The Processionary : the Procession 



Once more the ring is complete, once more 

 the circle turns and turns. 



Then when will the deliverance come? 

 There is a legend that tells of poor souls 

 dragged along in an endless round until the 

 hellish charm is broken by a drop of holy 

 water. What drop will good fortune sprinkle 

 on my Processionaries to dissolve their circle 

 and bring them back to the nest? I see only 

 two means of conjuring the spell and ob- 

 taining a release from the circuit. These two 

 means are two painful ordeals. A strange 

 linking of cause and effect: from sorrow and 

 wretchedness good is to come. 



And, first, shrivelling as the result of cold. 

 The caterpillars gather together without any 

 order, heap themselves some on the path, 

 some, more numerous these, outside it. 

 Among the latter there may be, sooner or 

 later, some revolutionary who, scorning the 

 beaten track, will trace out a new road and 

 lead the troop back home. We have just 

 seen an instance of it. Seven penetrated to 

 the interior of the vase and climbed the palm. 

 True, it was an attempt with no result, but 

 still an attempt. For complete success, all 

 that need be done would have been to take the 

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