1 And it was our curse which drove us to our crime.
2 The evil of our crime is not for the human mind to probe.
3 No such crime has ever been committed, and it is not for us to judge.
4 We have committed a greater crime, and for this crime there is no name.
5 Thus have we lived each day of four years, until two springs ago when our crime happened.
6 Such would have been our life, had we not committed our crime which changed all things for us.
7 They would see nothing, save our crime of working alone, and they would destroy us and our light.
8 There is no crime punished by death in this world, save this one crime of speaking the Unspeakable Word.
9 It matters only that the light is precious and we should not waste it to write when we need it for that work which is our crime.
10 What punishment awaits us if it be discovered we know not, for no such crime has come in the memory of men and there are no laws to provide for it.
11 And as we look back upon our life, we see that it has ever been thus and that it has brought us step by step to our last, supreme transgression, our crime of crimes hidden here under the ground.
12 And as we look back upon our life, we see that it has ever been thus and that it has brought us step by step to our last, supreme transgression, our crime of crimes hidden here under the ground.