Out of their love? have they not drawn their milk

Out of this bosom? was not he their father, 370

Born of the same sole womb,' in the same hour

With me? did we not love each other? and

In multiplying our being multiply Things which will love each other as we love

Them? And as I love thee, my Cain! go not

Forth with this spirit; he is not of

ours.

Lucifer. The sin I speak of is not of my making,

And cannot be a sin in you- whate'er It seem in those who will replace ye in Mortality.

Adah. What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin

381 Or virtue? if it doth, we are the slaves

Of

Lucifer. Higher things than ye are slaves: and higher

Than them or ye would be so, did they

not

Prefer an independency of torture
To the smooth agonies of adulation,
In hymns and harpings, and self-seeking
prayers,

To that which is omnipotent, because
It is omnipotent, and not from love,
But terror and self-hope.

Omnipotence 390

Adah.
Must be all goodness.
Lucifer.
Was it so in Eden?
Adah. Fiend! tempt me not with
beauty; thou art fairer

Than was the Serpent, and as false.
Lucifer.
As true.
Ask Eve, your mother: bears she not
the knowledge
Of good and evil?

"The most common opinion is that a son and daughter were born together; and they go so far as to tell us the very name of the daughters. Cain's twin sister was called Calmana, or Caimana, or Debora, or Azzrum; that of Abel was named Delbora or Awina."- Bayle's Diction ary, 1735, ii. 854, art. "Eve," D.]

I think I could be so, despite of Death, Which, as I know it not, I dread not, though

It seems an awful shadow
if I may
Judge from what I have heard. 471
Lucifer.
And thou couldst not
Alone, thou say'st, be happy?
Adah.
Alone! Oh, my God!
Who could be happy and alone, or good?
To me my solitude seems sin; unless
When I think how soon I shall see my
brother,

His brother, and our children, and our parents.

Lucifer. Yet thy God is alone; and is he happy? Lonely, and good? Adah.

He is not so; he hath