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+Title: The Stars in the Pool
+       A Prose Poem for Lovers
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+Author: Edna Kingsley Wallace
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+THE STARS IN THE POOL
+
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+
+THE
+
+STARS IN
+
+THE POOL
+
+_A Prose Poem for Lovers_
+
+BY
+
+EDNA KINGSLEY WALLACE
+
+_Author of "Feelings and Things," "Wonderings and Other Things"_
+
+[Decoration]
+
+NEW YORK
+
+E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
+
+681 FIFTH AVENUE
+
+
+_Copyright 1920_
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+_By E. P. DUTTON & CO._
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+_All Rights Reserved_
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+_Printed in the United States of America_
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+THE STARS IN THE POOL
+
+
+
+
+_The Stars in the Pool_
+
+
+
+
+I.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _The Castle_]
+
+Midmost of a forest of weaving lights and shadows, of dreaming winds,
+and fragrance wandering, there stood a great white castle, fair, and
+gleaming in the sun. Massive it was, yet high as well, so that it caught
+all colours of the dawn and sunset, like unto some peak of snow, remote
+from men.
+
+[Sidenote: _Good King Telwyn_]
+
+Within the castle dwelt the good King Telwyn, lord of all that forest
+realm, wherein at whiles were clearings, with orchards and vineyards,
+and fields of all manner of grain good for man and beast. And with the
+King was Ellaline, the Queen, beloved and beautiful, and mother of
+Roseheart, whom Telwyn her father, old and wise, knew for the tenderest
+thought of God in woman form.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Beauty of Roseheart_]
+
+Fair as the dawn was Roseheart, and about her a freshness like that of
+babes. There was in her hair the ruddiness of tried gold, spun into a
+web to catch the sun. Like the sky in the East at twilight were her
+eyes, and the dark brows thereof as a flight of bird's wings. The mouth
+of her was crimson, and fresh, and young, and curved so tenderly
+withal, that none looking upon her might fail to love her with the love
+that leaps into the heart for all young things of fair seeming and
+promise.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Isle of Lokus_]
+
+[Sidenote: _Lokus Remembereth his Youth_]
+
+Now upon a day came overseas to Telwyn's realm one like a young god
+invincible, Flame, son of Lokus, lord of a far island, wherein were
+fiery mountains having their roots in the sea. It was a land of wondrous
+beauty, but they that dwelt therein, rich though they were, for that the
+land was exceeding fertile, yielding in fullest measure the fruits of
+the earth, yet dwelt ever in danger betwixt the mountains and the sea.
+For there had been times when living fire had rolled down the mountains,
+and the earth had been shaken mightily, and the sea, in a huge wall of
+emerald, had fallen upon the land and overwhelmed it. And Lokus, giving
+thought to these things, had deep desire that the son of his heart
+should escape these dangers, and live out his years in peace and
+happiness. And for that the youth was ever of the mind to fashion of the
+clay of the earth whatsoever things he saw, and might in nowise be
+withheld from the cunning of his hands, it came into the mind of Lokus
+that it were poor kindness to the child of his love to constrain him to
+courts and statecraft. For Lokus remembered his own youth, and the
+struggle thereof, when that his father had denied him the life of his
+own gift, which, darkling long, now sought in the son of his body and
+spirit its life to the glory of God.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Gifts of Flame_]
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame and the Salt Sea_]
+
+Wherefore Lokus had called his son to him, and had bidden him to go
+straitly to the friend of his own youth, the wise King Telwyn, who would
+teach him somewhat of life and living in the great world. But more than
+for the ways and wit of men did Flame have thought for all things
+beautiful in form. Right well he loved to liven clay to semblance of
+young maids and children, mothers, and old men wise with living. Ever
+into their faces he put somewhat no other man might see in them. At
+whiles, shapes of beauty like to nought that he had seen swam before his
+vision, but swiftly they faded, and he rubbed his eyes, and looked as he
+were silly. Wherefore men called him Dreamer. Yet with all this had he
+little thought for what the Lord God had meant in the making of the
+world, being well content in this his youth that by the instinct of his
+fingers, and no thought withal, he could please the good folk with
+happy likeness of themselves. Tall and straight was Flame, with hair
+like fire seen through smoke, and with skin like ripe olives in the
+light of the going sun. Firm his mouth, and his brow both high and wide.
+In his eyes were all the changing lights and colours of the sea. And it
+was as if the salt sea were in his blood, so that when he flamed in the
+wont of youth and joy, it seemed like driftwood burning, leaping,
+flowering, in all the colours known of men.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Birth of Love_]
+
+And Flame, son of Lokus, looking upon the Princess Roseheart, drew one
+great breath, and loved her with the love of a man's heart. And
+Roseheart, when she looked into the eyes of Flame, and his heart
+therein, knew him for her lord, and loved him wholly.
+
+[Sidenote: _Their Troth Plighted_]
+
+Wherewith, Telwyn the King, her father, seeing these things, pondered
+the youth, and when he had questioned him straitly, was in nowise loath
+that the thing should be. For Telwyn was a wise man and discerning, and
+found Flame a goodly youth, and nought against him for an husband to the
+Princess, his daughter. Then was their troth plighted, yet were they
+over young to wed, and Telwyn the King spake plain words to Flame, that
+it were well he should prove himself in some wise ere he should claim
+for bride the Princess Roseheart.
+
+
+
+
+II.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _The Pool_]
+
+Now some way from the castle, deep in the forest, was set a Pool, so
+deep and still that in its depths was imaged all that bent above its
+brim--the fluttering leaves, and long-stemmed flowers, the flashing
+flight of birds, and white-winged argosies of cloud. And so shadowed it
+was, and so deep beyond depth, that he who looked as far as he might
+could see the stars of heaven mirrored therein.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Faces of Love_]
+
+Daylong did Flame feed the hunger of his eyes on the beauty of his
+beloved, as clad in kirtle of forest-green, girt with gold, she knelt at
+the edge of the Pool, or laughing, chased the butterflies, to woo them
+to her lips and hair. At whiles deep quiet came upon them as they bent
+above the Pool, seeing nought of all it held save only the two faces of
+love that looked therein.
+
+[Sidenote: _Earthlove Sprite Invisible_]
+
+Upon a day at the hour of golden noon, when all the land swam in a haze
+of beauty, a flickering brightness came and passed, when Earthlove,
+sprite invisible, touched with his lips these twain, and with a lilt of
+laughter rode away athwart a sunbeam. Thereafter did Flame kiss
+Roseheart long, upon the mouth, and trembling, gazed into her eyes that
+were like still pools, wherein was nought save his own image, more
+beautiful than life. And Flame's heart swelled within him, lordly-wise,
+for that he dwelt so in the eyes and the heart of his beloved. And in
+the eyes of Flame was nought save Roseheart imaged, but swaying as it
+were on a surging wave wherethrough ran all the changing lights and
+colours of the sea.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Old Gray Woman_]
+
+But when it was some while since these things had befallen, the dusk
+was come, all suddenly, and there passed strangely over the Pool a
+shivering, and from it rose a mist that hid it. The heart of Flame was
+troubled, and lifting his eyes to see what was toward, he saw before him
+momently a figure of sorrow, Wur, the Old Gray Woman of Shadows, whose
+eyes were as misty pools at twilight, her hair as cobwebs matted, and
+her garments as the wings of the dusk. Yet upon her, nathless, was a
+wistful beauty as of moonlight, wherein were all things wondrous.
