Robert Wilson, Shorter catechism in verse, with Scriptural references (1828)
“ While he walk’d with his God in a garden of flow’rs ; No sorrow he knew, till he stretch’d forth his hand, And took of the fruit ’gainst his Maker’s command. Then paradise wither’d—the earth ceas’d to bloom, For sin scatter’d o’er it death’s horrible gloom! Man, happy no longer, now destin’d to toil, With the sweat of his brow he must water the soil;— The prey of disease, disappointment, and pain, Quick down to the dust he must wander again; And his soul, never dying, cast off from its God, In the regions of woe must take up its abode. ”
