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.