As the ground thou must henceforth till; but he Cain. After the fall too soon was I begotten; By God the life to him he loved; and taken Angel. Who shall heal murder? what is done is done. Cain. [The ANGEL disappears. Ah! little knows he what he weeps for ! No more of threats: we 've had too many of them : Adah. I will not leave thee lonely with the dead; And everlasting witness! whose unsinking Blood darkens earth and heaven! what thou now art, I know not! but if thou see'st what I am, I think thou wilt forgive him, whom his God Can ne'er forgive, nor his own soul.-Farewell! I must not, dare not, touch what I have made thee. I, who sprang from the same womb with thee, drain'd The same breast, clasp'd thee often to my own, Can never meet thee more, nor even dare To do that for thee, which thou shouldst have done For me-compose thy limbs into their The first grave yet dug for mortality. grave No, But who hath dug that grave? Oh, earth! Oh, earth! For all the fruits thou hast render'd to me, I Give thee back this.-Now for the wilderness. [ADAH stoops down and kisses the body of ABEL. *The "four rivers" which flowed round Eden, and consequently the only waters with which Cain was acquainted upon the earth, Adah. A dreary, and an early doom, my brother, I alone must not weep. Cain. Eastward from Eden will we take our way; 'T is the most desolate, and suits my steps. Adah. Lead! thou shalt be my guide, and may our God Be thine! Now let us carry forth our children. Cain. And he who lieth there was childless. I Have dried the fountain of a gentle race, Which might have graced his recent marriage couch, O Abel! Adah. Peace be with him! Cain. But with me [Exeunt. WERNER, OR THE INHERITANCE; A TRAGEDY. TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE, BY ONE OF HIS HUMBLEST ADMIRERS, THIS TRAGEDY IS DEDICATED. |