The Prophet

hosen and the be

day, had waited

r his ship that was

e isle of

year, on the sevent

climbed the hill wi

and he beheld his

st

his heart were flu

. And he closed his e

s of hi

the hill, a sadnes

art: How shall I go

hout a wound in the

s c

f pain I have spent

s of aloneness; and

is aloneness w

of the spirit have

ny are the children

hese hills, and I

n and an ache. It is

skin that I tear wit

e behind me, but a

nd with

onger. The sea that

must embark. For to

to freeze and crysta

ld I take with me

voice cannot carr

gs. Alone must it see

t shall the eagle f

the foot of the hi

proaching the harbour, And upon her pro

out to them, and

riders of the tide

w you come in my awakening,

d my eagerness with

athe in this still air, Only another lov

, a seafarer am

sleepless mother,

river and the strea

urmur in this glade, And then I shall com

ea

e saw from afar me

r vineyards and haste

their voices calling

ld telling one anothe

ip

elf: Shall the day

all it be said that

wn

ve unto him who has

m who has stopped th

rt become a tree he

nd give unto them?

that I may fill the

mighty may touch me

y pass th

am I, and what trea

ispense with confiden

fields have I sowed

s? If this indeed b

t is not my flame tha

I raise my lantern,

it with oil and he

id in words. But m

e himself could not

tered into the city

ere crying out to hi

he city stood forth

ntide have you been

us dreams to dream.

st, but our son and

ur eyes to hunge

d the priestesses

e sea separate us n

midst become a mem

nd your shadow has b

ce

you. But speechle

t cries aloud unto you, And would stand

its own depth unti

ame also and entre

d the

ead; and those who

ing upon h

ple proceeded towa

And there came ou

was Almitra. And

her with exceedin

t sought and believe

day in th

saying: Prophet of

you searched the dist

has come, and yo

g for the land of y

ur greater desires;

r our needs

ou leave us, that you

d we will give it un

hildren, and it s

you have watched w

u have listened to

r of ou

se us to ourselves,

f that which is betw

ople of Orphalese,

is even now moving