_Cain_. I will. _Enter_ ADAH. _Adah_. My brother, I have come for thee; It is our hour of rest and joy--and we Have less without thee. Thou hast laboured not This morn; but I have done thy task: the fruits Are ripe, and glowing as the light which ripens: Come away. _Cain_. Seest thou not? _Adah_. I see an angel; 340 We have seen many: will he share our hour Of rest?--he is welcome. _Cain_. But he is not like The angels we have seen. _Adah_. Are there, then, others? But he is welcome, as they were: they deigned To be our guests--will he? _Cain_ (_to Lucifer_). Wilt thou? _Lucifer_. I ask Thee to be mine. _Cain_. I must away with him. _Adah_. And leave us? _Cain_. Aye. _Adah_. And _me_? _Cain_. Belovéd Adah! _Adah_. Let me go with thee. _Lucifer_. No, she must not. _Adah_. Who Art thou that steppest between heart and heart? _Cain_. He is a God. _Adah_. How know'st thou? _Cain_. He speaks like 350 A God. _Adah_. So did the Serpent, and it lied. _Lucifer_. Thou errest, Adah!--was not the Tree that Of Knowledge? _Adah_. Aye--to our eternal sorrow. _Lucifer_. And yet that grief is knowledge--so he lied not: And if he did betray you, 'twas with Truth; And Truth in its own essence cannot be But good. _Adah_. But all we know of it has gathered Evil on ill; expulsion from our home, And dread, and toil, and sweat, and heaviness; Remorse of that which was--and hope of that 360 Which cometh not. Cain! walk not with this Spirit. Bear with what we have borne, and love me--I Love thee. _Lucifer_. More than thy mother, and thy sire? _Adah_. I do. Is that a sin, too? _Lucifer_. No, not yet; It one day will be in your children. _Adah_. What! Must not my daughter love her brother Enoch? _Lucifer_. Not as thou lovest Cain. _Adah_. Oh, my God! Shall they not love and bring forth things that love 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,[105] 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.