_Lucifer_. Back With me, then, to thine earth, and try the rest 450 Of his celestial boons to you and yours. Evil and Good are things in their own essence, And not made good or evil by the Giver; But if he gives you good--so call him; if Evil springs from _him_, do not name it _mine_, Till ye know better its true fount; and judge Not by words, though of Spirits, but the fruits Of your existence, such as it must be. _One good_ gift has the fatal apple given,-- Your _reason_:--let it not be overswayed 460 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. [_They disappear_. ACT III. SCENE I.--_The Earth, near Eden, as in Act I_. _Enter_ CAIN _and_ ADAH. _Adah_. Hush! tread softly, Cain! _Cain_. I will--but wherefore? _Adah_. Our little Enoch sleeps upon yon bed Of leaves, beneath the cypress. _Cain_. Cypress! 'tis A gloomy tree, which looks as if it mourned O'er what it shadows; wherefore didst thou choose it For our child's canopy? _Adah_. Because its branches Shut out the sun like night, and therefore seemed Fitting to shadow slumber. _Cain_. Aye, the last-- And longest; but no matter--lead me to him. [_They go up to the child_. How lovely he appears! his little cheeks, 10 In their pure incarnation,[124] vying with The rose leaves strewn beneath them. _Adah_. And his lips, too, How beautifully parted! No; you shall not Kiss him, at least not now: he will awake soon-- His hour of mid-day rest is nearly over; But it were pity to disturb him till 'Tis closed.