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Adjacent rose a myrtle-planted mound, Whose spiry top a granite fragment crowned. Tinctured with many-coloured moss the stone, Rich as a cloud of summer-evening shone, Amid encircling verdure that arrayed The beauteous hillock with a cope of shade. “Javan,” said Enoch, “on this spot began The fatal curse;—man perished here by man. The earliest death a son of Adam died Was murder, and that murder fratricide! Here Abel fell a corse along the shore; Here Cain’s recoiling footsteps reeked with gore. Horror upraised his locks, unloosed his knees; He heard a voice, he hid among the trees: —‘Where is thy brother?’—from the whirlwind came The voice of God amidst enfolding flame: —‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’—hoarse and low, Cain muttered from the copse—‘that I should know?’ ***** That mound of myrtles o’er her favourite child Eve planted, and the hand of Adam piled Yon mossy stone, above his ashes raised, His altar once, with Abel’s offering blazed, When God well pleased beheld the flames arise, And smiled acceptance on the sacrifice.”
Adjacent rose a myrtle-planted mound, Whose spiry top a granite fragment crowned. Tinctured with many-coloured moss the stone, Rich as a cloud of summer-evening shone, Amid encircling verdure that arrayed The beauteous hillock with a cope of shade. “Javan,” said Enoch, “on this spot began The fatal curse;—man perished here by man. The earliest death a son of Adam died Was murder, and that murder fratricide! Here Abel fell a corse along the shore; Here Cain’s recoiling footsteps reeked with gore. Horror upraised his locks, unloosed his knees; He heard a voice, he hid among the trees: —‘Where is thy brother?’—from the whirlwind came The voice of God amidst enfolding flame: —‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’—hoarse and low, Cain muttered from the copse—‘that I should know?’ ***** That mound of myrtles o’er her favourite child Eve planted, and the hand of Adam piled Yon mossy stone, above his ashes raised, His altar once, with Abel’s offering blazed, When God well pleased beheld the flames arise, And smiled acceptance on the sacrifice.”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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