The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

In His will, our peace.

Everywhere is here and every when is now.

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things