And all their whisperings were lucid speech.
Marvels and wonders of the hidden worlds
Disclosed themselves unto the boy when he
Held converse in his soul with many things
By men deemed lifeless. Evening often fell,
And still the boy would be away from home,
And cause his loving parents much distress.
At such times he was at a place near by
In which a spring rose gushing from the rocks,
To fall in misty spray upon the stones.