A lover; therefore am I deaf and blind, through love.”

His wife him answered: “Is this all in kindness meant?

Or dost thou seek by craft my plans to circumvent?”

He swore: “By God; who knows the secrets of each heart;

Who hath created Adam free from treacherous art;405

Who, in three cubits’ stature unto him dispensed,

The mysteries of all decrees, all souls, condensed:

Whatever is to be, to all eternity,

To Adam taught, with every name of Deity,

So that the very angels wearied under him,