They wondered why the fruit had been forbidden:
It taught them nothing new.
They hid their pride,
But did not listen much when they were chidden:
They knew exactly what to do outside.
They left.
Immediately the memory
Of all they known: they could not
The dogs now who before had always aided;
The stream was dumb with whom they'd always planned.
They wept and quarrelled: freedom was so wild.
In front maturity as he
Retired like a horizon from the child,
The dangers and the punishments grew greater,
And the way back by angels was
Against the poet and the legislator.
