with introductory sonnets by

Archdeacon Harold Macdonald

The Fall by Harold Macdonald

God’s mysterious garden has two trees

the fruit of knowledge and the fruit of life

both within the reach of Adam’s wife

an opportunity not missed but seized.

God’s plan is thwarted, God is not amused!

The help-meet Eve has undermined his man

fed him with knowledge, what he can’t and can

accomplish; and how not to be confused.

Indeed, on Eve, creation takes it’s chance

she knows the shape, the possibilities;

a future powered by knowledge, this she sees.

She is the centre of the human dance.

This history is of woman, man and God

who, t’ward the tree of life, together trod.