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diff --git a/58585-0.txt b/58585-0.txt index 2a6716d..31d5d62 100644 --- a/58585-0.txt +++ b/58585-0.txt @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ - THE PROPHET By Kahlil Gibran @@ -716,7 +715,7 @@ Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is -ito doubt his generosity who has the +to doubt his generosity who has the freehearted earth for mother, and God for father. @@ -3097,8 +3096,4 @@ me.” [Illustration: 0134] - - - - *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58585 *** diff --git a/58585-h/58585-h.htm b/58585-h/58585-h.htm index cd71526..3d33c52 100644 --- a/58585-h/58585-h.htm +++ b/58585-h/58585-h.htm @@ -1,15 +1,12 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" -"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> -<title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran</title> -<link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" /> -<style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve"> - -body { margin-left: 20%; - margin-right: 20%; +<meta charset="utf-8"><title>The Prophet | Project Gutenberg</title> +<link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" > +<style> + +body { margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; text-align: justify; } .no-break {page-break-before: avoid;} /* for epubs */ @@ -49,32 +46,31 @@ a:hover {color:red} <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58585 ***</div> - <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0007.jpg"> -<img src="images/0007.jpg" width="422" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0007.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 422px; height: 600px"></a> </div> <h1>THE PROPHET</h1> -<h2 class="no-break">By Kahlil Gibran<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/></h2> +<h2 class="no-break">By Kahlil Gibran<br><br><br><br><br></h2> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/0008.jpg" width="200" height="224" alt="Illustration:" /> +<img src="images/0008.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 200px; height: 224px"> </div> <h4>New York: Alfred A. Knopf</h4> -<h3>1923<br/><br/></h3> +<h3>1923<br><br></h3> <p class="letter"> -<i>Copyright 1923 by Kahlil Gibran<br/> +<i>Copyright 1923 by Kahlil Gibran<br> All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages or reproduce not more than three illustrations in a review to be -printed in a magazine or newspaper.<br/> -<br/> +printed in a magazine or newspaper.<br> +<br> Published September 1923</i> </p> @@ -102,11 +98,11 @@ Wanderer. 1932 The Garden of the Prophet 1933 Prose Poems. 1934 Nymphs of the Valley. 1948 </p> -<hr /> +<hr > <h2>CONTENTS</h2> -<table summary="" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto"> +<table style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <tr> <td> <a href="#link7">The Coming of the Ship</a></td> @@ -222,15 +218,14 @@ Valley. 1948 </table> -<hr /> +<hr > <div class="chapter"> <h2>THE PROPHET</h2> <p class="pfirst"> -<span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">A</span>lmustafa, the <a -name="link7" id="link7"></a>chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own +<span class="dropcap" style="font-size: 4.00em">A</span>lmustafa, the <a id="link7"></a>chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth. </p> @@ -253,7 +248,7 @@ heart: <p> How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the -spirit shall I leave this city. <a name="link8" id="link8"></a>Long were the +spirit shall I leave this city. <a id="link8"></a>Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret? </p> @@ -292,7 +287,7 @@ Fain would I take with me all that is here. But how shall I? </p> <p> -A voice cannot carry the tongue and <a name="link9" id="link9"></a>the lips +A voice cannot carry the tongue and <a id="link9"></a>the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. </p> @@ -330,7 +325,7 @@ cast backward, <p> And then I shall stand among you, a seafarer among seafarers. -<a name="link10"></a>And you, vast sea, sleepless mother, +<a id="link10"></a>And you, vast sea, sleepless mother, </p> <p> @@ -369,7 +364,7 @@ And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn? <p> And what shall I give unto him who has left his plough in midfurrow, or to him -who has stopped the wheel of his winepress? <a name="link11"></a>Shall my heart +who has stopped the wheel of his winepress? <a id="link11"></a>Shall my heart become a tree heavy-laden with fruit that I may gather and give unto them? </p> @@ -407,13 +402,12 @@ also. </p> <p class="p2"> -These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For <a -name="link12" id="link12"></a>he himself could not speak his deeper secret. +These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For <a id="link12"></a>he himself could not speak his deeper secret. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0020.jpg"> -<img src="images/0020.jpg" width="457" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0020.