Eve kept her babies carefully warm,

Safe from the evening chill, safe from the storm;

As the Lord made of skins a garment for her,

Eve must have known that the babes needed fur;

Cloaks lined with ermine and fluffiest goods,

Wraps fringed with camel’s hair; eider down hoods.

O, to have seen the sweet darlings of Eve

Would have been a great lesson, we well may believe!