In The Meantime He Himself
Went Down The Hill With His Candle, And Left Me Alone.
I lost sight of him for some moments, but at length I perceived, not
him, indeed, but his candle, quite in the bottom, from whence it
seemed to shine like a bright and twinkling star.
After I had enjoyed this indescribably beautiful sight for some
time, my guide came back, and carried me safely down the hill again
on his shoulders. And as I now stood below, he went up and let his
candle shine again through an opening of the rock, while I covered
mine with my hand; and it was now as if on a dark night a bright
star shone down upon me, a sight which, in point of beauty, far
surpassed all that I had ever seen.
Our journey was now ended, and we returned, not without trouble and
difficulty, through the narrow passage. We again entered the temple
we had a short time before left; again heard the pattering of the
rain, which sounded as rain when we were near it, but which at a
distance seemed a sonorous, dull, and melancholy hum; and now again
we returned across the quiet streams through the capacious entrance
of the cavern to the little door, where we had before taken our
leave of daylight, which, after so long a darkness, we now again
hailed with joy.
Before my guide opened the door, he told me I should now have a view
of a sight that would surpass all the foregoing.
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