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 457px; height: 600px"></a> </div> <p> @@ -452,7 +446,7 @@ our midst become a memory. </p> <p> -You have walked among us a spirit, <a name="link13" id="link13"></a>and your +You have walked among us a spirit, <a id="link13"></a>and your shadow has been a light upon our faces. </p> @@ -486,8 +480,7 @@ a seeress. <p> And he looked upon her with exceeding tenderness, for it was she who had first -sought and believed in him when he had been but a day in their city. <a -name="link14" id="link14"></a>And she hailed him, saying: +sought and believed in him when he had been but a day in their city. <a id="link14"></a>And she hailed him, saying: </p> <p> @@ -529,7 +522,7 @@ And he answered, </p> <p> -People of Orphalese, of what can I <a name="link15" id="link15"></a>speak save +People of Orphalese, of what can I <a id="link15"></a>speak save of that which is even now moving within your souls? </p> @@ -577,7 +570,7 @@ growth so is he for your pruning. </p> <p> -Even as he ascends to your height and <a name="link16" id="link16"></a>caresses +Even as he ascends to your height and <a id="link16"></a>caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, </p> @@ -622,7 +615,7 @@ pleasure, </p> <p> -Then it is better for you that you cover <a name="link17" id="link17"></a>your +Then it is better for you that you cover <a id="link17"></a>your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, </p> @@ -662,8 +655,7 @@ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: </p> <p> -To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. <a -name="link18" id="link18"></a>To know the pain of too much tenderness. +To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. <a id="link18"></a>To know the pain of too much tenderness. </p> <p> @@ -693,7 +685,7 @@ praise upon your lips. <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0029.jpg"> -<img src="images/0029.jpg" width="458" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0029.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 458px; height: 600px"></a> </div> </div><!--end chapter--> @@ -701,7 +693,7 @@ praise upon your lips. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link19" id="link19"></a>Then Almitra spoke again and said, And what of +<a id="link19"></a>Then Almitra spoke again and said, And what of <b><i>Marriage</i></b> master? </p> @@ -742,8 +734,7 @@ Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. </p> <p> -Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. <a -name="link20"></a>Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of +Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. <a id="link20"></a>Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, </p> @@ -773,7 +764,7 @@ And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow. <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0032.jpg"> -<img src="images/0032.jpg" width="460" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0032.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 460px; height: 600px"></a> </div> </div><!--end chapter--> @@ -781,7 +772,7 @@ And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link21" id="link21"></a>And a woman who held a babe against her bosom +<a id="link21"></a>And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of <b><i>Children</i></b>. </p> @@ -823,8 +814,7 @@ even in your dreams. </p> <p> -You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. <a -name="link22" id="link22"></a>For life goes not backward nor tarries with +You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. <a id="link22"></a>For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. </p> @@ -851,7 +841,7 @@ stable. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link23" id="link23"></a>Then said a rich man, Speak to us of +<a id="link23"></a>Then said a rich man, Speak to us of <b><i>Giving</i></b>. </p> @@ -886,7 +876,7 @@ Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable? </p> <p> -There are those who give little of the <a name="link24" id="link24"></a>much +There are those who give little of the <a id="link24"></a>much which they have—and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome. </p> @@ -924,7 +914,7 @@ smiles upon the earth. <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0039.jpg"> -<img src="images/0039.jpg" width="457" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0039.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 457px; height: 600px"></a> </div> <p> @@ -933,7 +923,7 @@ understanding; </p> <p> -And to the open-handed the search for <a name="link25" id="link25"></a>one who +And to the open-handed the search for <a id="link25"></a>one who shall receive is joy greater than giving. </p> @@ -978,7 +968,7 @@ the confidence, nay the charity, of receiving? </p> <p> -And who are you that men should rend <a name="link26" id="link26"></a>their +And who are you that men should rend <a id="link26"></a>their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? </p> @@ -1002,13 +992,13 @@ Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; </p> <p> -For to be overmindful of your debt, is ito doubt his generosity who has the +For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the freehearted earth for mother, and God for father. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0042.jpg"> -<img src="images/0042.jpg" width="461" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0042.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 461px; height: 600px"></a> </div> </div><!