Cain

By Byron, George Gordon, Lord

Book Id: WPLBN0000621396
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Cain
Author:	Byron, George Gordon, Lord
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Gordon Byron (Lord Byron), L. G. (n.d.). Cain. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Excerpt: A Hall in the Palace. Salemenes (solus). He hath wronged his queen, but still he is her lord; He hath wronged my sister still he is my brother; He hath wronged his people still he is their sovereign And I must be his friend as well as subject: He must not perish thus. I will not see The blood of Nimrod and Semiramis Sink in the earth, and thirteen hundred years Of Empire ending like a shepherd?s tale; He must be roused. In his effeminate heart There is a careless courage which Corruption Has not all quenched, and latent energies, Repressed by circumstance, but not destroyed Steeped, but not drowned, in deep voluptuousness. If born a peasant, he had been a man To have reached an empire: to an empire born, He will bequeath none; nothing but a name, Which his sons will not prize in heritage: Yet not all lost even yet he may redeem His sloth and shame, by only being that Which he should be, as easily as the thing He should not be and is. Were it less toil To sway his nations than consume his life? To head an army than to rule a harem? He sweats in palling pleasures, dulls his soul, And saps his goodly strength, in toils which yield not Health like the chase, nor glory like the war He must be roused.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Sardanapalus, 1 -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, 1 -- Act I, 2 -- Scene I, 2 -- Scene II, 3 -- Act II, 28 -- Scene I, 28 -- Act III, 55 -- Scene I, 55 -- Act IV, 74 -- Scene I, 74 -- Act V, 95 -- Scene I, 96