_ "Once," said the Singing Mouse, "while many men hurried into the city, as, each day, they do, they saw many other men standing about a place where a large building was growing. There were those who raised stones on long arms of steel, and swung them about, high up into the wall. Others remained upon the earth to place these stones upon the long arms of steel. Now a stone had fallen, and beneath it lay what had been a man; and around this many stood.
       "The long arm reached out after stones, and so this stone again was taken and raised into the air. That which had been a man lay broken, never again to rise and smile and walk. Near to it stood a woman, not weeping, being still too sad for weeping. Above her arose the stone once more, heavy and without thought. It rose above the woman and above this that had been a man, and as it swung high and slow above her the woman looked up at it, as though to ask of it mercy. But the stone passed slowly on, heavy and without thought. It is in the wall to-day, heavy and without thought. Some say that is a temple, others that there is a God in it. But no God replies. And the stone is in the wall, heavy, without thought." _

The Land Of The Singing Mouse
The Burden Of A Song
The Little River
What The Waters Said
Lake Belle-Marie
The Skull And The Rose
The Man Of The Mountain
At The Place Of The Oaks
The Birth Of The Hours
The Stone That Had No Thought
The Tear And The Smile
How The Mountains Ate Up The Plains
The Savage And Its Heart
The Beast Terrible
The Passing Of Men
The House Of Truth
Where The City Went
The Bell And The Shadows
Of The Greatest Sorrow
The Shoes Of The Princess
Of White Moths
The House Of Dreams