We will fly together to some region where thou shalt be safe.

I am strong enough to bear thee on my wings across the deserts that intervene.

I am skilled enough to cleave open, amidst the rocks, valleys in which to build our home.

Solitude and a hut with thee would be to me society and the universe.

Or wouldst thou return to thine own world, above the surface of this, exposed to the uncertain seasons, and lit but by the changeful orbs which constitute by thy description the fickle character of those savage regions?
I so, speak the word, and I will force the way for thy return, so that I am thy companion there, though, there as here, but partner of thy soul, and fellow traveller with thee to the world in which there is no parting and no death." I could not but be deeply affected by the tenderness, at once so pure and so impassioned, with which these words were uttered, and in a voice that would have rendered musical the roughest sounds in the rudest tongue.