--end chapter--> @@ -1016,7 +1006,7 @@ freehearted earth for mother, and God for father. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link27" id="link27"></a>Then an old man, a keeper of an inn, said, +<a id="link27"></a>Then an old man, a keeper of an inn, said, Speak to us of <b><i>Eating and Drinking</i></b>. </p> @@ -1046,7 +1036,7 @@ When you kill a beast say to him in your heart, <p> “By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I too shall be -consumed. <a name="link28" id="link28"></a>For the law that delivered you into +consumed. <a id="link28"></a>For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. </p> @@ -1086,7 +1076,7 @@ And like new wine I shall be kept in eternal vessels.” </p> <p> -And in winter, when you draw the wine, <a name="link29" id="link29"></a>let +And in winter, when you draw the wine, <a id="link29"></a>let there be in your heart a song for each cup; </p> @@ -1100,7 +1090,7 @@ vineyard, and for the winepress. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link30" id="link30"></a> Then a ploughman said, Speak to us of +<a id="link30"></a> Then a ploughman said, Speak to us of <b><i>Work</i></b>. </p> @@ -1134,7 +1124,7 @@ Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. <p> But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth’s furthest -dream, <a name="link31" id="link31"></a>assigned to you when that dream was +dream, <a id="link31"></a>assigned to you when that dream was born, </p> @@ -1175,7 +1165,7 @@ And all work is empty save when there is love; </p> <p> -And when you work with love you bind <a name="link32" id="link32"></a>yourself +And when you work with love you bind <a id="link32"></a>yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God. </p> @@ -1209,7 +1199,7 @@ And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching. <p> Often have I heard you say, as if speaking in sleep, “He who works in marble, and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone, is nobler than he who -ploughs the soil. <a name="link33"></a>And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it +ploughs the soil. <a id="link33"></a>And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet.” </p> @@ -1242,7 +1232,7 @@ half man’s hunger. <p> And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in -the wine. <a name="link34" id="link34"></a>And if you sing though as angels, +the wine. <a id="link34"></a>And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night. </p> @@ -1252,7 +1242,7 @@ and the voices of the night. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link35" id="link35"></a>Then a woman said, Speak to us of <b><i>Joy +<a id="link35"></a>Then a woman said, Speak to us of <b><i>Joy and Sorrow</i></b>. </p> @@ -1293,7 +1283,7 @@ that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. </p> <p> -When you are sorrowful look again in <a name="link36" id="link36"></a>your +When you are sorrowful look again in <a id="link36"></a>your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. </p> @@ -1330,7 +1320,7 @@ your joy or your sorrow rise or fall. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link37" id="link37"></a>Then a mason came forth and said, Speak to us +<a id="link37"></a>Then a mason came forth and said, Speak to us of <b><i>Houses</i></b>. </p> @@ -1365,7 +1355,7 @@ them in forest and meadow. <p> Would the valleys were your streets, and the green paths your alleys, that you -<a name="link38" id="link38"></a>might seek one another through vineyards, and +<a id="link38"></a>might seek one another through vineyards, and come with the fragrance of the earth in your garments. </p> @@ -1402,8 +1392,7 @@ Tell me, have you these in your houses? </p> <p> -Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that <a -name="link39" id="link39"></a>enters the house a guest, and then becomes a +Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that <a id="link39"></a>enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master? </p> @@ -1441,7 +1430,7 @@ Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast. </p> <p> -It shall not be a glistening film that <a name="link40" id="link40"></a>covers +It shall not be a glistening film that <a id="link40"></a>covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye. </p> @@ -1470,7 +1459,7 @@ is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link41" id="link41"></a>And the weaver said, Speak to us of +<a id="link41"></a>And the weaver said, Speak to us of <b><i>Clothes</i></b>. </p> @@ -1510,8 +1499,7 @@ But shame was his loom, and the softening of the sinews was his thread. </p> <p> -And when his work was done he laughed in the forest. <a -name="link42"></a>Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of +And when his work was done he laughed in the forest. <a id="link42"></a>Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean. </p> @@ -1530,7 +1518,7 @@ long to play with your hair. