Angels and Women (1924)

GREATER CHANGE 91tions and dignified carriage could not bemistaken.The solitary wanderer paused as if his attentionwere attracted. I would have retiredunobserved, but in an instant he was by myside and detained me gently, saying--"Donot fear; never shall one curl of thy goldenhair shrink from the unwelcome touch ofHesperus. O Aloma, beautiful, beloved, lookforth into the western sky l Seest thou thebrightest of yon celestial group, a starradiant and tender as thine own eyes ? Thereonce I dwelt, happy and pure. I would returnunto mine ancient realm. I have seenthy soul, Lily of Light, and I tire of earth,its baseness and sin. 0 my adored, beforeI leave I beg for but one kiss, the first andlast." The majestic form drooped, thehaughty head bent low, the angelic voice,sweet and sad as the wind-harp, trembled."Have pity, Aloma !"The tenderest chords of my naturevibrated to the appeal for sympathy to the