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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present
Byron's Poetical Works.Vol. 1.by Byron.PREFACE TO THE POEMS.The text of the present issue of Lord Byron's Poetical Works is based on that of 'The Works of Lord Byron', in six volumes, 12mo, which was published by John Murray in 1831. T
- 401 [hi] _Which looked as 'twere a phantom even on earth_.--[MS. erased.][hj] _Now it seemed little, now a little bigger_.--[MS. erased.][539] {513}[The Letters of Junius have been attributed to more than fifty authors. Among the more famous are the Duke
- 402 [560] [Southey's _Life of Wesley, and Rise and Progress of Methodism_, in two volumes octavo, was published in 1820. In a "Memento" written in a blank leaf of the first volume, Coleridge expressed his desire that his copy should be given to
- 403 9.Out then spake old Alfaqui,[572]With his beard so white to see, "Good King! thou art justly served, Good King! this thou hast deserved.Woe is me, Alhama!10."By thee were slain, in evil hour, The Abencerrage, Granada's flower; And stranger
- 404 [_Opere Edite e Postume_ di J. Vittorelli, Ba.s.sano, 1841, p. 294.]TRANSLATION FROM VITTORELLI.ON A NUN.Sonnet composed in the name of a father, whose daughter had recently died shortly after her marriage; and addressed to the father of her who had latel
- 405 1818.[First published, _Fraser's Magazine_, January, 1833, vol. vii. pp. 88-84.]THE DUEL.[583]1.'Tis fifty years, and yet their fray To us might seem but yesterday.Tis fifty years, and three to boot, Since, hand to hand, and foot to foot, And he
- 406 13.'Tis vain to struggle--let me perish young-- Live as I lived, and love as I have loved; To dust if I return, from dust I sprung, And then, at least, my heart can ne'er be moved.June, 1819.[First published, _Conversations of Lord Byron_, 1824,
- 407 Lady! in whose heroic port And Beauty, Victor even of Time, And haughty lineaments, appear Much that is awful, more that's dear-- Wherever human hearts resort _There_ must have been for thee a Court, And Thou by acclamation Queen, Where never Soverei
- 408 14.Let the poor squalid splendour thy wreck can afford, (As the bankrupt's profusion his ruin would hide) Gild over the palace, Lo! Erin, thy Lord!Kiss his foot with thy blessing--his blessings denied![iv]15.Or _if_ freedom past hope be extorted at l
- 409 STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA.[603]1.Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story-- The days of our Youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.[6
- 410 [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 635, 636.]ARISTOMENES.[608]Canto First.1.The G.o.ds of old are silent on the sh.o.r.e.Since the great Pan expired, and through the roar Of the Ionian waters broke a dread Voice which proclaimed "the
- 411 [586] {544}[See _The Dream_, line 127, _et pa.s.sim_, _vide ante_, p. 31, _et sq._][587] [From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. Murray, now for the first time printed.][588] {545} [There has been some misunderstanding with regard to this poem. Ac
- 412 [599] {560}["The Marquis of Londonderry was cheered in the Castle-yard.""He was," says the correspondent of the _Morning Chronicle_, "the instrument of Ireland's degradation--he broke down her spirit, and prostrated, I fear,
- 413 ECLOGUE THE FIRST._London.--Before the Door of a Lecture Room_._Enter_ TRACY, _meeting_ INKEL._Ink_. You're too late._Tra_. Is it over?_Ink_. Nor will be this hour.But the benches are crammed, like a garden in flower.With the pride of our belles, who
