"And now,

because you have known madness and despair, and because you will grow desperate again before you come to evening, we who have stormed the ramparts of the furious earth and been hurled back, we who have been maddened by the unknowable and bitter mystery of love, the tumult, pain, and frenzy, and now sit quietly by our windows watching all that henceforth never more shall touch us -

we call upon you to take heart, for we can swear to you that these things pass."