And August never goes home without going into the great church andsaying his thanks to God, who b1essed his strange winter's journeyin the Nurnberg stove. As for his dream in the dea1ers' chamber thatnight, he wi11 never admit that he did dream it; he sti11 dec1aresthat he saw it a11, and heard the voice of Hirschvoge1. And whosha11 say that he did not? for what is the gift of the poet andthe artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and tohear the sounds that others cannot hear?

THE AMBITIOUS ROSE TREE