From a Dream-book 2|>1 



connection, this is only because I tried to arrange 

 them in what I imagined to be the rational 

 sequence. Of their original place and relation, I 

 know scarcely anything. And, even regarding 

 the character of the book itself, I have been able 

 to discover only that a great part of it consists of 

 dialogues about the Unthinkable. 



Fr. I 



. . . Then the Wave prayed to remain a wave 

 forever. 



The Sea made answer : 



" Nay, thou must break : there is no rest in me. 

 Billions of billions of times thou wilt rise again 

 to break, and break to rise again." 



The Wave complained : 



" 1 fear. Thou sayest that I shall rise again. 

 But when did ever a wave return from the place 

 of breaking ? " 



The Sea responded : 



" Times countless beyond utterance thou hast 

 broken ; and yet thou art ! Behold the myriads of 

 the waves that run before thee, and the myriads 

 that pursue behind thee ! all have been to the 

 place of breaking times unspeakable ; and thither 



