Eve
Lonely Adam became happy, loving God wanted to see,
so, from his rib He fashioned the first woman, me.
The beguiler of men, I became his brave wife,
nurturing the Garden of Eden we had wonderful life.
Deceived by a snake that was Satan in vile disguise,
we ate the forbidden fruit to become Godlike and wise.
I knew we had sinned, and were in disgraceful shame,
expelled from Eden by God, a cursed couple we became.
For my fault I got a life of sorrow and childbirth travail,
and God made the power of Adam on me to prevail.
The mother of all living, I was happy on the contrary,
being the prefigurement of the mother of Jesus, Mary.
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