Bereczky Erzsébet (szerk.): Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man. Essays about the ideas and the directing of the Drama (Budapest, 1985)
Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man - full text of the drama - Translated by Joseph Grosz
You wear the cloak of joy and mourning To alter your green dress to white. May heaven bless you on your orbit, Go onward, bravely in your flight; On your small surface grand ideas Will someday come to strive and fight! Though ugliness, beauty, tears and laughter, Like spring and winter circle round, Its light and shade will stand united As grace and wrath of God, earthbound! ( The Guardian Spirits of the stars depart.) THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL He measured out the endless cosmos Creating matter into it Which on His single Word gave birth to Dimensions, distance, infinite — Hosanna to You, Thought! (He bows.) THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL He unified the ever constant And the mutation into One; Created beings, generations, Universe, time, planets and sun — Hosanna to You, Power! (He bows.) THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL He floods great happiness to all By giving bodies a conscious sense; He shares with all the universe The wisdom of His magnificence — Hosanna to You, Goodness! (He bows. Pause.) 131
