When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.' Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful. But somewhere, beyond space and time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one, who swam ere rivers were begun. Immense, of fishy form and mind, squamous, omnipotent, and kind. A pulse in the eternal mind, no less, gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given. Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; and laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven. |