+
+[Sidenote: _Of Sorrow_]
+
+"Behold!" said Flame in wonder to the maid Roseheart, but she was in
+fear of somewhat that was as a thing known and not known, and would not
+look, but turned her face to his breast. And Flame spoke unto the Old
+Gray Woman of Shadows, saying, "Gray One, I pray thee, what wouldst
+thou?"
+
+[Sidenote: _The Way of Destiny_]
+
+She answered, and her voice was as the winds of autumn, through bare
+branches: "I am Sorrow, and the Way of Destiny, and the Shadow of Things
+to be. The flower fadeth, and the flesh falleth away as a garment, but
+the seed and the soul shall not perish, except the seed fall on barren
+ground, and the soul feed upon the body alone. Ponder ye these things in
+your hearts." And in a breath she was gone, leaving upon them a chill
+as of the winter death.
+
+[Sidenote: _Earthlove Once More_]
+
+Wherefore was Flame of grievous mind for that he did not understand
+these things. And Roseheart clung to him weeping, the while he gave her
+such sweet comfort as he might. Long he looked upon her in wonder, at
+the spun gold of her hair, the white shining about her brows, her deep,
+still eyes wherein was nought but his image, her mouth fashioned to joy
+and love, and her slender body, curving to the grace of womanhood. And
+once again Earthlove, sprite invisible, touched him, and stung him, and
+his heart surged with love of the maid, and his man's desire grew great
+within him.
+
+She stirred, and looked into his eyes, and shrank away, for therein was
+that which affrighted the peace of her soul. Looking, she saw not only
+her fair face, but her whole white body, drifting in the sea-surge of
+his eyes, wherein were all the changing lights and colours of the sea.
+
+[Sidenote: _Sea-Surge and Fire-Bloom_]
+
+And the soul of Roseheart was faint with the far music of the sea-surge
+that was the soul of Flame. Yet being but a young maid, she was in fear
+also, saying, "Flame! Thou dishonourest me!" and freed herself, and
+sped away fleetly.
+
+And upon the youth was shame, but a new strength therewith, so that he
+refrained him from following her, and cast himself upon the ground and
+wept, for that he had affrighted the innocence of Roseheart whom his
+soul loved. And a great cry for succor grew in him, and he prayed full
+heartily to the Lord God that He would show him His will.
+
+[Sidenote: _Senta the Radiant One_]
+
+Thereafter, feeling a presence, he looked up, and his eyes were blinded
+with a great light, and he covered his eyes, and bowed his head. Before
+him, in garments more shining than the noonday sun, stood Senta, the
+Radiant One. She spake, and her voice had the beauty of the sea in
+storm, when sudden sunlight, flaming from the West, gives rainbow
+colours to the flying foam: "Hearken, Flame, to the voice of Vision,
+which the Lord God put into thy soul when thou wast born. From this day
+forth shalt thou rest not, but follow thy dream through all the earth
+and across the seas. At the last shalt thou find that thou seekest, for
+so is it written, but thou shalt not know the manner of thy finding, nor
+may I tell thee. Sleep."
+
+[Sidenote: _The Vision_]
+
+[Sidenote: _The Woman of Radiance_]
+
+And upon Flame came sleep as the sleep of the sea at sunrise, midmost
+of the summer, whenas the glory of the sky is a great magic in the sea,
+swinging as a censer to and fro, that the Lord God may be honoured of
+the wonders He hath made. Now the dream of Flame was a dream of
+womanhood--of women beautiful as dawn or flowers, of women whose fair
+seeming covered evil, women good and women false, maids and mothers and
+harlots, drifting, thronging, clamouring, praying, fawning,
+passing--until at last came one clad in shining garments, fashioned full
+seemly, of white silk that flowed and clung, revealing gracious lines of
+her form who walked stately-wise, with little children about her knees.
+And Flame saw that her form was radiance, and her eyes were stars, but
+he might not discern the fashion of her face for the light thereof. And
+he was sore troubled that the seeming of her face was withholden from
+him, for he knew in his soul that he had somewhat to do with her.
+
+[Sidenote: _Mother of Men_]
+
+Came once more the voice of Senta the Radiant One: "Flame, Maker of
+Images, attend my words. This woman shalt thou seek throughout the
+world, forasmuch as she is the dream of dreams in thy soul. In the
+fullness of thy manhood shalt thou fashion her in pure marble, and she
+shall be called Mother of Men. As for thee, thou shalt be called the
+Giver of Dreams. Awake."
+
+And Senta the Radiant One, passing, gathered to her breast with one
+swift motion the sprite Earthlove, that had revealed to her Flame and
+Roseheart in their need to be taught the wisdom of life which they knew
+not.
+
+
+
+
+III.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _Senta Taketh Earthlove_]
+
+[Sidenote: _Dreams and Awakening_]
+
+And when that Senta had taken Earthlove unto herself, and had passed,
+the evening was come, and there were stars a-many in the depths of Pool.
+Therewith, looking upon them, a great peace came upon Flame, and being
+weary, he laid himself down that he might sleep and be refreshed. And as
+he slept, he dreamed of that woman whose form was radiance, and whose
+eyes were stars. And his fingers stirred, and sought to fashion out of
+the earth her form of beauty; but all crumbled under his touch, and he
+might not.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Queen and her Women_]
+
+When the morning was come, and upon all things lay new freshness as of
+the world's beginning, the youth Flame arose and stripped him, and
+plunged his body in the Pool that sleep might be shaken from him.
+Whereafter he got him to the castle, and when that he had stayed his
+hunger with bread and new milk, asked that he might have speech with his
+troth-plight, the Princess Roseheart. Then a serving-man led him through
+many halls to a great room wherein with their women sat Roseheart and
+the Queen her mother.
+
+[Sidenote: _Beauty Added unto Beauty_]
+
+And there, in seemly raiment of soft colours, crimson, and the brown of
+old wood, and fresh green, the women sat before their looms, and their
+frames wherein rich broidery grew under their white fingers. And over
+all was sunlight, a flickering whereof was made by blown vines without
+the casements, which were open to the morn. There was the whisper of
+silk, and much babble of talk, after the fashion of women working.
+Shuttles flew in the looms, and white arms wondrous fair in motion drew
+forth long silken threads, being wrought into fine stuffs, to the end
+that beauty might be added unto beauty.
+
+[Sidenote: _Roseheart is Troubled_]
+
+Queen Ellaline sat very still in the midst of these her women. Of
+delicate fashion she was, and gentle. Her eyes were widely set, and
+blue, and mother-sweet, and her hair was silvering with the caress of
+the years. And she was sad in the midst of sunshine, forasmuch as she
+was troubled at the mien of the maid, her daughter, who sat with
+drooping head and still hands. And in good sooth, the heart of the
+Princess was heavy within her, and no little in fear. Nightlong had she
+seen the vision of Flame, in whose eyes like the sea lay her white body
+floating. Never before since he had loved her had she seen aught but her
+soul's self therein, and she was troubled.
+
+[Sidenote: _Roseheart is Troubled_]
+
+[Sidenote: _Mother of Men_]
+
+And now Flame, son of Lokus, lord of that far isle of sea-surge and
+fire-bloom, entered in courtly wise this room of work and idleness, of
+gayety and gossip, and of love perplexed. In reverent greeting did he
+kiss the hand of Queen Ellaline; then turning him to the Princess
+Roseheart, he took both of her white hands in his, seeking to look into
+her eyes. And soon, for her love of him she might not refrain, and
+bravely gave them to his seeing. And for that she was shamefast, in the
+way of a maid, she looked as one that saw not. But in the eyes of
+Roseheart, he who loved her saw as he was wont only the image and
+seeming of himself. And he was sorrowful therewith, forasmuch as he had
+thought mayhap to find in the eyes of his love the twin stars of the
+woman of his dream. But the thing was not. And remembering the Radiant
+One, and the things that she had said, he knew that, will-he, nill-he,
+he must fare forth in quest of that woman whose form was radiance, and
+whose eyes were stars--her from whom he should fashion his Mother of
+Men.
