turtle-dove like her sweetness, the echo of the leaves like the grave
calm voice of your father, the reflected brightness of the road white
as your first communion, and the form of your beloved supple as a
poplar.

"At last the waters will bring you the great luminous Night."




INTELLIGENCE


One day the books which contained the wisdom of men disappeared by
enchantment.

Then the great scholars assembled: those who were engaged in
mathematics, in physics, in chemistry, in astronomy, in poetry, in
history, and in other arts and letters.

They held counsel and said:

"We are the custodians of human genius. We will recall the noblest
inventions of the wisest of men and the greatest of poets and have
them graven in immortal marble. They will represent only the supreme
summits of achievement since the beginning of the world. Pascal shall
be entitled to but one thought, Newton to but one star, Darwin to
but one insect, Galileo to but one grain of dust, Tolstoi to but one
charity, Heinrich Heine to but one verse, Shakespeare to but one cry,
Wagner to but one note...."