Excerpt: ...without frightful suffering. Great scruples poison his heart. The poet went away from the town where he dwelled. He sought out the fields to gaze at the trees and the corn and the waters, to listen to the quails that sing like fountains and to the falling of the weavers' looms and the hum of the telegraph wires. These things and these sounds saddened him. The gentlest thoughts were bitterness to him. And when he picked a little flower in order to escape his terrible malady, he wept because he had plucked it. He ...
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Excerpt: ...without frightful suffering. Great scruples poison his heart. The poet went away from the town where he dwelled. He sought out the fields to gaze at the trees and the corn and the waters, to listen to the quails that sing like fountains and to the falling of the weavers' looms and the hum of the telegraph wires. These things and these sounds saddened him. The gentlest thoughts were bitterness to him. And when he picked a little flower in order to escape his terrible malady, he wept because he had plucked it. He entered a village on an evening sweet with the perfume of pears. It was a beautiful village like those he had often described in his books. There was a town square, a church, a cemetery, gardens, a smithy, and a dark inn. Blue smoke rose from it, and within was the sheen of glasses. There was also a stream which wound in and out under the wild nut-trees. The poet with his sick heart sat down mournfully on a stone. He was thinking of the torment he was enduring, of his old mother crying because of his absence, of the women who had deceived him, and he had homesickness for the time of his first communion. "My heart," he thought, "my sad heart cannot change." Suddenly he saw a young peasant-girl near by gathering her geese under the stars. She said to him: "Why do you weep?" He answered: "My soul was hurt in falling upon the earth. I cannot be cured because my heart is too heavy." "Will you have mine?" she said. "It is light. I will take yours and carry it easily. Am I not accustomed to burdens?" He gave her his heart and took hers. Immediately they smiled at each other and hand in hand they followed the pathway. The geese went in front of them like bits of the moon. She said to him: "I know that you are wise, and that I cannot know what you know. But I know that I love you. You are from elsewhere, and you must have been born in a wonderful cradle like that I once saw in a cart. It belonged to rich people. Your mother must speak...
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