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Hearken to me ye mothers of my tent	A
Ye wives of Lamech hearken to my speech	B
Adah let Jubal hither lead his goats	C
And Tubal Cain O Zillah hush the forge	D
Naamah her wheel shall ply beside and thou	E
My Jubal touch before I speak the string	F
Yea Jubal touch before I speak the string	F
Hear ye my voice beloved of my tent	A
Dear ones of Lamech listen to my speech	B
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For Eve made answer Cain my son my own	G
O if I cursed thee O my child I sinned	H
And He that heard me heard and said me nay	I
My first my only one thou shalt not go	J
And Adam answered also Cain my son	K
He that is gone forgiveth we forgive	L
Rob not thy mother of two sons at once	M
My child abide with us and comfort us	N
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Hear ye my voice Adah and Zillah hear	O
Ye wives of Lamech listen to my speech	B
For Cain replied not But an hour more sat	P
Where the night through he sat his knit brows seen	Q
Scarce seen amid the foldings of his limbs	R
But when the sun was bright upon the field	S
To Adam still and Eve still waiting by	T
And weeping lift he up his voice and spake	U
Cain said The sun is risen upon the earth	V
The day demands my going and I go	J
As you from Paradise so I from you	W
As you to exile into exile I	T
My father and my mother I depart	X
As betwixt you and Paradise of old	Y
So betwixt me my parents now and you	W
Cherubim I discern and in their hand	Z
A flaming sword that turneth every way	I
To keep the way of my one tree of life	A2
The way my spirit yearns to of my love	B2
Yet not O Adam and O Eve fear not	C2
For He that asked me Where is Abel He	D2
Who called me cursed from the earth and said	E2
A fugitive and vagabond thou art	X
He also said when fear had slain my soul	F2
There shall not touch thee man nor beast Fear not	C2
Lo I have spoke with God and He hath said	E2
Fear not and let me go as He hath said	E2
Cain also said O Jubal touch thy string	F
Moreover in the darkness of my mind	G2
When the night's night of misery was most black	H2
A little star came twinkling up within	I2
And in myself I had a guide that led	E2
And in myself had knowledge of a soul	F2
Fear not O Adam and O Eve I go	J
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Children of Lamech listen to my speech	B
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For when the years were multiplied and Cain	J2
Eastward of Eden in this land of Nod	K2
Had sons and sons of sons and sons of them	L2
Enoch and Irad and Mehujael	F2
My father and my children's grandsire he	D2
It came to pass that Cain who dwelt alone	G
Met Adam at the nightfall in the field	S
Who fell upon his neck and wept and said	E2
My son has God not spoken to thee Cain	J2
And Cain replied when weeping loosed his voice	M2
My dreams are double O my father good	N2
And evil Terror to my soul by night	O2
And agony by day when Abel stands	P2
A dead black shade and speaks not neither looks	Q2
Nor makes me any answer when I cry	T
Curse me but let me know thou art alive	R2
But comfort also like a whisper comes	S2
In visions of a deeper sleep when he	D2
Abel as him we knew yours once and mine	T2
Comes with a free forgiveness in his face	U2
Seeming to speak solicitous for words	V2
And wearing ere he go the old first look	W2
Of unsuspecting unforeboding love	B2
Three nights are gone I saw him thus my Sire	X2
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Dear ones of Lamech listen to my speech	B
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For Adam said Three nights ago to me	D2
Came Abel in my sleep as thou hast said	E2
And spake and bade Arise my father go	J
Where in the land of exile dwells thy son	K
Say to my brother Abel bids thee come	Y2
Abel would have thee and lay thou thy hand	Z
My father on his head that he may come	Y2
Am I not weary father for this hour	X2
Hear ye my voice Adah and Zillah hear	O
Children of Lamech listen to my speech	B
And son of Zillah sound thy solemn string	F
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For Adam laid upon the head of Cain	J2
His hand and Cain bowed down and slept and died	Z2
And a deep sleep on Adam also fell	F2
And in his slumber's deepest he beheld	Z2
Standing before the gate of Paradise	A3
With Abel hand in hand our father Cain	J2
Hear ye my voice Adah and Zillah hear	O
Ye wives of Lamech listen to my speech	B
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Though to his wounding he did slay a man	B3
Yea and a young man to his hurt he slew	F2
Fear not ye wives nor sons of Lamech fear	C3
If unto Cain was safety given and rest	Z2
Shall Lamech surely and his people die	Z2

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