TheCURSE.
Cursed is the Ground for thy Sake; in Sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the Days of thy Life, &c.
Genesisiii. 17.
Curs’d be the Earth for thy Offence,And barren be the Ground,And full of Toil and Labour great,Thy anxious Life be found;Till Death thy lifeless Limbs replaceIn Earth’s cold narrow Womb,Then Dust, which at the first thou wert,Thou quickly shalt become.
Curs’d be the Earth for thy Offence,And barren be the Ground,And full of Toil and Labour great,Thy anxious Life be found;Till Death thy lifeless Limbs replaceIn Earth’s cold narrow Womb,Then Dust, which at the first thou wert,Thou quickly shalt become.
Curs’d be the Earth for thy Offence,And barren be the Ground,And full of Toil and Labour great,Thy anxious Life be found;
Curs’d be the Earth for thy Offence,
And barren be the Ground,
And full of Toil and Labour great,
Thy anxious Life be found;
Till Death thy lifeless Limbs replaceIn Earth’s cold narrow Womb,Then Dust, which at the first thou wert,Thou quickly shalt become.
Till Death thy lifeless Limbs replace
In Earth’s cold narrow Womb,
Then Dust, which at the first thou wert,
Thou quickly shalt become.