havemade
yourself
.
You
will
not
be
able
much
longer
to
look
to
yourself
anything
but
what
he
sees
you
!
You
will
not
much
longer
have
satisfaction
in
the
thought
of
yourself
.
At
this
moment
you
are
aware
of
the
coming
change
!
"
"
No
one
ever
made
me
.
I
defy
that
Power
to
unmake
me
from
a
free
woman
!
You
are
his
slave
,
and
I
defy
you
!
You
may
be
able
to
torture
me
—
I
do
not
know
,
but
you
shall
not
compel
me
to
anything
against
my
will
!
"
"
Such
a
compulsion
would
be
without
value
.
But
there
is
a
light
that
goes
deeper
than
the
will
,
a
light
that
lights
up
the
darkness
behind
it
:
that
light
can
change
your
will
,
can
make
it
truly
yours
and
not
another
's
—
not
the
Shadow
's
.
Into
the
created
can
pour
itself
the
creating
will
,
and
so
redeem
it
!
"
"
That
light
shall
not
enter
me
:
I
hate
it
!
—
Begone
,
slave
!
"
"
I
am
no
slave
,
for
I
love
that
light
,
and
will
with
the
deeper
will
which
created
mine
.
There
is
no
slave
but
the
creature
that
wills
against
its
creator
.
Who
is
a
slave
but
she
who
cries
,
`
I
am
free
,
'
yet
cannot
cease
to
exist
!
"
"
You
speak
foolishness
from
a
cowering
heart
!
You
imagine
me
given
over
to
you
:
I
defy
you
!
I
hold
myself
against
you
!
What
I
choose
to
be
,
you
cannot
change
.
I
will
not
be
what
you
think
me
—
what
you
say
I
am
!
"
"
I
am
sorry
:
you
must
suffer
!
"
"
But
be
free
!
"
"
She
alone
is
free
who
would
make
free
;
she
loves
not
freedom
who
would
enslave
:
she
is
herself
a
slave
.
Every
life
,
every
will
,
every
heart
that
came
within
your
ken
,
you
have
sought
to
subdue
:
you
are
the
slave
of
every
slave
you
have
made
—
such
a
slave
that
you
do
not
know
it
!
—
See
your
own
self
!
"
She
took
her
hand
from
the
head
of
the
princess
,
and
went
two
backward
paces
from
her
.
A
soundless
presence
as
of
roaring
flame
possessed
the
house
—
the
same
,
I
presume
,
that
was
to
the
children
a
silent
wind
.
Involuntarily
I
turned
to
the
hearth
:
its
fire
was
a
still
small
moveless
glow
.
But
I
saw
the
worm-thing
come
creeping
out
,
white-hot
,
vivid
as
incandescent
silver
,
the
live
heart
of
essential
fire
.
Along
the
floor
it
crawled
toward
the
settle
,
going
very
slow
.
Yet
more
slowly
it
crept
up
on
it
,
and
laid
itself
,
as
unwilling
to
go
further
,
at
the
feet
of
the
princess
.
I
rose
and
stole
nearer
.
Mara
stood
motionless
,
as
one
that
waits
an
event
foreknown
.
The
shining
thing
crawled
on
to
a
bare
bony
foot
:
it
showed
no
suffering
,
neither
was
the
settle
scorched
where
the
worm
had
lain
.
Slowly
,
very
slowly
,
it
crept
along
her
robe
until
it
reached
her
bosom
,
where
it
disappeared
among
the
folds
.
The
face
of
the
princess
lay
stonily
calm
,
the
eyelids
closed
as
over
dead
eyes
;
and
for
some
minutes
nothing
followed
.
At
length
,
on
the
dry
,
parchment-like
skin
,
began
to
appear
drops
as
of
the
finest
dew
:
in
a
moment
they
were
as
large
as
seed-pearls
,
ran
together
,
and
began
to
pour
down
in
streams
.
I
darted
forward
to
snatch
the
worm
from
the
poor
withered
bosom
,
and
crush
it
with
my
foot
.
But
Mara
,
Mother
of
Sorrow
,
stepped
between
,
and
drew
aside
the
closed
edges
of
the
robe
:
no
serpent
was
there
—
no
searing
trail
;
the
creature
had
passed
in
by
the
centre
of
the
black
spot
,
and
was
piercing
through
the
joints
and
marrow
to
the
thoughts
and
intents
of
the
heart
.
The
princess
gave
one
writhing
,
contorted
shudder
,
and
I
knew
the
worm
was
in
her
secret
chamber
.
"
She
is
seeing
herself
!
"
said
Mara
;
and
laying
her
hand
on
my
arm
,
she
drew
me
three
paces
from
the
settle
.
Of
a
sudden
the
princess
bent
her
body
upward
in
an
arch
,
then
sprang
to
the
floor
,
and
stood
erect
.
The
horror
in
her
face
made
me
tremble
lest
her
eyes
should
open
,
and
the
sight
of
them
overwhelm
me
.
Her
bosom
heaved
and
sank
,
but
no
breath
issued
.
Her
hair
hung
and
dripped
;
then
it
stood
out
from
her
head
and
emitted
sparks
;
again
hung
down
,
and
poured
the
sweat
of
her
torture
on
the
floor
.
I
would
have
thrown
my
arms
about
her
,
but
Mara
stopped
me
.
"
You
cannot
go
near
her
,
"
she
said
.
"
She
is
far
away
from
us
,
afar
in
the
hell
of
her
self-consciousness
.
The
central
fire
of
the
universe
is
radiating
into
her
the
knowledge
of
good
and
evil
,
the
knowledge
of
what
she
is
.
She
sees
at
last
the
good
she
is
not
,
the
evil
she
is
.
She
knows
that
she
is
herself
the
fire
in
which
she
is
burning
,
but
she
does
not
know
that
the
Light
of
Life
is
the
heart
of
that
fire
.
Her
torment
is
that
she
is
what
she
is
.
Do
not
fear
for
her
;
she
is
not
forsaken
.
No
gentler
way
to
help
her
was
left
.
Wait
and
watch
.
"
It
may
have
been
five
minutes
or
five
years
that
she
stood
thus
—
I
cannot
tell
;
but
at
last
she
flung
herself
on
her
face
.
Mara
went
to
her
,
and
stood
looking
down
upon
her
.
Large
tears
fell
from
her
eyes
on
the
woman
who
had
never
wept
,
and
would
not
weep
.
"
Will
you
change
your
way
?
"
she
said
at
length
.
"
Why
did
he
make
me
such
?
"
gasped
Lilith
.
"
I
would
have
made
myself
—
oh
,
so
different
!
I
am
glad
it
was
he
that
made
me
and
not
I
myself
!
He
alone
is
to
blame
for
what
I
am
!
Never
would
I
have
made
such
a
worthless
thing
!
He
meant
me
such
that
I
might
know
it
and
be
miserable
!
I
will
not
be
made
any
longer
!
"
"
Unmake
yourself
,
then
,
"
said
Mara
.
"
Alas
,
I
cannot
!
You
know
it
,
and
mock
me
!
How
often
have
I
not
agonised
to
cease
,
but
the
tyrant
keeps
me
being
!
I
curse
him
!
—
Now
let
him
kill
me
!
"
The
words
came
in
jets
as
from
a
dying
fountain
.
"
Had
he
not
made
you
,
"
said
Mara
,
gently
and
slowly
,
"
you
could
not
even
hate
him
.
But
he
did
not
make
you
such
.
You
have
made
yourself
what
you
are
.
—
Be
of
better
cheer
:
he
can
remake
you
.
