Chapter II: Part TWELVE: The Book of Acquiescence

48 Fruits of the Sylan’s Industry 345
49 Triumph of the Two Truths 352
50 Exodus of Glaum 362

THE ARGUMENT OF THIS COMEDY
Set forth as clearly as discretion permits, for the convenience
of the intending reader

THESE shadows here are subtle: for they wait
Like usurers that briefly lend the sun
Disfavor and a stinted while to run
With flaunting vigor through life’s large estate
Of fire and turmoil; or like thieves that hate
No law-lord save the posturing of desire
With genuflexions where dejections tire
The fig-leaf’s trophy with the fig-leaf’s weight.

Yes; they are subtle: and where no light is
These tread not openly, as heretofore,
With whisperings of that at odds with this
To veil their passing, where a broken door
Confronts the zenith, and Semiramis,
At one with Upsilon, exhorts no more.