The Greeks, though strangers to the mystic
element of that Beauty-worship which in Asia became afterwards
sufism, could not have exhibited a passion for concrete beauty such
as theirs without feeling that, deeper than Tartarus, stronger than
Destiny and Death, the great heart of Nature is beating to the tune
of universal love and beauty.'
This was followed by a still more mystical poem called 'The Persian
Slave Girl's Progress to Paradise,' showing the Omnipotence of Love.
[Footnote]
[Footnote: This poem of Philip Aylwin's appears now in the present
writer's volume, _The Coming of Love_.]
XIV
SINFI'S COUP DE THEATRE
I
Weeks passed by. I visited all the scenes that were in the least
degree associated with Winnie.
The two places nearest to me--Fairy Glen and the Swallow Falls--which
I had always hitherto avoided on account of their being the
favourite haunts of tourists--I left to the last, because I
specially desired to see them by moonlight. With regard to Fairy
Glen, I had often heard Winnie say how she used to go there by
moonlight and imagine the Tylwyth Teg or the fairy scenes of the
_Midsummer Night's Dream_ which I had told her of long ago--imagine
them so vividly that she could actually see, on a certain projecting
rock in the cliffs that enclose the dell, the figure of Titania
dressed in green, with a wreath of leaves round her head.
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