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link43" id="link43"></a>And a merchant said, Speak to us of +<a id="link43"></a>And a merchant said, Speak to us of <b><i>Buying and Selling</i></b>. </p> @@ -1560,8 +1548,7 @@ the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices,— <p> Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and -sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value. <a -name="link44" id="link44"></a>And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in +sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value. <a id="link44"></a>And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour. </p> @@ -1603,7 +1590,7 @@ till the needs of the least of you are satisfied. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link45" id="link45"></a>Then one of the judges of the city stood forth +<a id="link45"></a>Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, Speak to us of <b><i>Crime and Punishment</i></b>. </p> @@ -1642,8 +1629,7 @@ Even like the sun is your god-self; </p> <p> -It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. <a -name="link46" id="link46"></a>But your god-self dwells not alone in your being. +It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. <a id="link46"></a>But your god-self dwells not alone in your being. </p> <p> @@ -1681,7 +1667,7 @@ also. <p> And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the -whole tree, <a name="link47" id="link47"></a>So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong +whole tree, <a id="link47"></a>So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all. </p> @@ -1691,7 +1677,7 @@ Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self. <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0064.jpg"> -<img src="images/0064.jpg" width="458" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0064.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 458px; height: 600px"></a> </div> <p> @@ -1733,7 +1719,7 @@ Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured, </p> <p> -And still more often the condemned is <a name="link48" id="link48"></a>the +And still more often the condemned is <a id="link48"></a>the burden bearer for the guiltless and unblamed. </p> @@ -1771,7 +1757,7 @@ the evil tree, let him see to its roots; <p> And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the -<a name="link49" id="link49"></a>fruitless, all entwined together in the silent +<a id="link49"></a>fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth. </p> @@ -1814,7 +1800,7 @@ guilty. <p> Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon -themselves. <a name="link50" id="link50"></a>And you who would understand +themselves. <a id="link50"></a>And you who would understand justice, how shall you unless you look upon all deeds in the fullness of light? </p> @@ -1830,7 +1816,7 @@ its foundation. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link51" id="link51"></a>Then a lawyer said, But what of our +<a id="link51"></a>Then a lawyer said, But what of our <b><i>Laws</i></b>, master? </p> @@ -1870,7 +1856,7 @@ sand-towers, <p> But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it -in their own likeness? <a name="link52" id="link52"></a>What of the cripple who +in their own likeness? <a id="link52"></a>What of the cripple who hates dancers? </p> @@ -1908,7 +1894,7 @@ shadows upon the earth? </p> <p> -But you who walk facing the sun, what <a name="link53" id="link53"></a>images +But you who walk facing the sun, what <a id="link53"></a>images drawn on the earth can hold you? </p> @@ -1941,7 +1927,7 @@ the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link54" id="link54"></a>And an orator said, Speak to us of +<a id="link54"></a>And an orator said, Speak to us of <b><i>Freedom</i></b>. </p> @@ -1971,8 +1957,7 @@ freedom as a goal and a fulfilment. </p> <p> -You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your <a -name="link55" id="link55"></a>nights without a want and a grief, +You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your <a id="link55"></a>nights without a want and a grief, </p> <p> @@ -2007,7 +1992,7 @@ your judges, though you pour the sea upon them. </p> <p> -And if it is a despot you would <a name="link56" id="link56"></a>dethrone, see +And if it is a despot you would <a id="link56"></a>dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. </p> @@ -2051,7 +2036,7 @@ greater freedom. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link57" id="link57"></a>And the priestess spoke again and said: Speak +<a id="link57"></a>And the priestess spoke again and said: Speak to us of <b><i>Reason and Passion</i></b>. </p> @@ -2081,7 +2066,7 @@ soul. <p> If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or -else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. <a name="link58" id="link58"></a>For +else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. <a id="link58"></a>For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. </p> @@ -2113,7 +2098,7 @@ say in silence, “God rests in reason.” </p> <p> -And when the storm comes, and the <a name="link59" id="link59"></a>mighty wind +And when the storm comes, and the <a id="link59"></a>mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky,—then let your heart say in awe, “God moves in passion.” </p> @@ -2128,7 +2113,7 @@ forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link60" id="link60"></a>And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of +<a id="link60"></a>And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of <b><i>Pain</i></b>. </p> @@ -2164,7 +2149,7 @@ Much of your pain is