Chapter 22 No.22

And Last

"She seemed a thing that could not feel

The touch of earthly years."

"No motion has she now-no force;

She neither hears nor sees;

Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,

With rocks and stones and trees."

They went home again, the six of them, and Esther, who, all her days, "would go the softlier, sadlier" because of th