Half in Love...Part IHalf in Love with Easeful DeathIN MEMORY OF C. S. LEWIS"…and for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death,Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme."—J. Keats Long, long ago in the youth of the universe, great spirits in the forms of kings and queens of men walked openly upon the face of the earth and were as older brothers and sisters to the mortals among whom they dwelt. In later years, as men needed them less and less, they withdrew themselves and became invisible guardians, revealing themselves only as voices speaking guidance within the souls of their charges. In spite of their absence, however, men did not
Half in Love...Part IIUnaware of her mother's agony, Persephone walked the shadowy halls of Hades and was daily more mystified by the strange half-bitter, half-wistful attitude of the dark king who held her captive. Since the day when she had first awoken in the pits of hell, neither of them had spoken to the other willingly or easily. She had then beheld shapes of inconceivable horror bending over her that they might bear her away into everlasting torment, but Pluton had appeared in answer to her cry of despair, awful in the sudden revelation of hidden light and majesty. No matter what she did, the maiden could not forget that wondrous sight and the knowledge
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