+
+Then spake Ellaline, the Queen, with quiet voice, saying, "What wouldst
+thou, Flame, son of Lokus? My daughter Roseheart hath seeming of some
+ill-hap with which thou hast to do."
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame Speaketh Plainly_]
+
+[Sidenote: _The Pain of Roseheart_]
+
+Therewith did Flame drop the hands of Roseheart his love, and standing
+before the Queen her mother, he spake on this wise: "I know not what
+this thing may be, but somewhat hath been laid upon my will, so that
+choice it hath none. Wherefore, though thy daughter Roseheart is as the
+blood of my heart to me, and fain would I take her to wife straightway,
+yet first must I go across the sea, and through all the earth, until I
+find a certain woman whose form is radiance and whose eyes are stars,
+that I may fashion of her in pure marble a Mother of Men that shall
+fulfill the dream of my soul. Not of my willing is this thing laid upon
+me. But the Lord God when I was born put into my soul the vision, and
+into my hands the cunning to fashion the shape of my vision. Therefore
+must I go, and abide the will of the Lord God lest He destroy me.
+Whether I shall return I know not, for many will be the perils of the
+way, but in my heart meseems I know that I shall return and take to
+wife the maid Roseheart, whom in all honour I love and cherish."
+
+[Sidenote: _A White Stillness_]
+
+Hearing these words at the last, Roseheart found somewhat of courage
+beyond that she had had, and looked into the eyes of Flame. Therein was
+no longer her own white body, as she had feared to see, but the noble
+form of a woman whose white silken draperies flowed and clung, whose
+form was radiance, and whose eyes were stars. With her were little
+children. And Roseheart, gazing, beheld the form of radiance, and the
+faces of the children, as somewhat known, and not known, and in her
+heart was a white stillness, and no anger that Flame would leave her to
+seek this woman, but only the pain of longing, and a meekness like that
+of Mary, the Blessed Mother.
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame, His Farewell_]
+
+Flame, pitiful of the still sorrow of Roseheart, clasped her to his
+breast, and kissed her thrice upon the forehead. But the Lure of the Way
+of Life was upon him, and turning strongly from the maid and the Queen,
+her mother, he said: "Good greeting must I give you, from the heart, and
+long farewell, for that I must be about the business the Lord God hath
+set me. But ere I go, I would see Telwyn, and speak with him of that I
+have to do."
+
+
+
+
+IV.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame, His Farewell_]
+
+All silently they three together sought Telwyn, the King, but now
+returned from the hunt, and sitting at meat with his men in the great
+banquet hall of the castle.
+
+[Sidenote: _King Telwyn_]
+
+A mighty man of sorts was Telwyn. Fierce in war, yet had he also a great
+love of peace, of beauty, of mirth and joy, and of his food and wine.
+Also had he great discernment for the true things in the hearts of men.
+Wherefore, seeing sorrow and heaviness in the faces of the three whom he
+loved, who would have speech with him, he bade his men-at-arms and
+serving-men depart.
+
+[Sidenote: _The King Pondereth_]
+
+When that he had listened all quietly to the words of Flame, there first
+came anger into his heart, and a mist upon his sight, for that
+Roseheart, his daughter, who was as the remembered joy of his youth,
+should be in woe for the going from her of Flame, Son of Lokus, to
+follow the gleam of stars in the eyes of the woman of his dream. Yet was
+Telwyn proud, and would constrain no man to take unreadily his daughter
+Roseheart; and just, for that he remembered what he had said to the
+youth, that it were well he should prove himself somewhat ere he should
+take the maid in marriage. Therefore with a mighty intake of the breath,
+and closing the lids of his eyes, wherein were lightnings, King Telwyn
+spake on this wise, his voice as the voice of far thunders: "Flame, son
+of Lokus, thou grievest the heart of Telwyn, father of Roseheart, for
+that thou puttest the maid in sorrow for thy going. Yet am I a man, and
+know the heart of a man in youth. Fain would I give thee of the wisdom I
+have learned, but that may not be.
+
+[Sidenote: _Telwyn Admonisheth Flame_]
+
+In pain and struggle shalt thou come to thine own wisdom, which is for
+thee alone, so that no man may give it thee, but thou must win it. Yet
+since thou hast won a maid to her promise, it were meet that thou
+shouldst go thy ways carefully, bravely, and in good faith, that thou
+mayest return in honour.
+
+[Sidenote: _Telwyn Admonisheth Flame_]
+
+I charge thee, see thou to these things lest the vengeance of Telwyn
+find thee out, though thou wert in the uttermost parts of the earth.
+Lend not thy soul to wine to make a mock of, nor to false women that
+they may break it. Bear thou thyself with modesty; give of thy strength
+and wit to whomsoever hath need of them. Cheat no man of his due in any
+wise, remembering that so thou wouldst cheat thyself of thy birthright,
+which is to be one with truth and right in so far as thou canst attain
+thereunto. Thou art the son of Lokus, and art bound to carry his name
+and blood in honour. I have spoken. Farewell."
+
+
+
+
+V.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _Ellaline Distraught_]
+
+[Sidenote: _Ellaline Beholdeth Wur_]
+
+Now was Ellaline, the Queen, fair distraught, for that she understood
+not her own mind in the matter. And her heart was as water with pity of
+the maid, and as a sting her tongue, whenas she thought of the going of
+Flame, for that to her seeing he had put an affront upon their house.
+Yet might she not speak in wrath, when Telwyn her husband had spoken in
+quietness. And there came upon her a trembling lest she speak, and
+Telwyn's displeasure come upon her.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Strength of Flame_]
+
+Wherefore, turning to flee away, lest speaking she do wrong, Ellaline
+the Queen saw some way off in the hall a figure of sorrow, Wur, the Old
+Gray Woman of Shadows. And being in eld, well she wot that in the coming
+of Wur was sign that the Lord God was minded to send upon their house
+sorrow and the winds of destiny, and that not for her love and grief
+might these things be stayed in anywise. Wherewith she kissed the maid
+her daughter tenderly, as in farewell, and fled away straitly, weeping.
+And Roseheart was white and still.
+
+When Flame turned him to the Princess Roseheart, fain would she have had
+him kiss her upon the mouth, but he would not, seeking her brow instead,
+in all tenderness. And piteous was the face of the maid, that Flame whom
+she loved denied her. But the eyes of Telwyn marking the thing, it
+seemed good to him that Flame turned him from the lips of his love. Well
+did the King know the hearts of men, and right heartily did he hold in
+scorn those who had not the wit to fear such things as betray men unto
+weakness.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Going of Flame_]
+
+Thereafter did Flame get him thence right speedily, to take ship for
+far countries.
+
+The maid Roseheart covered her eyes that she might not see the going of
+her beloved. And she wept full sore, and when Telwyn the King would have
+comforted her, Wur, the Old Gray Woman of Shadows, came unto her
+pitifully, and took her from the arms of her father, and folded her
+mantle about her, and led her away all gently. And yielding his little
+maid unto Wur, whom well he wot of old, the King was shaken in grief,
+that the thing must be and nought might stay it.
