IMRE MADÁCH
TRAGEDY OF THE MAN

Translated from the Hungarian by
OTTÓ TOMSCHEY

	
Madách Könyvtár - Új folyam 21.

Madách Irodalmi Társaság
Budapest
2000

© Translation: Ottó Tomschey
Készült Budapesten, 2000-ben, felelős kiadó,
műszaki szerkesztő, borító: Andor Csaba.

ISBN 963 85991 2 X
ISSN 1219-4042

FIRST	 SCENE
The Heaven. The LORD encircled by glory is sitting on his throne. ANGELS are kneeling. The four ARCHANGELS are standing near the throne. Great brightness.
		ANGELS’ CHOIR
			Eternal glory be to our God on High,
			Let him be prais’d by the earth and heaven,
			Who created the Universe by one word
			And his glance has govern’d the end again.
	 5		He is the power, knowledge and happiness,
			Our share’s only his shade cast over us,
			We adore Him for his endless patronage
			For having this allotment in his light.
			Yes, the great Thought has become incarnated,
	10		Complete is, as a whole, the Creation
			The Lord waits at his holy hassock from all
			Living creations their due devotion.
		THE LORD
			The work, the great work is now completed,
			Machine is running, the creator rests.
	15		It will move for some millions of years
			Till one of its cogs will need some repairs.
			Up! Guardian spirits of my world! Arise!
			Let you start your never-ending orbit.
			As you whizzing past under my feet
	 20		Let me be with you highly delighted.
(The spirits of stars rolling single, double star spheres, comets and nebulae of different size and colour rush in front of the throne. Music of spheres in a subdued voice.)
		ANGELS’ CHOIR
			What a stately flare-ball’s coming
			In its brightness pretentiously,
			Though it serves to a modest group
			Of stars just now unconsciously.
	 25		Like a lamp of glimmery light
			This tiny star twinkles only
			Yet millions of creatures
			Are living on its globe lonely. -
			Two balls fight against each other
	 30		To disjoint and to encounter
			And this struggle is the grand curb
			In its orbit it to govern. -
			That will rush down with a thunder,
			You look at it with some fearing,
	 35		In its bosom millions find
			Happiness and peaceful being. -
			How simple’s it - though it some time
			Will be lustrous star of the love,
			As solace to the earthly life
	 40		Be it protected from above. -
			There are small worlds all to be born,
			Here’s the coffin for extinction,
			Warning voice to all conceited
			For despondings’ stimulation. -
	 45		Disturbing all comes the comet
			With exorbitant appearing,
			And its path becomes just order’d
			When hears the Lord’s voice of warning. -
			Come along, thou young nice spirit
	 50		With your globe that’s always changing,
			Who both sorrow and the light-pall
			With a white guise are exchanging.
			Be bless’d by God! And go ahead
			Without disbar: that is your fate,
	 55		In your tiny quiet realm
			Great ideas will militate.
			Though smile and tear like the winter
			And like spring will you inundate,
			Light and shade will be together
	 60		On it the Lord’s favour and rage.
			(Spirits of stars marched off.)
		GABRIEL ARCHANGEL
			Thou, who the endless space have measur’d
			And created in it the Substance,
			Thou, who by one word generated
			All the mightiness and the distance:
	 65		Hosanna be to Thee, Thought! (Throws himself down.)
		MICHAEL ARCHANGEL
			Who unifies the eternally
			Changing and the unchanging nations,
			Creating infinity and time
			And entities and generations:
	 70		Hosanna to Thee, Power! (Throws himself down.)
		RAPHAEL ARCHANGEL
			Thou, who irradiates blessedness
			Bringing to consciousness the body,
			And allows piously the whole world
			Your wisdom forever to study:
	 75		Hosanna to Thee, Goodness! (Throws himself down.)
			 (Pause.)
		THE LORD
			You, Lucifer, are silent, proudly stand,
			Or you have no words to my laudation?
			Or you dislike what I have created?
		LUCIFER
			And what to like in it? That some matter
	 80		Endowed with different characteristics
			That before being manifested maybe
			You did not foresee in them and if yes,
			You possess now no power to change them,
			Being moulded in some balls by fits and starts,
	 85		These attract, pursue, repel one another
			And become conscious in some sorry worms,
			Till all will be fill’d and all will be cool’d
			And there remains the neutral slag only. - -
			Man will certainly learn this by watching
	 90		And will simulate it in his kitchen. -
			You put into your great kitchen your man
			And of his bungling you take no notice,
			He brews and fancies himself to be God.
			But when he wastes and damages the brew
	 95		You will fly into a passion afterwards.
			Albeit, what do you expect for dilettants? -
			And for what purpose is the whole creation?
			You wrote a nice ode to your own glory,
			Put it into a useless machinery
	100	And don’t lose your interest endlessly
			In the same song always with the same tune.
			Is this toy worthy of such a greybeard
			That may divert only infantile children?
			Where only a pugged spark imitates
	105	His Lord, but is his misbirth, not his wraith;
			Fate and freedom are hunting each other:
			And the concordant judgement is missing. -
		THE LORD
			I can only be respected, not be judged.
		LUCIFER
			I can pass nothing except my essence.
			(Pointing to the angels.)
	110	You are praised enough by this caddish crowd,
			As to praise you is only fair of them.
			You gave birth to them as light to shadow,
			But I’ve been living since eternity.
		THE LORD
			Insolent! Were not you born by matter,
	115	Where did your power, you exist before?
		LUCIFER
			This my question would be to You, as well.
		THE LORD
			I have planned it since eternity
			And lived inside me what’s now created.
		LUCIFER
			And did not you feel gap among your thoughts
	120	That encumbered all life you wanted
			And forced you to perform the creation?
			Lucifer has been the name of this gap,
			Who has been the spirit of negation.
			You triumph’d over me since it’s my fate
	125	As to go under always in my fights,
			But revive and be reinforc’d again.
			You gave birth to matter - I won the space,
			Life is accompanied always by death,
			Happiness always by deep depression,
	130	Light always by shade and so doubt by hope. -
			That’s all. I stand in all time where you are:
			Thus, who knows you so, should I respect you?
		THE LORD
			Get out! Rebellious spirit! Get out!
			I could annihilate you but I won’t,
	135	Hunting out of all the mental relations
			You have to struggle in the dirtiness,
			In painful feeling of your bare loneliness
			You must be anguished by the endless thought:
			That it is useless to shake your shackles,
	140	Your fight is illusory against the Lord.
		LUCIFER
			No! You daren’t jostle me out of the way
			Like wretched tool that became superfluous. -
			The creation is ours. I do clamour
			For my share.
		THE LORD (with irony)
							Well, be as you want it. Look at
	145	The Earth. Among the trees of Eden, now
			Just in the middle the two slender fruit-trees
			I damn and these will be yours forever.
		LUCIFER
			You are hard-fisted, why you’re powerful Lord,
			And I need only the soil underfoot,
	150	Where negation gains only a foothold,
			It will certainly overthrow your world. (Starts to exit.)
		ANGELS’ CHOIR
			Be off the presence of our Lord! You damn’d!
	153	Hosanna to Him who has us govern’d. -

SECOND SCENE
In the Paradise. In the middle the trees of knowledge and of immortality. ADAM and EVE come, different animals surround them with gentle confidence. Glory radiates through the open gate of Heaven and the soft harmonic voice of angels’ choir is heard. Sunny day.
		EVE
			To live, to live: how sweet, how delightful!
		ADAM
	155	And to feel to be lord of everything.
		EVE
			To feel that we are protected from above
			And we have to give for this only pure love
			To Him who provides us all these delights.
		ADAM
			Being subordinated: that’s your style. -
	160	I’m thirsty, Eve. Look, how temptingly
			This fruit is smiling.
		EVE
								   I’ll pluck one of them.
		THE LORD’S VOICE
			Stop there! Look out! I gave you the whole Earth,
			Adam, but keep clear of the two trees there,
			Their bewitching fruits serve other powers
	165	And will surely die who does savour it. -
			Here the reddening bunch of grapes you find,
			There you get gentle shade with tranquillity
			In outrageous heat of the shining noontide.
		ADAM
			That’s strange command but seems to be true.
		EVE
	170	Why are these trees nicer than others or why
			Are these forbidden?
		ADAM
									 Why is the sky blue?
			Why is the bosk green? - It is so, it’s enough.
			Let’s follow this warning, come, come with me, Eve.
			(They seat themselves in a bower.)
		EVE
			Come to my arms and I will gently fan you.
			(Strong flurry, LUCIFER appears among the leaves.)
		ADAM
	175	Ah! What’s that! I have not heard something like this,
			Like an inimical and strange force would
			Suddenly spring on us.
		EVE
									   I am trembling.
			The heavenly voice became silent, too.
		ADAM
			Here in your arms it seems to me to hear it.
		EVE
	180	And I find it in your bright eyes, Adam,
			When glory above will become overcast.
			Ah, where could I find it besides you, where?
			Who was born only due to your craving
			Like in its flood of light the princely sun
	185	Takes the colour of water - as lonely not
			To be in infinite universe - plays
			With it, enjoys to be accompanied,
			Forgetting generously that it is
			Only the pale image of its own fire
	190	That would disappear together with it.
		ADAM
			Do not say that, Eve, don’t put me to shame.
			What’s the voice when nobody understands?
			And tell me what is beam without colour?
			What would I be when not be mirror’d
	195	In you, like both the echo and the flowers
			In which I can adore only myself?
		LUCIFER
			Why do I listen to this mild flirting?
			I look away otherwise I’ll be ashamed:
			The cold and self-seeking reasoning will
	200	Become envious of the artless mind.
			(A tiny bird begins to sing on a twig.)
		EVE
			Adam, listen to it, tell me, do you
			Perceive the song of this merry lover?
		ADAM
			I listen’d to the babbling of the creek
			And found it to sing the same merry song.
		EVE
	205	Darling, this is wonderful harmony,
			These diverse words and one reason only. -
		LUCIFER
			Why do I tarry? Let me start to work.
			I swore to seduce them, they should be perish’d.
			And now I’m doubting again and again,
	210	Is it not useless to fight against them
			With fascinating arms of the knowledge
			And ambition, against their emotion
			That like an asylum is protecting
			And supports who’s ruin’d. But away with care!
	215	Only none but the brave deserve the fair!
(Strong flurry again. LUCIFER occurs before the frightened human couple. The glory grows dark. LUCIFER laughs.)
		LUCIFER
			What do you gaze at? (To EVE who starts to run.)
									  Stop! You graceful lady!
			Let me admire you for a short moment.
			(EVE stops and takes courage.)
		LUCIFER (aside)
			This pattern will repeat for million times. (Aloud.)
			Adam, you fear?
		ADAM
							  You? You shabby fellow?
		LUCIFER (aside)
	220	He is good forefather of the proud mankind. (Aloud)
			Hail to thee! Brother-in-mind!
		ADAM
												 Who you are?
			From where you come? From above or below?
		LUCIFER
			As you like it. It’s all the same for me.
		ADAM
			I didn’t know that man’s living except us.
		LUCIFER
	225	Oho! There’s a lot that you do not know and
			Will not forever. Or the kind old man
			Would create you from this penurious clay
			To give a share you in the Universe?
			You praise Him, and He keeps you in exchange,
	230	He says: take this and be afraid of that,
			He guards and governs you as a brute beast;
			To have cognition, you do not have need.
		ADAM
			To cogitate? - Do you think I do not?
			And I do not feel the blessing sunshine,
	235	Pleasant happiness of my existence,
			And endless benevolence of my Lord
			Who created me as God of this realm?
		LUCIFER
			Maybe small worms that are eating your fruit
			And the eagle that swoops on the tiny bird
	240	Hold both the same opinion of these.
			Or why you would be nobler than others?
			That’s a gleam glimmering in your dim mind,
			That is a stirring move of an endless force,
			Like tiny drops of wave that having flash’d
	245	For a moment, fall back imperceptibly
			Into dark grey depth of their common bed. -
			Maybe, there will be one thing, yes, the thought
			That’s slumbering in your unconscious heart,
			This would emancipate you entrusting to
	250	Your self-effort to choose the right or wrong,
			To govern your fate only by yourself:
			This would absolve you from the providence.
			But it’s better for you to flourish like a
			Dung-worm in the mild lap of your own small scope
	255	And to burn out with your life without knowledge. -
			It’s easy to resign to your confession;
			It’s nobler but hard to be your own master. -
		ADAM
			You tell us great words, these make my head swim.
		EVE
			I’m keen on these, you tell nice and new things.
		LUCIFER
	260	But knowledge in itself is not enough
			To be realized in magnificent works.
			Immortality is also needed.
			What the short life is able to produce?
			These two trees possess this ability
	265	And Lord has forbade you to have their taste.
			If you would taste it you would know as Lord
			And your grace would be agelessly preserved.
		EVE
			Our Lord has been even cruel to us!
		ADAM
			And maybe you betray?
			(Glory is somewhat clarified.)
		HEAVENLY CHOIR
									    Woe is thee, world,
	270	The true negation is haunting.
		THE LORD’S VOICE
											   Man! Look out!
		ADAM
			What’s that voice again?
		LUCIFER
									 Wind is shaking the twigs.
						Help! My forces!
						Help! Elements!
						To bag the man
	275				For all events!
			(Flurry, the glory grows dark.)
			These two trees are mine.
		ADAM
										   Who are you after all?
			Since you seem to be similar to us.
		LUCIFER
			Look at the eagle as wheeling among clouds,
			Look at this mole rooting down in the soil,
	280	Both of them are of different horizons.
			The spiritual world lies out of your scene
			And man does mean you the highest known grade.
			Dog takes only a dog as its idol and
			Honours you with its companionship.
	285	But as you are endlessly scornful of it
			And you overhang it like its ill fate
			Hailing down blessing and curses on its head,
			So we, stately sharers of the world of
			Spirits, have been superior to you.
		ADAM
	290	You would be one of these higher powers?
		LUCIFER
			Oh yes, most powerful among the mighty,
			I stood there, close to the throne of the Lord
			And got my share of his greatest glory.
		ADAM
			Why did you not remain in the bright heaven?
	295	Why did you descend to this vale of dust?
		LUCIFER
			I had enough there of the second site,
			Of the monotonous regular life,
			The immature choir with infantile voice
			That always praises but has no free choice.
	300	I want struggle and fight against the old
			That generates new power and new world,
			Where the soul may be in itself mighty
			And where me the brave can accompany.
		ADAM
			Lord said that he will strictly punish us
	305	When do not follow the way that He has mark’d.
		EVE
			Why would he do? - When He set out the way
			For us to go along as He it wanted,
			His creatures are certainly made so
			Not to be obedient to vicious bents.
	310	Or why He put us above deep whirl with
			Dizzy head, being sentenc’d to perdition. -
			Yet, if He figur’d in to be sinful
			Like the storm occurs between sunshinny days,
			Who believes more sinful while it jangles
	315	Than this for its animating ardour?
		LUCIFER
			Well, the first philosopher has appear’d. -
			You’ll have, my dear, a lot of inherents
			Who will debate this in million manners;
			Many of them will stray wobbly in madhouse,
	320	Many will shy off, none of them get home.
			Now, give up this meaningless meditation,
			All the things bear many-many colours,
			Who does want to know it all in detail,
			Will know less than he knew at the first moment,
	325	And will have no time to decide what’s it.
			Meditation is the death of action. -
		EVE
			Well, I decided to pluck one of these fruits.
		ADAM
			The Lord damn’d it.
			 (LUCIFER laughs)
									But never mind. Pick it.
			Come what may, let us be as wise as our
	330	Lord: to know everything.
(First EVE then ADAM taste the apple of knowledge.)
		EVE
									  And above all
			For ever young.
		LUCIFER
							  This way, come, here you are,
			This is the tree of immortality.
			Come along! Be quick!
(He draws them to the other tree, a CHERUB blocks their way with a blazing sword.)
		CHERUB
									  Off with you, sinners!
		THE LORD’S VOICE
			Adam, Adam! You have abandon’d me,
	335	I also leave you. See what you are alone.
		EVE
			We are lost.
		LUCIFER
							You despair?
		ADAM
											No, not at all.
			That’s the shiver of walking of my mind. -
			Let’s get out from here, my lady, get out!
			This land is desolate and unwonted.
		HEAVENLY CHOIR
	340	Ah! Be the whole world tear-stain’d wherever,
	341	Lie’s winning - the Earth is lost forever.

THIRD SCENE
Picturesque landscape outside the Paradise. Small, clumsy wooden hovel. ADAM sticks pegs for closure, EVE builds a bower. LUCIFER
		ADAM
			This is mine. Instead of the roomy world
			This scene will be my home. I’ll cultivate
			And will guard it from all the wild animals
	345	And will compel it to give me harvest.
		EVE
			I will build a bower similar to the
			Former and so I try to retrieve for us
			The lost Paradise.
		LUCIFER
								 Ah! How great words you
			Have said. Family and private ownership
	350	Will be the twofold promoter of the world,
			That generates all pleasures and torments.
			These two ideas will grow unbroken
			While producing homeland and industry,
			All that is generous and magnificent
	355	That engorges its own individuals.
		ADAM
			You tell mysteries. You have promised me
			Knowledge, I gave up the pleasures of instinct
			That though struggling hardly, to be mighty.
			And what’s the outcome.
		LUCIFER
										Do you not feel it?
		ADAM
	360	I feel that as my Lord left me plunging
			Into the bare loneliness by empty hands,
			I left him, too. I became myself to
			My own God and all what I’ll attain, will be
			Justly mine. This is my power and self-pride.
		LUCIFER (aside)
	365	You vain pawn, you flout now the heaven proudly,
			Let us see your heart when thunders flash loudly.
		EVE
			And it’s just only proper pride of mine
			To be ancestress of the whole mankind.
		LUCIFER (aside)
			Glorious is her thought, that’s really,
	370	To hand down evil sinful misery.
		ADAM
			What should I thank to Him? My bare existence?
			But this being if would be worthy of
			Its share, will be the outcome of my labours.
			The delight to drink a glass of water
	375	I have to deserve by the glow of my thirst,
			The price of savouring a kiss is where
			It is wandering: in deep despondency.
			Though the mask of gratefulness is off me
			And became free to govern my own fate
	380	And to deteriorate what I’ve planned
			Soundly again and again - maybe your
			Help should not have been truly provided,
			I could have made it alone, by my force.
			And you did not save me from the heavy bond
	385	That binds my body to this dusty ground.
			Though I don’t know its name, I feel what’s it,
			Maybe it’s a thread - and it’s all the more
			Infamous - that restraints my proud being.
			Look, I try to spring but I’m falling back,
	390	My eyes and my ears are out of their duty
			When I sound secrets of the remoteness;
			If my soul wants to reach higher levels
			Hunger forces to be humiliated
			And return again to the trampled matter.
		LUCIFER
	395	This bond is stronger than I ever be.
		ADAM
			You are a very infirm spirit, yes,
			If this obscure thin spider-work, this nothing
			That cannot be seen by the millions
			Who gambol with the feeling of freedom
	400	In this net being suspected by some
			Higher spirits only, is flouting you.
		LUCIFER
			And only this, this is able to flout me
			’Cause it’s spirit like me. Or do you think
			That though being still and of hidden act
	405	It’s not strong? - Don’t think, it’s sitting in mist
			Who staggers and shakes and creates a world:
			Its visual appearance would swim your head.
			Only the man-made things curtail’d by the
			Limited life are glinting and rattling.
		ADAM
	410	This running operation let me see
			- For a moment only, I’m strong, you know -
			How it acts on me who in myself am
			So alone but am the totality.
		LUCIFER
			“I am” - it’s mad word. You were and will be,
	415	Life is eternal ring of being and death.
			But let you look ’round and see with spirits’ eyes.
		ADAM (What he says in the following, become visible)
			What a flow is so springing up around me
			Prograding continuously upwards,
			Aspires high, where it bifurcates and runs
	420	As a storm up to the poles.
		LUCIFER
											This is the warmth
			That brings life to permanently frozen lands.
		ADAM
			And these two fire streams roaring beside me,
			I’m afraid it will carry me away
			And yet, I feel its animating effects.
	425	What’s that? What’s that? It makes me feel dizzy.
		LUCIFER
			That’s the magnet.
		ADAM
								 The ground’s quaking below.
			What I believed to be constant, amorphous:
			Becomes bubbling, elementary matter
			That’s trying hard for individual shape
	430	And life. Here it takes the form of crystal,
			There that of a bud. In this confusion
			Where will I find the unique presence of mine,
			What you’ll be my frame, I trust crazily
			As a firm footing in my ambitions,
	435	Imaginations and pretentious desires?
			You overindulg’d body, who makes me
			Both troubles and tears and some ecstasy,
			You’ll be debas’d to a handful of dust,
			While your being that was reddening and
	440	Glad like water and brilliant delusion
			Will ascend with my own being to the clouds?
			All my words and all the thoughts in my poor mind
			Consume the single parts of my being,
			I am burning! - And this disastrous fire
	445	Is perhaps inflamed by a mystic spirit
			To warm, while I am burning to ashes.
			Off with this vision, ’cause I’m going mad.
			To be at war with the awkward feeling
			Of loneliness among thousand elements:
	450	That’s fearful, frightful! - Oh, why I dismiss’d the
			Sheltering providence surmised by my
			Instinct but never appreciated
			And wanted by my knowledge - but in vain.
		EVE
			Aha! I have also similar feeling,
	455	When you’ll be fighting against the beasts of prey
			Or when flagging I shall tend our garden
			I will cast my eyes about the spacious world
			And no kins in heaven and earth, no friend
			Will be to encourage as shield me or you.
	460	No, this was not the case in the good old times.
		LUCIFER (with irony)
			Ah, if your soul is so petty-minded
			That you feel cold without paternal care,
			Subordination is your only need:
			I evoke a God for you who will be more
	465	Friendly than the rigourous grim greybeard:
			The spirit of this Earth, I know him from
			The heaven’s choir, he is very modest.
						Come spirit, come, you see
						You are no match for me,
	470				Nobody dares to call
						You except me, at all.
(Flames shoot up from the ground, a dense black cloud is formed with rainbow and with horrific thunder.)
			Ghost, who are you - this is not you I call’d,
			The spirit of Earth is tender and kind.
		THE VOICE OF THE EARTH’S SPIRIT
			What you saw in the heaven’s choir to be weak
	475	Is endless and strong in its own domain. -
			Here I am, ’cause I had to listen the word
			Of a spirit, but keep it for yourself:
			It’s another thing to thrill and govern.
			If I take on my wraith, you will sink down and
	480	These two worms will be annihilated.
		LUCIFER
			Tell me how man is able to reach your proud
			Proximity if he takes you as God?
		THE VOICE OF THE EARTH’S SPIRIT
			Partitioned in waters, clouds and possets,
			Everywhere he will enter with solid
	485	Ardent eagerness and with bosom held up.
(Disappears. The bosk and spring are peopled by elfish playful nymphs.)
		EVE
			Ah! Look at these pleasant fraternal cheeks,
			Look, look how charmingly they salute us,
			We’re beyond loneliness and solitude,
			Happiness descended to us with them.
	490	They give words of encouragement in grief
			And a sound piece of advice in mistrust.
		LUCIFER
			That’s the best to you to seek their wise advice
			- Who when asking have come to a decision -
			And these elfish phenomena will answer
	495	In harmony as you have raised the question:
			They look smiling at the pure guiltless heart
			And are frightful phantoms for those in despair;
			They will accompany you along your life
			In hundreds of differently transform’d shapes,
	500	This is the fresh shade of the inquiring sage
			And the ideal of ageless hearts and souls.
		ADAM
			What do I care for this, this glittering joke
			That passes off me but I can’t grip it -
			And I will have a mystery one more.
	505	Don’t beguile with promises, Lucifer,
			But let me know everything as you promised.
		LUCIFER (aside)
			Your knowledge will be sorrowful, you will see
			And you’ll hunker after the fool’s paradise.
			(aloud)
			Have patience. You know you have to merit
	510	Even the seconds of delight by fighting;
			You have to complete your studies and you’d be
			Disappoint’d till understand everything.
		ADAM
			It’s easy for you to talk about patience,
			Your perspectives possess immortality,
	515	But I did not eat fruit of the tree of life,
			The short being forces me to hasten.
		LUCIFER
			All being that lives will live for the same length,
			Secular trees and the tiny may-fly:
			Is born, rejoices, loves and comes to grief,
	520	Having perform’d its labour and eagerness.
			Not time is running: we are those who change,
			A century or a day, that’s the same.
			Never fear, you will also fill your part,
			Don’t believe that man’s personality
	525	Is roll’d only into this dirt-made body.
			You saw the ant and the cluster of bees:
			Thousands of neuters wander by fits and starts,
			They act at a venture, blunder and fail,
			But the whole as a constant entity
	530	Lives and acts in a collective intellect,
			It performs perfectly the plan determined
			Till the end comes and whole comes to rest.
			Your remains will disintegrate, as well,
			But you will revive in thousands of forms,
	535	And you need not start anything afresh:
			You were guilty, you’ll suffer in your son,
			And your gout you will continue in him,
			All things you will feel and perceive and learn
			Will be your own for millions of years.
		ADAM
	540	That is only the reminiscence of Lord,
			But my bosom has an eager desire:
			To have a look at my future to see
			Why I am struggling, why I’m suffering.
		EVE
			Let me see, too, in this regeneration
	545	Will be preserv’d or not my fascination.
		LUCIFER
			So be it. My witchcraft gives the wanted charms
			And you will have a look at future by chance,
			In the ideas of fugacious dreams;
			But if you will see how crazy is your aim,
	550	How grave’s your action to fight again, again;
			So, that you don’t show the lack of spirit
			And don’t give up the struggle you’ve to fight:
			I’ll charm you a tiny beam that is bright,
			It will encourage you: it’s a vain scope
	555	All what you see - and this beam is the hope.
(Meanwhile he leads ADAM and EVE into the hovel who fall asleep there.)

