BOOK II SOUL-FIRE
Reading edition
“‘... Yes, who am I? God wot! How often have I prayed to Heaven to tell me!— Who am I, God?—But Heaven itself is mute. Yet this I do know: whatsoe’er I be, Hero or weakling, demigod or beast, I am the outcast child of the bright Sun That longs for home!— A bundle of sorrow, weeping for the light That stretches out its radiant arms in vain And yearns for me!’” —Gerhardt Hauptmann, “The Sunken Bell,” Act V.