But shall I reform as another Oro?
With all my wisdom, I do not know.

It is known to Fate only--Fate-the master of worlds and men and the gods they worship--Fate, whom it may please to spill my gathered knowledge, to be lost in the sands of Time." "It seems that you are great," I said, "and have lived long and learned much.

Yet the end of it is that your lot is neither worse nor better than that of us creatures of an hour." "It is so, Humphrey.

Presently you will die, and within a few centuries I shall die also and be as you are.

You believe that you will live again eternally.