FOURTH SCENE
Egypt. In the foreground an open hall. ADAM as PHARAOH is young and sits on the throne. LUCIFER as minister to him; in a respectful distance illustrious attendants. In the background slaves are building a pyramid under the control of supervisors with whips. Bright day.
		LUCIFER
			Your Majesty! The people who would be glad
			To fail for you has asked full of anxiety,
			What’s that doesn’t allow the great Pharaoh
			To have a rest on the cushion of his throne?
	560	Why do you sacrifice the day’s delights
			And the honey-sweet dreams of peaceful nights,
			And why don’t you leave troubles of your plans
			To the slaves who would take this with heartful thanks,
			When all honours, all dominations and all
	565	Delights all over the world that can be
			Ever tolerated: all these are yours.
			Treasures of provinces proclaim your lordship,
			For you the fragrant flowers open their bells,
			Fruit-trees yield their sweetness only to you.
	570	Thousand ladies fling out their arms to you:
			The blond fairness with her fornicating eyes
			Like a fond and charming graceful vision,
			Brunettes wait for you with wheezing-throbbing lips
			And with eyes misted by violent ardour -
	575	All these are yours. Their fate is your fancy,
			They feel their duty to be kindly performed
			Having dulcified even some hours of you.
		ADAM
			My soul has no hunger for vanities
			Like these taxes collected spontaneously,
	580	I don’t strive for it coming without my work. -
			But this monument that I’m creating
			Will certainly help me to find the way
			Leading to the summit of true greatness.
			Its art will now be marvellous to nature
	585	And will preserve my name for thousand years,
			No earthquake, no disaster will worsen it:
			Man became much stronger than the Lord himself.
		LUCIFER
			And yet, Pharaoh, are you bestowed
			On this fancy. Tell me in all honesty.
		ADAM
	590	No, I’m not. I feel extreme emptiness.
			No matter, I did implore not happiness,
			Only the fame, and this is open’d to me.
			Crowd should not foresee my distress - if it
			Would pity me, its adoration would cease.
		LUCIFER
	595	And if some time you will understand that
			Fame has been a flashing silly-crazy fun?
		ADAM
			That’s nonsense.
		LUCIFER
									And if it were so?
		ADAM
													  I should die,
			Having call’d down curses upon the whole world.
		LUCIFER
			You will not die, but understand it some time,
	600	You’ll even recommence with your past success.
(Supervisors beat one of the slaves so he runs wailing and persecuted by supervisors into the hall and falls down in front of the throne.)
		THE SLAVE
			Mylord! Help!
		EVE (as wife to the slave parts from the workers and drops herself on his husband 
			   with heart-rending howl.)
							You do implore him in vain!
			Who never had share in our suffering
			He’s at a loss! The cry of pain is low
			And throne stands too high. Why do you not call me
	605	Who conceals you and holds off all the lashings
			By her body.
		ADAM (to the supervisors who crush in and want to drag away the slave and his wife)
							Leave them there and get away.
			(Supervisors exeunt)
			What’s the feeling in my heart unknown so far,
			Who’s this woman and what’s her glamour which
			Like a chain pulls down the great Pharaoh
	610	To this worm who is rolling in dirty dust? (Stands up.)
		LUCIFER
			This is one of the threads again by which
			Your Lord has scoffingly afflicted you,
			To remember even if you flutter
			Proudly: you are a small worm in yourself.
	615	You saw how strong this slender thread may be,
			It winds out always of your hands and hence
			I can’t tear it to bits.
		ADAM (Walking down the throne’s steps.)
									You would be wrong.
			It is as outrageous as it’s pleasant.
		LUCIFER
			But it’s befitting that a sage and king
	620	Should suffer from it.
		ADAM
											What shall I do then?
		LUCIFER
			Ah, there is nothing for it but knowledge
			Denies the existence of this hidden thread
			That’s laughed harshly by power and matter.
		ADAM
			I can neither laugh it off nor deny it.
		EVE
	625	Darling, your blood is running drop by drop,
			I’ll stop it, does it give much pain to you?
		THE SLAVE
			Life is painful to me but not for long.
		EVE
			This is not so, why would you have lived so far
			When you would die now, as you have found me?
		THE SLAVE
	630	Why slaves have to live? - He bears stones to the
			Pyramid for the mighty, when his issue
			Is in his yoke, dies. - Millions for one.
		ADAM
			Oh, Lucifer, what outrageous words these are!
		LUCIFER
			That is feverish madness of agony.
		ADAM
	635	What did he say?
		LUCIFER
								Great Pharaoh, what’s that?
			Well I never! It is magnificent:
			It is less by one slave who live on the Earth.
		EVE
			For you poor number, but for me the world,
			Woe to me, oh woe to me, who will love me? -
		THE SLAVE
	640	Me not more. - Forget me, lady, for ever. (He dies.)
		ADAM
			It’s me who does it. Hi, carry out the corpse!
			 (People lift up the corpse.)
			Arise! My lady! The throne is your due,
			You are the princess of fascination like
			Me that of the power - we have to find each
	645	Other anywhere.
		EVE
							  Oh, great Pharaoh,
			I know your order is fate of all slaves,
			I don’t make excuses, but allow me
			A short time only, then I wait your orders.
		ADAM
			Let this word be off! Oh, the fate of my reign,
	650	Not to go beyond the words of orders?
		EVE
			It’s enough now that this order does not
			Cause pain to me; oh, in this first moment
			Don’t be envious of my tears for this corpse. -
			This corpse, how beautiful is it, my God!
			(Drops herself on it.)
		ADAM
	655	Beautiful and dead: what contradiction!
			Is this coolness mocking to our efforts
			Or a woeful smile to our vanity?
		LUCIFER
			It’s an escaped slave who flouts you proudly,
			Saying: I became stronger than your shackles.
		ADAM
	660	Peace to his remains and hail to the life.
			It’s all very well for him, but I can’t
			Spare your smile.
			(The corpse is carried out. ADAM leads EVE to the throne.)
							Let you be, my lady, here!
			Oh! It’s wonderful to have a rest with you.
			(Yammering among the workers. EVE shudders.)
			What’s amiss with you?
		EVE
										Oh, do you not hear
	665	The people’s woe?
		ADAM
								  It’s first that I perceive it.
			It has an ominous ring, but never mind!
			Kiss me, kiss me and forget, forget the world. (To LUCIFER)
			And you stop the mouth of this crazy crowd.
		LUCIFER
			It is beyond me, this is people’s right,
	670	Together with yoke it’s the heir of it.
			(Yammering again. EVE cries out, ADAM rises.)
		ADAM
			Lady, you suffer and I do not know
			How to help. The scream beats my head through your heart
			Like the summer thunderbolt from the blue
			And I feel so that the world cries for help.
		EVE
	675	Oh, Pharaoh, stamp flat but forgive me
			When this people’s wailing does not make me ease,
			I’m aware of being your docile maid
			And it’s my aim to entertain your lordship.
			I shall forget everything outside me:
	680	Misery and greatness, reveries and corpse
			For I’ve beatific smile and ardent lips;
			But if the people of millions of arms
			Suffers the cuts with whip and wails outside
			Like small scraps of the ever-aching body,
	685	Me, the renegade maiden of this people,
			In my heart am a prey to these torments.
		ADAM
			And so do I. - The millions for one -
			The dead also said. -
		EVE
									  Oh, great Pharaoh!
			Your brow darkened and this is my fault,
	690	Cast me off or, please, instruct me how to be
			Deaf as a stone.
		ADAM
							   You’ve been much better master,
			You have taught me to perceive the wailing. -
			I’ll hear it never again. - See! Be free
			All the slaves. What good will the fame do to me
	695	That I can catch up only as one person
			Through ruination and wail of millions
			Who breathe also like the human being;
			I feel many times pain, but once the delight.
		LUCIFER
			Oh, Pharaoh, you are in clouds; the crowd
	700	Is the brute beast of fate that will work hard
			Under every types of every systems.
			This is its fate. Let it be released from this:
			What you fling away, it does not win it
			And seeks for new lordship even tomorrow.
	705	Do you believe to foist yourself on it
			When does not feel to need master by all means?
			Or when is self-respected by itself?
		ADAM
			Why is it wailing, why? As slavery
			Would be painful?
		LUCIFER
								  It doesn’t know what’s wailing.
	710	Everybody has a desire to rule,
			Only this and not fraternity will
			Pursue the huge crowd to join and be behind
			The banner of freedom, - this is fairly well
			Free of consciousness and it worried by
	715	Surmises for everything what is new
			And negation of those existing so far.
			This is the blind hope to see its dreams on the
			Happiness to be vainly realized.
			People: it’s an abyssal sea being not
	720	Translucent to sunbeam; it’ll be always dark,
			Only the wave is sparkling thrown in the air
			And maybe just you’ll be the gleaming wave.
		ADAM
			Why just me?
		LUCIFER
							All the same, akin to you
			Who became conscious of the popular drive
	725	And who as the beloved hero of freedom
			Tries to replace you at your higher place.
			Meanwhile, the crowd, winning but nothing, will
			Change its name, the master is preserved.
		ADAM
			Your obstinacy runs in an endless ring,
	730	Maybe there’s no way to escape from it
		LUCIFER
			There is. Give these men endow’d with special
			Privilege some armlets, rings or other
			Knick-knacks, say: here you are, I prefer you
			To the crowd and this is why you’ll be nobler -
	735	They take for granted and disdaining the crowd
			Endure to be despised by you, as well.
		ADAM
			Don’t tempt me with such fascinating fancies.
			Get out with the slaves! Be free all of them.
			Proclaim this to them, but be in hurry,
	740	Not to be too late if I would regret it.
		LUCIFER (aside)
			Go ahead proudly, go about your way,
			Think you’re going when fate carries away.
		ADAM
			This object must remained uncompleted,
			Warning ruin to megalomany,
	745	Question-mark to our power and frailty.
	(Outside shouts of joy, workers disperse. Re-enters LUCIFER.)
		LUCIFER
			Be glad you slaves, the mighty has bow’d down,
			But don’t believe it to act under pressure.
		EVE
			Be consoled, oh be consoled, my darling!
			What good will the barren glory do to us
	750	While creeping between us like a serpent.
		ADAM
			But it is great.
		EVE
							Get out with it! You see, wail
			Became silent, will not disturb our delight.
			What do you crave for when rest in my arms?
		ADAM
			Your horizon is narrow and flimsy,
	755	And just this attracts the proud man to your arms -
			Indulgence only can be loved by power
			Like protecting parents support their son
			Most heartily due to his resourcelessness.
		EVE
			Alas, Pharaoh! Maybe I bore you
	760	With my idle talk and my empty chatter?
			All is in vain! I am not more cultur’d.			
		ADAM
			Don’t want to be more clever, my darling.
			I am sound of mind and that’s enough to me.
			I search your arms neither for power, neither
	765	For greatness nor for knowledge, into all these
			I can go further in my books. You have
			To chatter so I listen to your voice
			To be aware throughout me of its flutter.
			It’s the same what you tell, nobody will ask
	770	What the tiny bird is singing. We shall
			Listen to it with sweet expectations.
			Be you only flower, a dear trinket
			That’s useless but fair: this is its merit. (To LUCIFER)
			And yet, I am eagerly wishing something.
	775	Maybe it’s crazy - but please, meet my wish -
			Let me have a fearless look in advance,
			To several thousands of years: how my fame
			Will live on afterwards?
		LUCIFER					
										 While you are kissing
			Do you not feel lukewarm and gentle breeze
	780	That lightly laps your face and flies away?
			Thin layer is left where it is flying off,
			This dust thickens a year only some inches,
			But amounts to ells during centuries,
			Millennia will bury your pyramids,
	785	Your name will be sunk into the sand dunes,
			Jackal howls in your gardens of delight,
			Beggars, slaves will populate the desert
			(What LUCIFER says, all become visible)
			And this is done neither by sky-shaking
			Tempests, nor by roaring and howling earthquakes:
	790	Only by mild breeze that flutters round you.
		ADAM
			Dreadful picture!
		LUCIFER (with irony)
								Don’t fear! Just your mind is lost,
			Your body is preserv’d as a mummy:
			Object of curiosity of school-boys,
			With distorted face and without the faint script
	795	Whether it was a slave or perhaps master.
(He kicks towards a mummy that occurred meanwhile in front of he throne and now is slowly rolling down on the throne’s steps.)
		ADAM (jumping up)
			Infernal delusion! Get out! Get out!
			Vain efforts, crazy megalomany -
			It rings in my ear: millions for one.
			I have to assert the right of millions
	800	In free state - elsewhere that’s impossible.
			Be the person vanish’d when people lives
			Making the whole from individuals.
		EVE
			And you leave also me, me, your true love?
		ADAM
			Indeed! I leave you, the throne, everything.
	805	Guide me, Lucifer, to new intentions,
			Anyhow, I fool away many time
			In this wrong track.
			(Starts, drawing his sword.)
		EVE			
									 Mylord! If you return with
			Broken heart, you will find retreat in my arms.
		ADAM
			That’s true, I suspect to find also you
	810	In an image that is highly purified.
			Then you’ll hold me in your arms not by order
			But - equal in rank - with feeling of delight. (exit)
		LUCIFER
			Don’t be in hurry, you will run down your scope
			In time, maybe much farther back than you hope,
	815	You’ll cry when you see, it is crazy and hard,
	816	While I am laughing. - Let’s go ahead. Forward!

FIFTH SCENE
Athens. Agora with a platform in the middle. In the foreground aside an open temple with sculptures of gods, garlands and altar. EVE as LUCIA, wife to general MILTIADES, with her son CHIMON accompanied by servants bringing sacrificial vessels are coming towards the temple hall. In the agora people are standing in rags. Bright morning.
		EVE
			This way, this way my beloved little son.
			Look, your father sailed to that direction
			To battle at far frontiers of our home.
	820	Rude people are there living who have been
			Rashly a threat to our homeland and freedom.
			Let’s pray, let’s pray my beloved son, so our
			Justness be protected by the Heaven
			And let your knight father return safe and sound.
		CHIMON
	825	Why my noble father has gone far away
			To safeguard this ragged and coward people,
			While his fair lady’s eating out her heart?
		EVE
			Alas! Don’t judge your generous father,
			These children lie under the curse of god,
	830	Only the woman in love has the right
			To bewail the actions of her husband that
			Would be missing, she would be made ashamed.
			Your father did his duty as expected.
		CHIMON
			You fear, mother, he will be defeated?
		EVE
	835	Not at all, my son. Your father’s hero,
			He wins, but I fear for him he’s unable
			To triumph over himself.
		CHIMON
										 How is that?
		EVE
			Soul has always a selfish word, this is
			The ambition. It is asleep in all slaves
	840	Or, when repress’d, is degraded to crime.
			But getting warm it is made grow high by the
			Freedom and is shown as civic virtues.
			This generates all beauties and the great,
			But if it’s too strong, attacks its breeder
	845	And will fight till one is bleeding to death. -
			If this strong selfish word would him overcome
			And if he would betray this holy land,
			I would swear at him. Let’s go to pray, son.
(They go into the temple, meanwhile more and more people come to the agora.)
		FIRST FROM THE CROWD
			There is no exciting news, as if our
	850	Army would find the enemy nowhere near.
		SECOND FROM THE CROWD
			And also at home everybody’s sleepy,
			Maybe nobody’s working on some plans
			Like in days gone by, that to be realized
			The howl of high people would be needed.
	855	I am wandering since this morning here
			And nobody wanted to buy my vote.
		FIRST FROM THE CROWD
			Monotonous life, what to do at all?
		THIRD FROM THE CROWD
			There would be no harm to make disorder.
(During this time EVE set light to the altar’s fire, washed her hands and made herself ready to offer up the sacrifice. Servants to her start to sing hymns that lasts during the subsequent scene The agora is full with citizens and people; two DEMAGOGUES struggle for the platform.)
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
			Get out! This is my place, this is my site,
	860	Our land is endanger’d if I cannot speak.
	 		(People howl acclamation.)
		SECOND DEMAGOGUE
			It will be lost if you speak. Agent, get out!
			(People laugh and applaud.)
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
			You are not agent since nobody buys you.
			Citizens! It’s painful to me to speak,
			It is sorrowful to humiliate
	865	Deeply the great and to be forced to drag
			The grand soldier to your unfailing court
			From the triumphal car.
		SECOND DEMAGOGUE
										 That’s good, evil!
			Now trim with flowers the brute beast to be
			Offered in sacrifice.
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
									  Get out of the way!
		SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD
	870	Why we’ve to listen to that mad scoffer.
			(People haul the second demagogue.)
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
			Though I have aches in my heart, I have to speak,
			Since you, glorious and princely people
			I set above your military leader.
		SECOND DEMAGOGUE
			This mean-souled starving group in rags and tatters
	875	That like a dog is on the outlook for
			Garbage of its masters? - Oho, you poltroon,
			I can’t be envious of your fancy.
		SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD
			Down with him! He’s also traitor, down with him!
(He is much more insulted. EVE offers two pigeons and incense on the altar.)
		EVE
			Holy Aphrodite! Oh, take and accept
	880	The smoke of this incense and answer my pray:
			I want my man not to be crowned by laurel
			To free but his heart from domestic troubles.
(EROS occurs smiling in the smoke of sacrifice, GRACES stand round it and scatter roses on it. Devoutly standing group.)
		SERVANTS
			Answer her!
		EROS			
						  Woman, be blessed by the
			Pure heart!
		GRACES
						  And the protection of Graces
	885	Be with you!
		SERVANTS
								Thanks, thanks be to Aphrodite!
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
			Now, let you hear the charge! Great Miltiades
			Betrayed his country.
		SECOND DEMAGOGUE
									  Oh, you lie, you lie!
			Hold your tongue or else the shame of belated
			Regret is yours.
		FIRST FROM THE CROWD
								Get out of there, rotter!
			(He is whirled into the crowd)
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
	890	He’s holding your bloom in his hands, he captured
			Lemnos with one stroke and now he’s tarrying
			At Paros. He is certainly bought over.
		THIRD FROM THE CROWD
			The death to him!
		FIRST CITIZEN
								Come on! Come on! Shout! Or
			Get along with you of my reserved site.
			(Sacrifice is ended, gods disappear.)
		EVE
	 895	What’s that buzz outside? Let me see, my son.
		CHIMON
			A traitor is condemn’d mother, I think.
		EVE
			My heart sinks when seeing the sentence of the
			Starving crowd pass’d on the powers that be.
			When mighty is defamed, the mob is gloating
	900	Over and insult it with mockery
			As it would verify its own aspersion.
		SECOND FROM THE CROWD
			My good sir! I am hoarse and I want to
			Shout.
		SECOND CITIZEN
					Here you are! Drink and make your gorge wet.
		SECOND FROM THE CROWD
			And what should I shout then?
		SECOND CITIZEN
												Say death to his head.
		SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD
	905	To death! To death!
		EVE
									About whom are they speaking?
		SECOND DEMAGOGUE
			About who else as about him, a head
			Taller than others, they’ll have none of it.
		EVE
			Miltiades? - Oh, my almighty gods!
			And you, old Chrispos, who was liberated
	910	From slavery by him, you shout also death?
		CHRISPOS
			Forgive me, lady, only one of us
			May live. I’m sustain’d with three children by him
			Who wants me to vote so.
		EVE
										 Oh, woe to thee,
			Chrispos, if your fate drags down you to depths!
	915	Though I indulge seeing that you’re starving.
			But you, Thersites? And you all, you all,
			Who sleep in the languishment of abundance
			’Cause my husband dislodged the enemy
			From your gates. - Oh, you’re highly ungrateful! -
		THERSITES
	920	Oh, my lady, it is sorrow and painful
			But what to do, that’s the public anger:
			Who will venture all what he possesses
			Defying everything and braving the waves!
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
			Now I declare the judgement of people.
(LUCIFER as soldier, comes running with distracted face.)
		LUCIFER
	925	To arms! To arms! Enemy is at the gates!
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
			That’s nonsense! Our victorious general
			Is not there?
		LUCIFER
						   Just he, he is the enemy.
			He found out what you have contemplated,
			The rightous anger flared up in his heart,
	930	While you speak, he’ll be here with fire and sword!
		SECOND DEMAGOGUE
			This misfortune is due to you, traitors!
		SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD
			Let’s knock them down! - Hail to the general! -
			Oh, woe to us! Alas! Run for your lives! -
			Everything is lost.
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
								 Not at all! To the gates,
	935	Pay homage to him! -
		EVE
									 Oh, almighty gods!
			The judgement wail’d that took off you from me,
			But it is to me more sorrowful that
			You verified it - though I shall regain you. -
		FIRST FROM THE CROWD
			Take as hostage his wife: if our town will be
	940	Damag’d, she must die together with her son.
		EVE
			I would die, husband, heartily for you
			But curse of homeland must not fall on my son. -
		CHIMON
			Don’t have fears for me, come with me, mother,
			This shrine will protect us from all maltreatments.
(They go up to the hall from the pursueing group, two NYMPHS lower a rose-chain behind them, the pursueing group immediately stops. Trompets sound outside, people disperse with wailing. - NYMPHS disappear.)
		LUCIFER (rubs his hands and laughs)
	945	It was a nice joke. To laugh it is so kind
			Where broken are the hearts and goes blank the mind.
			(turning towards the temple)
			But to see this ever rejuvenating,
			Everlasting beauty always disturbs me.
			I feel cold in its unfamiliar sphere
	950	That makes prudish all those who have nothing on,
			Makes all sins to be noble and the fate
			To be majestic - with its pure roses
			And inviting lips of simplicity. - -
			Why my world is behind its time for so long,
	955	The monster, the dreadfullness full with doubt
			To frighten far away this delusion
			Which always revives the man being on
			The verge of going under in this long fight. -
			But it remains to be seen whether soon
	960	The horror of death comes certainly to us,
			Your unentertaining phantom will be
			Perish’d, when it goes to its utmost limits.
			(He mingles in the crowd.)
(ADAM as MILTIADES is wounded and guided by an armed group. Before him the imploring crowd and the DEMAGOGUES)
		SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD
			Long live our leader! Be merciful to us!
		ADAM
			What is your fault, and why do you implore me?
	965	And what powerful may ask from the weak?
			But my wife, my son don’t come to meet me;
			Are they insulted or perhaps injured! - -
		EVE
			Oh, Miltiades, why do you come when
			Your wife can’t rejoice at your arrival, -
	970	My son, your mother sinks down, help me… Your
			Father does not will a good name to you! -
		ADAM
			What’s that? It is beyond me. Crowd implores,
			My wife curses and my chest bleeds for the home. -
		EVE
			But both home and my heart bleed much stronger,
	975	Why did you come at the head of your army?
		ADAM
			Is it not due to me to be escorted?
			I’ve come, ’cause my heavy wound does not allow
			To be equal farther to all my duties.
			I’ve come that, as traditional, to give back
	980	My power to majestic people, to put
			It in its hands and account for my acts.
			Now, I disband you my comrades in arms,
			You have deserved the quietness of your heart.
			And now, Athena Pallas, consecrating
	985	This sword I hang it over your altar.
	(He is guided into the temple’s hall; his soldiers disperse.)
		EVE (falls about the neck of her husband)
			Oh, Miltiades, who is more happy than
			Your wife, you noble and generous man!
			Look at your son, he favours his father,
			How beautiful he is!
		ADAM
									 Oh, my dear ones!
		CHIMON
	990	I knew very well, my father knows what
			To be done. -
		EVE
							Oh, don’t make me ashamed of it,
			His good lady ought to know it much better.
		ADAM
			My son, your father’s sword offer you up.
		CHIMON (hanging up the sword)
			Protected be this dear sword by you, goddess,
	995	Till some day I return to you for it.
		EVE
			Let the mother offer up this incense
			To this sacrifice in pairs. Pallas, help us!
			(She offers up incense.)
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE (on the platform)
			Was I at all right, that he’s a traitor?
			That Dareios bought over him? The wound is
	1000	Pretence, he does not want against him to fight.
		SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD
			The death to him!
		ADAM
								What’s all the noise about?
		EVE
			Alas, Miltiades, that is dreadful charge:
			You’re said a traitor by the crowd anew.
		ADAM
			It’s a foolish charge; me to be a traitor
	1005	Who won the fight at Marathon?
		EVE
												  Oh, that’s true,
			What you have found here, it’s a depraved world.
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
			Why do you wait? Arrest him?
	(People crowd before the temple hall, LUCIFER among them.)
		EVE
												 Miltiades!
			In this shrine you are kept safe, do not leave it.
			Why did you disband your comrades in arms?
	1010	Why you have had not burnt down this den of vice?
			This mob deserves only to be shackled,
			’Cause it feels that you are the born lord of it,
			Who are nobler alone than they’re together,
			And will kill you but not to fall at your feet.
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
	1015	Do you hear how the wife to a traitor
			Is speaking?
		EVE
						   That’s the right of woman to
			Defend her husband even he’s guilty,
			Even he’s morally high as he is!
			And his enemy as freak as you are. -
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
	1020	Why majestic people lets itself to
			Be dispraised.
		FIRST FROM THE CROWD
							 Maybe it is right what she says.
		FIRST CITIZEN
			Suspects are who vote for them. Shout and cry,
			You dirty dogs or starve to death, you wasters.
		SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD
			To death!
		ADAM
						Veil my son, oh, I want him not
	1025	To see my blood - leave me, my lady, leave me,
			Not to be touched by thunderbolt that comes.
			Let die alone me - but why I have to live
			When I find the liberty, the reason why
			I’ve striven for a lifetime, to be absurd.
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
	1030	Why do you hesitate?
		SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD
									 To him the death!
		ADAM
			I do not swear at this infamous crowd,
			The blame lies wholly with its weak nature:
			To be denounced by destitution as slave
			And slavery perverts it as to be the
	1035	Bloodthirsty pawn of some insolent rebels.
			Only me alone, only me was fool
			To think that such a freak crowd needs liberty.
		LUCIFER (aside)
			You recited the rhym’d epitaph for you
			And for some large graves of your late descendants.
		ADAM
	1040	Let me lead down from here. I don’t have recourse
			To this shrine.
(He lets himself lead down the steps putting EVE tenderly into the servant’ arms.)
							 Here you are - I am ready. -
		SECOND DEMAGOGUE
			Defend yourself, nothing is lost at all now.
		ADAM
			I would be heavily wounded if I would
			Speak up for me.
		SECOND DEMAGOGUE
								Do it, surely this crowd
	1045	Has just been crawling in the dust before you.
		ADAM
			Oh, this is why everything is in vain,
			The crowd does not overlook its self-disgrace.
		LUCIFER
			Did you undeceive yourself?
		ADAM
											 Oh, far too.
		LUCIFER
			Did you understand that you were nobler lord
	1050	Of this crowd than it was noble to you?
		ADAM
			Maybe, but both of them are damnations;
			Fate is the same but with different names.
			It is a vain hope to fight against it,
			And I’ll never do. - Why would any hot heart
	1055	Have high aspirations, why would it do?
			Be it retiring, be it search of delight
			To fill somehow the very short being, to
			Stagger deliriously to Hades. -
			Guide me, Lucifer, guide me to new ways
	1060	And I will laugh to see the virtues and
			Pains of others, while wishing delights only.
			And you, lady, who - I seem to remember -
			Conjured a bower out of the desert,
			If you want as respectable mother bring
	1065	Up my son to be a brave citizen,
			You’re mad, are justly mocked by the maid
			Sitting in the brothel with painted face
			And with wine-excited and inviting lips.
			Enjoy and pass time and deny virtue. -
	1070	Let me mount the scaffold, as I’m sentenc’d,
			Not because I could do any sordidness,
			But ’cause could be inspir’d by the great thoughts. -
(Meanwhile a block is brought in front of the steps, LUCIFER stands close to it with a hatchet. ADAM lowers his head.)
		FIRST DEMAGOGUE
			Put to death! The fatherland for ever!
		LUCIFER (whispering to ADAM)
			Nice farewell, it is. - Well, my fearless sir,
	1075	Are you not thrill’d now oddly enough by the
			Unfriendly wind of the wry-faced cold death? -
		EVE
			Oh, Pallas! You did not answer my prayer. -
(The spirit of death like a gentle young man comes out of the temple and walks up to ADAM with torch and wreath.)
		ADAM
			Pallas answered me. - Good-bye, good-bye,
			Lucia, my poor heart is satisfied.
		LUCIFER
	1080	Be you damn’d, illusory world of dreams,
			You spoiled my most beautiful hours again. -
		EVE
			Be you damn’d, you plebeian and rigid crowd,
			You treated brutally the happiness
			And its sweet flower was just stamp’d in dust.
	1085	Albeit, liberty is not so sweet to you
	1086	As painful and dolorous it was to me.

