And we yet to look awhile, and to be husht, and to hark in those
last moments unto the far mutter of the Great Fire-Mountains, and
the Fire-Hills, and the noise of life which did go over that Land;
and we even then to be but a few short pacings off from the silence
of the Great Gorge, which should lead us presently toward the
Eternal Strangeness which did be in the Night Land. And the Maid
did hold mine arm very close, as we lookt our last into the red
light of that Deep and Hid Country of the World, where, in verity,
we had come so utter nigh to our Death.
And presently, I turned, and the Maid slipt her hand into mine,
and the tears did go silent down her face, because of all that did
be prest upon her heart; but yet not to be all of sorrow, for there
to be both sorrow and hap
