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cain
if that a mortal blessing may avail thee
to save thee from the serpent's curse | img2poems |
adah
surely a father's blessing may avert
a reptile's subtlety | img2poems |
abel
to do so now: thy soul seems labouring in
some strong delusion it will calm thee | img2poems |
abel
the firstlings of the flock and fat thereof
a shepherd's humble offering | img2poems |
abel
i stand between thee and the shrine which hath
had his acceptance | img2poems |
cain
stand back till i have strewed this turf along
its native soil: else | img2poems |
oh
for a word more of that gentle voice
that i may bear to hear my own again | img2poems |
adam
speak and assure us wretched as we are
that we are not more miserable still | img2poems |
who slayeth cain a sevenfold vengeance shall
be taken on his head
come hither | img2poems |
adah
i hear our little enoch cry within
our bower | img2poems |
cain
no more of threats: we have had too many of them
go to our children i will follow thee | img2poems |
but his face
deep scars of thunder had intrenched and care
sat on his faded cheek | img2poems |
a drudging husbandman who offers up
the first fruits of the earth to him who made
that earth | img2poems |
if as thou sayst thine essence be as ours
we have replied in telling thee the thing
mortals call death hath nought to do with us | img2poems |
and fast by hanging in a golden chain
this pendent world in bigness as a star
of smallest magnitude close by the moon | img2poems |
aho
that he will single forth some other daughter
of earth and love her as he once loved anah | img2poems |
my own azaziel
be but here
and leave the stars to their own light | img2poems |
irad
mine hath enabled me to bear her scorn
it may be time too will avenge it | img2poems |
japh
with gloom as sad: it is a hopeless spot
and i am hopeless | img2poems |
irad
strange sounds and sights have peopled it with terrors
i must go with thee | img2poems |
anah
oh god
and with her | img2poems |
japh
may'st know me better and thy sister know
me still the same which i have ever been | img2poems |
aho
he slew not seth: and what hast thou to do
with other deeds between his god and him | img2poems |
oh
if there should be mercy seek it find it
i abhor death because that thou must die | img2poems |
noah
has not god made a barrier between earth
and heaven and limited each kind to kind | img2poems |
even had their days been left to toil their path
through time to dust unshortened by god's wrath
still they are evil's prey and sorrow's spoil | img2poems |
aza
fear not though we are shut from heaven
yet much is ours whence we can not be driven | img2poems |
a brighter world than this where thou shalt breathe
ethereal life will we explore
these darkened clouds are not the only skies | img2poems |
although then
my passions were all living serpents and
twined like the gorgon's round me | img2poems |
jos
cannot you humour the dull gossip till
we learn his purpose | img2poems |
gab
we came up by mere accident and just
in time to drag him through his carriage window | img2poems |
wer
designed for him you rescued will be found
in fitter order for a sickly guest | img2poems |
gab
i have been a soldier and perhaps am blunt
in bearing | img2poems |
gab
myself: how should i then know one i ne'er
beheld till half an hour since | img2poems |
stral
that hour arrives i can but offer thanks
and then | img2poems |
fritz
to spare no trouble you will be repaid
tenfold | img2poems |
jos
what can there be in common with the proud
and wealthy baron and the unknown werner | img2poems |
jos
come you to stir yourself in his behalf
rather than that of him whose life you saved | img2poems |
jos
not easy to persuade my consort of
your good intentions | img2poems |
iden
and have risked more than drowning for as much
i doubt not | img2poems |
wer
here's gold gold josephine
will rescue us from this detested dungeon | img2poems |
wer
had made all well: let me not think of it
away | img2poems |
iden
was i and that's the cause i know no more
than does your excellency | img2poems |
gab
of your late loss but 'tis a trifle to
one of your order | img2poems |
stral
why did they not at least attempt the passage
i ordered this at all risks | img2poems |
gab
i'll honour you so much as save your throat
from the ravenstone by choking you myself | img2poems |
gab
i am a fool to lose myself because
fools deem me knave: it is their homage | img2poems |
gab
ere i go hang for snatching him from drowning