SIXTH SCENE
Rome. Open hall with sculptures of gods, vessels in which volatile oil is burning. View to the Appennines. - In the middle spread table with three couches. ADAM as SERGIOLUS, LUCIFER as MILO, CATULUS, all as leachers, EVE as JULIA, HIPPIA and CLUVIA as harlots carouse in frivolous dresses. GLADIATORS are fighting on a platform, slaves stand awaiting orders, flutists are playing. Twilight, later night.
		CATULUS
			Look, Sergiolus, how skilful and brisk
			Is this gladiator mark’d with red ribbon.
			I’ll be bound that he will defeat the other.
		ADAM
	1090	By Hercules! No!
		CATULUS
								Ah, by Hercules, and
			Who’s so crazy of us to believe in gods?
			Take Julia, I’m ready to believe.
		ADAM
			All right.
		LUCIFER
					   You swear to well-founded bases:
			You replaced the false god by an other one.
	1095	But tell us what to understand on this oath:
			Her beauty, her love are to be understood,
			Or just her unbroken faithfullness to you? -
		CATULUS
			Charm is short-lived and if it would not be,
			What now’s delighting, will be dull tomorrow,
	1100	And you’ll be seduced by the woman of
			Less worth, by the witching charm of novelty.
		ADAM
			I said her faithfullness. Or who squanders
			More on his lady than me?
		HIPPIA
											You’re silly!
			Can you endlessly even make love to her?
	1105	And if you could, you who are desirous of
			Grasping delight and are flighty in vain,
			Since only dispersed tiny fragments of
			Delight you can find in each woman you love,
			While the ideal of delight and beauty
	1110	Before you blinks as twinkling illusion;
			How do you know that one of its whims or a
			Daydream don’t allow herself to be tempted? -
			The crash’d muscles of a gladiator -
		ADAM
			That’s true, that’s true, Hippia, say not more,
	1115	Why this delight attracts me as Tantalus,
			When the Herculean power is missing
			And like Proteus we can’t change ourselves.
			And a despised slave delights in an hour
			After a painful week, that’s uselessly
	1120	Wanted by his lord. - Is delight only
			A glass of cold water to man be athirst
			And death to those who want to swim in it?
		LUCIFER
			What an illustrious moral course on
			The bosoms of fair girls and at flower’d cups. -
	1125	But what about your bet? -
		ADAM
											If I lost then
			Julia is yours.
		CATULUS
							If you win?
		ADAM
										  Your horse
			Is mine. -
		CATULUS
						To four weeks you can take it back,
			I thrust it else into the fishpond of mine. -
		LUCIFER
			Look, Julia, at this fine and thick fish:
	1130	Eat, you’ll certainly fatten an other.
		EVE
			No beastly worm does feast within you now?
			Be happy who lives, or when no chance is
			To be happy, have a good laugh at the least. (she drinks)
		ADAM (to the gladiator)
			Heigh! hold your own!
		CATULUS
									  Gallantly up ahead, go!
(The gladiator of CATULUS falls and imploring for his life he raises his fingers. ADAM wants to show the sign of clemency but CATULUS pins his hand and with clenched fist he turns thumb towards the gladiator.)
	1135	Recipe ferrum! - Coward freak! I have
			Enough slaves and I’m not so hard-fisted
			To stint this short but thrilling performance
			Of you, my dear and beautiful ladies,
			Since kissing is much more sweeter and the
	1140	Lust is warmer when some blood was pouring.
		(Meanwhile the gladiator was executed by the other.)
		ADAM
			The horse is mine, come Julia, kiss me, come.
			Slaves, carry out the corpse. - And you, dancers,
			Let you make now some comedy to us,
			That was enough for today.
(The corpse is carried out, dancers take their place on the platform.)
		CATULUS
											Cluvia!
	1145	To me, come, I cannot see a good while
			When others are kissing.
		LUCIFER
										 What about us,
			Hippia, do we follow their action?
			But smack your lips: are they not wet by poisons?
			Well, now we can enjoy ourselves, my darling.
		ADAM
	1150	Why your heart is beating so heavily,
			I don’t find, Julia my rest on it.
			(They are talking in undertones.)
		LUCIFER
			Listen, this fool’s speaking about the heart! -
		CATULUS
			You see, darling, I do not maltreat your heart,
			You make what you want, I don’t want to know,
	1155	If your kiss is hot and is free for me.
		CLUVIA
			You are kind-hearted! Hail! To your health this wine!
	 		(she drinks)
		CATULUS
			That’s right, Cluvia, but don’t refuse your
			Soft arms and delicate bosom from me,
			You see, my garland has slipped off my head. -
			(To the dancers)
	1160	Oh, that’s a favourable turn in your dance,
			It’s full of voluptuous fire and of charm!
		CLUVIA
			I cover your eyes and you will find there
			What is also my most eager desire
			And I cannot deserve even a good word. -
			(Pointing to LUCIFER)
	1165	But rather look at this vinegar-faced chap, -
			Why does he occupy this bonny girl,
			If the only good service to him is that
			To leave her being asleep and while he
			Treats with sardonic smile and with stony face
	1170	A lot of delightful though purposeless things
			That add relish to the conversation. -
		CATULUS
			Really, such a wry face is equal
			In a party to freeze the atmosphere.
			Who goes against the enchantment of seconds
	1175	And does not himself to be carried away,
			He’s good-for-nothing, I wish him to stay home. -
		HIPPIA
			Indeed, I feel frighten’d that in this fellow
			The black death devastating the country
			Has settled.
		ADAM
						  Away with this sorrowful
	1180	Nightmare, away. Sing us some piquant songs.
			Who of you’ll sing the most beautiful one?
		HIPPIA (sings)
			Wine together with love
			May be never enough;
			Every sort has its
	1185	Own flavour and spice.
			And rapture, delightful rapture
			Like sun all the subsided graves,
			Brightens and lights up our life.
			Wine together with love
	1190	May be never enough;
			All the maidens are
			Differently nice,
		ALL
			And rapture, delightful rapture
			Like sun all the subsided graves
	1195	Brightens and lights up our life
		CATULUS
			That’s very good, now Cluvia that’s your turn!
		CLUVIA (sings)
			In days gone by foolish world was that,
			Lucretia in her widow’s bed
			Was by a fair cavalier look’d for,
	1200	Her lips are silent, wants no delight more,
			She lays off into brothel to go,
			Stabs herself to death without ado.
		ALL
			Let’s be happy, this world better is,
			Let’s be happy, I am who here lives.
		CLUVIA
	1205	In days gone by foolish world was that:
			Brutus didn’t sit in his cabinet,
			Took his sword and has gone to contend
			Like a hireling but to what an end?…
			Fought for the ragged crowd’s peace and wealth
	1210	And on the bare ground he bled to death.
		ALL
			Let’s be happy, this world better is,
			Let’s be happy, I am who here lives.
		CLUVIA
			In days gone by foolish world was that:
			Ghosts upset the heroes, it was bad,
	1215	Thought as holy, we are laughing at
			And if there were somebody who’s mad,
			They could play in the circus in hood:
			For us as sight, for the wild as food. -
		ALL
			Let’s be happy, this world better is,
	1220	Let’s be happy, I am who here lives.
		LUCIFER
			Oh, Cluvia, you bore down Hippia.
			I’d like to be the poet of this nice song.
		ADAM
			You don’t sing, Julia, why are you grieve?
			Around us the others rejoice and laugh
	1225	Or you don’t like to have rest in my arms?
		EVE
			Oh, I do. But forgive me, Sergiolus,
			When happiness makes my brow darkened,
			I hold that this laugh is very false to me.
			The most delightful moment of us is
	1230	Spiced by one drop of an inexpressible grief,
			We guess perhaps, this moment is - flower,
			And thus languid.
		ADAM
								Ah, I have the same feeling.
		EVE
			Particularly if I hear music,
			I do not listen to the empty words,
	1235	But flood of sound will swing me like a ship,
			And I feel as to fall into a deep sleep:
			I fly back by this gentle sound to the past
			Beneath the sun-flooded palms I was there
			Unguilty and unsophisticated,
	1240	The mission of my soul was magnificent.
			Forgive me, all this is the enchantment of
			The crazy dream. - I kiss you again. - I wake.
		ADAM
			Away with music and dance, the flood of
			Eternal sweetness is mawkish to me,
	1245	My heart wants rather some bitterness and
			Some gall into my wine, a sting to the
			Reddening lips and disaster on me.
			(Dancers exeunt; wailing from outside.)
			What’s that wail, what is this spine-chilling shriek?
		LUCIFER
			Some madmen who dreamt of fraternity and
	1250	Equality before law, are crucified.
		CATULUS
			It serves them right, why they did not remain at
			Home while enjoying and forgetting the world,
			Why did they deal with business of others?
		LUCIFER
			Beggar does want the rich to be his brother,
	1255	Invert them and see, he will crucify you.
		CATULUS
			Let us laugh off misery and the power,
			The plague that takes its tithe of the people,
			And let us laugh off all fates of the gods.
			(Wailing again.)
		ADAM
			And I feel as to fall into a deep sleep
	1260	And fly back by this gentle sound to the past,
			The mission of my soul was magnificent. -
			You said so, Julia, did you?
		EVE
											Indeed.
(Meanwhile it grew dark. A funeral procession passes in front of the hall, with torches and wailing women. The whole company is wrapped in deep silence for a while.)
		LUCIFER (bursting into a laugh)
			As I see, merriness is gone away.
			The wine is over or the joke is lost
	1265	So that the vinegar-faced chap has enough?
			Or somebody of us maybe is fearing
			Or just was converted.
		ADAM (throwing his cup towards him)
									  Die, if you think.
		LUCIFER
			Well, I’ll invite a new guest in our ranks,
			Maybe he will bring here merriness again.
	1270	Hallo there! Slaves, hallo! bring him at once
			Who passes this way under the torchlight.
			We’ll offer him, after all, a glass of wine. - -
(Slaves carry in the corpse in an open coffin and put it on the table. The companionship remains in the background. LUCIFER drinks the health of the guest.)
			My nice chap! Drink! To-morrow me, to-day thee!
		HIPPIA
			Maybe you want rather a kiss.
		LUCIFER
												Embrace him
	1275	And steal out the obulus of his mouth.
		HIPPIA
			If I kiss you why not to kiss him at all?
(She kisses the corpse. PETER APOSTLE emerges from the attendants.)
		PETER APOSTLE
			Hold on! Hold on! You imbibe the black death itself!
			(All arise shrinking back in horror)
		ALL
			The black death it’s dreadful - let’s get out from here!
		PETER APOSTLE
			You caddish gang! - Coward generation,
	1280	Who while swimming in the goodwill of fortune,
			You are as cheeky as a cock-sparrow,
			You tread with mocking on God and virtue.
			But when disaster your window will shake,
			When you’re burden’d by almighty hand of God,
	1285	You come to heel with disgusting despair.
			Do you not feel that you are burden’d by the
			Judgement of God? Look ’round! only look ’round!
			The town is ruin’d and rude strangers are crushing
			Your standing ripe on your heavy earth,
	1290	Law is disorganized, nobody orders,
			Nobody obeys. Plunder and murder
			Haunt all over the peaceful and pleasant homes
			Follow’d by ghastly care and by horror
			And you have no help from heaven or earth.
	1295	You are unable to silence the voice with
			Intoxication of the nice delights
			That breaks the silence of your bosom’s depth
			And incites you to nobler aims in vain.
			To you this is by no means satisfaction,
	1300	Your heart’s disgusted only by delight,
			You glance round worried, your lips are trembling:
			All is in vain, you are free of faith in the
			Ancient gods that became disintegrated.
			(God-sculptures disintegrate.)
			These fall to dust and you don’t find new God
	1305	Who’d liberate you from dirtiness anew. -
			Well, look around! What devastates in your town
			With greater power than black death itself;
			Thousands leave their soft couches to take the road,
			To populate the large empty squares of
	1310	Thebais with infuriated hermits,
			To seek there for something to irritate and
			Excite their torpid, dull amativeness. -
			You’ll be exterminated, freak nation,
			From the purifying scene of this great world.
		HIPPIA (falling down in front of the table)
	1315	Oh, woe to me, that is a dreadful pain,
			I’m in cold sweat, I bath in Orcus’ fire -
			The plague, the plague - Oh, I’m lost, I was lost!
			Will nobody assist me out of you
			Who have shared with me so many delights?
		LUCIFER
	1320	To-day thee, my darling, to-morrow me. -
		HIPPIA
			Well, kill me then, kill me, else I swear at you.
		PETER APOSTLE (walking up to her)
			Don’t swear, my maid, don’t swear but be forgiving -
			I will assist you and also the great Lord,
			The eternal Lord of the holy love.
	1325	Arise to Him, see: by means of this water
			Your soul will be purified immediately,
			You hasten to Him. -
			(He baptizes her with water from a dish on the table.)
		HIPPIA
										Father - I relax. (dies)
		CATULUS (starts to go)
			I leave for Thebais even today.
			I am put off all the nefarious world.
		CLUVIA
	1330	Wait me, Catulus, I’ll go also with you. (exeunt)
		ADAM (Being lost in thoughts, comes to the foreground, EVE follows him.)
			And you, Julia, what are you doing here,
			Where death does allow no glimmer of delight?
		EVE
			Now, where I must be? Of course, where you are.
			Oh, Sergiolus, you could find a lot
	1335	Of generous feelings in my loving arms
			Where you were after passing delights only. -
		ADAM
			And was after them in myself, oh in vain!
			To perish miserably and pettily
			And till then to be in pain. If God does live,
	 		(He kneels down and lifts up his hands to heaven)
	1340	If He cares for and has power over us,
			Let Him bring new nations and new thoughts to this
			World, those to transfuse the freak race and these
			To allow the nobler to rise. I feel
			Everything we have possess’d, lost its glamour -
	1345	And to generate something new, our power
			Is insufficient. Answer me, my Lord.
(In the sky the cross occurs in glory. From behind the mountains the redness of burning towns is seen. From the peaks nomad troups descend. Devote hymn is heard from a distance.)
		LUCIFER (in himself)
			This scene gives me a thrill somehow in my heart,
			But I’ve to fight only against the man!
			He is doing for me what I can’t at all:
	1350	That’s a similar joke I have often seen.
			If the glory, yet slowly, will be lost,
			Remains for me there the bloodthirsty cross.
		PETER APOSTLE
			Lord has answer’d you. - Take a look around.
			The retrograded earth begins to revive.
	1355	These bearskinned, barbaric warriors
			Who set the luxurious cities afire,
			Whose horses stamp flat all what past centuries
			Produced and find their stockyard within the
			Desolated temples, will refresh the
	1360	Blood in the degenerated arteries.
			Those who sing hymns in the hippodrome while the
			Faming tigers tear to pieces their bosoms,
			Will bring new thought, that is fraternity and
			Liberation of the individuals,
	1365	That will the whole world stagger in its basis. -
		ADAM
			I feel, the soul’s eager for something that’s bright
			And differs from the vain and torpid delight;
			What can be a match to the bliss of bleeding
			Slowly the heart with some ecstatic feeling?
		PETER APOSTLE
	1370	Be your aim: Eternal glory to the Lord,
			And to you labour. The person is free
			To enforce all what he bears in himself,
			Bound by one and only order: by love.
		ADAM
			Arise to fight, arise to burn for the new
	1375	Tenet! Create a different and new world
			Crown’d by the heroic, knightly virtue and
			On its holy altar the exalted
			Idol of woman be the poetry.
	 		(He starts being supported by PETER.)
		LUCIFER
			Adam, impossibilities you attempt,
	1380	This is worthy of the man and just decent.
			It pulls you to heaven, this enjoys your Lord
	1382	And the devil who sees your hopeless effort. (follows ADAM)

