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

LUCIFER

Let it be so! I’ll put a charm on you That you may see the future to the end In running visions which the dream shall send. But when you see how stupid is your goal,

How hard your way, your struggle and your role, That you’ll be not discouraged by this sight And you shall never leave the field of fight - I place a little ray into your skies To comfort you that all, before your eyes,

Are visions only - And this ray is hope!

(Lucifer leads both Adam and Eve into the hut where they fall asleep.)

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