Chapter 16
IN THE COUNTRY OF SILENCEAnd lo! I did be come something nigh unto the Mighty Pyramid;
and my great Home went up vast into the everlasting night, as a
very Mountain of sweet Life and Safety, and had surely amazed me
afresh with the utter Bigness of it, only that despair and
weariness did have too grim an hold upon my heart for me to care of
aught, save to have Mine Own Maid within the safe wonder of the
huge Refuge. And it did be still afar off from me.
And I to go forward across the Land with a strong going; and lo!
as I past a hollow place where did burn a fire-hole, there came
something out of the hollow. And the thing gat upward from
crawling, and did be a great and haired Man. And the Man lookt at
me, and afterward came unto me, and did put his hands forward, ve
