They wandered in the penetrating light of paradise without knowledge.

They were as if they did not exist.

When--through triumphant curiosity, though forbidden by God himself--they learned the secret, the sky was darkened.
The certainty of a future of sorrow had fallen upon them.

Angels pursued them like vultures.

They grovelled on the ground from day to day, but they had created love, they had replaced divine riches by the poverty of belonging to each other.
The two little children had taken their parts in the eternal drama.