"Is my bread sweet to you?"
"The sweetest I ever ate. I ate it slowly, and took each bit from your hand. I kept one crust."
"And my corn."
"Oh, your corn! that is everlasting. You have sown your seed. I have eaten a grain, and it bore its harvest. One by one I shall eat them, and every grain will bear its full harvest. You have replenished the unknown earth with fields of golden corn, and set me walking there for ever."
"And you have thrown golden light upon strange waters, and set me floating there for ever. Oh, you on my earth and I on your ocean, how shall we meet?"
"Your corn is my waters, my waters are your corn. They move on one wave. Oh, child, we are borne on it together, for ever."
"But how you teased me!"
"I couldn't help it."
"You and your boats and your duckponds."
"It was such fun. You were so serious. It was so easy to tease you."