Cain: A Mystery. Embellished with Coloured EngravingsB. Johnson, 1823 - 85 pages |
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Abel's ADAH ADAM altar Amerced ANGEL 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 hast thou hath heard heart heaven hour immortal Jehovah light live look Lord LORD BYRON love thee lovest LUCIFER Methinks mighty mortal mother mother's milk myriads Mystery ne'er never nought o'er Octavo omnipotent Paradise parents peace of God perish pluck'd Price Sixpence realms 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 see'st thou shalt thou Wert thou wilt thought thy world thyself tree of knowledge twas twere Twill unto weep wherefore Wilt thou worship wretched ZILLAH
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Page 4 - 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? 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 32 - 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 8 - Souls who dare use their immortality — Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in His everlasting face, and tell him, that His evil is not good...