And live for ever free from care and pain.’
“Then, pale as privet, took she heart to drink,
And therewithal most strange new thoughts did think,
And unknown feelings seized her, and there came
Sudden remembrance, vivid as a flame,
Of everything that she had done on earth,
Although it all seemed changed in weight and worth,
“Small things becoming great, and great things small;
And godlike pity touched her therewithal
For her old self, for sons of men that die;