- 414 _Tra_. What?_Ink_. I perhaps may as well hold my tongue; But there's five hundred people can tell you you're wrong._Tra_. You forget Lady Lilac's as rich as a Jew._Ink_. Is it miss or the cash of mamma you pursue?_Tra_. Why, Jack, I'll
- 415 _Ink_. Very true; let us go, then, before they can come, Or else we'll be kept here an hour at their levee, On the rack of cross questions, by all the blue bevy.Hark! Zounds, they'll be on us; I know by the drone Of old Botherby's spouting
- 416 _Lady Bluem_. Excuse me--'tis one in the "Stamps:"He is made a collector._Tra_. Collector!_Sir Rich_. How?_Miss Lil_. What? 60 _Ink_. I shall think of him oft when I buy a new hat: There his works will appear-- _Lady Bluem_. Sir, they reach
- 417 _Lady Blueb_. Come, a truce with all tartness;--the joy of my heart Is to see Nature's triumph o'er all that is art.Wild Nature!--Grand Shakespeare!_Both_. And down Aristotle!_Lady Bluem_. Sir George[628] thinks exactly with Lady Bluebottle: And
- 418 [618] {579}[The publication of the _British Review_ was discontinued in 1825.][619] [For "Botherby," _vide ante_, _Beppo_, stanza lxxii. line 7, p.182, note 1; and with the "ex-cathedra tone" compare "that awful note of woe,"
- 419 The Works of Lord Byron.by Lord Byron.PREFACE TO THE FIFTH VOLUME.The plays and poems contained in this volume were written within the s.p.a.ce of two years--the last two years of Byron's career as a poet. But that was not all. Cantos VI.-XV. of _Don
- 420 _Myr._ Great King, Thou didst not say so._Sar._ But _thou_ looked'st it: I know each glance of those Ionic eyes,[d]Which said thou wouldst not leave me._Myr._ Sire! your brother---- _Sal._ His _Consort's_ brother, minion of Ionia! 40 How darest
- 421 _Sal._ Our annals say not._Sar._ Then I will say for them-- That she had better woven within her palace Some twenty garments, than with twenty guards Have fled to Bactria, leaving to the ravens, And wolves, and men--the fiercer of the three, Her myriads o
- 422 _Sal._ Alas!The doom of Nineveh is sealed.--Woe--woe To the unrivalled city!_Sar._ What dost dread? 280 _Sal._ Thou art guarded by thy foes: in a few hours The tempest may break out which overwhelms thee, And thine and mine; and in another day What _is_ s
- 423 _Sar._ There comes For ever something between us and what We deem our happiness: let me remove The barrier which that hesitating accent Proclaims to thine, and mine is sealed._Myr._ My Lord!-- _Sar._ My Lord--my King--Sire--Sovereign; thus it is-- For eve
- 424 _Myr._ Ask of the G.o.ds thy fathers._Sar._ They cannot answer; when the priests speak for them, 'Tis for some small addition to the temple._Myr._ Look to the annals of thine Empire's founders._Sar._ They are so blotted o'er with blood, I c
- 425 _Sar._ Suspect!--that's a spy's office. Oh! we lose Ten thousand precious moments in vain words, And vainer fears. Within there!--ye slaves, deck The Hall of Nimrod for the evening revel; If I must make a prison of our palace, At least we'l
- 426 _Arb._ And ever thwarted: what would you have more To make a rebel out of? A fool reigning, 100 His blood dishonoured, and himself disdained: Why, it is _his_ revenge we work for._Bel._ Could He but be brought to think so: this I doubt of._Arb._ What, if
- 427 _Bel._ (_delivering his_). My lord, behold my scimitar._Arb._ (_drawing his sword_). Take mine._Sal._ (_advancing_). I will._Arb._ But in your heart the blade-- The hilt quits not this hand.[l]_Sal._ (_drawing_). How! dost thou brave me?Tis well--this sav
- 428 Bestow it on Arbaces._Sar._ So I should: He never asked it._Sal._ Doubt not, he will have it, Without that hollow semblance of respect._Bel._ I know not what hath prejudiced the Prince So strongly 'gainst two subjects, than whom none Have been more z