but here he comes | img2poems |
ulr
can vouch your courage and as far as my
own brief connection led me honour | img2poems |
stral
i fain would parley ulric with yourself
alone | img2poems |
ulr
a poor man almost in his grasp a child
of doubtful birth can startle a grandee | img2poems |
ulr
you yourself could not watch him more than i
will be his sentinel | img2poems |
gab
how should i make my way in darkness through
a gothic labyrinth of unknown windings | img2poems |
wer
on the other side and when you would return
it yields to the least touch | img2poems |
wer
your inquisition now: i may not be
so patient always | img2poems |
iden
in good sooth if you really are the man
that stralenheim's in quest of | img2poems |
wer
'tis but a snare he winds about us both
to swoop the sire and son at once | img2poems |
ulr
in the mean time be sure that all a son
can do for parents shall be done for mine | img2poems |
farewell
i scarce have time but yet your hand
my father | img2poems |
ulr
observed: subdue your nature to the hour
keep off from me as from your foe | img2poems |
ulr
you may have better luck another chase
where is the baron | img2poems |
iden
and now i think on't asking after you
with nobly-born impatience | img2poems |
wer
at thrice its value to redeem it: 'tis
a family ring | img2poems |
wer
an hour ere daybreak with all means to quit
this place | img2poems |
wer
you have guessed no doubt that i was born above
my present seeming | img2poems |
iden
though this looks like it: this is the true breeding
of gentle blood | img2poems |
wer
for wishing to continue privily
my journey hence | img2poems |
ulr
you had no guests no visitors no life
breathing around you save my mother's | img2poems |
wer
thou wouldst say: i must bear it and deserve it
but not | img2poems |
and may your age be happy
i will kiss
my mother once more then heaven's speed be with you | img2poems |
eric
then his brave son count ulric there's a knight
pity the wars are o'er | img2poems |
who backs a horse or bears a hawk or wears
a sword like him
whose plume nods knightlier | img2poems |
hen
ask that at magdebourg or for that matter
wallenstein either they are gone to | img2poems |
eric
the toils of monday: 'twas a noble chase
you speared four with your own hand | img2poems |
ulr
i had forgotten let it be the grey then
old ziska: he has not been out this fortnight | img2poems |
ulr
until the chase begins then draw thou off
and do as i have said | img2poems |
ulr
especially as little kindness till
then grew between them | img2poems |
ida
dear ulric if i do not interrupt you
why do you call me cousin | img2poems |
ida
my father could but view my happiness
which wants but this | img2poems |
ida
pale bleeding and a man with a raised knife
beside him | img2poems |
ida
to be so for i trust these wars are over
and you will live in peace on your domains | img2poems |
ulr
will well supply the place of both i am not
a lover of these pageantries | img2poems |
sieg
it were not well that you alone of all
our young nobility | img2poems |
ulr
devout too
well sir i obey at once | img2poems |
ida
you yield at once to him what i for hours
might supplicate in vain | img2poems |
ulr
noble by birth of one of the first houses
in saxony | img2poems |
ulr
i thought you knew it better than to take
an accusation for a sentence | img2poems |
ulric be warned by a father
i was not
by mine and you behold me | img2poems |
ulr
lord of a prince's appanage and honoured
by those he rules and those he ranks with | img2poems |
ulr
i will obey your orders were they to
unite with hecate can a son say more | img2poems |
sieg
always the attribute of innocence
i feel it is not | img2poems |
ida
shape my thoughts of him into words to him
besides he sometimes frightens me | img2poems |
jos
especially in these dark troublous times
have much to think of | img2poems |
jos
see aught save heaven to which my eyes were raised
together with the people's | img2poems |
sieg
their quest of him i have described
[exit ludwig | img2poems |
sieg
looks at a draught of water for this man
but still i saw him not but in his stead | img2poems |
gab
pause ere you answer: is no other name
save mine stained in this business | img2poems |
sieg
my word is sacred and irrevocable
within these walls but it extends no further | img2poems |
sieg
and with the other half could he and thou
unsay this villany | img2poems |
sieg
take these and fly
lose not a moment | img2poems |
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