Adam Lay Y-Bounden (re-take by Richard)

This is silly but I enjoyed it - written quickly merely as an exercise for my Japanese student so he can practise saying his 'a' sounds which he isn't very good at.

Adam ate the apple down

The apple given whole

It was the apple Eve gave him

The apple that she stole

And when he ate the apple whole

He was in agony

Because the apple he was giv’n

Was from a curséd tree

Adam had an aptitude

To feel the world aright

But now he had an attitude

That made his life a blight

Before his eating of the fruit

His way was straight and clear

But now the blighted tree he saw

Confused his heart with fear

The angles in his path ahead

He now saw with dismay

Would be his lot till Kingdom come

Until that happy day

A tree of knowledge seems so fine

Its fruit to be desired

But we must beware of that

Which leaves us mad and tired