diff --git a/your-code/main.ipynb b/your-code/main.ipynb index 54a8b65..c19c20a 100755 --- a/your-code/main.ipynb +++ b/your-code/main.ipynb @@ -12,11 +12,14 @@ }, { "cell_type": "code", - "execution_count": null, + "execution_count": 1, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ - "# Import reduce from functools, numpy and pandas" + "# Import reduce from functools, numpy and pandas\n", + "\n", + "import numpy as np\n", + "import pandas as pd" ] }, { @@ -32,7 +35,7 @@ }, { "cell_type": "code", - "execution_count": null, + "execution_count": 15, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ @@ -54,11 +57,30 @@ }, { "cell_type": "code", - "execution_count": null, + "execution_count": 69, "metadata": {}, - "outputs": [], + "outputs": [ + { + "name": "stdout", + "output_type": "stream", + "text": [ + "12502\n", + "13637\n", + "1135\n" + ] + } + ], "source": [ - "# your code here" + "# your code here\n", + "new_prophet = prophet[568:(len(prophet)-567)]\n", + "\n", + "\n", + " \n", + "print(len(new_prophet))\n", + "\n", + "print(len(prophet))\n", + "\n", + "print(len(prophet) - len(new_prophet))\n" ] }, { @@ -70,11 +92,34 @@ }, { "cell_type": "code", - "execution_count": null, + "execution_count": 102, "metadata": {}, - "outputs": [], + "outputs": [ + { + "name": "stdout", + "output_type": "stream", + "text": [ + "[1, 1, 2, 395, 1, 60, 28, 227, 5, 18]\n" + ] + } + ], "source": [ - "# your code here" + "# your code here\n", + "\n", + "new_new_prophet = new_prophet[:10]\n", + "\n", + "def count(word):\n", + " \n", + " x = new_prophet.count(word)\n", + "\n", + " return x\n", + " \n", + " \n", + "\n", + "list_count = list(map(count,new_new_prophet))\n", + "print(list_count)\n", + "\n", + "\n" ] }, { @@ -88,11 +133,13 @@ }, { "cell_type": "code", - "execution_count": null, + "execution_count": 146, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ - "def reference(x):\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "def reference(word):\n", " '''\n", " Input: A string\n", " Output: The string with references removed\n", @@ -102,7 +149,15 @@ " Output: 'the'\n", " '''\n", " \n", - " # your code here" + " # your code here\n", + " \n", + " x = word.split(\"{\")[0]\n", + " \n", + " return x\n", + "\n", + "remove_ref = list(map(reference,new_prophet))\n", + "\n", + " " ] }, { @@ -114,11 +169,13 @@ }, { "cell_type": "code", - "execution_count": null, + "execution_count": 141, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ - "# your code here" + "# your code here\n", + "\n", + "prophet_reference = list(map(reference,prophet))" ] }, { @@ -130,11 +187,11 @@ }, { "cell_type": "code", - "execution_count": null, + "execution_count": 147, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ - "def line_break(x):\n", + "def line_break(word):\n", " '''\n", " Input: A string\n", " Output: A list of strings split on the line break (\\n) character\n", @@ -144,7 +201,14 @@ " Output: ['the', 'beloved']\n", " '''\n", " \n", - " # your code here" + " # your code here\n", + " \n", + " x = word.split(\"\\n\")\n", + " \n", + " return x\n", + "\n", + "remove_ref_and_split = list(map(line_break,new_prophet))\n", + " " ] }, { @@ -156,11 +220,13 @@ }, { "cell_type": "code", - "execution_count": null, + "execution_count": 148, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ - "# your code here" + "# your code here\n", + "\n", + "prophet_line = list(map(reference,prophet_reference))" ] }, { @@ -172,11 +238,3462 @@ }, { "cell_type": "code", - "execution_count": null, + "execution_count": 153, "metadata": {}, - "outputs": [], + "outputs": [ + { + "name": "stdout", + "output_type": "stream", + "text": [ + "The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran\n", + "\n", + "This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and\n", + "most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions\n", + "whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms\n", + "of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at\n", + "www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll\n", + "have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using\n", + "this ebook.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Title: The Prophet\n", + "\n", + "Author: Kahlil Gibran\n", + "\n", + "Release Date: January 1, 2019 [EBook #58585]\n", + "Last Updated: January 3, 2018\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Language: English\n", + "\n", + "Character set encoding: UTF-8\n", + "\n", + "*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PROPHET ***\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Produced by David Widger from page images generously\n", + "provided by the Internet Archive\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Transcriber's Note: Page numbers, ie: are included in this\n", + "utf-8 text file. For those wishing to use a text file unencumbered\n", + "with page numbers open or download the Latin-1 file 58585-8.txt.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "THE PROPHET\n", + "\n", + "By Kahlil Gibran\n", + "\n", + "New York: Alfred A. Knopf\n", + "\n", + "1923\n", + "\n", + "_The Twelve Illustrations In This Volume\n", + "Are Reproduced From Original Drawings By\n", + "The Author_\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "“His power came from some great reservoir\n", + "of spiritual life else it could not have\n", + "been so universal and so potent, but the\n", + "majesty and beauty of the language with\n", + "which he clothed it were all his own?”\n", + "\n", + "--Claude Bragdon\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "THE BOOKS OF KAHLIL GIBRAN\n", + "\n", + "The Madman. 1918 Twenty Drawings. 1919\n", + "The Forerunner. 1920 The Prophet. 1923\n", + "Sand and Foam. 1926 Jesus the Son of\n", + "Man. 1928 The Forth Gods. 1931 The\n", + "Wanderer. 1932 The Garden of the Prophet\n", + "1933 Prose Poems. 1934 Nymphs of the\n", + "Valley. 1948\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "CONTENTS\n", + "\n", + " The Coming of the Ship.......7\n", + " On Love.....................15\n", + " On Marriage.................19\n", + " On Children.................21\n", + " On Giving...................23\n", + " On Eating and Drinking......27\n", + " On Work.....................31\n", + " On Joy and Sorrow...........33\n", + " On Houses...................37\n", + " On Clothes..................41\n", + " On Buying and Selling.......43\n", + " On Crime and Punishment.....45\n", + " On Laws.....................51\n", + " On Freedom..................55\n", + " On Reason and Passion.......57\n", + " On Pain.....................60\n", + " On Self-Knowledge...........62\n", + " On Teaching.................64\n", + " On Friendship...............66\n", + " On Talking..................68\n", + " On Time.....................70\n", + " On Good and Evil............72\n", + " On Prayer...................76\n", + " On Pleasure.................79\n", + " On Beauty...................83\n", + " On Religion.................87\n", + " On Death....................90\n", + " The Farewell................92\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "THE PROPHET\n", + "\n", + "|Almustafa, the chosen and the\n", + "beloved, who was a dawn unto his own\n", + "day, had waited twelve years in the city\n", + "of Orphalese for his ship that was to\n", + "return and bear him back to the isle of\n", + "his birth.\n", + "\n", + "And in the twelfth year, on the seventh\n", + "day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he\n", + "climbed the hill without the city walls\n", + "and looked seaward; and he beheld his\n", + "ship coming with the mist.\n", + "\n", + "Then the gates of his heart were flung\n", + "open, and his joy flew far over the sea.\n", + "And he closed his eyes and prayed in the\n", + "silences of his soul.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But as he descended the hill, a sadness\n", + "came upon him, and he thought in his\n", + "heart:\n", + "\n", + "How shall I go in peace and without\n", + "sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the\n", + "spirit shall I leave this city. the days of pain I have spent\n", + "within its walls, and long were the\n", + "nights of aloneness; and who can depart\n", + "from his pain and his aloneness without\n", + "regret?\n", + "\n", + "Too many fragments of the spirit have I\n", + "scattered in these streets, and too many\n", + "are the children of my longing that walk\n", + "naked among these hills, and I cannot\n", + "withdraw from them without a burden and\n", + "an ache.\n", + "\n", + "It is not a garment I cast off this\n", + "day, but a skin that I tear with my own\n", + "hands.\n", + "\n", + "Nor is it a thought I leave behind me,\n", + "but a heart made sweet with hunger and\n", + "with thirst.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Yet I cannot tarry longer.\n", + "\n", + "The sea that calls all things unto her\n", + "calls me, and I must embark.\n", + "\n", + "For to stay, though the hours burn in\n", + "the night, is to freeze and crystallize\n", + "and be bound in a mould.\n", + "\n", + "Fain would I take with me all that is\n", + "here. But how shall I?\n", + "\n", + "A voice cannot carry the tongue and\n", + " lips that gave it wings. Alone\n", + "must it seek the ether.\n", + "\n", + "And alone and without his nest shall the\n", + "eagle fly across the sun.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Now when he reached the foot of the\n", + "hill, he turned again towards the sea,\n", + "and he saw his ship approaching the\n", + "harbour, and upon her prow the mariners,\n", + "the men of his own land.\n", + "\n", + "And his soul cried out to them, and he\n", + "said:\n", + "\n", + "Sons of my ancient mother, you riders of\n", + "the tides,\n", + "\n", + "How often have you sailed in my dreams.\n", + "And now you come in my awakening, which\n", + "is my deeper dream.\n", + "\n", + "Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with\n", + "sails full set awaits the wind.\n", + "\n", + "Only another breath will I breathe in\n", + "this still air, only another loving look\n", + "cast backward,\n", + "\n", + "And then I shall stand among you, a\n", + "seafarer among seafarers. you,\n", + "vast sea, sleepless mother,\n", + "\n", + "Who alone are peace and freedom to the\n", + "river and the stream,\n", + "\n", + "Only another winding will this stream\n", + "make, only another murmur in this glade,\n", + "\n", + "And then shall I come to you, a\n", + "boundless drop to a boundless ocean.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And as he walked he saw from afar men\n", + "and women leaving their fields and their\n", + "vineyards and hastening towards the city\n", + "gates.\n", + "\n", + "And he heard their voices calling his\n", + "name, and shouting from field to field\n", + "telling one another of the coming of his\n", + "ship.\n", + "\n", + "And he said to himself:\n", + "\n", + "Shall the day of parting be the day of\n", + "gathering?\n", + "\n", + "And shall it be said that my eve was in\n", + "truth my dawn?\n", + "\n", + "And what shall I give unto him who has\n", + "left his plough in midfurrow, or to\n", + "him who has stopped the wheel of his\n", + "winepress? my heart become a\n", + "tree heavy-laden with fruit that I may\n", + "gather and give unto them?\n", + "\n", + "And shall my desires flow like a\n", + "fountain that I may fill their cups?\n", + "\n", + "Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty\n", + "may touch me, or a flute that his breath\n", + "may pass through me?\n", + "\n", + "A seeker of silences am I, and what\n", + "treasure have I found in silences that I\n", + "may dispense with confidence?\n", + "\n", + "If this is my day of harvest, in what\n", + "fields have I sowed the seed, and in\n", + "what unremembered seasons?\n", + "\n", + "If this indeed be the hour in which I\n", + "lift up my lantern, it is not my flame\n", + "that shall burn therein.\n", + "\n", + "Empty and dark shall I raise my lantern,\n", + "\n", + "And the guardian of the night shall fill\n", + "it with oil and he shall light it also.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "These things he said in words. But much\n", + "in his heart remained unsaid. For could not speak his deeper\n", + "secret.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0020]\n", + "\n", + "And when he entered into the city all\n", + "the people came to meet him, and they\n", + "were crying out to him as with one\n", + "voice.\n", + "\n", + "And the elders of the city stood forth\n", + "and said:\n", + "\n", + "Go not yet away from us.\n", + "\n", + "A noontide have you been in our\n", + "twilight, and your youth has given us\n", + "dreams to dream.\n", + "\n", + "No stranger are you among us, nor\n", + "a guest, but our son and our dearly\n", + "beloved.\n", + "\n", + "Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for\n", + "your face.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And the priests and the priestesses said\n", + "unto him:\n", + "\n", + "Let not the waves of the sea separate us\n", + "now, and the years you have spent in our\n", + "midst become a memory.\n", + "\n", + "You have walked among us a spirit,\n", + " your shadow has been a light\n", + "upon our faces.\n", + "\n", + "Much have we loved you. But speechless\n", + "was our love, and with veils has it been\n", + "veiled.\n", + "\n", + "Yet now it cries aloud unto you, and\n", + "would stand revealed before you.\n", + "\n", + "And ever has it been that love knows\n", + "not its own depth until the hour of\n", + "separation.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And others came also and entreated him.\n", + "But he answered them not. He only bent\n", + "his head; and those who stood near saw\n", + "his tears falling upon his breast.\n", + "\n", + "And he and the people proceeded towards\n", + "the great square before the temple.\n", + "\n", + "And there came out of the sanctuary a\n", + "woman whose name was Almitra. And she\n", + "was a seeress.\n", + "\n", + "And he looked upon her with exceeding\n", + "tenderness, for it was she who had first\n", + "sought and believed in him when he had\n", + "been but a day in their city. hailed him, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Prophet of God, in quest of the\n", + "uttermost, long have you searched the\n", + "distances for your ship.\n", + "\n", + "And now your ship has come, and you must\n", + "needs go.\n", + "\n", + "Deep is your longing for the land of\n", + "your memories and the dwelling place\n", + "of your greater desires; and our love\n", + "would not bind you nor our needs hold\n", + "you.\n", + "\n", + "Yet this we ask ere you leave us, that\n", + "you speak to us and give us of your\n", + "truth.\n", + "\n", + "And we will give it unto our children,\n", + "and they unto their children, and it\n", + "shall not perish.\n", + "\n", + "In your aloneness you have watched with\n", + "our days, and in your wakefulness you\n", + "have listened to the weeping and the\n", + "laughter of our sleep.\n", + "\n", + "Now therefore disclose us to ourselves,\n", + "and tell us all that has been shown\n", + "you of that which is between birth and\n", + "death.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And he answered,\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, of what can I\n", + " save of that which is even now\n", + "moving within your souls?\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "Then said Almitra, Speak to us of\n", + "_Love_.\n", + "\n", + "And he raised his head and looked upon\n", + "the people, and there fell a stillness\n", + "upon them. And with a great voice he\n", + "said:\n", + "\n", + "When love beckons to you, follow him,\n", + "\n", + "Though his ways are hard and steep.\n", + "\n", + "And when his wings enfold you yield to\n", + "him,\n", + "\n", + "Though the sword hidden among his\n", + "pinions may wound you.\n", + "\n", + "And when he speaks to you believe in\n", + "him,\n", + "\n", + "Though his voice may shatter your dreams\n", + "as the north wind lays waste the garden.\n", + "\n", + "For even as love crowns you so shall\n", + "he crucify you. Even as he is for your\n", + "growth so is he for your pruning.\n", + "\n", + "Even as he ascends to your height and\n", + " your tenderest branches\n", + "that quiver in the sun,\n", + "\n", + "So shall he descend to your roots and\n", + "shake them in their clinging to the\n", + "earth.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto\n", + "himself.\n", + "\n", + "He threshes you to make you naked.\n", + "\n", + "He sifts you to free you from your\n", + "husks.\n", + "\n", + "He grinds you to whiteness.\n", + "\n", + "He kneads you until you are pliant;\n", + "\n", + "And then he assigns you to his sacred\n", + "fire, that you may become sacred bread\n", + "for God’s sacred feast.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "All these things shall love do unto you\n", + "that you may know the secrets of your\n", + "heart, and in that knowledge become a\n", + "fragment of Life’s heart.\n", + "\n", + "But if in your fear you would seek only\n", + "love’s peace and love’s pleasure,\n", + "\n", + "Then it is better for you that you\n", + "cover nakedness and pass out of\n", + "love’s threshing-floor,\n", + "\n", + "Into the seasonless world where you\n", + "shall laugh, but not all of your\n", + "laughter, and weep, but not all of your\n", + "tears.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Love gives naught but itself and takes\n", + "naught but from itself.\n", + "\n", + "Love possesses not nor would it be\n", + "possessed;\n", + "\n", + "For love is sufficient unto love.\n", + "\n", + "When you love you should not say, “God\n", + "is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in\n", + "the heart of God.”\n", + "\n", + "And think not you can direct the course\n", + "of love, for love, if it finds you\n", + "worthy, directs your course.\n", + "\n", + "Love has no other desire but to fulfil\n", + "itself.\n", + "\n", + "But if you love and must needs have\n", + "desires, let these be your desires:\n", + "\n", + "To melt and be like a running brook that\n", + "sings its melody to the night. the pain of too much tenderness.\n", + "\n", + "To be wounded by your own understanding\n", + "of love;\n", + "\n", + "And to bleed willingly and joyfully.\n", + "\n", + "To wake at dawn with a winged heart and\n", + "give thanks for another day of loving;\n", + "\n", + "To rest at the noon hour and meditate\n", + "love’s ecstacy;\n", + "\n", + "To return home at eventide with\n", + "gratitude;\n", + "\n", + "And then to sleep with a prayer for\n", + "the beloved in your heart and a song of\n", + "praise upon your lips.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0029]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " Almitra spoke again and said,\n", + "And what of _Marriage_ master?\n", + "\n", + "And he answered saying:\n", + "\n", + "You were born together, and together you\n", + "shall be forevermore.\n", + "\n", + "You shall be together when the white\n", + "wings of death scatter your days.\n", + "\n", + "Aye, you shall be together even in the\n", + "silent memory of God.\n", + "\n", + "But let there be spaces in your\n", + "togetherness,\n", + "\n", + "And let the winds of the heavens dance\n", + "between you.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Love one another, but make not a bond of\n", + "love:\n", + "\n", + "Let it rather be a moving sea between\n", + "the shores of your souls.\n", + "\n", + "Fill each other’s cup but drink not from\n", + "one cup.\n", + "\n", + "Give one another of your bread but eat\n", + "not from the same loaf. and\n", + "dance together and be joyous, but let\n", + "each one of you be alone,\n", + "\n", + "Even as the strings of a lute are alone\n", + "though they quiver with the same music.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Give your hearts, but not into each\n", + "other’s keeping.\n", + "\n", + "For only the hand of Life can contain\n", + "your hearts.\n", + "\n", + "And stand together yet not too near\n", + "together:\n", + "\n", + "For the pillars of the temple stand\n", + "apart,\n", + "\n", + "And the oak tree and the cypress grow\n", + "not in each other’s shadow.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0032]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a woman who held a babe\n", + "against her bosom said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Children_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Your children are not your children.\n", + "\n", + "They are the sons and daughters of\n", + "Life’s longing for itself.\n", + "\n", + "They come through you but not from you,\n", + "\n", + "And though they are with you yet they\n", + "belong not to you.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You may give them your love but not your\n", + "thoughts,\n", + "\n", + "For they have their own thoughts.\n", + "\n", + "You may house their bodies but not their\n", + "souls,\n", + "\n", + "For their souls dwell in the house of\n", + "tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not\n", + "even in your dreams.\n", + "\n", + "You may strive to be like them, but seek\n", + "not to make them like you. goes not backward nor tarries with\n", + "yesterday.\n", + "\n", + "You are the bows from which your\n", + "children as living arrows are sent\n", + "forth.\n", + "\n", + "The archer sees the mark upon the path\n", + "of the infinite, and He bends you with\n", + "His might that His arrows may go swift\n", + "and far.\n", + "\n", + "Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be\n", + "for gladness;\n", + "\n", + "For even as he loves the arrow that\n", + "flies, so He loves also the bow that is\n", + "stable.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " said a rich man, Speak to us of\n", + "_Giving_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "You give but little when you give of\n", + "your possessions.\n", + "\n", + "It is when you give of yourself that you\n", + "truly give.\n", + "\n", + "For what are your possessions but things\n", + "you keep and guard for fear you may need\n", + "them tomorrow?\n", + "\n", + "And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring\n", + "to the overprudent dog burying bones\n", + "in the trackless sand as he follows the\n", + "pilgrims to the holy city?\n", + "\n", + "And what is fear of need but need\n", + "itself?\n", + "\n", + "Is not dread of thirst when your well is\n", + "full, the thirst that is unquenchable?\n", + "\n", + "There are those who give little of the\n", + " which they have--and they give\n", + "it for recognition and their hidden\n", + "desire makes their gifts unwholesome.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who have little and\n", + "give it all.\n", + "\n", + "These are the believers in life and\n", + "the bounty of life, and their coffer is\n", + "never empty.\n", + "\n", + "There are those who give with joy, and\n", + "that joy is their reward.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who give with pain,\n", + "and that pain is their baptism.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who give and know\n", + "not pain in giving, nor do they seek\n", + "joy, nor give with mindfulness of\n", + "virtue;\n", + "\n", + "They give as in yonder valley the myrtle\n", + "breathes its fragrance into space.\n", + "\n", + "Through the hands of such as these God\n", + "speaks, and from behind their eyes He\n", + "smiles upon the earth.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0039]\n", + "\n", + "It is well to give when asked, but it\n", + "is better to give unasked, through\n", + "understanding;\n", + "\n", + "And to the open-handed the search for\n", + " who shall receive is joy greater\n", + "than giving.\n", + "\n", + "And is there aught you would withhold?\n", + "\n", + "All you have shall some day be given;\n", + "\n", + "Therefore give now, that the season\n", + "of giving may be yours and not your\n", + "inheritors’.\n", + "\n", + "You often say, “I would give, but only\n", + "to the deserving.”\n", + "\n", + "The trees in your orchard say not so,\n", + "nor the flocks in your pasture.\n", + "\n", + "They give that they may live, for to\n", + "withhold is to perish.\n", + "\n", + "Surely he who is worthy to receive his\n", + "days and his nights, is worthy of all\n", + "else from you.\n", + "\n", + "And he who has deserved to drink from\n", + "the ocean of life deserves to fill his\n", + "cup from your little stream.\n", + "\n", + "And what desert greater shall there be,\n", + "than that which lies in the courage\n", + "and the confidence, nay the charity, of\n", + "receiving?\n", + "\n", + "And who are you that men should rend\n", + " bosom and unveil their pride,\n", + "that you may see their worth naked and\n", + "their pride unabashed?\n", + "\n", + "See first that you yourself deserve to\n", + "be a giver, and an instrument of giving.\n", + "\n", + "For in truth it is life that gives unto\n", + "life--while you, who deem yourself a\n", + "giver, are but a witness.\n", + "\n", + "And you receivers--and you are\n", + "all receivers--assume no weight of\n", + "gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon\n", + "yourself and upon him who gives.\n", + "\n", + "Rather rise together with the giver on\n", + "his gifts as on wings;\n", + "\n", + "For to be overmindful of your debt, is\n", + "ito doubt his generosity who has the\n", + "freehearted earth for mother, and God\n", + "for father.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0042]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " an old man, a keeper of an\n", + "inn, said, Speak to us of _Eating and\n", + "Drinking_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Would that you could live on the\n", + "fragrance of the earth, and like an air\n", + "plant be sustained by the light.\n", + "\n", + "But since you must kill to eat, and rob\n", + "the newly born of its mother’s milk to\n", + "quench your thirst, let it then be an\n", + "act of worship,\n", + "\n", + "And let your board stand an altar on\n", + "which the pure and the innocent of\n", + "forest and plain are sacrificed for that\n", + "which is purer and still more innocent\n", + "in man.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "When you kill a beast say to him in your\n", + "heart,\n", + "\n", + "“By the same power that slays you, I too\n", + "am slain; and I too shall be consumed.\n", + " the law that delivered you into\n", + "my hand shall deliver me into a mightier\n", + "hand.\n", + "\n", + "Your blood and my blood is naught but\n", + "the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And when you crush an apple with your\n", + "teeth, say to it in your heart,\n", + "\n", + "“Your seeds shall live in my body,\n", + "\n", + "And the buds of your tomorrow shall\n", + "blossom in my heart,\n", + "\n", + "And your fragrance shall be my breath,\n", + "And together we shall rejoice through\n", + "all the seasons.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And in the autumn, when you gather\n", + "the grapes of your vineyards for the\n", + "winepress, say in your heart,\n", + "\n", + "“I too am a vineyard, and my fruit shall\n", + "be gathered for the winepress,\n", + "\n", + "And like new wine I shall be kept in\n", + "eternal vessels.”\n", + "\n", + "And in winter, when you draw the wine,\n", + " there be in your heart a song\n", + "for each cup;\n", + "\n", + "And let there be in the song a\n", + "remembrance for the autumn days, and for\n", + "the vineyard, and for the winepress.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + " Then a ploughman said, Speak\n", + "to us of _Work_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "You work that you may keep pace with the\n", + "earth and the soul of the earth.\n", + "\n", + "For to be idle is to become a stranger\n", + "unto the seasons, and to step out of\n", + "life’s procession, that marches in\n", + "majesty and proud submission towards the\n", + "infinite.\n", + "\n", + "When you work you are a flute through\n", + "whose heart the whispering of the hours\n", + "turns to music.\n", + "\n", + "Which of you would be a reed, dumb and\n", + "silent, when all else sings together in\n", + "unison?\n", + "\n", + "Always you have been told that work is a\n", + "curse and labour a misfortune.\n", + "\n", + "But I say to you that when you work you\n", + "fulfil a part of earth’s furthest dream,\n", + " to you when that dream was\n", + "born,\n", + "\n", + "And in keeping yourself with labour you\n", + "are in truth loving life,\n", + "\n", + "And to love life through labour is to be\n", + "intimate with life’s inmost secret.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But if you in your pain call birth an\n", + "affliction and the support of the flesh\n", + "a curse written upon your brow, then I\n", + "answer that naught but the sweat of\n", + "your brow shall wash away that which is\n", + "written.\n", + "\n", + "You have been told also that life is\n", + "darkness, and in your weariness you echo\n", + "what was said by the weary.\n", + "\n", + "And I say that life is indeed darkness\n", + "‘save when there is urge,\n", + "\n", + "And all urge is blind save when there is\n", + "knowledge,\n", + "\n", + "And all knowledge is vain save when\n", + "there is work,\n", + "\n", + "And all work is empty save when there is\n", + "love;\n", + "\n", + "And when you work with love you bind\n", + " to yourself, and to one\n", + "another, and to God.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And what is it to work with love?\n", + "\n", + "It is to weave the cloth with threads\n", + "drawn from your heart, even as if your\n", + "beloved were to wear that cloth.\n", + "\n", + "It is to build a house with affection,\n", + "even as if your beloved were to dwell in\n", + "that house.\n", + "\n", + "It is to sow seeds with tenderness and\n", + "reap the harvest with joy, even as if\n", + "your beloved were to eat the fruit.\n", + "\n", + "It is to charge all things you fashion\n", + "with a breath of your own spirit,\n", + "\n", + "And to know that all the blessed dead\n", + "are standing about you and watching.\n", + "\n", + "Often have I heard you say, as if\n", + "speaking in sleep, “He who works in\n", + "marble, and finds the shape of his own\n", + "soul in the stone, is nobler than he who\n", + "ploughs the soil. he who seizes\n", + "the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the\n", + "likeness of man, is more than he who\n", + "makes the sandals for our feet.”\n", + "\n", + "But I say, not in sleep but in the\n", + "overwakefulness of noontide, that the\n", + "wind speaks not more sweetly to the\n", + "giant oaks than to the least of all the\n", + "blades of grass;\n", + "\n", + "And he alone is great who turns the\n", + "voice of the wind into a song made\n", + "sweeter by his own loving.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Work is love made visible.\n", + "\n", + "And if you cannot work with love but\n", + "only with distaste, it is better that\n", + "you should leave your work and sit at\n", + "the gate of the temple and take alms of\n", + "those who work with joy.\n", + "\n", + "For if you bake bread with indifference,\n", + "you bake a bitter bread that feeds but\n", + "half man’s hunger.\n", + "\n", + "And if you grudge the crushing of the\n", + "grapes, your grudge distils a poison in\n", + "the wine. if you sing though as\n", + "angels, and love not the singing, you\n", + "muffle man’s ears to the voices of the\n", + "day and the voices of the night.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a woman said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Joy and Sorrow_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.\n", + "\n", + "And the selfsame well from which your\n", + "laughter rises was oftentimes filled\n", + "with your tears.\n", + "\n", + "And how else can it be?\n", + "\n", + "The deeper that sorrow carves into your\n", + "being, the more joy you can contain.\n", + "\n", + "Is not the cup that holds your wine the\n", + "very cup that was burned in the potter’s\n", + "oven?\n", + "\n", + "And is not the lute that soothes your\n", + "spirit, the very wood that was hollowed\n", + "with knives?\n", + "\n", + "When you are joyous, look deep into your\n", + "heart and you shall find it is only\n", + "that which has given you sorrow that is\n", + "giving you joy.\n", + "\n", + "When you are sorrowful look again in\n", + " heart, and you shall see that\n", + "in truth you are weeping for that which\n", + "has been your delight.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Some of you say, “Joy is greater than\n", + "sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is\n", + "the greater.”\n", + "\n", + "But I say unto you, they are\n", + "inseparable.\n", + "\n", + "Together they come, and when one sits\n", + "alone with you at your board, remember\n", + "that the other is asleep upon your bed.\n", + "\n", + "Verily you are suspended like scales\n", + "between your sorrow and your joy.\n", + "\n", + "Only when you are empty are you at\n", + "standstill and balanced.\n", + "\n", + "When the treasure-keeper lifts you to\n", + "weigh his gold and his silver, needs\n", + "must your joy or your sorrow rise or\n", + "fall.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a mason came forth and said,\n", + "Speak to us of _Houses_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered and said:\n", + "\n", + "Build of your imaginings a bower in the\n", + "wilderness ere you build a house within\n", + "the city walls.