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indeed with the Beloved. And I then alway to make the Diskos spin a little,
yet something more than when I should see the hour; and, in verity, our faces
then to show pale and strange seeming in that luminous glowing of the great
weapon in the Darkness; and we to look very eager and an hungered of love,
each at the other; and so to need that we be held loving by the Beloved, and
so to have comfort and assuredness; and afterward to have peace to go onward
again.
And it did be one such time as these, that Mine Own to give me a love name she
had called me in those olden days of this
Age; and which surely I had not heard since Mirdath died. And, in verity, you
to have dear understanding with me, how that I then to be all troubled with
vague troubles and ghostly loveaches in the heart; and likewise, I did be all
set about in a moment by the olden enchantment and speechless glamour that did
be so long hid and lost in the Spaces of Memory, where surely the spirit doth
wander such oddwhiles, husht unto a dumb tearlessness and to know in the same
moment both Agony and the voiceless Glory and lost
Delight of the HathBeen; so that it doth be as that you wandered in the spirit
between the sorrowful pain of the Sunset, and the Promise of the Dawn which
doth be builded upon the Need and Hope of the soul, and doth also to have an
essence of pain within it; because that these do be knit with Longing which
doth be the
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essential pang of Memory. And so, mayhap, you to have gone with me; for you to
have also strange thoughts that do come out of the years, and do hurt the
heart, even whilst that the heart doth hunger of that which doth so pain. Yet,
truly, Mine Own did be now with me, as you do know so that I had joy all about
my heart; yet did all the years of my lost delights and of my pain, be in the
spaces of my memory, and Mine Own now to have stirred all; so that no words
that did be ever shaped of man should help me to have ease in speech.
And Mine Own Maid to know how it did be with me; and she to have said the
thing, scarce wotting, even as her spirit did set it through her lips; and she
before then to have forgot so utter as I; and now she to be stirred likewise
with me; so that, in verity, we to hold hands in the great Darkness upon the
Slope, and to wait till the pain and strange trouble did go somewhat from our
hearts; and we to have power again to know truly that we did be again together
in sweet verity, after a mighty Eternity.
And thus did we go, and even in that strange Night to have an everlasting
coming together; so that surely our two spirits to be nigh made one, somewise;
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and this to be that sweet and holy thing which I do name Love;
and it to be my glory and Astonishment that Love hath come unto me. And with
you that have love, I am as a
Brother in holy delight; but with all that have not known Love, or to have
missed Love, I am a Mourner, and my heart to pray that they to know this
Wonder, ere they die; for else shall they die so green and bitter as they be
born, and to have grown nowise unto Ripeness, which doth be Charity the end of
life and the Crown of
Humanity.
And surely I to go forward again now with my telling. And you to know that on
the eighth day upon the
Slope, about the end of the ninth hour, there to be an upward seeming of
light, afar before us in the Darkness, and did show as a dull and vague sheen
above us in the night. And truly, I to know that we did be come at last anear
unto the Night Land.
And we went upward then very eager through the dark; and the dim shine did
grow, ever; so that we soon to see it very plain, as a looming of light afar
upward. And we ever to climb and to go onward. And lo! in the fourteenth hour
of that day, we came up slowly out of the Night upon the Slope, and stood at
the ending of that strange road Where The Silent Ones Walk.
And surely it did be as that I was come home, and to have set my feet again
upon familiar Lands; and this to bring to you how far off I did seem to have
gone; and now to be come again to a Known Place.
And we went upward upon the Road, until that we did truly have topt the Slope,
and at last to look out over all the wonder and mystery of that Land. And I
never to be rid of the utter gladness of knowing that I was come there again,
after so strange a journey, and that Mine Own had I brought with me, out of
all the unknown world. Yet, truly, I also never to have forgetting that this
familiar Land of Strangeness did be the last test and the greatest
dreadfulness of our journey; and anxiousness did hang upon me; for I now to
have to take the preciousness of Mine Own among and beyond all that Danger of
Horrid Forces and of Monstrous Things and
Beast Men, and the like.
And truly, I did be like to trouble.
And, in verity, I did stare with a fierce eagerness unto the faroff place in
the middle part of the Night Land, where did be the Mighty Pyramid; and surely
it there to shine in the midst of the land, and did be mine Home, where never
had I dared hope I should return. And I set mine arm very swift and eager
about the Maid, and pointed, so that she see quickly the wonder and safe
Mightiness of that which did be our Refuge for all our life to come, if but
that we to win unto it. And the Maid to look with a great and earnest
soberness and a lovely gladness and utter soul and heart interest, unto that
Place that bare me, and where I to have come from, and now to take her.
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And long and long she lookt; and sudden came round unto me, and set her arms
quick about my neck, and burst unto a strange and happy weeping. And I to hold
her gentle to me, and let her cry very natural, until that she was something
unpent.
And lo! when that she was eased, she to stand close beside me, and to look
again unto the Mighty Pyramid; [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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