She fell asleep a girl; she awoke a woman, ripe with the loveliness of the life essential.

I folded her in my arms, and knew that I lived indeed.
"I woke first!" she said, with a wondering smile.
"You did, my love, and woke me!" "I only looked at you and waited," she answered.
The candle came floating toward us through the dark, and in a few moments Adam and Eve and Mara were with us.

They greeted us with a quiet good-morning and a smile: they were used to such wakings! "I hope you have had a pleasant darkness!" said the Mother.
"Not very," I answered, "but the waking from it is heavenly." "It is but begun," she rejoined; "you are hardly yet awake!" "He is at least clothed-upon with Death, which is the radiant garment of Life," said Adam.
He embraced Lona his child, put an arm around me, looked a moment or two inquiringly at the princess, and patted the head of the leopardess.
"I think we shall meet you two again before long," he said, looking first at Lona, then at me.
"Have we to die again ?" I asked.
"No," he answered, with a smile like the Mother's; "you have died into life, and will die no more; you have only to keep dead.

Once dying as we die here, all the dying is over.

Now you have only to live, and that you must, with all your blessed might.