For Who, Having Noise Around Him, Can Strike The Table With Pleasure
At Reading The Misanthrope, Or In Mere Thirst Or In Fatigue Praise
Chinon Wine?
Who does not need for either of these perfect things
Recollection, a variety of according conditions, and a certain easy
Plenitude of the Mind?
So it is with the majesty of Plains, and with the haunting power of
their imperial roads.
All you that have had your souls touched at the innermost, and have
attempted to release yourselves in verse and have written trash - (and
who know it) - be comforted. You shall have satisfaction at last, and
you shall attain fame in some other fashion - perhaps in private
theatricals or perhaps in journalism. You will be granted a prevision
of complete success, and your hearts shall be filled - but you must not
expect to find this mood on the Emilian Way when it is raining.
All you that feel youth slipping past you and that are desolate at the
approach of age, be merry; it is not what it looks like from in front
and from outside. There is a glory in all completion, and all good
endings are but shining transitions. There will come a sharp moment of
revelation when you shall bless the effect of time. But this divine
moment - - it is not on the Emilian Way in the rain that you should
seek it.
All you that have loved passionately and have torn your hearts asunder
in disillusions, do not imagine that things broken cannot be mended by
the good angels.
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