No More Learning

Let me go with thee.

_Lucifer_. No, she must not.

_Adah_. Who
Art thou that steppest between heart and heart?

_Cain_. He is a God.

_Adah_. How know'st thou?

_Cain_. He speaks like 350
A God.

_Adah_. So did the Serpent, and it lied.

_Lucifer_. Thou errest, Adah!
--was not the Tree that
Of Knowledge?

_Adah_. Aye--to our eternal sorrow.

_Lucifer_. And yet that grief is knowledge--so he lied not:
And if he did betray you, 'twas with Truth;
And Truth in its own essence cannot be
But good.

_Adah_. But all we know of it has gathered
Evil on ill; expulsion from our home,
And dread, and toil, and sweat, and heaviness;
Remorse of that which was--and hope of that 360
Which cometh not. Cain! walk not with this Spirit.
Bear with what we have borne, and love me--I
Love thee.

_Lucifer_. More than thy mother, and thy sire?

_Adah_. I do. Is that a sin, too?

_Lucifer_.