Oh why is it

I cannot kneel to you?

Dja. Rather, 't is I

Should kneel to you, my Anael!

An. Even so!

For never seem you—shall I speak the truth?—

Never a God to me! 'T is the Man's hand,

Eye, voice! Oh, do you veil these to our people,

Or but to me? To them, I think, to them!

And brightness is their veil, shadow—my truth!