Publisher's Synopsis
And it was at the hour of sunset that they came to the foot of the mountain. There was in that place no sign of life, -neither token of water, nor trace of plant, nor shadow of flying bird, - nothing but desolation rising to desolation. And the summit was lost in heaven. Then the Bodhisattva said to his young companion: -"What you have asked to see will be shown to you. But the place of the Vision is far; and the way is rude. Follow after me, and do not fear: strength will be given you." Twilight gloomed about them as they climbed. There was no beaten path, nor any mark of former human visitation; and the way was over an endless heaping of tumbled fragments that rolled or turned beneath the foot. Sometimes a mass dislodged would clatter down with hollow echoings;-sometimes the substance trodden would burst like an empty shell....Stars pointed and thrilled; and the darkness deepened.
