Space, Time, Life, Moods, and Tenses

Chain not her Soul to the years.

Love is a sail, mid-ocean

Losing itself in the Whole,

Passion the wavelets commotion

Blurring the shores of the Soul.

He ceased suddenly, and his whole face changed. The grave was filled up, the diggers were already passing stolidly back to the city. On the desert horizon the red sun had lost its warmth and was sinking coldly behind the gray verge.

"Lo! I have done with Love," came the musician's mocking voice. "So take this, sister, and may it bring thee more luck than it hath brought Payandâr. For him only hate remains."

When she looked up from her hasty glance at what he had thrust into her hand, the rebeck player was moving away rapidly after the grave-diggers and she was left alone, looking at the new-made grave, looking at the quaint green stone she had just been given.

[CHAPTER XX]