+
+
+
+
+VI.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _Roseheart and Wur_]
+
+Daylong and nightlong the maid clung to Wur and to none other, and the
+Old Gray Woman of Shadows, whose voice was like unto the winds of
+Autumn, made sad music of the days and ways of men. Ever she spake,
+telling tales of sorrow, whereunto Roseheart listened, saying in her
+heart, "There is no sorrow like to mine, who am a widow before I am
+wed."
+
+[Sidenote: _Roseheart Wakes Weeping_]
+
+Yet there was, withal, in the tales of Wur, a gray beauty that melted
+the heart of the maid, even in despite of her own grief, to a vague and
+terrible longing to learn what lay at the heart of life. Nightlong did
+Wur watch over her, and the maid dreamed in sorrow, to wake weeping.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Face of Grief_]
+
+So for a space was grief bitter in the maid, and grievous was the hurt
+of all things, for that Flame whom she loved had gone his ways from her.
+Then on a day, for pity of the grief wherewith she suffered, a longing
+grew in her to look upon the face of her sadness in the Pool in the
+forest. Thither she went, therefore, with Wur, the Old Gray Woman of
+Shadows, and leaned over the Pool in the wont of her old fashion. And as
+with sore pity of herself she looked into the Pool, upon the face of
+grief that was hers, she saw that in her eyes, which aforetime had held
+nought save the face of Flame, was an image that blotted out all else.
+Semblance it had of an image of Wur, the Old Gray Woman of Shadows,
+whose hair was as cobwebs matted, whose eyes were as misty pools at
+twilight, and whose garments were as the wings of the dusk. Yet as the
+maid looked more nearly, she saw that the form had only the seeming of
+Wur, and was in good sooth that of Roseheart herself, stricken in grief
+to the likeness of Wur.
+
+Arising in wonder she turned her to look upon Wur, and in the face of
+the Old Gray Woman of Shadows she saw strangely the semblance of
+herself, Roseheart. And at the horror and mystery of this thing which
+she might not understand, the maid shrieked with terror. And when the
+Old Gray Woman would have folded her in her arms to quiet her, the maid
+would not, and shrank away, and prayed for help to the Lord God that she
+might have comfort.
+
+[Sidenote: _There Came a Radiance_]
+
+And there came a radiance, growing ever brighter, until Wur, the Old
+Gray Woman of Shadows, might not stay, but fled away before that which
+was more shining than the noonday sun. And Roseheart was ware of a
+presence she might not see for the brightness.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Coming of Senta_]
+
+Then spake Senta, the Radiant One, the Voice of Vision, unto the maid
+Roseheart, full gently, yet in the manner of one who may not be
+gainsaid: "Roseheart, beloved of Flame, who shall be called Giver of
+Dreams, lift up thy heart. Well hast thou learned the lore of sorrow
+that Wur hath taught thee, and these things it is needful that thou
+shouldst know. But too much hast thou made thyself one with sorrow, to
+the end that it hath grown dear to thee. This thing may not be. Pity
+that seeketh not itself makes pure the heart of man, but pity of thyself
+for thine own woe is another matter, whereto thou must look else will
+thy sorrow destroy thee. Thou shalt arise, therefore, and go unto thy
+father Telwyn the King, and thy mother, the Queen Ellaline. Sore have
+been their hearts that thou wert in grief. It should be thy task rather,
+to bring them joy who are stricken in years.
+
+[Sidenote: _Vision and Dreams_]
+
+"But since joy is not made of nought, and since there is now in thee
+sorrow alone, I say unto thee, go thy ways among the people of thy
+father the King, and of thy grief make garments of joy to cover the
+nakedness of the poor withal. Take to them that are sick the flowers of
+thy kindness, that shall be as the snowdrops blossoming under the mantle
+of the winter of thy grief. Look into the eyes of the old and find
+patience, and into the hearts of the children and find hope. Tend thou
+the bed of pain, and ease the woe of the sons of men in such measure as
+thou mayest. Therewith shall all things befall thee as the Lord God
+desireth. Unto me, Senta, it is vouchsafed to give thee vision, and a
+dream, even as I gave these things unto Flame, thy beloved. Sleep."
+
+[Sidenote: _The Starry-eyed_]
+
+And Roseheart laid her down in the deep sleep as of a rosebud in the sun
+at mid-day, when life in a great tide flows and greatens, to the end
+that the rose may be full-blown. And the dream of Roseheart was on this
+wise: There was a woman in shining garments, fashioned full seemly of
+white silk that flowed and clung, revealing gracious lines of her form
+who walked stately-wise, with little children about her knees. Her form
+was radiance, and her eyes were stars. And in the fashion of her
+seeming, and in the faces of the children, was somewhat as it were a
+thing known and not known. Then beheld Roseheart the seeming of Flame,
+her beloved, looking in joy and reverence upon this woman whose form was
+radiance, and whose eyes were stars.
+
+And Senta the Radiant One said unto Roseheart: "Behold and see if this
+be not she whom thou didst look upon at the last in the eyes of Flame
+whom thou lovest." And it was so, and Roseheart marveled.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Heart of the Maid_]
+
+Whereafter Senta bade her awake, and she awoke and pondered these
+things what they might mean. And in the heart of the maid there grew and
+strengthened the desire and the will to be as that woman of her dream,
+whose beauty was as music under the moon, and in all reverence beloved
+of her troth-plight, Flame. Thus are women ever, in their deep need to
+be in all ways that they may, the desired of their lord.
+
+
+
+
+VII.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _Roseheart Gives Greeting_]
+
+When all things had become clear to Roseheart she arose swiftly, and
+went unto Telwyn the King, and the Queen her mother. And upon her face
+was a shining which was the shining of her soul. And she said unto them,
+"I give you greeting, my father and my mother."
+
+[Sidenote: _The Going of Wur_]
+
+And looking upon her they were glad exceedingly, and exchanged looks the
+one with the other, for that the face of Roseheart was no longer gray
+with grief.
+
+First answered Ellaline, saying, "Greeting to thee, my daughter. Where
+now is Wur, that thou hast the look of happiness?"
+
+Sudden wonder made wide the eyes of Roseheart. "In good sooth I know
+not," she answered. "I have not seen her at all any more since the
+coming of the Shining One."
+
+Telwyn the King leaned him forward in eagerness, asking, "The Shining
+One? What meanest thou?"
+
+[Sidenote: _Roseheart, Her Task_]
+
+[Sidenote: _Telwyn Perceiveth_]
+
+Into the face of Roseheart came the far, wondering look of children,
+but in her heart was a song. "I know not," she made answer, "unless it
+was an angel of the Lord God, to shew me the things that I must do, and
+that which I must become." Herewith the voice of the maid grew wondrous
+sweet. "Of my garment of sorrow must I make raiment of joy to cover the
+nakedness of the poor. To the sick must I take the flowers of kindness
+that are now as snowdrops blossoming under the mantle of the winter of
+grief. I am to look into the eyes of the old and find patience, and into
+the hearts of children and find hope. And I am to tend the bed of pain,
+and ease the suffering of the sons of men in such measure as I may,
+that all things may befall me as the Lord God desireth."
+
+Into the face of Telwyn there came a tenderness like that of women, and
+in his voice were the tears a man may not suffer in his eyes. "Great is
+the joy in my heart," he said, "for that thou art indeed become a woman.
+And well I wot that the Lord God is with thee, that thou knowest these
+things of wisdom."