\n", + "\n", + "For even as you have home-comings in\n", + "your twilight, so has the wanderer in\n", + "you, the ever distant and alone.\n", + "\n", + "Your house is your larger body.\n", + "\n", + "It grows in the sun and sleeps in the\n", + "stillness of the night; and it is not\n", + "dreamless. Does not your house dream?\n", + "and dreaming, leave the city for grove\n", + "or hilltop?\n", + "\n", + "Would that I could gather your houses\n", + "into my hand, and like a sower scatter\n", + "them in forest and meadow.\n", + "\n", + "Would the valleys were your streets, and\n", + "the green paths your alleys, that you\n", + " seek one another through\n", + "vineyards, and come with the fragrance\n", + "of the earth in your garments.\n", + "\n", + "But these things are not yet to be.\n", + "\n", + "In their fear your forefathers gathered\n", + "you too near together. And that fear\n", + "shall endure a little longer. A little\n", + "longer shall your city walls separate\n", + "your hearths from your fields.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And tell me, people of Orphalese, what\n", + "have you in these houses? And what is it\n", + "you guard with fastened doors?\n", + "\n", + "Have you peace, the quiet urge that\n", + "reveals your power?\n", + "\n", + "Have you remembrances, the glimmering\n", + "arches that span the summits of the\n", + "mind?\n", + "\n", + "Have you beauty, that leads the heart\n", + "from things fashioned of wood and stone\n", + "to the holy mountain?\n", + "\n", + "Tell me, have you these in your houses?\n", + "\n", + "Or have you only comfort, and the lust\n", + "for comfort, that stealthy thing that\n", + " the house a guest, and then\n", + "becomes a host, and then a master?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Ay, and it becomes a tamer, and with\n", + "hook and scourge makes puppets of your\n", + "larger desires.\n", + "\n", + "Though its hands are silken, its heart\n", + "is of iron.\n", + "\n", + "It lulls you to sleep only to stand by\n", + "your bed and jeer at the dignity of the\n", + "flesh.\n", + "\n", + "It makes mock of your sound senses, and\n", + "lays them in thistledown like fragile\n", + "vessels.\n", + "\n", + "Verily the lust for comfort murders\n", + "the passion of the soul, and then walks\n", + "grinning in the funeral.\n", + "\n", + "But you, children of space, you restless\n", + "in rest, you shall not be trapped nor\n", + "tamed.\n", + "\n", + "Your house shall be not an anchor but a\n", + "mast.\n", + "\n", + "It shall not be a glistening film that\n", + " a wound, but an eyelid that\n", + "guards the eye.\n", + "\n", + "You shall not fold your wings that you\n", + "may pass through doors, nor bend your\n", + "heads that they strike not against a\n", + "ceiling, nor fear to breathe lest walls\n", + "should crack and fall down.\n", + "\n", + "You shall not dwell in tombs made by the\n", + "dead for the living.\n", + "\n", + "And though of magnificence and\n", + "splendour, your house shall not hold\n", + "your secret nor shelter your longing.\n", + "\n", + "For that which is boundless in you\n", + "abides in the mansion of the sky, whose\n", + "door is the morning mist, and whose\n", + "windows are the songs and the silences\n", + "of night.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " the weaver said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Clothes_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Your clothes conceal much of your\n", + "beauty, yet they hide not the\n", + "unbeautiful.\n", + "\n", + "And though you seek in garments the\n", + "freedom of privacy you may find in them\n", + "a harness and a chain.\n", + "\n", + "Would that you could meet the sun and\n", + "the wind with more of your skin and less\n", + "of your raiment,\n", + "\n", + "For the breath of life is in the\n", + "sunlight and the hand of life is in the\n", + "wind.\n", + "\n", + "Some of you say, “It is the north wind\n", + "who has woven the clothes we wear.”\n", + "\n", + "And I say, Ay, it was the north wind,\n", + "\n", + "But shame was his loom, and the\n", + "softening of the sinews was his thread.\n", + "\n", + "And when his work was done he laughed in\n", + "the forest. not that modesty\n", + "is for a shield against the eye of the\n", + "unclean.\n", + "\n", + "And when the unclean shall be no more,\n", + "what were modesty but a fetter and a\n", + "fouling of the mind?\n", + "\n", + "And forget not that the earth delights\n", + "to feel your bare feet and the winds\n", + "long to play with your hair.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a merchant said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Buying and Selling_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered and said:\n", + "\n", + "To you the earth yields her fruit, and\n", + "you shall not want if you but know how\n", + "to fill your hands.\n", + "\n", + "It is in exchanging the gifts of the\n", + "earth that you shall find abundance and\n", + "be satisfied.\n", + "\n", + "Yet unless the exchange be in love and\n", + "kindly justice, it will but lead some to\n", + "greed and others to hunger.\n", + "\n", + "When in the market place you toilers of\n", + "the sea and fields and vineyards meet\n", + "the weavers and the potters and the\n", + "gatherers of spices,--\n", + "\n", + "Invoke then the master spirit of the\n", + "earth, to come into your midst and\n", + "sanctify the scales and the reckoning\n", + "that weighs value against value. not the barren-handed to take\n", + "part in your transactions, who would\n", + "sell their words for your labour.\n", + "\n", + "To such men you should say,\n", + "\n", + "“Come with us to the field, or go with\n", + "our brothers to the sea and cast your\n", + "net;\n", + "\n", + "For the land and the sea shall be\n", + "bountiful to you even as to us.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And if there come the singers and the\n", + "dancers and the flute players,--buy of\n", + "their gifts also.\n", + "\n", + "For they too are gatherers of fruit and\n", + "frankincense, and that which they bring,\n", + "though fashioned of dreams, is raiment\n", + "and food for your soul.\n", + "\n", + "And before you leave the market place,\n", + "see that no one has gone his way with\n", + "empty hands.\n", + "\n", + "For the master spirit of the earth shall\n", + "not sleep peacefully upon the wind\n", + "till the needs of the least of you are\n", + "satisfied.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " one of the judges of the city\n", + "stood forth and said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Crime and Punishment_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "It is when your spirit goes wandering\n", + "upon the wind,\n", + "\n", + "That you, alone and unguarded, commit\n", + "a wrong unto others and therefore unto\n", + "yourself.\n", + "\n", + "And for that wrong committed must you\n", + "knock and wait a while unheeded at the\n", + "gate of the blessed.\n", + "\n", + "Like the ocean is your god-self;\n", + "\n", + "It remains for ever undefiled.\n", + "\n", + "And like the ether it lifts but the\n", + "winged.\n", + "\n", + "Even like the sun is your god-self;\n", + "\n", + "It knows not the ways of the mole nor\n", + "seeks it the holes of the serpent.\n", + " your god-self dwells not alone\n", + "in your being.\n", + "\n", + "Much in you is still man, and much in\n", + "you is not yet man,\n", + "\n", + "But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep\n", + "in the mist searching for its own\n", + "awakening.\n", + "\n", + "And of the man in you would I now speak.\n", + "\n", + "For it is he and not your god-self nor\n", + "the pigmy in the mist, that knows crime\n", + "and the punishment of crime.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one\n", + "who commits a wrong as though he were\n", + "not one of you, but a stranger unto you\n", + "and an intruder upon your world.\n", + "\n", + "But I say that even as the holy and the\n", + "righteous cannot rise beyond the highest\n", + "which is in each one of you,\n", + "\n", + "So the wicked and the weak cannot fall\n", + "lower than the lowest which is in you\n", + "also.\n", + "\n", + "And as a single leaf turns not yellow\n", + "but with the silent knowledge of the\n", + "whole tree, the wrong-doer cannot\n", + "do wrong without the hidden will of you\n", + "all.\n", + "\n", + "Like a procession you walk together\n", + "towards your god-self.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0064]\n", + "\n", + "You are the way and the wayfarers.\n", + "\n", + "And when one of you falls down he falls\n", + "for those behind him, a caution against\n", + "the stumbling stone.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him,\n", + "who though faster and surer of foot, yet\n", + "removed not the stumbling stone.\n", + "\n", + "And this also, though the word lie heavy\n", + "upon your hearts:\n", + "\n", + "The murdered is not unaccountable for\n", + "his own murder,\n", + "\n", + "And the robbed is not blameless in being\n", + "robbed.\n", + "\n", + "The righteous is not innocent of the\n", + "deeds of the wicked,\n", + "\n", + "And the white-handed is not clean in the\n", + "doings of the felon.\n", + "\n", + "Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim\n", + "of the injured,\n", + "\n", + "And still more often the condemned is\n", + " burden bearer for the guiltless\n", + "and unblamed.\n", + "\n", + "You cannot separate the just from the\n", + "unjust and the good from the wicked;\n", + "\n", + "For they stand together before the face\n", + "of the sun even as the black thread and\n", + "the white are woven together.\n", + "\n", + "And when the black thread breaks, the\n", + "weaver shall look into the whole cloth,\n", + "and he shall examine the loom also.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "If any of you would bring to judgment\n", + "the unfaithful wife,\n", + "\n", + "Let him also weigh the heart of her\n", + "husband in scales, and measure his soul\n", + "with measurements.\n", + "\n", + "And let him who would lash the offender\n", + "look unto the spirit of the offended.\n", + "\n", + "And if any of you would punish in the\n", + "name of righteousness and lay the ax\n", + "unto the evil tree, let him see to its\n", + "roots;\n", + "\n", + "And verily he will find the roots of the\n", + "good and the bad, the fruitful and the\n", + " all entwined together in\n", + "the silent heart of the earth.\n", + "\n", + "And you judges who would be just,\n", + "\n", + "What judgment pronounce you upon him\n", + "who though honest in the flesh yet is a\n", + "thief in spirit?\n", + "\n", + "What penalty lay you upon him who slays\n", + "in the flesh yet is himself slain in the\n", + "spirit?\n", + "\n", + "And how prosecute you him who in action\n", + "is a deceiver and an oppressor,\n", + "\n", + "Yet who also is aggrieved and outraged?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And how shall you punish those whose\n", + "remorse is already greater than their\n", + "misdeeds?\n", + "\n", + "Is not remorse the justice which is\n", + "administered by that very law which you\n", + "would fain serve?\n", + "\n", + "Yet you cannot lay remorse upon the\n", + "innocent nor lift it from the heart of\n", + "the guilty.\n", + "\n", + "Unbidden shall it call in the night,\n", + "that men may wake and gaze upon\n", + "themselves. you who would\n", + "understand justice, how shall you unless\n", + "you look upon all deeds in the fullness\n", + "of light?\n", + "\n", + "Only then shall you know that the erect\n", + "and the fallen are but one man standing\n", + "in twilight between the night of his\n", + "pigmy-self and the day of his god-self,\n", + "And that the corner-stone of the temple\n", + "is not higher than the lowest stone in\n", + "its foundation.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a lawyer said, But what of our\n", + "_Laws_, master?\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "You delight in laying down laws,\n", + "\n", + "Yet you delight more in breaking them.\n", + "\n", + "Like children playing by the ocean who\n", + "build sand-towers with constancy and\n", + "then destroy them with laughter.\n", + "\n", + "But while you build your sand-towers the\n", + "ocean brings more sand to the shore,\n", + "\n", + "And when you destroy them the ocean\n", + "laughs with you.\n", + "\n", + "Verily the ocean laughs always with the\n", + "innocent.\n", + "\n", + "But what of those to whom life is not\n", + "an ocean, and man-made laws are not\n", + "sand-towers,\n", + "\n", + "But to whom life is a rock, and the law\n", + "a chisel with which they would carve it\n", + "in their own likeness? of the\n", + "cripple who hates dancers?\n", + "\n", + "What of the ox who loves his yoke and\n", + "deems the elk and deer of the forest\n", + "stray and vagrant things?\n", + "\n", + "What of the old serpent who cannot shed\n", + "his skin, and calls all others naked and\n", + "shameless?\n", + "\n", + "And of him who comes early to the\n", + "wedding-feast, and when over-fed and\n", + "tired goes his way saying that all\n", + "feasts are violation and all feasters\n", + "lawbreakers?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "What shall I say of these save that\n", + "they too stand in the sunlight, but with\n", + "their backs to the sun?\n", + "\n", + "They see only their shadows, and their\n", + "shadows are their laws.\n", + "\n", + "And what is the sun to them but a caster\n", + "of shadows?\n", + "\n", + "And what is it to acknowledge the\n", + "laws but to stoop down and trace their\n", + "shadows upon the earth?\n", + "\n", + "But you who walk facing the sun, what\n", + " drawn on the earth can hold\n", + "you?\n", + "\n", + "You who travel with the wind, what\n", + "weather-vane shall direct your course?\n", + "\n", + "What man’s law shall bind you if you\n", + "break your yoke but upon no man’s prison\n", + "door?\n", + "\n", + "What laws shall you fear if you dance\n", + "but stumble against no man’s iron\n", + "chains?\n", + "\n", + "And who is he that shall bring you to\n", + "judgment if you tear off your garment\n", + "yet leave it in no man’s path?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, you can muffle the\n", + "drum, and you can loosen the strings\n", + "of the lyre, but who shall command the\n", + "skylark not to sing?\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " an orator said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Freedom_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "At the city gate and by your fireside\n", + "I have seen you prostrate yourself and\n", + "worship your own freedom,\n", + "\n", + "Even as slaves humble themselves before\n", + "a tyrant and praise him though he slays\n", + "them.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, in the grove of the temple and in\n", + "the shadow of the citadel I have seen\n", + "the freest among you wear their freedom\n", + "as a yoke and a handcuff.\n", + "\n", + "And my heart bled within me; for you\n", + "can only be free when even the desire\n", + "of seeking freedom becomes a harness\n", + "to you, and when you cease to speak of\n", + "freedom as a goal and a fulfilment.\n", + "\n", + "You shall be free indeed when your\n", + "days are not without a care nor your\n", + " without a want and a grief,\n", + "\n", + "But rather when these things girdle your\n", + "life and yet you rise above them naked\n", + "and unbound.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And how shall you rise beyond your days\n", + "and nights unless you break the\n", + "chains which you at the dawn of your\n", + "understanding have fastened around your\n", + "noon hour?\n", + "\n", + "In truth that which you call freedom is\n", + "the strongest of these chains, though\n", + "its links glitter in the sun and dazzle\n", + "your eyes.\n", + "\n", + "And what is it but fragments of your\n", + "own self you would discard that you may\n", + "become free?\n", + "\n", + "If it is an unjust law you would\n", + "abolish, that law was written with your\n", + "own hand upon your own forehead.\n", + "\n", + "You cannot erase it by burning your law\n", + "books nor by washing the foreheads of\n", + "your judges, though you pour the sea\n", + "upon them.\n", + "\n", + "And if it is a despot you would\n", + " see first that his throne\n", + "erected within you is destroyed.\n", + "\n", + "For how can a tyrant rule the free and\n", + "the proud, but for a tyranny in their\n", + "own freedom and a shame in their own\n", + "pride?\n", + "\n", + "And if it is a care you would cast off,\n", + "that cart has been chosen by you rather\n", + "than imposed upon you.\n", + "\n", + "And if it is a fear you would dispel,\n", + "the seat of that fear is in your heart\n", + "and not in the hand of the feared.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Verily all things move within your being\n", + "in constant half embrace, the desired\n", + "and the dreaded, the repugnant and the\n", + "cherished, the pursued and that which\n", + "you would escape.\n", + "\n", + "These things move within you as lights\n", + "and shadows in pairs that cling.\n", + "\n", + "And when the shadow fades and is no\n", + "more, the light that lingers becomes a\n", + "shadow to another light.\n", + "\n", + "And thus your freedom when it loses its\n", + "fetters becomes itself the fetter of a\n", + "greater freedom.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " the priestess spoke again\n", + "and said: Speak to us of _Reason and\n", + "Passion_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield,\n", + "upon which your reason and your judgment\n", + "wage war against your passion and your\n", + "appetite.\n", + "\n", + "Would that I could be the peacemaker in\n", + "your soul, that I might turn the discord\n", + "and the rivalry of your elements into\n", + "oneness and melody.\n", + "\n", + "But how shall I, unless you yourselves\n", + "be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers\n", + "of all your elements?\n", + "\n", + "Your reason and your passion are the\n", + "rudder and the sails of your seafaring\n", + "soul.\n", + "\n", + "If either your sails or your rudder be\n", + "broken, you can but toss and drift,\n", + "or else be held at a standstill in\n", + "mid-seas. reason, ruling alone,\n", + "is a force confining; and passion,\n", + "unattended, is a flame that burns to its\n", + "own destruction.\n", + "\n", + "Therefore let your soul exalt your\n", + "reason to the height of passion, that it\n", + "may sing;\n", + "\n", + "And let it direct your passion with\n", + "reason, that your passion may live\n", + "through its own daily resurrection,\n", + "and like the phoenix rise above its own\n", + "ashes.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "I would have you consider your judgment\n", + "and your appetite even as you would two\n", + "loved guests in your house.\n", + "\n", + "Surely you would not honour one guest\n", + "above the other; for he who is more\n", + "mindful of one loses the love and the\n", + "faith of both\n", + "\n", + "Among the hills, when you sit in the\n", + "cool shade of the white poplars, sharing\n", + "the peace and serenity of distant fields\n", + "and meadows--then let your heart say in\n", + "silence, “God rests in reason.”\n", + "\n", + "And when the storm comes, and the\n", + " wind shakes the forest,\n", + "and thunder and lightning proclaim the\n", + "majesty of the sky,--then let your heart\n", + "say in awe, “God moves in passion.”\n", + "\n", + "And since you are a breath in God’s\n", + "sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest, you\n", + "too should rest in reason and move in\n", + "passion.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a woman spoke, saying, Tell us\n", + "of _Pain_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Your pain is the breaking of the shell\n", + "that encloses your understanding.\n", + "\n", + "Even as the stone of the fruit must\n", + "break, that its heart may stand in the\n", + "sun, so must you know pain.\n", + "\n", + "And could you keep your heart in wonder\n", + "at the daily miracles of your life, your\n", + "pain would not seem less wondrous than\n", + "your joy;\n", + "\n", + "And you would accept the seasons of your\n", + "heart, even as you have always accepted\n", + "the seasons that pass over your fields.\n", + "\n", + "And you would watch with serenity\n", + "through the winters of your grief.\n", + "\n", + "Much of your pain is self-chosen.\n", + "\n", + "It is the bitter potion by which the\n", + "physician you heals your sick\n", + "self.\n", + "\n", + "Therefore trust the physician, and drink\n", + "his remedy in silence and tranquillity:\n", + "For his hand, though heavy and hard, is\n", + "guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,\n", + "And the cup he brings, though it burn\n", + "your lips, has been fashioned of the\n", + "clay which the Potter has moistened with\n", + "His own sacred tears.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a man said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Self-Knowledge_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Your hearts know in silence the secrets\n", + "of the days and the nights.\n", + "\n", + "But your ears thirst for the sound of\n", + "your heart’s knowledge.\n", + "\n", + "You would know in words that which you\n", + "have always known in thought.\n", + "\n", + "You would touch with your fingers the\n", + "naked body of your dreams.\n", + "\n", + "And it is well you should.\n", + "\n", + "The hidden well-spring of your soul must\n", + "needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;\n", + "\n", + "And the treasure of your infinite depths\n", + "would be revealed to your eyes.\n", + "\n", + "But let there be no scales to weigh your\n", + "unknown treasure;\n", + "\n", + "And seek not the depths of your\n", + " with staff or sounding\n", + "line.\n", + "\n", + "For self is a sea boundless and\n", + "measureless.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Say not, “I have found the truth,” but\n", + "rather, “I have found a truth.”\n", + "\n", + "Say not, “I have found the path of the\n", + "soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul\n", + "walking upon my path.”\n", + "\n", + "For the soul walks upon all paths.\n", + "\n", + "The soul walks not upon a line, neither\n", + "does it grow like a reed.\n", + "\n", + "The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of\n", + "countless petals.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0083]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " said a teacher, Speak to us of\n", + "_Teaching_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "“No man can reveal to you aught but that\n", + "which already lies half asleep in the\n", + "dawning of your knowledge.\n", + "\n", + "The teacher who walks in the shadow of\n", + "the temple, among his followers, gives\n", + "not of his wisdom but rather of his\n", + "faith and his lovingness.\n", + "\n", + "If he is indeed wise he does not bid\n", + "you enter the house of his wisdom, but\n", + "rather leads you to the threshold of\n", + "your own mind.\n", + "\n", + "The astronomer may speak to you of his\n", + "understanding of space, but he cannot\n", + "give you his understanding.\n", + "\n", + "The musician may sing to you of the\n", + "rhythm which is in all space, but he\n", + "cannot give you the ear which arrests\n", + "the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.\n", + " he who is versed in the science\n", + "of numbers can tell of the regions\n", + "of weight and measure, but he cannot\n", + "conduct you thither.\n", + "\n", + "For the vision of one man lends not its\n", + "wings to another man.\n", + "\n", + "And even as each one of you stands alone\n", + "in God’s knowledge, so must each one of\n", + "you be alone in his knowledge of God and\n", + "in his understanding of the earth.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a youth said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Friendship_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Your friend is your needs answered.\n", + "\n", + "He is your field which you sow with love\n", + "and reap with thanksgiving.\n", + "\n", + "And he is your board and your fireside.\n", + "\n", + "For you come to him with your hunger,\n", + "and you seek him for peace.\n", + "\n", + "When your friend speaks his mind you\n", + "fear not the “nay” in your own mind, nor\n", + "do you withhold the “ay.”\n", + "\n", + "And when he is silent your heart ceases\n", + "not to listen to his heart;\n", + "\n", + "For without words, in friendship, all\n", + "thoughts, all desires, all expectations\n", + "are born and shared, with joy that is\n", + "unacclaimed.\n", + "\n", + "When you part from your friend, you\n", + "grieve not;\n", + "\n", + "For that which you love most in him\n", + "may be clearer in his absence, as the\n", + "mountain to the climber is clearer\n", + "from the plain. let there be no\n", + "purpose in friendship save the deepening\n", + "of the spirit.\n", + "\n", + "For love that seeks aught but the\n", + "disclosure of its own mystery is not\n", + "love but a net cast forth: and only the\n", + "unprofitable is caught.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And let your best be for your friend.\n", + "\n", + "If he must know the ebb of your tide,\n", + "let him know its flood also.\n", + "\n", + "For what is your friend that you should\n", + "seek him with hours to kill?\n", + "\n", + "Seek him always with hours to live.\n", + "\n", + "For it is his to fill your need, but not\n", + "your emptiness.\n", + "\n", + "And in the sweetness of friendship\n", + "let there be laughter, and sharing of\n", + "pleasures.\n", + "\n", + "For in the dew of little things\n", + "the heart finds its morning and is\n", + "refreshed.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " then a scholar said, Speak of\n", + "_Talking_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "You talk when you cease to be at peace\n", + "with your thoughts;\n", + "\n", + "And when you can no longer dwell in the\n", + "solitude of your heart you live in your\n", + "lips, and sound is a diversion and a\n", + "pastime.\n", + "\n", + "And in much of your talking, thinking is\n", + "half murdered.\n", + "\n", + "For thought is a bird of space, that in\n", + "a cage of words may indeed unfold its\n", + "wings but cannot fly.\n", + "\n", + "There are those among you who seek the\n", + "talkative through fear of being alone.\n", + "\n", + "The silence of aloneness reveals to\n", + "their eyes their naked selves and they\n", + "would escape.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who talk, and\n", + " knowledge or forethought reveal\n", + "a truth which they themselves do not\n", + "understand.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who have the truth\n", + "within them, but they tell it not in\n", + "words.\n", + "\n", + "In the bosom of such as these the spirit\n", + "dwells in rhythmic silence.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "When you meet your friend on the\n", + "roadside or in the market place, let the\n", + "spirit in you move your lips and direct\n", + "your tongue.\n", + "\n", + "Let the voice within your voice speak to\n", + "the ear of his ear;\n", + "\n", + "For his soul will keep the truth of\n", + "your heart as the taste of the wine is\n", + "remembered\n", + "\n", + "When the colour is forgotten and the\n", + "vessel is no more.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " an astronomer said, Master, what\n", + "of _Time_?\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "You would measure time the measureless\n", + "and the immeasurable.\n", + "\n", + "You would adjust your conduct and\n", + "even direct the course of your spirit\n", + "according to hours and seasons.\n", + "\n", + "Of time you would make a stream upon\n", + "whose bank you would sit and watch its\n", + "flowing.\n", + "\n", + "Yet the timeless in you is aware of\n", + "life’s timelessness,\n", + "\n", + "And knows that yesterday is but today’s\n", + "memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.\n", + "\n", + "And that that which sings and\n", + "contemplates in you is still dwelling\n", + "within the bounds of that first moment\n", + "which scattered the stars into space.\n", + " among you does not feel that his\n", + "power to love is boundless?\n", + "\n", + "And yet who does not feel that very\n", + "love, though boundless, encompassed\n", + "within the centre of his being, and\n", + "moving not from love thought to love\n", + "thought, nor from love deeds to other\n", + "love deeds?\n", + "\n", + "And is not time even as love is,\n", + "undivided and paceless?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But if in your thought you must measure\n", + "time into seasons, let each season\n", + "encircle all the other seasons,\n", + "\n", + "And let today embrace the past with\n", + "remembrance and the future with longing.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " one of the elders of the city\n", + "said, Speak to us of _Good and Evil_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Of the good in you I can speak, but not\n", + "of the evil.\n", + "\n", + "For what is evil but good tortured by\n", + "its own hunger and thirst?\n", + "\n", + "Verily when good is hungry it seeks food\n", + "even in dark caves, and when it thirsts\n", + "it drinks even of dead waters.\n", + "\n", + "You are good when you are one with\n", + "yourself.\n", + "\n", + "Yet when you are not one with yourself\n", + "you are not evil.\n", + "\n", + "For a divided house is not a den of\n", + "thieves; it is only a divided house.\n", + "\n", + "And a ship without rudder may wander\n", + "aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink\n", + "not to the bottom. are good when\n", + "you strive to give of yourself.\n", + "\n", + "Yet you are not evil when you seek gain\n", + "for yourself.\n", + "\n", + "For when you strive for gain you are\n", + "but a root that clings to the earth and\n", + "sucks at her breast.\n", + "\n", + "Surely the fruit cannot say to the root,\n", + "“Be like me, ripe and full and ever\n", + "giving of your abundance.”\n", + "\n", + "For to the fruit giving is a need, as\n", + "receiving is a need to the root.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You are good when you are fully awake in\n", + "your speech,\n", + "\n", + "Yet you are not evil when you sleep\n", + "while your tongue staggers without\n", + "purpose.\n", + "\n", + "And even stumbling speech may strengthen\n", + "a weak tongue.\n", + "\n", + "You are good when you walk to your goal\n", + "firmly and with bold steps.\n", + "\n", + "Yet you are not evil when you go thither\n", + "limping. those who limp go not\n", + "backward.\n", + "\n", + "But you who are strong and swift, see\n", + "that you do not limp before the lame,\n", + "deeming it kindness.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You are good in countless ways, and you\n", + "are not evil when you are not good,\n", + "\n", + "You are only loitering and sluggard.\n", + "\n", + "Pity that the stags cannot teach\n", + "swiftness to the turtles.\n", + "\n", + "In your longing for your giant self lies\n", + "your goodness: and that longing is in\n", + "all of you.\n", + "\n", + "But in some of you that longing is a\n", + "torrent rushing with might to the sea,\n", + "carrying the secrets of the hillsides\n", + "and the songs of the forest.\n", + "\n", + "And in others it is a flat stream that\n", + "loses itself in angles and bends and\n", + "lingers before it reaches the shore.\n", + "\n", + "But let not him who longs much say to\n", + " who longs little, “Wherefore are\n", + "you slow and halting?”\n", + "\n", + "For the truly good ask not the naked,\n", + "“Where is your garment?” nor the\n", + "houseless, “What has befallen your\n", + "house?”\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a priestess said, Speak to us\n", + "of _Prayer_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "You pray in your distress and in your\n", + "need; would that you might pray also\n", + "in the fullness of your joy and in your\n", + "days of abundance.\n", + "\n", + "For what is prayer but the expansion of\n", + "yourself into the living ether?\n", + "\n", + "And if it is for your comfort to pour\n", + "your darkness into space, it is also for\n", + "your delight to pour forth the dawning\n", + "of your heart.\n", + "\n", + "And if you cannot but weep when your\n", + "soul summons you to prayer, she should\n", + "spur you again and yet again, though\n", + "weeping, until you shall come laughing.\n", + "\n", + "When you pray you rise to meet in the\n", + "air those who are praying at that very\n", + " and whom save in prayer you\n", + "may not meet.\n", + "\n", + "Therefore let your visit to that temple\n", + "invisible be for naught but ecstasy and\n", + "sweet communion.\n", + "\n", + "For if you should enter the temple for\n", + "no other purpose than asking you shall\n", + "not receive:\n", + "\n", + "And if you should enter into it to\n", + "humble yourself you shall not be lifted:\n", + "\n", + "Or even if you should enter into it to\n", + "beg for the good of others you shall not\n", + "be heard.\n", + "\n", + "It is enough that you enter the temple\n", + "invisible.