On the day when Adam uttered the sacred The 

 name and became king of the world, a great Sea-Spell, 

 sighing was heard in Gorias in the East and in 

 Finias in the South, in Murias in the West 

 and in Falias in the North : and when morn 

 was come the women were no more awakened 

 by the stirring of wings and the sunrise-flight 

 of their angelic lovers. They came no more. 

 And when Eve awoke by the side of Adam, 

 and he looked on her, and saw the immortal 

 mystery in the eyes of this mortal loveliness, 

 lamentations and farewells and voices of twi- 

 light were heard in Murias by the margin of 

 the sea and in Gorias high -set among her 

 peaks ; in the secret gardens of Falias, and 

 where the moonlight hung like a spear above 

 the towers of Finias upon the great plain. 

 The children of Lilith were gone away upon 

 the wind, as lifted dust, as dew, as shadow, as 

 the unreturning leaf. Adam rose, and bade 

 Eve go to the four solitudes, and bring back 

 the four ancient secrets of the world. So Eve 

 went to Gorias, and found nothing there but 

 a flame of fire. She lifted it and hid it in her 

 heart. At noon she came to Finias, and 

 found nothing there but a spear of white light. 

 She took it and hid it in her mind. At dusk 

 she came to Falias, and found nothing there but 

 a star in the darkness. She hid the darkness, 



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