Chapter 25 yesterday, today and tomorrow

I said to my friend, "You saw her leaning on that man's arm. But it was only yesterday that she leaned on my arm. My friend said, "And tomorrow she will lean on my arm. My arm is on. " I said, "Look at her sitting next to him. But she was sitting next to me only yesterday." My friend said, "And tomorrow she will be sitting next to me." I said, "See, she drank from his cup, and yesterday she drank from my wood." My friend said, "Tomorrow she will drink from my glass." I went on: "Look at her looking at him with tender and submissive eyes with affection, as she looked at me yesterday."

My friend said: "Tomorrow the person she is looking at will be me." I said, "Can you hear her whispering love songs to his ear? But it was only yesterday that she whispered these love songs to mine." My friend said: "Tomorrow she will be humming these songs in my ear." I said, "Look, she's hugging him. But she hugged me only yesterday." My friend said, "She will hug me tomorrow." So I said, "What a strange woman." But my friend replied: "As life, she belongs to all; as death, she conquers all; as eternal, she encompasses all."

Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow I said to my friend, "You see her leaning upon the arm of that man. It was but yesterday that she leaned thus upon my arm." And my friend said, "And tomorrow she will lean upon mine." I said, "Behold her sitting close at his side. It was but yesterday she sat close beside me." And he answered, "Tomorrow she will sit beside me." I said, "See, she drinks wine from his cup, and yesterday she drank from mine." And he said, "Tomorrow, from my cup." Then I said, "See how she gazes at him with love, and with yielding eyes. Yesterday she gazed thus upon me."

And my friend said, "It will be upon me she gazes tomorrow." I said, "Do you not hear her now murmuring songs of love into his ears? Those very songs of love she murmured but yesterday into my ears." And my friend said, "And tomorrow she will murmur them in mine." I said, "Why see, she is embracing him. It was but yesterday that she embraced me." And my friend said, "She will embrace me tomorrow." Then I said, "What a strange woman." But he answered, "She is like unto life, possessed by all men; and like death, she conquers all men; and like eternity, she enfolds all men."