Zukunft hast du mir gegeben,

Doch du nehmst den Augenblick.

“Kassandra.”

(Futurity hast thou given to me,— yet takest from me the Moment.)

“Mejnour, behold thy work! Out, out upon our little vanities of wisdom!— out upon our ages of lore and life! To save her from Peril I left her presence, and the Peril has seized her in its grasp!”

“Chide not thy wisdom but thy passions! Abandon thine idle hope of the love of woman. See, for those who would unite the lofty with the lowly, the inevitable curse; thy very nature uncomprehended,— thy sacrifices unguessed. The lowly one views but in the lofty a necromancer or a fiend. Titan, canst thou weep?”

“I know it now, I see it all! It WAS her spirit that stood beside our own, and escaped my airy clasp! O strong desire of motherhood and nature! unveiling all our secrets, piercing space and traversing worlds!— Mejnour, what awful learning lies hid in the ignorance of the h............