"
"
I
will
not
be
remade
!
"
"
He
will
not
change
you
;
he
will
only
restore
you
to
what
you
were
.
"
"
I
will
not
be
aught
of
his
making
.
"
"
Are
you
not
willing
to
have
that
set
right
which
you
have
set
wrong
?
"
She
lay
silent
;
her
suffering
seemed
abated
.
"
If
you
are
willing
,
put
yourself
again
on
the
settle
.
"
"
I
will
not
,
"
she
answered
,
forcing
the
words
through
her
clenched
teeth
.
A
wind
seemed
to
wake
inside
the
house
,
blowing
without
sound
or
impact
;
and
a
water
began
to
rise
that
had
no
lap
in
its
ripples
,
no
sob
in
its
swell
.
It
was
cold
,
but
it
did
not
benumb
.
Unseen
and
noiseless
it
came
.
It
smote
no
sense
in
me
,
yet
I
knew
it
rising
.
I
saw
it
lift
at
last
and
float
her
.
Gently
it
bore
her
,
unable
to
resist
,
and
left
rather
than
laid
her
on
the
settle
.
Then
it
sank
swiftly
away
.
The
strife
of
thought
,
accusing
and
excusing
,
began
afresh
,
and
gathered
fierceness
.
The
soul
of
Lilith
lay
naked
to
the
torture
of
pure
interpenetrating
inward
light
.
She
began
to
moan
,
and
sigh
deep
sighs
,
then
murmur
as
holding
colloquy
with
a
dividual
self
:
her
queendom
was
no
longer
whole
;
it
was
divided
against
itself
.
One
moment
she
would
exult
as
over
her
worst
enemy
,
and
weep
;
the
next
she
would
writhe
as
in
the
embrace
of
a
friend
whom
her
soul
hated
,
and
laugh
like
a
demon
.
At
length
she
began
what
seemed
a
tale
about
herself
,
in
a
language
so
strange
,
and
in
forms
so
shadowy
,
that
I
could
but
here
and
there
understand
a
little
.
Yet
the
language
seemed
the
primeval
shape
of
one
I
knew
well
,
and
the
forms
to
belong
to
dreams
which
had
once
been
mine
,
but
refused
to
be
recalled
.
The
tale
appeared
now
and
then
to
touch
upon
things
that
Adam
had
read
from
the
disparted
manuscript
,
and
often
to
make
allusion
to
influences
and
forces
—
vices
too
,
I
could
not
help
suspecting
—
with
which
I
was
unacquainted
.
She
ceased
,
and
again
came
the
horror
in
her
hair
,
the
sparkling
and
flowing
alternate
.
I
sent
a
beseeching
look
to
Mara
.
"
Those
,
alas
,
are
not
the
tears
of
repentance
!
"
she
said
.
"
The
true
tears
gather
in
the
eyes
.
Those
are
far
more
bitter
,
and
not
so
good
.
Self-loathing
is
not
sorrow
.
Yet
it
is
good
,
for
it
marks
a
step
in
the
way
home
,
and
in
the
father
's
arms
the
prodigal
forgets
the
self
he
abominates
.
Once
with
his
father
,
he
is
to
himself
of
no
more
account
.
It
will
be
so
with
her
.
"
She
went
nearer
and
said
,
"
Will
you
restore
that
which
you
have
wrongfully
taken
?
"
"
I
have
taken
nothing
,
"
answered
the
princess
,
forcing
out
the
words
in
spite
of
pain
,
"
that
I
had
not
the
right
to
take
.
My
power
to
take
manifested
my
right
.
"
Mara
left
her
.
Gradually
my
soul
grew
aware
of
an
invisible
darkness
,
a
something
more
terrible
than
aught
that
had
yet
made
itself
felt
.
A
horrible
Nothingness
,
a
Negation
positive
infolded
her
;
the
border
of
its
being
that
was
yet
no
being
,
touched
me
,
and
for
one
ghastly
instant
I
seemed
alone
with
Death
Absolute
!
It
was
not
the
absence
of
everything
I
felt
,
but
the
presence
of
Nothing
.
The
princess
dashed
herself
from
the
settle
to
the
floor
with
an
exceeding
great
and
bitter
cry
.
It
was
the
recoil
of
Being
from
Annihilation
.
"
For
pity
's
sake
,
"
she
shrieked
,
"
tear
my
heart
out
,
but
let
me
live
!
"
With
that
there
fell
upon
her
,
and
upon
us
also
who
watched
with
her
,
the
perfect
calm
as
of
a
summer
night
.
Suffering
had
all
but
reached
the
brim
of
her
life
's
cup
,
and
a
hand
had
emptied
it
!
She
raised
her
head
,
half
rose
,
and
looked
around
her
.
A
moment
more
,
and
she
stood
erect
,
with
the
air
of
a
conqueror
:
she
had
won
the
battle
!
Dareful
she
had
met
her
spiritual
foes
;
they
had
withdrawn
defeated
!
She
raised
her
withered
arm
above
her
head
,
a
pæan
of
unholy
triumph
in
her
throat
—
when
suddenly
her
eyes
fixed
in
a
ghastly
stare
.
—
What
was
she
seeing
?
I
looked
,
and
saw
:
before
her
,
cast
from
unseen
heavenly
mirror
,
stood
the
reflection
of
herself
,
and
beside
it
a
form
of
splendent
beauty
,
She
trembled
,
and
sank
again
on
the
floor
helpless
.
She
knew
the
one
what
God
had
intended
her
to
be
,
the
other
what
she
had
made
herself
.
The
rest
of
the
night
she
lay
motionless
altogether
.
With
the
gray
dawn
growing
in
the
room
,
she
rose
,
turned
to
Mara
,
and
said
,
in
prideful
humility
,
"
You
have
conquered
.
Let
me
go
into
the
wilderness
and
bewail
myself
.
"
Mara
saw
that
her
submission
was
not
feigned
,
neither
was
it
real
.
She
looked
at
her
a
moment
,
and
returned
:
"
Begin
,
then
,
and
set
right
in
the
place
of
wrong
.
"
"
I
know
not
how
,
"
she
replied
—
with
the
look
of
one
who
foresaw
and
feared
the
answer
.
"
Open
thy
hand
,
and
let
that
which
is
in
it
go
.
"
A
fierce
refusal
seemed
to
struggle
for
passage
,
but
she
kept
it
prisoned
.
"
I
cannot
,
"
she
said
.
"
I
have
no
longer
the
power
.
Open
it
for
me
.
"
She
held
out
the
offending
hand
.
It
was
more
a
paw
than
a
hand
.
It
seemed
to
me
plain
that
she
could
not
open
it
.
Mara
did
not
even
look
at
it
.
"
You
must
open
it
yourself
,
"
she
said
quietly
.
"
I
have
told
you
I
cannot
!
"
"
You
can
if
you
will
—
not
indeed
at
once
,
but
by
persistent
effort
.
What
you
have
done
,
you
do
not
yet
wish
undone
—
do
not
yet
intend
to
undo
!
"
"
You
think
so
,
I
dare
say
,
"
rejoined
the
princess
with
a
flash
of
insolence
,
"
but
I
know
that
I
cannot
open
my
hand
!
"
"
I
know
you
better
than
you
know
yourself
,
and
I
know
you
can
.
You
have
often
opened
it
a
little
way
.
Without
trouble
and
pain
you
cannot
open
it
quite
,
but
you
can
open
it
.
At
worst
you
could
beat
it
open
!
I
pray
you
,
gather
your
strength
,
and
open
it
wide
.
