Wife Of Adam

She never had a mother
Who trained her hair to curl.
She never knew the teen-age
When life is one grand whirl.
No; she was born to marriage.
Eve never was a girl.
She had no gay, young memories
To conjure up and make
Her hours of ennui vanish.
(Whole thing was a mistake.)
Now is it any wonder
She listened to that snake?

VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY.