Chapter CXVII

"O days and hours"--he declares their work to be the accumulation of joy they will bring to that future meeting, from which at present they are detaining him.

"Delight a hundredfold" will accrue from this postponement--the contribution of every grain of sand through the hourglass, of "every span of shade" across the sundial, of every click in the watch, and each day's sun.