The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE SCORPION —and at last he is hurled fighting into the hungry mouth of death. LAYLAH. The cloud grows. RINALDO. Indeed you love me, if you bid me waste no time. LAYLAH. Oh nol . . . I must respect you. You treat me as if I were a pebble in the sand. Nothing moves you. RINALDO. Love moves me‘ LAYLAH. We are opposites in all. RINALDO. So Nature hath ordained. Man hates his neighbour : but when he finds his opposite, he loves it. All joy is the warfare of enemies, from the clash of lance and sabre, when Saracen meets Christian on the plain to—this, when Christian crushes Saracen in his arms and— [He elasps her. LAYLAH. Oh! [The ?}]]/!67 is overturned and the water flow: oni. RINALDO. I love you. LAYLAH. I am a speck of dust in the simoom. RINALDO. Let it whirll There is no more Christian and Saracen, but man and woman—as it was in the beginning and for ever shall be. He has barne her in his arms to the [all grasses. She struggles use/25:1]. They are now invisible. LAYLAH. Help me, O God of Battles! RINALDO. God is love. [Musia From the well issues a nymph dressed in silver and azure gauze, with jewels and roses in her hair. Afier her a cluster ofchildren] 79