"
"
I
will
not
try
what
I
know
impossible
.
It
would
be
the
part
of
a
fool
!
"
"
Which
you
have
been
playing
all
your
life
!
Oh
,
you
are
hard
to
teach
!
"
Defiance
reappeared
on
the
face
of
the
princess
.
She
turned
her
back
on
Mara
,
saying
,
"
I
know
what
you
have
been
tormenting
me
for
!
You
have
not
succeeded
,
nor
shall
you
succeed
!
You
shall
yet
find
me
stronger
than
you
think
!
I
will
yet
be
mistress
of
myself
!
I
am
still
what
I
have
always
known
myself
—
queen
of
Hell
,
and
mistress
of
the
worlds
!
"
Then
came
the
most
fearful
thing
of
all
.
I
did
not
know
what
it
was
;
I
knew
myself
unable
to
imagine
it
;
I
knew
only
that
if
it
came
near
me
I
should
die
of
terror
!
I
now
know
that
it
was
Life
in
Death
—
life
dead
,
yet
existent
;
and
I
knew
that
Lilith
had
had
glimpses
,
but
only
glimpses
of
it
before
:
it
had
never
been
with
her
until
now
.
She
stood
as
she
had
turned
.
Mara
went
and
sat
down
by
the
fire
.
Fearing
to
stand
alone
with
the
princess
,
I
also
went
and
sat
again
by
the
hearth
.
Something
began
to
depart
from
me
.
A
sense
of
cold
,
yet
not
what
we
call
cold
,
crept
,
not
into
,
but
out
of
my
being
,
and
pervaded
it
.
The
lamp
of
life
and
the
eternal
fire
seemed
dying
together
,
and
I
about
to
be
left
with
nought
but
the
consciousness
that
I
had
been
alive
.
Mercifully
,
bereavement
did
not
go
so
far
,
and
my
thought
went
back
to
Lilith
.
Something
was
taking
place
in
her
which
we
did
not
know
.
We
knew
we
did
not
feel
what
she
felt
,
but
we
knew
we
felt
something
of
the
misery
it
caused
her
.
The
thing
itself
was
in
her
,
not
in
us
;
its
reflex
,
her
misery
,
reached
us
,
and
was
again
reflected
in
us
:
she
was
in
the
outer
darkness
,
we
present
with
her
who
was
in
it
!
We
were
not
in
the
outer
darkness
;
had
we
been
,
we
could
not
have
been
with
her
;
we
should
have
been
timelessly
,
spacelessly
,
absolutely
apart
.
The
darkness
knows
neither
the
light
nor
itself
;
only
the
light
knows
itself
and
the
darkness
also
.
None
but
God
hates
evil
and
understands
it
.
Something
was
gone
from
her
,
which
then
first
,
by
its
absence
,
she
knew
to
have
been
with
her
every
moment
of
her
wicked
years
.
The
source
of
life
had
withdrawn
itself
;
all
that
was
left
her
of
conscious
being
was
the
dregs
of
her
dead
and
corrupted
life
.
She
stood
rigid
.
Mara
buried
her
head
in
her
hands
.
I
gazed
on
the
face
of
one
who
knew
existence
but
not
love
—
knew
nor
life
,
nor
joy
,
nor
good
;
with
my
eyes
I
saw
the
face
of
a
live
death
!
She
knew
life
only
to
know
that
it
was
dead
,
and
that
,
in
her
,
death
lived
.
It
was
not
merely
that
life
had
ceased
in
her
,
but
that
she
was
consciously
a
dead
thing
.
She
had
killed
her
life
,
and
was
dead
—
and
knew
it
.
She
must
death
it
for
ever
and
ever
!
She
had
tried
her
hardest
to
unmake
herself
,
and
could
not
!
she
was
a
dead
life
!
she
could
not
cease
!
she
must
be
!
In
her
face
I
saw
and
read
beyond
its
misery
—
saw
in
its
dismay
that
the
dismay
behind
it
was
more
than
it
could
manifest
.
It
sent
out
a
livid
gloom
;
the
light
that
was
in
her
was
darkness
,
and
after
its
kind
it
shone
.
She
was
what
God
could
not
have
created
.
She
had
usurped
beyond
her
share
in
self-creation
,
and
her
part
had
undone
His
!
She
saw
now
what
she
had
made
,
and
behold
,
it
was
not
good
!
She
was
as
a
conscious
corpse
,
whose
coffin
would
never
come
to
pieces
,
never
set
her
free
!
Her
bodily
eyes
stood
wide
open
,
as
if
gazing
into
the
heart
of
horror
essential
—
her
own
indestructible
evil
.
Her
right
hand
also
was
now
clenched
—
upon
existent
Nothing
—
her
inheritance
!
But
with
God
all
things
are
possible
:
He
can
save
even
the
rich
!
Without
change
of
look
,
without
sign
of
purpose
,
Lilith
walked
toward
Mara
.
She
felt
her
coming
,
and
rose
to
meet
her
.
"
I
yield
,
"
said
the
princess
.
"
I
cannot
hold
out
.
I
am
defeated
.
—
Not
the
less
,
I
cannot
open
my
hand
.
"
"
Have
you
tried
?
"
"
I
am
trying
now
with
all
my
might
.
"
"
I
will
take
you
to
my
father
.
You
have
wronged
him
worst
of
the
created
,
therefore
he
best
of
the
created
can
help
you
.
"
"
How
can
he
help
me
?
"
"
He
will
forgive
you
.
"
"
Ah
,
if
he
would
but
help
me
to
cease
!
Not
even
that
am
I
capable
of
!
I
have
no
power
over
myself
;
I
am
a
slave
!
I
acknowledge
it
.
Let
me
die
.
"
"
A
slave
thou
art
that
shall
one
day
be
a
child
!
"
answered
Mara
.
—
"
Verily
,
thou
shalt
die
,
but
not
as
thou
thinkest
.
Thou
shalt
die
out
of
death
into
life
.
Now
is
the
Life
for
,
that
never
was
against
thee
!
"
Like
her
mother
,
in
whom
lay
the
motherhood
of
all
the
world
,
Mara
put
her
arms
around
Lilith
,
and
kissed
her
on
the
forehead
.
The
fiery-cold
misery
went
out
of
her
eyes
,
and
their
fountains
filled
.
She
lifted
,
and
bore
her
to
her
own
bed
in
a
corner
of
the
room
,
laid
her
softly
upon
it
,
and
closed
her
eyes
with
caressing
hands
.
Lilith
lay
and
wept
.
The
Lady
of
Sorrow
went
to
the
door
and
opened
it
.
Morn
,
with
the
Spring
in
her
arms
,
waited
outside
.
Softly
they
stole
in
at
the
opened
door
,
with
a
gentle
wind
in
the
skirts
of
their
garments
.
It
flowed
and
flowed
about
Lilith
,
rippling
the
unknown
,
upwaking
sea
of
her
life
eternal
;
rippling
and
to
ripple
it
,
until
at
length
she
who
had
been
but
as
a
weed
cast
on
the
dry
sandy
shore
to
wither
,
should
know
herself
an
inlet
of
the
everlasting
ocean
,
henceforth
to
flow
into
her
for
ever
,
and
ebb
no
more
.
She
answered
the
morning
wind
with
reviving
breath
,
and
began
to
listen
.
For
in
the
skirts
of
the
wind
had
come
the
rain
—
the
soft
rain
that
heals
the
mown
,
the
many-wounded
grass
—
soothing
it
with
the
sweetness
of
all
music
,
the
hush
that
lives
between
music
and
silence
.