- 429 _Arb._ But no less we owe them; And I should blush far more to take the grantor's![16]_Bel._ Thou may'st endure whate'er thou wilt--the stars Have written otherwise._Arb._ Though they came down, And marshalled me the way in all their bright
- 430 Let me hope better than thou augurest; At present, let us hence as best we may.Thou dost agree with me in understanding This order as a sentence?_Arb._ Why, what other Interpretation should it bear? it is The very policy of Orient monarchs-- 430 Pardon an
- 431 Away with these vain thoughts, I will be joyous-- And here comes Joy's true herald._Enter_ MYRRHA._Myr._ King! the sky Is overcast, and musters muttering thunder, In clouds that seem approaching fast, and show In forked flashes a commanding tempest.[
- 432 _Sar._ That's true, my Myrrha; and could I convert My realm to one wide shelter for the wretched, I'd do it._Myr._ Thou'rt no G.o.d, then--not to be Able to work a will so good and general, As thy wish would imply._Sar._ And your G.o.ds, th
- 433 _Sar._ Altada--Zames--forth, and arm ye! There Is all in readiness in the armoury. 120 See that the women are bestowed in safety In the remote apartments: let a guard Be set before them, with strict charge to quit The post but with their lives--command it
- 434 _Enter an Officer_._Officer_. Lost, Lost almost past recovery. Zames! Where Is Zames?_Myr._ Posted with the guard appointed To watch before the apartment of the women. 230 [_Exit Officer_._Myr._ (_sola_). He's gone; and told no more than that all
- 435 _Alt._ Baal himself Ne'er fought more fiercely to win empire, than His silken son to save it: he defies All augury of foes or friends; and like The close and sultry summer's day, which bodes A twilight tempest, bursts forth in such thunder As sw
- 436 _Sal._ Is power Omnipotent o'er such a heart as his: Exert it wisely. [_Exit_ SALEMENES._Sar._ Myrrha! what, at whispers With my stern brother? I shall soon be jealous._Myr._ (_smiling_).You have cause, Sire; for on the earth there breathes not A man
- 437 I can fix nothing further of my thoughts, Save that I longed for thee, and sought for thee, In all these agonies,--and woke and found thee._Myr._ So shalt thou find me ever at thy side, Here and hereafter, if the last may be.But think not of these things-
- 438 I wish to thank you that you have not divided My heart from all that's left it now to love-- Those who are yours and mine, who look like you, And look upon me as you looked upon me Once----but _they_ have not changed._Sar._ Nor ever will.I fain would
- 439 _Sal._ What! leave 380 Your children, with two parents and yet orphans-- In a strange land--so young, so distant?_Zar._ No-- My heart will break._Sal._ Now you know all--decide._Sar._ Zarina, he hath spoken well, and we Must yield awhile to this necessity
- 440 You shall not force me from you._Sar._ Think well of it-- It soon may be too late._Myr._ So let it be; For then you cannot separate me from you._Sar._ And will not; but I thought you wished it._Myr._ I!_Sar._ You spoke of your abas.e.m.e.nt._Myr._ And I f
- 441 _Myr._ (_at a window_)[28]The day at last has broken. What a night Hath ushered it! How beautiful in heaven!Though varied with a transitory storm, More beautiful in that variety!How hideous upon earth! where Peace and Hope, And Love and Revel, in an hour
- 442 _Enter_ SARDANAPALUS _and Soldiers_._Sar._ My best brother!_Sal._ And the battle Is lost?_Sar._ (_despondingly_). You see _me here_._Sal._ I'd rather see you _thus!_ [_He draws out the weapon from the wound, and dies_._Sar._ And _thus_ I will be seen
