After that awakening earth began more and more to bewitch me, and to lure me to her heart with honied entreaty.

I could not escape from it even in that busy office where I sat during week-days with little heaps of paper mounting up before me moment by frenzied moment.

An interval of inactivity and I would be aware of that sweet eternal presence overshadowing me.

I was an exile from living nature but she yet visited me.

Her ambassadors were visions that made me part of themselves.

Through the hot foetid air of the gaslit room I could see the feverish faces, the quick people flitting about, and hear the voices; and then room, faces and voices would be gone, and I would be living in the Mother's being in some pure, remote, elemental region of hers.

Instead of the dingy office there would be a sky of rarest amethyst; a snow-cold bloom of