"
And his laughter--for just then a puff of wind passed by and shook his
sides for him--ran across many feet of lawn.
"It was a Bumble Bee," he comforted her. "It came between us for a
bit, its shadow fell upon you, nothing more! Such things will happen;
we must be prepared for them. It was nothing in myself that dimmed
your world."
"Another time I will be braver, then," she told him, "and even in the
darkness I shall know you close, ah, very close to me...."
For a long, long stretch of time, then, they stood joyfully together
and watched the lilac growing. They also saw the movement of the sun
across the sky. An eternity passed over them.... The vast disc of the
sun went slowly gliding....
But all the enormous things that happened in their lives cannot be
told. Lives crammed with a succession of such grand and palpitating
adventures lie beyond the reach of clumsy words. The sweetness
sometimes was intolerable, and then they shared it with the entire
lawn and so obtained relief--yet merely in order to begin again. The
humming of the rising Spring continued with the thunderous droning of
the turning Earth.
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