Angels and Women (1924)

TEBAH AND ITS INMATES 229comes to the rescue. More than this is yetbidden from my view."My eyes closed and as I sank away overpoweredby the wonderful vision, Japhethcaught me in his arms, exclaiming: "Comeback to me, Aloma, I cannot live withoutyou1" My strength returned and he continued:"Dark are your words; I understandthem not. Let us leave the future to unravelits own mysteries while we live and love inthe present."So present happiness occupied our wordsand thoughts. Yet strangely contrastingwith our tranquil joy, suggested, perhaps bythe vision which pictured our children atenmity among themselves, Lamech’s sadpoem runs through my head:"Adah and Zillah! hear my voice,Ye wives of Lamech! give ear unto my speech;For a man had I slain for smiting me,And a youth for wounding me:Surely sevenfold shall Cain be avenged,But ’’1 Lamech seventy and seven.1 See Appendix, Note 28.