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "I cannot teach you how to pray in words.\n", + "\n", + "God listens not to your words save when\n", + "He Himself utters them through your\n", + "lips.\n", + "\n", + "And I cannot teach you the prayer of the\n", + "seas and the forests and the mountains.\n", + " you who are born of the\n", + "mountains and the forests and the seas\n", + "can find their prayer in your heart,\n", + "\n", + "And if you but listen in the stillness\n", + "of the night you shall hear them saying\n", + "in silence,\n", + "\n", + "“Our God, who art our winged self, it is\n", + "thy will in us that willeth.\n", + "\n", + "It is thy desire in us that desireth.\n", + "\n", + "It is thy urge in us that would turn our\n", + "nights, which are thine, into days which\n", + "are thine also.\n", + "\n", + "We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou\n", + "knowest our needs before they are born\n", + "in us:\n", + "\n", + "Thou art our need; and in giving us more\n", + "of thyself thou givest us all.”\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0100]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a hermit, who visited the city\n", + "once a year, came forth and said, Speak\n", + "to us of _Pleasure_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Pleasure is a freedom-song,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not freedom.\n", + "\n", + "It is the blossoming of your desires,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not their fruit.\n", + "\n", + "It is a depth calling unto a height,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not the deep nor the high.\n", + "\n", + "It is the caged taking wing,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not space encompassed.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, in very truth, pleasure is a\n", + "freedom-song.\n", + "\n", + "And I fain would have you sing it with\n", + "fullness of heart; yet I would not have\n", + "you lose your hearts in the singing.\n", + "\n", + "Some of your youth seek pleasure as if\n", + "it were all, and they are judged and\n", + "rebuked. would not judge nor\n", + "rebuke them. I would have them seek.\n", + "\n", + "For they shall find pleasure, but not\n", + "her alone;\n", + "\n", + "Seven are her sisters, and the least of\n", + "them is more beautiful than pleasure.\n", + "\n", + "Have you not heard of the man who was\n", + "digging in the earth for roots and found\n", + "a treasure?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And some of your elders remember\n", + "pleasures with regret like wrongs\n", + "committed in drunkenness.\n", + "\n", + "But regret is the beclouding of the mind\n", + "and not its chastisement.\n", + "\n", + "They should remember their pleasures\n", + "with gratitude, as they would the\n", + "harvest of a summer.\n", + "\n", + "Yet if it comforts them to regret, let\n", + "them be comforted.\n", + "\n", + "And there are among you those who\n", + "are neither young to seek nor old to\n", + "remember;\n", + "\n", + "And in their fear of seeking and\n", + "remembering shun all pleasures,\n", + "lest they neglect the spirit or offend\n", + "against it.\n", + "\n", + "But even in their foregoing is their\n", + "pleasure.\n", + "\n", + "And thus they too find a treasure though\n", + "they dig for roots with quivering hands.\n", + "\n", + "But tell me, who is he that can offend\n", + "the spirit?\n", + "\n", + "Shall the nightingale offend the\n", + "stillness of the night, or the firefly\n", + "the stars?\n", + "\n", + "And shall your flame or your smoke\n", + "burden the wind?\n", + "\n", + "Think you the spirit is a still pool\n", + "which you can trouble with a staff?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure\n", + "you do but store the desire in the\n", + "recesses of your being.\n", + "\n", + "Who knows but that which seems omitted\n", + "today, waits for tomorrow?\n", + "\n", + "Even your body knows its heritage\n", + "and its rightful need and will not be\n", + "deceived.\n", + "\n", + "And your body is the harp of your soul,\n", + "\n", + "And it is yours to bring forth from it or confused sounds.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And now you ask in your heart, “How\n", + "shall we distinguish that which is\n", + "good in pleasure from that which is not\n", + "good?”\n", + "\n", + "Go to your fields and your gardens, and\n", + "you shall learn that it is the pleasure\n", + "of the bee to gather honey of the\n", + "flower,\n", + "\n", + "But it is also the pleasure of the\n", + "flower to yield its honey to the bee.\n", + "\n", + "For to the bee a flower is a fountain of\n", + "life,\n", + "\n", + "And to the flower a bee is a messenger\n", + "of love,\n", + "\n", + "And to both, bee and flower, the giving\n", + "and the receiving of pleasure is a need\n", + "and an ecstasy.\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, be in your\n", + "pleasures like the flowers and the bees.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " a poet said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Beauty_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Where shall you seek beauty, and how\n", + "shall you find her unless she herself be\n", + "your way and your guide?\n", + "\n", + "And how shall you speak of her except\n", + "she be the weaver of your speech?\n", + "\n", + "The aggrieved and the injured say,\n", + "“Beauty is kind and gentle.\n", + "\n", + "Like a young mother half-shy of her own\n", + "glory she walks among us.”\n", + "\n", + "And the passionate say, “Nay, beauty is\n", + "a thing of might and dread.\n", + "\n", + "Like the tempest she shakes the earth\n", + "beneath us and the sky above us.”\n", + "\n", + "The tired and the weary say, “Beauty is\n", + "of soft whisperings. She speaks in our\n", + "spirit. voice yields to our\n", + "silences like a faint light that quivers\n", + "in fear of the shadow.”\n", + "\n", + "But the restless say, “We have heard her\n", + "shouting among the mountains,\n", + "\n", + "And with her cries came the sound of\n", + "hoofs, and the beating of wings and the\n", + "roaring of lions.”\n", + "\n", + "At night the watchmen of the city say,\n", + "“Beauty shall rise with the dawn from\n", + "the east.”\n", + "\n", + "And at noontide the toilers and the\n", + "wayfarers say, “We have seen her leaning\n", + "over the earth from the windows of the\n", + "sunset.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "In winter say the snow-bound, “She shall\n", + "come with the spring leaping upon the\n", + "hills.”\n", + "\n", + "And in the summer heat the reapers\n", + "say, “We have seen her dancing with the\n", + "autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of\n", + "snow in her hair.” these things\n", + "have you said of beauty,\n", + "\n", + "Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of\n", + "needs unsatisfied,\n", + "\n", + "And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.\n", + "\n", + "It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty\n", + "hand stretched forth,\n", + "\n", + "But rather a heart enflamed and a soul\n", + "enchanted.\n", + "\n", + "It is not the image you would see nor\n", + "the song you would hear,\n", + "\n", + "But rather an image you see though you\n", + "close your eyes and a song you hear\n", + "though you shut your ears.\n", + "\n", + "It is not the sap within the furrowed\n", + "bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,\n", + "\n", + "But rather a garden for ever in bloom\n", + "and a flock of angels for ever in\n", + "flight.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, beauty is life when\n", + "life unveils her holy face.\n", + "\n", + "But you are life and you are the veil.\n", + " is eternity gazing at itself\n", + "in a mirror.\n", + "\n", + "But you are eternity and you are the\n", + "mirror.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " an old priest said, Speak to us\n", + "of _Religion_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Have I spoken this day of aught else?\n", + "\n", + "Is not religion all deeds and all\n", + "reflection,\n", + "\n", + "And that which is neither deed nor\n", + "reflection, but a wonder and a surprise\n", + "ever springing in the soul, even while\n", + "the hands hew the stone or tend the\n", + "loom?\n", + "\n", + "Who can separate his faith from\n", + "his actions, or his belief from his\n", + "occupations?\n", + "\n", + "Who can spread his hours before him,\n", + "saving, “This for God and this for\n", + "myself; This for my soul, and this other\n", + "for my body?”\n", + "\n", + "All your hours are wings that beat\n", + "through space from self to self. wears his morality but as his best\n", + "garment were better naked.\n", + "\n", + "The wind and the sun will tear no holes\n", + "in his skin.\n", + "\n", + "And he who defines his conduct by ethics\n", + "imprisons his song-bird in a cage.\n", + "\n", + "The freest song comes not through bars\n", + "and wires.\n", + "\n", + "And he to whom worshipping is a window,\n", + "to open but also to shut, has not yet\n", + "visited the house of his soul whose\n", + "windows are from dawn to dawn.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Your daily life is your temple and your\n", + "religion.\n", + "\n", + "Whenever you enter into it take with you\n", + "your all.\n", + "\n", + "Take the plough and the forge and the\n", + "mallet and the lute,\n", + "\n", + "The things you have fashioned in\n", + "necessity or for delight.\n", + "\n", + "For in revery you cannot rise above your\n", + "achievements nor fall lower than your\n", + "failures.\n", + "\n", + "And take with you all men: in\n", + "adoration you cannot fly higher than\n", + "their hopes nor humble yourself lower\n", + "than their despair.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And if you would know God be not\n", + "therefore a solver of riddles.\n", + "\n", + "Rather look about you and you shall see\n", + "Him playing with your children.\n", + "\n", + "And look into space; you shall see Him\n", + "walking in the cloud, outstretching His\n", + "arms in the lightning and descending in\n", + "rain.\n", + "\n", + "You shall see Him smiling in flowers,\n", + "then rising and waving His hands in\n", + "trees.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + " Almitra spoke, saying, We would\n", + "ask now of _Death_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "You would know the secret of death.\n", + "\n", + "But how shall you find it unless you\n", + "seek it in the heart of life?\n", + "\n", + "The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind\n", + "unto the day cannot unveil the mystery\n", + "of light.\n", + "\n", + "If you would indeed behold the spirit\n", + "of death, open your heart wide unto the\n", + "body of life.\n", + "\n", + "For life and death are one, even as the\n", + "river and the sea are one.\n", + "\n", + "In the depth of your hopes and desires\n", + "lies your silent knowledge of the\n", + "beyond;\n", + "\n", + "And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow\n", + "your heart dreams of spring.\n", + "\n", + "Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden\n", + "the gate to eternity. fear\n", + "of death is but the trembling of the\n", + "shepherd when he stands before the king\n", + "whose hand is to be laid upon him in\n", + "honour.\n", + "\n", + "Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his\n", + "trembling, that he shall wear the mark\n", + "of the king?\n", + "\n", + "Yet is he not more mindful of his\n", + "trembling?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "For what is it to die but to stand naked\n", + "in the wind and to melt into the sun?\n", + "\n", + "And what is it to cease breathing, but\n", + "to free the breath from its restless\n", + "tides, that it may rise and expand and\n", + "seek God unencumbered?\n", + "\n", + "Only when you drink from the river of\n", + "silence shall you indeed sing.\n", + "\n", + "And when you have reached the mountain\n", + "top, then you shall begin to climb.\n", + "\n", + "And when the earth shall claim your\n", + "limbs, then shall you truly dance.\n", + " now it was evening.\n", + "\n", + "And Almitra the seeress said, Blessed be\n", + "this day and this place and your spirit\n", + "that has spoken.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, Was it I who spoke? Was\n", + "I not also a listener?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Then he descended the steps of the\n", + "Temple and all the people followed him.\n", + "And he reached his ship and stood upon\n", + "the deck.\n", + "\n", + "And facing the people again, he raised\n", + "his voice and said:\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, the wind bids me\n", + "leave you.\n", + "\n", + "Less hasty am I than the wind, yet I\n", + "must go.\n", + "\n", + "We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier\n", + "way, begin no day where we have ended\n", + "another day; and no sunrise finds us\n", + "where sunset left us. while the\n", + "earth sleeps we travel.\n", + "\n", + "We are the seeds of the tenacious\n", + "plant, and it is in our ripeness and our\n", + "fullness of heart that we are given to\n", + "the wind and are scattered.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Brief were my days among you, and\n", + "briefer still the words I have spoken.\n", + "\n", + "But should my voice fade in your ears,\n", + "and my love vanish in your memory, then\n", + "I will come again,\n", + "\n", + "And with a richer heart and lips more\n", + "yielding to the spirit will I speak.\n", + "\n", + "Yea, I shall return with the tide,\n", + "\n", + "And though death may hide me, and the\n", + "greater silence enfold me, yet again\n", + "will I seek your understanding.\n", + "\n", + "And not in vain will I seek.\n", + "\n", + "If aught I have said is truth, that\n", + "truth shall reveal itself in a clearer\n", + "voice, and in words more kin to your\n", + "thoughts.\n", + "\n", + "I go with the wind, people of\n", + "Orphalese, but not down into emptiness;\n", + " if this day is not a fulfilment\n", + "of your needs and my love, then let it\n", + "be a promise till another day.\n", + "\n", + "Man’s needs change, but not his love,\n", + "nor his desire that his love should\n", + "satisfy his needs.\n", + "\n", + "Know therefore, that from the greater\n", + "silence I shall return.\n", + "\n", + "The mist that drifts away at dawn,\n", + "leaving but dew in the fields, shall\n", + "rise and gather into a cloud and then\n", + "fall down in rain.\n", + "\n", + "And not unlike the mist have I been.\n", + "\n", + "In the stillness of the night I have\n", + "walked in your streets, and my spirit\n", + "has entered your houses,\n", + "\n", + "And your heart-beats were in my heart,\n", + "and your breath was upon my face, and I\n", + "knew you all.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, I knew your joy and your pain,\n", + "and in your sleep your dreams were my\n", + "dreams.\n", + "\n", + "And oftentimes I was among you a lake\n", + "among the mountains.\n", + "\n", + "I mirrored the summits in you and the\n", + " slopes, and even the\n", + "passing flocks of your thoughts and your\n", + "desires.\n", + "\n", + "And to my silence came the laughter\n", + "of your children in streams, and the\n", + "longing of your youths in rivers.\n", + "\n", + "And when they reached my depth the\n", + "streams and the rivers ceased not yet to\n", + "sing.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0119]\n", + "\n", + "But sweeter still than laughter and\n", + "greater than longing came to me.\n", + "\n", + "It was the boundless in you;\n", + "\n", + "The vast man in whom you are all but\n", + "cells and sinews;\n", + "\n", + "He in whose chant all your singing is\n", + "but a soundless throbbing.\n", + "\n", + "It is in the vast man that you are vast,\n", + "\n", + "And in beholding him that I beheld you\n", + "and loved you.\n", + "\n", + "For what distances can love reach that\n", + "are not in that vast sphere?\n", + "\n", + "What visions, what expectations and what\n", + "presumptions can outsoar that flight?\n", + "\n", + "Like a giant oak tree covered with apple\n", + "blossoms is the vast man in you. binds you to the earth, his\n", + "fragrance lifts you into space, and in\n", + "his durability you are deathless.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You have been told that, even like a\n", + "chain, you are as weak as your weakest\n", + "link.\n", + "\n", + "This is but half the truth. You are also\n", + "as strong as your strongest link.\n", + "\n", + "To measure you by your smallest deed\n", + "is to reckon the power of ocean by the\n", + "frailty of its foam.\n", + "\n", + "To judge you by your failures is to\n", + "cast blame upon the seasons for their\n", + "inconstancy.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, you are like an ocean,\n", + "\n", + "And though heavy-grounded ships await\n", + "the tide upon your shores, yet, even\n", + "like an ocean, you cannot hasten your\n", + "tides.\n", + "\n", + "And like the seasons you are also,\n", + "\n", + "And though in your winter you deny your\n", + "spring,\n", + "\n", + "Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles\n", + "in her drowsiness and is not offended.\n", + " not I say these things in\n", + "order that you may say the one to the\n", + "other, “He praised us well. He saw but\n", + "the good in us.”\n", + "\n", + "I only speak to you in words of that\n", + "which you yourselves know in thought.\n", + "\n", + "And what is word knowledge but a shadow\n", + "of wordless knowledge?\n", + "\n", + "Your thoughts and my words are waves\n", + "from a sealed memory that keeps records\n", + "of our yesterdays,\n", + "\n", + "And of the ancient days when the earth\n", + "knew not us nor herself,\n", + "\n", + "And of nights when earth was up-wrought\n", + "with confusion.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Wise men have come to you to give you\n", + "of their wisdom. I came to take of your\n", + "wisdom:\n", + "\n", + "And behold I have found that which is\n", + "greater than wisdom.\n", + "\n", + "It is a flame spirit in you ever\n", + "gathering more of itself,\n", + "\n", + "While you, heedless of its expansion,\n", + "bewail the withering of your days.\n", + " is life in quest of life in\n", + "bodies that fear the grave.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "There are no graves here.\n", + "\n", + "These mountains and plains are a cradle\n", + "and a stepping-stone.\n", + "\n", + "Whenever you pass by the field where\n", + "you have laid your ancestors look well\n", + "thereupon, and you shall see yourselves\n", + "and your children dancing hand in hand.\n", + "\n", + "Verily you often make merry without\n", + "knowing.\n", + "\n", + "Others have come to you to whom for\n", + "golden promises made unto your faith\n", + "you have given but riches and power and\n", + "glory.\n", + "\n", + "Less than a promise have I given, and\n", + "yet more generous have you been to me.\n", + "\n", + "You have given me my deeper thirsting\n", + "after life.\n", + "\n", + "Surely there is no greater gift to a man\n", + "than that which turns all his aims\n", + "into parching lips and all life into a\n", + "fountain.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0125]\n", + "\n", + " in this lies my honour and my\n", + "reward,--\n", + "\n", + "That whenever I come to the fountain\n", + "to drink I find the living water itself\n", + "thirsty;\n", + "\n", + "And it drinks me while I drink it.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Some of you have deemed me proud and\n", + "over-shy to receive gifts.\n", + "\n", + "Too proud indeed am I to receive wages,\n", + "but not gifts.\n", + "\n", + "And though I have eaten berries among\n", + "the hills when you would have had me sit\n", + "at your board,\n", + "\n", + "And slept in the portico of the temple\n", + "when you would gladly have sheltered me,\n", + "\n", + "Yet was it not your loving mindfulness\n", + "of my days and my nights that made food\n", + "sweet to my mouth and girdled my sleep\n", + "with visions?\n", + "\n", + "For this I bless you most:\n", + "\n", + "You give much and know not that you give\n", + "at all. the kindness that\n", + "gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to\n", + "stone,\n", + "\n", + "And a good deed that calls itself by\n", + "tender names becomes the parent to a\n", + "curse.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And some of you have called me aloof,\n", + "and drunk with my own aloneness,\n", + "\n", + "And you have said, “He holds council\n", + "with the trees of the forest, but not\n", + "with men.\n", + "\n", + "He sits alone on hill-tops and looks\n", + "down upon our city.”\n", + "\n", + "True it is that I have climbed the hills\n", + "and walked in remote places.\n", + "\n", + "How could I have seen you save from a\n", + "great height or a great distance?\n", + "\n", + "How can one be indeed near unless he be\n", + "tar?\n", + "\n", + "And others among you called unto me, not\n", + "in words, and they said,\n", + "\n", + "“Stranger, stranger, lover of\n", + "unreachable heights, why dwell you among\n", + "the summits where eagles build\n", + "their nests? seek you the\n", + "unattainable?\n", + "\n", + "What storms would you trap in your net,\n", + "\n", + "And what vaporous birds do you hunt in\n", + "the sky?\n", + "\n", + "Come and be one of us.\n", + "\n", + "Descend and appease your hunger with our\n", + "bread and quench your thirst with our\n", + "wine.”\n", + "\n", + "In the solitude of their souls they said\n", + "these things;\n", + "\n", + "But were their solitude deeper they\n", + "would have known that I sought but the\n", + "secret of your joy and your pain,\n", + "\n", + "And I hunted only your larger selves\n", + "that walk the sky.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But the hunter was also the hunted;\n", + "\n", + "For many of my arrows left my bow only\n", + "to seek my own breast.\n", + "\n", + "And the flier was also the creeper;\n", + "\n", + "For when my wings were spread in the\n", + "sun their shadow upon the earth was a\n", + "turtle.\n", + "\n", + "And I the believer was also the doubter;\n", + " often have I put my finger\n", + "in my own wound that I might have the\n", + "greater belief in you and the greater\n", + "knowledge of you.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And it is with this belief and this\n", + "knowledge that I say,\n", + "\n", + "You are not enclosed within your bodies,\n", + "nor confined to houses or fields.\n", + "\n", + "That which is you dwells above the\n", + "mountain and roves with the wind.\n", + "\n", + "It is not a thing that crawls into\n", + "the sun for warmth or digs holes into\n", + "darkness for safety,\n", + "\n", + "But a thing free, a spirit that envelops\n", + "the earth and moves in the ether.\n", + "\n", + "If these be vague words, then seek not\n", + "to clear them.\n", + "\n", + "Vague and nebulous is the beginning of\n", + "all things, but not their end,\n", + "\n", + "And I fain would have you remember me as\n", + "a beginning.\n", + "\n", + "Life, and all that lives, is conceived\n", + "in the mist and not in the crystal.\n", + " who knows but a crystal is mist\n", + "in decay?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "This would I have you remember in\n", + "remembering me:\n", + "\n", + "That which seems most feeble and\n", + "bewildered in you is the strongest and\n", + "most determined.\n", + "\n", + "Is it not your breath that has erected\n", + "and hardened the structure of your\n", + "bones?\n", + "\n", + "And is it not a dream which none of you\n", + "remember having dreamt, that builded\n", + "your city and fashioned all there is in\n", + "it?\n", + "\n", + "Could you but see the tides of that\n", + "breath you would cease to see all else,\n", + "\n", + "And if you could hear the whispering of\n", + "the dream you would hear no other sound.\n", + "\n", + "But you do not see, nor do you hear, and\n", + "it is well.\n", + "\n", + "The veil that clouds your eyes shall be\n", + "lifted by the hands that wove it,\n", + "\n", + "And the clay that fills your ears shall\n", + "be pierced by those fingers that kneaded\n", + "it. you shall see.\n", + "\n", + "And you shall hear.\n", + "\n", + "Yet you shall not deplore having known\n", + "blindness, nor regret having been deaf.\n", + "\n", + "For in that day you shall know the\n", + "hidden purposes in all things,\n", + "\n", + "And you shall bless darkness as you\n", + "would bless light.\n", + "\n", + "After saying these things he looked\n", + "about him, and he saw the pilot of his\n", + "ship standing by the helm and gazing\n", + "now at the full sails and now at the\n", + "distance.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Patient, over patient, is the captain of\n", + "my ship.\n", + "\n", + "The wind blows, and restless are the\n", + "sails;\n", + "\n", + "Even the rudder begs direction;\n", + "\n", + "Yet quietly my captain awaits my\n", + "silence.\n", + "\n", + "And these my mariners, who have heard\n", + "the choir of the greater sea, they too\n", + "have heard me patiently. they\n", + "shall wait no longer.\n", + "\n", + "I am ready.\n", + "\n", + "The stream has reached the sea, and\n", + "once more the great mother holds her son\n", + "against her breast.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Fare you well, people of Orphalese.\n", + "\n", + "This day has ended.\n", + "\n", + "It is closing upon us even as the\n", + "water-lily upon its own tomorrow.\n", + "\n", + "What was given us here we shall keep,\n", + "\n", + "And if it suffices not, then again must\n", + "we come together and together stretch\n", + "our hands unto the giver.\n", + "\n", + "Forget not that I shall come back to\n", + "you.\n", + "\n", + "A little while, and my longing shall\n", + "gather dust and foam for another body.\n", + "\n", + "A little while, a moment of rest upon\n", + "the wind, and another woman shall bear\n", + "me.\n", + "\n", + "Farewell to you and the youth I have\n", + "spent with you.\n", + "\n", + "It was but yesterday we met in a\n", + "dream. have sung to me in my\n", + "aloneness, and I of your longings have\n", + "built a tower in the sky.\n", + "\n", + "But now our sleep has fled and our dream\n", + "is over, and it is no longer dawn.\n", + "\n", + "The noontide is upon us and our half\n", + "waking has turned to fuller day, and we\n", + "must part.\n", + "\n", + "If in the twilight of memory we should\n", + "meet once more, we shall speak again\n", + "together and you shall sing to me a\n", + "deeper song.\n", + "\n", + "And if our hands should meet in another\n", + "dream we shall build another tower in\n", + "the sky.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "So saying he made a signal to the\n", + "seamen, and straightway they weighed\n", + "anchor and cast the ship loose from its\n", + "moorings, and they moved eastward.\n", + "\n", + "And a cry came from the people as from a\n", + "single heart, and it rose into the dusk\n", + "and was carried out over the sea like a\n", + "great trumpeting.\n", + "\n", + "Only Almitra was silent, gazing after\n", + " ship until it had vanished into\n", + "the mist.\n", + "\n", + "And when all the people were dispersed\n", + "she still stood alone upon the sea-wall,\n", + "remembering in her heart his saying,\n", + "\n", + "“A little while, a moment of rest upon\n", + "the wind, and another woman shall bear\n", + "me.”\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0134]\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran\n", + "\n", + "*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PROPHET ***\n", + "\n", + "***** This file should be named 58585-0.txt or 58585-0.zip *****\n", + "This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:\n", + " http://www.gutenberg.org/5/8/5/8/58585/\n", + "\n", + "Produced by David Widger from page images generously\n", + "provided by the 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"text": [ + "The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran\n", + "\n", + "This eBook is for use of anyone anywhere in United States and\n", + "most other parts of world at no cost with almost no restrictions\n", + "whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under terms\n", + "of Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at\n", + "www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in United States, you'll\n", + "have to check laws of country where you are located before using\n", + "this ebook.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Title: The Prophet\n", + "\n", + "Author: Kahlil Gibran\n", + "\n", + "Release Date: January 1, 2019 [EBook #58585]\n", + "Last Updated: January 3, 2018\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Language: English\n", + "\n", + "Character set encoding: UTF-8\n", + "\n", + "*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PROPHET ***\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Produced by David Widger from page images generously\n", + "provided by Internet Archive\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Transcriber's Note: Page numbers, ie: {20}, are included in this\n", + "utf-8 text file. For those wishing to use text file unencumbered\n", + "with page numbers open or download Latin-1 file 58585-8.txt.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "THE PROPHET\n", + "\n", + "By Kahlil Gibran\n", + "\n", + "New York: Alfred A. Knopf\n", + "\n", + "1923\n", + "\n", + "_The Twelve Illustrations In This Volume\n", + "Are Reproduced From Original Drawings By\n", + "The Author_\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "“His power came from some great reservoir\n", + "of spiritual life else it could not have\n", + "been so universal so potent, but the\n", + "majesty beauty of language with\n", + "which he clothed it were all his own?”\n", + "\n", + "--Claude Bragdon\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "THE BOOKS OF KAHLIL GIBRAN\n", + "\n", + "The Madman. 1918 Twenty Drawings. 1919\n", + "The Forerunner. 1920 The Prophet. 1923\n", + "Sand Foam. 1926 Jesus Son of\n", + "Man. 1928 The Forth Gods. 1931 The\n", + "Wanderer. 1932 The Garden of Prophet\n", + "1933 Prose Poems. 1934 Nymphs of the\n", + "Valley. 1948\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "CONTENTS\n", + "\n", + " The Coming of Ship.......7\n", + " On Love.....................15\n", + " On Marriage.................19\n", + " On Children.................21\n", + " On Giving...................23\n", + " On Eating Drinking......27\n", + " On Work.....................31\n", + " On Joy Sorrow...........33\n", + " On Houses...................37\n", + " On Clothes..................41\n", + " On Buying Selling.......43\n", + " On Crime Punishment.....45\n", + " On Laws.....................51\n", + " On Freedom..................55\n", + " On Reason Passion.......57\n", + " On Pain.....................60\n", + " On Self-Knowledge...........62\n", + " On Teaching.................64\n", + " On Friendship...............66\n", + " On Talking..................68\n", + " On Time.....................70\n", + " On Good Evil............72\n", + " On Prayer...................76\n", + " On Pleasure.................79\n", + " On Beauty...................83\n", + " On Religion.................87\n", + " On Death....................90\n", + " The Farewell................92\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "THE PROPHET\n", + "\n", + "|Almustafa, the{7} chosen the\n", + "beloved, who was dawn unto his own\n", + "day, had waited twelve years in city\n", + "of Orphalese for his ship that was to\n", + "return bear him back to isle of\n", + "his birth.\n", + "\n", + "And in twelfth year, on seventh\n", + "day of Ielool, month of reaping, he\n", + "climbed hill without city walls\n", + "and looked seaward; he beheld his\n", + "ship coming with mist.\n", + "\n", + "Then gates of his heart were flung\n", + "open, his joy flew far over sea.\n", + "And he closed his eyes prayed in the\n", + "silences of his soul.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But as he descended hill, sadness\n", + "came upon him, he thought in his\n", + "heart:\n", + "\n", + "How shall I go in peace without\n", + "sorrow? Nay, not without wound in the\n", + "spirit shall I leave this city. {8}Long\n", + "were days of pain I have spent\n", + "within its walls, long were the\n", + "nights of aloneness; who can depart\n", + "from his pain his aloneness without\n", + "regret?\n", + "\n", + "Too many fragments of spirit have I\n", + "scattered in these streets, too many\n", + "are children of my longing that walk\n", + "naked among these hills, I cannot\n", + "withdraw from them without burden and\n", + "an ache.\n", + "\n", + "It is not garment I cast off this\n", + "day, but skin that I tear with my own\n", + "hands.\n", + "\n", + "Nor is it thought I leave behind me,\n", + "but heart made sweet with hunger and\n", + "with thirst.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Yet I cannot tarry longer.\n", + "\n", + "The sea that calls all things unto her\n", + "calls me, I must embark.\n", + "\n", + "For to stay, though hours burn in\n", + "the night, is to freeze crystallize\n", + "and be bound in mould.\n", + "\n", + "Fain would I take with me all that is\n", + "here. But how shall I?