1 We walked on till the sun had set.
2 They sit in the sun in summer and they sit by the fire in winter.
3 And it seems to us that our spirit is clear as a lake troubled by no eyes save those of the sun.
4 We learned that the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around it, which causes the day and the night.
5 The shadows of leaves fall upon their arms, as they spread the branches apart, but their shoulders are in the sun.
6 Their hair was golden as the sun; their hair flew in the wind, shining and wild, as if it defied men to restrain it.
7 Then here, on this mountaintop, with the world below me and nothing above me but the sun, I shall live my own truth.
8 Had the others seen it, they could have guessed nothing, for it looked only as if we were shading our eyes from the sun.
9 In five hours, when the sun is high, we return to the Home and we eat our midday meal, for which one-half hour is allowed.
10 And the drops of water falling from their hands, as they raised the water to their lips, were like sparks of fire in the sun.
11 So we looked straight upon the Golden One, and we saw the shadows of their lashes on their white cheeks and the sparks of sun on their lips.
12 When the sun sank beyond the mountains, the Golden One fell asleep on the floor, amidst jewels, and bottles of crystal, and flowers of silk.
13 And there, before us, on a broad summit, with the mountains rising behind it, stood a house such as we had never seen, and the white fire came from the sun on the glass of its windows.
14 But then came the day when the sky turned white, as if the sun had burst and spread its flame in the air, and the fields lay still without breath, and the dust of the road was white in the glow.
15 Then the Golden One saw us, and they did not move, kneeling there, looking at us, and circles of light played upon their white tunic, from the sun on the water of the moat, and one sparkling drop fell from a finger of their hand held as frozen in the air.