Chapter 17
THE LOVE DAYSNow, when that I gat back unto life, I to know that I went
upward in the Lift, and did be upon that same bed, where I to think
I never to need a bed any more, neither to come upward again from
out of the Country of Silence.
And I to know vague and strange, that there rose up from out of
the mighty depths of the world, the deep thunder of the Underground
Organs, and did sound as that they made a strange and utter distant
music beyond death; and there to go alway a rolling chaunting, as
that multitudes did sing beyond far mountains, and the sound to be
somewhiles as a far-blowing wind, low in the Deep; and again to
come clear, and to be that great olden melody of the Song of
Honour. And I knew, as in a dream, that the Millions in that deep
Country made an
