From the Sayings of Gibran Khalil Gibran (Love Is a Wakefulness)
• Love is a wakefulness that takes in death and life, and creates out of them a dream stranger than life and deeper than death.
Gibran Khalil Gibran

• England, the sixteenth century.

"Elizabeth, Queen of Britain," a painting by the artist de Passe, in which he followed the model of Isaac Oliver's picture. The year 1603.

The gown is gold and white; the Queen wore it for the first time on the day she went to pray in St. Paul's Cathedral on the morrow of the defeat of the Armada. Its sleeves are adorned with gold, and over it she put on a long necklace of jewels, pearls, and precious stones. Beneath the crown she wore curled false hair, and used pearl pins to dress it. In her right hand and her left are the scepter and the royal emblem.

1114

In Germany, the Sixteenth Century

• In Germany, in the sixteenth century — the century of the Renaissance in Europe, and, in Germany, the century of the Reformation.

The painting is by the German painter Bruyn (in the year 1570), and it is the portrait of a Dutch lady of the Fassor family.

The headdress is white, finely made, exceedingly elegant, embroidered. The jacket is Spanish, its sleeves rounded and puffed out. Gloves are in common use. The garments are heavy; they weigh down the body and make it appear massive and stately.

Hortense

From the Sayings of Gibran Khalil Gibran (Love)
• Love, from its very beginning, does not know its own depth until the hour of parting.
• How hard is the life of one who asks for love and gives nothing but desire.
• The spiritual man is he who has tried all the things of the body and then rebelled against them.
Gibran Khalil Gibran

POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEVM

1190

20