And lo, they awake, they tremble, they are stricken with understanding;

The granite, lifting some vague and troubled eyelid,

Struggleth to behold his master:

The rock feeleth within himself the breathing of the unhewn statue,

The marble stirs in the midnight of his darkness,

Because that he is aware of the soul of a man.

The buried alabaster desireth to rise up from the grave,

Earth shudders, it trembleth violently,

It feels upon it the will of a man;

And behold, beneath the gaze of him who passeth with creation in his eyes,