Now he was found upon the highroad, and now the country paths drew him, and the solemn woods where men most easily find God.

And so he approached Corinth.
"The day was calm and bright, with a lofty, blue, and stainless sky.

The heart of Ibycus grew warm, and there seemed a brighter light within the light cast by the sun.
Flower and plant and tree and all living things seemed to him to be glistening and singing, and to have for him, as he for them, a loving friendship.

And, looking up to the sky, he saw, drawn out stringwise, a flight of cranes, addressed to Egypt.

And between his heart and them ran, like a rippling path that the sun sends across the sea, a stream of good-will and understanding.