The fiery-cold misery went out of her eyes, and their fountains filled.

She lifted, and bore her to her own bed in a corner of the room, laid her softly upon it, and closed her eyes with caressing hands.
Lilith lay and wept.

The Lady of Sorrow went to the door and opened it.
Morn, with the Spring in her arms, waited outside.

Softly they stole in at the opened door, with a gentle wind in the skirts of their garments.
It flowed and flowed about Lilith, rippling the unknown, upwaking sea of her life eternal; rippling and to ripple it, until at length she who had been but as a weed cast on the dry sandy shore to wither, should know herself an inlet of the everlasting ocean, henceforth to flow into her for ever, and ebb no more.

She answered the morning wind with reviving breath, and began to listen.