WHEN SPIRITS SPEAK OF LIFE
THREE spirits sit upon a low stone wall placed on the top of a hill. Their figures are gray, with human outlines, and their faces are those of a boy, a woman, and an old man. Light is greeting intimations of evening. The wall, the hill, and the figures exist only to the spirits who have created them.
First Spirit
We have made a wall
And take it gravely.
Second Spirit
The pensive vagary
That led us to return to earth
Welcomes these pretty illusions.
Stone wall, hill, and evening