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The line recasts temptation as the whole material world.

Calling earth itself the forbidden fruit removes any safe distance between innocence and desire. The phrasing makes existence feel already implicated, as if living here means having tasted what was barred.

Two typed lines: 'The Forbidden Fruit Is This' followed by 'Very Earth.'.

The couplet relocates Eden's temptation from a single fruit to the whole physical world, so ordinary earthly life becomes the thing both desired and forbidden. Its compression works like a riddle with an anticlimactic, sweeping answer, suggesting that the fall is not a past event but the condition of simply being here.