The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-08-08
THE OUTCASTS.
BIZ EDWARD ]. kENrf.
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LContnued from last week
Grng his skirt about his ons picking up club
edge it. lie finds the body Of Abel Icing
PROSTATE the sod beneath the Abel Abel
sleepest ibou? calls the frantic Adam.
90 darling what that upon thy brow" walls the terror
stricken Adam THAT ghasty wound besmeaed with soil and
gore Abel, speak, oh, speak more Cold ghoy
pale and hushed Thy vital breath God my Sod alas this
Death,'
Then Adam nerves by the unsrung tongue
is aed and with struggling breast and heaying chest death
like his the staring eebas glaze and
csmmy bedew the CHASTITY ce and the haggered frame
ele swoon sinks down the refreshing ground
With deu pangs the qverng body shakes from his trance the
and Adam cries in dire agony 20 Eve,
wife hi. mother CAIN his brother where thou be- 70
thy parents misery!''
Again Adam looks and sees bis murdered son. sigh sigh
and groan heang Once he calls, My Cain, OH
where thou2'
And row Adam son. CAIN
which procas sratrcide Love
left their shattered throne ADAM overcome viii dread despair
speaks Ienziel the 20 Monster
cursed whose my Abel Slew aricide OF my sight
away wretch fathers blight hee Cursed be
the earth which thy brothers blood her whered womb shall
yield to thee Thy brothers blood will haunt
shore peace and thou shalt enjoy midst
burning sand perpetual midst deserts Wild all the
earth shall wander wretched Cain With murderer marked on bis hag
gered mien!''
Thus Adam spak dread he sinks down
corpse murdered Eve appears the The
heart grief his mother the terrible sight bs
was too much for the look with cry
disappears into the depths Of the gloomy forest haunted by
his brothers blood.
stricken parents their dire with prayer.
and Heavens Deity 20 God Father this
accept this unuterabe or
Pardon CAIN forgive the arcde let faith and
ance Heaven He il and though he
t,ed this him. Father for the sake Of
mothers tears Sorey tried my heart, grief aud
would gladly die regain the OF God for the boy who is
a wanderer the face Of the earth.'
Adam was awakened b wonderfully soothing
grave rocks and clay prepared by Adam
help of Eve and the lamentng gentle Ama;a they bring
and
grave and the Sire with hands and ufied 10 sky
thus pray with trembling voice 20 high Heaven balm annon
parents wounds OH flame oh Heaven pardon Gains
dread offence. and dreadful SIM prime cause Of all our woe
grave they laid the cold pale and with dust
the corpse they spnked and clay clay united
But time rolls on and the colony along Eupha,es again
numbers comfort and Nothing said about
the Abel the flight Of CAIN and the mysterious dap
pearsnce Acna except whispers
artne parents prosperity had genial
the Of the colony and led poiy guard
cubed the Murder alter looked
upon with horror and oahing
On yondr KNOLL among those rustic hus appear tawny forms
they attend Of the primitive colony Some build rude
hut. Of ruhes logs clay; engaged rural TOLL
others the harvest we behold with the
shepherds attend the eecy ock veant meads
fish from the Euphates stream in boserou chase
abundant Thus behold scenes ct the ancient
days Of Mans industry and simpciles- ,... !.
Cain the until he reached OF the OF
the mountains where he hid in order to escape the wrath Of hs pa
of high Heaven and his own emorse ne ve OF nsn
expands earth the full rbd stands high and
stud the heavens Through the calm and bainy md
n;gh Of the proving wolves the grun OF
the hunting bears the focous ons the dreadful how
the fierce tigers the walls OF the coHad lackas he hosting c
the owls the piercing of the sukng hyenas the and
hk OF the panthers and from the mountains echo the melodies
~ the nightingale moking bird. Cain a. he listens to the
terrible din waited down 70 him The oil The wds OF
the cave Gain where is Abrl?'
Cain shiks frightened Am my brothers keeper!
Tr the winds their dful and again the voice
speaks "Cursed art h'u 0an. 'us"'e a"u eA@
thou be q the earth,
And Cain My punishment il greater than
can Behold driven this day from the lace
81 The earth and from Thy face shall BE- hid and shall be
fugitive and vaeabond earth; and shall that
everyone that 6ndeth shall slay me =
With the oin wind the Voice again answered. There
FORE whoeve yeh CAIN vengeance shall oe taken on MIN es
eniod."
The balm sleep soohs moi Gains exhausted b and tortured
mind bu with ears tormented and with sleepe lain wretch
dv awaits the morning hue overPreads the eastern
L The lark and thrush the approaching day. the
rays dpe the night and restore the once more hopeful
day the hrong Of Natures brood express their wants AMI
lows in its peculiar voice but Cain still covers within the
csvs hunted and haunted by his brothers blood
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