The rocks, than let him live to——

Adah.‍Oh, my God!

Touch not the child—my child! thy child! Oh, Cain!

Cain. Fear not! for all the stars, and all the power

Which sways them, I would not accost yon infant

With ruder greeting than a father's kiss.130

Adah. Then, why so awful in thy speech?

Cain.‍I said,

'Twere better that he ceased to live, than give

Life to so much of sorrow as he must