There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done.

This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.

Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch

There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.

'Celtic' is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.