Black clouds fill the day sky    In the primitive lands of Nod    As the two sons of Adam offer up    Their gifts (of pride) to the one reigning high    A dark fate born by sacrificial fire       [Caine:]    'Oh, great father of my father    Whom thou banished from thy garden    Look down upon thy faithful servant    And accept my beloved brother.'       With tears of love the firstborn thrust    His sharpest scythe deep into Abel's heart    Rendering him lifeless but eternally    Prized in the mind of god as his body withered    In the scorching blaze       [Caine:]    'Oh, my dear brother    Forgive me for what I have done    But to the one almighty    A greater prize I have none.'       [Adam:]    'Caine, thou has broken my seal of absolute love    The crime thou'st committed meets not    The approval of him above    Forever shall you wonder in the lands beyond alone    And from this day forth I cannot call thee my own.'       [Caine:]    'Oh, father my great father    Why hast thou cursed me so?    Have I not done what thou asked for?    To the shadowed woods I cannot go.'       [Adam:]    'I can no longer endure thy sinful words    This greatly unmerciful deed hast done his wrong    I pray that thou find ways to repent    And as I was cast out so you shall be gone!'    Be gone!       Exiled, the firstborn rushes off to the obscure yet    Welcoming arms of Cimmerian darkness    For there he shall find great wisdom    And awaiting beneath the crescent moon lurks    The mother of magick...