It is a mighty engine by whose wheels
We are caught up and wearied, and cast out
Into the darkness when our strength is spent.
Capesius:
I knew thee in the days when eagerly
And undismayed thou didst set out to solve
The riddle of existence. I have learned
How thou didst see thy treasured knowledge sink
Into the bottomless abyss, and how
Thy soul, profoundly shaken, had to drain