2 4 Shado wings 



" Even so surely as that all flesh has been sun- 

 fire ! In the ceaseless succession of integrations 

 and dissolutions, all things have shifted relation 

 and place numberless billions of times. Hearts 

 of old moons will make the surface of future 

 worlds. . , ." 



Fr. Ill 



... "No regret is vain. It is sorrow that spins 

 the thread, softer than moonshine, thinner than 

 fragrance, stronger than death, the Gleipnir- 

 chain of the Greater Memory. . . . 



" In millions of years you will meet again ; 

 and the time will not seem long ; for a million years 

 and a moment are the same to the dead. Then 

 you will not be all of your present self, nor she 

 be all that she has been: both of you will at 

 once be less, and yet incomparably more. Then, 

 to the longing that must come upon you, body 

 itself will seem but a barrier through which you 

 would leap to her or, it may be, to him ; for 

 sex will have shifted numberless times ere then. 

 Neither will remember ; but each will be filled 

 with a feeling immeasurable of having met 

 before. , , ." 



