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
To save this beautiful-these beautiful

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
Partake his punishment; or at the least

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
More to be mortal, than I would to dare

An immortality of agonies

With Samiasa!

I would resign the greater remnant of
This little life of mine, before one hour
Of thine eternity should know a pang.

Japh. It is for him, then! for the Seraph thou
Hast left me! That is nothing, if thou hast not
Left thy God too! for unions like to these,
Between a mortal and immortal, cannot
Be happy or be hallow'd. We are sent
Upon the earth to toil and die; and they
Are made to minister on high unto
The Highest; but if he can save thee, soon

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.
Japh.

Would

I grieve not for myself, nor fear;
I am safe, not for my own deserts, but those
Of a well-doing sire, who hath been found
Righteous enough to save his children.
His power was greater of redemption! or
That by exchanging my own life for hers,
Who could alone have made mine happy, she,
The last and loveliest of Cain's race could share
The Ark which shall receive a remnant of
The seed of Seth!

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

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I am safe, not for E.

Of a well-dong sa

The rest of the stern Cainites, save in beauty,
For all of them are fairest in their favour-

Aho. (interrupting him.) And wouldst thou have

her like our father's foe

In mind, in soul? If I partook thy thought,
And dream'd that aught of Abel was in her!—
Get thee hence, son of Noah: thou mak'st strife.
Japh. Offspring of Cain, thy father did so!
Aho.

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But

He slew not Seth; and what hast thou to do
With other deeds between his God and him?

Japh. Thou speakest well: his God hath judged him,

I had not named his deed, but that thyself
Didst seem to glory in him, nor to shrink
From what he had done.

Aho.

[and

He was our fathers' father;

The eldest born of man, the strongest, bravest,
And most enduring: Shall I blush for him,
From whom we had our being? Look upon
Our race;
behold their stature and their beauty,
Their courage, strength, and length of days-
Japh.
They are number’d.

Aho. Be it so! but while yet their hours endure,
I glory in my brethren and our fathers!

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:
And will endeavour patiently to obey,
But could I dare to pray in his dread hour
Of universal vengeance (if such should be,)
It would not be to live, alone exempt
Of all my house. My sister! Oh, my sister!
What were the world, or other worlds, or all
The brightest future without the sweet past-