- 443 _Pan._ With your sanction, I will proceed to the spot, and take such measures 210 For the a.s.surance of the vacant s.p.a.ce As time and means permit._Sar._ About it straight, And bring me back, as speedily as full And fair investigation may permit, Repor
- 444 _Pan._ I never yet obeyed Your orders with more pleasure than the present.Hence with him, soldiers! do not soil this hall Of royalty with treasonable gore; Put him to rest without._Her._ A single word: My office, King, is sacred._Sar._ And what's _mi
- 445 _Sar._ Do so. Is that thy answer?_Myr._ Thou shalt see.[_Exit_ MYRRHA._Sar._ (_solus_). She's firm. My fathers! whom I will rejoin, It may be, purified by death from some Of the gross stains of too material being, I would not leave your ancient first
- 446 [5] {13}[This prince surpa.s.sed all his predecessors in effeminacy, luxury, and cowardice. He never went out of his palace, but spent all his time among a company of women, dressed and painted like them, and employed like them at the distaff. He placed a
- 447 [19] {63}["In the third act, when Sardanapalus calls for a _mirror_ to look at himself in his _armour_, recollect to quote the Latin pa.s.sage from _Juvenal_ upon Otho (a similar character, who did the same thing: Gifford will help you to it). The tr
- 448 erased.][30] {103}[Athenaeus represents the treasures which Sardanapalus placed in the chamber erected on his funeral pile as amounting to a thousand myriads of talents of gold, and ten times as many talents of silver.][ap]_Ye will find the crevice_ _To w
- 449 DRAMATIS PERSONae MEN.FRANCIS FOSCARI, _Doge of Venice_.JACOPO FOSCARI, _Son of the Doge_.JAMES LOREDANO, _a Patrician_.MARCO MEMMO, _a Chief of the Forty_.BARBARIGO, _a Senator_._Other Senators, The Council of Ten, Guards, Attendants, etc., etc._ WOMAN.M
- 450 _Lor._ When Princes set themselves To work in secret, proofs and process are Alike made difficult; but I have such Of the first, as shall make the second needless._Bar._ But you will move by law?_Lor._ By all the laws Which he would leave us._Bar._ They a
- 451 _Offi._ As you please, Signor; The sentence was not of my signing, but I dared not disobey the Council when They---- _Jac. Fos._ Bade thee stretch me on their horrid engine.I pray thee touch me not--that is, just now; The time will come they will renew th
- 452 _Enter an Officer hastily_._Mem._ How now, friend, what seek you? 250 _Offi._ A leech. The prisoner has fainted. [_Exit Officer_._Mem._ Lady, 'Twere better to retire._Sen._ (_offering to a.s.sist her_), I pray thee do so._Mar._ Off! _I_ will tend him
- 453 _Bar._ A Saint had done so, Even with the crown of Glory in his eye, At such inhuman artifice of pain As was forced on him; but he did not cry[az]For pity; not a word nor groan escaped him, And those two shrieks were not in supplication, But wrung from pa
- 454 _Att._ Prince!_Doge_. Say on._Att._ The ill.u.s.trious lady Foscari Requests an audience._Doge_. Bid her enter. Poor Marina![_Exit Attendant. The_ DOGE _remains in silence as before_._Enter MARINA_._Mar._ I have ventured, father, on Your privacy._Doge_. I
- 455 _Doge_. Pitied! None Shall ever use that base word, with which men Cloak their soul's h.o.a.rded triumph, as a fit one To mingle with my name; that name shall be, As far as _I_ have borne it, what it was 150 When I received it._Mar._ But for the poor
- 456 The proof is--your existence._Lor._ I fear not._Doge_. You have no cause, being what I am; but were I That you would have me thought, you long ere now Were past the sense of fear. Hate on; I care not._Lor._ I never yet knew that a n.o.ble's life In V