It
bedewed
the
desert
places
around
the
cottage
,
and
the
sands
of
Lilith
's
heart
heard
it
,
and
drank
it
in
.
When
Mara
returned
to
sit
by
her
bed
,
her
tears
were
flowing
softer
than
the
rain
,
and
soon
she
was
fast
asleep
.
chapter
xl
THE
HOUSE
OF
DEATH
THE
Mother
of
Sorrows
rose
,
muffled
her
face
,
and
went
to
call
the
Little
Ones
.
They
slept
as
if
all
the
night
they
had
not
moved
,
but
the
moment
she
spoke
they
sprang
to
their
feet
,
fresh
as
if
new-made
.
Merrily
down
the
stair
they
followed
her
,
and
she
brought
them
where
the
princess
lay
,
her
tears
yet
flowing
as
she
slept
.
Their
glad
faces
grew
grave
.
They
looked
from
the
princess
out
on
the
rain
,
then
back
at
the
princess
.
"
The
sky
is
falling
!
"
said
one
.
"
The
white
juice
is
running
out
of
the
princess
!
"
cried
another
,
with
an
awed
look
.
"
Is
it
rivers
?
"
asked
Odu
,
gazing
at
the
little
streams
that
flowed
adown
her
hollow
cheeks
.
"
Yes
,
"
answered
Mara
,
"
—
the
most
wonderful
of
all
rivers
.
"
"
I
thought
rivers
was
bigger
,
and
rushed
,
like
a
lot
of
Little
Ones
,
making
loud
noises
!
"
he
returned
,
looking
at
me
,
from
whom
alone
he
had
heard
of
rivers
.
"
Look
at
the
rivers
of
the
sky
!
"
said
Mara
.
"
See
how
they
come
down
to
wake
up
the
waters
under
the
earth
!
Soon
will
the
rivers
be
flowing
everywhere
,
merry
and
loud
,
like
thousands
and
thousands
of
happy
children
.
Oh
,
how
glad
they
will
make
you
,
Little
Ones
!
You
have
never
seen
any
,
and
do
not
know
how
lovely
is
the
water
!
"
"
That
will
be
the
glad
of
the
ground
that
the
princess
is
grown
good
,
"
said
Odu
.
"
See
the
glad
of
the
sky
!
"
"
Are
the
rivers
the
glad
of
the
princess
?
"
asked
Luva
.
"
They
are
not
her
juice
,
for
they
are
not
red
!
"
"
They
are
the
juice
inside
the
juice
,
"
answered
Mara
.
Odu
put
one
finger
to
his
eye
,
looked
at
it
,
and
shook
his
head
.
"
Princess
will
not
bite
now
!
"
said
Luva
.
"
No
;
she
will
never
do
that
again
,
"
replied
Mara
.
"
—
But
now
we
must
take
her
nearer
home
.
"
"
Is
that
a
nest
?
"
asked
Sozo
.
"
Yes
;
a
very
big
nest
.
But
we
must
take
her
to
another
place
first
.
"
"
What
is
that
?
"
"
It
is
the
biggest
room
in
all
this
world
.
—
But
I
think
it
is
going
to
be
pulled
down
:
it
will
soon
be
too
full
of
little
nests
.
—
Go
and
get
your
clumsies
.
"
"
Please
are
there
any
cats
in
it
?
"
"
Not
one
.
The
nests
are
too
full
of
lovely
dreams
for
one
cat
to
get
in
.
"
"
We
shall
be
ready
in
a
minute
,
"
said
Odu
,
and
ran
out
,
followed
by
all
except
Luva
.
Lilith
was
now
awake
,
and
listening
with
a
sad
smile
.
"
But
her
rivers
are
running
so
fast
!
"
said
Luva
,
who
stood
by
her
side
and
seemed
unable
to
take
her
eyes
from
her
face
.
"
Her
robe
is
all
—
I
do
n't
know
what
.
Clumsies
wo
n't
like
it
!
"
"
They
wo
n't
mind
it
,
"
answered
Mara
.
"
Those
rivers
are
so
clean
that
they
make
the
whole
world
clean
.
"
I
had
fallen
asleep
by
the
fire
,
but
for
some
time
had
been
awake
and
listening
,
and
now
rose
.
"
It
is
time
to
mount
,
Mr.
Vane
,
"
said
our
hostess
.
"
Tell
me
,
please
,
"
I
said
,
"
is
there
not
a
way
by
which
to
avoid
the
channels
and
the
den
of
monsters
?
"
"
There
is
an
easy
way
across
the
river-bed
,
which
I
will
show
you
,
"
she
answered
;
"
but
you
must
pass
once
more
through
the
monsters
.
"
"
I
fear
for
the
children
,
"
I
said
.
"
Fear
will
not
once
come
nigh
them
,
"
she
rejoined
.
We
left
the
cottage
.
The
beasts
stood
waiting
about
the
door
.
Odu
was
already
on
the
neck
of
one
of
the
two
that
were
to
carry
the
princess
.
I
mounted
Lona
's
horse
;
Mara
brought
her
body
,
and
gave
it
me
in
my
arms
.
When
she
came
out
again
with
the
princess
,
a
cry
of
delight
arose
from
the
children
:
she
was
no
longer
muffled
!
Gazing
at
her
,
and
entranced
with
her
loveliness
,
the
boys
forgot
to
receive
the
princess
from
her
;
but
the
elephants
took
Lilith
tenderly
with
their
trunks
,
one
round
her
body
and
one
round
her
knees
,
and
,
Mara
helping
,
laid
her
along
between
them
.
"
Why
does
the
princess
want
to
go
?
"
asked
a
small
boy
.
"
She
would
keep
good
if
she
staid
here
!
"
"
She
wants
to
go
,
and
she
does
not
want
to
go
:
we
are
helping
her
,
"
answered
Mara
.
"
She
will
not
keep
good
here
.
"
"
What
are
you
helping
her
to
do
?
"
he
went
on
.
"
To
go
where
she
will
get
more
help
—
help
to
open
her
hand
,
which
has
been
closed
for
a
thousand
years
.
"
"
So
long
?
Then
she
has
learned
to
do
without
it
:
why
should
she
open
it
now
?
"
"
Because
it
is
shut
upon
something
that
is
not
hers
.
"
"
Please
,
lady
Mara
,
may
we
have
some
of
your
very
dry
bread
before
we
go
?
"
said
Luva
.
Mara
smiled
,
and
brought
them
four
loaves
and
a
great
jug
of
water
.
"
We
will
eat
as
we
go
,
"
they
said
.
But
they
drank
the
water
with
delight
.
"
I
think
,
"
remarked
one
of
them
,
"
it
must
be
elephant-juice
!
It
makes
me
so
strong
!
"
We
set
out
,
the
Lady
of
Sorrow
walking
with
us
,
more
beautiful
than
the
sun
,
and
the
white
leopardess
following
her
.
I
thought
she
meant
but
to
put
us
in
the
path
across
the
channels
,
but
I
soon
found
she
was
going
with
us
all
the
way
.
Then
I
would
have
dismounted
that
she
might
ride
,
but
she
would
not
let
me
.
"
I
have
no
burden
to
carry
,
"
she
said
.
"
The
children
and
I
will
walk
together
.
"
It
was
the
loveliest
of
mornings
;
the
sun
shone
his
brightest
,
and
the
wind
blew
his
sweetest
,
but
they
did
not
comfort
the
desert
,
for
it
had
no
water
.
