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_. OUR father sleeps: it is the hour when they Who love us are accustomed to descend Through the deep clouds o'er rocky Ararat:-- How my heart beats! _Aho._ Let us proceed upon Our invocation. _Anah_. But the stars are hidden. I tremble. _Aho._ So do I, but not with fear Of aught save their delay. _Anah_. My sister, though I love Azaziel more than----oh, too much! What was I going to say? my heart grows impious. _Aho._ And where is the impiety of loving 10 Celestial natures? _Anah_. But, Aholibamah, I love our God less since his angel loved me: This cannot be of good; and though I know not That I do wrong, I feel a thousand fears Which are not ominous of right. _Aho._ Then wed thee Unto some son of clay, and toil and spin! There's Japhet loves thee well, hath loved thee long: Marry, and bring forth dust! _Anah_. I should have loved Azaziel not less were he mortal; yet I am glad he is not. I cannot outlive him. 20 And when I think that his immortal wings Will one day hover o'er the sepulchre Of the poor child of clay[139] which so adored him, As he adores the Highest, death becomes Less terrible; but yet I pity him: His grief will be of ages, or at least Mine would be such for him, were I the Seraph, And he the perishable. _Aho._ Rather say, That he will single forth some other daughter Of earth, and love her as he once loved Anah. 30 _Anah_. And if it should be so, and she loved him, Better thus than that he should weep for me. _Aho._ If I thought thus of Samiasa's love, All Seraph as he is, I'd spurn him from me. But to our invocation!--'Tis the hour.