The desert had justified him to himself and before the
spirits of departed peoples, who wandered over the sands, until at last
they became sand also, and were blown hither and thither, to make beds
for thousands of desert wayfarers, or paths for camels' feet, or a
blinding storm to overwhelm the traveller and the caravan; Life giving
and taking, and absorbing and destroying, and destroying and absorbing,
till the circle of human existence wheel to the full, and the task of
Time be accomplished.
On the gorse-grown common above Hamley, David and Faith, and David's
mother Mercy, had felt the same soul of things stirring--in the green
things of green England, in the arid wastes of the Libyan desert, on the
bosom of the Nile, where Mahommed Hassan now lay in a nugger singing a
song of passion, Nature, with burning voice, murmuring down the unquiet
world its message of the Final Peace through the innumerable years.
GLOSSARY
Aiwa----Yes.
Allah hu Achbar----God is most Great.
Al'mah----Female professional singers, signifying "a learned female.
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