We
crossed
the
channels
without
difficulty
,
the
children
gamboling
about
Mara
all
the
way
,
but
did
not
reach
the
top
of
the
ridge
over
the
bad
burrow
until
the
sun
was
already
in
the
act
of
disappearing
.
Then
I
made
the
Little
Ones
mount
their
elephants
,
for
the
moon
might
be
late
,
and
I
could
not
help
some
anxiety
about
them
.
The
Lady
of
Sorrow
now
led
the
way
by
my
side
;
the
elephants
followed
—
the
two
that
bore
the
princess
in
the
centre
;
the
leopardess
brought
up
the
rear
;
and
just
as
we
reached
the
frightful
margin
,
the
moon
looked
up
and
showed
the
shallow
basin
lying
before
us
untroubled
.
Mara
stepped
into
it
;
not
a
movement
answered
her
tread
or
the
feet
of
my
horse
.
But
the
moment
that
the
elephants
carrying
the
princess
touched
it
,
the
seemingly
solid
earth
began
to
heave
and
boil
,
and
the
whole
dread
brood
of
the
hellish
nest
was
commoved
.
Monsters
uprose
on
all
sides
,
every
neck
at
full
length
,
every
beak
and
claw
outstretched
,
every
mouth
agape
.
Long-billed
heads
,
horribly
jawed
faces
,
knotty
tentacles
innumerable
,
went
out
after
Lilith
.
She
lay
in
an
agony
of
fear
,
nor
dared
stir
a
finger
.
Whether
the
hideous
things
even
saw
the
children
,
I
doubt
;
certainly
not
one
of
them
touched
a
child
;
not
one
loathly
member
passed
the
live
rampart
of
her
body-guard
,
to
lay
hold
of
her
.
"
Little
Ones
,
"
I
cried
,
"
keep
your
elephants
close
about
the
princess
.
Be
brave
;
they
will
not
touch
you
.
"
"
What
will
not
touch
us
?
We
do
n't
know
what
to
be
brave
at
!
"
they
answered
;
and
I
perceived
they
were
unaware
of
one
of
the
deformities
around
them
.
"
Never
mind
then
,
"
I
returned
;
"
only
keep
close
.
"
They
were
panoplied
in
their
blindness
!
Incapacity
to
see
was
their
safety
.
What
they
could
nowise
be
aware
of
,
could
not
hurt
them
.
But
the
hideous
forms
I
saw
that
night
!
Mara
was
a
few
paces
in
front
of
me
when
a
solitary
,
bodiless
head
bounced
on
the
path
between
us
.
The
leopardess
came
rushing
under
the
elephants
from
behind
,
and
would
have
seized
it
,
but
,
with
frightful
contortions
of
visage
and
a
loathsome
howl
,
it
gave
itself
a
rapid
rotatory
twist
,
sprang
from
her
,
and
buried
itself
in
the
ground
.
The
death
in
my
arms
assoiling
me
from
fear
,
I
regarded
them
all
unmoved
,
although
never
,
sure
,
was
elsewhere
beheld
such
a
crew
accursed
!
Mara
still
went
in
front
of
me
,
and
the
leopardess
now
walked
close
behind
her
,
shivering
often
,
for
it
was
very
cold
,
when
suddenly
the
ground
before
me
to
my
left
began
to
heave
,
and
a
low
wave
of
earth
came
slinking
toward
us
.
It
rose
higher
as
it
drew
hear
;
out
of
it
slouched
a
dreadful
head
with
fleshy
tubes
for
hair
,
and
opening
a
great
oval
mouth
,
snapped
at
me
.
The
leopardess
sprang
,
but
fell
baffled
beyond
it
.
Almost
under
our
feet
,
shot
up
the
head
of
an
enormous
snake
,
with
a
lamping
wallowing
glare
in
its
eyes
.
Again
the
leopardess
rushed
to
the
attack
,
but
found
nothing
.
At
a
third
monster
she
darted
with
like
fury
,
and
like
failure
—
then
sullenly
ceased
to
heed
the
phantom-horde
.
But
I
understood
the
peril
and
hastened
the
crossing
—
the
rather
that
the
moon
was
carrying
herself
strangely
.
Even
as
she
rose
she
seemed
ready
to
drop
and
give
up
the
attempt
as
hopeless
;
and
since
,
I
saw
her
sink
back
once
fully
her
own
breadth
.
The
arc
she
made
was
very
low
,
and
now
she
had
begun
to
descend
rapidly
.
We
were
almost
over
,
when
,
between
us
and
the
border
of
the
basin
,
arose
a
long
neck
,
on
the
top
of
which
,
like
the
blossom
of
some
Stygian
lily
,
sat
what
seemed
the
head
of
a
corpse
,
its
mouth
half
open
,
and
full
of
canine
teeth
.
I
went
on
;
it
retreated
,
then
drew
aside
.
The
lady
stepped
on
the
firm
land
,
but
the
leopardess
between
us
,
roused
once
more
,
turned
,
and
flew
at
the
throat
of
the
terror
.
I
remained
where
I
was
to
see
the
elephants
,
with
the
princess
and
the
children
,
safe
on
the
bank
.
Then
I
turned
to
look
after
the
leopardess
.
That
moment
the
moon
went
down
,
For
an
instant
I
saw
the
leopardess
and
the
snake-monster
convolved
in
a
cloud
of
dust
;
then
darkness
hid
them
.
Trembling
with
fright
,
my
horse
wheeled
,
and
in
three
bounds
overtook
the
elephants
.
As
we
came
up
with
them
,
a
shapeless
jelly
dropped
on
the
princess
.
A
white
dove
dropped
immediately
on
the
jelly
,
stabbing
it
with
its
beak
.
It
made
a
squelching
,
sucking
sound
,
and
fell
off
.
Then
I
heard
the
voice
of
a
woman
talking
with
Mara
,
and
I
knew
the
voice
.
"
I
fear
she
is
dead
!
"
said
Mara
.
"
I
will
send
and
find
her
,
"
answered
the
mother
.
"
But
why
,
Mara
,
shouldst
thou
at
all
fear
for
her
or
for
any
one
?
Death
cannot
hurt
her
who
dies
doing
the
work
given
her
to
do
.
"
"
I
shall
miss
her
sorely
;
she
is
good
and
wise
.
Yet
I
would
not
have
her
live
beyond
her
hour
!
"
"
She
has
gone
down
with
the
wicked
;
she
will
rise
with
the
righteous
.
We
shall
see
her
again
ere
very
long
.
"
"
Mother
,
"
I
said
,
although
I
did
not
see
her
,
"
we
come
to
you
many
,
but
most
of
us
are
Little
Ones
.
Will
you
be
able
to
receive
us
all
?
"
"
You
are
welcome
every
one
,
"
she
answered
.
"
Sooner
or
later
all
will
be
Little
Ones
,
for
all
must
sleep
in
my
house
!
It
is
well
with
those
that
go
to
sleep
young
and
willing
!
—
My
husband
is
even
now
preparing
her
couch
for
Lilith
.
She
is
neither
young
nor
quite
willing
,
but
it
is
well
indeed
that
she
is
come
.
"
I
heard
no
more
.
Mother
and
daughter
had
gone
away
together
through
the
dark
.
But
we
saw
a
light
in
the
distance
,
and
toward
it
we
went
stumbling
over
the
moor
.
Adam
stood
in
the
door
,
holding
the
candle
to
guide
us
,
and
talking
with
his
wife
,
who
,
behind
him
,
laid
bread
and
wine
on
the
table
within
.