+
+[Sidenote: _The Queen Speaketh_]
+
+And Ellaline, looking into the face of her daughter, drew her to her
+heart, and spake on this wise: "Deep grief has it been to me that in thy
+pain I might not help thee, but must leave thee to the care of Wur,
+that woman of sorrow. Nathless have I prayed for thee without ceasing.
+Blessed be the name of the Lord God that He hath found the Way for
+thee."
+
+[Sidenote: _Telwyn and Roseheart_]
+
+Now on the morrow when Telwyn the King went among his people, to see
+that all was well, and nought amiss that might be set right, he put
+Roseheart his daughter upon a white palfrey; and himself upon a mighty
+red horse, led her whithersoever he went, that she might see all things
+in the wisdom and tenderness newly come to her. And from his deep eyes
+like the caverns of the sky, he watched her, as pity grew in her, and
+knowledge, and quick device of succor. Daylong they rode, at the
+noontide having bite and sup with a woodcutter and his wife, newly
+blessed with a fine man child. And Roseheart, taking the child in her
+arms, laughed and wept that he was so small and sweet, and for that he
+clung to her, and turned to her breast. And when the shadows grew long,
+and they set their faces toward the castle, the maid was sore weary, but
+she knew it not, for the pity in her, and the thought of all awry in the
+world that must be set right.
+
+[Sidenote: _Roseheart Steadfast_]
+
+And it befell that she dreamed that night of a babe that lay upon her
+breast, and so sweet it was, that she woke weeping for very joy.
+
+Thereafter daily the maid went forth with the King her father, or at
+whiles with the Queen her mother, whenas she was wont to say unto Telwyn
+with sweet gravity, "This is a matter for women, of which thou knowest
+nought."
+
+[Sidenote: _Her Need and Desire_]
+
+And the King smiled in his beard at the woman-ways of her. But hours
+there were when that Roseheart was a-weary, and an-hungered for Flame,
+her troth-plight lord. Yet always, remembering her dream, she arose from
+grief, and with the trouble of others, and what she might do for them,
+filled the emptiness of her heart. And so great was her need and desire
+to become as the woman of the great dream, that slowly as a slender moon
+fills with silver, or a rosebud greatens to fullness, did Roseheart the
+maid grow in fashion and seeming and good sooth toward the very truth of
+her desire, to be as that woman whose form was radiance and whose eyes
+were stars.
+
+
+
+
+VIII.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _Thrice Bloomed the Rose_]
+
+Thrice the snowdrops came and went, thrice bloomed the rose; thrice the
+harvest ripened to the scythe, and winter flushed to spring, and Flame,
+son of Lokus, was not yet come from overseas to claim his promise of his
+troth-plight maiden.
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame Journeyeth_]
+
+[Sidenote: _He Groweth in Strength_]
+
+Long had he wandered from land to land, seeking ever the shape of his
+dream. Ever he made forms of beauty with his hands, whatsoever he saw,
+and men marveled thereat, so cunning-true they were, and skillful. And
+everywhere was he tempted with all manner of lures to flesh and spirit
+that he forsake his dream and take his ease and pleasure like other men,
+but he would not. And it befell that on a day when he was riding through
+the forest, he came upon a carle that beat a woman, his wife. And Flame
+was wroth with the carle, and fell upon him in fury, that so he should
+misuse the strength that God had given him. And the anger of Flame was
+as the strength of ten men, but when he had the throat of the man in his
+fingers, and would have slain him, all suddenly his anger was not. And
+in good pity of the fellow that he was yet in youth, he loosed him, and
+admonished him, and went his ways. And the strength of the man that he
+had spared to God's good life was added to his own strength.
+
+[Sidenote: _He Serveth Need_]
+
+[Sidenote: _He Fareth On_]
+
+And with his good strength of the body was come strength of his soul
+also. Wherefore, when in his wanderings he came upon a fair land wherein
+was much kindness, and after a while that land, which had an aged king,
+was threatened by savage men from wild forest land beyond, he girded on
+his sword and led the people in war that they might put to confusion
+the savage men who sought to slay them, and take their fat lands, and
+the homes where they were born. And when their enemies were driven out,
+the old King embraced with tears him who had risked his life for them,
+and besought him, saying, "Flame, son of Lokus, what wouldst thou?
+Whatsoever thou ask, that will I give thee." And Flame, with a look of
+far horizons in his eyes that were like the sea, answered him on this
+wise: "God be gracious to thee for thy kindness, but it is I who am in
+thy debt, for that I have learned the sweetness of giving myself wholly,
+even unto death, if need be, that innocent folk should not suffer, nor
+evil prevail. I am a selfish man, thinking little enough of other folk,
+as I go my way dreaming, and that now I have seen somewhat other than
+that is a mercy of the Lord God."
+
+[Sidenote: _Of Black Words_]
+
+And though the people clamoured that he should stay with them, he went
+his way, and came into a new land, and dwelt there for a time. And being
+comely, with grace and courtliness in his mien, and the beauty of the
+sea in his eyes, when he looked eagerly into the faces of women, seeking
+his dream, many were sick with love of him. And they made devices that
+he should tarry with them, some in innocence and good faith, as a maid
+may, and some fawning, and whispering black words to the youth and heat
+of his blood.
+
+Of these last there came betimes a witch-woman, who discerning with
+cunning the eyes of Flame that they were like the sea, made herself as a
+moon-woman, that he should follow her. And Flame, looking upon her,
+whose face was as silver, felt somewhat surge within him answering her
+desire. And the woman glided before him until they were come into the
+desert.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Moon-Woman_]
+
+And when the moon-woman moved not so swiftly, but lingered, and Flame
+would have touched her, she laughed, and would and would not, and
+reaching for her, he stumbled, and fell upon the ground, yet held her
+fast. And the night was black upon them.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Face of Leprosy_]
+
+When the early morning was come, Flame turned him from the moon-woman
+exulting that now at last he had drunk of the cup, desire whereof had
+tormented him. But as he turned, some way off in brightness stood Senta
+the Radiant One. And she drew near, and spake not, but shed her light,
+without pity, upon the moon-woman. And Flame saw that she was not
+beautiful, but a hag, and her face of silver the face of leprosy, white
+and horrible, and as old as the world. And he looked about him, and saw
+in the desert the bones of men. Then did he cry out in fear, "I am in
+the place of the dead!"
+
+And he rose up swiftly and fled away till he was come to the edge of the
+desert, and thence into a gentle land, of murmuring streams, and trees
+on the which was fruit of divers kinds, and good to the taste. And after
+that Flame had drunk of the waters, and eaten of the fruit, the Lord God
+was pitiful of his shame and weariness, and he slept.
+
+[Sidenote: _Cometh the Dream_]
+
+[Sidenote: _The Voice of Vision_]
+
+Sleeping, once more he dreamed of that woman of radiance, starry-eyed.
+But whereas aforetime he might not see the fashion of her face, it was
+now revealed to him in the seeming of his troth-plight maiden,
+glorified. Now was the rose full blown, the child become a woman, in
+strength, and tenderness, and wisdom, and her beauty was as music under
+the moon. Then unto him in his dream spake the Voice of Vision on this
+wise: "Now that thou hast proved thyself in turning thee from the place
+of the dead, shalt thou have fullness of life, withal. Thou hast looked
+upon death in battle, and feared not, for that thou sawest therein that
+life which is greater than thine own life; and thou hast looked upon
+that life which is sin, and hast seen therein the death of the spirit.
+Wherefore arise, and go straightway to claim the maiden Roseheart for
+thy wife, that the true life of body and spirit may be fulfilled unto
+thee. And whatsoever thou fashionest with thy hands, that shalt thou
+fashion also with thy heart and soul, in the light of the vision the
+Lord God hath given thee. Arise."
