"All these things I will do for you; will you be satisfied?"
In a little while I saw them walking and stepping on flowers as the rich step upon the hearts of the poor. As they disappeared from my sight, I 22)commenced to make 23)comparison between love and money, and to 24)analyze their position in the heart.
Money! The source of insincere love; the spring of false light and fortune; the well of poisoned water; the desperation of old age!
I was still wandering in the vast desert of 25)contemplation when a 26)forlorn couple passed by me and sat on the grass; a young man and a young woman who had left their farming 27)shacks in the nearby fields for this cool and 28)solitary place.
After a few moments of complete silence, I heard the following words uttered with sighs from 29)weather-bitten lips, "Shed not tears, my beloved; love that opens our eyes and 30)enslaves our hearts can give us the blessing of patience. Be 31)consoled in our delay, for we have taken an 32)oath and entered Love's 33)shrine; for our love will ever grow in 34)adversity; for it is in Love's name that we are suffering the 35)obstacles of 36)poverty and the sharpness of 37)misery and the emptiness of separation. Good-bye, my beloved; I must leave before the heartening moon 38)vanishes."
They separated, and the 39)elegy to their union was 40)smothered by the 41)wails of my crying heart.
I looked upon 42)slumbering Nature, and with deep 43)reflection discovered the reality of a vast and infinite thing—something no power could demand, influence acquire, nor riches 44)purchase. Nor could it be 45)effaced by the tears of time or 46)deadened by sorrow; a thing which cannot be discovered by the blue lakes of Switzerland or the beautiful 47)edifices of Italy.