That which I did, I did, I who am here:

There is no safety but in this; and when

I shall deny the thing that I have done,

I am a dream.

Adam. My son,

What shall I say?

That which your soul, in marriage with the world,

Imbreeds in you, accept;—how can I say

Refuse the revelations of the soul?

Yet be not over scrupulous, my son,