- 457 _Doge_. That can ne'er be.And whither would you fly?_Mar._ I know not, reck not-- To Syria, Egypt, to the Ottoman-- 380 Any where, where we might respire unfettered, And live nor girt by spies, nor liable To edicts of inquisitors of state._Doge_. Wha
- 458 To darkness more than light, by lending to The dungeon vapours its bituminous smoke, Which cloud whate'er we gaze on, even thine eyes-- No, not thine eyes--they sparkle--how they sparkle!_Jac. Fos._ And thine!--but I am blinded by the torch._Mar._ As
- 459 _Jac. Fos._ Ah! you never yet Were far away from Venice, never saw Her beautiful towers in the receding distance, While every furrow of the vessel's track Seemed ploughing deep into your heart; you never 210 Saw day go down upon your native spires[bo
- 460 If race be aught, it is in qualities More than in years; and mine, which is as old As yours, is better in its product, nay-- Look not so stern--but get you back, and pore Upon your genealogic tree's most green 300 Of leaves and most mature of fruits,
- 461 _Lor._ 'Twas so When I came here. The galley floats within A bow-shot of the "Riva di Schiavoni." 400 _Jac. Fos._ Father! I pray you to precede me, and Prepare my children to behold their father._Doge_. Be firm, my son!_Jac. Fos._ I will do
- 462 _Bar._ But will the laws uphold us?[69]_Lor._ What laws?--"The Ten" are laws; and if they were not, I will be legislator in this business._Bar._ At your own peril?_Lor._ There is none, I tell you, 40 Our powers are such._Bar._ But he has twice a
- 463 _Jac. Fos._ Double, Triple, and tenfold torture! But you are right, It must be borne. Father, your blessing._Doge_. Would It could avail thee! but no less thou hast it._Jac. Fos._ Forgive---- _Doge_. What?_Jac. Fos._ My poor mother, for my birth, 160 And
- 464 _You_ feel it then at last--_you!_--Where is now The Stoic of the State?_Doge_ (_throwing himself down by the body_). _Here!_ _Mar._ Aye, weep on!I thought you had no tears--you h.o.a.rded them Until they are useless; but weep on! he never Shall weep more
- 465 The victims are not equal; he has seen His sons expire by natural deaths, and I My sires by violent and mysterious maladies. 280 I used no poison, bribed no subtle master Of the destructive art of healing, to Shorten the path to the eternal cure.His sons-
- 466 _Chief of the Ten_. Will not the Duke Accept the homage of respect?_Doge_. I do Accept it as 'tis given--proceed._Chief of the Ten_. "The Ten,"With a selected giunta from the Senate Of twenty-five of the best born patricians, Having deliber
- 467 _Mar._ Come, come, old man![_Exeunt the_ DOGE _and_ MARINA._Enter_ BARBARIGO _and_ LOREDANO._Bar._ (_to an Attendant_). Where is the Doge?_Att._ This instant retired hence, With the ill.u.s.trious lady his son's widow._Lor._ Where?_Att._ To the chamb
- 468 _Doge_. Ah!Your father was my friend.--But _sons_ and _fathers!_-- What, ho! my servants there!_Atten._ My Prince!_Doge_. No Prince-- 200 There are the princes of the Prince![_Pointing to the Ten's Deputation_ --Prepare To part from hence upon the in
- 469 _Doge_. (_walks a few steps, then stops_).I feel athirst--will no one bring me here 290 A cup of water?_Bar._ I---- _Mar._ And I---- _Lor._ And I---- [_The Doge takes a goblet from the hand of_ LOREDANO._Doge_. I take _yours_, Loredano, from the hand Most
- 470 [35] [Begun June the 12th, completed July the 9th, Ravenna, 1821.--_Byron MS_.][36] [_Gov._ "_The father softens--but the governor is fixed_."_Dingle_. "Aye that ant.i.thesis of persons is a most established figure."--_Critic_, act ii.
- 471 [bi] _Their disposition_----.--[MS. M.][56] [It would seem that Byron's "not ourselves" by no means "made for"righteousness.][bj]----_the will itself dependent_ _Upon a storm, a straw, and both alike_ _Leading to death_----.--[MS.
