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continued and systematic watching for its appearance 

 in transit, as at the time of a solar eclipse it might be 

 too near the sun to be visible. 



RICHTER'S DREAM 



The mighty angel and the man whom God called up 

 from dreams into the vestibule of heaven were speed- 

 ing through space ; the rushing of planets was upon 

 them, the blazing of suns was around them. " Then 

 came eternities of twilight, that revealed, but were 

 not revealed. On the right hand and on the left 

 towered mighty constellations, that by self -repetitions 

 and answers from afar, that by counter-positions 

 built by triumphal gates, whose architraves, whose 

 archways, horizontal, upright, rested, rose, at altitude, 

 by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. With- 

 out measure were the architraves ; past number were 

 the archways ; beyond memory the gates. Within 

 were stairs that scaled the eternities around ; above 

 was below, and below was above, to the man stripped 

 of gravitating body. Depth was swallowed up in 

 height insurmountable ; height was swallowed up in 

 depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode 

 from infinite to infinite, suddenly, as thus they tilted 

 over abysmal worlds, a mighty cry arose that systems 

 more mysterious, that worlds more billowy, other 

 heights and other depths, were coming, were nearing, 

 were at hand. 



" Then the man sighed and stopped, shuddered and 

 wept. His overladen heart uttered itself in tears, and 

 he said : ' Angel, I will go no farther ; for the spirit of 

 man acheth with this infinity. Insufferable is the 



