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Tragoedia Hominis

 

Scaena tertia decima

 

(Inane. Terrae segmentum quoddam procul videtur usque deminutius, donec non sentiatur nisi stella quaedam inter alias mixta. Scaena initio aliquantum obscura, et gradatim omnino fiunt tenebrae. Adam ut senex cum Lucifero volat.)

 

                   ADAM

                         Quo nos volatus delirus feret?

                   LUCIFER

                         Nonne altiores, scoriis vacans,

                         Cupisti circulos, ex quis locis

                         Voces audisses, si sensi bene,

                         Concordis spiritus?

                   ADAM

                                                               Sane, tamen

                         Non tam vastam putavi ad hos viam.

                         Hi fines tam soli sunt atque inanes,

                         Ut sint, pererrent quos sacrilegae.

                         In corde luctantur sensus duo:

                         Terra vili retentum spiritum

                         Altum sensi, exire hoc circo volo;

                         Idem dolens fleo me separatum. –

                         O Lucifer! terrae orbem respice:

                         Primum flores ex visu decidere,

                         Dein dilapsa est silvae corusca frons,

                         Trecenta post noti tractus loca

                         Amoena in planum ignotum confluunt.

                         Quod rętulit, sic omne dilutum est.

                         Nunc iam rupes in glebas comminutae

                         Nubesque fulmen portantes, quibus

                         Vocem sacram credens vulgus tremit,

                         Depravantur miserrimum in vaporem.

                         Quo, quo frementis dilapsum est maris

                         Infinitum aequor? Stat mica ut livens

                         In quodam ex mille milies globo,

                         Qui ignotus circuit – fuit qui mundus.

                         O Lucifer – necnon eam ' – – eam – –

                         Fuitne opus et illam derelinqui? – –

                   LUCIFER

                         Revera ex visu tangenti altiora

                         Cadit primum venustas, deinde vis

                         Et magnitudo, tum nobis manet

                         Nihil nisi mathesis frigida. – –

                   ADAM

                         Iam praeterimus sidera, at nihil

                         Destinati specto, aut molis tenet me.

                         Pugna sine atque amore quid preti

                         Sit vita? Frigus me horret, Lucifer!

                   LUCIFER

                         Adhuc valebat magnanimitas?

                         Retractemus tunc ludum in pulvere.

                   ADAM

                         Quis hoc dicat? porro, usque porro!

                         Dolor relinquet ruptis restibus

                         Omnino me ad terram ligantibus –

                         Sed a! quid est? spirare vix queo,

                         Relictus vi, compos haud sum mei,

                         An plus Antaeus est quam fabula,

                         Qui non vixit plus terrae pulverem

                         Quam tangeret?

                   VOX GENII TERRAE
                                                         Sane plus fabulâ est.

                         Tu me iam nosti, terrae genium,

                         Nisi me, nil in te spirare scis.

                         Hic meta, adhuc vis tenditur mea,

                         Redi et vives – transi et deleberis,

                         Ut saltitans in gutta aquae minutâ

                         Amoeba. Terra guttae est huic tibi.

                   ADAM

                         Tibi resisto, frustra me horreas,

                         Tua est fors corpus, spiritus meus,

                         Mens infinita est atque veritas,

                         Mundum ante corporalem constitit.

                   VOX GENII TERRAE

                         Conare, vane homo! et cades miser.

                         Odor an ante quam rosa exstitit,

                         Forma ante corpus, splendor ante solem?

                         O si videres spiritum aethere

                         In infinito circuire solum,

                         Peregre in mundo frustra quaerere

                         Intellectum sibi atque expressionem,

                         Nec quid sentire iam nec sapere,

                         Abhorreres. Namque omnis ratio,

                         Omnes sensus intenti in te nihil

                         Nisi emanatio materiae,

                         Vocas quem terram, quae mutata si esset,

                         Nihil plus exstaret nihilque plus tu. –

                         Meo tibi attraxisti spiritu

                         Pulchrum atque turpe, infernos et salutem,

                         Qui patriae tuae inflat ordinem. –

                         O hic quod est aeterna veritas,

                         Absurditas forte in mundo altero,

                         Quod non potest hic, plane fit ibi.