\n", + "\n", + "A voice cannot carry tongue and\n", + "{9}the lips that gave it wings. Alone\n", + "must it seek ether.\n", + "\n", + "And alone without his nest shall the\n", + "eagle fly across sun.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Now when he reached foot of the\n", + "hill, he turned again towards sea,\n", + "and he saw his ship approaching the\n", + "harbour, upon her prow mariners,\n", + "the men of his own land.\n", + "\n", + "And his soul cried out to them, he\n", + "said:\n", + "\n", + "Sons of my ancient mother, you riders of\n", + "the tides,\n", + "\n", + "How often have you sailed in my dreams.\n", + "And now you come in my awakening, which\n", + "is my deeper dream.\n", + "\n", + "Ready am I to go, my eagerness with\n", + "sails full set awaits wind.\n", + "\n", + "Only another breath will I breathe in\n", + "this still air, only another loving look\n", + "cast backward,\n", + "\n", + "And then I shall stand among you, a\n", + "seafarer among seafarers. {10}And you,\n", + "vast sea, sleepless mother,\n", + "\n", + "Who alone are peace freedom to the\n", + "river stream,\n", + "\n", + "Only another winding will this stream\n", + "make, only another murmur in this glade,\n", + "\n", + "And then shall I come to you, a\n", + "boundless drop to boundless ocean.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And as he walked he saw from afar men\n", + "and women leaving their fields their\n", + "vineyards hastening towards city\n", + "gates.\n", + "\n", + "And he heard their voices calling his\n", + "name, shouting from field to field\n", + "telling one another of coming of his\n", + "ship.\n", + "\n", + "And he said to himself:\n", + "\n", + "Shall day of parting be day of\n", + "gathering?\n", + "\n", + "And shall it be said that my eve was in\n", + "truth my dawn?\n", + "\n", + "And what shall I give unto him who has\n", + "left his plough in midfurrow, or to\n", + "him who has stopped wheel of his\n", + "winepress? {11}Shall my heart become a\n", + "tree heavy-laden with fruit that I may\n", + "gather give unto them?\n", + "\n", + "And shall my desires flow like a\n", + "fountain that I may fill their cups?\n", + "\n", + "Am I harp that hand of mighty\n", + "may touch me, or flute that his breath\n", + "may pass through me?\n", + "\n", + "A seeker of silences am I, what\n", + "treasure have I found in silences that I\n", + "may dispense with confidence?\n", + "\n", + "If this is my day of harvest, in what\n", + "fields have I sowed seed, in\n", + "what unremembered seasons?\n", + "\n", + "If this indeed be hour in which I\n", + "lift up my lantern, it is not my flame\n", + "that shall burn therein.\n", + "\n", + "Empty dark shall I raise my lantern,\n", + "\n", + "And guardian of night shall fill\n", + "it with oil he shall light it also.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "These things he said in words. But much\n", + "in his heart remained unsaid. For {12}he\n", + "himself could not speak his deeper\n", + "secret.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0020]\n", + "\n", + "And when he entered into city all\n", + "the people came to meet him, they\n", + "were crying out to him as with one\n", + "voice.\n", + "\n", + "And elders of city stood forth\n", + "and said:\n", + "\n", + "Go not yet away from us.\n", + "\n", + "A noontide have you been in our\n", + "twilight, your youth has given us\n", + "dreams to dream.\n", + "\n", + "No stranger are you among us, nor\n", + "a guest, but our son our dearly\n", + "beloved.\n", + "\n", + "Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for\n", + "your face.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And priests priestesses said\n", + "unto him:\n", + "\n", + "Let not waves of sea separate us\n", + "now, years you have spent in our\n", + "midst become memory.\n", + "\n", + "You have walked among us spirit,\n", + "{13}and your shadow has been light\n", + "upon our faces.\n", + "\n", + "Much have we loved you. But speechless\n", + "was our love, with veils has it been\n", + "veiled.\n", + "\n", + "Yet now it cries aloud unto you, and\n", + "would stand revealed before you.\n", + "\n", + "And ever has it been that love knows\n", + "not its own depth until hour of\n", + "separation.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And others came also entreated him.\n", + "But he answered them not. He only bent\n", + "his head; those who stood near saw\n", + "his tears falling upon his breast.\n", + "\n", + "And he people proceeded towards\n", + "the great square before temple.\n", + "\n", + "And there came out of sanctuary a\n", + "woman whose name was Almitra. And she\n", + "was seeress.\n", + "\n", + "And he looked upon her with exceeding\n", + "tenderness, for it was she who had first\n", + "sought believed in him when he had\n", + "been but day in their city. {14}And\n", + "she hailed him, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Prophet of God, in quest of the\n", + "uttermost, long have you searched the\n", + "distances for your ship.\n", + "\n", + "And now your ship has come, you must\n", + "needs go.\n", + "\n", + "Deep is your longing for land of\n", + "your memories dwelling place\n", + "of your greater desires; our love\n", + "would not bind you nor our needs hold\n", + "you.\n", + "\n", + "Yet this we ask ere you leave us, that\n", + "you speak to us give us of your\n", + "truth.\n", + "\n", + "And we will give it unto our children,\n", + "and they unto their children, it\n", + "shall not perish.\n", + "\n", + "In your aloneness you have watched with\n", + "our days, in your wakefulness you\n", + "have listened to weeping the\n", + "laughter of our sleep.\n", + "\n", + "Now therefore disclose us to ourselves,\n", + "and tell us all that has been shown\n", + "you of that which is between birth and\n", + "death.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And he answered,\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, of what can I\n", + "{15}speak save of that which is even now\n", + "moving within your souls?\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "Then said Almitra, Speak to us of\n", + "_Love_.\n", + "\n", + "And he raised his head looked upon\n", + "the people, there fell stillness\n", + "upon them. And with great voice he\n", + "said:\n", + "\n", + "When love beckons to you, follow him,\n", + "\n", + "Though his ways are hard steep.\n", + "\n", + "And when his wings enfold you yield to\n", + "him,\n", + "\n", + "Though sword hidden among his\n", + "pinions may wound you.\n", + "\n", + "And when he speaks to you believe in\n", + "him,\n", + "\n", + "Though his voice may shatter your dreams\n", + "as north wind lays waste garden.\n", + "\n", + "For even as love crowns you so shall\n", + "he crucify you. Even as he is for your\n", + "growth so is he for your pruning.\n", + "\n", + "Even as he ascends to your height and\n", + "{16}caresses your tenderest branches\n", + "that quiver in sun,\n", + "\n", + "So shall he descend to your roots and\n", + "shake them in their clinging to the\n", + "earth.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto\n", + "himself.\n", + "\n", + "He threshes you to make you naked.\n", + "\n", + "He sifts you to free you from your\n", + "husks.\n", + "\n", + "He grinds you to whiteness.\n", + "\n", + "He kneads you until you are pliant;\n", + "\n", + "And then he assigns you to his sacred\n", + "fire, that you may become sacred bread\n", + "for God’s sacred feast.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "All these things shall love do unto you\n", + "that you may know secrets of your\n", + "heart, in that knowledge become a\n", + "fragment of Life’s heart.\n", + "\n", + "But if in your fear you would seek only\n", + "love’s peace love’s pleasure,\n", + "\n", + "Then it is better for you that you\n", + "cover {17}your nakedness pass out of\n", + "love’s threshing-floor,\n", + "\n", + "Into seasonless world where you\n", + "shall laugh, but not all of your\n", + "laughter, weep, but not all of your\n", + "tears.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Love gives naught but itself takes\n", + "naught but from itself.\n", + "\n", + "Love possesses not nor would it be\n", + "possessed;\n", + "\n", + "For love is sufficient unto love.\n", + "\n", + "When you love you should not say, “God\n", + "is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in\n", + "the heart of God.”\n", + "\n", + "And think not you can direct course\n", + "of love, for love, if it finds you\n", + "worthy, directs your course.\n", + "\n", + "Love has no other desire but to fulfil\n", + "itself.\n", + "\n", + "But if you love must needs have\n", + "desires, let these be your desires:\n", + "\n", + "To melt be like running brook that\n", + "sings its melody to night. {18}To\n", + "know pain of too much tenderness.\n", + "\n", + "To be wounded by your own understanding\n", + "of love;\n", + "\n", + "And to bleed willingly joyfully.\n", + "\n", + "To wake at dawn with winged heart and\n", + "give thanks for another day of loving;\n", + "\n", + "To rest at noon hour meditate\n", + "love’s ecstacy;\n", + "\n", + "To return home at eventide with\n", + "gratitude;\n", + "\n", + "And then to sleep with prayer for\n", + "the beloved in your heart song of\n", + "praise upon your lips.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0029]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{19}Then Almitra spoke again said,\n", + "And what of _Marriage_ master?\n", + "\n", + "And he answered saying:\n", + "\n", + "You were born together, together you\n", + "shall be forevermore.\n", + "\n", + "You shall be together when white\n", + "wings of death scatter your days.\n", + "\n", + "Aye, you shall be together even in the\n", + "silent memory of God.\n", + "\n", + "But let there be spaces in your\n", + "togetherness,\n", + "\n", + "And let winds of heavens dance\n", + "between you.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Love one another, but make not bond of\n", + "love:\n", + "\n", + "Let it rather be moving sea between\n", + "the shores of your souls.\n", + "\n", + "Fill each other’s cup but drink not from\n", + "one cup.\n", + "\n", + "Give one another of your bread but eat\n", + "not from same loaf. {20}Sing and\n", + "dance together be joyous, but let\n", + "each one of you be alone,\n", + "\n", + "Even as strings of lute are alone\n", + "though they quiver with same music.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Give your hearts, but not into each\n", + "other’s keeping.\n", + "\n", + "For only hand of Life can contain\n", + "your hearts.\n", + "\n", + "And stand together yet not too near\n", + "together:\n", + "\n", + "For pillars of temple stand\n", + "apart,\n", + "\n", + "And oak tree cypress grow\n", + "not in each other’s shadow.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0032]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{21}And woman who held babe\n", + "against her bosom said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Children_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Your children are not your children.\n", + "\n", + "They are sons daughters of\n", + "Life’s longing for itself.\n", + "\n", + "They come through you but not from you,\n", + "\n", + "And though they are with you yet they\n", + "belong not to you.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You may give them your love but not your\n", + "thoughts,\n", + "\n", + "For they have their own thoughts.\n", + "\n", + "You may house their bodies but not their\n", + "souls,\n", + "\n", + "For their souls dwell in house of\n", + "tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not\n", + "even in your dreams.\n", + "\n", + "You may strive to be like them, but seek\n", + "not to make them like you. {22}For\n", + "life goes not backward nor tarries with\n", + "yesterday.\n", + "\n", + "You are bows from which your\n", + "children as living arrows are sent\n", + "forth.\n", + "\n", + "The archer sees mark upon path\n", + "of infinite, He bends you with\n", + "His might that His arrows may go swift\n", + "and far.\n", + "\n", + "Let your bending in Archer’s hand be\n", + "for gladness;\n", + "\n", + "For even as he loves arrow that\n", + "flies, so He loves also bow that is\n", + "stable.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{23}Then said rich man, Speak to us of\n", + "_Giving_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "You give but little when you give of\n", + "your possessions.\n", + "\n", + "It is when you give of yourself that you\n", + "truly give.\n", + "\n", + "For what are your possessions but things\n", + "you keep guard for fear you may need\n", + "them tomorrow?\n", + "\n", + "And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring\n", + "to overprudent dog burying bones\n", + "in trackless sand as he follows the\n", + "pilgrims to holy city?\n", + "\n", + "And what is fear of need but need\n", + "itself?\n", + "\n", + "Is not dread of thirst when your well is\n", + "full, thirst that is unquenchable?\n", + "\n", + "There are those who give little of the\n", + "{24}much which they have--and they give\n", + "it for recognition their hidden\n", + "desire makes their gifts unwholesome.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who have little and\n", + "give it all.\n", + "\n", + "These are believers in life and\n", + "the bounty of life, their coffer is\n", + "never empty.\n", + "\n", + "There are those who give with joy, and\n", + "that joy is their reward.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who give with pain,\n", + "and that pain is their baptism.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who give know\n", + "not pain in giving, nor do they seek\n", + "joy, nor give with mindfulness of\n", + "virtue;\n", + "\n", + "They give as in yonder valley myrtle\n", + "breathes its fragrance into space.\n", + "\n", + "Through hands of such as these God\n", + "speaks, from behind their eyes He\n", + "smiles upon earth.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0039]\n", + "\n", + "It is well to give when asked, but it\n", + "is better to give unasked, through\n", + "understanding;\n", + "\n", + "And to open-handed search for\n", + "{25}one who shall receive is joy greater\n", + "than giving.\n", + "\n", + "And is there aught you would withhold?\n", + "\n", + "All you have shall some day be given;\n", + "\n", + "Therefore give now, that season\n", + "of giving may be yours not your\n", + "inheritors’.\n", + "\n", + "You often say, “I would give, but only\n", + "to deserving.”\n", + "\n", + "The trees in your orchard say not so,\n", + "nor flocks in your pasture.\n", + "\n", + "They give that they may live, for to\n", + "withhold is to perish.\n", + "\n", + "Surely he who is worthy to receive his\n", + "days his nights, is worthy of all\n", + "else from you.\n", + "\n", + "And he who has deserved to drink from\n", + "the ocean of life deserves to fill his\n", + "cup from your little stream.\n", + "\n", + "And what desert greater shall there be,\n", + "than that which lies in courage\n", + "and confidence, nay charity, of\n", + "receiving?\n", + "\n", + "And who are you that men should rend\n", + "{26}their bosom unveil their pride,\n", + "that you may see their worth naked and\n", + "their pride unabashed?\n", + "\n", + "See first that you yourself deserve to\n", + "be giver, instrument of giving.\n", + "\n", + "For in truth it is life that gives unto\n", + "life--while you, who deem yourself a\n", + "giver, are but witness.\n", + "\n", + "And you receivers--and you are\n", + "all receivers--assume no weight of\n", + "gratitude, lest you lay yoke upon\n", + "yourself upon him who gives.\n", + "\n", + "Rather rise together with giver on\n", + "his gifts as on wings;\n", + "\n", + "For to be overmindful of your debt, is\n", + "ito doubt his generosity who has the\n", + "freehearted earth for mother, God\n", + "for father.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0042]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{27}Then old man, keeper of an\n", + "inn, said, Speak to us of _Eating and\n", + "Drinking_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Would that you could live on the\n", + "fragrance of earth, like air\n", + "plant be sustained by light.\n", + "\n", + "But since you must kill to eat, rob\n", + "the newly born of its mother’s milk to\n", + "quench your thirst, let it then be an\n", + "act of worship,\n", + "\n", + "And let your board stand altar on\n", + "which pure innocent of\n", + "forest plain are sacrificed for that\n", + "which is purer still more innocent\n", + "in man.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "When you kill beast say to him in your\n", + "heart,\n", + "\n", + "“By same power that slays you, I too\n", + "am slain; I too shall be consumed.\n", + "{28}For law that delivered you into\n", + "my hand shall deliver me into mightier\n", + "hand.\n", + "\n", + "Your blood my blood is naught but\n", + "the sap that feeds tree of heaven.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And when you crush apple with your\n", + "teeth, say to it in your heart,\n", + "\n", + "“Your seeds shall live in my body,\n", + "\n", + "And buds of your tomorrow shall\n", + "blossom in my heart,\n", + "\n", + "And your fragrance shall be my breath,\n", + "And together we shall rejoice through\n", + "all seasons.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And in autumn, when you gather\n", + "the grapes of your vineyards for the\n", + "winepress, say in your heart,\n", + "\n", + "“I too am vineyard, my fruit shall\n", + "be gathered for winepress,\n", + "\n", + "And like new wine I shall be kept in\n", + "eternal vessels.”\n", + "\n", + "And in winter, when you draw wine,\n", + "{29}let there be in your heart song\n", + "for each cup;\n", + "\n", + "And let there be in song a\n", + "remembrance for autumn days, for\n", + "the vineyard, for winepress.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "{30} Then ploughman said, Speak\n", + "to us of _Work_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "You work that you may keep pace with the\n", + "earth soul of earth.\n", + "\n", + "For to be idle is to become stranger\n", + "unto seasons, to step out of\n", + "life’s procession, that marches in\n", + "majesty proud submission towards the\n", + "infinite.\n", + "\n", + "When you work you are flute through\n", + "whose heart whispering of hours\n", + "turns to music.\n", + "\n", + "Which of you would be reed, dumb and\n", + "silent, when all else sings together in\n", + "unison?\n", + "\n", + "Always you have been told that work is a\n", + "curse labour misfortune.\n", + "\n", + "But I say to you that when you work you\n", + "fulfil part of earth’s furthest dream,\n", + "{31}assigned to you when that dream was\n", + "born,\n", + "\n", + "And in keeping yourself with labour you\n", + "are in truth loving life,\n", + "\n", + "And to love life through labour is to be\n", + "intimate with life’s inmost secret.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But if you in your pain call birth an\n", + "affliction support of flesh\n", + "a curse written upon your brow, then I\n", + "answer that naught but sweat of\n", + "your brow shall wash away that which is\n", + "written.\n", + "\n", + "You have been told also that life is\n", + "darkness, in your weariness you echo\n", + "what was said by weary.\n", + "\n", + "And I say that life is indeed darkness\n", + "‘save when there is urge,\n", + "\n", + "And all urge is blind save when there is\n", + "knowledge,\n", + "\n", + "And all knowledge is vain save when\n", + "there is work,\n", + "\n", + "And all work is empty save when there is\n", + "love;\n", + "\n", + "And when you work with love you bind\n", + "{32}yourself to yourself, to one\n", + "another, to God.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And what is it to work with love?\n", + "\n", + "It is to weave cloth with threads\n", + "drawn from your heart, even as if your\n", + "beloved were to wear that cloth.\n", + "\n", + "It is to build house with affection,\n", + "even as if your beloved were to dwell in\n", + "that house.\n", + "\n", + "It is to sow seeds with tenderness and\n", + "reap harvest with joy, even as if\n", + "your beloved were to eat fruit.\n", + "\n", + "It is to charge all things you fashion\n", + "with breath of your own spirit,\n", + "\n", + "And to know that all blessed dead\n", + "are standing about you watching.\n", + "\n", + "Often have I heard you say, as if\n", + "speaking in sleep, “He who works in\n", + "marble, finds shape of his own\n", + "soul in stone, is nobler than he who\n", + "ploughs soil. {33}And he who seizes\n", + "the rainbow to lay it on cloth in the\n", + "likeness of man, is more than he who\n", + "makes sandals for our feet.”\n", + "\n", + "But I say, not in sleep but in the\n", + "overwakefulness of noontide, that the\n", + "wind speaks not more sweetly to the\n", + "giant oaks than to least of all the\n", + "blades of grass;\n", + "\n", + "And he alone is great who turns the\n", + "voice of wind into song made\n", + "sweeter by his own loving.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Work is love made visible.\n", + "\n", + "And if you cannot work with love but\n", + "only with distaste, it is better that\n", + "you should leave your work sit at\n", + "the gate of temple take alms of\n", + "those who work with joy.\n", + "\n", + "For if you bake bread with indifference,\n", + "you bake bitter bread that feeds but\n", + "half man’s hunger.\n", + "\n", + "And if you grudge crushing of the\n", + "grapes, your grudge distils poison in\n", + "the wine. {34}And if you sing though as\n", + "angels, love not singing, you\n", + "muffle man’s ears to voices of the\n", + "day voices of night.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{35}Then woman said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Joy Sorrow_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.\n", + "\n", + "And selfsame well from which your\n", + "laughter rises was oftentimes filled\n", + "with your tears.\n", + "\n", + "And how else can it be?\n", + "\n", + "The deeper that sorrow carves into your\n", + "being, more joy you can contain.\n", + "\n", + "Is not cup that holds your wine the\n", + "very cup that was burned in potter’s\n", + "oven?\n", + "\n", + "And is not lute that soothes your\n", + "spirit, very wood that was hollowed\n", + "with knives?\n", + "\n", + "When you are joyous, look deep into your\n", + "heart you shall find it is only\n", + "that which has given you sorrow that is\n", + "giving you joy.\n", + "\n", + "When you are sorrowful look again in\n", + "{36}your heart, you shall see that\n", + "in truth you are weeping for that which\n", + "has been your delight.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Some of you say, “Joy is greater than\n", + "sorrow,” others say, “Nay, sorrow is\n", + "the greater.”\n", + "\n", + "But I say unto you, they are\n", + "inseparable.\n", + "\n", + "Together they come, when one sits\n", + "alone with you at your board, remember\n", + "that other is asleep upon your bed.\n", + "\n", + "Verily you are suspended like scales\n", + "between your sorrow your joy.\n", + "\n", + "Only when you are empty are you at\n", + "standstill balanced.\n", + "\n", + "When treasure-keeper lifts you to\n", + "weigh his gold his silver, needs\n", + "must your joy or your sorrow rise or\n", + "fall.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{37}Then mason came forth said,\n", + "Speak to us of _Houses_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered said:\n", + "\n", + "Build of your imaginings bower in the\n", + "wilderness ere you build house within\n", + "the city walls.\n", + "\n", + "For even as you have home-comings in\n", + "your twilight, so has wanderer in\n", + "you, ever distant alone.\n", + "\n", + "Your house is your larger body.\n", + "\n", + "It grows in sun sleeps in the\n", + "stillness of night; it is not\n", + "dreamless. Does not your house dream?\n", + "and dreaming, leave city for grove\n", + "or hilltop?\n", + "\n", + "Would that I could gather your houses\n", + "into my hand, like sower scatter\n", + "them in forest meadow.\n", + "\n", + "Would valleys were your streets, and\n", + "the green paths your alleys, that you\n", + "{38}might seek one another through\n", + "vineyards, come with fragrance\n", + "of earth in your garments.\n", + "\n", + "But these things are not yet to be.\n", + "\n", + "In their fear your forefathers gathered\n", + "you too near together. And that fear\n", + "shall endure little longer. A little\n", + "longer shall your city walls separate\n", + "your hearths from your fields.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And tell me, people of Orphalese, what\n", + "have you in these houses? And what is it\n", + "you guard with fastened doors?\n", + "\n", + "Have you peace, quiet urge that\n", + "reveals your power?\n", + "\n", + "Have you remembrances, glimmering\n", + "arches that span summits of the\n", + "mind?\n", + "\n", + "Have you beauty, that leads heart\n", + "from things fashioned of wood stone\n", + "to holy mountain?\n", + "\n", + "Tell me, have you these in your houses?\n", + "\n", + "Or have you only comfort, lust\n", + "for comfort, that stealthy thing that\n", + "{39}enters house guest, then\n", + "becomes host, then master?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Ay, it becomes tamer, with\n", + "hook scourge makes puppets of your\n", + "larger desires.\n", + "\n", + "Though its hands are silken, its heart\n", + "is of iron.\n", + "\n", + "It lulls you to sleep only to stand by\n", + "your bed jeer at dignity of the\n", + "flesh.\n", + "\n", + "It makes mock of your sound senses, and\n", + "lays them in thistledown like fragile\n", + "vessels.\n", + "\n", + "Verily lust for comfort murders\n", + "the passion of soul, then walks\n", + "grinning in funeral.\n", + "\n", + "But you, children of space, you restless\n", + "in rest, you shall not be trapped nor\n", + "tamed.\n", + "\n", + "Your house shall be not anchor but a\n", + "mast.\n", + "\n", + "It shall not be glistening film that\n", + "{40}covers wound, but eyelid that\n", + "guards eye.\n", + "\n", + "You shall not fold your wings that you\n", + "may pass through doors, nor bend your\n", + "heads that they strike not against a\n", + "ceiling, nor fear to breathe lest walls\n", + "should crack fall down.\n", + "\n", + "You shall not dwell in tombs made by the\n", + "dead for living.\n", + "\n", + "And though of magnificence and\n", + "splendour, your house shall not hold\n", + "your secret nor shelter your longing.\n", + "\n", + "For that which is boundless in you\n", + "abides in mansion of sky, whose\n", + "door is morning mist, whose\n", + "windows are songs silences\n", + "of night.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{41}And weaver said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Clothes_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Your clothes conceal much of your\n", + "beauty, yet they hide not the\n", + "unbeautiful.\n", + "\n", + "And though you seek in garments the\n", + "freedom of privacy you may find in them\n", + "a harness chain.\n", + "\n", + "Would that you could meet sun and\n", + "the wind with more of your skin less\n", + "of your raiment,\n", + "\n", + "For breath of life is in the\n", + "sunlight hand of life is in the\n", + "wind.\n", + "\n", + "Some of you say, “It is north wind\n", + "who has woven clothes we wear.”\n", + "\n", + "And I say, Ay, it was north wind,\n", + "\n", + "But shame was his loom, the\n", + "softening of sinews was his thread.\n", + "\n", + "And when his work was done he laughed in\n", + "the forest. {42}Forget not that modesty\n", + "is for shield against eye of the\n", + "unclean.\n", + "\n", + "And when unclean shall be no more,\n", + "what were modesty but fetter a\n", + "fouling of mind?\n", + "\n", + "And forget not that earth delights\n", + "to feel your bare feet winds\n", + "long to play with your hair.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{43}And merchant said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Buying Selling_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered said:\n", + "\n", + "To you earth yields her fruit, and\n", + "you shall not want if you but know how\n", + "to fill your hands.\n", + "\n", + "It is in exchanging gifts of the\n", + "earth that you shall find abundance and\n", + "be satisfied.\n", + "\n", + "Yet unless exchange be in love and\n", + "kindly justice, it will but lead some to\n", + "greed others to hunger.\n", + "\n", + "When in market place you toilers of\n", + "the sea fields vineyards meet\n", + "the weavers potters the\n", + "gatherers of spices,--\n", + "\n", + "Invoke then master spirit of the\n", + "earth, to come into your midst and\n", + "sanctify scales reckoning\n", + "that weighs value against value. {44}And\n", + "suffer not barren-handed to take\n", + "part in your transactions, who would\n", + "sell their words for your labour.\n", + "\n", + "To such men you should say,\n", + "\n", + "“Come with us to field, or go with\n", + "our brothers to sea cast your\n", + "net;\n", + "\n", + "For land sea shall be\n", + "bountiful to you even as to us.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And if there come singers the\n", + "dancers flute players,--buy of\n", + "their gifts also.\n", + "\n", + "For they too are gatherers of fruit and\n", + "frankincense, that which they bring,\n", + "though fashioned of dreams, is raiment\n", + "and food for your soul.\n", + "\n", + "And before you leave market place,\n", + "see that no one has gone his way with\n", + "empty hands.\n", + "\n", + "For master spirit of earth shall\n", + "not sleep peacefully upon wind\n", + "till needs of least of you are\n", + "satisfied.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{45}Then one of judges of city\n", + "stood forth said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Crime Punishment_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "It is when your spirit goes wandering\n", + "upon wind,\n", + "\n", + "That you, alone unguarded, commit\n", + "a wrong unto others therefore unto\n", + "yourself.\n", + "\n", + "And for that wrong committed must you\n", + "knock wait while unheeded at the\n", + "gate of blessed.\n", + "\n", + "Like ocean is your god-self;\n", + "\n", + "It remains for ever undefiled.\n", + "\n", + "And like ether it lifts but the\n", + "winged.\n", + "\n", + "Even like sun is your god-self;\n", + "\n", + "It knows not ways of mole nor\n", + "seeks it holes of serpent.\n", + "{46}But your god-self dwells not alone\n", + "in your being.\n", + "\n", + "Much in you is still man, much in\n", + "you is not yet man,\n", + "\n", + "But shapeless pigmy that walks asleep\n", + "in mist searching for its own\n", + "awakening.\n", + "\n", + "And of man in you would I now speak.\n", + "\n", + "For it is he not your god-self nor\n", + "the pigmy in mist, that knows crime\n", + "and punishment of crime.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one\n", + "who commits wrong as though he were\n", + "not one of you, but stranger unto you\n", + "and intruder upon your world.\n", + "\n", + "But I say that even as holy the\n", + "righteous cannot rise beyond highest\n", + "which is in each one of you,\n", + "\n", + "So wicked weak cannot fall\n", + "lower than lowest which is in you\n", + "also.\n", + "\n", + "And as single leaf turns not yellow\n", + "but with silent knowledge of the\n", + "whole tree, {47}So wrong-doer cannot\n", + "do wrong without hidden will of you\n", + "all.\n", + "\n", + "Like procession you walk together\n", + "towards your god-self.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0064]\n", + "\n", + "You are way wayfarers.\n", + "\n", + "And when one of you falls down he falls\n", + "for those behind him, caution against\n", + "the stumbling stone.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, he falls for those ahead of him,\n", + "who though faster surer of foot, yet\n", + "removed not stumbling stone.\n", + "\n", + "And this also, though word lie heavy\n", + "upon your hearts:\n", + "\n", + "The murdered is not unaccountable for\n", + "his own murder,\n", + "\n", + "And robbed is not blameless in being\n", + "robbed.\n", + "\n", + "The righteous is not innocent of the\n", + "deeds of wicked,\n", + "\n", + "And white-handed is not clean in the\n", + "doings of felon.\n", + "\n", + "Yea, guilty is oftentimes victim\n", + "of injured,\n", + "\n", + "And still more often condemned is\n", + "{48}the burden bearer for guiltless\n", + "and unblamed.\n", + "\n", + "You cannot separate just from the\n", + "unjust good from wicked;\n", + "\n", + "For they stand together before face\n", + "of sun even as black thread and\n", + "the white are woven together.\n", + "\n", + "And when black thread breaks, the\n", + "weaver shall look into whole cloth,\n", + "and he shall examine loom also.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "If any of you would bring to judgment\n", + "the unfaithful wife,\n", + "\n", + "Let him also weigh heart of her\n", + "husband in scales, measure his soul\n", + "with measurements.\n", + "\n", + "And let him who would lash offender\n", + "look unto spirit of offended.\n", + "\n", + "And if any of you would punish in the\n", + "name of righteousness lay ax\n", + "unto evil tree, let him see to its\n", + "roots;\n", + "\n", + "And verily he will find roots of the\n", + "good bad, fruitful the\n", + "{49}fruitless, all entwined together in\n", + "the silent heart of earth.