- 472 [bs]----_he would not_ _Thus leave me_.--[MS. M.][75] {178}[It is to be noted that the "Giunta" was demanded by Loredano himself--a proof of his bona fides, as the addition of twenty-five n.o.bles to the original Ten would add to the chance of o
- 473 _Cain_ "appeared in conjunction with" _Sardanapalus_ and _The Two Foscari_, December 19, 1821. Last but not least of the three plays, it had been announced "by a separate advertis.e.m.e.nt (_Morning Chronicle_, November 24, 1821), for the p
- 474 _Eve_. G.o.d! who didst name the day, and separate Morning from night, till then divided never-- Who didst divide the wave from wave, and call Part of thy work the firmament--All Hail!_Abel_. G.o.d! who didst call the elements into Earth, ocean, air and f
- 475 _Cain_. How!You know my thoughts?_Lucifer_. They are the thoughts of all Worthy of thought;--'tis your immortal part[98]Which speaks within you._Cain_. What immortal part?This has not been revealed: the Tree of Life Was withheld from us by my father&
- 476 _Lucifer_. And heart to look on?_Cain_. Be it proved._Lucifer_. Darest thou look on Death?_Cain_. He has not yet 250 Been seen._Lucifer_. But must be undergone._Cain_. My father Says he is something dreadful, and my mother Weeps when he's named; and
- 477 _Lucifer_. Why?_Cain_. To offer up With Abel on an altar._Lucifer_. Said'st thou not Thou ne'er hadst bent to him who made thee?_Cain_. Yes-- But Abel's earnest prayer has wrought upon me; The offering is more his than mine--and Adah---- _L
- 478 _Adah_. He is not G.o.d--nor G.o.d's: I have beheld The Cherubs and the Seraphs; he looks not Like them._Cain_. But there are spirits loftier still-- The archangels._Lucifer_. And still loftier than the archangels._Adah_. Aye--but not blessed._Lucife
- 479 _Lucifer_. He shall.With us acts are exempt from time, and we Can crowd eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour into eternity: We breathe not by a mortal measurement-- But that's a mystery. Cain, come on with me._Adah_. Will he return?_Lucifer_. Ay
- 480 _Lucifer_. Yea._Cain_. And wilt thou tell me so?Why, I have seen the fire-flies and fire-worms Sprinkle the dusky groves and the green banks In the dim twilight, brighter than yon world Which bears them._Lucifer_. Thou hast seen both worms and worlds, Eac
- 481 _Cain_. The clouds still open wide And wider, and make widening circles round us!_Lucifer_. Advance!_Cain_. And thou!_Lucifer_. Fear not--without me thou Couldst not have gone beyond thy world. On! on![_They disappear through the clouds_.SCENE II.--_Hades
- 482 _Cain_. And must I be Like them?_Lucifer_. Let He[116] who made thee answer that.I show thee what thy predecessors are, And what they _were_ thou feelest, in degree 90 Inferior as thy petty feelings and Thy pettier portion of the immortal part Of high int
- 483 _Cain_. For crime, I know not; but for pain, I have felt much._Lucifer_. First-born of the first man!Thy present state of sin--and thou art evil, 220 Of sorrow--and thou sufferest, are both Eden In all its innocence compared to what _Thou_ shortly may
- 484 _Cain_. Why should he not?_Lucifer_. Thy father loves him well--so does thy G.o.d. 340 _Cain_. And so do I._Lucifer_. 'Tis well and meekly done._Cain_. Meekly!_Lucifer_. He is the second born of flesh, And is his mother's favourite._Cain_. Let h
- 485 _Lucifer_. And this should be the human sum Of knowledge, to know mortal nature's nothingness; Bequeath that science to thy children, and 'Twill spare them many tortures._Cain_. Haughty spirit!Thou speak'st it proudly; but thyself, though p
