Saturday, December 7, 2013

Longing

"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing--to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from--" . . .
"--my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now--?"

Psyche in C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces