Chapter X

When the starry sky covers our dwelling, we hush
for hours before its intense and gentle fire,
so that we may feel a greater and more fervent
stirring within us.

The great silver stars follow their courses high
up in the heavens; beneath the flames and the
gleams, night spreads out its depths, and the
calm is so great that the ocean listens!

But what matters even the hushing of the sea, if
in the brightness and immensity of space, full of
invisible violence, our hearts beat so strongly
that they make all the silence?