[Music]
Man at his first creation in Eden God did place,
The public head and father of all the human race;
But by the subtle serpent beguil'd he was and fell,
And by his disobedience was doom'd to death and hell.
While in this situation a promise there was made,
The offspring of the woman should bruise the serpent's head,
Against the power of Satan that man might only feel
The malice of the serpent enraging at his heel.
Now at the time appointed Jesus unveiled his face,
Assumed our human nature and suffered in our place;
He suffered on Mount Calvary and ransomed all for me,
The law demands attention, to pay the penalty.
They laid him in a sepulchre, it being near at hand,
The grave could not now hold him, nor death's cold iron hand;
He burst them all asunder and pulled their kingdoms down,
He's overcome his enemies and wears a starry crown.
Miss Gilchrist finds this "reminiscent of the old Cornish 'When God at
first had Adam made', and of the style of the Manx-Gaelic carvals."
See JFSS, viii., 83.
No. 6
SAILOR'S HOME, SOH 182