The Night Land

THE DREAMS THAT ARE ONLY DREAMS

"This to be Love, that your spirit to live in a natural holiness with

the Beloved, and your bodies to be a sweet and natural delight that

shall be never lost of a lovely mystery.... And shame to be unborn, and

all things to go wholesome and proper, out of an utter greatness of

understanding; and the Man to be an Hero and a Child before the Woman;

and the Woman to be an Holy Light of the Spirit and an Utter Companion

and in the same time a glad Possession unto the Man.... And this doth be

Human Love...."

"...for this to be the especial glory of Love, that it doth make unto

all Sweetness and Greatness, and doth be a fire burning all Littleness;

so that did all in this world to have met The Beloved, then did

Wantonness be dead, and there to grow Gladness and Charity, dancing in

the years."