It be as thou hast said (and I within

Feel the prophetic torture of its truth),

Here let me die: for to give birth to those

Who can but suffer many years, and die—

Methinks is merely propagating Death,70

And multiplying murder.

Lucifer.‍Thou canst not

All die—there is what must survive.

Cain.‍The Other

Spake not of this unto my father, when