Cain: A Mysterybooksellers, published, 1824 - 2 pages |
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Abel's Adah Adam altar Amerced angels art thou aught bear beautiful behold blood book of Genesis breathe brother Abel Cain cherubim cherubs clay curse dare death destroy'd did'st didst thou dost thou doth dread dust dwell earth eternity evermore evil eyes father fear fruits gentle hail happy HARRIETTE WILSON hast thou hath heard heart heaven HIGH HOLBORN hour immortal innumerable Jehovah knowledge left thee light live look Lord Byron love thee lovest Lucifer Methinks mighty mortal mother mother's milk myriads Mystery ne'er never nought o'er omnipotent Paradise parents peace of God perish pluck'd realms Reptiles sacrifice see'st seen seraphs serpent shadows sinn'd sire snatch'd speak spirit stars tempt thine things thou art thou canst thou hast shown thou say'st thou shalt thou Wert thou wilt thought thy world thyself tree twere Twill unto wherefore Wilt thou worship wretched Zillah
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Page 60 - By tyrannous threats to force you into faith 'Gainst all external sense and inward feeling: Think and endure — and form an inner world In your own bosom — where the outward fails; So shall you nearer be the spiritual Nature, and war triumphant with your own.
Page 12 - What had / done in this ? — I was unborn : I sought not to be born ; nor love the state To which that birth has brought me. Why did he Yield to the serpent and the woman ? or, Yielding, why suffer? What was there in this?
Page 79 - May every element shun or change to him ! May he live in the pangs which others die with ! And death itself wax something worse than death To him who first acquainted him with man ! Hence, fratricide ! henceforth that word is Cain, Through all the coming myriads of mankind, Who shall abhor thee, though thou wert their sire ! May the grass wither from thy feet ! the woods Deny thee shelter ! earth a home ! the dust A grave ! the sun his light ! and heaven her God ! lExit EVE.
Page 12 - To which that birth has brought me. Why did he Yield to the serpent and the woman? or, Yielding, why suffer? What was there in this? The tree was planted, and why not for him ? If not, why place him near it, where it grew, The fairest in the centre? They have but One answer to all questions, " 'Twas His will, And He is good.
Page 36 - Oh, thou beautiful And unimaginable ether ! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights ! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measured for ye ? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion — at which my soul aches to think — Intoxicated with eternity?
Page 17 - By being Yourselves, in your resistance. Nothing can Quench the mind, if the mind will be itself And centre of surrounding things — 'tis made To sway.