# First Scene, Final Scenes

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GIANT: I love the stories  
And find them witty,  
But for my brain  
They will probably remain  
What they have been until now:  
Good material  
For passing the time  
I have  
Between work and pleasure.

1st WILL-O'-THE-WISP: That seems to me  
To stray too far from the goal.  
You forget that you  
Could never live  
If it weren't for those  
Who make the art of thought  
Their own.

L.: The gentleman is right.  
O friend, you do not know  
How sweet it is  
To live life  
When knowledge  
Reveals to the soul  
The essence of things.

L. returns:

I feel compelled to spend a little while longer  
With the one  
Whose gaze has seemed so clouded  
For days now.  
You seem to live  
In misunderstanding.  
And instead of joyful delight  
And the joys of existence  
Flowing to you from the new revelation,  
It takes away all your security in life,  
Worry flows into your heart  
And sickness into your soul.  
How often are we told,  
Health alone is the fruit of the new teaching;  
In you it experiences its opposite.  
I see other fruits  
Sprouting from it.  
Desolate is the old existence  
Of those who dwell at my side.  
Only now do they recognize  
How pleasure reigns in all life.  
And in a hundred ways  
They know how to enjoy  
The hours of the day,  
Since at the root of things  
They no longer see  
The emptiness they despise,  
But instead bright joy  
In divine reasons.  
You are relieved of everyday life,  
But you are not liberated.  
Instead of allowing the impulses of the heart  
To arise anew  
From the bath of spiritual life,  
Your weary limbs are dying;  
Instead of allowing the light  
From your own eyes  
The light that has been revealed,  
You feel slavishly chained  
To the remnants of your former being.  
In the impulses of life you shall walk  
Knowledge that has become yours.  
Life is not extinguished,  
It must be transformed anew.  
Feel as strength what you have heard,  
And as a new person  
You will awaken.

HUMAN: I wish the time would come  
When we too would understand each other.  
For now we speak different languages,  
Although our languages  
Flow from only one source.