The Preface Appended
by “X” To His Dream

T his to be Love, that your spirit to live in a natural holiness with the Beloved, and your bodies to be a sweet and natural delight that shall be never lost of a lovely mystery. . . . And shame to be unborn, and all things to go wholesome and proper, out of an utter greatness of understanding; and the Man to be an Hero and a Child before the Woman; and the Woman to be an Holy Light of the Spirit and an Utter Companion and in the same time a glad Possession unto the Man. . . . And this doth be Human Love. . . .”

“. . . for this to be the especial glory of Love, that it doth make unto all Sweetness and Greatness, and doth be a fire burning all littleness; so that did all to have met The Beloved, then did Wantonness be dead, and there to grow Gladness and Charity, dancing in the years.”

(“And I cannot touch her face

And I cannot touch her hair

And I kneel to empty shadows

Just memories of her grace;

And her voice sings in the winds

And in the sobs of Dawn

And among the flowers at night

And from the brooks at sunrise

And from the sea at sunset. . . .

. . . . . . . . . .”)¹

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¹ A reference by “X” to his loss.—Ed.