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 Tilled the soil and planted seeds there.

Younger over books would ponder,

Out of clay queer figures moulding

As he saw them in old bibles,

In the church, or castle's hallways.

Many years they lived thus peacefully,

Till one day they broke in quarrel,

Toward each other deathly angered.

And their break came o'er a woman,

Beautiful as heaven's angel,

Tempting as the Eden's devil.

Yes, it seems that in her blood stream

Coursed a drop of blood of demons,

Blood of Lilith, female devil,

She who was first wife of Adam.

Then one night, upon a pathway

Angered brothers met each other;

Older one armed with a sabre

And the younger one with chisel,

The same tool which from cold marble

Cut Madonna's saintly features.

What then happened, you know better

Than I could repeat in story

Right next morn young brother vanished

No one even asked about him.

Older one, the girl married,