+
+[Sidenote: _Strength Fulfilled_]
+
+With a great cry of joy he awoke, and strength was fulfilled to him as
+it had been a fountain, ever leaping and ever renewed. Wherewith
+straightway he arose, and girt up his mantle for the journey, that
+swift might be the way of his going.
+
+
+
+
+IX.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame Returneth_]
+
+[Sidenote: _The People at Games_]
+
+Unto the days of three moons he journeyed, over land and sea, and at
+last he was come into the country of Telwyn, wherein were peace, and
+good harvest, and labour for all that would. And while he was yet some
+way off, upon a hill, he saw that the people were gathered together in a
+great meadow, and there rose to him on the wind a great song of joy that
+they were singing.
+
+And drawing near he saw that some of the people were playing at games in
+the meadow, quoits and bowls, and other games of skill of divers kinds,
+with trials of strength and daring for the eager blood of youth. And
+there were horses a-many, and on them men laughing and jesting, and
+there were women and children, some hundreds, clad in fluttering
+garments of all the colours of joy.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Day of Joy_]
+
+In the midst of the throng there sat upon a dais a woman in shining
+raiment of cloth of silver, broidered with roses that had caught their
+colour from the rose tint of her face. And her hair of spun gold was
+bound with a silver fillet, fashioned in all delicacy, and colored to
+the semblance of the roses that were in the pattern thereof, with leaves
+cunningly wrought of green gold. Standing beside her was a young page
+clad in crimson who carried a tray whereon were ribbands of bright
+colours, the which the Princess Roseheart, for she it was in the shining
+raiment, did upon those who were victors in the games and contests.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Morning of Life_]
+
+Great was the pride of the people that the Princess had come amongst
+them in their merrymaking. Long had she been with them in sorrow and
+service, but not before this day in the joy of the morning of life, and
+they deemed it of good augury for her happiness.
+
+[Sidenote: _Cometh Flame_]
+
+Now when Flame, yet some way off, saw that the woman in shining raiment
+was the beloved of his soul, Roseheart, his heart leapt within him, and
+there was upon his limbs the speed of light. But betimes it came to him
+that travel was upon his garments, and that it were not fit he should
+dishonour his troth-plight maiden by coming before her eyes in aught
+unworthy. Wherefore he turned him aside from the meadow, and made such
+haste as he might toward the castle midmost of the forest.
+
+When he was come thither, he found therein only a few old serving men
+and women, for that all others were making holiday in the meadow, the
+King, Telwyn, and the Queen Ellaline, as well as the humblest folk in
+the castle.
+
+[Sidenote: _Sea-Surge and Fire-Bloom_]
+
+And Flame got him right speedily to the great room that had been for his
+sleeping aforetime. There, as of old, was a great chest wherein were the
+garments he had brought with him from his home, the isle of sea-surge
+and fire-bloom. Therefrom he chose raiment of rich silk wherein leapt
+and flickered all colours as of driftwood burning--copper, and blue, and
+green, and rose, and violet--with a broidered cloak of velvet like clear
+flame. And he did on a sword the hilt whereof was wrought in divers hues
+of pure gold.
+
+And when all was done, and in the wont of youth he looked upon his
+likeness in a mirror of silver that was there, he laughed in his heart
+for that he was young and comely, and for that he was now returned to
+the home of his heart.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Silken Tent_]
+
+Then with all speed he betook him thence to the great meadow. And when
+he was come thither, he saw that a little way off at the edge of the
+forest was a silken tent that was like a purple iris, so beautiful it
+was, and that thereunder were King Telwyn and Queen Ellaline, looking
+upon the pleasure of their people.
+
+[Sidenote: _Of Queen Ellaline_]
+
+And Flame saw that whereas the Princess Roseheart had been in the midst
+of the crowd when first he had seen her, she was now with her father and
+mother, the King and Queen, under the canopy, that had been set in a
+mossy glade flecked with sunlight and shadow, and glad with delicate
+flowers. The maid stood at the side of the Queen her mother talking
+shiningly of all that had befallen that morning. And the Queen Ellaline,
+most fair indeed to look upon, in thin silk of silver-grey, wherethrough
+showed under-silks of blue and violet, smiled happily at the life and
+eagerness of the maid her daughter.
+
+[Sidenote: _Of Greetings_]
+
+And when the people saw that Flame, the son of Lokus, was come once
+more, from overseas, to claim his troth-plight, the Princess Roseheart,
+they pressed upon him clamouring, glad with great joy that the youth was
+grown a man, in full stature of strength and bravery. And Flame
+returned their greetings in all courtesy and kindness, but ever his
+eyes turned whither his heart drave, toward the tent like an iris,
+whereunder, like one dreaming, stood the woman of his heart and his
+dream, now motionless, with her soul in her eyes.
+
+[Sidenote: _A Silver Trumpet Singing_]
+
+And when King Telwyn made sure that the figure of flickering beauty that
+burned its way through the crowd of the people was Flame, son of Lokus,
+and none other, his heart was as a harp, swept with chords of joy and
+questioning, of fear, and a nameless pain that now mayhap he must give
+his little maid, that was as the remembered joy of his youth, to the
+clasp of a man, in whom should be her life thenceforward. But the heart
+of Queen Ellaline was as a silver trumpet singing, that the maid her
+daughter was now to live the life of a woman, giving her life to a man,
+that it should be greatened unto her, and to the world.
+
+
+
+
+X.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _The Humility of Pride_]
+
+[Sidenote: _The Return In Honour_]
+
+Now when Flame was come before the King and Queen and the Princess
+Roseheart, he was filled with the humility of those who have great
+pride, insomuch that he fell upon his knees before them to beg that
+which aforetime he had asked as in the ignorance of a child. But ere he
+could speak, King Telwyn put forth his hand and raised him, saying,
+"Flame, son of Lokus, thou art a thousand times welcome. Hearty
+greeting we give thee, in good faith that thou hast returned in
+honour."
+
+Then spake Flame on this wise: "Greeting from the heart I give thee.
+Meseems my heart will burst with the fullness of my joy that I am come
+once more to the home of my love, to look upon her beauty, and to give
+into her keeping all that I have, and all that I am, for she is the soul
+of my soul."
+
+[Sidenote: _The Eagerness of Flame_]
+
+Then, bethinking himself that he must remember in courtesy to put before
+his own desires that which was due to others, he made obeisance to the
+Queen, Ellaline, who greeted him with kindness, asking him whether he
+had had food and drink since his journey.
+
+"Nay," he said, "how should that have been, when I was so much more
+an-hungered to see quickly the face of my beloved?" And he turned him to
+his love, Roseheart, standing very still, with her soul in her eyes.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Woman of Stars_]
+
+With quick woman-wit then did Queen Ellaline motion the serving men that
+they should draw the curtains of the tent, themselves standing without.
+And the King and Queen withdrew also, that the lovers might be alone.
+Whereupon Roseheart, her silver cloak falling from her, stood forth to
+Flame as that woman whose form was radiance, and whose eyes were stars,
+she that was clad in shining raiment, fashioned full seemly of white
+silk that flowed and clung, revealing gracious lines of her form, who
+walked stately-wise, with little children about her knees.
