CHAPTER VT
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became great friends. Jasper stood towards the young poet in the double relation of guide and disciple. The dreamer in him saw to the heart of the matter in Bunny’s work, and he never lost the awed reverence for the genius that could interpret in magical words the vague formless impressions that had haunted him from boyhood. In this wise the young man was to him as the angels. On the other hand the concrete experience of a hard life passed amid crude elementals made him conscious of a wisdom far exceeding Bunny’s. The boy beheld the earth and cried aloud that it belonged to him; the man knew, with the knowledge that comes of living, that he belonged, for all his divine gift, to the earth, to its joys and its sufferings, its hopes and its despairs.
It was good to have his
