<p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000;">No one </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>will believe</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> this //who </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>has not lived</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> long and </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>looked</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> hard, so that he </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>knows</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> how suddenly </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">[a passion //for which </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>has</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> for years </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>been wrapped</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> round the whole of the heart] </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>will dry up and wither</b></span><span style="color: #000000;">. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000;">Perhaps in the soul, as in the soil, </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">[those growths //that </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>show</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> the brightest colours and </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>put forth</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> the most </span>overpowering<span style="color: #000000;"> smell] </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;"><b>have not</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> always the deepest root. </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">Or perhaps it’</span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>s</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> age that </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>does</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> it.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000;">From Till We Have Faces</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000;">Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold. Copyright © 1956 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1984 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.</span></p><p> </p>
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