And if perchance the gods declare against us,
and we pass from the world together, then I think, oh! then I think that
I shall give you finer gifts than these, though what they are I know not
yet, since to the power of love there is no end--here on earth or yonder
in the skies."
I stared at her face in the starlight, and oh! it had grown splendid.
No longer was it that of a woman, since through it, like light through
pearl, shone a soul divine. It might have been a goddess who stood
beside me, for those eyes were holy and her embrace that wrapped me
close was not that of the flesh alone.
"I must be gone," she whispered, "but now I go without fear. Perchance
we may not speak again for long, but trust me always. Play your part and
I will play mine. Follow me wherever I am taken and keep near to me,
if you may, as ever my spirit shall be near to you. Then what matters
anything, even if we are slain? Farewell, beloved, kiss me and
farewell."
Another moment and she had glided away and was lost in the shadows.
She was gone, and I stood amazed and overcome.
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