\n", + "\n", + "And you judges who would be just,\n", + "\n", + "What judgment pronounce you upon him\n", + "who though honest in flesh yet is a\n", + "thief in spirit?\n", + "\n", + "What penalty lay you upon him who slays\n", + "in flesh yet is himself slain in the\n", + "spirit?\n", + "\n", + "And how prosecute you him who in action\n", + "is deceiver oppressor,\n", + "\n", + "Yet who also is aggrieved outraged?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And how shall you punish those whose\n", + "remorse is already greater than their\n", + "misdeeds?\n", + "\n", + "Is not remorse justice which is\n", + "administered by that very law which you\n", + "would fain serve?\n", + "\n", + "Yet you cannot lay remorse upon the\n", + "innocent nor lift it from heart of\n", + "the guilty.\n", + "\n", + "Unbidden shall it call in night,\n", + "that men may wake gaze upon\n", + "themselves. {50}And you who would\n", + "understand justice, how shall you unless\n", + "you look upon all deeds in fullness\n", + "of light?\n", + "\n", + "Only then shall you know that erect\n", + "and fallen are but one man standing\n", + "in twilight between night of his\n", + "pigmy-self day of his god-self,\n", + "And that corner-stone of temple\n", + "is not higher than lowest stone in\n", + "its foundation.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{51}Then lawyer said, But what of our\n", + "_Laws_, master?\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "You delight in laying down laws,\n", + "\n", + "Yet you delight more in breaking them.\n", + "\n", + "Like children playing by ocean who\n", + "build sand-towers with constancy and\n", + "then destroy them with laughter.\n", + "\n", + "But while you build your sand-towers the\n", + "ocean brings more sand to shore,\n", + "\n", + "And when you destroy them ocean\n", + "laughs with you.\n", + "\n", + "Verily ocean laughs always with the\n", + "innocent.\n", + "\n", + "But what of those to whom life is not\n", + "an ocean, man-made laws are not\n", + "sand-towers,\n", + "\n", + "But to whom life is rock, law\n", + "a chisel with which they would carve it\n", + "in their own likeness? {52}What of the\n", + "cripple who hates dancers?\n", + "\n", + "What of ox who loves his yoke and\n", + "deems elk deer of forest\n", + "stray vagrant things?\n", + "\n", + "What of old serpent who cannot shed\n", + "his skin, calls all others naked and\n", + "shameless?\n", + "\n", + "And of him who comes early to the\n", + "wedding-feast, when over-fed and\n", + "tired goes his way saying that all\n", + "feasts are violation all feasters\n", + "lawbreakers?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "What shall I say of these save that\n", + "they too stand in sunlight, but with\n", + "their backs to sun?\n", + "\n", + "They see only their shadows, their\n", + "shadows are their laws.\n", + "\n", + "And what is sun to them but caster\n", + "of shadows?\n", + "\n", + "And what is it to acknowledge the\n", + "laws but to stoop down trace their\n", + "shadows upon earth?\n", + "\n", + "But you who walk facing sun, what\n", + "{53}images drawn on earth can hold\n", + "you?\n", + "\n", + "You who travel with wind, what\n", + "weather-vane shall direct your course?\n", + "\n", + "What man’s law shall bind you if you\n", + "break your yoke but upon no man’s prison\n", + "door?\n", + "\n", + "What laws shall you fear if you dance\n", + "but stumble against no man’s iron\n", + "chains?\n", + "\n", + "And who is he that shall bring you to\n", + "judgment if you tear off your garment\n", + "yet leave it in no man’s path?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, you can muffle the\n", + "drum, you can loosen strings\n", + "of lyre, but who shall command the\n", + "skylark not to sing?\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{54}And orator said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Freedom_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "At city gate by your fireside\n", + "I have seen you prostrate yourself and\n", + "worship your own freedom,\n", + "\n", + "Even as slaves humble themselves before\n", + "a tyrant praise him though he slays\n", + "them.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, in grove of temple in\n", + "the shadow of citadel I have seen\n", + "the freest among you wear their freedom\n", + "as yoke handcuff.\n", + "\n", + "And my heart bled within me; for you\n", + "can only be free when even desire\n", + "of seeking freedom becomes harness\n", + "to you, when you cease to speak of\n", + "freedom as goal fulfilment.\n", + "\n", + "You shall be free indeed when your\n", + "days are not without care nor your\n", + "{55}nights without want grief,\n", + "\n", + "But rather when these things girdle your\n", + "life yet you rise above them naked\n", + "and unbound.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And how shall you rise beyond your days\n", + "and nights unless you break the\n", + "chains which you at dawn of your\n", + "understanding have fastened around your\n", + "noon hour?\n", + "\n", + "In truth that which you call freedom is\n", + "the strongest of these chains, though\n", + "its links glitter in sun dazzle\n", + "your eyes.\n", + "\n", + "And what is it but fragments of your\n", + "own self you would discard that you may\n", + "become free?\n", + "\n", + "If it is unjust law you would\n", + "abolish, that law was written with your\n", + "own hand upon your own forehead.\n", + "\n", + "You cannot erase it by burning your law\n", + "books nor by washing foreheads of\n", + "your judges, though you pour sea\n", + "upon them.\n", + "\n", + "And if it is despot you would\n", + "{56}dethrone, see first that his throne\n", + "erected within you is destroyed.\n", + "\n", + "For how can tyrant rule free and\n", + "the proud, but for tyranny in their\n", + "own freedom shame in their own\n", + "pride?\n", + "\n", + "And if it is care you would cast off,\n", + "that cart has been chosen by you rather\n", + "than imposed upon you.\n", + "\n", + "And if it is fear you would dispel,\n", + "the seat of that fear is in your heart\n", + "and not in hand of feared.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Verily all things move within your being\n", + "in constant half embrace, desired\n", + "and dreaded, repugnant the\n", + "cherished, pursued that which\n", + "you would escape.\n", + "\n", + "These things move within you as lights\n", + "and shadows in pairs that cling.\n", + "\n", + "And when shadow fades is no\n", + "more, light that lingers becomes a\n", + "shadow to another light.\n", + "\n", + "And thus your freedom when it loses its\n", + "fetters becomes itself fetter of a\n", + "greater freedom.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{57}And priestess spoke again\n", + "and said: Speak to us of _Reason and\n", + "Passion_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Your soul is oftentimes battlefield,\n", + "upon which your reason your judgment\n", + "wage war against your passion your\n", + "appetite.\n", + "\n", + "Would that I could be peacemaker in\n", + "your soul, that I might turn discord\n", + "and rivalry of your elements into\n", + "oneness melody.\n", + "\n", + "But how shall I, unless you yourselves\n", + "be also peacemakers, nay, lovers\n", + "of all your elements?\n", + "\n", + "Your reason your passion are the\n", + "rudder sails of your seafaring\n", + "soul.\n", + "\n", + "If either your sails or your rudder be\n", + "broken, you can but toss drift,\n", + "or else be held at standstill in\n", + "mid-seas. {58}For reason, ruling alone,\n", + "is force confining; passion,\n", + "unattended, is flame that burns to its\n", + "own destruction.\n", + "\n", + "Therefore let your soul exalt your\n", + "reason to height of passion, that it\n", + "may sing;\n", + "\n", + "And let it direct your passion with\n", + "reason, that your passion may live\n", + "through its own daily resurrection,\n", + "and like phoenix rise above its own\n", + "ashes.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "I would have you consider your judgment\n", + "and your appetite even as you would two\n", + "loved guests in your house.\n", + "\n", + "Surely you would not honour one guest\n", + "above other; for he who is more\n", + "mindful of one loses love the\n", + "faith of both\n", + "\n", + "Among hills, when you sit in the\n", + "cool shade of white poplars, sharing\n", + "the peace serenity of distant fields\n", + "and meadows--then let your heart say in\n", + "silence, “God rests in reason.”\n", + "\n", + "And when storm comes, the\n", + "{59}mighty wind shakes forest,\n", + "and thunder lightning proclaim the\n", + "majesty of sky,--then let your heart\n", + "say in awe, “God moves in passion.”\n", + "\n", + "And since you are breath in God’s\n", + "sphere, leaf in God’s forest, you\n", + "too should rest in reason move in\n", + "passion.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{60}And woman spoke, saying, Tell us\n", + "of _Pain_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Your pain is breaking of shell\n", + "that encloses your understanding.\n", + "\n", + "Even as stone of fruit must\n", + "break, that its heart may stand in the\n", + "sun, so must you know pain.\n", + "\n", + "And could you keep your heart in wonder\n", + "at daily miracles of your life, your\n", + "pain would not seem less wondrous than\n", + "your joy;\n", + "\n", + "And you would accept seasons of your\n", + "heart, even as you have always accepted\n", + "the seasons that pass over your fields.\n", + "\n", + "And you would watch with serenity\n", + "through winters of your grief.\n", + "\n", + "Much of your pain is self-chosen.\n", + "\n", + "It is bitter potion by which the\n", + "physician {61}within you heals your sick\n", + "self.\n", + "\n", + "Therefore trust physician, drink\n", + "his remedy in silence tranquillity:\n", + "For his hand, though heavy hard, is\n", + "guided by tender hand of Unseen,\n", + "And cup he brings, though it burn\n", + "your lips, has been fashioned of the\n", + "clay which Potter has moistened with\n", + "His own sacred tears.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{62}And man said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Self-Knowledge_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Your hearts know in silence secrets\n", + "of days nights.\n", + "\n", + "But your ears thirst for sound of\n", + "your heart’s knowledge.\n", + "\n", + "You would know in words that which you\n", + "have always known in thought.\n", + "\n", + "You would touch with your fingers the\n", + "naked body of your dreams.\n", + "\n", + "And it is well you should.\n", + "\n", + "The hidden well-spring of your soul must\n", + "needs rise run murmuring to sea;\n", + "\n", + "And treasure of your infinite depths\n", + "would be revealed to your eyes.\n", + "\n", + "But let there be no scales to weigh your\n", + "unknown treasure;\n", + "\n", + "And seek not depths of your\n", + "{63}knowledge with staff or sounding\n", + "line.\n", + "\n", + "For self is sea boundless and\n", + "measureless.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Say not, “I have found truth,” but\n", + "rather, “I have found truth.”\n", + "\n", + "Say not, “I have found path of the\n", + "soul.” Say rather, “I have met soul\n", + "walking upon my path.”\n", + "\n", + "For soul walks upon all paths.\n", + "\n", + "The soul walks not upon line, neither\n", + "does it grow like reed.\n", + "\n", + "The soul unfolds itself, like lotus of\n", + "countless petals.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0083]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{64}Then said teacher, Speak to us of\n", + "_Teaching_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "“No man can reveal to you aught but that\n", + "which already lies half asleep in the\n", + "dawning of your knowledge.\n", + "\n", + "The teacher who walks in shadow of\n", + "the temple, among his followers, gives\n", + "not of his wisdom but rather of his\n", + "faith his lovingness.\n", + "\n", + "If he is indeed wise he does not bid\n", + "you enter house of his wisdom, but\n", + "rather leads you to threshold of\n", + "your own mind.\n", + "\n", + "The astronomer may speak to you of his\n", + "understanding of space, but he cannot\n", + "give you his understanding.\n", + "\n", + "The musician may sing to you of the\n", + "rhythm which is in all space, but he\n", + "cannot give you ear which arrests\n", + "the rhythm nor voice that echoes it.\n", + "{65}And he who is versed in science\n", + "of numbers can tell of regions\n", + "of weight measure, but he cannot\n", + "conduct you thither.\n", + "\n", + "For vision of one man lends not its\n", + "wings to another man.\n", + "\n", + "And even as each one of you stands alone\n", + "in God’s knowledge, so must each one of\n", + "you be alone in his knowledge of God and\n", + "in his understanding of earth.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{66}And youth said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Friendship_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Your friend is your needs answered.\n", + "\n", + "He is your field which you sow with love\n", + "and reap with thanksgiving.\n", + "\n", + "And he is your board your fireside.\n", + "\n", + "For you come to him with your hunger,\n", + "and you seek him for peace.\n", + "\n", + "When your friend speaks his mind you\n", + "fear not “nay” in your own mind, nor\n", + "do you withhold “ay.”\n", + "\n", + "And when he is silent your heart ceases\n", + "not to listen to his heart;\n", + "\n", + "For without words, in friendship, all\n", + "thoughts, all desires, all expectations\n", + "are born shared, with joy that is\n", + "unacclaimed.\n", + "\n", + "When you part from your friend, you\n", + "grieve not;\n", + "\n", + "For that which you love most in him\n", + "may be clearer in his absence, as the\n", + "mountain to climber is clearer\n", + "from plain. {67}And let there be no\n", + "purpose in friendship save deepening\n", + "of spirit.\n", + "\n", + "For love that seeks aught but the\n", + "disclosure of its own mystery is not\n", + "love but net cast forth: only the\n", + "unprofitable is caught.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And let your best be for your friend.\n", + "\n", + "If he must know ebb of your tide,\n", + "let him know its flood also.\n", + "\n", + "For what is your friend that you should\n", + "seek him with hours to kill?\n", + "\n", + "Seek him always with hours to live.\n", + "\n", + "For it is his to fill your need, but not\n", + "your emptiness.\n", + "\n", + "And in sweetness of friendship\n", + "let there be laughter, sharing of\n", + "pleasures.\n", + "\n", + "For in dew of little things\n", + "the heart finds its morning is\n", + "refreshed.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{68}And then scholar said, Speak of\n", + "_Talking_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "You talk when you cease to be at peace\n", + "with your thoughts;\n", + "\n", + "And when you can no longer dwell in the\n", + "solitude of your heart you live in your\n", + "lips, sound is diversion a\n", + "pastime.\n", + "\n", + "And in much of your talking, thinking is\n", + "half murdered.\n", + "\n", + "For thought is bird of space, that in\n", + "a cage of words may indeed unfold its\n", + "wings but cannot fly.\n", + "\n", + "There are those among you who seek the\n", + "talkative through fear of being alone.\n", + "\n", + "The silence of aloneness reveals to\n", + "their eyes their naked selves they\n", + "would escape.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who talk, and\n", + "{69}without knowledge or forethought reveal\n", + "a truth which they themselves do not\n", + "understand.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who have truth\n", + "within them, but they tell it not in\n", + "words.\n", + "\n", + "In bosom of such as these spirit\n", + "dwells in rhythmic silence.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "When you meet your friend on the\n", + "roadside or in market place, let the\n", + "spirit in you move your lips direct\n", + "your tongue.\n", + "\n", + "Let voice within your voice speak to\n", + "the ear of his ear;\n", + "\n", + "For his soul will keep truth of\n", + "your heart as taste of wine is\n", + "remembered\n", + "\n", + "When colour is forgotten the\n", + "vessel is no more.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{70}And astronomer said, Master, what\n", + "of _Time_?\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "You would measure time measureless\n", + "and immeasurable.\n", + "\n", + "You would adjust your conduct and\n", + "even direct course of your spirit\n", + "according to hours seasons.\n", + "\n", + "Of time you would make stream upon\n", + "whose bank you would sit watch its\n", + "flowing.\n", + "\n", + "Yet timeless in you is aware of\n", + "life’s timelessness,\n", + "\n", + "And knows that yesterday is but today’s\n", + "memory tomorrow is today’s dream.\n", + "\n", + "And that that which sings and\n", + "contemplates in you is still dwelling\n", + "within bounds of that first moment\n", + "which scattered stars into space.\n", + "{71}Who among you does not feel that his\n", + "power to love is boundless?\n", + "\n", + "And yet who does not feel that very\n", + "love, though boundless, encompassed\n", + "within centre of his being, and\n", + "moving not from love thought to love\n", + "thought, nor from love deeds to other\n", + "love deeds?\n", + "\n", + "And is not time even as love is,\n", + "undivided paceless?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But if in your thought you must measure\n", + "time into seasons, let each season\n", + "encircle all other seasons,\n", + "\n", + "And let today embrace past with\n", + "remembrance future with longing.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{72}And one of elders of city\n", + "said, Speak to us of _Good Evil_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Of good in you I can speak, but not\n", + "of evil.\n", + "\n", + "For what is evil but good tortured by\n", + "its own hunger thirst?\n", + "\n", + "Verily when good is hungry it seeks food\n", + "even in dark caves, when it thirsts\n", + "it drinks even of dead waters.\n", + "\n", + "You are good when you are one with\n", + "yourself.\n", + "\n", + "Yet when you are not one with yourself\n", + "you are not evil.\n", + "\n", + "For divided house is not den of\n", + "thieves; it is only divided house.\n", + "\n", + "And ship without rudder may wander\n", + "aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink\n", + "not to bottom. {73}You are good when\n", + "you strive to give of yourself.\n", + "\n", + "Yet you are not evil when you seek gain\n", + "for yourself.\n", + "\n", + "For when you strive for gain you are\n", + "but root that clings to earth and\n", + "sucks at her breast.\n", + "\n", + "Surely fruit cannot say to root,\n", + "“Be like me, ripe full ever\n", + "giving of your abundance.”\n", + "\n", + "For to fruit giving is need, as\n", + "receiving is need to root.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You are good when you are fully awake in\n", + "your speech,\n", + "\n", + "Yet you are not evil when you sleep\n", + "while your tongue staggers without\n", + "purpose.\n", + "\n", + "And even stumbling speech may strengthen\n", + "a weak tongue.\n", + "\n", + "You are good when you walk to your goal\n", + "firmly with bold steps.\n", + "\n", + "Yet you are not evil when you go thither\n", + "limping. {74}Even those who limp go not\n", + "backward.\n", + "\n", + "But you who are strong swift, see\n", + "that you do not limp before lame,\n", + "deeming it kindness.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You are good in countless ways, you\n", + "are not evil when you are not good,\n", + "\n", + "You are only loitering sluggard.\n", + "\n", + "Pity that stags cannot teach\n", + "swiftness to turtles.\n", + "\n", + "In your longing for your giant self lies\n", + "your goodness: that longing is in\n", + "all of you.\n", + "\n", + "But in some of you that longing is a\n", + "torrent rushing with might to sea,\n", + "carrying secrets of hillsides\n", + "and songs of forest.\n", + "\n", + "And in others it is flat stream that\n", + "loses itself in angles bends and\n", + "lingers before it reaches shore.\n", + "\n", + "But let not him who longs much say to\n", + "{75}him who longs little, “Wherefore are\n", + "you slow halting?”\n", + "\n", + "For truly good ask not naked,\n", + "“Where is your garment?” nor the\n", + "houseless, “What has befallen your\n", + "house?”\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{76}Then priestess said, Speak to us\n", + "of _Prayer_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "You pray in your distress in your\n", + "need; would that you might pray also\n", + "in fullness of your joy in your\n", + "days of abundance.\n", + "\n", + "For what is prayer but expansion of\n", + "yourself into living ether?\n", + "\n", + "And if it is for your comfort to pour\n", + "your darkness into space, it is also for\n", + "your delight to pour forth dawning\n", + "of your heart.\n", + "\n", + "And if you cannot but weep when your\n", + "soul summons you to prayer, she should\n", + "spur you again yet again, though\n", + "weeping, until you shall come laughing.\n", + "\n", + "When you pray you rise to meet in the\n", + "air those who are praying at that very\n", + "{77}hour, whom save in prayer you\n", + "may not meet.\n", + "\n", + "Therefore let your visit to that temple\n", + "invisible be for naught but ecstasy and\n", + "sweet communion.\n", + "\n", + "For if you should enter temple for\n", + "no other purpose than asking you shall\n", + "not receive:\n", + "\n", + "And if you should enter into it to\n", + "humble yourself you shall not be lifted:\n", + "\n", + "Or even if you should enter into it to\n", + "beg for good of others you shall not\n", + "be heard.\n", + "\n", + "It is enough that you enter temple\n", + "invisible.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "I cannot teach you how to pray in words.\n", + "\n", + "God listens not to your words save when\n", + "He Himself utters them through your\n", + "lips.\n", + "\n", + "And I cannot teach you prayer of the\n", + "seas forests mountains.\n", + "{78}But you who are born of the\n", + "mountains forests seas\n", + "can find their prayer in your heart,\n", + "\n", + "And if you but listen in stillness\n", + "of night you shall hear them saying\n", + "in silence,\n", + "\n", + "“Our God, who art our winged self, it is\n", + "thy will in us that willeth.\n", + "\n", + "It is thy desire in us that desireth.\n", + "\n", + "It is thy urge in us that would turn our\n", + "nights, which are thine, into days which\n", + "are thine also.\n", + "\n", + "We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou\n", + "knowest our needs before they are born\n", + "in us:\n", + "\n", + "Thou art our need; in giving us more\n", + "of thyself thou givest us all.”\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0100]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{79}Then hermit, who visited city\n", + "once year, came forth said, Speak\n", + "to us of _Pleasure_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Pleasure is freedom-song,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not freedom.\n", + "\n", + "It is blossoming of your desires,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not their fruit.\n", + "\n", + "It is depth calling unto height,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not deep nor high.\n", + "\n", + "It is caged taking wing,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not space encompassed.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, in very truth, pleasure is a\n", + "freedom-song.\n", + "\n", + "And I fain would have you sing it with\n", + "fullness of heart; yet I would not have\n", + "you lose your hearts in singing.\n", + "\n", + "Some of your youth seek pleasure as if\n", + "it were all, they are judged and\n", + "rebuked. {80}I would not judge nor\n", + "rebuke them. I would have them seek.\n", + "\n", + "For they shall find pleasure, but not\n", + "her alone;\n", + "\n", + "Seven are her sisters, least of\n", + "them is more beautiful than pleasure.\n", + "\n", + "Have you not heard of man who was\n", + "digging in earth for roots found\n", + "a treasure?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And some of your elders remember\n", + "pleasures with regret like wrongs\n", + "committed in drunkenness.\n", + "\n", + "But regret is beclouding of mind\n", + "and not its chastisement.\n", + "\n", + "They should remember their pleasures\n", + "with gratitude, as they would the\n", + "harvest of summer.\n", + "\n", + "Yet if it comforts them to regret, let\n", + "them be comforted.\n", + "\n", + "And there are among you those who\n", + "are neither young to seek nor old to\n", + "remember;\n", + "\n", + "And in their fear of seeking and\n", + "remembering {81}they shun all pleasures,\n", + "lest they neglect spirit or offend\n", + "against it.\n", + "\n", + "But even in their foregoing is their\n", + "pleasure.\n", + "\n", + "And thus they too find treasure though\n", + "they dig for roots with quivering hands.\n", + "\n", + "But tell me, who is he that can offend\n", + "the spirit?\n", + "\n", + "Shall nightingale offend the\n", + "stillness of night, or firefly\n", + "the stars?\n", + "\n", + "And shall your flame or your smoke\n", + "burden wind?\n", + "\n", + "Think you spirit is still pool\n", + "which you can trouble with staff?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure\n", + "you do but store desire in the\n", + "recesses of your being.\n", + "\n", + "Who knows but that which seems omitted\n", + "today, waits for tomorrow?\n", + "\n", + "Even your body knows its heritage\n", + "and its rightful need will not be\n", + "deceived.\n", + "\n", + "And your body is harp of your soul,\n", + "\n", + "And it is yours to bring forth {82}sweet\n", + "music from it or confused sounds.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And now you ask in your heart, “How\n", + "shall we distinguish that which is\n", + "good in pleasure from that which is not\n", + "good?”\n", + "\n", + "Go to your fields your gardens, and\n", + "you shall learn that it is pleasure\n", + "of bee to gather honey of the\n", + "flower,\n", + "\n", + "But it is also pleasure of the\n", + "flower to yield its honey to bee.\n", + "\n", + "For to bee flower is fountain of\n", + "life,\n", + "\n", + "And to flower bee is messenger\n", + "of love,\n", + "\n", + "And to both, bee flower, giving\n", + "and receiving of pleasure is need\n", + "and ecstasy.\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, be in your\n", + "pleasures like flowers bees.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{83}And poet said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Beauty_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Where shall you seek beauty, how\n", + "shall you find her unless she herself be\n", + "your way your guide?\n", + "\n", + "And how shall you speak of her except\n", + "she be weaver of your speech?\n", + "\n", + "The aggrieved injured say,\n", + "“Beauty is kind gentle.\n", + "\n", + "Like young mother half-shy of her own\n", + "glory she walks among us.”\n", + "\n", + "And passionate say, “Nay, beauty is\n", + "a thing of might dread.\n", + "\n", + "Like tempest she shakes earth\n", + "beneath us sky above us.”\n", + "\n", + "The tired weary say, “Beauty is\n", + "of soft whisperings. She speaks in our\n", + "spirit. {84}Her voice yields to our\n", + "silences like faint light that quivers\n", + "in fear of shadow.”\n", + "\n", + "But restless say, “We have heard her\n", + "shouting among mountains,\n", + "\n", + "And with her cries came sound of\n", + "hoofs, beating of wings the\n", + "roaring of lions.”\n", + "\n", + "At night watchmen of city say,\n", + "“Beauty shall rise with dawn from\n", + "the east.”\n", + "\n", + "And at noontide toilers the\n", + "wayfarers say, “We have seen her leaning\n", + "over earth from windows of the\n", + "sunset.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "In winter say snow-bound, “She shall\n", + "come with spring leaping upon the\n", + "hills.”\n", + "\n", + "And in summer heat reapers\n", + "say, “We have seen her dancing with the\n", + "autumn leaves, we saw drift of\n", + "snow in her hair.” {85}All these things\n", + "have you said of beauty,\n", + "\n", + "Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of\n", + "needs unsatisfied,\n", + "\n", + "And beauty is not need but ecstasy.\n", + "\n", + "It is not mouth thirsting nor empty\n", + "hand stretched forth,\n", + "\n", + "But rather heart enflamed soul\n", + "enchanted.\n", + "\n", + "It is not image you would see nor\n", + "the song you would hear,\n", + "\n", + "But rather image you see though you\n", + "close your eyes song you hear\n", + "though you shut your ears.\n", + "\n", + "It is not sap within furrowed\n", + "bark, nor wing attached to claw,\n", + "\n", + "But rather garden for ever in bloom\n", + "and flock of angels for ever in\n", + "flight.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, beauty is life when\n", + "life unveils her holy face.\n", + "\n", + "But you are life you are veil.\n", + "{86}Beauty is eternity gazing at itself\n", + "in mirror.\n", + "\n", + "But you are eternity you are the\n", + "mirror.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{87}And old priest said, Speak to us\n", + "of _Religion_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Have I spoken this day of aught else?\n", + "\n", + "Is not religion all deeds all\n", + "reflection,\n", + "\n", + "And that which is neither deed nor\n", + "reflection, but wonder surprise\n", + "ever springing in soul, even while\n", + "the hands hew stone or tend the\n", + "loom?\n", + "\n", + "Who can separate his faith from\n", + "his actions, or his belief from his\n", + "occupations?\n", + "\n", + "Who can spread his hours before him,\n", + "saving, “This for God this for\n", + "myself; This for my soul, this other\n", + "for my body?”\n", + "\n", + "All your hours are wings that beat\n", + "through space from self to self. {88}He\n", + "who wears his morality but as his best\n", + "garment were better naked.\n", + "\n", + "The wind sun will tear no holes\n", + "in his skin.\n", + "\n", + "And he who defines his conduct by ethics\n", + "imprisons his song-bird in cage.\n", + "\n", + "The freest song comes not through bars\n", + "and wires.\n", + "\n", + "And he to whom worshipping is window,\n", + "to open but also to shut, has not yet\n", + "visited house of his soul whose\n", + "windows are from dawn to dawn.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Your daily life is your temple your\n", + "religion.\n", + "\n", + "Whenever you enter into it take with you\n", + "your all.\n", + "\n", + "Take plough forge the\n", + "mallet lute,\n", + "\n", + "The things you have fashioned in\n", + "necessity or for delight.\n", + "\n", + "For in revery you cannot rise above your\n", + "achievements nor fall lower than your\n", + "failures.\n", + "\n", + "And take with you all men: {89}For in\n", + "adoration you cannot fly higher than\n", + "their hopes nor humble yourself lower\n", + "than their despair.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And if you would know God be not\n", + "therefore solver of riddles.\n", + "\n", + "Rather look about you you shall see\n", + "Him playing with your children.\n", + "\n", + "And look into space; you shall see Him\n", + "walking in cloud, outstretching His\n", + "arms in lightning descending in\n", + "rain.\n", + "\n", + "You shall see Him smiling in flowers,\n", + "then rising waving His hands in\n", + "trees.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{90}Then Almitra spoke, saying, We would\n", + "ask now of _Death_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "You would know secret of death.\n", + "\n", + "But how shall you find it unless you\n", + "seek it in heart of life?\n", + "\n", + "The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind\n", + "unto day cannot unveil mystery\n", + "of light.\n", + "\n", + "If you would indeed behold spirit\n", + "of death, open your heart wide unto the\n", + "body of life.\n", + "\n", + "For life death are one, even as the\n", + "river sea are one.\n", + "\n", + "In depth of your hopes desires\n", + "lies your silent knowledge of the\n", + "beyond;\n", + "\n", + "And like seeds dreaming beneath snow\n", + "your heart dreams of spring.\n", + "\n", + "Trust dreams, for in them is hidden\n", + "the gate to eternity. {91}Your fear\n", + "of death is but trembling of the\n", + "shepherd when he stands before king\n", + "whose hand is to be laid upon him in\n", + "honour.\n", + "\n", + "Is shepherd not joyful beneath his\n", + "trembling, that he shall wear mark\n", + "of king?\n", + "\n", + "Yet is he not more mindful of his\n", + "trembling?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "For what is it to die but to stand naked\n", + "in wind to melt into sun?\n", + "\n", + "And what is it to cease breathing, but\n", + "to free breath from its restless\n", + "tides, that it may rise expand and\n", + "seek God unencumbered?\n", + "\n", + "Only when you drink from river of\n", + "silence shall you indeed sing.\n", + "\n", + "And when you have reached mountain\n", + "top, then you shall begin to climb.