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Adversity, fearing no Evil, sparing no labour, shunning no suffering of the body, so only that he might come unto her to whom the Lord had given the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Like an eager explorer he began to go about the highways and by-ways of the City, diligently seeking her whom his Soul did love. He asked of those who stood about, he questioned those who met him, saying: Saw ye her whom my Soul loveth? But his speech was dark to them as an alien tongue, and, not