"
Happy
children
,
"
I
heard
her
say
,
"
to
have
looked
already
on
the
face
of
my
daughter
!
Surely
it
is
the
loveliest
in
the
great
world
!
"
When
we
reached
the
door
,
Adam
welcomed
us
almost
merrily
.
He
set
the
candle
on
the
threshold
,
and
going
to
the
elephants
,
would
have
taken
the
princess
to
carry
her
in
;
but
she
repulsed
him
,
and
pushing
her
elephants
asunder
,
stood
erect
between
them
.
They
walked
from
beside
her
,
and
left
her
with
him
who
had
been
her
husband
—
ashamed
indeed
of
her
gaunt
uncomeliness
,
but
unsubmissive
.
He
stood
with
a
welcome
in
his
eyes
that
shone
through
their
severity
.
"
We
have
long
waited
for
thee
,
Lilith
!
"
he
said
.
She
returned
him
no
answer
.
Eve
and
her
daughter
came
to
the
door
.
"
The
mortal
foe
of
my
children
!
"
murmured
Eve
,
standing
radiant
in
her
beauty
.
"
Your
children
are
no
longer
in
her
danger
,
"
said
Mara
;
"
she
has
turned
from
evil
.
"
"
Trust
her
not
hastily
,
Mara
,
"
answered
her
mother
;
"
she
has
deceived
a
multitude
!
"
"
But
you
will
open
to
her
the
mirror
of
the
Law
of
Liberty
,
mother
,
that
she
may
go
into
it
,
and
abide
in
it
!
She
consents
to
open
her
hand
and
restore
:
will
not
the
great
Father
restore
her
to
inheritance
with
His
other
children
?
"
"
I
do
not
know
Him
!
"
murmured
Lilith
,
in
a
voice
of
fear
and
doubt
.
"
Therefore
it
is
that
thou
art
miserable
,
"
said
Adam
.
"
I
will
go
back
whence
I
came
!
"
she
cried
,
and
turned
,
wringing
her
hands
,
to
depart
.
"
That
is
indeed
what
I
would
have
thee
do
,
where
I
would
have
thee
go
—
to
Him
from
whom
thou
camest
!
In
thy
agony
didst
thou
not
cry
out
for
Him
?
"
"
I
cried
out
for
Death
—
to
escape
Him
and
thee
!
"
"
Death
is
even
now
on
his
way
to
lead
thee
to
Him
.
Thou
knowest
neither
Death
nor
the
Life
that
dwells
in
Death
!
Both
befriend
thee
.
I
am
dead
,
and
would
see
thee
dead
,
for
I
live
and
love
thee
.
Thou
art
weary
and
heavy-laden
:
art
thou
not
ashamed
?
Is
not
the
being
thou
hast
corrupted
become
to
thee
at
length
an
evil
thing
?
Wouldst
thou
yet
live
on
in
disgrace
eternal
?
Cease
thou
canst
not
:
wilt
thou
not
be
restored
and
be
?
"
She
stood
silent
with
bowed
head
.
"
Father
,
"
said
Mara
,
"
take
her
in
thine
arms
,
and
carry
her
to
her
couch
.
There
she
will
open
her
hand
,
and
die
into
life
.
"
"
I
will
walk
,
"
said
the
princess
.
Adam
turned
and
led
the
way
.
The
princess
walked
feebly
after
him
into
the
cottage
.
Then
Eve
came
out
to
me
where
I
sat
with
Lona
in
my
bosom
.
She
reached
up
her
arms
,
took
her
from
me
,
and
carried
her
in
.
I
dismounted
,
and
the
children
also
.
The
horse
and
the
elephants
stood
shivering
;
Mara
patted
and
stroked
them
every
one
;
they
lay
down
and
fell
asleep
.
She
led
us
into
the
cottage
,
and
gave
the
Little
Ones
of
the
bread
and
wine
on
the
table
.
Adam
and
Lilith
were
standing
there
together
,
but
silent
both
.
Eve
came
from
the
chamber
of
death
,
where
she
had
laid
Lona
down
,
and
offered
of
the
bread
and
wine
to
the
princess
.
"
Thy
beauty
slays
me
!
It
is
death
I
would
have
,
not
food
!
"
said
Lilith
,
and
turned
from
her
.
"
This
food
will
help
thee
to
die
,
"
answered
Eve
.
But
Lilith
would
not
taste
of
it
.
"
If
thou
wilt
nor
eat
nor
drink
,
Lilith
,
"
said
Adam
,
"
come
and
see
the
place
where
thou
shalt
lie
in
peace
.
"
He
led
the
way
through
the
door
of
death
,
and
she
followed
submissive
.
But
when
her
foot
crossed
the
threshold
she
drew
it
back
,
and
pressed
her
hand
to
her
bosom
,
struck
through
with
the
cold
immortal
.
A
wild
blast
fell
roaring
on
the
roof
,
and
died
away
in
a
moan
.
She
stood
ghastly
with
terror
.
"
It
is
he
!
"
said
her
voiceless
lips
:
I
read
their
motion
.
"
Who
,
princess
?
"
I
whispered
.
"
The
great
Shadow
,
"
she
murmured
.
"
Here
he
cannot
enter
,
"
said
Adam
.
"
Here
he
can
hurt
no
one
.
Over
him
also
is
power
given
me
.
"
"
Are
the
children
in
the
house
?
"
asked
Lilith
,
and
at
the
word
the
heart
of
Eve
began
to
love
her
.
"
He
never
dared
touch
a
child
,
"
she
said
.
"
Nor
have
you
either
ever
hurt
a
child
.
Your
own
daughter
you
have
but
sent
into
the
loveliest
sleep
,
for
she
was
already
a
long
time
dead
when
you
slew
her
.
And
now
Death
shall
be
the
atonemaker
;
you
shall
sleep
together
.
"
"
Wife
,
"
said
Adam
,
"
let
us
first
put
the
children
to
bed
,
that
she
may
see
them
safe
!
"
He
came
back
to
fetch
them
.
As
soon
as
he
was
gone
,
the
princess
knelt
to
Eve
,
clasped
her
knees
,
and
said
,
"
Beautiful
Eve
,
persuade
your
husband
to
kill
me
:
to
you
he
will
listen
!
Indeed
I
would
but
cannot
open
my
hand
.
"
"
You
cannot
die
without
opening
it
.
To
kill
you
would
not
serve
you
,
"
answered
Eve
.
"
But
indeed
he
cannot
!
no
one
can
kill
you
but
the
Shadow
;
and
whom
he
kills
never
knows
she
is
dead
,
but
lives
to
do
his
will
,
and
thinks
she
is
doing
her
own
.
"
"
Show
me
then
to
my
grave
;
I
am
so
weary
I
can
live
no
longer
.
I
must
go
to
the
Shadow
—
yet
I
would
not
!
"
She
did
not
,
could
not
understand
!
She
struggled
to
rise
,
but
fell
at
the
feet
of
Eve
.
The
Mother
lifted
,
and
carried
her
inward
.
I
followed
Adam
and
Mara
and
the
children
into
the
chamber
of
death
.
We
passed
Eve
with
Lilith
in
her
arms
,
and
went
farther
in
.
"
You
shall
not
go
to
the
Shadow
,
"
I
heard
Eve
say
,
as
we
passed
them
.
"
Even
now
is
his
head
under
my
heel
!
"
The
dim
light
in
Adam
's
hand
glimmered
on
the
sleeping
faces
,
and
as
he
went
on
,
the
darkness
closed
over
them
.
The
very
air
seemed
dead
:
was
it
because
none
of
the
sleepers
breathed
it
?
