I CLING TO THIS living raft, my body, in the narrow stream of my earthly years. I leave it when the crossing is over. And then? I do not know if the light there and the darkness are the same. The Unknown is the perpetual freedom: He is pitiless in his love. He crushes the shell for the pearl, dumb in the prison of the dark. You muse and weep for the days that are done, poor heart! Be glad that days are to come! The hour strikes, 0 pilgrim! It is time for you to take the parting of the ways! His face will be unveiled once again and you shall meet.
I FOUND A few old letters of mine carefully hidden in her box- a few small toys for her memory to play with. With a timorous heart she tried to steal these trifles from time's turbulent stream, and said, 'These are mine only!' Ah, there is no one now to claim them, who can pay their price with loving care, yet here they are still. Surely there is love in this world to save her from utter loss, even like this love of hers that saved these letters with such fond care.