With us acts are exempt from time, and we
Can crowd eternity into an hour,
Or stretch an hour into eternity:
We breathe not by a mortal measurement—
But that's a mystery. Cain, come on with me.
Adah. Will he return?
Lucifer.Aye, woman! he alone540
Of mortals from that place (the first and last
Who shall return, save One), shall come back to thee,
To make that silent and expectant world