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 THE SEVEN SEALS 337

��If my virtue is a dancer's virtue, and I have often leaped with both feet into golden-emerald rapture ;

If my wickedness is a laughing wickedness, feeling at home under rose slopes and lily-hedges ;

(For in laughter there is gathered all that is wicked, but proclaimed holy and free through its own bliss.)

And if it be mine Alpha and mine Omega that all that is heavy should become light, all that is body become a dancer, all that is spirit become a bird. And, verily, that is mine A and mine O !

Oh ! how could I fail to be eager for eternity, and for the marriage ring of rings, the ring of recurrence ?

Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should have liked to have children, unless it be this woman I love. For I love thee, O Eternity !

For I love thee, O Eternity !

��If I have ever spread out above me still skies, and have ever flown into mine own skies by mine own wings ;

If I have hovered playfully in deep light-distances and there hath come the bird-wisdom of my freedom ;

(Thus speaketh bird-wisdom : ' Behold, here is

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