomas Hood

“When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!”

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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.

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What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs,…

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It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed!

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When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

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I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

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