So beautiful--God himself quailed br at her approach: the long body curved br like the horizon. Why had he made br her so? How would it be, she said, br leaning towards him, if instead of br quarreling over it, we divided it br between us? You can have all the credit br for its invention, if you will leave the ordering br of it to me. He looked into her br eyes and saw far down the bones br of the generations that would navigate br by those great stars, but the pull of it br was too much. Yes, he thought, give me their minds' br tribute, and what they do with their bodies br is not my concern. He put his hand in his side br and drew out the thorn for the letting br of the ordained blood and touched her with br it. Go, he said. They shall come to you for ever br with their desire, and you shall bleed for them in return.