"Here on the heights of the Theban hills, under the dawning stars, the ecstasy of their love was communicated from one to the other, and the earth beneath them dissolved into cloud as they passed forth into the untrammelled regions of their heaven.
In the arrogance of their passion it seemed that they two, their unity, were the fulfilment of all the world's hope, that they were the solution of the riddle of existence. This was the thing expected; that their unuttered words and the surge of their mingled breath were the messages for which the ears of the multitude of the dead were straining; the beauty of their all-conquering youth was the vision that earth and heaven, life and death, so breathlessly awaited. Yearning towards one another, absorbed into one another, they lay couched upon the extreme pinnacle of the world, raised into the very presence of the stars and assaulting the mighty gates of Paradise.
For long they lay thus under the canopy of heaven, while desire and passion and the unquenchable thirst of longing held them in the glory of mutual capitivy; and softly the darkness of night fell upon them, hiding in its tender oblivion the idolatry of their love."
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Date: Sep. 29th, 2008 07:22 pm (UTC)In the arrogance of their passion it seemed that they two, their unity, were the fulfilment of all the world's hope, that they were the solution of the riddle of existence. This was the thing expected; that their unuttered words and the surge of their mingled breath were the messages for which the ears of the multitude of the dead were straining; the beauty of their all-conquering youth was the vision that earth and heaven, life and death, so breathlessly awaited. Yearning towards one another, absorbed into one another, they lay couched upon the extreme pinnacle of the world, raised into the very presence of the stars and assaulting the mighty gates of Paradise.
For long they lay thus under the canopy of heaven, while desire and passion and the unquenchable thirst of longing held them in the glory of mutual capitivy; and softly the darkness of night fell upon them, hiding in its tender oblivion the idolatry of their love."
etc. *g*