12/54 His life continues on,--balanced, calm, infinite, engendering millions upon millions of beings in the thousandth part of a second. In the moonlight it was an immense plane of vivid silver streaked with serpentine shadows. Its soft doughlike undulations, replete with microscopic life, illuminated the nights. The infusoria, a-tremble with love, glowed with a bluish phosphorescence. The sea was like luminous milk. |