From Eden's bowers the full-fed rivers flow,
To guide the outcasts to the land of woe:
Our Earth one little toiling streamlet yields,
To guild the wanderers to the happy fields.
—George MacDonald, epigraph to Phantastes ch X.
From dreams of bliss shall men awake
One day, but not to weep:
The dreams remain; they only break
The mirror of the sleep.
—George MacDonald, epigraph to Phantastes ch XVIII, adapted from Jean Paul's Hesperus:
Ja es wird zwar ein anderes Zeitalter kommen, woes Licht wird, und wo der Mensch aus erhabnen Traümen erwacht, und die Traüme—wieder findet weil er nichts verlor als den Schlaf.
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