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 * 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 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, Born of the same sole womb, 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.
 * Lucifer. The sin I speak of is not of my making,

And cannot be a sin in you—whate'er It seem in those who will replace ye in