while her parted lips also seemed to whisper some tale of hope sure and immortal at length she rose and came into my chamber thou me fallen and dost grieve for me she said in a gentle voice knowing my lest some such fate should overtake my lord ay i grieve for thee as for myself spare then thy pity since although the human part of me would have kept him on the earth now my spirit doth rejoice that for a while he has burst his mortal bonds for many an age although i knew it not in my proud of the universal law i have against his true and mine thrice have i and angel strength with strength and thrice has he conquered me yet as he bore away his prize this night he whispered wisdom in my ear this was his message that in death is love s home in death its strength that from the house of life this love springs again and pure to reign a conqueror for therefore i wipe away my tears and once more a of peace i to join him whom we hare lost there where be us as it is granted to me that i do but am selfish and forgot thou friend i bid thee sleep id i slept wondering as ray eyes closed whence strange confidence and comfort i know hut it was there real and not assumed i can only therefore that some illumination bad fallen on her soul and that as she stated the love and end of in a way unknown did suffice to satisfy her court of sins at the least those sins and all the load of death that lay at her door never seemed to trouble her at all she appeared to look upon them merely as events which were destined to occur as inevitable fruits of a seed long ago by the hand of fate for whose workings she was not responsible the fears and considerations which weigh with mortals did not or her in this as in other matters was a unto herself v i awoke it was day and through the saw the rain that the people of had so long desired falling in one straight sheet i saw also that seated by the form of was giving orders to her priests and captains and to some � survived the slaughter of as to the new of the land then i slept again it was evening and stood at my bedside all is prepared she said awake and ride with so we went escorted by a thousand cavalry for the rest stayed to occupy or perchance to plunder the land of in front the body of was borne by of priests and behind it rode the veiled i at her side the passing of strange was the contrast between this departure our arrival then the rushing the elements that tlie perpetual of seen through the swinging curtains of the hail the voices of despair from an army rolled in blood beneath the chariot wheels of thunder now the white draped corpse the slow pacing horses the with their reversed and oo side seen in that melancholy moonlight the women of ing their innumerable dead and herself yesterday a with tlie star of flame to day but a woman following her husband to the tomb yet how they feared her some widow standing the grave mould she had dug pointed as we passed to the body of uttering bitter words which i could not catch her companions flung themselves upon her and her with fist and themselves upon the ground throwing dust on their hair in token of their submission to the of death saw them and said to me with something of her ancient fire and pride � i tread the plain of no more j et as a parting gift have i read this high people a lesson that they needed long not for many a generation o will they dare to lift spear against the college of and its subject tribes again it was night and where once lay that of the the man whom he had killed by the burning pillars the of stood in the inmost before the statue of the mother whose gentle eyes seemed to search his quiet face on her throne sat the veiled giving commands to her priests and i am weary she said and it may be that i j you for a while to rest � be the mountains a or a years � i cannot say if so let as her and husband and their seed hold my place till i return a n priests ant of the college of over new have i held my hand take them as an from me and rule them well and gently henceforth let the of the mountain be also tlie of in priests and of our ancient faith learn to look through its rites and tokens outward and visible to the in forming spirit if the goddess never ruled on earth still pitying nature rules if the name of never rang through the courts of heaven still in heaven with all love fulfilled nursing her human children on her breast dwells the mighty where of this statue is the symbol tliat which bore us and faithful will receive us at the end � for of the bread of bitterness we shall not always eat of the water of tears we shall not always drink beyond the night the royal ride on ever the rainbow shines around the rain though they slip from our clutching hands like melted snow the lives we lose shall yet be found immortal and from the burnt out fires of our human hopes will spring a heavenly star she paused and waved her hand as though to dismiss them then added by an after thought pointing to this man is my beloved friend 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