CHAPTER XLII

 I cling to this living raft, my body, in the narrow stream of my earthly years.

 

I leave it when the crossing is over. And then?

 

I do not know if the light there and the darkness are the same.

 

The Unknown is the perpetual freedom:

 

He is pitiless in his love.

 

He crushes the shell for the pearl, dumb in the prison of the dark.

 

You muse¹ and weep for the days that are done, poor heart!

 

Be glad that days are to come!

 

The hour strikes, O pilgrim!

 

It is time for you to take the parting of the ways!

 

His face will be unveiled once again and you shall meet.

1 muse   

n.缪斯（希腊神话中的女神），创作灵感

参考例句：

• His muse had deserted him,and he could no longer write.他已无灵感，不能再写作了。
• Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President.很多报纸都在揣测总统的命运。