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame Falleth Upon His Knees_]
+
+And upon the sight of Flame was a mist, and when it had passed and he
+looked again, the little children were not as they were living, but like
+wraiths of divers colours, making as it were a rainbow in the midst
+whereof stood one still a maid. And Flame fell upon his knees, and
+called upon her name. And she set her two hands upon his head, and
+lifting it gently, looked down into his soul. And when they had come to
+understanding on this wise, she gave her hands into his, and lifted him
+up. And he drew her to his heart, and kissed her on the mouth, whereat
+she was all a woman, and clung to him, saying with little broken cries,
+"It hath been so lonely without thee--I love thee so!"
+
+[Sidenote: _The Finding_]
+
+Remembering the pain and struggle of his quest, Flame cried out,
+"Wherefore did I go from thee?" Yet even as he spake, right well he knew
+how it had been needful that all things should have befallen them as
+they had done.
+
+Then did the face of Roseheart grow wistful-sweet, and she asked, "The
+woman of thy dream--didst thou find her?" And Flame answered, "Aye, I
+have found her. Dost thou not know? Thou thyself art that radiant woman,
+starry-eyed. I know not what hath befallen thee, save that the starry
+heavens, that look upon all things, have made thine eyes their
+dwelling-place."
+
+[Sidenote: _Beyond Self_]
+
+[Sidenote: _The Remembered Vision_]
+
+Whereupon Roseheart, his beloved, chided him on this wise, with a
+laughter that was of the soul, and naught unkind in it: "My happiness
+is so deep, I needs must laugh at thee. Meseems the truth is that
+aforetime thou sawest only thyself in mine eyes, and that now thou hast
+learned to look beyond thyself. And thus it hath been with me also. Once
+I saw not anything but myself in thine eyes, but now therein I see ships
+and far countries, and the forms of beauty that thou hast dreamed, and
+those which thou shalt create in the years to come. When first I saw in
+thine eyes that woman of thy dream, of whom thou hadst spoken, sorrow
+and humility were heavy upon me, for that I understood not why there
+should be aught in thine eyes but thy love, Roseheart. But there came a
+time--" She was silent for a moment that she might hear the music of the
+remembered vision. "Have I grown like her--in good sooth?" she
+whispered.
+
+"Thou art she," answered Flame, "the soul of my soul."
+
+"And what of thee?" whispered Roseheart. "What hast thou learned of life
+in thy far countries?"
+
+[Sidenote: _The Feast is Spread_]
+
+Whereupon he answered, as the Voice of Vision had told him, "I have
+looked upon death for right's sake, and seen therein the life greater
+than mine own life; and I have looked upon the life which is sin and
+have seen therein the death of the spirit. I have much to tell thee, for
+that there must be nought but truth between us."
+
+Then did King Telwyn himself draw the curtains of the tent and look
+within, smiling. "Flame, son of Lokus, the feast is spread for thee,
+though well I wot thou knowest not if thou art hungry. But time and
+enough will there be for talk with thy speech-friend and troth-plight
+maiden, when thou hast eaten thy meat, and refreshed thee from thy
+journey. Wherefore come now, the both of you, and shew yourselves unto
+the people, that all may rejoice."
+
+[Sidenote: _Feasting and Laughter_]
+
+Thereupon did Flame, son of Lokus, lead forth his troth-plight maiden
+Roseheart, to a great table that had been spread under the trees, with a
+silken cloth, and great dishes of silver and gold, whereon were roast
+flesh, and new bread, and green things steaming and savoury, and fruits
+of divers sorts, good to the taste and beautiful. And there were flagons
+of wine, crimson, and of the colour of corn, and of brown like the
+leaves of autumn.
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame Speaketh Modestly_]
+
+Then was there feasting and laughter, and Flame, son of Lokus, told
+many tales of far countries--of strange customs, and cunning of
+husbandry and handicraft; of wars and the courts of Kings; of mightily
+mountains, of great seas and the storms thereof, wherein he himself had
+laboured mightily with the men of the ship that they should not perish
+all.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Queen Taketh Note_]
+
+And for that all he spake on these matters was shrewd and well taken,
+and modest withal, King Telwyn, listening, marked with gladness the
+manhood that had come to this youth of the isle of sea-surge and
+fire-bloom. And he was right well pleased, also, that the troth-plight
+of his daughter was returned with clear eyes and noble bearing, and
+courtesy and readiness for all that made speech with him.
+
+[Sidenote: _Roseheart Hath Pride_]
+
+And Queen Ellaline, in the wont of elder women, had eyes to the way of
+Flame with his wine, the which he took gladly, as becomes a man, but not
+overmuch; and she was content. Roseheart, sitting beside her mother, the
+Queen, had thought for none but her troth-plight lord whom she loved;
+yet marked with pride his thought and courtesy for all that sat at meat
+with them. There was that in her which remembered with joy and
+tenderness how that he had thought aforetime only of themselves and
+their love; but now was she proud that her lord was become a man among
+men, for well she knew that with all he said and did in any wise, there
+ran always the music of his joy in her, and the love of his soul for
+hers.
+
+
+
+
+XI.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _The Shadows Grow Long_]
+
+[Sidenote: _Queen Ellaline Speaketh_]
+
+Now when they had eaten and drunk their fill, and had had much talk
+withal, the shadows had grown long, and bird-song rippled the air in the
+wont of sundown. Wherefore King Telwyn bethought him how it would be
+pleasant that the four of them, the Queen, the Princess Roseheart, and
+her troth-plight lord, Flame, should walk in the forest for a space, ere
+yet they returned to the castle.
+
+But Queen Ellaline said to him, "Nay, my lord, shall not thou and I
+return to the castle alone? Well I wot these twain have much to say,
+each to the other. Were it not well that they should walk apart in the
+forest in the cool of the evening, if that be their wish?"
+
+And King Telwyn smiled thereat, saying, "Well, well! Certain it is that
+I am but a stupid man, and thy woman's wit in the right of it." And
+therewith he bade the young pair go apart as they wished for the space
+of an hour or two.
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame Showeth Gratitude_]
+
+But ere they went their ways, Flame raised to his lips the hand of the
+Queen, and kissed it, forasmuch as he was grateful to her exceedingly
+that she had had thought and remembrance of the need of young lovers to
+be alone together.
+
+Whereafter, the King and the Queen having turned their steps to the
+castle, Flame and the Princess Roseheart wandered in sweet content in
+the path that led to the Pool, where aforetime they had found their love
+and their destiny.
+
+[Sidenote: _Roseheart Radiant_]
+
+And when they were come thither, they found there, fluttering like
+butterflies in a shaft of sunlight that came under the trees and among
+the stems thereof, children that sported about the Pool. And these,
+forsaking their play, clamoured about the Princess Roseheart, in sweet
+rivalry of her love and her touch. And forasmuch as his beloved stood
+now in the shaft of sunlight, radiant, starry-eyed, with little children
+about her knees, Flame, the Giver of Dreams, worshiped her in his soul,
+and stooped him to the earth that he might seize the clay thereof, and
+mixing it with water from the Pool, fashion the likeness of her. But
+though mightily he strove, the cunning of his hands was withholden from
+him, and he might not.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Dusk Cometh_]
+
+Then the children, seeing it was late, flitted away to their homes, and
+the sunlight grew faint and fainter, until the dusk was come, all
+suddenly. And as the twain stood a little apart, each from the other,
+there passed between them, as she had been a night-moth, Wur, the Old
+Gray Woman of Shadows, whose eyes were as misty pools at twilight, her
+hair like cobwebs matted, and her garments as the wings of the dusk. And
+momently there was upon them a chill as of the winter-death.
