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PROMETHEUS. But you did not suffer, I believe. It is something not to suffer. AHASVERUS. Yes, but I saw other men suffer, and in the end the spectacle of joy gave me the same sensations as the discourses of an idiot. Fatalities of flesh and blood, unending strife, I saw all pass before my eyes, until night caused me to lose my taste for day, and now I cannot distinguish flowers from thistles.
He meditates, then falls into a doze. The day wanes. AHASVERUS. I have come to the end of time; this is the threshold of eternity. The earth is deserted; no other man breathes the air of life. I am the last; I can die. Die! Precious thought! For centuries of centuries I have lived, wearied, mortified, wandering ever, but now the centuries are coming to an end, and I shall die with them.
AHASVERUS. My name Is Ahasverus; I dwelt in Jerusalem at the time they were about to crucify Christ.
PROMETHEUS. I, ignorant of human life? How laughable! Come, perpetual man, explain yourself. Tell me everything; you left Jerusalem ... AHASVERUS. I left Jerusalem. I began my wandering through the ages. I journeyed everywhere, whatever the race, the creed, the tongue; suns and snows, barbarous and civilized peoples, islands, continents; wherever a man breathed, there breathed I. I never labored.
Just was the punishment; but equally just is the glorious remission of my sin. Shall I live? I myself? A new and better life? No, you are jesting with me. PROMETHEUS. Very well, then; leave me. You will return some day, when this vast heaven will be open to let the spirits of the new life descend. You will find me here at peace. Go. AHASVERUS. Shall I again greet the sun?
You should have remained forever, bound and devoured, you, the origin of the ills that afflict me. I lacked compassion, it is true; but you, who gave me life, perverse divinity, were the cause of all. PROMETHEUS. Approaching death confuses your reason. AHASVERUS. Yes, it is you; you have the Olympic forehead, strong and beautiful Titan; it is you indeed ... Are these your chains?
The times will be others, but between them and these a link is necessary, and you shall be that link. PROMETHEUS. You yourself; you, the chosen one; you, the King. Yes, Ahasverus. You shall be King. The Wanderer will find rest. The despised of men shall rule over mankind. AHASVERUS. Wily Titan, you are deceiving me ... King, I? PROMETHEUS. You, King. Who else, then?
Then your retina will gaze upon the sun without peril, for in the man of the future will be concentrated all that is best in nature, energizing or subtle, scintillating or pure. AHASVERUS. Swear that you are not lying. PROMETHEUS. You will see whether I lie. AHASVERUS. Speak, speak on; tell me everything.
AHASVERUS. Place your hand upon my head; look well at me; fill me with the reality of your prediction; let me breathe a little of the new, full life ... King, did you say? PROMETHEUS. The chosen king of a chosen people. AHASVERUS. It is not too much in recompense for the deep ignominy in which I have dwelt. Where one life heaped mire, another life will place a halo. FIRST EAGLE. Ay, ay, ay!
I see upon them no trace of your tears. PROMETHEUS. I wept them for your humankind. AHASVERUS. And humanity wept far more because of your crime. PROMETHEUS. Hear me, last of men, last of ingrates! AHASVERUS. What need have I of your words? I desire your groans, perverse divinity. Here are the chains. See how I raise them; listen to the clank of the iron ... Who unbound you just now?
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