\n", + "\n", + "And when earth shall claim your\n", + "limbs, then shall you truly dance.\n", + "{92}And now it was evening.\n", + "\n", + "And Almitra seeress said, Blessed be\n", + "this day this place your spirit\n", + "that has spoken.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, Was it I who spoke? Was\n", + "I not also listener?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Then he descended steps of the\n", + "Temple all people followed him.\n", + "And he reached his ship stood upon\n", + "the deck.\n", + "\n", + "And facing people again, he raised\n", + "his voice said:\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, wind bids me\n", + "leave you.\n", + "\n", + "Less hasty am I than wind, yet I\n", + "must go.\n", + "\n", + "We wanderers, ever seeking lonelier\n", + "way, begin no day where we have ended\n", + "another day; no sunrise finds us\n", + "where sunset left us. {93}Even while the\n", + "earth sleeps we travel.\n", + "\n", + "We are seeds of tenacious\n", + "plant, it is in our ripeness our\n", + "fullness of heart that we are given to\n", + "the wind are scattered.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Brief were my days among you, and\n", + "briefer still words I have spoken.\n", + "\n", + "But should my voice fade in your ears,\n", + "and my love vanish in your memory, then\n", + "I will come again,\n", + "\n", + "And with richer heart lips more\n", + "yielding to spirit will I speak.\n", + "\n", + "Yea, I shall return with tide,\n", + "\n", + "And though death may hide me, the\n", + "greater silence enfold me, yet again\n", + "will I seek your understanding.\n", + "\n", + "And not in vain will I seek.\n", + "\n", + "If aught I have said is truth, that\n", + "truth shall reveal itself in clearer\n", + "voice, in words more kin to your\n", + "thoughts.\n", + "\n", + "I go with wind, people of\n", + "Orphalese, but not down into emptiness;\n", + "{94}And if this day is not fulfilment\n", + "of your needs my love, then let it\n", + "be promise till another day.\n", + "\n", + "Man’s needs change, but not his love,\n", + "nor his desire that his love should\n", + "satisfy his needs.\n", + "\n", + "Know therefore, that from greater\n", + "silence I shall return.\n", + "\n", + "The mist that drifts away at dawn,\n", + "leaving but dew in fields, shall\n", + "rise gather into cloud then\n", + "fall down in rain.\n", + "\n", + "And not unlike mist have I been.\n", + "\n", + "In stillness of night I have\n", + "walked in your streets, my spirit\n", + "has entered your houses,\n", + "\n", + "And your heart-beats were in my heart,\n", + "and your breath was upon my face, I\n", + "knew you all.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, I knew your joy your pain,\n", + "and in your sleep your dreams were my\n", + "dreams.\n", + "\n", + "And oftentimes I was among you lake\n", + "among mountains.\n", + "\n", + "I mirrored summits in you the\n", + "{95}bending slopes, even the\n", + "passing flocks of your thoughts your\n", + "desires.\n", + "\n", + "And to my silence came laughter\n", + "of your children in streams, the\n", + "longing of your youths in rivers.\n", + "\n", + "And when they reached my depth the\n", + "streams rivers ceased not yet to\n", + "sing.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0119]\n", + "\n", + "But sweeter still than laughter and\n", + "greater than longing came to me.\n", + "\n", + "It was boundless in you;\n", + "\n", + "The vast man in whom you are all but\n", + "cells sinews;\n", + "\n", + "He in whose chant all your singing is\n", + "but soundless throbbing.\n", + "\n", + "It is in vast man that you are vast,\n", + "\n", + "And in beholding him that I beheld you\n", + "and loved you.\n", + "\n", + "For what distances can love reach that\n", + "are not in that vast sphere?\n", + "\n", + "What visions, what expectations what\n", + "presumptions can outsoar that flight?\n", + "\n", + "Like giant oak tree covered with apple\n", + "blossoms is vast man in you. {96}His\n", + "might binds you to earth, his\n", + "fragrance lifts you into space, in\n", + "his durability you are deathless.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You have been told that, even like a\n", + "chain, you are as weak as your weakest\n", + "link.\n", + "\n", + "This is but half truth. You are also\n", + "as strong as your strongest link.\n", + "\n", + "To measure you by your smallest deed\n", + "is to reckon power of ocean by the\n", + "frailty of its foam.\n", + "\n", + "To judge you by your failures is to\n", + "cast blame upon seasons for their\n", + "inconstancy.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, you are like ocean,\n", + "\n", + "And though heavy-grounded ships await\n", + "the tide upon your shores, yet, even\n", + "like ocean, you cannot hasten your\n", + "tides.\n", + "\n", + "And like seasons you are also,\n", + "\n", + "And though in your winter you deny your\n", + "spring,\n", + "\n", + "Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles\n", + "in her drowsiness is not offended.\n", + "{97}Think not I say these things in\n", + "order that you may say one to the\n", + "other, “He praised us well. He saw but\n", + "the good in us.”\n", + "\n", + "I only speak to you in words of that\n", + "which you yourselves know in thought.\n", + "\n", + "And what is word knowledge but shadow\n", + "of wordless knowledge?\n", + "\n", + "Your thoughts my words are waves\n", + "from sealed memory that keeps records\n", + "of our yesterdays,\n", + "\n", + "And of ancient days when earth\n", + "knew not us nor herself,\n", + "\n", + "And of nights when earth was up-wrought\n", + "with confusion.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Wise men have come to you to give you\n", + "of their wisdom. I came to take of your\n", + "wisdom:\n", + "\n", + "And behold I have found that which is\n", + "greater than wisdom.\n", + "\n", + "It is flame spirit in you ever\n", + "gathering more of itself,\n", + "\n", + "While you, heedless of its expansion,\n", + "bewail withering of your days.\n", + "{98}It is life in quest of life in\n", + "bodies that fear grave.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "There are no graves here.\n", + "\n", + "These mountains plains are cradle\n", + "and stepping-stone.\n", + "\n", + "Whenever you pass by field where\n", + "you have laid your ancestors look well\n", + "thereupon, you shall see yourselves\n", + "and your children dancing hand in hand.\n", + "\n", + "Verily you often make merry without\n", + "knowing.\n", + "\n", + "Others have come to you to whom for\n", + "golden promises made unto your faith\n", + "you have given but riches power and\n", + "glory.\n", + "\n", + "Less than promise have I given, and\n", + "yet more generous have you been to me.\n", + "\n", + "You have given me my deeper thirsting\n", + "after life.\n", + "\n", + "Surely there is no greater gift to man\n", + "than that which turns all his aims\n", + "into parching lips all life into a\n", + "fountain.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0125]\n", + "\n", + "{99}And in this lies my honour my\n", + "reward,--\n", + "\n", + "That whenever I come to fountain\n", + "to drink I find living water itself\n", + "thirsty;\n", + "\n", + "And it drinks me while I drink it.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Some of you have deemed me proud and\n", + "over-shy to receive gifts.\n", + "\n", + "Too proud indeed am I to receive wages,\n", + "but not gifts.\n", + "\n", + "And though I have eaten berries among\n", + "the hills when you would have had me sit\n", + "at your board,\n", + "\n", + "And slept in portico of temple\n", + "when you would gladly have sheltered me,\n", + "\n", + "Yet was it not your loving mindfulness\n", + "of my days my nights that made food\n", + "sweet to my mouth girdled my sleep\n", + "with visions?\n", + "\n", + "For this I bless you most:\n", + "\n", + "You give much know not that you give\n", + "at all. {100}Verily kindness that\n", + "gazes upon itself in mirror turns to\n", + "stone,\n", + "\n", + "And good deed that calls itself by\n", + "tender names becomes parent to a\n", + "curse.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And some of you have called me aloof,\n", + "and drunk with my own aloneness,\n", + "\n", + "And you have said, “He holds council\n", + "with trees of forest, but not\n", + "with men.\n", + "\n", + "He sits alone on hill-tops looks\n", + "down upon our city.”\n", + "\n", + "True it is that I have climbed hills\n", + "and walked in remote places.\n", + "\n", + "How could I have seen you save from a\n", + "great height or great distance?\n", + "\n", + "How can one be indeed near unless he be\n", + "tar?\n", + "\n", + "And others among you called unto me, not\n", + "in words, they said,\n", + "\n", + "“Stranger, stranger, lover of\n", + "unreachable heights, why dwell you among\n", + "the summits where eagles build\n", + "their nests? {101}Why seek you the\n", + "unattainable?\n", + "\n", + "What storms would you trap in your net,\n", + "\n", + "And what vaporous birds do you hunt in\n", + "the sky?\n", + "\n", + "Come be one of us.\n", + "\n", + "Descend appease your hunger with our\n", + "bread quench your thirst with our\n", + "wine.”\n", + "\n", + "In solitude of their souls they said\n", + "these things;\n", + "\n", + "But were their solitude deeper they\n", + "would have known that I sought but the\n", + "secret of your joy your pain,\n", + "\n", + "And I hunted only your larger selves\n", + "that walk sky.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But hunter was also hunted;\n", + "\n", + "For many of my arrows left my bow only\n", + "to seek my own breast.\n", + "\n", + "And flier was also creeper;\n", + "\n", + "For when my wings were spread in the\n", + "sun their shadow upon earth was a\n", + "turtle.\n", + "\n", + "And I believer was also doubter;\n", + "{102}For often have I put my finger\n", + "in my own wound that I might have the\n", + "greater belief in you greater\n", + "knowledge of you.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And it is with this belief this\n", + "knowledge that I say,\n", + "\n", + "You are not enclosed within your bodies,\n", + "nor confined to houses or fields.\n", + "\n", + "That which is you dwells above the\n", + "mountain roves with wind.\n", + "\n", + "It is not thing that crawls into\n", + "the sun for warmth or digs holes into\n", + "darkness for safety,\n", + "\n", + "But thing free, spirit that envelops\n", + "the earth moves in ether.\n", + "\n", + "If these be vague words, then seek not\n", + "to clear them.\n", + "\n", + "Vague nebulous is beginning of\n", + "all things, but not their end,\n", + "\n", + "And I fain would have you remember me as\n", + "a beginning.\n", + "\n", + "Life, all that lives, is conceived\n", + "in mist not in crystal.\n", + "{103}And who knows but crystal is mist\n", + "in decay?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "This would I have you remember in\n", + "remembering me:\n", + "\n", + "That which seems most feeble and\n", + "bewildered in you is strongest and\n", + "most determined.\n", + "\n", + "Is it not your breath that has erected\n", + "and hardened structure of your\n", + "bones?\n", + "\n", + "And is it not dream which none of you\n", + "remember having dreamt, that builded\n", + "your city fashioned all there is in\n", + "it?\n", + "\n", + "Could you but see tides of that\n", + "breath you would cease to see all else,\n", + "\n", + "And if you could hear whispering of\n", + "the dream you would hear no other sound.\n", + "\n", + "But you do not see, nor do you hear, and\n", + "it is well.\n", + "\n", + "The veil that clouds your eyes shall be\n", + "lifted by hands that wove it,\n", + "\n", + "And clay that fills your ears shall\n", + "be pierced by those fingers that kneaded\n", + "it. {104}And you shall see.\n", + "\n", + "And you shall hear.\n", + "\n", + "Yet you shall not deplore having known\n", + "blindness, nor regret having been deaf.\n", + "\n", + "For in that day you shall know the\n", + "hidden purposes in all things,\n", + "\n", + "And you shall bless darkness as you\n", + "would bless light.\n", + "\n", + "After saying these things he looked\n", + "about him, he saw pilot of his\n", + "ship standing by helm gazing\n", + "now at full sails now at the\n", + "distance.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Patient, over patient, is captain of\n", + "my ship.\n", + "\n", + "The wind blows, restless are the\n", + "sails;\n", + "\n", + "Even rudder begs direction;\n", + "\n", + "Yet quietly my captain awaits my\n", + "silence.\n", + "\n", + "And these my mariners, who have heard\n", + "the choir of greater sea, they too\n", + "have heard me patiently. {105}Now they\n", + "shall wait no longer.\n", + "\n", + "I am ready.\n", + "\n", + "The stream has reached sea, and\n", + "once more great mother holds her son\n", + "against her breast.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Fare you well, people of Orphalese.\n", + "\n", + "This day has ended.\n", + "\n", + "It is closing upon us even as the\n", + "water-lily upon its own tomorrow.\n", + "\n", + "What was given us here we shall keep,\n", + "\n", + "And if it suffices not, then again must\n", + "we come together together stretch\n", + "our hands unto giver.\n", + "\n", + "Forget not that I shall come back to\n", + "you.\n", + "\n", + "A little while, my longing shall\n", + "gather dust foam for another body.\n", + "\n", + "A little while, moment of rest upon\n", + "the wind, another woman shall bear\n", + "me.\n", + "\n", + "Farewell to you youth I have\n", + "spent with you.\n", + "\n", + "It was but yesterday we met in a\n", + "dream. {106}You have sung to me in my\n", + "aloneness, I of your longings have\n", + "built tower in sky.\n", + "\n", + "But now our sleep has fled our dream\n", + "is over, it is no longer dawn.\n", + "\n", + "The noontide is upon us our half\n", + "waking has turned to fuller day, we\n", + "must part.\n", + "\n", + "If in twilight of memory we should\n", + "meet once more, we shall speak again\n", + "together you shall sing to me a\n", + "deeper song.\n", + "\n", + "And if our hands should meet in another\n", + "dream we shall build another tower in\n", + "the sky.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "So saying he made signal to the\n", + "seamen, straightway they weighed\n", + "anchor cast ship loose from its\n", + "moorings, they moved eastward.\n", + "\n", + "And cry came from people as from a\n", + "single heart, it rose into dusk\n", + "and was carried out over sea like a\n", + "great trumpeting.\n", + "\n", + "Only Almitra was silent, gazing after\n", + "{107}the ship until it had vanished into\n", + "the mist.\n", + "\n", + "And when all people were dispersed\n", + "she still stood alone upon sea-wall,\n", + 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Knopf\n", + "\n", + "1923\n", + "\n", + "_The Twelve Illustrations In This Volume\n", + "Are Reproduced From Original Drawings By\n", + "The Author_\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "“His power came from some great reservoir\n", + "of spiritual life else it could not have\n", + "been so universal so potent, but the\n", + "majesty beauty of language with\n", + "which he clothed it were all his own?”\n", + "\n", + "--Claude Bragdon\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "THE BOOKS OF KAHLIL GIBRAN\n", + "\n", + "The Madman. 1918 Twenty Drawings. 1919\n", + "The Forerunner. 1920 The Prophet. 1923\n", + "Sand Foam. 1926 Jesus Son of\n", + "Man. 1928 The Forth Gods. 1931 The\n", + "Wanderer. 1932 The Garden of Prophet\n", + "1933 Prose Poems. 1934 Nymphs of the\n", + "Valley. 1948\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "CONTENTS\n", + "\n", + " The Coming of Ship.......7\n", + " On Love.....................15\n", + " On Marriage.................19\n", + " On Children.................21\n", + " On Giving...................23\n", + " On Eating Drinking......27\n", + " On Work.....................31\n", + " On Joy Sorrow...........33\n", + " On Houses...................37\n", + " On Clothes..................41\n", + " On Buying Selling.......43\n", + " On Crime Punishment.....45\n", + " On Laws.....................51\n", + " On Freedom..................55\n", + " On Reason Passion.......57\n", + " On Pain.....................60\n", + " On Self-Knowledge...........62\n", + " On Teaching.................64\n", + " On Friendship...............66\n", + " On Talking..................68\n", + " On Time.....................70\n", + " On Good Evil............72\n", + " On Prayer...................76\n", + " On Pleasure.................79\n", + " On Beauty...................83\n", + " On Religion.................87\n", + " On Death....................90\n", + " The Farewell................92\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "THE PROPHET\n", + "\n", + "|Almustafa, the{7} chosen the\n", + "beloved, who was dawn unto his own\n", + "day, had waited twelve years in city\n", + "of Orphalese for his ship that was to\n", + "return bear him back to isle of\n", + "his birth.\n", + "\n", + "And in twelfth year, on seventh\n", + "day of Ielool, month of reaping, he\n", + "climbed hill without city walls\n", + "and looked seaward; he beheld his\n", + "ship coming with mist.\n", + "\n", + "Then gates of his heart were flung\n", + "open, his joy flew far over sea.\n", + "And he closed his eyes prayed in the\n", + "silences of his soul.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But as he descended hill, sadness\n", + "came upon him, he thought in his\n", + "heart:\n", + "\n", + "How shall I go in peace without\n", + "sorrow? Nay, not without wound in the\n", + "spirit shall I leave this city. {8}Long\n", + "were days of pain I have spent\n", + "within its walls, long were the\n", + "nights of aloneness; who can depart\n", + "from his pain his aloneness without\n", + "regret?\n", + "\n", + "Too many fragments of spirit have I\n", + "scattered in these streets, too many\n", + "are children of my longing that walk\n", + "naked among these hills, I cannot\n", + "withdraw from them without burden and\n", + "an ache.\n", + "\n", + "It is not garment I cast off this\n", + "day, but skin that I tear with my own\n", + "hands.\n", + "\n", + "Nor is it thought I leave behind me,\n", + "but heart made sweet with hunger and\n", + "with thirst.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Yet I cannot tarry longer.\n", + "\n", + "The sea that calls all things unto her\n", + "calls me, I must embark.\n", + "\n", + "For to stay, though hours burn in\n", + "the night, is to freeze crystallize\n", + "and be bound in mould.\n", + "\n", + "Fain would I take with me all that is\n", + "here. But how shall I?\n", + "\n", + "A voice cannot carry tongue and\n", + "{9}the lips that gave it wings. Alone\n", + "must it seek ether.\n", + "\n", + "And alone without his nest shall the\n", + "eagle fly across sun.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Now when he reached foot of the\n", + "hill, he turned again towards sea,\n", + "and he saw his ship approaching the\n", + "harbour, upon her prow mariners,\n", + "the men of his own land.\n", + "\n", + "And his soul cried out to them, he\n", + "said:\n", + "\n", + "Sons of my ancient mother, you riders of\n", + "the tides,\n", + "\n", + "How often have you sailed in my dreams.\n", + "And now you come in my awakening, which\n", + "is my deeper dream.\n", + "\n", + "Ready am I to go, my eagerness with\n", + "sails full set awaits wind.\n", + "\n", + "Only another breath will I breathe in\n", + "this still air, only another loving look\n", + "cast backward,\n", + "\n", + "And then I shall stand among you, a\n", + "seafarer among seafarers. {10}And you,\n", + "vast sea, sleepless mother,\n", + "\n", + "Who alone are peace freedom to the\n", + "river stream,\n", + "\n", + "Only another winding will this stream\n", + "make, only another murmur in this glade,\n", + "\n", + "And then shall I come to you, a\n", + "boundless drop to boundless ocean.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And as he walked he saw from afar men\n", + "and women leaving their fields their\n", + "vineyards hastening towards city\n", + "gates.\n", + "\n", + "And he heard their voices calling his\n", + "name, shouting from field to field\n", + "telling one another of coming of his\n", + "ship.\n", + "\n", + "And he said to himself:\n", + "\n", + "Shall day of parting be day of\n", + "gathering?\n", + "\n", + "And shall it be said that my eve was in\n", + "truth my dawn?\n", + "\n", + "And what shall I give unto him who has\n", + "left his plough in midfurrow, or to\n", + "him who has stopped wheel of his\n", + "winepress? {11}Shall my heart become a\n", + "tree heavy-laden with fruit that I may\n", + "gather give unto them?\n", + "\n", + "And shall my desires flow like a\n", + "fountain that I may fill their cups?\n", + "\n", + "Am I harp that hand of mighty\n", + "may touch me, or flute that his breath\n", + "may pass through me?\n", + "\n", + "A seeker of silences am I, what\n", + "treasure have I found in silences that I\n", + "may dispense with confidence?\n", + "\n", + "If this is my day of harvest, in what\n", + "fields have I sowed seed, in\n", + "what unremembered seasons?\n", + "\n", + "If this indeed be hour in which I\n", + "lift up my lantern, it is not my flame\n", + "that shall burn therein.\n", + "\n", + "Empty dark shall I raise my lantern,\n", + "\n", + "And guardian of night shall fill\n", + "it with oil he shall light it also.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "These things he said in words. But much\n", + "in his heart remained unsaid. For {12}he\n", + "himself could not speak his deeper\n", + "secret.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0020]\n", + "\n", + "And when he entered into city all\n", + "the people came to meet him, they\n", + "were crying out to him as with one\n", + "voice.\n", + "\n", + "And elders of city stood forth\n", + "and said:\n", + "\n", + "Go not yet away from us.\n", + "\n", + "A noontide have you been in our\n", + "twilight, your youth has given us\n", + "dreams to dream.\n", + "\n", + "No stranger are you among us, nor\n", + "a guest, but our son our dearly\n", + "beloved.\n", + "\n", + "Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for\n", + "your face.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And priests priestesses said\n", + "unto him:\n", + "\n", + "Let not waves of sea separate us\n", + "now, years you have spent in our\n", + "midst become memory.\n", + "\n", + "You have walked among us spirit,\n", + "{13}and your shadow has been light\n", + "upon our faces.\n", + "\n", + "Much have we loved you. But speechless\n", + "was our love, with veils has it been\n", + "veiled.\n", + "\n", + "Yet now it cries aloud unto you, and\n", + "would stand revealed before you.\n", + "\n", + "And ever has it been that love knows\n", + "not its own depth until hour of\n", + "separation.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And others came also entreated him.\n", + "But he answered them not. He only bent\n", + "his head; those who stood near saw\n", + "his tears falling upon his breast.\n", + "\n", + "And he people proceeded towards\n", + "the great square before temple.\n", + "\n", + "And there came out of sanctuary a\n", + "woman whose name was Almitra. And she\n", + "was seeress.\n", + "\n", + "And he looked upon her with exceeding\n", + "tenderness, for it was she who had first\n", + "sought believed in him when he had\n", + "been but day in their city. {14}And\n", + "she hailed him, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Prophet of God, in quest of the\n", + "uttermost, long have you searched the\n", + "distances for your ship.\n", + "\n", + "And now your ship has come, you must\n", + "needs go.\n", + "\n", + "Deep is your longing for land of\n", + "your memories dwelling place\n", + "of your greater desires; our love\n", + "would not bind you nor our needs hold\n", + "you.\n", + "\n", + "Yet this we ask ere you leave us, that\n", + "you speak to us give us of your\n", + "truth.\n", + "\n", + "And we will give it unto our children,\n", + "and they unto their children, it\n", + "shall not perish.\n", + "\n", + "In your aloneness you have watched with\n", + "our days, in your wakefulness you\n", + "have listened to weeping the\n", + "laughter of our sleep.\n", + "\n", + "Now therefore disclose us to ourselves,\n", + "and tell us all that has been shown\n", + "you of that which is between birth and\n", + "death.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And he answered,\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, of what can I\n", + "{15}speak save of that which is even now\n", + "moving within your souls?\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "Then said Almitra, Speak to us of\n", + "_Love_.\n", + "\n", + "And he raised his head looked upon\n", + "the people, there fell stillness\n", + "upon them. And with great voice he\n", + "said:\n", + "\n", + "When love beckons to you, follow him,\n", + "\n", + "Though his ways are hard steep.\n", + "\n", + "And when his wings enfold you yield to\n", + "him,\n", + "\n", + "Though sword hidden among his\n", + "pinions may wound you.\n", + "\n", + "And when he speaks to you believe in\n", + "him,\n", + "\n", + "Though his voice may shatter your dreams\n", + "as north wind lays waste garden.\n", + "\n", + "For even as love crowns you so shall\n", + "he crucify you. Even as he is for your\n", + "growth so is he for your pruning.\n", + "\n", + "Even as he ascends to your height and\n", + "{16}caresses your tenderest branches\n", + "that quiver in sun,\n", + "\n", + "So shall he descend to your roots and\n", + "shake them in their clinging to the\n", + "earth.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto\n", + "himself.\n", + "\n", + "He threshes you to make you naked.\n", + "\n", + "He sifts you to free you from your\n", + "husks.\n", + "\n", + "He grinds you to whiteness.\n", + "\n", + "He kneads you until you are pliant;\n", + "\n", + "And then he assigns you to his sacred\n", + "fire, that you may become sacred bread\n", + "for God’s sacred feast.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "All these things shall love do unto you\n", + "that you may know secrets of your\n", + "heart, in that knowledge become a\n", + "fragment of Life’s heart.\n", + "\n", + "But if in your fear you would seek only\n", + "love’s peace love’s pleasure,\n", + "\n", + "Then it is better for you that you\n", + "cover {17}your nakedness pass out of\n", + "love’s threshing-floor,\n", + "\n", + "Into seasonless world where you\n", + "shall laugh, but not all of your\n", + "laughter, weep, but not all of your\n", + "tears.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Love gives naught but itself takes\n", + "naught but from itself.\n", + "\n", + "Love possesses not nor would it be\n", + "possessed;\n", + "\n", + "For love is sufficient unto love.\n", + "\n", + "When you love you should not say, “God\n", + "is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in\n", + "the heart of God.”\n", + "\n", + "And think not you can direct course\n", + "of love, for love, if it finds you\n", + "worthy, directs your course.\n", + "\n", + "Love has no other desire but to fulfil\n", + "itself.\n", + "\n", + "But if you love must needs have\n", + "desires, let these be your desires:\n", + "\n", + "To melt be like running brook that\n", + "sings its melody to night. {18}To\n", + "know pain of too much tenderness.\n", + "\n", + "To be wounded by your own understanding\n", + "of love;\n", + "\n", + "And to bleed willingly joyfully.\n", + "\n", + "To wake at dawn with winged heart and\n", + "give thanks for another day of loving;\n", + "\n", + "To rest at noon hour meditate\n", + "love’s ecstacy;\n", + "\n", + "To return home at eventide with\n", + "gratitude;\n", + "\n", + "And then to sleep with prayer for\n", + "the beloved in your heart song of\n", + "praise upon your lips.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0029]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{19}Then Almitra spoke again said,\n", + "And what of _Marriage_ master?\n", + "\n", + "And he answered saying:\n", + "\n", + "You were born together, together you\n", + "shall be forevermore.\n", + "\n", + "You shall be together when white\n", + "wings of death scatter your days.\n", + "\n", + "Aye, you shall be together even in the\n", + "silent memory of God.\n", + "\n", + "But let there be spaces in your\n", + "togetherness,\n", + "\n", + "And let winds of heavens dance\n", + "between you.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Love one another, but make not bond of\n", + "love:\n", + "\n", + "Let it rather be moving sea between\n", + "the shores of your souls.\n", + "\n", + "Fill each other’s cup but drink not from\n", + "one cup.\n", + "\n", + "Give one another of your bread but eat\n", + "not from same loaf. {20}Sing and\n", + "dance together be joyous, but let\n", + "each one of you be alone,\n", + "\n", + "Even as strings of lute are alone\n", + "though they quiver with same music.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Give your hearts, but not into each\n", + "other’s keeping.\n", + "\n", + "For only hand of Life can contain\n", + "your hearts.\n", + "\n", + "And stand together yet not too near\n", + "together:\n", + "\n", + "For pillars of temple stand\n", + "apart,\n", + "\n", + "And oak tree cypress grow\n", + "not in each other’s shadow.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0032]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{21}And woman who held babe\n", + "against her bosom said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Children_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Your children are not your children.\n", + "\n", + "They are sons daughters of\n", + "Life’s longing for itself.\n", + "\n", + "They come through you but not from you,\n", + "\n", + "And though they are with you yet they\n", + "belong not to you.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You may give them your love but not your\n", + "thoughts,\n", + "\n", + "For they have their own thoughts.\n", + "\n", + "You may house their bodies but not their\n", + "souls,\n", + "\n", + "For their souls dwell in house of\n", + "tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not\n", + "even in your dreams.\n", + "\n", + "You may strive to be like them, but seek\n", + "not to make them like you. {22}For\n", + "life goes not backward nor tarries with\n", + "yesterday.\n", + "\n", + "You are bows from which your\n", + "children as living arrows are sent\n", + "forth.\n", + "\n", + "The archer sees mark upon path\n", + "of infinite, He bends you with\n", + "His might that His arrows may go swift\n", + "and far.\n", + "\n", + "Let your bending in Archer’s hand be\n", + "for gladness;\n", + "\n", + "For even as he loves arrow that\n", + "flies, so He loves also bow that is\n", + "stable.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{23}Then said rich man, Speak to us of\n", + "_Giving_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "You give but little when you give of\n", + "your possessions.\n", + "\n", + "It is when you give of yourself that you\n", + "truly give.\n", + "\n", + "For what are your possessions but things\n", + "you keep guard for fear you may need\n", + "them tomorrow?\n", + "\n", + "And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring\n", + "to overprudent dog burying bones\n", + "in trackless sand as he follows the\n", + "pilgrims to holy city?\n", + "\n", + "And what is fear of need but need\n", + "itself?\n", + "\n", + "Is not dread of thirst when your well is\n", + "full, thirst that is unquenchable?\n", + "\n", + "There are those who give little of the\n", + "{24}much which they have--and they give\n", + "it for recognition their hidden\n", + "desire makes their gifts unwholesome.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who have little and\n", + "give it all.\n", + "\n", + "These are believers in life and\n", + "the bounty of life, their coffer is\n", + "never empty.\n", + "\n", + "There are those who give with joy, and\n", + "that joy is their reward.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who give with pain,\n", + "and that pain is their baptism.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who give know\n", + "not pain in giving, nor do they seek\n", + "joy, nor give with mindfulness of\n", + "virtue;\n", + "\n", + "They give as in yonder valley myrtle\n", + "breathes its fragrance into space.\n", + "\n", + "Through hands of such as these God\n", + "speaks, from behind their eyes He\n", + "smiles upon earth.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0039]\n", + "\n", + "It is well to give when asked, but it\n", + "is better to give unasked, through\n", + "understanding;\n", + "\n", + "And to open-handed search for\n", + "{25}one who shall receive is joy greater\n", + "than giving.\n", + "\n", + "And is there aught you would withhold?\n", + "\n", + "All you have shall some day be given;\n", + "\n", + "Therefore give now, that season\n", + "of giving may be yours not your\n", + "inheritors’.\n", + "\n", + "You often say, “I would give, but only\n", + "to deserving.”\n", + "\n", + "The trees in your orchard say not so,\n", + "nor flocks in your pasture.\n", + "\n", + "They give that they may live, for to\n", + "withhold is to perish.\n", + "\n", + "Surely he who is worthy to receive his\n", + "days his nights, is worthy of all\n", + "else from you.