I am far beyond
The horizons of love and strife.
Like a star, like a pond
That washes the lords of life.”
“Listen!” said Ramón, in the stillness. “We will be masters among men, and lords among men. But lords of men, and masters of men we will not be. Listen! We are lords of the night. Lords of the day and night. Sons of the Morning Star, sons of the Evening Star. Men of the Morning and the Evening Star.
“We are not lords of men: how can men make us lords? Nor are we masters of men, for men are not worth it.
“But I am the Morning and the Evening Star, and lord of the day and the night. By the power that is put in my left hand, and the power that I grasp in my right, I am lord of the two ways.
“And my flower on earth is the jasmine flower, and in heaven the flower Hesperus.
“I will not command you, nor serve you, for the snake goes crooked to his own house.
“Yet I will be with you, so you depart not from yourselves.