ed about to fall;--
And now they are not!--
Why was I born?

_Japh._
To die! in youth to die!
And happier in that doom,
Than to behold the universal tomb,
Which I
Am thus condemned to weep above in vain.
Why, when all perish, why must I remain?

[_The waters rise; Men fly in every direction; many
are overtaken by the waves: the Chorus of
Mortals disperses in search of safety up the
mountains:_ JAPHET _remains upon a rock, while
the Ark floats towards him in the distance_.[158]

FOOTNOTES:

[138] {285}[Aholibamah ("tent of the highest") was daughter of Anah (a
Hivite clan-name), the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife, Gen. xxxvi. 14.
Irad was the son of Enoch, and grandson of Cain, Gen. iv. 18.]

[139] {286}[Compare _Manfred_, act i. sc. I, line 131, _Poetical Works_,
1901, iv. 89, and note i.]

[140] The archangels, said to be seven in number, and to occupy the
eighth rank in the celestial hierarchy.

[Compare _Tobit_ xii. 15, "I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels
which present the prayers of the saints." _The Book of Enoch_ (ch. xx.)
names the other archangels, "Uriel, Rufael, Raguel, Michael, Saraqael,
and Gabriel, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the cherubin." In
the _Celestial Hierarchy_ of Dionysius the Areopagite, a chapter is
devoted to archangels, but their names are not recorded, or their number
given. On the other hand, "The teaching of the oracles concerning the
angels affirms that they are thousand thousands and myriad
myriads."--_Celestial Hierarchy, etc._, translated by the Rev. J.
Parker, 1894, cap. xiv. p. 43. It has been supposed that "the seven
which are the eyes of the Lord" (_Zech._ iv. 10) are the seven
archangels.]

[141] {289}["The adepts of Incantation ... enter the realms of air, and
by their spells they scatter the clouds, they gather the clouds, they
still the storm.... We may adduce Ovid (_Amor._, bk. ii., El., i. 23),
who says, 'Charmers draw down the horns of the blood-red moon,'... Here
it is to be observed that in the opinion of simple-minded persons, the
moon could be actually drawn down from heaven. So Aristophanes says
(_Clouds_, lines 739, 740), 'If I should purchase a Thessalian witch,
and draw down the moon by night;' and Claudian (_In Ruffin._, bk. i.
145), 'I