SEVENTH SCENE
Constantinople. Market with some loitering citizens. - In the middle the palace of patriarch, in the right a nunnery, in the left a grove. ADAM as TANCRED, in the flower of his manhood comes accompanied by knights at the head of crusaders returning from Asia and with colours flying and with drums beating. LUCIFER as squire to him. Evening, then night.
		FIRST CITIZEN
			Here’s a barbaric troup coming again,
			Let’s run and close the doors and all the gates,
	1385	Not to provoke them to have taste for plunder.
		SECOND CITIZEN
			Let’s hide our ladies; this ferocious mob
			Knows fairly the delight of seraglios.
		FIRST CITIZEN
			Our ladies know the rights of conquerors.
		ADAM
			Stop there! Why do you run away from us, why?
	1390	Or do you not see this holy symbol
			That’s connecting us in fraternity? -
			We brought the light of our faith and the tenet
			Of love to Asia, where the holy
			Birth of our salvation rocked in the past,
	1395	So that the heathens be aware of its grace.
			Among you would not be the love at all?
		FIRST CITIZEN
			We have often heard this kind of oration
			And our house has been set afire at once.
			(They scatter in all directions.)
		ADAM (to the knights)
			Well, as you see this is the fatal result
	1400	When so many reavers wave the holy
			Banner but with hidden infamous plans
			And treacherously flattering the dull crowd
			Obtrude themselves unbidden to be the head. -
			My knight friends! Till our sword is contending
	1405	For the spotless honour, for glory of
			The Lord, for guard of women and for the
			Heroism, we are destined to keep within
			Bounds this ghastly and horrific demon,
			And guide it to make the great and superbness
	1410	Against its wishes and eagernesses.
		LUCIFER
			This sounds nice, Tancred, but if the crowd believes
			not any longer that you are its leader - -
		ADAM
			Where spirit is, there is the victory.
			I will stamp it flat.
		LUCIFER
								 And if it had spirit?
	1415	Do you condescend to it?
		ADAM
										 For what end?
			I think it would be nobler to inspire it. -
			To dispair of the hard struggle in lack of
			Comrades is just as petty as to leave out
			Somebody ungenerously of the game
	1420	’Cause being jealous of his well-deserved share.
		LUCIFER
			You see, how degenerated the great thought,
			The reason why the hippodrome’s martyrs died. -
			Is this the liberation of entity? - -
			That is a marvellous fraternity!
		ADAM
	1425	Don’t mock me. - Don’t think that I can’t comprehend
			The holy words. That’s the wish of my life. -
			Who bears the holy fire, may and must do,
			Who wins his way to us, he will be welcome,
			One sword-stroke gets him into our order,
	1430	But we have to preserve the treasures of
			Our order in this rioting confusion.
			Oh, I wish the fullness of time would come,
			Our salvation will come only true when all
			Limits fall down ’cause everything will be plain. -
	1435	I’d be doubtful of such a day to come
			When, who brought this great work into action,
			Would not have been the almighty Lord himself. -
			My dear friends, you saw how we were welcome here.
			Being lonely in this clamorous town
	1440	There’s nothing left but to encamp in that grove
			As it was our wont among the heathens
			And be patient till it falls out for the best.
			Let you start off, I’ll follow you and each knight
			Is responsible for his attendants.
		LUCIFER
	1445	It is great pity that your lofty thoughts
			Yield only the fruit that is red outside but
			Its flesh is powder only.
		ADAM
										  That’s enough!
			You don’t believe in something that is nobler?
		LUCIFER
			If I did, what good will that do to you if
	1450	Your race doesn’t. - This order of knighthood
			You put as Pharos into rolling sea, it
			Will blow out and will be ruin’d some day,
			And will be more fateful to bold passangers
			Than any other that has ever lighted. -
	1455	All what lives and acts while spreading the grace
			Will die some time, its spirit will be lost,
			The body survives as a ghastly beast
			While blowing out murderous miasmas
			Into the new world generated round it. -
	1460	You see, the greatnesses of past will be
			Preserv’d so.
		ADAM
							Till our order is ruin’d
			Maybe its holy word will affect the crowd,
			Then there’s no danger more.
		LUCIFER
											   The holy Word! - -
			This holy word is your curse, however,
	1465	If you hit on it, by chance, wherever:
			You eviscerate, make it turn and twist
			And keep it tapping with hardened fist,
			Till it will be madness or bonds of some kind
			’Cause no exact concept may enter your mind,
	1470	And yet you hunt for it, arrogant man,
			But it’s always to you a dreadful damn.
			Or look at this sword, be it either small
			Or long, its essence does not change at all.
			We may continue endlessly this talk
	1475	And where’s the point, where we will stop the walk?
			Your feeling will it immediately find
			When follows the change in a greater kind. -
			But it is tiring, why I wag my tongue,
			Look around yourself only for a long.
			(Some citizens re-enter again.)
		ADAM
	1480	My friends! My legion’s tir’d, it asks for retreat.
			Maybe here, in the seat of Christianity
			It is not in vain. -
		THIRD CITIZEN
								  Maybe you are much
			Worse in heresy than heathens are themselves.
		FOURTH CITIZEN
			What do you believe: Homousion
	1485	Or Homoiusion?
		ADAM
								That’s beyond me.
		LUCIFER
			Don’t admit it, that’s major above all.
		FOURTH CITIZEN
			He’s in doubt, he is also of false faith.
		MANY
			Leave them alone, let’s shut the door against them. -
			Let be accurs’d who provides them a shelter.
			(They pass away.)
(The PATRIARCH comes from his palace with princely pomp and companionship, followed by a group of friars escorting heretics in chain, soldiers and people bring up the rear.)
		ADAM
	1490	I’m lost in wonder! - Tell me who’s the prince
			Coming up so haughty and provokingly? -
		LUCIFER
			He is prelate, follower of apostles.
		ADAM
			And what’s this barefooted and dirty mob
			That escorts the people in chain with gloating
	1495	And with the malice of false humility?
		LUCIFER
			It’s a christian-cynic group of friars.
		ADAM
			I did not see these in my ancestral hills.
		LUCIFER
			You will see; you know, poisoning only
			Slowly spreads. But take care, don’t insult this
	1500	Folk that is highly moral and just thence
			Highly relentless.
		ADAM
								 Ah, what’s that may be
			The virtue of such an eccentric people?
		LUCIFER
			Asceticism and renouncement are their aim
			Commenced by your famous master on the cross.
		ADAM
	1505	This was the redemption of the world by him,
			But this mob blasphemes only the God like the
			Rebels looking down upon their favours.
			Anyone is fool who takes up the arm
			Against a gnat that is proper against
	1510	A bear.
		LUCIFER
					Maybe they mistake the gnat for
			The bear? - Or do they have no right to this?
			Have they no right also to send the rakes to
			The devil when feeling their heroism? -
		ADAM
			I see as Thomas and I am in doubt. -
	1515	I shall face bravely these hallucinations. -
			(He steps to the PATRIARCH.)
			Father! Now, warriors of the Holy
			Sepulchre we are, after our tiring way
			We cannot have rest in this settlement. -
			You are so powerful, please, give help to us.
		PATRIARCH
	1520	My son, I cannot deal with pitty affairs,
			I’ve to serve the glory of God and the
			Welfare of people: to condemn heretics
			Who sprinkling moral poisons grow as the weeds.
			And although we put them to fire and sword
	1525	The devil floods us with them with renew’d force. -
			But if you have been warriors of the cross,
			Why you seek Saracens so far away,
			Here you’ve more dangerous enemy. Up,
			Go into their thorps, kill them out, kill all the
	1530	Women, all the aged and all the children.
		ADAM
			Father, you dare not want to kill innocents! -
		PATRIARCH
			The serpent is innocent while it’s small
			Or when it lost its poison-tooth, and do
			You spare it?
		ADAM
							Indeed, it can be fearful
	1535	Crime that has infuriated the church
			Of eternal love.
		PATRIARCH
								My son! Oh, my son!
			No, not who flatters the flesh, loves in truth,
			Rather who orders the spirit to return
			Though by sword or through flares to the Eternal,
	1540	Who said: I brought not peace but rather fighting
			To this Earth. - In the mysterious tenet
			Of the Holy Trinity this false-hearted
			Mob preaches the homoiusion,
			While Church has decided: be the basis
	1545	Of confession the homousion. -
		FRIARS
			To death, to death, the stake is now flaming. -
		ADAM
			Give up, my friends this ominous “I”,
			Your fearlessness will be greater sacrifice
			In the great fight for the Holy Sepulchre. -
		OLD HERETIC
	1550	Satan, don’t tempt us, we shall bleed for our true
			Confession where God has foreordained.
		THE FRIAR
			You insolent! You boast of true confession?
		OLD HERETIC
			Did the Council of Rimini or some
			Others not speak for us?
		THE FRIAR
										 It went astray.
	1555	But at Nicaea and in other true
			Councils they gave the case for us, did not they?
		OLD HERETIC
			The factious did! - What a shameless attempt is
			To compete with us. Or tell me, tell me
			Have you any Doctors of the Church, like
	1560	Arius and the two Eusebius’s?
		THE FRIAR
			And have you any Athanasius?
		OLD HERETIC
			Where are your martyrs?
		THE FRIAR
										We have more than you have!
		OLD HERETIC
			Nice martyrs are who were beguiled by devil
			By its delusion and condemn’d them to death. -
	1565	I say, you have been the large Babylon,
			The courtesan that cited by Saint John,
			That will disappear from the scene of this world. -
		THE FRIAR
			The seven-headed dragon, the Antichrist
			You are, being cited by our Saint John.
	1570	You are truthless, you’re the devil’s disciples.
		OLD HERETIC
			Robbers, serpents, fornicators, murders…
		PATRIARCH
			Away with them! We’ve just now lost too much time,
			Burn them at stake, burn them to glory of God!
		OLD HERETIC
			That’s right, you evil, to glory of God,
	1575	The victim’s dying to his great glory. -
			You are powerful and do what you want,
			But your doing will be judg’d by heaven. -
			Your ill time is already numbered,
			New warriors will generate from our blood,
	1580	The thought is living and the blazing flame
			Will light over subsequent centuries. -
			Come friends, let’s go into the glorious death. -
		HERETICS (singing in choir)
			1. My God, My God, why desert me? Why do my cries of anguish bring no help?
			2. I cry by day, but thou wilt not reply, and no relief comes to me in the night.
			3. Yet, thou art throned, my God - - (Psalms, 22)
		FRIARS (interrupt in choir)
			1. Fight those who fight me, O thou Eternal, war on those who war on me;
			2. Seize the shield and buckler, stand up as my champion,
			3. Draw thy spear and battle-axe, to cope with my pursuers (Psalms, 35.)
(In the meantime the PATRIARCH and the procession march away. Some friars with written texts mingle with the crusaders.)
		LUCIFER
			Why do you stand silent, why you shudder?
			Do you consider it as tragedy?
	1585	Take as comedy, it will divert you.
		ADAM
			Alas! Don’t joke! - Is it true that for one “i”
			One can go so resolutely to die? -
			What’s then majestic and magnificent? -
		LUCIFER
			That maybe ridiculous to others.
	1590	One hair separates the two concepts only,
			A sound in your heart will vote for this or that,
			This mystic judge is sympathy that either
			Deifies or kills you with its mocking. -
		ADAM
			Why I looked at these sins only, that are
	1595	Captious fights in the superb science; this is
			Murderous poison being brilliantly
			Extracted from the most refreshing flower. -
			This beautiful flower, I knew it once,
			In early age of our pursued confession;
	1600	Where is the sinner who impoverish’d it?
		LUCIFER
			Sinner is, yes, the victory itself
			That subverts, bears thousands of interests.
			Danger binds and produces martyrs and
			Always confirms; it speaks for the heretics. -
		ADAM
	1605	Really, I would throw my sword away
			And would go back to my homeland in the north,
			Where in shade of intact ancient forests,
			The esteemed virtue, the pure simplicity
			Outdare all poisons of this false epoch,
	1610	If I wouldn’t be inspired by mystic words
			That I have to regenerate this epoch
		LUCIFER
			That’s useless effort. You’ll never assert
			The individual against his era:
			Age is a stream that carries or dips in,
	1615	Person is only swimmer, not leader. -
			Those who are said as great and those who have
			Some effects, have followed their centuries
			But did not create new and new concepts.
			Not the day is breaking ’cause cock is crowing,
	1620	But the cock crows because day is breaking. -
			Those who hurry there in chains to suffer the
			Martyrs’ death and are laughed at from everywhere,
			Only they have some guess through generations,
			The new thought will loom only among them;
	1625	And for which they die, their descendants will
			Breathe in it from the air almost free from care. -
			Enough of it! Let’s have a look at your camp,
			What that infamous friars are doing there,
			What they are selling, what they are speaking
	1630	With crazy and raging gesticulation. -
			Let’s listen to them.
		A FRIAR
									Champions, warriors,
			Take this book of expiation that will
			Be your guide in all your incredulities,
			This will teach you how long the murder and the
	1635	Fornicator, the sacrilegist and
			The prejurer will suffer all pains of hell.
			This will teach you that one year penalty
			Can be bought off by some twenty thalers
			By the rich and by three if you were poor,
	1640	And who cannot pay, can buy it off by
			Several thousands of hard cuts with whip. -
			Take this excellent book warriors, take it! -
		CRUSADERS
			Let me have it, let me have it, father! -
		ADAM
			He’s a bad huckster and buyers are worse,
	1645	Draw your sword and disperse this ugly market!
		LUCIFER (with some confusion)
			Forgive me, this friar’s my old fellow,
			And see, I do not hate so this kind of world,
			As though glory of Lord has taken me up,
			I have risen in rank just then with it.
	1650	Only you have remained somewhat lower.
(EVE as ISAURA and HELENE, chambermaid to her run shrieking to ADAM being pursued by some crusaders who slink away but immediately.)
		EVE (falling down)
			Save me, my champion!
		ADAM (supporting her)
										Oh, relax, my lady,
			Here you will have rest. Raise your charming eyes.
			Ah, what bewitching! - Tell, what has happen’d?
		HELENE
			We just took a rest in the open air,
	1655	In the shady thicket of our garden,
			We set about the fresh grass free from care
			And listen’d to the magic nightingale’s song;
			Suddenly we beheld two eyes brighting
			With wild flame from behind the thick-set bush.
	1660	Growing alarm’d we started to run and the
			Four crusaders pursued us with trampling steps,
			They just caught us up, when we found you here.
		ADAM
			I don’t know yet, do I wish you to wake up;
			Maybe you will leave me like a vision?
	1665	How a body can be so ethereal,
			Noble, so worthy of adoration. -
		LUCIFER
			Ethereal body! - That is true, oh, the fate
			Could not give more punishment to the lover
			For his craziness than to fulfil all that
	1670	He will say or believe about his sweetheart. -
		ADAM
			I seem to remember, I knew you once,
			We stood together, there at the stool of Lord.
		LUCIFER
			Would you be so kind as to not forget:
			As your love is entertaining in pairs,
	1675	It’s as not to the taste of a third party.
		ADAM
			She opens her eyes - smiles; thanks be to God!
		EVE
			My knight, you rescued me, how to thank to you?
		ADAM
			One word of your lips is the richest prize!
		LUCIFER (to HELENE)
			This prize is poor enough, I don’t win it? -
		HELENE
	1680	And what my thankfullness would be to you?
		LUCIFER
			Oho, you think that the generous knight
			Did rescue also you? What a vanity!
			When the knight does rescue the beautiful miss,
			His squire will surely rescue her chambermaid.
		HELENE
	1685	And what could I win? Am either thankful
			And it’s the same as danger caught me up;
			Or unthankful and thus also damn’d. -
			Albeit, pursuers were not so ugly.
		ADAM
			My lady! Where should I guide you to, tell me!
		EVE
	1690	In front of us there is the cloister’s door.
		ADAM
			The cloister you say? But tell upon your
			Honour, its door will not close the hope for me!
			Give me a sign to fasten it to this cross,
			While that calls me to fight in my duty,
	1695	Bring this back to me my most beautiful dreams
			And not to wait for everlasting years
			At the end of which my reward shimmers. -
		EVE
			Take this ribbon. -
		ADAM
									This pitch-black ribbon, this?
			Oh, my lady! Give me hope, not sorrow!
		EVE
	1700	This sign is mine, I can’t give else to you.
			Within the cloister there will be no hope.
		ADAM
			And no love, of course. But where you are, there
			Must be love, my lady, there must be love!
			I see your guise, this shows you are not novice.
		EVE
	1705	Do not beset me with your urgent questions,
			But you beset me when I see your grief grows.
		LUCIFER
			So will this mystic door close also you?
		HELENE
			Indeed, but its key is not thrown into sea.
		LUCIFER
			What a pity - I could fabricate a nice
	1710	Elegy of this case. -
		HELENE
									You are false, get out!
		LUCIFER
			But why? Is it not magnificent thought
			To submerge to the seafloor for your key?
		HELENE
			Oh, I do not wish this.
		LUCIFER
										I’m off at once. -
			The depth’s monster bears ill will towards me.
		HELENE
	1715	Come back, come back, oh, I will die of fear -
			The key will be sooner in my window. -
		ADAM
			Well then, let me know your name at the least,
			Let me remember it in my hot prayer,
			To ask benediction to you, if you
	1720	Refuse to share the mourning of your fate.
		EVE
			Isaura is my name and what is yours?
			Prayer better suits those who are cloister’d.
		ADAM
			My name’s Tancred.
		EVE
									Tancred, farewell to you.
		ADAM
			Isaura, do not so suddenly leave me,
	1725	Else I shall swear at the name you said first
			When you said the unhappy farewell to me. -
			This minute was short even for a dream,
			How can I keep it on, you’ll be secret
			And I’m unable to embroider it with
	1730	Thread of your fate? -
		EVE
										Let you know my sad fate.
			My father fought for the Sepulchre, too,
			Once in a night the wild enemy broke in
			Upon him and his camp with fire and sword,
			There was no hope to fly from before them.
	1735	He made a holy vow to Blessed Virgin:
			Me, who at that time was a child only,
			To offer for her if he will return.
			Returned, and now I communicated
			At this assurance.
		ADAM
								 Oh, Holy Virgin!
	1740	You, who are the incarnated pure love,
			You didn’t draw back with injury from this
			Blasphemous assurance that does condemn
			All your virginal and graceful virtues,
			Turning into curse the divine aid of God. - -
		HELENE
	1745	And you, you do not want to know my fate?
		LUCIFER
			I know: you loved and were disappointed,
			You loved again and already you deceiv’d,
			Again you loved - you’d enough of your gallant,
			Now your empty heart waits for a new prey.
		HELENE
	1750	It’s strange! Maybe you’ve a pact with the devil;
			But I didn’t believe you so meek to be
			That you will figure my heart to be empty.
		LUCIFER (to ADAM)
			My lord, be quick, you can’t bid farewell to her
			And I can’t prevent my total victory.
		ADAM
	1755	Isaura! All your words are stings in my heart,
			Let its poison be sweeten’d by a kiss.
		EVE
			My knight, what do you wish - you heard my vow.
		ADAM
			Maybe, it’s not forbidden me to love you.
		EVE
			You’re happy but how shall I forget you?
	1760	Tancred, I start or all my powers fail.
			Good-bye, farewell! - We shall meet in the heaven.
		ADAM
			Farewell. - This day’s memory will never fade.
			(EVE enters the cloister.)
		HELENE (aside)
			You poltroon - have I to do everything? (aloud)
			Key will be in window, not in the sea. (follows EVE)
		ADAM
	1765	Well, let’s go. -
		LUCIFER
								It’s too late. It is finish’d.
			You see how crazy is your breed at all,
			He takes the woman once as object of his
			Brutal wish and dusts the bloom of poetry
			Of her face with roughened hands stripping
	1770	Himself without consideration of
			The most graceful flowers of his sweetheart; -
			Then puts her on the altar as goddess
			And bleeds and contends for her but in vain,
			Till her kiss will unprofitably fade. -
	1775	Why he does not consider and esteem her
			As a woman in her female vocation?
(Meanwhile it has become dark, the Moon rises, ISAURA and HELENE in the window.)
		EVE
			How longing were his eyes, how he trembled,
			Ah, this heroic man trembled before me,
			But my chastity and faith are above all -
	1780	I pass away here as holy victim.
		HELENE
			It’s wonderful how crazy our sex is!
			When she does break with her prepossessions,
			Runs for delights as a riotous beast,
			Tears away the dignity from her visage
	1785	And flounders in the mud, held in contempt;
			When not, is afraid of her own shadow
			And lets wither away her useless charms
			Stealing the delight from her and the other. -
			Why she doesn’t choose happy mean? Or why
	1790	Is hurtful to have a passing fancy
			Though with propriety. That’s beyond me,
			The woman has not been a spirit only.
		EVE
			Helene, look around, he’s standing there?
			How could he so easily run away.
	1795	I wish to hear, to hear his voice again!
		ADAM (to LUCIFER)
			Oh, look around, maybe she stands in window,
			And maybe she will send a glance after me.
			I wish to see her slim figure again! - Oh,
			Isaura, do not regret me to be here.
		EVE
	1800	It would be better for us, you were not here.
			Broken hearts can easily unite and
			It’s painful when they are torn from each other.
		ADAM
			Do you not fear to listen to the calm night,
			That like the heart beats from the love itself
	1805	And only we are forbidden to love?
			Do you not fear: its charm will sweep away? - -
		EVE
			This lives inside me, too, like a magic dream
			That haunts this world perhaps from heaven only;
			Wonderful, nice sings vibrate in the air,
	1810	In leafy crowns we saw thousands of spirits
			With smiling eyes and fraternal kisses,
			But they will speak to us, Tancred, nevermore.
		ADAM
			But why? Does this unkind wall hamper me? -
			Having exacted ransom from the heathens,
	1815	Is it beyond me as to pull down this wall? -
		LUCIFER
			It is, ’cause the time-spirit protects it
			And is stronger than you.
		ADAM
										  Ah! Who says that!
			(In the background the flame of a stake lights up.)
		HERETICS (in choir from afar)
			20. Rescue me from the sword, save my life from these cub
			21. Pluck me from the lion’s jaws, pluck my unhappy soul from these 
				  wild oxen’s horns.
			22. Then shall I tell my fellow of thy fame and praise thee in our gathering.
		EVE
			My Lord, be merciful to their sinful souls! -
		ADAM (drawing back in horror)
			Oh, what frightful song!
		LUCIFER
										That’s your wedding-song.
		ADAM
	1820	No matter, be it, I will not take fright.
			For you I fly in face of everything.
		FRIARS (in choir from afar)
			26.	Shame and dishonour cover those who are insolent to me!
			27.	But may they shout for joy, may they be glad, who love to see me righted!
					May they have ever cause to say: “All hail to the
					Eternal, who loves to see his servant prospering!”
(Simultaneously with the commence of this choir ADAM having walked up to the cloister’s door, stops again, on the tower a sparrow owl howls, witches are flying in the air, in front of the door a skeleton gets up and stands threateningly in front of ADAM.)
		EVE (swinging the window to)
			My Lord, help me!
		SKELETON
								  Be off this holy groundsel.
		ADAM
			Who are you ghost?
		SKELETON
									That’s me who will be in all
			Your wry kisses and in all your embracements. -
		WITCHES (laughing)
	1825	Sweet standing corn, harsh-flavour’d fruits,
			By small pigeons the serpent broods,
			Isaura, you’re invited!
		ADAM
										What phantoms!
			You have become transformed or just myself?
			I knew, I knew you when you were smiling.
	1830	What is the verity and what is dream here?
			My arms languish to your magic power.
		LUCIFER
			Ah, I happen’d to meet this nice company.
			I have long been expecting this encounter,
			Decent and beauty brood of nice witches
	1835	That, in spite of everything, shines down highly
			The nak’d nymphs in its baffling impertinence;
			This old comrade, the dreadful ghastly death
			Who, when distorting the rigid virtue,
			Fills the human being with loathing for it.
	1840	To thee all hail! What a pity that I am
			Busy and can’t cackle away time with you. -
			(Phantoms disappear.)
			Arise, Tancred! Arise! Your sweetheart swang the
			Window to; why we’re standing here in the night?
			Wind is cold, you will be afflicted with gout.
	1845	Helene is coming and what can I do?
			The devil himself will surely not make love,
			He would lay himself open to ridicule
			And would engorge his power by himself. -
			That’s wonderful! The human being yearns for
	1850	Love with ardent heart but gains only pains.
			With stony heart the devil is forced to seek
			For chances to free himself in time from it.
		ADAM
			Guide me to new spheres, guide me, Lucifer!
			I went into fight for the holy thoughts
	1855	And found only curse in sordid perception,
			Man was sacrificed to the glory of Lord
			And man was freakish to fill my ideal.
			I wanted to improve all our delights
			And our delights were all stigmatized as sins,
	1860	I set the virtue of knights and this plunged
			Dagger into my heart. Let’s get out from here.
			I made perfectly clear what’s my moral worth,
			I knew the mode to contend and to renounce,
			I can leave my post free of being shamed.
	1865	I don’t want to be animated more,
			The world in any motion be as wants,
			I will not more repair its impelling force
			Looking at its slips impassively.
			I am tired. - I want to have a rest.
		LUCIFER
	1870	Have a rest then. But I hardly believe
			That your mind, this turbulent force allows
	1872	To have a rest. Adam, come, come after me.

EIGHTH SCENE
Prague. The garden of the imperial palace. In the right there is a bower, in the left a tower for astronomic observation with a large balcony, with Kepler’s desk, chair and astronomic tools. LUCIFER as famulus to KEPLER stands on the balcony. In the garden courtiers and ladies are walking in groups, among them EVE as BARBARA, wife to Kepler. - Emperor RUDOLPH with ADAM as KEPLER are standing and talking. In the background a stake of a heretic is burning. Evening, later night. Two COURTIERS come to the foreground.
		FIRST COURTIER
			Who is there getting nicely warm again,
			A heretic or a witch?
		SECOND COURTIER
									  I don’t know.
	1875	It is out of fashion me to care for it.
			Only the dregs gather around the stake
			And they are not raving with happiness
			But look around and murmur in themselves, too.
		FIRST COURTIER
			In olden days it was a celebration
	1880	With the court and nobility present.
			Ah, so degenerate the good old times. -
			(They pass away.)
		LUCIFER
			This cool evening fire gives pleasure to me,
			Certainly, it has warmed for very long times,
			But I’m afraid, it’ll burn out within a while
	1885	Being put out not by manly decision,
			Being not replac’d by new ideas,
			But in this age that’s free of interest,
			Nobody will stir up the glowing embers
			And I will be cold. - All great thoughts have the fate
	1890	To suffer finally this petty come-down.
			(He enters the tower.)
			(RUDOLPH and ADAM enter the forestage.)
		RUDOLPH
			Cast, Kepler, my horoscope, in the night
			I had a nightmare and I am fearing
			About the constellation of my star.
			Rather ill omen has occurred not long
	1895	Ago in its ring, there at the serpent’s head.
		ADAM
			I’ll do it, as your majesty order’d.
		RUDOLPH
			When these cliacteric days are over
			Again we’ll also commence the masterpiece
			That has remained lately unsuccessful.
	1900	Again I’ve studied Hermes Trismegistus,
			Synesius, Albertus, Paracelsus,
			The Key of Solomon and other works
			Until I recognized where we were at fault.
			As we made the antiquated king sweat,
	1905	The raven and the red lion have occurr’d,
			Then the Twofold Mercury has develop’d
			On the joint effect of the two planets
			And the elixir of ores descended.
			But we made a blunder in the wet fire,
	1910	In dry water and this is only why
			Holy wedding, the great result did not come
			That’s rejuvenating the blood of greybeards
			And sublimates the worthless metallic vein.
		ADAM
			I see, your majesty.
		RUDOLPH
								   Just one word more.
	1915	Bad tale is going about you in the court:
			You join’d yourself to believe in new doctrines,
			You screen the tenets of the Holy Church;
			And now when your mother is imprison’d and
			Lies under charge the heaviest can be,
	1920	You will be under grave suspicion, too,
			When you are trying to release her so
			Headily and indefatigably.
		ADAM
			But your majesty! I’m the son to her!
		RUDOLPH
			The Holy Church, son, is your true mother,
	1925	Let world exist, it is the best as it is,
			Don’t want to improve it like a botcher. -
			Or did I not shower blessings on you?
			You know, your father was an innkeeper,
			I did set your nobility behind doubts
	1930	Though that was for me to worry about.
			I raised you up to my throne and you got
			The hand of Barbara Muller only so.
			Thus, I repeat my son, be careful of you. (exit)
(ADAM being absorbed in thought stops at the step of the balcony. Two COURTIERS come to the forestage.)
		THIRD COURTIER
			Look, how the star-gazer’s brooding again.
		FOURTH COURTIER
	1935	Anxiety is always with him, the poor.
			He tried to be used to new demands in vain,
			Vulgarity is written on his face.
		THIRD COURTIER
			He cannot comprehend that the true knight,
			Adoring though the woman like a goddess,
	1940	Is ready to lay down his blood for her
			If chastity of her would be defamed; -
			He suspects lurking thoughts in reverence.
		EVE (Joins the two COURTIERS with an other group and while laughing 
			   she beats the shoulder of the SECOND COURTIER with her fan.)
			By God, mylord, be merciful to me, ’cause
			I die almost about your jokes with laughter. -
	1945	Look here, how grave these two gentlemen are. -
			Maybe the fatal spirit of reform
			Has occupied both your soul and your mind?
			Yes? Then get out! I do strongly dislike
			The race that with its bitter and woeful mind
	1950	Grew envious of our bright and quiet
			World and works hardly to create an other.
		THIRD COURTIER
			This charge, my lady, does not concern us,
			Who would be so mad to want to change this scene?
		FIRST COURTIER
			If I don’t mistake, there’s a man standing
	1955	With these dark imprints on his stony face.
		EVE
			My poor husband? - For God’s sake, my good lords,
			Spare him the mistrust of this kind when speaking
			With me, who is bound to him with holy
			Bonds. - ’Cause he is ill, he is very ill.
		SECOND COURTIER
	1960	This illness is caused perhaps by these bright eyes?
		THIRD COURTIER
			In truth, what nobody dares, he would affront
			Her with a jealous and false apprehension? -
			Oh, I wish I were your knight, I would fling
			The gauntlet to this audacious fellow.
			(Meanwhile they walk to ADAM)
	1965	Oh, master! I am happy to meet you,
			I just want to visit my goods and chattels,
			I need a weather forecast.
		FIRST COURTIER
											For my part
			I want to know the horoscope of my son,
			He was born just last night, and in the small hours.
		ADAM
	1970	For morning, my lords, both will be ready.
		FOURTH COURTIER
			Society breaks up, let’s also go.
		THIRD COURTIER
			Here is the staircase - good night, my lady.
			(whispering)
			In an hour.
		EVE
						In the right, in the bower.
			(aloud)
			Good night, my lords. - Come, come with me my John.
(COURTIERS exeunt, ADAM and EVE walk to the balcony, ADAM sits down in the armchair. EVE stands in front of him. It grows slowly dark.)
		EVE
	1975	John, darling, I would need some money in cash.
		ADAM
			I have not a penny, you’ve flung away all.
		EVE
			Is constant necessity of my fate?
			The court-ladies are blazing like the peahens,
			And I’m ashamed to appear among them.
	1980	That is true, when one of the courtiers
			Bends towards me and tells with broad smile that
			The queen I am, the only queen of court,
			I feel ashamed of you, who presents her
			To the majestic court, the queen as she is.
		ADAM
	1985	Do I not work to death at day and night?
			I have betrayed my knowledge only for you,
			And poison it when making these useless
			Weather forecasts and crazy nativities.
			I keep to myself what my mind explores
	1990	And proclaim what I know not to be true.
			I have to be abash’d, worse I became
			Than the sibyls who did believe in all that
			They augured and I do not believe in.
			But I do it and I try to please you
	1995	And what I’m doing with the blood money?
			I have need for nothing in this funny world,
			I need only the night and its bright stars,
			Only the mystic harmony of the spheres,
			The surplus is your. - But you must know, the
	2000	Emperor’s pouch is most often empty
			And most of the bills are paid with some delay.
			What I’ll get in the morning, will be yours
			And you’re unthankful, this gives pain to me.
		EVE (crying)
			You reproach me what you have done for me,
	2005	Did I spend not enough on you at all?
			The daughter of a noble family, yes,
			When having joined my fate to your doubtful rank
			And not this is why you could attain to the
			High court? You, you are unthankful, deny it. -
		ADAM
	2010	Are mind and knowledge doubtful ranks at all?
			Is on my brow the bright heavenly beam
			Of ambiguous, misty origin?
			Outside this, where, where is nobility?
			What you call nobility, it’s only
	2015	A moulder’d phantom, that’s free of its soul,
			But that of mine is eternal and strong. -
			Oh, my lady, if you could conceive me,
			If your soul would akin to me, as I
			Believed it when you kissed me at first,
	2020	You would be proud within me and would not look
			For happiness outside my lonely world;
			You would not unbosom all sweetness of you
			To the world and would not keep everything
			That is bitter as gall for our own poor hearth. -
	2025	Oh, lady, I loved you with all my heart
			And even now I love you, but the honey
			You gave me has turned bitter in my soul.
			It’s painful to see how noble you’d be
			If you could be woman: fate degraded you
	2030	To nothing that’s deified as a pawn;
			As was deified by medieval knights,
			But at that famous time they believed in her,
			Now, nobody believes, the age is freak,
			The pawn-god conceals only faults and crime. -
	2035	I’d be divorced from you and though it’s painful
			I’d pull out my heart in hope of restfullness
			And so you could be free of me more happy;
			But in vain, there is the existing order:
			And this fame - the word of our Holy Church:
	2040	We have to bear till are beyond the grave.
(He reposes his head on his hands, EVE strokes him with emotion.)
		EVE
			My John, do not take it so serious
			When I tell sometimes, not often, this and that,
			I did not want to make you dolorous.
			But see, the high court is so marvellous
	2045	And ladies are so haughty and mocking,
			Why I have to fly in proud face of them?
			We aren’t on bad terms more, is it not so?
			Good night, - for morning don’t forget the cash.
			(She walks down into the garden.)
		ADAM
			Woman! What a fantastic mixture of the
	2050	Ill and good, composed of poison and honey.
			Why she attracts? Because good of her own,
			But her crime’s of her age that her begot.
			Famulus!
(Enters LUCIFER with a lantern and puts it on the table.)
		LUCIFER
					 What can I do for you, Sir?
		ADAM
			A weather forecast and a nativity
	2055	Are what I need, please prepare these at once.
		LUCIFER
			Indeed, bright and promising ones, of course;
			Who would pay for the stubborn facts in cash?
		ADAM
			But do not these so as to be absurd.
		LUCIFER
			Maybe, it is beyond my power to call
	2060	Phantoms that would the parents scandalize.
			Is not the new arrival Messiah,
			A bright star, occurr’d on the family’s sky
			That grows later to as cheeky as common.
(In the meantime EVE got the bower, the THIRD COURTIER comes forward.)
		THIRD COURTIER
			How long you make me pine, you are so cruel.
		EVE
	2065	Maybe, it’s too great sacrifice to you
			To suffer frosty winds during the night,
			While I am unfaithful to my good husband,
			And draw upon myself the heaven’s curse
			And judgement of the world for you, my knight?!
		THIRD COURTIER
	2070	Oh, curse of heaven and judgement of the world
			Will not reveal the secret of this bower.
		ADAM (meditating)
			I wanted the age that fights for nothing,
			When traditions of the society,
			When these consecrated preconceptions
	2075	Are intact and when I can have a rest,
			When it is allowed me to wait for the
			Healing of my wounds with phlegmatic smile. -
			The age came but why, if here in my bosom
			The soul lives, this holy, painful heritage
	2080	That the silly man got from the heaven. -
			It wants to be active, and allows no rest
			And fights against the inactive enjoyment. -
			Hey! Famulus, bring wine, I so shudder,
			This frosty world I must warm up with this wine.
	2085	In this freak age you have to be ardent and
			Can leave its abusing muck only this way.
(LUCIFER brings wine, ADAM plies the bottle till the end of scene.)
			Ah, you infinite sky, uncover to
			Me your mystic and consecrated great book;
			When I have learnt the secrets of your laws,
	2090	I forget my age and everything of me.
			You are perpetual, and that is mortal,
			And you exalt while that grieves deeply me.
		THIRD COURTIER
			Oh, Barbara, if you could be only of mine!
			If Lord would take to himself your husband
	2095	To better understand the order of sky,
			What he dreamt of through his laborous life.
		EVE
			Silence, my knight, I’d be sorry for him
			So you could not among my tears a kiss win.
		THIRD COURTIER
			You play a joke.
		EVE
								I tell you even the truth.
		THIRD COURTIER
	2100	Who can perceive this mystic frame of mind?
			Barbara! So you don’t love me at all.
			Or, tell me, if I were poor or banish’d
			What would you do for your true devotee?
		EVE
			That is beyond me, upon my honour.
		ADAM
	2105	Will be there any age that will melt this
			Rigid apathy and will be facing the
			Old-fashioned lumbers with renew’d hopes and force
			That will be judge, that will punish and clear,
(He stands up and walks with a stagger to the margin of the balcony.)
			That does not shrink back from magnificent tools,
	2110	Does not fear to say the words out of sight,
			That will rush down on its disastrous way
			As some gigantic rolling mass, that may
			Perhaps crush him who denominated it.
			(The melody of the Marseillaise is heard.)
			I hear, I hear the hymn of the future,
	2115	I found the magic words, the great talisman
	2116	That will rejuvenate this age-worn world.

