She saw; she took; she ate;
Death enter’d by the eye:
And parlying in a tempted state,
We lust; consent; and die!
But all mankind restor’d
Their Eden may retrieve:
And lo, by faith we see our Lord,
We touch, and taste, and live!
She saw; she took; she ate
Hymnal/Album: Original title: “When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat.”—[Gen.] iii. 6. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 4.
Publishing: Public Domain