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Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough

Scene VIII. Adam and Eve.

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Adam. These sacrificings, O my best beloved, These rites and forms which you have taught our boys, Which I nor practise nor can understand, Will turn, I trust, to good; but I much fear. Besides the superstitious search of signs In merest accidents of earth and air, They cause, I think, a sort of jealousy— Ill-blood. Hark, now! Eve. O God, whose cry is that? Abel, where is my Abel? Adam. Cain! what, Cain!

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