1 For a long time we could not speak.
2 All men feel it and none dare to speak.
3 They do not speak often, for they are weary.
4 But when they speak it they are put to death.
5 But we could not speak and we stood looking upon them.
6 We wish to speak it, but we dare not speak it above a whisper.
7 Many days passed before we could speak to the Golden One again.
8 And this is the Unspeakable Word, which no men may speak nor hear.
9 They had torn out the tongue of the Transgressor, so that they could speak no longer.
10 It is a transgression to speak to men of other Trades, save in groups at the Social Meetings.
11 And the Council of Vocations sat on a high dais, and they had but two words to speak to each of the Students.
12 For all must agree with all, and they cannot know if their thoughts are the thoughts of all, and so they fear to speak.
13 But we must never speak of the times before the Great Rebirth, else we are sentenced to three years in the Palace of Corrective Detention.
14 The candles are lit, and the Councils of the different Homes stand in a pulpit, and they speak to us of our duties and of our brother men.
15 We stopped and we saw that their eyes, so hard and scornful to the world, were looking at us as if they would obey any word we might speak.
16 And as we all undress at night, in the dim light of the candles, our brothers are silent, for they dare not speak the thoughts of their minds.
17 There a play is shown upon the stage, with two great choruses from the Home of the Actors, which speak and answer all together, in two great voices.
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