Excerpt from The Sistine Madonna Vine, a fig, in Eden's bower; Mary came, when Eve was born, Eyes have ye and see not? Chained ye have to Eden's bower The Soul. Awake, 0 world, and learn The Virgin speaks The soul has eyes and feet, and Swift from Adam's long embrace It springs. The world is Adam. The soul is Eve. And Eve with eyes and feet and love Shall win for him his throne. A throne? There on Patmos' distant isle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.