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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118204" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Song of Lamech</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hearken to me, ye mothers of my tent:<br>Ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech:<br>Adah, let Jubal hither lead his goats:<br>And Tubal Cain, O Zillah, hush the forge;<br>Naamah her wheel shall ply beside, and thou,<br>My Jubal, touch, before I speak, the string.<br>Yea, Jubal, touch, before I speak, the string.<br>Hear ye my voice, beloved of my tent,<br>Dear ones of Lamech, listen to my speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Eve made answer, Cain, my son, my own,<br>O, if I cursed thee, O my child, I sinned,<br>And He that heard me, heard, and said me nay:<br>My first, my only, one, thou shalt not go;<br>And Adam answered also, Cain, my son,<br>He that is gone forgiveth, we forgive:<br>Rob not thy mother of two sons at once;<br>My child, abide with us and comfort us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear ye my voice; Adah and Zillah, hear;<br>Ye wives of Lamech, listen to my speech.<br>For Cain replied not. But, an hour more, sat<br>Where the night through he sat; his knit brows seen,<br>Scarce seen, amid the foldings of his limbs.<br>But when the sun was bright upon the field,<br>To Adam still, and Eve still waiting by,<br>And weeping, lift he up his voice and spake.<br>Cain said, The sun is risen upon the earth;<br>The day demands my going, and I go.<br>As you from Paradise, so I from you:<br>As you to exile, into exile I:<br>My father and my mother, I depart.<br>As betwixt you and Paradise of old,<br>So betwixt me, my parents, now, and you,<br>Cherubim I discern, and in their hand<br>A flaming sword that turneth every way,<br>To keep the way of my one tree of life,<br>The way my spirit yearns to, of my love.<br>Yet not, O Adam and O Eve, fear not.<br>For He that asked me, Where is Abel? He<br>Who called me cursed from the earth, and said<br>A fugitive and vagabond thou art,<br>He also said, when fear had slain my soul,<br>There shall not touch thee man nor beast. Fear not.<br>Lo, I have spoke with God, and He hath said.<br>Fear not; and let me go as He hath said.<br>Cain also said (O Jubal, touch thy string),<br>Moreover, in the darkness of my mind,<br>When the night’s night of misery was most black,<br>A little star came twinkling up within,<br>And in myself I had a guide that led,<br>And in myself had knowledge of a soul<br>Fear not, O Adam and O Eve: I go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Children of Lamech, listen to my speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when the years were multiplied, and Cain<br>Eastward of Eden, in this land of Nod,<br>Had sons, and sons of sons, and sons of them,<br>Enoch and Irad and Mehujael<br>(My father, and my children’s grandsire he),<br>It came to pass, that Cain, who dwelt alone,<br>Met Adam, at the nightfall, in the field:<br>Who fell upon his neck, and wept, and said,<br>My son, has God not spoken to thee, Cain?<br>And Cain replied, when weeping loosed his voice,<br>My dreams are double, O my father, good<br>And evil. Terror to my soul by night,<br>And agony by day, when Abel stands<br>A dead, black shade, and speaks not, neither looks,<br>Nor makes me any answer when I cry<br>Curse me, but let me know thou art alive.<br>But comfort also, like a whisper, comes,.<br>In visions of a deeper sleep, when he,<br>Abel, as him we knew, yours once and mine,<br>Comes with a free forgiveness in his face,<br>Seeming to speak, solicitous for words,<br>And wearing ere he go the old, first look<br>Of unsuspecting, unforeboding love.<br>Three nights are gone I saw him thus, my Sire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear ones of Lamech, listen to my speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Adam said, Three nights ago to me<br>Came Abel, in my sleep, as thou hast said,<br>And spake, and bade, Arise, my father, go<br>Where in the land of exile dwells thy son;<br>Say to my brother, Abel bids thee come,<br>Abel would have thee; and lay thou thy hand,<br>My father, on his head, that he may come;<br>Am I not weary, father, for this hour?<br>Hear ye my voice, Adah and Zillah, hear;<br>Children of Lamech, listen to my speech:<br>And, son of Zillah, sound thy solemn string.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Adam laid upon the head of Cain<br>His hand, and Cain bowed down, and slept, and died.<br>And a deep sleep on Adam also fell,<br>And, in his slumber’s deepest, he beheld,<br>Standing before the gate of Paradise,<br>With Abel, hand in hand, our father Cain.<br>Hear ye my voice, Adah and Zillah, hear;<br>Ye wives of Lamech, listen to my speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though to his wounding he did slay a man,<br>Yea, and a young man to his hurt he slew,<br>Fear not, ye wives, nor sons of Lamech fear:<br>If unto Cain was safety given and rest,<br>Shall Lamech surely and his people die?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q>
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