Cain Monologue
| Cain Monologue by Lord Byron | |
| Character: | Lucifer |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age (range): | ? |
| Style: | Drama |
| Length: | < 3 minutes |
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- LUCIFER: A superior?! Superior?!
- No! By heaven, which he
- Holds, and the abyss, and the immensity
- Of worlds and life, which I hold with him—No!
- I have a Victor—true; but no superior.
- Homage he has from all—but none from me:
- I battle it against him, as I battled
- In highest Heaven—through all Eternity,
- And the unfathomable gulfs of Hades,
- And the interminable realms of space,
- And the infinity of endless ages,
- All, all, will I dispute! And world by world,
- And star by star, and universe by universe,
- Shall tremble in the balance, till the great
- Conflict shall cease, if ever it shall cease,
- Which it ne'er shall, till he or I be quenched!
- And what can quench our immortality,
- Or mutual and irrevocable hate?
- He as a conqueror will call the conquered
- Evil, but what will be the Good he gives?
- Were I the victor, his works would be deemed
- The only evil ones. And you, ye new
- And scare-born mortals, what have been his gifts
- To you already, in your little world?
- But few; and some of those but bitter.
- Back with me, then, to thine earth, and try the rest
- Of his celestial boons to you and yours.
- Evil and Good are things in their own essence,
- And not made good or evil by the Giver;
- But if he gives you good—so call him; if
- Evil springs from him, do not name it mine,
- Till ye know better its true fount; and judge
- Not by words, though of Spirits, but the fruits
- Of your existence, such as it must be.
- One good gift has the fatal apple given—
- Your reason: — let it not be overswayed
- By tyrannous threats to force you into faith
- 'Gainst all external sense and inward feeling:
- Think and endure, — and form an inner world
- In your own bosom — where the outward fails;
- So shall you nearer be the spiritual
- Nature, and war triumphant with your own.
- No! By heaven, which he
Credits: Reprinted from Lord Byron: Six Plays. Lord Byron. Los Angeles: Black Box Press, 2007.
