Consolation + 

Little’s the good to sit and grieve + 

Because the serpent tempted Eve. + 

Better to wipe your eyes and take + 

A club and go out and kill a snake. + 

But if you prefer, as I suspect, + 

To philosophize, why, then, reflect: + 

If the cunning rascal upon the limb + 

Hadn’t tempted her she’d have tempted him. + 