ave no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without.”
At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without,“Yes, you are well and whole, but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty.”
A man and a woman sat by a window that opened upon spring. They sat close one unto the other. And the woman said, “I love you. You are handsome, and you are rich, and you are always well-attired.”
And the man said, “I love you. You are a beautiful thought, a thing too apart to hold in the hand, and a song in my dre***ng.”
But the woman turned from him in anger, and she said, “Sir, please leave me now. I am not a thought, and I am not a thing that passes in your dreams. I am a woman. I would have you desire me, a wife, and the mother of unborn children.”
And they parted.
And the man was saying in his heart, “Behold another dream is even now turned into mist.”