Marveling he stands on the cathedral's <br />steep ascent, close to the rose window, <br />as though frightened at the apotheosis <br />which grew and all at once <br /> <br />set him down over these and these. <br />And straight he stands and glad of his endurance, <br />simply determined; as the husbandman <br />who began and who knew not how <br /> <br />from the garden of Eden finished-full <br />to find a way out into <br />the new earth. God was hard to persuade; <br /> <br />and threatened him, instead of acceding, <br />ever and again, that he would die. <br />Yet man persisted: she will bring forth.<br /><br />Rainer Maria Rilke<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adam/
