The New Natural History Museum [antikvár]

Darkness and Void was all: myself alone, seclusive, silent, all-forsaken Night, Then light was born to me, my only child. As blazing light erupted from my womb the boundless power of the radiation perturbed the empty space, and from the void an all-pervading thousand-headed monster; the Universe appeared. The moon, the stars, great wonders of the firnament became lone pilgrims ofimmense trajectories. The former passive peace has passed away as matter moved and action came to power Then barren time and space were populated, alive with action, movement everywhere. Ocean and earth fought desperately, claiming their heritance where Void had reigned before, but then the oceans calmed their angry waves and as the fight let up9 the waters brightened with sunny smiles reflected from the sky. Now, like a bride, in grace and gaiety, young earth put on her fmery offlowers... (Mihály Vörösmarty: The quest Csongor and Tünde, extracts from the Monologue of the Night, Act 5. English translation by Péter Zollman)