shadows
and damp
afflictions
and
passing
clouds.
Verily, it
is a
blessing
and not a
blasphemy
when I
teach that
“above all
things
there
standeth
the heaven
of chance,
the heaven
of
innocence,
the heaven
of hazard,
the heaven
of
wantonness.”
“Of
Hazard”—that
is the
oldest
nobility
in the
world;
that gave
I back to
all
things; I
emancipated
them from
bondage
under
purpose.
This
freedom
and
celestial
serenity
did I put
like an