's love
For an immortal. If the skies contain
More joy than thou canst give and take, remain!

_Anah_. Sister! sister! I view them winging
Their bright way through the parted night.

_Aho._ The clouds from off their pinions flinging,
As though they bore to-morrow's light.

_Anah_. But if our father see the sight!

_Aho._ He would but deem it was the moon 140
Rising unto some sorcerer's tune
An hour too soon.[141]

_Anah_. They come! _he_ comes!--Azaziel!

_Aho._ Haste
To meet them! Oh! for wings to bear
My spirit, while they hover there,
To Samiasa's breast!

_Anah_. Lo! they have kindled all the west,
Like a returning sunset;--lo!
On Ararat's late secret crest
A mild and many-coloured bow, 150
The remnant of their flashing path,
Now shines! and now, behold! it hath
Returned to night, as rippling foam,
Which the Leviathan hath lashed
From his unfathomable home,
When sporting on the face of the calm deep,
Subsides soon after he again hath dashed
Down, down, to where the Ocean's fountains sleep.

_Aho._ They have touched earth! Samiasa!

_Anah_. My Azaziel!
[_Exeunt_.

SCENE II.--_Enter_ IRAD _and_ JAPHET.

_Irad_. Despond not: wherefore wilt thou wander thus
To add thy silence to the silent night,
And lift thy tearful eye unto the stars?
They cannot aid thee.

_Japh._ But they soothe me--now
Perhaps she looks upon them as I look.
Methinks a being that is beautiful
Becometh more so as it looks on beauty,
The eternal beauty of undying things.
Oh, Anah!

_Irad_. But she loves thee not.

_Japh._ Alas!

_Irad_. And proud Aholibamah spurns me also. 10

_Japh._ I feel for thee too.

_Irad_. Let her keep her pride,
Mine hath enabled me to bear her scorn:
It may be, time too will avenge it.

_Japh._ Canst thou
Find joy in such a thought?

_Irad_. Nor joy nor sorrow.
I loved her well; I would have loved her better,
Had love been met