Capitolo 44
country; there is the house where he was born; we satisfy those that grew
with him side side; we am among the scenes that were familiarized
to him; he planted that trees; he picked up those portraits; there is
his/her portrait, he remained here, he studied, he worked, he rejoiced, him
weeping, in these consecrate places; but we went thinking to find him/it
there? "Didn't I tell you, doesn't Go?"
We will certainly do us him true to our thoughts, if not to our senses,
where he lies buried. But we am able as good stand on the maritime beach, where
we had the last glance of a friend that sea-goes, and he/she think that those
waters and those sands and that horizon, will restore him/it. Them only
maid to open more distant the run of his/her departure; they conducts our thoughts
street to think of him where we imagine him to us to be. In any place it makes sky
you seem more truth that to the grave of a friend; for us we know that he has
not expert, and as us we are standing on that limit of all of our unfruitful search
and anticipation, we am forced to mend him/it in some place in our thoughts;
but as him it is not in any place behind us, we look before and directed upward.
Our desire for past friends, however natural and innocent, if it
resulted as we would sometimes have him to us, it would try to be little wise man.
Supposes that those "fifty strong men" you/they had found Elijah, or in some way
you/he/she would have been able to prevent his/her sky translation. With exultation, them
you/he/she would have conducted again him through Jordan to the society of them
friends, among the thanks of the people. But, alas! for the
prophet him, this would have been his/her loss, it also had it tried to be
their profit. The opening Jordan, cracked in two from his/her abducted spirit,
pressing his/her way to the skies, his/her course is returned to; and now the
fords of the river, with his/her rocky bed you/they would have asked for his working
feet to look for again their way to his/her toil; or men's arm, instead of
the wagons of fire and horses of fire, would have borne again him to