And woo compassion to a blighted name, This-this shall be a consecrated spot! But Thou-when all that Birth and Beauty throws No power in death can tear our names apart, To be entwined for ever-but too late! VOL. VIL HEAVEN AND EARTH, A MYSTERY, FOUNDED ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE IN GENESIS, CHAP. VI. daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." "And woman wailing for her demon lover."-Coleridge. PART I. DRAMATIS PERSONE. Angels.-SAMIASA. AZAZIEL. RAPHAEL the Archangel, Men. -NOAH and his Sons. IRAD. Women.-ANAH. AHOLIBAMAH. Chorus of Spirits of the Earth.-Chorus of Mortals. SCENE I. A woody and mountainous district near Mount Ararat.-Time, midnight.-Enter ANAH and AHOLI BAMAH. 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:- I love Azaziel more than-oh, too much! What was I going to say? my heart grows impious Celestial natures? Anah. But, Aholibamah, I love our God less since his angel loved me: 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 I am glad he is not. I cannot outlive him. Of the poor child of clay which so adored him, 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, That he will single forth some other daughter Anah. And if it should be so, and she so 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. Anah. Seraph! From thy sphere! Whatever star contain thy glory; Albeit thou watchest with "the seven," Oh! think of her who holds thee dear! And though she nothing is to thee, Unborn, undying beauty in thine eyes; Thou walk'st thy many worlds, thou see'st As he hath made me of the least Of those cast out from Eden's gate: Oh hear! For thou hast loved me, and I would not die Until I know what I must die in knowing, *The Archangels, said to be seven in number. |