                         Pondus non pensatur, non vita mota,

                         Quod hic aer, est forte mens ibi,

                         Quod hic lumen, forte est ibi sonus,

                         Quod aucta vitâ est hic, crystallum ibi.

                   ADAM

                         Non me retentas, tollo spiritum alte. –

                   VOX GENII TERRAE

                         Adam, ' Adam, ' extremum iam prope est:

                         Redi, in terris his magnus esse quis,

                         At si tete revellis Universi

                         Ex vinculis, Deus te non feret

                         Ad se gradi – te perdet pessimum. –

                   ADAM

                         Me nonne perdet dein utique mors? –

                   VOX GENII TERRAE

                         Vanum verbum mendaciae vetustae

                         Iactare noli, noli in mundo spiritus –

                         Natura tota abhorret audiens.

                         Hoc est sigillum sacrum, Dominus

                         Sibi servavit, ne malum quidem

                         Scientiae solvit.

                   ADAM

                                                         Solvam ergo ego.

(Protinus volant, dum Adam repentino eiulatu rigeat.)

                         Perii!

                   LUCIFER (cachinnans)

                                      Vicit mendacia vetus. –

                         (Adam a se abstrudens)

                         Haec divi idoli pupa circuibit

                         Per aethera, stella ut nova, et mihi

                         Novâ vitâ fortasse germinabit.

                   VOX GENII TERRAE

                         Gaudio absiste, Lucifer, maligno!

                         Externum mundum tangebat modo,

                         Regno meo egreditur difficulter. –

                         Paterna vox vocat te, exsurge, fili!

                   ADAM (animum recipiens)

                         Rursus vivo – me sentio pati.

                         Mihi sed quam cara est haec passio,

                         Quam est horridum, redire in nihilum! – –

                         O Lucifer! reduc terram in meam me,

                         Pugnavi ubi frustra tot proeliis,

                         Beatus pugnaturus rursum ero. –

                   LUCIFER

                         Putasne adhuc, expertus tanta, non

                         Frustra certaturum te denuo?

                         Et terminum assequęre? Gaudium

                         Infantile incorruptum est hominis. –

                   ADAM

                         Nullo modo trahit me haec vana mens,

                         Scio non assequi me terminum

                         Terque et quater. Quid refert? Terminus

                         Quid est? Est finis belli splendidi,

                         Est terminus mors, vita proelium,

                         Ipsum hoc bellum destinatum est viri.

                   LUCIFER

                         Sane est miranda consolatio –

                         Si esset res magna, quae pugnam ciet.

                         Sed cras ridebis id quod nunc proponis,

                         Tantum ludus te infantium calebat.

                         Nonne ad Chaeroneam pro decidenti

                         Fudisti libertate sanguinem,

                         Idem qui post certasti conditurus

                         Pro Constantino mundi imperium?

                         Occisus nonne es martyr pro fide,

                         Nonne at tu postea contra fidem

                         Arma scientiae gessisti idem?

                   ADAM

                         Ita est, ita est, sed cogitatio quid

                         Refert, quam vilis fuerit: levabat,

                         Me incendebat, mens magna sancta erat.

                         Quid refert, crucis an scientiae,

                         Libertatisne an forma ambitionis:

                         Processit hac utique humana gens. –

                         O ad terram rursus, novamque pugnam! –

                   LUCIFER

                         Vocemne oblitus es iam sapientis,

                         Qui computavit congelante mundo in

                         Quater mille annis pugnae terminum?

                   ADAM

                         Ni obsistet illi sapientia.

                         Sed obsistet, iam sentio, scio. –

                   LUCIFER

                         At deinde? – Ubi vis, pugna, magnitudo

                         In hoc mundo arte facta, constituto

                         Ex ratione per theorias,

                         Quemque ipse tu conspexisti modo. –

                   ADAM

                         O salvet terram – post ut omnia

                         Quae functa munere, ille praeteribit,

                         Emerget denuo tunc spiritus,

                         Quae vitam inflabit. Illi tu modo

                         Reduce me, spectaturus calesco,

                         In terra salvata quaenam ideam

                         Incendet me.

                   LUCIFER

                                                   Revertamur, bene! –

 

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