5/17 I WAS happiness itself, I WAS pure rapture! I did not look at the beauty of the night, the sky, the marvelous melting shadow. I was PART of it all, one with it. Nothing held me nothing! The beauty of the night, the light, the air WERE what I was, and I was only thrilling ecstasy and wonder at the rapture of it." I stopped and covered my face with my hands, and tears wet my fingers. I only stood and lifted my face and felt the joy of it, the pure marvel of joy. |