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Rh But oh! they disobeyed Him!
 * The one thing He denied

They longed for, took, and tasted;
 * They eat it, and—they died!

Yet, in His love and pity,
 * At once the declared

How man, though lost and ruined,
 * Might after all be spared!

For one of Eve's descendants,
 * Not sinful, like the rest,

Should spoil the work of Satan,
 * And man be saved and blest!

He should be son of Adam,
 * But Son of as well,

And bring a full Salvation,
 * From sin, and death, and hell.