That word so often! but now say it, ne'er To be repeated. Angel! or whate'er Thou art, or must be soon, hast thou the power Children of Cain? Aza. Japh. From what? And is it so, That ye too know not? Angels! angels! ye Have shared man's sin, and, it may be, now must My sorrow. Sam. Sorrow! I ne'er thought till now To hear an Adamite speak riddles to me. Japh. And hath not the Most High expounded them? Then ye are lost, as they are lost. If they love as they are loved, they will not shrink An immortality of agonies With Samiasa! I would resign the greater remnant of Japh. It is for him, then! for the Seraph thou The hour will come in which celestial aid Alone can do so. Anah. Ah! he speaks of death. Sam. Of death to us! and those who are with us! But that the man seems full of sorrow, I Could smile. Would I grieve not for myself, nor fear; Aho. And dost thou think that we, With Cain's, the eldest born of Adam's, blood Warm in our veins,-strong Cain! who was begotten In Paradise,―would mingle with Seth's children? Seth, the last offspring of old Adam's dotage? No, not to save all earth, were earth in peril! Our race hath alway dwelt apart from thine From the beginning, and shall do so ever. Japh. I did not speak to thee, Aholibamah! Too much of the forefather, whom thou vauntest, Has come down in that haughty blood which springs From him who shed the first, and that a brother's! But thou, my Anah! let me call thee mine, Albeit thou art not; 'tis a word I cannot Part with, although I must from thee. My Anah! Thou who dost rather make me dream that Abel Had left a daughter, whose pure pious race Survived in thee, so much unlike thou art VOL. VI.N The rest of the stern Cainites, save in beauty, Aho. (interrupting him.) And wouldst thou have her like our father's foe In mind, in soul? If I partook thy thought, 1 But He slew not Seth; and what hast thou to do Japh. Thou speakest well: his God hath judged him, I had not named his deed, but that thyself Aho. [and He was our fathers' father; The eldest born of man, the strongest, bravest, Aho. Be it so! but while yet their hours endure, Japh. My sire and race but glory in their God, Anah! and thou? Anah. Whate'er our God decrees, The God of Seth, as Cain, I must obey: |