 | The Poems and Plays of William Vaughn Moody |  |
I
At dawn they came to the stream Hiddekel,Old Eve and her red first-born, who was now
Greyer than she, and bowed with more than years.
Then Cain beneath his level palm looked hard
Across the desert, and turned with outspread hand
As one who says, “Thou seest; we are fooled.”
But Eve, with clutching fingers on his arm,
And pointing eastward where the risen sun
Made a low mist of light, said, “It is there!”
| The Poems and Plays of William Vaughn Moody | |