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I shall put on my wedding garland. Mine is not the red-brown

dress of the traveller, and though there are dangers on the way I

have no fear in mind.

The evening star will come out when my voyage is done and the

plaintive notes of the twilight melodies be struck up from the

King's gateway.

95.

I was not aware of the moment when I first crossed the threshold

of this life.

What was the power that made me open out into this vast mystery

like a bud in the forest at midnight!

When in the morning I looked upon the light I felt in a moment

that I was no stranger in this world, that the inscrutable

without name and form had taken me in its arms in the form of my

own mother.

Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to

me. And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as

well.

The child cries out when from the right breast the mother takes

it away, in the very next moment to find in the left one its

consolation.

96.