a Poet's Grave!






PART II.--IN AL-KYRIS.


"That which hath been, is now: and that which is to be, hath
already been: . . and God requireth that which is past."
ECCLESIASTES.




CHAPTER XI.

THE MARVELLOUS CITY.


Profound silence,--profound unconsciousness,--oblivious rest! Such
are the soothing ministrations of kindly Nature to the
overburdened spirit; Nature, who in her tender wisdom and maternal
solicitude will not permit us to suffer beyond a certain limit.
Excessive pain, whether it be physical or mental, cannot last
long,--and human anguish wound up to its utmost quivering-pitch
finds at the very height of desolation, a strange hushing, Lethean
calm. Even so it was with Theos Alwyn,--drowned in the deep