IN BABYS world, the trees shake their leaves at him, murmuring verses in an ancient tongue that dates from before the age of meaning, and the moon feigns to be of his own age-the solitary baby of night. In the world of the old, flowers dutifully blush at the make-believe of faery legends, and broken dolls confess that they are made of clay.
FILL YOUR EYES with the colours that ripple on beauty's stream, vain is your struggle to clutch them. That which you chase with your desire is a shadow, that which thrills your life-chords is music. The wine they drink at the assembly of gods has no body, no measure. It is in rushing brooks, in flowering trees, in the smile that dances at the corner of dark eyes. Enjoy it in freedom.