NINTH SCENE
The scene turns suddenly to Paris, place de Greve. The balcony turns into a guillotine-platform, the desk into the guillotine itself, besides it LUCIFER stands as executioner. ADAM as DANTON makes a speech to the buzzing crowd. A group of recruits occurs with drums beating and the group aligns at the guillotine. Bright day.
		ADAM (continuing)
			Egality, fraternity, liberty! -
		THE CROWD
			To all the death who don’t agree with it!
		ADAM
			I say also this. - Two words save the great
	2120	Thought that’s now highly threaten’d from everywhere,
			We tell one of these to all who’re loyal:
			“The homeland’s in danger” and they will awake,
			The other’s thunder’d to the crime and sounds so:
			“Be in fright” - and they’ll be annihilated.
	2125	Kings have revolt against us and we now flung
			Before them the head of our reigning prince,
			Also the clergy rebell’d against us:
			Their false lightning was wrested out of their hands
			Laying back the pure reason to its high throne.
	2130	The other message, sent to brave men by
			Our fatherland is not repeated yet.
			Eleven armies combat at the borders
			And what heroic youth streams without cease
			To replace all the heroes killed in action.
	2135	Who declares that ferocious craziness
			Will decimate the great generous nation?
			When ore is boiling, the slag will fall out
			And the precious part will be well preserv’d.
			And let us be ferocious or bloodthirsty,
	2140	Or let us be consider’d as monsters,
			I do not care for my name, be it accurs’d,
			It’s all one, only the homeland be free. -
		RECRUITS
			Give arms, give arms and a captain us!
		ADAM
			Well said! That’s true! You want arms only for you
	2145	Though you are short of any other goods,
			Your dress got tatter’d and you are barefooted,
			But with your bayonets you will gain all,
			’Cause you will triumph. People’s invincible.
			One of our generals was executed,
	2150	Who allow’d to be defeated at the
			Head of his army.
		THE CROWD
								He was a traitor!
		ADAM
			You are right. People has no riches but
			Only its blood that it sacrifices
			With generosity to the fatherland. -
	2155	Who is in command of this holy treasure
			And is unable to conquer the world, now
			He is a traitor. -
			(An OFFICER leaves the ranks.)
		THE OFFICER
								Please, put me in his place,
			Citizen, and I’ll wipe out this insult.
		ADAM
			Your overconfidence’s praiseworthy, my friend,
	2160	To prove, you will be true to your promise,
			It’s your duty to show in the front line.
		THE OFFICER
			This guarantee exists within my soul,
			And, by the way, I have also my head,
			Maybe that’s more worthy than that you cut off.
		ADAM
	2165	Who ensures me that you’ll bring it if I ask?
		THE OFFICER
			The best guarantee I am in myself,
			Who makes ever nothing of his own life.
		ADAM
			This cannot be the believe of the youth.
		THE OFFICER
			Citizen, I summon you to do it.
		ADAM
	2170	Be patient, you will reach your aim some day.
		THE OFFICER
			I see, you don’t trust in me, citizen,
			Let you be of better belief about me.
			(He blows out his brains.)
		ADAM
			Poor fellow, he would deserve a bullet
			Of the enemy. My friends, carry off him. -
	2175	See you again soon, after victory.
			(The recruit army marshes off.)
			Oh, I wish I could share your envied fate. -
			But my only share is the fight, not glory,
			Not that enemy by whom it’s nice to fall,
			But that who treacherously watches for
	2180	Me and my fatherland with its practices.
		THE CROWD
			Put your finger on and death, death to him!
		ADAM
			Whom I could point out, are already died.
		THE CROWD
			And who are suspected? - They are guilty
			In addition, they are stigmatized by
	2185	Public anger, this unfailing oracle. -
			Death, death to the aristocracy of blood! -
			Let’s go to prison cells and let’s fulfil the
			Law, the people’s law is consecrated.
			(The crowd starts towards the prisons.)
		ADAM
			Danger is not there, the bolt’s strong enough,
	2190	The stinking heavy air that anyhow
			Kills the soul and body, helps to you, leave them.
			Treachery laughs with head erect, and sets
			Dirk on the benches of Convent for you.
		THE CROWD
			Up to the Convent! It consists not of the
	2195	Wanted members. - No, let the Convent put off,
			Let’s go first to prisons, to have some practice,
			And till then, Danton, gather the names of
			All traitors.
(The crowd exits with threats. In the meantime some SANS-CULOTTES carry a young MARQUIS and EVE as sister to him in front of the platform.)
		A SANS-CULOTTE
							Danton, here you are, we bring
			Two young aristocrats again to you,
	2200	This haughty visage and these white dresses
			Show their undoubtful heavy guiltiness!
		ADAM
			Oh, what a generous pair. Come to me here.
		THE SANS-CULOTTE
			Let us follow our comrades rapidly
			Where labour for us and storm for traitors wait.
(SANS-CULOTTES go away with the crowd, the MARQUIS and EVE get up the platform around which only a few guards remain.)
		ADAM
	2205	I cannot perceive my sympathy to you,
			I save you, however for my own risk.
		THE MARQUIS
			No, Danton, not so, if we were guilty,
			When you don’t judge us, you betray your homeland,
			If we were not, we need not your empty grace.
		ADAM
	2210	Who’re you, how you dare to speak to me so?
		THE MARQUIS
			I am marquis. -
		ADAM
								Wait! Or do you not know:
			We have no titles except “citizen”?
		THE MARQUIS
			As far as I know, our king did not suppress
			The titles.
		ADAM
						Unlucky fellow, that’s enough,
	2215	This guillotine is also just eavesdropping. -
			Enter our army, your calling is sure.
		THE MARQUIS
			I have no permission from my sovereign
			To enter an other foreign army.
		ADAM
			Then you will die.
		THE MARQUIS
								 It’s one person more in
	2220	My family who suffer death for the king.
		ADAM
			Why do you run into the foolhardy death?
		THE MARQUIS
			Do you think, this generous privilege is
			Only your plebeian priority? -
		ADAM
			You do defy me, I’ll defy you, too.
	2225	Who’ll be stronger? I save you despite your will,
			And my gesture will be accepted by
			The well-balanc’d times to come that will be
			Free of party quarrels. - National guards! Come,
			Carry to my home, you’re liable for him!
			(Some armed guards escort the MARQUIS.)
		EVE
	2230	Brother, be firm!
		THE MARQUIS
								Sister, the Lord be with you. - (exit)
		EVE
			Here you have a head, not worse than Roland’s one.
		ADAM
			Oh, delicate lips, do not tell so hard words.
		EVE
			On the scaffold no tender words have been used.
		ADAM
			My only world is this horrific platform.
	2235	When you enter’d it, a piece of heaven
			Has descended and closed me in its shrine.
		EVE
			The brute beast to be sacrificed was not
			Mock’d by sacerdotal society.
		ADAM
			Take for granted, the victim is myself.
	2240	And if they are envious of my lordship,
			I look at my royal chair without the
			Happiness, disdaining both the life and death,
			Hundreds are falling down here from day by day
			And I wait the time when my turn follows. -
	2245	In these torrents of blood I’m anguish’d by the
			Loneliness and guess: how good would be to love. -
			Oh, lady, could you teach me this knowledge
			Of heaven only for one day - next day I
			Would put my proud head under axe without fear. -
		EVE
	2250	In this world by horror haunted you want love,
			Your conscience does not scare you away? -
		ADAM
			Conscience has been privilege of the
			Commons; who’s govern’d by the fate itself,
			Has no time to go ahead with foresight. -
	2255	Have you ever heard that the storm will stop
			When the weak rose keeps bending on its way? -
			And who would be temerarious enough
			To judge representatives of the commons?
			Who foresees the fate that guides on its scene
	2260	Either a Brutus or Catilina?
			Or it’s believ’d that who became famous,
			Will abandon his human being and
			Turns into a superhuman spirit
			Who is not interested in the scorn’d
	2265	Relations and in the worries of life. -
			Alas! The heart pulses also on the throne
			And if Caesar has had a sweetheart, so
			She perhaps knew him merely as nice boy,
			And she had not the slightest idea
	2270	That the world fears and is shaken by him. -
			And if it’s so, tell why you could not love me?
			Are you not woman and me not a man?
			It is said that heart either hates or loves
			As it is its own since it’s coming to life:
	2275	I feel that my heart is related to yours,
			And you, lady, could not conceive this word? -
		EVE
			And if so, what’s the use of it? You are
			With other God than I have in my heart.
			We shall each other never understand. -
		ADAM
	2280	Let be your outmoded ideals off!
			Why do you sacrifice the old banish’d gods?
			Altar is the only due of woman
			That is always young - and this is the heart.
		EVE
			Oh, deserted altar may also have
	2285	Martyrs. Oh, Danton, it’s more majestic
			To preserve the remains with reverence
			Than to cry hail to the uprushing power;
			And this mission fits much better the woman.
		ADAM
			Nobody saw me to become maudlin
	2290	And if he saw now, enemy or friend,
			That the man, hunted by the cruel fate
			To purify the world like a roaring storm,
			Makes a pause on the scaffold and wants to love,
			He stops at a young maid with tears in his eyes:
	2295	One would forebode that Danton will be fail’d,
			He would laugh loudly, nobody would feel fear. -
			Yet, I implore you for a beam of hope.
		EVE
			When your soul will relent beyond the grave
			And puts off the bloody dust of this age -
	2300	Maybe -
		ADAM
						Don’t tell more, my maid, don’t tell more,
			I do not believe in that other world,
			My fight is illusory against my fate.
(The crowd re-enters with bloody arms and with bleeding heads on spears, some from the crowd reach as far as the platform.)
		THE CROWD
			We did the justice. - How a proud race it was.
		A SANS-CULOTTE (giving a ring to DANTON)
			Take this ring to the alter of fatherland,
	2305	One of the rotters put it in my hand
			When I pointed my knife at his throat.
			These rotters believe us to be bandits. -
			You are alive? - Go after your brethren!
(He daggers EVE who falls down at the back of the platform.)
		ADAM (Shading his eyes with his hands)
			Alas! She’s lost! - Oh fate, who equals you?
		THE CROWD
	2310	And now to the Convent. Danton, guide us! -
			Did you gather all the names of traitors? -
(The crowd clears off the platform. EVE as a ragged, angry plebeian woman emerges from the crowd and with dagger in one hand and with a bleeding head in the other, she runs to DANTON.)
		EVE
			Danton! Have a look at this conspirator!
			He wanted to murder you but I kill’d him.
		ADAM
			If he’d be better here than me, you have done
	2315	Wrong; if not, you have all done correctly. -
		EVE
			My act’s correct and I clamour for my share:
			A night spend with me, magnificent man.
		ADAM
			What a sympathy may arise in this maid?
			How fine the feelings of a tigress are?
		EVE
	2320	In fact, citizen, you seem to join
			Yourself to the blue-blooded aristocrats,
			Or you are delirious to speak so. -
			You are man, and I am young and woman,
			My high amazement leads me to you, great man.
		ADAM (aside)
	2325	I shudder, I have to avert my eyes.
			I can’t suffer this dreadful delusion.
			What a magic similitude! - Who knew
			The angel and has seen her after her
			Failing, only he can feel something like this.
	2330	All are the same: the feature, shape and speech,
			Only a small nothingness is missing
			That can’t be specified fairly well enough
			And how different is this entity! -
			That I could not possess, its glory saved her,
	2335	This is disgusting for the devil’s odour. -
		EVE
			What do you talk to yourself?
		ADAM
											 I’m counting,
			Woman, that I have not so much free nights
			As many traitors are in our fatherland.
		THE CROWD
			Up to the Convent! Designate them only!
(In the meantime ROBESPIERRE, SAINT-JUST and other members to he Convent come with a new group of rebels and stand on an improvised platform.)
		SAINT-JUST
	2340	How he could do it? He’s their main connive. -
			(The crowd is murmuring.)
		ADAM
			You dare to judge me, Saint-Just, you don’t know
			How strong I am?
		SAINT-JUST
								You only were stronger
			In the crowd. But people’s wise, got to know you
			And just confirms the decree of the Convent.
		ADAM
	2345	I reject all justice in case of mine
			Except people, and I know it is my friend.
			(The crowd is murmuring again.)
		SAINT-JUST
			Your friend’s the enemy of fatherland
			The majestic people will be your justice,
			I accuse you in presence of it: of
	2350	Smuggling with proprieties of government,
			Of your sympathy to the aristocrats
			And of your keen hunger for tyrannousness.
		ADAM
			Saint-Just, take care, my words will shatter you.
			Your charge is false. -
		ROBESPIERRE
										Don’t leave him to perorate,
	2355	You know he is smooth-tongued like serpent.
			Arrest him in the name of our liberty.
		THE CROWD
			Silence him! Silence him! Death to his head!
			(They surround and arrest him.)
		ADAM
			Well, be it, but I also don’t want to hear
			This sordid charge. We cannot convince with speech
	2360	Each other. You did not defeat me by acts.
			Robespierre, you only outstripp’d me,
			That’s all, don’t parade with this victory.
			I lay down the arms of myself - it’s enough. -
			But now I adjure you to follow me
	2365	In this fatal way within less then three months. -
	2366	Be clever, headsman - you kill a giant.
			(He bows his head under the guillotine.)

TENTH SCENE
The whole scene turns suddenly into that of the eighth scene. ADAM as KEPLER again sits at his desk and bows his head on his hands, LUCIFER as FAMULUS to him stands beside the desk and slaps on the shoulders of ADAM. Break of the day.
		LUCIFER
			Beheading is now postpon’d for this once. -
		ADAM
			Oh, where, where I am and where are my dreams?
		LUCIFER
			They’re gone away, sir, with your giddiness.
		ADAM
	2370	In this perfidious age only the dreams
			Bring the great to the age-worn tired man?
			How wonderful scene came to sight of my eyes!
			All are blind who don’t perceive the thought of Lord
			Though it was blemish’d both by blood and squalor.
	2375	How gigantic were both its crime and virtue
			And how astonishing were both of them
			Because power was their governing force. -
			Oh, why did I wake up? when looking around
			I’ve to better perceive this aborted age
	2380	With its crimes hidden by its smiling visage
			And with the false virtues of habitude.
		LUCIFER
			I’m familiar with this depression
			That is always falling after revelry.
		EVE (coming out the bower)
			Get out! - Well, my suspicion has come true,
	2385	You venture to ask me to kill my husband,
			You think the woman whom you lie as your
			Idol, will accomplish this dirty act.
		THE COURTIER
			For heaven’s sake! Compose yourself, darling,
			If we are noticed, a scandal you make.
		ADAM
	2390	The two women meant also dream only?
			It is enough now, one woman in two forms
			As my roaring fate has been always changing
			Like surf that is sometimes bright, sometimes dark.
		EVE
			Ah, just scandal is important to you,
	2395	What crime would interest you when it is hid,
			You, the knight refusing all reprimands! -
			Alas! You mock woman while she hurls down the
			Old tradition of her virgin chastity
			Like a wrong prejudice and then you take her
	2400	With disparaging smile and use as the
			Infamous tool of heinous crime of your own. -
			Get out, from now on I don’t want to see you.
		THE COURTIER
			Don’t overdo it! We will be mock’d when
			We take so ceremoniously this
	2405	Prosaic affair. - We shall communicate
			Further on with provok’d smile and flirtation
			About what happened no word will be said.
			Good morning, lady. - (exit)
		EVE
											Oh, the wretch! The wretch!
			Now, here I am with my crime and with my tears. (exit)
		ADAM
	2410	It was only dream and is now finish’d.
			But not all is over. Thoughts are stronger than
			The wrong matter. This can be broken down
			By brute force, those will be perpetual.
			I see my holy thoughts how they evolve
	2415	Getting always improved with dignity
			Till will spread though slowly all over the world.
		LUCIFER
			Time’s running on, master, lesson waits for you,
			Students are gathering in front of the door
			To get by watching a word of your wisdom.
(He rings the bell hanging on the astronomic tower.)
		ADAM
	2420	Don’t be sarcastic, don’t mock me with knowledge,
			I have to blush when I am prais’d for this.
		LUCIFER
			Do you not teach many excellent boys?
		ADAM
			I do not educate but only train them
			According to words, they don’t understand
	2425	And have no intellect to take this or that.
			The unwise wonders only and believes,
			These nice words are used to conjure up spirits,
			But all these are tricks of the trade to conceal
			Underhand manoeuvres of delusion.
(A STUDENT comes in hurry and enters the balcony.)
		STUDENT
	2430	Master, you were so kind to summon me and
			Promised to content my hunger for knowledge
			And will allow me to lose myself in it
			More than you allow others to do this.
		ADAM
			That’s true, that’s very true, you’re so studious
	2435	That this privilege is the due of you.
		STUDENT
			Here I am, it is my most ardent wish
			To have a sight into the nature’s workshop.
			To perceive all and find much delight in it,
			To predominate with supremeness feeling
	2440	In the world of matter and of spirit.
		ADAM
			You want too much. Puny being of the world,
			How can you understand the entity? -
			You want power and delight and knowledge.
			If its load would not crush you to death and you
	2445	Would reach all these you want, you would be the Lord. -
			Be modest, want less, perhaps you get it.
		STUDENT
			Unravel though any secret of knowledge,
			Generous man, it will be my profit
			Because I feel, I understand nothing.
		ADAM
	2450	Well, I see that you are worthy of my trust,
			I guide you into the most secret sanctum,
			See reality as I have seen it.
			But be sure, there’s no eavesdropper around us
			’Cause this truth is fatal and highly dreadful
	2455	If it in our days would be popularized.
			The age will come, oh I wish it would come,
			When it will be topic of man in the street,
			When the folk will break off its infancy. -
			Now, your hand on it! You never reveal
	2460	What you understand. - Well, mind what I say. -
		STUDENT
			I’m shaking with fear and curiosity. -
		ADAM
			What did you tell me some minutes ago?
		STUDENT
			That I essentially nothing understand.
		ADAM (with care)
			See: so do I - and everybody else.
	2465	Philosophy’s the only poetry
			Of all the things, that we about nothing know. -
			Among the others this is least dangerous
			Since it’s enjoying peacefully itself
			In its world by soft fantasies haunted.
	2470	Nevertheless, there are some other kinds
			That make drawing and lines in the sandy ground,
			He terms one of the lines to be the vortex,
			The ring to be a shrine; you almost laugh
			At the comedy when you recognize that
	2475	It is a matter of the life and death.
			All who are wise try to avoid these pictures
			With constricted heart and with true fearing,
			Traps are here and there, and the dare-devil
			Who steps into them will be captured in blood.
	2480	These futilities cross always our way,
			To protect the old existing power
			With consecrated and holy reverence. -
		STUDENT
			I understand, will this be so for ever?
		ADAM
			People will laugh at it sometimes laud and long.
	2485	The statesman whom we have call’d magnificent,
			The orthodox man whom we have gaz’d at,
			Are consider’d as clowns by posterity
			When are replaced by the true nobility,
			That is free of adornments, is common,
	2490	That puts the horse at jump where pot-hole is found
			And builds road only where land is open.
			Some day everybody though never learnt
			Will understand this tenet that hounds you now
			To madness with its complicated essence.
		STUDENT
	2495	Thus, the language is that of apostles
			And that can be easily understood. -
			But if every other things are lumbers,
			Don’t kill my faith, don’t dash my hopes in art.
			To memorize these I need some rules from you.
		ADAM
	2500	It is the peak of perfection of the art
			That it’s hidden, it can be marked neither.
		STUDENT
			Should I remain at the stubborn facts at all?
			Idealization gives our work the soul.
		ADAM
			That’s very true, this gives spirit to it,
	2505	This assures it to enjoy equal rights with
			Nature and makes it created being
			’Cause without this, it’s only inert matter.
			Don’t be afraid that while making ideals
			You get over the great living nature,
	2510	But let the rule and pattern to have a rest.
			Who possesses power and bears the Lord,
			Will perorate, sculpture or sing a song,
			When he is blue he’ll harrowingly cry
			And will smile while dreaming on the sweet delight,
	2515	And though breaks new way, he achieves his aim. -
			Abstraction will make new rules from his work
			That will be perhaps fag but never the
			Motive power of freak generations. -
		STUDENT
			Oh, tell me master, what have I to do?
	2520	I’ve addicted myself to knowledge so far
			And the result is that I’m equal to fools
			And all my labour proved to be vain efforts?
		ADAM
			This is not in vain, ’cause this gives you right
			To disdain now the temptations of it.
	2525	Who did never laugh in the face of danger
			And retreats, he is craven. The tried knight
			Bravely avoids the picker of quarrels,
			His courage is above all suspicions. -
			Take now these foxy age-worn pergaments,
	2530	These folios that are mould-spotted lumbers,
			Throw into the fire. These make us forget
			To be our own master and these spare us
			The troubles of natural cogitation.
			These hand down the errors of past centuries
	2535	To the new world as preconceived ideas.
			Let them burn up! and let’s go outdoors at all!
			Why you should learn always what is song itself,
			What is forest while your life comes to an end
			Within the dusty and joyless room of you?
	2540	You account your life to be long enough
			To learn theories to your dying day?
			We both say good-bye to the alma mater,
			Let you be governed by your flower of youth
			To have merry days and effectual life;
	2545	Guide me you, my ill-reputed spirit
			Into the new world that will develop,
			When it understands the thoughts of a great man
			And allows to word all the conceal’d notions
	2549	Above the damn’d ground of felled ruins. -

