The Star in the West

THE VIRGIN 53 This , as is usually the case , finds an outlet in the first pretty maid who happens to cross youth's burning path , and in this case the fair damozel is Molly Tyson , and the first scene of their meeting is most typical : Sir Percy . Ah , love , love , how I love you. This is the world ! Love ! Love ! I love you so , my darling . Oh my white golden heart of glory !' Eternity is moulded in form of her kiss , and even if “ Hell belch its monsters one by one to stop the way ! I would be there ” cries Sir Percy as he and Molly rush backwards and forwards kissing and kissing before they can finally part . And no sooner has he parted with her , having sworn eternal love and to meet her at moonrise , than he stumbles across a bedizened hag of sixty - three ( society ), and in ten minutes , because she calls herself “ the wretchedest girl on the wide earth ,” discovers “ she is most beautiful ”; “ How she speaks ! It is indeed an angel singing ,” and asks if he may call her Angela , and forgets his poor village girl , and utterly overcome when she says , “ I am a poor and simple girl , and my eyes are aching with the sight of you , and my lips are mad to kiss you !") falls into her arms learning his first great lesson ; for as Angela says , “ it is dangerous as well as cruel to leave a lover standing ." To wake again to all the effervesence of efflorescent youth : Awake ! awake ! There is a secret in our subtle union That masters the grey snake . Awake , O Love ! and let me drink my fill Of thee-and thou of me !? His subtle union , however , is soon about to vanish , | Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 30 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 40 .