\n", + "\n", + "And he who has deserved to drink from\n", + "the ocean of life deserves to fill his\n", + "cup from your little stream.\n", + "\n", + "And what desert greater shall there be,\n", + "than that which lies in courage\n", + "and confidence, nay charity, of\n", + "receiving?\n", + "\n", + "And who are you that men should rend\n", + "{26}their bosom unveil their pride,\n", + "that you may see their worth naked and\n", + "their pride unabashed?\n", + "\n", + "See first that you yourself deserve to\n", + "be giver, instrument of giving.\n", + "\n", + "For in truth it is life that gives unto\n", + "life--while you, who deem yourself a\n", + "giver, are but witness.\n", + "\n", + "And you receivers--and you are\n", + "all receivers--assume no weight of\n", + "gratitude, lest you lay yoke upon\n", + "yourself upon him who gives.\n", + "\n", + "Rather rise together with giver on\n", + "his gifts as on wings;\n", + "\n", + "For to be overmindful of your debt, is\n", + "ito doubt his generosity who has the\n", + "freehearted earth for mother, God\n", + "for father.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0042]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{27}Then old man, keeper of an\n", + "inn, said, Speak to us of _Eating and\n", + "Drinking_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Would that you could live on the\n", + "fragrance of earth, like air\n", + "plant be sustained by light.\n", + "\n", + "But since you must kill to eat, rob\n", + "the newly born of its mother’s milk to\n", + "quench your thirst, let it then be an\n", + "act of worship,\n", + "\n", + "And let your board stand altar on\n", + "which pure innocent of\n", + "forest plain are sacrificed for that\n", + "which is purer still more innocent\n", + "in man.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "When you kill beast say to him in your\n", + "heart,\n", + "\n", + "“By same power that slays you, I too\n", + "am slain; I too shall be consumed.\n", + "{28}For law that delivered you into\n", + "my hand shall deliver me into mightier\n", + "hand.\n", + "\n", + "Your blood my blood is naught but\n", + "the sap that feeds tree of heaven.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And when you crush apple with your\n", + "teeth, say to it in your heart,\n", + "\n", + "“Your seeds shall live in my body,\n", + "\n", + "And buds of your tomorrow shall\n", + "blossom in my heart,\n", + "\n", + "And your fragrance shall be my breath,\n", + "And together we shall rejoice through\n", + "all seasons.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And in autumn, when you gather\n", + "the grapes of your vineyards for the\n", + "winepress, say in your heart,\n", + "\n", + "“I too am vineyard, my fruit shall\n", + "be gathered for winepress,\n", + "\n", + "And like new wine I shall be kept in\n", + "eternal vessels.”\n", + "\n", + "And in winter, when you draw wine,\n", + "{29}let there be in your heart song\n", + "for each cup;\n", + "\n", + "And let there be in song a\n", + "remembrance for autumn days, for\n", + "the vineyard, for winepress.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "{30} Then ploughman said, Speak\n", + "to us of _Work_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "You work that you may keep pace with the\n", + "earth soul of earth.\n", + "\n", + "For to be idle is to become stranger\n", + "unto seasons, to step out of\n", + "life’s procession, that marches in\n", + "majesty proud submission towards the\n", + "infinite.\n", + "\n", + "When you work you are flute through\n", + "whose heart whispering of hours\n", + "turns to music.\n", + "\n", + "Which of you would be reed, dumb and\n", + "silent, when all else sings together in\n", + "unison?\n", + "\n", + "Always you have been told that work is a\n", + "curse labour misfortune.\n", + "\n", + "But I say to you that when you work you\n", + "fulfil part of earth’s furthest dream,\n", + "{31}assigned to you when that dream was\n", + "born,\n", + "\n", + "And in keeping yourself with labour you\n", + "are in truth loving life,\n", + "\n", + "And to love life through labour is to be\n", + "intimate with life’s inmost secret.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But if you in your pain call birth an\n", + "affliction support of flesh\n", + "a curse written upon your brow, then I\n", + "answer that naught but sweat of\n", + "your brow shall wash away that which is\n", + "written.\n", + "\n", + "You have been told also that life is\n", + "darkness, in your weariness you echo\n", + "what was said by weary.\n", + "\n", + "And I say that life is indeed darkness\n", + "‘save when there is urge,\n", + "\n", + "And all urge is blind save when there is\n", + "knowledge,\n", + "\n", + "And all knowledge is vain save when\n", + "there is work,\n", + "\n", + "And all work is empty save when there is\n", + "love;\n", + "\n", + "And when you work with love you bind\n", + "{32}yourself to yourself, to one\n", + "another, to God.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And what is it to work with love?\n", + "\n", + "It is to weave cloth with threads\n", + "drawn from your heart, even as if your\n", + "beloved were to wear that cloth.\n", + "\n", + "It is to build house with affection,\n", + "even as if your beloved were to dwell in\n", + "that house.\n", + "\n", + "It is to sow seeds with tenderness and\n", + "reap harvest with joy, even as if\n", + "your beloved were to eat fruit.\n", + "\n", + "It is to charge all things you fashion\n", + "with breath of your own spirit,\n", + "\n", + "And to know that all blessed dead\n", + "are standing about you watching.\n", + "\n", + "Often have I heard you say, as if\n", + "speaking in sleep, “He who works in\n", + "marble, finds shape of his own\n", + "soul in stone, is nobler than he who\n", + "ploughs soil. {33}And he who seizes\n", + "the rainbow to lay it on cloth in the\n", + "likeness of man, is more than he who\n", + "makes sandals for our feet.”\n", + "\n", + "But I say, not in sleep but in the\n", + "overwakefulness of noontide, that the\n", + "wind speaks not more sweetly to the\n", + "giant oaks than to least of all the\n", + "blades of grass;\n", + "\n", + "And he alone is great who turns the\n", + "voice of wind into song made\n", + "sweeter by his own loving.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Work is love made visible.\n", + "\n", + "And if you cannot work with love but\n", + "only with distaste, it is better that\n", + "you should leave your work sit at\n", + "the gate of temple take alms of\n", + "those who work with joy.\n", + "\n", + "For if you bake bread with indifference,\n", + "you bake bitter bread that feeds but\n", + "half man’s hunger.\n", + "\n", + "And if you grudge crushing of the\n", + "grapes, your grudge distils poison in\n", + "the wine. {34}And if you sing though as\n", + "angels, love not singing, you\n", + "muffle man’s ears to voices of the\n", + "day voices of night.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{35}Then woman said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Joy Sorrow_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.\n", + "\n", + "And selfsame well from which your\n", + "laughter rises was oftentimes filled\n", + "with your tears.\n", + "\n", + "And how else can it be?\n", + "\n", + "The deeper that sorrow carves into your\n", + "being, more joy you can contain.\n", + "\n", + "Is not cup that holds your wine the\n", + "very cup that was burned in potter’s\n", + "oven?\n", + "\n", + "And is not lute that soothes your\n", + "spirit, very wood that was hollowed\n", + "with knives?\n", + "\n", + "When you are joyous, look deep into your\n", + "heart you shall find it is only\n", + "that which has given you sorrow that is\n", + "giving you joy.\n", + "\n", + "When you are sorrowful look again in\n", + "{36}your heart, you shall see that\n", + "in truth you are weeping for that which\n", + "has been your delight.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Some of you say, “Joy is greater than\n", + "sorrow,” others say, “Nay, sorrow is\n", + "the greater.”\n", + "\n", + "But I say unto you, they are\n", + "inseparable.\n", + "\n", + "Together they come, when one sits\n", + "alone with you at your board, remember\n", + "that other is asleep upon your bed.\n", + "\n", + "Verily you are suspended like scales\n", + "between your sorrow your joy.\n", + "\n", + "Only when you are empty are you at\n", + "standstill balanced.\n", + "\n", + "When treasure-keeper lifts you to\n", + "weigh his gold his silver, needs\n", + "must your joy or your sorrow rise or\n", + "fall.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{37}Then mason came forth said,\n", + "Speak to us of _Houses_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered said:\n", + "\n", + "Build of your imaginings bower in the\n", + "wilderness ere you build house within\n", + "the city walls.\n", + "\n", + "For even as you have home-comings in\n", + "your twilight, so has wanderer in\n", + "you, ever distant alone.\n", + "\n", + "Your house is your larger body.\n", + "\n", + "It grows in sun sleeps in the\n", + "stillness of night; it is not\n", + "dreamless. Does not your house dream?\n", + "and dreaming, leave city for grove\n", + "or hilltop?\n", + "\n", + "Would that I could gather your houses\n", + "into my hand, like sower scatter\n", + "them in forest meadow.\n", + "\n", + "Would valleys were your streets, and\n", + "the green paths your alleys, that you\n", + "{38}might seek one another through\n", + "vineyards, come with fragrance\n", + "of earth in your garments.\n", + "\n", + "But these things are not yet to be.\n", + "\n", + "In their fear your forefathers gathered\n", + "you too near together. And that fear\n", + "shall endure little longer. A little\n", + "longer shall your city walls separate\n", + "your hearths from your fields.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And tell me, people of Orphalese, what\n", + "have you in these houses? And what is it\n", + "you guard with fastened doors?\n", + "\n", + "Have you peace, quiet urge that\n", + "reveals your power?\n", + "\n", + "Have you remembrances, glimmering\n", + "arches that span summits of the\n", + "mind?\n", + "\n", + "Have you beauty, that leads heart\n", + "from things fashioned of wood stone\n", + "to holy mountain?\n", + "\n", + "Tell me, have you these in your houses?\n", + "\n", + "Or have you only comfort, lust\n", + "for comfort, that stealthy thing that\n", + "{39}enters house guest, then\n", + "becomes host, then master?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Ay, it becomes tamer, with\n", + "hook scourge makes puppets of your\n", + "larger desires.\n", + "\n", + "Though its hands are silken, its heart\n", + "is of iron.\n", + "\n", + "It lulls you to sleep only to stand by\n", + "your bed jeer at dignity of the\n", + "flesh.\n", + "\n", + "It makes mock of your sound senses, and\n", + "lays them in thistledown like fragile\n", + "vessels.\n", + "\n", + "Verily lust for comfort murders\n", + "the passion of soul, then walks\n", + "grinning in funeral.\n", + "\n", + "But you, children of space, you restless\n", + "in rest, you shall not be trapped nor\n", + "tamed.\n", + "\n", + "Your house shall be not anchor but a\n", + "mast.\n", + "\n", + "It shall not be glistening film that\n", + "{40}covers wound, but eyelid that\n", + "guards eye.\n", + "\n", + "You shall not fold your wings that you\n", + "may pass through doors, nor bend your\n", + "heads that they strike not against a\n", + "ceiling, nor fear to breathe lest walls\n", + "should crack fall down.\n", + "\n", + "You shall not dwell in tombs made by the\n", + "dead for living.\n", + "\n", + "And though of magnificence and\n", + "splendour, your house shall not hold\n", + "your secret nor shelter your longing.\n", + "\n", + "For that which is boundless in you\n", + "abides in mansion of sky, whose\n", + "door is morning mist, whose\n", + "windows are songs silences\n", + "of night.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{41}And weaver said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Clothes_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Your clothes conceal much of your\n", + "beauty, yet they hide not the\n", + "unbeautiful.\n", + "\n", + "And though you seek in garments the\n", + "freedom of privacy you may find in them\n", + "a harness chain.\n", + "\n", + "Would that you could meet sun and\n", + "the wind with more of your skin less\n", + "of your raiment,\n", + "\n", + "For breath of life is in the\n", + "sunlight hand of life is in the\n", + "wind.\n", + "\n", + "Some of you say, “It is north wind\n", + "who has woven clothes we wear.”\n", + "\n", + "And I say, Ay, it was north wind,\n", + "\n", + "But shame was his loom, the\n", + "softening of sinews was his thread.\n", + "\n", + "And when his work was done he laughed in\n", + "the forest. {42}Forget not that modesty\n", + "is for shield against eye of the\n", + "unclean.\n", + "\n", + "And when unclean shall be no more,\n", + "what were modesty but fetter a\n", + "fouling of mind?\n", + "\n", + "And forget not that earth delights\n", + "to feel your bare feet winds\n", + "long to play with your hair.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{43}And merchant said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Buying Selling_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered said:\n", + "\n", + "To you earth yields her fruit, and\n", + "you shall not want if you but know how\n", + "to fill your hands.\n", + "\n", + "It is in exchanging gifts of the\n", + "earth that you shall find abundance and\n", + "be satisfied.\n", + "\n", + "Yet unless exchange be in love and\n", + "kindly justice, it will but lead some to\n", + "greed others to hunger.\n", + "\n", + "When in market place you toilers of\n", + "the sea fields vineyards meet\n", + "the weavers potters the\n", + "gatherers of spices,--\n", + "\n", + "Invoke then master spirit of the\n", + "earth, to come into your midst and\n", + "sanctify scales reckoning\n", + "that weighs value against value. {44}And\n", + "suffer not barren-handed to take\n", + "part in your transactions, who would\n", + "sell their words for your labour.\n", + "\n", + "To such men you should say,\n", + "\n", + "“Come with us to field, or go with\n", + "our brothers to sea cast your\n", + "net;\n", + "\n", + "For land sea shall be\n", + "bountiful to you even as to us.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And if there come singers the\n", + "dancers flute players,--buy of\n", + "their gifts also.\n", + "\n", + "For they too are gatherers of fruit and\n", + "frankincense, that which they bring,\n", + "though fashioned of dreams, is raiment\n", + "and food for your soul.\n", + "\n", + "And before you leave market place,\n", + "see that no one has gone his way with\n", + "empty hands.\n", + "\n", + "For master spirit of earth shall\n", + "not sleep peacefully upon wind\n", + "till needs of least of you are\n", + "satisfied.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{45}Then one of judges of city\n", + "stood forth said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Crime Punishment_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "It is when your spirit goes wandering\n", + "upon wind,\n", + "\n", + "That you, alone unguarded, commit\n", + "a wrong unto others therefore unto\n", + "yourself.\n", + "\n", + "And for that wrong committed must you\n", + "knock wait while unheeded at the\n", + "gate of blessed.\n", + "\n", + "Like ocean is your god-self;\n", + "\n", + "It remains for ever undefiled.\n", + "\n", + "And like ether it lifts but the\n", + "winged.\n", + "\n", + "Even like sun is your god-self;\n", + "\n", + "It knows not ways of mole nor\n", + "seeks it holes of serpent.\n", + "{46}But your god-self dwells not alone\n", + "in your being.\n", + "\n", + "Much in you is still man, much in\n", + "you is not yet man,\n", + "\n", + "But shapeless pigmy that walks asleep\n", + "in mist searching for its own\n", + "awakening.\n", + "\n", + "And of man in you would I now speak.\n", + "\n", + "For it is he not your god-self nor\n", + "the pigmy in mist, that knows crime\n", + "and punishment of crime.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one\n", + "who commits wrong as though he were\n", + "not one of you, but stranger unto you\n", + "and intruder upon your world.\n", + "\n", + "But I say that even as holy the\n", + "righteous cannot rise beyond highest\n", + "which is in each one of you,\n", + "\n", + "So wicked weak cannot fall\n", + "lower than lowest which is in you\n", + "also.\n", + "\n", + "And as single leaf turns not yellow\n", + "but with silent knowledge of the\n", + "whole tree, {47}So wrong-doer cannot\n", + "do wrong without hidden will of you\n", + "all.\n", + "\n", + "Like procession you walk together\n", + "towards your god-self.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0064]\n", + "\n", + "You are way wayfarers.\n", + "\n", + "And when one of you falls down he falls\n", + "for those behind him, caution against\n", + "the stumbling stone.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, he falls for those ahead of him,\n", + "who though faster surer of foot, yet\n", + "removed not stumbling stone.\n", + "\n", + "And this also, though word lie heavy\n", + "upon your hearts:\n", + "\n", + "The murdered is not unaccountable for\n", + "his own murder,\n", + "\n", + "And robbed is not blameless in being\n", + "robbed.\n", + "\n", + "The righteous is not innocent of the\n", + "deeds of wicked,\n", + "\n", + "And white-handed is not clean in the\n", + "doings of felon.\n", + "\n", + "Yea, guilty is oftentimes victim\n", + "of injured,\n", + "\n", + "And still more often condemned is\n", + "{48}the burden bearer for guiltless\n", + "and unblamed.\n", + "\n", + "You cannot separate just from the\n", + "unjust good from wicked;\n", + "\n", + "For they stand together before face\n", + "of sun even as black thread and\n", + "the white are woven together.\n", + "\n", + "And when black thread breaks, the\n", + "weaver shall look into whole cloth,\n", + "and he shall examine loom also.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "If any of you would bring to judgment\n", + "the unfaithful wife,\n", + "\n", + "Let him also weigh heart of her\n", + "husband in scales, measure his soul\n", + "with measurements.\n", + "\n", + "And let him who would lash offender\n", + "look unto spirit of offended.\n", + "\n", + "And if any of you would punish in the\n", + "name of righteousness lay ax\n", + "unto evil tree, let him see to its\n", + "roots;\n", + "\n", + "And verily he will find roots of the\n", + "good bad, fruitful the\n", + "{49}fruitless, all entwined together in\n", + "the silent heart of earth.\n", + "\n", + "And you judges who would be just,\n", + "\n", + "What judgment pronounce you upon him\n", + "who though honest in flesh yet is a\n", + "thief in spirit?\n", + "\n", + "What penalty lay you upon him who slays\n", + "in flesh yet is himself slain in the\n", + "spirit?\n", + "\n", + "And how prosecute you him who in action\n", + "is deceiver oppressor,\n", + "\n", + "Yet who also is aggrieved outraged?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And how shall you punish those whose\n", + "remorse is already greater than their\n", + "misdeeds?\n", + "\n", + "Is not remorse justice which is\n", + "administered by that very law which you\n", + "would fain serve?\n", + "\n", + "Yet you cannot lay remorse upon the\n", + "innocent nor lift it from heart of\n", + "the guilty.\n", + "\n", + "Unbidden shall it call in night,\n", + "that men may wake gaze upon\n", + "themselves. {50}And you who would\n", + "understand justice, how shall you unless\n", + "you look upon all deeds in fullness\n", + "of light?\n", + "\n", + "Only then shall you know that erect\n", + "and fallen are but one man standing\n", + "in twilight between night of his\n", + "pigmy-self day of his god-self,\n", + "And that corner-stone of temple\n", + "is not higher than lowest stone in\n", + "its foundation.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{51}Then lawyer said, But what of our\n", + "_Laws_, master?\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "You delight in laying down laws,\n", + "\n", + "Yet you delight more in breaking them.\n", + "\n", + "Like children playing by ocean who\n", + "build sand-towers with constancy and\n", + "then destroy them with laughter.\n", + "\n", + "But while you build your sand-towers the\n", + "ocean brings more sand to shore,\n", + "\n", + "And when you destroy them ocean\n", + "laughs with you.\n", + "\n", + "Verily ocean laughs always with the\n", + "innocent.\n", + "\n", + "But what of those to whom life is not\n", + "an ocean, man-made laws are not\n", + "sand-towers,\n", + "\n", + "But to whom life is rock, law\n", + "a chisel with which they would carve it\n", + "in their own likeness? {52}What of the\n", + "cripple who hates dancers?\n", + "\n", + "What of ox who loves his yoke and\n", + "deems elk deer of forest\n", + "stray vagrant things?\n", + "\n", + "What of old serpent who cannot shed\n", + "his skin, calls all others naked and\n", + "shameless?\n", + "\n", + "And of him who comes early to the\n", + "wedding-feast, when over-fed and\n", + "tired goes his way saying that all\n", + "feasts are violation all feasters\n", + "lawbreakers?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "What shall I say of these save that\n", + "they too stand in sunlight, but with\n", + "their backs to sun?\n", + "\n", + "They see only their shadows, their\n", + "shadows are their laws.\n", + "\n", + "And what is sun to them but caster\n", + "of shadows?\n", + "\n", + "And what is it to acknowledge the\n", + "laws but to stoop down trace their\n", + "shadows upon earth?\n", + "\n", + "But you who walk facing sun, what\n", + "{53}images drawn on earth can hold\n", + "you?\n", + "\n", + "You who travel with wind, what\n", + "weather-vane shall direct your course?\n", + "\n", + "What man’s law shall bind you if you\n", + "break your yoke but upon no man’s prison\n", + "door?\n", + "\n", + "What laws shall you fear if you dance\n", + "but stumble against no man’s iron\n", + "chains?\n", + "\n", + "And who is he that shall bring you to\n", + "judgment if you tear off your garment\n", + "yet leave it in no man’s path?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, you can muffle the\n", + "drum, you can loosen strings\n", + "of lyre, but who shall command the\n", + "skylark not to sing?\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{54}And orator said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Freedom_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "At city gate by your fireside\n", + "I have seen you prostrate yourself and\n", + "worship your own freedom,\n", + "\n", + "Even as slaves humble themselves before\n", + "a tyrant praise him though he slays\n", + "them.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, in grove of temple in\n", + "the shadow of citadel I have seen\n", + "the freest among you wear their freedom\n", + "as yoke handcuff.\n", + "\n", + "And my heart bled within me; for you\n", + "can only be free when even desire\n", + "of seeking freedom becomes harness\n", + "to you, when you cease to speak of\n", + "freedom as goal fulfilment.\n", + "\n", + "You shall be free indeed when your\n", + "days are not without care nor your\n", + "{55}nights without want grief,\n", + "\n", + "But rather when these things girdle your\n", + "life yet you rise above them naked\n", + "and unbound.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And how shall you rise beyond your days\n", + "and nights unless you break the\n", + "chains which you at dawn of your\n", + "understanding have fastened around your\n", + "noon hour?\n", + "\n", + "In truth that which you call freedom is\n", + "the strongest of these chains, though\n", + "its links glitter in sun dazzle\n", + "your eyes.\n", + "\n", + "And what is it but fragments of your\n", + "own self you would discard that you may\n", + "become free?\n", + "\n", + "If it is unjust law you would\n", + "abolish, that law was written with your\n", + "own hand upon your own forehead.\n", + "\n", + "You cannot erase it by burning your law\n", + "books nor by washing foreheads of\n", + "your judges, though you pour sea\n", + "upon them.\n", + "\n", + "And if it is despot you would\n", + "{56}dethrone, see first that his throne\n", + "erected within you is destroyed.\n", + "\n", + "For how can tyrant rule free and\n", + "the proud, but for tyranny in their\n", + "own freedom shame in their own\n", + "pride?\n", + "\n", + "And if it is care you would cast off,\n", + "that cart has been chosen by you rather\n", + "than imposed upon you.\n", + "\n", + "And if it is fear you would dispel,\n", + "the seat of that fear is in your heart\n", + "and not in hand of feared.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Verily all things move within your being\n", + "in constant half embrace, desired\n", + "and dreaded, repugnant the\n", + "cherished, pursued that which\n", + "you would escape.\n", + "\n", + "These things move within you as lights\n", + "and shadows in pairs that cling.\n", + "\n", + "And when shadow fades is no\n", + "more, light that lingers becomes a\n", + "shadow to another light.\n", + "\n", + "And thus your freedom when it loses its\n", + "fetters becomes itself fetter of a\n", + "greater freedom.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{57}And priestess spoke again\n", + "and said: Speak to us of _Reason and\n", + "Passion_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Your soul is oftentimes battlefield,\n", + "upon which your reason your judgment\n", + "wage war against your passion your\n", + "appetite.\n", + "\n", + "Would that I could be peacemaker in\n", + "your soul, that I might turn discord\n", + "and rivalry of your elements into\n", + "oneness melody.\n", + "\n", + "But how shall I, unless you yourselves\n", + "be also peacemakers, nay, lovers\n", + "of all your elements?\n", + "\n", + "Your reason your passion are the\n", + "rudder sails of your seafaring\n", + "soul.\n", + "\n", + "If either your sails or your rudder be\n", + "broken, you can but toss drift,\n", + "or else be held at standstill in\n", + "mid-seas. {58}For reason, ruling alone,\n", + "is force confining; passion,\n", + "unattended, is flame that burns to its\n", + "own destruction.\n", + "\n", + "Therefore let your soul exalt your\n", + "reason to height of passion, that it\n", + "may sing;\n", + "\n", + "And let it direct your passion with\n", + "reason, that your passion may live\n", + "through its own daily resurrection,\n", + "and like phoenix rise above its own\n", + "ashes.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "I would have you consider your judgment\n", + "and your appetite even as you would two\n", + "loved guests in your house.\n", + "\n", + "Surely you would not honour one guest\n", + "above other; for he who is more\n", + "mindful of one loses love the\n", + "faith of both\n", + "\n", + "Among hills, when you sit in the\n", + "cool shade of white poplars, sharing\n", + "the peace serenity of distant fields\n", + "and meadows--then let your heart say in\n", + "silence, “God rests in reason.”\n", + "\n", + "And when storm comes, the\n", + "{59}mighty wind shakes forest,\n", + "and thunder lightning proclaim the\n", + "majesty of sky,--then let your heart\n", + "say in awe, “God moves in passion.”\n", + "\n", + "And since you are breath in God’s\n", + "sphere, leaf in God’s forest, you\n", + "too should rest in reason move in\n", + "passion.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{60}And woman spoke, saying, Tell us\n", + "of _Pain_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Your pain is breaking of shell\n", + "that encloses your understanding.\n", + "\n", + "Even as stone of fruit must\n", + "break, that its heart may stand in the\n", + "sun, so must you know pain.\n", + "\n", + "And could you keep your heart in wonder\n", + "at daily miracles of your life, your\n", + "pain would not seem less wondrous than\n", + "your joy;\n", + "\n", + "And you would accept seasons of your\n", + "heart, even as you have always accepted\n", + "the seasons that pass over your fields.\n", + "\n", + "And you would watch with serenity\n", + "through winters of your grief.\n", + "\n", + "Much of your pain is self-chosen.\n", + "\n", + "It is bitter potion by which the\n", + "physician {61}within you heals your sick\n", + "self.\n", + "\n", + "Therefore trust physician, drink\n", + "his remedy in silence tranquillity:\n", + "For his hand, though heavy hard, is\n", + "guided by tender hand of Unseen,\n", + "And cup he brings, though it burn\n", + "your lips, has been fashioned of the\n", + "clay which Potter has moistened with\n", + "His own sacred tears.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{62}And man said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Self-Knowledge_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Your hearts know in silence secrets\n", + "of days nights.\n", + "\n", + "But your ears thirst for sound of\n", + "your heart’s knowledge.\n", + "\n", + "You would know in words that which you\n", + "have always known in thought.\n", + "\n", + "You would touch with your fingers the\n", + "naked body of your dreams.\n", + "\n", + "And it is well you should.\n", + "\n", + "The hidden well-spring of your soul must\n", + "needs rise run murmuring to sea;\n", + "\n", + "And treasure of your infinite depths\n", + "would be revealed to your eyes.\n", + "\n", + "But let there be no scales to weigh your\n", + "unknown treasure;\n", + "\n", + "And seek not depths of your\n", + "{63}knowledge with staff or sounding\n", + "line.\n", + "\n", + "For self is sea boundless and\n", + "measureless.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Say not, “I have found truth,” but\n", + "rather, “I have found truth.”\n", + "\n", + "Say not, “I have found path of the\n", + "soul.” Say rather, “I have met soul\n", + "walking upon my path.”\n", + "\n", + "For soul walks upon all paths.\n", + "\n", + "The soul walks not upon line, neither\n", + "does it grow like reed.\n", + "\n", + "The soul unfolds itself, like lotus of\n", + "countless petals.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0083]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{64}Then said teacher, Speak to us of\n", + "_Teaching_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "“No man can reveal to you aught but that\n", + "which already lies half asleep in the\n", + "dawning of your knowledge.\n", + "\n", + "The teacher who walks in shadow of\n", + "the temple, among his followers, gives\n", + "not of his wisdom but rather of his\n", + "faith his lovingness.\n", + "\n", + "If he is indeed wise he does not bid\n", + "you enter house of his wisdom, but\n", + "rather leads you to threshold of\n", + "your own mind.\n", + "\n", + "The astronomer may speak to you of his\n", + "understanding of space, but he cannot\n", + "give you his understanding.\n", + "\n", + "The musician may sing to you of the\n", + "rhythm which is in all space, but he\n", + "cannot give you ear which arrests\n", + "the rhythm nor voice that echoes it.\n", + "{65}And he who is versed in science\n", + "of numbers can tell of regions\n", + "of weight measure, but he cannot\n", + "conduct you thither.\n", + "\n", + "For vision of one man lends not its\n", + "wings to another man.\n", + "\n", + "And even as each one of you stands alone\n", + "in God’s knowledge, so must each one of\n", + "you be alone in his knowledge of God and\n", + "in his understanding of earth.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{66}And youth said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Friendship_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Your friend is your needs answered.\n", + "\n", + "He is your field which you sow with love\n", + "and reap with thanksgiving.\n", + "\n", + "And he is your board your fireside.\n", + "\n", + "For you come to him with your hunger,\n", + "and you seek him for peace.\n", + "\n", + "When your friend speaks his mind you\n", + "fear not “nay” in your own mind, nor\n", + "do you withhold “ay.”\n", + "\n", + "And when he is silent your heart ceases\n", + "not to listen to his heart;\n", + "\n", + "For without words, in friendship, all\n", + "thoughts, all desires, all expectations\n", + "are born shared, with joy that is\n", + "unacclaimed.\n", + "\n", + "When you part from your friend, you\n", + "grieve not;\n", + "\n", + "For that which you love most in him\n", + "may be clearer in his absence, as the\n", + "mountain to climber is clearer\n", + "from plain. {67}And let there be no\n", + "purpose in friendship save deepening\n", + "of spirit.\n", + "\n", + "For love that seeks aught but the\n", + "disclosure of its own mystery is not\n", + "love but net cast forth: only the\n", + "unprofitable is caught.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And let your best be for your friend.\n", + "\n", + "If he must know ebb of your tide,\n", + "let him know its flood also.\n", + "\n", + "For what is your friend that you should\n", + "seek him with hours to kill?\n", + "\n", + "Seek him always with hours to live.\n", + "\n", + "For it is his to fill your need, but not\n", + "your emptiness.\n", + "\n", + "And in sweetness of friendship\n", + "let there be laughter, sharing of\n", + "pleasures.