ELEVENTH SCENE
London. Market between the Tower and the Thames. Motley crowd noisily surges to and fro. ADAM as aged man with LUCIFER are standing on the bastion of the Tower. Late afternoon.
		CHOIR (From the crowd’s noise and murmur slowly merging into one sound
				 accompanied by soft music.)
	2550	The flow of life murmurs loudly
			Each of its waves has no pear,
			Why you pity if that’s sinking
			And if this climbs why you fear? -
			Then you fear that the crowd will the
	2555	Poor person eliminate
			And afraid you are that one man
			Thousands will annihilate.
			Now you’re fearing for poetry,
			Then for knowledge above all
	2560	And you immure all the free thoughts
			Into a circular wall.
			Anyhow, you fight and labour,
			Nothing you’ll have in your net,
			The majestic ocean will roar
	2565	Further on and laughs you at.
			Let the sea roar, and life will know
			What is good and what is wrong.
			In its struggle nothing is lost,
			Rejuvenates always its ghost,
	2570	Let you hear its charming song.
		ADAM
			This is, this is for what I have been yearning,
			My course of life was so far fully wrong,
			Life’s before me, in its entity burning,
			How beautiful and stirring is its song.
		LUCIFER
	2575	That’s beautiful choir here, high up in the air,
			Any hoarse sound, the cry of pain or sigh
			Will merge into melody while get here. -
			The Lord hears only this melody and
			This is why he trusts the world well-created.
	2580	But down below it differently sounds
			Where feeling of the heart assists, as well.
		ADAM
			You incredulous scoff, is this world not more
			Beautiful than those you carried me along?
			All mouldly restrictions have fallen down,
	2585	All dreadful phantoms have now disappeared
			That are the glorified heritage of past
			To feel them as distracting curse today.
			Now, for everybody the race ground is free,
			No pyramides are built by slaves in our times.
		LUCIFER
	2590	Groan of slaves would not be heard up to the
			High throne so loudly either in Egypt
			And yet, how divine is the art of them!
			Or in Athens did the majestic people
			Act not in proper way and wonderfully
	2595	When gave up its great and belov’d hero
			’Cause it believed the homeland was in danger;
			That’s true, when we look at it from above and
			Tears and other vile notions don’t disturb us.
		ADAM
			Silence! Dry up! you perpetual sophist.
		LUCIFER
	2600	Though these are preserv’d, as the wail is dead,
			All that lives, has become uninteresting. -
			Where’s the high that attracts? the depth that deters?
			Where is the adorable gaudiness of life?
			It’s not the magnificent flow of sea more
	2605	But a dirty swamp that is full with frogs.
		ADAM
			Feeling of public welfare makes it up.
		LUCIFER
			Well, your verdict on life moving at your
			Feet is the same at your high position
			As that of history on the past times.
	2610	It does not hear wail, harsh speech, what it records
			Is and will be the song of past only.
		ADAM
			Ah, the devil romanticizes, too,
			Or doctrinaire becomes? Both are success!
		LUCIFER (pointing to the Tower)
			That’s no wonder when we are standing on
	2615	The ghost of ancient times in renewing world.
		ADAM
			This old-fashion’d view I also deny,
			I descend courageously to the new world
			And I am sure, again I will find the
			Poetry and the great thoughts among its waves. -
	2620	Maybe it will avoid to come out as
			Sky-shaking and ancient titanic struggle,
			But will create a more bewitching and
			Beneficial world with its modest sphere.
		LUCIFER
			It would be useless anguish to fear for it.
	2625	So long as persists the substance itself,
			So long my power will also exist
			As the negation that fights against it.
			And so long as heart lives and mind is free
			And extent system will confine the wish,
	2630	Poetry and great thought will also exist,
			As negation in the spiritual world.
			But tell me, what a shape we have to put on
			While descending into the murmuring crowd,
			Our dress is suitable to stand here only
	2635	Where the fancies of past flutter around us.
		ADAM
			Anything will do, since no great persons live,
			Thanks to the fate. To know what is its feeling:
			We’ve to merge into the crowd without fearing.
(Both of them go down into the Tower and soon they come out from its gate as workers and mingle in the crowd. - A PUPPETEER stands close to its stall on which there is a monkey sitting in a red coat, fastened in chains.)
		THE PUPPETEER
			This way, this way, good my lords, this way here,
	2640	The performance opens immediately.
			This is an attractive nice comedy:
			How serpent has cheated the first woman
			Who was inquisitive at that time, too;
			How her curiosity led into fix
	2645	The man. - You see quick monkey also, how it
			Plays majestically the man himself,
			You can see bears as nice dancing masters.
			This way, this way, my good lords, this way here! -
			(Rush and scramble around the stall.)
		LUCIFER
			Ah, Adam! We are mention’d and cited here!
	2650	It is nice to have a role that after
			Nearly six thousand years we are objects of
			Entertainment of the good cheerful youth. -
		ADAM
			Enough of this joke in bad taste! - Let’s go.
		LUCIFER
			Joke in bad taste? Look at these red boys, how they
	2655	Enjoy themselves and a minute ago they
			Were asleep when had to learn the Latin.
			Who will tell you that who is right at all,
			Those who enter the life with self-regard of
			Power that is beginning to awake, or
	2660	Those who though with rotten mind, give it up. -
			Or do you like Shakespeare, the perfect, more
			Than they like this misfashion’d hugger-mugger?
		ADAM
			Deformity, that’s I’ll have none of it!
		LUCIFER
			That’s your heritage from the ancient Greek world,
	2665	See: me, the son or father, as you like it,
			It’s quite the same in the spiritual world -
			Of the new direction, of romanticism,
			Am just delighted with deformity.
			A trait of monkey onto the man’s face;
	2670	Dirty revilement after the nice grace;
			Perverted feeling and honest hair-shirt;
			Words of modesty after blissful flirt;
			Flattery to perfidity and smallness,
			Curse of a debauchee to delightfulness:
	2675	All make me forget that my reign is lost
			’Cause in a new form I revive as ghost. -
		THE PUPPETEER (striking at ADAM’s shoulder)
			Why do you occupy this nice good place,
			You bad lot, only who’s tir’d of life and want
			To hang up himself, will cost-free divert.
(ADAM and LUCIFER step aside. A YOUNG GIRL comes selling violets.)
		THE YOUNG GIRL
	2680	Tiny violets, first nice harbingers
			Of the kind, fair spring. Buy it as you like.
			This small flower gives bread to the orphan,
			And beautiful ornament to the poor.
		A MOTHER (buying violets)
			Give me, I pout it in hands of my dead child.
		A GIRL (also buying)
	2685	It’ll be my dark hair’s most beautiful flower.
		THE YOUNG GIRL
			Tiny violets! - Buy it, my good lords! (exit)
		A JEWELLER (in his stall)
			It’s vexing that this girl contends with us
			And we cannot elbow her out of fashion. -
			Only pearls at high price suit well the fair necks,
	2690	Who has brought it up with disheartening
			Hardihood, had to fight against ghost of
			Abyssal monsters of the merciless sea. -
			(Two CIVIC-GIRLS are coming together.)
		FIRST CIVIC-GIRL
			How many fabrics, how many nice jewels!
		SECOND CIVIC-GIRL
			Oh, I wish somebody to buy me fairing.
		FIRST CIVIC-GIRL
	2695	The man of our days would make this only
			With a lurking thought that aims at some pairing.
		SECOND CIVIC-GIRL
			Neither that, his taste has been well disgrac’d,
			By caviar and gay girls it’s deprav’d.
		FIRST CIVIC-GIRL
			’Cause he’s highly conceited, he neglects all.
		SECOND CIVIC-GIRL
	2700	Or he is so modest that fears us to call. (They pass away)
(Under a hovel covered by leaves there is a pub with feasting WORKERS around the table. In the background music and dance. Soldiers, citizens and others are revelling and loitering.)
		INNKEEPER (among his guests)
			Be cheerful, my lords, yesterday is gone,
			What happens tomorrow that’s not our pain,
			Our Lord fodders all birds of the blue sky,
			And Bible says that all things are in vain.
		LUCIFER
	2705	Now, this philosophy appeals to me.
			Let’s sit down on this shady garden seat
			And let’s view the crowd how gladly and cheap
			Revels it with weak wine and with false music.
		FIRST WORKER (at the table)
			I say, machines are the works of devil,
	2710	They take the bread out of our hungry mouth.
		SECOND WORKER
			Let us have only wine, we forget the rest.
		FIRST WORKER
			The rich the devil is, he sucks our blood,
			Let he come! I would send him to the devil
			More case we need now than not long ago.
		THIRD WORKER
	2715	Where do you come in? For it he’ll be hang’d,
			Our destiny, as before, will be rank’d.
		SECOND WORKER
			That is a crack-brained talk, well, let the rich come,
			I don’t maltreat him, offer him a seat,
			Let’s see who is master, who knows to revel.
		THE INNKEEPER (to ADAM)
	2720	Sir, what can I do for you?
		ADAM
											Thanks, nothing.
		THE INNKEEPER
			Away with you from here, ragamuffins.
			You think perhaps I have stolen money,
			Or my wife and child were born to be beggar.
		ADAM (standing up)
			You’ve the face to tell this?
		LUCIFER
												Leave the rotter.
		ADAM
	2725	Let’s go, why to look how degenerates
			The superb man into a revelling dolt.
		LUCIFER
			Ah, here you are what I’ve hunted for so far,
			We revel with joy and without constraint.
			This rumbling noise and wild laugh everywhere,
	2730	The excitement of this Bacchanalian
			Fire that conjures the face to be rosy
			Like silly fancy is screening distress,
			Are these not splendid?
		ADAM
										This turns my stomach.
(Meanwhile they reach the dancing people. Two quarrelling BEGGARS come.)
		FIRST BEGGAR
			This is my own place and I have permission.
		SECOND BEGGAR
	2735	Be merciful to me else I shall die,
			For a fortnight I have found no labour.
		FIRST BEGGAR
			This means that you are not a true beggar,
			Good-for-nothing you’re, I cry for patrol. -
(The SECOND BEGGAR slinks away. FIRST BEGGAR sits down.)
			By the five wounds of our Christ, give alms, give alms,
	2740	My good lords, to the suffering have-nots! -
			(A SOLDIER takes off the dancer of a JOURNEYMAN)
		SOLDIER
			Get out, bumpkin! - Or do you think yourself
			To be somebody at all.
		JOURNEYMAN
										Just wait and see
			If you don’t mind.
		SECOND JOURNEYMAN
								Leave him alone. Avoid him:
			All power and all the fame are his own.
		FIRST JOURNEYMAN
	2745	But why he adds contempt to power and fame
			If anyway he has been a blood-sucker.
		A COURTESAN (singing)
			Once the dragons were defeated
			For the golden apple wanted -
			Trees bring the fruit even today,
	2750	Dragons died out, this knows who may:
			Those who wonder and it don’t pluck,
			Are fool and live free of good luck.
			(She snuggles to a youth.)
		LUCIFER (being lost in looking at the revellers.)
			This is amusing coquetry to me.
			Let the rich show what treasures he laid up.
	2755	In the closed coffer where the niggard sits,
			May be either sand or is full with gold. -
			How soul-stirring is the worry of this gawk!
			How he treasures the glance of his sweetheart,
			He knows the esteem of this short moment
	2760	Though he’s fully aware that shortly soon she’ll
			Fly to arms of someone else, but he doesn’t care.
		ADAM (to a musician)
			Why you handle so awfully the art, friend!
			Now, tell me, do you like yourself what you play?
		THE MUSICIAN
			Oh no! By no means! But it is endless pain
	2765	To play up this song and only to wonder
			How they revel on it with shouts repeated.
			This wild sound’s haunting also in my dreams.
			But what to do, I must live and don’t know else.
		LUCIFER (still being lost in looking around)
			Oh, who would imagine such a thorough
	2770	Philosophy, the nice youth is dealing with. -
			This maiden knows that in her life this is not
			The last moment what she is enjoying now
			And while kissing her eyes are looking for
			New relations. - Ah, my dear and nice kids;
	2775	To me it is quite a treat to see you,
			How joyfully you’re engaged on my work!
			Crime and distress be my benediction. -
		SECOND JOURNEYMAN (singing)
			After working through the week
			Who says toast on kiss and wine
	2780	With pure heart and with sweet song
			He makes snooks at devil’s crime. -
(Some final accords of sacred music are heard. EVE as CIVIC-GIRL comes out from the church with her MOTHER and with prayer-book and with a bouquet in her hands.)
		A SELLER
			This way, only this way, dear beautiful miss!
			You can buy cheaper nowhere but here only.
		ANOTHER SELLER
			Don’t trust him, his scales are wrong and the goods
	2785	Are out of fashion. - This way, beautiful miss! -
		ADAM
			Ah, Lucifer! You bind me to this site
			While the incarnated salvation will melt
			Away without my perception of it.
		LUCIFER
			This and all that sort of things are common. -
		ADAM
	2790	She comes from church, how beautiful she is!
		LUCIFER
			She’s there to be seen or maybe to see.
		ADAM
			Your scoff is sarcasm, do not insult her.
			Devotness still covers her pretty lips.
		LUCIFER
			You’re converted or will be pietist.
		ADAM
	2795	That’s bad joke; be my heart whatever cold,
			It’s painful to me; but wish the girls’ heart
			To be full with preconception, with this
			Holy poetry, with this music of past,
			With this intact ornament of the flower. -
		LUCIFER
	2800	Now then show me the part of heaven you want -
			You dare not expect for the devil to
			Hunt always after your fastidious taste.
			It is enough when he satisfies your wish.
		ADAM
			Can it be else as this lady? -
		LUCIFER
											  Rain-bird’s
	2805	Also of this view, when finds worm for itself,
			It looks around jealously and believes
			It is best catch, has no equal on earth,
			But pigeon’s looking at it with disgust.
			Man finds his bliss, too, only by himself
	2810	And maybe this will often happen just
			Where others made their life the hell on earth.
		ADAM
			How dignified and how pure she can be;
			I’m fearing even to make up to her.
		LUCIFER
			Don’t be afraid! You are not beginner
	2815	And as I esteem, she is to marry off.
		ADAM
			Shut up!
		LUCIFER
					 Maybe she’s dearer than others.
(Meanwhile a YOUNG MAN joins modestly EVE and gives her a heart made of honey-cake.)
		THE YOUNG MAN
			My young lady, please take this small fairing
			From my hand, I give it with great pleasure.
		EVE
			Arthur, you are so kind to me remember.
		THE MOTHER
	2820	It’s long since we saw you, why don’t visit us?
(They talk in a low voice, ADAM looks excitedly at them till the YOUNG MAN goes away.)
		ADAM
			This callow youth would thus possess all what
			My mature heart so eagerly wishes -
			How intimately they talk, she smiles
			And waves him good-bye - oh what an anguish! -
	2825	I’m forced to speak to her. (comes near to EVE)
		THE MOTHER
											 Arthur’s parents
			Are wealthy, that’s true, but I do not know
			How they consider his romance to you.
			Be careful and do not neglect the other
			Who surprised you today with this bouquet.
		ADAM
	2830	Allow me, my dear ladies, to escort you,
			To safeguard you in this buzzling, hustling crowd.
		EVE
			What an impertinence!
		THE MOTHER
									  Get out meddler!
			Maybe you think this girl to be a maid
			Whom anybody may tell pretty things? -
		ADAM
	2835	And can he tell else? - I have dreamt many times
			This most beautiful ideal of woman.
		THE MOTHER
			Your dreams are yours and you dream as you like it;
			But graces of this maiden do not bloom to
			An aggressive rapscallion as you are. -
			(ADAM stands dazedly, a GIPSY WOMAN steps to EVE.)
		GIPSY WOMAN
	2840	Ah, marvellous lady, wonder of the world,
			Let me see your tiny graceful, white hand,
			Let me tell you how millions of grace of fate
			Will brighten and light up your happy life.
			(looking at her hand)
			Happy betrothal, that is your soon fate,
	2845	Pretty children, health, wealth wait for you maid.
			(she gets some cash)
		LUCIFER (showing to ADAM)
			My sister! Tell something on my friend’s hope. -
		GIPSY WOMAN
			To me it’s not clear, hunger or the rope. -
		ADAM (to EVE)
			Do not turn me away, don’t give refusal,
			I feel that your heart is created for me. -
		EVE
	2850	Mother, refuse him to -
		THE MOTHER
										I call policeman
			If you don’t clear out.
		EVE
									  No, he’ll think better of
			And actually, he did nothing that’s wrong.
			(They pass away.)
		ADAM
			Holy poetry, did you disappear
			Finally from this very prosaic world?
		LUCIFER
	2855	Not at all! What else were the honey-cake,
			Bouquet, and dance, and shady bower, were
			What else? Don’t be so over-squeamish, to
			Indulge in fancies you’ve objects enough.
		ADAM
			What good will that do when greed for gain and
	2860	Selfishness lurk around them and selfless
			Solemnity has disappear’d at all.
		LUCIFER
			You find it fairly well all in the schools where
			Life did not intervene in the morals.
			Here you’re such fellows are coming this way.
			(Some PUPILS come in walk.)
		FIRST PUPIL
	2865	Be happy, boys, we’re free and left the mold,
			Now let’s enjoy some nice and awful rows.
		SECOND PUPIL
			Let us outdoors, this town, its obtuse order,
			This profiteering world I hate like poison.
		THIRD PUPIL
			Let’s try to pick with somebody a quarrel,
	2870	It is exciting and manly amusement.
		FIRST PUPIL
			Let’s tear away the girls from the hirelings’ lap
			And we shall have our war just immediately;
			Then let us hurry outdoors with the girls,
			We can pay for music, for some glass’ of beer,
	2875	Crown’d with remembrance of our victory
			We’ll be princes among the wine-red cheeks.
		FOURTH PUPIL
			It’s glorious to vex the good philistine.
		FIRST PUPIL
			This will fasten chains of our unity -
			Now let’s enjoy ourselves all we know how,
	2880	Some day while burning for the holy homeland
			Our power asserts itself on nobler lists.
			(They pass away.)
		ADAM
			It’s nice to see them in this world of baseness,
			I suspect in it the germs of progress.
		LUCIFER
			You’ll see what this germ will produce at all
	2885	Working off the mold of the lecture rooms.
			These two manufacturers coming here
			Were similar in their youth to these boys.
			(Two MANUFACTURERS come in talk.)
		FIRST MANUFACTURER
			I can’t take the contention after all,
			Everybody tries to buy cheaper things,
	2890	I’ve to debase the quality of my goods.
		SECOND MANUFACTURER
			Wages have to be reduced first of all.
		FIRST MANUFACTURER
			That’s nonsense, they are turbulent now, too,
			That they can’t get along, the dirty dogs,
			Though there’s something in their constant complaints
	2895	But who suggest them to be forced to wed,
			And who suggest to beget six children.
		SECOND MANUFACTURER
			One makes them work harder than ever before,
			They have to work through nights in our factories,
			The remaining time is enough to rest
	2900	For those who dare not sleep for useless dreams. (exeunt)
		ADAM
			Away with them. - Why you have let me see them. -
			But tell me where is the girl I look’d for?
			That’s your turn, Lucifer, show your power
			And help me to be successful.
		LUCIFER
												I do not
	2905	Potter my power for such vain nullities.
		ADAM
			For you what’s nothing, that’s for me the world.
		LUCIFER
			Let you win it. - But take care and curtail
			Your feelings, do not fear to say falsehood,
			Reply as I ask and she will be yours.
			(Aloud, so the GIPSY WOMAN eavesdropping behind them should hear it.)
	2910	You see mylord now, how it is unpleasant
			To mingle in the crowd in complete disguise,
			Again, again we are insulted hardly.
			If crowd would suspect that four ships of ours
			Will come safe into port as late as today,
	2915	The welcome would be warmer.
		ADAM
												  Certainly.
		GIPSY WOMAN (aside)
			This disclosure is worth a pretty sum. (to ADAM)
			I want a word with you - you have disguised
			Yourself, I punish’d you with the prophecy
			Because no secret is hidden for me
	2920	Who has had a pact with the devil himself.
		LUCIFER (aside)
			What next! you good-for-nothing age-worn beldam.
		GIPSY WOMAN
			Your ships come into port as late as today
			But for you it is much more fortunate:
			A beautiful girl hankers after you.
		ADAM
	2925	How I’d win her favour?
		GIPSY WOMAN
										She’s almost yours.
		ADAM
			She refused me.
		GIPSY WOMAN
								For that reason she’ll be yours.
			You see, she will be here like a tiny bird,
			Remember only the fortune-teller’s word. (exit)
		ADAM
			Lucifer! this hag will get over you.
		LUCIFER
	2930	I don’t deny her marvellous merit,
			She’s superseded the devil’s credit.
(A CHARLATAN comes on a barrow surrounded by the crowd, with trompet-call and stands in the centre.)
		THE CHARLATAN
			Keep out of my way! - all honour to me,
			My head has turned grey due to the science
			While I research’d for hidden resources
	2935	Of the nature with untiring diligence.
		ADAM
			Who’s this extravagant fool, Lucifer?
		LUCIFER
			The science that’s charlatan to get along,
			Like that time when you made your researches
			But more ado is needed now than that time.
		ADAM
	2940	I’ve never made it so insolently.
			It’s a scandal.
		LUCIFER
							 But thus is not his fault.
			To fear is his own, it comes natural to
			Him to avoid this type of epitaph:
				Ex gratia speciali
	2945	Mortuus in hospitali.
			Having devoted to others much time
			His reward he wants for which he does pine.
		THE CHARLATAN
			I spared no troubles in mankind’s behalf,
			Here you see the wonderful results:
	2950	Elixir of life is in this small pot
			That rejuvenates sicks and adults.
			The great pharaohs took this medicine,
			That is Tancred’s drink of ecstasy,
			Helene used this nice beautifier,
	2955	And this is Kepler’s astrology. -
		ADAM
			Do you hear what he sells? - Whilst we searched for light
			In the future, he saught for it in the past.
		LUCIFER
			Present is never worthy of respect,
			Like human grandness in domestic bedrooms.
	2960	This is our wife after ten years of marriage -
			Even we know how many sun-spots she has.
		THE CHARLATAN
			Take it, will never regret it who takes,
			It was and will be never, this is the case.
		FROM THE CROWD
			Let me have it. - For me any of them fits -
	2965	How lucky! - I like these expensive small gifts.
		LUCIFER
			You see, this crowd has lost completely its faith,
			But snaps up all things that seem to be magic.
(EVE comes back with her MOTHER, the GIPSY WOMAN follows them speaking below her breath.)
		EVE
			Your words are to no purpose, we know you well.
		GIPSY WOMAN
			Be my soul not saved if this is not true.
	2970	This gentleman fell so in love with you
			That you’ll be his mistress even today
			His rooms are bright like those of a princess.
			He goes to pass time by four-in-hand coach.
		THE MOTHER
			If we consider, it’s more practical
	2975	Than to fade away getting unmarried
			In the stinking shop of a grubby cobbler.
		GIPSY WOMAN
			Look, look, there he stands - how he looks around.
		EVE
			That’s unkind of him not to notice me. -
			His hands are delicate, his port’s noble. -
		THE MOTHER
	2980	Either his friend has nothing against my taste
			Though he’s hawk-nosed and slightly bandy-legged,
			But is a honest oldish gentleman.
			I go away, my dear, best intercession
			Is to leave you both mainly to yourselves.
		GIPSY WOMAN (to ADAM)
	2985	Well, here’s your rose, see how she pines for you. -
		ADAM
			I run to her, oh, this is delightful!
		GIPSY WOMAN
			Do not forget the intercessor at all.
		LUCIFER (giving her cash)
			Here you’re: cash from my friend and handshake from me.
		GIPSY WOMAN (crying out)
			Ugh! your hand is strong! (exit)
		LUCIFER
										  You’d feel its delight
	2990	If you’d be whom you play, you age-worn hag! -
		EVE (to ADAM)
			You may buy fairing to me, if you want,
			These aids to beauty will certainly do. -
		ADAM
			The charm of feminity of your cheek
			Is unrivalled make-up of your own.
			(Meanwhile the CHARLATAN passes away.)
		EVE
	2995	Ah, you are so kind.
		ADAM
									 Don’t put me to the blush:
			Bejewel your neck with diamonds and pearls
			Not to decorate you but these can’t glitter
			Elsewhere that would be more worthy than yourself.
		EVE
			Farther on I saw jewellers and goldsmiths
	3000	But these do not go with such prosaic girl.
		ADAM
			Let us visit them.
		LUCIFER
								 It is unneeded.
			Some decorative jewels I have by chance.
(He gives jewels to EVE who eyes and fits on them with joy.)
		EVE
			These are very nice, I’d be envied for them. -
		ADAM
			But this, this heart I want see not any more.
		EVE
	3005	If it’s against you, I fling it away.
			(She throws off the heart)
		LUCIFER
			That’s right, and I will tread down it.
			(He stamps on the heart.)
		EVE
													What’s that:
			I hear a cry or am hallucinated?
(Meanwhile a CONDEMNED is transported through the scene by a barrow followed by the crowd.)
		FROM THE CROWD
			Let’s be quick! - There now! I said no guts he had -
			He is still rugged. - Let’s see him to behead!
		ADAM
	3010	What is that buzz, what is that outrageous press?
		EVE
			A man will be hang’d. It’s good that we’re here.
			Let’s go ’cause this sight is highly exciting
			And a good chance to swagger with my jewels.
		ADAM
			What’s the crime of the rotter?
		EVE
												  I don’t know.
		LUCIFER
	3015	No matter but I tell you the story:
			He work’d for long in the plant of Lovel,
			But tin is poison and he much inhaled it,
			For several weeks got the hospital.
			His nice wife has been short of certain things,
	3020	The son to Lovel was young, generous,
			They each other found and forgot everything. -
		FIRST WORKER
			Be happy, old chap! - You bleed as martyr,
			We shall preserve and not forget your name.
		LUCIFER
			The husband was up, did not find his wife,
	3025	His workplace was fill’d, pined for work in vain,
			His heart rebelled, ventur’d to threaten,
			The son to Lovel slapp’d him at the face.
			The fool rotter took up suddenly a knife -
			He’s carried here - the old Lovel lost his mind. -
			(During that last words LOVEL comes with crazy dignity.)
		LOVEL
	3030	You lie, you lie, I did not lose my mind,
			Do I not perceive what tells my son’s wound?
			Take off, rake off my abundant riches
			And help not to grasp it, be I rather mad.
		THIRD WORKER
			Do not fear, your death will be surely repaid.
		FIRST WORKER
	3035	Go with head erect, they are grovelling. -
			(The CONDEMNED passes away with his escort.)
		ADAM
			Ghastly illusion, why do you haunt me?
			Who tells me whether who is more guilty,
			Or community is guilty alone? -
			Where it’s rotten the crime predominates.
		LOVEL
	3040	The society. - Take off my riches
			But let me not grasp more the words of that wound. (exit)
		EVE
			Let’s go in hurry ’cause we miss our place.
		ADAM
			Bless to you, my fate, that I’m not a judge,
			How easy it’s to write laws free of charge -
	3045	How easy it’s to judge with some negligence
			And how hard when one will the heart analyze
			And will be aware of all its details.
		LUCIFER
			Under these percepts no action would finish.
			Nobody does the wrong because it is wrong.
	3050	Also the devil cites only titles
			And all believe that their own one is the best.
			The authority on law only cuts
			The tangly knot the threads of which thousand
			Philanthropists could not unbind at all. -
(Meanwhile they get the Tower in a niche of which there stands an image of a saint.)
		EVE
	3055	Stop my friend, only for a moment, stop,
			Let me stick to this picture my bouquet.
		LUCIFER (whispering)
			Don’t allow her to do else we shall be lost.
		ADAM
			She is innocent - I don’t prevent her. -
		EVE
			Since my childhood I’ve been in the habit
	3060	Of remembering this sacred image
			When walking here, now it’s pleasant to me.
			I’ll be ready soon and we will remedy
			Quickly that else we lose.
(She sticks the bouquet to the picture but the flowers suddenly die down, the jewels on her neck and arms turn to lizards and run down.)
											My God, what’s that?
		LUCIFER
			I strongly advised not to allow her. -
		EVE
														Help!
		ADAM
	3065	Have no fear, darling, people look at you -
			I promise I buy more beautiful jewels.
		EVE
			Get out! Get out! Lord have mercy on me!
			Base swindlers and a disgusting harridan
			Brought dishonour on me, a honest woman.
(People begin to form a group, the GIPSY WOMAN comes with policeman.)
		GIPSY WOMAN
	3070	They must be here, they gave me false coins,
			Fused to mercury in my hands.
		LUCIFER
												Maybe
			Fault’s bound to your hand, not to the coins. -
			Adam, let’s go, it’s not good to pass time here.
(They enter the Tower and while grouping and confusion increase below, they appear again at the bastion’s top.)
		ADAM
			Again I am disappoint’d, I thought
	3075	It is enough to pull down ghost of past
			And to guarantee the free competition. -
			I pulled out a screw from the great machine,
			The reverence that held together it
			And failed to replace it by a stronger one.
	3080	What a fight is this when one has the sword
			Against opponents who are free of weapons,
			What independence is when hundreds starve
			If only are not yoked by the mighty.
			That is fight of dogs wrangling for the bones.
	3085	Instead of this I want a society
			That guards, fires and does not punish and scare,
			That cooperates with common power
			And dreamt for itself by the science so far,
			Order of which is controll’d by reason. -
	3090	This will come, I know and I feel it comes,
			Guide me Lucifer, into this wanted world. - -
		LUCIFER
			Vain are you, man, because your purblind eyes
			Below see only groups in disorder,
			You think that there’s no cooperation,
	3095	There is no order in the workshop of life?
			See by spirits’ eyes, only for a moment
			And see the labour that they are producing
			But only for us and not for their delight.
(It becomes dark. The whole market turns into a group that is digging the grave in the scene’s centre, they dance it round and jump into it after each other, partly without speaking, partly as they spoke.)
		CHOIR
			Come on, come on, let the hoe twang,
	3100	Finish today, tomorrow it’s late,
			Though after some millennia
			The masterpiece you should re-create.
			Birth and coffin are well the same,
			They end now what commence tomorrow,
	3105	Are always hungry and sated
			What now enters, rises in sorrow.
			(The funeral bell sounds.)
			Sounds just now the funeral bell,
			All is over, let us have a rest,
			Whom the morning wakens to life
	3110	Commence the great work and do their best.
		THE PUPPETEER
			The comedy, as a whole, I play’d,
			I did not pass time but entertain’d.
		THE INNKEEPER
			All drained their glass to the last drop,
			Good night my guests, good night my mob.
		THE YOUNG GIRL
	3115	All my violets were sold, you saw,
			New ones will again on my tomb grow.
		GIPSY WOMAN
			Future was that all wanted to see
			Now they do not want know-all to be.
		LOVEL
			Treasures did not give me happiness,
	3120	Now free of charge I find quietness.
		WORKER
			The week’s over, now comes its last night,
			I shall take a rest after my fight.
		PUPIL
			I was roused though I had a nice dream,
			Let you come, the only hope you mean.
		SOLDIER
	3125	I believed I was very brave
			And now slip up over this grave.
		COURTESAN
			Giddiness is over, make-up’s worn down,
			So cold I’m here, let me get warm there down.
		THE CONDEMNED
			Remain my fetters on this dirty ground,
	3130	Behind this threshold new laws will be found.
		THE CHARLATAN
			We fool’d each other that we are so wise,
			When seeing the truth we will show surprise.
		EVE
			Yawning gulf, why do you stand before my feet,
			Don’t think your darkness to frighten off me,
	3135	Dust produced by this ground falls just into it,
			I will step over it with my glory.
			The spirits of love, poetry and youth
			To my eternal homeland open the way,
			Only my smile brings delight to this Earth,
	3140	Like sunbeam warms the face at start of the day.
(Throwing her veil and cloak into the grave, she rises with glory.)
		LUCIFER
	3141	Do you know her, Adam?
		ADAM
										Ah! That’s Eve! That’s Eve! -

