"
I heard his voice come out of the twilight, scarcely seeing him,
though now the light was growing fast, as he said:
"Brother, thou givest me heart again; yet since now I wot well that
thou art a sending from far-off times and far-off things: tell thou,
if thou mayest, to a man who is going to his death how this shall come
about."
"Only this may I tell thee" said I; "to thee, when thou didst try to
conceive of them, the ways of the days to come seemed follies scarce
to be thought of; yet shall they come to be familiar things, and an
order by which every man liveth, ill as he liveth, so that men shall
deem of them, that thus it hath been since the beginning of the world,
and that thus it shall be while the world endureth; and in this wise
so shall they be thought of a long while; and the complaint of the
poor the rich man shall heed, even as much and no more as he who lieth
in pleasure under the lime-trees in the summer heedeth the murmur of
his toiling bees. Yet in time shall this also grow old, and doubt
shall creep in, because men shall scarce be able to live by that
order, and the complaint of the poor shall be hearkened, no longer as
a tale not utterly grievous, but as a threat of ruin, and a fear.
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