- 486 _Adah_. Surely, 'tis well done._Cain_. One altar may suffice; _I_ have no offering._Adah_. The fruits of the earth,[128] the early, beautiful, Blossom and bud--and bloom of flowers and fruits-- These are a goodly offering to the Lord, Given with a ge
- 487 _Cain_. I have chosen._Abel_. 'Tis the highest, And suits thee, as the elder. Now prepare Thine offerings._Cain_. Where are thine?_Abel_. Behold them here-- The firstlings of the flock, and fat thereof-- A shepherd's humble offering._Cain_. I ha
- 488 No; he will wake; then let me watch by him. 350 Life cannot be so slight, as to be quenched Thus quickly!--he hath spoken to me since-- What shall I say to him?--My brother!--No: He will not answer to that name; for brethren Smite not each other. Yet--yet
- 489 _Angel_. Where is thy brother Abel?_Cain_. Am I then My brother's keeper?_Angel_. Cain! what hast thou done?The voice of thy slain brother's blood cries out, 470 Even from the ground, unto the Lord!--Now art thou Cursed from the earth, which ope
- 490 Scott does not add anything of the kind. The comparison with Shakespeare was written after Byron's death in May, 1824; the appreciation of Cain in December, 1821 (_vide supra_); while the allusion to "a man of quality" is to be found in an
- 491 ii. 2).][cd] _An hour, when walking on a petty lake_.--[MS. M. erased.][ce] {234} _Yon round blue circle swinging in far ether_ _With an inferior circlet dimmer still_.--[MS. M. erased.][111] [Compare-- "And, fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This
- 492 [130] {264}[Compare the following pa.s.sage from _La Rapresentatione di Abel et di Caino_ (in Firenze l'anno MDLIV.)-- "Abel parla a dio fatto il sacrifitio, Rendendogli laude.Signor per cui di tanti bene abondo Liquali tu sommamente mi concedi
- 493 NOAH AND HIS SONS.IRAD.j.a.pHET.WOMEN.ANAH.AHOLIBAMAH._Chorus of Spirits of the Earth.--Chorus of Mortals_.HEAVEN AND EARTH.PART I.SCENE I.--_A woody and mountainous district near Mount Ararat.--Time, midnight_._Enter_ ANAH _and_ AHOLIBAMAH.[138]_Anah_. O
- 494 _Anah_. My Azaziel![_Exeunt_.SCENE II.--_Enter_ IRAD _and_ j.a.pHET._Irad_. Despond not: wherefore wilt thou wander thus To add thy silence to the silent night, And lift thy tearful eye unto the stars?They cannot aid thee._j.a.ph._ But they soothe me--now
- 495 _Shem_. To the tents of the father of the sisters?_Noah_. No; to the cavern of the Caucasus.[_Exeunt_ NOAH _and_ SHEM.SCENE III.--_The mountains.--A cavern,[144] and the rocks of Caucasus_._j.a.ph._ (_solus_). Ye wilds, that look eternal; and thou cave, W
- 496 And loudly lift each superhuman voice-- All die, 250 Save the slight remnant of Seth's seed-- The seed of Seth, Exempt for future sorrow's sake from death.But of the sons of Cain None shall remain; And all his goodly daughters Must lie beneath t
- 497 _j.a.ph._ My sire and race but glory in their G.o.d, Anah! and thou?---- _Anah_. Whate'er our G.o.d decrees, The G.o.d of Seth as Cain, I must obey, And will endeavour patiently to obey.But could I dare to pray in his dread hour 430 Of universal veng
- 498 Even had their days been left to toil their path Through time to dust, unshortened by G.o.d's wrath, Still they are Evil's prey, and Sorrow's spoil._Aho._ Let them fly! 610 I hear the voice which says that all must die, Sooner than our whit
- 499 _Aza._ It cannot slay us: threaten dust with death, And talk of weapons unto that which bleeds.What are thy swords in our immortal eyes? 790 _Raph._ The moment cometh to approve thy strength; And learn at length How vain to war with what thy G.o.d command
- 500 [143] [_Vide post_, p. 294.][144] {294}[Byron's knowledge of Mount Ararat was probably derived from the following pa.s.sage in Tournefort: "It is a most frightful sight; David might well say such sort of places show the grandeur of the Lord.One