24 Shadowings 



" 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. . , ." 



