Perhaps I have no other conscious life than this.

I would like to remain as I am: I would like to see the sun shine, and to hear the birds sing, and to see the men and women who live in this age.
Is there no way of keeping me here ?" "I cannot tell; it may be,--but it must not be now, Semitzin," the old man replied, with a troubled look.

"The ways of the gods are not our ways.

She whose body you inhabit--she has her life to live." "But is that girl more worthy to live than I?
You have called me into being again: you have made me know how pleasant this world is.

Miriam sleeps: she need never know; she need never awake again.