Pomme full grave

• pomme: (French) apple → the Garden of Eden

• homme: (French) man → Adam → HCE

• fall → the Fall of Man
  • A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake

• grave: (1) serious; (2) tomb
  • → contrasted with "levity" in the following line

• a pomme full grave: 'grave' here, if taken as 'in the ground' means a 'pomme' fully in the ground, a reference to the French 'la pomme de terre', that is: a potato