TWELFTH SCENE
Court of a U-shaped grandiose phalanstery. The ground-floor of the two flanks forms an open columnar hall. In the right hall workers are in action among moving wheeled steam-engines. In the left hall, in the museum exhibiting different objects of natural sciences, mechanical tools, astronomic and chemical instruments and other specialities, a SCIENTIST is working. All belonging to the phalanstery are uniformly dressed. ADAM and LUCIFER emerge from the ground in the court’s centre. Day-time.
		ADAM
			What’s that country and nation, where we are?
		LUCIFER
			These old ideas are out of fashion.
			Was not petty the notion of the homeland?
	3145	It was produced once by the prejudice,
			Was screened by stinginess and rivalry.
			For all is now the whole world the homeland,
			All men are partners to each the common goal,
			Above attractive and silent order
	3150	There stands as safeguard the science itself.
		ADAM
			Ah, the ideal of my heart is fulfill’d,
			That’s very good, I have got what I wanted.
			I only deplore the notion of homeland,
			I think it would exist under this new
	3155	Order, as well. Human being does want
			Limitations and fears the infinity,
			When it expands, its inner worth’s decreased;
			It is devoted to its past and future;
			I am afraid, it does not burn for the world
	3160	As it was keen on the tomb of parents.
			Who’d be ready to bleed for family
			Would his friends only bewail at the most.
		LUCIFER
			You cast off your great ideas, I see,
			Before these at all embodied could be.
		ADAM
	3165	Don’t think by any means. But I’m peeping:
			What is the thought that unifies the great world,
			That commands the whole enthusiasm of man,
			This holy and eternal fire of him,
			That was excited only by lowness
	3170	Harnessing it to have purposeless fights,
			Finally to this wonderful nobler aim. -
			But tell me, where we are, what is this place?
			Then guide me, let my heart take delight in the
			Happiness, that is well-deserved by the
	3175	Uninterrupted fights of the struggling man.
		LUCIFER
			Like all the others it’s a phalanstery,
			Residence of man of the new ideas. -
		ADAM
			Well, let us go.
		LUCIFER
							  Stop! do not be in hurry.
			First we have to cast our ancestral skin.
	3180	When we arrive as Adam, Lucifer,
			This learned world would not believe in us,
			We’d be destructed or closed in a retort.
		ADAM
			What imprudent things you tell me again.
		LUCIFER
			Well, this is the case in the world of spirits.
		ADAM
	3185	Do what you want but as fast as you can.
(LUCIFER transforms both of them into creations similar to those in the phalanstery.)
		LUCIFER
			Now, take these slops, away with your ringlets - well,
			We are ready. -
		ADAM
								Let’s call on this scientist.
		LUCIFER
			Hail to thee, scholar!
		SCIENTIST
									Do not molest me
			In my grand work, I don’t have time to chatter.
		LUCIFER
	3190	I’m sorry, we’re candidates of scholars
			From the very far thousandth phalanstery
			And visit you for your very good name.
		SCIENTIST
			Well I never, that’s commendable zeal.
			But my work could be interrupted at all,
	3195	I wish the heat not to decrease in my flask,
			Matter will surely comply with my will. -
		LUCIFER
			That’s good, I was not disappointed,
			The utmost vanity’s scum persisted
			Even in you, who both man and nature
	3200	Experienced. -
		SCIENTIST
							  Well, now we can have a talk. -
			But what’s your specific profession at all?
		ADAM
			Our will for knowledge wants more than one line,
			We try to sum up everything as a whole. -
		SCIENTIST
			That is wrong view. Great is conceal’d in the small,
	3205	So much are branches and our life’s so short.
		ADAM
			That’s true. - I know, there must be someone who
			Always the sand trails or the carving makes:
			Without them my space will not develop.
			But they’re rambling only in mysteries
	3210	And do know nothing about what they help. -
			Architect does see only the entity
			And though he cannot cut the stone correctly,
			Creates the masterpiece like a god himself. -
			This architect is grand in science, too.
		LUCIFER
	3215	This is why we came to visit you, great man.
		SCIENTIST
			It is well done, I appreciate your turn.
			Abundant lines of the science itself
			Are different traits of one system only,
			They’re charming together.
		LUCIFER
											Like a lady.
		SCIENTIST
	3220	But all the same the chemistry only -
		LUCIFER
			Is the focus where its essence is found. -
		SCIENTIST
			You are right.
		LUCIFER
							 This was said on mathematics
			Long ago by a mathematician.
		SCIENTIST
			Yes, every man regards himself to be
	3225	Central figure of his own narrow purview. -
		LUCIFER
			To take chemistry, this praises you for
			Your choice.
		SCIENTIST
							I’m sure in it in full measure. -
			But let’s visit our museum now that
			Is unrivalled in our recent era,
	3230	Extincted beasts of the primitive world
			Stand here well-stuffed as original
			Individuals. - Millions of them lived
			In our fathers’ times when they were barbaric
			And gave them share in the power on the world. -
	3235	A lot of strange tales tell stories on them,
			See, it’s said to be used as locomotive.
		ADAM
			That is horse, well I never, but a freak,
			Once Al-borak was finer than this is.
		SCIENTIST
			This animal is now said that man kept it
	3240	As his friend, free of charge and without labour
			And it was able when watching faithfully
			To comprehend the thoughts of its master.
			And what is more, it’s said, it contracted
			His own crime, the concept of the property
	3245	And as guard it laid down its life for him. -
			I tell you all these as it is written
			Not as I’d believe these things by all means.
			In our past you find much dreamy and mad things,
			We herited only as tales like these.
		ADAM
	3250	That is dog. - All’s correct you said about it. -
		LUCIFER
			Take care, Adam, you will reveal yourself. -
		SCIENTIST
			And now, this was the slave of poors themselves.
		ADAM
			Like poors were always oxen of the riches.
		SCIENTIST
			This is the king of the steppe.
		ADAM
												The lion -
	3255	And here are tiger and the slippy deer,
			Tell me what kinds of beasts are still living here?
		SCIENTIST
			What a question! Is it at you not the same?
			Lives what useful is and which could not be
			Substitut’d so far by science itself:
	3260	Pig and sheep but by no means in the very
			Imperfect and bad form as created by
			Ancient nature in a bungling manner:
			That is living fat, this is meat and wool
			Serving like retorts only our purposes.
	3265	But as I see you all these old things know,
			Let’s go further. Here are our minerals.
			Look at this very great fragment of coal:
			Mountains consisted once of this black matter,
			At man’s disposal was this substance that
	3270	Is now filtered from air by science
			With arduous work. This ore was once call’d
			Iron and till it had been mineable
			No research was made for aluminium. -
			This small piece is gold and it is very
	3275	Famous and very useless thing of naught.
			At that time when the man in his sightless faith
			Adored the beings superior to him,
			That had the upper hand of his own fate:
			He did believe gold to be such a thing,
	3280	On his altars he offer’d welfare, law
			And all holy things, in order to be
			The owner of one magical piece of it,
			For which he could buy all what he wanted -
			It is marvellous fact, even bread, too.
		ADAM
	3285	Show me something else, these are known for me.
		SCIENTIST
			Really, you’re great scholar, new-comer.
			Let us see then the paleoflora.
			This is the last rose that bloomed in the world.
			Useless flower that together with its
	3290	Some hundred thousand allied useless flowers
			Took the most fertile field of corn in the ear;
			It’s handsome plaything of adult children.
			This phenomenon’s in fact peculiar,
			How there was a run on this type of toys;
	3295	Even the spirit brought in flowers, too:
			Daydreams of the faith and of poetry,
			And indulging in arms of deceptive dreams
			It threw away its best capacities
			So, its aims in life were left unfulfill’d.
	3300	Here you are, we have preserv’d two of these
			Rarities. One of them is a poem;
			Once when the person wanted to succeed
			By nefarious overconfidence,
			The author was call’d Homer. He described a
	3305	Fanciful world, the mane of which was Hades.
			We proved wrong each line of it long ago.
			The other’s “Agricola” by Tacitus,
			These are ridiculous but sad pictures
			Of concepts from the ancient barbaric world.
		ADAM
	3310	How then? Some fragments of the great old days
			Did persist like a testament at all,
			And these cannot the degenerated
			Late descendants so excite to act strongly
			And to destroy your false and factitious world? -
		SCIENTIST
	3315	That is correct, we comprehended this,
			The poison in it is very dangerous,
			This is why no one is allowed to read them
			Except those who are above sixty years
			And bound themselves to science for ever.
		ADAM
	3320	But the enchanting songs of nursemaid, do not
			These implant expectations into the
			Weak heart?
		SCIENTIST
						  Certainly, these do, this is why
			Nursemaids tell our children solely about
			The higher equations and geometry. -
		ADAM (aside)
	3325	Assassins, you do not fear to deprive
			The heart of its whole and most beautiful age! -
		SCIENTIST
			Let’s continue. - Here are these instruments
			And objects of art of fantastic figure.
			This is a gun with enigmatic device:
	3330	Ultima ratio regum. - How it
			Was used? Who knows that? - Here you are a sword,
			A tool solely to kill the man himself -
			And was unguilty who murder’d with it.
			This picture was drawn completely by free-hand,
	3335	Maybe this needed at least half a life-time,
			And its object is only a queer tale.
			Now sun commits this hard work instead of us
			And while that falsely idealized is,
			This serves our aims with profound fidelity.
		ADAM (aside)
	3340	But art and the intellect both are missing -
		SCIENTIST
			This diverse objects, how fancy and how
			Infantine they are. Flower on the cup,
			A dreamy arabesque on chair-back are
			Squander’d works of art made by the man’s hand.
	3345	Are more refreshing the water from this cup,
			More comfortable to sit on that chair?
			Now, our machines do all these instead of us,
			In most practical and in the simplest form,
			And perfection has been guaranteed by
	3350	The fact that workers who are making screws
			Will make that only till their last workday.
		ADAM
			This is why no life and no character
			Exist now that would go beyond its master. -
			Where do power and thought gain even ground
	3355	To verify their heavenly origin?
			If man wants to fight and will look around
			In this regular and superior world,
			Neither the delight of feeling hazard
			Nor ferocious beast he’ll find everywhere.
	3360	I’m disappointed at science, too:
			I find only a dull infantine school
			Instead of gladness I so eagerly wish’d.
		SCIENTIST
			Fraternity do you miss here at all?
			Or is the man short of the wherewithal?
	3365	Really, such false thoughts would rather deserve
			The punishment.
		ADAM
							    Tell me now what is the thought
			That gives unity to society,
			That’s able to fire as a common ground?
		SCIENTIST
			In our case this thought is the sustenance.
	3370	When man entered the scene of this world,
			It was a larder full with all worldly goods:
			He had to stretch out his hand only to
			Reach everything what he needed at all.
			This is why he wasted without forethought
	3375	Like worm in cheese, that’s why in his sweet delight
			He had too much time to search for stimuli
			And poetry in false hypotheses.
			We, however, now should be close-fisted at
			The last morsel since we have recognized:
	3380	We are out of cheese and will starve to death.
			After four thousand years the sun gets cool,
			No plants will be born in the frozen land;
			We have only these just four thousand years
			To discover how the sun can be replaced.
	3385	This time enough is, it is my belief.
			Water, this highly oxidized matter
			Seems to be the best fuel of future.
			The secrets of organism itself are
			Very, very close to revelation, too. -
	3390	It’s good that our talk govern’d us this way,
			I all but forgot of my own retort,
			Since I am working also in this field.
		LUCIFER
			Man gets strongly old when turning to the
			Retort if he wants to produce the life. -
	3395	But if your work’d be successful at all
			It will be monster like the wordless thought,
			Like feeling of love without its object,
			Being that will by nature be denied,
			That does not possess contrasts or relatives
	3400	When person himself does not curtail it.
			From where will it take its own character
			When isolated from outworld and sorrow
			Coming into world in a narrow retort?
		SCIENTIST
			Look how it’s boiling, look hot it’s flashing.
	3405	Ephemeral forms are moving here and there,
			In this pleasantly warm and closed retort where
			Both affinity and countereffect
			Are concordant and matter will be forced
			To defer itself to my compelling will.
		LUCIFER
	3410	I admire your work, my only question is
			Could you perform that those who are akin
			Don’t attract each other and by contrast
			Be not repell’d.
		SCIENTIST
								Ah, that’s foolish talk.
			That’s perpetual law of every matter.
		LUCIFER
	3415	I see, but tell me what’s the ground of this?
		SCIENTIST
			What is the ground? That’s law because it’s so,
			This is shown by the pure experience.
		LUCIFER
			Thus, you are only the fireman of nature
			As for the rest it is done by itself.
		SCIENTIST
	3420	But I determine its limits by this glass
			And force it to come out of the mystery.
		LUCIFER
			I do not see the sign of life as yet.
		SCIENTIST
			This cannot happen. Me, who thoroughly search’d
			All the mysteries of the organism,
	3425	Me, who hundred times analyzed the life -
		ADAM
			You’ve got only corpse always as result.
			Science follows the existing and young
			Experience with staggering footsteps
			And like a well-paid false poet of the king,
	3430	Who’s ready to make comments on great acts
			But has no licence to tell prophecies.
		SCIENTIST
			Why do you deride, do you not see that
			One spark is needed and it comes to life?
		ADAM
			But from where you take this, this spark at all?
		SCIENTIST
	3435	I have to do one step only, not more.
		ADAM
			But who did not make this one step forward,
			Nothing did and does know nothing at all.
			The long walk was done only round and round,
			Only this last one would lead to the result. -
	3440	Will be someone who will ever make this? -
(Meanwhile the fume floating above the retort grows denser and becomes to thunder.)
		THE VOICE OF THE EARTH’S SPIRIT (from the fume)
			No, will never be. - For me this retort’s
			Very narrow and very wide. - Do you know
			Me, Adam, don’t you? - They do not guess at me.
		ADAM
			Did you hear this word, this word of spirit?
	3445	Look out, look out you proud and forceless being,
			How could you defeat who is floating there. -
		SCIENTIST
			That’s fit of raving madness, I fear for you.
			(The retort cracks, the spirit disappears.)
			Retort is cracked, I can the great work
			Commence again. When goal does make signs
	3450	A tiny lump, the absurd blind event
			Blocks me.
		LUCIFER
						 Once it was called as the blind fate
			And to break down under its power was less
			Humiliating than to defer to
			The absurd and blind event.
			(A bell sounds.)
											What does it mean?
		SCIENTIST
	3455	Work is stopped now, this is the time to walk,
			Here they are coming from plants and from the field,
			Who was found guilty will now be punish’d,
			Women and children will be classified.
			Let us go, I’ve something to do there, too.
(Men come in long lines, in other lines women, some of them among others EVE with children. In the court they form a circle, a GREYBEARD steps in front of them. ADAM, LUCIFER and the SCIENTIST stand in the foreground next to the museum.)
		THE GREYBEARD
	3460	Number thirty!
		LUTHER (coming out of the line)
							 That’s me.
		THE GREYBEARD
										  You heated again
			The furnace beyond the desired measure.
			It seems so, indeed, that it is your passion
			To endanger the entire phalanstery.
		LUTHER
			Who could resist the temptation when the
	3465	Wild element, the bursts of flame surround
			Him while flashing and fearfully roaring,
			It does want to reach and annihilate you:
			To stand dauntlessly and make the fire burn
			Knowing that it’s ruled only by yourself. -
	3470	You do not know the magic power of fire
			’Cause you know it from below pot only.
		THE GREYBEARD
			That’s vain boasting, thus today you will not dine.
		LUTHER (drawing back)
			But next day I’ll make the fire burn again.
		ADAM
			Who is that? I know this man very well.
	3475	He’s Luther.
		THE GREYBEARD
							Number twohundred and nine!
		CASSIUS (coming out of the line)
			That is me.
		THE GREYBEARD
						 I warn you just for the third time
			’Cause you are after row without reason.
		CASSIUS (drawing back)
			Without reason ’cause I don’t make complaints? -
			Faint is who looks for the help of others
	3480	While his arms are strong. Or was my rival
			Weaker ’cause he did not defend himself? -
		THE GREYBEARD
			None of your sauce! - Neither the shape of your
			Skull excuses this tendency to worn,
			’Cause it’s generous and without mistake.
	3485	But your blood is in an uproar and wild!
			You will be cured till you will become docile.
		ADAM
			Ah, Cassius! If you’d recognize me, your
			Brother in arms at Philippi. - Whether this
			Wrong order and the theory could make
	3490	Mistake that such a generous heart stunts
			It only and doesn’t discern its merit.
		THE GREYBEARD
			Number fourhundred.
		PLATON (coming out of the line)
									I hear.
		THE GREYBEARD
											You have lost
			Yourself again in your dreams, false illusions
			And the oxen left to you were damaged.
	3495	To be awake, you have to kneel on peas now.
		PLATON (standing back)
			I’ve beautiful dreams even on the peas.
		ADAM
			What a poor part you have, ah, Platon in
			The society you so eagerly wish’d!
		THE GREYBEARD
			The number seventy and two!
		MICHELANGELO (coming out of the line)
											  That’s me. -
		THE GREYBEARD
	3500	You left your workroom in great disarray.
		MICHELANGELO
			Because I had to fabricate the chair-legs
			To the quality as poor as it can be.
			I appeal’d for long, let me modificate,
			Let me engrave some ornaments on it.
	3505	They did not permit. I wanted as a chance
			The chair-back to change but all was in vain.
			I was very close to be a madman
			And I left the pains and my workroom, too. (stands back)
		THE GREYBEARD
			You get house arrest for this disorder
	3510	And will not enjoy this nice and warm day.
		ADAM
			Michelangelo, the torments of hells
			May be for your heart forbidden to create. -
			How many friends here, how many spirits,
			How many good friends of primitive force.
	3515	He fought with me and others died as martyrs,
			Other found the globe too narrow again.
			How state made them to be so petty-minded
			And uniform. Come, Lucifer, let’s go;
			My soul’s infirm to watch this dreadful scene. -
		THE GREYBEARD
	3520	Now, two children have completed the time
			Until maternal care has been needed.
			They are awaited in common boarding-school.
			Come on, come on!
(EVE and an other woman come out of the line with their children.)
		ADAM
								   What a glorious figure!
			Well, this reserv’d world possesses something
	3525	Of poetry!
		LUCIFER
						Now, Adam, don’t we go?
		ADAM
			On the contrary, we shall have some rest here.
		THE GREYBEARD
			Scientist! Let you the phrenologic
			State of these two children observe.
			(The SCIENTIST investigates the children.)
		EVE
														My God!
		ADAM
			This voice!
		LUCIFER
						  But what you fall this woman for,
	3530	Who tasted the kiss of Semiramis?
		ADAM
			At that time I did not know this.
		LUCIFER
													That’s fine!
			This is the very old song of all lovers:
			Each of them believes he had discover’d
			The passion and that prior to him no
	3535	Man could make the love; this is the story
			Since millennia without break at all.
		SCIENTIST
			Well, this child has to be a medical man,
			That will be herdsman.
		THE GREYBEARD
										Bring them now away.
			(They want to separate the children, EVE resists.)
		EVE
			Don’t touch him! This child is the child of mine:
	3540	Who would be so rude to wrench him from my heart! -
		THE GREYBEARD
			Do now what I said. Do not hesitate.
		EVE
			My only child! - Ah, I fed you but with
			The blood of my heart. - Where is the power
			That’s able to break this holy relation?
	3545	Should I give you up as lost for evermore,
			To vanish in the crowd and my eyes have
			To look for you with maternal care in vain
			Among hundreds of uniform strangers.
		ADAM
			My friends, if there were something holy to you,
	3550	Do not separate him from his mother.
		EVE
			Is it not so, you bless’d but unknown man.
		THE GREYBEARD
			Foreigner, you do a venturesome game;
			When we allow to come to life again
			The prejudice of family, then all
	3555	Feats of the holy science would be undone.
		EVE
			What do I care for the rigid science!
			Be it defeated when nature breaks force.
		THE GREYBEARD
			Are you ready?
		ADAM
							 Ah! Don’t dare to touch him.
			There is a sword, I’ll teach you a lesson
	3560	Of its true handling.
		LUCIFER
									Vision, stop to move!
(He takes his hand on ADAM’s shoulder who remains still. The fatal power of my hands you must feel. -)
		EVE
			My child!
			(She falls down, her child is led away.)
		THE GREYBEARD
						These two women have not their pairs
			Come forward who wants these women as his pair.
		ADAM
			I need this woman.
		THE GREYBEARD
								 Scientist, what you say.
		SCIENTIST
	3565	Fanatic man and neuropathic woman
			Beget a freak, this is not the correct pair.
		ADAM
			I do not give up when she also wants it.
		EVE
			I am always yours, you generous man.
		ADAM
			I love you, lady, with all fire of my heart.
		EVE
	3570	I also love you for good and all, I feel.
		SCIENTIST
			This is madness. - It’s a strange case, really,
			To see the ghost of past as it’s appearing
			In our enlighten’d days. - How this may be?
		ADAM
			That is late glimmer of the Paradise.
		THE GREYBEARD
	3575	It’s a pity. -
		ADAM
							Don’t feel sorry for us. -
			This madness is ours; we don’t envy you
			For your pure reason. All what in this world was
			Great and generous, was the same madness,
			Being always free of the cool thinking. -
	3580	That is spirits’ talk that sounds to us from the
			Superior world like a nice poem,
			It is the witness that we are kindred
			To it and disdain the dust of this ground
			And are looking for the way to superb worlds. -
			(He holds EVE in his arms.)
		THE GREYBEARD
	3585	Why listen to them, rush them to hospital!
		LUCIFER
	3586	You need rapid aid, Adam, let us go! (they go down)

