matters, and carry me to life or death, which-so he will. Thin now
grows the night, but lie still a little yet, while I speak another
word.

"Maybe we shall meet alive again, and maybe not: and if not, though
we have never yet lain in one bed together, yet I would have thee
remember me: yet not so that my image shall come between thee and
thy speech-friend and bed-fellow of the kindred, that shall lie where
I was to have lain. Yet again, if I live and thou livest, I have
been told and have heard that by one way or other I am like to come
to the Glittering Plain, and the Land of Living Men. O my beloved,
if by any way thou mightest come thither also, and we might meet
there, and we two alive, how good it were! Seek that land then,
beloved! seek it, whether or no we once more behold the House of the
Rose, or tread the floor of the Raven dwelling. And now must even
this image of me sunder from thee. Farewell!"

Therewith was the dream done and the vision departed; and Hallblithe
sat up full of anguish and longing; and he looked about him over the
dreary land, and it was somewhat light and the sky was grown grey and
cloudy, and he deemed that the dawn was come. So he leapt to his
feet and stooped down over Fox, and took him by the shoulder, and
shook him and said: "Faring-fellow, awake! the dawn is come, and we
have much to do."

Fox sat up and growled like a dog, and rubbed his eyes and looked
about him and said: "Thou hast waked me for nought: it is the false
dawn of the moon that shineth now behind the clouds and casteth no
shadow; it is but an hour after midnight. Go to sleep again, and let
me be, else will I not be a guide to thee when the day comes." And