Dylan Thomas and Adam and Eve

Dylan Thomas wrote the lines “I know the legend/Of Adam and Eve is never for a second/Silent in my service,” in Ceremony After a Fire Raid, one of his many brilliant emotional poems about the fire-bombings of World War II and one of his many acknowledgements of the metaphor of Adam and Eve, so influential in his poetry.

Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

I think his idea of Eden may have been Wales itself (Cymru), where he could always escape to - above all the beach town of New Quay (Ceinewydd) in West Wales where he wrote much of his best work, including Fern Hill and Under Milk Wood, but also the distant farms of Carmarthenshire and his boathouse at Laugharne.

This is the boat house:

This is Laugharne's castle, right on the foreshore, and a wooden sculpture of Dylan Thomas set in the Millennium Garden.

The quotes in the main chapter (here) are from Fern Hill. Is there a better poem about being young, about being Adam? I equate it with Yeats' Byzantium masterpiece about aging...