[119] {251}[Lucifer does not infect Cain with his cynical theories as to the origin and endurance of love. For the antidote, compare Wordsworth's sonnet "To a Painter" (No. II), written in 1841—
"Morn into noon did pass, noon into eve,
And the old day was welcome as the young,
As welcome, and as beautiful—in sooth
More beautiful, as being a thing more holy," etc.
Works, 1889, p. 772.]
[cj] {252} Which my sire shrinks from—Death——.—[MS. erased.]
[120] {254}[In Byron's Diary for January 28, 1821, we find the following entry—
"Thought for a speech of Lucifer, in the Tragedy of Cain.
"Were Death an evil, would I let thee live?