No More Learning

--His heart! --his heart! -- 340
Let me see, doth it beat? methinks----No! --no!
This is a vision, else I am become
The native of another and worse world.
The earth swims round me:--what is this? --'tis wet;
[_Puts his hand to his brow, and then looks at it_.
And yet there are no dews! 'Tis blood--my blood--
My brother's and my own! and shed by me!
Then what have I further to do with life,
Since I have taken life from my own flesh?
But he can not be dead! --Is silence death?
No; he will wake; then let me watch by him.
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Life cannot be so slight, as to be quenched
Thus quickly! --he hath spoken to me since--
What shall I say to him? --My brother! --No:
He will not answer to that name; for brethren
Smite not each other. Yet--yet--speak to me.
Oh! for a word more of that gentle voice,
That I may bear to hear my own again!

_Enter_ ZILLAH.

_Zillah_. I heard a heavy sound; what can it be?
'Tis Cain; and watching by my husband. What
Dost thou there, brother? Doth he sleep? Oh, Heaven! 360
What means this paleness, and yon stream? --No, no!