No dampness is there here. I marvel still more yet.”
He asked: “What veil worest thou God’s service to fulfil?”[267]
She answered: “I a plaid of thine threw o’er my frill.”
He said: “That plaid it was for which the Lord, to thee,
My lady pure, a shower caused visible to be.130
That shower was not of raindrops from the clouds that fall;
A shower of mercy ’twas; its cloud and sky, His call.”
[“In regions of the soul so many skies are there![268]
They issue their commands to spheres of earth and air.
The ups and downs in spirit’s path form quite a class;