self-chosen. </p> <p> -It is the bitter potion by which the physician <a name="link61"></a>within you +It is the bitter potion by which the physician <a id="link61"></a>within you heals your sick self. </p> @@ -2180,7 +2165,7 @@ fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link62" id="link62"></a>And a man said, Speak to us of +<a id="link62"></a>And a man said, Speak to us of <b><i>Self-Knowledge</i></b>. </p> @@ -2222,7 +2207,7 @@ But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; </p> <p> -And seek not the depths of your <a name="link63" id="link63"></a>knowledge with +And seek not the depths of your <a id="link63"></a>knowledge with staff or sounding line. </p> @@ -2254,7 +2239,7 @@ The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0083.jpg"> -<img src="images/0083.jpg" width="462" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0083.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 462px; height: 600px"></a> </div> </div><!--end chapter--> @@ -2262,7 +2247,7 @@ The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link64" id="link64"></a>Then said a teacher, Speak to us of +<a id="link64"></a>Then said a teacher, Speak to us of <b><i>Teaching</i></b>. </p> @@ -2292,8 +2277,7 @@ give you his understanding. <p> The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot -give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it. <a -name="link65" id="link65"></a>And he who is versed in the science of numbers +give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it. <a id="link65"></a>And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither. </p> @@ -2313,7 +2297,7 @@ earth. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link66" id="link66"></a>And a youth said, Speak to us of +<a id="link66"></a>And a youth said, Speak to us of <b><i>Friendship</i></b>. </p> @@ -2357,7 +2341,7 @@ When you part from your friend, you grieve not; <p> For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the -mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. <a name="link67"></a>And let +mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. <a id="link67"></a>And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. </p> @@ -2400,7 +2384,7 @@ For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link68" id="link68"></a>And then a scholar said, Speak of +<a id="link68"></a>And then a scholar said, Speak of <b><i>Talking</i></b>. </p> @@ -2436,7 +2420,7 @@ would escape. </p> <p> -And there are those who talk, and <a name="link69" id="link69"></a>without +And there are those who talk, and <a id="link69"></a>without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand. </p> @@ -2473,7 +2457,7 @@ When the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link70" id="link70"></a>And an astronomer said, Master, what of +<a id="link70"></a>And an astronomer said, Master, what of <b><i>Time</i></b>? </p> @@ -2506,8 +2490,7 @@ today’s dream. <p> And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the -bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. <a -name="link71" id="link71"></a>Who among you does not feel that his power to +bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. <a id="link71"></a>Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? </p> @@ -2535,7 +2518,7 @@ And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link72" id="link72"></a>And one of the elders of the city said, Speak +<a id="link72"></a>And one of the elders of the city said, Speak to us of <b><i>Good and Evil</i></b>. </p> @@ -2570,7 +2553,7 @@ For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. <p> And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink -not to the bottom. <a name="link73"></a>You are good when you strive to give of +not to the bottom. <a id="link73"></a>You are good when you strive to give of yourself. </p> @@ -2609,7 +2592,7 @@ You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. </p> <p> -Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. <a name="link74"></a>Even +Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. <a id="link74"></a>Even those who limp go not backward. </p> @@ -2646,7 +2629,7 @@ lingers before it reaches the shore. </p> <p> -But let not him who longs much say to <a name="link75" id="link75"></a>him who +But let not him who longs much say to <a id="link75"></a>him who longs little, “Wherefore are you slow and halting?” </p> @@ -2660,7 +2643,7 @@ the houseless, “What has befallen your house?” <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link76" id="link76"></a>Then a priestess said, Speak to us of +<a id="link76"></a>Then a priestess said, Speak to us of <b><i>Prayer</i></b>. </p> @@ -2688,8 +2671,7 @@ spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing. </p> <p> -When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very <a -name="link77" id="link77"></a>hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet. +When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very <a id="link77"></a>hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet. </p> <p> @@ -2726,7 +2708,7 @@ lips. <p> And I cannot teach you the prayer of the seas and the forests and the -mountains. <a name="link78" id="link78"></a>But you who are born of the +mountains. <a id="link78"></a>But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart, </p> @@ -2759,7 +2741,7 @@ Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.” <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0100.jpg"> -<img src="images/0100.jpg" width="453" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0100.