The rocks, than let him live to——
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