Profoundest
sleep
filled
the
wide
place
.
It
was
as
if
not
one
had
waked
since
last
I
was
there
,
for
the
forms
I
had
then
noted
lay
there
still
.
My
father
was
just
as
I
had
left
him
,
save
that
he
seemed
yet
nearer
to
a
perfect
peace
.
The
woman
beside
him
looked
younger
.
The
darkness
,
the
cold
,
the
silence
,
the
still
air
,
the
faces
of
the
lovely
dead
,
made
the
hearts
of
the
children
beat
softly
,
but
their
little
tongues
would
talk
—
with
low
,
hushed
voices
.
"
What
a
curious
place
to
sleep
in
!
"
said
one
,
"
I
would
rather
be
in
my
nest
!
"
"
It
is
so
cold
!
"
said
another
.
"
Yes
,
it
is
cold
,
"
answered
our
host
;
"
but
you
will
not
be
cold
in
your
sleep
.
"
"
Where
are
our
nests
?
"
asked
more
than
one
,
looking
round
and
seeing
no
couch
unoccupied
.
"
Find
places
,
and
sleep
where
you
choose
,
"
replied
Adam
.
Instantly
they
scattered
,
advancing
fearlessly
beyond
the
light
,
but
we
still
heard
their
gentle
voices
,
and
it
was
plain
they
saw
where
I
could
not
.
"
Oh
,
"
cried
one
,
"
here
is
such
a
beautiful
lady
!
—
may
I
sleep
beside
her
?
I
will
creep
in
quietly
,
and
not
wake
her
.
"
"
Yes
,
you
may
,
"
answered
the
voice
of
Eve
behind
us
;
and
we
came
to
the
couch
while
the
little
fellow
was
yet
creeping
slowly
and
softly
under
the
sheet
.
He
laid
his
head
beside
the
lady
's
,
looked
up
at
us
,
and
was
still
.
His
eyelids
fell
;
he
was
asleep
.
We
went
a
little
farther
,
and
there
was
another
who
had
climbed
up
on
the
couch
of
a
woman
.
"
Mother
!
mother
!
"
he
cried
,
kneeling
over
her
,
his
face
close
to
hers
.
"
—
She
's
so
cold
she
ca
n't
speak
,
"
he
said
,
looking
up
to
us
;
"
but
I
will
soon
make
her
warm
!
"
He
lay
down
,
and
pressing
close
to
her
,
put
his
little
arm
over
her
.
In
an
instant
he
too
was
asleep
,
smiling
an
absolute
content
.
We
came
to
a
third
Little
One
;
it
was
Luva
.
She
stood
on
tiptoe
,
leaning
over
the
edge
of
a
couch
.
"
My
own
mother
would
n't
have
me
,
"
she
said
softly
:
"
will
you
?
"
Receiving
no
reply
,
she
looked
up
at
Eve
.
The
great
mother
lifted
her
to
the
couch
,
and
she
got
at
once
under
the
snowy
covering
.
Each
of
the
Little
Ones
had
by
this
time
,
except
three
of
the
boys
,
found
at
least
an
unobjecting
bedfellow
,
and
lay
still
and
white
beside
a
still
,
white
woman
.
The
little
orphans
had
adopted
mothers
!
One
tiny
girl
had
chosen
a
father
to
sleep
with
,
and
that
was
mine
.
A
boy
lay
by
the
side
of
the
beautiful
matron
with
the
slow-healing
hand
.
On
the
middle
one
of
the
three
couches
hitherto
unoccupied
,
lay
Lona
.
Eve
set
Lilith
down
beside
it
.
Adam
pointed
to
the
vacant
couch
on
Lona
's
right
hand
,
and
said
,
"
There
,
Lilith
,
is
the
bed
I
have
prepared
for
you
!
"
She
glanced
at
her
daughter
lying
before
her
like
a
statue
carved
in
semi-transparent
alabaster
,
and
shuddered
from
head
to
foot
.
"
How
cold
it
is
!
"
she
murmured
.
"
You
will
soon
begin
to
find
comfort
in
the
cold
,
"
answered
Adam
.
"
Promises
to
the
dying
are
easy
!
"
she
said
.
"
But
I
know
it
:
I
too
have
slept
.
I
am
dead
!
"
"
I
believed
you
dead
long
ago
;
but
I
see
you
alive
!
"
"
More
alive
than
you
know
,
or
are
able
to
understand
.
I
was
scarce
alive
when
first
you
knew
me
.
Now
I
have
slept
,
and
am
awake
;
I
am
dead
,
and
live
indeed
!
"
"
I
fear
that
child
,
"
she
said
,
pointing
to
Lona
:
"
she
will
rise
and
terrify
me
!
"
"
She
is
dreaming
love
to
you
.
"
"
But
the
Shadow
!
"
she
moaned
;
"
I
fear
the
Shadow
!
he
will
be
wroth
with
me
!
"
"
He
at
sight
of
whom
the
horses
of
heaven
start
and
rear
,
dares
not
disturb
one
dream
in
this
quiet
chamber
!
"
"
I
shall
dream
then
?
"
"
You
will
dream
.
"
"
What
dreams
?
"
"
That
I
cannot
tell
,
but
none
he
can
enter
into
.
When
the
Shadow
comes
here
,
it
will
be
to
lie
down
and
sleep
also
.
—
His
hour
will
come
,
and
he
knows
it
will
.
"
"
How
long
shall
I
sleep
?
"
"
You
and
he
will
be
the
last
to
wake
in
the
morning
of
the
universe
.
"
The
princess
lay
down
,
drew
the
sheet
over
her
,
stretched
herself
out
straight
,
and
lay
still
with
open
eyes
.
Adam
turned
to
his
daughter
.
She
drew
near
.
"
Lilith
,
"
said
Mara
,
"
you
will
not
sleep
,
if
you
lie
there
a
thousand
years
,
until
you
have
opened
your
hand
,
and
yielded
that
which
is
not
yours
to
give
or
to
withhold
.
"
"
I
cannot
,
"
she
answered
.
"
I
would
if
I
could
,
and
gladly
,
for
I
am
weary
,
and
the
shadows
of
death
are
gathering
about
me
.
"
"
They
will
gather
and
gather
,
but
they
cannot
infold
you
while
yet
your
hand
remains
unopened
.
You
may
think
you
are
dead
,
but
it
will
be
only
a
dream
;
you
may
think
you
have
come
awake
,
but
it
will
still
be
only
a
dream
.
Open
your
hand
,
and
you
will
sleep
indeed
—
then
wake
indeed
.
"
"
I
am
trying
hard
,
but
the
fingers
have
grown
together
and
into
the
palm
.
"
"
I
pray
you
put
forth
the
strength
of
your
will
.
For
the
love
of
life
,
draw
together
your
forces
and
break
its
bonds
!
"
"
I
have
struggled
in
vain
;
I
can
do
no
more
.
I
am
very
weary
,
and
sleep
lies
heavy
upon
my
lids
.
"
"
The
moment
you
open
your
hand
,
you
will
sleep
.
Open
it
,
and
make
an
end
.
"
A
tinge
of
colour
arose
in
the
parchment-like
face
;
the
contorted
hand
trembled
with
agonised
effort
.
Mara
took
it
,
and
sought
to
aid
her
.
"
Hold
,
Mara
!
"
cried
her
father
.
"
There
is
danger
!
"
The
princess
turned
her
eyes
upon
Eve
,
beseechingly
.
"
There
was
a
sword
I
once
saw
in
your
husband
's
hands
,
"
she
murmured
.
