Chapter 4

48. O day of Eternity, let Thy wave break in foamless glory of sapphire upon the laborious coral of our making!
    49. We have made us a ring of glistening white sand, strewn wisely in the midst of the Delightful Ocean.
    50. Let the palms of brilliance flower upon our island; we shall eat of their fruit, and be glad.
    51. But for me the lustral water, the great ablution, the dissolving of the soul in that resounding abyss.
    52. I have a little son like a wanton goat; my daughter is like an unfledged eaglet; they shall get them fins, that they may swim.
    53. That they may swim, O my beloved, swim far in the warm honey of Thy being, O blessed one, O boy of beatitude!

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