In the unquiet night, With all her beauty bright, She walketh my silent chamber to and fro; Not twice of the same mind, Sometimes unkindunkind, And again no cooing dove hath a voice so sweet and low.

What solitary father walketh there? MARIUS.

The Brahminical doctrine was, that "light and darkness are esteemed the world's eternal ways; he who walketh in the former returneth not; that is to say, he goeth to eternal bliss; whilst he who walketh in the latter cometh back again upon earth," and is thus destined to pass through further transmigrations, until his soul is perfectly purified by light.[103]

How peacefully this lamb walketh the old ways trodden by saints and martyrs, while thou art an infidel and unbeliever!"