THIRTEENTH SCENE
The space. A section of our Earth is seen in the farness that turns smaller and smaller till it will be similar to stars and mingles with the others. The scene starts with semi-darkness that turns slowly into total darkness. ADAM as old man and LUCIFER are flying.
		ADAM
			Where our raging flight will lead us, tell me!
		LUCIFER
			Did not you want of dirty ground to be free,
			Did you? To get the superb world from where
	3590	You have heard the sound of similar spirits,
			If I caught you well.
		ADAM
									That’s true but I did not
			Fancy my way to them to be so bleak.
			This space’s so bare, so unfamiliar
			As sacrilegist would be haunting in it,
	3595	And in my heart two feelings are fighting:
			I feel how sordid’s the ground and that it
			Restricts my superb soul, I want to leave it;
			I wish it back, I’m gone away, that cause pain.
			Ah, Lucifer! Just look back upon our Earth,
	3600	At first nice flowers have pass’d out of our sight,
			Then leaves of the forests have disappear’d;
			The well-known landscape with its marvellous scenes
			Degraded into characterless plain.
			All that was charming has become indistinct.
	3605	Now cliffs have been changed into shrunken bad lumps.
			Clouds with thunderbolt meaning to peasants from
			Above the holy voice and startling them,
			Degenerate to pity and woeful haze.
			The great infinity of roaring sea,
	3610	Where has it got to? It’s only a grey spot
			On the sphere that is revolving and will
			Mingle with thousands of stars, that was our world.
			And, Lucifer! What, ah what is with her - -
			Is it my fate to leave, to leave also her? - -
		LUCIFER
	3615	Well, from our sublime aspect first the charm will
			Disappear, this is follow’d by greatness
			And power, and as a final result
			We shall have only the cold mathematics. - -
		ADAM
			The stars are left behind us and I don’t see
	3620	My aim and do feel no difficulties.
			What good will the life do without love and
			Struggle? It gives me the creeps, Lucifer!
		LUCIFER
			If your valiance did take only so long,
			Then let us turn back to play in the dust.
		ADAM
	3625	Who says? Let’s go ahead, let’s go ahead, it
			Is painful only till all the links will
			Totally break that bind me to the Earth. -
			Alas! What is that? My breath dies in me,
			My strength fails me and my mind is confus’d.
	3630	Antaeus would be more than only tale
			Who lived till was in contact with the ground of
			The earth?
		THE VOICE OF THE EARTH’S SPIRIT
						 Yes, this is much more than tale only.
			You know me well, the spirit of the Earth.
			That’s only me who in you lives, you know.
	3635	The barrier’s here and my power stops here.
			Come back and you’ll live - go on and you’ll die,
			Like primitive worm that gambols in its small
			Droplet. - To you this droplet is the Earth.
		ADAM
			Defy you, it is useless to frighten me,
	3640	Maybe my body is yours, my soul’s mine,
			Both thought and truth have been never-ending,
			They lived prior to your material world.
		THE VOICE OF THE EARTH’S SPIRIT
			Vain man! Try it and you’ll come beastly down.
			Whether are prior odour to the rose, or
	3645	The shape to body or sunbeam to the sun?
			Ah, if you saw your abandoned soul
			When revolving in the infinite space,
			When looking for mind and its expression
			In vain in world that is unfamiliar,
	3650	Feeling nothing, and understanding none,
			You would be horrified. ’Cause all concepts
			And all sentiments in your own are only
			The emanation of this group of matter
			That you call Earth, that if it were something else,
	3655	It would not exist more together with you. -
			You took off beauty and the bad, bliss and
			The hell to you from my own spirit only
			That gives the order to your tiny home. -
			Ah, what is here an eternal and great truth
	3660	That’s only nonsense in an other world.
			And absurdness can be there natural.
			Weight does not exist, being does not move,
			What here is air, maybe there is the thought,
			What here is light, maybe there is the sound,
	3665	What here is growing, maybe there is dead.
		ADAM
			You won’t deter me, my soul does strive upwards. -
		THE VOICE OF THE EARTH’S SPIRIT
			Adam, Adam, your ultimate hour comes:
			Return to Earth, you may be mighty there,
			But when you wrench yourself from the ring of the
	3670	Universe, Lord will not tolerate you when
			You approach him and blasts you immediately. -
		ADAM
			Anyhow will death not blast me at all?
		THE VOICE OF THE EARTH’S SPIRIT
			Do not say, do not say this empty word
			Of perpetual lie, here in spirits’ world. -
	3675	The nature would be horrified at it. -
			The holy secret is it what Lord has
			Kept for himself. The apple of knowledge
			Could crack it neither.
		ADAM
									   I’ll be who cracks it.
			(They fly on. ADAM cries and grows stiff.)
			I am lost! -
		LUCIFER (laughing)
						  Now, the old lie is triumphant. -
			(As he drives off ADAM)
	3680	This puppet-godship may revolve now in the
			Space as a novel planet and I do hope
			To find some kind of life that will meet my taste. -
		THE VOICE OF THE EARTH’S SPIRIT
			Don’t be malicious, Lucifer, don’t be!
			He only touch’d the unfamiliar world.
	3685	It’s not so easy to leave my own realm. -
			Homeward voice calls you, come my son to yourself!
		ADAM (coming to his senses)
			I am alive again. - ’Cause I suffer,
			But this sorrow is very nice to me,
			It’s so dreadful to be annihilated. - -
	3690	Ah, Lucifer! Bring back me to my homeland,
			Where I fought so much, so much though in vain,
			Let me again fight and I’ll be happy.
		LUCIFER
			And in spite of these unsuccessful fights
			You think your new strife will be successful,
	3695	You win your goal, you hope? In fact, this faithful
			Childish humour’s only the own of man. -
		ADAM
			This false fancy does not tempt by all means,
			I know, the aim I shall hundred times not reach.
			That is nothing. Really, what’s the aim?
	3700	Aim is always the break of heroic fight,
			Death is the aim and life is the struggle,
			And man’s aim has been this struggle itself.
		LUCIFER
			Really, that is nice consolation,
			Even if the thought of fight would be so great
	3705	Tomorrow you’ll mock for what you now fight,
			It was nothing what has animated you. -
			Did you not bleed to death at Chaironea
			In the defense of defeated liberty,
			And did you not fight for Constantin’s legions
	3710	Giving aid him for world hegemony?
			Were you not lost as martyr of the faith
			And later did you not resist to the faith
			With all results and arms of science itself?
		ADAM
			That’s true but is the same how infamous was
	3715	My thought at that time it animated me,
			It raised me, so it was great, holy thought,
			It’s all one, cross or science, liberty or
			Ambitiousness were fermentative agents,
			These have forwarded mankind as a whole. -
	3720	Ah, let’s go back to the Earth to have new fights.
		LUCIFER
			Did you forget the word of scientist
			Who calculated, after four thousand years
			Your world will freeze and struggle will be cease?
		ADAM
			If our wise science would not outdare it.
	3725	But it defies it, I feel and I know. -
		LUCIFER
			What then? Is any fight, greatness, force there
			In the man-made world that is organized
			By reason from its grounded theories
			What you could observe a short while ago? -
		ADAM
	3730	Let it just save the earth - it will also
			Be over as all things that have perform’d their
			Mission, and then the great thought will again
			Raise breathing courage into its dead spirit.
			Guide me just back, wish eagerly to know
	3735	What’s the new tenet for which I will burn
	3736	On the rescued Earth. -
		LUCIFER
										 Let’s go back again! -

FOURTEENTH SCENE
Mountainous, treeless landscape covered with snow and ice. The Sun like a red and beamless sphere stands among mist streaks. Filter light. In the foreground there is an igloo among some degenerated birch, juniper and runner bushes. ADAM as a very old broken greybeard comes down from the hills with a stick, with LUCIFER.
		ADAM
			Why do we wandering this endless snow-world
			Where death looks at us with dull and blind eyeholes,
			Where only seal once and again makes a noise
	3740	Rousing up when hears our heavy footfalls;
			Where all plants are tir’d always to struggle and
			Among lichens the dwarfy bush exists
			And Moon like lantern of death looks with red
			Face from behind mist streaks into the cold grave. -
	3745	Guide me where palm-trees are growing green and bloom,
			To the land of sunshine and of nice fragrance,
			Where both soul and the power of man have grown
			Completely to his consciousness of his own. -
		LUCIFER
			We’re on the spot. This blood-red ball’s your Sun.
	3750	Beneath our feet there is the globe’s equator. -
			Over its fate science did not triumph. -
		ADAM
			That’s awful world! - It’s good only to die.
			I don’t regret what I shall abandon.
			Ah, Lucifer! Me, who at one time witness’d
	3755	The birth of man, who really has seen the
			Great prospects that did appear vaguely in it,
			Who fought all fights always in first line only,
			Who meditates now on this gigantic
			Tomb covered by the black hangings of nature,
	3760	As first and latest man living on the world:
			I am eager to know how my race fail’d?
			Whether superbly, in generous fights,
			Or miserably, being disjointed,
			Without greatness and unworthy of my tears.
		LUCIFER
	3765	Ah, when you are so proud of your great spirit -
			As you are fond of denominating
			The power that flows your circulation
			And drives young hearts to magnificient thoughts:
			Don’t want to stay as witness at your own
	3770	Funeral bed or catafalque. - Now, this hour
			Is miraculous examination
			Of the accounting made without the master.
			Delirious fever will scare off all
			The brighting pictures of delight in life
	3775	And now then, who knows what of them was true.
			The pitty-minded wail of final fight
			Is great scoffing to struggle of our life.
		ADAM
			Why I did not die high above in the space
			When I felt the force of my power and heart,
	3780	Rather this would be than to hear my own
			Epitaph declaim’d by cold apathy
			Of a spirit who does not go shares in
			My toilsome fights and in my death to come. -
		LUCIFER
			I recognize your race again in your tears
	3785	That accompany your awakening
			From pamper’d illusion to pure consciousness. -
			But set your heart at rest, ’cause your race lives.
			Look, there is also a home of a man
			And its owner just steps out of its door.
(An ESKIMO steps out of the igloo, supplied with tools for seal hunting.)
		ADAM
	3790	This freakish figure, distorted man the
			Usurping heir of my greatness would be?
			Why you let me see him, Lucifer! Indeed,
			Solace is much worse than was my sorrow.
		THE ESKIMO
			How then, the gods still exist above us?
	3795	They have appeared here, just in front of me. But
			Who knows, however, they are good or ill,
			I fly from them, this is least dangerous.
			(He wants to retreat.)
		LUCIFER
			Stop for a moment!
		THE ESKIMO (throwing himself down)
									Have mercy, mylord!
			To you the first seal I offer I hunt,
	3800	Only listen to me and spare my poor life.
		LUCIFER
			Now, what is your right to the seal you will hunt
			That you redeem your life at all with its life?
		THE ESKIMO
			So I’m match for it: ’cause I see everywhere
			How lively fish is eating tiny worm,
	3805	How seal is eating fish and I the seal.
		LUCIFER
			And you serve as food to the great spirit.
		THE ESKIMO
			I know, I know but I buy off with this
			Bloody sacrifice the very short time
			He mercifully allowed me to live in.
		ADAM
	3810	What a coward view!
		LUCIFER
									Did you do something else?
			Between you it’s the only difference
			That he offer’d seals and you offer’d man
			To the godness whom you have created
			After your own face like this after his own.
		THE ESKIMO
	3815	You’re angry with me, I feel its reason
			Because in my need I had the face to pray
			To the generous kind god of our Sun who
			Never asks but gives, who as to our old
			Legend was our lord here. - Ah, be forgiving
	3820	And I accurse it for ever.
		ADAM
										Great my Lord,
			Look down and be blush’d: how miserable’s
			Whom you created to be superb, the man! -
		THE ESKIMO
			Your friend is angry, maybe he’s hungry, too?
		LUCIFER
			Nay, he is angry ’cause he is not hungry.
		ADAM
	3825	Why you fabricate ale-wash’d wits again!
		LUCIFER
			That is truth, not wit. Your argumentation’s
			That of fulness why that of your mate
			Is philosophy of the rumbling stomach.
			You don’t gain over each other with cause
	3830	But will agree at once when you are starv’d
			Or he will be of feeling of fullness.
			Yes, whatever the things be you imagine,
			Always it’s the best that governs yourself,
			And only having pacified this instinct
	3835	Has the man time for disdaining proudly
			The feature of him that’s his main essence. -
		ADAM
			This speech is worthy of you, Lucifer,
			Who all holy things draws down to the ground
			With malicious joy. Are now all great thoughts and
	3840	Generous acts the fumes of our kitchen
			Or the crazy son of a condition
			That from first to last is bound and moved by
			Some rules of the poor and valueless matter? -
		LUCIFER
			Otherwise can it be? - Or do you think
	3845	Leonidas would die in the narrow pass
			And he would consume his diluted mixture
			In a republic that is shorthanded in
			Pecuniary means, instead of drinking
			In a Lucullan cottage all delights
	3850	Of the fabled East? Or Brutus would die
			Instead of running home to his Porcia and
			Recovering from the excitement of
			The fight after a substantial dinner?
			How does crime flourish and how the nobleness?
	3855	Did not misery produce the former
			And both sunshine and liberty did this,
			Handing down in all subsequent descendants
			Itself both in shape and in the spirit?
			How many have said to get square with themselves
	3860	And hang’d themselves to the first tree they found,
			But when were unchained by unbidden hands,
			Sudden rebirth made them to forget the
			Strongly decided show-down with their own. -
			If Hunyad, the great would not have born in his
	3865	Nation, if the shade of a Saracen
			Tent would have floated above his small crib,
			What would have been the first hero of the cross?
			Or if Luther would have been Holy Father
			And Leo’d have been reader in a German
	3870	University, who knows whether they
			Would not have changed their duties in the Church?
			See Napoleon, what he would have been if
			A nation’s blood would not have help’d his path?
			He would have moulded in a putrid barrack. -
		ADAM (clapping his hand over LUCIFER’s mouth)
	3875	Not any more! - All you expounded seem
			To be so plain, to be so real but all
			The more hurtful. - Superstition will blind
			Stupid fellow only who does not perceive
			Spirit that acts and works among us; see
	3880	The good, however, would perceive his brother
			If your cold tenet would not kill him with facts. -
		LUCIFER
			So, talk with your mate, it will not harm you
			To have some lessons of self-recognition.
		ADAM
			Are you many here living from hand to mouth?
		THE ESKIMO
	3885	Many, many, yes, more than I may count
			On my fingers’ ends. - Well, all my neighbours
			I’ve beaten to death but all was in vain,
			New ones are always coming and we are
			So short of the seals. - If you are God, please,
	3890	I pray you, get through that there be less man
			And more seals. -
		ADAM
								 That’s enough! Let’s go, Lucifer.
		LUCIFER
			Well, but let’s visit his wife at the least.
		ADAM
			I won’t to see her, when degenerated
			Is the man, it is horrid sight to our eyes
	3895	But incites only disdain in our heart.
			Woman, however, soul of poetry
			Will be only freak when degenerated
			And incites horror. I won’t her to see.
(Meanwhile LUCIFER dragged ADAM to the igloo and now kicks in the door, inside EVE is seen as wife to the ESKIMO. ADAM standing on the threshold is flabbergasted.)
		LUCIFER
			Do you not find in her an old acquaintance?
	3900	Embrace now her ’cause this honest good man
			Will be mortally offended if you
			Do not honour her with this old gesture.
		ADAM
			Should me embrace her, who embraced once an
			Aspasia! Her, in whom I see to loom
	3905	The features of the immortal other,
			However, so while kissing she would turn
			Into beast. -
		THE ESKIMO (entering the igloo)
							My wife! Guests we are having.
			Receive the guests with cordiality.
(EVE flings her arms around ADAM’s neck and draws him into the igloo.)
		EVE
			Hail to thee, stranger, let you have a rest here.
		ADAM (disentangling himself)
	3910	Help, Lucifer! Let’s go away from here,
			From my future guide me into the recent,
			I want see no more my furious fate:
			The useless fight. Let me think over whether
			Want to defy the destiny of my Lord.
		LUCIFER
	3915	Well then, wake Adam! Your dream is ended.

FIFTEENTH SCENE
(The scene turns into the landscape with palm-trees as in the third scene. ADAM, again as a young man, comes out from the hovel, heavy with sleep and looks amazed around. EVE is asleep in the hovel. LUCIFER stands in the centre. Bright day.)
		ADAM
			Ah, dreadful visions, where did you melt away?
			Around me everything lives and smiles so
			As I left it but my heart is broken.
		LUCIFER
			Vain man! Do you want in your vanity
	3920	The order of nature now to be disturbed
			And new comet to appear on the sky,
			The earth to be shock’d for a worm that died? -
		ADAM
			I dreamt only or I’m dreaming just now,
			And is more than a dream the being at all,
	3925	Falling on the dead matter for minutes
			Finally to break up together with it?
			Why, why we have this short consciousness, so
			That to see the horror of nothingness? -
		LUCIFER
			Why do you whimper? - Only cravenness
	3930	Takes up disaster and don’t want to fight
			Until it power has to walk round it.
			Strong, however, looks at perpetual signs
			Of destiny with tranquillity and so
			Does not murmur at them, but looks only
	3935	For the chances how to keep his own end up.
			Above history is floating this fate,
			You only are a puppet govern’d by it.
		ADAM
			No, that is false, you lie, the will is free.
			I’ve fairly deserv’d to me to possess it,
	3940	Renounced for it the Paradise itself, and
			I drew a lesson from the visions I dreamt,
			I lost my faith in most of them and now
			It’s my decision how I want to go on.
		LUCIFER
			If forgetting and the eternal hope
	3945	Would not be both allies of destiny
			So while the former heals the wound in time,
			This strains a safety net above the depth
			And encourages you: hundred bolds fell in,
			You will be only who will spring it over. -
	3950	But as scientist, you’d to see among
			Other oddities such a stomach-worm
			That can live only in falcon or in cat,
			But the first part of its evolution
			It survives only in the tiny mouse.
	3955	Neither this nor that mouse’s predestinat’d
			To meet the claws of falcons or of cats,
			Being careful it can carry these off
			And it will die only in senile weakness.
			It is, however, the law of nature
	3960	To warrant so much mice to their enemies
			That is enough, so after thousand years
			Even the weaklings could exist in the world.
			Neither the man is tied down in his person,
			But human race well carries its limits;
	3965	Ardour like a stream overruns the man
			Now for an object, and then for other,
			Stakes will always have the victims of their flames
			And will survive those who will be derisive. -
			Who will register the number of lists
	3970	Will be dumbfounded on the steadiness
			Of fate that deals out in right proportions
			Matrimony and death, crime and virtue,
			Faith and distraction and the self-murder. -
		ADAM
			Hold on! I have a thought that flash’d through my mind -
	3975	I can defy you, even you, my Lord.
			Though hundred times fate set date of my life:
			I laugh at it and if suits me, I won’t live.
			Or am I not all by myself in the world?
			There is the cliff for me and depth’s below…
	3980	A jump as a last moment of an act,
			The comedy, I’ll say, has come to an end.
(ADAM moves towards the cliff, EVE steps out of the door.)
		LUCIFER
			The end, the end! Ah, what a foolish talk!
			Are all minutes not end and start at once?
			Tell me, why did you see some million years? -
		EVE
	3985	Adam, why did you sneak so lightly off me
			I feel your last kiss was so very cold,
			And I see now care or rage in your face.
			I am afraid of you…
		ADAM (continuing his way)
									 Why you’re after me,
			Why do you keep watch on my steps at all?
	3990	For me, for the man, for master of the world
			I’ve else to do but to kindly toy with you.
			Woman does not grasp it, she is drag only.
			(being softened)
			Why did you not sleep only for along,
			Now, sacrifice I have to make for the
	3995	Future of my own, will be heavier. -
		EVE
			If you hear me it’ll be perhaps lighter,
			’Cause what doubtful has been to this moment,
			It is now doubtless: the future itself.
		ADAM
			How so?
		EVE
					  I do know, your dark brows will be clear’d
	4000	When I tell you. But come closer to me:
			Ah, Adam, I’m in the family way.
		ADAM (goes down on his knees)
			My Lord, you conquer’d me, I’m in the dust,
			Without, against you my fight is in vain, and
			Raise or punish me, I open my heart.
		LUCIFER
	4005	You worm! You forgot all your mightiness
			You have to thank me it. -
		ADAM
											Enough said! Well!
			It was vain vision, this is peace itself!
		LUCIFER
			Crazy woman, why do you parade? Why?
			Your son is sin-born even in the Eden,
	4010	This will bring crime and distress to the earth.
		EVE
			If Lord wants it so, will other be conceiv’d
			In the distress who will annihilate it
			Bringing fraternity to us to our world -
		LUCIFER
			Do you against me rise, you rascal slave?
	4015	Arise, you brute! Up!
(He kicks towards ADAM. The Heaven opens and the LORD surrounded by angels appears in glory.)
		THE LORD
									  Fall to the ground, spirit!
			No mighty exists to me.
		LUCIFER
										Malediction!
		THE LORD
			Be up, Adam, don’t be heavy-hearted
			When you see I take you back in my goodwill.
		LUCIFER (aside)
			If I aright see, a family row
	4020	Will be here that is nice to all sentiments
			But unamusing to my intelligence.
			It’s best to slink away. (He starts to go)
		THE LORD
										Wait, Lucifer!
			To you I’ve some words, hence you must stay here.
			And you, my son, tell me what is wrong with you.
		ADAM
	4025	My Lord, I was by dreadful visions anguish’d
			And I do not know what’s the truth in them.
			Ah, tell me, tell me what will be my fate:
			Is all of my own this restricted life
			Among the fights of which my soul is filter’d
	4030	Like wine that will finally clarify, and
			You pour it out to be imbib’d by ground?
			Or have you other aims with this fine wine?
			Does my race some time prograde on the whole,
			To grow generous for approaching your throne,
	4035	Or tires to death like beasts always in flour-mills
			And will never, never break loose from its ring?
			Will the generous heart get its just deserts
			That is always mock’d by the vulgar crowd
			’Cause bled for their sins? Wise me up, my Lord, and
	4040	I shall bear all the kinds of destiny;
			I can gain only on this exchange ’cause
			This uncertainty is the hell. -
		THE LORD
											   Don’t ask
			For the secret that is generously
			Concealed by Lord’s hand for your inquiring look.
	4045	If you saw: your soul found temporary
			Rest on the Earth, and there eternity waits:
			It would not be a virtue here to suffer.
			If you saw, the dust would absorb your soul, what
			Would excite you to give up the delight
	4050	Of short-lived minutes, in view of great thoughts?
			While now, looking at your future through clouds
			You will sink under the burden of your life,
			You’ll be raised by feel of infinity.
			If its loftiness would carry away you
	4055	You’ll be limited by the span-wide life.
			Greatness and virtue will be guaranteed. -
		LUCIFER (laughing)
			In fact, the way you chose is full with glory,
			Greatness and virtue will be your commander,
			Two words that can be embodied only if
	4060	Being safeguarded by superstition,
			By the prejudice and by ignorance. -
			To make greatness from man why I have tried,
			Who is moulded from dust and from the sun-beam
			And who’s dwarf to know but great to be blind. -
		ADAM
	4065	Do not mock me, ah Lucifer, do not mock:
			I saw the pure work of your superb knowledge,
			Well, that’s too cool for my heart to exist there. -
			Ah, my Lord! Who will control me at all
			So not to leave the straight and narrow path?
	4070	You took away from me the guiding hand
			As I have tasted the fruits of knowledge.
		THE LORD
			Your arms are strong and your heart’s generous:
			The space is endless that calls you to work,
			And if you’re mindful, a voice sounds to you
	4075	Without break that calls back and raises you,
			You have to follow it. If in the noise
			Of your life this sound of heaven will end,
			The crystal-clear soul of this weak woman,
			Farther of all dirts of the interests
	4080	Will get to know and through her heart-beat this will
			Turn to poetry and to a noble song.
			With the aid of these tools she will support you
			Both in the ill fate and in happiness,
			A consoling and jolly genius. -
	4085	And you, Lucifer, who’re only a ring
			In my universe - let you act longer:
			Your cold knowledge and your crazy negation
			Will be ferments that will boil everything,
			Divert the man, although for hours only,
	4090	But that’s nothing, he will come back again.
			Your punishment will be perpetual,
			You’ve always to see: what you want to damage
			Will be the new germ of nobility. -
		ANGELS’ CHOIR
			Between crime and virtue to have
	4095	Free choice, this is great clemency,
			And yet, to know that above us
			Are the Lord’s will and his mercy.
			Do bravely and even if the
			Crowd’s unthankful, do not deplore,
	4100	’Cause the aim is not self-respect
			For the man who will do great more,
			To do otherwise, he’s asham’d;
			And the feeling of this disgrace
			Will stamp flat the infamous man
	4105	But the hero, him it will raise. -
			In superbness of your proud way
			Don’t be blinded by the vision
			That what you do it is well done
			By you to the God’s ambition,
	4110	And He would need just as the
			Tool of doing what wanted He,
			Even you gain glory from Him,
			He allows you active to be.
		EVE
			Ah, I perceive the song, praise be to my Lord!
		ADAM
	4115	This song begins to dawn on me, I’ll follow.
			Alas! The end! If I’d forget for morrow!
		THE LORD
	4117	I told you, man: fight, trust and be full of hope!

.oOo.

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2. II. Madách Szimpózium (1996)
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4. Imre Madách: Le manusheski tragedija (1996)
5. III. Madách Szimpózium (1996)
6. Balogh Károly: Gyermekkorom emlékei (1996)
7. Nagyné Nemes Györgyi-Andor Csaba: Madách Imre	rajzai és festményei (1997)
8. IV. Madách Szimpózium (1997)
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10. Andor Csaba: Madách Imre és Veres Pálné (1998)
11. V. Madách Szimpózium (1998)
12. Fejér László: Az ember tragédiája bemutatói (1999)
13. Madách Imre: Az ember tragédiája. I. Főszöveg (1999)
14. Madách Imre: Az ember tragédiája. II. Szövegváltozatok, kommentárok (1999)
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