"
I
fled
when
I
saw
it
.
I
heard
him
who
bore
it
say
it
would
divide
whatever
was
not
one
and
indivisible
!
"
"
I
have
the
sword
,
"
said
Adam
.
"
The
angel
gave
it
me
when
he
left
the
gate
.
"
"
Bring
it
,
Adam
,
"
pleaded
Lilith
,
"
and
cut
me
off
this
hand
that
I
may
sleep
.
"
"
I
will
,
"
he
answered
.
He
gave
the
candle
to
Eve
,
and
went
.
The
princess
closed
her
eyes
.
In
a
few
minutes
Adam
returned
with
an
ancient
weapon
in
his
hand
.
The
scabbard
looked
like
vellum
grown
dark
with
years
,
but
the
hilt
shone
like
gold
that
nothing
could
tarnish
.
He
drew
out
the
blade
.
It
flashed
like
a
pale
blue
northern
streamer
,
and
the
light
of
it
made
the
princess
open
her
eyes
.
She
saw
the
sword
,
shuddered
,
and
held
out
her
hand
.
Adam
took
it
.
The
sword
gleamed
once
,
there
was
one
little
gush
of
blood
,
and
he
laid
the
severed
hand
in
Mara
's
lap
.
Lilith
had
given
one
moan
,
and
was
already
fast
asleep
.
Mara
covered
the
arm
with
the
sheet
,
and
the
three
turned
away
.
"
Will
you
not
dress
the
wound
?
"
I
said
.
"
A
wound
from
that
sword
,
"
answered
Adam
,
"
needs
no
dressing
.
It
is
healing
and
not
hurt
.
"
"
Poor
lady
!
"
I
said
,
"
she
will
wake
with
but
one
hand
!
"
"
Where
the
dead
deformity
clung
,
"
replied
Mara
,
"
the
true
,
lovely
hand
is
already
growing
.
"
We
heard
a
childish
voice
behind
us
,
and
turned
again
.
The
candle
in
Eve
's
hand
shone
on
the
sleeping
face
of
Lilith
,
and
the
waking
faces
of
the
three
Little
Ones
,
grouped
on
the
other
side
of
her
couch
.
"
How
beautiful
she
is
grown
!
"
said
one
of
them
.
"
Poor
princess
!
"
said
another
;
"
I
will
sleep
with
her
.
She
will
not
bite
any
more
!
"
As
he
spoke
he
climbed
into
her
bed
,
and
was
immediately
fast
asleep
.
Eve
covered
him
with
the
sheet
.
"
I
will
go
on
her
other
side
,
"
said
the
third
.
"
She
shall
have
two
to
kiss
her
when
she
wakes
!
"
"
And
I
am
left
alone
!
"
said
the
first
mournfully
.
"
I
will
put
you
to
bed
,
"
said
Eve
.
She
gave
the
candle
to
her
husband
,
and
led
the
child
away
.
We
turned
once
more
to
go
back
to
the
cottage
.
I
was
very
sad
,
for
no
one
had
offered
me
a
place
in
the
house
of
the
dead
.
Eve
joined
us
as
we
went
,
and
walked
on
before
with
her
husband
.
Mara
by
my
side
carried
the
hand
of
Lilith
in
the
lap
of
her
robe
.
"
Ah
,
you
have
found
her
!
"
we
heard
Eve
say
as
we
stepped
into
the
cottage
.
The
door
stood
open
;
two
elephant-trunks
came
through
it
out
of
the
night
beyond
.
"
I
sent
them
with
the
lantern
,
"
she
went
on
to
her
husband
,
"
to
look
for
Mara
's
leopardess
:
they
have
brought
her
.
"
I
followed
Adam
to
the
door
,
and
between
us
we
took
the
white
creature
from
the
elephants
,
and
carried
her
to
the
chamber
we
had
just
left
,
the
women
preceding
us
,
Eve
with
the
light
,
and
Mara
still
carrying
the
hand
.
There
we
laid
the
beauty
across
the
feet
of
the
princess
,
her
fore
paws
outstretched
,
and
her
head
couching
between
them
.
chapter
xli
I
AM
SENT
THEN
I
turned
and
said
to
Eve
,
"
Mother
,
one
couch
next
to
Lona
is
empty
:
I
know
I
am
unworthy
,
but
may
I
not
sleep
this
night
in
your
chamber
with
my
dead
?
Will
you
not
pardon
both
my
cowardice
and
my
self-confidence
,
and
take
me
in
?
I
give
me
up
.
I
am
sick
of
myself
,
and
would
fain
sleep
the
sleep
!
"
"
The
couch
next
to
Lona
is
the
one
already
prepared
for
you
,
"
she
answered
;
"
but
something
waits
to
be
done
ere
you
sleep
.
"
"
I
am
ready
,
"
I
replied
.
"
How
do
you
know
you
can
do
it
?
"
she
asked
with
a
smile
.
"
Because
you
require
it
,
"
I
answered
.
"
What
is
it
?
"
She
turned
to
Adam
:
"
Is
he
forgiven
,
husband
?
"
"
From
my
heart
.
"
"
Then
tell
him
what
he
has
to
do
.
"
Adam
turned
to
his
daughter
.
"
Give
me
that
hand
,
Mara
,
my
child
.
"
She
held
it
out
to
him
in
her
lap
.
He
took
it
tenderly
.
"
Let
us
go
to
the
cottage
,
"
he
said
to
me
;
"
there
I
will
instruct
you
.
"
As
we
went
,
again
arose
a
sudden
stormful
blast
,
mingled
with
a
great
flapping
on
the
roof
,
but
it
died
away
as
before
in
a
deep
moan
.
When
the
door
of
the
death-chamber
was
closed
behind
us
,
Adam
seated
himself
,
and
I
stood
before
him
.
"
You
will
remember
,
"
he
said
,
"
how
,
after
leaving
my
daughter
's
house
,
you
came
to
a
dry
rock
,
bearing
the
marks
of
an
ancient
cataract
;
you
climbed
that
rock
,
and
found
a
sandy
desert
:
go
to
that
rock
now
,
and
from
its
summit
walk
deep
into
the
desert
.
But
go
not
many
steps
ere
you
lie
down
,
and
listen
with
your
head
on
the
sand
.
If
you
hear
the
murmur
of
water
beneath
,
go
a
little
farther
,
and
listen
again
.
If
you
still
hear
the
sound
,
you
are
in
the
right
direction
.
Every
few
yards
you
must
stop
,
lie
down
,
and
hearken
.
If
,
listening
thus
,
at
any
time
you
hear
no
sound
of
water
,
you
are
out
of
the
way
,
and
must
hearken
in
every
direction
until
you
hear
it
again
.
Keeping
with
the
sound
,
and
careful
not
to
retrace
your
steps
,
you
will
soon
hear
it
louder
,
and
the
growing
sound
will
lead
you
to
where
it
is
loudest
:
that
is
the
spot
you
seek
.
There
dig
with
the
spade
I
will
give
you
,
and
dig
until
you
come
to
moisture
:
in
it
lay
the
hand
,
cover
it
to
the
level
of
the
desert
,
and
come
home
.
—
But
give
good
heed
,
and
carry
the
hand
with
care
.
Never
lay
it
down
,
in
what
place
of
seeming
safety
soever
;
let
nothing
touch
it
;
stop
nor
turn
aside
for
any
attempt
to
bar
your
way
;
never
look
behind
you
;
speak
to
no
one
,
answer
no
one
,
walk
straight
on
.
