Angels and Women (1924)

CHANGE 49long time wakeful, and I repeated again andagain these words: "Enlighten mine eyes,lest I sleep the sleep of dearth." Presently mythoughts became confused, and I passed intothe land of forgetfulness. Did any shadowof coming evil flit across my dreams ? Alas lit was the final hour of childhood, the lastuntroubled slumber which would seal myeyes; for before morning dawned, an eventoccurred which dispelled all careless fantasy,and changed forever the color and currentof my existence.I slept I know not how long, when I wasstartled by a flash of light, and perceived,although the moon had set, that the air wasillumined by such an extraordinary brilliancethat my eyes involuntarily closed again.:How can I relate what followed, incredibleeven to myself, but which I know is only tooreal ? I was powerless to move, and my eyeswere certainly closed; but by some new andstrange sight, I perceived standing directlybehind me two majestic beings, in form and