How assured does feel my heart
By a magnanimous conviction:
The King of Lords was fairly smart
As all he framed with fascination.
Was not the most attractive Rose
In the primeval settlement,
The one from who love arose
Forwarding sweet enchantment?
In the whole Garden of Eden,
It was a flower far unequal
Being from Earth to Heaven
Jolly, passionate and spiritual.
Ebony, copper or ivory,
Who knows how was our Eve,
Whom God far from irony
Daydreamed, as I do believe!
Peerless as well as bright,
Her figure splendidly fabulous,
Either day either night
She had Adam fall amorous.
So genius the Master yet stands
Wizard of each bird, butterfly and flower,
As of Eve as well, all through His hands,
When out of you, thus, He did found her!
