The Divine Adventure etc. (Works vol. 4)

which for the first time had gone along outside of our common home, had

ee good friends. We had never been at one, though we had shared the same home, and had enjoyed so much in common; but

the two great ends of life-to love and to suffer. In deep love there is always an inmost dark flame, as in the flame lit by a taper: I think it is the obsc

because the hidden things of the spirit are the only realities, and it seemed to us a little idle and foolish to discuss in the legend that which was not f

was like a shadowless white road. In the dusk of the haven glimmered two or three red and green lights, where the fishing-cobles trailed motionless at anchor. Inland were shadowy hills. One of the St. John's Eve fires burned on the nearest of these, its cone blotting out a thousand eastern sta

g in the moonshine. Near the trap-ledges, which ran into deep water sheer from the goat-pastures, were man

in silence, the

t, go together to find if there be any light upon those matters which trouble us, and perhaps discern th

hall know," said one? "It may be

-night, and to-morrow, after we have slept and

sleep was both a remembering and a forgetting, each unwittingly felt the keen ne