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 453px; height: 600px"></a> </div> </div><!--end chapter--> @@ -2767,7 +2749,7 @@ Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.” <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link79" id="link79"></a>Then a hermit, who visited the city once a +<a id="link79"></a>Then a hermit, who visited the city once a year, came forth and said, Speak to us of <b><i>Pleasure</i></b>. </p> @@ -2818,7 +2800,7 @@ you lose your hearts in the singing. <p> Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all, and they are judged and -rebuked. <a name="link80" id="link80"></a>I would not judge nor rebuke them. I +rebuked. <a id="link80"></a>I would not judge nor rebuke them. I would have them seek. </p> @@ -2859,7 +2841,7 @@ remember; </p> <p> -And in their fear of seeking and remembering <a name="link81"></a>they shun all +And in their fear of seeking and remembering <a id="link81"></a>they shun all pleasures, lest they neglect the spirit or offend against it. </p> @@ -2908,7 +2890,7 @@ And your body is the harp of your soul, </p> <p> -And it is yours to bring forth <a name="link82" id="link82"></a>sweet music +And it is yours to bring forth <a id="link82"></a>sweet music from it or confused sounds. </p> @@ -2948,7 +2930,7 @@ People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link83" id="link83"></a>And a poet said, Speak to us of +<a id="link83"></a>And a poet said, Speak to us of <b><i>Beauty</i></b>. </p> @@ -2983,7 +2965,7 @@ Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.” <p> The tired and the weary say, “Beauty is of soft whisperings. She speaks -in our spirit. <a name="link84"></a> Her voice yields to our silences like a +in our spirit. <a id="link84"></a> Her voice yields to our silences like a faint light that quivers in fear of the shadow.” </p> @@ -3013,8 +2995,7 @@ upon the hills.” <p> And in the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with -the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.” <a -name="link85" id="link85"></a>All these things have you said of beauty, +the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.” <a id="link85"></a>All these things have you said of beauty, </p> <p> @@ -3055,7 +3036,7 @@ People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. </p> <p> -But you are life and you are the veil. <a name="link86" id="link86"></a>Beauty +But you are life and you are the veil. <a id="link86"></a>Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. </p> @@ -3068,7 +3049,7 @@ But you are eternity and you are the mirror. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link87" id="link87"></a>And an old priest said, Speak to us of +<a id="link87"></a>And an old priest said, Speak to us of <b><i>Religion</i></b>. </p> @@ -3100,8 +3081,7 @@ myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?” </p> <p> -All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self. <a -name="link88" id="link88"></a>He who wears his morality but as his best garment +All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self. <a id="link88"></a>He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. </p> @@ -3144,7 +3124,7 @@ failures. </p> <p> -And take with you all men: <a name="link89"></a>For in adoration you cannot fly +And take with you all men: <a id="link89"></a>For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair. </p> @@ -3171,7 +3151,7 @@ trees. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link90" id="link90"></a>Then Almitra spoke, saying, We would ask now +<a id="link90"></a>Then Almitra spoke, saying, We would ask now of <b><i>Death</i></b>. </p> @@ -3211,8 +3191,7 @@ And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. </p> <p> -Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. <a -name="link91"></a>Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when +Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. <a id="link91"></a>Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour. </p> @@ -3251,7 +3230,7 @@ And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. <div class="chapter"> <p> -<a name="link92" id="link92"></a>And now it was evening. +<a id="link92"></a>And now it was evening. </p> <p> @@ -3282,8 +3261,7 @@ Less hasty am I than the wind, yet I must go. <p> We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended -another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. <a -name="link93"></a>Even while the earth sleeps we travel. +another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. <a id="link93"></a>Even while the earth sleeps we travel. </p> <p> @@ -3323,8 +3301,7 @@ voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts. </p> <p> -I go with the wind, people of Orphalese, but not down into emptiness; <a -name="link94" id="link94"></a>And if this day is not a fulfilment of your needs +I go with the wind, people of Orphalese, but not down into emptiness; <a id="link94"></a>And if this day is not a fulfilment of your needs and my love, then let it be a promise till another day. </p> @@ -3366,7 +3343,7 @@ And oftentimes I was among you a lake among the mountains. </p> <p> -I mirrored the summits in you and the <a name="link95" id="link95"></a>bending +I mirrored the summits in you and the <a id="link95"></a>bending slopes, and even the passing flocks of your thoughts and your desires. </p> @@ -3382,7 +3359,7 @@ sing. <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0119.jpg"> -<img src="images/0119.jpg" width="460" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0119.