bore him children, in stony ways and on the bare mountain-side.
And for every child that was born the man felt the pangs of it.

And at last he died and was judged: and being interrogated concerning
his good deeds, began--

"We two--"--and looked around for his shadow. A great light shone
all about; but she was nowhere to be seen. In fact, she had passed
before him, and his children remained on earth, where men already
were heaping them with flowers and calling them divine.

Then the man folded his arms and lifted his chin.

"I beg your pardon," he said, "I am simply a sinner."

There are in this world certain men who create. The children of such
are poems, and the half of their soul is female. For it is written
that without woman no new thing shall come into the world.

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