O'er what it shadows; wherefore didst thou choose it

For our child's canopy?

Adah.‍Because its branches

Shut out the sun like night, and therefore seemed

Fitting to shadow slumber.

Cain.‍Aye, the last—

And longest; but no matter—lead me to him.

[They go up to the child.

How lovely he appears! his little cheeks,10

In their pure incarnation,[124] vying with