Then one of the judges of the city
stood forth and said,
Speak to us of Crime and Punishment.
It is when your spirit
goes wandering upon the wind,
That you, alone and unguarded,
commit a wrong unto others
and therefore unto yourself.
And you who would understand justice,
how shall you unless you look upon all deeds
in the fullness of light?
Only then shall you know that
the erect and the fallen are but one man
standing in twilight
between the night of his pigmy-self
and the day of his god-self.
