BILLY AND HANS 



eternal world — been merely a floating 

 spider's thread, attached at my end 

 and flying loose at the other? While 

 my heart beats it will always respond 

 to the memory of that little creature 

 who first taught me what universal 

 love was : shall the love endure and 

 the object of it perish? Problems, 

 these, left to the later wisdom — 

 truths to be gathered in other fields 

 than those that Death garners on 1 

 Let no one scorn my passionate at- 

 tachment for my pet squirrels. Love 

 does not measure itself by the dimen- 

 sions of the object, but by the capacity 

 of the loving heart — the measure is 

 the giver's ; the reciprocity only is 

 measured by the abilities of the object, 

 and Billy and Hans gave me all they 

 had. Measured in the Divine meas- 

 ure, the difference between theirs and 

 mine was perhaps not much — that of 



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