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And let him that is athirst come. And WHOSOEVER WILL, let him take the water of life freely. I cannot imagine that any man would have sung with greater pleasure than Bunyan that hymn of Dr. Watts' 'Life is the time to serve the Lord, The time to insure the great reward; And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return.
I, yourself, your very self, the foundation of your life, the permanent expression of your immortality I must be satisfied, and being infinite and immortal, I know but one satisfaction: 'My soul is athirst for God, for the living God; when shall I come, and appear before the presence of God?"
"Renounce you!" "Ah! you would not, could you know all I have endured. To me, earth has been a hell not the place of flames and torments of which your divines prate, but the true hell that of the conscience and the soul. I, too, a man whose whole nature was athirst for truth.
Her voice is quite as low as ever, but there is an accent of playfulness in it; and on her face a sparkle of esprit, whose possible existence I had not conjectured. Certainly, she showed no symptom of playfulness or esprit during our late talk. I have yet to learn that to some women, the presence of a man not the man, but a man any man is what warm rain is to flowers athirst.
The second part of the journey was necessarily begun in glowing heat, for it was most undesirable to have to spend a night in the open country, and it was needful to push on to a fortified hospice or monastery of St. John, which formed a half-way house. Weary, dusty, athirst, they came in sight of it in the evening; and Walter and Roger rode forward to request admittance.
Ere I read, and while I read, my heart did more than throb it trembled fast every quiver seemed like the pant of an animal athirst, laid down at a well and drinking; and the well proved quite full, gloriously clear; it rose up munificently of its own impulse; I saw the sun through its gush, and not a mote, Lucy, no moss, no insect, no atom in the thrice-refined golden gurgle.
'Ultimately, it is quite calculable that they will win, said Redworth; and he was led to discourse of rates and duties and prohibitive tariffs to a woman surprisingly athirst, curious for every scrap of intelligence relating to the power, organization, and schemes of the League. 'Common sense is the secret of every successful civil agitation, he said.
It's another cafe, or do muh eyes deceive me? I am athirst, let us rest our weary beast and partake of a flagon of nut brown ale. Say, I guess I would be bad in this Shakespeare thing. Alight, fair maids, and nominate your idea provokers. "Waiter, follow those people's directions and do not let the mice build nests under your feet. Sink this and we will then continue our journey.
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Time no longer ran like the few sands in a delicate hour-glass held by a fragile human hand, but like a majestic river fed by fathomless seas. . . . We gave ourselves up to the sweetness of that unmeasured life, without thought of yesterday or to-morrow; we drank the cup to-day held to our lips, and knew that so long as we were athirst that draught would not be denied us."
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