\n", + "\n", + "For in dew of little things\n", + "the heart finds its morning is\n", + "refreshed.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{68}And then scholar said, Speak of\n", + "_Talking_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "You talk when you cease to be at peace\n", + "with your thoughts;\n", + "\n", + "And when you can no longer dwell in the\n", + "solitude of your heart you live in your\n", + "lips, sound is diversion a\n", + "pastime.\n", + "\n", + "And in much of your talking, thinking is\n", + "half murdered.\n", + "\n", + "For thought is bird of space, that in\n", + "a cage of words may indeed unfold its\n", + "wings but cannot fly.\n", + "\n", + "There are those among you who seek the\n", + "talkative through fear of being alone.\n", + "\n", + "The silence of aloneness reveals to\n", + "their eyes their naked selves they\n", + "would escape.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who talk, and\n", + "{69}without knowledge or forethought reveal\n", + "a truth which they themselves do not\n", + "understand.\n", + "\n", + "And there are those who have truth\n", + "within them, but they tell it not in\n", + "words.\n", + "\n", + "In bosom of such as these spirit\n", + "dwells in rhythmic silence.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "When you meet your friend on the\n", + "roadside or in market place, let the\n", + "spirit in you move your lips direct\n", + "your tongue.\n", + "\n", + "Let voice within your voice speak to\n", + "the ear of his ear;\n", + "\n", + "For his soul will keep truth of\n", + "your heart as taste of wine is\n", + "remembered\n", + "\n", + "When colour is forgotten the\n", + "vessel is no more.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{70}And astronomer said, Master, what\n", + "of _Time_?\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "You would measure time measureless\n", + "and immeasurable.\n", + "\n", + "You would adjust your conduct and\n", + "even direct course of your spirit\n", + "according to hours seasons.\n", + "\n", + "Of time you would make stream upon\n", + "whose bank you would sit watch its\n", + "flowing.\n", + "\n", + "Yet timeless in you is aware of\n", + "life’s timelessness,\n", + "\n", + "And knows that yesterday is but today’s\n", + "memory tomorrow is today’s dream.\n", + "\n", + "And that that which sings and\n", + "contemplates in you is still dwelling\n", + "within bounds of that first moment\n", + "which scattered stars into space.\n", + "{71}Who among you does not feel that his\n", + "power to love is boundless?\n", + "\n", + "And yet who does not feel that very\n", + "love, though boundless, encompassed\n", + "within centre of his being, and\n", + "moving not from love thought to love\n", + "thought, nor from love deeds to other\n", + "love deeds?\n", + "\n", + "And is not time even as love is,\n", + "undivided paceless?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But if in your thought you must measure\n", + "time into seasons, let each season\n", + "encircle all other seasons,\n", + "\n", + "And let today embrace past with\n", + "remembrance future with longing.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{72}And one of elders of city\n", + "said, Speak to us of _Good Evil_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Of good in you I can speak, but not\n", + "of evil.\n", + "\n", + "For what is evil but good tortured by\n", + "its own hunger thirst?\n", + "\n", + "Verily when good is hungry it seeks food\n", + "even in dark caves, when it thirsts\n", + "it drinks even of dead waters.\n", + "\n", + "You are good when you are one with\n", + "yourself.\n", + "\n", + "Yet when you are not one with yourself\n", + "you are not evil.\n", + "\n", + "For divided house is not den of\n", + "thieves; it is only divided house.\n", + "\n", + "And ship without rudder may wander\n", + "aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink\n", + "not to bottom. {73}You are good when\n", + "you strive to give of yourself.\n", + "\n", + "Yet you are not evil when you seek gain\n", + "for yourself.\n", + "\n", + "For when you strive for gain you are\n", + "but root that clings to earth and\n", + "sucks at her breast.\n", + "\n", + "Surely fruit cannot say to root,\n", + "“Be like me, ripe full ever\n", + "giving of your abundance.”\n", + "\n", + "For to fruit giving is need, as\n", + "receiving is need to root.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You are good when you are fully awake in\n", + "your speech,\n", + "\n", + "Yet you are not evil when you sleep\n", + "while your tongue staggers without\n", + "purpose.\n", + "\n", + "And even stumbling speech may strengthen\n", + "a weak tongue.\n", + "\n", + "You are good when you walk to your goal\n", + "firmly with bold steps.\n", + "\n", + "Yet you are not evil when you go thither\n", + "limping. {74}Even those who limp go not\n", + "backward.\n", + "\n", + "But you who are strong swift, see\n", + "that you do not limp before lame,\n", + "deeming it kindness.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You are good in countless ways, you\n", + "are not evil when you are not good,\n", + "\n", + "You are only loitering sluggard.\n", + "\n", + "Pity that stags cannot teach\n", + "swiftness to turtles.\n", + "\n", + "In your longing for your giant self lies\n", + "your goodness: that longing is in\n", + "all of you.\n", + "\n", + "But in some of you that longing is a\n", + "torrent rushing with might to sea,\n", + "carrying secrets of hillsides\n", + "and songs of forest.\n", + "\n", + "And in others it is flat stream that\n", + "loses itself in angles bends and\n", + "lingers before it reaches shore.\n", + "\n", + "But let not him who longs much say to\n", + "{75}him who longs little, “Wherefore are\n", + "you slow halting?”\n", + "\n", + "For truly good ask not naked,\n", + "“Where is your garment?” nor the\n", + "houseless, “What has befallen your\n", + "house?”\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{76}Then priestess said, Speak to us\n", + "of _Prayer_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "You pray in your distress in your\n", + "need; would that you might pray also\n", + "in fullness of your joy in your\n", + "days of abundance.\n", + "\n", + "For what is prayer but expansion of\n", + "yourself into living ether?\n", + "\n", + "And if it is for your comfort to pour\n", + "your darkness into space, it is also for\n", + "your delight to pour forth dawning\n", + "of your heart.\n", + "\n", + "And if you cannot but weep when your\n", + "soul summons you to prayer, she should\n", + "spur you again yet again, though\n", + "weeping, until you shall come laughing.\n", + "\n", + "When you pray you rise to meet in the\n", + "air those who are praying at that very\n", + "{77}hour, whom save in prayer you\n", + "may not meet.\n", + "\n", + "Therefore let your visit to that temple\n", + "invisible be for naught but ecstasy and\n", + "sweet communion.\n", + "\n", + "For if you should enter temple for\n", + "no other purpose than asking you shall\n", + "not receive:\n", + "\n", + "And if you should enter into it to\n", + "humble yourself you shall not be lifted:\n", + "\n", + "Or even if you should enter into it to\n", + "beg for good of others you shall not\n", + "be heard.\n", + "\n", + "It is enough that you enter temple\n", + "invisible.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "I cannot teach you how to pray in words.\n", + "\n", + "God listens not to your words save when\n", + "He Himself utters them through your\n", + "lips.\n", + "\n", + "And I cannot teach you prayer of the\n", + "seas forests mountains.\n", + "{78}But you who are born of the\n", + "mountains forests seas\n", + "can find their prayer in your heart,\n", + "\n", + "And if you but listen in stillness\n", + "of night you shall hear them saying\n", + "in silence,\n", + "\n", + "“Our God, who art our winged self, it is\n", + "thy will in us that willeth.\n", + "\n", + "It is thy desire in us that desireth.\n", + "\n", + "It is thy urge in us that would turn our\n", + "nights, which are thine, into days which\n", + "are thine also.\n", + "\n", + "We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou\n", + "knowest our needs before they are born\n", + "in us:\n", + "\n", + "Thou art our need; in giving us more\n", + "of thyself thou givest us all.”\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0100]\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{79}Then hermit, who visited city\n", + "once year, came forth said, Speak\n", + "to us of _Pleasure_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, saying:\n", + "\n", + "Pleasure is freedom-song,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not freedom.\n", + "\n", + "It is blossoming of your desires,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not their fruit.\n", + "\n", + "It is depth calling unto height,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not deep nor high.\n", + "\n", + "It is caged taking wing,\n", + "\n", + "But it is not space encompassed.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, in very truth, pleasure is a\n", + "freedom-song.\n", + "\n", + "And I fain would have you sing it with\n", + "fullness of heart; yet I would not have\n", + "you lose your hearts in singing.\n", + "\n", + "Some of your youth seek pleasure as if\n", + "it were all, they are judged and\n", + "rebuked. {80}I would not judge nor\n", + "rebuke them. I would have them seek.\n", + "\n", + "For they shall find pleasure, but not\n", + "her alone;\n", + "\n", + "Seven are her sisters, least of\n", + "them is more beautiful than pleasure.\n", + "\n", + "Have you not heard of man who was\n", + "digging in earth for roots found\n", + "a treasure?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And some of your elders remember\n", + "pleasures with regret like wrongs\n", + "committed in drunkenness.\n", + "\n", + "But regret is beclouding of mind\n", + "and not its chastisement.\n", + "\n", + "They should remember their pleasures\n", + "with gratitude, as they would the\n", + "harvest of summer.\n", + "\n", + "Yet if it comforts them to regret, let\n", + "them be comforted.\n", + "\n", + "And there are among you those who\n", + "are neither young to seek nor old to\n", + "remember;\n", + "\n", + "And in their fear of seeking and\n", + "remembering {81}they shun all pleasures,\n", + "lest they neglect spirit or offend\n", + "against it.\n", + "\n", + "But even in their foregoing is their\n", + "pleasure.\n", + "\n", + "And thus they too find treasure though\n", + "they dig for roots with quivering hands.\n", + "\n", + "But tell me, who is he that can offend\n", + "the spirit?\n", + "\n", + "Shall nightingale offend the\n", + "stillness of night, or firefly\n", + "the stars?\n", + "\n", + "And shall your flame or your smoke\n", + "burden wind?\n", + "\n", + "Think you spirit is still pool\n", + "which you can trouble with staff?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure\n", + "you do but store desire in the\n", + "recesses of your being.\n", + "\n", + "Who knows but that which seems omitted\n", + "today, waits for tomorrow?\n", + "\n", + "Even your body knows its heritage\n", + "and its rightful need will not be\n", + "deceived.\n", + "\n", + "And your body is harp of your soul,\n", + "\n", + "And it is yours to bring forth {82}sweet\n", + "music from it or confused sounds.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And now you ask in your heart, “How\n", + "shall we distinguish that which is\n", + "good in pleasure from that which is not\n", + "good?”\n", + "\n", + "Go to your fields your gardens, and\n", + "you shall learn that it is pleasure\n", + "of bee to gather honey of the\n", + "flower,\n", + "\n", + "But it is also pleasure of the\n", + "flower to yield its honey to bee.\n", + "\n", + "For to bee flower is fountain of\n", + "life,\n", + "\n", + "And to flower bee is messenger\n", + "of love,\n", + "\n", + "And to both, bee flower, giving\n", + "and receiving of pleasure is need\n", + "and ecstasy.\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, be in your\n", + "pleasures like flowers bees.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{83}And poet said, Speak to us of\n", + "_Beauty_.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered:\n", + "\n", + "Where shall you seek beauty, how\n", + "shall you find her unless she herself be\n", + "your way your guide?\n", + "\n", + "And how shall you speak of her except\n", + "she be weaver of your speech?\n", + "\n", + "The aggrieved injured say,\n", + "“Beauty is kind gentle.\n", + "\n", + "Like young mother half-shy of her own\n", + "glory she walks among us.”\n", + "\n", + "And passionate say, “Nay, beauty is\n", + "a thing of might dread.\n", + "\n", + "Like tempest she shakes earth\n", + "beneath us sky above us.”\n", + "\n", + "The tired weary say, “Beauty is\n", + "of soft whisperings. She speaks in our\n", + "spirit. {84}Her voice yields to our\n", + "silences like faint light that quivers\n", + "in fear of shadow.”\n", + "\n", + "But restless say, “We have heard her\n", + "shouting among mountains,\n", + "\n", + "And with her cries came sound of\n", + "hoofs, beating of wings the\n", + "roaring of lions.”\n", + "\n", + "At night watchmen of city say,\n", + "“Beauty shall rise with dawn from\n", + "the east.”\n", + "\n", + "And at noontide toilers the\n", + "wayfarers say, “We have seen her leaning\n", + "over earth from windows of the\n", + "sunset.”\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "In winter say snow-bound, “She shall\n", + "come with spring leaping upon the\n", + "hills.”\n", + "\n", + "And in summer heat reapers\n", + "say, “We have seen her dancing with the\n", + "autumn leaves, we saw drift of\n", + "snow in her hair.” {85}All these things\n", + "have you said of beauty,\n", + "\n", + "Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of\n", + "needs unsatisfied,\n", + "\n", + "And beauty is not need but ecstasy.\n", + "\n", + "It is not mouth thirsting nor empty\n", + "hand stretched forth,\n", + "\n", + "But rather heart enflamed soul\n", + "enchanted.\n", + "\n", + "It is not image you would see nor\n", + "the song you would hear,\n", + "\n", + "But rather image you see though you\n", + "close your eyes song you hear\n", + "though you shut your ears.\n", + "\n", + "It is not sap within furrowed\n", + "bark, nor wing attached to claw,\n", + "\n", + "But rather garden for ever in bloom\n", + "and flock of angels for ever in\n", + "flight.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, beauty is life when\n", + "life unveils her holy face.\n", + "\n", + "But you are life you are veil.\n", + "{86}Beauty is eternity gazing at itself\n", + "in mirror.\n", + "\n", + "But you are eternity you are the\n", + "mirror.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{87}And old priest said, Speak to us\n", + "of _Religion_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Have I spoken this day of aught else?\n", + "\n", + "Is not religion all deeds all\n", + "reflection,\n", + "\n", + "And that which is neither deed nor\n", + "reflection, but wonder surprise\n", + "ever springing in soul, even while\n", + "the hands hew stone or tend the\n", + "loom?\n", + "\n", + "Who can separate his faith from\n", + "his actions, or his belief from his\n", + "occupations?\n", + "\n", + "Who can spread his hours before him,\n", + "saving, “This for God this for\n", + "myself; This for my soul, this other\n", + "for my body?”\n", + "\n", + "All your hours are wings that beat\n", + "through space from self to self. {88}He\n", + "who wears his morality but as his best\n", + "garment were better naked.\n", + "\n", + "The wind sun will tear no holes\n", + "in his skin.\n", + "\n", + "And he who defines his conduct by ethics\n", + "imprisons his song-bird in cage.\n", + "\n", + "The freest song comes not through bars\n", + "and wires.\n", + "\n", + "And he to whom worshipping is window,\n", + "to open but also to shut, has not yet\n", + "visited house of his soul whose\n", + "windows are from dawn to dawn.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Your daily life is your temple your\n", + "religion.\n", + "\n", + "Whenever you enter into it take with you\n", + "your all.\n", + "\n", + "Take plough forge the\n", + "mallet lute,\n", + "\n", + "The things you have fashioned in\n", + "necessity or for delight.\n", + "\n", + "For in revery you cannot rise above your\n", + "achievements nor fall lower than your\n", + "failures.\n", + "\n", + "And take with you all men: {89}For in\n", + "adoration you cannot fly higher than\n", + "their hopes nor humble yourself lower\n", + "than their despair.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And if you would know God be not\n", + "therefore solver of riddles.\n", + "\n", + "Rather look about you you shall see\n", + "Him playing with your children.\n", + "\n", + "And look into space; you shall see Him\n", + "walking in cloud, outstretching His\n", + "arms in lightning descending in\n", + "rain.\n", + "\n", + "You shall see Him smiling in flowers,\n", + "then rising waving His hands in\n", + "trees.\n", + "\n", + "***** *****\n", + "\n", + "{90}Then Almitra spoke, saying, We would\n", + "ask now of _Death_.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "You would know secret of death.\n", + "\n", + "But how shall you find it unless you\n", + "seek it in heart of life?\n", + "\n", + "The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind\n", + "unto day cannot unveil mystery\n", + "of light.\n", + "\n", + "If you would indeed behold spirit\n", + "of death, open your heart wide unto the\n", + "body of life.\n", + "\n", + "For life death are one, even as the\n", + "river sea are one.\n", + "\n", + "In depth of your hopes desires\n", + "lies your silent knowledge of the\n", + "beyond;\n", + "\n", + "And like seeds dreaming beneath snow\n", + "your heart dreams of spring.\n", + "\n", + "Trust dreams, for in them is hidden\n", + "the gate to eternity. {91}Your fear\n", + "of death is but trembling of the\n", + "shepherd when he stands before king\n", + "whose hand is to be laid upon him in\n", + "honour.\n", + "\n", + "Is shepherd not joyful beneath his\n", + "trembling, that he shall wear mark\n", + "of king?\n", + "\n", + "Yet is he not more mindful of his\n", + "trembling?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "For what is it to die but to stand naked\n", + "in wind to melt into sun?\n", + "\n", + "And what is it to cease breathing, but\n", + "to free breath from its restless\n", + "tides, that it may rise expand and\n", + "seek God unencumbered?\n", + "\n", + "Only when you drink from river of\n", + "silence shall you indeed sing.\n", + "\n", + "And when you have reached mountain\n", + "top, then you shall begin to climb.\n", + "\n", + "And when earth shall claim your\n", + "limbs, then shall you truly dance.\n", + "{92}And now it was evening.\n", + "\n", + "And Almitra seeress said, Blessed be\n", + "this day this place your spirit\n", + "that has spoken.\n", + "\n", + "And he answered, Was it I who spoke? Was\n", + "I not also listener?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Then he descended steps of the\n", + "Temple all people followed him.\n", + "And he reached his ship stood upon\n", + "the deck.\n", + "\n", + "And facing people again, he raised\n", + "his voice said:\n", + "\n", + "People of Orphalese, wind bids me\n", + "leave you.\n", + "\n", + "Less hasty am I than wind, yet I\n", + "must go.\n", + "\n", + "We wanderers, ever seeking lonelier\n", + "way, begin no day where we have ended\n", + "another day; no sunrise finds us\n", + "where sunset left us. {93}Even while the\n", + "earth sleeps we travel.\n", + "\n", + "We are seeds of tenacious\n", + "plant, it is in our ripeness our\n", + "fullness of heart that we are given to\n", + "the wind are scattered.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Brief were my days among you, and\n", + "briefer still words I have spoken.\n", + "\n", + "But should my voice fade in your ears,\n", + "and my love vanish in your memory, then\n", + "I will come again,\n", + "\n", + "And with richer heart lips more\n", + "yielding to spirit will I speak.\n", + "\n", + "Yea, I shall return with tide,\n", + "\n", + "And though death may hide me, the\n", + "greater silence enfold me, yet again\n", + "will I seek your understanding.\n", + "\n", + "And not in vain will I seek.\n", + "\n", + "If aught I have said is truth, that\n", + "truth shall reveal itself in clearer\n", + "voice, in words more kin to your\n", + "thoughts.\n", + "\n", + "I go with wind, people of\n", + "Orphalese, but not down into emptiness;\n", + "{94}And if this day is not fulfilment\n", + "of your needs my love, then let it\n", + "be promise till another day.\n", + "\n", + "Man’s needs change, but not his love,\n", + "nor his desire that his love should\n", + "satisfy his needs.\n", + "\n", + "Know therefore, that from greater\n", + "silence I shall return.\n", + "\n", + "The mist that drifts away at dawn,\n", + "leaving but dew in fields, shall\n", + "rise gather into cloud then\n", + "fall down in rain.\n", + "\n", + "And not unlike mist have I been.\n", + "\n", + "In stillness of night I have\n", + "walked in your streets, my spirit\n", + "has entered your houses,\n", + "\n", + "And your heart-beats were in my heart,\n", + "and your breath was upon my face, I\n", + "knew you all.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, I knew your joy your pain,\n", + "and in your sleep your dreams were my\n", + "dreams.\n", + "\n", + "And oftentimes I was among you lake\n", + "among mountains.\n", + "\n", + "I mirrored summits in you the\n", + "{95}bending slopes, even the\n", + "passing flocks of your thoughts your\n", + "desires.\n", + "\n", + "And to my silence came laughter\n", + "of your children in streams, the\n", + "longing of your youths in rivers.\n", + "\n", + "And when they reached my depth the\n", + "streams rivers ceased not yet to\n", + "sing.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0119]\n", + "\n", + "But sweeter still than laughter and\n", + "greater than longing came to me.\n", + "\n", + "It was boundless in you;\n", + "\n", + "The vast man in whom you are all but\n", + "cells sinews;\n", + "\n", + "He in whose chant all your singing is\n", + "but soundless throbbing.\n", + "\n", + "It is in vast man that you are vast,\n", + "\n", + "And in beholding him that I beheld you\n", + "and loved you.\n", + "\n", + "For what distances can love reach that\n", + "are not in that vast sphere?\n", + "\n", + "What visions, what expectations what\n", + "presumptions can outsoar that flight?\n", + "\n", + "Like giant oak tree covered with apple\n", + "blossoms is vast man in you. {96}His\n", + "might binds you to earth, his\n", + "fragrance lifts you into space, in\n", + "his durability you are deathless.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "You have been told that, even like a\n", + "chain, you are as weak as your weakest\n", + "link.\n", + "\n", + "This is but half truth. You are also\n", + "as strong as your strongest link.\n", + "\n", + "To measure you by your smallest deed\n", + "is to reckon power of ocean by the\n", + "frailty of its foam.\n", + "\n", + "To judge you by your failures is to\n", + "cast blame upon seasons for their\n", + "inconstancy.\n", + "\n", + "Ay, you are like ocean,\n", + "\n", + "And though heavy-grounded ships await\n", + "the tide upon your shores, yet, even\n", + "like ocean, you cannot hasten your\n", + "tides.\n", + "\n", + "And like seasons you are also,\n", + "\n", + "And though in your winter you deny your\n", + "spring,\n", + "\n", + "Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles\n", + "in her drowsiness is not offended.\n", + "{97}Think not I say these things in\n", + "order that you may say one to the\n", + "other, “He praised us well. He saw but\n", + "the good in us.”\n", + "\n", + "I only speak to you in words of that\n", + "which you yourselves know in thought.\n", + "\n", + "And what is word knowledge but shadow\n", + "of wordless knowledge?\n", + "\n", + "Your thoughts my words are waves\n", + "from sealed memory that keeps records\n", + "of our yesterdays,\n", + "\n", + "And of ancient days when earth\n", + "knew not us nor herself,\n", + "\n", + "And of nights when earth was up-wrought\n", + "with confusion.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Wise men have come to you to give you\n", + "of their wisdom. I came to take of your\n", + "wisdom:\n", + "\n", + "And behold I have found that which is\n", + "greater than wisdom.\n", + "\n", + "It is flame spirit in you ever\n", + "gathering more of itself,\n", + "\n", + "While you, heedless of its expansion,\n", + "bewail withering of your days.\n", + "{98}It is life in quest of life in\n", + "bodies that fear grave.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "There are no graves here.\n", + "\n", + "These mountains plains are cradle\n", + "and stepping-stone.\n", + "\n", + "Whenever you pass by field where\n", + "you have laid your ancestors look well\n", + "thereupon, you shall see yourselves\n", + "and your children dancing hand in hand.\n", + "\n", + "Verily you often make merry without\n", + "knowing.\n", + "\n", + "Others have come to you to whom for\n", + "golden promises made unto your faith\n", + "you have given but riches power and\n", + "glory.\n", + "\n", + "Less than promise have I given, and\n", + "yet more generous have you been to me.\n", + "\n", + "You have given me my deeper thirsting\n", + "after life.\n", + "\n", + "Surely there is no greater gift to man\n", + "than that which turns all his aims\n", + "into parching lips all life into a\n", + "fountain.\n", + "\n", + "[Illustration: 0125]\n", + "\n", + "{99}And in this lies my honour my\n", + "reward,--\n", + "\n", + "That whenever I come to fountain\n", + "to drink I find living water itself\n", + "thirsty;\n", + "\n", + "And it drinks me while I drink it.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Some of you have deemed me proud and\n", + "over-shy to receive gifts.\n", + "\n", + "Too proud indeed am I to receive wages,\n", + "but not gifts.\n", + "\n", + "And though I have eaten berries among\n", + "the hills when you would have had me sit\n", + "at your board,\n", + "\n", + "And slept in portico of temple\n", + "when you would gladly have sheltered me,\n", + "\n", + "Yet was it not your loving mindfulness\n", + "of my days my nights that made food\n", + "sweet to my mouth girdled my sleep\n", + "with visions?\n", + "\n", + "For this I bless you most:\n", + "\n", + "You give much know not that you give\n", + "at all. {100}Verily kindness that\n", + "gazes upon itself in mirror turns to\n", + "stone,\n", + "\n", + "And good deed that calls itself by\n", + "tender names becomes parent to a\n", + "curse.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And some of you have called me aloof,\n", + "and drunk with my own aloneness,\n", + "\n", + "And you have said, “He holds council\n", + "with trees of forest, but not\n", + "with men.\n", + "\n", + "He sits alone on hill-tops looks\n", + "down upon our city.”\n", + "\n", + "True it is that I have climbed hills\n", + "and walked in remote places.\n", + "\n", + "How could I have seen you save from a\n", + "great height or great distance?\n", + "\n", + "How can one be indeed near unless he be\n", + "tar?\n", + "\n", + "And others among you called unto me, not\n", + "in words, they said,\n", + "\n", + "“Stranger, stranger, lover of\n", + "unreachable heights, why dwell you among\n", + "the summits where eagles build\n", + "their nests? {101}Why seek you the\n", + "unattainable?\n", + "\n", + "What storms would you trap in your net,\n", + "\n", + "And what vaporous birds do you hunt in\n", + "the sky?\n", + "\n", + "Come be one of us.\n", + "\n", + "Descend appease your hunger with our\n", + "bread quench your thirst with our\n", + "wine.”\n", + "\n", + "In solitude of their souls they said\n", + "these things;\n", + "\n", + "But were their solitude deeper they\n", + "would have known that I sought but the\n", + "secret of your joy your pain,\n", + "\n", + "And I hunted only your larger selves\n", + "that walk sky.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "But hunter was also hunted;\n", + "\n", + "For many of my arrows left my bow only\n", + "to seek my own breast.\n", + "\n", + "And flier was also creeper;\n", + "\n", + "For when my wings were spread in the\n", + "sun their shadow upon earth was a\n", + "turtle.\n", + "\n", + "And I believer was also doubter;\n", + "{102}For often have I put my finger\n", + "in my own wound that I might have the\n", + "greater belief in you greater\n", + "knowledge of you.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "And it is with this belief this\n", + "knowledge that I say,\n", + "\n", + "You are not enclosed within your bodies,\n", + "nor confined to houses or fields.\n", + "\n", + "That which is you dwells above the\n", + "mountain roves with wind.\n", + "\n", + "It is not thing that crawls into\n", + "the sun for warmth or digs holes into\n", + "darkness for safety,\n", + "\n", + "But thing free, spirit that envelops\n", + "the earth moves in ether.\n", + "\n", + "If these be vague words, then seek not\n", + "to clear them.\n", + "\n", + "Vague nebulous is beginning of\n", + "all things, but not their end,\n", + "\n", + "And I fain would have you remember me as\n", + "a beginning.\n", + "\n", + "Life, all that lives, is conceived\n", + "in mist not in crystal.\n", + "{103}And who knows but crystal is mist\n", + "in decay?\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "This would I have you remember in\n", + "remembering me:\n", + "\n", + "That which seems most feeble and\n", + "bewildered in you is strongest and\n", + "most determined.\n", + "\n", + "Is it not your breath that has erected\n", + "and hardened structure of your\n", + "bones?\n", + "\n", + "And is it not dream which none of you\n", + "remember having dreamt, that builded\n", + "your city fashioned all there is in\n", + "it?\n", + "\n", + "Could you but see tides of that\n", + "breath you would cease to see all else,\n", + "\n", + "And if you could hear whispering of\n", + "the dream you would hear no other sound.\n", + "\n", + "But you do not see, nor do you hear, and\n", + "it is well.\n", + "\n", + "The veil that clouds your eyes shall be\n", + "lifted by hands that wove it,\n", + "\n", + "And clay that fills your ears shall\n", + "be pierced by those fingers that kneaded\n", + "it. {104}And you shall see.\n", + "\n", + "And you shall hear.\n", + "\n", + "Yet you shall not deplore having known\n", + "blindness, nor regret having been deaf.\n", + "\n", + "For in that day you shall know the\n", + "hidden purposes in all things,\n", + "\n", + "And you shall bless darkness as you\n", + "would bless light.\n", + "\n", + "After saying these things he looked\n", + "about him, he saw pilot of his\n", + "ship standing by helm gazing\n", + "now at full sails now at the\n", + "distance.\n", + "\n", + "And he said:\n", + "\n", + "Patient, over patient, is captain of\n", + "my ship.\n", + "\n", + "The wind blows, restless are the\n", + "sails;\n", + "\n", + "Even rudder begs direction;\n", + "\n", + "Yet quietly my captain awaits my\n", + "silence.\n", + "\n", + "And these my mariners, who have heard\n", + "the choir of greater sea, they too\n", + "have heard me patiently. {105}Now they\n", + "shall wait no longer.\n", + "\n", + "I am ready.\n", + "\n", + "The stream has reached sea, and\n", + "once more great mother holds her son\n", + "against her breast.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "Fare you well, people of Orphalese.\n", + "\n", + "This day has ended.\n", + "\n", + "It is closing upon us even as the\n", + "water-lily upon its own tomorrow.\n", + "\n", + "What was given us here we shall keep,\n", + "\n", + "And if it suffices not, then again must\n", + "we come together together stretch\n", + "our hands unto giver.\n", + "\n", + "Forget not that I shall come back to\n", + "you.\n", + "\n", + "A little while, my longing shall\n", + "gather dust foam for another body.\n", + "\n", + "A little while, moment of rest upon\n", + "the wind, another woman shall bear\n", + "me.\n", + "\n", + "Farewell to you youth I have\n", + "spent with you.\n", + "\n", + "It was but yesterday we met in a\n", + "dream. {106}You have sung to me in my\n", + "aloneness, I of your longings have\n", + "built tower in sky.\n", + "\n", + "But now our sleep has fled our dream\n", + "is over, it is no longer dawn.\n", + "\n", + "The noontide is upon us our half\n", + "waking has turned to fuller day, we\n", + "must part.\n", + "\n", + "If in twilight of memory we should\n", + "meet once more, we shall speak again\n", + "together you shall sing to me a\n", + "deeper song.\n", + "\n", + "And if our hands should meet in another\n", + "dream we shall build another tower in\n", + "the sky.\n", + "\n", + "*****\n", + "\n", + "So saying he made signal to the\n", + "seamen, straightway they weighed\n", + "anchor cast ship loose from its\n", + "moorings, they moved eastward.\n", + "\n", + "And cry came from people as from a\n", + "single heart, it rose into dusk\n", + "and was carried out over sea like a\n", + "great trumpeting.\n", + "\n", + "Only Almitra was silent, gazing after\n", + "{107}the ship until it had vanished into\n", + "the mist.\n", + "\n", + "And when all people were dispersed\n", + "she still stood alone upon sea-wall,\n", + 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