I need scarce tell you, my friend, that, even when you The individual calamity was, as you say, entirely unanticipated butĪnalogous misfortunes had been long a subject of discussion with astronomers. When, coming out from among mankind, I passed into Night through the Grave -Īt that period, if I remember aright, the calamity which overwhelmed you was utterly unanticipated. Naked fact of the catastrophe itself, I know nothing. Hung a cloud of intense gloom and devout sorrow over your household.Ĭ HARMION. Most fearfully, fearfully! - this is indeed no dream.Ĭ HARMION. Let us converse ofįamiliar things, in the old familiar language of the world which has so fearfully perished.Į IROS.
I am burning with anxiety to hear the details of that stupendous event which threw you among us. Your mind wavers, and its agitation will find relief in the exercise of simple memories. Majesty of all things - of the unknown now known - of the speculative Future merged in the august and certain Present.Ĭ HARMION. Oh God! - pity me, Charmion! - I am overburthened with the You have now suffered all of pain, however, which you will suffer inĮ IROS. You undergo - yet the remembrance of it hangs by me still.
It is now ten earthly years since I underwent what A few days will remove all this - but I fully understand you,Īnd feel for you. Yet my senses are bewildered, Charmion, with the keenness of their perception of the new.Ĭ HARMION. The terrible darkness have left me, and I hear no longer that mad, rushing, horrible sound, like the “voice of many waters.” Your allotted days of stupor have expired and, to-morrow, I will myself induct you into the full joys and wonders of yourĮ IROS. The film of the shadow has already passed from off your eyes. Rejoice to see you looking life-like and rational. Dreams are with us no more - but of these mysteries anon. My earthly name, and speak to me as Charmion.Ĭ HARMION. So henceforward will you always be called.
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