+
+[Sidenote: _Hand in Hand_]
+
+Then did Flame know in his heart that he must tell his white-souled
+love, Roseheart, of the moon-woman in the desert. And his heart shook at
+thought of her grief and trouble thereat. But being a true man, and
+strong for the more part, he knew that it were an ill thing to set
+forward the time of saying that which must be said. Therefore he took
+his love by the hand, and led her to a mossy bank, whereupon they sat
+them down, hand in hand. After a little he said: "There is a thing that
+I must tell thee, but because thou art a maid and innocent, I know not
+if thou wilt understand."
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame Confesseth_]
+
+And seeing his trouble she answered him gently: "Meseems thou couldst
+not do anything I would not understand."
+
+Drawing her close within the shelter of his arms he said, "Thou
+believest that I love thee as my heart's blood?"
+
+"Verily," she made answer, "that must I needs believe, else could I not
+wed thee." Then because he was silent a space, as one thinking, she
+said, "What is it that thou wouldst say to me?"
+
+[Sidenote: _Speech Faileth Him_]
+
+With quick words then he spake on this wise: "Know then that there was a
+woman--a witch that made herself as a woman of moonlight, beautiful
+exceedingly, that I should follow her. And forasmuch as mine eyes and my
+blood are as the sea, I might not refrain, for my weakness, but
+followed her as the sea the moon. And we came into the desert, and there
+remained for a space." Then did the speech of Flame fail him, for that
+he knew not how to say that which must be said.
+
+[Sidenote: _Life Dishonoured_]
+
+And Roseheart looked upon him shrinkingly, and put away his arms, and
+rose, and stood away from him. And in her eyes that had held stars,
+there came a mist, as when the heavens grow dull with that which is not
+storm, but more like to sickness. "And thou--" she whispered, "didst
+thou give thyself to this woman?"
+
+"Yea, but in the way of the flesh only," he answered, shamefast. "I know
+not if a maid can understand."
+
+Then was Roseheart silent a space, whereafter she said slowly, "Meseems
+that therein lay the sin of what thou didst. Hadst thou given thyself
+body and soul, thy sin against me had been greater, but methinks then
+would it have been less against the Lord God, whose gift of life thou
+hast dishonoured."
+
+[Sidenote: _The Radiant One_]
+
+Then spake Flame eagerly, "But I told thee she was a witch-woman. Thou
+rememberest the Radiant One?"
+
+"Aye." The Princess Roseheart was grave and sorrowful. "When that I
+turned me away from the moon-woman I saw the Radiant One, and she came
+and said naught, but shed her light upon the woman, and I saw that she
+was not beautiful, like the moon, but a hag, and leprous. Wherefore,
+looking about me I saw the bones of the dead. And I rose and fled away
+from that place."
+
+"Thou didst well."
+
+[Sidenote: _Flame Shamefast_]
+
+Then was Flame filled with terror that though she spake in all
+gentleness, his love Roseheart was become as a stranger to him.
+Straightway he went to her, saying, "Canst thou not forgive?"
+
+"I know not," she made answer, with the weariness of one in mortal pain.
+
+[Sidenote: _Thoughts of Torment_]
+
+Then he sought to put his arms about her, and draw her to him, but she
+looked at him as one in surprise, and therewith he feared to touch her.
+And he fell upon his knees, and buried his face, shamefast, in the hem
+of her garment, and wept that he had so wounded her whom his soul loved.
+With all gentleness she put him away from her, and went apart. And her
+eyes were dry, but her heart bled, so that she was as one sick unto
+death.
+
+Her thoughts pricked her with torment, that her lord whom she had
+worshipped kneeling, as is the wont of women, was proven but a weak
+creature on whom she might not lean for strength, for that he had it
+not. And it was bitter to her that he whom she had thought to be a man
+such as the Lord God had meant in the making of the world, had been but
+as a child, or blind, that he had been deceived by the moon-woman.
+Wherefore her heart, that had shrined a god, was now empty.
+
+
+
+
+XII.
+
+
+[Sidenote: _The Need of Flame_]
+
+For some while did Flame lie upon the ground as one dead, but presently
+his manhood arose and stood before the Princess Roseheart, saying, "Then
+wilt thou send me from thee?"
+
+[Sidenote: _A New Sweetness_]
+
+[Sidenote: _Roseheart Forgiveth_]
+
+And looking upon his manhood, that would face what must come to it, she
+saw therewith somewhat that wrung her heart, the look of a little child,
+with wistful eyes, and mouth that quivered. And she saw that his need
+of her was greater than it had been aforetime, as of a child for his
+mother. Wherewith into her heart that had been empty of all things
+whenas the god might dwell there no longer, there came a new sweetness
+it could scarce hold, so great was the flood thereof. And through her
+body and her soul the sweetness surged, so that there remained no
+bitterness at all, but a great gladness, as of the singing of many
+waters in spring. In her face was the look as of a young mother looking
+upon her first man-child that she hath borne in pain with thanksgiving.
+
+Flame, looking upon the glory that was her face, fell at her feet,
+crying, "Thou wilt forgive?"
+
+And she lifted him up, and drew his head to her breast, saying the while
+little words of love and comforting. Whereafter, he stood straight
+before her, and they looked each into the other's eyes as they had been
+spirits out of the flesh.
+
+[Sidenote: _Somewhat of New Beauty_]
+
+And there came a shining round about them, that was brighter than the
+noonday sun, for that Senta, the Radiant One, was come and stood near
+them. And Flame saw that in the face of his love was somewhat that had
+not been there before, for the beauty whereof his soul sang. As one in a
+dream he stooped him to the earth once more to take of the clay thereof
+and fashion her his Mother of Men.
+
+[Sidenote: _The Meaning of Love_]
+
+But ere he might do the thing he would, Senta the Radiant One drew near,
+and spake unto them, and her voice was as the music of a mighty
+pine-wood raising to heaven a paean of triumph in a great wind of
+spring, with the voices of children therethrough, like little singing
+streams. And the words of Senta were these: "Joy to you that ye have
+learned somewhat whereof life and love are made! Roseheart, beloved of
+Flame, son of Lokus, now art thou become in very truth a Mother of Men
+in thy woman's soul, for that thou hast learned the meaning of love,
+which is to minister, to suffer, to understand, and to forgive. And thou
+too, Flame, hast learned of it, insomuch that love constrained thee in
+the pride of thy manhood to become as a little child that thou mightest
+be forgiven. But stay thy hand, even yet, until thou hast taken the maid
+to wife, and made her in good sooth a mother of men according to the
+flesh. Then only shalt thou be given fullness of vision, and shalt
+fashion her in pure marble to be as a dream forever in the hearts of
+men."
+
+[Sidenote: _The Sign and Symbol_]
+
+With the passing of Senta, the Radiant One, was full evening come. And
+Flame, Fashioner and Giver of Dreams, led the Princess Roseheart, his
+love and troth-plight maiden, to the brink of the Pool, in wonder beyond
+speech, and a silence as of music. For the Pool held deep within deep;
+and far beyond their two faces of love, they beheld as in the night blue
+of heaven, the stars that the Lord God had set therein to be a sign and
+symbol unto men of the things beyond the flesh.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+And here ends this story of "The Stars in the Pool." Written by Edna
+Kingsley Wallace. Set in Type by the Odets Printing Company, in the Year
+of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty, and Published by E. P.
+Dutton and Company in the City of New York.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note.
+
+
+  Title page spelling of "auther" was corrected to "author."
+
+  Page 16 "s e -surge" was corrected to "sea-surge."
+
+  Page 29 "He He" was corrected to "He."
+
+  Archaic spellings, syntax and other anomalies remain as in original.
+
+
+
+
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