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 460px; height: 600px"></a> </div> <p> @@ -3418,8 +3395,7 @@ What visions, what expectations and what presumptions can outsoar that flight? </p> <p> -Like a giant oak tree covered with apple blossoms is the vast man in you. <a -name="link96" id="link96"></a>His might binds you to the earth, his fragrance +Like a giant oak tree covered with apple blossoms is the vast man in you. <a id="link96"></a>His might binds you to the earth, his fragrance lifts you into space, and in his durability you are deathless. </p> @@ -3461,7 +3437,7 @@ And though in your winter you deny your spring, <p> Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles in her drowsiness and is not offended. -<a name="link97" id="link97"></a>Think not I say these things in order that you +<a id="link97"></a>Think not I say these things in order that you may say the one to the other, “He praised us well. He saw but the good in us.” </p> @@ -3501,8 +3477,7 @@ It is a flame spirit in you ever gathering more of itself, </p> <p> -While you, heedless of its expansion, bewail the withering of your days. <a -name="link98" id="link98"></a>It is life in quest of life in bodies that fear +While you, heedless of its expansion, bewail the withering of your days. <a id="link98"></a>It is life in quest of life in bodies that fear the grave. </p> @@ -3543,11 +3518,11 @@ into parching lips and all life into a fountain. <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0125.jpg"> -<img src="images/0125.jpg" width="462" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0125.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 462px; height: 600px"></a> </div> <p> -<a name="link99" id="link99"></a>And in this lies my honour and my +<a id="link99"></a>And in this lies my honour and my reward,— </p> @@ -3587,7 +3562,7 @@ For this I bless you most: </p> <p> -You give much and know not that you give at all. <a name="link100"></a>Verily +You give much and know not that you give at all. <a id="link100"></a>Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, </p> @@ -3627,7 +3602,7 @@ And others among you called unto me, not in words, and they said, <p> “Stranger, stranger, lover of unreachable heights, why dwell you among -the summits where eagles build their nests? <a name="link101"></a>Why seek you +the summits where eagles build their nests? <a id="link101"></a>Why seek you the unattainable? </p> @@ -3679,7 +3654,7 @@ turtle. </p> <p> -And I the believer was also the doubter; <a name="link102" id="link102"></a>For +And I the believer was also the doubter; <a id="link102"></a>For often have I put my finger in my own wound that I might have the greater belief in you and the greater knowledge of you. </p> @@ -3718,8 +3693,7 @@ And I fain would have you remember me as a beginning. </p> <p> -Life, and all that lives, is conceived in the mist and not in the crystal. <a -name="link103" id="link103"></a>And who knows but a crystal is mist in decay? +Life, and all that lives, is conceived in the mist and not in the crystal. <a id="link103"></a>And who knows but a crystal is mist in decay? </p> <p class="p2"> @@ -3760,7 +3734,7 @@ The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, <p> And the clay that fills your ears shall be pierced by those fingers that -kneaded it. <a name="link104" id="link104"></a>And you shall see. +kneaded it. <a id="link104"></a>And you shall see. </p> <p> @@ -3806,7 +3780,7 @@ Yet quietly my captain awaits my silence. <p> And these my mariners, who have heard the choir of the greater sea, they too -have heard me patiently. <a name="link105" id="link105"></a>Now they shall wait +have heard me patiently. <a id="link105"></a>Now they shall wait no longer. </p> @@ -3858,7 +3832,7 @@ Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you. </p> <p> -It was but yesterday we met in a dream. <a name="link106" id="link106"></a>You +It was but yesterday we met in a dream. <a id="link106"></a>You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky. </p> @@ -3893,7 +3867,7 @@ dusk and was carried out over the sea like a great trumpeting. </p> <p> -Only Almitra was silent, gazing after <a name="link107" id="link107"></a>the +Only Almitra was silent, gazing after <a id="link107"></a>the ship until it had vanished into the mist. </p> @@ -3909,10 +3883,12 @@ bear me.” <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> <a href="images/0134.jpg"> -<img src="images/0134.jpg" width="462" height="600" alt="Illustration:" /></a> +<img src="images/0134.jpg" alt="Illustration:" style="width: 462px; height: 600px"></a> </div> </div><!--end chapter--> <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58585 ***</div> +</body> </html> + |