Chapter 48 seventy years old

"I love you," said the young poet to the Duchess. "I love you too, my child," replied the Duchess. "But I'm not your child. I'm a man, and I love you." "I am the mother of my children," said the Duchess, "and my children are the parents of their children; and one of my grandchildren is older than you." The poet said: "But I love you." Not long after, the Duchess died.But before the Duchess's last breath was contained by the breath of the earth, she said in her heart: "My darling, my little boy, my young poet, perhaps some day we shall meet again , and I'm not seventy."

Seventy The poet youth said to the princess, "I love you." And the princess answered, "And I love you too, my child." "But I am not your child. I am a man and I love you." And she said, "I am the mother of sons and daughters, and they are fathers and mothers of sons and daughters; and one of the sons of my sons is older than you." And the poet youth said, "But I love you." It was not long after that the princess died. But ere her last breath was received again by the greater breath of earth, she said within her soul, "My beloved, mine only son, my youth-poet, it may yet be that some day we shall meet again, and I shall not be seventy."