A DRAMA OF EXILE. 1 THE SERAPHIM. PART THE FIRST 107 PART THE SECOND 121 EPILOGUE 150 PROMETHEUS BOUND. FROM THE GREEK OR ÆSCHYLUS 153 A LAMENT FOR ADONIS. FROM THE GREEK OF BION 213 A VISION OF POETS 223 THE POET'S VOW. PART THE FIRST 277 PART THE SECOND 284 PART THE THIRD 292 PART THE FOURTH 295 PART THE FIFTH 300 A DRAMA OF EXILE _PERSONS._ CHRIST, _in a Vision._ ADAM. EVE. GABRIEL. LUCIFER. _Angels, Eden Spirits, Earth Spirits, and Phantasms._ A DRAMA OF EXILE. SCENE--_The outer side of the gate of Eden shut fast with cloud, from the depth of which revolves a sword of fire self-moved. ADAM and EVE are seen, in the distance flying along the glare._ LUCIFER, _alone._ Rejoice in the clefts of Gehenna, My exiled, my host! Earth has exiles as hopeless as when a Heaven's empire was lost. Through the seams of her shaken foundations, Smoke up in great joy! With the smoke of your fierce exultations Deform and destroy! Smoke up with your lurid revenges, And darken the face Of the white heavens and taunt them with changes From glory and grace. We, in falling, while destiny strangles, Pull down with us all. Let them look to the rest of their angels! Who's safe from a fall? HE saves not. Where's Adam? Can pardon Requicken that sod? Unkinged is the King of the Garden, The image of God. Other exiles are cast out of Eden,-- More curse has been hurled: Come up, O my locusts, and feed in The green of the world! Come up! we have conquered by evil; Good reigns not alone: _I_ prevail now, and, angel or devil, Inherit a throne. [_In sudden apparition a watch of innumerable Angels, rank above rank, slopes up from around the gate to the zenith. The Angel GABRIEL descends._ _Lucifer._ Hail, Gabriel, the keeper of the gate! Now that the fruit is plucked, prince Gabriel, I hold that Eden is impregnable Under thy keeping. _Gabriel._ Angel of the sin, Such as thou standest,--pale in the drear light Which rounds the rebel's work with Maker's wrath Thou shalt be an Idea to all souls, A monumental melancholy gloom Seen down all ages, whence to mark despair And measure out the distances from good. Go from us straightway! _Lucifer._ Wherefore?